HAL Laboratory
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| Type | Private |
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| Founded | February 21, 1980[1] |
| Headquarters | Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan |
| Key people | Satoru Iwata (former president) Masahiro Sakurai |
| Industry | Video game industry |
| Products | Video games |
| Employees | 137 |
| Website | http://www.hallab.co.jp/ |
HAL Laboratory, Inc. (株式会社ハル研究所 Kabushikigaisha Haru Kenkyūsho) is a Japanese video game developer that was founded on February 21, 1980. Its name comes from the HAL 9000 computer in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey.[2] The company is most famous for its character Kirby, the protagonist of the eponymous game series, as well as the Super Smash Bros. series. It is an independent studio, creating games exclusively for Nintendo.
HAL Laboratory started off making games for the MSX system and the Commodore VIC-20.[3] During the early 1980s, some of their games since the 1986 Family Computer Disk System game Gall Force: Eternal Story (based on the anime film of the same name) have been released also on Nintendo systems.
In many of its games during the early to mid-'90s it used the name HALKEN (derived from their literal Japanese name "HAL KENkyūsho") as well as HAL Laboratory. Some of its early titles were also released as HAL America, a North American subsidiary of the company.
The current president of Nintendo, Satoru Iwata, was a former president of HAL. Other important figures include Masahiro Sakurai, who created the Kirby character and the Super Smash Bros. franchise, and now leads his own company, Sora Ltd.
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[edit] List of games
[edit] C64
- Skiing
- Hustler
- Pinball Spectacular
[edit] MSX
- Balance
- Butamaru Pants
- Cue Star
- Dragon Attack
- Dunk Shot
- Eggerland Mystery
- Eggerland 2
- Fruit Search
- Gall Force
- Heavy Boxing
- Hole in One
- Hole in One Professional
- Inside the Karamaru
- Inspecteur Z
- Mr. Chin
- Pachipro Densetsu
- Picture Puzzle
- Rollerball
- Space Maze Attack
- Space Trouble
- Step Up
- Super Billiards
- Super Snake
- Swimming Tango
- Tetsuman
- The Roving Planet Styllus
[edit] MSX2
[edit] Family Computer Disk System
[edit] Nintendo Entertainment System
- Adventures of Lolo
- Adventures of Lolo 2
- Adventures of Lolo 3
- Air Fortress
- Day Dreamin' Davey
- Defender II
- Kabuki Quantum Fighter
- Kirby's Adventure
- Joust
- Metal Slader Glory
- Millipede
- Mother
- NEW Ghostbusters II
- Rollerball
- Satui no Kaisou: Power Soft Satsujin Jiken
- Skyscraper
- Vegas Dreams
- Uchuu Keibitai SDF
- World Rally Championship
[edit] Super NES
- Alcahest
- Arcana
- EarthBound (Mother 2 in Japan)
- Hal's Hole in One
- HyperZone
- Kirby no Kirakira Kizzu
- Kirby Super Star
- Kirby's Dream Course
- Kirby's Dream Land 3
- NCAA Basketball aka Super Dunk Shot (in Japan) World League Basketball (in Europe) (may have been developed or translated by Sculptured Software. It is unclear which role each company had. The company has the Japanese version of the game listed in its website, however their role is unclear.)
NCAA Basketball was produced for HAL America by Tim Rooney and Adam Flick, and programmed by Sculptured Software in Salt Lake City. The completed game was sold to Nintendo of America, who released it in the US.
- SimCity
- Vegas Stakes
- Metal Slader Glory: Director's Cut
[edit] Nintendo 64
- EarthBound 64 - Cancelled (Eventually became a Game Boy Advance title)
- Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards
- Pokémon Snap
- Pokémon Stadium
- Pokémon Stadium 2
- Shigesato Itoi's No. 1 Bass Fishing
- Super Smash Bros.
- SimCity 64
- SimCopter 64
[edit] Nintendo GameCube
- Kirby Air Ride
- Super Smash Bros. Melee
- Kirby Tilt n Tumble 2 Cancelled
- Kirby Cancelled
[edit] Game Boy
- Adventures of Lolo
- Ghostbusters II
- HAL Wrestling (publisher; developed by Human Entertainment)
- Kirby's Block Ball
- Kirby's Dream Land
- Kirby's Dream Land 2
- Kirby's Pinball Land
- Kirby's Star Stacker
- Revenge of the 'Gator
- Shanghai
- Trax
- Vegas Stakes
[edit] Game Boy Advance
- Battland Cancelled
- Kirby & the Amazing Mirror
- Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land
- Luna Blaze Cancelled
- Mother 3
[edit] Nintendo DS
- Kirby Canvas Curse
- Kirby Squeak Squad
- Pokémon Ranger
- Pokémon Ranger: Shadows of Almia
- Kirby Super Star Ultra
- Rittai Picross
[edit] Wii
- Kirby of The Stars
- Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Development Cooperation)
[edit] Windows
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- HAL Laboratory, Inc (Japanese)
- IGN page
- N-Sider page (HAL Laboratory company profile)
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