Nintendo Software Technology

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Nintendo Software Technology Corporation

Type	Subsidiary of Nintendo
Founded	1999
Headquarters	Redmond, Washington, USA
Industry	Video game
Products	Video games
Employees	≥80
Parent	Nintendo

Nintendo Software Technology Corporation (NST) is an American-based first-party developer for the Japanese video game corporation Nintendo. NST was created to specifically create games for Nintendo consoles for the North American market. Although Claude Comair (co-founder of DigiPen) was co-founder of NST, he retired from his post as chairman at the end of 2006. NST is currently headed by Shigeki Yamashiro. Their first game, Bionic Commando Elite Forces, was released for the Game Boy Color in 1999 and was a sequel of Capcom's Bionic Commando. They are based in the same building as DigiPen's Main Campus.

[edit] Games developed

NST has developed many games for Nintendo consoles, including:

• Bionic Commando: Elite Forces – Game Boy Color
• Crystalis – Game Boy Color
• Ridge Racer 64 – Nintendo 64
• Pokémon Puzzle League – Nintendo 64
• Wave Race: Blue Storm – Nintendo GameCube
• Nintendo Puzzle Collection – Nintendo GameCube
• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Master Quest – Nintendo GameCube
• The Legend of Zelda: Collector's Edition – Nintendo GameCube
• 1080° Avalanche – Nintendo GameCube
• Mario vs. Donkey Kong – Game Boy Advance
• Ridge Racer DS – Nintendo DS
• Metroid Prime Hunters – Nintendo DS
• Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis – Nintendo DS
• Crosswords DS – Nintendo DS
• Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Minis March Again – DSiWare

Cancelled games

• Project H.A.M.M.E.R.

[edit] References

• Nintendo World Report company profile. Retrieved Oct. 30, 2008.
• PALGN company information. Retrieved Feb. 9, 2005.
• N-Sider personnel view. Retrieved Feb. 9, 2005.
• N-Sider. Retrieved May 9, 2005.

[edit] External links

• Nintendo official website
• A group interview with NST about 1080º Avalanche
• Two-part interview with Shigeki Yamashiro, producer of 1080º Avalanche, and Vivek Melwani, lead game designer and director
• IGN profile

v • d • e Nintendo developers First-party Brownie Brown[citation needed] • EAD (including R&D1 and R&D2) • Intelligent Systems • Monolith Soft • NSD • NST • Project Sora • Retro Studios • SPD • SDD • Special-Project • Technology Development Second-party AlphaDream • Ambrella • Ape • Camelot Software Planning • Game Freak • Genius Sonority • HAL Laboratory • Nd Cube • Noise • skip Ltd. Former second-party Marigul Management (including Clever Trick, Param and Saru Brunei) • Rare • Silicon Knights • Factor 5 • Left Field Productions

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