Nihon Telenet

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Telenet Japan (日本テレネット) was a software developer and publisher founded in 1983. They are best known for their software development teams Wolf Team (which was sold to Namco in 2003) and RIOT (fate unknown) and US publishing house Renovation Products (which was acquired by Sega in 1993), however they have also developed various games in other, unknown studios. They ceased developing for Sega systems company-wide in 1993 for unknown reasons, selling Renovation to Sega and establishing their largest success, Wolf Team's Tales series, on the SNES. Telenet Japan themselves would continue to produce games on the SNES, PlayStation, and Game Boy Advance, as well as enter the pachinko business.

They closed down in 2007 after a string of financial mistakes (including the infamous licensing of various properties to a hentai developer a few years earlier), and with the exception of Wolf Team's Tales series (owned by Namco), all their intellectual properties are now owned by Sunsoft.

Softography

For the individual softographies of Wolf Team and Renovation Products (in this case, including non-Telenet games), see their respective pages.

Mega Drive

Game Studio Year
Gaiares Renovation Game (different from Renovation Products) 1990
Valis III Renovation Game 1991
Jantei Monogatari (with Atlus) Renovation Game 1991
Vapor Trail: Hyper Offence Formation RIOT 1991
Ys III: Wanderers from Ys (with Falcom) RIOT 1991
Beast Warriors RIOT 1991
Exile (subcontracted to Micro Factory) RIOT 1991
Mugen Senshi Valis RIOT 1991
SD Valis (subcontracted to/partially(?) developed by I.S.C.) Laser Soft 1992
Traysia RIOT 1992
GrandSlam: The Tennis Tournament (with System Sacom) ? 1992

PC Engine

MSX2

FM Towns

CD-ROM²

Mega CD

Game Gear

References

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