Smilebit
From Sega Retro
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| Smilebit | ||
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| Founded: 2000-04-21[1] | ||
| Defunct: 2004-07-01 (as Subsidiary)[2], 2005-05-01 (as Division) | ||
| Merged into: Sega Sports Design R&D Dept., New Entertainment R&D Dept. | ||
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Smilebit (スマイルビット) was a research and development division within Sega. It is best seen as a logical continuation of Sega Software R&D Dept. 6 (formerly known as Sega CS1). It is largely different to CS1, with the majority of those developers leaving Sega to join the new start-ups Artoon and Land Ho!. Smilebit is largely based on Sega PC instead. Over time, Smilebit became the de facto studio for sports games, with the majority being aimed at Japan. Internationally, Smilebit was known for it's high-end Dreamcast and Xbox titles. Those developers ended up at largely at New Entertainment R&D Dept..
Contents
Softography
Dreamcast
- Jet Set Radio (2000)
- Jet Set Radio Taikenban (2000)
- The Typing of the Dead (2000)
- Pro Yakyuu Team de Asobou Net! (2000)
- Motto Pro Yakyuu Team o Tsukurou! (2000)
- Saka Tsuku Tokudaigou: J.League Pro Soccer Club o Tsukurou! (2000)
- De La Jet Set Radio (2001)
- Hundred Swords (2001)
- Derby Tsuku 2 (2001)
- Pro Yakyuu Team o Tsukurou! & Asobou! (2001)
- 90 Minutes: Sega Championship Football (2001)
- Saka Tsuku Tokudaigou 2: J.League Pro Soccer Club o Tsukurou! (2001)
Game Boy Advance
- Baseball Advance (2002)
- Greatest Nine (2002)
- Pro Yakyuu Team o Tsukurou! Advance (2002)
- J.League Pro Soccer Club o Tsukurou! Advance (2002)
PlayStation 2
- Saka Tsuku 2002: J.League Pro Soccer Club o Tsukurou! (2002)
- Pro Yakyuu Team o Tsukurou! 2 (2003)
- J.League Pro Soccer Club o Tsukurou! 3 (2003)
- Pro Yakyuu Team o Tsukurou! 2003 (2003)
- Derby Tsuku 3: Derby Ba wo Tsukurou! (2003)
- J.League Pro Soccer Club o Tsukurou! '04 (2004)
GameCube
Xbox
- Gunvalkyrie (2002)
- Jet Set Radio Future (2002)
- Sega GT 2002/Jet Set Radio Future (2002)
- Panzer Dragoon Orta (2002)
Chihiro
- Ollie King (2003) (early development)
Windows PC
Dreamcast
- The Typing of the Dead (2000) (with WOW Entertainment)
Mobile
List of staff
- Yuji Saito (animator)
- Hiroyuki Arai (artist)
- Chisai Abe
- Shun Arai
- Takashi Atsu
- Yasuhito Baba
- Kentaro Fujita
- Shinpei Fukuda
- Hisato Fukumoto
- Ryotaro Fukunaga
- Jun Fukushima
- Kazuhiro Fumoto
- Masato Hagishita
- Maiko Hagiwara
- Fumiaki Hara
- Tomoko Hasegawa
- Kazuhisa Hasuoka
- Yoshiaki Hattori
- Masamitsu Hayashi
- Mikio Hayashi
- Naoko Higashi
- Yuichi Higuchi
- Naohiro Hirao
- Tomokazu Honma
- Osamu Hori
- Eiji Horita
- Kazuki Hosokawa
- Hiroshi Ichikawa
- Yusuke Ichikawa
- Yuichi Ide
- Satoru Igita
- Tadashi Ihoroi
- Naoyuki Ikeshiro
- Hideyasu Imase
- Keisuke Inoue
- Manabu Ishihara
- Takashi Iwade
- Norihisa Iwasaki
- Takayuki Iwasaki
- Junichi Kakutani
- Hiromasa Kaneko
- Maki Kaneko
- Yosuke Karasawa
- Norihito Kato
- Takayuki Kawagoe
- Hiromi Kawamata
- Satoshi Kawase
- Masayoshi Kikuchi
- Takeo Kimata
- Yoshiaki Kitagawa
- Misaka Kitamura
- Hirotsugu Kobayashi
- Tadashi Kuroi
- Satoshi Kuwata
- Hiroyasu Lee
- Keiichiro Maeda
- Tamotsu Maeno
- Ryosuke Masuda
- Masaaki Matsuura
- Shinji Matsuura
- Kazuhiro Miyazawa
- Kunihiko Mori
- Yumi Morikawa
- Sachiko Morosawa
- Akihiko Mukaiyama
- Kenji Murayama
- Takahiro Nagata
- Yuusuke Nakadaira
- Taira Nakamura
- Hiroshi Nakatani
- Masaharu Nakayama
- Osamu Ogata
- Nobuya Ohashi
- Osamu Ohashi
- Hitoshi Ohta
- Hiroshi Okamoto
- Yuuichi Okazaki
- Hikaru Okita
- Tadashi Okuda
- Toru Oosaki
- Jun Orihara
- Akio Sakai
- Fumiyoshi Sakauchi
- Kenji Sakurai
- Outa Sano
- Koichi Sasaki
- Katsuhiko Sato
- Osamu Sato
- Takaya Segawa
- Yusuke Sekine
- Masamitsu Shiino
- Yukie Shimizu
- Masaaki Shimoma
- Yoichi Shimosato
- Keisuke Shimura
- Tetsuo Shinyu
- Touryu Sho
- Kaori Shoji
- Nobuhiro Suzuki
- Yasuhiro Suzuki
- Takahiro Tabata
- Atsutoshi Takahashi
- Masaya Takahashi
- Tomonobu Takahashi
- Makoto Takanashi
- Noriyuki Takano
- Miho Takayanagi
- Yutaka Takeda
- Yuji Takii
- Kohichiro Tamura
- Takeshi Tanaka
- Tomoharu Tanaka
- Kenichi Tanase
- Sanae Tatsuo
- Jiro Terakawa
- Takaaki Tokunaga
- Kentarou Tomii
- Daisuke Tomoda
- Yoshihiko Toyoshima
- Koue Tsukuda
- Tsuyoshi Tsunoi
- Ryuta Ueda
- Naohiro Warama
- Yuka Warigai
- Tohru Watanuki
- Riichiro Yamada
- Masaki Yamaguchi
- Yoko Yamazaki
- Hiroko Yokosuka
- Masayoshi Yokoyama
- Hisayoshi Yoshida
- Keisuke Yuasa
- Jun Yukawa
Magazine articles
- Main article: Smilebit/Magazine articles.
External links
References
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