Overworks
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| Overworks | ||
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| Founded: 2000-04-21[1] | ||
| Defunct: 2003-10-01[1] | ||
| Merged with: WOW Entertainment | ||
Headquarters:
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2000-04-21 2003-10-01
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Overworks (オーバーワークス) was a video game development division within Sega. It was formed after an internal reorganisation in 2000 and is thought to have been formed mostly by staff of Sega Software R&D Dept. 7 (formerly Sega CS2).
Overworks' main task was to continue the Sakura Taisen series. It also created the Guru Guru Onsen line of games. Both of these brands were aimed at the Japanese market. Internationally, Overworks' became well known for creating a spiritual successor to the classic Phantasy Star series with Skies of Arcadia, as well as for the PlayStation 2 Shinobi.
In 2003 Overworks merged with WOW Entertainment to become Sega WOW (briefly "WOW Works")[2].
Contents
Company statistics
Softography
NAOMI
- Dragon Treasure (2003)
Dreamcast
- Eternal Arcadia Kuuzokuban (2000)
- Eternal Arcadia Tentouyou Demo Movie (2000)
- Sakura Taisen 2: Kimi, Shinitamou Koto Nakare (2000)
- Atsumare! Guru Guru Onsen BB (2000)
- Sakura Taisen 3 Movie Disc (2000)
- Sakura Taisen Kinematron Hanagumi Mail (2000)
- Sakura Taisen 3: Paris wa Moeteiru ka Tentouyou Demo Movie (2001)
- Sakura Taisen 3: Paris wa Moeteiru ka (2001)
- Guru Guru Onsen 2 (2001)
- Sakura Taisen 4 Preview Disc (2001)
- Sakura Taisen Online (2001)
- Guru Guru Onsen 3 (2002)
- Sakura Taisen 3 Drama Download Disc (2002)
- Sakura Taisen 4: Koi Seyo, Otome (2002)
- Sakura Taisen Complete Box (2002)
- Sakura Taisen 4: Koi Seyo, Otome Tentouyou Demo Movie (200x)
Plus e
- K Doro! (2001)
- Ryoko-sensei no Shinryoshitsu (2001)
- Hanabi-Fight (2001)
- Doraemon: Fushigina Jikuu Daibouken (2002)
- K Doro! Version 2 (2002)
- Ryoko-sensei no Shinryoshitsu Part 2 (2003)
Game Boy Advance
- The Revenge of Shinobi (2002)
- Phantasy Star Collection (2002)
PlayStation 2
- Shinobi Taikenban (2002)
- Online Games: Dai Guru Guru Onsen (2002)
- Shinobi (2002)
- Sakura Taisen: Atsuki Chishio Ni (2003)
- Sega Ages 2500 Series Vol. 1: Phantasy Star Generation: 1 (2003) (Packaging)
- Sakura Taisen 3: Paris wa Moeteiru ka (2005)
PlayStation 3
- Shinobi (2012)
Windows PC
GameCube
- Knight'n Knight (cancelled)
List of staff
- Makoto Shimizu (animator)
- Keisuke Nakamura (director)
- Tsuyoshi Agura
- Takehiko Akabane
- Satoshi Arai
- Naotoshi Eguchi
- Tsunemasa Endo
- Yoshiaki Endo
- Hideto Fujishita
- Hitoshi Fukazawa
- Motohiro Fukui
- Katsuhito Goto
- Haruyuki Hashimoto
- Shinichi Higashi
- Takao Hirabayashi
- Yasushi Honma
- Yuji Horikawa
- Hideo Ikeuchi
- Hideyuki Isobe
- Yuichi Isobe
- Tomoyuki Ito
- Toshihiro Ito
- Hirotaka Kanazawa
- Shizuyo Kanda
- Sachiko Kanemitsu
- Hisao Koba
- Rieko Kodama
- Kazuo Komuro
- Yoshiji Kosaka
- Makiko Kubo
- Takayuki Kudou
- Mikio Kume
- Masahiro Kumono
- Tamotsu Kushibe
- Haru Maruyama
- Kenji Matsumura
- Tsutomu Matsuo
- Yuichi Matsuoka
- Kazuhiro Matsuta
- Takeshi Matsuura
- Yuka Miyazawa
- Naoyuki Miyoshi
- Tsukasa Mori
- Atsuko Moroe
- Shinji Motoyama
- Kazuyuki Mukaida
- Toshiyuki Mukaiyama
- Tomohiro Nimura
- Akira Nishino
- Hiroshi Nishio
- Yasuhiro Nishiyama
- Kouichi Nomura
- Ryutaro Nonaka
- Takuya Ogawa
- Toru Ohara
- Noriyoshi Ohba
- Tetsuya Ohtsubo
- Takashi Ohtsuji
- Masako Okuda
- Yosuke Okunari
- Tadashi Oomine
- Kenji Osawa
- Tatsuhiro Oshii
- Kaichi Satoh
- Atsushi Seimiya
- Toru Shimizu
- Paku Sugiura
- Keisuke Suzuki
- Yuko Suzuki
- Toshiyuki Takamatsu
- Shinpei Tanaka
- Shuntaro Tanaka
- Yasutaka Tanaka
- Takaharu Terada
- Takuya Toyota
- Takashi Uryu
- Kazuo Wakihara
- Masakatsu Watanabe
- Naozumi Yamaguchi
- Kohei Yamashita
- Toru Yoshida
- Shigeharu Yoshikawa
- Takanobu Yoshino
Magazine articles
- Main article: Overworks/Magazine articles.
Photo gallery
External Links
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 File:IR EN 2003-07-30.pdf, page 3
- ↑ File:IR EN 2003-07-30.pdf, page 1
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Dreamcast Magazine, "2000-26 (2000-08-04,11)" (JP; 2000-07-21), page 30
- ↑ http://www.o-works.co.jp/corp.html (Wayback Machine: 2001-08-14 08:46)
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