Chunsoft

Chunsoft Co., Ltd.

Former type	Kabushiki gaisha
Industry	Video game industry
Fate	Merged with Spike
Successor	Spike Chunsoft
Founded	1984
Defunct	April 1, 2012
Headquarters	6-24-20 Shiguma Nishi Shinjuku Building 10F, Shinjuku, Tokyo T160-0022
Products	Mystery Dungeon Dragon Quest Sound Novels Zero Escape
Number of employees	67
Website	www.spike-chunsoft.co.jp

Chunsoft Co., Ltd. (株式会社チュンソフト Kabushiki-gaisha Chunsofuto) was a Japanese video game developer specializing in role-playing video game and visual novels. It was founded by Koichi Nakamura, a video game designer and programmer who had clasped with Enix. They are best known as the creators of the Mystery Dungeon series, the first five installments of the Dragon Quest series of role-playing video games, and the Sound Novels series of graphic adventure games. In April 2012, the company merged with Spike to become Spike Chunsoft.^[1]

The "Chun" in the company name, is from the company founder name's first kanji Naka (中), meanwhile Naka is read as "Chun" in Japanese Mahjong.^[2]

Games

Game Boy

• Shiren the Wanderer GB

Game Boy Advance

• Kamaitachi no Yoru Advance
• Monster Battle Soccer
• Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team
• Shiren Monsters: Netsal
• Dragon Quest Characters: Torneko no Daibōken 2
• Dragon Quest Characters: Torneko no Daibōken 3

Game Boy Color

• Shiren the Wanderer GB2

GameCube

• Homeland

Nintendo 64

• Shiren the Wanderer 2

Nintendo Entertainment System

• The Portopia Serial Murder Case
• Dragon Warrior
• Dragon Warrior II
• Dragon Warrior III
• Dragon Warrior IV
• Famicom Jump II: Saikyō no Shichinin

Nintendo DS

• Shiren the Wanderer DS2
• Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors
• Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer
• Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team
• Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness
• Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky
• Shiren the Wanderer 4
• Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate
• Zombie Daisuki

Nintendo 3DS

• Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward
• Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity
• Spiderman: The Legend of the Green Goblin
• StreetPass Battle/Warrior's Way (StreetPass Mii Plaza DLC)

Wii

• Shiren the Wanderer
• Imabikisō
• 428: Fūsa Sareta Shibuya de
• Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Keep Going! Blazing Adventure Squad!, Let's Go! Stormy Adventure Squad!, and Go For It! Light Adventure Squad!
• Wii Play: Motion

PlayStation

• Sound Novel Evolution 1 – Otogirisou Sosei-Hen
• Sound Novel Evolution 2: Kamaitachi No Yoru – Tokubetsu-Hen
• Sound Novel Evolution 3: Machi – Unmei no Kousaten
• Dragon Quest Characters: Torneko's Great Adventure 2 - Mystery Dungeon (Torneko: The Last Hope)

PlayStation 2

• 3-nen B-gumi Kinpachi Sensei: Densetsu no Kyoudan ni Tate!
• 3-nen B-gumi Kinpachi Sensei: Densetsu no Kyoudan ni Tate! Perfect Edition
• Kamaitachi no Yoru 2: Kangokushima no Warabe Uta
• Kamaitachi no Yoru×3: Mikadukijima Jiken no Shinsou
• Dragon Quest Characters: Torneko's Great Adventure 3: Mystery Dungeon
• The Nightmare of Druaga: Fushigino Dungeon (collaboration with Arika)

PlayStation 3

• Imabikisō
• 428: Fūsa Sareta Shibuya de
• Shin Kamaitachi no Yoru: 11ninme no Suspect

PlayStation Portable

• Kamaitachi no Yoru 2: Kangokushima no Warabe Uta
• Machi: Unmei no Kousaten
• 428: Fūsa Sareta Shibuya de
• Trick X Logic

PlayStation Vita

• Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward
• Shin Kamaitachi no Yoru: 11-nin-me no Suspect

Xbox 360

• Entaku no Seito: Students of Round

Sega Saturn

• Sound Novel Machi

Super NES

• Dragon Quest I & II
• Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride
• Otogirisō
• Kamaitachi no Yoru
• Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer
• Torneko's Great Adventure: Mystery Dungeon

iOS

• Kowa-Oto

References

1. Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd. | Company Information | History.Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
2. 志田英邦『ゲーム・マエストロ VOL.2 プロデューサー/ディレクター編(2)』毎日コミュニケーションズ、2000年、p.16。中村光一インタビュー。

External links

• Spike Chunsoft official website (Japanese)