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| Type | Private (defunct) |
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| Industry | Video games |
| Founded | 1997 |
| Defunct | May 2003 |
| Headquarters | Tokyo, Japan |
Key people | Takao Kurebayashi, Kazutoshi Iida, and Yana |
| Products | Games for Nintendo video game consoles |
Param was a Japanese video game development company that worked in partnership with Nintendo. Param was a part of Marigul Management. Param was defunct as Marigul was liquidated in May 2003.
Kazutoshi Iida, a graduate of Tama Art University born in 1968, [1] founded Param in 1997. [2] Before Param, Iida lead development of Tail of the Sun and Aquanaut's Holiday . [1] The team was responsible for the Nintendo 64DD game Kyojin no Doshin (known as Doshin the Giant outside Japan), which was released in Japan only, but was ported to the GameCube and released in Japan and Europe. An expansion titled Kyojin no Doshin Kaihō Sensen Chibikko Chikko Daishūgō for the Nintendo 64DD was released five months after the initial game. The company was headed up by Takao Kurebayashi, Kazutoshi Iida and Yana. Kazutoshi Iida moved on to a company called Unigame Bunko, translated as Sea Turtle Library, and worked with Marvelous Entertainment on Discipline for WiiWare. [3] Iida became a professor of Film at Ritsumeikan University. [1]
The Nintendo 64 (abbreviated as N64, stylized as NINTENDO64) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Nintendo. The console is the successor to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It was first released on June 23, 1996 in Japan, on September 29, 1996 in North America, and March 1, 1997 in Europe and Australia. It was the last major home console to use cartridges as its primary storage format until the Nintendo Switch in 2017. As a fifth generation console, it competed primarily with the Sony PlayStation and the Sega Saturn.
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The Game Boy Camera (GBC), released as Pocket Camera in Japan, is a Nintendo accessory for the handheld Game Boy game console. It was released on February 21, 1998 in Japan, and manufacturing was ceased in late 2002. As a toy for user-generated content, it can be used to shoot grayscale photographs, edit them or create original drawings, and transfer images between GBC units or to the 64DD art game suite Mario Artist. The accessory featured a 180°-swivel front-facing camera that allowed users to capture selfies. Its images can be printed to thermal paper with the Game Boy Printer. The GBC's cartridge contains minigames based on Nintendo's early games such as the arcade video game Space Fever and the Game & Watch handheld game Ball, and a chiptune music sequencer. Guinness recognized it as the world's smallest digital camera in 1999, and photographers have embraced its technological limitations as artistic challenges.
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Doshin may refer to:
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