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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Video games |
| Founded | 1993 |
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| Headquarters | , Sicily, Italy |
| Website | napsteam |
NAPS team is an Italian independent video game studio based in Messina, Sicily. They work mostly in the home computer and console market. Is the oldest Italian development studio.
The company was established as a game developing house in 1993 by Fabio Capone and Domenico Barba. [1]
Like many software houses established in the 1990s, their first market was on the 16-bit Amiga.
In 2016, the company started work on the game Iron Wings. [2] The company used Kickstarter to raise funds. [3] Completed in 2017, it features aerial warfare and is set in World War II. [4]
In 2018, Gekido: Kintaro's Revenge was re-released for the Nintendo Switch, [5] PlayStation 4 [6] and Xbox One. [7]
Baldo, a role-playing video game inspired by The Legend of Zelda series, but with a graphic style inspired by the animated films produced by Studio Ghibli, was announced in 2019.
In 1996, Shadow Fighter was ranked the 20th best game of all time by Amiga Power . [8]
Games developed by NAPS team:
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Rockstar Games UK Limited is a British video game development company and a studio of Rockstar Games based in Edinburgh. The company was founded as DMA Design in Dundee in 1987 by David Jones, soon hiring former classmates Mike Dailly, Russell Kay, and Steve Hammond. During its early years, DMA Design was backed by its publisher Psygnosis, primarily focusing on Amiga, Atari ST and Commodore 64 games. During this time, they created successful shooters such as Menace and Blood Money, but soon turned to platform games after the release of Lemmings in 1991, which was an international success and led to several sequels and spin-offs. After developing Unirally for Nintendo, DMA Design was set to become one of their main second-party developers, but this partnership ended after Nintendo's disapproval of Body Harvest.
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Gekido is a beat 'em up video game for the PlayStation console, created by Italian studio NAPS Team. The game uses a fast-paced beat 'em up system and a 3D side scrolling gameplay, with many bosses and a colorful design in terms of graphics. The game features the music of Fatboy Slim and Apartment 26. Marvel comic book artist Joe Madureira also contributed. Versions of Gekido were also planned for the Game Boy Color and N-Gage but were never released. NAPS team released the prototype of the Game Boy Color game on February 13, 2017.
Gekido Advance: Kintaro's Revenge is a beat 'em up game for the Game Boy Advance, created by Italian studio NAPS Team. It is a sequel to the PlayStation game Gekido. Unlike the previous installment, this game centers on one protagonist, instead of multiple characters as seen in Gekido. A version for N-Gage was planned but never released.
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Shadow Fighter is a video game for the Amiga and CD32 developed by NAPS team and published by Gremlin Interactive in 1994. The game was acclaimed by critics, and in 1996 it was ranked the 20th best game of all time by Amiga Power.
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Baldo: The Guardian Owls is an action-adventure video game developed and published by NAPS team. It was released for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows, as well as iOS and macOS through Apple Arcade. The Switch version of the game was scheduled to be released first in summer 2020 as a timed console exclusive, but the game was indefinitely delayed in September of that year. The game was released on August 27, 2021.
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