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T&E Soft

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T&E Soft
IndustryVideo game development
SuccessorDaikokuya Global Holding Co., Ltd
FoundedOctober 14, 1982
(old company)
January 21, 2008
(new company)
DefunctJanuary 2013
(new company)
Headquarters
Japan
Websitedwonderland.co.jp

T&E Soft Incorporated (株式会社ティーアンドイーソフト, Kabushiki-Gaisha Tīandoīsofuto) was a Japanese-based video game developer founded in 1982.[1] Although they have made games with a wide variety of genres, they are primarily known in the U.S. for their golf and puzzle video games.[2]

The original company exists today under the name of Daikokuya Global Holding Co., Ltd but is not currently engaged in game development.[3] A company named Deep Co., Ltd. acquired T & E Soft 's trademark rights on April 22, 2005, to continue game development which would go on until January 2013.

History

Founded in 1982, T & E Soft Co., Ltd was initially named after the founder's older brother Toshiro Yokoyama and his younger brother Eiji Yokoyama, but later changed the abbreviation to "Tri & Exciting" and eventually "Technology & Entertainment".

T & E Soft started activities by selling games for NEC's PC-6001 series. Beginning in 1983, it developed games for multiple models other than the PC-6001. In December 1983, T & E Soft published its own magazine to promote its products and by January 1985 launched its newsletter that would last until July 1990. In October 1990, Xtalsoft was merged with T&E Soft and became T & E SOFT Osaka Development Department.

T&E Soft became famous for its 8-bit personal computer games including the Hydlide series. It entered the home video game console in March 1986 with the in-house development of the Family Computer software Hydlide Special which was released by Toshiba EMI. Since the success of the Super Famicom software Harukanaru Augusta, released in April 1991, T&E Soft gradually moved away from personal computers to focus on its titles for video game consoles. At some point, Square founder Masafumi Miyamoto was the majority shareholder of T&E Soft.[4]

In May 2002, T&E Soft Corporation changed its name to D Wonderland Inc.[1]

In April 2005, Deep Co., Ltd. acquired the trademark rights of the T & E Soft name. In January 2006, Digital Golf Co., Ltd. absorbed Deep Co., Ltd. and established a game development branch in Nagoya under the brand name of T & E Soft.

The development department of Digital Golf in Nagoya was eventually split off into its own company T & E Soft Co. , Ltd on January 21, 2008. The following week on January 30, Games Arena Co. , Ltd. (a subsidiary of Dwango Co., Ltd.) announced that it would acquire all issued shares of T & E Soft Co., Ltd.

Chunsoft and Spike, which Games Arena had both previously acquired on individual basis, merged in April 2012 to form Spike Chunsoft. The new T & E Soft Co., Ltd was absorbed and merged with Spike Chunsoft in January 2013. (Games Arena had itself dissolved in June 2012).

In January 2015, D Wonderland (the old T & E Soft) changed its company name to Daikokuya Global Holding Co. , Ltd.[5][6]

On March 4, 2019, D4 Enterprise announced that it has acquired the intellectual property rights of the T & E Soft game content.[7]

Games published

3DO

  • Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Slayer (Japanese release)
  • Pebble Beach Golf
  • Devil's Course, known in US as True Golf Classics: Wicked 18
  • True Golf Classics: Waialae Country Club
  • Shadow: War Of Succession (Japanese release)

Game Boy

  • Chikyū Kaihō Gun ZAS

Mega Drive/Genesis

  • New 3D Golf Simulation: Harukanaru Augusta

MSX

  • Hydlide
  • Daiva Story 4
  • Daiva Story 5
  • Undead Line
  • Hydlide 2
  • Hydlide 3
  • Pyramid Warp
  • Super Laydock
  • Laydock
  • Laydock 2 Last Attack
  • Psy-o-blade

PlayStation

  • Cu-On-Pa
  • Sonata

Super NES/Super Famicom

  • BUSHI Seiryūden: Futari no Yūsha
  • Cu-On-Pa
  • Pebble Beach no Hatou New: Tournament Edition, known in the US as True Golf Classics: Pebble Beach Golf Links
  • New 3D Golf Simulation: Waialae no Kiseki, known in the US as True Golf Classics: Waialae Country Club
  • Devil's Course, known in the US as True Golf Classics: Wicked 18
  • Lode Runner Twin: Justy to Liberty no Daibouken
  • The Lost Vikings, (Super Famicom version)
  • Sword World SFC
  • Sword World SFC 2: Inishie no Kyojin Densetsu

Virtual Boy

Games developed

3DO

  • Pebble Beach Golf

Game Boy

  • Chikyū Kaihō Gun ZAS

Genesis/Mega Drive

MSX

  • Hydlide
  • Hydlide II: Shine of Darkness
  • Hydlide 3: The Space Memories
  • Undead Line
  • Rune Worth
  • Daiva Story 4: Asura's Bloodfeud
  • Daiva Story 5: The Cup of Soma
  • Greatest Driver
  • Laydock
  • Pyramid Warp
  • Super Laydock
  • Laydock 2
  • Ashguine Story II
  • Trick Boy
  • Battle Ship Clapton II

Famicom/NES

Nintendo 64

  • Waialae Country Club: True Golf Classics
  • Masters '98: Haruka Naru Augusta

Nintendo DS

PC

  • Blaze and Blade: Eternal Quest

PlayStation

  • Blaze and Blade: Eternal Quest
  • Cu-On-Pa
  • Sonata

PlayStation 2

  • Disney Golf
  • Swing Away Golf

Saturn

Super NES/Super Famicom

  • Cu-On-Pa
  • New 3D Golf Simulation: Waialae no Kiseki, known in US as True Golf Classics: Waialae Country Club
  • Pebble Beach no Hatou New: Tournament Edition
  • Power Lode Runner
  • Rise of the Robots
  • True Golf Classics: Pebble Beach Golf Links

Virtual Boy

References

  1. ^ a b Kyodo News International, Inc. (2002-04-01). "Insider trading complaint filed over Disney software deal". TheFreeLibrary.com. Retrieved 2015-05-10.
  2. ^ "T&E Soft Games". IGN. Archived from the original on 2012-11-05. Retrieved 2015-05-10.
  3. ^ "会社情報 | 大黒屋グローバルホールディング - Daikokuya Global Holding 公式サイト".
  4. ^ https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2001/01/16/business/disney-te-in-online-games-tieup/#.XpyZdM17kdU
  5. ^ (PDF). September 6, 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160906232149/http://www.daikokuya-ghd.jp/wp/wp-content/uploads/151228_dw-shogo.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 6, 2016.
  6. ^ . December 27, 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20151227011045/http://dwonderland.co.jp/top.html. Archived from the original on December 27, 2015.
  7. ^ "株式会社D4エンタープライズ、地位継承済ゲームソフトウェア・コンテンツのご案内". D4エンタープライズ. 2019-03-04.

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