Retro studios
| Retro studios | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Subsidiary of Nintendo |
| founding | October 1998 |
| Seat | Austin, Texas (United States) |
| management | Michael Kelbaugh Bryan Walker Tim Little Vince Joly |
| Number of employees | 95 (2014) |
| Branch | Game software developer |
| Website | www.retrostudios.com |
Retro Studios is a video game - developer based in Austin, Texas . The company is a subsidiary of Nintendo and one of 8 external or one of a total of 16 first-party development studios from Nintendo.
history
In 1995, Acclaim Entertainment bought the then-second-largest Austin-based software company, Iguana Entertainment , which was later renamed Acclaim Studios Austin . In 1998 Jeff Spangenberg, co-founder and president of Iguana Entertainment, was fired. With a few other employees, he founded Retro Studios on October 1st, 1998, which Nintendo signed up as the exclusive developer in 1999.
2001 Spangenberg sold his shares in Nintendo and shortly afterwards left the company. With the sale of the shares, Retro Studios became Nintendo's second first-party developer on the American continent after Nintendo Software Technology .
Games
GameCube
- Metroid Prime (2002)
- Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (2004)
Wii
- Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (2007)
- Metroid Prime: Trilogy (2009)
- Donkey Kong Country Returns (2010)
3DS
- Mario Kart 7 (2011, with Nintendo EAD)
- Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D (2013)
Wii U
Switch
- Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (2018)
- Metroid Prime 4 (TBA)
Web links
- Official website (English)
- N-Sider: The Art of Prime (November 18, 2002 )
- N-Sider: A Retrospective: The Story of Retro Studios (December 17, 2004 )
- IGN: A Space Bounty Hunter in Texas. The inside story of Echoes, Corruption and Trilogy. (August 28, 2009 )
Individual evidence
- ^ A Retrospective: The Story of Retro Studios . In: IGN . December 17, 2004. Retrieved August 11, 2018.