Megasoft
Moby ID: 14884
- Santos (from 1989 to 1991-12)
- Whiteboard (from 1987 to 1989)
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Whiteboard was a development company established in 1985, which produced arcade and home mahjong games such Mahjong Cop Ryū. The company was run by Takeshi Tozu, who had previously run Crux and Orca, and mostly did development work for SEGA. By 1989, the company's name had changed to Santos and it produced a handful more arcade and Mega Drive titles, most notably Battle Golfer Yui. The company was acquired by SEGA in December 1991, and renamed once more to Megasoft.
As a division of SEGA, Megasoft produced two titles, Aa Harimanada and Shinobi III, but the staff was soon after merged into SEGA's own internal R&D departments. After the buyout by SEGA, Takeshi Tozu left the company to establish another development studio also called Santos, which would eventually be merged into Aicom when Yumekobo was established.
Another group of former Santos staff led by Tomohiro Ishigai established Gaibrain in the early '90s.
Credited on 6 Games from 1988 to 1993
| Aa Harimanada (1993 on Genesis, Game Gear) |
| Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master (1993 on Windows, Genesis, Wii...) |
| Battle Golfer Yui (1991 on Genesis) |
| Toki: Going Ape Spit (1991 on Genesis) |
| Mahjong Cop Ryū (1989 on Genesis) |
| Nekkyū Kōshien (1988 on SEGA Master System) |
Frequent Collaborators
Companies- 6 games with SEGA Corporation
- 2 games with SEGA of America, Inc.
- 1 game with Nintendo Co., Ltd.
- 1 game with Kodansha Ltd.
- 1 game with Tectoy S.A.
- 1 game with SEGA Europe Ltd.
- 1 game with Tad Corporation
- 1 game with d3t Ltd
- 1 game with TV Tokyo Corporation
- 1 game with Sega Amusements International Ltd
- 4 games with Masayuki Nagao
- 4 games with Hiroyuki Hirama
- 3 games with Tsukasa Aoki
- 3 games with Morihiko Akiyama
- 3 games with Hirofumi Murasaki
- 2 games with Toshiaki Yajima
- 2 games with Naohisa Nakazawa
- 2 games with Hideaki Moriya
- 2 games with Katsuhiko Ogikubo
- 2 games with Ano Shimizu
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