Retro Studios
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Retro Studios is an American video game developer based in Austin, Texas, USA. It was founded in 1998 by Jeff Spangenberg as a second-party developer to Japan-based video game company Nintendo. It is currently wholly owned by Nintendo (and is thus a first-party developer, rather than a second-party one as it once was), with over 50 employees.
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Retro struggled in its early years, dealing with several cancelled projects and lay-offs. Then Nintendo offered it the license to the long-dormant Metroid franchise which proved to be a turning point for the company. The first big project that Retro Studios worked on with Nintendo was Metroid Prime, a game that would become one of the biggest titles for the Nintendo GameCube, receiving both critical and public acclaim. In 2001, then-president Jeff Spangenberg sold his share of stock in the company to Nintendo and left shortly thereafter. In 2003, Michael Kelbaugh was named president of Retro Studios. In 2004 Retro released ', which proved to be just as much of a success as the first game. They are also creating ' for Nintendo's Wii, which will be a launch title.Games developed by Retro Studios
- Metroid Prime — (2002)
- — (2004)
Cancelled GCN games
- Action Adventure — (Cancelled in favor of Metroid Prime)
- Car Combat (Thunder Rally)
- NFL Retro Football
- Raven Blade — (Cancelled in favor of Metroid Prime)
- — (in development, due out before Thanksgiving 2006)
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- — (in development, due out before Thanksgiving 2006)
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| Hardware and Specialized Developers |
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| Integrated R&D | Software Planning | Licensing Division | R&E |
| First-Party Software Developers |
| R&D 1 | R&D 2 | EAD | Special P&D | Intelligent Systems | EAD Tokyo | NST | Retro Studios | Brownie Brown |
| Second-Party Developers |
| HAL Laboratory | Camelot | Genius Sonority | Creatures Inc. | AlphaDream | Game Freak | NOISE |
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