HAL Laboratory

Information about HAL Laboratory

HAL Laboratory, Inc.
Private
FoundedFebruary 21, 1980[1]
HeadquartersChiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
Key peopleSatoru Iwata (former president)
IndustryVideo game industry
ProductsVideo games
Employees110
Website[1]


HAL Laboratory, Inc. (株式会社ハル研究所 Kabushikigaisha Haru Kenkyūjo) is a Japanese video game developer that was founded on February 21, 1980. Its name comes from the HAL 9000 computer in the film . The company is most famous for its character Kirby, the protagonist of the eponymous game series, as well as the Super Smash Bros. series. It is a second-party development studio of Nintendo.

HAL Laboratory started off making games for the MSX system during the early '80s, some of their games since the 1986 Famicom Disk System game Gall Force (based on the anime series of the same name) have been released also on Nintendo systems.

In many of its games during the early to mid-'90s it used the name HALKEN (derived from their literal Japanese name "HAL KENkyūjo") as well as HAL Laboratory. Some of its early titles were also released as HAL America, a North American subsidiary of the company.

The current president of Nintendo, Satoru Iwata, was a former president of HAL. Other important figures include Masahiro Sakurai, who created the Kirby character and the Super Smash Bros. franchise and now leads his own company Sora Ltd..

List of games

MSX

MSX2

  • Hole in One Special
  • Zukkoke Yajikita Onmitsudoutyuu
  • Mr. Ninja - Ashura's Chapter

NES

SNES

Nintendo 64

GameCube

Game Boy

Game Boy Color

Game Boy Advance

Nintendo DS

Wii

External links

References

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Nintendo developers
First-partyBrownie Brown • Intelligent Systems • NDCUBE • EAD & EAD Tokyo • NST • Retro Studios
Second-partyAlphaDream • Ambrella •Camelot • Fuse Games • Game Freak
Genius Sonority • HAL Laboratory • Monolith Soft • Nexon • Noise • skip
Former second-partyLeft Field • Rare • Silicon Knights
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HAL 9000 (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) is a fictional character in Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey saga. The novels, along with two films, begin with , released in 1968. It was ranked #13 on a list of greatest film villains of all on the AFI's 100 Years..
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Discontinued 1995 (MSX turbo R)
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Nintendo Company, Limited
任天堂株式会?

Public
TYO: 7974
NTDOY
FWB: NTO
Founded September 23 1889
Headquarters Kyoto, Japan
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Redmond, Washington, USA
Richmond, British Columbia, Canada
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Nintendo Company, Limited
任天堂株式会?

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TYO: 7974
NTDOY
FWB: NTO
Founded September 23 1889
Headquarters Kyoto, Japan
International:
Redmond, Washington, USA
Richmond, British Columbia, Canada
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Satoru Iwata (岩田 聡 Iwata Satoru
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Sora Ltd.

Founded September 30, 2005
Headquarters Tokyo, Japan

Key people Masahiro Sakurai
Industry video game industry
Products video games

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This article is about the computer standard MSX. For other uses, see MSX (disambiguation).


MSX
Type Home computer
Released 1983 (MSX1)
Discontinued 1995 (MSX turbo R)
Processor Zilog Z80
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