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I'MAX Corp[a] was a Japanese company that developed and published video games in the 1990s.[1][2][3]
It also ran its own video game development school, I'Max Academy.[4] One of its members won the grand prize for up-and-coming game developers at the 1998 Tokyo Game Show.[5][6]
In Japan, it published games such as the PlayStation and Sega Saturn version of Worms.[7][8]
Its series of puzzle video games were popular in Japan. Its PlayStation title I'MAX Shogi II received a re-release for the Japanese PlayStation Store.[9] As of July 2024, many of its classic titles are available on the cloud gaming service Project EGG.[10][11][12]
Micom BASIC column
editDuring I'Max lifetime, major Japanese video game companies had specialists who wrote articles for the industry-influential Micom BASIC Magazine to announce new developments in a casual way. [13][14] Like Konami with its "Konami News Station" and Capcom with its "Capcom World,"[15] I'MAX's also had its own column in the magazine.[16][17]
The column from April 1995 announced a new title in the Super Keiba series and also lamented the Great Hanshin earthquake, informing that I'MAX had workers from the area.[18]
Video game library
edit- Ball Bullet Gun
- Bakuretsu Hunter
- Bōken Danshaku Don: The Lost Sunheart
- Cyber Dolll
- Dossun! Ganseki Battle
- Dual Orb
- Dual Orb II[19]
- Famicom Igo Nyuumon
- Famicom Shogi: Ryū-Ō-Sen
- Innsmouth no Yakata
- Irem Arcade Classics
- Kandume Monsters[20]
- Death Brade
- Navy Blue
- Nikkan Berutomo Club
- Pachi-Slot World Cup '94
- Super Keiba series
- Super Keirin
- Super Kōkō Yakyū
- Super Shogi series
- Super Mahjong series
- Super!! Pachinko
- Super Hanafuda series
- Tsume Shogi Mondai Teikyou: Shogi Sekai
- Worms (PlayStation and Sega Saturn versions)
Notes
editReferences
edit- ^ "【I'MAX】A Former Game Manufacturer! Packed with Super Retro NES Software! What was the software lineup of I'MAX, which released many tabletop games?". Retro Video Game Republic. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
- ^ "Game Companies - I'Max". GameFAQs. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
- ^ "Irem Arcade Classics". Intelligent Gamer. No. 2. United States. July 1996. p. 83. Retrieved 29 July 2024 – via Archive.org.
- ^ "ゲームマシン". www.ampress.co.jp. December 1998. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
- ^ "TOKYO GAME SHOW Information".
- ^ "TOKYO GAME SHOW Information". tgs.cesa.or.jp. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
- ^ "Worms Game Trailer, Game Reviews, Worms Game Information and Gaming Forum by MeltedJoystick". www.meltedjoystick.com. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
- ^ "HonestGamers - Worms (PlayStation)". www.honestgamers.com. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
- ^ "『アイマックス将棋II』＆『大海信長伝・下天II』がプレイステーションゲームアーカイブスで配信開始". ファミ通.com (in Japanese). 3 December 2014. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
- ^ "I'MAX 配信ゲーム". プロジェクトEGG (in Japanese). Retrieved 31 July 2024.
- ^ "株式会社Ｄ４エンタープライズ » Blog Archive » 『プロジェクトEGG』にて2011年4月12日に『どっすん！ 岩石バトル』をリリース". www.d4e.co.jp. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
- ^ "プロジェクトEGG，サバゲーシム「ボール・ブレッド・ガン」を配信スタート". 4Gamer.net (in Japanese). Retrieved 31 July 2024.
- ^ "貴重なレゲー1万本と雑誌を収集するフランス没落貴族!?→自宅に凸して数奇な人生を聞いたら、ただのガチゲーマーだった件【NPOゲーム保存協会:探訪レポ】". 電ファミニコゲーマー – ゲームの面白い記事読んでみない？ (in Japanese). 23 August 2017. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
- ^ "＜ベーマガ備忘録＞書評・マイコンBASIC Magazine 1989年3月号＆勝手にベストプログラマー". minominosuper のブログ.
- ^ "懐かしのベーマガ表紙画像 1997年1月号". s-sasaji.ddo.jp. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
- ^ "マイコンBASICマガジン年鑑－1991.5目次". www.aabmg.com. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
- ^ "懐かしのベーマガ表紙画像 1991年9月号". s-sasaji.ddo.jp. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
- ^ "ぷーちゃんのアイマックス情報局". マイコンBASICマガジン (in Japanese). Japan. April 1995. p. 205. Retrieved 29 July 2024 – via Archive.org.
- ^ "About Dual Orb 2".
- ^ "カンヅメモンスター(GB)-おきらくゲームソフト事典". gamesoft.ukariko.jp. Retrieved 31 July 2024.