HAL Laboratory, Inc., formerly shortened as HALKEN, is a Japanese video game developer based in Chiyoda, Tokyo. It was founded on February 21, 1980 by...

born May 21, 1979) is a Japanese video game director, game designer, HAL Laboratory employee, and painter who is the current general director of the Kirby...

until he begins to malfunction. In the film, HAL became operational on 12 January 1992, at the HAL Laboratories in Urbana, Illinois, as production number...

Technology. In 1980, he joined the game developer HAL Laboratory while attending the university. At HAL, he worked as a programmer and closely collaborated...

game company HAL Laboratory. He is best known for composing for the Kirby series along with Hirokazu Ando. As of 2024, he left HAL Laboratory, although he...

on the Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo Switch under license from Nintendo. HAL Laboratory developed the Picross 3D spinoff series, with games on the Nintendo...

Ishihara in November 1995, with the assistance of then-president of HAL Laboratory, Satoru Iwata, as a successor to Shigesato Itoi's company Ape Inc. Alongside...

Formerly an employee of HAL Laboratory, Sakurai left the company in 2003 and in 2005 with his wife Michiko Sakurai (also ex-HAL Laboratory) founded their company...

modes. Sakurai conceived the idea of Super Smash Bros. while working at HAL Laboratory in 1998 with the help of Satoru Iwata. The series's first game, Super...

character and protagonist of the Kirby series of video games developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo. He first appeared in Kirby's Dream Land (1992)...

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Forgotten Land 7.52 million March 31, 2024 March 25, 2022 Platformer HAL Laboratory Nintendo Super Mario Party Jamboree 7.48 million March 31, 2025 October...

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Sonority. It was also to home to HAL Laboratory's Tokyo R&D Center and Warpstar's Tokyo office until they moved into HAL's office in Sudachō in 2003. Genius...

it was the first game in the series not to be developed primarily by HAL Laboratory. It was developed by a creative team under Sora that included members...

most million-selling games include Game Freak with three games, and HAL Laboratory and Flagship, with two games each. Of the 40 games on this list, 25...

Fortress") is an action-adventure video game developed and published by HAL Laboratory for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It was released in Japan in August...

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action role-playing video game developed by HAL Laboratory and Live Planning and published by HAL Laboratory for the Famicom Disk System. It is an early...

development of Mother 3 in a collaborative effort with Shigesato Itoi and HAL Laboratory for the Game Boy Advance, and Magical Starsign (Magical Vacation: When...

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developing games for other publishers if they choose to. For example, while HAL Laboratory initially began developing games on personal computers like the MSX...

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Trax is a 1991 shooter video game developed and published by HAL Laboratory for the Game Boy. Electro Brain published the game while being re-released...

produced by Nintendo. The games have been developed by Japan-based HAL Laboratory, a Nintendo second-party developer. All Kirby video games have been...

Japan and worldwide, in addition to second-party developers including HAL Laboratory, Intelligent Systems, Game Freak, and The Pokémon Company. It is one...