Return Of The Ninja: Tose’s Stealthy Outsourcing Progress

[”Ninja” outsourcing developer Tose has racked up numerous development credits — yet are hardly ever credited. You may recall that our own Brandon Sheffield (Game Developer magazine EIC) has been semi-obsessed with them - well, he returns for another bite of the Tose cherry here, hurray.]
Japanese developer Tose has worked on many hundreds of games since 1979 and employs about a thousand developers in multiple studios all over Japan — and consumers have played many of their games without ever even being aware.
The company has associated itself with only a handful of its titles: Sega Casino, SNK’s Sasuke vs. Commander (1980 arcade game), Nightmare Before Christmas (GBA), Shrek: Reekin’ Havoc and Shrek: Hassle at the Castle (both GBA titles for TDK Mediactive), and a series of Nickelodeon licensed mobile games for THQ.
Other than that — and the notable exception of Starfy, a series for which the company holds […]

Original post by editors@gamesetwatch.com (Simon Carless) and software by Elliott Back