Don’t you wish Nintendo, Capcom, and Sega still made games together?
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 at 12:03pm by Blake
From MSNBC’s Top 5 defunct game developers:
I bet you didn’t know Nintendo, Capcom, and Sega created a joint venture at one time to make games. Well, they did. And it was awesome. Dubbed Flagship, the studio was entrusted with developing successors to several household names in gaming — “Zelda,” “Kirby,” “Resident Evil,” and “Onimusha” to be exact — before being dissolved in 2007.
Undoubtedly, Minish Cap was Flagship’s greatest achievement. What an awesome game.
July 8th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Wasn’t Namco in there too?
July 8th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
Indeed the Minish Cap was awesome. I still say that the joint work between Nintendo and Capcom on the Oracle games (GBC) was the best collaboration between the two though.
July 8th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
The best part about Flagship was that it was somehow closed for no reason, despite every single one of their games being a gigantic million-selling Success, like RE: Zero, Minish Cap, Kirby Squeak Squad.
Yet it was a successful studio that was tiled somewhat towards Nintendo, so it had to be closed in order to drum up funds for Bionic Commando. I’m sure that worked out great, though.
July 9th, 2009 at 8:38 am
@ Jeff
By “best part” I presume that you mean the worst or oddest part. Why would it be good that they closed down? I for one would have liked to see what Flagship could have done with Zelda on the DS.
July 9th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
i didn’t really like Minish Cap that much.
July 9th, 2009 at 5:55 pm
F-Zero GX is a masterpiece of SEGA. I hope the next one are under the blessings of SEGA again.
July 19th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
I loved the two Oracle games and Kirby and the Amazing Mirror even more than The Minish Cap, but all four were definitely superb. In fact, aside from Majora’s Mask, Flagship was responsible for all three of the three Zelda games I’ve truly loved this millennium.