Company:Amusement Vision

Amusement Vision, Ltd.

Native name	株式会社アミューズメントヴィジョン
Romanized name	Kabushiki gaisha Amyūzumento Vijon
Type	Division (Defunct)
Industry	Video games
Fate	Merged with Sega's Research and Development division
Predecessor	Sega Software R&D Dept No. 4
Successor	New Entertainment R&D Dept. (original) Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio (current)
Founded	April 21, 2000 (April 21, 2000)
Founder	Toshihiro Nagoshi
Defunct	April 1, 2005 (April 1, 2005)
Headquarters	Tokyo, Japan
Products	Super Monkey Ball series, F-Zero GX
Parent	Sega

Sega AM Research & Development No. 11 (セガ第11AM研究開発部, Sega Daijūni Ē Emu Kenkyū Kaihatsu Bu), reestablished as Amusement Vision, Ltd. (株式会社アミューズメントヴィジョン, Kabushiki gaisha Amyūzumento Vijon) in 2000, was a video game development team within the Japanese multinational video game developer Sega.

History

In 2000, all nine of Sega's internal R&D departments were separated from the main company, and established semi-autonomous subsidiaries, with each one electing a president as a studio head. However, for more financial stability, Sega began consolidating its studios into six main ones (Sega Wow, Sega AM2, Hitmaker, Amusement Vision, Smilebit, Sonic Team) in 2003, and merged them back into a uniform R&D structure throughout 2004.

Amusement Vision (AV) was headed by Toshihiro Nagoshi. In addition to an arcade line-up and the Daytona USA remake Daytona USA 2001, AV was most known for its Nintendo partnership on the exclusively on the original two Super Monkey Ball games, and development collaboration of F-Zero GX. In part of Sega's consolidation of studios, non-sports staff of Smilebit merged with AV in 2003 which resulted into the Ollie King arcade release at first. By 2004, AV had 124 employees and the main focus would be on "epic and film-style titles", which is when development on the Yakuza series began and AV was dissolved and integrated into Sega on April 1, 2005.

List of games

Arcade

• Planet Harriers (2000)
• SlashOut (2000)
• Monkey Ball (2001)
• Spikers Battle (2001)
• Virtua Striker 3 (2001)
• Virtua Striker 2002 (2002)
• F-Zero AX (2003)
• Ollie King (2004)

Dreamcast

• Daytona USA 2001 (2000)

GameCube

• Super Monkey Ball (2001)
• Super Monkey Ball 2 (2002)
• Virtua Striker 3 ver.2002 (2002)
• F-Zero GX (2003)

Game Boy Advance

• Shining Force: Resurrection of the Dark Dragon (2004)

External links

• Official website