Company:KID

Short description: Japanese game development company

KID Corp.
株式会社キッド

Industry	Consumer Game Computer Game
Founded	May 12, 1988
Defunct	2006
Headquarters	Tokyo, Japan
Key people	Hisaaki Ichikawa, President
Revenue	¥92.9m (March 2006)
Number of employees	41
Website	http://www.kid-game.jp

KID (an acronym standing for Kindle Imagine Develop) was a Japan -based company specializing in porting and developing bishōjo games.

History

KID was founded in 1988, with capital of 160 million yen. In the early 1990s, it served primarily as a contract developer. Notable titles from this era include Burai Fighter, Low G Man, G.I. Joe, Isolated Warrior and Recca. In 1997, it began porting PC games to games consoles. In 1999, it released an original title called Memories Off on PlayStation, which later became its first well-known series. In 2000, it released the original title Never 7, the first in the Infinity series. KID also created the popular underground PlayStation game Board Game Top Shop. In 2005, KID became a sponsor of the Japanese drama series Densha Otoko.

The company declared bankruptcy in 2006. However, in February 2007 it was announced that KID's intellectual properties had been acquired by the CyberFront Corporation, which would continue all unfinished projects until its closure in December 2013.

Kaga Create then bought CyberFront Corporation and owned the rights to KID's works. After Kaga Create closed down, 5pb. bought Cyberfront's assets which also included all of KID's works.

Works

Infinity series

• Infinity Cure
• Never 7
• Ever 17
• Remember 11
• 12Riven: The Psi-Climinal of Integral

Memories Off series

• Memories Off
• Memories Off 2nd
• You that became a Memory ~Memories Off~
• Memories Off ~And then~
• Memories Off ~And Then Again~
• Memories Off 5
• Memories Off #5 encore
• Your Memories Off: Girl's Style

Other

• Blocken (Arcade)
• Armored Police Metal Jack (Game Boy)
• Kingyo Chūihō! 2 Gyopichan o Sagase! (Game Boy)
• Battle Grand Prix (SNES)
• Jumpin' Derby (Super Famicom)
• Super Bowling (SNES)
• Super Jinsei Game (series) (2 & 3) (Super Famicom)
• Chibi Maruko-chan: Okozukai Daisakusen (Game Boy, 1990)
• Chibi Maruko-Chan 2: Deluxe Maruko World (Game Boy, 1991)
• Chibi Maruko-chan 3: Mezase! Game Taishou no Maki (Game Boy, 1992)
• Chibi Maruko-chan 4: Korega Nihon Dayo Ouji Sama (Game Boy, 1992)
• Chibi Maruko-Chan: Maruko Deluxe Gekijou (Game Boy, 1995)
• Burai Fighter
• Low G Man
• Bananan Ouji no Daibouken
• Kick Master
• G.I. Joe
• G.I. Joe
• Rock 'n' Ball
• Sumo Fighter: Tōkaidō Basho
• UFO Kamen Yakisoban
• Sutobasu Yarō Shō: 3 on 3 Basketball
• Mini 4WD Shining Scorpion Let's & Go!!
• Pepsiman
• Doki! Doki! Yūenchi (Famicom)
• Ai Yori Aoshi (PS2 and PC adaptation)
• Ryu-Koku (final game released before the bankruptcy)
• Separate Hearts
• Ski Air Mix
• Recca (Famicom Shooter created for the "Summer Carnival '92" gaming tournament)
• We Are*
• Close to: Inori no Oka
• Yume no Tsubasa
• Max Warrior: Wakusei Kaigenrei
• Kaitou Apricot (PlayStation)
• Kiss yori... (Sega Saturn and WonderSwan)
• 6 Inch my Darling (Sega Saturn)
• Dokomademo Aoku... (consumer port of TopCat's Hateshinaku Aoi, Kono Sora no Shita de...)
• Kagayaku Kisetsu e (consumer port of Tactics' One: Kagayaku Kisetsu e)
• She'sn
• Screen (consumer port of Ather's Campus ~Sakura no Mau Naka de~)
• Emmyrea (consumer port of Penguin Soft's Nemureru Mori no Ohime-sama)
• My Merry May
• Iris
• Flamberge no Seirei (consumer port of Nikukyuu's Mei King)
• Prism Heart (Dreamcast)
• Oujisama Lv1 (PlayStation)
• Boku to Bokura no Natsu (Dreamcast)
• Monochrome (PlayStation 2 and PSP)
• Hōkago Ren'ai Club – Koi no Etude (Sega Saturn)
• Subete ga F ni Naru (PlayStation)

External links

• KID Official site
• Bankruptcy info and notes in English via insert credit
• KID at The Visual Novel Database
• List of KID games at GameFAQs