Developer · Japan
Nintendo R&D1
Gunpei Yokoi's group: Game & Watch, the Game Boy, Metroid and Wario; folded into SPD in 2003.
Mechanics first shipped by Nintendo R&D1
Ideas this studio is credited with introducing to the medium, each with a full downstream history.
Space & Locomotion · 1986
Ability-Gated Interlocked Map
An ability-gated interlocked map is one continuous world whose closed routes open only when the player gains a new cap…
Origin: Metroid
Progression & Persistence · 1986
Password Continuation
Password continuation encodes a player's progress as a string of characters they write down, letting a game remember i…
Origin: Metroid
Games developed (4)
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