Grasshopper Manufacture

Infobox Company
company_name = Grasshopper Manufacture, Inc.
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company_type = Corporation
company_slogan="Punk's Not Dead"
foundation = March 30, 1998
location = flagicon|Japan Suginami, Tokyo
key_people = Goichi Suda: CEO
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industry = Video games
products = Various video game titles
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num_employees = 48
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homepage = [http://www.grasshopper.co.jp/ Grasshopper Manufacture]
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Grasshopper Manufacture, Inc. is a Japanese video game development house founded on March 30, 1998 in Suginami, Japan. Grasshopper gained mainstream notoriety in 2005 for the Nintendo GameCube and PlayStation 2 game "killer7". In addition to "killer7", they have developed "Michigan" (released in Japan and Europe) and a number of Japan-only titles. Grasshopper Manufacture was also recently responsible for the Nintendo DS game "Contact" and the Wii game "No More Heroes". The company is headed by Goichi Suda, also known as Suda51, and is noted for its original and imaginative titles - ones that are also fraught with financial risk. Potential losses are often made up by the development of games based on popular anime franchises, such as ' and '.

Grasshopper is now working on another Wii title, "Fatal Frame IV", to be published by Nintendo. On top of this, Grasshopper is also said to be working on an Xbox 360 title, and have presented a concept for a PlayStation 3 game called "Kurayami", a non-linear action adventure inspired by the worrying and confused universe of the Czech writer Franz Kafka, whom Goichi Suda admires.

In May 2007, Suda announced during a speech at the 2007 Game Developers Conference that Grasshopper was at the time working on three titles for the Wii, which have since been revealed as "No More Heroes" and "Fatal Frame IV"; there is no information on the status of the third Wii game in development then.

In August 2008 EA announced a deal to publish an as yet untitled action horror game developed by Grasshopper in conjuntion with Q Entertainment. The project will be directed by Suda and produced by Shinji Mikami for release on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii and PC.

Games developed

PlayStation

* "The Silver Case"

Game Boy Advance

* "Shining Soul II"

PlayStation 2

* "Flower, Sun, and Rain"
* ""
* "killer7"
* ""
* ""

Nintendo GameCube

* "killer7"

Nintendo DS

* "Contact"
* ""
* "The Silver Case"
* "Silver Case, 25 Ward"

Wii

* "No More Heroes"
* "Fatal Frame IV"
* "Suda51 Horror Project"
* ""

PlayStation 3

* "Kurayami"
* "Suda51 Horror Project"

Xbox 360

* Suda51 Horror Project [untitled]

PC

* "Suda51 Horror Project" [http://pc.ign.com/articles/898/898956p1.html]

Links

* [http://www.grasshopper.co.jp Grasshopper official site]
* [http://games.ign.com/objects/564/564069.html IGN page]
* [http://www.gamerwiki.com/index.php/Grasshopper_Manufacture GamerWiki article]