Paon DP

Paon Corporation
Type	Public
Founded	20th January, 1999
Industry	Video Game Development
Products	Video games
Employees	120
Website	www.paon.co.jp (Japanese)

Paon Corporation (パオン) is a Japanese video game company that makes games for Nintendo. It was founded on January 20th, 1999. When Rare, Ltd., a company that made games in the Donkey Kong series for Nintendo until it became a subsidiary of Microsoft in 2002, left Nintendo, Nintendo used Paon to develop certain Donkey Kong games such as DK: King of Swing, DK: Jungle Climber and Donkey Kong Barrel Blast. They also worked on re-releasing old games for the Wii Virtual Console.

Paon's only Super Smash Bros. game so far is Super Smash Bros. Brawl, which they developed in co-operation with Sora Ltd., HAL Laboratory, Inc., Monolith Soft, Intelligent Systems and Game Arts.

In Super Smash Bros. Brawl

All three of Paon's Donkey Kong-developed titles, King of Swing, Jungle Climber, and Barrel Blast, have been represented through several trophies and stickers. In addition, Barrel Blast was also represented with a music track called DK Jungle 1 Theme (Barrel Blast), which plays on Rumble Falls.

In Super Smash Bros. for Wii U

A song from Glory of Heracles: Proof of the Soul appears in the Coliseum stage titled Glory of Heracles.

In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Heracles, as he appears in Glory of Heracles: Proof of the Soul, as well as the protagonist of said game, both appear as Spirits.