Paon DP

Paon Corporation, Ltd., often simply called Paon, is a Japanese video game company that makes games for Nintendo. They were founded on 20th January 1999. When Rare, Ltd., a company that made games in the Donkey Kong series for Nintendo until they became a subsidiary of Microsoft in 2002, Nintendo used Paon to develop certain Donkey Kong Games.

Their 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 and Game Arts. Their current President is Rikiya Nakagawa. They are currently releasing games for the Wii Virtual Console.