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Spike Chunsoft
| Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd. | |||
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| Type | Subsidiary | ||
| Founded | April 9, 1984 (Chunsoft) October 18, 1991 (Spike) April 1, 2012 (as Spike Chunsoft) | ||
| Headquarters |  Tokyo, Japan
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| Key people | Koichi Nakamura Mitsutoshi Sakurai | ||
| Industry | Video games | ||
| Products | Video games | ||
| Employees | 200 (2016) | ||
| Parent | Dwango | ||
| Website | Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd. | ||
Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd (株式会社スパイク・チュンソフト) is a Japanese video game development studio best known for creating the Mystery Dungeon series. The company is the result of a merger between Chunsoft Co., Ltd.—founded by Dragon Quest programmer Koichi Nakamura, who developed Portopia Serial Murder Case, the early Dragon Quest titles, Sound Novel games, Mystery Dungeon and Zero Escape series—and Spike Co., Ltd.—who developed the Danganronpa, Fire Pro Wrestling and Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi series.
The company also provides development support to other companies. They assisted with Nintendo for Wii Play Motion and the Warrior's Way minigame for StreetPass Mii Plaza, collaborated with Red Entertainment for the development of Fossil Fighters: Frontier, and Bandai Namco for games related to the Weekly Shōnen Jump set of mangas like Jump Force. Spike Chunsoft also publishes western games in Japan, one being the Crypt of the NecroDancer series in Japan, including the Zelda themed Cadence of Hyrule: Crypt of the NecroDancer feat. The Legend of Zelda.
Prior to the merging with Spike, Chunsoft originally developed the early Dragon Quest titles up to Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride for the NES and Super Famicom.
- Dragon Quest series:
Erdrick and Solo, who are alternate costumes for the Luminary, are protagonists sourced from Dragon Quest III and Dragon Quest IV respectively.- The Hero of Dragon Quest I, Dragon Quest II and Dragon Quest V make a cameo in Hero's Final Smash Gigaslash
- Mii costumes such as Martial Artist, Erdrick and the Slime headgear are sourced from these games.
- Soundtracks sourced from Dragon Quest III and Dragon Quest IV, plays on Yggdrasil's Altar, and in every iterations of Battlefield and Final Destination as of version 8.1.0.
- Monsters prior to Dragon Quest V like the Slime appear as spirits and stage elements.
The company has collaborated with Red Entertainment for the development of Fossil Fighters: Frontier, and with Nintendo for Warrior's Way.
- Minor third-party universes:
Jura, Tria, and Nibbles from Fossil Fighters: Frontier appears as a collective trophy.
Wentworth and Emperor Fynalle from Warrior's Way appear as separated trophies.- Nibbles from Fossil Fighters: Frontier returns as a spirit.
- Battle Start - Fossil Fighters: Frontier: the sourced track from Fossil Fighters: Frontier, plays on stages from non-playable universes, and in every iterations of Battlefield and Final Destination as of version 8.1.0.
The Mystery Dungeon series appears as a dependent universe, with small references to it appearing in the Super Smash Bros. series.
- Dependent universes:
- The Chocobo headgear is based on the main Chocobo character of Final Fantasy's Chocobo sub-series. In Super Smash Bros. 4, the headgear most closely resembles its appearance in Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon; the third game in the Chocobo's Mystery Dungeon trilogy.
- The headgear returns in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate with an update for its model, now based from Chocobo's Mystery Dungeon Every Buddy!, the remake from the aforementioned game.