| Paon Corporation | |||
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| 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.
| Companies involved in the Super Smash Bros. series | |
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| First- and second-party | Nintendo (Monolith Soft · Retro Studios) · HAL Laboratory · Game Freak · Creatures · Intelligent Systems · Rare Ltd. · Sora Ltd. |
| Third-party | Konami · Sega (Atlus) · PlatinumGames · Capcom · Bandai Namco · Square Enix · Microsoft (Rare Ltd. · Mojang Studios) · SNK · Disney |
| Other related | Game Arts · Hatena · Havok · Paon DP · Tri-Crescendo · List of companies with minor representation |