Creatures

Creatures
Type	Private
Founded	March 1989 (as Ape Inc.) 8 November 1995 (as Creatures)
Headquarters	Tokyo, Japan
Key people	Hirokazu Tanaka Tsunekazu Ishihara
Industry	Video Game Development
Products	Video Games
Employees	144
Website	creatures.co.jp (Japanese)

Creatures, Inc. (Japanese: 株式会社・かぶしきがいしゃ・クリーチャーズ, Kabushiki gaisha Creatures) is a Japanese video game development company. The origins of the company can be traced back to March 1989 with the creation of Ape Inc. Ape was founded by Shigesato Itoi with funding and assistance Hiroshi Yamauchi, Nintendo's president at the time. Yamauchi was impressed with the skills of Itoi and wanted to support his endeavers. Other key staff members include Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka, who would later become the CEO, and Tsunekazu Ishihara, who would later becom the CEO of The Pokémon Company. their first game released was the 1989 adventure RPG Mother for the Famicom. They also developed two {{s|wikipedia|Monopoly|(board game)]] games and several installments in the Picross franchise. They immediately went to work on a sequel to Mother called Mother 2, titled Earthbound outside of Japan. Development became rocky on this title, so Satoru Iwata and HAL Laboratory ended up stepping to help. The game released in 1994, and the company disbanded immediately after.

Later in 1995, most of the original team returned to form the modern day Creatures Inc. The reason was to assist Game Freak in development of the upcoming Pokémon Red & Green. Creatures also created and primarily developed the Pokémon Trading Card Game as well as other merchandise, which they still do to this day. Soon after, Creatures agreed to form a joint venture with Nintendo and Game Freak for licensing of the Pokémon brand, which became The Pokémon Company.

Aside from helping and sometimes developing various Pokémon titles, they also developed franchises like Chee-Chai Alien and games in the Personal Trainer series. They are most known for developing Mother 3. Originally meant for the Nintendo 64DD in 2000 before being canceled and development shifting to Game Boy Advance, the game as we know it released in 2006. The game has become infamous for never releasing outside of Japan and Nintendo all but outright refusing to do so. Reasons for it are speculated to be it containing elements that are very similar to copyrighted works as well as elements that could be seen as unsuitable for children.

In 2020, Creatures acquired Ambrella, another video game developer that they worked with in the past, and all of their assets. The company was folded into Creatures and no no longer exists and a seperate entity.

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In Super Smash Bros.

Ness from Earthbound appears as a playable fighter. A victory fanfare accompanies him as his sole music track.

Creatures provided the 3D models for all Pokémon in the game, as well as assisted with direction of the opening movie.

In Super Smash Bros. Melee

Ness returns as a playable fighter, along with Onett and Fourside debuting as stages. Mr. Saturn appears as an item. 4 music tracks and several trophies appear in the game.

Creatures provided modeling for stages, fighters trophies, as well as assisted with direction fo the opening movie.