Paon DP

Paon Corporation 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.

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, Intelligent Systems and Game Arts. Their current President is Rikiya Nakagawa. They are currently re-releasing old games for the Wii Virtual Console.