Vanpool

Founded:	1999
Founder:	N/A
President:	N/A
Defunct:	May 31, 2023^[1]
Parent / owner:	N/A
Divisions / subsidiaries:	N/A

Website:
www.vanpool.co.jp

Vanpool, Inc. (株式会社バンプール) was a Japanese toy producer, computer and music software, and video game development company based in Shinjuku, Japan. Founded in 1999, its staff included former Love-de-Lic developers Taro Kudo and Kazuyuki Kurashima.

On May 31, 2023, the company announced that it had officially dissolved.^[1]

Games published by Nintendo

Game	Year	Platform
Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga^{[note 1]}	2003	Game Boy Advance
Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland	2006	Nintendo DS
Dekisugi Tingle Pack	2009	DSiWare
Ripened Tingle's Balloon Trip of Love	2009	Nintendo DS
Wii Play: Motion^{[note 2]}	2011	Wii
Dillon's Rolling Western	2012	Nintendo 3DS
Paper Mario: Sticker Star^{[note 3]}	2012	Nintendo 3DS
Dillon's Rolling Western: The Last Ranger	2013	Nintendo 3DS
Chibi-Robo! Zip Lash^{[note 4]}	2015	Nintendo 3DS
Super Kirby Clash^{[note 5]}	2019	Nintendo Switch
Kirby Fighters 2^{[note 5]}	2020	Nintendo Switch
Kirby and the Forgotten Land^{[note 5]}	2022	Nintendo Switch
Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe^{[note 5]}	2023	Nintendo Switch
↑ Minigame development. ↑ Development of "Wind Runner" game. ↑ Development assistance for Intelligent Systems. ↑ Co-developed with skip Ltd.. ↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 ^5.2 ^5.3 Co-developed with HAL Laboratory.

External links

Vanpool on other NIWA Wikis:

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Zelda Wiki

Vanpool on Wikipedia

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 vanpool.co.jp. Retrieved June 2, 2023.

* – Former / Defunct
1st & 2nd Party / Owned
Internal divisions	Nintendo EPD • EAD* • SPD* • SDD* Nintendo PTD • BDD • SDD* • IRD* • RED* • Nintendo Network Services R&D1* • R&D2* • R&D3*
Subsidiaries	Nintendo of America (Treehouse) • NST • NTD Nintendo of Europe • NERD Nintendo Australia Nintendo of Korea iQue Nintendo Leisure System Co., Ltd.* Nintendo Sales Co., Ltd. Nintendo Pictures Nintendo Systems Co., Ltd. 1-UP Studio • Mario Co., Ltd.* • Marigul Management* • Mario Club • Mobile21* • Monegi* • Monolith Soft • Nintendo Cube • Next Level Games • Project M* • Project Sora* • RandnetDD Co., Ltd.* • Retro Studios • Shiver Entertainment • SRD
Owned / Affiliated	Seattle Mariners* • The Pokémon Company • Warpstar Inc.

3rd Parties / Partners

8-4 • AlphaDream* • Ambrella* • Argonaut Games* • Arika • Artoon* • Arzest • AS Tokyo Studios • Bandai Namco • Capcom • Camelot • Cing* • Creatures Inc. • DeNA • DigiNin* • DigitalScape • Eighting • Flagship* • Fuse Games* • Game Freak • Ganbarion • Genius Sonority • Good-Feel • Grezzo • HAL Laboratory • Hatena • Hudson Soft* • indieszero • iNiS • Intelligent Systems • Jamsworks • Jupiter • Koei Tecmo • Kuju • Left Field Productions* • Level-5 • Mistwalker • Monster Games • Noise • Paon • PlatinumGames • Q-Games • Rare* • Red Entertainment • Sega (Atlus) • Sora Ltd. • skip • Softnica • Spike Chunsoft • Square Enix • St.GIGA* • Syn Sophia • TOSE • Treasure • Vanpool* • Vitei

* – Former / Defunct

Key employees
Presidents		Founder: Fusajiro Yamauchi Successors: Sekiryo Kaneda • Hiroshi Yamauchi • Satoru Iwata • Tatsumi Kimishima • Shuntaro Furukawa NOA: Minoru Arakawa • Tatsumi Kimishima • Reggie Fils-Aimé • Doug Bowser NOE: Satoru Shibata • Koji Miyake
Managers, etc.	Internal	Creative Fellow: Shigeru Miyamoto Technology Fellow: Genyo Takeda EPD: Shinya Takahashi PTD: Ko Shiota NST: Shigeki Yamashiro
Managers, etc.	Subsidiaries	NNSD: Yusuke Beppu Monolith Soft: Hirohide Sugiura, Tetsuya Takahashi 1-Up Studio: Gen Kadoi ND Cube: Hidetoshi Endo Retro: Michael Kelbaugh NERD: Alexandre Delattre

[2] Minigame development.

[3] Development of "Wind Runner" game.

[4] Development assistance for Intelligent Systems.

[5] Co-developed with skip Ltd..

[HAL-6] 5.0 ^5.1 ^5.2 ^5.3 Co-developed with HAL Laboratory.

[defunct-1] 1.0 ^1.1 vanpool.co.jp. Retrieved June 2, 2023.

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