Mitchell Corporation

Mitchell Corporation (株式会社ミッチェル) is a Japanese video game developer based in the Suginami ward of Tokyo. Roy Ozaki serves as president, and Koichi Niida serves as vice-president. The company was originally established on February 1, 1960 as an import/export business by the father of Roy Ozaki. Ozaki and Niida took over the company and began acting as exclusive overseas agents for such video game companies as Visco, Video System, Seta, Metro, Home Data, and other small video game manufacturers in the 1980s.

Mitchell Corporation develops titles for home consoles, handhelds and mobile phones. Mitchell also distributes printed circuit boards for the arcade/coin-op market. The company also develops video games for other publishers.

Mitchell Corporation is best known as the game developer of Puzz Loop. Copyright and trademark registration of Puzz Loop was established in December 1999, the same year it was released to the international coin-op arcade market. Prior to this, it developed the PANG! series of games, known in America as Buster Bros. and distributed there by Capcom.

Puzz Loop was first released in North America, as well as Europe, under the title "Ballistic" for the original PlayStation console and Game Boy Color handheld. Infogrames published the PlayStation and Game Boy Color versions in North America in late 1999, while THQ published these same versions for European territories. Capcom published both versions for the Japanese market under the original Puzz Loop title in 2000.

Nintendo of America released Puzz Loop for the Nintendo DS under the title Magnetica on June 5, 2006. A four-player version, titled "Magnetica Twist" was released two years later on the WiiWare service.

Games

Arcade

• Mad Motor (1989)
• Poker Ladies (1989)
• Pomping World (Pang, Buster Bros) (1989)
• Super Pang (Super Buster Bros) (1990)
• Mahjong Ikaga Desu ka (Mahjong How Are You) (1991?)
• Funky Jet (1992)
• Pang Pom's (1992)
• Chatan Yarakuu Shanku (The Karate Tournament) (1992)
• Double Wings (1993)
• Moeyo Gonta!! (Lady Killer) (1993)
• Mirage Youjuu Mahjongden (Demon Mirage Mahjong) (1994)
• Super-X (1994)
• Charlie Ninja (1995)
• Ganbare! Gonta!! 2 (Party Time: Gonta the Diver II) (1995)
• Pang! 3 (1995)
• Sotsugyo Shousho (Graduation Certificate) (1995)
• Osman (Cannon Dancer) (1996)
• Sankokushi (Three Engraved Intentions) (1996)
• Puzz Loop (1998)
• Mighty! Pang (2000)
• Janpai Puzzle Choukou (Yangtze River Mahjong Tile Puzzle) (2001)
• Puzz Loop 2 (2001)
• Gamshara (Daredevil) (2003)
• Kono e-Tako (This Good Octopus) (2003)

Game Boy Advance

• Polarium Advance (Published by Nintendo in Japan and Europe and Atlus in US)

Game Boy Color

• Ballistic (Published by Infogrames/Released November 1999 in North America)

NeoGeo Pocket Color

• Ballistic

Nintendo DS (Published By Nintendo)

• Magnetica
• Polarium [AKA Chokkan Hitofude in Japan]
• Sujin Taisen: Number Battles
• Pang: Magical Michael
• Wakugumi

Nuon

• Ballistic

PlayStation

• Ballistic (Published by Infogrames/Released November 1999 in North America)
• Buster Bros. Collection

Super NES

• Super Buster Bros.

Wiiware

• Magnetica Twist (Released June 30, 2008)

Game websites

• Ballistic/Puzz Loop for Game Boy Color (Official Infogrames website from The Internet Archive)
• Ballistic/Puzz Loop for Playstation (Official Infogrames website from The Internet Archive)
• Ballistic/Puzz Loop for Playstation (Official PlayStation North America website)
• Magnetica/Puzz Loop for the Nintendo DS (Official Nintendo of America game website)
• Magnetica Twist for Nintendo WiiWare (Official Nintendo of America game website)
• Polarium for the Nintendo DS (Official Nintendo of America game website)
• Polarium Advance for the Game Boy Advance (Official Atlus USA game website)

External links

• Mitchell Corporation official website (Japanese)
• Interview with Mitchell's Roy Ozaki
• Puzz Loop history from Mitchell Corporation (in Japanese & English)