Japan Art Media

Japan Art Media, or "JAM", is a Japanese video game development studio founded in 1989. The studio began developing games for the Nintendo Game Boy, but soon branched out to develop games on many other platforms, mainly Super Nintendo and Sony PlayStation. Japan Art Media also had a strong partnership with Yanoman, which published most of their games until the mid 90s.

JAM is primarily known for their series "Aretha", which was very popular in Japan and spanned 3 Game Boy and 3 Super Nintendo games. However, after the release of "", the company never made another game in this series, instead developing games for popular franchises, most notably the "Gundam" and "Lunar" games. To this day however there is still a large following of Aretha fans in Japan, with lots of fan-sites, fan-art and fan-fiction still being done.

JAM has experience in creating traditional RPGs ("Aretha", "Songmaster", "Lunar"), action RPGs ("Trinea", "Haou Taikei Ryu Knight", "Rejoice"), and strategy war games ("SD Gundam GNEXT", "Yuugen Kaisha Chikyuu Boueitai: Earth Defenders Corporation"). Recently, they have participated in the development of "Super Smash Bros. Brawl".

Works

Game Boy
* "Aretha" (1990)
* "Aretha II" (1991)
* "Aretha III" (1992)
* "Penta Dragon" (1992)

Game Gear
* "Eternal Legend (1991)

Super Nintendo
* "Song Master" (1992)
* "Aretha for SFC" (1993)
* "Trinea" (AKA Penta Dragon 2) (1993)
* "Aretha II for SFC" (1994)
* "Haou Taikei Ryū Knight" (1994)
* "" (1995)
* "SD Gundam GNEXT" (1995)

Sega Saturn
* "" (1997)
* "SD Gundam G-CENTURY" (1998)

PlayStation
* "SD Gundam G-CENTURY" (1997)
* "Slayers Royale" (1998)
* "" (1999)
* "Kurukuru Marumaru" (2001)
* "Super Tokusatsu Taisen 2001" (2001)

Game Boy Advance
* "Lunar Legend" (2001)

Nintendo DS
* "" (2005)
* "Remindelight" (2006)

Wii
* "Super Smash Bros. Brawl" (2008)

External links

* [http://www.jam1989.co.jp/ Japan Art Media website] ja icon