Vivarium Inc.

Vivarium Inc.
株式会社ビバリウム

Type	Private
Industry	Video games
Founded	1996-04-04
Headquarters	HQ in Mita, Tokyo, Japan
Key people	Yutaka Saito, Vivarium Inc. CEO and founder
Products	Seaman, Odama, The Tower SP
Website	[1]

Vivarium Inc. is a Japanese video game developer founded in 1996 by company president Yoot Saito. It is famous for designing innovative video games which use voice recognition technology. Seaman for the Dreamcast is their most famous game to date.

Yoot Saito revealed in an interview[2] that Vivarium is working on a new title for the Nintendo DS which will use the microphone and wireless network capabilities of the system.

History

• 1993 - Yoot Saito founded OPeNBooK Co., Ltd.
• 1996-04-04 - Yoot Saito founded VIVARIUM.
• 1996-10 - OPeNBooK merged with 9003, inc and became OPeNBooK9003 inc. (オープンブック9003株式会社). Later, Yoot Saito retired from OPeNBooK9003.
• 2000 - The original staff of OPeNBooK within OPeNBooK9003 left company and founded OPeNBooK (オープンブック). The new company held copyright for The Tower, but OPeNBooK9003 held copyrights for Aquazone: Desktop Life and Pina: Desktop Life. As a result, in 2003-3-21, OPeNBooK9003 inc. announced ending the production of The Tower II on 2003-3-31, followed by ending the sale of the game at AZ-SHOP and AZ-SHOP ONLINE on 2000-4-3. Support of the games continued until 2001-3-31.[3]
• 2000-7-1 - OPeNBooK9003 inc. was renamed to Cinomix, inc.
• 2004-10 - VIVARIUM merged with OPeNBook, and renamed to VIVARIUM Inc.

Games developed

• Seaman (1999) (Dreamcast and PlayStation 2)
• The Tower SP (2006) (Game Boy Advance)
• Odama (2006) (Nintendo GameCube)
• Seaman 2 (2007) (PlayStation 2)
• The Tower DS (2008) (Nintendo DS)

External links

• VIVARIUM's official web site