HAL Laboratory: Difference between revisions

Meanwhile, HAL Laboratory focused exclusively on developing Nintendo products, such as their newly-introduced ''Kirby'', while providing development support for other titles such as ''[[wikibound:EarthBound|EarthBound]]'' and ''[[bulbapedia:Pokémon Stadium series|Pokémon Stadium]]''. By 1999, HAL Laboratory paid off its debt,<ref name="hobonichi_iwata_15oku"/> and Iwata was offered a position at Nintendo as the Head of Corporate Planning. He later became Nintendo's president, and held this position until his death in 2015. In July of 2001, at the time of production of the anime ''[[Kirby: Right Back at Ya!]]'', HAL Laboratory and Nintendo would establish a joint subsidiary, "Warpstar, Inc.", to manage the ''Kirby'' intellectual property and copyright. Warpstar, Inc. still exists and manages the ''Kirby'' brand in the present day.<ref>[https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Iwata-Asks/Iwata-Asks-Kirby-s-Epic-Yarn/Iwata-Asks-Kirby-s-Epic-Yarn/4-Surprise-Fun-and-Warmth/4-Surprise-Fun-and-Warmth-207100.html Iwata Asks: ''Kirby's Epic Yarn'' - Nintendo UK]</ref> To this day, HAL continues to primarily develop for Nintendo platforms, and creates new entries to the ''Kirby'' series, as well as other original titles such as ''Picross 3D'', ''BOXBOY!'', and ''Part Time UFO'' (the last via its mobile development branch, HAL Egg).

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