Your favorite 8/16 bit developers

[Nando]

I've gotten more and more into researching developers histories and games. Here are a few of my favorite

Compile
Telenet
Face
Working Desings


which developers have stuck in your head over the years?

[Digi.k]

RED
Konami - 8/16 bit imo was their golden era
Nintendo
Taito

[Arkhan Asylum]

Origin (computer)
Epyx (Computer)
Konami
SNK
Hudson/RED
anyone who made RPGs.

[jeffhlewis]

Game Arts
Dempa
Sierra
Sega AM2 and AM3

[CrackTiger]

Westone
Sega
Falcom
RED
Hudson
Capcom

[esteban]

Data East.
Data West.

[majors]

Treasure
Treasure
Compile

I'd say Konami but they're big and supposed to make good games.

[jlued686]

Nintendo? Anybody?...

Compile, Konami, Hudson/Red, Capcom, Working Designs/Telenet.

[bob]

Jaleco = quality

[Opethian]

NMK
Seibu Kaihatsu
Toaplan

[PukeSter]

For 16-bit, will also say why

God tier:

Nintendo-only the best
Capcom-large variety of quality and quantity
Taito-magical arcade games (I would say Taito is more Disneyish than Nintendo)
Hudson-top tier developer/maker of the PC Engine. Nuff said.

Great tier:

Namco-lots of creative and fun arcade ports, but some crap too.
IREM-not a whole lot, but some lovely games. Incredible PCE conversions though
SEGA-awesome games, but not on the level of Nintendo

Good tier:

Toaplan-good shmups, ALL Your Base meme is amazing. Graphics are wonky though, and difficulty is strange
Konami-overally mostly good games, the rare masterpiece though

Meh tier:

Data East: love Bloody Wolf, that's about it
Jaleco: could not care about their games

[bob]

Astyanax
Power Blade
Bases Loaded

All worth the price of admission.
I was a sunsoft fan too.

[Tatsujin]

lol no IREM love?

Konami, Hudoson/Red, Sega (arcade only), Capcom, IREM, Taito, Namco, Toaplan, Nintendo, UPL, Data East...

to be honest, there are so many good ones and they all had their excellent games of their own.

[ParanoiaDragon]

Falcom
Westone
Compile
Red
Konami
Irem
Telenet
Taito
Epyx
SNK
Hudson
Capcom
Data East
Treasure
Nintendo
Namco

[Xak]

Micro Cabin
IREM
Working Designs
Telenet
Enix
Squaresoft
Hudson


and

anyone who made RPGs.

[TR0N]

Capcom
SNK
Konami
Compile
Sunsoft
Data East
Irem
Falcom
Taito
Treasure
Telenet
Wolf Team
Hudson
Sega

[Nazi NecroPhile]

Nobody else loves Gainax? 

[Nando]

Nobody else loves Gainax? 

[JoshTurboTrollX]

Ultra - Way better than just regular Konami
Sunsoft - Sillius, Batman, RotJ,
FCI - Purely for the NES ports of Ultima Exodus and Quest of the Avatar along with the SNES port of False Prophet.
Rare -RC Pro-Am, Battletoads
Technos/American Technos - Super Dodge Ball, Kunio, River City Ransom, Double Dragon.

Nintendo, Hudson and Sega for obvious reasons

[geise]

#1 for me was Konami.   Sad to see what they've become now.
Hudson Soft
Compile
Ancient
Treasure.  Another company that has gone down hill.
Taito
Telenet
TechnoSoft
Wolfteam
SEGA/Sonic Team/Sonic Software Planning
elf(エルフ)
DMA Design
Reflections
Psygnosis
Bitmap Brothers

EDIT:  Just realized my list is very close to TR0N's.  *Dorky internet high five*

[MrFlutterPie]

Ocean
Acclaim
LJN

[Tatsujin]

#1 for me was Konami.   Sad to see what they've become now.

very very very very very very very sad, but very very very very very very very true.

[Tatsujin]

Ocean
Acclaim
LJN

at least LJN had jawesome tim on board for some best musics ever

[MrFlutterPie]

Is it wrong I want to play Ocean's EU exclusive Water World?.........ever since I was a kid?...




































I like the movie and used to rent the VB game a lot 

[Tatsujin]

I like liked the movie as a 4yo and my pops used to rent the VB game a lot for me

fixed

[geise]

LOL.  Ocean?  You must've played a lot of Amiga or Atari ST back in the day to use that company in this thread.  I sure liked them.  I loved Ivanhoe.

[Tatsujin]

LOL.  Ocean?  You must've played a lot of Amiga or Atari ST back in the day to use that company in this thread.  I sure liked them.  I loved Ivanhoe.

hahaha ivanhoe was my first own amiga game. i so loved it for its nice colors and big arcade bumped sprites, very despit the fact that it run in like 5fps and its gameplay was probably the worst ever to experience

also a just let the sword intro run for like hours non-stop, because I was so proud of my newly get amiga

"Deliver le king"

[MrFlutterPie]

My dad was the one who rented me the VB and I was only 10 when the movie came out...

In all seriousness Water World was covered 100% in a issue of NP as a full walkthrough.  It's just that the movie failed so hard (don't worry I still love you) that they didn't bother bringing it to NA like originally planned. I had that issue and I thought it looked pretty cool and I always wanted to play it ever since I was a kid.

I also thought somebody would get a kick out me mentioning Ocean.  They made a lot games based on movies and many of their games were of dubious quality lol.

[Tatsujin]

My dad was the one who rented me the VB and I was only 10 when the movie came out...

hahaha, so I wasn't that far off shore

[DragonmasterDan]

My personal favorite developers from the 8 and 16-bit eras.
Nintendo
Konami
Capcom
SquareSoft
Hudson
Sega
Telenet
GameArts
Rare
Taito
Enix
SNK
Data East

I'm not covering companies who only published games like Working Designs, since it's about developers.