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HAL Laboratory, Inc. was founded in 1980 by Mitsuhiro Ikeda and it was first seen in Mr. Chin. By 2020, HAL Laboratory reused their first logo for the Pasocom Mini (launched that year in Japan). Launched in 1998 and first used when Super Smash Bros. was released on January 21, 1999 in Japan...
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HAL Laboratory, Inc., formerly shortened as HALKEN (derived from its native name), is a Japanese video game developer founded on 21 February 1980. While independent, it has been closely tied with Nintendo throughout its history, and is often referred to as a second-party developer for the company.
YearTitlePlatform (s)2023Nintendo Switch2022Nintendo Switch2022Nintendo Switch2020Nintendo SwitchHere we will introduce company information on HAL Laboratory - where we celebrated the 40th anniversary of our founding in 2020 - as well as our philosophy, and explain our company logo, "Inutamago".
- History
- Logo
- Video Game Series Produced by Hal
- Notable Staff of Hal Laboratory
- References to Hal in The Kirby Series
- Trivia
- Gallery
- External Links
1980-1992, before Kirby
In 1978, the Seibu Department Stores flagship location in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, opened the first personal computer display corner in Japan; this acted as a focal point for a group of computer enthusiasts who became friends and ultimately started HAL Laboratory in 1980, developing peripherals and games for personal computers and creating modest hits such as the Eggerland series for the MSX. Iwata in retrospect has given two differing accounts of the reason behind the company's name. In his 2005 GD...
1992-present, with Kirby
It was against this background of financial difficulty and management conflicts that Sakurai was developing a beginner-friendly platforming game called Twinkle☆Popo. Seeing the appeal of the game, Shigeru Miyamoto offered for Nintendo to market and publish the game once it was reborn as Kirby's Dream Land. Beyond Kirby, while the company formally entered bankruptcy and composition proceedings in June of 1992 with approximately ¥5 billion in liabilities, Nintendo would help HAL Laboratory rebu...
The corporate logo is known as the Dream Hatcher (a.k.a. Inutamago; 犬たまご "Dog Eggs"), which depicts a dog similar to a dachshund incubating several eggs. According to a 2003 Nintendo Power interview about Kirby Air Ride, producer Masayoshi Tanimura notes that the dog is a fictional creation and that the team does not think of the dog like a dachshu...
Notable video game series produced by HAL include: 1. Eggerland / Adventures of Lolo 1.1. Lololo & Lalalaoriginated from this series. 2. Kirby 3. Super Smash Bros. 3.1. Super Smash Bros. (Nintendo 64) and Super Smash Bros. Meleewere developed by HAL themselves. 3.2. Later titles were developed by other studios. 4. BOXBOY! 5. Part Time UFO 5.1. Rele...
Presidents
The following people are past and present Presidents of HAL Laboratory. 1. Mitsuhiro Ikeda (February 1980–March 1984) 2. Tsuyoshi Ikeda (March 1984–March 1993) 3. Satoru Iwata(March 1993–June 1999) 4. Masayoshi Tanimura(June 1999–June 2015) 5. Satoshi Mitsuhara(June 2015–September 2018) 6. Shigefumi Kawase(September 2018–present)
Key Creators
1. Masahiro Sakurai 2. Hiroaki Suga 3. Shinichi Shimomura 4. Shinya Kumazaki 5. Tadashi Kamitake 6. Tatsuya Kamiyama 7. Yuki Endo 8. Yumi Todo 9. Riki Fuhrmann 10. Kenichiro Kita 11. Shigeru Hashiguchi 12. Tetsuya Abe
Composers
1. See also: HAL Laboratory music equipment 1. Jun Ishikawa 2. Hirokazu Ando 3. Tadashi Ikegami 4. Shogo Sakai 5. Megumi Ohara 6. Yuuta Ogasawara 7. Yuki Shimooka
In many games of the Kirby series, HAL includes self-referential easter eggs, typical in the form of their name or the Dream Hatcher logo. The most famous of these are the hidden HAL Rooms, which appear in numerous Kirby games. The Japanese pronunciation of HAL (ハル) can be separated into 8 (は) and 6 (る). Some HAL Rooms can only be entered if the pl...
Since at least 2004 and until 2023, HAL Laboratory had a tradition of sending nengajō (New Year's Day greeting postcards) featuring a new Kirby illustration for each year (see examples for 2016, 20...
Stone Kirby's transformation in Kirby's Return to Dream Landof the Dream HatcherStone Kirby's transformation in Kirby: Triple Deluxeof the Dream HatcherKeychain in Kirby: Triple Deluxe of Stone Kirby's transformation in Kirby Super Star Ultraof the Dream Hatcher- Kirby's Dream Land (1992)
- Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe (2023)
- Video game development
「星のカービィ」シリーズなどのゲームソフト開発を手がける、株式会社ハル研究所の公式サイト。｜The official website of HAL Laboratory, Inc., developers of the Kirby series and other games.
To get people to know more about HAL Laboratory through our products, I felt that we needed a symbol that would really express our personal policies and our way of thinking. I thought we could make people aware and think, “Hey, this game is developed by HAL!” by putting up a high-impact logo there on the game screen.
