Intelligent Systems

Intelligent Systems
Type	First Party
Founded	1986
Status	Active
Base	Kyoto, Japan
Bestseller	Golf
Homepage	Japanese Site
Notable Members	Shouzo Kaga; Gunpei Yokoi
Key Franchises	Fire Emblem; Famicom Wars

Intelligent Systems is one of Nintendo's first party developers. They are known for creating strategy series such as Fire Emblem and Nintendo Wars as well as working on subseries of other games such as the Paper Mario RPG games of the Mario series and the WarioWare games. In the past, they worked closely with R&D 1.

History[edit]

Intelligent Systems was founded by a group of developers from R&D 1. When R&D 1 was told to focus on the Gameboy, the defectors started their own team: Intelligent Systems. Gunpei Yokoi was the head of both teams and they shared personal on certain projects. However, they also created their own games including Famicom Wars and Fire Emblem.

During the Super NES era, they split themselves into four teams: Team Deer Forse, responsible for work on Super Metroid; Team Battle Clash, who worked on Super Scope games; Team Emblem, who worked on Fire Emblem games; and Team Shikamaru, who worked on Mario Paint. Most of their games for the Super NES were niche titles.

When the Nintendo 64 was released, Intelligent Systems had trouble with working in 3D. They decided to focus on handheld games, but they eventually returned to developing games for the Gamecube and the Wii.

Along with making games, Intelligent Systems has been responsible for the development tools for every Nintendo system to date, with the possible exception of the Wii.