APE

APE
Type	Former subsidiary of Nintendo
Founded	March 1989 (disbanded in 1995)
Headquarters	Kyoto, Japan
Key people	Shigesato Itoi, founder
Industry	Video games
Products	EarthBound
Number of people
Website	http://www.nintendo.com/

APE, Inc. was a subsidiary of Nintendo that was established in March 1989 and was disbanded in 1995.

Formation

APE was founded after Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi decided to form a new company to support the work of a writer named Shigesato Itoi.

It was primarily founded to create Mother, although APE also provided development support for projects by other studios.

The sequel to Mother, Mother 2, was co-developed by HAL Laboratory, which was brought in after the game's development started to falter.

Closure

APE disbanded in 1995, and much of the former staff of APE joined a new company named Creatures, also a subsidiary of Nintendo, which was founded on November 8, 1995.

Games by Ape

Title	Platform	Released	Notes
EarthBound Beginnings	Famicom	1989	Known in Japan as Mother.
Monopoly	Super Famicom	1993
Earthbound	Super Famicom	1994	Known in Japan as Mother 2.
Mario's Picross	Game Boy	1995
Tamori's Picross	Super Famicom	1995
The Monopoly Game 2	Super Famicom	1995
Mario's Super Picross	Super Famicom	1995