HAL Laboratory

HAL Laboratory
Type	Private company
Founded	February 21, 1980
Headquarters	Tokyo, Japan
Key people	Mitsuhiro Ikeda, founder
Industry	Video games
Products	Video games
Number of people	153
Website	http://www.hallab.co.jp/

HAL Laboratory is a video game company.

Foundation

HAL Laboratory was founded on February 21, 1980 in Tokyo, Japan by Mitsuhiro Ikeda.

Video game consoles

While primarily a video game developer, they designed and distributed the PasocomMini series, mini retro video game consoles from 2017 to 2019.

The PasocomMini MZ-80C, designed to resemble and play games from the Sharp MZ-80C computer, was released on October 14, 2017.

The PasocomMini PC-8001, designed to resemble and play games from the NEC PC-8001 computer, was released on October 5, 2019.

Games by HAL Laboratory owned by WEC Museum

Title	Platform	Released	Notes
Jupiter Lander	MZ-80C, PC-8001	1981
Mole Attack	PC-8001	1981
Golf	NES	1984	Co-developed with Nintendo R&D2.
Pinball	NES	1984	Co-developed with Nintendo R&D1.
VS. Golf	Arcade (VS. System)	1984	Co-developed with Nintendo R&D2.
Balloon Fight	NES	1985	Co-developed with Nintendo R&D1.
VS. Balloon Fight	Arcade (VS. System)	1985	Co-developed with Nintendo R&D1.
Mario Open Golf	NES	1991	Japanese version of NES Open Tournament Golf.
Kirby's Adventure	NES	1993
EarthBound	SNES	1994	Co-developed with APE.
Kirby's Dream Course	SNES	1994	Co-developed with Nintendo EAD.
Eggerland Episode 0: Quest of Rara	Windows 95	1996	Freeware prologue to Eggerland for Windows 95
Kirby Super Star	SNES	1996
Mother 3	GBA	2006	Japanese-exclusive, co-developed with Brownie Brown.
Face Raiders	Nintendo 3DS	2011	Augmented reality game.

Video game consoles by HAL Laboratory

Title	Release	Computer it resembles
PasocomMini MZ-80C	2017	Sharp MZ-80C
PasocomMini PC-8001	2019	NEC PC-8001