Studio Alex was a Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese video game development firm. It was founded by respected programmer Kazunari Tomi, a former employee of Nihon Falcom whose credits include Sorcerian

Sorcerian

is an action role-playing game developed by Nihon Falcom, and the fifth in the Dragon Slayer line of games. It was originally released for the NEC PC-8801 in 1987, and was later ported to other PC platforms such as the NEC PC-9801, the NEC PC-88VA, the Sharp X1 Turbo, and the MSX 2, for which it...

, Star Trader, and Dinosaur. After leaving Nihon Falcom, he founded Studio Alex, which functioned primarily as a consultant company.

Studio Alex developed the initial three titles of the Lunar series

Lunar series

The Lunar games, made by Game Arts and published in the United States by Working Designs, and later, Ubisoft and Xseed Games, are a series of console RPGs...

, with Game Arts

Game Arts

is a Japanese video game software developer located in Tokyo, Japan. Originally established in 1985 as a computer software company, they have since expanded their enterprise to produce for a number of game console and handheld systems...

 as co-developer and publisher. In 2003, the company filed a lawsuit

Lawsuit

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 against Game Arts over secondary creator copyrights to Lunar: The Silver Star

Lunar: The Silver Star

is a role-playing video game developed by Game Arts and Studio Alex for the Mega-CD console. Originally released in Japan on June 16, 1992 to critical acclaim, the game was translated and released in English by Working Designs the following year...

, but were sued in turn for damages in regards to trouble over the Magic School Lunar theatrical animation, and lost. Studio Alex bankrupted thereafter.

Major works

• Sega CD

Lunar: The Silver Star

Lunar: The Silver Star

is a role-playing video game developed by Game Arts and Studio Alex for the Mega-CD console. Originally released in Japan on June 16, 1992 to critical acclaim, the game was translated and released in English by Working Designs the following year...

Lunar: Eternal Blue

Lunar: Eternal Blue

is a role-playing video game developed by Game Arts and Studio Alex for the Mega-CD as the sequel to Lunar: The Silver Star. The game was originally released in December 1994 in Japan, and later in North America in September 1995 by Working Designs...

• Game Gear

Lunar: Walking School

Lunar: Walking School

Lunar: Walking School is a console role-playing game in the Lunar series released for the Sega Game Gear in Japan in 1995. Since then, no international versions or translations have officially been released, though an unofficial English translation was released in 2009...

• TurboGrafx-16
  TurboGrafx-16
  TurboGrafx-16, fully titled as TurboGrafx-16 Entertainment SuperSystem and known in Japan as the , is a video game console developed by Hudson Soft and NEC, released in Japan on October 30, 1987, and in North America on August 29, 1989....
  
  

Gotzendiener (published by Gainax

Gainax

is a Japanese anime studio famous for productions such as Gunbuster, The Wings of Honneamise, Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, Neon Genesis Evangelion, FLCL and Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann which have gone on to critical acclaim and commercial success, as well as for their association with...

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• Windows
  Microsoft Windows
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Rima the Truth (co-developed with Ehrgeiz, published by KSS

KSS

KSS can refer to:* Basketball Federation of Serbia * Communist Party of Slovakia * Kelowna Secondary School in British Columbia, Canada...

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