McDonald’s Treasure Land Adventure was their next release, initiating a trend of developing games based on licensed properties. Gunstar Heroes was a critical success and helped establish Treasure’s place in the industry. Treasure developed both games in parallel with Gunstar Heroes launching first, it was Treasure’s debut game and was a huge success for the newly founded company.ġ993 Treasure -Gunstar Heroes development team Sega initially rejected their proposal, but later granted approval after working with Treasure for several months on the McDonald’s title. While working on the title, McDonald’s Treasure Land Adventure the team at Treasure pitched the idea for Gunstar Heroes to the Sega executives in an effort to gain support for the game. Sega asked the newly formed Treasure to develop a promotional title for McDonald’s for the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive. Treasure founder and president Masato Maegawa was able to negotiate a partnership with Sega based on his experience developing The Simpsons arcade games, Super Castlevania and Contra III: The Alien Wars while at Konami.
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The employees were seeking to explore original game concepts and free themselves from Konami’s reliance on sequels such as Castlevania, Contra and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle series. Konami’s unwillingness to embrace their staff’s original ideas lead to a group of individuals leaving in 1992 to form their own company.
It became common place within Konami for management to approve the development of sequels to already established franchises over developing an original title. Several Konami employees pitched the concept of Gunstar Heroes to Konami executives however they did not see the potential in the game. The Toyko based company is best known for their action, shoot em’ up, run and gun games such as Gunstar Heroes, Ikaruga and Sin and Punishment. Treasure is a Japanese video game developer that was founded by former Konami employees in 1992.
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