Marigul Management Inc. was a Japanese corporation created and jointly owned by video game company Nintendo Co., Ltd. (40%) and media company Recruit (60%).[1] Its name is a combination of Nintendo's mascot Mario and Recruit's mascot Seegul.
Marigul was founded because the Nintendo 64 was not getting enough third-party support. Marigul would provide financing, to let game studios focus on making games. The only condition was that the studios would have a game ready in five years.
Studios
Marigul provided services for the video game studios Ambrella, Clever Trick, Noise, Param, and Saru Brunei. Although Marigul was liquidated in May 2003,[2] Noise continues to make games, as did Ambrella until it was disbanded in 2020. Many games financed by Marigul have not been localized or released in North America.[3]