Treasure Software

Treasure is a Japanese software development company, focusing on console video games, founded by former employees of Konami in 1992.

The development team that left to found Treasure was responsible for the Super Contra and Super Castlevania Super Nintendo games.

In 1998 they released Radiant Silvergun for the arcade and for the Sega Saturn. It is almost universally considered the greatest overhead shooter of all time by people who have played it. It was released only limitedly in Japan, and prices for it today remain very high for a video game of that era.

Treasure was known for intense action games, with a lot of creative work put into the gameplay. Their design aesthetic usually involves taking a normal genre, adding something new to the players basic play mechanics or controls, and trying to add as much new and varied elements into the level design as possible. They are also known for their boss levels, which are almost always the focus of the game, and on older systems featured larged multijointed sprite bosses (using a technique where each arm or apendage was a still picture that was rotated for movement instead of the entire boss being one picture).

Games Developed by Treasure (items marked with a '*' were not released in the Americas):

Table of contents

1 Arcade
2 Sega Genesis
3 Sega Saturn
4 Sega Dreamcast
5 Sega Game Gear
6 Super Nintendo
7 Nintendo 64
8 Nintendo Gamecube
9 Nintendo Gameboy Advance
10 Sony Playstation
11 Sony Playstation 2