Tose Co., Ltd.^{[lower-alpha 1]} (TYO: 4728) (also called Tose Software) is a Japanese video game development company based in Kyoto. It is mostly known for developing Nintendo's Game & Watch Gallery series, various Dragon Ball games, as well as other Nintendo products. Tose has developed or co-developed over 1,000 games since the company's inception in 1979, but is virtually never credited in the games themselves (an exception to this is Scarlet Nexus with Namco, Game & Watch Gallery 4 and The Legendary Starfy series, as Tose shares the copyright with Nintendo).^[2] Tose maintains a policy of having no creative input into the work they do, going so far as to refuse to put their names in the credits for most of the games they work on. As such, Tose has gained a reputation for being a "ghost developer".^[3]

Tose was established in November 1979 in Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto, as an independent entity from Toa Seiko Co. Ltd. It moved its head office to Otokuni-gun, Kyoto Prefecture in May 1986. In July 1988, Tose moved its head office to Yamazaki, Kyoto. In May 1990, Tose began developing software for the Game Boy and the Super Famicom.

In August 1999, Tose was listed on the Osaka Securities Exchange 2nd Section and the Kyoto Stock Exchange. In October of that year, Tose's Kyoto Head office was opened at Shijo-Karasuma, which integrated its head office functions with the Karasuma CG Center. On 27 September 2000, Tose was listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange 2nd Section.^[4] In August 2001, it was listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange 1st Section and Osaka Securities Exchange 1st Section.

On 18 December 2007, Tose announced the leakage of its business information onto the Internet, which was discovered the day before. The leak included 10 pieces of information relating to customer names, development cases, development contents, development fees, and reception time.^[5]

On September 1, 2011, Tose announced the separation of its amusement machine development business from its second game development department (ゲーム事業部開発２部) into a separate amusement machine developer (AM開発部).^[6]

NOTE: Some of these titles are merely believed or assumed to be developed by Tose, due to information compiled by various amateur and professional journalists. Most have not been officially confirmed as Tose-developed products by any of the games' publishers, co-developers, nor Tose itself. Many of the games released by Bandai, Tomy Corporation, Jaleco, Taito, Namco, Tonkin House were developed by Tose.

See also Category:Tose (company) games

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (October 2011)

Tose has ported a few games, including Square and Enix games for the Nintendo Entertainment System and Super NES.

• Chrono Trigger (PlayStation, Nintendo DS)^[18]
• Front Mission (Nintendo DS)
• Final Fantasy Origins and Final Fantasy I & II: Dawn of Souls (ports of Final Fantasy I & II for the PlayStation and Game Boy Advance, respectively)^[7]
• Final Fantasy IV (PlayStation, Game Boy Advance)^[7]
• Final Fantasy V (PlayStation, Game Boy Advance)^[7]
• Final Fantasy VI (PlayStation, Game Boy Advance)^[7]
• Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth (PlayStation Portable)^[7]
• Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions (PlayStation Portable)
• Star Ocean: First Departure (PlayStation Portable)
• Star Ocean: Second Evolution (PlayStation Portable)
• Resident Evil Revelations HD (Windows, PlayStation 3, Wii U, Xbox 360)
• Ōkami (Wii, co-developed with Ready At Dawn)
• 2002 FIFA World Cup (GameCube, co-developed with EA Canada, Creations, and Intelligent Games)
• Metal Gear Solid (Windows port)
• Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop (port of Dead Rising for Wii)
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo Switch port) ^[19]