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name: HAL Laboratory, Inc.
about: HAL Laboratory, Inc. (also known as HAL Labs and previously HALKEN) is a Japanese subsidiary of Nintendo that was originally formed from a small group of friends who shared the desire to create video games. [citation needed]The corporate logo &amp; symbol, Inutamago (Japanese: 犬たまご "Dog Eggs") depicts a dog similar to a dachshund incubating several eggs. According to a 2003 Nintendo Power interview about Kirby Air Ride, producer Masayoshi Tanimura notes that the dog (referred to as the Dream Hatcher) is a fictional creation and that the team do not think of the dog as a dachshund. Tanimura explains that the logo represents deep thought into "incubating completely new ideas that eventually hatch into incredibly fun games". Inutamago has become t HAL Laboratory, Inc. (also known as HAL Labs and previously HALKEN) is a Japanese subsidiary of Nintendo that was originally formed from a small group of friends who shared the desire to create video games. [citation needed]The corporate logo &amp; symbol, Inutamago (Japanese: 犬たまご "Dog Eggs") depicts a dog similar to a dachshund incubating several eggs. According to a 2003 Nintendo Power interview about Kirby Air Ride, producer Masayoshi Tanimura notes that the dog (referred to as the Dream Hatcher) is a fictional creation and that the team do not think of the dog as a dachshund. Tanimura explains that the logo represents deep thought into "incubating completely new ideas that eventually hatch into incredibly fun games". Inutamago has become the symbol of HAL Laboratory since December, 1998.Among the assembly who created HAL Laboratory is Satoru Iwata, the former president of Nintendo of Japan. HAL Laboratory's overall status is similar to Intelligent Systems, in that they are both a branch of Nintendo, and both create video games only for Nintendo. Among their many creations are the Kirby series and Super Smash Bros. series.HAL Laboratory are not to be confused with HAL Corporation, a company that split apart from HAL Laboratory after a financial crisis. The result was that HAL Laboratory became a branch of Nintendo and HAL Corporation eventually closed in 2002. HAL Corporation worked on various games such as HAL Wrestling and Eggerland for Windows computers. ...more