Answer the following question: Information: - Tetris (pronounced ) is a tile-matching puzzle video game, originally designed and programmed by Russian game designer Alexey Pajitnov. It was released on June 6, 1984, while he was working for the Dorodnicyn Computing Centre of the Academy of Science of the USSR in Moscow. He derived its name from the Greek numerical prefix "tetra-" (all of the game's pieces contain four segments) and tennis, Pajitnov's favorite sport. - Sapporo is known outside Japan for having hosted the 1972 Winter Olympics, the first ever held in Asia, and for the city's annual "Yuki Matsuri", internationally referred to as the Sapporo Snow Festival, which draws more than 2 million tourists from around the world. The city is also home to Sapporo Brewery and the white chocolate biscuits called . - Xbox Live Arcade (XBLA) is a digital video game download service available through the Xbox Games Store, Microsoft's digital distribution network for the Xbox 360. It focuses on smaller downloadable games from both major publishers and independent game developers. Titles range from classic console and arcade video games, to new games designed from the ground up for the service. Games available through the XBLA service range from $520 in price, and as of October 2016, there have been 719 Xbox Live Arcade titles released for the Xbox 360. Prior to the Xbox 360, "Xbox Live Arcade" was the name for an online distribution network on the original Xbox, which was replaced by the Xbox Live Marketplace. - Super Smash Bros. Brawl, known in Japan as , is the third installment in the "Super Smash Bros." series of crossover fighting games, developed by an ad hoc development team consisting of Sora, Game Arts, and staff from other developers, and published by Nintendo for the Wii video game console. "Brawl" was announced at a pre-E32005 press conference by Nintendo president and Chief Executive Officer Satoru Iwata. Masahiro Sakurai, director of the previous two games in the series, assumed the role of director for the third installment at the request of Iwata. Game development began in October 2005 with a creative team that included members from several Nintendo and third-party development teams. After delays due to development problems, the game was finally released on January 31, 2008, in Japan; March 9, 2008, in North America; June 26, 2008, in Australia; and June 27, 2008, in Europe. Twenty-seven months after its original Japanese release, the game was released in Korea, on April 29, 2010. - Tokyo, officially Tokyo Metropolis, is the capital of Japan and one of its 47 prefectures. The Greater Tokyo Area is the most populous metropolitan area in the world. It is the seat of the Emperor of Japan and the Japanese government. Tokyo is in the Kant region on the southeastern side of the main island Honshu and includes the Izu Islands and Ogasawara Islands. Formerly known as Edo, it has been the de facto seat of government since 1603 when Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu made the city his headquarters. It officially became the capital after Emperor Meiji moved his seat to the city from the old capital of Kyoto in 1868; at that time Edo was renamed Tokyo. Tokyo Metropolis was formed in 1943 from the merger of the former and the . - Sora Ltd. ( Ygen kaisha sora ) is a Japanese video game developer founded by Masahiro Sakurai , a former employee of HAL Laboratory . Sora was built as an agency that would contract Sakurai as a freelance video game designer to different companies . His first project under Sora was designing Meteos with Q Entertainment . Nintendo 's Satoru Iwata hired Sakurai , a long - time friend whom he had worked with at HAL Laboratory , to work on Super Smash Bros. Brawl . Development was supported by various other studios , including Game Arts and Monolith Soft , the latter now a first - party developer for Nintendo . On 18 February 2009 , after the success of Super Smash Bros. Brawl , Nintendo announced the formation of Project Sora , a subsidiary made to develop a new title directed by Sakurai . The development group was located in Iidabashi , Tokyo . It was officially formed on 22 January with capital of 200 million , of which 72 % was provided by Nintendo and the remainder by Sora Ltd. and other parties . Sakurai served as the company 's president . The studio began development with a staff of 30 ( most of whom were recruits Nintendo hired for the development of Super Smash Bros. Brawl ) , with new recruitment constantly ongoing for a bigger development staff . Project Sora released Kid Icarus : Uprising for the Nintendo 3DS in March 2012 . Project Sora was closed on June 30 , and its closed website had a note : '' The company was dissolved on June 30th , 2012 . Thank you very much for your patronage so far . This website was closed on July 31st . '' Bandai Namco Games collaborated with Sora Ltd. for the development of Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U. - The company has produced a number of games for several genres, beginning with the action game "Thexder" for personal computers in 1985. A number of traditional and Mahjong-related games have also been produced for Japanese audiences. In the Western world, Game Arts is best known as the producers of the "Lunar" and "Grandia" series of role-playing video games, as well as the "Gungriffon" line of strategy games. Some of its staff has helped in the preliminary development of Nintendo's Wii title "Super Smash Bros. Brawl". - EarthBound, known as Mother 2 in Japan, is a 1994 Japanese role-playing video game co-developed by Ape Inc. and HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System video game console. As Ness and his party of four, the player travels the world to collect melodies en route to defeating the evil alien force Giygas. It is the second game of the "Mother" series, and the only one to be released in the English language until its predecessor was released under the name "EarthBound Beginnings" in 2015 as part of Wii U's Virtual Console. "EarthBound" released in Japan in August 1994, and in North America the next June. - As of April 2013, Forbes estimated Yamauchis net worth at $2.1 billion; he was the 13th richest person in Japan and the 491st richest in the world. In 2008, Yamauchi was Japans wealthiest person with a fortune at that time estimated at $7.8 billion. At the time of his death, Yamauchi was the largest shareholder at Nintendo. - Abandoning previous ventures in favor of toys in the 1960s, Nintendo then developed into a video game company in the 1970s, ultimately becoming one of the most influential in the industry and Japan's third most-valuable company with a market value of over $85 billion. From 1992 until 2016, Nintendo was also the majority shareholder of Major League Baseball's Seattle Mariners. - The VIC-20 (Germany: VC-20; Japan: VIC-1001) is an 8-bit home computer that was sold by Commodore Business Machines. The VIC-20 was announced in 1980, roughly three years after Commodore's first personal computer, the PET. The VIC-20 was the first computer of any description to sell one million units. - The PlayStation Portable (PSP) is a handheld game console developed by Sony. Development of the console was announced during E3 2003, and it was unveiled on , 2004, at a Sony press conference before E32004. The system was released in Japan on , 2004, in North America on , 2005, and in the PAL region on , 2005. It primarily competed with the Nintendo DS, as part of the seventh generation of video games. - HAL Laboratory started off making games for the MSX system and the Commodore VIC-20. - MSX is the name of a standardized home computer architecture, first announced by Microsoft on June 16, 1983, and marketed by Kazuhiko Nishi, then Vice-president at Microsoft Japan and Director at ASCII Corporation. Microsoft conceived the project as an attempt to create unified standards among various hardware makers of the period. - The or simply, DS, is a 32-bit dual-screen handheld game console developed and released by Nintendo. The device went on sale in North America on November 21, 2004. The DS, short for "Developers' System" or "Dual Screen", introduced distinctive new features to handheld gaming: two LCD screens working in tandem (the bottom one featuring a touchscreen), a built-in microphone, and support for wireless connectivity. Both screens are encompassed within a clamshell design similar to the Game Boy Advance SP. The Nintendo DS also features the ability for multiple DS consoles to directly interact with each other over Wi-Fi within a short range without the need to connect to an existing wireless network. Alternatively, they could interact online using the now-closed Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection service. Its main competitor was Sony's PlayStation Portable as part of the seventh generation era. - The Wii is a home video game console released by Nintendo on November 19, 2006. As a seventh-generation console, the Wii competed with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3. Nintendo states that its console targets a broader demographic than that of the two others. , the Wii leads its generation over PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in worldwide sales, with more than 101million units sold; in December 2009, the console broke the sales record for a single month in the United States. - Gungriffon is a series of video games developed by Game Arts and designed by Takeshi Miyaji. "Gungriffon" and "Gungriffon II" originally appeared for the Sega Saturn console in 1996, with more recent appearances in "Gungriffon Blaze" for the PlayStation 2 and "Gungriffon: Allied Strike" for the Xbox. The Gungriffon games are focused on piloting mechalarge, usually bipedal military vehicles. This game series refers to these machines as Armored Walking Gun Systems (AWGS). With the exception of the High-MACS design, the mecha in this series have a distinctly realistic design philosophy. - Tokyo Tech's main campus is located at okayama on the boundary of Meguro and Ota, with its main entrance facing the okayama Station. Other campuses are located in Suzukakedai and Tamachi. Tokyo Tech is organised into 6 schools, within which there are over 40 departments and research centres. Tokyo Tech enrolled 4,734 undergraduates and 1,464 graduate students for 2015-2016. It employs around 1,100 faculty members. - Born in Sapporo, Japan, Iwata expressed interest in video games from an early age and created his first simple game while in high school. He later majored in computer science at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. In 1980, he joined the game developer HAL Laboratory while attending the university. During his early years at HAL Laboratory he worked as a programmer and closely collaborated with Nintendo, producing his first commercial game in 1983. Notable titles to which he contributed at HAL include "EarthBound" and the "Kirby" series. Following a downturn and near-bankruptcy, Iwata became the president of HAL Laboratory in 1993 at the insistence of Nintendo President Hiroshi Yamauchi and brought financial stability to the company. In the following years, he assisted in the development of the "Pokemon" and "Super Smash Bros." series. Iwata joined Nintendo as the head of its corporate-planning division in 2000. - In September 2005, mobile gamemaker Gameloft announced that they would be bringing both "Meteos" and "Lumines" to cell phones. "Lumines Mobile" was released on March 1, 2006. A port for the PlayStation 2 was released on February 18, in Europe and February 27, 2007 in North America as "Lumines Plus". It was also released for PC on the WildGames platform in December 2007 and later on Steam in 2008. In 2009, Lumines Touch was released on the iTunes App Store for iOS devices. The game was followed up by four sequels: "Lumines Live!" and "Lumines II" were released in 2006, "Lumines Supernova" in 2009, and "Lumines Electronic Symphony" in 2012. - The Seattle Mariners are an American professional baseball team based in Seattle, Washington. The Mariners compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) West division. The team joined the AL as an expansion team in 1977. Since July , the Mariners' home ballpark has been Safeco Field, located in the SoDo neighborhood of Seattle. SoDo means "South of Downtown." - In 2007, Nintendo bought all shares from Bandai Namco, making the company a subsidiary of Nintendo. In addition to assisting Nintendo on various projects, they continued the "Xeno" series with "Xenoblade Chronicles" and "Xenoblade Chronicles X" on Nintendo platforms alongside continuing the "Namco x Capcom" tactical RPG through the spiritual successor crossover series "Project X Zone". - GfK Chart-Track is a market research company that monitors music, videos and software sales in the United Kingdom and Ireland and was formed in 1996. In July 2008, GfK took a majority stake in the company. - Super Smash Bros., known in Japan as , is a series of crossover fighting games published by Nintendo, that primarily features characters from franchises established on its systems. All five games have been directed by Masahiro Sakurai. - He is currently the director of software development for Sora Ltd., a company he founded in 2005. He is also the author of a weekly column for "Famitsu" magazine, and has developed a cult following for his streamlined, yet deep gameplay. He also voiced the character King Dedede in "" and in "Super Smash Bros." - "Meteos" received positive reviews upon its release and topped Chart-Track in its first week. The game was compared to other puzzle games like "Tetris" and "Lumines", a game for PlayStation Portable by the same developer. The game received multiple awards and nominations from several gaming publications. Later versions of the game were released for mobile phones and the Xbox Live Arcade. A sequel for the game, "Meteos: Disney Magic", was released for the Nintendo DS. What object entity has the relation of 'inception' with the subject 'sora ltd.'? Choices: - 1 - 1001 - 101 - 16 - 1603 - 18 - 1868 - 19 - 1943 - 1972 - 1977 - 1980 - 1983 - 1984 - 1985 - 1992 - 1993 - 1994 - 1996 - 2 - 20 - 2000 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 - 2006 - 2007 - 2010 - 2012 - 2016 - 4 - 5 - 8 - april 2013 - december 2009
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2005