Bottom Up

Bottom Up at a Glance

If you are browsing PlayPile looking for information on Bottom Up, you will find a small Japanese company that operated from 1995 until it went bankrupt in March 2000. Founded by former Natsume employees, this publisher and developer released a total of 20 games on the platform during their short lifespan. Their output was heavily concentrated in the 1990s where they published 16 titles compared to only two games in the 2000s. This rapid decline ended with their financial collapse just as the new millennium began. The company had a diverse catalog that leaned heavily toward sports and card games. They published six sport titles, four card and board games, and three visual novels. Their remaining releases included arcade games, turn-based strategy titles, fighting games, role-playing games, and other genres. You will see their work on many different consoles, with the Nintendo 64 hosting five of their games. The Mac platform saw four titles, while the Game Boy Color, PlayStation, and Super Famicom each carried three releases. They also had a single game on the Virtual Boy, Dreamcast, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation Portable. Their final years show a specific focus on sports simulations and card RPGs. Recent releases from their catalog include Snowboard Champion in March 2000 and Gran Duel: Shinki Dungeon no Hihou in January 2000. Earlier hits from this period include Golf Shiyouyo in December 1999, Super Real Fishing in October 1999, and Onegai Monsters in May 1999. The data does not provide specific rating scores for these titles, so we cannot determine if the quality was consistently high or mixed based on reviews alone. However, their short active period means they never established a long-term reputation for excellence or failure across multiple decades. After the company closed its doors in 2000, the development staff joined the Japanese subsidiary of the Korean company Softmax. This move suggests the team found new employment immediately following the bankruptcy, but Bottom Up itself left no further games behind. Their footprint remains limited to those 20 titles from the late 1990s, serving as a brief chapter in the history of Japanese game publishing during that era.

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