Smileworks

Smile Games is an American video game company founded in 1988. The company also has divisions worldwide, such as Smile Games of Japan (スマイルゲーム日本 Sumairugēmu Nihon), Smile Games of Australia and Smile Games of Europe. There is currently 500,000 workers in the company.

History
The company was founded in 1988. Originally, the founder wanted to the company to be a first party company and make their own console, but plans for the console fell apart as the founder wanted to focus on developing third-party software. Despite this, Smile has developed and created several arcade boards to release some of their arcade games. However, during the lifespan of the Sega Dreamcast, most of the games released for the said system used the NAOMI arcade board by Sega themselves. For N64, PlayStation, PlayStation 2, GameCube, and original Xbox ports of the games that were made on the NAOMI board, they used the Smile Bob X arcade board by Smile themselves.

Most of Smile Games' products were only sold on Nintendo systems, beginning with the NES. In later years, even with releasing games on most major consoles (except the 3DO, Atari Jaguar, and among other obscure consoles), the company has continued to strongly support Nintendo to this day.

In early 2013, Electronic Arts (or EA) offered Smile for a possible merger between the two companies, but Smile Games denied EA's offer.

Mascots
Smile Games's main mascot for it's worldwide operations is a simple smiley face known as just Mr. Smile. North America had a short lived mascot known as Samuel Smile. He would appear at the end of every Smile Games commercial from 1991 to 1996. After the character's reception, which was told by consumers as "creepy, ugly and annoying". Because of this, Smile announced in late 1996 that Samuel would be retiring and that Mr. Smile, the company's primary mascot, would also serve as a mascot for North America. In Japan, they recieved an exclusive mascot named Smile-chan, a human and genderbent version of Mr. Smile. Smile Games's other macots include Pop, the main protagonist of the Item Camp series and Benny Bird, the main protagonist of the Rolling Bird series.

Series

 * Item Camp
 * B-Squadron
 * Jelly Buster
 * Sam the Sloth
 * The Adventures of Chris Cat
 * Elements of Destiny
 * Rolling Bird
 * Tiny UFO
 * Blocky
 * Plane Wars
 * Clash Frontier
 * Banana and Cookie
 * Extreme GP
 * Sword of Judgement
 * Smile Sports
 * Creatimals
 * The Mind Ransom
 * Act of Tomorrow
 * Blue Beats
 * Code Red
 * Smile Showdown
 * Dead High
 * Paint Witches