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.