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gamasutra.com - 1/5/2009

Games The Way They Want: Catching Up With Treasure

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Treasure has long forged a defiantly idiosyncratic path over the course of its nearly 17-year history. Founded in 1992, the company immediately began working on the action games which would become its signature -- beginning with emblematically side-scrolling shooter Gunstar Heroes, which was ...

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