was a Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese video game developer

Video game developer

A video game developer is a software developer that creates video games. A developer may specialize in a certain video game console, such as Nintendo's Wii, Microsoft's Xbox 360, Sony's PlayStation 3, or may develop for a variety of systems, including personal computers.Most developers also...

 and publisher

Video game publisher

A video game publisher is a company that publishes video games that they have either developed internally or have had developed by a video game developer....

. The company was founded in 1998

1998 in video gaming

-Events:*Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences hosts 1st Annual Interactive Achievement Awards; inducts Shigeru Miyamoto of Nintendo to the AIAS Hall of Fame*British Academy of Film and Television Arts hosts the 1st annual BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Awards...

 as a subsidiary of
animation

Animation

Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways...

 production enterprise Sunrise

Sunrise (company)

is a Japanese animation studio and production enterprise. It is a subsidiary of Namco Bandai Holdings. Its former name was Nippon Sunrise, and prior to that, Sunrise Studios...

, and ended business on August 31, 2008, when they were shut down by Sunrise's parent company, Namco Bandai Holdings.

Sunrise Interactive had been involved in the production and development of several of the game adaptations of Sunrise's anime

Anime

is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....

 series, as well as several original games and software.

Productions

• Sunrise Eiyūtan series
• Kikō Busō G Breaker series
• Future GPX Cyber Formula
  Future GPX Cyber Formula
  is a 37-episode anime television series by Sunrise . It originally aired in Japan between March 15, 1991 and December 20, 1991. It was then followed by 4 more OVA sequels, making it one of longest running original anime franchises that was not originated from a manga or novel...
  
  series
  • Future GPX Cyber Formula: Road to the Infinity series
  • Future GPX Cyber Formula: Road to the Evolution
    Future GPX Cyber Formula: Road to the Evolution
    Future GPX Cyber Formula: Road to the Evolution is a racing video game genre released in 2003 by Sunrise Interactive. The game is based on the Future GPX Cyber Formula series and was released only in Japan....
    
    
• G-Saviour
  G-Saviour
  G-Saviour is an live-action made for television movie set in Gundam metaseries, set in the Universal Century timeline. It also officially marks the last events of the Universal Century.-Production:...
  
  
• Harobots
  Harobots
  Harobots is a game series developed by Sunrise Interactive, it features Haro from Gundam series, as a protagonist's pet. Haro can be customized and battle for its trainer from any mecha series by Sunrise....
  
  series
  • Harobots
  • GB Harobots
  • Harobots: Robo Hero Battling!
  • Harobots Action
• Mai-HiME
  • Mai-HiME: Unmei no Keitōju
  • Mai-HiME Senretsu! Shin Fūka Gakuen Gekitōshi!!
  • Mai-Hime PC Fandisk
• Mai-Otome: Otome Butō Shi
• Keroro Gunsō
  Sgt. Frog
  Sgt. Frog, known in Japan as , is a manga series by Mine Yoshizaki. It was later serialized into a TV anime series directed by Junichi Sato. Both the anime and manga are comedies that follow the attempts of a platoon of frog-like alien invaders to conquer Earth...
  
   Taiketsu! Gekisō Keronpuri Daisakusen de Arimasu
• Astro Kyūdan
• Mobile Suit Gundam
  Mobile Suit Gundam
  is a televised anime series, created by Sunrise. Created and directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino, it premiered in Japan on Nagoya Broadcasting Network on April 7, 1979, and lasted until January 26, 1980, spanning 43 episodes...
  
  : Battle Typing Game Series
• Oekaki Puzzle Battle Series
• Zone of the Enders: The Fist of Mars
  Zone of the Enders: The Fist of Mars
  Zone of the Enders: The Fist of Mars, known in Japan as , is a video game that was developed by Sunrise Interactive and published by Konami in 2001 for the Game Boy Advance. The game is story-orientated, and is based around turn-based strategic mecha combat....