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{{Short description|Former Japanese video game developer}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=November 2023}}
{{Infobox company
| name = T&E Soft
| logo = TandE_Soft_logo.png
| logo_caption = T&E Soft logo
| native_name = 株式会社ティーアンドイーソフト
| romanized_name = Kabushiki-Gaisha Tīandoīsofuto
| type = [[Kabushiki gaisha]]
| foundation = October 14, 1982<ref name="Company Overview">{{Cite web | url=http://tes.co.jp/company/index.htm |title = T&E Soft Company Overview| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19990202070521/http://tes.co.jp/company/index.htm | archive-date=1999-02-02 }}</ref> <small><br>("old company")</small><br>January 21, 2008<ref name="Company Profile">{{Cite web | url=http://www.tandesoft.co.jp/company/profile.html |title = T&E Soft Company Profile| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120928233307/http://www.tandesoft.co.jp/company/profile.html | archive-date=2012-09-28 }}</ref> <small><br>("new company")</small>
| defunct = January 2013 <br><small>("new company")</small>
| fate = [[Mergers and acquisitions|Merged]] with [[Spike Chunsoft]]
| location = [[Nagoya]], [[Japan]]
| homepage = {{url|https://web.archive.org/web/20000619051321/http://www.tes.co.jp/index.htm|www.tes.co.jp}} (archived)<br>{{url|https://web.archive.org/web/20120620085736/http://www.tandesoft.co.jp/index.html|www.tandesoft.co.jp}} (archived)<br>{{URL|daikokuya-ghd.jp}}
}}

{{Nihongo|'''T&E Soft Incorporated'''|株式会社ティーアンドイーソフト|Kabushiki-Gaisha Tīandoīsofuto}} was a Japanese-based video game developer founded in 1982.<ref name="thefreelibrary.com-insider-trading">{{cite web |title=Insider trading complaint filed over Disney software deal |publisher=[[TheFreeLibrary.com]] |date=2002-04-01 |author=Kyodo News International, Inc. |access-date=2015-05-10 |url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Insider%20trading%20complaint%20filed%20over%20Disney%20software%20deal.-a084532107|author-link=Kyodo News }}</ref> Although they have made games with a wide variety of genres, they are primarily known for their [[action role-playing]], [[List of golf video games|golf]] and [[puzzle video games]].<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.ign.com/companies/te-soft |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121105202103/https://www.ign.com/companies/te-soft |url-status = dead |archive-date = 2012-11-05 |title = T&E Soft Games |publisher = [[IGN]] |access-date = 2015-05-10}}</ref>

The original company exists today under the name of Daikokuya Global Holding Co., Ltd but is not currently engaged in game development.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.daikokuya-ghd.jp/wp/?page_id=49|title=会社情報 &#124; 大黒屋グローバルホールディング - Daikokuya Global Holding 公式サイト}}</ref> A company named Deep Co., Ltd.  acquired T&E Soft's trademark rights on April 22, 2005, to continue game development which would go on until January 2013.

==History==
Founded in 1982,  T&E Soft Co., Ltd was initially named after the founder's older brother Toshiro Yokoyama and his younger brother Eiji Yokoyama, but later changed the abbreviation to "Tri & Exciting" and eventually "Technology & Entertainment".

T&E Soft started activities by selling games for NEC's [[PC-6001]] series. Beginning in 1983, it developed games for multiple models other than the PC-6001. In December 1983, T&E Soft published its own [[magazine]] to promote its products and by January 1985 launched its [[newsletter]] that would last until July 1990. In October 1990, [[Xtalsoft]]  was merged with T&E Soft and became T&E SOFT Osaka Development Department.

The company became famous for its 8-bit personal computer games including the ''[[Hydlide]]'' series. It entered the home video game console in March 1986 with the in-house development of the [[Family Computer]] software ''[[Hydlide Special]]'' which was released by [[Toshiba EMI]]. Since the success of the [[Super Famicom]] software ''[[Harukanaru Augusta]]'', released in April 1991, T&E Soft gradually moved away from [[personal computers]] to focus on its titles for [[video game consoles]]. At some point, [[Square (video game company)|Square]] founder [[Masafumi Miyamoto]] was the majority shareholder of T&E Soft.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2001/01/16/business/disney-te-in-online-games-tieup/#.XpyZdM17kdU|title=Disney, T&E in online games tieup|date=16 January 2001}}</ref>

In May 2002, T&E Soft Corporation changed its name to '''D Wonderland Inc.'''<ref name="thefreelibrary.com-insider-trading"/>

In April 2005, Deep Co., Ltd. acquired the trademark rights of the T & E Soft name. In January 2006, Digital Golf Co., Ltd. absorbed Deep Co., Ltd. and established a game development branch in [[Nagoya]] under the brand name of T&E Soft.

The development department of Digital Golf in Nagoya was eventually split off into its own company T&E Soft Co. , Ltd on January 21, 2008. The following week on January 30, Games Arena Co., Ltd. (a subsidiary of [[Dwango (company)|Dwango Co., Ltd.]]) announced that it would acquire all issued shares of T&E Soft Co., Ltd.

[[Chunsoft]] and [[Spike (company)|Spike]], which Games Arena had both previously acquired on individual basis, merged in April 2012 to form [[Spike Chunsoft]]. The new T&E Soft Co., Ltd was absorbed and merged with Spike Chunsoft in January 2013. (Games Arena had itself dissolved in June 2012).

In January 2015, D Wonderland (the "old" T&E Soft) changed its company name to Daikokuya Global Holding Co., Ltd.<ref>{{Cite web |website=www.daikokuya-ghd.jp |url=http://www.daikokuya-ghd.jp/wp/wp-content/uploads/151228_dw-shogo.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160906232149/http://www.daikokuya-ghd.jp/wp/wp-content/uploads/151228_dw-shogo.pdf |title=当社の商号変更に関するお知らせ |lang=ja |archive-date=September 6, 2016|date=September 6, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://dwonderland.co.jp/top.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151227011045/http://dwonderland.co.jp/top.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 27, 2015|date=December 27, 2015|title=D Wonderland Inc }}</ref>

On March 4, 2019, [[D4 Enterprise]]  announced that it has acquired the intellectual property rights of the T&E Soft game content.<ref>{{Cite news
|date=2019-03-04
|url=http://www.d4e.co.jp/20190304/2946
|title=株式会社D4エンタープライズ、地位継承済ゲームソフトウェア・コンテンツのご案内|publisher=D4エンタープライズ
}}</ref>

==Games published==
{{Incomplete list|videogames|date=June 2023}}

===3DO===
*''[[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Slayer]]'' (Japanese release)
*''[[Pebble Beach Golf]]''
*''[[Devil's Course]]'', known in US as ''[[True Golf Classics: Wicked 18]]''
*''[[True Golf Classics: Waialae Country Club]]''
*''[[Shadow: War of Succession|Shadow: War Of Succession]]'' (Japanese release)

=== Computers ===

* ''[[Hydlide]]''
* ''[[Hydlide II: Shine of Darkness]]''
* ''[[Hydlide 3]]''
* ''Legend of Star Arthur''
* ''Legend of Star Arthur II''
* ''Legend of Star Arthur III: Terra 4001<ref>{{Cite book |last=Koyama |first=Yusuke |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uITCEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA35 |title=History of the Japanese Video Game Industry |date=2023-06-02 |publisher=[[Springer Nature]] |isbn=978-981-99-1342-8 |pages=35}}</ref>''

===Game Boy===
*''[[Chikyū Kaihō Gun ZAS]]''

===Mega Drive/Genesis===
*''New 3D Golf Simulation: [[Harukanaru Augusta]]''
*''[[Undead Line]]''

===MSX===
*''[[3-D Golf Simulation]]''
*''[[Pyramid Warp]]''
*''[[Battle Ship Clapton II]]''
*''[[Daiva Story 4]]''
*''[[Daiva Story 5]]''
*''[[Ashguine Story 2]]''
*''[[Greatest Driver]]''
*''[[Hydlide]]''
*''[[Hydlide II: Shine of Darkness]]''
*''[[Hydlide 3]]''
*''[[Laydock]]''
*''[[Rune Worth]]''
*''[[Laydock 2 Last Attack]]''
*''[[Super Laydock]]''
*''[[Butaporc]]''
*''[[Psy-o-blade]]''
*''[[Undead Line]]''

===PlayStation===
*''[[Cu-On-Pa]]''
*''[[Sonata (video game)|Sonata]]''

===Super NES/Super Famicom===
*''[[BUSHI Seiryūden: Futari no Yūsha]]''
*''[[Cu-On-Pa]]''
*''[[Pebble Beach no Hatou New: Tournament Edition]]'', known in the US as ''[[True Golf Classics: Pebble Beach Golf Links]]''
*''[[True Golf Classics: Waialae Country Club|New 3D Golf Simulation: Waialae no Kiseki]]'', known in the US as ''[[True Golf Classics: Waialae Country Club]]''
*''[[Devil's Course]]'', known in the US as ''[[True Golf Classics: Wicked 18]]''
*''[[Lode Runner Twin: Justy to Liberty no Daibouken]]''
*''[[The Lost Vikings]]'', (Super Famicom version)
*''[[Sword World SFC]]''
*''[[Sword World SFC 2: Inishie no Kyojin Densetsu]]''

===Virtual Boy===
*''[[Golf (Virtual Boy)|Golf]]''
*''[[Red Alarm]]''
*''[[3D Tetris]]

==Games developed==
{{Incomplete list|videogames|date=June 2023}}

===3DO===
*''[[Pebble Beach Golf]]''

===Game Boy===
*''[[Chikyū Kaihō Gun ZAS]]''

===Genesis/Mega Drive===
*''[[True Golf Classics: Waialae Country Club|New 3D Golf Simulation: Waialae no Kiseki]]''
*''[[Pebble Beach Golf Links]]''
*''[[Undead Line]]''
*''[[Super Hydlide]]'' A different name for this port of Hydlide 3.

===MSX===
*''[[Hydlide]]''
*''[[Hydlide II: Shine of Darkness]]''
*''[[Hydlide 3: The Space Memories]]''
*''[[Undead Line]]''
*''[[Rune Worth]]''
*''[[Daiva Story 4|Daiva Story 4: Asura's Bloodfeud]]''
*''[[Daiva Story 5|Daiva Story 5: The Cup of Soma]]''
*''[[Greatest Driver]]''
*''[[Laydock]]''
*''[[Pyramid Warp]]''
*''[[Super Laydock]]''
*''[[Laydock 2]]''
*''[[Ashguine Story II]]''
*''[[Trick Boy]]''
*''[[Battle Ship Clapton II]]''

===Famicom/NES===
*''[[Hydlide Special]]'' on the Famicom.  ''[[Hydlide]]'' on the NES.
*''[[Super Hydlide|Hydlide 3: 闇からの訪問者]]''
* [[Daiva Story 5|Daiva Story 6: Imperial of Nirsartia]]

===Nintendo 64===
*''[[Waialae Country Club: True Golf Classics]]''
*''[[Masters '98: Haruka Naru Augusta]]''

===Nintendo DS===
*''[[True Swing Golf]]''

===PC===
*''[[Blaze and Blade: Eternal Quest]]''

===PlayStation===
*''[[Blaze and Blade: Eternal Quest]]''
*''[[Cu-On-Pa]]''
*''[[Sonata (video game)|Sonata]]''

===PlayStation 2===
*''[[Disney Golf]]''
*[[Swing Away Golf]]

===Saturn===
*''[[Virtual Hydlide]]''
*''[[Waialae no Kiseki: Extra 36 Holes]]''

===Super NES/Super Famicom===
*''[[Cu-On-Pa]]''
*''[[True Golf Classics: Waialae Country Club|New 3D Golf Simulation: Waialae no Kiseki]]'', known in US as ''[[True Golf Classics: Waialae Country Club]]''
*''[[Pebble Beach no Hatou New: Tournament Edition]]''
*''[[Power Lode Runner]]''
*''[[Rise of the Robots]]''
*''[[True Golf Classics: Pebble Beach Golf Links]]''

===Virtual Boy===
*''[[3D Tetris]]''
*''[[Golf (Virtual Boy)|Golf]]''
*''[[Red Alarm]]''

==References==
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