Camelot Software Planning is a Japanese video game developer established in 1990 best known for partnering with Nintendo on many of Nintendo s spin-off franchise games such as Mario Tennis and Mario Golf . Prior to their relationship with Nintendo, Camelot was credited with the successful games Shining Force III for the Sega Saturn and Hot Shots Golf for the PlayStation. Camelot was originally a sub-division of SEGA known as Sonic Software Planning that was form to create the Shining in the Darkness game for the SEGA Genesis. In 1995 Camelot officaly seperated from Sega but agreed to keep developing the Shining games and would not release any games for rival systems that would hurt the Shining games. In late 1998 Sega began focusing their resources on the Dreamcast leaving Camelot with their last scenario for Shining Force 3 for the Sega Saturn in jeparody. Disgusted Camelot wrapped up Shining Force 3 and formed a cozy relationship with Nintendo which has led to the creation of the Golden Sun games.

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