Cor-Son Games

Cor-Son Games was a game developer owned by The Corning/Emerson Group. It was formed following the acquisition and rebranding of the Sheffield-based Data Ministry. They operated the label as a publisher of unlicensed NES games, but rechristened it in 1990 after the new staff moved to the US, establishing its new office out of an abandoned strip-mall in Dallas, Texas, but eventually had different offices and teams set up in Las Vegas, Memphis and Boston. While the company took on the Cor-Son name, they originally operated under a proxy, Alive Systems, in its first two years to work around the limitations of NES carts.

In 1995, the company became well-recognized in the licensed gaming community, with their games being of decent quality thanks to them working on projects in advance and collaborating with other developers. Different projects would be worked on by Cor-Son's branches and the best alphas would be chosen while the others would be modified for future titles. Cor-Son also kept old alphas which they edited for newer games so they could meet deadlines more efficiently.

In 2006, all regional offices were merged into one entity and 50% of the label was sold to WB Games, who published their games since then. It was also at that point that the label decided to enter the "AAA" market and produce more serious titles. The label abandoned the game industry in 2014 out of protest toward the direction the industry was heading at that point.

Feud with Nintendo
The company was infamous for its arguments with Nintendo.

Censorship of They Live
Following the completion and release of They Live: The Game, Cor-Son hosted an after-party with the staff of the companies involved in producing the game. While reviewing the ports, Cor-Son were appalled with the immense censorship of the SNES port. The developer of the port, Sculptured Software, admitted that the changes were brought about under the demand of Nintendo of America.

As a result, along with learning of how Nintendo treated DMA Design Limited and Argonaut Games, Cor-Son decided to not produce games for the then released Nintendo 64, though this boycott seemingly ended in 2001.

Attacks Against the Nintendo Wii
Cor-Son were set to produce a port of Alison and Colleen: Proving Day for the Nintendo Wii, but while ports for the XBOX 360 and PlayStation 3 were in the works, Cor-Son noticed an abundance of shovelware titles on the console. The head of the label publicly denounced Nintendo for a lack of quality control and boycotted the company entirely. They have veiled numerous jabs at the company in their later games, which led to Nintendo nearly suing them for defamation and slander, but it was settled.