Cave Story

Cave Story (洞窟物語code: ja is deprecated , Dōkutsu Monogatari) is a freeware video game released in 2004 for PC. It was thought of and created over five years by Daisuke Amaya, known by his pseudonym, or art name, Pixel. The game is an action-adventure game, and is similar to the Castlevania and Metroid games. It was first made in Japanese, and was translated to English by the fan translating group, Aeon Genesis.

Cave Story
Developer(s)	Studio Pixel (PC) Nicalis (Wii, DSi, 3DS, Cave Story+) NIS America (Cave Story 3D)
Publisher(s)	Studio Pixel (PC) Nicalis (Wii, DSi, 3DS, Cave Story+) NIS America (Cave Story 3D)
Designer(s)	Daisuke Amaya
Writer(s)	Daisuke Amaya
Composer(s)	Daisuke Amaya (all versions) Yann van der Cruyssen Nicklas Nygren (WiiWare, Plus) Danny Baranowsky Dustin Kulwicki (3D, Plus) Ridiculon (Switch)
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows Sega Genesis Dreamcast PSP Wii Nintendo DSi Nintendo 3DS OS X Linux Nintendo Switch GP2X This article contains Japanese text. Without the correct software, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of kanji and kana.
Release	December 20, 2004 Microsoft Windows WW 20 December 2004 PSP WW 10 July 2007 Wii 22 March 2010 EU Nintendo DSi NA 29 November 2010 JP 22 November 2011 Nintendo 3DS 4 October 2012 EU Cave Story 3D 8 November 2011 EU JP 26 July 2012 Cave Story+ WW 22 November 2011 Linux WW 13 December 2011 Nintendo Switch 20 June 2017 PAL
Genre(s)	Platform-adventure
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer (Switch)

The island is there is by Mimiga, a race of sentient, sheep-like

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  Daisuke "Pixel" Amaya programmed, illustrated, designed, wrote the story for, and composed the music to Cave Story over the course of five years.

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