Culture Brain Inc. (株式会社カルチャーブレーン, Kabushiki-gaisha Karuchā Burēn) is a Japanese video game developer and publisher founded on October 5, 1980.
In North America, Culture Brain is mostly known for its six video games for the Nintendo Entertainment System and its three for the Super NES.
Three of those NES games, Baseball Simulator 1.000, The Magic of Scheherazade and Flying Warriors, were strongly redesigned from their Japanese source to better appeal North American consumers.
Ever since the demise of Culture Brain USA, video games developed by the parent company have rarely made it in America.
The illustrations of the Hamster Monogatari ones were heavily inspired by Ritsuko Kawai's children's storybook series, Hamtaro.