Jake Hunter

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Jake Hunter
Genre(s)	Adventure game
Developer(s)	Data East WorkJam Marvelous Interactive Arc System Works Orange Neilo
Publisher(s)	Data East Media Rings WorkJam Expris Arc System Works Aksys Games
Artist(s)	Katsuya Terada JUNNY Yoshio Sugiura
Writer(s)	Kazushige Nojima Kazutaka Kodaka Mitsue Kaneko
Composer(s)	Seiichi Hamada Katsuhiko Nakamichi Tomoyoshi Sato
Platform(s)	Family Computer Disk System, Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Saturn, PlayStation, PlayStation 2, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, PlayStation Portable, Virtual Console, Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Windows, DMM GAMES
First release	Shinjuku Chūō Kōen Satsujin Jiken April 24, 1987 (1987-04-24)
Latest release	Tantei Jingūji Saburō New Order July 31, 2019 (2019-07-31)

Jake Hunter, known in Japan as Tantei Jingūji Saburō (探偵神宮寺三郎, "Detective Saburō Jingūji"), is a mystery adventure game series originally developed and published by Data East in 1987. The property would transfer to WorkJam after its seventh instalment, and later to Arc System Works.^[1]

Despite its popularity in Japan, the first associated game to receive an English language release was Tantei Jingūji Saburō DS: Inishie no Kioku, retitled and released in North America on June 11, 2008, by Aksys Games in truncated form as Jake Hunter: Detective Chronicles. The game was re-released on May 26, 2009, as Jake Hunter Detective Story: Memories of the Past, containing the originally localised three cases with new translations, plus three further cases, and a large number of unlockables including comics. No further releases would be announced until July 1, 2017, when Aksys Games revealed they would be bringing over Tantei Jingūji Saburō: Ghost of the Dusk in 2018.^[2] A prequel game, given the branding Alternate Jake Hunter internationally, was localised internally and released in 2019 with original character names and settings preserved.