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Viewtiful Joe
Developer(s)	Capcom Production Studio 4, Clover Studio
Publisher(s)	Capcom
Years active	October 7, 2003–November 23, 2004
Genre(s)	Platform, Action
System(s)	Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2
Mode(s)	Single Player

Viewtiful Joe is a video game series developed by Capcom's Production Studio 4 design team "Team Viewtiful" and Clover Studio. Atsushi Inaba headed the development of all the Viewtiful Joe games — first at Capcom Production Studio 4, then at Clover Studio.

The first game was developed exclusively for the Nintendo GameCube in 2003 as part of the "Capcom Five", but was later ported to the PlayStation 2 in 2004 after Nintendo made a deal with Capcom to make Resident Evil 4 a GameCube exclusive (although it was later released on PlayStation 2). The Japanese version of the PlayStation 2 release is titled Viewtiful Joe: A New Hope, a reference to the movie Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.

Viewtiful Joe 2 was released for both the GameCube and PlayStation 2 in November 2004. An anime version of the game aired on the Japanese television station TV Tokyo during 2004 and was licensed for US distribution by Geneon in 2005.