Cooking Mama Limited

Background
Cooking Mama Limited (also known as Office Create) is a Japanese video game developer best known for the Cooking Mama series. Before said series became a surprise success for the company, Office Create released domestic product exclusive to Japan that received little attention. As a response to the success of the series, the company changed its name to Cooking Mama Limited, although it still uses its old name on many newer releases.

1st Logo (1994-December 28, 2000)
Logo: Basically the horizontally distorted word "Arial Black" layered behind the bottom text "Arial Black".

Technique: None.

Music/Sounds: The opening of the game plays over.

Availability: Extremely rare. Their games were not well known before the Cooking Mama series and were only released in Japan. One of the only known games to contain this logo is Aqua Paradise: Boku no Suizokukan for the PS1.

2nd Logo (2001-February 28, 2006)
Logo: On a white background, there is a stylized, -colored octopus with a white head, eight tentacles, and has two bubbles next to its face. The creature's mouth contains a "C", which has the letters "Comic Sans MS" next to it as well as "Comic Sans MS" in white on its second-highest tentacle.

Technique: None.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: Rare, was seen on Dino Master: Dig, Discover, Duel for the DS.

3rd Logo (March 23, 2006-February 8, 2007)
Logo: Against the same background as before, we see the top portion of a 2D-animated turtle as it stares at us with its one eye. Superimposed onto the picture are the words "Comic Sans MS " with the former on the top right and the latter on the bottom right.

Variant: On Cooking Mama: Cook-Off, the turtle lacks a shadow.

Technique: None.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: Uncommon. Despite its short lifespan, it did appear on Cooking Mama, Cooking Mama 2: Dinner with Friends, both for the DS and Cooking Mama: Cook-Off for the Wii.

4th Logo (October 26, 2010-)
Logo: A more stylized and minimalist turtle is on top of the curvy text "OFFICE CREATE" with several dots appearing before the dot on the "i".

Variant: On Cooking Mama Cookstar for the Switch, the logo has a white outline and is against a cornflower flue background.

Technique: None.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: Current; was seen on all Cooking Mama games starting with Crafting Mama (except for Babysitting Mama) as well as Johnny's Payday Panic for 3DS.

1st Logo (November 13, 2007)
Logo: We see Mama from the Cooking Mama games giving out two peace gestures with the text "COOKING MAMA LIMITED " with a dark blue and white stroke and a shadow effect above.

Technique: None.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: Only seen on Cooking Mama 2: Dinner with Friends for the DS.

2nd Logo (November 18, 2008-)
Logo: A outline of mama is inside a letter "C" merged with a "m" with three stars above the latter. Underneath it reads "cooking mama ltd."

Variants:
 * From 2010 to 2013, the Cooking Mama World seal would appear on the top right of the logo, consisting of a normal head of Mama with the arced words "cooking mama" and "world" with a white stroke over and underneath it, all within an circle.
 * On Cooking Mama Cookstar, the logo has a white outline and is against a background.

Technique: None.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: Current; debuted on Cooking Mama: World Kitchen and was seen on every game in the franchise since including its spin-offs, Gardening Mama and it's sequel, Gardening Mama 2: Forest Friends, Crafting Mama, Babysitting Mama and Camping Mama: Outdoor Adventures.