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Data East
Former Type Public
Fate Defunct
Founded 1976
Defunct 2003
Location Tokyo, Japan
San Jose, California, USA
Industry Computer and video game industry
Products List of games released by Data East)


Data East Corporation (データイースト株式会社 dēta īsuto kabushiki kaisha?) also abbreviated as DECO, was a Japanese video game company. A public company usually refers to a company that is permitted to offer its registered securities ( Stock, bonds, etc Year 1976 ( MCMLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events February 27 &mdash Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences hosts 6th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards; inducts Yu Suzuki officially, is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and located on the eastern side of the main island Honshū. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The video game industry (formally referred to as Interactive entertainment) is the economic sector involved with the development, Marketing This is a list of video and pinball games released by Data East. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. Their main headquarters were located in Tokyo, while their American subsidiary, Data East USA, was headquartered in San Jose, California. officially, is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and located on the eastern side of the main island Honshū. The company was in operation from 1976 to 2003, when it declared bankruptcy. Bankruptcy is a legally declared inability or impairment of ability of an individual or organization to pay their Creditors Creditors may file a bankruptcy petition against

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History

Data East was founded by Tetsuo Fukuda on April 20, 1976 [1] as an electronic engineering company which focused on integrating interchangeable tapes inside arcade game devices, allowing video games operators to replace a game from a machine without having to replace the cabinet itself. Events 1303 - The University of Rome La Sapienza is instituted by Pope Boniface VIII. Year 1976 ( MCMLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Electronic engineering is a discipline dealing with the behavior and effects of Electrons (as in electron tubes and transistors and with electronic devices systems or equipment Realizing the money that could be made within the interactive content, Data East began developing arcade video games in 1979 and established a U. S division, after most of their chief competitors like Sega and Taito had already established a market presence. is a multinational Video game Software and Hardware development company and a former Home computer The is a Japanese developer of Video game software and arcade hardware wholly-owned by RPG publisher Square Enix. While making games, Data East released a series of interchangeable systems compatible with their arcade games, notably the DECO Cassette System and the Multi Conversion Kit, but these products soon became infamous among their users due to their numerous technical problems. The DECO Cassette System was introduced in 1980 by Data East and was the first standardised arcade system that allowed arcade owners to change games By 1985 Data East had shifted away from interchangeability to concentrate themselves on video games only.


Data East proved to be one of the more successful and long-lasting companies in the business, surviving the video game crash of 1983 in reasonably good shape and going on to release dozens of games for both arcade and home console systems over the next two decades. The North American video game crash of 1983 (sometimes known as the video game crash of 1984 because it was in that year that the full effects of the crash became apparent Some of the most famous games from their 1980s heyday included Karate Champ, Heavy Barrel, Burgertime, Bad Dudes Vs. Dragon Ninja, Sly Spy, RoboCop, Bump 'n' Jump, and Ring King. Karate Champ, released in Japan as, is a 1984 Arcade game developed by Technos Japan Corporation for Data East. is a 1987 Run and gun Arcade game by Data East. The story is that terrorists have seized the underground control complex of a Nuclear missile BurgerTime is a 1982 Japanese Arcade game created by Data East Corporation for its DECO Cassette System. Sly Spy (known in Japan as and known in Europe as Sly Spy Secret Agent) is an arcade game developed by Nihon Bussan and published RoboCop is a 1987 Action movie set in a crime-ridden Detroit Michigan in the near future Bump 'n' Jump is a 1982 Japanese Arcade game created by Data East Corporation for its DECO Cassette System. Ring King ( in Japan and King of Boxer in the PAL regions is an arcade boxing game developed by Namco ( Data East also purchased licenses to manufacture and sell arcade games created by other companies. Their most successful licensed games included Kid Niki: Radical Ninja, Kung Fu Master and Vigilante, all licensed from Irem, and Commando, licensed from Capcom. Kid Niki Radical Ninja, released in Japan as, an Arcade game released in 1986 by Irem. The fictional character Shang-Chi is also known as The Master of Kung Fu is an arcade game developed and published by Irem in Japan in 1988 and was published and released in the U is a Japanese Video game console developer and publisher, and formerly a developer and manufacturer of Arcade games as well See also Bionic Commando is a vertically scrolling shoot 'em up Arcade game released in 1985 For the original NASA meaning see capsule communicator. is a leading Japanese International developer They had a brief stint as a Neo-Geo arcade licensee in the mid-1990s. The Neo Geo is a cartridge -based arcade and home Video game system released in 1990 by Japanese game company SNK.

Data East also made pinball tables from 1987 through 1996, and included innovations such as the first pinball to have stereo sound, the first usage of a small Dot matrix display in Checkpoint along with the first usage of a big DMD (192x64) in Maverick. Pinball is a type of coin-operated Arcade game where a player attempts to score points by manipulating one or more Metal balls on a playfield inside a Glass Stereophonic sound, commonly called stereo, is the reproduction of Sound, using two or more independent audio channels through a Symmetrical A dot matrix display is a Display device used to display information on machines clocks railway departure indicators and many and other devices requiring a simple display Checkpoint is a 1991 pinball machine released by Data East. The game had the first dot matrix display (DMD ever used on a pinball game Maverick is a pinball machine produced initially by Data East Pinball and then by Sega Pinball. In designing pinball machines they showed a strong preference for using high-profile (but expensive) licensed properties, rather than creating totally original machines, which did not help the financial difficulties the company began experiencing from 1990 on. Some of the properties that Data East licensed for their pinball tables included Guns N' Roses, Star Wars, Back to the Future, Batman, RoboCop, The Simpsons, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Guns N' Roses was a Pinball machine based on the rock group Guns N' Roses. Not to be confused by the Sonic pinball of the same name, which was released in 1987. Back to the Future is a 1990 Pinball game designed by Joe Kaminkow and Ed Cebula and released by Data East Pinball Batman is a Data East Pinball machine released in August 1991. The Simpsons is a 1990 pinball game released by Data East Pinball Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a 1991 pinball machine designed by Joe Kaminkow and Ed Cebula Data East is the only company that manufactured custom pinball games (i. e. for Aaron Spelling, the movie Richie Rich or Michael Jordan), though these were bascially mods of existing or soon to be released pinball machines (f. Aaron Spelling' (April 22 1923 – June 23 2006 was an American film and Television producer. Richie Rich (sometimes stylized Ri¢hie Ri¢h) is a 1994 live-action Film adaptation of the Harvey Comics Comic book Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17 1963 is a retired American professional Basketball player and active businessman e. Lethal Weapon 3). Lethal Weapon 3 is a pinball machine produced by Data East Pinball The pinball division was created in 1985 by purchasing the pinball division of Stern Electronics and its factory and assets. Stern is the name of two different but related arcade gaming companies Stern Electronics Inc Amidst plummeting sales across the entire pinball market, Data East chose to exit the pinball business and sold the factory to Sega in 1996. is a multinational Video game Software and Hardware development company and a former Home computer The company's American video game division, Data East USA, had already been transferred to Sega as part of a debt settlement in 1994 ( thus ending the existence of Data East outside Japan ). The pinball factory changed hands one more time, with Gary Stern purchasing the factory outright in 1999 and renaming it Stern Pinball. Stern is the name of two different but related arcade gaming companies Stern Electronics Inc

Unable to escape their mounting financial problems, Data East filed for reorganization in 1999 and resumed making video games. For the following three and a half years, Data East sold negative ion generators and licensed some of their old games to other companies; all of this in hope of collecting enough money to be able to make video games again and return to the competition. An ion is an Atom or Molecule which has lost or gained one or more Valence electrons giving it a positive or negative electrical charge Nonetheless, the company's restructuring efforts weren't enough to put back the financial problems brought by the 1990s and in April 2003 Data East filed for bankruptcy and were finally declared bankrupt by a Tokyo district court on June 25, 2003. Bankruptcy is a legally declared inability or impairment of ability of an individual or organization to pay their Creditors Creditors may file a bankruptcy petition against The news was released to the public two weeks later, on July 8. [2]

Most of Data East's intellectual properties were acquired in February 2004 by G-Mode, a Japanese mobile game content provider. Intellectual property ( IP) is a legal field that refers to creations of the mind such as musical literary and artistic works inventions and symbols names G-mode Co Ltd. provides mobile network game contents that specialize in Java game software in Japan Mobile content is any type of media which is viewed or used on Mobile phones like Ringtones, graphics discount offers games and movies [3] A few others were acquired by Paon Corporation, Ltd. [4], except the Metal Max series (which belong to Createch) and the Tantei Jingūji Saburō series (which belong to WorkJam). is a Video game development company based in Japan So far Paon has been given the right to work with the Donkey Kong series from Nintendo, following the Metal Max is a series of video games on the NES, SuperNES, and Playstation 2 platforms

Products

For a list of video and pinball games released by Data East, see List of games released by Data East. This is a list of video and pinball games released by Data East.

References

  1. ^ Data East goes bankrupt - WonderSwan News at GameSpot
  2. ^ Data East goes bankrupt - WonderSwan News at GameSpot
  3. ^ Smith, David. "G-Mode Buys Up Data East Catalog", 1UP.com. 1UPcom is a video-game site owned and operated by Ziff Davis Media, publisher of the popular video game magazine EGM (Electronic Gaming Monthly. February 2004. [1]
  4. ^ Rap Sheet - Data East Corporation

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