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Revision as of 15:04, 27 September 2018
Data East Corporation, known in Japan as (株式会社データイースト [Kabushikigaisha Deta Isuto Koporeshon]), and also called DECO, was a Japanese video game company founded on 1976-04-20. In 1979, Data East created Data East USA, Inc. to sell their arcade and casino games in North America. In 1981, three Data East employees formed Technos, which caused a lawsuit with Data East, and Technos created several games for Data East before becoming a separate company. In 1996, Data East USA was liquidated, and in 1999 Data East, having accrued a massive debt, filed for reorganization. Data East switched from video games to various engineering equipment, and continued to license its games to third party developers for a few years before finally declaring bankruptcy in 2003. The company game licenses were sold to G-Mode, Paon Corporation, Kadokawa Games, Arc System Works, and D4 Enterprise.
Although I had seen several Data East games in the arcade, I didn't recognize the company until my mother bought me Bad Dudes for the NES for Christmas around 1990. It was from that game that I saw the Data East logo, and part of why I noticed it is because my brother received the game Double Dragon, whose publisher was Tradewest. The east/west dichotomy caused it to stick in my mind more.
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Platforms
Although Data East never produced their own home consoles, they did create the DECO Cassette System, the first arcade system with interchangeable games.
Games
Overall, Data East didn't create that many games that piqued my interest. They mostly made action and sports games. I've never much cared for sports games, and the action games of Capcom and Konami always seemed more impressive. As a publisher, the company released several ports of computer games onto video game platforms, but, when games were first released on a computer, I generally preferred the original computer version and avoided the ports.
These are the Data East games that are important to me:
Logos
1986-2003. Logo used for both Japanese and US arms.
A popular stylized version of the logo.
1981-1988.
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Gallery
Catalog, 1990.
An NES ad from June, 1988.
Links
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_East - Wikipedia.
- mobygames.com/company/data-east-corporation - MobyGames (Data East).
- mobygames.com/company/data-east-usa-inc - MobyGames (Data East USA).
