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Contents • • • • • • History [ ] Data East was founded on April 20, 1976 by Tokai University alumnus Tetsuo Fukuda. Data East developed and released in July 1977 its first arcade game Jack Lot, a based on for business use. This was followed in January 1978 by Super Break which was its first actual video game. More than 15 arcade games were released by Data East in the 1970s. Data East established a U.S. Division in 1979, after its chief competitors and had already established a market presence.

In 1980, Data East published which became its first major arcade title. While making games, Data East released a series of interchangeable systems compatible with its arcade games, notably the which soon became infamous among users due to technical problems. Data East dropped the DECO Cassette by 1985. In 1981, three staff members of Data East founded, who then supported Data East for a while before becoming completely independent. In 1983, the company moved its headquarters to a new building in,, where it stayed for the remaining of its lifespan.

Data East continued to release arcade video games over the next 15 years following the. Some of its most famous coin-op arcade games from its 1980s heyday included,,,,,,,, and. Karate Champ was the first successful fighting game, due to being one of the most influential to modern fighting game standards. It was also the subject of the litigation, in which Data East alleged that 's infringed the copyright in Karate Champ.

Data East also purchased licenses to manufacture and sell arcade games created by other companies. Some of its licensed games included, and, all licensed from, and, licensed from. It had a brief stint as a arcade licensee in the mid-1990s, starting with. Data East entered the market in 1986 with the release of for the. This led to the company becoming a licensee for several other home systems in the following 13 years, notably the (1988), (1990), (1991), (1991), (1993), (1995), (1996), (1999) and (1999).

Several of Data East's video games series, such as, and, were created specifically for home consoles. Data East also made machines from 1987 through 1994, and included innovations such as the first pinball to have sound ( ), the first usage of a small in along with the first usage of a big DMD (192x64) in. 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 its pinball machines included,,,,,, and. Data East is the only company that manufactured custom pinball games (e.g. For, the movie, or ), though these were basically mods of existing or soon to be released pinball machines (e.g. The pinball division was created in 1985 by purchasing the pinball division of and its factory and assets.

Amidst plummeting sales across the entire pinball market, Data East chose to exit the pinball business and sold the factory to in 1994. At the time of the buyout by Sega, Data East Pinball was the world's second-largest pinball manufacturer, holding 25 percent of the market. Although all of Data East's pinball games were developed in the United States, several were released in Japan by the parent company. Although video games represented the majority of the company's revenue, Data East had always been involved in engineering. Outside of video games, Data East produced image transmission equipment, data communication adapters for satellite phones from, and developed equipment for ambulances.

According to the company's website, its Datafax product, released in 1983, was the world's first portable fax machine. By the end of the 1990s, the company's American division, Data East USA, had been liquidated and Data East had ceased to exist outside of Japan.

The Japanese parent company itself withdrew entirely from the arcade industry in 1998 and had accumulated a debt estimated at 3.3 billion yen. Data East filed for reorganization in 1999 and stopped making video games altogether. All customer support pertaining to video games was halted in March 2000. For the following three years, Data East sold generators, continued to develop compatible devices for NTT DoCoMo phones and licensed some of its old video games to other companies. Nonetheless, the company's restructuring efforts were not enough to put back the financial problems brought by the 1990s. Consequently, in April 2003, Data East filed for and was finally declared bankrupt by a Tokyo district court on June 25, 2003, thus ending the company's existence. The news was released to the public two weeks later, on July 8.

Most of Data East's were acquired in February 2004 by, a Japanese provider. However, some intellectual properties are owned by Paon Corporation, notably,,, the series and the trilogy.

Likewise, the rights to the series and currently are the properties of and, respectively. The titles related to Data East were acquired by in September 2010. The other properties of Data East were transferred to Tactron Corporation, the asset management company of the Fukuda family. Tactron sued twice during the 2000s decade for, but both cases were dismissed. As of February 2014, Tetsuo Fukuda (aged 74) is the chairman of Uriima, a small Japanese developer of software applications for medical professionals. Products [ ] For a list of video and pinball games released by Data East, see.

Affiliated companies [ ] Company Purpose Association Ref. Video game development and publishing. Acquired the rights to the series from WorkJam, acquired all the Technos Japan assets from Million Corp. Video game development. Formed by former Technōs Japan employees. Video game development. Created the series with Data East.

Video game publishing. Acquired the rights to the games published by Data East on the arcades, FC/NES and IBM PC (DOS). The sound team of Data East. Video game development. Formed by former Technōs Japan employees.

Mobile software management. Acquired a plethora of Data East's intellectual properties including:,, and franchises. Video game development and publishing. Established by former Data East employees. Video game publishing. Acquired the rights to the from Crea-Tech.

Video game development. Used Data East hardware for arcade games. Video game publishing. The second largest owner of the Data East library after G-Mode. Acquired the rights to,,, and franchises. Japanese record label. Publisher of Data East's video game soundtracks.

Arcade video game development. Founded by Tadashi 'TAD' Yokoyama and a few other former employees of Data East. Tactron Corporation.

Hosts the remaining intellectual properties of Data East. Video game development and publishing. Established by Kunio Taki and other former Data East employees. All assets of Technōs Japan are currently owned by Arc System Works. Arcade video game publishing.

Licensed arcade titles like and. Video game publishing. Acquired the rights to the series before handing the rights over to. In addition, former Data East employees work for WorkJam. See also [ ].

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