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Also known as Nihon Bussan, Nihon Bussan Co., Ltd.

, doing business as , was a Japanese video game developer and publisher headquartered in Kita, Osaka. In the past they had also manufactured and sold yachts.

Key facts

Company.name
Nihon Bussan Co. Ltd.日本物産株式会社
Company.logo
Nichibutsu logo.svg
Company.trading_name
Nichibutsu
Company.native_name
日本物産株式会社
Company.native_name_lang
ja
Company.romanized_name
Nihon Bussan Kabushiki gaisha
Company.type
Public
Company.fate
Dissolved; intellectual properties sold to Hamster Corporation.
Company.founder
Sueharu Torii
Company.location_city
Kita, Osaka
Company.location_country
Japan
Company.area_served
Worldwide
Company.industry
Video game industry
Company.num_employees
30

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

18 sections
Contents
  • History
  • Timeline
  • List of Nichibutsu games
  • Paddle games
  • ''[[Breakout (video game)|Breakout]]'' clones
  • ''[[Circus (video game)|Circus]]'' clones
  • Shooters
  • ''Moon Base'' series
  • ''Terra Cresta'' series
  • Other shooter games
  • Action games
  • Quiz games
  • Puzzle games
  • Mahjong games
  • Other games
  • Notes
  • References
  • External links

, doing business as , was a Japanese video game developer and publisher headquartered in Kita, Osaka. In the past they had also manufactured and sold yachts.

The company used a horned owl for its official logo. Outside of the Nichibutsu brand, the company also produces adult video games (mainly strip mahjong arcade games) under the Sphinx (スフィンクス) brand.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nichibutsu” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.