Data East

Data East Corporation
Native name
データイースト株式会社
Dēta Īsuto kabushiki gaisha
Company typePrivate KK
IndustryVideo games, engineering
FoundedApril 20, 1976: 48 years ago[1]
FounderTetsuo Fukuda
DefunctJune 25, 2003: 21 years ago
FateBankruptcy
SuccessorG-Mode
HeadquartersSuginami, Tokyo, Japan
ProductsList of games released by Data East
Total equity¥282.5 million (April 2001)[1]
SubsidiariesData East USA, inc.
Data East Pinball inc.
Websitedataeast-corp.co.jp/index_e.html

Data East Corporation (データイースト株式会社, Dēta Īsuto kabushiki gaisha), also abbreviated as DECO, was a Japanese video game, pinball and electronic engineering company. The company was in operation from 1976 to 2003, and released 150 video game titles.[2] At one time, the company had annual sales of 20 billion yen in the United States alone but eventually went bankrupt.[3] The American subsidiary, Data East USA, was headquartered in San Jose, California.[4] Its main headquarters were located in Suginami, Tokyo.[5]

The majority of Data East's video games, its trademark and logo, are owned today by the mobile gaming company G-Mode, a subsidiary of Marvelous. A small number of Data East video games are owned by other companies, notably Paon DP.

  1. ^ a b Data East Corporation (15 April 2001). "会社概要". archive.org. Archived from the original on 15 April 2001. Retrieved 23 February 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  2. ^ Data East Corporation (10 January 2001). "開発部ホームページ". Archive.org. Archived from the original on 10 January 2001. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference March 30, 2017 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Compute, Volume 12, Issues 1-5. Small System Services, 1990. 52. Retrieved from Google Books on May 17, 2010.
  5. ^ "データイースト." Data East. December 8, 2002. Retrieved on October 20, 2009.