Spike (company)

Spike
Native name
株式会社スパイク
Company typeKabushiki gaisha (defunct)
IndustryVideo games
FoundedDecember 1989; 34 years ago (1989-12) (as Mizuki)
April 1997; 27 years ago (1997-04) (as Spike)
DefunctApril 1, 2012; 12 years ago (2012-04-01)
FateMerged with Chunsoft
SuccessorSpike Chunsoft
HeadquartersMeguro, Tokyo, Japan
Key people
  • Mitsutoshi Sakurai (Spike, president)
  • Kiyonori Sawada (Mizuki, president)[1]
  • Maki Kimura (director)
  • Hiroyuki Kaneko (director)
  • Junko Yaguchi (auditor)
  • Koichiro Matsumoto (auditor)
Products
Revenue¥60 million[2] (2012)
Number of employees
99[2] (2011)
ParentDwango
Websitespike.co.jp at the Wayback Machine (archived March 12, 2012)

Spike Co., Ltd. (株式会社スパイク, Kabushiki-gaisha Supaiku) was a Japanese video game developer and publisher. Most of the staff were part of Human Entertainment.[3] Human's Fire Pro Wrestling series was acquired by Spike after Human ceased operations. In April 2012, the company merged with Chunsoft to become Spike Chunsoft.

  1. ^ SPIKE：会社案内：概要 (in Japanese). spike.co.jp. Archived from the original on October 13, 2005. Retrieved August 28, 2023.
  2. ^ a b 株式会社スパイク | 会社情報 | 会社概要 (in Japanese). spike.co.jp. Archived from the original on February 24, 2012. Retrieved August 28, 2023.
  3. ^ Szczepaniak, John (2015). The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers. S.M.G. Szczepaniak. p. 266. ISBN 9780992926007. OCLC 890601504.