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Seibu Denshi
was a Japanese manufacturer of arcade games. The company was founded in 1982 at Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan as , but changed to its current name sometime in 1984. It is currently owned by Hitoshi Hamada. One of their earliest arcade hits was the 1989 rail shooter ''Dynamite Duke'', one of the first to combine close combat with long-range shooting. A year later, Seibu Kaihatsu became best known for their 1990 vertical-scrolling shoot 'em up arcade game '' Raiden'', which was successful enough to earn several sequels and spin-offs in its series of titles. In 1991, a development department known as was spun off from Seibu Kaihatsu. During the late '80s, Fabtek bought the rights to internationally distribute Seibu Kaihatsu's arcade titles outside Japan. This partnership started with Dead Angle, which was Fabtek's first game to be released, and ended with Raiden Fighters Jet, which was both Fabtek's and Seibu Kaihatsu's last game to be released. In 1999, its arcade division vanished ...
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Public Company
A public company is a company whose ownership is organized via shares of stock which are intended to be freely traded on a stock exchange or in over-the-counter markets. A public (publicly traded) company can be listed on a stock exchange (listed company), which facilitates the trade of shares, or not (unlisted public company). In some jurisdictions, public companies over a certain size must be listed on an exchange. In most cases, public companies are ''private'' enterprises in the ''private'' sector, and "public" emphasizes their reporting and trading on the public markets. Public companies are formed within the legal systems of particular states, and therefore have associations and formal designations which are distinct and separate in the polity in which they reside. In the United States, for example, a public company is usually a type of corporation (though a corporation need not be a public company), in the United Kingdom it is usually a public limited company (plc), i ...
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Dead Angle
''Dead Angle'', also known as ''Lead Angle'' and ''Gang Hunter'', is a 1988 arcade game, arcade shooter game developed by Seibu Kaihatsu. It is the follow-up to the company's mobster-themed ''Empire City: 1931''. In ''Dead Angle'', players take control of the game's protagonist, who must rescue his girlfriend from a mob boss. A porting, port of the game was released by Sega for its Master System console. Gameplay Like ''Empire City: 1931'' before it, players use a joystick to move a crosshair along the screen and shoot enemies. ''Dead Angle'' adds an on-screen representation of the player character in the form of a silhouette, with an over-the-shoulder view similar to 1980s arcade List of boxing video games, boxing games (such as ''Punch-Out!! (arcade game), Punch-Out'' and ''Heavyweight Champ'').Dead Angle review
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Senkyu
Senkyu (戦球), known as Battle Balls in English, is an arcade puzzle game created by Seibu Kaihatsu and released in 1995. A version for the Sony PlayStation was later released in limited quantities for the Japanese market and is now extremely rare. A demo version of the game was also included in the PlayStation release of Raiden DX Raiden may refer to: *Raijin, also called Raiden or Raiden-sama, the god of thunder and lightning in Japanese mythology * ''Raiden'' (film), a 1928 film directed by Shōzō Makino * Raiden Tameemon (Seki Tarōkichi; 1767–1825), a Japanese sumo w .... Gameplay The game consists of three colored balls that can be rotated clockwise or anti-clockwise falling from the top of the screen. When they collect with four or more like-colored balls on the pile at the bottom of the screen they disappear and the surrounding balls fall to fill in the space. Bonus points are awarded for completing combos, chain-reactions caused by the falling balls. The game ...
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Raiden DX
Raiden may refer to: *Raijin, also called Raiden or Raiden-sama, the god of thunder and lightning in Japanese mythology * ''Raiden'' (film), a 1928 film directed by Shōzō Makino * Raiden Tameemon (Seki Tarōkichi; 1767–1825), a Japanese sumo wrestler *Trainbots, a fictional team of Autobots that can form Raiden in ''Transformers: The Headmasters'' * Mitsubishi J2M "Raiden", a Japanese World War II fighter aircraft *AMD Raiden, codename for a project by Advanced Micro Devices concerning client computing *Gwen Raiden, a minor character on the TV series ''Angel'' * Raiden (DJ), a South Korean DJ and record producer Arcade and video games * Raiden (''Mortal Kombat'') (sometimes spelled Rayden), a character in the ''Mortal Kombat'' video game series * Raiden (series), a series of scrolling shooter arcade games ** ''Raiden'' (video game), the first game in the series **'' Raiden II'' **''Raiden DX'' **''Raiden III'' **'' Raiden IV'' **''Raiden V'' *The ''Raiden Fighters'' serie ...
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Raiden II
Raiden may refer to: *Raijin, also called Raiden or Raiden-sama, the god of thunder and lightning in Japanese mythology * ''Raiden'' (film), a 1928 film directed by Shōzō Makino *Raiden Tameemon (Seki Tarōkichi; 1767–1825), a Japanese sumo wrestler *Trainbots, a fictional team of Autobots that can form Raiden in ''Transformers: The Headmasters'' *Mitsubishi J2M "Raiden", a Japanese World War II fighter aircraft *AMD Raiden, codename for a project by Advanced Micro Devices concerning client computing *Gwen Raiden, a minor character on the TV series ''Angel'' *Raiden (DJ), a South Korean DJ and record producer Arcade and video games * Raiden (''Mortal Kombat'') (sometimes spelled Rayden), a character in the ''Mortal Kombat'' video game series * Raiden (series), a series of scrolling shooter arcade games ** ''Raiden'' (video game), the first game in the series **'' Raiden II'' **''Raiden DX'' **'' Raiden III'' **'' Raiden IV'' **''Raiden V'' *The ''Raiden Fighters'' series, ...
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Visco Corporation
is a software company located in Japan. It was founded in 1982 by and later became corporate on August 8, 1983 while revealing itself as "Visco" in Japan. They originally developed video games for several platforms from the arcades and NES, to the Nintendo 64 and Neo Geo in the past. When Visco was one of the companies under the Taito umbrella, some of its titles back then were labeled "Taito". They also teamed up with Seta and Sammy in developing arcade games powered by the SSV (Sammy, Seta and Visco) arcade system board until Sammy fully acquired noted game company Sega under a new company titled Sega Sammy Holdings in 2004, while Seta's parent company Aruze announced in December 2008 that Seta decided to close their doors after 23 years of existence. Therefore, the SSV board was no longer being produced. From 2008, Visco began manufacturing slot machines for casino A casino is a facility for certain types of gambling. Casinos are often built near or combined with hotels ...
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1931
Events January * January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics. * January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa. * January 22 – Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia. * January 25 – Mohandas Gandhi is again released from imprisonment in India. * January 27 – Pierre Laval forms a government in France. * January 30 – Charlie Chaplin comedy drama film ''City Lights'' receives its public premiere at the Los Angeles Theater with Albert Einstein as guest of honor. Contrary to the current trend in cinema, it is a silent film, but with a score by Chaplin. Critically and commercially successful from the start, it will place consistently in lists of films considered the best of all time. February * February 4 – Soviet leader Joseph Stalin gives a speech calling for rapid industrialization, arguing that only strong indus ...
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