Examu, formerly known as Yuki Enterprise, was a Japanese video game company founded in 2000. It mostly produced

fighting game A fighting game, also known as a versus fighting game, is a video game genre, genre of video game that involves combat between two or more players. Fighting game combat often features mechanics such as Blocking (martial arts), blocking, grappli ...

s for arcades and

home console A home video game console is a video game console that is designed to be connected to a display device, such as a television, and an external power source as to play video games. Home consoles are generally less powerful and customizable than ...

s. It is known for owning

Team Arcana Team Arcana is a Japanese video game developer and a successor of Examu, which mostly produce fighting games for arcades and home console A home video game console is a video game console that is designed to be connected to a display dev ...

, the developer of the original intellectual property series ''

Arcana Heart is a 2D arcade fighting game series developed by Team Arcana (originally co-owned with its former parent company Examu). The first edition was released to arcades (mostly in Japan, but a few in other countries) in late 2007. The games feature a ...

''. Initially, they developed games for their own arcade system board called

eX-Board eX-Board is a proprietary arcade system board released in 2008 by the Japanese company Examu. Hardware Specification *CPU: Fanless Via C7 NanoBGA2 (X86 architecture) *Chipset: Via CN700, VT8237R Plus *Memory: 1 GB DDR2 SDRAM (with VRAM shar ...

, to release their games mostly on

Taito is a Japanese company that specializes in video games, toys, arcade cabinets and game centers, based in Shinjuku, Tokyo. The company was founded by Michael Kogan in 1953 as the importing vodka, vending machines and jukeboxes into Japan. It b ...

NESiCAxLive is a digital distribution system for arcade video games made by Taito. It is similar to the SEGA ALL.Net game distribution system. Taito uses NESiCAxLive to distribute not only its own games, but also allows other companies to use it as a public ...

arcade delivery system. Support for eX-Board ceased in December, 2013. At the end of February 2020, Examu suspended their business operations. Any ongoing development works and product supports (most particularly ongoing supported fighting games (including licensed fighting games)) has since migrated to its rebranded successor since 2019,

Games

Arcade games

Console games

;Notes PlayStation 3 version is digital-only.
eShop release only.
PlayStation 4 version only.

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