is a Japanese video game company based in

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. The company was started by Akira Sato and initially produced a few titles for the

X68000 The is a home computer created by Sharp Corporation. It was first released in 1987 and sold only in Japan. The initial model has a 10 Megahertz, MHz Motorola 68000 Central processing unit, CPU, 1 Megabytes, MB of Random Access Memory, ...

system including ''Lagoon'' and ''Phalanx''. In April 1993, Zoom established a

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with Imagineer before it was disbanded in January 1995; together they had released a

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baseball game, ''Dolucky no Kusayakiu,'' which was slated for an American release as ''Zoo Ball'' but was cancelled. They developed a

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as a

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launch title, '' Zero Divide'', as well as an adaptation of '' Rurouni Kenshin: Ishin Gekitōhen'', and later developed '' Mister Mosquito'' on

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. The company's mascot is a cat named NECO, whose first appearance was on the ''Genocide'' game intro and manual. In the ''Dolucky'' video game series, the mascot appears as the main character. It also appears in the ''Zero Divide'' titles as a playable fighter.

Games

*''Genocide'', X68000 (1989) *''

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'', X68000 (1990) *''

Phalanx The phalanx (: phalanxes or phalanges) was a rectangular mass military formation, usually composed entirely of heavy infantry armed with spears, pikes, sarissas, or similar polearms tightly packed together. The term is particularly used t ...

'', X68000 (1991) *''Genocide 2: Master of the Dark Communion'', X68000 (1991) *'' Overtake'', X68000 (1992) *''Genocide Square'', FM Towns (1992) *''Dolucky no Kusayakiu'', Super Famicom (1993) *''Dolucky's A-League Soccer'', Super Famicom (1994) *''Dolucky no Puzzle Tour '94'', Super Famicom (1994) *'' Zero Divide'', PlayStation (1995) *'' Rurouni Kenshin: Ishin Gekitōhen'', PlayStation (1996) *''Zero Divide 2: The Secret Wish'', PlayStation (1997) *''Zero Divide: The Final Conflict'', Sega Saturn (1997) *'' CART Flag to Flag'' (known in Japan as ''Super Speed Racing''), Dreamcast (1999) *'' Mister Mosquito'', PlayStation 2 (2001) *''Mister Mosquito 2'', PlayStation 2 (2003) *''Fantastic Tambourine'', WiiWare (2009) *''

'', WiiWare (2009) *''Fantasic Cube'', WiiWare (2010)

References

External links

*
Zoom
profile at

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