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Taito
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The Taito Corporation is a Japanese video game developer and publisher of arcade hardwares and mobile phones, and an operator of video arcades. It is also a publisher of home video games. Taito is wholly owned by Square Enix Holdings, despite being a subsidiary to Square Enix Holdings, the parent company has kept the branding of Taito entirely distinct from Square Enix. Taito is known for producing hit arcade games, such as Space Invaders and it has produced arcade games all around the world, while also importing and distributing American coin-op video games in Japan. Taito owns several arcades in Japan known as Taito Stations or Game Taito Stations, Taito has its headquarters in the Shinjuku Bunka Quint Building in Yoyogi, Shibuya, Tokyo, sharing the facility with its parent company. In the past, the company had operated divisions in North America, Brazil, South Korea, Italy, the company was founded in 1953 by a Russian Jewish businessman named Michael Kogan as Taito Trading Company. Taito started out importing and distributing vending machines and it was also the first company to distill and sell vodka in Japan. Later, it began leasing jukeboxes and eventually started to manufacture its own, Taito began producing electro-mechanical arcade games in the 1960s. Taito changed its name from Taito Trading Company to Taito Corporation in August 1972, several of its early arcades games saw release in America by Midway, a Chicago area-based arcade manufacturer with strong ties to Taito. Taito opened in 1973 its Taito America division, in its first years, Taito Americas sole purpose was to handle the licensing of Taitos video games to American third party publishers. It wasnt until the late 1970s that Taito America began to self-publish Taitos video games in North America, initially based in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, Taito America relocated to nearby Wheeling in 1985. In April 1986 and barely a month after becoming part of the Kyocera group, Japan Vending Machine was once an independent company but was purchased by Taito in July 1971 to strengthening its presence in the operation of amusement facilities. Pacific Industrial was created by Taito itself in 1963 to develop products for the company, in May 1988, Taito Software, the division of Taito America responsible for non-arcade operations, opened its own office in North Vancouver, British Columbia. However, by early 1991, the Vancouver location had completely shut down, Taito America ceased operations in July 1996 after more than 20 years of existence. Taito had already sold exclusive rights for publishing its games in America to Acclaim Entertainment several months before, similarly, a division existed in London, England in the United Kingdom to distribute Taito games in Europe. Taito Corporation Limited was created in 1988 and liquidated in February 1998, Taito has many well known arcade video games. Space Invaders is probably the most notable, but games such as Speed Race, Gun Fight, Qix, Jungle Hunt, Elevator Action, Buggy Challenge, Bubble Bobble, Takeshi no Chōsenjō, Chase H. Q. Puzznic, Kick Master, Gun Buster and Puzzle Bobble are all part of Taitos library, Taito also had a license from Hanna-Barbera to produce games based on its animated series
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Majesco Entertainment
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Majesco Entertainment Company is a former American video game publisher and distributor founded in 1986, headquartered in Edison, New Jersey, United States. In December 2016, the merged with PolarityTE, a biotech firm. Majesco was first known as a reissuer of old titles that had abandoned by their original publisher. By cutting the prices and eventually arranging the rights to games for both Nintendo and Sega systems, the company found a sustainable market niche. Later, Majesco arranged with Sega to manufacture a version of its Genesis 16-bit console and it released this in 1998 as the Genesis 3 and followed up with a version of the handheld Game Gear called the Game Gear Core System. The companys focus shifted to in-house game development, initially under the brand Pipe-Dream Interactive since few believed they could make the transition successfully, Majesco focused on developing for then-current generation systems, such as Nintendos GameCube and Game Boy Advance, Microsofts Xbox, and Sonys PlayStation 2. A few of the titles it released, involving popular characters, included a few Bomberman titles for the Gamecube, Majesco also published PC games with Terminal Reality as the developer, such as BloodRayne and BloodRayne 2. In 2003, Majesco was slated to publish Black9, but producers forced the developers, Taldren and its best-selling titles in the last few years have been the series of GBA Videos for the Game Boy Advance. It also published the game Jaws Unleashed, Majescos president, Jesse Sutton, said that in the future the company would focus primarily on publishing value and handheld video games. Since that announcement, the company has followed through with publishing successful budget titles in North America like Cooking Mama for the DS, on September 14,2006, Majesco released Advent Rising and re-released BloodRayne and BloodRayne 2 on Steam. On November 6,2007, Majesco announced the opening of a new development facility in the Los Angeles area dedicated to the development of game products. On December 10,2007, Majesco announced that they would be publishing a game, Major Minors Majestic March. Majesco has announced that it will be launching a version of Bananagrams on August 18,2008 that will be available on Facebook. On November 4,2009, Majesco released BloodRayne and BloodRayne 2 on GOG. com, on June 6,2011, Majesco announced that it was acquiring the assets of social game developer Quick Hit and Quick Hit Football to build out its social gaming strategy. After a disastrous year of 2013, the company was expected to enjoy a recovering growth in 2014. In August 2015, Majesco announced that they had appointed a new CEO, the companys focus also shifted to develop mobile and downloadable titles. Two new titles, Glue and a new installment in the A Boy, in December 2016, Majesco announced it was ceasing operations in the entertainment industry, and merged with biotech firm PolarityTE. Polarity will obtain Majescos NASDAQ symbol name, COOL, radica Games Jakks Pacific Official website Majesco Entertainment profile on MobyGames Majesco Games at the Wayback Machine
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North America
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North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere. It can also be considered a subcontinent of the Americas. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the west and south by the Pacific Ocean, and to the southeast by South America and the Caribbean Sea. North America covers an area of about 24,709,000 square kilometers, about 16. 5% of the land area. North America is the third largest continent by area, following Asia and Africa, and the fourth by population after Asia, Africa, and Europe. In 2013, its population was estimated at nearly 565 million people in 23 independent states, or about 7. 5% of the worlds population, North America was reached by its first human populations during the last glacial period, via crossing the Bering land bridge. The so-called Paleo-Indian period is taken to have lasted until about 10,000 years ago, the Classic stage spans roughly the 6th to 13th centuries. The Pre-Columbian era ended with the migrations and the arrival of European settlers during the Age of Discovery. Present-day cultural and ethnic patterns reflect different kind of interactions between European colonists, indigenous peoples, African slaves and their descendants, European influences are strongest in the northern parts of the continent while indigenous and African influences are relatively stronger in the south. Because of the history of colonialism, most North Americans speak English, Spanish or French, the Americas are usually accepted as having been named after the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci by the German cartographers Martin Waldseemüller and Matthias Ringmann. Vespucci, who explored South America between 1497 and 1502, was the first European to suggest that the Americas were not the East Indies, but a different landmass previously unknown by Europeans. In 1507, Waldseemüller produced a map, in which he placed the word America on the continent of South America. He explained the rationale for the name in the accompanying book Cosmographiae Introductio, for Waldseemüller, no one should object to the naming of the land after its discoverer. He used the Latinized version of Vespuccis name, but in its feminine form America, following the examples of Europa, Asia and Africa. Later, other mapmakers extended the name America to the continent, In 1538. Some argue that the convention is to use the surname for naming discoveries except in the case of royalty, a minutely explored belief that has been advanced is that America was named for a Spanish sailor bearing the ancient Visigothic name of Amairick. Another is that the name is rooted in a Native American language, the term North America maintains various definitions in accordance with location and context. In Canadian English, North America may be used to refer to the United States, alternatively, usage sometimes includes Greenland and Mexico, as well as offshore islands
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Europe
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Europe is a continent that comprises the westernmost part of Eurasia. Europe is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, yet the non-oceanic borders of Europe—a concept dating back to classical antiquity—are arbitrary. Europe covers about 10,180,000 square kilometres, or 2% of the Earths surface, politically, Europe is divided into about fifty sovereign states of which the Russian Federation is the largest and most populous, spanning 39% of the continent and comprising 15% of its population. Europe had a population of about 740 million as of 2015. Further from the sea, seasonal differences are more noticeable than close to the coast, Europe, in particular ancient Greece, was the birthplace of Western civilization. The fall of the Western Roman Empire, during the period, marked the end of ancient history. Renaissance humanism, exploration, art, and science led to the modern era, from the Age of Discovery onwards, Europe played a predominant role in global affairs. Between the 16th and 20th centuries, European powers controlled at times the Americas, most of Africa, Oceania. The Industrial Revolution, which began in Great Britain at the end of the 18th century, gave rise to economic, cultural, and social change in Western Europe. During the Cold War, Europe was divided along the Iron Curtain between NATO in the west and the Warsaw Pact in the east, until the revolutions of 1989 and fall of the Berlin Wall. In 1955, the Council of Europe was formed following a speech by Sir Winston Churchill and it includes all states except for Belarus, Kazakhstan and Vatican City. Further European integration by some states led to the formation of the European Union, the EU originated in Western Europe but has been expanding eastward since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. The European Anthem is Ode to Joy and states celebrate peace, in classical Greek mythology, Europa is the name of either a Phoenician princess or of a queen of Crete. The name contains the elements εὐρύς, wide, broad and ὤψ eye, broad has been an epithet of Earth herself in the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European religion and the poetry devoted to it. For the second part also the divine attributes of grey-eyed Athena or ox-eyed Hera. The same naming motive according to cartographic convention appears in Greek Ανατολή, Martin Litchfield West stated that phonologically, the match between Europas name and any form of the Semitic word is very poor. Next to these there is also a Proto-Indo-European root *h1regʷos, meaning darkness. Most major world languages use words derived from Eurṓpē or Europa to refer to the continent, in some Turkic languages the originally Persian name Frangistan is used casually in referring to much of Europe, besides official names such as Avrupa or Evropa
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505 Games
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505 Games Ltd. is a global publisher of video games founded in 2006, and is a subsidiary of Italian company Digital Bros. The company publishes games globally for leading platforms along with console and handheld systems from Sony, Nintendo,505 Games headquarters is located in the city of Milan, Italy. The company also maintains divisions in Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, Los Angeles, United States, Lyon, France, Munich, Germany, Madrid, Spain and a network of distribution partners. The company transitioned from being an Italian games distributor to a games publisher, offering a broad selection of titles for players of all ages. In March 2015, Digital Bros, through subsidiary 505 Games, the company found its early success through its video games Cooking Mama and Zumba Fitness. In April 2015,505 Games was awarded the title of Best Indie Games Label at the MCV Awards, in April 2012,505 Games took over publishing duties from THQ for the fitness game Adidas MiCoach, following a lawsuit between THQ and Adidas. In April 2013, they acquired the license of Drawn To Life series, the purchase includes rights to the franchise as a whole. In April 2014,505 Games announced an agreement with Adam Orths Three One Zero of the game Adrift. The game is described as an experience, where the player controls an astronaut exploring debris of a wrecked station in outer space. In January 2015,505 Games confirmed the acquisition of the property rights to the multi-award-winning Game of the Year 2013, Brothers. A month later,505 Games announced an agreement with game developer Overkill Software for the game Payday 2 Crimewave Edition. In August 2016,505 Games announced it would be publishing Virginia from Variable State, in January 2016,505 Games announced that they will shift their focus from publishing games for other developers to developing their own intellectual properties. In October 2016,505 Games has announced through Koji Igarashi, their collaboration in publishing Bloodstained, Ritual of the Night from Inti Creates
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Puzzle Bobble
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Puzzle Bobble, also known as Bust-a-Move in North America, is a 1994 tile-matching arcade puzzle video game for one or two players created by Taito Corporation. It is based on Taitos popular 1986 arcade game Bubble Bobble, featuring characters, two different versions of the original game were released. Puzzle Bobble was originally released in Japan only in June 1994 by Taito Corporation, then,6 months later in December, the international Neo Geo version of Puzzle Bobble was released. It was almost identical aside from being in stereo and having some different sound effects, when set to the US region, the Neo Geo version displays the alternative title Bust a Move and features anti-drugs and anti-littering messages in the title sequence. The Bust-a-Move title was used for all subsequent games in the series in the United States and Canada, at the start of each round, the rectangular playing arena contains a prearranged pattern of coloured bubbles. At the bottom of the screen, the controls a device called a pointer. The colour of bubbles fired is randomly generated and chosen from the colors of bubbles still left on the screen, the fired bubbles travel in straight lines, stopping when they touch other bubbles or reach the top of the arena. If a bubble touches identically-colored bubbles, forming a group of three or more, those bubbles—as well as any bubbles hanging from them—are removed from the field of play, and points are awarded. After every few shots, the ceiling of the playing arena drops downwards slightly, the number of shots between each drop of the ceiling is influenced by the number of bubble colors remaining. The closer the bubbles get to the bottom of the screen, the objective of the game is to clear all the bubbles from the arena without any bubble crossing the bottom line. Bubbles will fire automatically if the player remains idle, after clearing the arena, the next round begins with a new pattern of bubbles to clear. The game consists of 32 levels, as with many popular arcade games, experienced players become much more interested in the secondary challenge of obtaining a high score. Puzzle Bobble caters to this interest very well, featuring an exponential scoring system which allows extremely high scores to be achieved, popped bubbles are worth 10 points each. However, dropped bubbles, are far more, one dropped bubble scores 20 points. This figure continues doubling for each bubble dropped, up to 17 or more bubbles which scores 1,310,720 points and it is possible to achieve this maximum on most rounds, resulting in a potential total score of 30 million and beyond. Bonus points are awarded for completing a round quickly. The maximum 50, 000-point bonus is awarded for clearing a round in 5 seconds or less, there are no rounds in the two player game. Both players have an arena each and an arrangement of colored bubbles in each arena
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Computing platform
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Computing platform means in general sense, where any piece of software is executed. It may be the hardware or the system, even a web browser or other application. The term computing platform can refer to different abstraction levels, including a hardware architecture, an operating system. In total it can be said to be the stage on which programs can run. For example, an OS may be a platform that abstracts the underlying differences in hardware, platforms may also include, Hardware alone, in the case of small embedded systems. Embedded systems can access hardware directly, without an OS, this is referred to as running on bare metal, a browser in the case of web-based software. The browser itself runs on a platform, but this is not relevant to software running within the browser. An application, such as a spreadsheet or word processor, which hosts software written in a scripting language. This can be extended to writing fully-fledged applications with the Microsoft Office suite as a platform, software frameworks that provide ready-made functionality. Cloud computing and Platform as a Service, the social networking sites Twitter and facebook are also considered development platforms. A virtual machine such as the Java virtual machine, applications are compiled into a format similar to machine code, known as bytecode, which is then executed by the VM. A virtualized version of a system, including virtualized hardware, OS, software. These allow, for instance, a typical Windows program to run on what is physically a Mac, some architectures have multiple layers, with each layer acting as a platform to the one above it. In general, a component only has to be adapted to the layer immediately beneath it, however, the JVM, the layer beneath the application, does have to be built separately for each OS
