Data East
| Data East Corporation | |
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| Founded | April 20, 1976 |
| Closed | 2003 |
| Headquarters | Suginami, Japan |
| Other Names | Data East USA, DECO, Data East Corporation |
Data East Corporation (データイースト株式会社) was a Japanese video game development company founded by Tetsuo Fukuda in 1976. The company developed games for a wide variety of platforms. The company made a couple devices for their arcade machines so arcade owners wouldn't have to buy a whole new arcade, but they had lots of technical problems. Sometimes, they went by the name DECO (Data East COrporation). In 2003, Data East filed for bankruptcy.
Games
Music Development
ARC
The composers used music programs such as Cubase and Logic, which was then converted to the arcade machine with their own conversion utility. Their sound driver was created by someone named T. Kitazawa, according to the Bump 'n Jump game's hidden credit.
GEN
Composers created MIDI files which were converted to Hiroyasu Fujimaru's sound driver.
NES
The composers programmed their music in hexadecimal on an MSX computer. The Data East Famicom sound driver was created by someone with the last name Ogoshi.
SNES
The Data East Sound Team created MIDI files in different sequencers which were converted to Seiji Yamanaka's sound driver.
Audio Personnel
The following composers worked at Data East:
- Akira Takemoto
- Arma
- Azusa Hara
- Chongue
- Emi Shimizu
- Hiroaki Yoshida
- Hiromichi Nakamoto
- Hiroyasu Fujimaru
- Hitomi Komatsu
- Junichi Uchida
- ??? Kobayashi
- Kenichi Mori
- Masaaki Iwasaki
- Mihoko Ando
- ??? Ogoshi
- Seiichi Hamada
- Seiji Momoi
- Seiji Yamanaka
- Shinichi Kamizono
- Shogo Sakai
- Shuji Segawa
- Taihei Sato
- Takafumi Miura
- Taketoshi Hasegawa (-K-)
- Tatsuya Kiuchi
- Tomoyoshi Sato
- Yuji Suzuki
- Yusuke Takahama
Links
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_East - Wikipedia.
