Ricoh

Ricoh Company, Ltd.
Founded	1936-02-06
Headquarters	Chuo, Tokyo, Japan
Website	ricoh.com
Other Names	Riken Sensitized Paper

Ricoh Company, Ltd. (株式会社リコー Kabushikigaisha Riko) is a multi-national electronics company from Japan. While Ricoh doesn't make music or video games, it has produced several microchips used by computer and video game console manufacturers to produce music and sound effects.

Ricoh worked with Nintendo from the early to mid-1980s and produced the primary CPU, video, and audio capabilities for the Famicom, Nintendo Entertainment System, Famicom Disk System, Vs. System, and PlayChoice-10. Near the end of 1980s, Ricoh produced a specialized audio chip used by Fujitsu for the FM Towns computer and Sega for their arcade boards.

Hardware

Sound Devices

Release	Chip	Popular Devices
1983-??-??	RP2A03	Famicom, Nintendo Entertainment System (NTSC), Vs. System, and PlayChoice-10
198?-??-??	RP2A07	Nintendo Entertainment System (PAL)
1986-??-??	RP2C33	Famicom Disk System
19??-??-??	RF5C68	FM Towns, System 18, System 32
????-??-??	RF5C154	?
????-??-??	RF5C164	Sega CD

Audio Personnel

The engineers who designed the audio chips should be listed here.

Links

• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricoh - Wikipedia.