Video System

Video System
Founded	1984-12-??
Closed	ca. 2006
Headquarters	Sakyo-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Other Names	V-System

Video System (ビデオシステム株式会社) was a Japanese game development studio. The company was formed from Visco staff.

The company started off developing arcade games, many of which were mahjong games with adult themes. Their first game was the adult mahjong game Lingerie House. The company eventually stopped producing them for various business and moral reasons, and the company branched out into other games than just mahjong. In 1989, the company started producing games for home consoles, and produced their best known series such as Aero Fighters and F-1 Grand Prix. They are also known for their Volleyball and Mahjong games.

For a short time, Video System had an American subsidiary called Mc O'River, but it was shut down a couple years later just after publishing a few games.

In the 2000s, the company had started to fade into obscurity, not releasing many games, and some even wondered if the company still existed. On March 14, 2018, Hamster Development had announced that it had acquired Video System's properties.

Games

• Games developed by Video System.
• Games published by Video System.

Audio Development

ARC

An arcade sound driver was created primarily by Masami Yamana with assistance from Hiroe Soyama, according to numerous game credits.

Prior, the company had PSG sound drivers, and a driver that used the YM2413. The latter was used in most of their mahjong titles.

SNES

The company had a few different sound drivers all based on Nintendo's Kankichi-kun. It is unknown who programmed the first version, but the second version was by Masami Yamane, and the third was by two people by the aliases of Hira and Dave.

The composers used a custom Music Macro Language on a Sony NEWS computer. They would sometimes sketch the music in Zmusic.

Audio Personnel

• Akira Suda
• E. Murakami - Credited in the North American version of Rabbit Punch (ARC).
• Hiroe Soyama - Sound programmer; 1994-1997.
• Hiroyuki Itou - Composer; 1993-1997.
• Kenji Okuda - Composer and sound designer; 1987-1991.
• Koji Shiina - Compose; 1996-1998.
• Masaki Izutani?
• Masami Yamana - Sound programmer; 1993-1997.
• Masato Arikawa - Sound designer; 1990-1992.
• Naoki Itamura - Lead composer; 1989-1998.
• Norie Aoki - Composer; 1993-1997.
• Soshi Hosoi - Composer; 1992-1996.
• Tetsuya Oguri - Contractor, sound programmer.
• Yasutoshi Ishida

Image Gallery

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  Logo in Mahjong Natsu Monogatari (ARC).

Links

• https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ビデオシステム - Wikipedia (Japanese).