data east filing for bankruptcy

http://www.gamespot.com/gba/action/metalmax2kai/news_6071057.html

According to Softbank Games, Data East Corporation has been declared
bankrupt by the district court of Tokyo. The declaration was made on June 25
and revealed to the public today. Data East has been in financial trouble
since 1999, when the company requested a settlement in the district court in
order to reorganize its finances because of a 3.3 billion yen ($28 million)
debt.

Data East was founded on April 20, 1976. The company is well known as a
software publisher and an electronics manufacturer. It has released a
variety of arcade machines, including one of the first cartridge-based
arcade game systems, the Deco Cassette System, which made its debut in 1980.
On the software side, Data East is known for a number of famous games such
as Bad Dudes, Karnov, the Metal Max series, and the Fighter's History
series. Its last known new release was Side Pocket for the WonderSwan in
November 1999.

 

No more Magical Drop... ;_;

 

Hmm old news

 

I'M BAAAD /versus/images/graemlins/mad.gif

 

Damn...I still have games from them on my Amiga 500, 2k, and 3k...Lets hope they are able to recover.

 

ONly Data East "game" I'm a proud owner of is a very un-finished (and un-interesting) Atmoic Runner Chelnov for the Saturn.

 

I got the mega drive version.....its very rare game ya no /versus/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

Data East had a few classic titles that still deserve love.

Karate Champ (One of the Godfathers of Fighting Games)(Dev: Data East/Pub: Data East)
Tag Team Wrestling (Dev: Technos/C64 Pub: Data East)
Karnov (Dev: Data East/Pub: Data East)
Magical Drop 1&2 (Dev: Data East/Pub: SNK)
Burgertime (Dev: Data East/Pub: Data East)
Mega Turrican (Dev: Factor 5/Pub: Data East)
Shadowrun (Dev: Beam/Pub: Data East)

Those are a few of the titles I will always love them for. I mentioned those because I remembered their affiliations with Data East, but since Fishie wants to be an ass as usual I updated with why they were associated in my mind with Data East.

Now blow me, ya monkeyboy gimp.

 

Some of those games arent even from Data East, Mega Turican for instance is Factor5.

Its like saying Sega is doing a bang up job with Otogi or Worms 3D.

 

Sega is doing worms 3d....thats old news /versus/images/graemlins/tongue.gif