Kaneko Co Ltd.

Kaneko Seisakusho Co. LTD is a Japanese Video Game company that was formed in June 25th, 1980 by Hiroshi Kaneko. This company formely develops mainly Consumer and Arcade games. In 2000, Kaneko exited from the gaming business with their recent game, Gals Panic S3 on the Super Kaneko Nova System. However, sometime in 2016 they returned as a gaming distribution business. Two years later the website was shut down for unknown reasons and it's entirely unknown what the company has been doing for a while.

Video Game Development
Kaneko has developed a wide array of games in genres, such as shoot'em ups, beat'em ups, platformers, and grid capture games. Their heavily notable for their erotic Gals Panic series, which has become one of their most successful franchises. While they did made mostly grid capture games, Air Buster and DJ Boy are some known games they created and was well-received alike. Other ones include Fujiyama Buster, Nexzr, The Berlin Wall, Cyvern, and Red Clash (the first game they made). Kaneko also made games for and by other company IP's. Hudson published Super Star Soldier and Star Parodia which were developed by Inter-State. Besides original content, they also did various games based on other forms of media, such as Chester Cheetah, Fido Dido, Socks The Cat, Jackie Chan, and 1000 Miglia. Since 2002, Kaneko hasn't created any games for nearly two decades.

Franchises

 * Unofficial Names - *

Affliates
For subsidiaries, see above.

Information (1997)
Note that this was archived on June 17th, 1997 and was translated into english.

Headquarters: Mitaka City, Tokyo, 3-34-4

Capital: 400 Million / 80,500,000 Yen

Established: June 25th 1980

Director: Hiroshi Kaneko

Number Of Employees: 80

Business Offices: Mitaka City (Japan), Chicago (US), United Kingdom (Europe)

Affliates: Electro Design Co Ltd. / Interstate Co Ltd.

Known Works:


 * Gals Panic
 * DJ Boy
 * Oedo Fight
 * PC Genjin AC Version
 * The Kung Fu Master Jackie Chan
 * Zen-Nihon GT Senshuken

Main Customers:


 * Sega
 * Namco
 * Taito
 * Banpresto
 * NEC
 * Nintendo
 * Sony
 * Hudson & Others

Other Languages

 * Japanese: カネコ
 * Japanese (Alt): Kaneko Seisakusho
 * Korean: 카네코

Sources:

 * Kaneko Company Information (1997)