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 |
- Not to be confused with the developer Data West.
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 Tsuyoshi Kitazawa, according to the Bump 'n Jump game's hidden credit.
Their earlier games use a sound driver by Tatsuo Yamaguchi and others using a sound driver by Michiya Hirasawa.
GEN
Composers created MIDI files which were converted to Hiroyasu Fujimaru's sound driver.
NES
A custom sound driver was made by someone with the surname Ogoshi. Music was entered in assembly on an MSX computer and then assembled onto the Famicom for playback. Takafumi Miura only did sound effects, and Shogo Sakai took the other composers' songs and arranged them into the driver.
SNES
The Data East Sound Team created MIDI files in different sequencers which were converted to Seiji Yamanaka's sound driver, which was a modified Nintendo Kankichi-kun 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
- K. Suzuki (employee of actual contractor Musical Plan)
- Kenichi Mori
- Masa Yoshihara
- Masaaki Iwasaki
- Mihoko Ando
- ??? Ogoshi
- Seiichi Hamada
- Seiji Momoi
- Seiji Yamanaka
- Shinichi Kamizono
- Shogo Sakai
- Shuji Segawa
- Taihei Sato
- Takafumi Miura
- Taketoshi Hasegawa
- Tatsuo Yamaguchi
- Tatsuya Kiuchi
- Tomoyoshi Sato
- Tsuyoshi Kitazawa
- Yuji Suzuki
- Yusuke Takahama
Links
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_East - Wikipedia.
