KOEI Co., Ltd.
Also Known As +
- Koei Micom System (from 1978 to 1983)
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KOEI Co., Ltd. was first established on July 25, 1978 at Imafuku-cho, Ashikaga City. For the next two years they commenced PC sales and development of special-order business software.
KOEI maintains operations in Japan, the U.S., Canada, China, Korea and Taiwan. The company employs over five hundred people worldwide, with the a total capital of 8,977,000,000 Yen (as of Mar. 2001).
Their first major success was when they published Nobunaga no Yabō in March 1983, which in the following years won many national and international awards.
KOEI is best known for their games in the grand strategy genre, most notably the Historical Simulation games which include, among others, the long-running Romance of the Three Kingdoms series. However, they also produced Japan's earliest games with role-playing elements, such as Dragon and Princess (1982), Khufu-Ō no Himitsu and Ken to Mahō (1983). In 1982 KOEI also released the first eroge Night Life, followed by a few other adult games in different genres.
248 Games Released (1981 - 2012)
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History +
- October 1984
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Headquarters moved to Hiyoshi-Honcho, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama City, Japan.
- September 1983
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Company business is reorientated from sales of chemicals to full-time software development.
- October 1981
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The company starts development and sales of entertainment software.
- December 1980
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The company starts selling computers and business software.
- July 25th, 1978
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KOEI established in Imafuku-cho, Ashikaga City, Japan.
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Trivia +
Koei's company name is an anagram of "Keio University", the school where the founders had studied together.
Related Web Sites +
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KOEI Co., Ltd.
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Frequent Collaborators
- 46 games with KOEI Corporation
- 34 games with Koei Tecmo Games Co., Ltd.
- 29 games with Omega Force
- 21 games with SourceNext Corporation
- 16 games with Valve Corporation
- 15 games with Koei Tecmo Taiwan Co., Ltd.
- 14 games with Acer TWP Corp
- 10 games with Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC
- 10 games with Acer Third Wave Software (Beijing) Co., Ltd
- 9 games with Tecmo Koei Korea Corporation
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