Ikegami Tsushinki Co., Ltd.
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Ikegami Tsushinki Co., Ltd. is a leading manufacturer of video cameras and broadcasting equipment. They were involved with development of arcade game software and hardware in the late '70s and early '80s, producing a number of titles for Sega and Nintendo before leaving the industry. Most notably, the company was responsible for programming Nintendo's breakout hit Donkey Kong, as well as most other Nintendo arcade games produced up to that point. For Sega, they produced Zaxxon and Congo Bongo.
After the production of Donkey Kong, a drawn-out legal battle between Ikegami and Nintendo ensued over the copyright status of the game's source code; both companies claimed to own the code, and Ikegami accused Nintendo of illegally copying Donkey Kong game boards as well as reverse-engineering the game software during the production of Donkey Kong Jr. The matter was eventually settled out of court in 1990.
Credited on 2 Games from 1979 to 1981
| Donkey Kong (1981 on PC Booter, Game Boy Advance, NES...) |
| Space Fever (1979 on Arcade) |
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Companies- 2 games with Nintendo Co., Ltd.
- 1 game with Nintendo R&D1
- 1 game with Nintendo of America Inc.
- 1 game with HAMSTER Corporation
- 1 game with Nintendo Leisure System
- 1 game with Karateco
- 1 game with Stambouli Freres S.A.
- 2 games with Shigeru Miyamoto
- 1 game with Howard Phillips
- 1 game with Gunpei Yokoi
- 1 game with Hirokazu Tanaka
- 1 game with Don James
- 1 game with Minoru Arakawa
- 1 game with Hiroshi Yamauchi
- 1 game with Yukio Kaneoka
- 1 game with Masayuki Uemura
- 1 game with Yoko Arakawa
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