Jaleco
| Industry | Computer and video game industry |
|---|---|
| Founded | October 3, 1974 July 3, 2006 |
| Headquarters | Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141-0031 |
| Products | Video games localization and publishing |
| Website | http://www.jalecogames.co.jp/ |
Jaleco Ltd (株式会社ジャレコ Kabushiki Kaisha Jareko?) is the name of two different, but previously linked, Japanese video game companies that are now inactive and possibly defunct.
The original Jaleco Ltd was founded in 1974. In 2006, it decided to become a pure holding company by renaming itself Jaleco Holding and splitting its video game operations into a newly created subsidiary that took its former name of Jaleco Ltd. In 2009, Jaleco Holding sold Jaleco Ltd to Game Yarou and subsequently changed its own name to Emcom Holdings.
As a wholly owned subsidiary of Game Yarou, Jaleco Ltd operated independently and continued to trade under the Jaleco name until the bankruptcy of its parent company in 2014. Emcom Holdings quit the video game business in 2009, having branched out to other markets; it was delisted from the JASDAQ in 2013.
Jaleco was founded on October 3, 1974 as the Japan Leisure Co., Ltd. (株式会社ジャパンレジャー Kabushiki-gaisha Japan Rejā?), a manufacturer of amusement equipment; its headquarters was in Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan. In 1982, the company started developing and manufacturing arcade video games. That year, the company shortened its brand name to Jaleco and formally changed its name to Jaleco Ltd. in 1983.
Jaleco was a video game company whose focus lay in arcade titles, as well as titles for the NES and other popular computer and video game consoles of the 1980s and 1990s, most notably the Bases Loaded series and Carrier. The U.S. arm of Jaleco was Jaleco USA based near Chicago in the town of Wheeling, Illinois.
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