Technos Japan Corp.
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株式会社テクノスジャパン |
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Kabushiki gaisha Tekunosu Japan |
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| Industry | Video games industry |
| Fate | Bankruptcy |
| Founded | December 1981 |
| Defunct | 1996 |
| Headquarters | Nakano, Tokyo, Japan |
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| Parent | Arc System Works |
Technōs Japan Corp. (株式会社テクノスジャパン Kabushiki gaisha Tekunosu Japan) was a Japanese video game developer, best known for the Double Dragon Franchises and Kunio-kun (which includes Renegade, Super Dodge Ball and River City Ransom). As of June 2015, Arc System Works owns the intellectual properties of Technōs Japan.
Initially operating from a single-room apartment, Technōs was founded in 1981 by three staff members of Data East. Their first game was Minky Monkey, released in 1982. A few months after their foundation, a lawsuit was brought up against the company by Data East under allegations that Technos had stolen data from Data East's arcade game Pro Tennis with the intent of producing and selling a bootleg of it. The two companies settled in August 1983 and Technos would go on to create two arcade games published by Data East, Tag Team Wrestling and Karate Champ. Technōs Japan's earlier games were published by other companies, as Technōs at the time did not have the economical resource to distribute their own games.
Nekketsu Kōha Kunio-kun ("Hot Blooded Tough Guy Kunio"), a side-scrolling beat-em-up released in 1986 about a high school student who fought thugs and delinquents from other schools, was the company's first big hit in Japan. Kunio-kun was released in the west as Renegade with the game's graphics changed to make the game marketable in the overseas market. Technōs would then produced an Nintendo Entertainment System version of the game, which would be Technōs' first game for the home console market. Technōs Japan's subsequent arcade beat-em-up, Double Dragon, was a big success worldwide when it was released in 1987, which also resulted in an NES version of the game produced, as well as licensed versions produced by other companies for various platforms.
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