Kemco
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Template:Nihongo, from Kotobuki Engineering & Manufacturing Co., Ltd., is a Japanese video game developer and publisher established in 1984. It is headquartered in Kure, Hiroshima.<ref name="profile">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="ksol">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Its best known franchises are the Kid Klown and Top Gear series, the latter developed by Sheffield-based English developers Gremlin Graphics.<ref>Template:Cite press release</ref>
HistoryEdit
Kemco was founded in 1984 as Kotobuki System Co., Ltd. to be the video game subsidiary of the multifaceted corporation Kotobuki Engineering & Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (established in 1979).<ref name="interview">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="archives"/> The name represents the initial letters of Kotobuki Engineering Manufacturing Co.<ref name="interview"/>
Kemco started by developing video games for the Nintendo Entertainment System.<ref name="interview"/><ref name="archives">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Although technically called Kotobuki System until 2004, the company was already using the brand Kemco on its first game Dough Boy in 1985.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
From the late 1980s until the early 1990s, Kemco's video games were distributed in North America by Seika Corporation of Torrance, California, under the joint label of Kemco * Seika.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In the 1990s, Kemco developed, ported, and published video games for several platforms including the NES, Super NES, Nintendo 64, and Game Boy.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The company's first North American subsidiary, Kemco America, operated from October 2, 1991, to January 24, 2000.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In 2001, Kemco USA was founded as a wholly owned subsidiary of Kemco of Japan, especially targeting the American market.<ref name="archives"/>
In 2004, Kotobuki's system development division split to become the company Kotobuki Solution Co., Ltd., keeping the Kemco video game brand in the spin-off.<ref name="interview"/><ref name="ksol"/>
Since the 2010s, Kemco has been primarily known for its mobile games.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Kemco USA closed in 2007, but products continue to be released in North America through Kemco of Japan.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>