Editing Data East (section)

{{short description|Japanese video game and electronics company}}
{{Infobox company
|name = Data East Corporation
|native_name = データイースト株式会社
|native_name_lang = ja
|romanized_name = Dēta Īsuto kabushiki gaisha
|logo = Data East Logo clean.svg
|type = [[Privately held company|Private]] [[Kabushiki gaisha|KK]]
|fate = [[Bankruptcy]]
|founder = Tetsuo Fukuda
|foundation = April 20, 1976: 48 years ago<ref name="Company profile">{{cite web|url=http://www.dataeast-corp.co.jp/company/gaiyo.htm |title=会社概要 |author=Data East Corporation |date=15 April 2001 |work=archive.org |access-date=23 February 2017 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010415120713/http://www.dataeast-corp.co.jp/company/gaiyo.htm |archive-date=15 April 2001 }}</ref>
|defunct = June 25, 2003: 21 years ago
|location = [[Suginami]], [[Tokyo]], [[Japan]]
|industry = [[Video game]]s, [[engineering]]
|num_employees = 
|key_people = 
|products = [[List of games released by Data East]]
|equity = {{yen|282.5 million}} (April 2001)<ref name="Company profile"/>
|equity_year = 
|subsid = Data East USA, inc.<br />Data East Pinball inc.
|successor = [[G-Mode]]
|homepage = [https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.dataeast-corp.co.jp/index_e.html dataeast-corp.co.jp/index_e.html]
}}

{{nihongo|'''Data East Corporation'''|データイースト株式会社|Dēta Īsuto kabushiki gaisha}}, also abbreviated as '''DECO''', was a [[Japanese video game]], [[pinball]] and [[electronic engineering]] company. The company was in operation from 1976 to 2003, and released 150 video game titles.<ref name="Company overview">{{cite web |author=Data East Corporation |date=10 January 2001 |title=開発部ホームページ |url=http://www.dataeast-corp.co.jp/dev/devinfo.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010110182700/http://www.dataeast-corp.co.jp/dev/devinfo.htm |archive-date=10 January 2001 |access-date=23 February 2017 |work=Archive.org}}</ref> At one time, the company had annual sales of 20 billion yen in the United States alone but eventually went bankrupt.<ref name="March 30, 2017"/> The American subsidiary, Data East USA, was headquartered in [[San Jose, California]].<ref>Compute, Volume 12, Issues 1-5. Small System Services, 1990. [https://books.google.com/books?id=R5QoAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Data+East+USA%22&dq=%22Data+East+USA%22&cd=1 52]. Retrieved from [[Google Books]] on May 17, 2010.</ref><!-- different cities of the [[Silicon Valley]] throughout the time.--> Its main headquarters were located in [[Suginami]], [[Tokyo]].<ref>"[https://web.archive.org/web/20021208065722/http://www.dataeast-corp.co.jp/company/index.htm データイースト]." Data East. December 8, 2002. Retrieved on October 20, 2009.</ref>

The majority of Data East's video games, its trademark and logo, are owned today by the mobile gaming company [[G-Mode]], a subsidiary of [[Marvelous (company)|Marvelous]]. A small number of Data East video games are owned by other companies, notably [[Paon DP]].