Nichibutsu

Nihon Bussan Co., Ltd.日本物産株式会社
Logo.
Origin	Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan
Years	1970-2015
Consoles	Arcade games
First game	Table Attacker (hack of Breakout, unlicensed)
Last game	Koisuru Cosplay Akihabara
Aliases	SPHINX
Related companies	WOOD PLACE, MAKE SOFTWARE, T-System YUBIS, TAITO SHOJI, MIKI SHOJI

Nichibutsu Building (1979)

President and CEO. Sueharu Torii
He founded a company at the age of 23.

Nichibutsu (日物), also known as Nihon Bussan Co., Ltd.(日本物産株式会社), was a Japanese developer and publisher of unlicensed games for early arcade games.

The activity started in 1970. In the latter half of 1970, Konami's Piccadilly Circus copy game, Piccadilly Circuit, was released, and in 1978, Atari's Breakout copy game, Taito's Space Invaders copy game, Moon Base, and Namco's Galaxian. Released a copy game of Moon Alien, which became a litigation issue,as well as using copyrighted characters on their game advertisements without permission by the original companies.

Games

Moon Base (1978)

Moon Alien (1979)

Panic Stadium (1990)

Medal games

1. Piccadilly Circuit (hack of Piccadilly Circus, unlicensed)

Arcade games

1. Table Attacker (hack of Breakout, unlicensed)
2. Table Attacker Guard (hack of Breakout, unlicensed)
3. Table Attacker Special (hack of Breakout, unlicensed)
4. Table Attacker Black (hack of Breakout, unlicensed)
5. Attacker Ace (hack of Breakout, unlicensed)
6. Table Bonpa (hack of Circus, unlicensed)
7. Bonpa (hack of Circus, unlicensed)
8. Moon Base (hack of Space Invaders, unlicensed)
9. Moon Base Spector (hack of Space Invaders Color version, unlicensed)
10. Moon Base Zeta (hack of Space Invaders Part2, unlicensed)
11. Moon Alien (hack of Galaxian, unlicensed)
12. Moon Cresta (hack of Galaxian, original game)
13. Crazy Climber (original game, Sounds used is unlicensed)
14. Crazy Climber2 (original game)
15. Mag Max (original game)
16. Cosmo Police Galivan (original game)
17. THE LADY HUNTER (original game)
18. Mahjong Hitman (original game)
19. Panic Stadium (original game)
20. Sailor Wars (original game, Sounds used is unlicensed)
21. Deadheat Road (original game)

Gallery

Nichibutsu producing unauthorized Space Invaders units.

Nichibutsu's official Amusement arcade, which uses Taito's Space Invaders characters in the signboard advertisement of the store without permission.

Moon Base copies Taito's Space Invaders, and the poster design uses Star Wars' Darth Vader without permission.

THE LADY HUNTER has Batman appear in the game content and posters without permission.

Cosmo Police Galivan has in-game the Japanese tokusatsu shows Space Sheriff Gavan and Space Sheriff Sharivan without permission.

UFO Robo Dangar has in-game the Japanese Animation UFO Robo Grendizer without permission.

Mahjong Hitman uses many Japanese anime characters without permission, such as Nausicaa from Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.

Sailor Wars uses Sailor Moon characters without permission.

Nichibutsu did not stop plagiarism until he withdrew from the game business. As an example, Nichibutsu's Deadheat Road uses Taito's Dangerous Curves design.

External link

• Official Japanese website (Wayback Machine)
• Tits and Tiles: The NSFW History of Strip Mahjong (superjumpmagazine.com) - There is a company commentary on Nichibutsu

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