Fujisankei Communications International
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United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
arm of the Fujisankei Communications Group
Fujisankei Communications Group
, abbreviated FCG, is a keiretsu in Japan. This media conglomerate was founded by Nobutaka Shikanai. In 1991, it was the fourth-largest media company in the world and the largest one in Japan. In the same year, the company's yearly revenue was $5 billion....
(FCG), an important Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
ese media conglomerate of television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
and radio
Radio
Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...
channels, magazine
Magazine
Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...
, newspaper
Newspaper
A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...
, record
Gramophone record
A gramophone record, commonly known as a phonograph record , vinyl record , or colloquially, a record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove...
and video game companies. The Fujisankei Communications Group owns about 100 companies, like Fuji TV
Fuji Television
is a Japanese television station based in Daiba, Minato, Tokyo, Japan, also known as or CX, based on the station's callsign "JOCX-DTV". It is the flagship station of the Fuji News Network and the ....
in Japan, among others. Founded in 1986 in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
, FCI makes productions from FCG available to the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
and the rest of the western world
Western world
The Western world, also known as the West and the Occident , is a term referring to the countries of Western Europe , the countries of the Americas, as well all countries of Northern and Central Europe, Australia and New Zealand...
.
FCI is well-known for bringing in the past, in North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
, video games that were released in Japan by Pony Canyon
Pony Canyon
is a Japanese company, established on October 1, 1966 , which publishes music, DVD and VHS videos, movies and video games. It is a subsidiary of Japanese Media Group, Fujisankei Communications Group.-History:...
, another company from the Fujisankei Communications Group. In the late 1990s, FCI abandoned video game distribution to concentrate on television operations. It has contracts with television stations in New York City, Hawaii
Hawaii
Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of...
and California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
to air programming segments.
Since 1999, Fuji TV, through FCI, has forbidden foreign TV stations from subtitling
Subtitle (captioning)
Subtitles are textual versions of the dialog in films and television programs, usually displayed at the bottom of the screen. They can either be a form of written translation of a dialog in a foreign language, or a written rendering of the dialog in the same language, with or without added...
its drama
Japanese television drama
, also called , are a staple of Japanese television and are broadcast daily. All major TV networks in Japan produce a variety of drama series including murder romance, comedy, detective stories, horror, and many others...
s, a practice that is criticized and has alienated some fans of the genre.
The company continues to be based in Manhattan
Manhattan
Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...
, but has since moved from its original offices to its current location around 1988–1989. FCI also has secondary offices in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
and Egypt
Egypt
Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
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Published games
- Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: DragonStrikeDragonStrike (computer game)DragonStrike is a 1990 computer game based on the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.-Gameplay:The game is set in Krynn, world of the Dragonlance saga, during the War of the Lance. DragonStrike combines elements of computer role-playing games and flight simulators...
- Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes of the Lance
- Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Pool of Radiance
- Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Hillsfar
- BoxxleBoxxleBoxxle is a puzzle video game for the original Game Boy released by Fujisankei Communications International. The game is a Sokoban clone, with the plot being that the player must manoeuvre boxes in a warehouse in order to make enough money to woo his desired girlfriend. It had a sequel called...
- Boxxle 2
- Dr. ChaosDr. ChaosDr. Chaos is an action-adventure game originally released in Japan for the Family Computer Disk System in by Pony Inc. An English localization was produced for the Nintendo Entertainment System that was released in North America by FCI in ....
- Eye of the BeholderEye of the Beholder (computer game)Eye of the Beholder is a role-playing video game for computers and video game consoles developed by Westwood Studios. It was published by Strategic Simulations, Inc. in 1990 for the DOS operating system and later ported to the Amiga, the Sega CD, and the SNES...
- Hillsfar
- HydlideHydlideis a action role-playing video game developed and published by T&E Soft. It was originally released for the NEC PC-6001 and NEC PC-8801 computer in 1984, in Japan only; an MSX release came the following year...
- Lunar PoolLunar PoolLunar Pool is a rough simulation of pool combined with aspects of miniature golf, created by Compile for the Nintendo Entertainment System, in which each stage is a differently shaped pool table. The object is to knock each ball into a pocket using a cue ball...
- Metal MorphMetal MorphMetal Morph is a video game developed by Origin Systems and published by FCI, Inc. for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.-Story:In the year 2214, Earth has made contact with another dimension, known as Otherside. As their ambassador, they choose to send the Metal Morph, a being made from...
- MagmaxMagMaxMagMax is an arcade game which was developed by Nihon Bussan, and published by FCI. The game was released in Japan on March 18, 1986, and in the United States in October, 1988...
(port of the arcade game by Nichibutsu) - Out of GasOut of Gas (game)-Summary:In this video game, the player's spaceship is out of gas and needs to stop on certain tiles in order to refuel so that the astronauts can go home. Shooting signs in a certain order is sometimes required to clear a level...
- Panel Action BingoPanel Action BingoPanel Action Bingo is a Game Boy action/adventure video game where the player controls a bird. It was released in 1993 to an exclusively North American market.-Summary:...
- Phantom FighterPhantom Fighteris a video game released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1989 in Japan, and in April 1990 in the United States. The Japanese version is based on the 1985 film, Mr. Vampire . As a kung-fu master, the player must fight through eight towns filled with Kyonshi...
- SeicrossSeicrossSeicross, known in Japan as , is an arcade game developed and released in Japan and North America by Nichibutsu. Despite the original arcade being titled Sector Zone, Nichibutsu later ported it to the Famicom as...
(port of the arcade game by Nichibutsu) - SimEarth: The Living PlanetSimEarthSimEarth: The Living Planet, the second life simulation computer game designed by Will Wright in which the player controls the development of a planet. The game was published in 1990 by Maxis...
- Tales of the Unknown, Volume I: The Bard's TaleBard's Tale (1985)The Bard's Tale is a fantasy role-playing video game created by Interplay Productions in and distributed by Electronic Arts...
- Ultima: Runes of Virtue
- Ultima: Runes of Virtue 2
- Ultima III: ExodusUltima IIIUltima III: Exodus is the third game in the Ultima series. Exodus is also the name of the game's principal antagonist. Released in 1983, it was the first Ultima game published by Origin Systems.-Gameplay:...
- Ultima IV: Quest of the AvatarUltima IVUltima IV: Quest of the Avatar, first released in 1985 for the Apple II, is the fourth in the series of Ultima computer role-playing games. It is the first in the "Age of Enlightenment" trilogy, shifting the series from the hack and slash, dungeon crawl gameplay of its "Age of Darkness"...
- Ultima V: Warriors of DestinyUltima VUltima V: Warriors of Destiny is the fifth entry in the computer role-playing game series Ultima.-Plot:After having mastered the eight Virtues, attaining Avatarhood and retrieving the Codex of Ultimate Wisdom in the previous game, the player is summoned back to Britannia by his old comrades Iolo...
- Ultima VI: The False ProphetUltima VIUltima VI: The False Prophet, released by Origin Systems in 1990, is the sixth part in the computer role-playing game series of Ultima. It was the last in the "Age of Enlightenment" trilogy....
- Ultima VII: The Black GateUltima VIIUltima VII: The Black Gate is the seventh installment of the Ultima series of computer role-playing games. It was released in 1992.The Black Gate was critically and commercially successful, being widely lauded as a high point in the series and as one of the best isometric RPGs ever created...
- WCW Super Brawl Wrestling
- WCW: The Main Event
- WCW WrestlingWCW WrestlingWCW Wrestling is a wrestling video game that was released in March 1990 for the Nintendo Entertainment System...
- Worlds of Ultima: The Savage EmpireThe Savage EmpireWorlds of Ultima: The Savage Empire is a computer RPG set in the Ultima series, published in 1990. It is considered a "Worlds of Ultima" game since it's not set in Britannia...
- ZanacZanacis an arcade-style shoot 'em up video game designed by Compile and published in Japan by Pony Canyon and in North America by FCI.It was released for the MSX computer, the Family Computer Disk System, the Nintendo Entertainment System, and for the Virtual Console. It was reworked for the MSX2...