, also known as UPL Co. Ltd and formally known as , was a video game production company headquartered in Oyama, Tochigi

Oyama, Tochigi

is a city in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan.As April 1, 2011, the city has an estimated population of 163,954, with 62,714 households, and a population density of 955.39 persons per km²...

, 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...

. It was founded as a subsidiary of Universal Entertainment

Aruze

, is a Japanese manufacturer of pachinko, slot machines, arcade games and other gaming products, and a publisher of video games. Aruze possesses licenses to both manufacture and distribute casino machines in the American states of Nevada, Mississippi and New Jersey. The company's corporate...

. Even none of the staff remember when exactly it was founded. In 1984, it was renamed as "UPL Co. Ltd". The company filed for bankruptcy in March .

Near the end of UPL, Tsutomu Fujisawa of UPL later established a new video game company called Scarab.

Arcade

Arcade game

An arcade game is a coin-operated entertainment machine, usually installed in public businesses such as restaurants, bars, and amusement arcades. Most arcade games are video games, pinball machines, electro-mechanical games, redemption games, and merchandisers...

• Mouser
• DoRoDon
• NOVA2001
• Ninja-Kid (published outside of Japan by Taito
  Taito Corporation
  The is a Japanese publisher of video game software and arcade hardware wholly owned by publisher Square Enix. Taito has their headquarters in the Shinjuku Bunka Quint Building in Yoyogi, Shibuya, Tokyo, sharing the facility with its parent company....
  
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• Penguin Wars (published by ASCII
  ASCII (company)
  was a publishing company based in Tokyo, Japan. It became a subsidiary of Kadokawa Group Holdings in 2004, and merged with another Kadokawa subsidiary MediaWorks on April 1, 2008, and became ASCII Media Works. The company published Monthly ASCII as the main publication...
  
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• Raiders5
• Super Wing
• XX Mission
• Ark Area
  Ark Area
  Ark Area is a scrolling futuristic shoot 'em up arcade game released by UPL in 1987 in Japan only. You control a spacecraft and shoot enemies, collect power-ups, and defeat bosses to advance up to 23 levels. It is the sequel to the video arcade game Nova 2001.-External links:* at...
  
  
• Mutant Night
• Ninja-Kid II (known outside of Japan as Rad Action)
• Atomic Robo-Kid
  Atomic Robo-Kid
  Atomic Robo-Kid is a horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up arcade game released by UPL in 1986.-Story:In the 21st century, a blast of cosmic radiation bombarded Terra-12, a deep-space outpost of Earth, hideously mutating all transplanted life. A fleet of savage beings followed the radiation wave and...
  
  
• Omega Fighter
  Omega Fighter
  Omega Fighter is a vertical scrolling shooter developed for the arcades by UPL in 1989. While similar to most shooters, Omega Fighter was unique in its gameplay, level and enemy focus: rather than flying over multiple levels, the player faced up against an enormous space battle cruiser which...
  
  
• Otogizoushi Urashima Mahjong
• Task Force Harrier
• Bio-ship Paladin
  Bio-ship Paladin
  Bio-ship Paladin is a horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up arcade game from 1990. It was later ported to the Sega Mega Drive. While the game is essentially a standard horizontally-scrolling shoot 'em up, it has an innovation that makes it unique in the genre...
  
  
• US-AAF Mustang
• Uchuu Senkan Gomorrah
• Vandyke
• Vandyke Fantasy
• Video Action
• Video Action 2
• Acrobat Mission
  Acrobat Mission
  Acrobat Mission is a vertically scrolling shoot 'em up arcade game released by UPL in 1991, licensed to Taito for manufacture and distribution. It was ported to Nintendo Super Famicom in 1992.-Story:...
  
  
• Black Heart
  Black Heart
  Black Heart is a horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up arcade game released by UPL in 1991. The player controls a fire-breathing dragon and shoots enemies with fireballs, collects power-ups, and defeats bosses to advance levels.-Story:...
  
  
• Koutetsu Yousai Strahl
• Zool
  Zool
  Zool is a video game originally produced for the Amiga by Gremlin Graphics in 1992.Zool was intended as a rival to Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog. It was heavily hyped upon its initial release, including being bundled with the newly launched Amiga 1200, although not the AGA version with enhanced...
  
  

Game Boy

Game Boy

The , is an 8-bit handheld video game device developed and manufactured by Nintendo. It was released in Japan on , in North America in , and in Europe on...

• Ninja Taro
  Ninja Taro
  is an action-adventure video game for the Game Boy by NMK. It was released in 1991 in both Japan by UPL and North America by American Sammy and it is loosely part of the Ninja Jajamaru-kun series....
  
   (published outside of Japan by American Sammy
  Sammy Corporation
  was established on November 1, 1975 and is a leading developer and retailer of pachinko and pachislot systems in Japan.In 2001, Sammy Corporation created a subsidiary Sammy Entertainment, Inc. It would later change its name to Sammy Studios in 2002. Sammy Studios is responsible for developing and...
  
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Sega Genesis/Sega Mega Drive

Sega Mega Drive

The Sega Genesis is a fourth-generation video game console developed and produced by Sega. It was originally released in Japan in 1988 as , then in North America in 1989 as Sega Genesis, and in Europe, Australia and other PAL regions in 1990 as Mega Drive. The reason for the two names is that...

• Atomic Robo-Kid
  Atomic Robo-Kid
  Atomic Robo-Kid is a horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up arcade game released by UPL in 1986.-Story:In the 21st century, a blast of cosmic radiation bombarded Terra-12, a deep-space outpost of Earth, hideously mutating all transplanted life. A fleet of savage beings followed the radiation wave and...
  
   (ported by Treco
  Treco
  Treco, also credited as Treco Corporation Limited, American Treco and Treco, USA, was a game developer and publisher located in Torrance, California. Treco produced games for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive from 1990 to 1993...
  
  )
• Bio-ship Paladin
  Bio-ship Paladin
  Bio-ship Paladin is a horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up arcade game from 1990. It was later ported to the Sega Mega Drive. While the game is essentially a standard horizontally-scrolling shoot 'em up, it has an innovation that makes it unique in the genre...
  
   (ported by Treco
  Treco
  Treco, also credited as Treco Corporation Limited, American Treco and Treco, USA, was a game developer and publisher located in Torrance, California. Treco produced games for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive from 1990 to 1993...
  
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Super NES

Super Nintendo Entertainment System

The Super Nintendo Entertainment System is a 16-bit video game console that was released by Nintendo in North America, Europe, Australasia , and South America between 1990 and 1993. In Japan and Southeast Asia, the system is called the , or SFC for short...

• Acrobat Mission
  Acrobat Mission
  Acrobat Mission is a vertically scrolling shoot 'em up arcade game released by UPL in 1991, licensed to Taito for manufacture and distribution. It was ported to Nintendo Super Famicom in 1992.-Story:...
  
   (ported by Teichiku)
• Super Ninja-kun (published by Jaleco
  Jaleco
  is a Japanese video game publisher and developer established in 2006.The original Jaleco Ltd was founded in 1974. In 2006, it decided to become a pure holding company by renaming itself Jaleco Holding and splitting its video game operations into a newly created subsdiary that took its former name...
  
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TurboGrafx-16

TurboGrafx-16

TurboGrafx-16, fully titled as TurboGrafx-16 Entertainment SuperSystem and known in Japan as the , is a video game console developed by Hudson Soft and NEC, released in Japan on October 30, 1987, and in North America on August 29, 1989....

/TurboGrafx-CD

• Atomic Robo-Kid Special
  Atomic Robo-Kid
  Atomic Robo-Kid is a horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up arcade game released by UPL in 1986.-Story:In the 21st century, a blast of cosmic radiation bombarded Terra-12, a deep-space outpost of Earth, hideously mutating all transplanted life. A fleet of savage beings followed the radiation wave and...
  
  
• Gomola Speed

External links

• UPL-Grave Digger: The legend begins once more... - a grave website created by UPL employees dedicated to the company.
• UPL profile at MobyGames
  MobyGames
  -Platforms not yet included:- Further reading :* Rusel DeMaria, Johnny L. Wilson, High Score!: The Illustrated History of Electronic Games, McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media; 2 edition , ISBN 0-07-223172-6...