Victor Interactive Software, Inc. was a Japanese

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...

 video game software publisher and developer, established in 1970-08-03 as a division of Victor Entertainment

Victor Entertainment

is a subsidiary of Japan Victor Company that produces and distributes music, movies and other entertainment products such as anime and television shows in Japan. It was formerly known as...

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In 1996-10-01, Victor Entertainment Inc. merged with Pack-In-Video

Pack-In-Video

is a Japanese video game publisher and developer which developed a wide range of games for the Famicom platform. The games published were mostly focused on the Japanese market although a few titles have been published abroad...

 Co., Ltd. to establish Victor Interactive Software, Inc.

Popular series published by VIS include Harvest Moon series

Harvest Moon series

is a farm simulation role-playing video game series originally created by Yasuhiro Wada in 1996 and produced by Victor Interactive Software ....

 and Keio Flying Squadron.

In 2003-03-31, Victor Interactive Software was acquired by Marvelous Entertainment, Inc., and became Marvelous Interactive Inc.