SIMS (video game company)

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Not to be confused with The Sims .

SIMS Co., Ltd.

Type	Unknown
Founded	June 12, 1991
Headquarters	HQ in Tokyo, Japan
Key people	Noboru Machida: president; Hideki Katagiri: director; Ichirou Hashimoto: director
Industry	Computer and video game industry
Revenue	JPY 4.6 billion (2004)
Employees	28 full-time, 2 part-time
Website	www.sims.co.jp

SIMS Co., Ltd. (シムス株式会社, Shimusu Kabushiki-gaisha^?) ("Soft development Innovation Multi Success" [1]) is a Japanese video game publisher and developer originally established on June 12, 1991 as a joint venture of Sanritsu Denki Co., Ltd. (commonly known as Sanritsu) and Sega Enterprises, Ltd. About 50 employees transferred over. [2]

SIMS eventually became a subsidiary of Sega [3], but its ownership of the company came to an end on June 25, 2004, when SIMS President Noboru Machida took over all stock from the veteran game maker. [4]

The company is still active. Its latest game was Brave Story for the Sony PlayStation 2. It is currently working on a game for the Nintendo Wii. [5]

1 Games
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Games

For many years, SIMS developed exclusively for Sega-made game systems. 1999 was the first year its games appeared on a non-Sega machine (the portable Bandai WonderSwan). It went on to make games for the Sony PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, and others. The following is a list of its more well-known titles: