Psikyo
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Psikyo (彩京 saikyō?) is a Japanese video game company started in 1992. Psikyo is an off-shoot formed from the staff that created the game Aero Fighters for Video System. Psikyo focused on arcade games, mostly vertically-scrolling shoot 'em ups and pornographic mahjong games. The popularity of these arcade games lead to them being ported to home consoles, and then ultimately to Psikyo developing games for consoles. They also made many popular mahjong games.
Psikyo was acquired by X-nauts in mid-2002. In 2003, it was reported that Psikyo was shutting down.[1] Shortly afterwards, X-nauts stated this news was wrong.[2] Games under the Psikyo label are still being released, but these games are outscourced to other teams.
[edit] List of Psikyo's releases
- Samurai Aces / Sengoku Ace - 1993 - Arcade
- Battle K-Road - 1994 - Arcade
- Gunbird - 1994 - Arcade
- Strikers 1945 - 1995 - Arcade
- Gunbird - 1995 - PlayStation
- Gunbird - 1995 - Saturn
- Sengoku Blade:Sengoku Ace Episode II - 1996 - Arcade
- Sengoku Blade:Sengoku Ace Episode II - 1996 - Saturn
- Strikers 1945 - 1996 - PlayStation
- Strikers 1945 - 1996 - Saturn
- Sol Divide - Sword of Darkness - 1997 - Arcade
- Strikers 1945 II - 1997 - Arcade
- Taisen Hot Gimmick - 1997 - Arcade
- Zero Gunner - 1997 - Arcade
- Daraku Tenshi - The Fallen Angels - 1998 - Arcade
- Gunbird 2 - 1998 - Arcade
- Pilot Kids - 1998 - Arcade
- Space Bomber - 1998 - Arcade
- Taisen Hot Gimmick Kairakuten - 1998 - Arcade
- Sol Divide - Sword of Darkness - 1998 - PlayStation
- Sol Divide - Sword of Darkness - 1998 - Saturn
- Strikers 1945 II - 1998 - PlayStation
- Strikers 1945 II - 1998 - Saturn
- Strikers 1945 III / Strikers 1999 - 1999 - Arcade
- Strikers 1945 Plus - 1999 - Arcade
- Taisen Hot Gimmick 3 Digital Surfing 1999 - Arcade
- Dragon Blaze - 2000 - Arcade
- Lode Runner - The Dig Fight - 2000 - Arcade
- Quiz de Idol! Hot Debut - 2000 - Arcade
- Cannon Spike (Capcom license) - 2000 - Arcade
- Cannon Spike (Capcom license) - 2000 - Dreamcast
- Ikuze! Onsen Takkyuu!! - 2000 - PlayStation 2
- Gunbird 2 - 2000 - Dreamcast
- Gunbarich - 2001 - Arcade
- Zero Gunner 2 - 2001 - Arcade
- Taisen Net Gimmick: Capcom & Psikyo All Stars (Capcom liscense) - 2001 - Dreamcast
- Zero Gunner 2 - 2002 - Dreamcast
- G-Taste - 2003 - PlayStation 2
Psikyo label games not developed by Psikyo.
- Buggy Grand Prix:Kattobi! Dai-Sakusen - 2003 - PlayStation 2
- Choaniki:Legend of Holy Protein - 2003 - PlayStation 2
- Gunbird 1 & 2 - 2004 - PlayStation 2
- Psikyo Shooting Collection Vol. 1:Strikers 1945 I & II - 2004 - PlayStation 2
- Psikyo Shooting Collection Vol. 2:Sengoku Ace & Sengoku Blade - 2004 - PlayStation 2
- Psikyo Shooting Collection Vol. 3:Sol Divide & Dragon Blaze - 2004 - PlayStation 2
- Taisen Hot Gimmick:Cosplay Mahjong - 2004 - PlayStation 2
- Sengoku Cannon - 2005 - PSP
- Taisen Hot Gimmick:Axes-Jong - 2005 - PlayStation 2
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ "Psikyo shuts its development division down", GameSpot.com, April 29, 2003
- ^ "Psikyo not closing down operations as reported", GameSpot.com, May 2, 2003