Asmik Ace Entertainment
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Asmik Ace Entertainment was formed in 1997 through a merger between the Asmik Corporation and Ace Entertainment, both of Japan. The name Asmik comes from its three founding companies: Ask, Sumitomo, Kodansha.
Asmik Corporation was founded in 1985 as a subsidiary to the Sumitomo Corporation of Japan. Its focus was in the area of video games for the video game console market, specifically the NES. It quickly moved on to distribute motion pictures in Japan, and won several awards for doing so. It once had a North American subsidiary, Asmik Coporation of America.
Ace Pictures Inc. was founded in 1981 as a division of Nippon Herald Films to produce Japanese films and distribute foreign art films. Several of its pictures earned awards and hold positions as some of the highest grossing films in Japan.
Asmik Ace Entertainment has produced games for the PlayStation, Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, PC Engine, Nintendo 64 and GameCube, and distributes high quality films for the Japanese movie market.
Asmik Ace Entertainment also distributes a number of films from DreamWorks in Japanese theaters.
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[edit] Video games
Asmik had a mascot named Boomer (Asmik-kun in Japan), which was featured in several video games.
[edit] Video games released in English and Japanese
- Boomer's Adventure in ASMIK World (Asmik-Kun World)
- Conquest of the Crystal Palace
- D-Force
- Mysterium
- Xardion
[edit] Video games released in Japanese
- Asmik-kun Land (Famicom)
- Asmik-kun World 2 (Game Boy)
- Sidewinder (PlayStation)
- Sidewinder 2 (PlayStation)
- LSD (video game) (PlayStation)
- Shinobi (PC Engine)
- Cosmic Epsilon
- Deep Dungeon IV
- Gambler Jiko Chuushinha
- Gambler Jiko Chuushinha 2
- Jumping Kid (Japan only - planned US release as Jack and the Beanstalk)
- Jyuouki (port of arcade game known outside of Japan as Altered Beast)
- Meimon! Tako Nishiouendan
- Nippon Ichi no Nakantoku
- Oh No! (PlayStation)
- Astro Troop Vanark (PlayStation)
- Battle Zeque Den (Super Famicom)
- Cutie Suzuki Ringside Angel (MegaDrive)
- Dimension Force (Super Famicom)
- Power Drift (PC Engine)
- Hunter Lime Special Collection Vol 2 (PlayStation)
- Lupin Sansei: Umi ni Kieta Hihou (GameCube)
- Rhythm N Face (PlayStation)
- Super Hydlide (MegaDrive)
- The Ring (Dreamcast)
- Verytex (MegaDrive)
- Virtual Pro Wrestling 2 (Nintendo 64)
- Xardion (Super Famicom)
