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 led to them being ported to home consoles, and then ultimately to Psikyo developing games for consoles.

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 outsourced to other teams.

Psikyo is infamous for its extremely difficult "second loops"; after completing the game, you start again, with a very high difficulty increase (Gunbird 2 is reported as having the highest difficulty due to its bullet patterns on this second loop). This is present in every Psikyo shooter, since Samurai Aces/Sengoku Ace (in fact, since Aero Fighters).

[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 license) - 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