was a Japanese

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and publisher.

History

Interchannel was founded on October 2, 1995 as an NEC subsidiary named . Its founding was a result of divisions within NEC being spun off. NEC Interchannel took over NEC Avenue's music and game operations in October 1997, then acquired its music subsidiary, NEC Avenue Music Publishing, in March 1998. 70 percent of the company was sold to

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for approximately 3 billion yen ($28 million) in 2004. Around this time, NEC Avenue Music Publishing became . Interchannel's games tended to be Japanese only, however the company established Gamebridge Ltd., a UK-based joint venture with Bergsala, that published its games in

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. Only ten games were ever published. In 2006, Index Corporation opened their own music label, Index Music, from assets acquired from IC Avenue, where they specialize in publishing music from kids'

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series. In 2008, T.Y. Limited took over their music label, and in 2013, the music label was transferred over to Dreamusic under a new label, Feel Mee. In November 2007, GungHo Online Entertainment acquired the video game assets of Interchannel from Index Corporation, however, the Interchannel logo and copyright was maintained by Index Corporation. On March 1, 2010,

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acquired Interchannel.

References

External links

Official website (Interchannel)Official website (NEC Interchannel)MobyGames
Amusement companies of Japan IXIT Corporation Software companies based in Tokyo Video game companies established in 1995 Video game companies disestablished in 2010 Defunct video game companies of Japan Japanese companies established in 1995 Japanese companies disestablished in 2010 Former NEC subsidiaries {{japan-videogame-company-stub