was a Japanese
video game
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and
software developer
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founded in October 1983 by Kazuyuki Fukushima. The company had several video game divisions including:
Wolf Team, Laser Soft, Reno, Renovation Products, Riot, Commseed, and Telenet Jr. Telenet Japan's North American subsidiary, Renovation Products, was acquired by
Sega of America in 1993. With debt of , the company ceased operating in late September 2007 and closed its doors on October 25.
Sunsoft
, stylized as SUNSOFT, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher.
Sunsoft is the video games division of Japanese electronics manufacturer Sun Corporation. Its U.S. subsidiary operated under the name Sun Corporation of America, though, ...
acquired Telenet's entire software library in December 2009, citing plans to remake or re-release (via
Virtual Console
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) the old titles. The Japanese company Edia acquired Telenet's catalogue from
City Connection in January 2020.
Riot
The Riot division came into existence in 1991 when Telenet Japan was expanding in the country.
However, because Telenet was starting to lose sales in 1993, the company went through extensive restructuring which resulted in the closing of a few subsidiaries. Some staff employed at Laser Soft and Riot were transferred to another subsidiary,
Wolfteam. The same year, several key developers of the
PC Engine
The TurboGrafx-16, known as the outside North America, is a home video game console designed by Hudson Soft and sold by NEC Home Electronics. It was the first console marketed in the fourth generation, commonly known as the 16-bit era, thoug ...
games ''
Tenshi no Uta I & II'' left Riot to found
Media.Vision and work on a new RPG franchise, ''
Wild Arms''.
Riot was also known for employing graphic artist and later game director
Eiji Kikuchi, as well as music composer
Michiko Naruke.
Games list
Developed
* Mega Drive/Genesis
** ''
Beast Wrestler
is a 1991 fighting game published for the Mega Drive in Japan and North America. The game's cover art was created by Yasushi Nirasawa, in his position as a model-builder for Hobby Japan magazine.
Gameplay
''Beast Wrestler'' is a wrestling be ...
''
** ''
XZR II: Kanketsuhen''
** ''
Gaiares''
** ''
Syd of Valis''
** ''
Traysia
''Traysia'' (known as ''Minato no Traysia'' in Japan) is a traditional role-playing video game that was released on February 14, 1992 by Renovation Products for the Sega Genesis. The player controls a young man named Roy who is dropped off in the ...
''
** ''
Valis: The Fantasm Soldier''
** ''
Valis III
is a 1990 action-platform video game originally developed by Laser Soft, published by Telenet Japan and NEC for the TurboGrafx-CD. A Sega Genesis version was released in 1992. It is the third entry in the ''Valis'' series. It stars Yuko Asou, ...
''
* MSX
** ''
Andorogynus''
** ''
XZR: Hakai no Gūzō''
** ''
XZR II: Kanketsuhen''
** ''
Sa-Zi-Ri''
** ''
Valis: The Fantasm Soldier''
** ''
Valis: The Fantasm Soldier II''
** ''
Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei''
* Nintendo 64
** ''Parlor Pro Pachinko''
* GameCube
** ''
Swingerz Golf'' (released as ''Ace Golf'' in Europe and ''Wai Wai Golf'' in Japan)
* PlayStation 2
** ''
Eagle Eye Golf'' (released as ''Enjoy Golf!'' in Japan)
** ''Mahjong Party: Idol to Mahjong Shoubu''
* PC
** ''
Meccha Golf''
* Super Famicom/Super NES
** ''
Ace o Nerae!''
** ''Dark Kingdom''
** ''Edo no Kiba''
** ''
Psycho Dream''
** ''
Super Valis IV
is a 1991 action-platform video game originally developed by Laser Soft and published by Telenet Japan for the PC Engine CD-ROM². A vastly different version titled was published in Japan by Telenet in 1992 and in North America by Atlus Softw ...
''
* Sharp X1/X1 Turbo
** ''
Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei''
* NEC PC-88/PC-8800 series
** ''
Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei''
* PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16/TurboGrafx
** ''
Avenger
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Arts and entertainment In the Marvel Comics universe
* Avengers (comics), a team of superheroes
**Avengers (Marvel Cinematic Universe), a central team of protagonist superheroes o ...
''
** ''Babel''
** ''Browning''
** ''
Columns (video game)''
** ''
Cosmic Fantasy
is a series of role-playing video games created by manga artist Kazuhiro Ochi, published by Telenet and developed by subsidiary LaserSoft from 1990 to 1994. It consists of four games (the last one being split in two installments) for the PC Eng ...
''
** ''
Cosmic Fantasy 2
''Cosmic Fantasy 2'', known in Japan as is a role-playing video game developed and published by Nippon Telenet in Japan in 1991, and localized and published by Working Designs in North America in 1992, for the TurboGrafx-CD (PC Engine CD-ROM²) v ...
''
** ''
Cosmic Fantasy Visual Collection''
** ''
Cosmic Fantasy III''
** ''
Cosmic Fantasy IV-Chapter 1''
** ''
Cosmic Fantasy IV-Chapter 2''
** ''
Death Bringer
''Death Bringer'', alternatively titled ''Galdregon's Domain'' in Europe, is a 1988 role-playing video game originally developed and self-published by Pandora and released for the Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, TurboGrafx-CD, and Sharp X68000.
...
''
** ''
Dekoboko Densetsu Hashiru Wagamanma''
** ''
Exile''
** ''
Exile: Wicked Phenomenon''
** ''
Final Zone II
''Final Zone II'' is a run and gun action video game created by Wolf Team and published by Telenet Japan for the PC Engine on CD-ROM in Japan on March 23, 1990. It was later ported to the TurboGrafx-16 CD add-on in North America later that year ...
''
** ''
F1 Team Simulation Project F''
** ''
Golden Axe''
** ''
High Grenadier
High may refer to:
Science and technology
* Height
* High (atmospheric), a high-pressure area
* High (computability), a quality of a Turing degree, in computability theory
* High (tectonics), in geology an area where relative tectonic uplift to ...
''
** ''
Jantei Monogatari''
** ''
Kiaiden 00''
** ''
Lady Phantom''
** ''
Last Alert''
** ''
Legion''
** ''
Maho Shoujo Silky Lip''
** ''
Master of Monsters''
** ''
Meikyu no Elfeene''
** ''
Mirai Shounen Conan''
** ''
Valis: The Fantasm Soldier''
** ''
Valis II''
** ''
Valis III
is a 1990 action-platform video game originally developed by Laser Soft, published by Telenet Japan and NEC for the TurboGrafx-CD. A Sega Genesis version was released in 1992. It is the third entry in the ''Valis'' series. It stars Yuko Asou, ...
''
** ''
Valis IV''
** ''
Valis Visual Collection''
** ''
Police Connection
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''
** ''
Pop 'n Magic
Pop or POP may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media Music
* Pop music, a musical genre Artists
* POP, a Japanese idol group now known as Gang Parade
* Pop!, a UK pop group
* Pop! featuring Angie Hart, an Australian band
Albums
* ''Pop'' (G ...
''
** ''
Psychic Storm''
** ''
Puzzle Boy''
** ''
Sugoroku '92 Nari Tore Nariagari Trendy
(literally 'double six') refers to two different forms of a Japanese board game: ''ban-sugoroku'' (盤双六, 'board-sugoroku') which is similar to western tables games like Backgammon, and ''e-sugoroku'' (絵双六, 'picture-sugoroku') which is ...
''
** ''Super Albatross''
** ''
Tenshi no Uta
is a role-playing video game series produced by Telenet Japan. The series has a motif of Celtic mythology and consists of three games: ''Tenshi no Uta'' (1991), ''Tenshi no Uta II: Datenshi no Sentaku'' (1993), and ''Tenshi no Uta: Shiroki Tsubas ...
''
** ''
Tenshi no Uta II: Datenshi no Sentaku''
** ''
Travel Apple
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''
** ''
Xak I & II''
Published
* Game Boy
** ''Pachinko CR: Daiku no Gen-San GB''
* Game Gear
** ''
Zan Gear
Zan or ZAN, may refer to:
Geography
* Zhan, Kurdistan, Iran, also known as Zān
* Zhan, Lorestan, Iran, also known as Žān
* Zan, Tehran, a village in Tehran Province, Iran
Ethnicity and language
* Zans, the Zan People, people who speak the Z ...
''
* Mega Drive/Genesis
** ''
Gaiares''
** ''
Syd of Valis''
** ''
The Tennis Tournament: Grandslam''
** ''
Traysia
''Traysia'' (known as ''Minato no Traysia'' in Japan) is a traditional role-playing video game that was released on February 14, 1992 by Renovation Products for the Sega Genesis. The player controls a young man named Roy who is dropped off in the ...
''
** ''
Valis III
is a 1990 action-platform video game originally developed by Laser Soft, published by Telenet Japan and NEC for the TurboGrafx-CD. A Sega Genesis version was released in 1992. It is the third entry in the ''Valis'' series. It stars Yuko Asou, ...
''
** ''
Valis: The Fantasm Soldier''
** ''
Zan: Yasha Enbukyoku''
** ''
Arcus Odyssey''
** ''
El Viento''
** ''
Elemental Master''
** ''
Gain Ground''
** ''
Earnest Evans
is a 1991 action platform game by Wolf Team. It was self-published in Japan for the Sega Mega-CD and the Sega Genesis in North America by Renovation three months later. As with ''Sol-Feace'', the Mega-CD release has a Mixed Mode CD soundtrac ...
''
** ''
Whip Rush''
** ''
Arrow Flash
is a horizontally scrolling shooter video game developed by Sega and published by Sega in Japan and Europe and by Renovation Products in the United States for the Mega Drive / Genesis in 1990. The game's main character pilots a prototype transf ...
''
** ''
Dino Land
is a pinball video game developed by Wolf Team for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis. It was released in 1991 in North America and Japan.
Summary
This game had a quest mode that spanned three pinball areas: Rescue the kidnapped girlfriend from Dino ...
''
** ''
Exile''
** ''
Beast Wrestler
is a 1991 fighting game published for the Mega Drive in Japan and North America. The game's cover art was created by Yasushi Nirasawa, in his position as a model-builder for Hobby Japan magazine.
Gameplay
''Beast Wrestler'' is a wrestling be ...
''
** ''
Master of Monsters''
** ''
Sol-Deace
is a 1990 horizontal-scrolling shooter video game developed by Wolf Team and published by Telenet Japan for the Sharp X68000 computer. Versions for the Sega CD and Sega Genesis were released later on, the latter renaming the game ''Sol-Deace' ...
''
** ''
Valis: The Fantasm Soldier''
** ''
Ys III: Wanderers from Ys''
** ''
Granada
Granada (,, DIN: ; grc, Ἐλιβύργη, Elibýrgē; la, Illiberis or . ) is the capital city of the province of Granada, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. Granada is located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains, at the c ...
''
** ''
Final Zone''
* Mega-CD
** ''
Cyborg 009
is a Japanese science fiction manga created by Shotaro Ishinomori. It was serialized in many different Japanese magazines, including '' Monthly Shōnen King'', ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'', '' Shōnen Big Comic'', '' COM'', ' ...
''
** ''
Sol-Feace''
** ''
Cobra Command''
** ''
Time Gal''
** ''
Road Avenger
is an interactive movie video game developed by Data East featuring animation by Toei Animation, originally released exclusively in Japan as a laserdisc-based arcade game in 1985. The player assumes the role of a vigilante who must avenge the de ...
''
** ''
Cosmic Fantasy Stories
Cosmic commonly refers to:
* The cosmos, a concept of the universe
Cosmic may also refer to:
Media
* ''Cosmic'' (album), an album by Bazzi
* Afro/Cosmic music
* "Cosmic", a song by Kylie Minogue from the album '' X''
* CosM.i.C, a member of ...
''
** ''
Earnest Evans
is a 1991 action platform game by Wolf Team. It was self-published in Japan for the Sega Mega-CD and the Sega Genesis in North America by Renovation three months later. As with ''Sol-Feace'', the Mega-CD release has a Mixed Mode CD soundtrac ...
''
* MSX
** ''
Sa-Zi-Ri''
** ''
Valis II''
** ''Albatross Tournament Golf''
** ''
American Truck''
** ''
Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei''
* Nintendo 64
** ''Parlor Pro Pachinko''
* Sharp X1/X1 Turbo
** ''
Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei''
* NEC PC-88/PC-8800 series
** ''
Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei''
* PC
** ''Albatross''
** ''Albatross 2: Master's History''
** ''
Valis X'' (published by Eants, a
hentai developer)
** ''Zan''
** ''Zan II''
** ''Zan III''
* PlayStation
** ''
Cybernetic Empire
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''
* PlayStation 2
** ''
Enjoy Golf!
Enjoy may refer to:
Music
*Enjoy, an album by Bob Sinclar
*Enjoy, a song by Janet Jackson
*Enjoy, a song from Björk's album ''Post''
*Enjoy Records, an American record label
* ''Enjoy'' (play), a 1980 comedy play by Alan Bennett
* ''Enjoy!'' (Des ...
''
** ''
Mahjong Party: Idol to Mahjong Shoubu''
* Super Famicom/Super NES
** ''
Dark Kingdom
The is a group of fictional characters in the ''Sailor Moon'' manga series by Naoko Takeuchi. They are the chief villains of the first story arc in every version of the series, and were first introduced in the first chapter of the manga, "Usagi ...
''
** ''
Doomsday Warrior''
** ''
The Journey Home''
** ''
Super Valis IV
is a 1991 action-platform video game originally developed by Laser Soft and published by Telenet Japan for the PC Engine CD-ROM². A vastly different version titled was published in Japan by Telenet in 1992 and in North America by Atlus Softw ...
''
** ''
Zan II Spirits
, formerly known as , was a Japanese video game development company founded in 1986. The company was renamed in 2003 when Telenet Japan sold part of its stake and made Namco the majority shareholder. Namco Tales Studio was originally the primary d ...
''
** ''
Zan III Spirits''
** ''
Psycho Dream''
* PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16/TurboGrafx
** ''
Andre Panza Kick Boxing''
** ''
Avenger
Avenger, Avengers, The Avenger, or The Avengers may refer to:
Arts and entertainment In the Marvel Comics universe
* Avengers (comics), a team of superheroes
**Avengers (Marvel Cinematic Universe), a central team of protagonist superheroes o ...
''
** ''
Babel''
** ''Browning''
** ''
Columns
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''
** ''
Cosmic Fantasy
is a series of role-playing video games created by manga artist Kazuhiro Ochi, published by Telenet and developed by subsidiary LaserSoft from 1990 to 1994. It consists of four games (the last one being split in two installments) for the PC Eng ...
''
** ''
Cosmic Fantasy II''
** ''
Cosmic Fantasy Visual Collection''
** ''
Cosmic Fantasy III''
** ''
Cosmic Fantasy IV-Chapter 1''
** ''
Cosmic Fantasy IV-Chapter 2''
** ''
Death Bringer
''Death Bringer'', alternatively titled ''Galdregon's Domain'' in Europe, is a 1988 role-playing video game originally developed and self-published by Pandora and released for the Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, TurboGrafx-CD, and Sharp X68000.
...
''
** ''
Dekoboko Densetsu Hashiru Wagamanma''
** ''
Exile''
** ''
Exile: Wicked Phenomenon''
** ''
Final Zone II
''Final Zone II'' is a run and gun action video game created by Wolf Team and published by Telenet Japan for the PC Engine on CD-ROM in Japan on March 23, 1990. It was later ported to the TurboGrafx-16 CD add-on in North America later that year ...
''
** ''
F1 Team Simulation Project F''
** ''
Golden Axe''
** ''
High Grenadier
High may refer to:
Science and technology
* Height
* High (atmospheric), a high-pressure area
* High (computability), a quality of a Turing degree, in computability theory
* High (tectonics), in geology an area where relative tectonic uplift to ...
''
** ''
Jantei Monogatari''
** ''
Kiaiden 00''
** ''
Lady Phantom''
** ''
Last Alert''
** ''
Legion''
** ''
Maho Shoujo Silky Lip''
** ''
Meikyu no Elfeene''
** ''
Mirai Shounen Conan''
** ''Super Albatross''
** ''
Valis: The Fantasm Soldier''
** ''
Valis II''
** ''
Valis III
is a 1990 action-platform video game originally developed by Laser Soft, published by Telenet Japan and NEC for the TurboGrafx-CD. A Sega Genesis version was released in 1992. It is the third entry in the ''Valis'' series. It stars Yuko Asou, ...
''
** ''
Valis IV''
** ''
Valis Visual Collection''
** ''
Police Connection
The police are a constituted body of persons empowered by a state, with the aim to enforce the law, to ensure the safety, health and possessions of citizens, and to prevent crime and civil disorder. Their lawful powers include arrest and th ...
''
** ''
Pop 'n Magic
Pop or POP may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media Music
* Pop music, a musical genre Artists
* POP, a Japanese idol group now known as Gang Parade
* Pop!, a UK pop group
* Pop! featuring Angie Hart, an Australian band
Albums
* ''Pop'' (G ...
''
** ''
Psychic Storm''
** ''
Puzzle Boy''
** ''
Sugoroku '92 Nari Tore Nariagari Trendy
(literally 'double six') refers to two different forms of a Japanese board game: ''ban-sugoroku'' (盤双六, 'board-sugoroku') which is similar to western tables games like Backgammon, and ''e-sugoroku'' (絵双六, 'picture-sugoroku') which is ...
''
** ''
Super Albatross''
** ''
Tenshi no Uta
is a role-playing video game series produced by Telenet Japan. The series has a motif of Celtic mythology and consists of three games: ''Tenshi no Uta'' (1991), ''Tenshi no Uta II: Datenshi no Sentaku'' (1993), and ''Tenshi no Uta: Shiroki Tsubas ...
''
** ''
Tenshi no Uta II: Datenshi no Sentaku''
** ''
Travel Apple
Travel is the movement of people between distant geographical locations. Travel can be done by foot, bicycle, automobile, train, boat, bus, airplane, ship or other means, with or without luggage, and can be one way or round trip. Travel c ...
''
** ''
Xak I & II''
* Sharp X68000
** ''
Death Bringer
''Death Bringer'', alternatively titled ''Galdregon's Domain'' in Europe, is a 1988 role-playing video game originally developed and self-published by Pandora and released for the Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, TurboGrafx-CD, and Sharp X68000.
...
''
** ''
Sol-Feace''
References
External links
*{{webarchive , url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080911204058/http://www.telenet.co.jp/ , date=September 11, 2008 , title=Official website
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Defunct video game companies of Japan
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