is a software company located in Japan. It was founded in 1982 by and later became corporate on August 8, 1983, while revealing itself as "Visco" in Japan. They originally developed video games for several platforms from the

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, to the

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and

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in the past. When Visco was one of the companies under the

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umbrella, some of its titles back then were labeled "Taito". They also teamed up with

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and

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in developing arcade games powered by the SSV (Sammy, Seta and Visco)

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until Sammy fully acquired noted game company

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under a new company titled

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in 2004, while Seta's parent company Aruze announced in December 2008 that Seta decided to close their doors after 23 years of existence. Therefore, the SSV board was no longer being produced. From 2008, Visco began manufacturing

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s for

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s mostly in southeast Asian regions.

Games released

References

External links

Visco Corporation's Official website
Video game companies established in 1982 Video game companies of Japan Japanese companies established in 1982 Computer hardware companies Video game development companies {{Japan-videogame-company-stub