Forcefield Entertainment

Forcefield Entertainment (株式会社フォースフィールド) was a Japanese video game developer and publisher of arcade games and home console games and was also an owner of a series of Japanese arcade game centers. The company has produced several non-video game products, such as pachinko machines, trading cards, rocking horses, radios and lightbulbs. The company was founded in 1952 as Forcefield Electronics and manufactured radios and jukeboxes across Japan. In 1965, the company was renamed to Forcefield Amusements, and produced several mechanical arcade games, such as Heli Pilot and Rumbling F-1. With this success, the company renamed itself to simply Forcefield in 1976 and produced it’s first video arcade game in 1978, Galaxy Shot. 

The company is well-known for their video game franchises, including Wrigley, StarCore, UFO-Kun and Sky Attacker and have made Forcefield the 18th largest video game company in the world.

Forcefield renamed itself to Forcefield Entertainment in 2007 since the company began to expand into other products besides video games. Forcefield owned a chain of Japanese arcade game centers, titled Section-F or Section-Forcefield.

The company filed for bankruptcy on May 23, 2016, and disintegrated shortly after; the company's video game properties were later purchased by Bandai Namco Entertainment, with the latter now owning all of the company's video game rights. The Section-F arcade centers were closed and the production of the company's radios was discontinued in 2017 after an over 60-year production run. Several employees for the company later founded Forcefield Communications and deals with telecommunication services; despite the name and logo, the company bears little relationship with the former company.