Forcefield Entertainment

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Forcefield Entertainment (株式会社フォースフィールド Kabushikigaisha Fōsufīrudo) is a Japanese video game developer and publisher of arcade games and home console games and is an active 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.

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