MileStone Inc.
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| Industry | Video games Entertainment |
|---|---|
| Founded | April 22, 2003 |
| Defunct | March 21, 2013[1] |
| Headquarters | , |
Area served | Japan, Vietnam |
Key people | Takashi Fujiya (MileStone Vietnam president) |
| Products | video games |
| Total assets | ¥10,000,000 |
Number of employees | 16 (as of October 16, 2006) |
| Subsidiaries | MileStone Vietnam Co., Ltd |
MileStone Inc. (株式会社マイルストーン) was a Japanese arcade videogame developer. They were best known for shoot 'em up games developed for the Dreamcast (after the console's official discontinuation) and its arcade counterpart, the Sega NAOMI.
MileStone were made up of Japanese NAOMI arcade developers who left Compile to form their own company.
As of 2010, all of MileStone's shooters have been ported to the Wii.
Subsidiaries
MileStone Vietnam Co., Ltd was established on August 1, 2007, an authorized game soft developer by Nintendo of America.
Closing
The company’s president, Hiroshi Kimura, started a bio energy company called MS Bio Energy, which was constructing a bio-ethanol plant in Vietnam. MileStone violated the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act when selling securities for the new company, which led to Kimura's arrest.[2]
Games developed
- Chaosfield - (December 16, 2004 (NAOMI/Dreamcast/GameCube/PlayStation 2))
- Radilgy - (February 16, 2006 (NAOMI/Dreamcast/GameCube/PlayStation 2))
- Karous - (March 8, 2007 (NAOMI/Dreamcast))
- Tank Beat - (November 30, 2006 (Japan), May 22, 2007 (NA) (Nintendo DS))
- MileStone Shooting Collection Karous Wii (Ultimate Shooting Collection in North America) (Compilation of Chaos Field, Radilgy and Karous) - (2008 (Wii))
- Heavy Armor Brigade - (2008 (Nintendo DS))
- Illmatic Envelope - (2008 (NAOMI/Wii))
- Hula Wii - (2008 (Wii))
- Radirgy Noa - (2009 (NAOMI)), (2010 (Wii))
- Project Cerberus - (2010 (PlayStation Portable)), (Canceled (NAOMI))
- Twinkle Queen - (2010 (Wii))
- MileStone Shooting Collection 2 (Compilation of Chaos Field, Radilgy, Karous, Illmatic Envelope/Ilvelo, and Radirgy Noa) - (2010 (Wii))
- Radirgy Noa Massive - (2010 (Xbox 360), 2011 (PC))
References
External links
- Interview by EDGE to MileStone (interviews to G.Rev and Triangle Service on the same page)
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