Coreland

Coreland Technology Inc. (コアランドテクノロジー株式会社) was a manufacturer and developer of arcade games in Tokyo originally established on April 30, 1977, as Hoei Manufacturing Corp. (豊栄産業株式会社) [1] It was renamed Coreland on April 20, 1982. (Game Machine 1982/7/1, pg. 26) Yasushi Matsuda (松田規義) was the president.

According to comments by Alpha Denshi programmer/engineer Eiji Fukatsu in the book Jump Bug Encyclopedia, Hoei had none of its own technical staff, so people from other companies were invited over to work on games (or at least on Jump Bug, on which Fukatsu worked). Because of this, Hoei games will not be included in this entry.

Coreland purchased and absorbed Norio Yasuda's (安田則雄) Technostar (株式会社テクノスター) in 1988. (Game Machine 1988/6/15, p. 22) [2] Yasuda started Technostar after leaving Sega (Game Machine 1988/6/15, p. 22), where he was manager of R&D1. (Game Machine 1985/8/1, p. 1)

In 1989, Coreland was acquired by toy maker Bandai in an effort to enter the amusement market and was renamed Banpresto. (Game Machine 1989/3/1, p.4) Matsuda left the company and was replaced by Bandai's Yukimasa Sugiura. Norio Yasuda and Nobuyoshi Isomura (磯村信義), Coreland's R&D directors, stayed on with Banpresto. (Game Machine 1989/3/1, p.30) As for the origin of the name Banpresto, "Ban" comes from Bandai, and "presto" refers to the "speed of business." (Game Machine 1989/3/1, p.4)

Matsuda later ran a company called Tex-Mex, which operated the NFL Experience sports bar/game center in Shibuya, Tokyo. (Game Machine 1992/11/1, p. 23)

Research Methods: Actual mentions, online resources (see Links)

Arcade

• 119 (unreleased?) (Sega)
• 4-D Warriors (Sega)
• Black Panther (Konami)
• Brain (Sega)
• Cyber Tank (Coreland)
• Exciting Derby (Sigma) [3]
• Gardia (Sega)
• Gonbee no I'm Sorry / I'm Sorry (Sega)
• Noboranka / Zippy Bug (Data East)
• Pengo (Sega)

This seems to have been developed by an outside team, rather than in-house, and sold to Coreland. [4]

• Rafflesia (Sega)
• Seishun Scandal / My Hero (Sega)
• Senryaku Game Bopeep (unreleased) (Sega)
• Serizawa Hachidan no Tsume Shogi Oushou (Sega) [5]
• Super Cross II (GM Shoji)
• SWAT (Sega)
• Tadaima Tokkun-chuu (Sega) [6]

Repurposed from a fitness machine by Canon called the Aerobic Power 1000 [7] [8]

• The Tougyuu / Bullfight (Sega)
• WEC Le Mans 24 (co-developed with Technostar) (Konami) [9] [10] [11]
• The Yakyuuken (New Jatre)

Coreland was allegedly involved with development. [12]