Pacific Manufacturing

Pacific Kougyou (パシフィック工業株式会社; aka Pacific Manufacturing, Pacific Industries [1]) was a subsidiary of Taito established in 1963. It was merged with Nihon Jidou Hanbaiki (Japan Vending Machine [2]) in 1986. [3]

Tomohiro Nishikado was employed there when he was working on Space Invaders. [4] He joined in 1969. [5]

Research Methods: Online resources

With the exception of Space Invaders, the US copyright records for the games below have "Pacific Manufacturing Company, Ltd." as the author. It's possible they literally only manufactured these games.

Arcade

• Alpine Ski (Taito)
• Big Event Golf (Taito)
• Elevator Action (Taito)
• Halley's Comet (Taito)
• Kage no Densetsu / The Legend of Kage (Taito)
• N.Y. Captor (Taito)
• Onna Sanshirou / Typhoon Gal (Taito)
• Riku Kai Kuu Saizensen / Land Sea Air Squad / Storming Party (Taito)
• Scramble Formation / Tokio (Taito)
• Space Invaders (Taito)