Telenet Japan

Telenet Japan
	; Telenet's logo first used in 1992
Location:	Tokyo, Japan
Head People:	Kazuyuki Fukushima
Founded:	1983
Defunct:	2007
Also Known as:	Nihon Telenet, Nippon Telenet

Telenet Japan Co., Ltd. (株式会社日本テレネット Kabushiki-gaisha Nihon Terenetto^?) was a Japanese video games and software developer founded in October 1983 by Kazuyuki Fukushima. Responsible of the birth and death of the Valis series and many other game series.

History[]

Their first game was a single racing game called American Truck for the home computers MSX and PC-88. It started developing mostly platformer and RPG games for such systems and the success of some of them lead consequently to console adaptions. They were allied with NEC thus releasing most of their games for the PC-Engine CD/Turbografx-CD and later for Sega's Mega Drive/Genesis; thus some of them arrived in America, although most of them remained in Japan. This lead to the foundation of their American Publisher, Renovation Games, which years after was acquired by Sega. Other known subsidiaries of Telenet were Riot, Wolfteam and Shin Nihon Laser Soft.

Through the years after the 90s most of Telenet Japan's games were ports of other common games with poor quality that didn't sell too much leading the company to a crisis where it was decided to resurrect the Valis series and Arcus series by giving their rights to Eants in order to make adult themed visual novels with the characters of such series and save the company. But nothing went as planned and finally the company closed its doors in 2007.

Games List[]

Published[]

Game Boy
- Pachinko CR: Daiku no Gen-San GB
Game Gear
- Zan Gear
Mega Drive/Genesis
Mega-CD
MSX
- Sa-Zi-Ri
- Valis II
- Albatross Tournament Golf
- American Truck
- Exile
Nintendo 64
- Parlor Pro Pachinko
PC
PlayStation
- Cybernetic Empire
PlayStation 2
- Enjoy Golf!
- Mahjong Party: Idol to Mahjong Shoubu
Super Famicom/Super NES
PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16/TurboGrafx
Sharp X68000

Developed[]

Mega Drive/Genesis
- Beast Wrestler
- Exile
- Gaiares
- Syd of Valis
- Traysia
- Valis III
MSX
- Valis
- Valis II
Nintendo 64
- Parlor Pro Pachinko
GameCube
- WaiWai Golf (a.k.a. Swingerz Golf, Ace Golf)
PlayStation 2
- Enjoy Golf! (a.k.a. Eagle Eye Golf)
- Mahjong Party: Idol to Mahjong Shoubu
PC
- Meccha Golf
Super Famicom/Super NES
PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16/TurboGrafx
- Avenger
- Babel
- Browning
- Columns
- Cosmic Fantasy
- Cosmic Fantasy II
- Cosmic Fantasy Visual Collection
- Cosmic Fantasy III
- Cosmic Fantasy IV-Chapter 1
- Cosmic Fantasy IV-Chapter 2
- Death Bringer-Knight of Darkness
- Dekoboko Densetsu Hashiru Wagamanma
- Exile
- Exile: Wicked Phenomenon
- Final Zone II
- F1 Team Simulation Project F
- Golden Axe
- High Grenadier
- Jantei Monogatari
- Kiaiden 00
- Lady Phantom
- Last Alert
- Legion
- Maho Shoujo Silky Lip
- Meikyu no Elfeene
- Mirai Shounen Conan
- Valis: The Fantasm Soldier
- Valis II
- Valis III
- Valis IV
- Valis Visual Collection
- Police Connection
- Pop 'n Magic
- Psychic Storm
- Puzzle Boy
- Sugoroku '92 Nari Tore Nariagari Trendy
- Super Albatross
- Tenshi No Uta
- Tenshi No Uta II Da Tenshi no Sentaku
- Travel Epuru
- Xak I & II

Gallery[]

Trivia[]

Although most of its games were never released officially/translated in America, it still won the devotion of a select group of American cultists.
Telenet's entire game catalog was acquired by Sunsoft in 2009, years after Telenet's shutdown.
It's unknown why Telenet stopped making games of their most known franchises until its economical crisis in 2006.