Cento | ||
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Type of Company | Video games | |
Founder(s) | James Havaman | |
Founded at/in | July 15, 1975 | |
Headquarters | Tokyo, Japan | |
Owner(s) | Yukoi Youazioau | |
Subsidiaries | Cento Comics, Cento R&M |
Cento is an Japanese games company. It is mostly notable for Backy the Germ, it's mascot, which introduced the proper way to control a germs' character. It is also notable for the Cento Master.
Rankings[]
- Largest Japanese company
- Most notable company in American and Japanese culture
Products[]
MES or Little Advice[]
In 1975, Cento launched the Little Advice (colloquialised as "Fmob") home video game console in Japan, alongside ports of its most popular arcade games. In 1976, a cosmetically reworked and fixed version of the system known outside Japan as the My Entertainment System or MES, launched in North America. Backy is often mistaken for his first game to be on this console, because of the 1985 Backy games' unlicensed MES port by J.Y company saying to be "offical". The "offical" thing, that caused a J.Y and cento lawsuit, got the offical footer gone from the MES port.
Master[]
Cento lanuched the Master (more often Cento Master so it won't get confused with other things called master) in 1980. The first known Cento Master game was "Rocketman", "Rocketman 2: The revenge", and "Rocketman 3: The serious revival".