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SUMMARY OF OUR BUSINESS OUTLINE HISTORY
SUMMARY OF OUR BUSINESS

Since the foundation of Artdink on 1986, typified by "Take the A Train" series or "Lunatic Dawn" series, we have produced various kinds of games and offered to many customers.

Our years of cultivated experience and technology has received high commendation from various quarters through the game which we have developed.

In these years, in addition to our 20 years of experience and technology, with "reliability", we are putting more effort on not only development in-house, but order initiated development.

Starting with the game companies of here and abroad, to meet the needs of companies where produces digital contents, we are developing software on various kinds of platforms such as Microsoft Windows, PlayStation, PlayStation2 and mobile phone.

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company name ARTDINK CORPORATION
established April 21, 1986
president Tatsuo Nagahama
business contents Game software development and distribution. Application software development and distribution
location YS Bldg 1F, 1-2-13 Tsukishima Chuo-ku,Tokyo 104-0052, Japan
(TEL) +81-3-6219-7060
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HISTORY
1986
ARTDINK CORPORATION was incorporated on 21 April.
The head office was located in Narashino-city,Chiba.
The first title "Take the A Train" was published.
1990
Received The Best Hit Software Award for "Take the A Train III".
1991
Received The Best Hit Software Grand Award for "Take the A Train III".
The head office was moved to Mihama, Chiba.
The first development division was established in Mihama,Chiba.
1992
"Take the A Train" was localized and published in the United States as "A Train".
"A Train" was awarded The Best of 1992 Software Products and Best Strategy Game of 1992 in the United States.
1993
Zest Corporation (An advertising agent) was established in April.
Received the Great Excellent Award in the Game Software section of Japanese Software Award For "Take the A Train IV".
1994
Received the LOGIN Award of Japanese Software Award for "Lunatic Dawn".
1995
Received the NIKKEI Personal Computer Best Software in Windows Game Division for "A.IV for Windows".
Zest Corporation established publishing division and started to sell strategy guide books.
1996
Received the Excellent Award of Japanese Software Award in Entertainment Software Section for "Aquanaut's Holiday".
1997
Reformed personnel management system was introduced in October.
1998
The head office was moved to Makuhari, Chiba in August.
1999
Starting Middleware business.
2000
Entry to the PS2 market with "A6".
PS2 software development support tool "Agatha" was released.
2001
Released "TV ware Information Revolution series".
2002
The head office was moved to Tsukishima, Tokyo in March.
2006
Released "take the A Train HX for Xbox360".
2008
Released "take the A Train 8 for Windows".
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