This article is about the company. For the American Standard Code for Information Interchange, see ASCII.
ASCII Corporation
Headquarters in Chiyoda, Tokyo
Native name
株式会社アスキー
Romanized name
Kabushiki-gaisha Asukī
Formerly
ASCII Publishing Co., Ltd. (1977—1982)
Industry
Video games
Founded
May 24, 1977; 46 years ago (1977-05-24)
Founder
Kazuhiko Nishi
Keiichiro Tsukamoto
Defunct
March 31, 2008; 16 years ago (2008-03-31)
Fate
Merged with MediaWorks
Successor
Microsoft Japan
ASCII Media Works
Headquarters
Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
Area served
Japan
Key people
Kiyoshi Takano (president)
Tatsuo Sato (chairman)
Products
Derby Stallion series
RPG Maker series
Monthly ASCII
MSX
Revenue
¥433 million (2006)
Number of employees
197 (2006)
Parent
Sega (1997—2004)
Kadokawa Group Holdings (2004—2008)
Subsidiaries
Astro Arts
Soft Wing
Website
ascii.jpascii.jp (archived)
Footnotes / references "Company Profile" (in Japanese). ASCII Corporation. 2006. Archived from the original on February 17, 2008. Retrieved August 5, 2020.
ASCII Corporation, Ltd.[a] was a Japanese publishing company based in Chiyoda, Tokyo. It became a subsidiary of Kadokawa Group Holdings in 2004, and merged with another Kadokawa subsidiary MediaWorks on April 1, 2008, becoming ASCII Media Works.[1][2] The company published Monthly ASCII as the main publication. ASCII is best known for creating the Derby Stallion video game series, the MSX computer, and the RPG Maker line of programming software.
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^子会社の合併に関するお知らせ (PDF) (in Japanese). Kadokawa Group Holdings. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 8, 2007. Retrieved December 8, 2007.
^"Kadokawa Group to Merge ASCII, MediaWorks Subsidiaries". Anime News Network. October 2, 2007. Archived from the original on April 7, 2008. Retrieved March 30, 2008.
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