Nihon Bussan

[4] In March 2014, Nihon Bussan sold its video game library to Hamster Corporation due to the decision of original founder Sueharu Torii to retire.

[7] The same year, Nihon Bussan settled with Taito by paying a license fee to launch a clone of Space Invaders titled Moon Base.

[10] In 1983, the company developed Jangou Night which features the industry's first undressing elements and established the genre of strip mahjong games.

[12] From the mid-1980s, Nihon Bussan released Terra Cresta and Cosmo Police Galivan that made use of Yamaha YM3812 FM sound.

Nihon Bussan began releasing games for the Mega Drive in 1991, SNES in 1992, Sony PlayStation in 1995 and for the Sega Saturn in 1996.

In March 2009, the company partnered with D4 Enterprise to reprint and distribute Nihon Bussan retro games for its Project EGG service.

Nichibutsu sponsored the Lotus F1 team from 1991 to 1993; pictured is the Lotus 102D bearing their logo.