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Asmik Ace Entertainment Inc. (アスミック・エースエンタテインメント, Asumikku Ēsu Entateinmento^?) was formed in 1997 through a merger between the Asmik Corporation and Ace Entertainment, both of Japan. The name Asmik comes from its three founding companies: Ask, Sumitomo and Kodansha. The company is headquartered on the third floor of the Lapiross Roppongi building in Minato, Tokyo.^[1]

Asmik Corporation was founded in 1985 as a subsidiary to the Sumitomo Corporation of Japan. Its focus was in the area of video games for the video game console market, specifically the NES. It quickly moved on to distribute motion pictures in Japan, and won several awards for doing so. It once had a North American subsidiary, Asmik Corporation of America.^{[citation needed]}

Ace Pictures Inc. was founded in 1981 as a division of Nippon Herald Films to produce Japanese films and distribute foreign art films. Several of its pictures earned awards and hold positions as some of the highest grossing films in Japan.

Asmik Ace Entertainment has produced games for the PlayStation, Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, PC Engine, Nintendo 64 and Nintendo GameCube, and distributes high quality films for the Japanese movie market.

Asmik Ace Entertainment also distributes a number of films from DreamWorks in Japanese theaters.

[edit] Video games

Asmik had a mascot named Boomer (Asmik-kun in Japan), which was featured in several video games.

• Air Diver (Mega Drive)
• Asmik-kun Land (Famicom)
• Asmik-kun World 2 (Game Boy)
• Astro Troop Vanark (PlayStation)
• Battle Zeque Den (Super Famicom)
• Bogey Dead 6 (PlayStation)
• Boomer's Adventure in ASMIK World (Asmik-Kun World)
• Conquest of the Crystal Palace
• Cosmic Epsilon
• Cutie Suzuki Ringside Angel (Mega Drive)
• Deep Dungeon IV
• D-Force (SNES)
• Dimension Force (Super Famicom)
• Dokapon DX (Nintendo GameCube & PlayStation 2)
• Gambler Jiko Chuushinha
• Gambler Jiko Chuushinha 2
• Hunter Lime Special Collection Vol 2 (PlayStation)
• Jumping Kid (Japan only - planned US release as Jack and the Beanstalk)
• Jūōki (port of arcade game known outside of Japan as Altered Beast)
• LSD (video game) (PlayStation)
• Lupin Sansei: Umi ni Kieta Hihou (Nintendo GameCube)
• Meimon! Tako Nishiouendan
• Mysterium
• Nippon Ichi no Nakantoku
• Oh No! (PlayStation)
• Power Drift (PC Engine)
• Rhythm N Face (PlayStation)
• Shinobi (PC Engine)
• Sidewinder (PlayStation)
• Sidewinder 2 (PlayStation)
• Super Air Diver 2 (SNES)
• Super Boy Allan (Famicom Disk System) (published by Sunsoft)
• Super Hydlide (Mega Drive)
• The Ring: Terror's Realm (Dreamcast)
• Verytex (Mega Drive)
• Virtual Pro Wrestling 2 (Nintendo 64)
• Xardion (Super Famicom)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Asmik Ace Entertainment
• Asmik Ace Entertainment (Japanese)