Westone Bit Entertainment Inc.
Native name
Japanese name
Kanji株式会社ウエストン·ビット·エンタテインメント
Formerly
  • Escape
  • Westone
FoundedMay 1986 (1986-05)
FoundersRyuichi Nishizawa Michishito Ishizuka
DefunctOctober 1, 2014 (2014-10-01)
FateBankruptcy liquidation
Headquarters
Sumida, Tokyo
,
Japan
Websitewestone.co.jp

Westone Bit Entertainment Inc. (株式会社ウエストン·ビット·エンタテインメント, Kabushiki-gaisha Uesuton Bitto Entateinmento) was a video game developer founded in May 1986, based in Mukoujima, Sumida-ku, Tokyo. They were most famous for the Wonder Boy/Monster World series. Originally called Escape (エスケープ, Esukēpu), the company was renamed to Westone as the word Escape made them sound unreliable.[1] The company's name was changed yet again to Westone Bit Entertainment in April 2000.[2] The chief publisher was Ryuichi Nishizawa. The company went bankrupt and entered the liquidation process on October 1, 2014.[3]

The Westone name is derived from the first characters of the names of company founders, Ryuuichi Nishizawa (Nishi = West) and Michishito Ishizuka (Ishi = Stone).[1]

Games

References

  1. 1 2 "Monster World Complete Collection manual extracts".
  2. ↑ "Developer Table" (in Japanese).
  3. ↑ "ゲーム開発の（株）ウエストンビットエンタテインメントほか1社が破産開始決定".
  4. ↑ Lopes, Gonçalo (2 February 2016). "Dark Half Review (SNES)". Nintendo Life. Gamer Network. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
  5. ↑ "Clockwork Aquario, cancelled Westone Bit Entertainment arcade game from 1992, coming to PS4 and Switch in 2020". Gematsu. 4 June 2020. Retrieved September 26, 2020.


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