Fujisankei Communications Group
FCI was involved with videogame publishing as well, being one of the early third-party licensees for Nintendo's NES system. Originally, FCI merely published in North America translations of video games that were released in Japan mainly by Pony Canyon, another company from the Fujisankei Communications Group. FCI was well-known at this time for the many RPG and Adventure games they released for the NES as conversions from PC games, such as the "Advanced Dungeons &amp; Dragons" and "Ultima" series. Later, FCI began contracting outside development houses to create original games; examples include "WCW Super Brawl Wrestling" and ', both developed by Beam Software of Australia; ', developed by Iguana Entertainment; and "Metal Morph" and the "Runes of Virtue" titles in the "Ultima" series, both developed by Origin Systems. FCI had a long partnership with Origin, starting when Pony Canyon was hired to translate the Ultima PC games for Japan, strengthening through the conversion of "Ultima III" through "Ultima VII" for the NES and SNES by Pony Canyon/FCI, and continuing through the end of FCI's videogame department; a conversion of Origin's PC game "Wing Commander II" to the SNES was in development for release by FCI when they closed their video games division. In the mid-1990s, FCI abandoned video game distribution to concentrate on television operations.