Kaneko Timeline

This is the timeline so far of Kaneko Seisakusho Co, affiliates and related stuff to their media.

## 1980's

### 1980

* June 25th: Kaneko was founded by Hiroshi Kaneko in the name of Kaneko Elec.

### 1981

* June: Kaneko released their first game, *Red Clash* was licensed by Tecmo and Suntronics in the Arcades.

### 1982

* UA ported Red Clash into the Emersion Arcadia 2001 home console, making it the first Kaneko consumer game. (However it wasn't by Kaneko themselves)

### 1985

* Kaneko's consumer subsidiary, **Inter State** was founded to produce games for home consoles.

### 1989

* December 29th: Inter State released their first game on the PC-Engine of the arcade game, *Heavy Unit*.

## 1990's

### 1990

* January: *Air Buster* was released for the arcades and received highly positive reviews and is sighted as one of their best games. It also started Kaneko's popularity and even began publishing games themselves.
* The first *Gals Panic* game was released and was their main franchises at the time.
* **Kaneko USA** debuted in a village called Buffalo Groove, Illinois. The office was to produce and publish arcade and consumer titles. The first one was *DJ Boy* on the Mega Drive.

### 1993

* October: Kaneko started a European subsidiary called **Kaneko Europe** to publish arcade games in European regions.
* Kaneko set up an agreement with Chugai Boyeki Co to co-produce a 16-bit arcade system.

### 1994

* Kaneko's *Oedo Fight* and *PC Genjin Arcade* games were presented in the Amusement Trades Exhibition Show in Q1 1994.
* July: Kaneko USA has been shut down without a reason, causing several upcoming games to be unpublished. Notable ones are *Socks The Cat: Rocks The Hill* and *Fido Dido*.
* October 24th: Kaneko moved their headquarters into Mitaka City. It's a new six story building that the first two floors is an operating arcade place by Kaneko and the rest is the main development office.

### 1995

* The *Jackie Chan: The Kung Fu Master* arcade game was announced and presented by Kaneko and set for release sometime in this year. They also announced that they'll to return to develop consumer games again, starting with the Super Nintendo.

### 1996

* September 12th: The Super Kaneko Nova System was first announced by Kaneko and the first game was *Gals Panic 4*. Around that time, Kaneko also had developed a 3D board that would generate 400,000 polygons a second.

### 1998

* *Kitty On Your Lap* was the last consumer game released by Kaneko and started develop arcade-only titles.

## 2000's

### 2002

* *Gals Panic S3* was the most recent title by Kaneko and is the last game for the Super Kaneko Nova System.

### 2009

* A mega drive prototype cart of *Fido Dido* is found and is preserved.

## 2010's

### 2016

* A.I.'s unreleased *Wing Force* PCB is found and is listed in MAME arcade emulator.

### 2018

* *Socks The Cat: Rocks The Hill* SNES version gets a new and proper release by Second Dimension via Kickstarter.

## Sources

* Kaneko USA Establishment (Source: Game Machine, December 1st/1990)
* Kaneko Agreement with Chugai, Two Arcade Titles, Kaneko Europe Establishment (Source: Game Machine, March 15th/1994)
* Kaneko moved to Mitaka City (Source: Game Machine, November 15th/1994)
* Kaneko reveals Jackie Chan arcade game and return to consumer development (Source: Game Machine, July 15th/1995)
* Super Kaneko Nova System announced (Source: Game Machine, November 1st/1996)
* Wing Force PCB found (Source: Arcade Heroes, January 9th/2016)