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38-402: Octy may refer to: "Octy" Graham (c. 1885–1927), American football player Octy, a character in the arcade game Baraduke Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Octy . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to

76-678: A patent infringement lawsuit against Koei Tecmo Games at the Osaka District Court for 980 million yen in damage. Capcom claimed Koei Tecmo infringed a patent it obtained in 2002 regarding a play feature in video games. In 2015, the PlayStation 4 version of Ultra Street Fighter IV was pulled from the Capcom Pro Tour due to numerous technical issues and bugs. In 2016, Capcom released Street Fighter V with very limited single player content. At launch, there were stability issues with

114-415: A "reasonably fast, mildly addictive" game, but said it "hasn't got the qualities to take it into the top ten arcade games." In a 2016 retrospective, Federico Tiraboschi of Hardcore Gaming 101 compared the game to Nintendo 's Metroid (1986), noting that Baraduke anticipated several elements of Metroid . He said "in both you play as a faceless space soldier in a bright-colored suit who travels inside

152-618: A boy. A Paccet (which is a small, round yellow alien with only one eye) appears in the background as a painting in Tales of Destiny . Elle Mel Marta 's backpack in Tales of Xillia 2 is also a Paccet, with a small charm shaped like Kissy attached to it. Paccet makes a cameo in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U as part of Pac-Man's taunt, "Namco Roulette". Capcom Capcom Co., Ltd. ( Japanese : 株式会社カプコン , Hepburn : Kabushiki-gaisha Kapukon ) (stylized as CAPCOM )

190-421: A brief stint in the late 1980s as a video game publisher for Commodore 64 and IBM PC DOS computers, although development of these arcade ports was handled by other companies. Capcom created home video game franchises, including Resident Evil in 1996, while their highest-grossing title is the fighting game Street Fighter II (1991), driven largely by its success in arcades. In the late 1980s, Capcom

228-449: A film of the same name . While commercially successful, it was critically panned. A 2002 adaptation of its Resident Evil series faced similar criticism but was also successful in theaters. The company sees films as a way to build sales for its video games. Capcom debunked rumors that it was leaving the arcade business in 2001. While it did remain in the business in Japan, it gradually left

266-483: A free-range spaceman with a jetpack traversing a number of sectors scrolling both horizontally and vertically," but "in Baraduke the player characters are affected by gravity and their gun's recoil." A sequel titled Bakutotsu Kijūtei was released in 1988, but only in Japan. It was the second game from the company to allow scores not ending in "0" (the first was Hopping Mappy , which was released in 1986). Baraduke

304-476: A maze filled with alien enemies, and a "surprise" reveal of their female protagonists at the end. In the Mr. Driller series of games, Kissy Masuyo is a supporting character under the name Toby Masuyo (they refer to "Kissy" as being her nickname). She has married and divorced Taizo Hori (better known as Dig Dug , the protagonist of the 1982 arcade game of the same name) and they have three children, Susumu Hori (who

342-669: A name change to Sanbi Co., Ltd. in September 1981. On June 11, 1983, Tsujimoto established Capcom Co., Ltd. for the purpose of taking over the internal sales department. In January 1989, Capcom Co., Ltd. merged with Sanbi Co., Ltd., resulting in the current Japan branch. The name Capcom is a clipped compound of " Cap sule Com puters", a term coined by the company for the arcade machines it solely manufactured in its early years, designed to set themselves apart from personal computers that were becoming widespread. "Capsule" alludes to how Capcom likened its game software to "a capsule packed to

380-403: A sprawling complex of caves full of weird alien creatures" and both later reveal the player character to be female. However, he said Baraduke "focuses more on the shooting than the exploration, which is there, but to a minimal extent" compared to Metroid . He also compared Baraduke to Capcom 's Section Z (1985), released later the same year, noting that in "both games the players control

418-404: A steady output of titles. However, following poor sales of Dark Void and Bionic Commando , its management has decided to limit outsourcing to sequels and newer versions of installments in existing franchises, reserving the development of original titles for its in-house teams. The production of games, budgets, and platform support are decided on in development approval meetings, attended by

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456-741: A video system that was also used in Metro-Cross and Dragon Buster (modified to support vertical scrolling and a 2048-color palette). In 1995, ten years after its original arcade release, it was ported to the X68000 , and was also included in the fifth volume of the Namco Museum series on the PlayStation . It also appeared in Namco Museum Virtual Arcade on the Xbox 360 , and most recently, as one of

494-488: Is Kissy and Player 2 is Takky. They must clear eight worlds of increasing difficulty (each one is composed of five regular floors and one boss floor) by using their wave guns to destroy all the enemies populating them. They must also save the one-eyed Paccets for extra points and the chance to earn another shield in the end-of-floor bonus games. On each floor there are a certain number of enemies known as Octy, which will leave power-up capsules behind when defeated. Defeating all

532-657: Is a Japanese video game company . It has created a number of critically acclaimed and multi-million-selling game franchises , with its most commercially successful being Resident Evil , Monster Hunter , Street Fighter , Mega Man , Devil May Cry , Sengoku Basara , Dead Rising , Dragon's Dogma , Ace Attorney , and Marvel vs. Capcom . Established in 1979, it has become an international enterprise with subsidiaries in East Asia ( Hong Kong ), Europe ( London , England ), and North America ( San Francisco , California ). Capcom's predecessor, I.R.M. Corporation,

570-456: Is noted as an early example of a female game protagonist, with her gender being revealed in a "twist" ending. Although the game's primary protagonist, Toby "Kissy" Masuyo, is a woman, the player is led to believe she is a man until her face is revealed in the ending. This predated by one year Samus Aran from Metroid as a human female playable character. The game has been further compared to Metroid for its similarities, as both games feature

608-555: Is the main character of Mr. Driller ), Ataru Hori, and Taiyo Toby. Kissy is also a playable character in the Japan-only tactical role-playing video game Namco x Capcom , where she is teamed up with Hiromi Tengenji from Burning Force . Due to her divorce, she seems to have a grudge against Taizo Hori , who also appears in this game (a reference to the Mr. Driller series). Tron Bonne , from Capcom 's Mega Man Legends game, mistakes her for

646-566: Is traditionally used for new game and business announcements. Capcom started its Street Fighter franchise in 1987. The series of fighting games are among the most popular in their genre. Having sold over 50 million copies, it is one of Capcom's flagship franchises. The company also introduced its Mega Man series in 1987, which has sold over 40 million copies. The company released the first entry in its Resident Evil survival horror series in 1996, which become its most successful game series, selling over 150 million copies. After releasing

684-544: The Super Nintendo Entertainment System as its platform of choice caused them to lag behind other leading publishers in developing 3D-capable arcade boards. Also, the 2D animated cartoon-style graphics seen in games such as Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors and X-Men: Children of the Atom proved popular, leading Capcom to adopt them as a signature style and use them in more games. In 1990, Capcom entered

722-460: The bowling industry with Bowlingo . It was a coin-operated , electro-mechanical , fully automated mini ten-pin bowling installation. It was smaller than a standard bowling alley , designed to be smaller and cheaper for amusement arcades . Bowlingo drew significant earnings in North America upon release in 1990. In 1994, Capcom adapted its Street Fighter series of fighting games into

760-905: The American market in 2003 and closed its arcade subsidiary in March 2004. Capcom partnered with Nyu Media in 2011 to publish and distribute the Japanese independent ( dōjin soft ) games that Nyu localized into the English language. The company works with the Polish localization company QLOC to port Capcom's games to other platforms; notably, examples are DmC: Devil May Cry ' s PC version and its PlayStation 4 and Xbox One remasters, Dragon's Dogma ' s PC version, and Dead Rising ' s version on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. In 2012, Capcom came under criticism for controversial sales tactics, such as

798-621: The Octy on the current floor will open up a pipe at the bottom of the floor, and the player will have to find and enter it in order to proceed to the next one. The boss floors feature a giant enemy (a Blue Worm in Worlds 1, 3, 5 and 7, a Turning Eye in Worlds 2, 4 and 6, and the Octy King himself in World 8) who must be killed in order to proceed to the next world. Baraduke runs on Namco Pac-Land hardware, but with

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836-507: The book's companion CD-ROM . The court filings noted one image file of a metal surface, named ME0009 in Capcom's files, to have the same exact name on the book's CD-ROM. Juracek was seeking over $ 12 million in damages and $ 2,500 to $ 25,000 in false copyright management for each photograph Capcom used. Before a court date could be made, the matter was settled "amicably" in February 2022. It comes on

874-509: The brim with gaming fun", and to the company's desire to protect its intellectual property with a hard outer shell, preventing illegal copies and inferior imitations. Capcom's first product was the medal game Little League (1983). It released its first arcade video game , Vulgus (May 1984). Starting with the arcade hit 1942 (1984), they began designing games with international markets in mind. The successful 1985 arcade games Commando and Ghosts 'n Goblins have been credited as

912-647: The company management and the marketing, sales and quality control departments. Although the company often relies on existing franchises, it has also published and developed several titles for the Xbox 360 , PlayStation 3 , and Wii based on original intellectual property: Lost Planet: Extreme Condition , Dead Rising , Dragon's Dogma , Asura's Wrath , and Zack and Wiki . During this period, Capcom also helped publish several original titles from up-and-coming Western developers, including Remember Me , Dark Void , and Spyborgs , titles other publishers were not willing to gamble on. Other games of note are

950-639: The development process was reformed to better share technologies and expertise, and the individual studios were gradually restructured into bigger departments responsible for different tasks. While there are self-contained departments for the creation of arcade, pachinko and pachislot, online, and mobile games, the Consumer Games R&;D Division is an amalgamation of subsections in charge of game development stages. Capcom has two internal Consumer Games Development divisions: In addition to these teams, Capcom commissions outside development studios to ensure

988-471: The game's network that booted players mid-game even when they were not playing in an online mode. Street Fighter V failed to meet its sales target of 2 million in March 2016. On January 28, 2019, Capcom announced that Sega would take over technical services for its arcade games starting in April. On November 2, 2020, the company reported that its servers were affected by ransomware , scrambling its data, and

1026-512: The games available in Pac-Man's Pixel Bash . In Japan, Game Machine listed Baraduke on their September 1, 1985 issue as being the fifteenth most-successful table arcade unit of the month. Clare Edgeley of Computer and Video Games reviewed the arcade game in October 1985. She said there's "not much in the way of graphics" or "a story line", but "there's plenty of blasting material." She called it

1064-467: The group. Capcom affirmed that no credit-card or other sensitive financial information was obtained in the hack. In 2021, Capcom removed appearances of the Rising Sun Flag from their rerelease of Street Fighter II . Although Capcom did not provide an official explanation for the flag's removal, due to the flag-related controversy, it is speculated that it was done so to avoid offending segments of

1102-868: The heels of Capcom being accused by Dutch movie director Richard Raaphorst of copying the monster design of his movie Frankenstein's Army into their game Resident Evil Village . In February 2022, it was reported by Bloomberg that Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund had purchased a 5% stake in Capcom, for an approximate value of US$ 332 million. In July 2023, Capcom acquired Tokyo-based computer graphics studio Swordcanes Studio. In July 2024, Capcom acquired Taiwan-based computer graphics studio Minimum Studios. In its beginning few years, Capcom's Japan branch had three development groups referred to as "Planning Rooms", led by Tokuro Fujiwara , Takashi Nishiyama and Yoshiki Okamoto . Later, games developed internally were created by several numbered "Production Studios", each assigned to different games. Starting in 2002,

1140-647: The implementation of disc-locked content, which requires players to pay for additional content that is already available within the game's files, most notably in Street Fighter X Tekken . The company defended the practice. It has also been criticized for other business decisions, such as not releasing certain games outside of Japan (most notably the Sengoku Basara series), abruptly cancelling anticipated projects (most notably Mega Man Legends 3 ), and shutting down Clover Studio . On August 27, 2014, Capcom filed

1178-403: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Octy&oldid=933025326 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Baraduke#Gameplay The player takes control of a spacewoman in a biohazard suit. Player 1

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1216-505: The international gaming community. Artist and author Judy A. Juracek filed a lawsuit in June 2021 against Capcom for copyright infringement . In the court filings, she asserted Capcom had used images from her 1996 book Surfaces in their cover art and other assets for Resident Evil 4 , Devil May Cry and other games. This was discovered due to the 2020 Capcom data breach, with several files and images matching those that were included within

1254-563: The products "that shot [Capcom] to 8-bit silicon stardom" in the mid-1980s. Starting with Commando (late 1985), Capcom began licensing their arcade games for release on home computers , notably to British software houses Elite Systems and U.S. Gold in the late 1980s. Beginning with a Nintendo Entertainment System port of 1942 (published in Dec. 1985), the company ventured into the market of home console video games, which would eventually become its main business. The Capcom USA division had

1292-552: The second entry in the Resident Evil series, Capcom began a Resident Evil game for PlayStation 2 . As it was significantly different from the existing series' games, Capcom decided to spin it into its own series, Devil May Cry . The first three entries were exclusively for PlayStation 2; further entries were released for non- Sony consoles. The entire series has sold over 30 million copies. Capcom began its Monster Hunter series in 2004, which has sold over 100 million copies on

1330-472: The threat actors, the Ragnar Locker hacker group, had allegedly stolen 1TB of sensitive corporate data and were blackmailing Capcom to pay them to remove the ransomware. By mid-November, the group began putting information from the hack online, which included contact information for up to 350,000 of the company's employees and partners, as well as plans for upcoming games, indicating that Capcom opted to not pay

1368-1322: The titles Ōkami , Ōkamiden , and Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective . Capcom Co., Ltd.'s head office building and R&D building are in Chūō-ku , Osaka . The parent company also has a branch office in the Shinjuku Mitsui Building in Nishi-Shinjuku , Shinjuku , Tokyo ; and the Ueno Facility, a branch office in Iga , Mie Prefecture . The international Capcom Group encompasses 12 subsidiaries in Japan, rest of East Asia, North America, and Europe. In addition to home, online, mobile, arcade, pachinko , and pachislot games, Capcom publishes strategy guides ; maintains its own Plaza Capcom arcade centers in Japan; and licenses its franchise and character properties for tie-in products, movies, television series, and stage performances. Suleputer , an in-house marketing and music label established in cooperation with Sony Music Entertainment Intermedia in 1998, publishes CDs, DVDs, and other media based on Capcom's games. Captivate (renamed from Gamers Day in 2008), an annual private media summit,

1406-439: Was founded on May 30, 1979 by Kenzo Tsujimoto , who was still president of Irem Corporation when he founded I.R.M. He worked at both companies at the same time until leaving Irem in 1983. The original companies that spawned Capcom's Japan branch were I.R.M. and its subsidiary Japan Capsule Computers Co., Ltd., both of which were devoted to the manufacture and distribution of electronic game machines. The two companies underwent

1444-415: Was on the verge of bankruptcy when the development of a strip Mahjong game called Mahjong Gakuen started. It outsold Ghouls 'n Ghosts , the eighth highest-grossing arcade game of 1989 in Japan, and is credited with saving the company from financial crisis. Capcom has been noted as the last major publisher to be committed to 2D games, though it was not entirely by choice. The company's commitment to

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