Line #8 Creator/Irem


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3	International Rental Electronics Machines, otherwise known as Irem, is a Japanese video game console developer and publisher, and formerly a developer and manufacturer of arcade games as well. The company has its headquarters in Hakusan, Ishikawa Prefecture.
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5	The company is probably best known for ''VideoGame/MoonPatrol'', the famous scrolling shooter ''VideoGame/RType'' and the earliest beat 'em up, ''VideoGame/KungFuMaster''. They have been a popular developer in Japan, with games like ''VideoGame/GekiboGekishaBoy'' for the [=TurboGrafx=]-16 and ''In the Hunt'' for the arcades, Platform/SegaSaturn, Platform/PlayStation, and PC. Irem is also known for making their arcade games extremely difficult, and most of them feature a dip switch that allows you to play a "no death mode" as a result, in order to allow gamers to be able to complete their tough games.
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7	Irem stopped making arcade games when the original company went bankrupt in 1994, after which some of their employees went to Nazca and Creator/{{Banpresto}}; a new corporation named Irem Software Engineering was organized three years later.
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9	As a result of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, Irem canceled the majority of its remaining video game projects, including ''VideoGame/ZettaiZetsumeiToshi 4: Summer Memories'' and ''Poncotsu Roman Daikatsugeki Bumpy Trot 2''. Irem re-focused to become primarily a slot-machine and pachinko developer, the industry it was in before turning to video games. Its video game division was dissolved in April 2011 and many Irem designers, including producer Kazuma Kujo, gathered to form a new company called Granzella to reclaim Irem's video game IP and continue making video games. Since then, Irem is pretty much InNameOnly, focused on developing Pachinko and Pachi-slot machines and adaptations.
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11	!!Irem games with Website/TVTropes pages:
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13	[[index]]
14	* ''VideoGame/BladeMaster''
15	* ''VideoGame/{{Bomberman}}'' (arcade version)
16	* ''VideoGame/DeadlyTowers''
17	* ''VideoGame/DisasterReport''
18	* ''VideoGame/DragonBreed''
19	* ''VideoGame/FireBarrel''
20	* ''VideoGame/GekiboGekishaBoy''
21	* ''VideoGame/TheGuardianLegend'' (developed by Creator/{{Compile}}, published by Irem)
22	* The ''VideoGame/GunForce'' duology
23	* ''VideoGame/HammerinHarry''
24	* ''VideoGame/InTheHunt''
25	* ''VideoGame/KickleCubicle''
26	* ''VideoGame/KidNikiRadicalNinja''
27	* ''VideoGame/KungFuMaster''
28	* ''VideoGame/LethalThunder''
29	* ''VideoGame/LodeRunner'' (arcade version)
30	* ''VideoGame/MetalStorm''
31	* ''VideoGame/MoonPatrol''
32	* ''VideoGame/MysticRiders''
33	* ''VideoGame/NinjaBaseballBatMan''
34	* ''VideoGame/NinjaSpirit''
35	* ''VideoGame/RockyRodent''
36	* ''VideoGame/RType''
37	* ''VideoGame/{{Spelunker}}'' (arcade and NES versions)
38	* ''VideoGame/SteambotChronicles''
39	* ''VideoGame/TropicalAngel''
40	* ''VideoGame/UndercoverCops''
41	* ''VideoGame/{{Vigilante}}''
42	* ''World War III'' (known as ''Red Alert'', not the Westwood [[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert title]])
43	* ''VideoGame/ZettaiZetsumeiToshi''
44	[[/index]]

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