NMK (company)

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Nihon Maicom Kaihatsu
Company typeVideogame, Electro-mechanical
FoundedMay 1985
Defunct1999

Nihon Maicom Kaihatsu, better known as NMK, was a Japanese video game developer that created various arcade games and shoot 'em ups. Founded in May 1985, the company is best known for its Neo Geo title, Zed Blade , which the Japanese publisher Hamster Corporation owned the rights to when they released it on their ACA Neo Geo lineup in 2017. In March 2021, several other NMK games began appearing on their Arcade Archives series of re-releases, beginning with Thunder Dragon. Other titles from the company, such as Saboten Bombers , Hacha Mecha Fighter, Gunnail and Thunder Dragon 2 started appearing afterwards.

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