Agetec

Agetec is a publisher of software and hardware accessories for the North American video game market. Known Agetec-published titles include King’s Field, The Adventures of Cookie & Cream, Bass Landing, RPG Maker and the Armored Core game series as well as titles found in the A1 Games series. Agetec, Inc. was originally founded in 1991 as ASCII Entertainment Software, Inc., the North American satellite office of ASCII Corporation (Japan). ASCII Entertainment Software, Inc. published a variety of products including hardware and software for dedicated entertainment consoles and LAN support products for the home PC market. To better focus on supporting the interactive entertainment channel in the U.S., Agetec, Inc. was spun off as an independent California corporation in 1998. Agetec, Inc. became a fully independent publisher in 1999 and has since published numerous titles for the PlayStation, PS2, Dreamcast, N64, and Game Boy Color console systems. They were a long-time partner of FromSoftware, handling North American publishing for many of their PlayStation and PlayStation 2 releases. Their last published title was Touch Battle Ninja for the Nintendo 3DS in 2014, after which the company appeared to go dormant. In 2018, all of their releases on the Nintendo eShop were delisted and made unavailable for purchase. Around the same time, their web site (which had not been updated since 2014) changed to a "server default" page, where it has remained since. It is believed they company quietly went out of business some time after 2014.