NEC Avenue


NEC Avenue, Ltd. was a Japanese music and video game publisher part of NEC.

History

NEC Avenue was founded in 1987 as a record label within NEC. NEC Avenue eventually got involved with video games, and secured licenses to produce console versions of arcade titles from Sega and Taito. Toshio Tabeta, the employee responsible for the Sega deal, would later learn that the Sega employee that gave NEC Avenue permission to make arcade ports was scolded. Video game records represented about 10% of NEC Avenue's business in 1994. In October 1995, its game division was spun-off into a new NEC subsidiary named NEC Interchannel. NEC Interchannel took over NEC Avenue's music and game operations in October 1997, then acquired its music subsidiary, NEC Avenue Music Publishing, in March 1998. NEC Avenue was dissolved on January 29, 1999, and NEC Avenue Music Publishing became IC Avenue Music Publishing after Interchannel split from NEC in 2004.

Artists

Video games

The publishing rights of all NEC Avenue titles across the HE System family have been owned by M2 since July 2023.
; PC Engine
; PC Engine SuperGrafx
; CD-ROM²
; Super CD-ROM²
; Arcade CD-ROM²
; PC-98
  • Tanjou Debut
  • Mercurius Pretty
; PC-FX