SETA Corporation


SETA Corporation was a Japanese computer gaming company, founded on October 1, 1985 and dissolved on February 9, 2009. Seta was headquartered in Kōtō, Tokyo. The American branch of Seta was located in Las Vegas, Nevada.
As a video game publisher, it made games for the Nintendo Entertainment System, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, and various other systems. It also created development tools for Nintendo's various consoles. It made games in North America but mainly Japan. SETA also developed the arcade system, the Aleck 64 which was based on N64 architecture. Also, SETA co-developed the SSV system.
In 1999, Aruze became the parent company. Seta withdrew from the game business in 2004 after releasing Legend of Golfer on the Nintendo GameCube.
In December 2008, parent company Aruze announced that SETA decided to close shop after 23 years of existence:
SETA closed its doors on January 23, 2009. During a board meeting on February 9, 2009, the company transferred its assets and business to parent Aruze, and SETA Corporation was officially dissolved. SETA Corporation was subsequently liquidated at the Tokyo District Court on May 25, 2009.

Subsidiaries

Former subsidiaries

Nintendo Entertainment System

The Aleck64 is the Nintendo 64 design in arcade form, designed by Seta in cooperation with Nintendo, and sold from 1998 to 2003 only in Japan. It essentially consists of a Nintendo 64 board retrofitted with the sound capabilities which were standard for arcade games of the time. Nintendo and Seta began working on their agreement for the board in 1996, hoping to recreate the business model Namco and Sony Computer Entertainment displayed with the Namco System 11, i.e. to facilitate conversions of arcade games by basing an arcade board on the console hardware.

Games developed