Fill-in-Cafe
{{short description|Japanese video game developer (1987–1998)}}
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{{Infobox company
| name = Fill-in-Cafe
| logo = FillinCafe logo.png
| logo_caption = The second and last logo
| type =
| genre =
| fate = Defunct
| predecessor =
| successor =
| foundation = 1987 (as Team Cross Wonder)
| founder =
| defunct = 1998
| location = Japan
| area_served = Japan
| key_people = Masatoshi Imaizumi
Kanta Watanabe
Masaki Ukyo
Keishi Yonao
| industry = Video games
| products = Asuka 120%
Mad Stalker: Full Metal Forth
| services =
}}
{{nihongo|Fill-in-Cafe|フィルインカフェ}} was a video game developer that was founded in Japan in 1987. They are best known for creating the Asuka 120% series.
History
In 1987, Fill-in-Cafe was founded as Team Cross Wonder, and later renamed itself as "Fill-in-Cafe" in 1989 and incorporated in 1991. They first developed Metal Sight for the Sharp X68000 under the Team Cross Wonder label, followed by developing Neural Gear under the Fill-in-Cafe label.{{cite magazine|last=Milne|first=Rory|title=Minority Report Special: Sharp X68000 - Metal Sight|magazine=Retro Gamer|issue=126|publisher=Imagine Publishing|date=March 2014|page=52}}{{cite book|last=Szczepaniak|first=John|title=Toshinobu KONDO - All about Fill-in-Café and the creation of Umihara Kawase|work=The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers: Volume 2|publisher=S.M.G. Szczepaniak|date=4 November 2015|pages=352–357|isbn=978-1518818745}} Later, they hired several more companies like Intec and Family Soft to publish their products. In 1994, they became successful with the release of the Asuka 120% BURNING Fest. franchise, as well as with Mad Stalker: Full Metal Forth and its multiple versions.
In 1998, Fill-in-Cafe filed for bankruptcy. Some planned titles were canceled, such as a sequel to Panzer Bandit and an untitled, enhanced arcade port of the Asuka 120% BURNING Fest. Limited with Kaneko being the arcade publisher. Shortly afterward, Success Corporation took charge of developing Asuka 120% BURNING Fest. Final and Asuka 120% BURNING Fest. Return after their relationship with Fill-in-Cafe and Datam Polystar in developing and publishing titles together, such as Makeruna! Makendō 2: Kimero Youkai Souri for instance.
After bankruptcy, Family Soft bought the rights to most of its developed library, including their only three self-released titles: Community POM, Wakusei Koukitai Little Cats and Rose Crusaders (the latter was the first game of Noise Factory, a subsidiary company of Atlus and SNK).
Developed titles
=[[3DO Interactive Multiplayer|3DO]]=
- Sotsugyou II: Neo Generation Special (Shar Rock)
- Tanjou: Debut Pure (Shar Rock)
=[[Arcade game|Arcade]]=
- Jan Jan Paradise (Electro Design)
- Taisen Idol Mahjong Final Romance 2 (Video System)
=[[Sharp X68000]]=
- Mission: Metal Sight (System Sacom)
- Neural Gear (Crossmedia Soft)
- Pitapat (Crossmedia Soft)
- Mad Stalker: Full Metal Forth (Family Soft)
- Asuka 120% BURNING Fest (Family Soft)
=[[FM Towns]]=
- Mad Stalker: Full Metal Force (Family Soft)
- Asuka 120% Excellent BURNING Fest (Family Soft)
=[[Sony PlayStation]]=
- Asuka 120% Excellent BURNING Fest (Family Soft)
- Asuka 120% Special BURNING Fest Special (Family Soft)
- Community POM (Fill in Cafe)
- Elfin Paradise (ASK Kodansha)
- Hatsukoi Valentine (Family Soft)
- Mad Stalker: Full Metal Force (Family Soft)
- Makeruna! Makendō 2: Kimero Youkai Souri (Datam Polystar)
- Metamor Panic: Doki Doki Youma Busters (Family Soft)
- Night Striker (Ving)
- PAL: Shinken Densetsu (Tohoku Shinsha)
- Panzer Bandit (Banpresto)
- Photo Genic (Sunsoft)
- Voice Paradise Excella (ASK Kodansha)
=Pc engine Scdrom2.=
- Asuka 120% Maxima: BURNING Fest (Family Soft)
- Championship Rally (Intec)
- Gain Ground SX (graphics cooperation) (NEC Avenue)
- Galaxy Deka Gayvan (Intec)
- Kakutou Haou Densetsu Algunos (Intec)
- Mad Stalker: Full Metal Force (co-developed by Kogado Studio) (NEC Home Electronics)
- Ruin: Kami no Isan (Victor)
=[[PC-98]]=
- Crasher Joe: Kanraku Wakusei no Inbou (Family Soft)
- Kidou Senshi Gundam MS Field 2 '92 (Family Soft)
- Kidou Senshi Gundam MS Field 2 '93 (Family Soft)
- ''Photo Genic (Sunsoft)
- Yamashina Keisuke no Sengoku (Takeru)
=[[PC-FX]]=
- Makeruna! Makendou Z (NEC Home Electronics)
- Ojousama Sousamou (NEC Home Electronics)
- Voice Paradise (NEC Home Electronics)
=[[Sega Saturn]]=
- Asuka 120% Limited BURNING Fest (ASK Kodansha)
- Night Striker S (Ving)
- Asuka 120% LimitOver BURNING Fest (Unofficial)
=[[Super Nintendo Entertainment System|Super NES]]=
- Kiteretsu Daihyakka: Chōjikū Sugoroku (Video System)
=[[Windows]]=
- Metamor Panic: Doki Doki Youma Busters (Family Soft)
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/19980114025246/http://www.fillincafe.co.jp/ Official website] (archived)
- [http://www.mobygames.com/company/fill-in-caf-co-ltd Fill-in-Cafe] at MobyGames
Category:Video game publishers
Category:Video game companies established in 1987
Category:Video game companies disestablished in 2000
Category:Defunct video game companies of Japan
Category:Video game development companies