Nissho Iwai

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Nissho Iwai
Founded: 1968[1]
Merged with: Nichimen Co., Ltd.
Headquarters:
Japan

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Nissho Iwai Co., Ltd. (日商岩井株式会社) was a Japanese trading company, electronics manufacturer, and video game distributor.

Company

Nissho Iwai is notable for assisting Sega with development of the early internet gameplay service XBAND.

In the early 1990s, Sega awarded Nissho Iwai the product distribution rights for Hungary, Poland, Russia, Commonwealth of Independent States and possibly other Eastern Bloc countries.

In 2004, Nissho Iwai and fellow trading company Nichimen Co., Ltd. (ニチメン株式会社) merged to form Sojitz Co., Ltd. (双日株式会社).

Countries

Nissho Iwai has distributed video game products to the following countries.

Manuals

Posters

Poster-catalog added to Mega Drive in Hungarian, Russian and Polish.

External links

References

  1. https://www.sojitz.com/history/en/company/nisshoiwai/
  2. Seen at Playbox 96 event on the left side of the photo [1]
  3. Seen at Playbox 96 event on the left side of the photo [2]