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. It's computer division was known as Nissho Iwai Infocom

Company

In the late 1980s/early 1990s, Nissho Iwai became Sega's agent for Eastern Bloc countries. The full list of countries from this region where the company had influence is not certain, but it was confirmed thatthey for sure involved in Sega releated stuff in Hungary, Poland, Russia, Commonwealth of Independent States and possibly other. They withdrew from the contract in late 1995/early 1996 when Sega Europe took all duties.

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

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).

Manuals

At some point (1993?), Nissho Iwai started adding trilingual manuals to consoles. Probably before that, they added monolingual instructions for each country.

Posters

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

Promotional materials

Poland

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Print advert in Video Club (PL) #18: "03/1992" (1992-xx-xx)
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Print advert in Video Club (PL) #29: "02/1993" (1993-xx-xx)
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Print advert in Video Club (PL) #36: "09/1993" (1993-xx-xx)

also published in:

  • Video Club (PL) #37: "10/1993" (1993-xx-xx)
  • Video Club (PL) #38: "11/1993" (1993-xx-xx)
  • Video Club (PL) #39: "12/1993" (1993-xx-xx)
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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]