Spike (company)

Spike Co., Ltd.
Native name	株式会社スパイク
Company type	Kabushiki gaisha
Industry	Video games
Founded	December 1989 (as Mizuki); April 1997 (as Spike)
Defunct	April 1, 2012
Fate	Merged with Chunsoft
Successor	Spike Chunsoft
Headquarters	Meguro, Tokyo, Japan
Key people	Mitsutoshi Sakurai (Spike, president); Kiyonori Sawada (Mizuki, president); Maki Kimura (director); Hiroyuki Kaneko (director); Junko Yaguchi (auditor); Koichiro Matsumoto (auditor);
Products	Fire Pro Wrestling series; Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi series; Danganronpa series; Conception series;
Revenue	¥60 million (2012)
Number of employees	99 (2011)
Parent	Dwango
Website	spike.co.jp at the Wayback Machine (archived March 12, 2012)

Spike Co., Ltd. (株式会社スパイク, Kabushiki-gaisha Supaiku) was a Japanese video game developer and publisher. Most of the staff were part of Human Entertainment.^[3] Human's Fire Pro Wrestling series was acquired by Spike after Human ceased operations. In April 2012, the company merged with Chunsoft to become Spike Chunsoft.

^ SPIKE：会社案内：概要 (in Japanese). spike.co.jp. Archived from the original on October 13, 2005. Retrieved August 28, 2023.
^ ^a ^b 株式会社スパイク | 会社情報 | 会社概要 (in Japanese). spike.co.jp. Archived from the original on February 24, 2012. Retrieved August 28, 2023.
^ Szczepaniak, John (2015). The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers. S.M.G. Szczepaniak. p. 266. ISBN 9780992926007. OCLC 890601504.

[spike_info_2005-1] SPIKE：会社案内：概要 (in Japanese). spike.co.jp. Archived from the original on October 13, 2005. Retrieved August 28, 2023.

[spike_info-2] 株式会社スパイク | 会社情報 | 会社概要 (in Japanese). spike.co.jp. Archived from the original on February 24, 2012. Retrieved August 28, 2023.

[3] Szczepaniak, John (2015). The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers. S.M.G. Szczepaniak. p. 266. ISBN 9780992926007. OCLC 890601504.

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