Milestone

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Milestone
Founded: 2003-04-22
Defunct: 2013
T-series code: T-478
Headquarters: Suginami-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Milestone Inc. (株式会社マイルストーン) was a developer of shoot-'em-ups founded by Compile employees shortly after the company's downfall, headed by Hiroshi Kimura. A majority of Milestone's games were made for Sega's NAOMI platform and later ported to platforms such as the Sega Dreamcast, Nintendo GameCube, and Nintendo Wii. In fact, they would live up to their name — releasing the last officially licensed Dreamcast game, a port of Karous.

In early 2013, Kimura was arrested for illegal activities involving securities after using Milestone to fund a bioenergy firm, MS Bio Energy, and Milestone subsequently shut down. Their intellectual property (or at least just Radirgy and Karous) seems to have been purchased by another Japanese developer named Klon, later by RS38 after Klon shut down.

Softography

NAOMI

• Illmatic Envelope (2008) (as Milestone)
• Radirgy Noa (2009) (as Milestone)
• Project Cerberus (unreleased) (as Milestone)

NAOMI GD-ROM

• Chaos Field (2004) (as Milestone)
• Radirgy (2005) (as Milestone)
• Karous (2006) (as Milestone)

Dreamcast

• Chaos Field (2004) (as Milestone)
• Radirgy (2006) (as Milestone)
• Karous (2007) (as Milestone)

PlayStation 2

• Puyo Puyo Fever 2 (2005) (as Milestone)

Nintendo DS

• Puyo Pop Fever (2004) (as Milestone)
• Puyo Puyo Fever 2 (2005) (as Milestone)

PlayStation Portable

• Puyo Puyo Fever 2 (2005) (as Milestone)

Wii

• Illmatic Envelope (2008) (as Milestone)

External links

• Official website: Japanese
• Interview with Hiroshi Kimura (French)