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Nissho Iwai

Founded: 1968^[1]

Merged with: Nichimen Co., Ltd.

Headquarters:

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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 like Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Commonwealth of Independent States and possibly others. They also had contract for other regions were Sega wasn't distributing video games directly like Latin America (besides 4 countries of Mercosur where Sega had Tec Toy). They withdrew from the contract in late 1995/early 1996 when regional Sega offices took all the 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).

Softography

Manuals

Nissho Iwai added monolingual instructions for each country. These are manuals where they are credited:

Mega Drive I ???
Mega Drive II
Master System I ???
Master System II
Game Gear
Mega CD II
Mega Drive 32X
Saturn ???

Posters

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

Hungarian (Mega Drive)
Hungarian (Master System II/Game Gear)
Russian (Mega Drive)
Russian (Master System II/Game Gear)
Polish (Mega Drive)^[2]
Polish (Master System II/Game Gear)^[3]

Promotional material

Poland

Print advert in Video Club (PL) #18: "03/1992" (1992-xx-xx)

Print advert in Video Club (PL) #29: "02/1993" (1993-xx-xx)

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)

External links

Official website (Sojitz) (Japanese)

References

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

[https:.2F.2Fwww.sojitz.com.2Fhistory.2Fen.2Fcompany.2Fnisshoiwai.2F-1] ttps://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]

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 ==Company==
-In the late 1980s/early 1990s, Nissho Iwai became [[Sega]]'s agent for Eastern Bloc countries like [[History of Sega in Czechia|Czechia]], [[History of Sega in Slovakia|Slovakia]], [[History of Sega in Hungary|Hungary]], [[History of Sega in Poland|Poland]], [[History of Sega in Russia|Russia]], [[wikipedia:Commonwealth of Independent States|Commonwealth of Independent States]] and possibly other. They also had contract for other regions were Sega wasn't distributing video games directly like Latin America (besides 4 countries of Mercosur where Sega had [[Tec Toy]]). They withdrew from the contract in late 1995/early 1996 when regional [[Sega]] offices took all the duties.
+In the late 1980s/early 1990s, Nissho Iwai became [[Sega]]'s agent for Eastern Bloc countries like [[History of Sega in Czechia|Czechia]], [[History of Sega in Slovakia|Slovakia]], [[History of Sega in Hungary|Hungary]], [[History of Sega in Poland|Poland]], [[History of Sega in Russia|Russia]], [[wikipedia:Commonwealth of Independent States|Commonwealth of Independent States]] and possibly others. They also had contract for other regions were Sega wasn't distributing video games directly like Latin America (besides 4 countries of Mercosur where Sega had [[Tec Toy]]). They withdrew from the contract in late 1995/early 1996 when regional [[Sega]] offices took all the duties.
 Nissho Iwai is notable for assisting [[Sega]] with development of the early internet gameplay service [[XBAND]].