25 Facts About Atlus

Atlus was established in April 1986 and spent its early years as a video game developer for other companies.

Atlus has three development divisions: Creative Department 1st Production, Creative Department 2nd Production, and Creative Department 3rd Production.

Atlus began on 7 April 1986 as a video game developer of computer games for other companies.

Atlus released the first video game under its own name in 1989: Puzzle Boy for the Game Boy.

Atlus started in the arcade industry in the 1990s by manufacturing its first arcade video game, BlaZeon, in 1992.

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In 1995, Atlus launched Print Club at arcades in partnership with Sega.

Atlus entered the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 1997, listing on the JASDAQ.

In 2000, Atlus formed a joint venture with Kadokawa Shoten to distribute and sell games.

Atlus suffered from deficit financial results in both 1999 and 2000.

In October 2001, Atlus acquired Career Soft, and became the sole publisher of the Growlanser series: a real-time strategy role-playing game from the creators of the Langrisser series.

Atlus became an Index Holdings subsidiary on 29 November 2006.

However, Atlus USA remained active and was renamed Index Digital Media, serving as the North American subsidiary for Index Corporation.

Atlus is one of the companies that has relocated in response to this.

Atlus has three divisions: Creative Department 1st Production, Creative Department 2nd Production, and Creative Department 3rd Production.

Atlus has sued two people related to its long-defunct MMO Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine.

Atlus alleges that their copyright was infringed, as the pair hosted a website that was a near exact copy of Atlus' website and distributed an exact copy of their game Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine.

The court document states that Atlus believes that the 'unauthorized acts as described herein have caused and will continue to cause irreparable damage to Atlus'.

Atlus believes that the pair have violated 17 US C § 50 three times and Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 US C § 1202 once.

Atlus West has localized cult classic Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, created by Nippon Ichi Software.

Atlus have published the tactical role-playing game Tactics Ogre and Game Boy Advance remakes of the Kunio-kun and Double Dragon games for Million.

Atlus USA released Riviera: The Promised Land, a role-playing video game for the Game Boy Advance previously released for the Wonderswan Color, in 2004 in collaboration with Sting and Bandai.

Atlus USA has published games under the Marl Kingdom name, beginning with Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure in 2000.

Until 2017, Atlus did not have a dedicated European division for publishing and distributing their titles within the European and Oceania region.

Atlus has appeared in several games in the Shin Megami Tensei series, as well as the Jack Bros.

Atlus has a family; more relatives were created since Shin Megami Tensei II, including King Frost, Pyro Jack, Frost 5 Senshi and Black Frost.

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