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MileStone Inc.

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Defunct
  
March 21, 2013

Products
  
video games

Founded
  
22 April 2003

Total assets
  
10 million JPY

Area served
  
Japan, Vietnam

Headquarters
  
Minato, Tokyo, Japan

Ceased operations
  
March 21, 2013

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Industry
  
Video games Entertainment

Key people
  
Takashi Fujiya (MileStone Vietnam president)

Subsidiaries
  
MileStone Vietnam Co., Ltd

Number of employees
  
16 (as of October 16, 2006)

MileStone Inc. (株式会社マイルストーン) was a Japanese arcade videogame developer, made up mostly of arcade developers who left Compile to form their own company. They were best known for shoot 'em up games developed for the Dreamcast (after the console's official discontinuation) and its arcade counterpart, the Sega NAOMI.

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In March 2013, Hiroshi Kimura, the president of MileStone, was arrested for violations of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act for his activities while selling shares of a new company called MS Bio Energy. Both companies closed as a result.

Subsidiaries

MileStone Vietnam Co. Ltd. was established on August 1, 2007, an authorized game software developer by Nintendo of America.

Console Games

Notes

^a Originally scheduled for release in North America but ultimately canceled
^b Compilation
^c Originally scheduled for release in North America and Europe but ultimately canceled
^d Included as part of the Milestone Sound Collection package.

References

MileStone Inc. Wikipedia