Video System

Founded in 1984 last activity in 2001
Status: nomoregames
Country: Japan

3.9

per year

aka(s): McO'River

Video System Co., Ltd. (ビデオシステム株式会社?) was a software company that was founded and ran by software designer Koji Furukawa in Kyoto, Japan in December 1984. It was best known for making video game titles for the arcades and other different platforms, including the Super Nintendo, Neo-Geo and Nintendo 64.

They released various different types of arcade games throughout Japan and the U.S., such as Super Formula, the F1 Grand Prix series, Karate Blazers, Tao Taido, Rabbit Punch (known as Rabio Lepus in Japan), Turbo Force, Super Volleyball, and most notably, the Aero Fighters series.

Although Video System's main headquarters opened in Japan, they eventually opened a U.S. branch office. Sometime in 1992, Video System's U.S. office changed its name to McO'River, Inc., and was given the licensing rights to distribute Aero Fighters arcade machines throughout the U.S. In 1993, McO'River was supposed to publish 3 titles of arcade games in the U.S. that were ported over to the Super Famicom in Japan. While Video System developed and published numerous titles in Japan, McO'River would only able to publish 2 of them in the U.S.: Hyper V-Ball in June, 1994; and Aero Fighters in November, 1994.

The third title, F-1 Grand Prix 2, was never released in the U.S. for reasons unknown. McO'River would never publish another title under that name. Video System, meanwhile, released Aero Fighters 2 and 3 for the Neo-Geo, sequels which secured the shooter's success. In 1997, McO'River, Inc. changed its name to Video System U.S.A., Inc.[1] Under that name, the company released Aero Fighters Assault, and F-1 World Grand Prix for the Nintendo 64. A sequel to the latter game was only released in Europe. Shortly before Video System closed its U.S. office sometime between 1999 and 2000 and closed all of its doors around 2001, the specific staff of Aero Fighters would go on to form their own company, Psikyo.

Releases per year

1986	2
1987	3
1988	2
1989	3
1990	4
1991	9
1992	3
1993	4
1994	7
1995	6
1996	4
1997	4
1998	3
1999	3
2000	5
2001	1

63 video games with valid date were considered (100%)

Overall rankings

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Common gametypes

Top platforms

Arcade		26
Neo-Geo		8
SNES		8
N64		5
GBC		4
PC Engine		3
PS		2
Saturn		2
PS2		1
GB		1
Mega Drive		1
Mega-CD		1
Dreamcast		1

Video System best rated games

Tail to Nose: Great Championship	1989	arcd
F-1 Grand Prix	1991	snes
F1 Racing Championship	2000	n64
Hyper V-ball	1992	snes
Super Volleyball	1990	pce
Rabio Lepus Special	1990	pce
Super Volleyball	1991	gen
Aero Fighters 2	1994	neo
Power Spikes II	1994	neo
F1 World Grand Prix	1999	ps1

Video System worst games

Aero Fighters Assault	1997	n64
Aero Fighters	1993	snes