Banpresto Co., Ltd. (株式会社バンプレスト, Kabushiki-gaisha Banpuresuto?) (TYO: 7854) is a Japanese game development firm. It was founded April 1977 as Hoei Sangyo, Co. Ltd. The company was renamed Coreland in 1982, and during the 1980s it worked mainly as a subcontractor for Sega and its arcade division. It has been partially owned by Bandai since 1989, when it gained its current name. It was purchased by and became a wholly owned subsidiary of Namco Bandai Holdings, Inc. in March 2006.

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