NEC Avenue, Ltd. (NECアベニュー株式会社) was a Japanese music and video game publisher part of NEC.
History
NEC Avenue was founded in 1987 as a record label within NEC. NEC Avenue eventually got involved with video games, and secured licenses to produce console versions of arcade titles from Sega and Taito. Toshio Tabeta, the employee responsible for the Sega deal, would later learn that the Sega employee that gave NEC Avenue permission to make arcade ports was scolded.[2] Video game records represented about 10% of NEC Avenue's business in 1994.[1] In October 1995, its game division was spun-off into a new NEC subsidiary named NEC Interchannel. NEC Interchannel took over NEC Avenue's music and game operations in October 1997, then acquired its music subsidiary, NEC Avenue Music Publishing (NECアベニュー音楽出版), in March 1998.[3]