is a Japanese company that provides mobile network

Mobile phone

A mobile phone is a device which can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link whilst moving around a wide geographic area. It does so by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile network operator...

 game contents that specialize in Java game software in Japan. It develops and distributes games for Java-compatible mobile phones. The company also licenses contents for mobile telecommunications operators, as well as involves in the original equipment manufacturing of mobile phone games. G-mode Co. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan

G-mode Co. Ltd. reported earnings results for the fiscal year 2006. For the fiscal year, the company reported consolidated net profit

Net profit

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 of $440,700 a $1.7 million consolidated recurring profit and a $31.1 million consolidated revenue. The number of subscribers to official websites for NTT DoCoMo

NTT DoCoMo

is the predominant mobile phone operator in Japan. The name is officially an abbreviation of the phrase, "do communications over the mobile network", and is also from a compound word dokomo, meaning "everywhere" in Japanese. Docomo provides phone, video phone , i-mode , and mail services...

 handsets rose to 1.48 million at the end of October 2006, up 34% from the end of March 2006, which mainly contributed to the upward revision. The company revised its earnings guidance for the fiscal year 2007. For the period, the company revises consolidated net profit to $594,000 from a previous forecast of a $169,500 consolidated net loss. Consolidated recurring profit was revised up to $2.8 million from $1.7 million. The consolidated sales revenue was revised up as well to $41.1 million from $39.8 million.

History

Founded in 2000, G-mode saw a potential in mobile gaming

Mobile game

A mobile game is a video game played on a mobile phone, smartphone, PDA, tablet computer or portable media player. This does not include games played on handheld video game systems such as Nintendo DS or PlayStation Portable....

 and managed to obtain the rights to Tetris Japan, and currently use this license to remain a major player in the mobile entertainment industry in Japan. In 2004, G-mode acquired the back catalogue Data East Corporation. In 2005, GungHo Online Entertainment

GungHo Online Entertainment

GungHo Online Entertainment is a Japanese videogame corporation. They are primarily known for hosting the Japanese server of Ragnarok Online, as well as their development of Ragnarok DS for the Nintendo DS.-History:...

 invested in the company. They currently license out these Data East titles on the Wii Virtual Console, Gametap, and Mobile Platform.
G-mode released an Official Data East Website in December 2007.

In 2010 is revealed that the company will publish several Data East titles on the Zeebo

Zeebo

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 console in Brazil

Brazil

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 and Mexico

Mexico

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.

Acquired Data East License List

• Act-Fancer: Cybernetick Hyper Weapon
  Act-Fancer: Cybernetick Hyper Weapon
  is a horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up arcade game developed and published by Data East. It features a cyborg battling against alien creatures, while collecting power-ups and defeating bosses to advance levels.- External links :* at * at...
  
  
• Bad Dudes vs. DragonNinja
• Battle Wings
  Battle Wings
  Battle Wings is a vertically scrolling shooter first released as an arcade game by Data East in 1984. The game was ported to the Family Computer in 1986.-Gameplay:...
  
   / B-Wings
• Bloody Wolf / Battle Rangers
• Boogie Wings
  Boogie Wings
  Boogie Wings is a side-scrolling shooter arcade game released by Data East in 1992. The game contains unique gameplay, along with many nonsensical or comedic themes not present in other games of the genre, but was never ported to other consoles because of its relative unpopularity in arcade...
  
   / The Great Rag Time Show
• BreakThru
• BurgerTime
  Burgertime
  is a 1982 arcade game created by Data East for its DECO Cassette System. The game's original title, Hamburger, was changed to BurgerTime before its introduction to the US. The player is chef Peter Pepper, who must walk over hamburger ingredients located across a maze of platforms while avoiding...
  
  
• Burger Time Deluxe
• Bump 'n' Jump
  Bump 'n' Jump
  Bump 'n' Jump, known in Japan as , is a 1982 Japanese arcade game created by Data East Corporation for its DECO Cassette System. The game was also published by Bally Midway....
  
   / Burnin' Rubber
• Caveman Games
  Caveman Games
  Caveman Games is a multiplatform Olympic-style computer game where cavemen participate in athletic events.-Summary:The events are basically the same as their modern counterparts, except that prehistoric hazards are used as a system of checks and balances in order to prevent the player from becoming...
  
   / Caveman Ugh-Lympics
• China Town
• Cobra Command / Thunder Storm (1984 laserdisc
  Laserdisc
  LaserDisc was a home video format and the first commercial optical disc storage medium. Initially licensed, sold, and marketed as MCA DiscoVision in North America in 1978, the technology was previously referred to interally as Optical Videodisc System, Reflective Optical Videodisc, Laser Optical...
  
   game)
• Cobra Command
  Cobra Command (1988 video game)
  is a 1988 arcade game developed and published by Data East that was later ported to the NES. It is a side-scroller in which the player flies a heavily armoured helicopter through six stages to destroy enemy tanks, cannons, submarines, and gunboats.-NES Port:...
  
   (1988 side-scroller)
• Congo's Caper
  Congo's Caper
  Congo's Caper, known in Japan as , is a Super Nintendo/Super Famicom video game by Data East. The Japanese game has a 1992 copyright, while the English game has a 1993 copyright....
  
  
• Darwin 4078
  Darwin 4078
  is an arcade game released by Data East in 1986. The game is a vertical scrolling shoot 'em up like Xevious, but as the title indicates, Charles Darwin's process of evolution is incorporated into the gameplay.-Setting & design:...
  
  
• Desert Assault
  Desert Assault
  Desert Assault is a 1991 run and gun arcade game by Data East. In this arcade game, up to four players control four soldiers holding machine guns and other projectile weapons, while fighting their way through the terrorist arsenal to take control of the Persian War.-External links:**...
  
   / Desert Storm Gulf War / Thunder Zone
• Street Hoop
  Street Hoop
  Street Hoop, known in Japan as and known in North America as Street Slam, is a basketball game developed by Data East for Neo-Geo, released in 1994 and later on the Wii Virtual Console in Japan on July 20, 2010, the PAL region on October 22, 2010 and in North America on November 1, 2010.In the...
  
   Dunk Dream / Street Slam
• Dunk Dream 95 / Hoops 96
• Express Raider / Western Express
• Fighter's History
  Fighter's History
  is a series of competitive fighting games that were produced by Data East during the 1990s. The original Fighter's History was first released for the arcades in and then ported to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in...
  
  
• Fighter's History Dynamite / Karnov's Revenge
• Fire Trap
• Gate of Doom / Dark Seal
• Ghostlop
• Gondomania
• Heavy Barrel
  Heavy Barrel
  is a 1987 overhead run and gun arcade game by Data East.-Gameplay:thumb|left|Arcade ScreenshotTerrorists have seized the underground control complex of a nuclear missile site, and it is up to the player to infiltrate the base and kill the enemy leader. Players begin armed with a laser gun with...
  
  
• Joe & Mac: Caveman Ninja
  Joe & Mac
  Joe & Mac in USA, Joe & Mac: Caveman Ninja in Europe, and in Japan, is a 1991 platform game released for the arcades by Data East...
  
  
• Joe & Mac 2: Lost in the Tropics / Joe & Mac 3: Lost in the Tropics
• Joe & Mac Returns
• Kamikaze Cabbie
• Karate Champ
  Karate Champ
  Karate Champ, known in Japan as is a arcade game developed by Technos Japan Corporation for Data East. It is one of the first fighting games, and has been believed to be the first to use today's common side-perspective...
  
  
• Last Mission
  Last Mission (arcade game)
  Last Mission is a top-down multidirectional shooter developed by Data East and distributed in world wide release for the arcades in 1986. The game was similar to Time Pilot as players had full movement control over their ship and could move it in all eight directions.-Story:The players assume the...
  
  
• Liberation
• Lock 'n' Chase
  Lock 'n' Chase
  Lock 'n' Chase is a maze arcade game developed and published by Data East in Japan in 1981, and was later published in North America by Taito. The game was later licensed to Mattel who produced the Intellivision and Atari 2600 home console versions in 1982 and an Apple II version in January 1983...
  
  
• Locked 'N Loaded
• Mad Alien / Mad Rider / Highway Chase)
• Magical Drop
  Magical Drop
  , sometimes referred to by native Japanese users as , is a series of puzzle games originally released in the arcade, and later primarily released for several platforms such as the Neo Geo, Super Famicom, Sega Saturn and Neo Geo Pocket Color developed by Data East...
  
  
• Magical Drop II
• Magical Drop III / Magical Drop Pocket
• Magical Drop F
• Metal Clash
• Midnight Resistance
  Midnight Resistance
  is a side-scrolling action shooting game produced by Data East for the arcades in . The game was ported by Data East to the Sega Mega Drive in and by Ocean Software to various home computer platforms during the same year...
  
  
• Mutant Fighters / Death Brade
• Mysterious Stone
• Nitro Ball
• Peter Pepper's Ice Cream Factory
• Pocket Gal
• Psycho-nics Oscar
• Road Blaster / Road Avenger / Turbo Blaster
• Shackled
• Shoot Out
• Side Pocket
  Side Pocket
  Side Pocket is a multi-platform series of pocket billiards simulator video games produced principally by Data East in beginning 1986...
  
  
• Side Pocket 2 / Minnesota Fats: Pool Legend
  Minnesota Fats: Pool Legend
  Minnesota Fats: Pool Legend is a Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and Sega Saturn pocket billiards game featuring famed billiards player Minnesota Fats . It was released as a sequel to Data East's earlier success, Side Pocket...
  
  
• Sly Spy
  Sly Spy
  Sly Spy, known in Japan as and known in Europe as Sly Spy: Secret Agent, is an arcade game developed and published by Data East in 1989...
  
   / Sly Spy: Secret Agent / Secret Agent
• Spinmaster / Miracle Adventure
• SRD: Super Real Darwin
• Super Birdie Rush
  Super Birdie Rush
  is a Super Famicom golf video game with top-down perspective that was released exclusively for the Japanese market in 1992.The game provides the usual array of game modes: stroke play, match play, and tournament....
  
  
• Super BurgerTime
• Tattoo Assassins
  Tattoo Assassins
  Tattoo Assassins is an unreleased 1994 versus fighting game by Data East. Spearheaded by Bob Gale and Joe Kaminkow , Tattoo Assassins was designed to be Data East's answer to Mortal Kombat.- Development :Tattoo Assassins was developed to compete with the popular...
  
  
• Trio The Punch – Never Forget Me...
• TumblePop
  Tumblepop
  is an arcade game by Data East released in 1991. It is considered a cult classic, and was later ported to the Nintendo Game Boy.- Gameplay :The game involves one or two ghost-busters who can suck monsters, ghosts, aliens and various other oddball characters into vacuum-cleaner-like devices and spit...
  
  
• Two Crude Dudes
  Two Crude Dudes
  Two Crude, known in Japan as , is a beat 'em up arcade game produced by Data East. The game was later ported by Data East to the Sega Mega Drive in in Japan the same name as the Japanese arcade version, and later released outside of Japan as Two Crude Dudes.-Plot:The year is 20XX...
  
   / Crude Busters
• Under Fire
  Under Fire (arcade game)
  Under Fire is a 1993 shooting game released in the Arcades by: Taito Corporation. It is known for using a Light gun and it's digitized graphics, which seems to be Taito's equivalent, to Konami's Lethal Enforcers, in which Taito was hoping to make this game as an attempt to compete with Konami's...
  
  
• Wizard Fire / Dark Seal II
• Wonder Planet