Banpresto Co., Ltd. (株式会社バンプレスト Kabushiki gaisha Banpuresuto) is a Japanese toy company, and a former game developer and publishing, headquartered in the Shinagawa Seaside West Building in Shinagawa, Tokyo.[3] The current iteration of the company was formed on April 1, 2008, with the focus on the toy consumer business.[2] The original company was founded April 1977 as Hoei Sangyo, Co. Ltd.. During the 1980s it worked mainly as a subcontractor for Sega and its arcade division,[4] and the company was renamed Coreland in 1982. It started to be partially owned by Bandai in 1989, when it gained its current name.[5] It became a wholly owned subsidiary of Bandai Namco Holdings in March 2006. Banpresto has created a variety of Japan-only video games, most notably the Super Robot Wars series. Other projects include anime tie-in games such as the Slam Dunk basketball games and Tenchi Muyou! Game Hen. Banpresto also made the Another Century’s Episode series, a collaboration with FromSoftware, and the Compati Hero series of games which crosses over the Ultraman, Kamen Rider and Gundam franchises. Banpresto also makes several varieties of mechanical prize-winning games. As Coreland, the company has produced a number of games for Sega, including Pengo, 4-D Warriors and I’m Sorry. Banpresto’s video game operations were merged with BEC to form the successor company B.B. Studio, which was delegated into Bandai Namco Games on April 1, 2008.