Capcom Celebrates 40 Year Anniversary With Capcom Town Website

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Capcom has revealed a new website, simply named Capcom Town, to celebrate their 40 year anniversary.

Is Capcom really 40 years old, though? We’ll go through some apocrypha here because there’s something here you might find interesting.

See, Capcom was originally not Capcom. On May 30, 1979, Kenzo Tsujimoto founded I.R.M. Corporation. A few years before this, Tsujimoto also founded Irem, and he served as president for both companies for some time.

However, in 1982, he was ousted from Irem. Irem had seen declining sales of their video game machines, and somehow the blame fell on the company founder himself.

And so, a few months later, Tsujimoto took I.R.M., establishing it as Capcom Co. Ltd on June 11, 1983. In fact, Tsujimoto convinced one of his earlier game designers, Takashi Nishiyama, to jump ship with him. And so, Nishiyama left Irem right after his team was finishing work on Kung-Fu Master, AKA Spartan X. He would go on to make games like Trojan and the first Street Fighter for Capcom, and then Fatal Fury and King of Fighters for SNK, before eventually starting his own company, Dimps, which would eventually go back to making Street Fighter IV for Capcom. That’s 25 years of fighting game history, tied to a single man, because he left his old job.

But getting back to Capcom itself, you can view their 40th anniversary website here. You will be prompted to choose to play the site with sound or not. If you choose to have sound, make sure to lower the volume on your device of choice, as the site does not have volume control itself.

As reported by Video Games Chronicle, the website features several sections honoring the companies’ history, including a museum, a ‘merch factory’ where you can make yourself Twitter icons, and