Milestone (Japanese developer)

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Milestone Inc. is a Japanese arcade videogame developer. They are best known for shoot 'em up games developed for the Sega Dreamcast (after the console's official discontinuation) and its arcade counterpart, the Sega NAOMI.

Milestone are made up of Japanese NAOMI arcade developers who left COMPILE to form their own company, mostly because Compile wasn't too interested in shooting games like in the past. Despite having worked for COMPILE, they are still a very new videogame development team, but they have proven to be able to pull off good ports to many home videogame systems and create very fun and appealing Shoot 'em up titles for both NAOMI and Dreamcast alike.

Their first release was Chaos Field in 2004, which was ported to Dreamcast. Later they ported Radilgy (Radio Allergy in North America) and released it on February 16, 2006. Both titles were ported for both the PlayStation 2 and Nintendo GameCube, with the later console seeing releases in North America by O~3 Entertainment. Their most recent game, Karous, was released on March 8, 2007 on the Sega Dreamcast, and a Wii release is planned. Karous will most likely be the last released game for the Dreamcast.

[edit] Releases

• Chaos Field — (December 16, 2004), (NAOMI/Dreamcast/GameCube/PlayStation 2)
• Radilgy — (February 16, 2006), (NAOMI/Dreamcast/GameCube/PlayStation 2)
• Karous — (March 8, 2007), (NAOMI/Dreamcast/Wii)
• Tank Beat — (November 30, 2006)(Japan) (May 22, 2007), (Nintendo DS)(U.S.)
• Tank Beat 2 — (2008) (Nintendo DS)
• Illmatic Envelope — (2008) (NAOMI)

[edit] External links

• Milestone official website (english version very outdated)
• Interview by EDGE to Milestone (interviews to G.Rev and Triangle Service on the same page)

[edit] Disambiguation

"Milestone Inc." is a popular name for companies. A quick Google search will turn up several companies called Milestone Inc. The following is a (probably incomplete) list of other companies called Milestone Inc.:

• http://www.milestonesci.com -- Supplies lab instrumentation to analytical and synthetic chemists, and pathology labs.
• http://www.milestone-inc.org -- Organization serving children and adults with developmental disabilities.
• http://www.milestoneideas.com -- Facilitates "thinking workshops."
• http://www.milestonenm.com -- Supplier of stone, tile, and paving.