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Bit Corporation

Taiwanese game developer and console manufacturer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ878724
Source-derived summary

Bit Corporation (Chinese: 普澤; pinyin: Pǔzé) was a Taiwanese game developer and console manufacturer.

Games

Bit Corporation produced original software for the Atari 2600 and ColecoVision, which it released worldwide under both its own name and the Puzzy brand, as well as being distributed by Zimag. These games included such titles as Bobby Is Going Home, Snail Against Squirrel, Mr. Postman and Open, Sesame!, which was one of only two games for the system to feature speech synthesis. The company also produced games for the NES and Famicom including Duck, Othello, Jackpot and Crime Busters; all but the Crime Busters were released in Australia by HES Interactive, while Crime Busters was released in Brazil by Gradiente.

List of Atari 2600 games

List of ColecoVision games

Cosmic Crisis (1983, also released by Telegames)

Meteoric Shower (1983)

Strike It! (1983, only released by Telegames)

Tank Wars (1983, only released by Telegames)

List of NES/Famicom games

The NES/Famicom game Diàn Shì Mǎ Lì is also credited as Lì Mǎ Shì Diàn on the title screen.

Hardware

The majority of the consoles manufactured by Bit Corporation were clones of existing systems, such as the Famicom, Atari 2600 and Sega SG-1000. The company also produced two computers, the Bit-60 and Bit-90, which were based on 2600 and ColecoVision hardware respectively and compatible with each console's cartridges. The Bit-70 was a Famicom clone featuring a top cartridge slot compatible with both Japanese Famicom cartridges and US market NES cartridges (with an adapter).

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Bit Corporation” is taiwanese game developer and console manufacturer. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Corporation, Taiwanese and game, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1983, 1000—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1982-01-01. For this dossier, Corporation, Taiwanese and game is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q878724. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1983 and 1000.

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This entry incorporates text from Bit Corporation” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.