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Victor Interactive Software

video game developer company

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ2748676
Source-derived summary

Victor Interactive Software, Inc. (株式会社ビクターインタラクティブソフトウェア, Kabushiki-gaisha Bikutā Intarakutibu Sofutouea) was a Japanese video game software publisher and developer, established on October 1, 1996, as a division of Victor Entertainment. Their first game was Fish Eyes and its last game was Fish Eyes 3.

Some of its games used the Pack-In-Soft (パック・イン・ソフト, Pakku-In-Sofuto) brand.

History

On October 1, 1996, Victor Entertainment merged with Pack-In-Video to establish Victor Interactive Software. On March 31, 2003, Victor Interactive Software was acquired by Marvelous Entertainment and became Marvelous Interactive, which was merged into Marvelous Entertainment in June 2007.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Victor Interactive Software” as video game developer company. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1996, 2003, 2007—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1996-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Victor, Interactive and Software can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as video game developer company. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2748676. VIAF identifies the subject as 139811965. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1996, 2003 and 2007.

Critical limits

Official terminology may obscure informal participation, dissent or communities documented only indirectly. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.

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  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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Contemporary correspondence, government or organizational records, oral histories and cited historical scholarship.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Victor Interactive Software”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Victor Interactive Software primary sources, Victor Interactive Software archive and Victor research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Victor Interactive Software”?
  2. What chronology connects this entry to wider political or social change?
  3. Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
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This entry incorporates text from Victor Interactive Software” 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.