Private company

Zoo Corporation

Logo: game.zoo.jp3

Japanese company

Zoo Corporation is a Japanese company based in Nagano Prefecture that develops medical prescription systems and video games.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

Apr 8, 1986Founded1
  • Industryinformation technology, video game industry1
  • HeadquartersUeda1
  • Websitegame.zoo.jp
  • Legal formkabushiki gaisha1

Zoo Corporation is a Japanese company based in Nagano Prefecture that develops medical prescription systems and video games.2

The story

Zoo was founded on April 8, 1986 by Jinichi Miyajima. It developed a computer-based prescription system in 1987. In 1994 it released a prescription system named Gennai Online which also supported revisions to pharmaceutical information and automatic drug ordering. Yakugen is a drug database linked to Gennai, and MediCounter is a drug information system the company made for face-to-face sales.

In 1990 the company developed the first Japanese UNIX game. It was released in the United States by Spectrum Holobyte as BreakThru!.

From Wikipedia’s article on Zoo Corporation, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Timeline

  1. Apr 8, 1986Founded Founded1

Sources

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