Capcom
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English
Etymology 1
Noun
Capcom (plural Capcoms)
- Alternative letter-case form of CAPCOM
Etymology 2
A clipped compound of Capsule Computers, a term coined by the company for the arcade machines it solely manufactured in its early years, designed to set themselves apart from personal computers that were becoming widespread. Capsule alludes to how Capcom likened its game software to “a capsule packed to the brim with gaming fun”, and to the company’s desire to protect its intellectual property with a hard outer shell, preventing illegal copies and inferior imitations.[1]
Proper noun
Capcom
- (Should we delete(+) this sense?) (video games, trademark) A Japanese video game developer and publisher
References
- ^ “社名の由来”, in 株式会社カプコン (in Japanese), Capcom Co., Ltd, 2010 July 22 (last accessed), archived from the original on 5 March 2010
