Thread:SecondOpinion/@comment-1899606-20170726133328/@comment-5688420-20170728061416

The Tabata brothers and Cole were pretty good enterpreneurs when they were still making kiddie rides and vending machines during their days as ACS Manufacturing Ltd. However, when the company switched to full-time video ge development around the early 80s, there was a fallout between Cole and the Tabata brothers, which led to Cole leaving the company in 1981 under bad terms, although he would later make amends with them... shortly before his death in 1988.

Later on, Satoshi Tabata, one half of the Tabata brothers, passed away in 1999, leaving Atsushi, the other half, as the only founding member of ACS left, until 2000, when Atsushi passed away as well. Since then, Atsushi's son, Katsuyuki Tabata took over as CEO of the company, something that he still does up to this day.