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Nazca Corporation (株式会社ナスカ) was a Japanese video game company that developed games for the Neo Geo console.

The company was formed in 1994 by a group of employees from Irem who were tired of the company's inactivity.

R-Type II's graphical style bears great similarity to what this team is known for. However, it is generally thought their first game was Air Duel; they would later make games such as Armed Police Unit Gallop, Undercover Cops, Pound For Pound, Ken-Go, and Kaitei Daisensou. Their final game for Irem was Geostorm (GunForce II), after which they left and created Nazca, creating Neo Turf Masters and their most famous work, the extremely popular Metal Slug in 1995; the latter shares many stylistic similarities to the previous Irem works.

In 1996, the company was acquired by SNK. Afterwards the team would make the second and third Metal Slug games and the Neo Geo Pocket Metal Slug and The King of Fighters R games. The team disbanded after SNK filed for bankruptcy in 2001.