sentences:  "Red Planet" was the first non-"BattleTech" game added, and involved racing through the mining tunnels of Mars using vectored thrust mining hover-crafts.However, rapid advances in arcade games and online games meant that the Japanese Centers began closing in 1995, and by 2000 no BattleTech Centers remained operational in Japan.In 1996, Virtual World Entertainment, INC and FASA Interactive Technologies merged and became wholly owned subsidiaries of Virtual World Entertainment Group (VWEG).