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Revision as of 17:29, 18 January 2020
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| Konami | ||
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| Founded: 1969-03-21 | ||
| T-series code: T-95 | ||
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Konami (コナミ) was founded in 1969 in Osaka, Japan by Kagemasa Kozuki, who currently serves as Chief Executive Officer. Originally named Konami Industry Co. Ltd., the company began manufacturing amusement machines in 1973. They began to achieve success with hit arcade games such as 1981's Frogger, Scramble, and Super Cobra, many of which were licensed to other companies for stateside release, including Stern Electronics and Gremlin Industries. With its work with both in arcades and home video games for the SG-1000, the company was one of the first third-party developers affiliated with Sega. However, it later became a third-party developer for Nintendo, becoming their largest third-party publisher by 1993.[1]
The company assumed its current name in 1991. Since then, the company has grown into a large international company focused on a wide variety of entertainment and lifestyle technologies and products, from video games to fitness clubs, from toys to gaming machines.
By 2002, Konami was generating over $1.7 billion in revenues, making it one of the largest and fastest-growing companies in the industry. Publicly traded since 1988 on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and the Osaka Securities Exchange, and listed on the NYSE in 2002, Konami now has over 2000 employees, with offices in North and South America, Europe and Asia, and several studios in Japan. The worldwide headquarters are located in Tokyo, Japan. The main U.S. offices are located in Redwood City, California.
Contents
Softography
Arcade
- Frogger (1981)
- Super Cobra (1981)
- Tactician (1981)
- Video Hustler (1981)
- Turpin (1981)
- Guttang Gottong (1982)
SG-1000
- Hyper Sports (1985)
- Shinnyuu Shain Tooru-kun (1985)
Mega Drive
- Junction (1990)
- Sunset Riders (1992)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist (1992)
- Lethal Enforcers (1993)
- Rocket Knight Adventures (1993)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (1993)
- Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster's Hidden Treasure (1993)
- Zombies Ate My Neighbors (1993)
- Nigel Mansell's World Championship Racing (1993)
- Castlevania: Bloodlines (1993)
- Animaniacs (1994)
- Contra: Hard Corps (1994)
- Hyper Dunk: The Playoff Edition (1994)
- Lethal Enforcers II: Gun Fighters (1994)
- Mega Turrican (1994)
- Sparkster: Rocket Knight Adventures 2 (1994)
- Tiny Toon Adventures: ACME All-Stars (1994)
- International Superstar Soccer Deluxe (1996)
- Aliens (unreleased)
- Biker Mice from Mars (unreleased)
Game Gear
- Junction (1991)
Mega-CD
- Lethal Enforcers (1993)
- Lethal Enforcers II: Gun Fighters (1994)
- Snatcher (1994)
- Lethal Enforcers II: Gun Fighters (1995)
32X
- Castlevania: The Bloodletting (unreleased)
Saturn
- Parodius (1995)
- Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu '95 Kaimaku-ban (1995)
- Detana Twinbee Yahoo! Deluxe Pack (1995)
- Eisei Meijin (1995)
- Chibi Maruko-Chan no Taisen Pazuru Dama (1995)
- Gradius Deluxe Pack (1996)
- Snatcher (1996)
- Tokimeki Memorial: Forever With You (1996)
- Policenauts (1996)
- Tokimeki Memorial: Taisen Pazurudama (1996)
- Bottom of the 9th (1996)
- Sexy Parodius (1996)
- Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius: Forever With Me (1996)
- Eisei Meijin II (1996)
- Crypt Killer (1997)
- Tokimeki Memorial Drama Series Vol. 1: Nijiiro no Seishun Private Album Taikenban (1997)
- Whizz (1997)
- Tokimeki Memorial Selection Fujisaki Shiori (1997)
- Contra: Legacy of War (1997)
- Salamander Deluxe Pack Plus (1997)
- Tokimeki Memorial Drama Series Vol. 1: Nijiiro no Seishun (1997)
- Tokimeki Memorial: Taisen Tokkaedama (1997)
- Vandal Hearts: Ushinawareta Kodai Bunmei (1997)
- Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu S (1997)
- J.League Jikkyou Honoo no Striker (1998)
- Tokimeki Memorial Drama Series Vol. 2: Irodori no Lovesong (1998)
- Yoshimura Shougi (1998)
- Akumajo Dracula X: Gekka no Yasokyoku (1998)
- Konami Antiques MSX Collection Ultra Pack (1998)
- Gensou Suikoden (1998)
- Tokimeki Memorial Drama Series Vol. 3: Tabidachi no Uta (1999)
- Broken Helix (unreleased)
- Castlevania: The Bloodletting (unreleased)
- Goal Storm (unreleased)
- International Track & Field (unreleased)
- Kumite (unreleased)
- Lethal Enforcers I & II (unreleased)
- NBA in the Zone (unreleased)
- NFL Full Contact (unreleased)
- Pinky and the Brain (unreleased)
- Project Overkill (unreleased)
- Twinbee Taisen Pazuru Dama (unreleased)
- Whizz (unreleased)
Dreamcast
- Airforce Delta Demo Disc (1999)
- Pop'n Music (1999)
- Eisei Meijin III: Game Creator Yoshimura Nobuhiro no Zunou (1999)
- Airforce Delta (1999)
- Dancing Blade: Katte ni Momotenshi! Kanzenban (1999)
- Pop'n Music 2 (1999)
- Dancing Blade Katte ni Momotenshi II: Tears of Eden Kanzenban (1999)
- F1 World Grand Prix II (2000)
- Silent Scope Taikenban (2000)
- Pop'n Music 3 Append Disc (2000)
- Dance Dance Revolution 2nd Mix Dreamcast Edition (2000)
- Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu Dreamcast Edition (2000)
- Dance Dance Revolution Club Version Dreamcast Edition (2000)
- Nightmare Creatures II (2000)
- ESPN International Track & Field (2000)
- Frogger 2: Swampy's Revenge (2000)
- Pop'n Music 4 Append Disc (2000)
- Silent Scope (2000)
- ESPN NBA 2Night (2000)
- The Grinch (2000)
- DreamParaPara (xxxx)
- Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings (unreleased)
- Castlevania Resurrection (unreleased)
- Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex (unreleased)
- Ephemeral Fantasia (unreleased)
- ESPN Baseball Tonight (unreleased)
- ESPN Links Golf (unreleased)
- Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator (unreleased)
- Microsoft Flight Simulator (unreleased)
- Microsoft Links LS (unreleased)
- Midtown Madness (unreleased)
- The Mummy (unreleased)
- Woody Woodpecker Racing (unreleased)
Wii
- Super Smash Bros. Brawl (2008)
Nintendo Switch
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (2018)
Nintendo Switch Online
- Castlevania: Bloodlines (2021)
- Contra: Hard Corps (2021)
Gallery
1981(?) logo
1986 logo (horizontal)
1986 logo (box)
1986 logo (text)
1998 logo (box)
1998 logo (text)
References
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