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Revision as of 21:29, 3 December 2013
Hudson Soft Company, Limited is a Japanese video game developer and publisher headquartered in Tokyo.
Starting life off as a computer game developer, Hudson grew into one of the most recognised video game developers in the world after having success with their Bomberman series. It collaborated with NEC to create the PC Engine console (TurboGrafx-16 in the west) - a direct competitor to Sega and their Sega Mega Drive, thus they released very few games for the 8-bit/16-bit Sega systems despite still producing a large quantity of games for the rival 8-bit/16-bit Nintendo systems. This changed when the TurboGrafx-16 was discontinued and the Sega Saturn arrived, with Hudson establishing itself as one of the most prolific Japanese third party companies of the console. They also produced several games for the Dreamcast and they even collaborated with Sonic Team to produce Sonic Shuffle (which is similar to Nintendo's Mario Party series, of which they produced the first eight games).
They also had a smaller role programming computer software, most notably the standard Human68k operating system for the Sharp X68000 computer, and hardware, such as the CPU in the TurboGrafx-16 and an assortment of NES controllers.
In April 2005, Konami purchased a majority stock in Hudson. In 2010, Konami announced that they had made Hudson into a wholly owned subsidiary, taking effect 31 December 2010. A few weeks later, Hudson Entertainment, the American division of Hudson, was shut down, canceling all projects. Konami's future plans for Hudson are unknown.
Contents
Softography
SC-3000
- HuCAL (1984)
Mega Drive
- Mega Bomberman (1994)
Mega CD
- Dungeon Explorer (1995)
- The Space Adventure (1995)
- Lords of Thunder (1995)
Game Gear
- Super Momotarou Dentetsu III (1995)
Sega Saturn
- Kuusou Kagaku Sekai Gulliver Boy (1996)
- Saturn Bomberman (1996)
- Ginga Ojousama Densetsu Yuna: Mika Akitaka Illust Works (1996)
- Ginga Ojousama Densetsu Yuna: Remix (1996)
- Tengai Makyou: Daiyon no Mokushiroku: The Apocalypse IV (1997)
- AnEarth Fantasy Stories: The First Volume (1997)
- Willy Wombat (1997)
- Bulk Slash (1997)
- Koden Koureijutsu Hyaku Monogatari: Hontoni Atta Kowai Hanashi (1997)
- Virus (1997)
- Momotarou Douchuuki (1997)
- Ginga Ojousama Densetsu Yuna 3: Lightning Angel (1997)
- Saturn Bomberman Fight!! (1997)
- Ginga Ojousama Densetsu Yuna: Mika Akitaka Illust Works 2 (1997)
- Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo: Hoshimitou Kanashimi no Hukushuuki (1998)
- Shiroki Majou: Mouhitotsu no Eiyuu Densetsu (1998)
- Denpa Shounenteki Game (1998)
- Bomberman Wars (1998)
- Shadows of the Tusk (1998)
Dreamcast
- Kita e. White Illumination (1999)
- Elemental Gimmick Gear (1999)
- Super Producers: Mezase Show Biz Kai (1999)
- Denpa Shounen-teki Kenshou Seikatsu: Nasubi no Heya (1999)
- Kita e. Photo Memories (1999)
- Super Producers: Mezase Show Biz Kai (1999)
- Rune Jade (2000)
- Sonic Shuffle (2000)
- Typing of the Date (2001)
- Bomberman Online (2001)
Hardware
Sega Saturn
- SBom Multitap (????)