Hudson Soft
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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. After the TurboGrafx-16 was discontinued, Hudson have mostly allied with Nintendo and Sony, releasing very few games on Sega systems. They did collaborate with Sonic Team to produce Sonic Shuffle, however.
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. Konami's future plans for Hudson are unknown.
Softography
Mega Drive
- Mega Bomberman (1994)
- Dungeon Explorer (1995)
Mega CD
- Lords of Thunder (1993)
- The Space Adventure (1995)
Saturn
- Kuso Kagaku Sekai Gulliver Boy (1996)
- Tengai Makyo: Daiyon no Mokushiroku: The Apocalypse IV (1997)
- Anearth Fantasy Stories: The First Volume (1997)
- Saturn Bomberman (1997)
- Saturn Bomberman Fight!! (1997)
- Virus (1997)
Dreamcast
- EGG: Elemental Gimmick Gear (1999)
- Sonic Shuffle (2000)
- Bomberman Online (2001)
Hardware
Saturn
- SBom Multitap (????)