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Konami
| Name: | Konami |
| Date(s): | 1969 - ongoing |
| Profit/Nonprofit: | for profit |
| Country based in: | Japan |
| Focus: | Entertainment media, video games |
| External Links: | Official website |
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Konami is a company specialising in video games and entertainment media. It began as a jukebox rental and repair business in 1969 and since then has expanded to produce a variety of trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, pachinko machines, slot machines, and arcade cabinets, as well as casinos worldwide. It also owns the video game developer Benami and the assets of former developer Hudson Soft, which include Bomberman, Adventure Island, Bonk, Bloody Roar, and Star Soldier. As well as original video and arcade games, they have also made games based on other media such as Aliens, Jurassic Park, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Batman: The Animated Series, Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs series, The Simpsons, Bucky O'Hare, G.I. Joe, X-Men, and The Goonies, and French comic Asterix.
The company has been subject to allegations of employee ill-treatment.[1]
Properties
Video Games
The full list of Konami games can be found on Wikipedia: List_of_Konami_games.
- Castlevania
- Dance Dance Revolution
- Metal Gear
- Silent Hill franchise
- Silent Hill: Homecoming
- Suikoden
- Yu-Gi-Oh! - both trading cards and video games
- Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann - co-produced by Aniplex and Konami
- Skullgirls - Autumn Games co-published with Konami
Films
- Silent Hill (1996)
- Metal Gear Solid (in development)
Notes
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