Konami Holdings Corporation, commonly referred to as Konami, is a Japanese entertainment company. It operates as a product distributor (which produces and distributes trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, slot machines and arcade cabinets), video game developer and publisher company. In 2012, they have fully absorbed Hudson Soft which produced games from the Mario Party series.
Konami is famous for popular video game franchises such as Castlevania, Metal Gear, Suikoden, Contra, Frogger, Gradius, Goemon, TwinBee, Dance Dance Revolution and Silent Hill among others. They have developed two games from the Mario franchise.
Games from the Mario franchises[]
- Mario Roulette (1991)
- Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix (2005)
In addition, three characters from Konami's series appear as guest characters in the Super Smash Bros. series. These are, Solid Snake from the Metal Gear series and Richter Belmont and Simon Belmont from the Castlevania series.
External links[]
- Konami at the Konami Wiki