Company: Konami
Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse
Dance Dance Revolution 3rdMix
Dance Dance Revolution: Disney Grooves
Boktai: The Sun Is in Your Hand
Contra: Hard Corps
Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow
Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow
Mystic Warriors: Wrath of the Ninjas
Crash Nitro Kart
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters
Frogger
Frogger Beyond
Castlevania: Lament of Innocence
Contra
Castlevania
Blades of Steel
Dance Dance Revolution X3 VS 2ndMix
Kid Dracula
The Adventures of Batman & Robin
Yu-Gi-Oh! Monster Capsule: Breed and Battle
Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Decade Duels
Bomberman Hero
Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Stardust Accelerator World Championship Tournament 2009
Animaniacs
Gradius
Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage
Castlevania: Circle of the Moon
Bonk's Revenge
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
Silent Hill: Homecoming
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
Silent Hill 3
Suikoden IV
Beatmania IIDX 4th style
Crash Nitro Kart
Silent Hill: The Short Message
Yu-Gi-Oh! Ultimate Masters: World Championship Tournament 2006
Bomberman: Act Zero
Doctor Lautrec and the Forgotten Knights
Yu-Gi-Oh! 7 Trials to Glory: World Championship Tournament 2005
Air Zonk
Boktai 2: Solar Boy Django
NHL Blades of Steel '99
Snake's Revenge
Captain Tsubasa: New Kick Off
Skullgirls
Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection
Super C
FlatOut 2
Lunar Knights
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Konami wanted to license out Tim Burton's film adaptation of Batman for an arcade game, but were not able to as Atari Games claimed the license first.
subdirectory_arrow_right Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (Game), Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa (Game), Asterix (Arcade) (Game), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Game), Sunset Riders (Game), The Simpsons Arcade Game (Game), Mystic Warriors: Wrath of the Ninjas (Game)
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Several of Konami's arcade beat-em-ups had a recurring feature common among other arcade games where if you wait too long to proceed to the next screen, the game will punish you for idling. In most games, such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time, Sunset Riders, Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa, and Mystic Warriors: Wrath of the Ninjas to name a few, the game will take away a life in one way or another for waiting too long. However, in some other games like The Simpsons Arcade Game and Asterix, the player will only take a select amount of damage for idling, and may not necessarily be enough to lose a life.
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Konami Man, one of Konami's early mascots, makes cameo appearances in several Konami games. He would later have his own game titled Konami Wai Wai World, which released in 1988, making it his first video game debut as a protagonist.
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The "Moai Statues" of real-life Easter Island show up in a number of Konami-made games, the most notable examples being across the Gradius series, as well as in the Metal Gear series.
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Konami formed Ultra Games in the US and and Palcom in Europe as a way of circumventing a Nintendo licensing policy which stipulated that each third-party could only release 5 titles per year for the NES. With an extra publishing arm, Konami was able to publish 10 titles per year.
Their hold on a trademark for "Ultra Games" would later prevent Nintendo from using the name "Ultra 64" for one of their consoles.
Their hold on a trademark for "Ultra Games" would later prevent Nintendo from using the name "Ultra 64" for one of their consoles.
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The Konami Code was created by Konami programmer Kazuhisa Hashimoto after failing to beat Gradius on the NES. He programmed a simple code into the game that gave him a full set of power-ups, which allowed him to play test the game to the end.