Company: Konami
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Suikoden IV
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Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake
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Contra
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Metal Gear Solid
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Frogger: Ancient Shadow
Yu-Gi-Oh! The Falsebound Kingdom
Dance Dance Revolution 2ndMix
Policenauts
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Silent Hill: Homecoming
Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Stardust Accelerator World Championship Tournament 2009
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Goemon's Great Adventure
Super Scribblenauts
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NHL Blades of Steel '99
GetsuFumaDen
Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories
Bomberman: Act Zero
Dance Dance Revolution 2ndRemix Append Club Version Vol. 2
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters
Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes
Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes
Sunset Riders
Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow
Metal Gear
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Silent Hill 3
Dance Dance Revolution
Ganbare Goemon Gaiden: Kieta Ougon Kiseru
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Animaniacs
Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Decade Duels
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DDRMax2: Dance Dance Revolution
Bonk's Revenge
Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis
Binary Land
Suikoden II
No More Heroes: Heroes' Paradise
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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.
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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 "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 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.
subdirectory_arrow_right Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Game), Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa (Game), Asterix (Arcade) (Game), Sunset Riders (Game), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (Game), Mystic Warriors: Wrath of the Ninjas (Game), The Simpsons Arcade Game (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.
subdirectory_arrow_right Batman (Franchise)
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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.