Company: Konami
Boktai: The Sun Is in Your Hand
Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake
Mystic Warriors: Wrath of the Ninjas
Suikoden III
Castlevania: Lament of Innocence
Frogger: Ancient Shadow
Zombies Ate My Neighbors
Keyboardmania 3rdMix
Contra
Dance Dance Revolution A20
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
Lunar Knights
Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops
Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles
Castlevania
Dance Dance Revolution X2
Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse
Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex
Super Castlevania IV
The Thing
Rakugakids
Frogger
Time Hollow
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Beatmania IIDX 3rd style
Sunset Riders
Gradius
Dance Dance Revolution Disney Mix
Dancing Stage Party Edition
Dance Dance Revolution Konamix
Tokimeki Memorial Drama Series Vol. 1: Nijiiro no Seishun
Silent Hill: Downpour
Boktai 2: Solar Boy Django
Castlevania Legends
Metal Gear
Rumble Roses
Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure
Akumajou Dracula X: Gekka no Yasoukyoku
Metal Gear Solid
Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D
Dance Dance Revolution 2ndRemix Append Club Version Vol. 2
Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis
Silent Hill 2
The Legend of the Mystical Ninja
Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon
Castlevania: Circle of the Moon
Yu-Gi-Oh! Ultimate Masters: World Championship Tournament 2006
Ganbare Goemon Gaiden: Kieta Ougon Kiseru
Castlevania: Curse of Darkness
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
subdirectory_arrow_right Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa (Game), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (Game), Asterix (Arcade) (Game), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Game), Mystic Warriors: Wrath of the Ninjas (Game), The Simpsons Arcade Game (Game), Sunset Riders (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.
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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.