Company: Konami
Vulcan Venture
Dance Dance Revolution Mario Mix
Silent Hill: The Arcade
Dance Dance Revolution 4thMix
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters
Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance
DDRMax2: Dance Dance Revolution
Track & Field
The Simpsons Arcade Game
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
Metal Gear
Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake
Air Zonk
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
FlatOut 2
Double Dribble
Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings
Dance Dance Revolution Solo Bass Mix
Bomberman Hero
Skullgirls
Dance Dance Revolution 2ndRemix Append Club Version Vol. 2
Metal Gear Solid
Yu-Gi-Oh! The Falsebound Kingdom
NHL Blades of Steel '99
Elebits
Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes
Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex
Goemon's Great Adventure
Metal Gear Solid: Digital Graphic Novel
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
The Legend of the Mystical Ninja
Castlevania
Binary Land
Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles
Boktai 2: Solar Boy Django
Yu-Gi-Oh! Monster Capsule GB
Dance Dance Revolution 3rdMix
Super Scribblenauts
Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure
Silent Hill HD Collection
Dance Dance Revolution
Suikoden Tierkreis
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
BeatStream
Pop'n Music 11
Kid Dracula
Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes
Mystic Warriors: Wrath of the Ninjas
Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis
subdirectory_arrow_right Batman (Franchise)
▲
1
▼
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 Mystic Warriors: Wrath of the Ninjas (Game), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Game), Sunset Riders (Game), Asterix (Arcade) (Game), Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa (Game), The Simpsons Arcade Game (Game), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (Game)
▲
3
▼
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.
▲
1
▼
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.
▲
1
▼
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.
▲
1
▼
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.
▲
1
▼
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.