Company: Konami
Suikoden II
Sunset Riders
Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin
Frogger: Ancient Shadow
Animaniacs
Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Decade Duels
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters
Dance Dance Revolution Mario Mix
Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops
Crash Nitro Kart
Tokimeki Memorial Drama Series Vol. 1: Nijiiro no Seishun
Gradius
Skullgirls
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
Silent Hill: Downpour
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters
Yu-Gi-Oh! 7 Trials to Glory: World Championship Tournament 2005
LovePlus
Dance Dance Revolution 2ndMix
Yu-Gi-Oh! The Falsebound Kingdom
Kid Dracula
Dance Dance Revolution X
Hudson's Adventure Island
Bonk 3: Bonk's Big Adventure
Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories
The Thing
Snatcher
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Back to the Future Part III
Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage
Dance Dance Revolution 2ndRemix Append Club Version Vol. 2
Castlevania
Dance Dance Revolution A
Yu-Gi-Oh! Monster Capsule: Breed and Battle
Castlevania Judgment
No More Heroes: Heroes' Paradise
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
Silent Hill HD Collection
Boktai 2: Solar Boy Django
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project
Double Dribble
Metal Gear Solid: Digital Graphic Novel
The Legend of the Mystical Ninja
Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced
Silent Hill: Book of Memories
Dance Dance Revolution Disney Mix
Dance Dance Revolution Extreme
Contra: Hard Corps
Suikoden
Track & Field
subdirectory_arrow_right Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Game), Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa (Game), Asterix (Arcade) (Game), The Simpsons Arcade Game (Game), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (Game), Sunset Riders (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.
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.