Company: Konami
Super Scribblenauts
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Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis
The Adventures of Batman & Robin
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings
Dance Dance Revolution 3rdMix
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Silent Hill: Homecoming
Hudson's Adventure Island
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2
Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance
Dance Dance Revolution: Disney Grooves
Yu-Gi-Oh! The Duelists of the Roses
Snatcher
Asterix (Arcade)
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
Sexy Parodius
Time Hollow
Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner
Crash Nitro Kart
Castlevania: Circle of the Moon
Milon's Secret Castle
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project
Suikoden II
Contra
Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin
Suikoden Tierkreis
Dancing Stage Party Edition
Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex
Crash Nitro Kart
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Metal Gear Solid: Digital Graphic Novel
Mystic Warriors: Wrath of the Ninjas
Bomberman Hero
Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon
Keyboardmania 3rdMix
Dance Dance Revolution Konamix
Air Zonk
Castlevania: Dracula X
Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes
Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow
Castlevania
Dance Dance Revolution X2
Castlevania Judgment
The Adventures of Bayou Billy
Doctor Lautrec and the Forgotten Knights
Bonk 3: Bonk's Big Adventure
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subdirectory_arrow_right The Simpsons Arcade Game (Game), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (Game), Mystic Warriors: Wrath of the Ninjas (Game), Asterix (Arcade) (Game), Sunset Riders (Game), Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa (Game), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (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.