Company: Konami
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Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection
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Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin
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Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings
Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories
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Beatmania IIDX 4th style
Ganbare Goemon Gaiden: Kieta Ougon Kiseru
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Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes
Contra: Hard Corps
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NHL Blades of Steel '99
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Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon
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The Simpsons Arcade Game
Yu-Gi-Oh! Monster Capsule GB
Tornado Outbreak
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2
Hybrid Heaven
Keyboardmania 3rdMix
Frogger: Ancient Shadow
Kid Dracula
Dance Dance Revolution 2ndMix
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters
Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex
Hudson's Adventure Island
Bonk 3: Bonk's Big Adventure
The Legend of the Mystical Ninja
Rumble Roses
Castlevania Judgment
Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Stardust Accelerator World Championship Tournament 2009
Yu-Gi-Oh! 7 Trials to Glory: World Championship Tournament 2005
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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.
subdirectory_arrow_right Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (Game), The Simpsons Arcade Game (Game), Sunset Riders (Game), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Game), Mystic Warriors: Wrath of the Ninjas (Game), Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa (Game), Asterix (Arcade) (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.
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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.