Konami

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Konami
Konami logo
Founded March 21, 1969[1]
First Super Mario game Mario Roulette
Latest Super Mario game Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix
Current president Hideki Hayakawa

Konami is a Japanese entertainment company that has made two Super Mario games: Mario Roulette and Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix. Konami is known for the Metal Gear series, which features Solid Snake as one of the main characters and occasionally has Mario and/or Yoshi appear in cameos. Snake appears as a fighter in Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Another Konami franchise, Castlevania, is also represented in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, with Simon and Richter Belmont as fighters.

In April 2005, Konami became the controlling shareholder of Hudson Soft, which, at the time, developed the Mario Party series for Nintendo. Around this time, Konami went under a corporate restructuring, becoming a holding company and consolidating their development sector into a new subsidiary known as Konami Digital Entertainment.[2] In April 2011, Konami acquired the rest of Hudson, making Hudson a subsidiary of Konami. On March 1, 2012, Hudson merged with Konami Digital Entertainment, with the latter ending up as the surviving entity.

Super Mario games developed[edit]

Title Year released Console
Mario Roulette 1991 Arcade
Piccadilly Circus: Super Mario Bros. 3 1991 Arcade
Super Mario Bros. 3 (Mini Piccadilly) 1992 Arcade
Super Mario World (Mini Piccadilly) 1992 Arcade
Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix 2005 Nintendo GameCube

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