Konami
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Konami is a major Japanese entertainment company best known for developing and publishing video games, but it also produces trading cards, anime, pachinko machines, and operates casinos and fitness clubs worldwide. The company matters because it is one of the largest and most diversified entertainment conglomerates, with significant influence across gaming, gambling, and leisure industries globally.
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Key facts
- Company.name
- Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.
- Company.logo
- Konami 4th logo 1.svg
- Company.logo_caption
- Logo used since 2003
- Company.image
- Konami HQ.jpg
- Company.image_caption
- Headquarters in Ginza, Chūō, Tokyo
- Company.type
- Subsidiary
- Company.founder
- Kagemasa Kōzuki
- Company.location
- Ginza
- Company.location_city
- Chūō, Tokyo
- Company.location_country
- Japan
- Company.area_served
- Worldwide
- Company.revenue
- ¥472.2 billion
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26 sectionsContents
- History
- Corporate structure
- Japan
- Australia
- America
- Europe
- Asia
- Konami Digital Entertainment
- Subsidiaries
- Technology
- Former subsidiaries
- Megacyber Corporation
- Hudson Soft
- Video games
- Film production
- Personal computing
- Controversies
- ''Silent Hills'' and reduced video game development
- Kojima Productions
- Treatment of employees and ex-employees
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Sources
- Further reading
- External links
, commonly known as Konami, is a Japanese multinational entertainment company and video game developer and publisher headquartered in Chūō, Tokyo. The company also produces and distributes trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, pachinko machines, slot machines, and arcade cabinets. It has casinos around the world, and operates health and physical fitness clubs across Japan.
The company originated in 1969 as a jukebox rental and repair business in Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan, founded by Kagemasa Kōzuki, who remains the company's chairman. On top of their flagship development subsidiary, Konami also owns Bemani, known for Dance Dance Revolution and Beatmania, as well as the assets of former game developer Hudson Soft, known for Bomberman, Adventure Island, Bonk, Bloody Roar, and Star Soldier. Konami is the twentieth-largest game company in the world by revenue. Konami also publishes the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game, one of the best-selling TCGs in history. Konami's video game franchises include Metal Gear, Silent Hill, Power Pros, Castlevania, Contra, Frogger, Tokimeki Memorial, Gradius, Parodius, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Suikoden, and eFootball (including its predecessors International Superstar Soccer and Pro Evolution Soccer).
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