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 Former headquarters at Midtown Tower, Tokyo | |
Native name | 株式会社ハドソン |
|---|---|
Romanized name | Kabushikigaisha Hadoson |
| Company type | Subsidiary |
| JASDAQ: 4822 | |
| Industry | Video games |
| Founded | May 18, 1973[1] |
| Founders | Yuji Kudo Hiroshi Kudo |
| Defunct | March 1, 2012 |
| Fate | Absorbed by Konami Digital Entertainment[2] |
| Successor | Konami Digital Entertainment |
| Headquarters | Midtown Tower, Tokyo Midtown Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo |
Key people | Takahashi Meijin Shinichi Nakamoto Shigeki Fujiwara Akira Sakuma Kazuhiko Uehara (President 2011‒2012) |
| Products | List of Hudson Soft games TurboGrafx-16 TurboExpress PC-FX |
| Total equity |  ¥300 million (July 2011)[3] |
Number of employees | 421 (March 2011)[4] |
| Parent | Konami |
Hudson Soft Co., Ltd.[a] was a Japanese video game company that released numerous games for video game consoles, home computers and mobile phones, mainly from the 1980s to the 2000s. It was headquartered in the Midtown Tower in Tokyo, with an additional office in the Hudson Building in Sapporo.[5]
Hudson Soft was founded on May 18, 1973. Initially, it dealt with personal computer products, but later expanded to the development and publishing of video games, mobile content, video game peripherals and music recording. Primarily a video game publisher, it internally developed many of the video games it released while outsourcing others to external companies. It is known for series such as Bomberman, Adventure Island, Star Soldier, Bonk and Bloody Roar.[6] Hudson also developed video games released by other publishers such as the Mario Party series from Nintendo. The mascot of the company is a bee named Hachisuke.
Hudson Soft made the TurboGrafx-16 in association with NEC, to compete against Nintendo, Sega, and SNK, while continuing making games on other platforms, as a third-party developer.
Hudson Soft ceased to exist as a company on March 1, 2012, and merged with Konami Digital Entertainment, which was the surviving entity.[7] Konami owns the assets of Hudson and has since rereleased its video game back catalogue on different occasions.[8][9]
- ^ "Hudson Soft Company Information / Investors". www.hudson.co.jp. Archived from the original on August 11, 2007. Retrieved January 11, 2022.
- ^ "Corporate History". Konami. Archived from the original on January 18, 2013. Retrieved December 31, 2012.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). www.hudson.co.jp. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 13, 2011. Retrieved January 11, 2022.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "会社概要 | 会社情報 | 株式会社ハドソン". www.hudson.co.jp. Archived from the original on December 20, 2011. Retrieved January 11, 2022.
- ^ "Corporate overview Archived 19 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine." Hudson Soft. Retrieved on July 12, 2010.
- ^ "List of Hudson Soft Co. Ltd. Developed Games". allgame.com. Archived from the original on November 17, 2014. Retrieved July 7, 2013.
- ^ "ハドソン 臨時報告書 （合併） 2012年01月17日提出". Archived from the original on August 21, 2017. Retrieved August 20, 2017.
- ^ "ゲーム一覧 - 家庭用ゲーム - Wii - KONAMI コナミ製品・サービス情報サイト". KONAMI コナミ製品・サービス情報サイト. Archived from the original on November 10, 2020. Retrieved February 7, 2020.
- ^ "PC Engine mini, PC Engine CoreGrafx mini, TurboGrafx-16 mini Official Website". Archived from the original on November 15, 2023. Retrieved December 2, 2023.
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