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Hudson Soft is a Japanese publisher and developer, founded on May 18, 1973.

Although it began selling PC-related products in 1975, it wasn't until 1984, when Hudson began to produce video games for the Famicom (NES), that the company enjoyed notable success. Hudson's first Famicom title, Lode Runner, sold 12 million units. However, their real killer app (shadowing even the gold-mining Runner) is the Bomberman series, which proved out a "goldmine" in itself, and has appeared at least once on all major platforms to date. It is this type of humourous, quirky and fast-paced action games that the company has essentially become known for.

Hudson lead a joint venture with NEC to develop the family of PC Engine (Japan) and Turbografx-16 (North America) consoles. The PC Engine was successful in Japan, second only to Nintendo's Famicom, but the console was poorly marketed (and rather unaesthetically designed) in the States, and as a result very few games were translated. After a long history of producing games for Nintendo's consoles, Hudson teamed up with Nintendo's Japanese arm and founded the joint venture Manegi Corporation in May of 1998.

As of 2003, the company employed a staff of more than 400. They have recently re-released some of their first hit games for the Nintendo GameCube in Japan including Adventure Island, Star Soldier, and Lode Runner. The company's presence in North America ceased to exist years ago, but several of their games continue to become available on the continent through other publishers (like Ubisoft).

In April 2005, Hudson Soft became a subsidiary of Konami.

List of Hudson Soft Games

Adventures of Dino Riki (NES)
Adventure Island Series
Binary Land
Bloody Roar
series
Bomberman
series
Bonk series
Bubble Buster (ZX Spectrum)
Cannon Ball (ZX Spectrum)
Challenger (NES)
Driller Tanks (ZX Spectrum)
Earth Light
Elemental Gimmick Gear
Eric and the Floaters (ZX Spectrum)
Faxanadu (NES)
Frog Shooter (ZX Spectrum)
Game Boy Wars (Japan Only)
Itasundorious (ZX Spectrum)
Lode Runner (NES)
Mario Party series
Milon's Secret Castle (NES)
Momotaro series (consists of role playing games and board games)
Nectaris
& Neo Nectaris (also Military Madness)
Ninja Five-O (also Ninja Cop)
Rollerball (NES)
Star Soldier series
Stop the Express (ZX Spectrum)
Tengai Makyou
(also known as Far East of Eden)
Vegetable Crash (ZX Spectrum)
Xexyz (NES)

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