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* ''Gradius'' (''Nemesis'') - Many (1985)
* ''Salamander'' (''Life Force'') - Many (1986)
* ''Gradius 2'' (''Nemesis 2'') - MSX, Mobile (1987)
* ''Gradius II: The Ambition of Gofer'' - Many (1988)
* ''Nemesis 3: The Eve of Destruction'' - MSX (1988)
* ''Gradius III: From Legend to Myth'' - Arcade,SNES,PS2,PSP (1989)
* ''Nemesis'' - GB (1990)
* ''Gradius: The Interstellar Assault'' (''Nemesis II'', ''Gradius II: The Return of the Hero'') - GB (1991)
* ''Salamander 2'' - Arcade (1996)
* ''Gradius Gaiden'' - PS,PSP (1997)
* ''Solar Assault'' - Arcade (1997)
* ''Gradius IV Fukkatsu'' (''Gradius IV: Revival'') - Arcade (1998)
* ''Gradius Generation'' (''Gradius Galaxies'',''Gradius Advance'') - GBA (2001)
* ''[[Gradius V]]'' - PS2 (2004)
* ''Gradius ReBirth'' - Wii (2008)
* ''Gradius Arc'' (''Gradius Arc: Legend of the Silver Wings'') - Mobile (2010)
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Revision as of 15:42, 25 January 2011


Konami Corporation (コナミ株式会社 Konami Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese leading developer and publisher of numerous popular and strong-selling toys, trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, slot machines, arcade cabinets and video games. Konami is famous for games such as the Metal Gear series, Dance Dance Revolution series, Castlevania series, Contra series, Pro Evolution Soccer series, Yu-Gi-Oh! series, Silent Hill series and Gradius series.

The company was founded in 1969 as a jukebox rental and repair business in Osaka, Japan, by Kagemasa Kōzuki, the still-current chairman and president. The name "Konami" is a conjunction of the names Kagemasa Kozuki (current chairman and president), Yoshinobu Nakama, Tatsuo Miyasako.

Konami is currently headquartered in Tokyo and additionally operates health and physical fitness clubs in Japan. Konami also operates United States activities in El Segundo, California for video games and Paradise, Nevada for the casino gaming industry. Its Australian gaming operations are located in Sydney, and distribution of Konami's games in Australia is handled by Mindscape. Distribution of KOE's games in Australia was to be taken over by Red Ant Enterprises in February 2009, but Jason Hill from The Age and ASIC, a government body, announced that the company went into External Receivership and Administration, which then led KOE to re-sign with Atari Australia, now Namco Bandai Partners. On January 5, 2010, Kunio Neo, President of Konami of Europe announced Mindscape would be Australia's local distributor after a failed distributor change made Konami change back to Namco Bandai Partners, then Atari Australia.

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Konami franchises

Beatmania games

Castlevania games

Contra games

Dance Dance Revolution games

Gradius games

Silent Hill games

Suikoden games

Tokimeki Memorial games

Zone of the Enders games



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