Konami

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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

Arcade releases

  • Beatmania - (December 1997)
  • Beatmania 2ndMix - (March 1998)
  • Beatmania 3rdMix - (September 1998)
  • Beatmania CompleteMix - (January 1999)
  • Beatmania 4thMix -the beat goes on- - (April 26, 1999)
  • Beatmania 5thMix -Time to get down- - (September 1999)
  • Beatmania complete Mix 2 - (January 27, 2000)
  • Beatmania Club Mix - (March 2000)
  • Beatmania featuring Dreams Come True - (June 2000)
  • Beatmania Core Remix - (November 2000)
  • Beatmania 6thMix - The UK Underground Musics- - (July 2001)
  • Beatmania 7thMix - Keepin' Evolution- - (January 2002)
  • Beatmania The Final - (July 2002)

Console releases

  • Beatstage - (1998)


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