Hudson Soft

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

Although it already started to sell PC-related products in 1975 it wasn t until 1984 when Hudson began to produce videogames for the Famicom (NES) that the company enjoyed notable success. Hudson s first Famicom title, Lode Runner, sold 12 million units. Hudson also made a joint venture with Nippon Electric Corporation to make the Turbografx-16 (North America) and PC Engine (Japan) family consoles. The PC Engine was successful in Japan, second only to Nintendo s Famicom, but the console was poorly marketed in the States and therefore 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 a developer Hudson Soft has become known as a company that focuses on quality games with excellent gameplay. Hudson Soft is well known to hardcore gamers who often keep a constant look-out for games made by Hudson Soft since its likely that a Hudson Soft game will have high quality gameplay.

Hudson s best-known game franchise to date is the Bomberman series, which has appeared on all major platforms. 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.

On April 2005, Hudson Soft became a subsdiairy of Konami.

=List of Hudson Soft Games=

*Bomberman series *Bonk series *Adventure Island Series *Bloody Roar series *Faxanadu (NES) *Milon s Secret Castle (NES) *Lode Runner (NES) *Adventures of Dino Riki (NES) *Rollerball (NES) *Ninja Five-O (also Ninja Cop , published by Konami outside Japan) *Mario Party series *Elemental Gimmick Gear *Nectaris & Neo Nectaris (also Military Madness) *Earth Light *Tengai Makyou (also known as Far East of Eden) *Star Soldier series *Momotaro Dentetsu series

=External links=

*[http://www.hudsonsoft.net/ww/index.html Official Hudson Soft Website] - in English *[http://www.planet-pcengine.de Planet-PCengine]