Hudson Soft Company, Ltd.

Overview

Hudson Soft Company is Sapporo's biggest games developer and one of Japan's oldest for home platforms. In the 80s, Hudson was well-known for its shoot'em-ups, for which it arranged tournaments called "carnivals" each year. Albeit a strong supporter of Nintendo's Famicom, Hudson went on to develop the PC Engine together with NEC. In the early 90s, the Bomberman games became a big hit, and have been developed as Hudson's main property for various platforms since then. In later years, the company has once more had strong bonds to Nintendo, developing a long series of titles in the Mario franchise.

By 2005 54 percent of the company was owned by the Japanese games company Konami. In January 2011 Konami took a 100 percent stake and it closed the US publishing division Hudson Entertainment in February 2011.


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