Every Konami Game Released From 1974 To 2001

Table of Contents

Introduction, Statistics, Sources | 1974-2001 | 2002-2010 | 2011-2025

1974

Developed and Published
- Japan
  Lucky Continental
  Source
  - Arcade
    - Lucky Continental

If you Google “Konami’s first game” seemingly every source will say 1977’s Block Yard is Konami’s first game. A Foreigners’ Guide to Eremeka Arcades documents electro-mechanical arcade games from Japan and shows several games being made by Konami before Block Yard. Caitlyn, who runs A Foreigners’ Guide, is very knowledgeable about this subject and draws from many sources, including many in Japanese, so I am comfortable calling Lucky Continental Konami’s first. It’s worth noting that Konami’s own website states that they “began manufacturing amusement machines for arcades” in 1973, so there may be more to discover. Konami had been around for five years at the time of Lucky Continental’s release, starting as a place to rent jukeboxes or get them repaired.

Many of Konami’s arcade games throughout the years are medal games. You may have been to an arcade where you turn your cash into tokens and use those tokens to play games like coin pushers or skeeball to earn tickets and then redeem the tickets for prizes. Medal games are like that, except you can’t redeem the medals you earn for anything other than more gameplay, due to gambling laws in Japan. Medal games are lumped into the arcade platform for this study.

Konami’s early history is entwined with another Japanese company that was making medal games, Leijac, to such a degree that the aforementioned source I am using here mostly credits them as Konami/Leijac. Leijac published several of these early Konami games but disappeared by 1981. This earliest title was seemingly published by Konami themselves, though there can be some ambiguity about this in contemporaneous sources. Unfortunately, I can’t tell you anything about how this game plays.

1975

Developed and Published
Ascot Race
Source
- Japan
  - Arcade
    - Ascot Race

There is a famous horse racing track in Ascot, England, which Ascot Race seems to be evoking. There will be many more horse racing arcade games.

1976

Developed and Published
Piccadilly Circus Source
- Japan
  - Arcade
    - Piccadilly Circus (1976)
    - Pierrot

Piccadilly Circus is another real place in England, though the “circus” in its name refers to an open space at a street intersection and not a place you go to see a squirrel, elephant, rabbit, monkey, and bear. Konami will go on to make over a dozen Piccadilly games.

1977

Developed and Published
New Piccadilly Circus Source
- Japan
  - Arcade
    - New Piccadilly Circus
    - Super Gold Scope
Developed But Didn’t Publish
- Japan
  - Arcade
    - Block Yard

Arguably Konami’s first sequel, New Piccadilly Circus, doesn’t have an animal theme but instead features someone air gliding and flying a plane. Flying circuses were a type of show that involved airplanes doing stunts.

Very little is known about Block Yard, we don’t even have a picture of it, but the common speculation online says it’s likely a clone of Breakout, which came out the previous year.

1978

Developed and Published
Super Destroyer flyer Source
- Japan
  - Arcade
    - Pierrot (dual chute)
Developed But Didn’t Publish
- Japan
  - Arcade
    - Block Invader
    - Breaker
    - Destroyer
    - Super Destroyer

Pierrot is another electromechanical game featuring a clown.

Leijac published these early games, which are also thought to be Breakout clones.

1979

Developed and Published
Astro Invader/Kamikaze
Source
- Japan
  - Arcade
    - Piccadilly Fever
Developed But Didn’t Publish
- Japan
  - Arcade
    - Astro Invader/Kamikaze
    - Car Chase
    - Maze
    - Rich Man
    - Space King
    - Space King 2
    - Space Ship
    - Space War/Intruder/Space Laser

Kamikaze’s name was changed to Astro Invader when it was released outside of Japan. Some sources say this original Japanese version was released in 1980. As for the gameplay, it somewhat resembles Space Invaders, another arcade hit of the time. Players have to destroy columns of ships and avoid their explosions if they reach the bottom of the screen. You can see Tom Petty play it in the You Got Lucky music video.

Quite a few space themed games this year, probably all due to the popularity of Space Invaders.

1980

Developed and Published
Rock Paper Scissors Source
- Japan
  - Arcade
    - Kunitori Battle
    - Rock Paper Scissors Game (1980)
    - The End
    - World War
Developed But Didn’t Publish
- North America
  - Arcade
    - Astro Invader/Kamikaze
- Europe
  - Arcade
    - Astro Invader/Kamikaze

Here we finally have Konami’s first game to leave Japan, with an obvious name change. Kamikaze must have seen a decent amount of success to be exported, yet it would only see a single console port and received no sequels. Konami’s website pins 1979 as the year they started to “export products to the United States”, but I haven’t seen any evidence that they released any games outside of Japan until this year.

Rock Paper Scissors, or janken, seems to hold a special place in Japanese culture and Konami would make another game with the same name two years later.

1981

Developed and Published
The End flyer Source
- Japan
  - Arcade
    - Billiards/Computer Billiards/Video Hustler
    - Frogger
    - Jungler
    - Scramble/Scramble Wars (initial standalone release)
    - Strategy X
    - Super Cobra (initial standalone release)
    - Tactician
    - Turtles/Turpin
  - PC-6001
    - Frogger
- North America
  - Arcade
    - Frogger
    - Scramble/Scramble Wars (initial standalone release)
    - The End
      Frogger Source
    - Ultra Dome
- Europe
  - Arcade
    - Scramble/Scramble Wars (initial standalone release)
Developed But Didn’t Publish
- Japan
  - Arcade
    - Tactician
- North America
  - Arcade
    - Strategy X
    - Super Cobra (initial standalone release)
    - Turtles/Turpin
- Europe
  - Arcade
    Turtles Source
    - Turtles/Turpin

This is a very big year for Konami. Leijac is gone and several of 1981’s games are big successes and the beginnings of a series that would see many sequels. Frogger, Jungler, Scramble, Strategy X, Super Cobra, and Turtles will be ported to many more platforms and be re-released for decades. A few others were not so lucky, The End saw a single console port, while Tactician and Ultra Dome were never seen again.

Though Frogger was viewed with some skepticism for appealing to women and children, Sega/Gremlin licensed it after a successful playtest. The PC-6001 was an 8-bit home computer and a port of Frogger was Konami’s first non-arcade game. Though it became one of the most recognizable arcade games in the world, a legal dispute between Sega and Konami prevented Konami from making a sequel until 2001.

Turtles, sometimes called Turpin, is another arcade game featuring a green animal that spends a lot of time in and around the water. This one is a bit more like Pac-Man, where you play a turtle trying to save some turtle children from beetles. After touching a question mark block you either have to avoid a newly spawned beetle, or a child turtle joins you and you need to take it to a house icon.

1982

Developed and Published
Mobile Suit Gundam Source
- Japan
  - Arcade
    - Amidar
    - Kunbuman
    - Loco-Motion/Crazy Train
    - Mobile Suit Gundam
    - Piccadilly Circus Lion
    - Piccadilly Circus Racer
    - Pooyan (initial standalone version)
    - Rock Paper Scissors Game (1982)
    - Time Pilot (initial standalone release)
    - Treasure Island
    - Tutankham
  - PC-6001
    - Amidar
- North America
  - Arcade
    - Jungler
      Pooyan Source
    - Tactician
    - Time Pilot (initial standalone release)
    - Tutankham
  - Atari 2600
    - Pooyan
  - Dedicated Handheld
    - Astro Blaster
    - Tutankham
- Europe
  - Arcade
    - Tutankham
Developed But Didn’t Publish
- Japan
  - Arcade
    Astro Blaster Source
    - Loco-Motion/Crazy Train
  - Arcadia 2001
    - Astro Invader/Kamikaze
    - The End
  - Dedicated Handheld
    - Jungler
  - PC-6001
    - Tutankham
  - Sord M5
    - Super Cobra
  - Tomy Tutor
    - Frogger
    - Scramble/Scramble Wars
    - Turtles/Turpin
- North America
  - Adventure Vision
    - Super Cobra
    - Turtles/Turpin
  - Arcade
    - Loco-Motion/Crazy Train
    - Pooyan (initial standalone version)
      Tutankham Source
  - Arcadia 2001
    - Jungler
  - Atari 2600
    - Amidar
    - Frogger
  - Atari 8-bit
    - Frogger
  - Dedicated Handheld
    - Super Cobra
    - Turtles/Turpin
  - TRS-80
    - Frogger
  - Vectrex
    - Scramble/Scramble Wars
  - ZX81
    - Frogger
- Europe
  - Arcade
    Loco-Motion Source
    - Pooyan (initial standalone game)
    - Tactician
  - Arcadia 2001
    - Turtles/Turpin
  - Magnavox Odyssey 2
    - Frogger
    - Super Cobra
  - Vectrex
    - Scramble/Scramble Wars

Konami is releasing more games than ever and expanding into more 8-bit computers, relying on others for publishing.

Mobile Suit Gundam is Konami’s first game based on a licensed property as far as I can tell, two years after the end of the original anime.

Pooyan has a similar setup as Turtles: you play as an animal protecting your children from a predator, this time you’re a pig and the enemy are wolves. Konami held a contest in 2022, giving rights to indie developers to make games based on older series and Yanagi Bashi is apparently working on something called Re:Pooyan. I have no idea why it’s called Pooyan.

The first of Konami’s dedicated handheld games came out this year, including Astro Blaster, an adaptation of the Sega/Gremlin arcade game.

Tutankham is a bit of a maze game where you can shoot horizontally to clear enemies out of your path as you gather keys to unlock a door to complete each level.

In Loco-Motion you slide square blocks which contain train tracks into place to maneuver a train that moves continuously forward.

1983

Developed and Published
Athletic Land Source
- Japan
  - Arcade
    - Frogger (electromechanical game)
    - Gyruss (initial standalone version)
    - Juno First
    - Mega Zone
    - Pooyan (electromechanical game)
    - Roc’n Rope (initial standalone release)
    - Super Goritan
    - Track & Field/Track & Field in Barcelona
  - Casio PV-1000
    - Turtles/Turpin
    - Amidar
    - Super Cobra
      Track & Field flyer Source
    - Tutankham
    - Pooyan
  - MSX
    - Antarctic Adventure
    - Athletic Land
    - Frogger
    - Konami’s Billiards
  - PC-6001
    - Turtles/Turpin
    - Super Cobra
- North America
  - Arcade
    - Roc’n Rope (initial standalone release)
  - Atari 2600
    - Marine Wars
- Europe
  - Arcade
    - Track & Field/Track & Field in Barcelona
  - MSX
    - Frogger
    - Super Cobra
    - Time Pilot
      Roc’n Rope Source
Developed But Didn’t Publish
- Japan
  - Gakken Compact Vision TV Boy
    - Frogger
  - MSX
    - Loco-Motion/Crazy Train
  - Sord M5
    - Loco-Motion/Crazy Train
    - Pooyan
  - Tomy Tutor
    - Loco-Motion/Crazy Train
    - Pooyan
- North America
  - Apple II
    - Frogger
  - Arcade
    - Gyruss (initial standalone version)
      Gyruss Source
    - Juno First
    - Mega Zone
    - Track & Field/Track & Field in Barcelona
  - Atari 2600
    - Roc’n Rope
    - Super Cobra
    - Time Pilot
    - Tutankham
  - Atari 5200
    - Frogger
  - Atari 8-bit
    - Pooyan
    - Super Cobra
  - Colecovision
    - Frogger
    - Time Pilot
      Antarctic Adventure Source
  - Commodore 64
    - Frogger
    - Pooyan
  - Dedicated Handheld
    - Electronic LCD Track Star
  - Intellivsion
    - Frogger
    - Loco-Motion/Crazy Train
    - Super Cobra
    - Tutankham
  - Magnavox Odyssey 2
    - Turtles/Turpin
  - PC Booter
    - Frogger
  - TI-99/4A
    - Frogger
  - Tomy Tutor
    - Jungler
  - TRS-80 CoCo
    - Frogger
    - Pooyan
      Frogger for Gakken Compact Vision TV Boy box art Source
  - VIC-20
    - Frogger
    - Tutankham
- Europe
  - Arcade
    - Juno First
    - Mega Zone
    - Time Pilot (initial standalone release)
  - Atari 2600
    - Amidar
  - Dragon 32/64
    - Frogger
  - Magnavox Odyssey 2
    - Turtles/Turpin
  - MSX
    - Computer Billiards
    - Juno First
    - Sparkie
  - Videopac+ G74000
    - Turtles/Turpin

Konami’s first MSX games arrived in 1983. The MSX was not a specific computer, but rather a standardized architecture and was seen as one of the premier markets for games in Japan. Konami would become one of the most acclaimed developers for the MSX, and these games would be re-released and included in compilations for years to come. The MSX also had some success in Europe, though not every game made it there.

Athletic Land features a child maneuvering through an obstacle course.

Track & Field is the start of a series that has faded in relevance over time but it was Konami’s first sports game. It appears to simulate the Summer Olympics without using the name, with the 100 meter dash, long jump, javelin throw, hurdles, hammer throw, and high jump. The gameplay in many of these events involves mashing alternating buttons as fast as possible.

Roc’n Rope is an interesting vertical platformer where you can shoot a rope at a 45 degree angle to ascend. It seems to have a prehistoric setting, with dinosaur enemies. Tokuro Fujiwara worked on Roc’n Rope before going to Capcom and using a similar idea for Bionic Commando.

Gyruss is a space themed shooter where you move your ship around in a circle while the moving starfield gives the impression that you are traveling into the screen.

Antarctic Adventure is the first of a series about a penguin named Penta and is sort of a racing game where you must avoid obstacles. There’s quite a few games in this series that didn’t leave Japan and Penta was a bit of a mascot for Konami.

Sparkie is a maze game where you play as a bomb that fills the areas it has occupied with water. You must flood the entire level or destroy all of the enemies to get to the next level. It came out in Europe before Japan and has never been released for anything except MSX.

1984

Developed and Published
- Japan
  - Arcade
    - Badlands
      Circus Charlie MSX Source
    - Circus Charlie
    - Hyper Sports/Hyper Olympic
    - Max Mile
    - Mikie
    - Road Fighter (initial standalone release)
    - Sky Jaguar
    - Super Basketball
    - Time Pilot ’84
    - Yie Ar Kung-Fu (initial standalone release)
  - MSX
    - Cabbage Patch Kids Adventures in the Park
    - Circus Charlie
    - Comic Bakery
    - Hyper Sports/Hyper Olympic
    - Hyper Sports II/Hyper Olympic II
    - Konami no Mahjong Dojo
    - Konami’s Tennis
    - Magical Tree
    - Monkey Academy
    - Sky Jaguar
    - Super Cobra
      Hyper Sports MSX box art Source
    - Time Pilot
- North America
  - Arcade
    - Hyper Sports/Hyper Olympic
    - Road Fighter (initial standalone release)
    - Super Basketball
    - Time Pilot ’84
- Europe
  - Arcade
    - Hyper Sports/Hyper Olympic
    - Road Fighter (initial standalone release)
    - Super Basketball
    - Time Pilot ’84
  - Atari 8-bit
    - Pooyan
  - ColecoVision
    - Monkey Academy
  - MSX
    - Antarctic Adventure
    - Athletic Land
    - Circus Charlie
    - Comic Bakery
    - Hyper Sports/Hyper Olympic
    - Hyper Sports II/Hyper Olympic II
    - Konami’s Billiards
    - Konami’s Tennis
    - Monkey Academy
      Juno First MSX Source
    - Sky Jaguar
Developed But Didn’t Publish
- Japan
  - MSX
    - Badlands
    - Juno First
    - Sparkie
- North America
  - Apple II
    - Pooyan
    - Track & Field/Track & Field in Barcelona
  - Arcade
    - Circus Charlie (initial standalone version)
    - Pandora’s Palace
  - Atari 2600
    - Gyruss
    - Track & Field/Track & Field in Barcelona
  - Atari 5200
    NABU personal computer Source
    - Gyruss
    - Super Cobra
  - Atari 8-bit
    - Gyruss
    - Juno First
  - Coleco Adam
    - Antarctic Adventure
    - Cabbage Patch Kids Adventures in the Park
  - ColecoVision
    - Antarctic Adventure
    - Cabbage Patch Kids Adventures in the Park
    - Gyruss
    - Monkey Academy
    - Roc’n Rope
    - Super Cobra
    - Tutankham
  - Commodore 64
    - Gyruss
    - Juno First
    - Track & Field/Track & Field in Barcelona
      Pandora’s Palace Source
  - Macintosh
    - Frogger
  - NABU
    - Antarctic Adventure
    - Cabbage Patch Kids Adventures in the Park
    - Hyper Sports
  - PC Booter
    - Juno First
  - PCJr
    - Juno First
  - Timex Sinclair 2068
    - Frogger
- Europe
  - MSX
    - Loco-Motion/Crazy Train
  - Philips VG 5000
    - Turtles/Turpin
Published But Didn’t Develop
- Japan
  - Arcade
    - Funny Penta

Circus Charlie has you controlling a clown who performs typical circus performances, like riding on the back of a lion while jumping through flaming rings and jumping on trampolines while avoiding thrown knives.

Konami wasted no time in making more Olympics games with Hyper Sports/Hyper Olympics releasing to arcades and MSX, and also a sequel on MSX in the same year. Featuring new sports and no button mashing. Konami Tennis and Super Basketball were even more sports games released this year.

Juno First is among many space shooters by Konami. Players can scroll the screen forward and backward and must destroy all UFOs to advance.

NABU was a kind of computer network that operated with coaxial TV cables. It was available in Canada and briefly in Japan, and these NABU games are the only Canadian exclusives on these lists. You had to buy a special computer from NABU to connect to their network, which also had a monthly fee. It was ahead of its time but didn’t last for long.

Pandora’s Palace was not the first game to feature a Moai head, but it was Konami’s first. According to moai.games there are 121 Konami games that include a Moai head somewhere.

LaserDisc was a media format that featured large optical disks, but was analog rather than digital. There were a few games made for the format, like Badlands on the MSX and in the arcade. A few models of MSX computers could read LaserDisks, and only 11 MSX LaserDisk games were made. This was before computers had CD drives, watching full motion video on your home computer would have been incredible at the time. You play as a cowboy trying to enact revenge for his murdered wife and child.

1985

Developed and Published
- Japan
  - Arcade
    TwinBee Source
    - Finalizer – Super Transformation
    - Galactic Warriors
    - Gradius/Nemesis
    - Konami’s Ping Pong/Ping Pong
    - Konami RF2 Red Fighter
    - Rush’n Attack/Green Beret
    - Scooter Shooter
    - Shao-lin’s Road/Kicker (initial standalone release)
    - TwinBee
  - Famicom/NES
    - Antarctic Adventure
    - Hyper Sports
    - Road Fighter
    - Track & Field/Track & Field in Barcelona
    - Yie Ar Kung-Fu
  - MSX
    - Hyper Rally/Konami Rally
      Gradius Source
    - Hyper Sports III
    - King’s Valley
    - Konami’s Baseball
    - Konami’s Boxing
    - Konami’s Football
    - Konami’s Golf
    - Konami’s Ping Pong/Ping Pong
    - Mopiranger
    - Pippols
    - Road Fighter
    - The Goonies
    - Yie Ar Kung-Fu
  - PC-8000
    - Hyper Sports/Hyper Olympic
  - SG-1000
    - Hyper Sports/Hyper Olympic
      Konami’s Golf box art Source
    - Mikie
  - Sharp X1
    - Hyper Sports/Hyper Olympic
    - Hyper Sports Vol 1
    - Hyper Sports Vol 2
- North America
  - Arcade
    - Finalizer – Super Transformation
    - Galactic Warriors
    - Scooter Shooter
    - Shao-lin’s Road/Kicker (initial standalone release)
    - Wizz Quiz
    - Yie Ar Kung-Fu (initial standalone release)
- Europe
  - Amstrad CPC
    - Yie Ar Kung-Fu
  - Arcade
    - Galactic Warriors
    - Gradius/Nemesis
    - Konami GT
    - Scooter Shooter
    - Shao-lin’s Road/Kicker (initial standalone release)
    - Yie Ar Kung-Fu (initial standalone release)
      Rush’n Attack arcade Source
  - MSX
    - Hyper Rally/Konami Rally
    - Hyper Sports III
    - King’s Valley
    - Konami’s Baseball
    - Konami’s Boxing
    - Konami’s Football
    - Konami’s Golf
    - Konami’s Ping Pong/Ping Pong
    - Mopiranger
    - Road Fighter
    - Yie Ar Kung Fu 2
    - Yie Ar Kung-Fu
Developed But Didn’t Publish
- Japan
  - Arcade
    - Konami GT
  - Famicom/NES
    - Pooyan
  - MSX
    - Computer Billiards
  - PC-8000
    - Hyper Sports/Hyper Olympic
  - SG-1000
    - Hyper Sports/Hyper Olympic
      King’s Valley Source
    - Mikie
  - Sharp X1
    - Hyper Sports Vol 1
    - Hyper Sports Vol 2
    - Hyper Sports/Hyper Olympic
- North America
  - Arcade
    - Gradius/Nemesis
    - Konami GT
- Europe
  - Amstrad CPC
    - Hyper Sports/Hyper Olympic (compilation and standalone)
    - Konami’s Ping Pong/Ping Pong (compilation and standalone)
  - BBC Micro
    - Hyper Sports/Hyper Olympic
    - Yie Ar Kung-Fu
  - Commodore 64
    - Hyper Sports/Hyper Olympic (compilation and standalone)
      Rush’n Attack arcade flyer Source
  - ZX Spectrum
    - Hyper Sports/Hyper Olympic (compilation and standalone)
    - Yie Ar Kung-Fu (compilation and standalone)

Konami would make a major name for itself on the Famicom and its first few releases come out this year.

Something less successful Konami would try this year was utilizing bubble memory for four arcade machines in Japan: Galactic Warriors, Gradius, Konami RF2 (later known as Konami GT), and TwinBee. This kind of memory was supposed to be more reliable than others, but it came with the downsides of needing several minutes to warm up, not actually being fast enough to run games, necessitating copying the bubble memory to conventional RAM, being sensitive to electromagnetic fields, and being more expensive.

TwinBee gets its start in the arcades in 1985. While many of Konami’s shoot ’em ups were set in space, TwinBee is an early example of the “cute ’em up” subgenre, with a cute, colorful, cartoony aesthetic. While controlling an anthropomorphized ship the player is able to shoot forward as well as drop bombs onto ground targets. Powerups in the form of bells can be shot at to change what the powerup does.

Gradius, also known as Nemesis, and also a complicated rabbit hole of sub-series and ever changing names, comes out in arcades for the first time. A horizontal shoot ’em up with an innovative weapon upgrade system, Gradius would have great success and spawn many more games.

The list of sports covered by a Konami game grows as baseball, boxing, football, and golf get released on MSX.

Green Beret’s name was changed to the cheeky Rush’n Attack for the North American release. You play as a U.S. soldier who battles through Soviet military bases to save prisoners of war.

King’s Valley is a belt scrolling puzzle platformer where you collect all of the treasure in a level before exiting through a door. There are a limited number of knives you can pick up to dispatch enemies and pickaxes you can use to destroy blocks.

1986

Developed and Published
- Japan
  - Arcade
    - Bass Angler
      Rock’n Rage Source
    - Double Dribble
    - Iron Horse
    - Jackal
    - Jail Break/Manhattan 24 Bunsho
    - Life Force/Salamander
    - Mr. Goemon
    - Rock’n Rage
    - WEC Le Mans 24
  - Famicom/NES
    - Ganbare Goemon! Karakuri Dōchū
    - Gradius/Nemesis
    - King Kong 2: Ikari no Megaton Punch
    - The Goonies
    - TwinBee
  - Famicom Disk System
    - Castlevania (Famicom Disk System)
    - Crackout
    - Stinger/Burn TwinBee: To the Rescue of Dr. Cinnamon!
      Castlevania Source
  - MSX
    - Gradius/Nemesis
    - King Kong 2: Yomigaeru Densetsu
    - Knightmare
    - Penguin Adventure
    - Rush’n Attack/Green Beret
    - Q*bert
    - TwinBee
    - Vampire Killer
    - Yie Ar Kung Fu 2
  - PC-88
    - Gradius/Nemesis
    - The Goonies
  - Sharp X1
    - Gradius/Nemesis
    - The Goonies
- North America
  - Arcade
    - Iron Horse
    - Jackal
      Mr. Goemon Source
    - Jail Break/Manhattan 24 Bunsho
    - Life Force/Salamander
    - Rock’n Rage
    - WEC Le Mans 24
  - Famicom/NES
    - Gradius/Nemesis
- Europe
  - Amstrad CPC
    - Jail Break/Manhattan 24 Bunsho
  - Arcade
    - Life Force/Salamander
  - Commodore 64
    - Jail Break/Manhattan 24 Bunsho
  - MSX
    - Gradius/Nemesis
    - Knightmare
    - Rush’n Attack/Green Beret
    - TwinBee
Developed But Didn’t Publish
- Japan
  - Famicom/NES
    The Goonies NES Source
    - Circus Charlie
- North America
  - Arcade
    - The Goonies
    - Vs. Gradius
- Europe
  - Amstrad CPC
    - 4 Konami Coin-Op Hits
    - Mikie (compilation and standalone)
    - Rush’n Attack/Green Beret (compilation and standalone)
  - Atari 8-bit
    - Rush’n Attack/Green Beret
  - BBC Micro
    - Mikie
  - Commodore 16, Plus/4
    - 4 Konami Coin-Op Hits
      Life Force arcade Source
    - Hyper Sports/Hyper Olympic (compilation)
    - Konami’s Ping Pong/Ping Pong (compilation)
    - Rush’n Attack/Green Beret (compilation and standalone)
    - Yie Ar Kung-Fu (compilation and standalone)
  - Commodore 64
    - 4 Konami Coin-Op Hits
    - Comic Bakery
    - Konami’s Ping Pong/Ping Pong (compilation and standalone)
    - Mikie (compilation and standalone)
    - Rush’n Attack/Green Beret (compilation and standalone)
    - Shao-lin’s Road/Kicker
    - Yie Ar Kung-Fu (compilation and standalone)
  - Electron
    - Mikie
    - Yie Ar Kung-Fu
  - ZX Spectrum
    - 4 Konami Coin-Op Hits
    - Konami’s Ping Pong/Ping Pong (compilation and standalone)
    - Mikie (compilation and standalone)
    - Rush’n Attack/Green Beret (compilation and standalone)
    - Shao-lin’s Road/Kicker

Rock’n Rage has no relation to Roc’n Rope or Rush’n Attack despite the similarity of their names. Instead, band members John and Rick have to travel through time to save their singer Sheena. This game has never been available outside of this arcade release.

The Famicom Disk System comes out in Japan and one of Konami’s most beloved series gets its start there: Castlevania. Patterned after a horror film with lots of B-movie monsters, you control Simon Belmot on his quest to kill Dracula.

Mr. Goemon in the arcades and Ganbare Goemon! Karakuri Dōchū on the Famicom marks the start of the Ganbare Goemon series. The titular character is somewhat based on the real life Ishikawa Goemon, a bandit leader who stole from the rich and gave to the poor before being boiled alive. Gameplay among its many games varies, but it is overall lighthearted and cartoony.

The Goonies was released the year prior for MSX and this year for the Famicom. The computer versions differ a bit, being more exploratory and having bigger levels, but both are about rescuing the other Goonies.

Salamander, or Life Force as it was known in North America is a sort of sub series to Gradius. This is a space shooter, though it differentiates itself with levels that can scroll horizontally or vertically and a two player co-op feature. The Japanese and European Salamander features a level with some biological theming, but the North American Life Force recontextualizes the entire game as taking place inside a giant alien.

The Konami code Source

Gradius for NES marks the debut of the Konami code. Kazuhisa Hashimoto included it while porting the game from the arcade to make testing easier, but forgot to remove it. It gained more notoriety from its usage in Contra, and has gone on to be included in dozens of Konami games and become emblematic of video games as a whole.

1987

Developed and Published
- Japan
  - Arcade
    Getsu Fūma Den Source
    - A-jax/Typhoon
    - Battlantis
    - Black Panther
    - Boot Camp/Combat School
    - City Bomber
    - Contra
    - Dark Adventure/Devil World
    - Fast Lane
    - Flak Attack
    - Hyper Crash
    - Labyrinth Runner/Trick Trap: 1771
    - Piccadilly Gradius
    - Piccadilly RF2
    - Rack ‘em Up
  - Famicom/NES
    - Double Dribble
    - Dragon Scroll
      Contra arcade Source
    - Getsu Fūma Den
    - Hi no Tori Hououhen: Gaou no Bouken
    - Knightmare II: Maze of Galious
    - Life Force/Salamander
    - Metal Gear
    - The Goonies II
    - Top Gun
  - Famicom Disk System
    - Ai Senshi Nicol
    - Arumana no Kiseki
    - Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest
    - Doremikko
    - Esper Dream
    - Exciting Baseball
    - Exciting Basket
    - Exciting Billiard
    - Meikyū Jiin Dababa
    - Rush’n Attack/Green Beret
  - MSX
    - F-1 Spirit: The Road to Formula 1/A-1 Spirit: The Road to Formula
      Penguin Adventure Source
    - Ganbare Goemon
    - Gradius 2/Nemesis 2
    - Hi no Tori
    - Life Force/Salamander
    - Knightmare II: Maze of Galious
    - Metal Gear
    - Shalom: Knightmare III
    - The Treasure of Uşas
- North America
  - Arcade
    - Battlantis
    - City Bomber
    - Contra
    - Dark Adventure/Devil World
    - Double Dribble
    - Fast Lane
    - Flak Attack
      Metal Gear Source
    - Haunted Castle
    - Labyrinth Runner/Trick Trap: 1771
    - Rack ‘em Up
    - Top Gun
  - Commodore 64
    - Iron Horse
    - Mikie
  - Famicom/NES
    - Castlevania
    - Double Dribble
    - Rush’n Attack/Green Beret
    - Stinger/Burn TwinBee: To the Rescue of Dr. Cinnamon!
    - The Goonies II
    - Top Gun
    - Track & Field/Track & Field in Barcelona
- Europe
  - Amstrad CPC
    - Gradius/Nemesis
    - Jackal
  - Arcade
    - City Bomber
    - Contra
    - Haunted Castle
      Haunted Castle Source
  - Commodore 64
    - Gradius/Nemesis
    - Jackal
  - MSX
    - F-1 Spirit: The Road to Formula 1/A-1 Spirit: The Road to Formula
    - Gradius 2/Nemesis 2
    - Knightmare II: Maze of Galious
    - Life Force/Salamander
    - Metal Gear
    - Penguin Adventure
    - Q*bert
    - The Treasure of Uşas
    - Vampire Killer
  - ZX Spectrum
    - Gradius/Nemesis
    - Jackal
    - Jail Break/Manhattan 24 Bunsho
Developed But Didn’t Publish
Top Gun Source
- Japan
  - Famicom Disk System
    - Konami’s Ping Pong/Ping Pong
  - Sharp X68000
    - Gradius/Nemesis
- North America
  - Arcade
    - Rush’n Attack/Green Beret
    - Vs. Castlevania
- Europe
  - Amstrad CPC
    - Boot Camp/Combat School
    - Contra
    - Shao-lin’s Road/Kicker
  - Commodore 64
    - Boot Camp/Combat School
  - ZX Spectrum
    - Boot Camp/Combat School
    - Contra
      The Treasure of Uşas Source

Getsu Fūma Den is another revenge story, this time against demons. You can collect money from defeated foes to upgrade your gear and level up, making this an action RPG. This game has been re-released several times but has still never left Japan. There is a second game in the series quite a long time from now.

The original Contra comes to arcades this year, a big hit for Konami and another series that would see many entries. A run and gun game with horizontal, vertical, and whatever you call shooting “into” the screen is called levels. The high level of difficulty of the NES version makes its use of the Konami Code perhaps the most well known.

Penguin Adventure serves as the first video game Hideo Kojima worked on, though he says he only joined in on development during the last month and pitched a few ideas.

But it wasn’t long before Hideo Kojima was put in charge of a game called Metal Gear. An early example of a stealth game, Metal Gear is more about avoiding enemies than blasting every enemy on screen. There are some sophisticated for the time mechanics, with different levels of alert and several gadgets to make good use of.

Haunted Castle is an arcade entry in the Castlevania series known for being very difficult and not very fun.

The Treasure of Uşas is a platform game where you choose one of two characters to play as, which each have different stats. There are also four emotions you can have which change your abilities. These were translated many different ways but the European manual calls them happy, anger, sad, and good humour.

1988

Developed and Published
- Japan
  - Arcade
    Blades of Steel and Castlevania magazine ad Source
    - Chequered Flag/Checkered Flag
    - Devastators/Garuka
    - Fishing Penguin
    - Gang Busters
    - Gradius II/Vulcan Venture
    - Haunted Castle
    - Hot Chase
    - Kitten Kaboodle
    - Konami ’88/’88 Games
    - Super Contra
    - The Final Round
    - The Main Event
    - Thunder Cross
    - Tsuritsuni Penguin
  - Famicom/NES
    - Blades of Steel
    - Contra/Probotector
    - Gradius II/Vulcan Venture
      Skate or Die Source
    - Jarinko Chie: Bakudan Musume no Shiawase Sagashi
    - Konami Wai Wai World
    - The Adventures of Bayou Billy
    - Track & Field II
  - Famicom Disk System
    - Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa
    - Blades of Steel
    - Exciting Soccer: Konami Cup
    - Final Command: Akai Yōsai
    - Gyruss
    - Jackal
    - Konamic Tennis
    - Risa no Yōsei Densetsu
    - The Goonies
    - TwinBee
      Konami Game Collection 1 Source
  - MSX
    - King’s Valley II
    - Konami Game Collection 1
    - Konami Game Collection 2
    - Konami Game Collection 3
    - Konami Game Collection 4
    - Konami’s Uranai Sensation
    - Nemesis 3: The Eve of Destruction
    - Parodius: The Octopus Saves the Earth
    - Pennant Race
    - Snatcher
    - The Pro Yakyū Gekitotsu: Pennant Race
- North America
  - Arcade
    - Chequered Flag/Checkered Flag
    - Devastators/Garuka
    - Gang Busters
    - Hot Chase
    - Kitten Kaboodle
    - Konami ’88/’88 Games
    - Pro Quarterback
      Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa Source
    - The Final Round
    - The Main Event
    - Thunder Cross
  - Commodore 64
    - Circus Charlie
  - DOS
    - Contra
  - Famicom/NES
    - Blades of Steel
    - Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest
    - Contra/Probotector
    - Jackal
    - Life Force/Salamander
    - Metal Gear
    - Skate or Die!
      Snatcher Source
- Europe
  - Arcade
    - Gradius II/Vulcan Venture
    - Konami ’88/’88 Games
    - Thunder Cross
  - DOS
    - Contra
  - Famicom/NES
    - Castlevania
    - Double Dribble
    - Gradius/Nemesis
    - The Goonies II
    - Top Gun
  - MSX
    - King’s Valley II
    - Nemesis 3: The Eve of Destruction
      The Adventures of Bayou Billy Source
Developed But Didn’t Publish
- Japan
  - MSX
    - F-1 Spirit 3D
- North America
  - Arcade
    - Super Contra
  - Commodore 64
    - Contra
    - WEC Le Mans 24
- Europe
  - Amstrad CPC
    - Life Force/Salamander
    - WEC Le Mans 24
  - Commodore 64
    - A-jax/Typhoon
    - Contra
    - Life Force/Salamander
    - WEC Le Mans 24
  - ZX Spectrum
    Parodius: The Octopus Saves the Earth Source
    - A-jax/Typhoon
    - Life Force/Salamander
    - Track & Field/Track & Field in Barcelona
    - WEC Le Mans 24
Published But Didn’t Develop
- Japan
  - Famicom/NES
    - Exciting Boxing
    - Tetsuwan Atom

1988 saw the creation of Ultra Games, a shell company made by Konami to get around Nintendo’s limit on the number of games a publisher could release per year, the first game being Metal Gear. The question I have, and have seen no discussion of: did Nintendo know Ultra was Konami or not? It’s difficult to believe they wouldn’t have realized, but it also seems odd to give a publisher an exception just because they were using a different name.

The original Blades of Steel arcade game was only released in North America in 1987, but home console releases started here in 1988. Blades of Steel would get a few sequels but hockey is not a sport Konami would ultimately do much with.

Skate or Die was one of Konami’s rare port jobs of a game they didn’t make, so the NES version counts for this list.

The first four of many Konami compilations released this year. Konami Game Collection 1, 2, 3, and 4 are MSX compilations of five MSX games. The second and fourth are sports games, while the third is all shoot ’em ups.

Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa, or as it’s more widely thought of, “that Famicom Disk System platformer with the baby”, releases this year and won’t see a release outside of Japan until 2008 on the Wii.

Snatcher is another Hideo Kojima game, a science fiction adventure game with a cyberpunk theme.

The Adventures of Bayou Billy is a beat ’em up where you can take weapons from enemies, a rail shooter, and a racing game in one. There were quite a few changes for the NES version, including making it punishingly difficult.

The Parodius series gets its start here and the first game goes by quite a few different names: Parodius, Parodius: The Octopus Saves the Earth, Parodius Da!, and Parodius: Non-Sense Fantasy. As the name implies this horizontal shooter is a bit of a silly parody of the Gradius series, though several other Konami games are also lampooned.

That’s not all for self-referential Konami games in 1988, though. Konami Wai Wai World features Konami Man and Konami Lady rescuing characters from other Konami games, which then allows you to play as them. Included playable characters are Goemon (Ganbare Goemon), Simon Belmot (Castlevania), Getsu Fūma (Getsu Fūma Den), Mikey (The Goonies), Moai Alexandria (not an actual character before this, but representing Gradius), King Kong (King Kong 2: Ikari no Megaton Punch), Vic Viper (Gradius), and TwinBee (TwinBee). Konami Man didn’t actually get his start in this game, as he appeared as a little easter egg in a handful of games before this.

1989

Developed and Published
- Japan
  - Arcade
    - Bottom of the Ninth
      Quarth Source
    - Crime Fighters
    - Cue Brick
    - Gradius III
    - M.I.A.: Missing in Action
    - Quarth
    - S. P. Y. – Special Project Y
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game/Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles II: The Arcade Game
  - Dedicated Handheld
    - Baseball
  - Famicom/NES
    - Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse
    - Cosmic Wars
    - Ganbare Goemon 2
    - Ganbare Pennant Race!
    - Racer Mini Yonku: Japan Cup
    - Top Gun: The Second Mission
    - TwinBee 3: Poko Poko Daimaō
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles
  - Game Boy
    - Castlevania: The Adventure
      Konami QTa Adaptor Source
    - Motocross Maniacs
  - Konami QTa Adaptor
    - NHK Gakuen – Space School – Sansu 4 Nen (Ge)
    - NHK Gakuen – Space School – Sansu 4 Nen (Jou)
    - NHK Gakuen – Space School – Sansu 5 Nen (Ge)
    - NHK Gakuen – Space School – Sansu 5 Nen (Jou)
    - NHK Gakuen – Space School – Sansu 6 Nen (Ge)
    - NHK Gakuen – Space School – Sansu 6 Nen (Jou)
  - MSX
    - Contra
    - Hai no Majutsushi
    - Konami Game Collection Extra
    - Pennant Race II
    - Space Manbow
  - PC-98
    - Dennou Shougi
  - Sharp x68000
    - A-Jax
- North America
  - Amiga
    - Castlevania
  - Arcade
    - Crime Fighters
    - M.I.A.: Missing in Action
    - Quarth
    - S. P. Y. – Special Project Y
      Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game Source
  - Dedicated Handheld
    - Bull’s Eye Barbecue Sauce
    - C
    - Double Dribble
    - Gradius/Nemesis
    - Skate or Die
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles
    - Top Gun
  - DOS
    - A-jax/Typhoon
    - Boot Camp/Combat School
    - Jackal
    - Rush’n Attack/Green Beret
  - Game Boy
    - Castlevania: The Adventure
  - Famicom/NES
    - Gyruss
    - Q*bert
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles
    - The Adventures of Bayou Billy
    - Track & Field II
      Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Source
- Europe
  - Arcade
    - Quarth
  - Dedicated Handheld
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles
  - Famicom/NES
    - Life Force/Salamander
    - Metal Gear
    - Rush’n Attack/Green Beret
    - Track & Field II
Developed But Didn’t Publish
- North America
  - Arcade
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles
- Europe
  - Amstrad CPC
    - A-jax/Typhoon
  - Arcade
    - Gradius III
  - BBC Micro
    Bull’s Eye Barbecue Sauce Source
    - Rush’n Attack/Green Beret
Published But Didn’t Develop
- Japan
  - Famicom/NES
    - Motocross Champion
- North America
  - Famicom/NES
    - Defender of the Crown
    - Silent Service

Quarth is an odd puzzle/shooter game where you shoot blocks at shapes to make them into rectangles, which then makes them disappear.

The Konami QTa Adaptor was a device you could plug into a Famicom that had its own cartridge slot to play its own special games. Six of its seven games were released this year and are educational games that teach math.

Konami releases the four player beat ’em up Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game as well as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, a platformer where you can switch between playing as each turtle. These both have quite a few different and confusing names, so I may not be using the one you are most familiar with.

Bull’s Eye Barbecue Sauce was a dedicated handheld made to promote Bull’s Eye Barbecue Sauce, which still exists to this day.

1990

Developed and Published
- Japan
  - Arcade
    - Aliens
    - Kokekko!!
    - Lightning Fighters
      Moai-kun Source
    - Ouyata
    - Parodius! From Myth to Laughter/Parodius/Parodius: Non-Sense Fantasy/Parodiusu Da! Shinwa kara Owarai e
    - Piccadilly Circus Fantasy World
    - Piccadilly Circus Mobile World
    - Piccadilly Circus Space World
    - Punk Shot
    - Surprise Attack
    - Whoo Yarth Taar/Woo Yah Taa
  - Dedicated Handheld
    - Ganbare Goemon: Ebisumaru Kiki Ippatsu
    - South Pole
  - Famicom/NES
    - Ganbare Goemon Gaiden: Kieta Ōgon Kiseru
    - Kid Dracula
    - Moai-kun
    - Mōryō Senki Madara
    - Parodius! From Myth to Laughter/Parodius/Parodius: Non-Sense Fantasy/Parodiusu Da! Shinwa kara Owarai e
    - Quarth
    - Super C/Probotector II: Return of The Evil Forces
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game/Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles II: The Arcade Game
  - Game Boy
    - Nemesis
    - Pop’n TwinBee/TwinBee GB/TwinBee Da!!
    - Quarth
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan/Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan
  - Konami QTa Adaptor
    - Space College: The Gentle Physics and Science of Hazardous Materials
  - MSX
    - Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake
    - Quarth
    - SD Snatcher
  - PC-98
    - Eisei Meijin (1990)
      Kokekko!! Source
    - Quarth
  - Sharp x68000
    - Quarth
  - Super Famicom/SNES
    - Gradius III
- North America
  - Amiga
    - Blades of Steel
    - Double Dribble
    - Super C/Probotector II: Return of The Evil Forces
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles
  - Arcade
    - Aliens
    - Bottom of the Ninth
    - Over Drive
  - Commodore 64
    - Castlevania
    - Double Dribble
    - Metal Gear
  - Dedicated Handheld
    Skate or Die: Bad ‘N Rad Source
    - Bill Elliott’s NASCAR Racing
    - Blades of Steel
    - Bottom of the Ninth
    - Chequered Flag
    - NFL Football
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Splinter Speaks
    - The Adventures of Bayou Billy
    - The Lone Ranger
  - DOS
    - Castlevania
    - Double Dribble
    - Metal Gear
    - Super C/Probotector II: Return of The Evil Forces
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles
      Kid Dracula Source
  - Game Boy
    - Motocross Maniacs
    - Nemesis
    - NFL Football
    - Quarth
    - Skate or Die: Bad ‘N Rad
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan/Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan
  - Famicom/NES
    - Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse
    - Kings of the Beach
    - Mission: Impossible
    - RollerGames
    - Snake’s Revenge
    - Super C/Probotector II: Return of The Evil Forces
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game/Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles II: The Arcade Game
    - Top Gun: The Second Mission
- Europe
  - Arcade
    - Aliens
    - Parodius! From Myth to Laughter/Parodius/Parodius: Non-Sense Fantasy/Parodiusu Da! Shinwa kara Owarai e
      RollerGames Source
  - Famicom/NES
    - Blades of Steel
    - Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest
    - Contra/Probotector
    - Skate or Die!
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles
  - Game Boy
    - Castlevania: The Adventure
    - Motocross Maniacs
    - Skate or Die: Bad ‘N Rad
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan/Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan
Developed But Didn’t Publish
- North America
  - Amiga
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles
  - Commodore 64
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles
- Europe
  - Amiga
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles
  - Amstrad CPC
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles
  - Atari ST
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles
  - Commodore 64
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles
      Snake’s Revenge Source
  - DOS
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles
  - MSX
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles
  - ZX Spectrum
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles
Published But Didn’t Develop
- Japan
  - Arcade
    - Little Pro
- North America
  - Amiga
    - Back to the Future Part II
    - Speedball 2
  - DOS
    - Back to the Future Part II
    - Theme Park Mystery
  - Famicom/NES
    - Jack Nicklaus’ Greatest 18 Holes of Major Championship Golf

Palcom was established as Europe’s version of Ultra Games in 1990.

The seventh and final Konami GTa Adaptor game was made to train employees of the petroleum company Idemitsu.

Moai-kun is a single screen puzzle platformer where you control a Moai head who must save other Moai heads and then reach the exit by destroying blocks, moving objects around, and avoiding hazards.

Kokekko!! is an arcade game where upon successfully rescuing enough chicks a gachapon capsule is rewarded. This game was noteworthy enough for it to be referenced in several other Konami games.

In the previous year Konami made a dedicated Skate or Die handheld game and in 1990 they released a Skate or Die game for the Game Boy, which seems to be a platformer.

Kid Dracula is part of the Castlevania series, but this time you’re playing as a vampire.

Determined to leave no sport unrepresented, RollerGames is a rare roller derby game, based on the TV show of the same name and never coming to Japan. This NES version is a platformer where you must rescue commissioner Bill Griffiths.

Snake’s Revenge was not made by Hideo Kojima and is not considered canon, but he doesn’t seem to hate it. It was never released in Japan.

Punk Shot is a two on two basketball game mixed with a beat ’em up.

1991

Developed and Published
- Japan
  - Arcade
    - Bells & Whistles/Detana!! TwinBee
      Escape Kids flyer Source
    - Escape Kids
    - Golfing Greats
    - Last Queen
    - Mario Roulette
    - Piccadilly Circus: Super Mario Bros. 3
    - Piccadilly Circus: Super Mario World
    - RollerGames
    - Slime Kun
    - Sunset Riders
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time/Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles IV: Turtles in Time
    - The Simpsons Arcade Game
    - Thunder Cross II
    - Tsurikko Penta
    - Vendetta
    - Xexex/Orius
  - Famicom/NES
    - Crisis Force
    - Lagrange Point
    - Laser Invasion
      Mario Roulette Source
    - Rampart (Japanese version)
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project
    - Tiny Toon Adventures
    - Wai Wai World 2: SOS!! Parsley Jō
    - Yume Penguin Monogatari
  - Game Boy
    - Castlevania II: Belmont’s Revenge
    - Cave Noire
    - Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon/Ganbare Goemon: Sarawareta Ebisumaru! (compilation and standalone)
    - Gradius: The Interstellar Assault/Nemesis II/Nemesis II: The Return of the Hero (compilation and standalone)
    - Operation C/Probotector
    - Parodius! From Myth to Laughter/Parodius/Parodius: Non-Sense Fantasy/Parodiusu Da! Shinwa kara Owarai e
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Back from the Sewers/Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles II: Back From the Sewers
    - Ultra Golf Konamic Golf/Konami Golf
    - World Circuit Series F-1 Spirit/The Spirit of F-1
  - PC-98
    - Eisei Meijin II
  - Sharp x68000
    - Bells & Whistles/Detana!! TwinBee
    - Namachūkei 68
    - Parodius! From Myth to Laughter/Parodius/Parodius: Non-Sense Fantasy/Parodiusu Da! Shinwa kara Owarai e
  - Super Famicom/SNES
    - Super Castlevania IV
    - The Legend of the Mystical Ninja
      The Simpsons Arcade Game Source
  - Turbografx-16
    - Gradius/Nemesis
    - Life Force/Salamander
- North America
  - Arcade
    - RollerGames
    - Sunset Riders
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time
    - The Simpsons Arcade Game
    - Vendetta
    - Xexex/Orius
  - Commodore 64
    - The Simpsons Arcade Game
  - Dedicated Handheld
    - Baseball
    - Bucky O’Hare
    - Garfield
    - Star Trek: 25th Anniversary
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles starring Leonardo!: Shredder Gets Shelled!
      Star Trek: 25th Anniversary Source
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Basketball
    - Top Gun: The Second Mission
    - World Cup Soccer
  - DOS
    - The Simpsons Arcade Game
  - Game Boy
    - Blades of Steel
    - Castlevania II: Belmont’s Revenge
    - Double Dribble: 5 on 5/HyperDunk
    - Operation C/Probotector
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Back from the Sewers/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2/Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles II: Back From the Sewers
  - Famicom/NES
    - Cyber Stadium Series—Base Wars
    - Laser Invasion
    - Ski or Die
    - The Lone Ranger
    - Tiny Toon Adventures
  - Super Famicom/SNES
    - Gradius III
    - Super Castlevania IV
- Europe
  - Amstrad CPC
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game/Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles II: The Arcade Game
      Tiny Toon Adventures Source
  - Arcade
    - RollerGames
    - Sunset Riders
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time/Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles IV: Turtles in Time
    - The Simpsons Arcade Game
    - Xexex/Orius
  - Famicom/NES
    - Crackout
    - Mission: Impossible
    - RollerGames
    - Ski or Die
    - Snake’s Revenge
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game/Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles II: The Arcade Game
    - The Adventures of Bayou Billy
    - Top Gun: The Second Mission
  - Game Boy
    - Blades of Steel
    - Nemesis
    - Operation C/Probotector
      Cave Noire Source
Developed But Didn’t Publish
- North America
  - Arcade
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game/Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles II: The Arcade Game
  - Europe
    - Atari ST
      - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game/Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles II: The Arcade Game
    - Commodore 64
      - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game/Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles II: The Arcade Game
    - ZX Spectrum
      - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game/Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles II: The Arcade Game
Published But Didn’t Develop
- Japan
  - Arcade
    - Pit-Fighter
      Namachūkei 68 Source
- North America
  - Amiga
    - Back to the Future Part III
    - Bill Elliott’s NASCAR Challenge
    - Predator 2
    - Team Suzuki
  - DOS
    - Back to the Future Part III
    - Bill Elliott’s NASCAR Challenge
    - Bloodwych
    - BSS Jane Seymour
    - J. R. R. Tolkien’s Riders of Rohan
    - Killing Cloud
    - Mission: Impossible
    - Predator 2
    - Spacewrecked: 14 Billion Light Years From Earth
    - Speedball 2
      Orius Source
    - Team Suzuki
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Manhattan Missions
    - The Simpsons: Bart’s House of Weirdness
    - Top Gun: Danger Zone
  - Game Boy
    - Bill Elliott’s NASCAR Fast Tracks
  - Famicom/NES
    - Bill Elliott’s NASCAR Challenge
    - Pirates!
    - Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego?
- Europe
  - Amiga
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game/Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles II: The Arcade Game
  - Famicom/NES
    - Defender of the Crown
      Super Castlevania IV Source
    - Jack Nicklaus’ Greatest 18 Holes of Major Championship Golf
    - Pirates!

Mario Roulette is a medal game that resembles one of the bonus rooms in Super Mario World, where the player tries to form a line of symbols. Piccadilly Circus: Super Mario Bros. 3 and Piccadilly Circus: Super Mario World also released this year.

Perhaps trying to recapture the magic of adapting an American cartoon into a four player simultaneous beat ’em up arcade game, The Simpsons hits arcades. There are also more Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games, a Tiny Toons game, a The Lone Ranger game, and a Star Trek game this year.

Cave Noire is a roguelike on the Game Boy which never left Japan, which is a shame because there wasn’t much else like it for the Game Boy. You play as an adventurer who must delve into several randomly generated dungeons to kill monsters, rescue fairies, collect treasure, and get stronger.

Konami developed several games for the ill-fated X68000, including Namachūkei 68, a baseball game perhaps most noteworthy for being completely standalone and predating Konami’s huge baseball series.

Orius, also known as Xexex is another horizontally scrolling shoot ’em up set in space.

Super Castlevania IV is a beloved iteration of the vampire slaying series and made some interesting use of Mode 7, such as a room that spun around you as you hung by your whip.

1992

Developed and Published
- Japan
  - Arcade
    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist Source
    - Asterix
    - Birdie Putt
    - Bucky O’Hare
    - Dream Circuit
    - G.I. Joe
    - Hexion
    - Imohori Penta
    - Lethal Enforcers
    - Mystic Warriors
    - Potrio
    - Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa
    - X-Men
  - Famicom/NES
    - Bucky O’Hare
    - Esper Dream 2: Arata naru Tatakai
    - Ganbare Goemon Gaiden 2: Tenka no Zaihō
    - Tiny Toon Adventures 2: Trouble in Wackyland
  - Game Boy
    Asterix Source
    - Blades of Steel
    - Double Dribble: 5 on 5/HyperDunk
    - Tiny Toon Adventures: Babs’ Big Break
    - Nanonote
    - Track & Field
  - Genesis/Mega Drive
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist/Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist
  - Picno
    - Fushigi no Kuni no Alice
    - Montage
  - PC-98
    - Eisei Meijin III
  - Sharp x68000
    - Gradius II: Gofer no Yabō
  - Super Famicom/SNES
    - Axelay
    - Contra III: The Alien Wars/Super Probotector: Alien Rebels
    - Parodius! From Myth to Laughter/Parodius/Parodius: Non-Sense Fantasy/Parodiusu Da! Shinwa kara Owarai e
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time/Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles IV: Turtles in Time
      Bucky O’Hare NES Source
    - Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts Loose!
  - Turbografx-16
    - Bells & Whistles/Detana!! TwinBee
    - Gradius II/Vulcan Venture
    - Parodius! From Myth to Laughter/Parodius/Parodius: Non-Sense Fantasy/Parodiusu Da! Shinwa kara Owarai e
    - Snatcher CD-ROMantic
    - Snatcher CD-ROMantic: Pilot Disk
- North America
  - Arcade
    - Bucky O’Hare
    - G.I. Joe
    - Hexion
    - Lethal Enforcers
    - Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa
    - X-Men
  - Dedicated Handheld
    - Asterix
    - Barbie
    - Star Trek
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Four for Four/Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: Four for Four
    - Top Gun: Airstrike 3
      Bucky O’Hare Arcade Source
  - Famicom/NES
    - Bucky O’Hare
    - Contra Force
    - Monster in My Pocket
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project
  - Game Boy
    - Gradius: The Interstellar Assault/Nemesis II/Nemesis II: The Return of the Hero (compilation)
    - Tiny Toon Adventures: Babs’ Big Break
    - Track & Field
    - Ultra Golf Konamic Golf/Konami Golf
    - World Circuit Series F-1 Spirit/The Spirit of F-1
  - Genesis/Mega Drive
    - Sunset Riders
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist/Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist
  - Super Famicom/SNES
    - Axelay
    - Contra III: The Alien Wars/Super Probotector: Alien Rebels
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time/Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles IV: Turtles in Time
    - The Legend of the Mystical Ninja
      Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa Source
- Europe
  - Arcade
    - G.I. Joe
    - Lethal Enforcers
    - Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa
  - Dedicated Handheld
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Four for Four/Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: Four for Four
  - Famicom/NES
    - Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse
    - Konami Hyper Soccer
    - Monster in My Pocket
    - Parodius! From Myth to Laughter/Parodius/Parodius: Non-Sense Fantasy/Parodiusu Da! Shinwa kara Owarai e
    - Road Fighter
    - Super C/Probotector II: Return of The Evil Forces
    - Tiny Toon Adventures
    - Track & Field/Track & Field in Barcelona
  - Game Boy
    - Castlevania II: Belmont’s Revenge
    - Gradius: The Interstellar Assault/Nemesis II/Nemesis II: The Return of the Hero (compilation)
    - Parodius! From Myth to Laughter/Parodius/Parodius: Non-Sense Fantasy/Parodiusu Da! Shinwa kara Owarai e
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Back from the Sewers/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2/Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles II: Back From the Sewers
    - Tiny Toon Adventures: Babs’ Big Break
      G.I. Joe Source
    - Track & Field
    - World Circuit Series F-1 Spirit/The Spirit of F-1
  - Genesis/Mega Drive
    - Sunset Riders
  - Super Famicom/SNES
    - Axelay
    - Contra III: The Alien Wars/Super Probotector: Alien Rebels
    - Parodius! From Myth to Laughter/Parodius/Parodius: Non-Sense Fantasy/Parodiusu Da! Shinwa kara Owarai e
    - Super Castlevania IV
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time/Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles IV: Turtles in Time
Developed But Didn’t Publish
- Europe
  - DOS
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game/Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles II: The Arcade Game
Published But Didn’t Develop
- Japan
  - Super Famicom/SNES
    - Cybernator
- North America
  - Amiga
    - Utopia: The Creation of a Nation
      X-Men Source
  - Famicom/NES
    - King’s Quest V
    - Nightshade
    - Star Trek: 25th Anniversary
    - Tiny Toon Adventures: Cartoon Workshop
  - Macintosh
    - Bill Elliott’s NASCAR Challenge
  - Super Famicom/SNES
    - Prince of Persia
- Europe
  - Famicom/NES
    - Noah’s Ark
    - Star Trek: 25th Anniversary
  - Game Boy
    - Monopoly
  - Super Famicom/SNES
    - Prince of Persia
      Picno Source

The Sega Genesis was released in Japan in 1988, yet it wasn’t until 1992 that Konami released their first game for a Sega system. A port of the arcade game Sunset Riders and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist both released in December of this year, and the exact dates don’t seem to be known so I can’t tell you which one was first.

Asterix is a beat ’em up based on the French comic and despite only featuring English and French text, never left Japan.

A Bucky O’Hare dedicated handheld game came out the previous year, but 1992 has an NES and arcade version. Based on an American cartoon, the NES version has you visiting several planets to rescue your crewmates, who you can then switch to on the fly, similar to Konami Wai Wai World. The arcade game is a beat ’em up.

Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa is a beat ’em up with ranged weapons and some platforming based on an American cartoon.

G.I. Joe is a shooter where you are often moving forward into the screen, based on an American cartoon.

X-Men is a beat ’em up based on the pilot of an American cartoon.

The Picno was a video game system made by Konami and sold only in Japan. Somewhat resembling a Wii U GamePad, it came with a stylus to draw on the central touch screen, which also has a few buttons. All of its games were educational.

1993

Developed and Published
- Japan
  - Arcade
    Funky Monkey Ukkiky!! Source
    - Animal Grand Prix
    - Balloon Penta
    - BJ Four Split
    - Chusenki
    - F1 World Racing
    - Funky Monkey Ukkiky!!
    - Gaiapolis
    - Kung-Fu Kid
    - Martial Champion
    - Metamorphic Force
    - Monster Maulers
    - Poly-Net Warriors
    - Polygonet Commanders
    - Premier Soccer
    - Run and Gun/Slam Dunk
    - Tourmate
    - Violent Storm
    - Wai Wai Bingo
    - Wai Wai Poker
    - Winner’s Poker
  - Game Boy
    - God Medicine: Fantasy Sekai no Tanjou
    - Kid Dracula
      God Medicine: Fantasy Sekai no Tanjou Source
    - Raging Fighter Outburst
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Radical Rescue/Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles III: Radical Rescue
    - Tiny Toon Adventures 2: Montana’s Movie Madness
  - Famicom/NES
    - Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa
    - Castlevania
    - Formula 1 Sensation/F-1 Sensation
    - Stinger/Burn TwinBee: To the Rescue of Dr. Cinnamon!
  - Genesis/Mega Drive
    - Lethal Enforcers
    - Rocket Knight Adventures
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters/Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: Tournament Fighters
  - Picno
    - Anime Enikki
    - Picno Art Puzzle
    - Picno de 123
    - Picno de ABC
    - Picno de AIUEO
  - Sega CD/Mega-CD
    - Lethal Enforcers
  - Sharp x68000
    Lethal Enforcers Source
    - Castlevania
  - Slot Machine
    - Fruits Bar
  - Super Famicom/SNES
    - Batman Returns
    - Ganbare Goemon 2: Kiteretsu Shougun McGuiness
    - Mōryō Senki MADARA 2
    - Pop’n TwinBee
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters/Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: Tournament Fighters
  - Turbografx-16
    - Castlevania: Rondo of Blood
    - Martial Champion
- North America
  - Arcade
    Konami Justifier Source
    - Honey Bee
    - Martial Champion
    - Metamorphic Force
    - Mystic Warriors
    - Polygonet Commanders
    - Run and Gun/Slam Dunk
    - Violent Storm
  - Dedicated Handheld
    - Major League Baseball
  - Famicom/NES
    - Batman Returns
    - Tiny Toon Adventures 2: Trouble in Wackyland
    - Zen: Intergalactic Ninja
  - Game Boy
    - Batman: The Animated Series
    - Kid Dracula
    - Raging Fighter Outburst
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Radical Rescue/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: Turtles Kiki Ippatsu/Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles III: Radical Rescue
    - Tiny Toon Adventures 2: Montana’s Movie Madness
    - Zen: Intergalactic Ninja
  - Genesis/Mega Drive
    Zen: Intergalactic Ninja NES box art Source
    - Lethal Enforcers
    - Rocket Knight Adventures
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: Tournament Fighters
    - Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster’s Hidden Treasure
  - Sega CD/Mega-CD
    - Lethal Enforcers
  - Super Famicom/SNES
    - Batman Returns
    - Sunset Riders
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters/Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: Tournament Fighters
    - Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts Loose!
- Europe
  - Arcade
    - Monster Maulers
    - Mystic Warriors
  - Famicom/NES
    - Batman Returns
    - Bucky O’Hare
    - Formula 1 Sensation/F-1 Sensation
    - Rackets & Rivals
    - Zen: Intergalactic Ninja
  - Game Boy
    - Batman: The Animated Series
    - Kid Dracula
    - Raging Fighter Outburst
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Radical Rescue/Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles III: Radical Rescue
    - Tiny Toon Adventures 2: Montana’s Movie Madness
    - Zen: Intergalactic Ninja
  - Genesis/Mega Drive
    - Lethal Enforcers
    - Rocket Knight Adventures
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist/Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: Tournament Fighters
    - Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster’s Hidden Treasure
      Batman: The Animated Series Source
  - Sega CD/Mega-CD
    - Lethal Enforcers
  - Super Famicom/SNES
    - Batman Returns
    - Pop’n TwinBee
    - Sunset Riders
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters/Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: Tournament Fighters
    - Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts Loose!
Published But Didn’t Develop
- Japan
  - Super Famicom/SNES
    - Dragon’s Lair
    - NFL Football
- North America
  - Amiga
    - Frontier: Elite II
  - DOS
    - Frontier: Elite II
      Batman Returns Source
    - NFL 94
    - NFL Video Pro Football
    - Wilson ProStaff Golf
  - Game Boy
    - Top Gun: Guts and Glory
  - Genesis/Mega Drive
    - Zombies Ate My Neighbors/Zombies
  - Super Famicom/SNES
    - Cybernator
    - NFL Football
    - Zombies Ate My Neighbors/Zombies
- Europe
  - Amiga
    - Frontier: Elite II
  - Amiga CD32
    - Frontier: Elite II
  - Atari St
    - Frontier: Elite II
  - DOS
    - Frontier: Elite II
  - Famicom/NES
    - Tiny Toon Adventures: Cartoon Workshop
  - Game Boy
    - Top Gun: Guts and Glory
  - Genesis/Mega Drive
    - Nigel Mansell’s World Championship Racing
  - Super Famicom/SNES
    - Cybernator
    - NFL Football
    - Zombies Ate My Neighbors/Zombies
      Rocket Knight Adventures Source

God Medicine: Fantasy Sekai no Tanjou is a Game Boy RPG. Three children who love RPGs go into an RPG world to save both it and the real world.

Lethal Enforcers gets its first home port on the Sega Genesis. To replicate the arcade experience the Konami Justifier light gun was included with the game. There would be versions of the Justifier sold for the SNES and PlayStation as well, and some non-Konami games even supported it.

Zen: Intergalactic Ninja is based on a comic about an alien environmentalist and got both an NES and Game Boy game. The NES version has a lot of variety, featuring isometric platforming, side scrolling platforming, a minecart level, climbing and falling levels, and some interesting boss fights.

Two new Batman games in 1993, Batman: The Animated Series for Game Boy is a platformer based on the 1992 animated series, while Batman Returns for the SNES is a beat ’em up based on the 1992 movie.

Konami didn’t release a whole lot of games for the Genesis but Rocket Knight Adventures was a new series not based on a license that started here. The gameplay is quite kinetic thanks to Sparkster’s rocket pack that allows him to zip around levels.

1994

Developed and Published
- Japan
  - Arcade
    - Bingo Magic
      Policenauts PC-98 Source
    - Buttobi Striker
    - Crazy Cross/Taisen Puzzle-dama
    - Dunk Dunk Boy
    - Fantasy Journey/Gokujo Parodius – Pursuing the Past Glory/Gokujō Parodius ～Kako no Eikō o Motomete～
    - Konami’s Open Golf Championship
    - Lethal Enforcers II: Gun Fighters
    - NinjaBoy
    - Octopus Eight
    - Penny Garden
    - Piccadilly Circus: Konami Wai Wai World
    - Pleasure Castle
    - Quiz Do Re Mi Fa Grand Prix
    - Racin’ Force
    - Super Fisherman Penta
    - Trio De Bingo
  - Game Boy
    - Contra: The Alien Wars/Probotector 2
    - Tiny Toon Adventures: Wacky Sports Tiny Toon
  - Genesis/Mega Drive
    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters NES Source
    - Castlevania: Bloodlines/Castlevania: The New Generation
    - Contra: Hard Corps/Probotector
    - Double Dribble: The Playoff Edition/HyperDunk
    - Sparkster: Rocket Knight Adventures 2
  - PC-98
    - Policenauts
  - Picno
    - Chibi Maruko-Chan no Tashizan Hikizan
    - Dokkin Shinri Game
    - Kīroi Kyōryū-kun Parasa no Obake Taiji
    - Nontan to Issho Anime Stamp
    - Picno de Kuku
    - Picno de Nihon Chizu
    - Real Montage
    - Shirayuki Hime Monogatari
  - PlayStation
    - Fantasy Journey/Gokujo Parodius – Pursuing the Past Glory/Gokujō Parodius ～Kako no Eikō o Motomete～ (compilation)
    - Gokujou Parodius Da! Deluxe Pack/Parodius
    - Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu ’95
    - Parodius/Gokujou Parodius Da! Deluxe Pack
    - Parodius! From Myth to Laughter/Parodius/Parodius: Non-Sense Fantasy/Parodiusu Da! Shinwa kara Owarai e (compilation)
    - Twinbee Taisen Puzzle Dama
  - Sega CD/Mega-CD
    - Lethal Enforcers II: Gun Fighters
  - Super Famicom/SNES
    - Fantasy Journey/Gokujo Parodius – Pursuing the Past Glory/Gokujō Parodius ～Kako no Eikō o Motomete～
      Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu ’94 Source
    - Ganbare Goemon 3: Shishi Juurokubee no Karakuri Manjigatame
    - International Superstar Soccer
    - Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu ’94
    - Lethal Enforcers
    - Pop’n TwinBee: Rainbow Bell Adventures
    - Shin Mahjong
    - Sparkster
    - Tiny Toon Adventures: Wacky Sports Challenge/Tiny Toon Adventures: Wild & Wacky Sports
    - Tsuyoshi Shikkari Shinasai: Taisen Puzzle-dama
  - Turbografx-16
    - Tokimeki Memorial
- North America
  - Arcade
    - Konami’s Open Golf Championship
    - Lethal Enforcers II: Gun Fighters
    - NinjaBoy
    - Racin’ Force
  - Famicom/NES
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters/Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: Tournament Fighters
  - Game Boy
    - Contra: The Alien Wars/Probotector 2
    - Tiny Toon Adventures: Wacky Sports Tiny Toon
      Biker Mice from Mars Source
  - Genesis/Mega Drive
    - Animaniacs
    - Castlevania: Bloodlines/Castlevania: The New Generation
    - Contra: Hard Corps/Probotector
    - Double Dribble: The Playoff Edition/HyperDunk
    - Lethal Enforcers II: Gun Fighters
    - Sparkster: Rocket Knight Adventures 2
    - Tiny Toon Adventures: ACME All-Stars
  - Sega CD/Mega-CD
    - Lethal Enforcers II: Gun Fighters
  - Super Famicom/SNES
    - Animaniacs
    - Biker Mice from Mars
    - Lethal Enforcers
    - Sparkster
    - The Adventures of Batman & Robin
    - Tiny Toon Adventures: Wacky Sports Challenge/Tiny Toon Adventures: Wild & Wacky Sports
- Europe
  - Arcade
    - Crazy Cross/Taisen Puzzle-dama
    - Funky Monkey
    - Lethal Enforcers II: Gun Fighters
      Tokimeki Memorial Source
    - Racin’ Force
  - Famicom/NES
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters/Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: Tournament Fighters
    - Tiny Toon Adventures 2: Trouble in Wackyland
  - Game Boy
    - Double Dribble: 5 on 5/HyperDunk
    - Pop’n TwinBee/TwinBee GB/TwinBee Da!!
    - Tiny Toon Adventures: Wacky Sports Tiny Toon
    - Ultra Golf Konamic Golf/Konami Golf
  - Genesis/Mega Drive
    - Animaniacs
    - Castlevania: Bloodlines/Castlevania: The New Generation
    - Contra: Hard Corps/Probotector
    - Double Dribble: The Playoff Edition/HyperDunk
    - Lethal Enforcers II: Gun Fighters
      Gokujou Parodius Da! Deluxe Pack box art Source
    - Sparkster: Rocket Knight Adventures 2
    - Tiny Toon Adventures: ACME All-Stars
  - Sega CD/Mega-CD
    - Lethal Enforcers II: Gun Fighters
    - Snatcher
  - Super Famicom/SNES
    - Animaniacs
    - Lethal Enforcers
    - Pop’n TwinBee: Rainbow Bell Adventures
    - Sparkster
    - The Adventures of Batman & Robin
    - The Legend of the Mystical Ninja
    - Tiny Toon Adventures: Wacky Sports Challenge/Tiny Toon Adventures: Wild & Wacky Sports
Published But Not Developed
- Europe
  - Genesis/Mega Drive
    - Zombies Ate My Neighbors/Zombies

Konami only released three games for the PC-98, a shogi game, a port of Quarth, and Policenauts. Like Snatcher, Policenauts was written and directed by Hideo Kojima, and is a science fiction adventure/visual novel game. Unlike Snatcher, Policenauts would never officially leave Japan.

Some of the very last officially licensed NES games were released to the European market by Konami here in 1994: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters and Tiny Toon Adventures 2: Trouble in Wackyland.

Biker Mice From Mars is based on an American cartoon and is an isometric racer with purchasable upgrades. The European version for some reason was sponsored by Snickers and features a lot of product placement.

Gokujou Parodius Da! Deluxe Pack, or Parodius as it was confusingly named in Europe, is a Japanese PlayStation launch title featuring two Parodius games.

Tokimeki Memorial is a dating sim game that would become very influential to the genre, including its use of stats and a focus on scheduling. Koji Igarashi is more known for his work on Castlevania, but before he ever worked on the series he was a programmer and writer for Tokimeki Memorial, enlisting the help of his future wife. Not a single game from the series has left Japan.

One of Konami’s biggest series starts on the Super Famicom. A series that often has multiple releases a year, has multiple spinoffs, and has rarely been released outside of Japan. That’s right, Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu, currently running under the name MLB Power Pros, starts here. These games feature super deformed characters playing baseball, but there is also a mode with a life simulation aspect off the field where the player has to make a series of choices that can help or hinder their player. The Super Famicom game was ported to the PlayStation as Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū ’95.

Taisen Puzzle-dama, or Crazy Cross in Europe, was the start of a long-running puzzle game series with a large cast of characters that rarely left Japan. It plays like Puyo Puyo, with players making matches of three balls in a row and trying to make combos to disrupt their opponent.

1995

Developed and Published
- Japan
  - 3DO
    - Policenauts
      Suikoden Source
    - Policenauts Pilot Disk
  - Arcade
    - Cross Magic
    - Crypt Killer
    - Dragoon Might
    - Five A Side Soccer
    - GI-Classic
    - GI-Classic Special (1995)
    - Hyper Keirin
    - Magical TwinBee
    - Million Fever
    - Mumbling Pharaoh
    - Pleasure Castle II
    - Powerful Boxing
    - Premier Soccer ’95
    - Quiz Do Re Mi Fa Grand Prix 2
    - Road Rage
    - Susume! Taisen Puzzle Dama/Let’s Attack Crazy Cross
    - Tako no Yattsukan
    - Tokimeki Memorial Taisen Puzzle-dama
    - TwinBee Yahho!: Fushigi no Kuni de Ōabare!!
      Eisei Meijin for Windows 95 box Source
    - Vegas Parlor
  - Picno
    - Manfī no Fushigina Bōken
    - Shinderera Monogatari
    - Son Gokū no Bōken
  - PlayStation
    - Bells & Whistles/Detana!! TwinBee (Arcade, compilation)
    - Detana TwinBee Yahho! Deluxe Pack
    - Eisei Meijin (1995)
    - J.League Jikkyou Winning Eleven
    - Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu ’95 Kaimakuban
    - Magical TwinBee (compilation)
    - Suikoden
    - Tokimeki Memorial: Forever With You
  - Saturn
    - Bells & Whistles/Detana!! TwinBee (Arcade, compilation)
    - Chibi Maruko-Chan no Taisen Pazuru Dama
    - Detana TwinBee Yahho! Deluxe Pack
    - Eisei Meijin (1995)
    - Fantasy Journey/Gokujo Parodius – Pursuing the Past Glory/Gokujō Parodius ～Kako no Eikō o Motomete～ (compilation)
    - Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu ’95 Kaimaku-ban
    - Magical TwinBee (compilation)
    - Parodius/Gokujou Parodius Da! Deluxe Pack
      NBA Give ‘n Go Source
    - Parodius! From Myth to Laughter/Parodius/Parodius: Non-Sense Fantasy/Parodiusu Da! Shinwa kara Owarai e (compilation)
  - Super Famicom/SNES
    - Castlevania: Dracula X/Castlevania: Vampire’s Kiss
    - Chibi Maruko-chan: Mezase! Minami no Island!!
    - Ganbare Goemon Kirakira Dōchū: Boku ga Dancer ni Natta Wake
    - International Superstar Soccer Deluxe
    - Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius
    - Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 2
    - NBA Give ‘n Go
  - Windows
    - Eisei Meijin for Windows 95
- North America
  - Arcade
    - Chicken Dash
    - Crypt Killer
    - Hole in One
    - Pirate Ship
    - Powerful Boxing
    - Road Rage
      Crypt Killer Source
    - Ultra Hockey
    - Ultra Sports
  - PlayStation
    - Goal Storm/World Soccer Winning Eleven
    - NBA In The Zone
  - Sega CD/Mega-CD
    - Snatcher
  - Super Famicom/SNES
    - Castlevania: Dracula X/Castlevania: Vampire’s Kiss
    - International Superstar Soccer
    - International Superstar Soccer Deluxe
    - NBA Give ‘n Go
- Europe
  - Arcade
    - Crypt Killer
    - Road Rage
  - Game Boy
    - Contra: The Alien Wars/Probotector 2
  - PlayStation
    - Fantasy Journey/Gokujo Parodius – Pursuing the Past Glory/Gokujō Parodius ～Kako no Eikō o Motomete～ (compilation)
    - NBA In The Zone
      Castlevania: Dracula X Source
    - Parodius/Gokujou Parodius Da! Deluxe Pack
    - Parodius! From Myth to Laughter/Parodius/Parodius: Non-Sense Fantasy/Parodiusu Da! Shinwa kara Owarai e (compilation)
  - Saturn
    - Fantasy Journey/Gokujo Parodius – Pursuing the Past Glory/Gokujō Parodius ～Kako no Eikō o Motomete～ (compilation)
    - Parodius/Gokujou Parodius Da! Deluxe Pack
    - Parodius! From Myth to Laughter/Parodius/Parodius: Non-Sense Fantasy/Parodiusu Da! Shinwa kara Owarai e (compilation)
  - Super Famicom/SNES
    - Biker Mice from Mars
    - International Superstar Soccer
    - NBA Give ‘n Go
Published But Didn’t Develop
- North America
  - Game Boy
    - Animaniacs
- Europe
  - Game Boy
    - Animaniacs
      Goal Storm Source

Suikoden is somewhat based on the novel Water Margin and is the start of the RPG series Konami is best known for. This is a turn based RPG about the son of a general finding himself leading a group trying to overthrow the corrupt empire. The series is most well known for allowing you to recruit 108 Stars of Destiny and building up a base of operations.

Eisei Meijin for Windows 95, a shogi game and part of a series, is a rare PC release for this era. The box it came in is shaped like a shogi piece.

Two distinct NBA games released this year, NBA In The Zone on the PlayStation and NBA Give ‘n Go on the Super Nintendo.

Crypt Killer is a light gun arcade game playable with up to three players and a mix of 2D and 3D graphics. There are four different endings available.

Castlevania: Dracula X is a remake of Rondo of Blood, a game that was only released for the upgraded version of the CD ROM add-on for the Turbografx. Several changes were made, like the removal of other playable characters and some levels.

Goal Storm, a soccer game, was inexplicably released in North America first. The European and Japanese name was World Soccer Winning Eleven, which would eventually be changed to Pro Evolution Soccer, and eFootball PES after that. PES has sold over 100 million copies since its inception, but has still lagged behind its biggest competitor, FIFA in sales.

1996

Developed and Published
- Japan
  - Arcade
    - Akumano Eisya-Sitsu
      Wave Shark Source
    - Cross Magic Mark 2
    - Daisu Kiss
    - Defensive Fist
    - Disc Collection
    - Dobochan
    - Fruits Magic
    - GI-Classic Winds
    - GTI Club: Rally Côte d’Azur
    - Guardian Fist
    - Hyper Athlete
    - Hyper Keirin Jackpot
    - Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball ’96
    - Midnight Run: Road Fighter 2
    - Mighty Bird
    - Powerful Striker
    - Puri Puri Station
    - Quiz Do Re Mi Fa Grand Prix 3 – Kagayake! Intro-Ou
    - Run and Gun 2
      Sexy Parodius Source
    - Salamander 2
    - Sexy Parodius
    - Strike Boy
    - Syudouken
    - Taisen Tokkae dama
    - Vs. Net Soccer
    - Wave Shark
    - Winding Heat
    - Wonder Cosmos
  - N64
    - International Superstar Soccer 64
    - Mahjong Master
  - PlayStation
    - Bottom of the 9th
    - Eisei Meijin II
    - Ganbare Goemon: Uchū Kaizoku Akogingu
    - Goal Storm/World Soccer Winning Eleven
    - Gradius Deluxe Pack
    - Gradius/Nemesis (Arcade, compilation)
    - International Track & Field
    - J.League Jikkyou Winning Eleven ’97
    - Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius: Forever With Me
      Vandal Hearts Source
    - Lightning Legend: Daigo no Daibouken
    - Pachinko Dream
    - Policenauts
    - Policenauts Private Collection
    - Road Rage
    - Sexy Parodius
    - Snatcher
    - Susume! Taisen Puzzle Dama/Let’s Attack Crazy Cross
    - The Final Round/Konami Open Golf
    - Tokimeki Memorial Private Collection
    - Tokimeki Memorial: Taisen Puzzle-Dama
    - Vandal Hearts
  - Saturn
    - Eisei Meijin II
    - Gradius Deluxe Pack
    - Gradius II/Vulcan Venture (compilation)
    - Gradius/Nemesis (compilation)
    - Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius: Forever With Me
    - Policenauts
    - Sexy Parodius
      Bishi Bashi Champ Source
    - Snatcher
    - Tokimeki Memorial Taisen Puzzle-Dama
    - Tokimeki Memorial: Forever With You
  - Super Famicom/SNES
    - Jikkyou Keiba Simulation: Stable Star
    - Jikkyou Power Pro Wrestling ’96: Max Voltage
    - Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu ’96 Kaimaku Han
    - Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 3
    - Soreyuke Ebisumaru Karakuri Meiro: Kieta Goemon no Nazo!!
    - Tokimeki Memorial: Densetsu no Ki no Shita de
  - Windows
    - Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball ’96
    - Tokimeki Memorial: Taisen Puzzle Dama
- North America
  - Arcade
    - Beat the Champ
    - GTI Club: Rally Côte d’Azur
    - Midnight Run: Road Fighter 2
    - Run and Gun 2
    - Susume! Taisen Puzzle Dama/Let’s Attack Crazy Cross
    - Wave Shark
    - Winding Heat
  - PlayStation
    - Bottom of the 9th
    - International Track & Field
      International Track & Field Source
    - NBA In The Zone 2
    - Project Overkill
    - Suikoden
    - The Final Round/Konami Open Golf
  - Saturn
    - Bottom of the 9th
- Europe
  - Arcade
    - Midnight Run: Road Fighter 2
    - Run and Gun 2
  - PlayStation
    - Goal Storm/World Soccer Winning Eleven
    - International Track & Field
    - NBA In The Zone 2
    - Project Overkill
    - The Final Round/Konami Open Golf
  - Super Famicom/SNES
    - Castlevania: Dracula X/Castlevania: Vampire’s Kiss
      Lightning Legend: Daigo no Daibouken Source
    - International Superstar Soccer Deluxe
Published But Didn’t Develop
- Europe
  - Genesis/Mega Drive
    - International Superstar Soccer Deluxe

Wave Shark is a jet ski racing game.

Vandal Hearts is a strategy RPG with seven classes (archer, armor, cleric, hawknight, mage, monk, and swordsman) which are strong or weak against other classes.

The Bishi Bashi series of games are short minigame collections primarily played with other people. The short games and silly attitude are quite similar to WarioWare.

International Track & Field is another Olympic sports game, now in 3D, but still with a lot of button mashing.

Konami hasn’t made many fighting games, but Lightning Legend: Daigo no Daibouken is their first in 3D. There are eight characters you can select from the start, with a few more unlockable.

Let’s Talk About Slot Machines

There’s no perfect place to put this, but 1996 is the year Konami Australia was founded. It, alongside Konami Gaming of Nevada, are subsidiaries that make a lot of slot machines. I wanted to include all Konami games in this project, so that includes the slot machines. The thing is, very few people are interested in recording slot machine history. In some lists of games it’s not clear which are medal games, arcade games, or pachinko machines. There is almost never information about where they are released.

I am relying on the Undumped Wiki for a lot of this slot machine information, who seems to mostly get their information from catalogs aimed at casinos looking to buy slot machines. However, there’s often limited information, especially the year of release. I checked Konami Gaming’s YouTube channel and I checked gambling blogs, and I got probable release years for some machines that are up to maybe 10 years old. But there’s still 552 slot machines that I don’t have years for. I’m assuming these were all released in North America and many in Australia, based on Japanese gambling laws, the way they are named, and knowing which subsidiaries make slot machines.

Here’s the list of 552 slot machines about which I only have a name:

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5 Lion Festival
Adventures Aloft
Africa
African Beauty
African Diamond – 4-5-5-5-4
African Diamond Quad Spin
African Diamond: Double Deluxe
African Heat 3X
African Treasure Deluxe
All Aboard Gold Express: Masked Warrior
All Aboard Gold Express: Panda Pennies
All Aboard Gold Express: Go West
All Aboard: Charms of the Orient
All Aboard: Masked Warrior
All Aboard: Panda Pennies
Ancient Dragon
Astronomical Magic
Atlantic Adventure
Aztec Kingdom
Ba Fang Jin Bao: Abundant Fortune
Ba Fang Jin Bao: Fortune Totems
Ba Fang Jin Bao: Joy of Riches
Barong Power
Barrier Reef Paradise
Big Africa
Big Riches
Bill$ & Thrill$
Bingo Frenzy Stampede Shark
Bingo Frenzy Stampede Tiger
Bison Banker
Blossoming Winnings
Blown Away
Boomtown Gold Mine
Bright Light Jackpots
Brilliant Blossoms
Brilliant Cats Boosted Respin
Brilliant Gold
Buckin’ Bucks
Bull Blitz Cash Gladiator
Bull Blitz Fortune of the Orient
Bull Blitz New York Lights
Bull Blitz Roses & Riches
Bull Blitz Toucan Twist
Bull Mystery
Bull Power
Burning Diamonds
Burning Wolf
Butterfly’s Way
Buzzr Flashback Fortunes
Buzzr Flashback Fun
Cai Lai 8 Fang Blooming Riches
Cai Lai 8 Fang Blooming Wealth
Cai Lai Si Ji: Wealth of Dynasty
Cai Lai Si Ji: Winning Animals
Cash Claw
Catch Four
Celestial Celebration
Celestial Temple
Celtic Treasures
Ceres
Challenge of Perseus
Charmed 7s
Charmed Hearts
Chart Topper
Cherry Flare
China Festival
China Mystery
China Mystery: Boosted Wins and Spins
China Shores
China Shores: Boosted Great Stacks
China Shores: Boosted Riches
China Shores: Boosted Wins & Spins
China Shores: Double Winnings
China Shores: Great Stacks
China Shores: Quad Spin
Chinese Ingot
Chip City Classic
Chip City Quad Spin
Circus Clowns
Cities of Riches
Coin Streak Fortune’s Bazaar
Coin Streak Jaguar Kingdom
Coin Streak Kodiak Cash
Cosmic Wolf
Coyote Cash
Crazy Stuffed Coins Goat
Crazy Stuffed Coins Toad
Crystal Treasures
Deluxe Spin-der
Den of Gold
Destiny of Athena
Diamond Claw
Diamond Raider
Diamond Safari
Diamond Solitaire Deluxe
Diamond Spinner
Diamonds of Thailand
Divine Treasures
Double Dynasty
Double Incan Pyramid
Double Serenade
Double Tiki
Dragon Celebration
Dragon Charm
Dragon Crystal
Dragon Emblem Jackpots
Dragon Fever
Dragon Fury
Dragon Hurricane
Dragon Treasure Pearls
Dragon’s Citadel
Dragon’s Dominion
Dragon’s Favor
Dragon’s Glory
Dragon’s Law Fortune Pots
Dragon’s Law Jackpots
Dragon’s Law: 4-5-5-5-4
Dragon’s Law: Boosted
Dragon’s Law: Fortune Bags
Dragon’s Law: Hot Boost
Dragon’s Law: Rapid Fever
Dragon’s Law: Twin Fever
Dragon’s Orb Jackpots Coral Fortunes
Dragon’s Orb Jackpots Jade Riches
Dragon’s Reward
Dragon’s Victory
Dragon’s Voyage
Dragon’s Way
Dueling Wins
Dungeons & Dragons: Accolades of Waterdeep
Dungeons & Dragons: Conquests and Treasures
Dungeons & Dragons: Enchanted Riches
Dungeons & Dragons: Fortunes of Waterdeep
Dyna Money
Dynasty Riches
Eastern Princess
Egyptian Wheel
Elemental Star Contest
Elephant Break
Emerald Butterfly
Enchanted Spinner
Enchanting Pixie
Engine Ablaze
Exotic Elephant
Exotic Princess
Expanding Egypt
Exuberant Lilies
Eye of the Pyramid
Eyes of Riches
Fabulous Goddess
Fairy Sweep
Falling Coins Link Abundant Blessings
Fan-Tastic Gold
Festival of Riches
Fiery Enchantress
Fiery Fortune
Fiery Sun Burst
Fire Empress
Flamenco Fever
Flamenco Flare
Flaming Red 7s
Flaming Red Diamonds
Flying Fortune
Flying Fortune: Boosted Slides & Spins
Force of the Tiki
Forces of Minerva
Fortune Animal
Fortune Celebration
Fortune Chaser
Fortune Mint: Fu Gui You Yu
Fortune Mint: Fu Xing Gao Zhao
Fortune Mint: Yi Da Ba Qian
Fortune Peach Hot Boost
Fortune Road Power of the Samurai
Fortune Road Roman Honor
Fortune Stacks
Fortune Streak Fortune Elixir
Fortune Streams
Fortune Tiger
Fortunes Ablaze
Fortunes of Asia
Fortunes of the Orient
Freya’s Magic
From the Universe Starlit Alaska
Gardens of Gold
Gates of Fortune
Gems Up
Genie’s Power
Genie’s Reward
Gigantic Wheel of Winning
Gigantic Wheel of Winning Monument
Gilded Grizzly
Girl’s Keirin: GI Fairy Grand Prix
Glacier Ridge Riches
Glamorous Gold
Glamorous Peacock
Glimmering Fortunes
Glistening Jade
Glistening Jade: Jackpots
Glittering Jackpots
Glittering Stacks: Great Wilds Spinnin’
Glittering Stacks: Wild Stack Fever
Glittering Vegas
Glorious Jade
Goddess of Wilds
Going Up
Gold Frenzy
Gold of Tenochtitlan
Golden Blocks: Princess Majesty
Golden Blocks: Sun Da Sheng
Golden Dynasty
Golden Messenger
Golden Power Ingots
Golden Pumpkin
Golden Racing Jackpots
Golden Theater Deluxe
Golden Wolves
Gorgeous Cat
Great Guardians
Great Guardians Link Phoenix
Great Guardians Link Tiger
Great Guardians Link Tortoise
Great Luck Great Profit
Great Luck Great Profit
Great Moai
Great Spirit
Growing Fortune
Guardian of Riches: Plum Blossom Pavillion
Guardian of Riches: Warrior of the First Empire
Guardians of Giza
Guardians of the Aztec
Gypsy Eyes
Gypsy Fire
Gypsy Fire
Gypsy Fire: Inferno
Hammer Away!
Hammer Festival
Hao Yun Lai
Hawaiian Shores
Heart of Romance
Heat Engine
Helios’ Power
Herds of Wins
Honolulu Gold
Hoppin’ Fish
Hot Twin Phoenixes
Hsien’s Miracle
Imperial Wealth
Imperial Wealth Triple Sparkle
Inari Riches
Inca Legend
Incan Majesty
Inspector Sign of the Jackpots
Ivory Tusks
Jackpot Ball
Jackpot Island
Jackpot Streams
Jackpot Streams: Evolution
Jade Dynasty
Jester’s Mirror
Jewel Reward
Jewels of the Pyramid
Jumbo Wheel of Winning Monument
Jumpin’ Jalapenos Jackpots
Jungle Runes
K-Pow! Pig Brilliant Buddha
K-Pow! Pig The Ancient Dragon
King of the World
Kingdom of the Wolf
Kunoichi’s Fortunes
Lady Butterfly
Lady China
Lady of Cythera
Lady of Heaven
Lady Peony
Lamp of Destiny
Lavish Fortunes
Legend of Captain
Legend of Firedrake Gold
Legends of Paradise
Legion Warrior
Leprechaun’s Garden
Lian Lian Fa Fortune Peach
Lian Lian Fa Treasured Peach
Lightning Bolt 77
Lightning Dragon Eastern Dragon
Lightning Dragon Thunder Festival
Lightning Stacked 7s
Lion Carnival
Lion Favor
Lion Festival
Lion Festival: Boosted Celebration
Lion Frenzy Jade Wishes
Lion Frenzy Scarlet Wishes
Lion’s Law
Lotus Land: Deluxe Wild
Lotus Land: Tiger’s Winnings
Love Stacks
Lucky Fairy
Lucky Golden Cinema
Lucky Golden Jackpot
Lucky Golden Swan
Lucky Hog
Lucky Honeycomb
Lucky Honeycomb: 4-5-5-5-4
Lucky Honeycomb: Hot Boost
Lucky Honeycomb: Twin Fever
Lucky Jester
Lucky O’Leary Jackpots
Lucky Riches
Lucky Sticks
Lucky Unicorn
Luxury Jackpots
Magical Bat Fortune
Magical Hits
Magician’s Charm
Magnifying Magic
Majestic Diamonds
Majestic Moon Triple Sparkle
Majestic Warriors
Mammoth Power
Mariachi Riches
Martial Arts Lady
Masked Invitation
Masked Money
Matsuri Nights
Mayan Carnival
Mayan Chief
Mayan Chief: Boosted Great Stacks
Mayan Chief: Empowered Reel of Itzamna
Mayan Chief: Great Stacks
Mayan Chief: Quadspin
Mayan Heart
Mayan Pride
Merlin’s Wand
Mighty Claw
Mighty Dynamite
Mighty Emperor of Heaven
Mighty Mayan Chief: Divine Mountains
Mighty Mayan Chief: Lush Jungle
Money Bells Glory
Money Bells Honor
Money Blast
Money Galaxy: Dragon’s Return
Money Galaxy: Glittering Wins
Money Galaxy: Pharaoh’s Power
Money Galaxy: Radiant Witch
Money God
Money in the Bank Revolution
Monster Sweep
Moon Mystery
Moonlight Fox
More Coins
More Gold, More Silver
Multiplier Ridge
Mystical Monarchy
Mystical Pearl Neptune
Mystical Pharaoh
Mystical Pharaoh 2
Mystical Ruins
Mystical Ruins: Re-spins & Wilds 10x
Mystical Temple
Mystical Temple Grand Aztec Kingdom
Mystical Temple Grand Mayan Pride
Myth of Gold
Myth Of The Pyramids: Anubis Riches
Myth Of The Pyramids: Horus Fortune
New Year, New Wishes
Ninja Lady
Norse Angel
Norse Warrior
Northern Treasure
Nouveau Beauties
Nouveau Fruit
Ocean Spin: Kingdom’s Treasure
Ocean Spin: Mighty Shark
Ocean Spin: Pirate’s Riches
Ocean Spin: Secrets of Egypt
Octo-Blast
Olympus Fortune
Opulent Phoenix
Orbs of Fire
Orient Fever
Oriental Festival
Outback Mystery 2
Overflowing Coins
Overflowing Stacks
Pacific Winds
Padishah’s Fortune
Panda Power
Parisian Pleasures
Passport to Riches: Bonjour, Paris
Passport to Riches: Megalith Mystery
Passport to Riches: Opulent India
Passport to Riches: Rise of Rome
Passport to Riches: St. Basil’s Treasures
Patrick O’ Potts Of Gold
Pay TV
Pele Hawaiian Goddess
Pharaoh’s Fury
Phoenix Empress
Phoenix Flare
Phoenix Frenzy
Phoenix Princess
Pick Strike Quad
Piggy Pennis Deluxe
Pinata Frenzy Egyptian Sunset
Pinata Frenzy Pool Bash
Pinata Frenzy Rich Reserve
Pirate Mary
Pirate’s Loot
Pot of Prizes
Power Boost Inferno
Power Boost Tree
Power of Riches
Precious Falls
Pretty Devil
Pride of Egypt
Pride of Riches
Pride of Riches
Prize Catch Bison Treasure
Prize Catch Mermaid Paradise
Prize Strike Bee Bux
Prize Strike Coin Caper
Queen’s Shores
Red Plumes
Regimental Dragon
Repeat Fever: Dragon Heart
Repeat Fever: Dragon’s Reward
Repeated Charms
Riches Choice
Riches Drop: Panda’s Firecracker
Riches Drop: Plop Plop Peach
Riches of the Rising Sun
Riches with Daikoku
Riches with Daikoku Triple Sparkle
Ring-Tailed Wilds
Rio Dreams
Rising Diamond Blue Edition
Rising Diamond Pink Edition
Rising Fire Dragon
Rising Koi
Rising Nishiki
Road to Win
Rock Around the Clock: Bebop A Loota
Rock Around the Clock: Chiffon Ladies
Rock Around the Clock: Doo-Wop Dudes
Rock Around the Clock: Sweet Spinnin’ Wilds
Rock Around the Clock: Tutti Looti
Rock Around the Clock: Wailin’ Wilds
Roman Legion
Roman Tribune
Roman Tribune Quadspin
Round 1
Safari Stacks
Sakura Lady
Samurai Secrets
Savage Eyes
Scorching Stallion
Scroll of Wonder
Secret of the Mermaid
Secret Power Symbols
Secrets of Egypt
Sekhmet Mystery
Sevens & Flames: Hot Boost
Shield Of Power
Sizzling Hearts
Smash Smash Festival
Snow Stars: White Winter
Snow Stars: Wild Winter
Solar Blessing
Solstice Celebration
Solstice Celebration: Triple Sparkle
Sorcerer’s Fortune
Sovereign Huntress
Sovereign Lion
Sparkling Nightlife
Sparkling Riches
Sparkling Roses: Color Bloom
Sparkling Roses: Multiplier Blast
Sparkling Sevens
Spellbound Princess
Splendid Butterfly
Stacked 7s
Stacks of Magic
Star Boost Miners Mint
Star Boost Prize Storm
Star Light 7’s
Star Light 7s
Star Streak
Star Watch: Fire
Star Watch: Jungle
Star Watch: Magma
Starlet Dreams
Sticky Riches
Stuffed Coins Pig
Stuffed Coins Rabbit
Stunning Diamonds
Submarine Victory
Super Golden Jackpot 5x
Super Highway 777
Super Ruins of Gold
Super Sparkling Sevens
T-Rex
Thailand Fantasy
Thalassica
The Dawn of the Andes
The Force of Legend
The Treasure Falls
Thunder Arrow: God of the East
Thunder Arrow: Jurassic Queen
Thunder Arrow: North Queen
Thunder of the Hammer
Thunder Warrior
Tiger Woman
Tiki Adventure
Toadally Wild
Treasure Ball
Treasure Ball Duo Luck Gorilla Riches
Treasure Ball Duo Luck Wish for Cash
Treasure Honeycomb
Treasure Lounge
Treasure Tempest
Treasure Voyage
Treasure$ & Thrill$
Triple Tower Bushido Warrior
Triple Tower Jungle Way
Tunnels of Fortune
Twilight Fortune
Unicorn Power
Untamed Riches
Vegas Rise
Vegas Wild Jackpots
Vibrant Tornado
Viking Legend
Volcanic Fortune
Volcanic Rock Fire
Volcanic Rock Fire: Jackpots
Volcanic Rock Fire: Twin Fever
Volcanic Rush
Warrior Passage
Warrior’s Gate
Wealth of Dynasty
Wealth of Smile
Wealth of the North
Wealthy Monkey
Western Saloon
Wicked Wilds
Wild Bison
Wings of the Phoenix
Wish Dragons
Wonder Rose

1997

Developed and Published
- Japan
  - Arcade
    - Aqua Twister
      Konami GB Collection Vol. 1 Source
    - Beatmania
    - Dragon Palace
    - Dragon Palace Reach Heaven
    - Fighting Bujutsu
    - Fighting Wushu
    - Ganbare Goemon (Medal Game)
    - Hang Pilot
    - Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball EX – 1997: PAWAPURO
    - Korokoro PenKai
    - Mighty Joker – Poker Buster
    - Miracle Spin
    - Puri Puri Canvas
    - Smash & Spin
    - Solar Assault
    - Steering Champ
    - Tobe! Polystars
    - Tokimeki Memorial Oshiete Your Heart
    - Wedding Rhapsody
    - Winning Spike
  - Game Boy
    - Castlevania: The Adventure (compilation)
    - Castlevania Legends
    - Konami GB Collection Vol. 1
      Azure Dreams Source
    - Konami GB Collection Vol. 2
    - Loco-Motion/Crazy Train (compilation)
    - Motocross Maniacs (called Bikers, compilation)
    - Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon/Go for it, Goemon: Dance of the Neo Peach Mountain Shogunate
    - Nemesis (called Gradius, compilation)
    - Operation C/Probotector (compilation)
    - Pop’n TwinBee/TwinBee GB/TwinBee Da!! (compilation)
    - World Circuit Series F-1 Spirit/The Spirit of F-1 (called Konami Racing, compilation)
  - N64
    - Jikkyou J-League Perfect Striker
    - Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 4
    - Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon (N64)
    - Nagano Winter Olympics ’98
  - PlayStation
    - Antarctic Adventure (MSX, compilation)
    - Azure Dreams
    - Breeding Stud: Bokujou de Aimashou
    - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
    - Crypt Killer
    - Goal Storm ’97/International Superstar Soccer Pro
    - Gradius Gaiden
    - Gradius II/Vulcan Venture (Arcade, compilation)
    - Gradius/Nemesis (MSX, compilation)
    - Hyper Sports 2 (MSX, compilation)
    - J.League Jikkyou Winning Eleven 3
    - Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu ’97 Kaimakuban
    - Konami Antiques MSX Collection Vol. 1
      Castlevania: Symphony of the Night Source
    - Konami’s Boxing (MSX, compilation)
    - Konami’s Ping Pong/Ping Pong (MSX, compilation)
    - Lethal Enforcers (compilation)
    - Lethal Enforcers I & II
    - Lethal Enforcers II: Gun Fighters (compilation)
    - Life Force/Salamander (Arcade, compilation)
    - Midnight Run: Road Fighter 2
    - Mopiranger (MSX, compilation)
    - Nagano Winter Olympics ’98
    - Nemesis 3: The Eve of Destruction (compilation)
    - Paro Wars
    - Poy Poy
    - Road Fighter (MSX, compilation)
    - Salamander Deluxe Pack Plus
    - Sky Jaguar (MSX, compilation)
    - Tokimeki Memorial Drama Series Vol. 1 Nijiiro no Seishun
    - Tokimeki Memorial Selection: Fujisaki Shiori
    - Tokimeki Memorial Taisen Tokkae Dama
    - Yie Ar Kung-Fu (MSX, compilation)
  - Saturn
    - Crypt Killer
    - Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu S
    - Life Force/Salamander (compilation)
    - Salamander 2 (compilation)
    - Salamander Deluxe Pack Plus
    - Tokimeki Memorial Drama Series Vol. 1: Nijiiro no Seishun
    - Tokimeki Memorial Selection: Fujisaki Shiori
    - Tokimeki Memorial Taisen Tokkae Dama
    - Vandal Hearts
  - Super Famicom/SNES
    - Animaniacs
    - Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 3 ’97 Haru
      Broken Helix Source
  - Windows
    - Crypt Killer
    - Gradius II/Vulcan Venture (compilation)
    - Gradius: Deluxe Pack
    - Gradius/Nemesis (compilation)
    - Tokimeki Memorial: Forever with You
- North America
  - Arcade
    - Battle Vision
    - Dead Eye
    - Fighting Bujutsu
    - Hang Pilot
    - Operation Thunder Hurricane
    - Rushing Heroes
    - Solar Assault
    - Total Vice
    - Winning Spike
  - N64
    - International Superstar Soccer 64
  - PlayStation
    - Bottom of the 9th ’97
    - Broken Helix
    - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
    - Crypt Killer
    - Goal Storm ’97/International Superstar Soccer Pro
    - Lethal Enforcers (compilation)
    - Lethal Enforcers I & II
      Nagano Winter Olympics ’98 N64 Source
    - Lethal Enforcers II: Gun Fighters (compilation)
    - Poy Poy
    - Vandal Hearts
  - Saturn
    - Crypt Killer
  - Slot Machine
    - Maximus
    - Money In The Bank
    - Prize Money
    - The Quest
- Europe
  - Arcade
    - Operation Thunder Hurricane
    - Total Vice
  - N64
    - International Superstar Soccer 64
  - PlayStation
    - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
    - Crypt Killer
    - Goal Storm ’97/International Superstar Soccer Pro
    - International Superstar Soccer Deluxe
    - Lethal Enforcers (compilation)
    - Lethal Enforcers I & II
    - Lethal Enforcers II: Gun Fighters (compilation)
    - NBA In The Zone ’98/NBA Pro 98
      Beatmania – possibly not the very first release Source
    - Poy Poy
    - Road Rage
    - Suikoden
    - Vandal Hearts
  - Saturn
    - Crypt Killer
Published But Didn’t Develop
- Japan
  - PlayStation
    - Break Point
- North America
  - Arcade
    - Saturn
      - Contra: Legacy of War
        Beatmania Source
- Europe
  - PlayStation
    - Whizz

Konami GB Collection Vol. 1 and 2 release this year for the Game Boy, followed by volumes 3 and 4 next year only in Japan. Each of these compilations contains four Game Boy games with no theming.

Azure Dreams is a roguelike RPG. Protagonist Koh can develop his team of familiars in the Monster Tower and use the riches he acquires to improve his town and romance seven different love interests.

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night expands on Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest’s RPG elements with levels, equipment, learnable spells, and shops. There is also more emphasis on non-linear exploration with relics enabling main character Alucard to access new areas via new abilities rather than a key and lock system, making it one of the foundational games in the Metroidvania genre.

Broken Helix was marketed as a “4D” game because there is an emphasis on time and important events can unfold offscreen. There are four different paths you can choose to complete the game. Bruce Campbell voices the protagonist.

Beatmania is a music rhythm game where a song plays and you have to press the buttons or spin the turntable as prompted, in time with the music. Made by Konami’s Games & Music Division, Beatmania would prove popular enough for dozens of arcade and console releases and for the division to rename itself Bemani. Bemani will go on to make many more music series, mostly only as arcade games, and mostly only available in Japan and east Asia

1998

Developed and Published
- Japan
  - Arcade
    - Aqua Twister 2
      Dance Dance Revolution Source
    - Battle Tryst
    - Beatmania 2ndMix
    - Beatmania 3rdMix
    - Bingo Stage
    - Bomber Rush
    - Boo Boo Bank
    - Bumping Pucks
    - Circus Charlie (compilation)
    - Dance Dance Revolution/Dancing Stage
    - Dark Horse Legend
    - Delta Magic
    - Diamond Circle
    - Evil Night
    - Fisherman’s Bait 2 – A Bass Challenge
    - Fisherman’s Bait: A Bass Challenge
    - Flip Flop
    - GI-Classic EX
    - GI-Classic Special (1998)
    - GI-Classic Winds EX
    - Gyruss (compilation)
    - Handle Champ
    - Heat Of Eleven ’98
    - JikkyouPowerful Stadium
    - Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball ’98 EX
    - Kattobase! Pawapuro-Kun
    - Konami 80’s AC Special/Konami 80’s Arcade Gallery
      Rakugakids Source
    - Move Primucho
    - Muscle Ranking Struck Out!
    - Nagano Winter Olympics ’98
    - Omamo Ribbed
    - Pile Magic
    - Pooyan (compilation)
    - Pop’n Music
    - Puri Puri Canvas Special
    - Racing Jam
    - Road Fighter (compilation)
    - Roc’n Rope (compilation)
    - Scramble/Scramble Wars (compilation)
    - Shao-lin’s Road/Kicker (compilation)
    - Skier’s High
    - Super Cobra (compilation)
    - Teraburst
    - Thrill Drive
    - Time Pilot (compilation)
    - Trick Star
    - Twinkle Dome
    - Yie Ar Kung-Fu (compilation)
  - Dedicated Handheld
    - Beatmania Pocket
  - Game Boy
    Konami 80’s AC Special Source
    - Antarctic Adventure (compilation)
    - Castlevania II: Belmont’s Revenge (compilation)
    - Frogger (compilation)
    - International Superstar Soccer
    - Konami GB Collection Vol. 3
    - Konami GB Collection Vol. 4
    - Koukiatsu Boy
    - Parodius! From Myth to Laughter/Parodius/Parodius: Non-Sense Fantasy/Parodiusu Da! Shinwa kara Owarai e (compilation)
    - Quarth (compilation)
    - Track & Field (compilation)
    - Yie Ar Kung-Fu (compilation)
    - Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters
  - N64
    - Deadly Arts
    - Goemon’s Great Adventure/Mystical Ninja 2 Starring Goemon
    - International Superstar Soccer 98
    - Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 5
    - NBA In The Zone ’98/NBA Pro ’98
    - Rakugakids
    - Susume! Taisen Puzzle Dama: Tōkon! Marutama Chō
  - PlayStation
    - Athletic Land (MSX, compilation)
    - Beatmania
    - Beatmania Append 3rd Mix
    - Beatmania Append 3rd Mix Mini
    - Bishi Bashi Special
    - Bottom of the 9th ’97
    - Breeding Stud 2
    - Broken Helix
    - Comic Bakery (MSX, compilation)
    - Dance! Dance! Dance!
    - Dancing Blade Katteni Momotenshi!
      A later version of Pop’n Music Source
    - Diver’s Dream/Dolphin’s Dream
    - Fisherman’s Bait: A Bass Challenge
    - Ganbare Goemon: Kuru Nara Koi! Ayashige Ikka no Kuroi Kage
    - Gradius 2/Nemesis 2 (MSX, compilation)
    - Hyper Rally/Konami Rally (MSX, compilation)
    - Hyper Sports 3 (MSX, compilation)
    - J.League Winning Eleven ’98-’99
    - Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu ’98 Kaimakuban
    - Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu ’98 Ketteiban
    - Kensei: Sacred Fist
    - King’s Valley (MSX, compilation)
    - Knightmare (compilation)
    - Konami Antiques MSX Collection Vol. 2
    - Konami Antiques MSX Collection Vol. 3
    - Konami’s Billiards (compilation)
    - Konami’s Golf (compilation)
    - Konami’s Soccer (MSX, compilation)
    - Konami’s Tennis (MSX, compilation)
    - Life Force/Salamander (MSX, compilation)
    - Magical Medical
    - Magical Tree (MSX, compilation)
      Bemani Pocket games Source
    - Metal Gear Solid
    - Mitsumete Knight
    - Mitsumete Knight R Daibouken hen
    - Parodius: The Octopus Saves the Earth (MSX, compilation)
    - Penguin Adventure (MSX, compilation)
    - Pippols (MSX, compilation)
    - Poy Poy 2
    - Super Cobra (MSX, compilation)
    - Time Pilot (MSX, compilation)
    - Tokimeki Memorial Drama Series Vol. 2 Irodori no Love Song
    - Tokimeki no Houkago
    - TwinBee (MSX, compilation)
    - TwinBee RPG
    - Winning Eleven 3: Final Version
    - World Soccer Jikkyou Winning Eleven 3: World Cup France ’98
    - Yie Ar Kung-Fu II (MSX, compilation)
    - Yoshimura Shogi
    - Yu-Gi-Oh! Monster Capsule: Breed & Battle
  - Saturn
    - Antarctic Adventure (compilation)
    - Athletic Land (compilation)
    - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
    - Comic Bakery (compilation)
    - Gradius 2/Nemesis 2 (compilation)
    - Hyper Rally/Konami Rally (compilation)
      Yu-Gi-Oh! Monster Capsule: Breed and Battle Source
    - Hyper Sports 2 (compilation)
    - Hyper Sports 3 (compilation)
    - J. League Jikkyou Honoo no Striker
    - King’s Valley (compilation)
    - Knightmare (compilation)
    - Konami Antiques MSX Collection Ultra Pack
    - Konami’s Billiards (compilation)
    - Konami’s Boxing (compilation)
    - Konami’s Golf (compilation)
    - Konami’s Ping Pong/Ping Pong (compilation)
    - Konami’s Soccer (compilation)
    - Konami’s Tennis (compilation)
    - Magical Tree (compilation)
    - Mopiranger (compilation)
    - Nemesis 3: The Eve of Destruction (compilation)
    - Parodius: The Octopus Saves the Earth (compilation)
    - Penguin Adventure (compilation)
    - Pippols (compilation)
    - Road Fighter (compilation)
    - Sky Jaguar (MSX, compilation)
    - Suikoden
    - Super Cobra (compilation)
    - Time Pilot (compilation)
    - Tokimeki Memorial Drama Series Vol. 2: Irodori no Love Song
    - TwinBee (compilation)
    - Yie Ar Kung-Fu (compilation)
    - Yie Ar Kung-Fu II (compilation)
    - Yoshimura Shogi
      Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters Source
  - Super Famicom/SNES
    - Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu: Basic Han ’98
  - Windows
    - Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball
    - Suikoden (1998)
    - Tokimeki Memorial Oshiete Your Heart
    - TwinBee PARADISE in Donburi Shima
    - Vandal Hearts
- North America
  - Arcade
    - Battle Tryst
    - Beatmania
    - Circus Charlie (compilation)
    - Evil Night
    - Fisherman’s Bait 2 – A Bass Challenge
    - Fisherman’s Bait: A Bass Challenge
    - Gyruss (compilation)
    - Heat Of Eleven ’98
    - Konami 80’s AC Special/Konami 80’s Arcade Gallery
    - NBA Play By Play
    - Pooyan (compilation)
    - Racing Jam
    - Road Fighter (compilation)
    - Roc’n Rope (compilation)
    - Scramble/Scramble Wars (compilation)
    - Shao-lin’s Road/Kicker (compilation)
    - Skier’s High
    - Super Cobra (compilation)
    - Teraburst
    - Thrill Drive
    - Time Pilot (compilation)
    - Yie Ar Kung-Fu (compilation)
  - Game Boy
    - Castlevania Legends
      Suikoden (Windows) Source
    - International Superstar Soccer
    - Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon/Go for it, Goemon: Dance of the Neo Peach Mountain Shogunate
  - N64
    - Deadly Arts
    - International Superstar Soccer 98
    - Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon (N64)
    - Nagano Winter Olympics ’98
    - NBA In The Zone ’98/NBA Pro ’98
  - PlayStation
    - Azure Dreams
    - Bottom of the 9th ’99
    - Kensei: Sacred Fist
    - Metal Gear Solid
    - Nagano Winter Olympics ’98
    - NBA In The Zone ’98/NBA Pro 98
  - Slot Machine
    - Cash Reward
    - Treasures of The Inca
    - Tribal Treasures
- Europe
  - Arcade
    - - Circus Charlie (compilation)
      - Gyruss (compilation)
      - Konami 80’s AC Special/Konami 80’s Arcade Gallery
      - Pooyan (compilation)
      - Racing Jam
      - Racing Jam: Chapter 2
      - Road Fighter (compilation)
      - Roc’n Rope (compilation)
      - Scramble/Scramble Wars (compilation)
      - Shao-lin’s Road/Kicker (compilation)
      - Super Cobra (compilation)
      - Time Pilot (compilation)
      - Yie Ar Kung-Fu (compilation)
        Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu: Basic Han ’98 Source
    - Game Boy
      - Castlevania Legends
      - International Superstar Soccer
      - Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon/Go for it, Goemon: Dance of the Neo Peach Mountain Shogunate
    - N64
      - Deadly Arts
      - International Superstar Soccer 98
      - Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon (N64)
      - Nagano Winter Olympics ’98
      - NBA In The Zone ’98/NBA Pro ’98
      - Rakugakids
    - PlayStation
      - Azure Dreams
      - Broken Helix
      - International Superstar Soccer Pro 98
      - Kensei: Sacred Fist
      - Midnight Run: Road Fighter 2
      - Nagano Winter Olympics ’98
      - Poy Poy 2
Developed But Didn’t Publish
- North America
  - Game Boy
    - Frogger
  - Game Boy Color
    - Frogger
Published But Didn’t Develop
- Japan
  - N64
    - Olympic Hockey ’98
  - Pachinko
    - Little Pirates
  - PlayStation
    - Actua Ice Hockey
- Europe
  - N64
    - Quest 64/Holy Magic Century

The series Bemani is perhaps most known for, Dance Dance Revolution, launched in Japanese arcades in 1998. Another music rhythm game, DDR tasks players with stepping on four arrow buttons pointing up, left, right, and down in time with the music and on screen prompts.

Rakugakids, meaning something like “doodle kids” is one of the very few 2D fighters on the N64, featuring a cast that looks like they were drawn with crayon.

Konami 80’s AC Special is a compilation of 10 Konami arcade games from the 80s: Circus Charlie, Gyruss, Pooyan, Road Fighter, Roc’n Rope, Scramble, Shao-lin’s Road/Kick, Super Cobra, Time Pilot, and Yie Ar Kung-Fu. It was released on the PlayStation and there was also an arcade machine. Arcade machines that are a compilation of other games are pretty rare and notable, but unfortunately I couldn’t find any pictures of a cabinet.

Pop’n Music is a new and prolific music rhythm series from Bemani. Featuring a row of four buttons above a row of five buttons it’s not meant to represent an instrument like many Bemani games.

Beatmania Pocket is the first in the Bemani Pocket line of handheld game adaptations of various Bemani games.

Konami locked down the rights to make Yu-Gi-Oh games and the first two came out in 1998: Yu-Gi-Oh! Monster Capsule: Breed & Battle for PlayStation and Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters for Game Boy. On average more than two Yu-Gi-Oh games have come out every year since then. In 1999 Konami launched the trading card game, which is also still going strong.

Suikoden is released for Windows 95 in Japan, one of several releases of the growing cult classic that wouldn’t leave Japan.

Konami released one last Super Famicom game: Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu: Basic Han ’98.

MMetal Gear Solid revives the Metal Gear series with a game that rocked the video game world. Featuring cinematic storytelling, dealing with serious topics like war and the proliferation of nuclear weapons, while also not being afraid to be goofy and to break the fourth wall, there just wasn’t anything like Metal Gear Solid.

1999

Developed and Published
- Japan
  - Arcade
    - beatmania 4thMIX 〜the beat goes on〜
      GuitarFreaks Source
    - beatmania 5thMIX -Time to get down-
    - beatmania completeMIX
    - beatmania IIDX
    - beatmania IIDX 2nd style
    - Beatmania IIDX Club Version
    - Beatmania IIDX Substream
    - Bomber Chance
    - Dance Dance Revolution 2ndMix
    - Dance Dance Revolution 2ndMIX AND beatmania IIDX substream CLUB VERSiON 2
    - Dance Dance Revolution 2ndMIX with beatmania IIDX CLUB VERSiON
    - Dance Dance Revolution 3rdMix
    - Dance Dance Revolution Karaoke Mix
    - Dance Dance Revolution Solo 2000
    - Dance Dance Revolution Solo BASS MIX
    - Dancing Stage featuring True Kiss Destination
    - Dark Horse Legend 2
    - drummania
    - Gachaga Champ
      A later verison of DrumMania Source
    - GI-Leading Sire
    - Golden Region
    - Gradius IV
    - GUITARFREAKS
    - GUITARFREAKS 2ndMIX
    - Gundivide
    - Hover Shooter
    - Hyper Bishi Bashi Champ
    - Joker Time
    - Jolly Partner
    - Kick Target II
    - Magic Time Poker
    - Muscle Ranking Kick Target II
    - Muscle Ranking UFO
    - pop’n music 2
    - pop’n music 3
    - pop’n stage
    - pop’n Stage EX
      Beatmania IIDX, not the original version Source
    - Power Pro Chance
    - Rong Rong Kaihua
    - Silent Scope
    - Smash & Spin 2
    - Step Champ
    - Wanagetto
    - Yu-Gi-Oh! Monster Capsule
  - Dedicated Handheld
    - Beatmania Pocket 2
    - Bemani Pocket Anime Song Mix ~Go Nagai and Dynamic Pro Edition~
    - Bemani Pocket Summer Mix
    - Bemani Pocket Tokimeki Memorial
    - Dance Dance Revolution Pocket
    - Dance Dance Revolution Pocket Hello Kitty
    - Dungeon Quest
    - pop’n music Pocket
  - Dreamcast
    - Airforce Delta/Deadly Skies
    - Dancing Blade Katte ni Momotenshi II: Tears of Eden Kanzenban
    - Dancing Blade: Katte ni Momotenshi! Kanzenban
    - Eisei Meijin III: Game Creator Yoshimura Nobuhiro no Zunou
      Pop’n Stage Source
    - Pop’n Music
    - Pop’n Music 2
  - Game Boy Color
    - Azure Dreams
    - Beatmania GB
    - Beatmania GB: GotchaMix 2
    - Ganbare Goemon: Mononoke Dōchū Tobidase Nabe-Bugyō!
    - International Rally/Cross Country Racing/It’s a World Rally
    - International Superstar Soccer ’99
    - International Track & Field/Hyper Olympic Track & Field GB
    - Juukou Senki Bullet Battlers
    - Kinniku Banzuke GB: Chousensha wa Kimida!
    - Owarai Yowiko no Game-dou: Oyaji Sagashite Sanchoume
    - Pocket GI Stable
    - Power Pro Kun Pocket
    - Survival Kids/Stranded Kids
    - Tokimeki Memorial Pocket: Culture Hen: Komorebi no Melody
    - Tokimeki Memorial Pocket: Sport Hen: Koutei no Photograph
    - Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters II: Dark Duel Stories
  - N64
    - Castlevania (N64)
    - Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness
    - Goemon Mononoke Sugoroku
    - Hybrid Heaven
    - International Superstar Soccer 2000
    - Jikkyou GI Stable
    - Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 6
    - NBA In The Zone ’99/NBA Pro ’99
      BeatMania for WonderSwan Source
  - PlayStation
    - Beatmania Append 4th Mix
    - Beatmania Append Gottamix
    - Beatmania Append Yebisu Mix
    - Bishi Bashi Special 2
    - Bokujyoukeieteki Board Game: Umapoly
    - Breeding Stud ’99
    - Circus Charlie (Arcade, compilation)
    - Dance Dance Revolution
    - Dance Dance Revolution 2ndReMix
    - Dance Dance Revolution 2ndReMix Append Club Version Vol.1
    - Dance Dance Revolution 2ndReMix Append Club Version Vol.2
    - Dancing Blade Katteni Momotenshi II: Tears of Eden
    - Dancing Stage featuring True Kiss Destination
    - Eisei Meijin III
    - Fisherman’s Bait 2: Big Ol’ Bass
    - Glint Glitters
    - Goo! Goo! Soundy
    - Guitar Freaks
    - Gungage
    - Gyruss (Arcade, compilation)
    - Harlem Beat: You’re the One
    - ISS Pro Evolution
    - Jikkyou J.League 1999 Perfect Striker
      Silent Scope arcade Source
    - Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu ’99 Kaimakuban
    - Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu ’99 Ketteiban
    - Kinniku Banzuke Vol. 1: Ore ga Saikyou no Otoko
    - Konami Arcade Classics
    - Mahjong Yarouze!
    - Metal Gear Solid: Integral
    - Pooyan (Arcade, compilation)
    - Pop’n Music
    - Pop’n Music 2
    - Road Fighter (Arcade, compilation)
    - Roc’n Rope (Arcade, compilation)
    - Scramble/Scramble Wars (Arcade, compilation)
    - Seishoujo Kantai Virgin Fleet
    - Shao-lin’s Road/Kicker (Arcade, compilation)
    - Silent Hill
    - Soul of the Samurai
    - Suikoden II
    - Super Cobra (Arcade, compilation)
    - Time Pilot (Arcade, compilation)
    - Tokimeki Memorial 2
    - Tokimeki Memorial Drama Series Vol. 3 Tabidachi no Uta
    - TV Kamishibai Vol. 1
    - Uchi ni Pochi ga Yattekita – in my pocket
    - Vandal Hearts II
    - Yie Ar Kung Fu (Arcade, compilation)
    - Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories
      Silent Hill Source
  - Saturn
    - Tokimeki Memorial Drama Series Vol. 3: Tabidachi no Uta
  - Slot Machine
    - Dracula Buster
  - WonderSwan
    - Beatmania for WonderSwan
- North America
  - Arcade
    - beatmania completeMIX
    - Dance Dance Revolution/Dancing Stage
    - Fisherman’s Bait Marlin Challenge
    - GUITARFREAKS
    - Racing Jam: Chapter 2
  - Dedicated Handheld
    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: Shredder’s Last Stand
  - Dreamcast
    - Airforce Delta/Deadly Skies
  - Game Boy Color
    - Motocross Maniacs 2/Crazy Bikers
    - NBA in the Zone/NBA Pro ’99
    - Spawn
    - Survival Kids/Stranded Kids
  - N64
    - Bottom of the 9th
    - Castlevania (N64)
    - Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness
      Hybrid Heaven Source
    - Goemon’s Great Adventure/Mystical Ninja 2 Starring Goemon
    - Hybrid Heaven
    - NBA In The Zone ’99/NBA Pro ’99
    - NHL Blades of Steel ’99/NHL Pro 99
  - PlayStation
    - Circus Charlie (Arcade, compilation)
    - Fisherman’s Bait 2: Big Ol’ Bass
    - Fisherman’s Bait: A Bass Challenge
    - Gyruss (Arcade, compilation)
    - International Superstar Soccer Pro 98
    - International Track & Field 2000/International Track & Field 2
    - Konami Arcade Classics
    - Metal Gear Solid: VR Missions/Metal Gear Solid: Special Missions
    - NBA In The Zone ’99
    - Pooyan (Arcade, compilation)
    - Road Fighter (Arcade, compilation)
    - Roc’n Rope (Arcade, compilation)
    - Scramble/Scramble Wars (Arcade, compilation)
    - Shao-lin’s Road/Kicker (Arcade, compilation)
    - Silent Hill
    - Soul of the Samurai
    - Suikoden II
    - Super Cobra (Arcade, compilation)
    - Time Pilot (Arcade, compilation)
    - Vandal Hearts II
    - Yie Ar Kung Fu (Arcade, compilation)
  - Slot Machine
    - Aladdin
      Airforce Delta Source
    - Carnival of Cash
    - Horses For Courses
    - Magic Beans
    - Mohican’s Pride
    - Money Power
- Europe
  - Arcade
    - Dance Dance Revolution/Dancing Stage
    - Dancing Stage INTERNET R@NKING Version
  - Game Boy Color
    - International Superstar Soccer ’99
    - International Track & Field/Hyper Olympic Track & Field GB
    - Motocross Maniacs 2/Crazy Bikers
    - NBA in the Zone/NBA Pro ’99
    - Survival Kids/Stranded Kids
  - N64
    - Castlevania (N64)
    - Goemon’s Great Adventure/Mystical Ninja 2 Starring Goemon
    - Hybrid Heaven
    - NBA In The Zone ’99/NBA Pro ’99
    - NHL Blades of Steel ’99/NHL Pro 99
  - PlayStation
    - Gungage
    - Metal Gear Solid
    - Metal Gear Solid: VR Missions/Metal Gear Solid: Special Missions
    - Silent Hill
    - Soul of the Samurai
      Castlevania (N64) Source
Published But Didn’t Develop
- Japan
  - Game Boy Color
    - Ganbare Goemon: Tengu-tō no Gyakushū
    - Hanasaka Tenshi Tenten-kun no Beat Breaker
  - PlayStation
    - A Bug’s Life
    - Disney’s Tarzan
    - Jersey Devil
    - Melty Lancer: The 3rd Planet
- North America
  - Game Boy Color
    - NHL Blades of Steel

Several new Bemani rhythm series this year, and new versions of the older ones. GuitarFreaks features a small guitar with three buttons on the neck, a pick lever, and a turnable knob. DrumMania features five drum heads and a floor pedal. These games are often paried together and known as Gitadora. Pop’n Stage had two releases and they were both released in 1999. The two games are like a cross between Pop’n Music and Dance Dance Revolution, but a bit more forgiving.

Beatmania IIDX is considered a separate series from Beatmania, which still got regular releases alongside its successor for several years. The difference is that IIDX has seven buttons instead of five, five effectors, and a second mirrored set of buttons and turntable for a second player.

BeatMania for WonderSwan was Konami’s only WonderSwan game.

Two “Silent” series get their start this year. Silent Scope has a sniper rifle mounted to the arcade machine which you must use to save the president and his family from terrorists.

Silent Hill is an atmospheric survival horror game where the player controls Harry Mason who is looking for his daughter in the mytserious town of Silent Hill.

Arguably a JRPG, Hybrid Heaven is a one of a kind game. While you explore and interact with levels like a traditional 3D action game, when you enter a battle you’re put into a small arena and select your attack or defense from a list and then watch the result play out. You learn new attacks by having them performed on you by enemies. These attacks can be leveled up, as well as various body parts.

Airforce Delta, or Deadly Skies in Europe is the first in a fairly short series of flight combat games.

Castlevania’s first 3D game comes to the N64, and it’s yet another entry just called “Castlevania”. Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness comes out later in this same year as an expanded version.

Survival Kids tasks players with keeping a child alive on a deserted island while managing their thirst, hunger, and fatigue.

2000

Developed and Published
- Japan
  - Arcade
    - Anime Champ
      DanceManiax 2nd Mix Source
    - Beatmania ClubMix
    - Beatmania Complete Mix 2
    - Beatmania Core Remix
    - Beatmania featuring Dreams Come True
    - Beatmania IIDX 3rd Style
    - Beatmania IIDX 4th Style
    - Beatmania III
    - Beatmania III Append Core Remix
    - Bingo Boomer
    - Bomber Chance 2
    - Code One Dispatch
    - Cyclone Fever
    - Dance Dance Revolution 3rdMix Plus
    - Dance Dance Revolution 4thMix
    - Dance Dance Revolution 4thMix Plus (Japanese release)
    - Dance Dance Revolution Karaoke Mix 2nd
    - Dance Dance Revolution Kids
    - DanceManiax 1stMix
    - DanceManiax 2ndMix
    - Dancing Stage featuring Disney’s Rave
    - Dancing Stage featuring Dreams Come True
    - Dark Silhouette: Silent Scope 2/Silent Scope 2: Fatal Judgement
    - Doki Doki Racing Choro Q
    - Dragon Palace Dragon March
    - Driving Party
    - DrumMania 2ndMix
    - DrumMania 3rdMix
    - GI-Leading Sire Ver2
    - GTI Club 2/Driving Party
    - GuitarFreaks 3rdMix
    - GuitarFreaks 4thMix
    - Gun Mania
    - Hold Seven
    - Keyboardmania 2ndMix
    - Keyboardmania/Keyboardheaven
    - Kick & Kick/Muscle Ranking Football Masters
    - Lovely Bubbly
    - Muscle Ranking: Kinniku Banzuke
    - ParaParaParadise
    - ParaParaParadise 1stMix Plus
    - Piccadilly Circus (2000)
    - Pocket Pirates
    - Police 911/Police 24/7
    - Pop’n Music 4
    - Pop’n Music 5
      A later version of Keyboardmania Source
    - Pop’n Music Animelo
    - Pop’n Music Mickey Tunes
    - Punch Mania Fist of the North Star/Fighting Mania: Fist of the North Star
    - Punch Mania Fist of the North Star 2 Fierce Battle in the Land of Shura
    - Silent Scope Token Shot
    - Soreike! Hanapuu
    - Spiral Comet
    - Star Roulette
    - Street Dice
    - Winner’s Chance
  - Dedicated Handheld
    - Bemani Pocket ~Hanshin Tigers Attack~
    - Bemani Pocket 2000
    - Bemani Pocket Anime Mix 2 ~Ishinomori Shotaro Edition~
    - Bemani Pocket Anime Mix 3 ~Matsumoto Leiji Edition~
    - Bemani Pocket Cawaii!
    - Bemani Pocket Hello Kitty
    - Bemani Pocket Love Stories
    - Bemani Pocket Tokimeki Memorial 2
    - Dance Dance Revolution Pocket Dear Daniel
    - Dance Dance Revolution Pocket Winnie The Pooh
    - GuitarFreaks Pocket
  - Dreamcast
    - Dance Dance Revolution 2ndMix
    - Dance Dance Revolution Club Version Dreamcast Edition
    - ESPN International Track & Field
    - Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu Dreamcast Edition
    - Pop’n Music 3 Append Disc
    - Pop’n Music 4 Append Disc
    - Silent Scope
  - Game Boy Color
    - Beatmania GB2: GotchaMix
    - Cyborg Kuro-chan 2: White Woods no Gyakushuu
    - Cyborg Kuro-chan: Devil Fukkatsu!!
    - Dance Dance Revolution GB
    - Dance Dance Revolution GB2
    - ESPN International Track & Field/International Track & Field: Summer Games/Ganbare Nippon! Olympic 2000
    - Gakuen Battle Fishers: Yoky Shiimono wa Tsure
    - Ganbare Goemon: Seikūshi Dynamites Arawaru!!
      Para Para Paradise 1st MIX Plus Source
    - Hunter X Hunter: Hunter no Keifu
    - International Superstar Soccer 2000
    - Kinniku Banzuke GB2: Mezase! Muscle Champion
    - Millennium Winter Sports/Hyper Olympic Winter 2000/Konami Winter Games
    - Pop’n Music GB
    - Pop’n Music GB: Animation Melody
    - Pop’n Music GB: Disney Tunes
    - Power Pro Kun Pocket 2
    - Survival Kids 2: Dasshutsu!! Futago-jima
    - The Grinch
    - The Mummy
    - Yu-Gi-Oh! Dark Duel Stories
    - Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters 4: Battle of Great Duelists – Jounouchi Deck
    - Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters 4: Battle of Great Duelists – Kaiba Deck
    - Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters 4: Battle of Great Duelists – Yugi Deck
    - Yu-Gi-Oh! Monster Capsule GB
  - Mobile Phone
    - Konami Characore World
  - N64
    - Dance Dance Revolution Disney Dancing Museum
    - International Track & Field 2000/International Track & Field: Summer Games
    - Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 2000
  - PlayStation
    - Aitakute… Your Smiles in My Heart
    - Beatmania Append 5th Mix
    - Beatmania Append Club mix
    - Beatmania Append Gottamix 2 – Going Global
    - Beatmania Best Hits
    - Beatmania Featuring Dreams Come True
    - Bishi Bashi Special 3: Step Champ
    - Dance Dance Revolution 3rdMix
    - Dance Dance Revolution Best Hits
    - Dancing Stage featuring Dreams Come True
    - Eldergate
    - Gensō Suikogaiden Vol. 1: Harmonia no Kenshi
    - Guitar Freaks Append 2nd Mix
    - Hanafuda
    - Hunter X Hunter: Maboroshi no Greed Island
    - Hyper Pachinko
    - International Track & Field 2000/International Track & Field 2
    - ISS Pro Evolution 2
      Fighting Mania: Fist of the North Star Source
    - J.League Jikkyou Winning Eleven 2000
    - J.League Jikkyou Winning Eleven 2000 2nd
    - Jikkyou Golf Master 2000
    - Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 2000 Kaimakuban
    - Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 2000 Ketteiban
    - Kinniku Banzuke Vol. 2: Aratanarugenkai Enochousen!
    - Kinniku Banzuke Vol. 3 – Saikyou no Challenger Tanjyou!
    - Kinniku Banzuke: Road to Sasuke
    - Love Hina 2: Kotoba wa Konayuki no You ni
    - Love Hina: Ai wa Kotoba no Chuu ni
    - Mahjong
    - NHL Blades of Steel 2000
    - Nippon Sumo Kyoukai Kounin: Nippon Oozumou
    - Oha Suta Dance Dance Revolution
    - Pop’n Music 3 Append Disc
    - Pop’n Music 4 Append Disc
    - Pop’n Music: Animation Melody
    - Pop’n Music: Disney Tunes
    - Tokoro-san no Daifugou
  - PlayStation 2
    - 7 Blades
    - Beatmania IIDX 3rd Style
    - Bouken Jidai Katsugeki: Goemon
    - DrumMania
    - Eisei Meijin IV
    - Ephemeral Fantasia
    - ESPN International Track & Field/International Track & Field 2000
    - ESPN NBA 2Night
    - ESPN Winter X-Games Snowboarding
    - Gradius III (Arcade, compilation)
    - Gradius III and IV
    - Gradius IV (Arcade, compilation)
    - GuitarFreaks 3rd Mix & DrumMania 2nd Mix
    - International Superstar Soccer
    - Jikkyou G1 Stable
    - Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 7
      Konami Characore World, perhaps an available wallpaper Source
    - Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 7 Ketteiban
    - Jikkyou World Soccer 2000 Final Edition
    - KeyboardMania
    - Mahjong Yarouze! 2
    - Ring of Red
    - Silent Scope
  - Slot Machine
    - Crazy Dice
    - Western Deal
  - Windows
    - pop’n music打!!
- North America
  - Arcade
    - Beatmania Complete Mix 2
    - Dance Dance Revolution USA
    - Dancing Stage EuroMix
    - Dark Silhouette: Silent Scope 2/Silent Scope 2: Fatal Judgement
    - Driving Party
    - Police 911/Police 24/7
    - Punch Mania Fist of the North Star/Fighting Mania: Fist of the North Star
    - Simpsons Bowling
  - Dreamcast
    - ESPN International Track & Field
    - Silent Scope
  - Game Boy Color
    - Azure Dreams
    - ESPN International Track & Field/International Track & Field: Summer Games/Ganbare Nippon! Olympic 2000
    - International Rally/Cross Country Racing/It’s a World Rally
    - International Superstar Soccer ’99
    - International Superstar Soccer 2000
    - International Track & Field/Hyper Olympic Track & Field GB
    - Metal Gear Solid (Game Boy Color)
    - Millennium Winter Sports/Hyper Olympic Winter 2000/Konami Winter Games
    - NBA in the Zone 2000
    - The Grinch
      Gun Mania flyer Source
    - The Mummy
    - Woody Woodpecker Racing
  - N64
    - International Superstar Soccer 2000
    - International Track & Field 2000/International Track & Field: Summer Games
    - NBA In The Zone 2000
  - PlayStation
    - Big Ol’ Bass 2/Fisherman’s Bait 3
    - ESPN MLS GameNight
    - ISS Pro Evolution
    - NBA In The Zone 2000
    - NHL Blades of Steel 2000
  - PlayStation 2
    - ESPN International Track & Field/International Track & Field 2000
    - ESPN Winter X-Games Snowboarding
    - Gradius III (Arcade, compilation)
    - Gradius III and IV
    - Gradius IV (Arcade, compilation)
    - Silent Scope
  - Slot Machine
    - African Treasure
    - Masquerade
- Europe
  - Arcade
    - Dancing Stage EuroMix
    - Dark Silhouette: Silent Scope 2/Silent Scope 2: Fatal Judgement
    - Driving Party
    - Police 911/Police 24/7
    - Punch Mania Fist of the North Star/Fighting Mania: Fist of the North Star
  - Dreamcast
    - Airforce Delta/Deadly Skies
    - ESPN International Track & Field
    - Silent Scope
  - Game Boy Color
    - Antarctic Adventure (compilation)
    - Azure Dreams
    - Castlevania II: Belmont’s Revenge (compilation)
    - Castlevania: The Adventure (compilation)
    - ESPN International Track & Field/International Track & Field: Summer Games/Ganbare Nippon! Olympic 2000
    - Frogger (compilation)
    - Gradius: The Interstellar Assault/Nemesis II: The Return of the Hero (called Gradius II: The Return of the Hero, compilation)
    - International Rally/Cross Country Racing/It’s a World Rally
    - International Superstar Soccer 2000
    - Konami GB Collection Vol.1
    - Konami GB Collection Vol.2
    - Konami GB Collection Vol.3
    - Konami GB Collection Vol.4
    - Loco-Motion/Crazy Train (compilation)
      Konami GB Collection: Vol.1 Source
    - Metal Gear Solid (Game Boy Color)
    - Millennium Winter Sports/Hyper Olympic Winter 2000/Konami Winter Games
    - Motocross Maniacs (called Bikers, compilation)
    - Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon/Ganbare Goemon: Sarawareta Ebisumaru! (compilation)
    - NBA in the Zone 2000
    - Nemesis (called Gradius, compilation)
    - Operation C/Probotector (compilation)
    - Parodius! From Myth to Laughter/Parodius/Parodius: Non-Sense Fantasy/Parodiusu Da! Shinwa kara Owarai e (compilation)
    - Pop’n TwinBee (compilation)
    - Quarth (compilation)
    - The Grinch
    - The Mummy
    - Track & Field (compilation)
    - Woody Woodpecker Racing
    - World Circuit Series F-1 Spirit/The Spirit of F-1 (called Konami Racing, compilation)
    - Yie Ar Kung-Fu (compilation)
  - N64
    - Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness
    - International Superstar Soccer 2000
    - International Track & Field 2000/International Track & Field: Summer Games
    - NBA In The Zone 2000
  - PlayStation
    - Beatmania
    - Bishi Bashi Special 2
    - Dancing Stage EuroMix
    - International Superstar Soccer
    - International Track & Field 2000/International Track & Field 2
    - ISS Pro Evolution
    - Metal Gear Solid: Twin Pack
    - NHL Blades of Steel 2000
    - Suikoden II
    - Vandal Hearts II
  - PlayStation 2
    - ESPN International Track & Field/International Track & Field 2000
    - Gradius III (Arcade, compilation)
    - Gradius III and IV
    - Gradius IV (Arcade, compilation)
    - International Superstar Soccer
      The Simpsons Bowling arcade cabinet Source
    - Silent Scope
- Other
  - Arcade
    - Dance Dance Revolution 3rdMIX VER.KOREA
    - Dance Dance Revolution 3rdMIX Ver.KOREA2
    - Dance Freaks
    - ParaParaDancing
Developed But Didn’t Publish
- North America
  - Windows
    - Metal Gear Solid (2000 release)
- Europe
  - Windows
    - Metal Gear Solid (2000 release)
Published But Didn’t Develop
- Japan
  - Game Boy Color
    - AirForce Delta/Deadly Skies
    - F1 World Grand Prix II
  - Pachinko
    - CR Parodius Da!
    - CR Parodius Da! 2
    - CR Parodius Da! EX
    - CR Parodius Da! ZE
- North America
  - Dreamcast
    - ESPN NBA 2Night
    - Nightmare Creatures II
    - The Grinch
  - Game Boy Color
    - AirForce Delta/Deadly Skies
    - F1 World Grand Prix II
    - NHL Blades of Steel 2000
  - PlayStation
    - Woody Woodpecker Racing
  - Windows
    - The Grinch
    - The Mummy
- Europe
  - Dreamcast
    - Nightmare Creatures II
    - The Grinch
  - Game Boy Color
    - AirForce Delta/Deadly Skies
    - F1 World Grand Prix II
  - PlayStation
    - Woody Woodpecker Racing
      Ephemeral Fantasia box art Source
  - Windows
    - The Mummy
    - Woody Woodpecker Racing

In the year 2000 in Japan there were eight new Beatmania arcade games released (two of which were the new Beatmania III series), seven Dance Dance Revolution arcade games, the debut of DanceManiax with two arcade games, two new DrumFreaks and two new GuitarFreaks arcade games, the debut of Keyboardmania with two arcade games, the debut of ParaParaParadise with two arcade games, four new Pop’n Music arcade games, and 11 Bemani Pocket dedicated handheld games. There were four Bemani arcade games released exclusively in South Korea and there were a slew of console ports of various Bemani games.

DanceManiax is a dancing game that uses infrared sensors to determine your movements.

Keyboardmania features a 24 key keyboard, making it less of a simulation than other Bemani games.

ParaParaParadise is a dancing game made to capitalize on the recurring Para Para dancing fad in Japan.

Fighting Mania: Fist of the North Star sounds like it could be a Bemani game, but it is not about music. Instead players would put on the included gloves and punch targets after they have swung out and lit up.

Gun Mania apparently allows the player to shoot real BBs. There doesn’t seem to be any footage of it being played.

**GuitarFreaks controller for PlayStation 2 Source**

I have a system called “Mobile Phone”. This encompasses all games played on non-smartphone phones. Japan had many competing online services that sold games. It includes EZ Web, Yahoo! Keitai, and i-mode as well as North American and European services and standards.

Konami’s first mobile game, Konami Characore World releases this year. Players could play minigames to earn coins and then spend those coins on wallpapers and ringtones for their phone. I don’t know exactly when it launched, but Konami Net was a service with a monthly fee that allowed users to buy and access their mobile phone games. It was shut down in 2016.

Konami GB Collection: Vol.1, 2, 3, and 4 are the same collections of Game Boy games, except this time released on the Game Boy Color, and only in Europe instead of only in Japan.

The Simpsons Bowling was an arcade game that seems to have only been released in North America.

Ephemeral Fantasia is a music themed JRPG that takes place during five looping days. The guitar playing sections are compatible with the GuitarFreaks controllers for the PlayStation 2.

2001

Developed and Published
- Japan
  - Arcade
    - Beatmania 6thMix The UK Underground Music
    - Beatmania IIDX 5th Style
    - Beatmania IIDX 6th Style
      Air Force Delta Storm Source
    - Beatmania III Append 6th Mix
    - Boxing Mania: Ashita no Joe
    - Celebrity Studio
    - Dance Dance Revolution 5thMix
    - DanceManiax 2ndMix Append JParadise
    - DDRMAX Dance Dance Revolution 6thMix
    - DrumMania 4thMix
    - DrumMania 5thMix
    - DrumMania 6thMix
    - Fortune Orb
    - GuitarFreaks 5thMix
    - GuitarFreaks 6thMix
    - Gun Mania Zone Plus
    - Hie Hie Penta: Ice Cream Catcher
    - Jurassic Park III
    - Keyboardmania 3rdMix
    - Mambo a Go Go
    - Mocap Boxing
    - Monster Gate
    - ParaParaParadise 2ndMix
    - ParaParaParadise CS
    - Police 911 2/Police 24/7 2
    - Pop’n Music 6
    - Pop’n Music 7
    - Pop’n Music Animelo 2
    - PunchMania: Hokuto no Ken 2
    - Robot Factory
    - Silent Scope EX
    - Slot Monster
      Tsurugi: The Sword Source
    - Thrill Drive 2
    - Tsurugi: The Sword
  - Dedicated Handheld
    - Bemani Pocket BEST HITS 2000
    - Bemani Pocket KONAMIX
    - Etiquette Teddy
    - GuitarFreaks Pocket 2
    - Para Para Paradise Pocket
  - Game Boy Advance
    - Castlevania: Circle of the Moon/Castlevania
    - ESPN Final Round Golf 2002/ESPN Final Round Golf
    - ESPN Great Outdoor Games: Bass 2002/ESPN Great Outdoor Games: Bass Tournament
    - ESPN Winter X-Games Snowboarding 2002/ESPN Winter X-Games Snowboarding 2
    - ESPN X Games Skateboarding
    - Field of Nine: Digital Edition 2001
    - GetBackers Dakkanya: Jigoku no Scaramouche
    - Hikaru no Go 2
    - International Superstar Soccer
    - J.League Pocket
    - JGTO Golf Master Mobile
    - Jurassic Park III: Island Attack/Jurassic Park III: Dino Attack
    - Jurassic Park III: Park Builder
    - Jurassic Park III: The DNA Factor
    - Kinniku Banzuke: Kimeru! Kiseki no Kanzen Seiha
    - Konami Krazy Racers
    - Mobile Pro Yakyuu: Kantoku no Saihai
    - Monster Guardians
    - Nakayoshi Mahjan Kaburiichi
    - Play Novel: Silent Hill
    - Power Pro Kun Pocket 3
    - Recca no Honō: Flame of Recca
    - Star Communicator
    - Tanbi Musō: Meine Liebe
      Etiquette Teddy Source
    - Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters 6: Expert 2
    - Yu-Gi-Oh! Dungeon Dice Monsters
    - Yu-Gi-Oh! The Eternal Duelist Soul
    - Yuujou no Victory Goal 4v4 Arashi: Get the Goal!
  - Game Boy Color
    - Chou Gals! Kotobuki Ran
    - Dance Dance Revolution GB: Disney Mix
    - Dance Dance Revolution GB3
    - Gyouten Ningen Batseelor: Doctor Guy no Yabou
    - Kinniku Banzuke GB3: Shinseiki Survival Retsuden!
    - Net de Get: Mini-Game @ 100
    - Woody Woodpecker Racing
  - Mobile Phone
    - Bishi Bashi Champ
    - Crackout
    - Dance Dance Revolution
    - Gradius Complete Edition
    - Gradius/Nemesis
    - Penta’s Fishing Adventure/Penta’s Fishing Adventure DX
    - Road Fighter
    - Scramble/Scramble Wars
    - TwinBee
  - N64
    - Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyu Basic-ban 2001
  - Pachinko
    - CR Bari Bari Mou Race J
    - CR Bari Bari Mou Race V
  - PlayStation
    - Baseball Simulation: ID Pro Yakyuu
    - Beatmania: The Sound of Tokyo
    - Big Ol’ Bass 2/Fisherman’s Bait 3
    - Castlevania (X68000, compilation)
    - Castlevania Chronicles
      Gradius Source
    - Dance Dance Revolution 5thMix
    - Dance Dance Revolution Disney Mix/Dancing Stage Disney Mix
    - Dance Dance Revolution Extra Mix
    - Dance Dance Revolution Konamix/Dancing Stage Party Edition
    - Ganbare Goemon: Ōedo Daikaiten
    - Gensō Suikogaiden Vol. 2: Crystal Valley no Kettou
    - GetBackers Dakkanya
    - Goemon: Shin Sedai Shūmei!
    - Hunter X Hunter: Ubawareta Aura Stone
    - J.League Jikkyou Winning Eleven 2001
    - Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 2001
    - Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 2001 Ketteiban
    - Pop’n Music 5
    - Techno BB
    - Tokimeki Memorial 2 Substories: Dancing Summer Vacation
    - Tokimeki Memorial 2 Substories: Leaping School Festival
    - Tokimeki Memorial 2 Substories: Memories Ringing On
    - Tokimeki Memorial 2 Taisen Puzzle Dama
  - PlayStation 2
    - Adventure of Tokyo Disney Sea
    - BeatMania Da Da Da!!
    - Beatmania IIDX 4th Style: New Songs Collection
    - Beatmania IIDX 5th Style: New Songs Collection
    - Eisei Meijin V
    - ESPN National Hockey Night
    - ESPN Winter X-Games Snowboarding 2002/ESPN Winter X-Games Snowboarding 2
    - ESPN X-Games Skateboarding
    - GitaDora! Guitar Freaks 4th Mix & DrumMania 3rd Mix
    - Hunter X Hunter: Ryumyaku no Saidan
    - J.League Winning Eleven 5
      Adventure of Tokyo Disney SEA Source
    - Jikkyou J.League Perfect Striker 3
    - Jikkyou J.League Perfect Striker 4
    - Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 8
    - Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 8 Ketteiban
    - Jikkyou World Soccer 2001
    - K-1 World Grand Prix 2001
    - Kinniku Banzuke: Muscle Wars 21
    - Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
    - Nippon Oozumou Kakutouhen
    - Para Para Paradise
    - Police 24/7
    - Pro Evolution Soccer
    - Pro Yakyuu Japan 2001
    - Shadow of Destiny/Shadow of Memories
    - Silent Hill 2
    - Silent Scope 2: Dark Silhouette/Silent Scope 2: Fatal Judgement
    - Tokimeki Memorial 3
    - World Soccer Winning Eleven 5 Final Evolution
    - WTA Tour Tennis
    - Yu-Gi-Oh! The Duelists of the Roses
    - Zone of the Enders
  - Windows
    - Dancing Karaoke DKara
    - Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu Online Edition
- North America
  - Arcade
    - Jurassic Park III
    - Kick & Kick/Muscle Ranking Football Masters
    - Mocap Boxing
    - Police 911 2/Police 24/7 2
    - Rise To Riches
    - Silent Scope EX
  - Game Boy Advance
    - Castlevania: Circle of the Moon/Castlevania
      Mambo a Go Go Source
    - ESPN Final Round Golf 2002/ESPN Final Round Golf
    - ESPN Great Outdoor Games: Bass 2002/ESPN Great Outdoor Games: Bass Tournament
    - ESPN X Games Skateboarding
    - Frogger’s Adventures: Temple of the Frog
    - Gradius Galaxies/Gradius Advance
    - Jurassic Park III: Island Attack/Jurassic Park III: Dino Attack
    - Jurassic Park III: Park Builder
    - Jurassic Park III: The DNA Factor
    - Konami Krazy Racers
  - PlayStation
    - Castlevania (X68000, compilation)
    - Castlevania Chronicles
    - Dance Dance Revolution
    - Dance Dance Revolution Disney Mix/Dancing Stage Disney Mix
    - Dance Dance Revolution/Dancing Stage
  - PlayStation 2
    - Ephemeral Fantasia
    - ESPN MLS ExtraTime
    - ESPN National Hockey Night
    - ESPN NBA 2Night
    - ESPN NFL PrimeTime 2002
    - ESPN X-Games Skateboarding
    - Frogger: The Great Quest
    - Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
    - Ring of Red
    - Shadow of Destiny/Shadow of Memories
    - Silent Hill 2
    - Silent Scope 2: Dark Silhouette/Silent Scope 2: Fatal Judgement
    - Zone of the Enders
  - Slot Machine
    - Bumble Bee
    - Champagne Stakes
    - Dragon Fly
    - Dragon Treasure
    - Incan Pyramid
    - Loaded Dice
    - Lost Treasure
    - Mayan Kingdom
    - Most Wanted
      Zone of the Enders Source
    - Movie Star
    - Outback Cup
    - Swan Lake
    - Time Bomb Poker
    - Treasure Raider
    - Wild Jungle
  - Xbox
    - AirForce Delta Storm/Deadly Skies
    - Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams
- Europe
  - Arcade
    - Jurassic Park III
    - Kick & Kick/Muscle Ranking Football Masters
    - Police 911 2/Police 24/7 2
    - Silent Scope EX
    - Thrill Drive 2
  - Game Boy Advance
    - Castlevania: Circle of the Moon/Castlevania
    - ESPN Final Round Golf 2002/ESPN Final Round Golf
    - ESPN X Games Skateboarding
    - Frogger’s Adventures: Temple of the Frog
    - Gradius Galaxies/Gradius Advance
    - International Superstar Soccer
    - Jurassic Park III: Park Builder
    - Jurassic Park III: The DNA Factor
    - Konami Krazy Racers
  - PlayStation
    - Big Ol’ Bass 2/Fisherman’s Bait 3
    - Castlevania (X68000, compilation)
    - Castlevania Chronicles
    - Dance Dance Revolution Disney Mix/Dancing Stage Disney Mix
    - Dance Dance Revolution/Dancing Stage
    - Diver’s Dream/Dolphin’s Dream
    - ISS Pro Evolution 2
  - PlayStation 2
    - 7 Blades
    - Ephemeral Fantasia
    - ESPN National Hockey Night
    - ESPN NBA 2Night
      Shadow of Destiny Source
    - ESPN Winter X-Games Snowboarding
    - Pro Evolution Soccer
    - Ring of Red
    - Shadow of Destiny/Shadow of Memories
    - Silent Hill 2
    - Silent Scope 2: Dark Silhouette/Silent Scope 2: Fatal Judgement
    - Zone of the Enders
Developed But Didn’t Publish
- Japan
  - Game Boy Advance
    - Doraemon: Midori no Wakusei Doki Doki Daikyūshutsu!
    - EX Monopoly
    - Okuman Chouja Game: Nottori Daisakusen!
Published But Didn’t Develop
- Japan
  - Arcade
    - Muscle Ranking Kick Target
    - Neratte Don Don
    - Salaryman Champ
  - Game Boy Advance
    - Adventure of Tokyo Disney Sea
    - Zone of the Enders: The Fist of Mars
  - Game Boy Color
    - Hunter X Hunter: Kindan no Hihou
    - Oha Star Dance Dance Revolution GB
  - Pachinko
    - CR Net Pawapuro-Kun
  - PlayStation
    - K-1 World Grand Prix 2001 Kaimakuden
    - Woody Woodpecker Racing
  - PlayStation 2
    - Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex
      Play Novel: Silent Hill fan translation Source
  - Plug ‘n Play
    - Dance Dance Revolution FamiMat
- North America
  - Game Boy Color
    - ESPN National Hockey Night
  - Windows
    - Woody Woodpecker Racing
- Europe
  - PlayStation 2
    - Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings

AirForce Delta Storm is Konami’s first game for an Xbox system, and was a launch title.

Tsurugi: The Sword is an arcade game played by swinging a sword connected to the machine. I couldn’t find any footage of this in action.

Etiquette Teddy was marketed to young women. It is a Tamagotchi-like handheld device with a sensor that you could blow into to check your breath. If your breath smells bad the bear character you are caring for will be in a bad mood.

Konami starts bringing older arcade titles to mobile phones, such as Gradius.

Adventure of Tokyo Disney SEA has both a Game Boy Advance and PlayStation 2 version. You explore Tokyo DisneySea and obtain rock, paper, scissors cards to battle with.

Mambo a Go Go is a Bemani game with only one entry. There are three drums with three sections you can strike.

Zone of the Enders was a short lived mech combat series. You play as Leo Stenbuck, a young man who finds himself piloting an Orbital Frame.

Shadow of Destiny, or Shadow of Memories in Europe is an adventure game where you move through time to alter how events play out, ultimately giving you one of several endings depending on your decisions. The clock is always ticking so you have to make good use of your time.

Play Novel: Silent Hill is a visual novel launch title for the Game Boy Advance. Stills from the original game’s CG cutscenes are used rather than new art. There were additional scenarios that could be downloaded via Mobile Adapter GB, but these have been lost.

Mobile21 was established as a joint venture between Nintendo and Konami in 1999 to make games for Nintendo’s handheld systems. Their first games started coming out in 2001. Many of these games used the Mobile Adapter GB to connect Game Boys to phones to download new content. The service was used by a few games not made by Mobile21, including Pokémon Crystal, but shut down in 2002.