Also in 1984, Konami expanded to the United Kingdom and established Konami Limited. was established in Torrance, California in 1982, but moved to Illinois in 1984. This new business was in addition to, not in place of, the arcades, and many hit console games of this time period were ports of the arcade versions. They began to achieve success with hit arcade games such as 1981's Frogger, Scramble and Super Cobra.īetween 19, Konami manufactured and sold game software for home PCs, producing games for the MSX and Nintendo's Family Computer ('Famicom') game consoles. Their first actual game machine was not created until 1978.
and began work on manufacturing 'amusement machines' for arcades. On March 19, 1973, Kozuki transformed the business into Konami Industry Co., Ltd. 2 Controversies surrounding Silent Hill.