Hudson Soft
Video game companywww.hudson.co.jp
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Oct 12, 2026
Kelsey LewinHOST
For the fourth consecutive time, however, this particular board game is as unorthodox as it is tedious.
Kelsey LewinHOST
As far as I can tell, Hudson Soft is guilty of substance abuse.
Kelsey LewinHOST
Rather than using a simplistic square game board, Mario Party 4's playing service is crammed to capacity with twists and turns, item shops, secret squares, blah, blah, blah.
Kelsey LewinHOST
It sounds like a riot, but when you add it all up, it creates confusion, stalls the game, and throws out any semblance of strategy that it might have had.
Owen RobarHOST
We'll keep this one very short and sweet as there isn't much to say about Pac-Man, especially in this format, and we'll move on to our next game.
Owen RobarHOST
Bomberman Tournament, released June 26th, 2001 in North America, published by Activision and developed by Hudson Soft, who, according to what they want you to know, is the company best known for Bomberman, sure, Adventure Island, okay, Star Soldier, and Bonk.
Owen RobarHOST
You guys remember Bonk, right? Hit Bonk.
Owen RobarHOST
Uh, but I think what I best know them for is for their work on the Mario Party series.
Owen RobarHOST
Uh, up until Mario Party 8, and that is a thing you can tell.
Owen RobarHOST
They did a damn good job making those Mario Parties, and they will be sorely missed.
Owen RobarHOST
Hudson Soft has been acquired by Konami, uh, during 2012.
Owen RobarHOST
They were absorbed, and Konami now owns the Bomberman license.
Chris RandazzoHOST
It was developed by Cap Production and Red Entertainment.
Chris RandazzoHOST
Published by Hudson Soft.
Chris RandazzoHOST
It is about...
Chris RandazzoHOST
There's a cyborg ninja dude, and it's like a big...
Chris RandazzoHOST
Um, like there was this one level that was, uh, you know, the whole stage was tilting around like, uh, seven, which looked really cool, seven, you know, running away from explosions.
Chris RandazzoHOST
And like, it's a really cool looking game.
Chris RandazzoHOST
Um, It seems out of character for Hudson Soft.
Chris RandazzoHOST
Not that they developed it, but still, the game itself is not the kind of thing I think of when I think of Hudson Soft.
Chris KantrowitzGUEST
Then I, I...
Chris KantrowitzGUEST
And I found this one company called Hudson Soft that was based in s- uh, South San Francisco, and I remember my mom used to drive me to the, uh, she'd pick me up at school and drive me to Burbank Airport so I would fly up for my meetings- [laughs] ... with them- Ugh ... and then come back home by myself.
Chris KantrowitzGUEST
And then that summer, um, I took a business trip to Chicago, and I stayed at my dad's friend's house.
Chris KantrowitzGUEST
And I had been f- flown there because remember Bill Laimbeer? No.
Jamie CarboneHOST
Yeah, they're, were they by Camelot?
Hunter DonaldsonHOST
They're developed by Hudson Soft.
Jamie CarboneHOST
Or Hudson?
Hunter DonaldsonHOST
Um, because...
Jamie CarboneHOST
Well-
Hunter DonaldsonHOST
... of them.
Hunter DonaldsonHOST
Hudson Soft w- was their, like a completely independent-
Jamie CarboneHOST
Yeah.
Adam SpiessHOST
And thank you, Brandon Rutledge.
Adam SpiessHOST
Developed by Hudson Soft and manufactured by NEC, what 16-bit video game console was released in Japan in 1987 and in North America in 1989? But maybe somebody has played this and nostalgic for them.
Adam SpiessHOST
Tough for me.
Greg JohnsonGUEST
1989 for 16-bit seems really early.
MattHOST
Okay, maybe a more concrete example.
MattHOST
Konami had Hudson Soft for a long time, or a deal with Hudson Soft.
MattHOST
And they eventually bought Hudson Soft outright in, I think, the late 2000s.
MattHOST
Do you know what they did? They got rid of Hudson Soft.
MattHOST
There's no more Hudson Soft B. It's just Konami now.
MattHOST
It's all part of Konami.
AndrewHOST
I find the idea sort of depressing that we're maybe a few years out from Xbox not being a thing anymore.
DaveHOST
He's probably a busy boy.
DaveHOST
Shadows of the Tusk, Hudson Soft.
DaveHOST
Having already experimented with the Saturn's online facilities with Saturn Bomberman, Hudson Soft saw fit to unleash the card strategy game Shadows of the Tusk on Japanese gamers in mid-1998.
DaveHOST
a deck-building game with very distinct character art by Susumu Matsushita.
DaveHOST
Battles are contested on a five-by-five grid where your characters, your cards, go up against an opponent.
Mike AppsHOST
We all do wrote that.
David McBurneyHOST
Okay, Fireminer says, Konami owns Hudson Soft Catalog, but do you think...
David McBurneyHOST
Is there anyone interested in Tengai Makio Bonk or Star Soldier? Konami is still making New Bomberman and Momotaro...
David McBurneyHOST
Dentsu?
Mike AppsHOST
to.
Mike AppsHOST
But Bonk, yeah, same problem.
Mike AppsHOST
I think they see Hudson licenses other than like Bomberman as kind of just these are just sort of stuff we throw out into as like Hey, it's on this classic service.
Mike AppsHOST
We collect a licensing fee.
RyanHOST
Yes.
JohnHOST
Yeah, so this was developed by Hudson Soft, published by Hudson Soft.
JohnHOST
It was designed by Tetsuya Akimoto in February of 1991.
JohnHOST
It is an adventure game, point-and-click adventure game, essentially.