Hudson Soft
Hudson Soft Company, Limited , formally known as Honeybee Soft Company, Limited , was a Japanese electronic entertainment publisher headquartered in the Midtown Tower in Tokyo Midtown, Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo, Japan, with an additional office in the Hudson Building in Sapporo. It was founded on May... 18, 1973. Initially, Hudson dealt with personal computer products, but had expanded to the development and publishing of video games, mobile content, and video game peripherals. As of 2003, the company employed over 500 people, with offices in Sapporo, Tokyo, and California. Hudson Soft was owned by Konami Corporation. On March 1, 2012, Hudson Soft Co., Ltd. officially ceased to exist as it was absorbed into Konami. Hudson Soft Ltd. was founded in Sapporo, Japan on May 18, 1973 by brothers Yuji and Hiroshi Kudo. The founders grew up admiring trains, and named the business after their favorite, the Hudson locomotives . Hudson began as a shop selling telecommunications devices and art photographs.
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