Hudson Soft

==1973–2012==
The company's mascot, Hachisuke was designed by co-founder and former President Yuji Kudo, when he was an assistant for manga artistsWeekly Famitsu no. 191, p. 150.
Founded in 1973, Hudson Soft was taken over by Konami in January 2011 and absorbed into the latter in March 2012.
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