Information: - Other notable traits are cinematic cutscenes, intricate storylines, offbeat and fourth wall humor, and exploration of political and philosophical themes, with references to Hollywood films to add flavor. As of March 2015, 41.2 million copies of the game franchise have been sold worldwide, with individual installments having been critically and commercially acclaimed and having received several awards. The franchise has also been adapted into other media such as comics, novels, and drama CDs. Snake also appeared as a guest character in "Super Smash Bros. Brawl". - Konami is famous for popular video game series such as "Castlevania", "Contra", "Dance Dance Revolution", "Gradius", "Frogger", "Suikoden", "Ganbare Goemon", "Metal Gear", "Mirmo", "Beatmania IIDX", "Pro Evolution Soccer", "Boktai", "Silent Hill", "Yu-Gi-Oh!", and "Sound Voltex". The 2012 purchase and absorption of Hudson Soft resulted in the addition of several other popular franchises, including "Adventure Island", "Bonk", "Bloody Roar", "Bomberman", "Far East of Eden" and "Star Soldier". Konami is the twentieth-largest game company in the world by revenue. - Based on the Japanese folk tale "Jiraiya Goketsu Monogatari", the series became widely popular in Japan, where it was one of the most popular RPG series during the 16-bit era, along with Enix's "Dragon Quest" and Squaresoft's "Final Fantasy". Its success was partly because the original "Tengai Makyou" was the first RPG released for the new CD-ROM format, which it utilized to create a bigger game and introduce fully voiced animated cut scenes and CD music to the genre. - "Beatmania" gave birth to several spinoffs, such as the "Beatmania IIDX" series (a more advanced version featuring 7 keys and higher difficulty levels) and the other being "Beatmania III", a remake of the 5-key series which featured a more modern hardware platform, a pedal for optional effects and a 3.5" floppy disk drive to save play records. - Hialeah is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. As of the 2010 census, Hialeah has a population of 224,669. Hialeah is the sixth-largest city in the state. It is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,012,331 people at the 2015 census. It is located west-northwest of Miami, and is the only place in the county, other than Homestead, Florida, to have its own street grid numbered separately from the rest of the county (which is otherwise based on Miami Avenue at Flagler Street in downtown Miami, the county seat). - Information. The series began in 1997 under the name "Beastorizer". The game's theme incorporated anthropomorphism, where the player has the ability to transform into a half-human, half-animal creature known as a "Zoanthrope" (the name came from the clinical term, 'zoanthropy', which is similar to that of lycanthropy, but not just with the mindset of a wolf). The game would appear under the name ""Bloody Roar"" when ported to the PlayStation in 1998, which would become the permanent title thereafter. There are three "Bloody Roar" sequels, plus a game based on a sidestory set between 3 and 4 on the Nintendo GameCube which was later ported to the Xbox. - Motive Power is a bi-monthly railway related magazine that focuses on diesel locomotives in Australia. The first issue was published on 23 August 1998. Its headquarters is in Sydney. The content includes photographs of locomotives & trains, news about newly delivered and repainted locomotives, technical articles, and fleet listings of the various Australian railway operators. Articles about railway photography itself are sometimes included, as well as articles and advertisements about railway modelling. - , abbreviated DDR and also known as Dancing Stage in earlier games in Europe and Australasia, and some other games in Japan, is a music video game series produced by Konami. Introduced in Japan in 1998 as part of the Bemani series, and released in North America and Europe in 1999, "Dance Dance Revolution" is the pioneering series of the rhythm and dance genre in video games. Players stand on a "dance platform" or stage and hit colored arrows laid out in a cross with their feet to musical and visual cues. Players are judged by how well they time their dance to the patterns presented to them and are allowed to choose more music to play to if they receive a passing score. - Loco - Motion ( also known as Guttang Gottong ) is an arcade puzzle game developed by Konami in 1982 and licensed to Centuri . In Loco - Motion , the player builds a path for their unstoppable locomotive by moving tracks which will allow it to pick up passengers . - Centuri, based in Hialeah, Florida, was one of the top six suppliers of coin operated video game machinery in the United States. Many of the machines distributed in the US under the Centuri name were licensed from overseas manufacturers, particularly Konami. - A locomotive or engine is a rail transport vehicle that provides the motive power for a train. The word originates from the Latin "loco" "from a place", ablative of "locus", "place" + Medieval Latin "motivus", "causing motion", and is a shortened form of the term "locomotive engine", first used in the early 19th century to distinguish between mobile and stationary steam engines. - The games, first introduced in 1985, make up a series of scrolling shooter video games published by Konami for a variety of portable, console and arcade platforms. In many games in the series, the player controls a ship known as the Vic Viper. In other games of the series, ships the player controls include the Lord British Space Destroyer, Metalion, Sabel Tiger, Thrasher, Vixen, Alpinia, Super Cobra, Jade Knight, and the Falchion . - The first game, named "Star Soldier", appeared on the MSX and NES in 1986, and the series has continued on various gaming systems. "Star Soldier" itself has received enhanced remakes for both the GameCube and PlayStation 2 in 2003, and a different remake for the PlayStation Portable in 2005, while the latest installment of the series was released on the Wii as a WiiWare game in 2008. In addition, "Super Star Soldier", "Final Soldier", "Soldier Blade" and "Star Parodier" have been re-released on the Wii's Virtual Console and on the Japanese PC Engine's Best Collection lineup for the PSP. - Frogger () is a 1981 arcade game developed by Konami. It was licensed for North American distribution by Sega-Gremlin and worldwide by Sega itself. It is regarded as a classic from the golden age of video arcade games, noted for its novel gameplay and theme. The object of the game is to direct frogs to their homes one by one by crossing a busy road and navigating a river full of hazards. The Frogger arcade ("coin-op") version is an early example of a game with more than one CPU, as it used two Z80 processors. What is the relationship between 'loco-motion ' and '1981'?
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