Konami is a Japanese videogame development and publishing company. Its headquarters are in Tokyo and the company earned about 1.8 billion dollars in 2007.

The origin of Konami goes back to March 1969, when Kagemasa Kozuki starts a business of jukebox repair in Osaka, in Japan. On March 19 1973, the company Konami Industry Co., Ltd is established.

The term 'Konami' is a conjunction of the name of the four cofounders: Kagemasa Kozuki, Yoshinobu Nakama, Hiro Matsuda, and Shokichi Ishihara.

Since 1973, Konami starts to manufacture terminals of arcade and contributes actively to the generalization of the use of the microprocessor.

In 1978, the company really starts the development of video games and in 1979; it exports its first game towards the United States. Konami knew its first successes with Scramble (1980), Frogger (1981) or Super Cobra (1982).

The success growing of Konami on the market of the consoles coincides primarily with the opening of the NES one. The second console of the market, Master System of Sega, is completely ignored.

With the fourth generation of consoles, the company remains faithful to Nintendo and its Super Nintendo. The company remains very active on the arcade market and also develops titles for Sega Megadrive and the PC Engine of NEC.

Konami renews its image while increasing the consoles' quality which aims at an older public and of which, some are regarded as masterpieces.

In the years 2000, Konami obtains its best financial results of its history and develops its activities. In April 2005, Konami merged its subsidiary companies Konami Computer Entertainment Studio, Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo and Konami Computer Entertainment Japan Hudson Software.

The biggest business success of this period is the Winning Eleven series and few times later Metal GEAR Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Silent Hill 2, Castlevania: Dawn off Sorrow, Metal Solid GEAR: Portable Ops'