Konami's Scramble, released in 1981, is a side-scrolling shooter with forced scrolling.

One application was Konami's Bubble System arcade video game system, introduced in 1984.

It relocated to Wood Dale, Illinois in 1984 and in 1999 it relocated again to Redwood City, California, leaving a location in Illinois open strictly for the manufacturing of Konami's arcade video games.

Other notable arcade releases that year include Konami's Road Fighter, a vertical-scrolling racer where the aim is to drive fast, pass cars and avoid accidents for maximum points, while reaching check points before running out of fuel ; and Irem's The Battle-Road, an early open-ended vehicle combat racing game that featured branching paths and up to 32 possible routes.

Konami's 1983 arcade game Gyruss utilized five synthesis sound chips along with a DAC, which were partly used to create an electronic rendition of J. S. Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor.

It was originally developed as a simulator of Konami's arcade game series Dance Dance Revolution, and has since evolved into an extensible rhythm game engine capable of supporting a variety of rhythm-based game types.

StepMania was originally developed as an open source port of Konami's arcade game series Dance Dance Revolution ( DDR ), and was able to import DDR PC's file format.

The arcade version was also included in Konami's retro game compilation Konami Classics Series: Arcade Hits for the Nintendo DS.

A selection of songs from the label's artists have been featured on various versions of Konami's Dance Dance Revolution series, including the arcade version of Dance Dance Revolution X.

In comparison to Konami's Bemani line-up and other arcade rhythm games, there has been negligible emphasis on electronic music in Pump, but the first instances of electronic music on Pump occurred on NX2, as five crossovers from the American-made spinoff appeared, who in contrast, has a greater emphasis on electronic music.

* GFdm Gateway, Konami's official arcade website for GuitarFreaks and DrumMania ( in Japanese )

The title of the Japanese version was influenced by Konami's arcade game, Shinnyuushain Tooru-Kun ( known outside of Japan as Mikie ).

It is also part of the Akumajo Dracula Medley that appears most-recently in Konami's Dance Dance Revolution Ultramix 3 ( originally appearing in the Japanese arcade and PlayStation 2 music game series Keyboardmania ), along with Bloody Tears.

An alternative to this is for the arcade consoles to be networked ( internet-connected ), as via Konami's e-Amusement system.

Konami's Dance Dance Revolution was cited as one of the first major successes of exergaming ; when it was ported from the arcade to PlayStation, it sold over three million copies.

According to Ron Kay, a developer with Harmonix, the idea of Guitar Hero was directly inspired by Konami's GuitarFreaks arcade game, where the player used a guitar-shaped controller to interact with the game.

There have been dozens of arcade-based releases across several countries and hundreds of home video game console releases, promoting a music library of original songs produced by Konami's in-house artists and an eclectic set of licensed music from many different genres.

Another early example of a puzzle-oriented game was Konami's Loco-Motion that same year.

Nintendo reserved a large part of NES game revenue for itself by limiting most third-party publishers to only five games per year on its systems ( some companies tried to get around this by creating additional company labels like Konami's Ultra Games label ).

* Mournblade ( as Mourneblade ) is featured in Konami's video game Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and possesses the ability to heal the player character whenever he strikes something with it ( much like how Mournblade and Stormbringer grant their wielder health and vitality when used to slay a foe, though the game weapon can grant health even when striking non-living objects, such as candles ).

The game resembles Konami's side-scrolling shooter games such as Gradius, Salamander and Parodius.

The following year, Konami's Metal Gear Acid combined the stealth gameplay of the Metal Gear series with turn-based strategy and tactical role-playing game elements as well as card battle elements from Konami's own Yu-Gi-Oh games.

Konami's 1985 game Gradius had the first use of a selection bar where the player could select which power-up effect to trigger, instead of having a fixed instant effect.

The selection bar was first used in Konami's 1985 game, Gradius.

Friedman has collaborated with Mutsuhiko Izumi, a video game composer known for his contributions to Konami's Guitar Freaks & DrumMania series to produce " Model DD8 ", and " Liverty ", two songs featured on Izumi's album Heaven Inside.

KCET was a Tokyo-based game developer responsible for many of Konami's most notable video game franchises, including Pro Evolution Soccer / Winning Eleven, Castlevania, Dance Dance Revolution, Gradius and Silent Hill

He joined video game publisher Konami's MSX home computer division in 1986 as a designer and ' planner '.

That same year, Nintendo released an early arm wrestling game, Arm Wrestling, while Konami released a table tennis game that attempted to accurately reflect the sport, Konami's Ping Pong.

In 1979, Nintendo's Radar Scope introduced a three-dimensional third-person perspective to the shoot ' em up genre, later imitated by shooters such as Konami's Juno First and Activision's Beamrider in 1983.

* Tatsuya Furukawa, Japanese producer for Konami's music video game division, Bemani

Pro Evolution Soccer 3 ( also known as Winning Eleven 7 in Japan and World Soccer Winning Eleven 7 in the US ) is the third installment of Konami's Pro Evolution Soccer football video game series.

* Emma Frost ( as the White Queen ) is a boss character in the video games The Uncanny X-Men ( 1989 ) for NES, X-Men: Madness in Murderworld ( 1989 ), and Konami's X-Men ( 1992 ).

Belonging to Konami's Castlevania video game series, it is the first installment of the series on the PlayStation 2 and the third to make use of a 3D style of gameplay.

It is part of Konami's Castlevania video game series, and the third installment of the series on the Game Boy Advance.

Published as a launch title in 2001, Circle of the Moon belongs to Konami's Castlevania video game series, the premise of which centers on the eternal conflict between the vampire hunters of the Belmont clan and the immortal vampire Dracula.

He later relocated to Japan to work for Konami, where he became best known his work on Konami's Metal Gear Solid and Zone of the Enders video game series.

Belonging to Konami's Castlevania video game series, it is the second installment of the series on the Game Boy Advance.

Produced by Koji Igarashi and developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo, Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance is the second installment of Konami's Castlevania video game series for the Game Boy Advance.

Several video games from the 1980s also featured elements of persistent worlds with their own day-night cycles and non-player characters going about their own daily routines, including Konami's Castlevania II: Simon's Quest ( 1987 ), Arsys Software's Reviver ( 1987 ), Nintendo's Zelda II: The Adventure of Link ( 1987 ), T & E Soft's Hydlide 3: The Space Memories ( 1987 ), Fun Factory's War of the Dead ( 1987 ), and Chunsoft's Dragon Quest III ( 1988 ).

* Konami's Parodius series of video games, a parody of Gradius, features many characters from the company's many various series.

Other projects including a remix of the anthem " Squash " by Total Science and his music being licensed to Konami's video game " Dance Dance Revolution " have paved the way for his future projects.

It is part of Konami's Castlevania video game series and the first Castlevania game to be released on the Nintendo DS.

Castlevania, known in Japan as, is an action-adventure video game developed by Konami's Kobe branch for the Nintendo 64 video game console.

* The master recording song was featured in Konami's rebooted version of their singing video game called " Karaoke Revolution ".

Soma Cruz, known in Japan as, is a fictional character and the protagonist of Konami's action-adventure games Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow and Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow, part of Konami's Castlevania video game series.