Another end of an era, bye bye Hudson Soft

[speedlolita]

Bomberman Tournament (GBA) FTW!!

Sad news indeed.

[koopatroopa90]

for the multiplayer (well, arena type gameplay) yeah. For the Pokemon inspired story game, no.

For me Hudson Soft meant Bomberman, particularly on the SNES. I like the cute lil bee logo too.

[briareos_kerensky]

Have Konami started using any of Hudsons ip's yet?

I wonder if they will ever do except for remakes and more casual games. If they are planning for shooters I hope they outsource them to competent studios, but I guess it will all boil down on how much Hudson's IPs are popular nowadays.

[Julio III]

Sad to see a big name go. Maybe should dig out the PC Engine again in tribute. Have they done much recently anyway? As far as I can recall there is just Star Soldier PSP and Kororinpa on the Wii this gen. Kororinpa was so ace though.

[kryss]

All the recent Tetris games were from Hudson.

[charlesr]

Lode Runner. RIP

[Baseley09]

Considering the power and pull they had when the bought the PC Engine out, they've fallen very far. I thought they were getting on ok with their smaller production and handheld titles mincing Bomberman to death. Sad times, spent a lot of time with their games.

[Yakumo]

Hudson died during the end of the Saturn age. Their last real good game was VIRUS, which was a cyber future adventure a bit like Snatcher but in cyber space. Fantastic game with amazing visuals and atmosphere. sadly it never left Japan and to this day remains a Saturn exclusive. As for Bomberman, well, that got tired after Saturn Hi-Ten Bomberman. that is the ultimate version of the game. Anything after it isn't worth bothering with.

[EvilBoris]

You can't go wrong with bomberm...........

oh



Maybe not Konami is fully in charge we will get a sequel....

[dvdx2]

I loved all the star soldier games (esp the N64 version)

and the Bloody roar games...

:-(

[Sketcz]

Seems like a good time to pimp my own work. Hudson also brought us a series of interesting Mario games.