Editing Hudson Soft

{{redirect|Hudson|the actor with the last name "Hudson"|[[Ernie Hudson]]}}
{{company infobox
|logo=Hudson Logo.svg
|founded=May 18, 1973<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070811180641/http://www.hudson.co.jp/corp/eng/coinfo/outline.html HUDSON SOFT COMPANY INFORMATION / INVESTORS]</ref>
|defunct=March 1, 2012<ref name=Defunct>[https://web.archive.org/web/20170821004156/https://toushi.kankei.me/c/3807/d/S000A38P Hudson Interim Report (Merger) Submitted on January 17, 2012 - "Flash Report" that explains investment relationships]</ref>
|first_release=''[[Donkey Kong 3: Dai Gyakushū]]'' or ''[[Mario Bros. Special]]''
|latest_release=''[[Mario Party DS]]''
}}

'''{{wp|Hudson Soft}}''' was a Japanese video game developer and publisher that had been a subsidiary of [[Konami]] from 2011 until its dissolution in 2012. Hudson was best known for creating the ''{{wp|Bomberman}}'' franchise starring [[Bomberman|the eponymous character]]. Hudson also co-developed the {{wp|TurboGrafx-16|PC Engine and TurboGrafx-16}} consoles with NEC in the late 1980s. Hudson's most notable work for [[Nintendo]] and the [[Super Mario (franchise)|''Super Mario'' franchise]] is the [[Mario Party (series)|''Mario Party'' series]], of which Hudson developed eight console games and two handheld games. From 2010 until Hudson's dissolution in 2012, most of the ''Mario Party'' staff at Hudson migrated to the Nintendo-owned [[Nintendo Cube|Nd Cube]] (now known as Nintendo Cube) when Hudson's former president Hidetoshi Endo moved there; they then developed ''{{wp|Wii Party}}'', before taking control of the ''Mario Party'' series, staring with ''[[Mario Party 9]]'', which released in 2012.

Since April 2005, Konami had been the controlling shareholder of Hudson Soft, and in January 2011, Konami announced that it was to fully acquire the rest of Hudson and make it a subsidiary of Konami, with the acquisition process completing on April 1. On March 1, 2012, Hudson Soft merged with Konami Digital Entertainment, Konami's flagship subsidiary and Hudson's sister company, with the latter ending up as the surviving entity.<ref name=Defunct/>

Hudson's mascot was [[Hachisuke]], a reference to the {{wp|Hudson Hornet}}, a sedan from the 1950s built by the unrelated Hudson Automobile Company. It appears in ''[[Super Mario Bros. Special]]'' as an item that can be collected to earn 8,000 [[point]]s.

[[File:SNES Super Multitap.jpg|thumb|left|Super Multitap]]
Hudson Soft also created ''[[Family BASIC]]'' and the [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System#Super Multitap|Super Multitap]].

==''Super Mario'' games developed==
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{| class="wikitable" style="width: 50%;text-align:center"
!Title
!Year Released
!Systems
|-
|''[[Donkey Kong 3: Dai Gyakushū]]''
|1984
|Sharp X1, NEC PC-8801, NEC PC-6001, NEC PC-6601
|-
|''[[Mario Bros. Special]]''
|1984
|NEC PC-8001, NEC PC-8801, Sharp X1, NEC PC-6001, NEC PC-6601, FM-7, NEC PC-9801, Sharp MZ-1500, Sharp MZ-2200, Hitachi S1, SMC-777
|-
|''[[Punch Ball Mario Bros.]]''
|1984
|NEC PC-8801, Sharp X1, NEC PC-6001, NEC PC-6601, FM-7, Sharp MZ-1500
|-
|-
|''[[Family BASIC|Family BASIC V3]]''
|1985
|[[Family Computer]]
|-
|''[[Golf]]''
|1985
|NEC PC-8001mkIISR, NEC PC-8801, Sharp X1
|-
|''[[Super Mario Bros. Special]]''
|1986
|NEC PC-8801, Sharp X1, Samsung SPC-1500
|-
|''[[Wario Blast: Featuring Bomberman!]]''
|1994
|[[Game Boy]]
|-
|''[[UNDAKE30 Same Game]]''
|1995
|[[Super Nintendo Entertainment System|Super Famicom]]
|-
|''[[Mario Party]]''
|1998
|[[Nintendo 64]]
|-
|''[[Mario Party 2]]''
|1999
|Nintendo 64
|-
|''[[Mario Party 3]]''
|2000
|Nintendo 64
|-
|''[[Mario Party 4]]''
|2002
|[[Nintendo GameCube]]
|-
|''[[Mario Party 5]]''
|2003
|Nintendo GameCube
|-
|''[[Mario Party 6]]''
|2004
|Nintendo GameCube
|-
|''[[Mario Party Advance]]''
|2005
|[[Game Boy Advance]]
|-
|''[[Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix]]
|2005
|Nintendo GameCube
|-
|''[[Mario Party 7]]''
|2005
|Nintendo GameCube
|-
|''[[Mario Party 8]]''
|2007
|[[Wii]]
|-
|''[[Mario Party DS]]''
|2007
|[[Nintendo DS]]
|}

==Gallery==
<gallery>
MP1-3 Hudson logo.png|In-game logo from the first three ''Mario Party'' titles
</gallery>

==External links==
{{NIWA|Bulbapedia=1|NWiki=1|StrategyWiki=Category:Hudson Soft|WarsWiki=1}}
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20110724185116/http://hudsonentertainment.com/ Hudson's Homepage as of July 2011]

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