Editing Hudson Soft

{{redirect|Hudson|the actor Ernie Hudson|[[Ernie Hudson]]}}
{{company infobox
|logo=Hudson Logo.svg
|founded=May 18, 1973
|defunct=March 1, 2012
|first_release=''[[Donkey Kong 3: Dai Gyakushū]]'' and ''[[Mario Bros. Special]]''
|latest_release=''[[Mario Party DS]]''
}}
[[File:SNES Super Multitap.jpg|thumb|left|Super Multitap]]
'''{{wp|Hudson Soft}}''' was a Japanese video game developer and publisher, best known for creating the ''{{wp|Bomberman}}'' franchise. 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 ''[[Mario (franchise)|Mario]]'' is the ''[[Mario Party (series)|Mario Party]]'' series, of which Hudson developed eight console games and two portable games (''[[Mario Party Advance]]'' and ''[[Mario Party DS]]''). Most of the ''Mario Party'' staff at Hudson moved to the Nintendo-owned [[NDcube]] when Hudson's former president moved over there.

[[File:MP1-3 Hudson logo.png|thumb|left|In-game logo from the first three ''Mario Party'' titles]]
In January 2011, [[Konami]] revealed that it was to fully acquire Hudson, buying out the company and merging it into Konami on April 1; as a result, all ''Mario Party'' games starting from ''[[Mario Party 9]]'' were developed by NDcube. On March 1, 2012, Hudson Soft officially ceased to exist, having been merged into Konami Digital Entertainment, though quite a few of Hudson's staff members migrated to NDcube.

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.

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]]
|-
|''[[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]]
|}

==External links==
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*[http://web.archive.org/web/20110724185116/http://hudsonentertainment.com/ Hudson's Homepage as of July 2011]

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