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Konami

History

Konami's games were first published in the UK by Ocean Software who initially bought the Imagine name and logo as a dedicated label for their Konami ports. The deal ended in 1986 and Konami set up their own UK subsiduary to convert and release their games themselves, but titles like Nemesis and Jail Break were poorly received. Konami soon returned to Ocean who re-released Salamander, making it their only full price re-release.

Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles was the Christmas number one for 1990 and the biggest UK hit for both Konami and publisher Mirrorsoft.

Note

The figures for Months in the Top 10 and Months at No. 1 are based on the All Formats chart only.
Columns are sortable, sorting by the cover column will sort by chart appearance date.

TitleTop 10No. 1Rank
Cover(s)Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles

MIRRORSOFT / IMAGE WORKS / KONAMI

9215
Cover(s)Green Beret

OCEAN / IMAGINE / KONAMI

4150
Cover(s)Yie Ar Kung-Fu

OCEAN / IMAGINE / KONAMI

4252
Cover(s)Hyper Sports

OCEAN / IMAGINE / KONAMI

4291
Cover(s)Green Beret

OCEAN / THE HIT SQUAD / KONAMI

3 < 1 105
Cover(s)Yie Ar Kung-Fu

OCEAN / THE HIT SQUAD / KONAMI

3 < 1 123
Cover(s)Konami's Coin-Op Hits

OCEAN / IMAGINE / KONAMI

40135
Cover(s)Combat School

OCEAN / KONAMI

11167
Cover(s)WEC Le Mans

OCEAN / IMAGINE / KONAMI

20244
Cover(s)Salamander

OCEAN / THE HIT SQUAD / KONAMI

10426
Cover(s)Combat School

OCEAN / THE HIT SQUAD / KONAMI

10434
Cover(s)Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles - The Coin-Op

MIRRORSOFT / IMAGE WORKS / KONAMI

10467
Cover(s)Salamander

OCEAN / IMAGINE / KONAMI

00603
Cover(s)Ping Pong

OCEAN / IMAGINE / KONAMI

10624
Cover(s)Konami's Arcade Collection

OCEAN / IMAGINE / KONAMI

00628
Cover(s)Typhoon

OCEAN / IMAGINE / KONAMI

00740
Cover(s)Mikie

OCEAN / THE HIT SQUAD / KONAMI

00852
Cover(s)Shao-Lin's Road

OCEAN / THE HIT SQUAD / KONAMI

00906
Cover(s)Hyper Sports

OCEAN / THE HIT SQUAD / KONAMI

00947
Cover(s)Nemesis

KONAMI

00991
Cover(s)Pooyan

DATASOFT / KONAMI

001160
Cover(s)Mikie

OCEAN / IMAGINE / KONAMI

001311
Cover(s)Jail Break

KONAMI

101353
Cover(s)Shao-Lin's Road

SOFTEK / THE EDGE / KONAMI

001685
Cover(s)Konami’s Tennis

OCEAN / IMAGINE / KONAMI

002497
Cover(s)Konami's Golf

OCEAN / IMAGINE / KONAMI

002517
Cover(s)Gryzor

OCEAN / KONAMI

002588
Cover(s)WEC Le Mans

OCEAN / THE HIT SQUAD / KONAMI

002738