Hudson Soft made the TurboGrafx-16 in association with NEC, to compete against Nintendo, Sega, and SNK, while continuing making games on other platforms, as a third-party developer.

[4] On March 1, 2012, Hudson Soft merged with Konami Digital Entertainment, which ended up as the surviving entity.

The founders grew up admiring trains, and named the business after their favourite, the Hudson locomotives (called the "4-6-4", and especially Japanese C62).

That factor, combined with the difficulty to find trustworthy people to accompany the Kudos in their venture, meant that Hudson was almost always in the red each month during its era exclusively as a radio shop.

[11] At that time, many amateur radio shops were switching to the sales of personal computers because they deal with the same electronic equipment.

[12] Hudson became Nintendo's first third-party software vendor for the Family Computer and its title for this console, Lode Runner, sold 1.2 million units after its 1984 release.

[13] The business continued developing video games on the Famicom and computer platforms (MSX, NEC PC-8801 and ZX Spectrum, among others).

It achieved a second-best success to Famicom in Japan, but its release as the TurboGrafx-16 in North America had less market share than Nintendo's new Super NES or Sega's new Genesis.

[17] Around 2010–2011, many employees migrated to Nintendo's restructured NDcube subsidiary which was headed by Hidetoshi Endo, himself a former Hudson Soft president.

[18] Seeking new financing alternatives, Hudson Soft entered the stock market for the first time in December 2000, listing on the NASDAQ Japan Exchange.

[19] This led to Konami purchasing a stock allocation of 5.6 million shares in August 2001, becoming the company's largest shareholder.

[23] On March 1, 2012, Hudson Soft merged with Konami Digital Entertainment, with its music business absorbed into KME Corporation.

[8][24] The move was not a unilateral decision from Konami, but rather a voluntary merger agreed by the two companies during a board meeting held on January 12, 2012.

[32] Hudson Soft's first North American publishing division, formed in 1988 and originally headquartered in South San Francisco.

[34] In late 1995, Hudson Soft USA sold off the rights for all of its yet-to-be-released games to Acclaim Entertainment and moved its headquarters to Seattle, Washington,[35] before closing down by the end of the year.

Hudson Soft also created the long-running and critically acclaimed Momotaro Dentetsu series, a board game-style video game centered around business transactions.

Before its absorption, Hudson had re-released some of its first hit games for the GameCube in Japan, including Adventure Island, Star Soldier, and Lode Runner.