Konami was made from three founders' names
Why hire a branding agency when you can just mash your own names together like a celebrity couple? Kagemasa Kozuki, Yoshinobu Nakama, and Tatsuo Miyasako took parts of their surnames to form 'Konami' in 1969. It translates roughly to 'small waves', which is a deeply humble origin for a corporation that would eventually become infamous for turning legendary intellectual properties into gambling machines.

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