Goemon is the titular character of the long-running Konami video game series "Ganbare Goemon" as well as a television series based on it. Goemon appears in the video game series "Samurai Warriors" and "Warriors Orochi", where he is a self-proclaimed king of thieves, wielding a giant mace and a back-mounted cannon, as well as in the video games "Blood Warrior", "Kessen III", "" (depicted as a giant bandit hero, also carrying a cannon and seeking to plunder Nobunaga's castle), "Shogun Warriors", and "Throne of Darkness", where he has been spared by Tokugawa Ieyasu on the condition that he would join the onimitsu.