Which Konami classic games are your favourite?
I like Konami old games and Konami Kukeiha Club. Here are some series(old game, on Arcade, MSX, FDS, NES, PC-Engine, GB, SNES, Genesis), which do you like?
1.Contra
2.Gradius
3.Salamander
4.Ganbare Goemon
5.Castlevania
6.Twinbee
7.Tokimeki Memorial
8.Parodius
9.Snatcher & Policenauts
10.Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
11.Tiny Toon Adventures
12.Track Field
13.Sunset Riders
14.Goonies
15.Metal Gear
and so on
I like Castlevania and Parodius. Castlevania is a great series, there are many good game(such as Dracula's Curse and Rondo of Blood), music is nice too. Parodius is a very funny, interesting shooting game series, I like its special style, we can call it "wai wai shooting".
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I agree with Cardboard on Castlevania. Though I like Contra as well.
Also, I think Gradius and Parodius should be united into the same group (they have the same gameplay, anyway).
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this list just made me realize that I only legally own one konami game (Elebits / Eledees). Incidently the only Konami games I ever enjoyed enough to actually complete are SotN (psx) and the three gba castleroids. Nothing classic on that list.
Personally my favorite NES Konami games was Contra, Super Contra, Blades of Steel, The Goonies, TMNT 2, Twinbee, CV3, Jackal.
For Snes, it was SCV4, Sunset Riders, TMNT4, Contra 3.
I didn't played much Genesis because I never really liked it but there was 2 games I found good. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist and Castlevania Bloodlines.
On Playstation:
Suikoden 1 and 2
CV SOTN
Contra: Legacy of War
There are many other games that looks cool that I didn't played such as Vandal Hearts. I didn't played Playstation 2 games but someday, I will try Suikoden 3 and others.
I am going to play Akumajo Dracula X: Chi no Rondo to see why CV fans love it so much.
I'm surpised that no one did mentioned Dance Dance Revolution :P
Anyway today, I think the Contra series and TMNT4 deserves an award. I still continue to play them and I find them as good as before.
Ultra was a pseudoname of Konami because of Nintendo of America's stupid 10 game/company/year limitation, if my memory serves me correctly.
Edit: Yep, though it was 5 games a year, not 10.
Ultra Software Corporation was a spinoff company created in 1988 as a subsidiary of Konami of America, in an effort to get around Nintendo of America's strict licensing rules. One of these rules was that a third-party company could only publish up to five games per year for the Nintendo Entertainment System in the US. This was hardly convenient for Konami, which had begun releasing more than ten games a year for both the Famicom and Famicom Disk System in Japan. With a greater library than they were allowed to localize, Konami formed the Ultra Games brand to extend their annual library to ten games a year.
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In addition to already listed NES games I add International Track and Field 2. It's easy to like the old konami games because of the excellent music and well sized difficulty.
Ultra was a pseudoname of Konami because of Nintendo of America's stupid 10 game/company/year limitation, if my memory serves me correctly.
I don't think it was a stupid limitation. It had a rational basis.
It stems from the Atari2600 fiasco: Since developing games for that console was completely unlimited, and tens of millions of consoles had been sold, everyone wanted a share of the pie and every opportunistic coder out there started making crappy games coded in 1 week for it in order to get a quick buck.
This caused the market to be flooded with completely sub-par atari2600 games, sinking the value of the entire console. Buyers couldn't distinguish anymore the few good games among the hundreds of crappy coded-in-1-week games. This is one of the reasons of the great console game crash of 1983 in the US.
Nintendo, unlike many companies (regardless of the field of industry), learned a lesson from this, and instead of making the same mistake with their hugely-successful NES, they wanted to keep the problem in control. One method for this was to force game companies to put more effort on fewer games, increasing their average quality, than to release tons of poor-quality games. Quality over quantity.
I would estimate that, in average, they succeeded in their goal. If one would estimate the average quality of all existing Atari2600 games and the average quality of all existing NES games, the latter would win hands down. (This doesn't mean that crappy NES games don't exist. I'm talking about the average quality of them.)
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Simply not allowing them to publish more than 5 games seems stupid, though... if each game was individually reviewed before it got its Seal of Approval, there should have been a way to create exceptions. Who knows how many games deserved to make their way over here but didn't, just because the developer had met their quota for the year?
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Hey... the Goonies... aren't they those guys in SomethingAwful?
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