Your friends at RetroforceGO! are recording early today, (today being Sunday, not Saturday night) and I'm not sure why. Let's pretend it's because of something totally manly and awesome. We're recording early because Dyson lost a limb while wrestling a gorilla, and we have to go out later to track down said primate and kick his ass. Yeah, that's it. It's totally not because one of us has to go to a meeting for their day job tonight.
This week's episode is all about Konami and how awesome they were before they became Dance Dance Revolution INC. Back when they made games like Gradius, TwinBee, Contra, Axelay, Castlevania and hundreds of other classics. We were there. We entered the sacred code on our controllers before it even had a name.
Hit the comments with your questions, and make 'em good: starting this week, the commenter with the best question wins $25! Why didn't we do that back when Podtoid started doing it? Because we were busy wrestling gorillas! Also, we forgot.
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12:35 AM on 01.20.2008
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Also Homing Missiles FTW!
Serious time, can't wait yet again. What was your first reaction to Metal Gear? And what is your favorite moment in a Konami game?
-What is your opinion on the Lethal Enforcers series? Do you think it stood the test of time?
-Do you think there should have been a TMNT 3 or "The Simpsons 2"?
Can't wait to hear about Twinbee. I've been too lazy to actually pick any of the series up.
and what is the one konami series that needs to die?
My favourite Konami game has to be TMNT 3/Castlevania II
Peace,
Heyasuki
also most of the time i was in el salvador i was playin Konami Classics Series: Arcade Hits for the ds, it had rainbow bell and gradius on it. good times were had.also it has 8 bit voice when you start it up
Finding The Simpsons Arcade game was a must any arcade I went to.
The only game that comes close to Chrono Trigger play throughs multiple times for me is my burning love for Silent Hill.
And I love love love The Adventures of Batman and Robin for the SNES, best Batman game ever.
What pros and cons in gaming do you think have come from growing up playing video games?
AKA, what things have changed as you've gotten older, and how have them impacted your gaming
Poorly phrased, but I couldn't figure out how to write it better
If it helps here is a link to Laser Dolphin. It's a game where you're a dolphin...
That shoots lasers...
That has to save the Prime Minister who was abducted by aliens...
If that's not worth enough awesome points that I can cash in to hear your evil laugh I don't know what is. :)
Zone of Enders 2. If you haven't played it, its really worth checking out. What's the relevance? The Vic Viper from Gradius makes a few cameo appearances in it! They tricked it out so it turns into a mech, but its still pretty slick as old school homages go.
And my question: which did you truly hate more Tecmo's birds from Ninja Gaiden or Konami's Medusa Heads from Castilevania?
Why?!?
Obviously people think of the Contras and Castlevanias when they think of classic onami. What I want to know though is where the TMNT beat 'em ups rank with all of you.
Personally, I'd take TMNT: The Arcade Game or Turtles in Time over a Castlevania game any day. ^_^
-Think they'll try it again or will they just continue to milk DDR?
-Where would the world be without the Konami code?
-Did any of you ever finished zombies ate my neighbors in one sitting?
-Why is Atlas Fontaine?
Why?!?
Are there any older Konami franchises that you would like to see brought back (like Capcom is doing with Bionic Commando)?
Have any of you played the Suikoden games and what do you think of them?
That's about all the questions I can think of. I will await the podcasty goodness to appear in my iTunes ^_^
Are we the only ones who've played TwinBee? Pop'n TwinBee? TwinBee's Rainbow Bell Adventure? I fucking love TwinBee games.
All they've got now is Kojima, who is awesome, not just because of Metal Gear, but Zone of the Enders and Boktai/Lunar Knights series.
Castlevania is being driven into the ground, Bemani is dying out, Silent Hill is being outsourced into oblivion and then they have... what... Winning Eleven Soccer?
They used to be full of awesome in the NES/SNES days. Here's some awesome Konami properties I'd implore you to not forget
Sunset Riders
Legend of the Mystical Ninja
Lethal Enforcers
And of course, BLADES OF STEEL.
They did a lot of decent licensed games too, probably most well known for their TMNT stuff. I'll never forget the Konami logo beaming it's line across the screen on my SNES.
And man, they had the best fucking audio team in the early 90's, doing tons of awesome arrange albums.
"Invisible bridge, NO WAY!"
And, we have the contest again?
LEGEND OF MYSTICAL NINJA!
who else played halfway thru that game and then blew all their money on the lottery in the carnival level?
My question:
Do you think the fact that retrogames were often times difficult the reason gaming was more "underground" or not as widespread back in the day? Is gaming today easier because more people play or do people play because it is easier today?
Mine was the Plucky Duck Bingo.
Which Konami series needs a reboot?
Which Konami series needs to die?
Skate or Die?
Who wins in a fight (both in their prime): Big Boss or Solid Snake?
Chad, You are Sebastian in the never ending story and must use your imagination to create Fantasia again, what, if any, changes do you you make.
We know Ron's opinion, is MGS4 staying PS3 exclusive?
Most overrated Konami game?
Colette, a wizard comes to you one day and offers you a chance to own a chocobo that will love you and live forever, the only set back is that to bring your pet chocobo into existence every dolphin will die. What do you do?
A large black man approaches you from behind. He points suggestively towards the coins in his pocket. The darkness of the alley is only broken by the whites of his eyes and his pearly white teeth.
Do you
A. Accept the payment and eat a particularily disgusting piece of gum off his shoe
B. Take his offer for unsolicitated bum sex (otherwise known as rape)
C. Make fun of his weight problem until he cries and runs home to Aunt Jemima
or
Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Select Start?
Discuss.
I suck at questions. Go back to audio quizzes, I loved those.
What was the first Castlevania you ever finished? Mine was Circle Of The Moon last month.
it's like ther second or 3th game, and they allready had a succes on their hand!
They off course release all of the classic such as the TMNT series, Zaxxon, Metal Gear on MSX etc...
But I remember more playing Antarctic Adventure on my Colleco vision, Goonies II and the Amazing BLADES OF STEEL on my NES, the quarter hungry Simpsons game in arcade and the TMNT 2: Turtles in Time home SNES version.
I remember being interested by the Lethal Enforcers series, but now that i did(n't) play the game on a (not)emulator... seems like a case of Retro Gogles.
Oh, and even if it mean that some dolphin will cry somewhere, Chad:
I reeeeealy want to hear your evil laught.
Thanks!
Keep up the good work!
What would it take to make Konami relevant again?
Are 2d mechanic/3d graphic hybrids feasible as full $60 console games in this generation? I recall back when Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project came out I loved every minute of it. The mechanics were 2d like the orignal two Duke Nukem games but it was completely dismissed because it wasn't a FPS game.
Do you guys actually make a profit from the ads here? I'm not saying you're millionaires, but enough to not have real jobs?
Also, am I the only one who thinks Metal Gear is horribly overrated? The first was great for its time, but the second and third, man...
...anyway. Favourite Treasure game released while at Konami? I think I might have to go with CV4. The original Contra's were great, Gradius too, but Castlevania IV was tits.
We all collectively creamed ourselves upon hearing of Bionic Commando Rearmed, the update of the 1988 NES classic — and twice more afterwards, when videos and [url=http://www.destructoid.com/info-and-screens-of-bionic-commando-rearmed-reaffirm-awesomeness-65439.phtml]screens were posted. And everyone knows how Chad splooged when he found some mock-ups of what HD updates of Sonic 2 and Super Metroid could look like. So what are your opinions on so-called “HD 2D updates” of classic retro games? Do you think that a developer could just put a new-gen HD sheen on the graphics of an old-school game and then sell it for, say, $10–20 on the PSN? (More importantly, would you be satisfied with that?) Or, would you have to see something more along the lines of what Capcom is doing with Rearmed (additional functionality, including co-op modes and new character abilities) for you to fork over your hard-earned cash?
We all collectively creamed ourselves upon hearing of Bionic Commando Rearmed, the update of the 1988 NES classic — and twice more afterwards, when videos and screens were posted. And everyone knows how Chad splooged when he found some mock-ups of what HD updates of Sonic 2 and Super Metroid could look like. So what are your opinions on so-called “HD 2D updates” of classic retro games? Do you think that a developer could just put a new-gen HD sheen on the graphics of an old-school game and then sell it for, say, $10–20 on the PSN? (More importantly, would you be satisfied with that?) Or, would you have to see something more along the lines of what Capcom is doing with Rearmed (additional functionality, including co-op modes and new character abilities) for you to fork over your hard-earned cash?
Ok, here's my question:
When playing Blades Of Steel in your youth, did you with purpose try to constantly pick fights so that the awesome boxing mini-game would start? And when playing said fighting sequence, did you deploy any tactics whatsoever or close just your eyes, scream your lungs out and mash all the buttons?