/vr/ - Retro Games

the spiritual successor to Bucky O'Hare

Free or fixed firing?

the best run n gun of all time

>In 1991, several Konami employees led by programmer Masato Maegawa began holding planning sessions at coffee shops for an original game.[7][8] They were establishing early concepts for an action shooting game, a genre they were familiar with.[8] They pitched their idea to Konami, but were told it would not sell and it was rejected.[9] Maegawa and his team were growing frustrated with the industry's reliance on sequels to established franchises and console conversions of arcade games to generate revenue.[9] They felt Konami had fallen into this pattern as a large company, growing reliant on sequels in their Castlevania and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series.[9] Maegawa and his team felt consumers wanted original games,[9] and so in 1992, they left Konami and established Treasure to continue development on their original game.[10]