/vr/ - Retro Games

>>1656704
Companies make products that they know will sell.
Then who is it to blame, the companies or the consumers?

Is this thread supposed to be ironic or something or is this how you really see old Konami?

Replying simply to point out that Koji Igarashi did the script for the original Tokimeki Memorial.

Shut the fuck up op

>>1656708

Im not OP, but you should know that back in the 90's, when Konami released Tokimemo, it took the japanese gaming world by surprise, no one expected Konami to release one of those games.

>>1656708
Those classic Konami-styled minigames in Tokimeki were pretty cool. Is there anything like that in Love Plus?

>>1656714
Well, in any case, they've been doing it ever since.

>>1656717
All I remember is a tetris clone. I couldn't really get into the main "game" so there's probably other stuff I didn't see.

>>1656725
Tokimeki had a Twinbee kind of minigame and silly stuff like getting attacked by bears on dates and you'd have to fight them off Final Fantasy style. It was pretty amusing.

>>1656714
>>1656717
Tokimeki Memorial was a more stander dating sim, when Love Plus is a QOL tool made for high schoolers looking for chicks.

We need TwinBee & Parodius back as even DDR is getting shafted.
>>1656708
No, I see old Konami as this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK3GOJ0KLIc

>>1656706
It could be a company lost their touch for making quality games to their original consumer base. Fans simply aren't impressed with the current quality of Castlevania and Contra.

As willing as I am to masturbate to scantily-clad KonamiLady, I wish Otomedius was less erotic and more goofy.

>>1656732
I have to ask.
Is that a paper tissue or a booklet?

>>1656736
I say this when Konami Kobe became Good Feel (Wario Land Shake It, Kirby's Epic Yarn) as when a Tokyo unit became Treasure back in 1992, Konami Tokyo was still doing excellent games when Treasure was founded.

Searching ギャルゲ コナミ is educational.

This game is basically Tokimeki in a fantasy setting with character designs from the guy who did Sakura Taisen.

>>1656704
>Even Metal Gear is getting shafted nowadays.

Metal Gear could be doing worse.
Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake for example.

>>1656739
I love Parodius too.
>>1656745
Needs more MSX.

I'm surprised Konami didn't start out with eroge on the PC88 like many other companies.

あいたくて… ~your smiles in my heart~

(sort of fugly character designs going by the screenshots)

>>1656751
They probably actually did and we just don't know about it because PC-88 is such uncharted territory.

>>1656751
They started off as a juke box repair company, the guys who did the early arcade stuff like Frogger & Scramble now work for Treasure.

>>1656751
I'm always looking for a new reason to post this.

>>1656760
That picture, the context and the filename have all destroyed me. What's the game called?

>>1656762
Joshi Ryou Panic
http://vndb.org/v9544

>>1656760
Wrong company.

This is Konami we are dealing with here, the only PC88 stuff they did were ports of Gradius & MSX Goonies as well as Snatcher.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJFJ-y4mRBg

>>1656767
Don't forget Ten to Chi to

>>1656767
Didn't say it was from Konami, just using it as an example of a famous company starting off with low-tech eroge.

>>1656772
That too, but judging by the Hoot soundtrack dump, that was not one of Konami's best effort, I can't find anything else about it.
About Hoot.
http://snesmusic.org/hoot/v2/

>>1656774
I know, I read the name of the picture.

Konami's early games before that of Frogger were Space Invaders rip offs like Space King & Space King 2, they were also arcade boards as well.

>>1656704
Muh Suikoden 6!

>>1656790
Muh Gradius 6.

Circus Charlie was one of my favorite games when I was a little toddler and got my Famiclone. It also provided my earliest vidya outrages along with Ice Climbers.

Anyway... Konami, great quality games all throughout the 80s and 90s. It's a real shame that they're just a dead corporate corpse now.

>>1656813
Yea, best off selling the IPs (counting Hudson's) to Nintendo.

>>1656813
>Famiclone

Where are you from?

>>1656818

Since Nintendo is now collaborating with a lot of 3rd parties, it'd be cool if they manage to get Goemon from Konami, after all, the original Goemon team works for Nintendo now, and Konami is only making pachislots and re-releasing old games on mobile now.
I'd give my left nut for a new Goemon game.

Also damn, the Goemon thread from yesterday already 404s, what a shame.

>>1656818
>Hudson

>>1656823
>Takamaru joins the Goemon team

Stop it anon, you're such a tease.

>>1656754
>PC-88 is such uncharted territory.

I hope this changes as time goes on, though I'm not optimistic. It'd be great to see more English-language guides to PC88 games, if not actual translation patches. Definitely feels like the "final frontier" of /vr/, especially considering the thousands of doujin games that are probably lost to time and will never be seen by western eyes..

>>1656823
Most of the old Konami talent works for 2 companies, Treasure & Good Feel, the later is the Nintendo second party.
>>1656826
Like Konami & Good Feel, a good amount of Ex-Hudson staff works for Nintendo's ND Cube.

Also, at least there are still Wii U/3DS VC releases in Japan, so it's not all lost.
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wiiu/software/vc/pnaj/index.html
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/3ds/eshop/vc/pnaj/index.html

>>1656837

Yeah I was refering to Good Feel, which is the ex-Goemon Tam leaded by Etsunobu Ebisu.

>>1656730
>even DDR is getting shafted

maybe in the console market
they just recently rolled out a new update for the arcade version

>>1656839
>ex-Goemon Team
That will be Konami Kobe, they also did the TwinBee series from Detana to RPG & Parodius from Da! to Wars.

>>1656841
I know of the arcade releases, but compared to what DDR was last gen and in the 6th gen, it got shafted

>>1656704
Nigguh I love old konami too but I know you ain't talkin' shit about love plus now are you?
I don't even like visual novels or dating sims that much but i enjoyed love plus.

>>1656851
Not saying anything bad about Love Plus, anything to beef up Japan's birth rate is always a plus.

>>1656857
>anything to beef up Japan's birth rate is always a plus.

Uh, I don't think it's helping.

>>1656858
Before the first Love Plus came out, Japan's birth rate was at a 2% rate, now it's at 5-8%, also.
>Lots of people use Love Plus properly, it's just that other people outside it's targeted market misuse it, badly.

>>1656867
Correlation is not causation and the second point is anecdotal.

>>1656740
Not sure which you're talking about.

>>1656858
>confession

So cute.