Favorite Konami Laser Logo?

[lukester]

Kind of a silly topic, but few people know about this.

Konami Laser Logos - Mixed together

Pretty neat actually. Each system has it's own Konami Laser logo color and sound!

Which do you like best? I love the mysteriousness of the Genesis's sound, but I like the PC Engine's Blue best.

[SuperDeadite]

Personally my favorite is the old school logo from the early 80's.  It's just the word Konami with a special curve on the K.  I think Salamander arcade was the last game that used it.

[Necromancer]

I like the sound of the PCE one (probably because it's what I'm most used to), and I prefer the blue laser since the logo itself starts out as blue.

[lukester]

Personally my favorite is the old school logo from the early 80's.  It's just the word Konami with a special curve on the K.  I think Salamander arcade was the last game that used it.

Yes, the classic Konami MSX game boot up screen.

[Opethian]

the konami sound is almost as iconic as morning music

[Punch]

I find that bent K Konami logo a little bit weird to be honest... I like that diamond logo the best. Why did Konami change it to that boring, uninspired logo, and worse without the chime??? WHY

[esteban]

I love all of the jingles (SNES, GEN, PCE). I couldn't choose one.

[Tatsujin]

I find that bent K Konami logo a little bit weird to be honest... I like that diamond logo the best. Why did Konami change it to that boring, uninspired logo, and worse without the chime??? WHY

konami isn't just a gamemaker anymore these days. they have largest gym chains, life insurance, real estate and so on..all sharing the same logo.

[Black Tiger]

I prefer the sound of the PCE version, which came first. The rest are imitating the PCE.

[lukester]

I prefer the sound of the PCE version, which came first. The rest are imitating the PCE.

Wrong, Gradius III and Goemon both came out in Japan before Gradius on PCE did.

[TheClash603]

That's kind of neat, I never knew this trivia before.

After watching the video I would have to say the green looks the best.

[Black Tiger]

I prefer the sound of the PCE version, which came first. The rest are imitating the PCE.

Wrong, Gradius III and Goemon both came out in Japan before Gradius on PCE did.

The story everyone always tells is that Konami got fed up waiting for Nintendo to release a 16-bit console and that's why they dared to support a non-Nintendo one. I guess like too many of these kinds of stories it was just puled out of someone's ass.

Still doesn't explain why the SNES intro samples PCE sound, unless Konami held back its first PCE projects until after the SFC launch, as a favor to Nintendo.

[lukester]

I prefer the sound of the PCE version, which came first. The rest are imitating the PCE.

Wrong, Gradius III and Goemon both came out in Japan before Gradius on PCE did.

The story everyone always tells is that Konami got fed up waiting for Nintendo to release a 16-bit console and that's why they dared to support a non-Nintendo one. I guess like too many of these kinds of stories it was just puled out of someone's ass.

Still doesn't explain why the SNES intro samples PCE sound, unless Konami held back its first PCE projects until after the SFC launch, as a favor to Nintendo.

Very interesting story. But some questions.

The SNES sample sounds a little better than the PCE one, so is it flip flopped?

Why did Konami make so few PCE games then?

[SuperDeadite]

I think Konami only liked to self-publish when they were certain of good profits.  Just look the X68000.  Gradius was the pack-in game for the system, and Salamander plus other Konami ports came out very quickly.  But they were licensed ports done by Sharp/SPS directly.  However in 1993 they did a 180 and developed and self-published 5 games directly.  Why just 5, and why wait until 93?  Only reason I can think of is how the market was going.

[Xak]

SNES version all the way. Most familiar. Sounds better than the Genny. PCE one is cool but reminds me of Snatcher... what no MSX version?