It really is sad how the mighty have fallen. I was playing some snes and genesis games yesterday and after about 4 hours of playing I realized that every game I played or considered playing was Konami.
Zombies ate my neighbors, contra hard corps, castlevania bloodlines, sunset riders.
Yeah, Konami was one of my favorite companies growing up to where it was on a special support list of mine (as was SquareSoft and Capcom), so if saw a game by them on the store shelf, I'd buy it even though in most cases I was backlogged by tons of other games - having put gaming on standby in my life - and it'd be years before I'd get around to playing much of anything... I just wanted to make sure my dollars counted in support of the industry.
So yeah, if you look at my collection of originals, you'll see mostly games made by SquareSoft, Capcom, Konami, and then Sony for PS1/PS2 (and one PS3, MetalGearSolid 4) on down to others like Nintendo for the NES/SNES, etc.. Another company was Working Designs while they were still making PS1 games. I had picked up Arc the Lad collection from Target for $79.99 as one of the final ones, the 2nd time I had spent that much on a game, the first being Dracula X (Konami) from an import shop whose number I got off the back of an EGM magazine...
Well, all good things... Heh, this tangent reminded me of the others who came and went far quicker too like SunSoft and Quintet (founded by the Ys/Adol creator!), etc. Those were great losses! ANYWAY!
