Posts Tagged ‘konami’

#202 Super Castlevania IV

Posted: 19th November 2012 by Jeroen in Games
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195th played so far Genre: Action/Platform Platform: SNES Year of Release: 1991 Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Castlevania’s one of those long running standard-setting series. You know, like Mario, Mega Man, Sonic and Kirby. Videogame series that have delivered several times and tend to be reliable enough to do a good job most of the time. […]

#696 Elebits (or Eledees)

Posted: 11th November 2012 by Mulholland in Games
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193rd played so far Genre: Action/Shoot ’em Up Platform: Wii Year of Release: 2006 Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami For those of you keepin track, it’s been a while since we did a Wii game. Technically World of Goo was one, but it wasn’t a proper one… We didn’t even touch our Wii to play it. […]

#336 Beatmania

Posted: 2nd October 2012 by Jeroen in Games
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183rd played so far Genre: Music Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1997 Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Music games started out in the arcade. I think we can all agree on this since all the home peripherals that we have grown to love (by storing them on top of a wardrobe alongside that dragon kite you […]

So yeah, as you can see we’re doing three games in one post – three arcade shoot ’em ups, in fact. Please allow me to explain. Today (as I’m writing this, that is), we were out in London for a private celebration and, having some time to spare, Peter suggested we’d visit the London Trocadero. […]

136th played so far Genre: Stealth/Action Platform: PlayStation 3 Year of Release: 2008 Developer: Kojima Productions Publisher: Konami The Metal Gear Solid series has never been a favourite of ours, whether it’s the first, second or third game, or a rather disappointing remake. There’s been a few that were better than others, with an increase […]

#597 Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes

Posted: 27th November 2011 by Mulholland in Games
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103rd played so far Genre: Action Platform: Gamecube Year of Release: 2004 Developer: Silicon Knights, Konami Publisher: Konami In the course of this blog we always enjoy debating whether or not a particular game belongs on the list but we were in complete agreement about this one: a resounding no. We are so adament about […]

#484 Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty

Posted: 30th October 2011 by Mulholland in Games
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96th game played so far Genre: Action Platform: PS2 Year of Release: 2001 Developer: KJEC Publisher: Konami Normally I’d like to do a little intro of the game here, give a short summary of what it’s about or what you’re doing. When trying to do it for this game, I must admit that I wasn’t […]

71st game played so far Genre: Action Platform: Playstation 2 Year of Release: 2004 Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami We’ve played a Metal Gear Solid game some time ago, and we saw it as a good stealth game… though with its flaws. Now we get to the third part (we’ll do number 2 another time), and […]

#30 Frogger

Posted: 19th July 2011 by Jeroen in Games
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70th game played so far Genre: Action Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1981 Developer: Konami Publisher: Sega Why did the frog cross the road? Because he wanted to get home from work. There’s premise of Frogger for you. Cross the road, avoiding cars, trucks, racing drivers, snakes, crocodiles and sinking in a river. It’s an […]

#381 Metal Gear Solid

Posted: 17th March 2011 by Mulholland in Games
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39th game played so far Genre: Stealth Platform: PS1 Year of Release: 1998 Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Once upon a time, in a distant gaming past, there was a fairly well-known platformer called Metal Gear. It did well, but the series was only truely revived when it was brought to the PlayStation as as a […]