What happened to Konami?

[Coola Yagami]

Does anyone know the story of how Konami lost their TMNT liscense and Ubisoft somehow managed to pick it up??? I mean, Konami was makin TMNT games since the old days. And now Ubisoft somehow got the rights to make the movie games?

[gobo]

They were outbid is all. Plus, everyone seems to think they make sucky Turtles game. *loves his copy of Mutant Nightmare* Perhaps they still have the license to make 2K3 games.

[Ninjinister]

They were outbid is all. Plus, everyone seems to think they make sucky Turtles game. *loves his copy of Mutant Nightmare* Perhaps they still have the license to make 2K3 games.

Nope. I asked Dan Berger when the Ubisoft license was announced. Ubisoft has the rights to all TMNT games on consoles and handheld systems. That's why Konami had to sublicense TMNT for the Virtual Console, and why it cost 600 Wii Points as opposed to 500.

[Spitfire]

Maybe Mutant Nightmare was good but the others weren't. The handheld ones I played were fun but the console ones were terrible. So bad in fact I actually got rid of them and I never get rid of my TMNT stuff. I stopped after 2 but I hear 3 is good. Mutant Melee was pretty bad to.

[Kendamu]

Y'know... I actually like the first 2k3 console game. To me it was a 3D beat-'em-up that followed the story (to a point). Of course, the reviews I read about it at the time were like "The new TMNT 2k3 game is nothing but a shallow beat-'em-up."

Years later, after failed attempts by Konami to add depth to 2k3 console games, the old arcade game comes out on Xbox Live and everyone starts saying "All hail the shallow beat-'em-up from days of yore!"

That kind of hypocracy really eats at me.

[gobo]

Mutant Melee was pretty bad to.
Sad thing about Melee is that I always figured it was an attempt at making a 2K3 Tournament Fighters what with all the praise the SNES version of that game gets. In as much as it failed miserably, I wouldn't count on anyone even thinking about attempting another game of that style in the next decade. Might even keep it off the Virtual Console longer than expected.
Y'know... I actually like the first 2k3 console game. To me it was a 3D beat-'em-up that followed the story (to a point). Of course, the reviews I read about it at the time were like "The new TMNT 2k3 game is nothing but a shallow beat-'em-up."

Years later, after failed attempts by Konami to add depth to 2k3 console games, the old arcade game comes out on Xbox Live and everyone starts saying "All hail the shallow beat-'em-up from days of yore!"

That kind of hypocracy really eats at me.
:P Yeah, I hear ya'. But, there's not much that can be done about that.

[BlueLeo]

Turtles In Time Forever!!!

[Drtooth]

Y'know... I actually like the first 2k3 console game. To me it was a 3D beat-'em-up that followed the story (to a point). Of course, the reviews I read about it at the time were like "The new TMNT 2k3 game is nothing but a shallow beat-'em-up."

Years later, after failed attempts by Konami to add depth to 2k3 console games, the old arcade game comes out on Xbox Live and everyone starts saying "All hail the shallow beat-'em-up from days of yore!"

That kind of hypocracy really eats at me.

Don't worry. They're probably playing some shallow shoot'em up or something.

I HATE new age gamers. If it's not a Zelda clone or a GTA clone, it's not worth anything.

I feel Konami did a great job with TMNT 2 and 3 for NES. And Turtles in time is great as well. i love those old Konami arcade games they made during the period they made TMNT. The Simpsons is my favorite, but I'd kill to play the Asterix Arcade game (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY20-MG_51s) Too bd it's only in Europe.

[Magneto]

I havent played Tournament Fighters in AGES.