Author: Ray McGill

Ever since I was about 5 years old, we had some form of video game system in the house. My parents were not the type to play games themselves, so the hobby was a new one in my house, and it was something I took to immediately. I had this NES, and we had a handful of games that we owned. More often than not though, new games were experienced through renting them at a Blockbuster. I get it, I am old. However, it was those games that we owned, that I would get to play again and again that really made me realize how much fun gaming is as a hobby. Now some of the “classics” I owned as a kid were titles such as: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles by Konami, Captain Skyhawk by Rare, The Legend of Zelda and Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt obviously by Nintendo, and Infiltrator by Chris Gray. Some of those games are absolutely great, and some are...borderline unplayable really. But three of the games that I owned absolutely changed the way I looked at video games, and would go on to inform a lot of what I liked, and even like to this day. The first of those games is:

Konami was an RPG Powerhouse on the PlayStation one

Konami has become something of a punchline in modern game development. They’re a pachinko company, they’re too busy with their health clubs, yadda yadda. They have still had modern hits, such as Metal Gear Solid V, and their soccer games, the PES series. But let’s be honest, the Konami of yesteryear is not the Konami we see today. Everytime someone mentions Silent Hill, people look wistfully at their PS4 still sporting their copy of P.T., grasping at conspiracy theory straws that Hideo Kojima is secretly the game development studio, Blue Box, and secretly working with Konami to make a new horror title. While that would be cool, and interesting in this internet leak and AR games-age, I would prefer to see Konami back as the company that cranked out quality RPG’s, I would love to see them be the company they were in the PS1 era.