Topic: Konami was a staple on Mega Drive/Genesis

Last year I spent most of my video game time on Mega Drive games. From the dozens of games I played through, or at least thoroughly, Konami is the publisher/developer I clearly prefer, even ahead of Sega itself and Virgin, although these two companies published great games too back then.
It's Konami's consistency of releasing brilliant titles for the Mega Drive which impresses me the most, most of them pushing the console to its limits:
Castlevania: The New Generation/Bloodlines, Probotector/Contra: Hard Corps, Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster's Hidden Treasure, International Superstar Soccer Deluxe and my personal favourite Rocket Knight Adventures.
I haven't played through Sparkster and Zombies (ate my neighbors) yet, but I reckon these are great too.

Pity Konami hasn't got much left of its former grandeur.

Konami was a staple of the entire industry back then, they had killer games on NES, SNES and Genesis (maybe others? I dunno for sure, those were the 3 I had). And they put same, but different, games on multiple systems. A different Contra, TMNT and Castlevania on SNES and Genesis, when they could have just ported the same game to both.
They aren't even a shadow of their former selves now

@ophone @Shadowthrone Now they just prefer to make so much money from stupid gambling machines.

@Zuljaras Well they've been pretty much kicked out from the consoles market when Sony decided to promote Fifa instead of PES. PES was their cash cow to fund other games. The betrayal of Sony was bad for them.

Yeah Konami used to be a real Megadrive, SNES and Arcade powerhouse , I wish theyd do more stuff now bring back a few old classics and such.