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Topic: Any chance of Konami keeping this "classic collection" ball rolling?

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Magician

These days it's pretty easy (and fairly fun) to dunk on Konami for being a video game publisher that prefers using their classic IP for pachinko machines rather than developing new games. But over the past couple years they've been churning out collections for their classic franchises. The Castlevania, Contra, and Arcade collections in 2019. Last year the Castlevania Advance Collection. And this year the upcoming TMNT collection.

Konami has been building up some serious goodwill with fans ever since the Metal Gear Survive debacle.

My question for this thread in particular is, with the Turbografx-16 Mini being released two years ago now, I wonder what the chances are of Konami giving us a console port of that collection for Switch?

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Tasuki

I can almost guarantee the TMNT collection is more due to Nickledeon then Konami, TMNT is a Nickelodeon I.P. rather then Konami unlike say Contra or Castlevania.

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NinChocolate

Yes, there’s a good chance because they’ve nearly reduced their game releases to legacy content. People say they want a Konami buyout but that wouldn’t help their IP back catalogue. Konami as is can probably just turn enough profit from licensing out old games to make it worthwhile, particularly more lesser-known stuff that’s not castlevania. Personally I’m just waiting for a big Hudson /PCE collection. Really hoping they do this.

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sixrings

It would be nice for the ninja turtles and capcom games to make their way to arcade archives

sixrings

MarioBrickLayer

I'd like to see Bucky O'Hare being released, but I don't know what other games could go into a collection with it?

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Mikmoomamimocki

MGS trilogy on Switch would be amazing. I haven't finished any of the games but I'd like to.

Mikmoomamimocki

StuTwo

Two words: "The Simpsons". That would be a hard bargin.

Asterix (arcade) was never given an official home release either (to my knowledge), or the Bucky O'Hare arcade game (I know Bucky was mentioned earlier but I assume that was in reference to the unrelated NES game that was made by the Treasure team shortly before they left Konami).

Hudson-wise a Bomberman collection would also be highly valued, would have the scope for dozens of games to be included and there'd be a lot of historical value to seeing how that series developed over time and on different platforms. I think that Hudson would have given someone like Digital Eclipse or M2 the nod to do it by now if they'd not been assimilated into the Konami collective. At the very least it would be great to see some of the N64 Bomberman games (I believe there were 4 but there might have been more than that) on NSO. Since Bomberman 64 and its direct sequel didn't have a decent traditional multiplayer mode anyway they wouldn't be in competition with more recent Bomberman games.

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