the good ol'wave

[Dark Fact]

I think it looks like "Kjonami" myself.

That original Konami logo actually reminds me quite a bit of the Nintendo logo.

Perhaps that's why it was changed.  They thought it looked a little too close to Nintendo's logo and feared that Nintendo would go after their asses for it.  In my opinion, it was for the better.  This first logo looks too dull!

As for the logo change, yes, I am very disappointed that they had to shelf the original logo in favor of that new boring one.  Konami's argument for this is that they want to improve themselves for the future and wanted a new logo to reflect upon their improvement.  In other words, it's a business decision (more like business politics) for them.  They thought that keeping the old logo with the waves would make them look too "old-fashioned".  I call BS on this as Capcom has never changed their logo ever since they went into the video game development business back in the 80's and are still great today as they were back then.

What would happen if Hudson felt the need to eliminate the bee from their logo in order to make themselves more "improved"? Food for thought.

[FM-77]

I definitely think the old one looks old-fashioned, whereas the new one looks stylish and well... better.

[GUTS]

Yeah Capcom's logo is still kickass looking, I love Capcom.  They're easily one of the most consistently awesome developers out there, if not the best (since Sega has gone downhill the last few years).

[Keranu]

God I hate Capcom with a passion and I'm probably the only one too.

[Necromancer]

Just curious Keranu - can I ask why you hate Capcom (passionately, no less)?  Do you hate the games, the company, the whoring out of once proud franchises, or some combination thereof?

[FM-77]

God I hate Capcom with a passion and I'm probably the only one too.

Really? That makes me very happy! I hate them with a passion too. Every single Capcom game I've played (except RE4) has been crap. They also love milking their already crappy series (Mega Man, Resident Evil, their random action junk) to death. I hate when companies do that, with bad games no less. Ugh. Never liked Capcom. Never will.

The grand list of good Capcom games:
- Resident Evil 4
- Duck Tales NES

[Necromancer]

Damn Seldane, that's a lot of games to hate.  No love for the Street Fighter series, Mega Man series, or 1941 (my favorite Capcom title)?  I agree that they pimped 'em out over the years, but that doesn't make the originals suck.

[Ninja Spirit]

Damn...there's a glitch in the matrix. Up to this day I never ran into anyone who had a blazing hate for Capcom.

[guyjin]

you love crap like pac land, but hate the goodness of Mega Man? 

[Joe Redifer]

SEGA still has the same logo as well.

I don't hate Capcom.  Maybe y'all hate them due to some "Capcom envy" because you haad a Turbo/PC Engine and they rarely made games for it?  I think that's it.  Don't try to deny it.

[termis]

Capcom definitely cranked out solid titles over the years.

Though I must say that Capcom fanboys were annoying.  They were like, "Hey, let's go play Saturday night slam masters!", and I'd reply with how much I thought it sucked, and they'd simply say, "But it's CAPCOM!"   

[FM-77]

I guess I dislike (hate is such a strong word, let's say I dislike them instead) Capcom because I pretty much only like and play RPGs. Capcom hasn't made many of those, but they did make Breath of Fire. The only game that's actually made me feel physically ill!

Capcom pretty much only makes pure action games, another genre that I definitely do not like at all. Nor do I like fighting games.

I don't get what's so good about Mega Man. Mega Man 8 was pretty fun, and so was Mega Man and Bass, but the rest...

Oh, the rest.

[GUTS]

Yeah you're definitely the only one.  You need to say "I love Insector X & Timeball but hate Capcom!" in the same sentence so I can use it as a sig.

[guyjin]

I guess I dislike (hate is such a strong word, let's say I dislike them instead) Capcom because I pretty much only like and play RPGs. Capcom hasn't made many of those, but they did make Breath of Fire. The only game that's actually made me feel physically ill!

that's harsh; what about it was so bad?

[Keranu]

God I hate Capcom with a passion and I'm probably the only one too.

Really? That makes me very happy! I hate them with a passion too. Every single Capcom game I've played (except RE4) has been crap. They also love milking their already crappy series (Mega Man, Resident Evil, their random action junk) to death. I hate when companies do that, with bad games no less. Ugh. Never liked Capcom. Never will.

The grand list of good Capcom games:
- Resident Evil 4
- Duck Tales NES

Somehow I had a feeling you were going to agree with me . I'm not going to waste my time here arguing why I hate Capcom so much, but let me get the games I do like from Capcom out of the way:

- Duck Tales 1 and 2 (NES)
- Street Fighter II series (anything you can name)
- Street Fighter Alpha 3 somewhat

I started writing an article for my site about my hatred for Capcom but haven't worked on it much. You guys can check out my thoughts there when I finally manage to finish it up.