Gabriel Posted August 29, 2006 Share Posted August 29, 2006 Today while checking Wal-Mart, I saw two Konami controllers which I initially thought were rereleases of last year's plug and play. One was a Frogger controller. The other was a Konami Arcade controller. The style was similar to a third party SNES controller. Upon closer inspection, I discovered these weren't plug n plays for the TV, but they were apparrently intended to plug into USB ports on computers. The packages also touted "Online play." Anyone know anything more about these things? All I know is that $20 each was too much for me to be interested. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n8littlefield Posted August 30, 2006 Share Posted August 30, 2006 Is it these? http://www.konami.com/th/ It's bizarre, it's like they combined the plug n play with PC games, there's nothing really "online" about them except it forces you onto a website to play the games. Can't imagine why they couldn't have just put a memory stick in the controller and had the games built in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabriel Posted August 30, 2006 Author Share Posted August 30, 2006 Is it these? http://www.konami.com/th/ It's bizarre, it's like they combined the plug n play with PC games, there's nothing really "online" about them except it forces you onto a website to play the games. Can't imagine why they couldn't have just put a memory stick in the controller and had the games built in. Yep, that's them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCHufnagel Posted August 30, 2006 Share Posted August 30, 2006 I've seen ads in magizines for the Yu-Gi-OH controller. I didn't know that you could only play online though. The main question is how long will Konami support the web-sites? Not really a good deal unless you can download the games to your computer because those sites won't be supported forever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted August 30, 2006 Share Posted August 30, 2006 Experience console-style gaming on your PC! WTF? This is even lamer than charging $20 for plug-n-play Frogger while releasing a 6-game version, including Frogger, at the same price. It's like some sort of Frogger-based test for mental retardation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onmode-ky Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 Experience console-style gaming on your PC! WTF? This is even lamer than charging $20 for plug-n-play Frogger while releasing a 6-game version, including Frogger, at the same price. It's like some sort of Frogger-based test for mental retardation. I note that, judging by the screenshots, the Frogger game "on" these things is not the original but rather one of the recent, 3D Frogger games, presumably one of the existing PC ports. So at least it's not $15-$20 again for a single decades-old game. If Konami should continue in this vein, they ought to release one of these with the PC version of Metal Gear Solid. As for the USB Yugi-Oh things, it looks like they're just a new gimmick for a pre-existing online game, Yugi-Oh Online, so it would appear Konami does have continuing support for their online offerings. It's certainly much less difficult to maintain online versions of single-player games like Frogger than a tournament-type game like the card game. onmode-ky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ganonbanned Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 (edited) Does anyone know of what the download-able game is? and yes, they should with metal gear solid, keep contra, and castlevania. Edited August 31, 2006 by ganonbanned Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Student Driver Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 I saw these recently as well, and also thought they were plug-and-plays. Wal-Mart's heading for a ton of "defective" returns by stocking these with the plug and plays. (That, or Konami will be paying Wal-Mart a lot for returns by asking that WM stock them in the plug-and-play section...) How many parents will be buying these for kids under the assumption that they can be plugged into a TV, only to find that it requires a computer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DamonicFury Posted September 11, 2006 Share Posted September 11, 2006 (edited) As a big fan of Konami's classic games, I went ahead and got the Konami Arcade controller. These do appear to be fully emulated arcade versions of Time Pilot, Gyruss, Scramble, Contra, and Yie-Ar-Kung-Fu. The screen is squished somewhat to take up all the space on a horizontal monitor, but the scoring is NOT moved to the side as the screen shots on the package would suggest. There are "enhanced" modes for Time Pilot and Scramble that keep the same sound and gameplay, but add 3D sprites and effects. Yie-Ar Kung Fu has a splash screen, confirming my suspicion that the emulation was done by Digital Eclipse The games are downloaded to your computer, but you cannot play them unless you have an active Internet connection. (Apparently, some kind of key check is made before starting a game.) I don't see ANY "Live" enhancements for these games yet, not even a online high score table. The sixth game is still not available, nor is there any mention of what it will be. I would have been thrilled if this had been a simple CD release of Konami classics. It's kind of a shame that they instead married them to this basic Genesis-style controller, making the games impossible to play on a X-Arcade/Hot-Rod/custom-made cabinet. Really, the only reason I can think of why Konami would have went this route was to prevent piracy, which is almost laughable considering how easy it is to find, download, and emulate these games. While obviously doing so is the cheaper route and allows for better controllers and a better sceen presentation, I still like to buy legal versions of these great classic games when companies make them available. It would just be nice if more of them put out first class packages like Atari's 80 Games in One or Taito's Arcade Legends (which is HIGHLY recommended, as it even includes MAME compatible roms!), rather than a gimmicky collection like this. Edited September 11, 2006 by sdamon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breakpack Posted September 11, 2006 Share Posted September 11, 2006 I'll pass on this and wait until it goes down to $5 or less.Thats how much I got my original Frogger PnP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Student Driver Posted September 17, 2006 Share Posted September 17, 2006 I'll pass on this and wait until it goes down to $5 or less.Thats how much I got my original Frogger PnP But for how much longer would Konami support the device online, once it's on clearance? For anyone who has this device currently: does the documentation give any indication/warranty of how long Konami promises to support the games? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DamonicFury Posted September 18, 2006 Share Posted September 18, 2006 For anyone who has this device currently: does the documentation give any indication/warranty of how long Konami promises to support the games? I'm afraid not. The documentation is quite skimpy. Konami could, of course, make a "no connection required" version of these games available for download if they no longer wanted to support it via the web site, but there's no guarantee that they will. Still no sign of the 6th game, or of any "Live" features as of yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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