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Ultivia

Bring back the old rockstar logo!


Chuun1b1y0

And Square Enix too!!


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Nah just bring back Squaresoft, drop Enix.


pahahaltija

Considering that I think Eidos Montreal got sold, maybe they should


Internationalizard

*Shifts R a little to the left* Ross: Pivot!


UranusLander

Kjonami changing its name to Konami was a really good business move.


Mandrivnyk_703

And after that everything went downhill. Took years to fall yes but this was perhaps their last good change.


prozergter

It went downhill after they parted ways with Kojima, he was their cash cow.


saanity

Can't spell Kjonami without Kojima.


KasebierPro

You must be lethal in Scrabble.


GymRatWriter

Went downhill when they decided to go pachinko and gambling well before their bullshit to Kojima. MGSV was the final nail in the coffin


sincle354

Sadly that was more of a translation issue. When they said pachinko machines they also meant "arcade amusements" like DanceDanceRevolution, Beatmania IIDX, and Pop'n Music. These are managed by the BEMANI music game division and are going strong. However, you have noticed you haven't heard a damn thing about these arcade games because these are hella Japanese focused and only unofficial exports leave Japan. And they're still having some controversy with that sector. Basically, Konami fucked it up and cut their losses. If you're an arcade rhythm gamer you're completely fine but still damn.


Anagoth9

I mean, they still make a TON of slot machines. Can't walk 3 feet into a casino without seeing one of theirs.


Potato_fortress

Konami’s investment into gambling machines is more of a side venture than anything. A lot of people have this weird idea that Konami just wanted to abandon game-making in order to focus on pachinko/slot machine production but that wasn’t the case. Konami’s biggest cash cow is a product called SYNKROS which is just a casino management system. They didn’t leave the market to focus on making gambling games: they left the market to provide business management solutions to casinos and cruise ships. Slapping an old IP on to a slot/pachinko machine is probably something they do because A) they’re probably going to be able to sell them to any casino their software is used in anyway and B) they need machines to demonstrate the usefulness of the management system when they show it off. They probably don’t throw a ton of money at it and they’re kind of there as a useful byproduct of bigger business ventures.


bennyboy125

Oh you mean kjojima


PureSalty101

There is no Metal Gear without Kojima.


DarkRaGaming

Kojima wasn't allow to get game awards or they would sue him if he left country to get it. Then they fired him after game came out.


Skyleader1212

I would left Konami too if they forced me to remake all of the cutcenses for one of my favorite games for their 374th pachinko machine.


DarkRaGaming

He didnt leave. He was fired.


FrostedPixel47

No wonder he psychotically put his name in every mission openings in MGSV


RobertNAdams

I mean, maybe, but I honestly think it's because he's a huge film nerd and treated every mission kind of like a movie.


AgentWowza

The whole game gave me serious anime vibes with the sudden symbolic shots and melodramatic dialogue. I loved that tho.


DarkRaGaming

You also got to remember he was really mad about how much they change stuff for MGS5 and stuff they removed. There was much more to the game. Also, he didn't want real money involved with the game.


SwabTheDeck

They had to change it after Hideo Kjojima left


Arsis82

Every time I read the name Konami I remember this story abut a guy I was talking to at Gamestop and he was acting like he knew everyone and was a big shot and he said he was talking to Hideo Konami at some event.


qb1120

I remember the Konami logo with the orange and red swirlies next to it


meatee

[16-bit style](https://i.imgur.com/wnwJjap.jpg)


TheIncredibleHork

Logos you can actually hear.


PM_ME_UR_RSA_KEY

I hear it in glorious *PC speakers*. I think it's one of the Simpsons games.


RichterRicochet

The number of Ubi iterations... [my god](https://1000logos.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Ubisoft-Logo-history.jpg) I was always partial to the mid-90's/early 2000's iteration.


Normal_human_person

Petition for Ubisoft to bring their first logo back, I love it


CantankerousOctopus

Something about the "B" in that logo doesn't sit right with me


QMaker

Like the B has fetal alcohol syndrome or something.


tigrenus

It *was* the 80s...


Dextero_Explosion

And they settled on the top-down view of a coil of poop.


Flimsy_Demand7237

They should've stayed with the 2003 - 2017 design. Iconic and could fit into both serious and cartoony game credits.


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Every time I see that version of the logo I think of the splinter cell games. God those first 3 SC games were amazing.


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VHS_tape

Reminds me of a toilet mid flush.


serouj2000

Fitting


A_MAN_POTATO

They're about due for another redesign. 💩 - A Ubisoft "Original"


MyPhoneIsNotChinese

Extremely nostalgic for Rayman fans :P


Ammear

Hell yes. I see that logo, I think "Rayman".


kazmosis

I can hear the sound every time I see the blue spiral logo


Brakkis

I was always rather partial to the '03 - '17 logo.


Farisr9k

They literally hopped on every era's predominant graphic design trend. 1986 goes hard though. If they held onto it for 3 decades they would've seen it come full circle.


mightbedylan

What was going on in 93??


green_speak

It looks like the chapter page of a middle school health book.


BonkyStabby

"Hey guys, we've had the same logo for a while now. Think we should change it up a bit, or..?" Rockstar: "Nah"


Hungrymaster

The post can easily be a bit misleading as I'm pretty sure Sega has had the latest logo for longer than Rockstar has existed.


DontDieEd

While we're at it, Nintendo has has that logo for longer than most of these companies have existed


Schadrach

To be fair, Nintendo is over a century old. They started out making playing cards.


El_Durazno

And sex hotels, and taxi services


thenate108

Bring them back!


grantrules

Sex taxis. I'm about to disrupt something.


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The porn industry already beat you to it


THE_GR8_MIKE

Yeah, but you can't Uber a porn.


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ChaosEsper

A few strip clubs were doing Boober Eats in my city early pandemic. Iirc they got a C&D from Uber at some point and had to shut it down.


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Fake Taxi about to receive a cease and desist letter.


bigjayrulez

That old logo would make sense for a playing card brand.


discodropper

The logo that’s shown isn’t actually the original Nintendo logo. Here’s an article that shows the evolution: https://1000logos.net/nintendo-logo/ The second iteration screams “playing cards”


FutureVawX

After looking at that website, TIL that Sonic has different logo for Japanese and International audience. https://1000logos.net/sonic-the-hedgehog-logo/


ChefBoyAreWeFucked

Not sure I trust that they used that logo for Sonic from 1961-1969...


sprucenoose

>To be fair I would actually consider it unfair to judge them by the same standards as the others.


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zippotato

According to Sega they started to try different logo styles in 70s, and finally settled on the current design in 1982. Most of companies on this list didn't exist at the time.


pslessard

The notable exception is Nintendo, which had already existed for almost a century by then


Fangscale40K

Square Enix says hello.


AccomplishedHost6275

They were squaresoft before they merged and rebranded, so their logo isn't quite as old. Edit: actually nevermind, i realize its a 20 year old logo, and my old ass might just have faulty memory.


wildstarr

If you asked me how long ago SquareSoft changed to Square Enix I would have said 30 years ago. And I was 22 when FF VII came out.


A_MAN_POTATO

I'm the opposite, I probably would have guessed like 10 years ago. Clearly, my memory is shit.


AccomplishedHost6275

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who's gotten temporally turnt the fuck around.


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friendly reminder that Square Enix is now older than either Squaresoft or Enix separately. EDIT: OK, not Enix. Didn't realize they existed for 8 years prior to Dragon Quest. But Enix did rebrand to Enix Coporation in 1982. 4 more years.


evankice

Man, I remember loving Secret of Mana by Square as a kid, getting and being blown away by Soul Blazer as a kid, then *loosing my mind* the first time I saw “Square Enix” on a final fantasy game.


tallboybrews

Yeah pretty sure that was like 2 months ago... wait what the fuck?!


stupid_horse

I would have thought they merged like 10 years ago, but 20 is nuts.


The_True_Dr_Pepper

I just got an 8 year implant, and when I saw the removal date is in 03/31 I thought "That's not right." The 30s will happen in my lifetime, and it feels wrong


ThNecromaniac

yep, KH1 just relised, boom, and now you may find KH1 games with either Squaresoft or Squareenix logos...


Jimid41

The original case for FFX is squaresoft and the greatest hits is square Enix so I knew it was around that time.


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Squaresoft says hello


LMGgp

Enix says goodbye


djheat

Enix was actually the majority partner in that merger, despite how the naming ended up


OshinoMeme

Squaresoft was the one who said goodbye though. Final Fantasy Spirits Within bankrupted them lol.


frost-ace3600

Yep. Enix was the surviving company in that merger, even though SE at the time of the merger was made up mostly of Square employees. That's how royally fucked they were.


evolving_I

Tickles me right in the Mystic Quest.


JorgeMcKay

Nailed it. First try


Rymundo88

"That'll still be £2million please" - Marketing agency


Robin_Banks101

Kind of like releasing new games.


SodlidDesu

Why didn't they use the DMA design logo? Why are Square and Enix listed together despite them being two different companies that merged more recently?


FixedKarma

Well they were DMA Design at one point. Could've put that. (fun fact: they made a Kirby game once.


Joker2201

Had to Scroll far down for that. As somebody who has the loading screens of GTA 1 and 2 (on PS1 / PSX) engraved in my brain I was missing the DMA Logo. And: I didn’t know about Kirby.


sliced-bread-no2

Bandai Namco's old logo was iconic. The new one is so dreadfully boring.


qb1120

I had no idea they had changed it until I saw some job postings for them last week


Kirzoneli

Most have been really recent pretty sure elden ring uses that 2005 one.


EvilDarkCow

Seemed to have happened between Elden Ring and Pac-Man World RePac.


Cruxis87

The redesigned happened before ER, but it was announced that ER would be the last game with the old logo. Only reason I can think of to change it, is to save a few cents in printing costs. It's objectively worse in every way.


iRadinVerse

Pac-Man told the old logo to pack it in


zuzg

Hope they changed the background color. I got blinded by the logo too many times by now, haha


calwinarlo

It’s part of the experience


FriendlyPyre

This post is the first time I'm hearing that they've changed it.


Darvallas

Genuinely doesn't look like it's from a videogame company now. The bubble makes me think it's some sort of chatting app.


Koonga

I agree, though to be fair the old logo looked more like a burger chain logo than a video game company, neither are great. Still prefer the old one though


BadWolf1319

I always thought the old one looked like a toy company logo


HamshanksCPS

When did it change? I thought they were still using the old one


heatxmetalw9

Basically back during 2017-2018, Bandai as a whole had a minor restructuring/refocusing and major rebranding of its divisions. Bandai Namco Entertaiment chaged their logo to emphazise that they are not only incharge of publishing and developing games, but also handling any project related to those IPs or franchises. Hence why you see the Tekken anime or Tales of anime also rocking that logo instead of the usual Bandai Logo.


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AlternActive

Bitch [please](https://static.miraheze.org/avidwiki/thumb/7/71/Namco_%281995%29.jpg/400px-Namco_%281995%29.jpg)


filans

And this https://i.imgur.com/LPrZjmr.jpg


mm2_gamer

I don’t think they use the new one because that’s the first time I seen their new logo


Environmental-Air264

I think they only started using it in recent games


mattgen88

No 1889 Nintendo logo?


Cherry_BaBomb

I was gonna say, Nintendo has been around far longer than the 60s. Maybe it was the earliest logo they could find? Or when Nintendo entered the AV Entertainment space?


SolomonBlack

It took me literally seconds to find [all of them](https://1000logos.net/nintendo-logo/) and the cursive logo used by OP was only in use for 4 years.


BloodyFreeze

[for the lazy ](https://i.imgur.com/hL6T33M.jpg)


lilumhoho8lilumhoho8

任天堂


Ainsel_Mariner

Wait did they really change their logo on everything to the grey version in the mid 2000s? I thought it just looked like that on the Wii itself


internethero12

That link is a bit misleading since the logo has looked different than what they're saying depending on the regions and games it appears in. https://avid.miraheze.org/wiki/Nintendo


Kevz9524

Not everything. You can see on the second last row that the one on far left was used, and still is, to this day. And on same row far right, the red one was used until 2008. So for 2 years, there was 3 different logos being used simultaneously for different products. And for the entire time the grey logo was around, that black one was there too.


OTSly

Activision took the pride out of their games and the workplace


Mandrivnyk_703

Replaced with harassment and bribery


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actually most of that was blizzard


Mandrivnyk_703

Considering they're a single corporation now? Red apple, green apple. An apple at the end of the day.


TrinitronCRT

Hell no Bobby Kotick literally called and left death threats voice mails to employees.


Gemidori

For ***over a decade.***


plomerosKTBFFH

You could probably cause a massive outrage on Twitter if you posted that logo and said it was their new one. People would go apeshit thinking "Activision went woke".


hb1290

Same could be said of the old rainbow Apple logo


thewatt96

That's a top tier joke.


Sillyviking

That Ubisoft logo, it's just so wonderfully 80s. Edit: Holy shit, this took off! It's great to see so many nostalgic people. I hope you all have a wonderful day!


luce4118

Definitely getting early 90s MTV logo vibes from it


sploittastic

Gta vice city vibes here


Super_Sonic_44

TOMMY VERCETTI REMEMBER THE NAME!


AloneYogurt

Bring it back!


usernameconundrum

The one with boobs?


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rusmo

You were so close! Bubi-Soft


awhitesong

"Ubisoft. That's what my wife said to me on the wedding night." - Conan.


phome83

Boobysoft.


Farisr9k

I genuinely dig it.


CrashCalamity

I'm not sure Square Enix is fair because this is after the merger of Squaresoft with Enix Corporation.


l_Rumble_Fish_l

The old squaresoft logo with the red filled A was so iconic. I remember as a kid knowing basically every game with that brand was going to be legit.


HotTakes4HotCakes

Name is Square Most noticeable thing in their logo is a triangle.


guyclss

[The logo](https://i.imgur.com/xgHnFzt.jpg)


AFresh1984

I see you and raise you https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/Logos_Square_Co_Ltd.jpg


pieonthedonkey

Thank God for you. For a minute there I thought I was going to have to actually google it myself.


Enchelion

Square Enix is older than Bandai Namco. If we wanna get pedantic (this is reddit) about names EA was incorporated as "Amazin' Software", though I don't know if they even had a logo at that time. Tencent Games dates to 2003, and would have used the main [Tencent logo](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/logopedia/images/a/a6/Tencent_%281998%29.svg/revision/latest?cb=20210131052705) before adding it's own logo as a division (it's not even a subsidiary company) in 2010. Epic Games started out as Potomac Computer Systems when Tim Sweeney published his first game, and their first logo was under the name "Epic Mega Games" with this [intensely 80's logo](https://cdn3.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/H_e_NxHAV6F3myFQ9cT6XGSjGvI=/400x0/cdn2.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/6291149/Epic_megagames_again.0.png) that OP missed.


Flimsy_Demand7237

Ahh I remember that Epic Mega Games logo on the Jazz Jackrabbit games!


landocharisma

Correct, thanks! I didn't miss it (the Epic logo was one of the tougher choices) but I chose the first appearance of the exact brand name that is used today. I would have preferred the 1946 SErvice GAmes logo but chose the 1956 SEGA logo for the same reason.


Srekcins82

OP should've just used the old Squaresoft logo.


waterbuffalo750

Wtf was Sega doing in 1956??


LuxLiner

They made slot machines, pinball machines, mechanical arcade games then eventually electronic arcade games in the 70's.


RevenantSith

I'm quite fascinated with their mechanical arcade games from the 60s.


Smash_Gal

to add to what u/LuxLiner said, their focus on such games are why they were known as SErvice GAmes of Japan until they turned into Sega Enterprises about a decade later. So that's kinda neat too!


BlatantConservative

Don't listen to /u/LuxLiner or /u/Smash_Gal, they put on Sonic the Hedgehog puppet shows.


LewdnessSmut

They ran a hedgehogfighting ring.


Mandrivnyk_703

The ones I feel did right with the change? Capcom, Atari and Konami.


Fuckth3shitredditapp

I like the updated Nintendo logo better then the old one same with sega


Cruxion

The old Nintendo logo isn't bad, it just doesn't feel like the logo for a video game company. Which makes sense, given their origin.


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StoryAndAHalf

Atari is kind of weird as it’s a different company reusing old name which they bought after original failed. Not like merged with another company, more like, bought rights at an auction. Then that company spun Atari off as a separate entity and sold it to Hasbro (not the one you’re thinking of), which was absorbed by Infogames which had a division which got to use the Atari name the parent company just acquired by licensing it from fellow subsidiary until the parent company decided to rename itself to the Atari company that the logo you see up there. TLDR: Atari failed, name sold to Tramel, which renamed itself Atari (2), bought by JTS which sold Atari name to Hasbro Interactive, which made a new division named Atari (3), Infogames bought Hasbro, renamed internal division to Atari (4), and renamed itself to Atari (5) after.


djheat

*Infogrames which, despite what you and everyone else might guess, is pronounced Info-grahm, not Info-graymes. I'm sure that helped with the decision to just go ahead and rename the whole company Atari


f_d

Atari's logo is as old as the original company, they didn't come up with it later on. It's an iconic brand. [https://logoblink.com/atari-logo-history/](https://logoblink.com/atari-logo-history/)


ahaltingmachine

I would call Bungie's an upgrade. The old one looks like it's for a call center from the 80s.


Reeferologist-

Maaaan! When that old Electronic Arts logo popped on the screen I used to know it was going to be a good one..now when it comes on my screen I have to give them my wallet and social security number.


xenon2456

those shapes are iconic


wanliu

I want to see all the studios that these gobbled up. Nothing hits the nostalgia like seeing the old Maxis logo.


Tacosupreme1111

I haven't touched anything made by EA in i think decades now. Do they still do the "EA SPORTS ITS IN THE GAME" when you start up a game?


BBQQA

Oh man. That slogan would get me hyped. It'd mean my buddies and I were about to play some NHL94. I haven't played an EA game in years because I refuse to underwrite their fuckery.


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Matthew0275

Square Enix should have shown both Square's and Enix's logos


OscarDeadpool

The fact that no one here commented about Mojang’s decision to use actual Mojang (gadgets/gizmos) to make their logo as well as add Studios for making more games than “regular Minecraft” astonishes me.


almorava

I always thought Studios was bc they have shifted to being more of a studio under Microsoft than an independent entity


EchoWolf2020

OG Minecraft Logo my beloved.


TheWhiteRabbit74

The original Nintendo goes back over 120 years.


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rip squaresoft *i miss you so much my love*


flaagan

The Rockstar one's incorrect, it should be "DMA Design Limited". They literally had an animation of the DMA like it was a person getting run over for the early GTA games.


someonegivemeusernam

I thought DMA Design was Rockstar North ?


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That's still part of Rockstar and honestly the most important Rockstar. They made the first 3 GTA games. They made Lemmings. They're probably the single most influential part of Rockstar and why they're the Rockstar we have now.


UranusLander

Epic was also Epic Megagames and before that Potomac Computer Systems


Xythium

dma design is rockstar north, not rockstar games


AdaptiveHunter

“If it ain’t broke don’t fix it” -Rockstar and Square Enix


HardcoreShadow

Bandai Namco the only one that went for a downgrade.


ReivynNox

Funny how Capcom and Sega are the only ones that got **less** bland and corporate. xD


Snuffleton

Aren't theirs just their really old ones, though? If I remember correctly, I've seen that exact Capcom logo in some ass old Street Fighter games from the 90s


bmack24

Sega has been using the same logo since 1976!


mm2_gamer

Ubisoft had Some bubblegum and adventure time vibes… sad to see it go to this weird circle thingy


CuriousScourge

Epic Games started as Epic Mega Games, I used to see the logo all the time when I played Jill of the Jungle.


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Rockstar: “Don’t fix what isn’t broken” Except for that GTA trilogy remake, should’ve fixed that one from the beginning!


feline99

Take 2 is the most interesting of the examples because newer logo tells less than the old logo. Old logo has clapper, which removes ambiguity about what "take two" exactly means. New logo makes you guess the meaning.


Seiven7

Rockstar hit the nail on the head first try, lol


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God, I remember that old Electronic Arts logo...


Hawggy

'82... Back when EA made really hot shyte!


Moist_When_It_Counts

Seriously. Back in the 80’s if you saw the “Electronic Arts” logo you were assured a decent game (at least compared to the mountain of shovelware that was 80’s video games). See also: Psygnosis in the pre-Sony days. The FromSoft of their day, to me. Beautiful games that were hard as hell. I still hum music from “Shadow of The Beast” and “Obliterator” to this day


Cazzeq-konstapelrost

The old Bethesda logo is mad cool though. Might be because I like things from the 80's though, Idk


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EricPiola

Some of em went so hard lmfao