One one hand we have this classic:
and from Konami, we have the classic game I'm sure you all have played many times before:
Who could forget playing whatever the fuck this game was called.
Ok so maybe Konami sucked in the fighters, TMNT:TF being about the best they had, but they had the beat em ups. Not like Capcom was well known for them. Unless you count Final Fight. Or the Knights\dragons games. Or the two D&D games. Ok, so maybe they kicked Konami's ass there too.
But when you talk about guys with WHIPS, Konami kicked ass there.
Honestly though, I'll give Konami some props. They did a lot of shit most Konami fanboys don't even seem to know about, including having a VHS copy of Plan 9 from outer space in their game of the same name:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space_(video... )
They also did the kick ass Shao-Lin's Road\Kicker that never got any respect, or console ports, just home PC ports.