Westone32bit

Daimaru department store in Umeda seems like a good candidate. They have a sign more anime/ game stuff coming as many floors are being refurbished. This is the department store in Osaka that has the Nintendo Store , Pokémon center and Capcom cafe/ shop on the same floor. A One piece store as well. With tourism still on the rise they are leaning heavily on pop culture to attract visitors.

@-WC- I think pc gaming is popular, there certainly is a market for gaming pcs. The big electronic stores like Bic Camera, Yodobashi, and Joshins all have sections dedicated to gaming pcs. Also I have seen a few shops dedicated to custom or prebuilt gaming machines Osaka and Kobe. Digital purchases are likely popular, because there isn’t much of a retail physical pc game presence. Consoles on the other hand I am always surprised by what’s available physically lot of eshop only titles. Haven’t gotten my Goemon switch yet. Really excited to play Crisis force from what I understand it doesn’t emulate well. So happy that M2 is handling the release so it will run as best as was possible.

I second the Guns of Fury recommendation. It’s got a lot of passion put into it. Has a good Action movie feel from the Rambo, Schwarzenegger era with a sprinkling of Metal Slug. Soundtrack is great too to capture the feeling. Good replay value as well with multiple possible endings.

Still more excited for Black Finger JET. Some of the devs original Metal Slug is making it. Admittedly it will be interesting to see what a new iteration of Metal Slug will look like, hopefully it will show off the talent of new artists that was inspired by the original.

@phillai Did it support music production in its day ,or was the midi port strictly for sound enhancement?

From the initial renders I was hoping he would have a solid blue one as a nod to the debugging model used for development. https://forums.atariage.com/topic/86223-playstation-1-debugging-station/

I always found the 64dd really fascinating. Especially Polygon Studio, it was suppose to be lite version of Nichimen Graphics N-World. A high cost 3D package at the time that was used to create Mario 64 and other games of that era. I had seen N-World demoed at computer graphics shows, they always displayed they were working with Nintendo. I am sure the final product is on par with Mario Paint, buts it’s really interesting that Nintendo was wanting to introduce a young audience to 3D graphics. Nichimen Graphics is sadly no more, but they had some incredible ideas for 3D at the time.

It’s worth mentioning that Roger Deans artwork also was used for the covers of Shadow of the Beast 1 and 2 and designed the logo too. I was introduced to his artwork after I played Space Harrier, I always suspected there was some influence. It’s pretty funny looking back and realizing a Rick Dom was front and center on the title screen.

Is this a continuation of the exhibit that was at the The Osamu Tezuka Manga Museum last year? I was fortunate to see that one, but really crestfallen to learn I had missed a display of 3rd Strike artwork, they really do have a rich archive. I got see some original darkstalkers Key paintings ,the drawing for the Capcom Design works cover and some Rival Schools pre production art. They had a couple of drawings by Shinkiro made just for the exhibit!

Even though Sega is out of the hardware business, it seems like money being left on the table by not having a modern mega drive on the market with with all the new releases and interest in the system. One with hdmi out , wireless controllers etc.. I bet a eshop would do well for their back catalog, there could be downloadable games with no changes from the original releases since it would be on real hardware or (close to). Just a thought with the delisting of the Mega Drive collection on multiple platforms.

I hope the second season focuses on Richter more, it really felt like he was a supporting character in season one at times. I think there is potential for a really interesting story that could be told between Rondo of Blood and Symphony of the Night. It worried me they introduced Alucard at the end of the first season, so I will give it a try and see what they come up with.

Will be interesting to see if this outsells the original 7800.

Goemon 64 is definitely my favorite. It was really standout title early on in the n64 library. I hope it’s more available to play on modern hardware. Hopefully with so many companies mining their back catalog for remakes and re masters anything is possible. Plasma!!!!

@jesse_dylan interesting observation, but as I recall the Square releases used the circle for confirm in their releases for North America too. Not sure why they didn’t localize that too.

Yes! I second the DS for fan translation. A really gorgeous game with brush painted backgrounds.

Got my copy in the mail yesterday. Haven’t gotten very far, but the controls feel great. The taiko drummer theme also translates well for a play mechanic. Its pretty friendly for an import, but you will miss out on the story if you can’t read Hiragana.