Random crap.
I was at the Tilt game arcade in Arizona Mills in Tempe, AZ (formerly Game Works) with friends when I came across this neat Namco gachapon attraction. I didn’t give it a try, but it looked neat. Of course, I’m a sucker for anything Pac-Man. Apparently you have to slide the capsules into the holes to gain the prize inside.
This game has been around for a while, but today I played it for the first time. I’ve seen it before at game centers. This would be more fun playing with other people. I was kicking ass, but the CPU still beat me. Oh well. Four players can play as Pac-Mans (Pac-Men?) in a survival match. You can bump each others into ghosts and even eat each other (cannibalism!). Whomever survives 2 out of 3 rounds wins. I was focusing on eating the ghosts rather than my opponent for points. I’ll change my strategy next time.
Recorded in the Apina game center in Iida, Nagano Prefecture.
I haven’t played Super Metroid for about 15 years or more. I love this game! It’s actually the only Metroid game I’ve ever played. This wireless gamepad is a recent purchase. There was no name at all on the package. I got it on Ali Express for something like 1500 yen. It comes with a dongle to plug it into the SFC/SNES Mini or you can take out the USB WiFi receptor and use it with your PC. Ali Express claimed that it’s compatible with RetroPie, but I couldn’t get it to recognize it. Steam didn’t like it, either. Maybe because I was using the wire? The wire is for charging the controller. Maybe it’s not meant for gameplay.
My goal is to hack this Mini console to add more games to it, especially shmups since it does not come with a single shmup! Not even Gradius III! I’m making a list of games like Area 88 and Macross to add to this. I found a page saying that the program used to hack it can actually be used in Linux, so hopefully I won’t have to get out my grodie Win10 SSD.
Earthion was released late last night. It’s a new shmup for the Megadrive, available for download on Steam. I stayed up and played it a bit. I’ll do a write-up after I get more used to the gameplay.
This game is also known as Kujaku-Ou 2 on the Megadrive. I slightly modified this to improve her, giving her a carpet that matches the drapes.
I found this fan sprite art on Pinterest. Dunno the original designer, so I can’t credit the person. I made a couple of tweaks to it.
I took a pixel dump of the Ferrari from Out Run on the Megadrive from The Spriter’s Resource website.
I wish I had a darker palette of reds to choose from. I used Perler’s Tomato, Cherry, Red, and Hama’s Dark Red to complete this project.
Here is the final result, after ironing.
These are pictures I took a few months ago in the Taito Game Station arcade in Lirica Mall. From left to right: the sign in front, a vending machine, and Space Invaders Frenzy.
Mikado had these pin badge buttons in their gachapon capsule toy dispensers, so I got three. One big one that says “PUSH START” (I’m not sure why it says “2006” because according to the Japanese Wikipedia, it started in 2009), and a set of buttons for the Mikado location in Ikebukuro (top) and the original in Takadanobaba (bottom). As I mentioned in the previous post, Mikado is a legendary spot for retrogaming.
I visited Mikado next to Takadanobaba Station in Tokyo. Here are some more screenshots of game screens. (I made an earlier post of closeup screenshots of arcade games in Akihabara’s Hey and Super Potato here.)
