{"id":1848,"date":"2024-11-26T13:40:27","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T04:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/?p=1848"},"modified":"2024-11-28T21:03:19","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T12:03:19","slug":"sailor-moon-arcade-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/2024\/11\/26\/sailor-moon-arcade-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Sailor Moon arcade game by Banpresto"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure data-wp-context=\"{&quot;imageId&quot;:&quot;69d3dde1b9d03&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" class=\"wp-block-image size-full wp-lightbox-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"452\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-async--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on-async--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-async-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" src=\"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Sailor-Moon-banpresto.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1849\"\/><button\n\t\t\tclass=\"lightbox-trigger\"\n\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\taria-haspopup=\"dialog\"\n\t\t\taria-label=\"Enlarge\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-init=\"callbacks.initTriggerButton\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-on-async--click=\"actions.showLightbox\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-style--right=\"state.imageButtonRight\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-style--top=\"state.imageButtonTop\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\" fill=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 12 12\">\n\t\t\t\t<path fill=\"#fff\" d=\"M2 0a2 2 0 0 0-2 2v2h1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 1 .5-.5h2V0H2Zm2 10.5H2a.5.5 0 0 1-.5-.5V8H0v2a2 2 0 0 0 2 2h2v-1.5ZM8 12v-1.5h2a.5.5 0 0 0 .5-.5V8H12v2a2 2 0 0 1-2 2H8Zm2-12a2 2 0 0 1 2 2v2h-1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 0-.5-.5H8V0h2Z\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/button><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sailor Moon<\/strong>\u00a0(Banpresto, Arcade 1995)<br>I played the <a href=\"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/superfamicom\/smoonr\/smoonr.htm\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/superfamicom\/smoonr\/smoonr.htm\">Super Famicom Sailor Moon and Sailor Moon R brawler games<\/a> by Bandai quite a lot, but it wasn&#8217;t until much later that I learned of this arcade game by Banpresto much letter. The gameplay is pretty solid and I love the screen-clearing magic attacks, but it lacks the standard projectile attacks that the SFC games featured, done by holding the attack button and charging it for a moment. It would have made this arcade game better IMHO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sailor Moon\u00a0(Banpresto, Arcade 1995)I played the Super Famicom Sailor Moon and Sailor Moon R brawler games by Bandai quite a lot, but it wasn&#8217;t until much later that I learned of this arcade game by Banpresto much letter. The gameplay is pretty solid and I love the screen-clearing magic attacks, but it lacks the standard &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/2024\/11\/26\/sailor-moon-arcade-game\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sailor Moon arcade game by Banpresto&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[219,10,12,220],"class_list":["post-1848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-manga","category-video-games","tag-animated-gif","tag-gaming","tag-retrogaming","tag-sailor-moon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1830,"url":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/2024\/11\/13\/1996-the-summer-i-discovered-atlus-games\/","url_meta":{"origin":1848,"position":0},"title":"1996: the summer I discovered 32-bit Atlus import games","date":"2024-11-13","format":false,"excerpt":"Gunbird Power Instinct 2 In 1996, the video game scene in the USA was heavily focused on 3D-rendered graphics and I was disappointed. 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