Gamest knew exactly what they were doing when they called Ooparts, Farts. It's a little known FACT that for a short period of time they had to include a bottom related joke in each issue, like when they 'accidentally' mis-spelled Starblade as BUM The above words are not to be taken seriously

"The design philosophy wasn’t about giving you a fair fight" "There's no artistry here, just economics" Some people still think arcade games were designed to be purposely unfair & the only way to play them was to plow more coins in😢 No one ever reached a kill-screen, counter-stopped or 1cc'd

Super Xevious 3 piece soft vinyl 'super docking' model kit from 1987

Even as a famous idol Yōko Oginome was still hanging around arcade games. In her video for 'Sailing' I can spot Puck-Man, Dig Dug, Xevious, Galaxian, Galaga & in a break from Namco, what appears to be Nintendo's Popeye in the back right

bsky.app/profile/ikar... My brain did know this but my fingers had given up due to playing too much TX-1🤦‍♂️

In 1982, years before Konami decided to connect Moai to games, Namco ran their 'More Love' adverts Love in Japanese is 愛, pronounced Ai (eye), so when More愛 is said with a Japanese accent, it sounds like Moai🗿 The things you learn from following me eh. Absolutely useless but also extremely cool

An unusual fact about the overseas release of TX-1 is that it features the branding of every company involved with distributing the game, irrespective of whether they were involved in the local region Where else will you see Namco & Taito (non-Jp Asian distributer) in the same game?

Yoko Suginome, already a famous voice actress, tried to become a professional TX-1 driver but wasn't very good at it. Fortunately, she became good at singing, and the following year she achieved great success with the hit song "Dancing Hero (Eat You Up)."

Whilst there's not much in the way of sound, what there is is mostly missing from mame. Would be interested to know if the piece selection process is faster than mame where it's very slow I skipped it as I'm busy with Calice Cup games but it's a clever early game whose issues might be mame issues

When not swearing, Terry must satiate his evil side by doing 'funny' sex crimes. This is the 1st appearance of Mai in the AES Fatal Fury 2 manual After years of electroshock treatment, Terry is now a Nintendo approved, family friendly 'nice boy' who can guest in Smash Bros & every other FG on earth

Vol. 10 features Gapporin AKA Pop n Bounce which isn't currently on ACA. Wonder if it'll get a standalone release too Apparently it's uber rare but my local arcade used to have it. It's pretty good as far as bat n ball games go

between this game & the new Gundam I've seen people talk about, I can only assume Japan bought a job lot of Q's & U's and is now desperately trying to use them all up before they go out of date?

I'm curious if any game has ever launched to almost exclusively negative press but then been patched & become successful afterwards? Not counting things like SF4, 5, 6 as afaik, their press was mostly good & they had huge sales off the bat, even if a lot of people preferred later revisions

The Mermaid flyer (released in Japan as Yachtsman) which shows screenshots featuring a different main sprite as well as a Bonus Rate score instead of the released game's Rank All actual PCB footage of both regional versions of the game differ only in name, implying this flyer version never released

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dzL... When not driving a car in Road Fighter tonight I also drove a yacht to clear a loop of Mermaid. Lots of notes in the description for this one covering gameplay, stolen music & a non-existent version of the game

youtu.be/c5rJpFUA02E?... Cleared a loop of Konami's Road Fighter for the current Calice Cup Dad Fest tournament Fun game that used to be everywhere when I was a kid

Arcades used to be thriving but since rhythm games started appearing & jig dancing and / or fun chickens with dangerous small prizes inside them began disappearing, their numbers have declined massively Historian types never make this connection

The Taito version used a 2-way stick for rotation, the red button is fire (it's a bit hard to see in the image) & the 2 other buttons on the right are thrust & warp The Sega version of Asteroids was the same but left & right were reversed, so right rotated you anti-clockwise, which sounds confusing

A Taito catalogue from 1980 showing the both Table Top & Upright version of Steel Worker Also Taito's production of Atari's Asteroids, which uses a joystick for movement rather than buttons!!🕹️ #スチールワーカー #アーケードアーカイブス #アケアカ #タイトー

This week's Arcade Archives release goes all the way back to 1980 with Taito's Steel Worker. It's an action puzzle game that plays a bit like Lemmings #スチールワーカー #アーケードアーカイブス #アケアカ #タイトー

www.youtube.com/watch?v=138L... As it's Sunday, here's something a bit more chilled than my usual 180BPM+ madness. Some of my all time hip hop faves + the best ragga riddim + a little bit of The Dells at the end

Speaking of the st.5 boss, here he is in prototype form, from when the player characters were the Slugs & you had a 5pt health bar. The vast majority of the prototype images out there don't have the health bars. No idea if these are earlier or later revisions though

Who remembers the entire hidden shmup stage in Dyna Gear? I'm guessing nobody until I showed it off in 2020 as it was absolutely undocumented on video or in any language As weird secrets go, this is definitely in the top tier for me. A whole stage in a different genre to the main game

More lesser known or at the time unknown stuff I posted on the other site If you don't kill the stage 5 mid-boss in Metal Slug & let it chase you to the end of the stage, it will be destroyed by the real boss afaik it's the only time that Morden Soldiers can unintentionally harm each other

EVERYTHING STARTS WITH "G" Nah mate, I've checked the dictionary & it's definitely an E

Happy 40th birthday Super Mario Bros, the best of the Pac-Land knock off's

Speaking of Cannon Dancer, if you take the Tianon route in st.3 & hold up when you're rolling uphill in the 2nd tunnel transition scene, she will appear in casual clothing & have a cat with her

I preferred her sister in Cannon Dancer🤔

🚨Breaking🚨 Nintendo to release Nintendo games on current Nintendo systems. Both new games & remakes of old games You will also be able to subscribe to Virtual Boy games if you buy a weird hat or cardboard specs Most Nintendo owners seem pleased to be getting more Nintendo games on the Nintendo's

youtu.be/J-iLmAqnTSI?... A whole mix of tunes that won't ever have a general release (except for 2 forthcoming ones) & that can't just be purchased from a music retailer Many of these make things like those Nintendo World Championship prize carts look common as muck by comparison

This will almost certainly be ass but the fact you can end up with aliases like EROTIC SUPERIOR or INVINCIBLE BROTH automatically makes it better than every other beat 'em up of the last several years

I have pre-ordered a 'Nanoblock'. Apparently they are more challenging than Lego but this blockular lad is Level 2 & suitable for ages 8+, so I am in with half a chance of being able to build him Am I a gunpla expert now? We'll know by Xmas

The 1983 Japanese MSX release of Video Hustler features stylized artwork whereas the European version borrowed Paul Newman, looking a lot like he would do in The Color of Money, which wouldn't exist until 1986 #ビデオハスラー #アーケードアーカイブス #アケアカ #コナミ

From crazed future sports last week to more normal sport this week. Today's Arcade Archives release will be 1981 Konami Billiards game Video Hustler CALM EXCITEMENT WILL SEIZE YOU (apparently) #ビデオハスラー #アーケードアーカイブス #アケアカ #コナミ

Perfection exists

youtu.be/RYXBNKXs0gI?... Old DnB mix I did back in 2008, now on the internet & featuring the glorious visage of Supcat's ex-local large lad Chonkers (he's still alive, he's just moved to a different state) Large lad, large tunes

In Final Fight the highest scoring item is Edi. E's gum if you collect it when you're at full health. It's worth 42910 So why not 50K or a more normal number? Designer Akira Nishitani, AKA Nin-Nin's birthday is today. He's 58 meaning he was born in 1967, or Showa 42, 9, 10

Data East absolutely had form for this sort of thing

Having missed the discourse again (always a good thing) this boils down to 'is game fun'. I've 'wasted' hours in big games like RPGs or Dark Souls just nosing around, looking for anything I may have missed or a random drop or w/e & loved it but if you put 10secs of dead air in a STG I will hate you

AOU Show coverage of Treasure's never to be released action racing game Gun Beat

How it started: The long awaited Battle Shooting. Official title to be revealed at the AOU Show. (It wasn't & the game was previewed as Battle Shooting provisional name) How it ended: Battle Bakraid Still no proper home port after all these years for this or Batrider😢

HUGO the MIGHTY DIRTY GIGANTIC fighter

youtu.be/SerGso6cwiE?... A 1CC for the current Calice Cup Dad Fest event with 1983 triple-screen racer TX-1

Four games that were my 🕹️Favorite Game🎮 at some point in my life: - Spiders of Mars (Vic-20) - Bushido - Way of the Warrior (MS-DOS) - Arcadia (Vic-20) - Scuba Dive (ZX Spectrum) How about yours? I went super early this time, with no arcade games or ports

If you like Numan Athletics & Mach Breakers, give this a read If you don't like Numan Athletics & Mach Breakers, give this a read and then you will change your opinion

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... My 3 best Aqua Jet times. I uploaded the older two as each video shows different techniques. The 1'35xx video has a lot of information about what I managed to discover & what I'm still unsure of #アクアジェット #アーケードアーカイブス #アケアカ #ナムコ

Everything I've seen today that's not about Mach Breakers has been about Silksong, a game I'd never heard of until a couple of days ago. I never knew it was a sequel & having seen it's full name, I thought it was Shovel Knight related I am that far out of the loop but I hope people are enjoying it🫡

If you were wondering why the one off print ad I shared yesterday looks a little different from Namco's usual ads, that because the devs drew it themselves as they wanted to be in charge of every single aspect of the game 30yrs later& they still have absolute pride in their game as evidenced today

11th place this week. I reached the maximum score of 24 but the deciding factor is your sprint time in the initial race. I did mid 8 secs shaking the Dual Shock analog stick but went with my arcade stick for full attempts as it has much better buttons that help in the Ice & Monster stages

It's Archiver intermission break time, so here's some 1995 Mach Breakers fan art that Gamest published of the best girls + an American man