Iizuka's interview with Beep21 just released. Still don't have a subscription to it yet so haven't skimmed over the article myself, but some good...
One old man's vast collection of coin-op industry stuff just hit the Internet Archive [img] [img] [img] Lots of things in there.
I covered some of this ground the last time Curling Holiday came up for discussion as well; alongside all the hi-tech simulators and such, a big...
In fact, looking back at the only known footage of Curling Holiday near the start of this episode of Game Catalog II... [MEDIA] Even in compressed...
I think this is just a prime example of buzzwords - Sega, like many companies in that era, used 'Hi-Tech' a lot to describe their arcade games...
One would hope it's for the arcade version that went down well (particularly with women) before the Game Boy's over in Japan - but that fact is...
Sega '93 Amusement Machine Guide Sega '94 Amusement Machine Guide Have seen numerous bits and pieces from these before via lower quality scans,...
God's work right here [IMG] I wonder of any of these still exist somewhere. The text seems to indicate they may have only been an experiment at...
It's an actual Japanese book - GSK has a thread overseeing some of the fallout from it over there. Apparently others are even going as far as...
Ryoichi Hasegawa has posted a big old Twitter thread on that one bad Japanese video game history book getting continually slated by nearly...
I can easily believe that was the case - there is of course the suggestion that many of Sega's developers were still not really accustomed to...
You've heard of Metropolis Zone... you've probably also heard of Megalopolis Tokyo City Battle... now get ready for [IMG] Megatropolis Powerslam...
Remembered a few things, so here we go The photo below started off a thread of Harmony cover scans to commemorate Sonic's 30th anniversary, done...
A Gamest feature seems to title it as "Virtua Fighter 1 & 2 Eternal Battle" - was just trying to find the specific issue but didn't get anywhere.
The tournament sponsorships with popular drink brands even continue now too, as Initial D had one with Lifeguard tied into its recent Hashiriya...
At the very least, that 'Time Attack Competition' seems to have been less of a proper tournament. If I'm reading into this correctly, readers...
If my dates are correct on LIVE UFO, that was April 1994 - so unless there was a smaller region-specific tourney for VF1 at some point beforehand,...
Virtua Fighter 2 The Eternal Battle and Virtua Fighter 3 Maximum Battle - both of these videos should be helpful for the earlier VF tourneys. Will...
I've had coverage of these in mind for a while, but didn't exactly want to be the one to open Pandora's box with them, as countless other games...
SegaSonic Wataame Scramble and probably several other arcade machines that didn't feature any graphical element altogether, but still have ROMs...
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