What to do next? Shmup it! (An arcade in Kyoto?!)
(tags game, arcade, Kyoto, shmup, fighting, replay)
(2006/05/13 weekend activities, delayed post) During the weekend I opened up that Ibara and played it. Due to my current TV, I have to rotate the screen 90 degrees to the left (video's up is the TV screen's left), which is not supported in some games like Ikaruga (which only supports right-rotation tate). But it is supported in Ibara and I was happy. With that said I was pretty frustrated with this game. The bullets are small and hard to see in the Arcade mode. Despite this, I kept coming back for one more try. It was calling me many times throughout the weekend. Wierd. I played the PS2 mode which I liked even better because it didn't have much to learn compared to the Arcade mode. I could get to the third stage without a continue on a good play, but those were few and far between.
I was shmup'd up, feeling good about 2d-ness. I even tried a game of Psyvariar Revision just for kicks. That game can do left-rotation tate as well, sweet. This time I just used that spin button instead of trying to be joystick-jiggle maniac and it was much more fun.
Why the shmup return? Actually in Kyoto there was a well-trafficked amusement center/arcade complete with rows of fighters and new (to me that is) shmups. I spent a hour there just watching other people play. Obviously these games have been out for a long time since 1 play was 50 yen. I saw for the first time Shinigami no Shiro 3, and the guy rocking the game was playing the bullet absorbing character. After he 1CC'd it, he put his initials in at 1st place, and then on the high score table, the same initials were in all top 7 spots. He was getting hit (on purpose?) so it wasn't one of those god-like plays (or maybe it was?), but it was very fun to watch nonetheless. (BTW, isn't that boss character Yukari Horiguchi voiced by Yukari Tamura? Naw that's not quite right, Yukari Tamura voices the second level boss on SnS 2, I think.) That arcade unit was outfitted with a VHS (?) VCR so you could record your own play. Very cool, that's the first time I seen a DIY recorder in the arcade, but then again, I'm not a arcade connoiseur, yo.
I also saw Ibara: Pink Sweets which was been rocked by another dood, and Espaluda II (I can't spell this) which was being rocked by some middle-school kid. Heh. Very cool arcade here, but those were the only shmups there. The rest of the floor was like some fighting heaven or something, screens for the spectators, etc. Oh yeah, I was watching some Street Fighter 3 and I didn't know half of the techniques you could do: trading parry-swipes, aerial parry-throws, whatever. Sorry I got off the train when the Ryu-Ken battles were fireball fireball uppercut, so this was really exciting for me.
I'm sure if I tried hard enough I could find a similar arcade in Osaka, but man, I don't like my clothes to smell like smoke.
I was shmup'd up, feeling good about 2d-ness. I even tried a game of Psyvariar Revision just for kicks. That game can do left-rotation tate as well, sweet. This time I just used that spin button instead of trying to be joystick-jiggle maniac and it was much more fun.
Why the shmup return? Actually in Kyoto there was a well-trafficked amusement center/arcade complete with rows of fighters and new (to me that is) shmups. I spent a hour there just watching other people play. Obviously these games have been out for a long time since 1 play was 50 yen. I saw for the first time Shinigami no Shiro 3, and the guy rocking the game was playing the bullet absorbing character. After he 1CC'd it, he put his initials in at 1st place, and then on the high score table, the same initials were in all top 7 spots. He was getting hit (on purpose?) so it wasn't one of those god-like plays (or maybe it was?), but it was very fun to watch nonetheless. (BTW, isn't that boss character Yukari Horiguchi voiced by Yukari Tamura? Naw that's not quite right, Yukari Tamura voices the second level boss on SnS 2, I think.) That arcade unit was outfitted with a VHS (?) VCR so you could record your own play. Very cool, that's the first time I seen a DIY recorder in the arcade, but then again, I'm not a arcade connoiseur, yo.
I also saw Ibara: Pink Sweets which was been rocked by another dood, and Espaluda II (I can't spell this) which was being rocked by some middle-school kid. Heh. Very cool arcade here, but those were the only shmups there. The rest of the floor was like some fighting heaven or something, screens for the spectators, etc. Oh yeah, I was watching some Street Fighter 3 and I didn't know half of the techniques you could do: trading parry-swipes, aerial parry-throws, whatever. Sorry I got off the train when the Ryu-Ken battles were fireball fireball uppercut, so this was really exciting for me.
I'm sure if I tried hard enough I could find a similar arcade in Osaka, but man, I don't like my clothes to smell like smoke.
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