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A Little Bit on the Mushihime-Sama Side: Here’s our first look at Mushihime-Sama HD from Cave. I can’t wait for this game. Hopefully it has as many features as its sequel, Mushihime-Sama Futari.

A Little Bit on the Mushihime-Sama Side: Here’s our first look at Mushihime-Sama HD from Cave. I can’t wait for this game. Hopefully it has as many features as its sequel, Mushihime-Sama Futari.

Source: cave-game.cocolog-nifty.com

Posted by El Marc 24 February 9 Permalink, Comments
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A Little Bit on the Cave In Side: This Cave In poster rocks, man. It’s from way back in their Until Your Heart Stops days. Two of my favorite things: metal / hardcore and old games. 

A Little Bit on the Cave In Side: This Cave In poster rocks, man. It’s from way back in their Until Your Heart Stops days. Two of my favorite things: metal / hardcore and old games. 

Source: caveinblog.blogspot.com

Posted by El Marc 20 February 27 Permalink, Comments
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A Little Bit on the First Footage of Saidaiohjou Side: Cave are location testing their latest and maybe last shoot ‘em up, DoDonPachi Saidaiohjou. Here’s the first footage of the game. I’m happy to see a traditional Cave shooter rather than something like Akai Katana.

Posted by El Marc 3 February 3 Permalink, Comments
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A Little Bit on the Dick Side: Apparently, someone has stumbled upon a prototype of Resident Evil for Gameboy Color. He’s pledging to dump and upload the ROM of the cartridge if he is paid a cumulative $2,000 by interested gamers. Maybe I just come from a community of idealist gamers, but charging to release a proto is plain low. Just last week, a prototype of a long lost Neo Geo game, The Last Odyssey, was released by a member of the Neo Geo community. What did he ask for in return? Absolutely nothing. And a Neo proto is whole hell of a lot more valuable than a Gameboy Color proto. I know it’s common practice, but there are plenty of people in the proto-collecting scene that release without asking for anything. Screw these dudes who charge to release a proto. 

A Little Bit on the Dick Side: Apparently, someone has stumbled upon a prototype of Resident Evil for Gameboy Color. He’s pledging to dump and upload the ROM of the cartridge if he is paid a cumulative $2,000 by interested gamers. Maybe I just come from a community of idealist gamers, but charging to release a proto is plain low.

Just last week, a prototype of a long lost Neo Geo game, The Last Odyssey, was released by a member of the Neo Geo community. What did he ask for in return? Absolutely nothing. And a Neo proto is whole hell of a lot more valuable than a Gameboy Color proto.

I know it’s common practice, but there are plenty of people in the proto-collecting scene that release without asking for anything. Screw these dudes who charge to release a proto. 

Source: hotbloodedgaming.com

Posted by El Marc 30 January 19 Permalink, Comments
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A Little Bit on the OMG It’s a New Arcade Shmup Side: Just when you thought Cave was ready to - uh - cave, they announce that their mystery game, DoDonPachi Saidaiohjou is indeed a new arcade shooter. The game will be location tested in the near future and hit the arcades at some point later in the year. Hopefully there will be a 360 port, but I don’t think we’ll hear anything about that for several months at the least.

A Little Bit on the OMG It’s a New Arcade Shmup Side: Just when you thought Cave was ready to - uh - cave, they announce that their mystery game, DoDonPachi Saidaiohjou is indeed a new arcade shooter. The game will be location tested in the near future and hit the arcades at some point later in the year. Hopefully there will be a 360 port, but I don’t think we’ll hear anything about that for several months at the least.

Source: andriasang.com

Posted by El Marc 30 January 5 Permalink, Comments
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A Little Bit on the Mushihime-Sama Side: Today, Cave announced that they’re creating a high def update to their 2004 shooter. The game was previously ported from the arcade to the PS2, but not by Cave themselves. This is a must-buy for any Cave or shoot ‘em up fan. Hopefully it’s a full physical release rather than a download. A release date will be announced soon. In other Mushi-flavored news, the Xbox 360 upgrade of the game’s sequel, Mushihime-Sama Futari, will hit Games on Demand next month.

A Little Bit on the Mushihime-Sama Side: Today, Cave announced that they’re creating a high def update to their 2004 shooter. The game was previously ported from the arcade to the PS2, but not by Cave themselves. This is a must-buy for any Cave or shoot ‘em up fan. Hopefully it’s a full physical release rather than a download. A release date will be announced soon.

In other Mushi-flavored news, the Xbox 360 upgrade of the game’s sequel, Mushihime-Sama Futari, will hit Games on Demand next month.

Source: andriasang.com

Posted by El Marc 30 January 12 Permalink, Comments
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A Little Bit on the iOS Side: So here it is: the trailer of Cave’s newest iOS shooter. If it looks familiar, that’s because it is. It’s a port of 2002’s DoDonPachi: Dai Ou Jou. The game is super challenging - I think I’ve only gotten to the fourth level boss - so you better buy insurance for your iThing before playing this and throwing your phone at the wall. It will be out next month.

Source: andriasang.com

Posted by El Marc 26 January 6 Permalink, Comments
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A Little Bit on the Shmup Side: What’s this? A Cave shooter is getting a physical release in North America? Yep. Rising Star, who published a PAL version of DoDonPachi: Daifukkatsu are expanding to North America and their first gift to us is horizontal shooter, Akai Katana Shin. This is Cave’s weakest shmup in a while, so I’ll be more than happy to buy this release rather than the real deal Japanese version.

A Little Bit on the Shmup Side: What’s this? A Cave shooter is getting a physical release in North America? Yep. Rising Star, who published a PAL version of DoDonPachi: Daifukkatsu are expanding to North America and their first gift to us is horizontal shooter, Akai Katana Shin. This is Cave’s weakest shmup in a while, so I’ll be more than happy to buy this release rather than the real deal Japanese version.

Source: siliconera.com

Posted by El Marc 26 January 2 Permalink, Comments
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A Little Bit on the DoDonPachi Side: Cave, who may or may not be getting out of the arcade and console shmup scene, are teasing a (presumably) new entry into the DoDonPachi series of bullet hell shooters. I was under the impression that Daifukkatsu was supposed to be the final major entry into the series, but I could be totally making that up. So hopefully this is a sign that Cave isn’t actually dead to me.

A Little Bit on the DoDonPachi Side: Cave, who may or may not be getting out of the arcade and console shmup scene, are teasing a (presumably) new entry into the DoDonPachi series of bullet hell shooters. I was under the impression that Daifukkatsu was supposed to be the final major entry into the series, but I could be totally making that up. So hopefully this is a sign that Cave isn’t actually dead to me.

Source: cave.co.jp

Posted by El Marc 23 January 7 Permalink, Comments
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Random Purchase of the Month: This month I randomly purchased a double-sided Nintendo poster. One side features Disk-Kun, the mascot of the Famicom Disk System. On the opposite is an ad for Volleyball, a 1986 Disk System Game. It was just $10 and another $5 for the frame. Disk-Kun is the man, just in case you didn’t know. [Check out the previous RPotM]

Random Purchase of the Month: This month I randomly purchased a double-sided Nintendo poster. One side features Disk-Kun, the mascot of the Famicom Disk System. On the opposite is an ad for Volleyball, a 1986 Disk System Game. It was just $10 and another $5 for the frame. Disk-Kun is the man, just in case you didn’t know.

[Check out the previous RPotM]

Posted by El Marc 23 January 17 Permalink, Comments
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A Little Bit On The Synesthesia Side: Damn, the sleeve for this Rez soundtrack is nice! It’s actually only half of the soundtrack. The other half comes on a different vinyl in an orange sleeve. The graphic is of one of the character’s upper forms where he’s sitting lotus-style inside the sphere. Unfortunately, I can’t find a good photo of the front.

Posted by El Marc 5 January 33 Permalink, Comments
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Albotas Review: The King of Fighters XIII

There’s a misconception that there was a drought in the world of 2D fighting games. Street Fighter IV brought the genre back into the mainstream, and a bunch of games rode the coattails: Marvel vs. Capcom 3, BlazBlu, and more. But the King of Fighters series has always been there. Unfortunately, the series gets constantly overlooked, and this will be especially criminal in the case of KoF XIII, which is a particularly great game.
 Creamy gameplay and controls, staggeringly huge and powerful combos, K’ and Mai are back, amazing true 2D graphics, SNK cameos
 Delay at beginning of online matches, ‘98 Iori is on-disk paid DLC, filler story per the usual 

Hit the link for our full review of KoF XIII

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Posted by El Marc 26 December 12 Permalink, Comments
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A Little Bit on the Imported Side: Are you impatient? Do you have a lot of money? Then now’s the time to buy a Vita if you’ve got the itch. Play-Asia is selling Japanese units for a whopping $525. That’s without a memory card, game, or shipping fee. I think I’ll wait for a PSV Slim with a third analog nub.

A Little Bit on the Imported Side: Are you impatient? Do you have a lot of money? Then now’s the time to buy a Vita if you’ve got the itch. Play-Asia is selling Japanese units for a whopping $525. That’s without a memory card, game, or shipping fee. I think I’ll wait for a PSV Slim with a third analog nub.

Source: play-asia.com

Posted by El Marc 21 December 16 Permalink, Comments
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A Little Bit on the Skeevy Side: I recently fulfilled my destiny of buying a Japanese Xbox 360 Slim. They’re not being made anymore, so I figured now’s the time. Along with all the shmupy goodness that came with the console was a hilarious instruction manual featuring a skeevy Ron Burgandy style spokesman.

Posted by El Marc 10 December 31 Permalink, Comments
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A Little Bit on the Platinum Side: A trailer for Metal Gear Solid: Rising has just leaked ahead of its VGA premiere. The video confirms the rumor that Platinum Games will be handling the game’s development from here on out. This is the best game-related news I’ve heard in a while. Platinum are clearly the leaders of Japanese action game developers and I can’t think of a better team to handle this Lightning Bolt Action.

A Little Bit on the Platinum Side: A trailer for Metal Gear Solid: Rising has just leaked ahead of its VGA premiere. The video confirms the rumor that Platinum Games will be handling the game’s development from here on out. This is the best game-related news I’ve heard in a while. Platinum are clearly the leaders of Japanese action game developers and I can’t think of a better team to handle this Lightning Bolt Action.

Posted by El Marc 10 December 33 Permalink, Comments
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