Play Magazine - September 2009 (360 shmup coverage)

brentsg · Joined: 12 Jul 2009 Posts: 680 Location: St. Louis, MO USA

Play Magazine did a 6 or so page spread on Xbox 360 shmups this month, so check it out if you have a chance.

There won't be any news for folks that frequent this site, but it's still cool to see in print.

Edit:

-They cover the economics of the genre and talk about the differences in price expectations between the Japanese and us ugly Americans
-They touch on DLC for various current consoles and briefly hit on the available options to "test it out"
-They cover Cave quite well and talk about DeathSmiles, DDPDOJ BLEX (including the scandal), Futari, and Ketsui
-Otomedius G got a page, as did Mamoru-kun, and Shooting Love 200X (DS and DDP each got a page too)
-There are blips about 0 Day Attack On Earth (Gulti/Square Enix Xbox Live) and The King of Fighters Sky Stage (SNK Playmore Xbox Live)

I knew nothing about those last two so maybe that is news or I have my head in the sand?

brokenhalo · Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 670 Location: philly suburbs

brentsg wrote:

-There are blips about 0 Day Attack On Earth (Gulti/Square Enix Xbox Live) and The King of Fighters Sky Stage (SNK Playmore Xbox Live)

I knew nothing about those last two so maybe that is news or I have my head in the sand?

they were both mentioned briefly here, but neither one of them looks decent imo.

http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=25756&hilit=+sky+stage+

http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=25725&hilit=+attack+on+earth+

TrevHead (TVR) · **Posted:** Thu Sep 10, 2009 12:43 am

It would be nice if any1 who bought the mag made some scans of it since intrest has been puckered up. I live over the pond where they wont sell it. Not that its totally relevent to me since it's about the USA but i'm still courious anyway.

kennyrh · Joined: 20 Sep 2005 Posts: 131 Location: Sunderland

Is that not the same Play magazine we get in the UK??

ZyN · Joined: 21 Feb 2009 Posts: 45

Anyone who can get me the mag and send it to germany ?

Malc74 · Joined: 09 Mar 2009 Posts: 61 Location: Thunder Bay, Canada

kennyrh wrote:

Is that not the same Play magazine we get in the UK??

If you're talking about the Playstation mag published by Imagine, then no. Play Magazine published in North America is this beast.

ZyN · Joined: 21 Feb 2009 Posts: 45

ZyN wrote:

Anyone who can get me the mag and send it to germany ?

Or can tell me with isse number it has ?

adversity1 · **Posted:** Sun Sep 13, 2009 7:14 am

Scans please! Can't get this in Japan.

kennyrh · Joined: 20 Sep 2005 Posts: 131 Location: Sunderland

Malc74 wrote:

kennyrh wrote:

Is that not the same Play magazine we get in the UK??

If you're talking about the Playstation mag published by Imagine, then no. Play Magazine published in North America is this beast.

Ah, right . . .different thing entirely. Last time I bought Play (many moons ago) I seem to recall it was a multi-format mag. Then again, my memory is getting poor :shock:

Engineer · Joined: 10 Sep 2009 Posts: 63 Location: CT, USA

Hello all! I've been lurking around this forum for some time now and finally decided to sign up. Figured this would be as good a place as any to introduce myself and make my first contribution.

Just picked up the Sept. issue of Play and shot some pictures with my camera. Please excuse any glare and my fingers in a few of the pics.

The rest can be found here and they can be made larger and are readable, enjoy

: http://www.flickr.com/photos/42535329@N08/

Malc74 · Joined: 09 Mar 2009 Posts: 61 Location: Thunder Bay, Canada

Nice one! Thank you, Sir!

durango76 · Joined: 05 Jun 2009 Posts: 145 Location: London

Yeah, thanks!
Always good to see something in print, especially Deathsmiles which as far as I know hasn't got a mention anywhere in the UK press (?).It would be good to have a scan archive - for articles, artwork, OST covers etc...

chempop · Joined: 31 Jul 2005 Posts: 523 Location: Northampton MA

Thanks Engineer! Going to try and hunt down a copy, been ages since I bought play but for me it was the only game mag I'd get.

adversity1 · **Posted:** Mon Sep 14, 2009 1:01 am

Thanks a lot!

Dragon1952 · Joined: 10 Oct 2007 Posts: 606 Location: San Antonio, Texas

The Publisher is a good friend of mine and several months ago I asked him to help me get a Japanese 360 since I had just bought Death Smiles and Otomedius G (since I thought at that time that I could "chip" my US 360). Anyway, they must have looked into it and ran with the ball. Those guys are also very serious gamers..!

PsikyoPshumpPshooterP · **Posted:** Mon Sep 14, 2009 5:04 am

where can i find the September issue of Play???? im in the USA,btw

hirounder · Joined: 01 Mar 2007 Posts: 181

Engineer wrote:

The rest can be found here and they can be made larger and are readable, enjoy

: http://www.flickr.com/photos/42535329@N08/

Welcome and thanks.

ExitPlanetDust · Joined: 30 Aug 2009 Posts: 27 Location: Austin, TX

PsikyoPshumpPshooterP wrote:

where can i find the September issue of Play???? im in the USA,btw

I've seen issues at every Barnes & Noble I've been to in the past 2 weeks.

Engineer · Joined: 10 Sep 2009 Posts: 63 Location: CT, USA

No problem! Happy to share.

I found it at Barnes & Noble as well. My local Borders didn't seem to have it. The cover article is Murumasa.

TrevHead (TVR) · **Posted:** Tue Sep 15, 2009 5:44 am

woot scans! THX mate

very intresting especially the story about that company using a dodgy ps2 emulator instead of doing a proper port.

adversity1 · **Posted:** Tue Sep 15, 2009 6:13 am

Kinda have to laugh at some of that info probably being pulled off shmups and cave-stg.

le geek · Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Posts: 6

Thanks for the scans. Nick Rox's writing has gotten A LOT better since his Gamefan days...

SFKhoa · Joined: 26 Jan 2005 Posts: 2328 Location: Toronto, ON

I'm definitely interested in grabbing this particular issue. However, I'm in Canada so the chance of seeing this locally is probably slim to nil. Someone wanna help secure a copy for me? I'll cover for all expenses (somehow).

Aquas · Joined: 11 Jan 2007 Posts: 585 Location: Minnesota, USA

Great, now I want these games even more! Argh! *thrashing*

Thanks for the scan.

deanhanson · Joined: 18 Sep 2009 Posts: 3

I am interseted in this play magazine. But how can I place order of it?? And will it cover all the games including latest and the all category of game?? or it will be for only particular kinda play magazine??

monkeyman · Joined: 14 Nov 2007 Posts: 188

Interesting read, thanks for posting the scans

evil_ash_xero · Joined: 12 Jul 2007 Posts: 1753 Location: Hell, WV

Glad they gave Death Smiles the props it deserves. The more I play it, the more I enjoy it. Just an awesome shmup.

Too bad they didn't mention the MBL version, which with Sakura is probably my favorite version of this game so far.

I also noticed how it says Cave has had "few Western releases". How about none, guys?

SFKhoa · Joined: 26 Jan 2005 Posts: 2328 Location: Toronto, ON

International ver. PCBs? That's the closest to Western I can think of.

Kiken · Joined: 25 Jan 2005 Posts: 2500

evil_ash_xero wrote:

I also noticed how it says Cave has had "few Western releases". How about none, guys?

Donpachi and Storm of Progear both saw official arcade distribution in the US. Then there are the international PCB releases of ESPRa.De., FeverOn SOS and Dodonpachi.

evil_ash_xero · Joined: 12 Jul 2007 Posts: 1753 Location: Hell, WV

Well, the wording was "and seen occasional licensed ports(but few western releases) on home consoles". So, it's not quite accurate.

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