Widescreen tv's and the future of shmups

320x240 · Post by **320x240** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 3:10 pm

With widescreen tv's becoming more and more common-place, will there be any new games made for Tate?

Could we be seeing a shift towards more horiz and less verts?

Would more horiz mean the games would become less hardcore?

Post by **Shatterhand** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 3:21 pm

We are still waiting for the arcade shmup with widescreen tate.

Post by **Dave_K.** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 3:29 pm

Would be very interesting to see if/how developers take advantage of the extra screen real estate, kinda like the dual screens on the DS. I somehow doubt this will ever happen for home consoles, and only little hope arcade developers will do something with it.

Perhaps they will keep the games 3:4 and use the bottom and top bars to display static instruction info or score/stats. I have played with Mame on my 36" widescreen LCD, and put a marque image in a window at the top with the 3:4 game at the bottom. Looks very cool, especially if you can animate the marquee. If I had the time (and development knowledge) I would package an LCDMAME build to do exactly this.

DefaultGen · Post by **DefaultGen** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 3:52 pm

Considering how fantastically meh widescreen Yoko i'd hope devs just keep it at arcade resolutions or whatever.

indstr · Post by **indstr** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 3:59 pm

star soldier on psp already has widescreen tate

PC Engine Fan X! · Post by **PC Engine Fan X!** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 4:12 pm

The only Japanese arcade cabinet that has an widescreen LCD monitor included is none other than Taito's Vewlix which is a 32" widescreen LCD monitor, btw.

Yeah, it would be interesting to see the Japanese arcade shmup developers develop such a new arcade shmup title utilizing the 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio...who will be the first one do so? ^_~

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

Square King · Post by **Square King** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 4:27 pm

I dunno...widescreen seems kinda counterintuitive to the (vertical) shmup philosophy. If newer shmups were vertical, there might not be a problem. But I guess vertical could be pulled off a la Mars Matrix.

Jet Black · Post by **Jet Black** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 4:43 pm

PC Engine Fan X! wrote:The only Japanese arcade cabinet that has an widescreen LCD monitor included is none other than Taito's Vewlix which is a 32" widescreen LCD monitor, btw.

But the Viewlix Screen is not tateble, no?

toki · Post by **toki** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 4:57 pm

Jet Black wrote:
PC Engine Fan X! wrote:The only Japanese arcade cabinet that has an widescreen LCD monitor included is none other than Taito's Vewlix which is a 32" widescreen LCD monitor, btw.
But the Viewlix Screen is not tateble, no?

Not according to:

http://www.arcadeflyers.com/?page=flyer ... 78&image=2

Macaw · Post by **Macaw** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 5:39 pm

Darius 3

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 6:40 pm

Macaw wrote:Darius 3

Now with Squeenix characters

For the moment, I see widescreen TVs as mainly prompting people to display channels stretched out. I've seen a few widescreens in public places showing nothing but stretched out news, for instance. I guess the current systems can deal with widescreen well enough, but it doesn't seem a selling point for either a game or a system. Movies have been the selling point for widescreen thus far.

Aru-san · Post by **Aru-san** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 5:42 pm

Something I've noticed in some shopping places is that there are already people producing advertisements on TATE-oriented widescreen TVs. This sort of makes me wonder...why can't video game developers do the same?