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New promo video is up. New info on their site as well.

Looks like the full title is now something like "Arcade Love With Pengo!".

The 'Power Rangers' section seems to have a whack-a-mole element to it now. 4 player simultaneous on all modes by the look of it, and should the mood take you you can rotate the screen as well .

Release sounds like it's fairly imminent, if it comes out on the same day as Under Night in-Birth it'll be next Thursday.

The power rangers section still seems a bit crappy, but 4 player simultaneous Shmups Skill Test and CombatZeal actually do look like fun.

Hope they can get a home port out for this, even if it's download-only. Perhaps Qute or G-Rev would be willing to assist with publishing duties.

Or maybe the whole point is that it's ARCADE love.

Some new much longer vids are now up on Youtube. I think it's definitely out anyway.

Any idea what kind of hardware this is running on ?

Yeah, it's on Sega's ALL.Net P-ras MULTI. Their equivalent of Nesica I think.

Thanks!

Ah, it's good to see the 8-BIT game is still there, with WASi303's music included. Even the song "Eternal Traveler" (永遠のTraveler) is there~ <3

I hope there will be a home port later! It's funny how you can mess around with the other players by flipping their screens around, specially in that Gradius-powerup type mini game.

Honestly... why bother.

I can't seem to find a more relevant thread for this one, but I just ordered the Switch port off Play-Asia and was curious to get some impressions. I'm quite interested in the "gamer age" concept, as self-defeating as that sounds. It was a bit on the pricey side, coming in at $50 US, but it also seems like one of those oddball titles that will only go up so I jumped on it while I could. I should have my copy next week, so I'll post some thoughts when I have it in hand.

Wow, dang, guess I'm flying solo on this one: https://www.play-asia.com/arcade-love-plus-pengo/13/70cqr3

Got my copy today, so I'm jumping in tonight after work. I don't expect much, but it seems like some good party game fun.

It made me happy to see a Triangle Service thread arisen from the grave this morning. I don't know why but I really love this company. I never bought the home port of Gesen Love, but I've played it quite a few times in the arcades. It's really great if you have others to play with, but played solo I prefer Shmups Skill Test.

Did anyone on here realize Triangle Service has a new game out in arcades for the Sega ALL.Net P-ras MULTI (the ALL.Net 2 basically, it runs DOA6 arcade)? Unfortunately it's not a shmup, it's a brain teaser kind of game called Tapping Skill Test. They obviously have no budget whatsoever at this point, but it makes me happy they are still making games in 2019.

https://apm.sega.jp/ver3/title/tsta/

Yeah, I remember watching a video some time back. I think there's also a pc version.

This pretty much sums up my feeling so far. The shmups skill test is pretty neat, and probably the highlight of the pack. I was able to get into some multiplayer Pengo, and we had some laughs, but it's fairly clunky/slow and we pretty quickly jumped back to Killer Queen Black after a few games. Sadly, the Power Rangers-inspired mini-game collection was a hot mess, with poor hit detection and just awful presentation. My girlfriend remarked it looked like, "A fake game you see people playing on a sit-com when they can't get the rights to something real."

I'm definitely not sorry to have it in the collection, but it's unfortunate they are charging so much for it. At $20 or so it'd be a easy recommendation, but it's currently more in the $50+ range, and that's a tough Pengo to swallow.