M2 is making a new shmup!

[KAI]

It's happening!! The ex-Cave employees are making a shmup!

Hope it's an arcade game and not just some retroshit for WiiU or something like that.

[Blackbird]

Are you sure it's not just a reference to Ubusana? M2 has reportedly been working on that for a while.

[MathU]

Let's hope it's Gradius VI and not some crappy CAVE bullet hell clone or something like that.

[jepjepjep]

M2 is the best!

[Dave_K.]

To be announced on April Fools day of course.

I'm hoping for Muchi Muchi Kung Pao Chicken.

[KAI]

Are you sure it's not just a reference to Ubusana?

It's a different game apparently

[Cata]

oh FUCK

[pokemon123]

yep agree with dave. thinking it might be a joke.

[ACSeraph]

Spoiler

Well played KAI, well played.

[Shepardus]

Spoiler

Took me a while to realize why I couldn't find the tweet on their Twitter. And also why it was posted here as a screenshot rather than a link to the tweet.

[MathU]

I just want M2 to do Gradius VI damnit.

[Cata]

Cruel

(hahaha)

[HydrogLox]

April fools joke aside - there is some noise on the M2 twitter about a shmup Special Attack Aircraft Carrier Beluga.

Apparently it's part of the 500 Yen game pack (2015-03-05) for the free Yakuza Zero app for PlayStation Vita (2015-02-26; siliconera). The game goes back to the 2007 Windows game Beluga Mk.II by T. Matsushima. Seems that within a year that game appeared as Beluga 6001 on homebrew cartridges for the actual NEC PC-6001.

[Cagar]

Fuck you this year too, KAI
How did I fall for this, I'm so desperate when it comes to new shmups

[mariusrhpsd]

Fuck you this year too, KAI

[STG4WD]

Got me there mofo...

[BPzeBanshee]

April fools joke aside - there is some noise on the M2 twitter about a shmup Special Attack Aircraft Carrier Beluga.

Apparently it's part of the 500 Yen game pack (2015-03-05) for the free Yakuza Zero app for PlayStation Vita (2015-02-26; siliconera). The game goes back to the 2007 Windows game Beluga Mk.II by T. Matsushima. Seems that within a year that game appeared as Beluga 6001 on homebrew cartridges for the actual NEC PC-6001.

Oh, so THAT's what Beluga was all about. Spotted a post for that a while back on Shou's Tumblr page thinking it was some Sega Megadrive proto or some weird shit. Didn't know it was for the PC-Engine.

[HydrogLox]

The 2007 Windows original can be downloaded from http://p6ers.net/hashi/p6programs.html via http://p6ers.net/hashi/archive/belugamk2win.zip (DirectX 9.0c is a requirement).

Versions overview http://p6ers.net/hashi/beluga1.html.

NEC PC-6001 cartrifdge: http://tulip-house.ddo.jp/digital/BELUGA/

Apparently the translation "suicide aircraft carrier Beluga" is appropriate as you fight just to carve a path for the carrier aircraft to nuke the stage Kamikaze style.

[MOSQUITO FIGHTER]

M2 just uploaded some gameplay footage of their upcoming shmup! I'm so psyched!

New! M2 Shmup Footage! Look!

[BrianC]

April fools joke aside - there is some noise on the M2 twitter about a shmup Special Attack Aircraft Carrier Beluga.

Interesting that it looks like they are working with Rutubo. I didn't know they were still around.

[Oniros]

[opt2not]

Fuck I hate April 1st.

[system11]

Fuck I hate April 1st.

I just go into bunker mode on 1/4. Everything is a lie, even true things.