Article: The Japanese Shmup Scene, Interview with Arasaka

Mark_MSX · Post by **Mark_MSX** » Fri Jun 14, 2019 11:42 pm

Article LINK: http://electricunderground.io/the-japan ... h-arasaka/

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Sat Jun 15, 2019 12:15 pm

Always neat to read stuff like this, thanks for posting.

OmegaFlareX · Post by **OmegaFlareX** » Sat Jun 15, 2019 8:47 pm

Incredibly interesting. Thank you.

Tokyo-J · Post by **Tokyo-J** » Sat Jun 15, 2019 9:14 pm

Awesome insight on the Japanese Shmup Mind. Thank you for sharing.

dan76 · Post by **dan76** » Sat Jun 15, 2019 9:52 pm

Great interview. Thanks.

crazyrexz · Post by **crazyrexz** » Sun Jun 16, 2019 9:27 am

well , im glad to see interview. especially on arcade. thanks for share!

garrz32 · Post by **garrz32** » Sun Jun 16, 2019 9:46 am

Tokyo-J wrote:Awesome insight on the Japanese Shmup Mind. Thank you for sharing.

second that

Mark_MSX · Post by **Mark_MSX** » Mon Jun 17, 2019 4:27 pm

Hey my dudes! Thanks so much for all the positive feedback, I really appreciate it. I'm glad to hear you guys found the article interesting. I'll have to think about following up with a similar article in the future.

Stevens · Post by **Stevens** » Mon Jun 17, 2019 4:49 pm

Read this last night. Great work Mark.

Mark_MSX · Post by **Mark_MSX** » Mon Jun 17, 2019 10:55 pm

Stevens wrote:Read this last night. Great work Mark.

Thanks man!

Stanshall · Post by **Stanshall** » Tue Jun 18, 2019 5:49 pm

Fascinating stuff, I'd love to hear more about the Japanese scene but I know that it's notoriously closed. I recall on an STGW interview Gus talking about a Japanese player going ballistic about some routes being made public. It does seem fiercely prescribed and restrictive. I guess that's also part of the allure. Anyway, great work, man. Deserves to be shared far and wide.

Mark_MSX · Post by **Mark_MSX** » Tue Jun 18, 2019 6:52 pm

Stanshall wrote:Fascinating stuff, I'd love to hear more about the Japanese scene but I know that it's notoriously closed. I recall on an STGW interview Gus talking about a Japanese player going ballistic about some routes being made public. It does seem fiercely prescribed and restrictive. I guess that's also part of the allure. Anyway, great work, man. Deserves to be shared far and wide.

Yeah I think you are right about how hard it is to get more info about the Japanese shmup scene. I mention it a bit in the article, but I've tried to do an article like this for a very long time, but just couldn't get it to happen with any Japanese players before Arasaka, he's the only one that I'm aware of that's interested in interacting with the western scene as actively as doing an interview and stuff. Very likely most of my follow up content will come through him, though there is a Japanese player I really want to try and make contact with called Devil Missionary. He has crazy DDP and DFK scores.

ChurchOfSolipsism · Post by **ChurchOfSolipsism** » Sat Jun 22, 2019 3:15 pm

Great interview, thanks so much for posting!

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