http://www.cave.co.jp/gameonline/banchou/locatest.html
that corporate PDF from a few months ago metnionned their plans to release 2 medal games, but my memory of that is vague
here's hoping cave doesn't give up on shmups
ending on galuda 2 doesn't cut it, at least do a sequel to either ketsui guwange dangun or doj
chtimi-CLA wrote:
here's hoping cave doesn't give up on shmups
they wont stop, Cave has a growing market for their shmups.... it's not like nobody plays their games or anything
doing medal games (and Pachi-slots, etc) proved to be an extra good source of income for many compaines (Sega, Konami, Taito, etc..), esp. for those in the PCB biz.
By far the coolest medal game I saw in Japan was the Aliens machine. Second would be this huge dragon game and thirdly some sort of artificial aquarium game.
-ud
it's in the same league as pachinko "games"... you play for prizes, in this case, Medal games are for everyone, even little kids, while pachinko is considered "gambling", so it's not accessible by minors, and also a reason why there are a lot of "adult oriented" pachinko/pachi-slot/video-pachi games
As long as they make enough money with this machines to continue developing shmups then this is a fine thing. I think that the duality concept of making money with commerical hits to continue financing more niche genres is a very solid concept!
FrederikJurk wrote:As long as they make enough money with this machines to continue developing shmups then this is a fine thing. I think that the duality concept of making money with commerical hits to continue financing more niche genres is a very solid concept!
