This year everyone got funnelled into the same entranceway in hall 1. I was pretty surprised to see that Tatsujin had bought a pretty large booth. Very little decoration (just black walls). Tatsujin Extreme was playable, as was the smartphone toaplan collection. They had stations with the latter hooked up to both Mayfair arcade sticks and regular console controllers (I saw a PS5 controller I think). They had a really nice Tatsujin Extreme promotional manga they were giving away, and had a stage area where they were running a talk track, interviewing members of development staff. Really unusual to see such a niche developer buying a full-sized booth in the main halls, usually shmups are tucked away at publisher booths or around the edges for the really small indie publishers like BEEP! and Success. Someone in the schmup discord had me ask a developer if they were releasing physical media for TE. He said they hadn't made any announcement yet so he could not confirm or deny. M2 had 'reference exhibits' of Tatsujin Ou and Outzone running.
