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I saw this in the kids' play area in the back corner of a Shimamura clothing store today. It's called O-Matsuriya-san (matsui is a Japanese festival). You can play a matsuri-style game, scooping a fish with the tiny net. you play with a stylus pen, so basically it's like a big DS.
I just set up a Flickr page for interesting crap I find in Japan. I don't know if it'll block embedded images, so I'm providing the links in case you just get a stupid "image" text instead of the pics. http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevethefishdotnet/
You know, I'd love to have something like that here in the US.
We're lucky to find a crappy UFO catcher/robot arm device in most malls these days.
That fishing game looks charming and interesting.
It's kind of interesting because I just happened to be playing The Legendary Starfy on my DS right before I read this post, and it happens to have a rather similar (albeit smaller scale, and slightly more involved) Takoyaki making minigame in it as well, which I suspect serves mostly to confuse the heck out of the Western audience.
Vexorg wrote:It's kind of interesting because I just happened to be playing The Legendary Starfy on my DS right before I read this post, and it happens to have a rather similar (albeit smaller scale, and slightly more involved) Takoyaki making minigame in it as well, which I suspect serves mostly to confuse the heck out of the Western audience.
Easily the best of the minigames on the cart, too, for whatever it's worth. Though I did find the idea of a minigame based on grilling octopus in a title based around cutesy sea life slightly unsettling, especially when you've got the pink one with the bow urging you on the whole time, heh.
I have the Starfy game for the DS too. Apparently the series goes back to the GBA in Japan. I saw the Starfy video on CGR on YouTube about the GBA game. I've since then seen the GBA games here in Japan and I'm considering getting them. I haven't played the DS game a whole lot yet, but I like the GBA Starfy games' graphics and sound more.
Undamned is the leading English-speaking expert on the consolized UD-CPS2 because he's the one who made it.
