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This is the police station in front of Kameari Park in Katsushika-ku If you win, heaven! If you lose, Hell! Ryoutsu Ryu Get-rich-quick Great War! (Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kouenmae Hashuutsjo Masateba Tengoku! Makereba Jigoku! Ryoutsu Ryu Ikkaku Senkin Taisaku Ikusa!) screenshots. Yes, that’s all the title. It’s based on a popular, and extremely long-lived, manga about a small police box in Tokyo and the cop, Ryo-san, who works there.
I think (?) the idea in the above minigame is that Ryo and a criminal have both stripped nude to prove they aren’t hiding anything, and you move Ryo around to block the player’s view of the criminal’s business while simultaneously approaching him.
You usually don’t see this much nudity in a DS game!
tags / bandai namco / kochikame / kochira katsushika-ku kameari / manga / what / jcGame Center CX 2 prizes, given away by Bandai Namco in a contest that has, sadly, passed (and took place in Japan anyway). I’ve never seen most of these items for sale anywhere! For a brief, glorious time last year, Banamco was giving away the following in bundles:
- Arino jumpsuits, laptop bags, and business card holders
- Alarm clocks, eyemasks, and towels
- Clear file folders, pens, and pen cases
- Clear file folders and stickers
Japan residents were getting this junk for free, and we’re still waiting on the chance to buy the Game Center CX DVDs — not to mention, of course, the second DS game, which is excellent and still unavailable.
Buy: Retro Game Challenge
Import: Game Center CX 2
See also: Many Game Center CX posts
tags / bandai namco / game center cx / jcPac-Man “Pac-Bun,” in both a PR picture and Inside-Games’s image of the real thing. The real cake looks a lot more like something you’d buy in a Circle-K than the mockup Bandai Namco sent out last week! I’d be super happy to eat either one, though. I ate a bunch of convenience store junk in Tokyo — occasionally I was too busy or tired to seek out any other kind of food — and I loved most of it.
The cake, on sale in Circle-K and Sunkus stores for a limited time, is filled with cream and crushed almond.
See also: More Pac-Man stuff
tags / pac-man / bandai namco / cookies / jc
Tamagotchi Narikiri Channel toy, included with Happy Sets at Japanese McDonalds locations from November 6 through 26, to promote the DS game out November 5.
I know absolutely nothing about the recent Tamagotchi games except that some of them were made by Nana-On-Sha and none of them are supposed to be any good — but even so, I totally want one of these adorable things. How can I resist that… character riding in a very happy thing that looks like a tape dispenser?
If they had been offering these when I was in Tokyo, I probably would have ordered a Happy Set, subjecting myself to even more humiliation than I already was. Why was I humiliated in McDonalds? Well, as a white dude with glasses and a poor command of the Japanese language, I was painfully aware that my presence in the restaurant invited comparison to Mr. James.
tags / mcdonalds / tamagotchi narikiri channel / toys / bandai namco / tamagotchi / jc
Amazon currently has my Game of the Year — and soon to be yours if you haven’t played it yet — on sale for $18.49. It’s a wicked deal if you grab a free Haggle Man button and consider that your purchase could help bring RGC’s sequel Game Center CX 2 to the states.
Import: Game Center CX 2
See also: Tiny Review: Retro Game Challenge
tags / retro game challenge / game center cx / indies zero / bandai namco / xseed / ecOoh, Galaga ‘88 is being added to Japan’s Virtual Console Arcade lineup next week. Who knows when it’ll show up here, given NOA’s glacial Virtual Console schedule, but I will totally type my credit card number into the Wii for that particular game.
tags / bandai namco / namco / galaga / galaga 88 / virtual console / jcGaplus. It’s been playable on Wii for a while — this video is from Namco Museum Remix — but I am still thrilled about it, and the Virtual Console Arcade in general. It’s just another venue for underappreciated games to be offered to me cheaply, and dismissed by Nintendo fans waiting for Donkey Kong (I’m calling it, that’s going to be the first arcade game whose absence will outrage the EARTHBOUND NOW crowd).
Namco Bandai, who has never been shy about re-releasing arcade classics, has jumped on this announcement with a shitload of games. Splatterhouse! Wonder Momo! Cyber Sled? Numan Athletics!
Yes, I like Wonder Momo, kind of. It’s embarrassing.
tags / bandai namco / gaplus / virtual console / virtual console arcade / jcGame Center CX 2’s Super Demon Returns is a Super Nintendo game! Well, a “Super Game Computer” game, actually. The 16-bit title is the sequel to Demon Returns, which also debuts in GCCX2. It looks like a mix between Super Mario World and Ghouls ‘n Ghosts, with a kind of Metro Cross-inspired jingle. I adore it.
Super Demon Returns was released in 1992 by Hokkaido-based Degoichi. It was supposed to launch alongside the Super Game Computer, but was delayed — which seems to be the case for every game in Game Center CX 2.
Perhaps Degoichi is supposed to be Hudson Soft? They’re the only game company I know of headquartered in Hokkaido.
Preorder import: Game Center CX 2
See also: More Game Center CX 2 media
tags / game center cx 2, / bandai namco / super demon returns / retro game challenge / jc
All week, we’ve been reading Retronauts’ Retro Game Challenge blowout, and planning to post a roundup with links to all the articles. But Ray Barnholt totally beat us.
Over the course of the week, Jeremy Parish outlined each minigame on the DS cartridge, offering a pretty detailed discussion of each game’s identifiable influences.
Ray provided background about RGC, including a discussion of its premise, a look at the amazing sequel, and an overview of the Game Center CX TV show. Even if you’ve been raptly following this game, you should check out their coverage.
In other news, holy crap guys the game comes out next week yaaaaaaaaay.
Preorder: Retro Game Challenge ($27.99, free s/h)
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