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Party on, Quarth! The Game Boy version of Konami’s super rad shooter-puzzle thing will be released this Thursday in Japan (alongside the visual novel True Remembrance), for 400 yen ($5ish). Soooooort of reminiscent of Art Style: Pictobits, Quarth is a game about shooting blocks into falling structures to make rectangles, which then clear from the screen.
Best of all, the Game Boy version actually came out in North America in 1990, so there’s really nothing keeping Konami from releasing the Virtual Console version here.
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Rabi X Laby Episode 3 trailer. This third action puzzle game came out on the eShop in Japan yesterday. I think there’s something really interesting about this series reaching its third installment and moving to 3DS — some team at Silver Star is iterating, thinking of new ideas, and working to improve on its previous releases, in near-total obscurity.
I should really play one of these.
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[Via Nintendaan]
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AR deer hunting in Shika Gari Oh, the 3DS download sequel to the WiiWare game known here as Deer Captor.
This is not actually a surprise or anything, given, you know, video games, but there’s something deeply sad about how we have technology that allows us to conjure a little forest on our desks, and all we do with that forest is shoot its inhabitants.
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DS gathering at Yodobashi Akiba. When I first encountered this group, all I knew was that there was an unmoving mass of people just standing around and making it impossible for me to browse video games.
Then I saw they were all playing DS and 3DS games together, and it added a layer of “kind of neat” to my irritation. I wasn’t able to get deep enough into the crowd to see what they were playing, so I’ll just assume it was The Wonder Pets: Save the Animals.
tags / japan / yodobashi camera / jc / gamingVector Racing (3DS download) trailer. The sparse vector graphics style in this racer looks so, so cool. Unfortunately, everything about the game looks kinda sparse, judging by the trailer — sort of like a slower F-Zero with flat tracks. So… I don’t know.
I hope it does turn out not to be boring, because I’d like to stare at this game for a while. On a related note, I hope it’s released outside of Japan.
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Capcom may not have decided to go forward with Mega Man Legends 3, but it evidently liked the “paid 3DS demo” idea it was going to use. On Thursday, the Japanese eShop will update with a downloadable version of “3D sound” adventure game Nazo Waku Yakata’s first chapter. The “demo” will cost ¥200, which… you know what, is fine. If this is what it takes for the concept of 3DS demos to get a foot in the door, so be it.
The Nintendo page says that online delivery of a second chapter remains undecided. It would be crazy if this game ended up the first full 3DS game available digitally, through a piecemeal release. (It won’t.)
Also on the eShop in Japan this week: Let’s Golf 3D and Nicoli Number Puzzle Kakuro. Next week, Nintendo will release a 3D Classics version of Twinbee (sweet!), Arc Style: Jazzy Billiards 3D, and Vector Racing. Two original 3DS downloads in a single week!
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“Pokemon Cafe” goods available at Pokémon Center stores in Japan starting May 28. Look, maybe I want a cushion shaped like a big sandwich cookie, which is also vaguely Pokémon-themed, all right?
These goods are part of a new “Pokémon Cafe” promotion, which will tie into a similar promotion on the Japanese Global Link website to unlock Pokémon Cafe stuff for Black and White, along with one of four special Pokémon.
And don’t worry, it’s called a Pokémon Cafe because it serves food to Pokémon, not made of Pokémon.
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“Famicom Karaoke” sign somewhere in Japan’s Mie Prefecture. Unfortunately, the Famicom no Neta blogger who happened upon this sign didn’t go in to find out just what sort of business “Famicom Karaoke” was.
I imagine a smoky building filled with old Famicoms hooked up to tiny, burnt-in TVs, all running the Famicom Karaoke Studio game, where regulars come in and sing along to the same bleepy renditions of ’80s pop songs that they’ve been singing for years.
Or maybe it’s just a place you can play Famicom and sing karaoke. I like the Karaoke Studio enclave story better, though.
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Big-ass AR Card, now available from Club Nintendo in Japan. Not that this information is going to help anyone reading this post, but it’s available for 100 points through July 1, when it’ll go up to 250.
The 73 x 46 cm card isn’t exactly big enough for your Mii to stand proud next to Tetsujin-28, but you can probably get a you-size Mii out of it. The back of the card is the Mario character card, so you can have a you-size Mario as well. Think of all the fun you can have posing Mario around in your living room! Like… providing him with an alibi, for example.
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“Japanese refugee children play with their personal video games inside a gymnasium used as a shelter in Fukushima, northeastern Japan”, captured by David Guttenfelder.
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[Via Associated Press, Kotaku]
tags / handholding / fukushima / japan / gymnasium / david guttenfelder / associated press / gaming / ecJapanese DSiWare lineup video for January. This video posted by Nintendo includes the first footage of Chikaragami ~Rikishi~, the customizable paper sumo wrestler game by Artepiazza. It looks weird and great!
The video also offers your first look at Chara Pasha Spongebob and Chara Pasha Cinnamoroll, two licensed photo decoration apps, and 6th Grade Arithmetic Speed Training.
In case you were wondering if Japan’s DSiWare releases were slowing down.
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Fans line up outside Yodobashi Akiba to reserve Nintendo 3DS systems. Can you feel the excitement? What a magical time it must have been for those thirteen people. Inside-Games reports that the eager pre-orderers passed the time playing Monster Hunter Portable 3rd and … something on a Game Boy Micro.
The site also noted that about 50 people waited outside the Shibuya Tsutaya for reservation tickets for the 3DS, which launches February 26 in Japan. Good thing they’re getting these reservation tickets, or they’d have to … wait in line?
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