Aaa no Natsukashi no Shooting Watch, or Ahh, Nostalgic Shooting Watch, is a DSiWare version of Hudson’s Shooting Watch, which is scheduled to release in Japan on April 28th for 200 DSi Points.
You, too, could be the life of the party at Shibuya’s new Famicom City with this (if you are also Takahashi Meijin)!
tags / shooting watch / dsiware / hudson / jcTakahashi Meijin hates waiting at elevators! Hudson produced this commercial along with several other office-themed spots back in 2008 for the Shooting Watch’s re-launch in Japan. Watch all the ads here!
I’m calling attention to the device today because Hudson snuck in a mystery game titled Shooting Watch in Nintendo of Europe’s release list for 2010 Q2. This same list also revealed that one of the Jam With The Band/Daigasso! Band Brothers games will finally come to the West, but all the other gaming sites are already covering that news, so I’m focusing on this more obscure item.
What could a full retail Shooting Watch game consist of beyond a function for measuring how fast you can tap buttons and a few minigames? Training exercises? Online leaderboards? Caravan-styled Star Soldier challenges?!
You don’t need to wait for Hudson to release Shooting Watch to play with the toy on your DS, as there’s already a really neat Shooting Watch DS homebrew app you can download, as well as a WarioWare D.I.Y. microgame!
See also: 16 beat vs. 16 shot!
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Famitsu blogger and new Shooting Watch enthusiast Hiroko Kasahara daintily splits a watermelon with her rapid-fire fingers.
It’s an important skill for Meijins in training:
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I should have linked this earlier in the week, but my Shooting Watch Sense didn’t alert me to the fact that people were talking about Shooting Watches until today.
This week, Hudson is giving away a sealed Shooting Watch! To enter, sign up for Hudson’s forums and post a Hudson memory. Tomorrow at 1PM PST, the company will pick its favorite post and award a Watch to the writer.
Right now, there are three entries up in this contest. I believe in you! I believe in you sixteen times a second.
See also: Tiny Cartridge’s Shooting Watch post memories
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Voice actress and Famitsu blogger Hiroko Kasahara found a Shooting Watch in the Enterbrain breakroom and tried it out, achieving a score of 71 shots, or 7.1 per second. She thought the device had a “cute design.”
Then she blogged about it, in a kind of quirky free verse. And then I blogged about that. This is what I am doing with my life.
tags / shooting watch / hiroko kasaharaKonami Code minigame made with Made in Ore, played on the Asobu! Made in Ore WiiWare game. While the pointer-based Konami Code input game seems basically like a nightmare, I’m impressed with the fact that the NicoVideo user who made this was able to both draw the Vic Viper and compose the intro to the classic Gradius music in Made in Ore’s utilities. The music even automatically speeds up along with the game!
When I saw this video, it gave me the idea to make a Shooting Watch game with Made in Ore. I told Eric, and it took him about five seconds to find that someone already had. It’s even better than the one I would have made/will make, with a little Takahashi Meijin head that pops up after sixteen shots to tell you to “play one hour a day!”
[Konami Code video via GoNintendo]
tags / made in ore / konami code / gradius / shooting watch / jc
Bandai’s LuminoDisc isn’t just a top that uses LEDS to display text while spinning, although that’s pretty neat. According to Technabob:
“If you hit a certain threshold, you’ll see secret hidden messages and animations. There are a couple of game modes, like trying to hit 150 rotations in 10 seconds, and a really tricky mode called “Just 100″ in which you need to stop the spinning at exactly 100 revolutions.”
So it’s a toy that measures a rate of motion over 10 seconds — it’s basically a Shooting Watch, but for spinning a top. I don’t think that’s a skill that can be applied to video game performance (or really anything else) but it’s cool to see the idea behind the Shooting Watch applied to another activity.
See also: More Shooting Watch business
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Hudson has released an official version of the Shooting Watch app for iPhone. For just 99 cents, you can wear a big hole into your screen with your furious jackhammer fingers! There was an unofficial Shooting Watch app that I thought I had posted about, but I can’t find the post now, nor can I find that app. In any case, this one is official and looks like the real thing.
The Shot Watch includes the same “secret” modes included on the recent rerelease of the real Shooting Watch, along with another secret mode and a couple of Touch Trix, uh, trix. I have yet to get on the iPhone bandwagon, if only because I already have a phone and don’t have like a hundred bucks to spend every month on the privilege of having another one, but should I find one on the side of the road or something, this will definitely be my first app purchase.
[Via The Tilt]
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Hudson has announced a Shooting Watch contest. No idea if it’s open outside of Japan (as usual), but it’s super easy to enter, and you MIGHT win a bunch of Hudson swag.
All you have to do is post a video response to these demonstration videos (Rubbing, Piano, Bashing, Ultimate) in which you achieve a high score on a Shooting Watch using the same technique as the video. The top three scorers using each technique, as well as the “ultimate” top scorer, will win stuff!
I’m totally not the Rapid-Fire King! I’m not going to win this at all — I top out at 128 with the Bashing technique, and when I tried Rubbing, I got the worst blister I’ve ever had.
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One Shooting Watch post from Ray Barnholt is worth my whole body of Shooting Watch-related work! For those of us who just bought Shooting Watches, Barnholt has written up a user’s guide.
The guide provides instructions for: setting the clock, using the stopwatch, and measuring your shooting (obviously). Mercifully, the two “secret modes” are also revealed, and… they’re kind of obscure, which is neat. One is a random dice-roll generator for a Japanese game called Saikoro, and the other is a four-digit random number generator.
The above image is a signed New Year’s card sent to ITMedia by Takahashi Meijin. It seemed appropriate!
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