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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:
tags / shooting watch / hiroko kasahara / jc
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
tags / shooting watch / bandai / luminodisc / jc
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]
tags / iphone / hudson / shooting watch / shot watch / jc
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.
tags / shooting watch / hudson / takahashi meijin
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!
tags / shooting watch / takahashi meijin / hudson / jc
Sorry for being all Shooting Watch-crazy lately — but last night, I went looking around on eBay for vintage Shooting Watches, in order to compare their design with the new one. I didn’t find any originals, but I did find the Super Shooting Watch.
This Super Famicom-style variant on Hudson’s game-training device is rare enough, selling for $100 on eBay when one even appears on eBay. Seller cozyu is auctioning a case of twenty. For one thousand dollars. Who wants to go in on a case of Super Shooting Watches? I’m not entirely joking.
The back of the box mentions a UFO minigame — I wonder if this is one of the ‘secret’ functions in the new Shooting Watch? I’ll have to get out my kanji dictionary and try to figure out those instructions.
Unfortunately, while I was browsing eBay, I also came across this Hudson/Shooting Watch swag from TGS. Now I know that it is possible to go through life with a Shooting Watch towel, which makes my Shooting Watch towel-free existence basically meaningless.
My Shooting Watch arrived! It’s turned out to be a great desk toy — it’s an excellent pastime for extremely short waits, like when I’m uploading an image or reopening Firefox.
My high score is up to a mere 127 (12.7 shot). I need to do my finger exercises! But that’s a lot better than I could do on the Capsule Shooting Watch, because the buttons are a lot more responsive (and don’t miss inputs). That’s not too surprising, since the Capsule Shooting Watch cost three dollars and came from a plastic egg. I actually think the buttons are nicer than the DS Lite buttons, which gives the Shooting Watch the edge over Shooting Watch DS (though SWDS has extra stuff like a shop and leaderboards).
The Shooting Watch has two mysterious “secret” features, which I don’t know how to access. Maybe I’ll unlock something by hitting 16 shots/second? Even without bonus features, this thing has turned out to be more fun than I expected.
Since I seem to have turned this into a review, I’ll go ahead and give the Shooting Watch a score of… 109? Because that’s the score it just gave me. My arm is tired.
Did anyone else preorder one of these doodads? If so, or if you have Shooting Watch DS, what’s your rate?
tags / hudson / shooting watch / takahashi meijin / jc
This week marks the official release of the new version of the Hudson Shooting Watch, and Takahashi Meijin has been hyping it appropriately on his blog. Check out the Star Soldier cover! Neat!
Meijin described three techniques for attacking the Shooting Watch: “Bashing,” in which you vibrate your finger over the button, like he does; “Piano Shot,” in which you hit the A and B buttons alternately with two fingers, and “Rubbing,” in which you slide your finger back and forth over the button.
He urges Shooting Watch owners to comment with their records, along with the method used. He also describes methods of cheating, like using a ping-pong ball, a pen, or a lighter to Rub. He’ll know, okay? Just practice and do your finger exercises.
Also found in the latest 16shot.jp entry: the reason that Hataraku Hito/Help Wanted will be the greatest Wii minigame collection ever:
See also: 16 beat vs. 16 shot, trailer for Help Wanted
tags / takahashi meijin / hudson / shooting watch / hard working people / jc16 beat vs. 16 shot!
This Shooting Watch commercial is probably my favorite Takahashi Meijin video, just barely beating out that clip of him tapping a watermelon until it explodes. That is some Fist of the North Star shit, right there.
Since we’re just posting and linking movies of the Hudson icon willy-nilly, here’s another goofy iPhone advertisement, this time for Catch the Egg, a game in which players … catch an egg. It’s pretty rad just on the strength of its background music sort of sounding like the Perfect Strangers theme song.
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