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[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: New shipping rules from Japan to US (Nov.17th)]

Sensei can you guys get a deal where shipping wont be a hassle for you?

No, we don't sell enough stuff to qualify for any of the exceptions.  We can still sell to any other country without problems and most of our orders come from outside the US anyway but it still is a pretty big blow to us.  Hopefully it's temporary but it is really hard to know.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: New shipping rules from Japan to US (Nov.17th)]

This affects my potential acquisition of a Duo-R

Depends where you get it from. Places like Hit-Japan are still able to ship to the US as per normal.

I got a message from Rising Stuff saying shipping prices are going up now

Just in time to cancel my order and not get fucked anally by shipping

If you want to cancel your order just email me about it.  It probably won't run you too much more since your order is pretty light, but I totally get that you might want to cancel it.   This really, really sucks.

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: New RPG in the works]

Whatever method you choose.  I applaud your effort.  It is great to see new stuff for the platform.  Can't wait to see this.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: Wanted: US System Card 3.0 for Turbo CD]

What he said.

The SS3 cards have been going for stupid high rates lately. What you'll pay for the SS card might almost buy you the region mod and an AC Pro (you can't use the AC Duo, you need the AC Pro).  RisingStuff sells the AC Pro for $27 when they're in stock, and their shipping rates from JP are actually very good. They can probably get the card for you if you email them, they've always been helpful to me.
https://www.risingstuff.com/store/pcengine-arcade-card-p-2130.html?osCsid=lgj4g6n4apg7l7njo1limlr3j7

So for under $100 you have a TG that's capable of playing pretty much the entire library of games (except for SuperGrafx of course).

BTW my system was modded by Red Ghost (member here). He does excellent work and is a great guy to boot.[/quote]
Yeah, we will have more in stock soon.

[Media (PCEFX Radio/TV) / Re: PcenginefxTV (Ep.08) Official Production Thread - UPDATE 2009.03.26 (twice)]

Thanks Sensei!  You really don't need too much space...like I said, this is just in a regular bedroom (but granted you must have a bedroom to spare   The set is coming together fast - I plan on hanging NEC related stuff on the back wall, and also decorate the podium with PCE control pads.  I'll also have a small HDTV on the podium as well....then comes the fun part of properly lighting all of it...can't wait!

What type of lighting set-up do you have?  It works really well.  If you ever have a chance, snap a picture of it.  I have so many problems with shadows.  I really need to devote some space for a studio.  Gotta convince the wife first though...

[Media (PCEFX Radio/TV) / Re: PcenginefxTV (Ep.08) Official Production Thread - UPDATE 2009.03.26 (twice)]

The set looks great!  I wish I had the space to do something like the for the Famicom Dojo videos.  Good luck with ep. 8.  I am sure it will turn out really slick like all your other videos.

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Pia Carrot e Youkoso English Patch is now complete!]

I ordered the PC FX one to commemorate.

lol.

Too bad its not patched.


I wonder, is it possible to apply the patch and then burn a playable disc ?

Yes it is.  Thats what some people did.  Sadly I don't know how to do it myself.

[Off-Topic / Re: Red Dwarf Returns]

On the other hand, I highly enjoyed season 7 for the most part. The production value was unmatched and the stories were varied and interesting. 7's major downfall was the "phasing out" of the Rimmer character. I do think the second episode from that season, "Stoke Me a Clipper" is one of the best Dwarf episodes of all time however, with the pre-title sequence being possibly the funniest 5 consecutive minutes in the show's entire history.

Rimmer fighting the alligator in mid air still cracks me up.

[Off-Topic / Re: your top sites you visit...]

www.4colorrebellion.com
www.neogaf.com
www.risingstuff.com
www.pcengine-fx.com
www.metacritic.com

I used to go to a lot more, but my internet time is more limited these days.

[Off-Topic / Re: Red Dwarf Returns]

The crew is so much older now.  Still looking foraward to it.  Seasons 7 and 8 were not the best but I still enjoyed them.

Here is hoping the specials lead to a season 9!

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Playpower a "new" 6502 based computer.]

That is really, really interesting.  A famiclone used to teach computer skills in the developing world.  I am going to donate something to this project.  I think this is a great idea.

[Off-Topic / Re: Xenophobia and Racism in Japan]

I plan to settle down there too, after my military commitment.  My wife is Okinawan and I'll be living out the rest
of my life there. 

That's awesome.  Do you plan on living on the mainland or in Okinawa?  My wife and I went on vacation in Okinawa and it was one of the most beautiful places we have ever been.

[Off-Topic / Re: Xenophobia and Racism in Japan]

Reading GaijinPot made me sad 

I don't know if I have ever heard such a bitter, whiney group of people.  But I suppose if you get enough people together they try to one-up each other.

But yeah, there are a lot of bitter ex-pats even in my town that think everyone hates them.  They are right of course, even I hate them.

I have lived in various cities in Japan for about 6 years now and have never experienced what those gaijnpot users are writing about.  I am married to a beautiful Japanese woman, I have a kid on the way, I hang out with my Japanese friends and co-workers on the weekends.

In my 6 years there has been one bar I was not allowed to go in (strangely enough the bar was called "Boston American Bar") but it was probably Yakuza run semi-prostitution place.

I do have people talk down to me when they first meet me because they don"t think I will be able to understand the language or culture, but if you take time to get to know the people and have the right type of personality you can get along very well in Japan.

Is there racism here?  Hell yeah.  But that's one of the reasons living here is so important.  By making friends (and babies) with the Japanese these attitudes will slowly start to change.  It is easy to hate the scary unknown foreigner but much harder to hate your American Best freind/lover/father.

Being all bitter about it isn't going to change anything.

Personally, I love it here and I have no plans to live anywhere else.

[Off-Topic / Re: Midwest Gaming Classic show get together planning]

If only it was a few weeks later..

But be sure to see the "Famicom Dojo" panel that SeanOrange will be doing.

[Off-Topic / The “What-Did-You-Buy-Today?” Thread]

Got a Laseractive yesterday (with the Mega Drive expansion).  I will try to post pictures soon.

[PC-FX Discussion / Re: Doom type game on PCFX]

the FX avoided the (esepcially western) mainstream almost completely.  the only game on it that the casual non-japanese gamer might have known at the time was return to zork which was in that en-vogue Myst-like adventure category.  you have to give nec/hudson credit, they may not have made the best software choices fo rthe FX but they stuck to their concept of what its library should be and were really ocnsisten about it.

I still fid their guidelines very odd.  I mean what was Power League FX?  A sports title.  Not anime (which many people say was the focus)  Yet it didn't get a bomberman game because that sort of game didn't fit the guidelines.  Its all really confusing.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: What does a truly "Complete" Vasteel look like?]

I find it interesting that the WD special editions were often far beyond the Japanese special editions they were trying to emulate.

WD was in no way a perfect company but I miss how delightfully over the top they were.

[PC-FX Discussion / Re: Doom type game on PCFX]

The PC-FX has got to be one of the few pieces of hardware out there that doesn't have a Doom port. 

There used to be a site called www.itplaysdoom.com

But it seems to not exist anymore.

Doom and Linux, these are needed on the PC-FX.

[Off-Topic / Re: Who knew? Fugu testes can make you sick.]

Fugu is pretty good.  But not worth the price they charge.

[General Gaming / Re: Recommend some import Saturn games... please]

Sakura Taisen
Saukra Taisen II

[Off-Topic / Re: Risingstuff.com]

I want to join RS but for some odd reason the number code will not appear on my laptop.

That's odd.  PM me and I can manually set up an account for you.

[Off-Topic / Re: Hey kids....]

Can't identify any of the games but I think I have seen those pants before..

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: WTB: Factory Sealed PC Engine Hucard&CD Games]

Welcome to the forums, but I have a question.  Why in the world would you want to keep them factory sealed?

I just bought a ton of factory sealed PC Engine games and the first thing I did was rip them all open and play them....

This.

But to each their own I guess.

[PC-FX Discussion / Re: "The PC-FX: A Devotional Film" (Dec, 2009)]

I suppose it was a love letter from me to the FX - I think that fits pretty well!

I have some good news - I am already in pre-planning stages for my next film which will feature all of the NEC consoles together as one big "love letter" (PCE/TG/PC-FX).  I won't be using an Ayumi track but an absolutely beautiful classical orchestra piece I just found....it's seriously might bring a tear to your eye.

That's great news!

I am looking forward to it.   

[PC-FX Discussion / Re: "The PC-FX: A Devotional Film" (Dec, 2009)]

As expected, it was very slick, polished, and well made.  To me it felt like a love letter "To PC-FX from Aaron".

I agree with a previous comment, this is way better than any of the actual advertising was for the PC-FX.

Good choice of song by Ayumi Hamasaki.  "Rainbow" fits perfectly.  If you do a game montage video I think "Real me" or "Evolution" would work well because they both have both slow and fast parts to showcase the different types of games.

Keep up the great work!

[Off-Topic / Re: Midwest Gaming Classic show get together planning]

My store will be there, but sadly I will not.

[PC-FX Discussion / Re: "The PC-FX: A Devotional Film" (Dec, 2009)]

That is excellent.  Good work!  I can't wait to see the final product.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: What is the most that YOU would pay for Dynastic Hero?]

I would pay 800 Wii points.  And I did.  It's a great game.   

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: KIDS!! LISTEN!!]

Kinda like Sega's Panzer Dragoon Saga ads.

I never saw those.  What were they like?

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: TG 16 system w/100 games on eBay]

I only edited out those comments of mine because i realized i was becoming like a 2 year old and threatening someone over stupid games. I havent met so many people who are so full of themselves before and it brought out the worst in me and i felt i should not resort to such activity so i edited it out. Plenty of people like you here in indiana already, dont need to go outside the state to find more. I checked some other forums and found plenty of name calling posts in all areas of collecting, so i guess you guys do this on a daily basis. I will quit after 1 day at least.

I think you being on this forum is not doing anyone any good.  I tried to defend you on the last page.  And I still think it's your right to sell anything you want for any price you want.  It's a free market/free country and if you think you can get that much for the games, I say, go For it.  I also agree that people on the internet can be very, very rude.  But if reading an internet thread is causing you to threaten violence, I think it is time to step away from the keyboard.

Who are you getting angry at?  This is some guys you don't know on an internet thread.  There is no winner or loser here.  What is said here doesn't effect anything.  At all.  Forget us.  Go back to selling stuff.  Go back to reading a book, painting, writing poems, whatever makes you happy.  Posting here is obviously not enjoyable for you.  Or maybe it is.  You have been logged on here for hours.

Just walk away.  If you want you can claim you won this one.  No one will ever question that.  No one will ever care.  It's some rude guys on an internet thread.  Nothing more.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: TG 16 system w/100 games on eBay]

Dear PC-Engine Hell, i saw 26 usa games. 26. I dont collect imports. There were 26 games when i clicked usa. Not exactly impressive, unless there is more there i didnt see. You know the funny thing is i am not making money, i will probably be losing money because i have all the info for the games i bought and shipping i paid and it is over $2000. 80% of it was outbidding other users to win these games, with 20% being buy it nows i could not find anywhere else but were close to retail prices. So if i ended up accepting less than $2000 for all, perhaps losing $200 or more, then how would i be driving up the prices? I would be saving someone alot of shipping charges if nothing else. I may even get less than that. You won't sell your games for cheap to me because you know what they are worth. So how would you list this collection or sell these games? The reason i am selling is i am getting out of the turbo grafx collecting for good, i was buying as many missing titles as i could so that it would be more complete, i thought that would help new buyers, because i had a hell of a time finding these in halfway complete or complete shape. But what you are saying is that collections wont sell?? only the games themselves??

Nortonowner.  I think it's time to walk away.  You will NEVER convince any of these people that your auction is a good deal.  But in the end it doesn't matter.  Not one of the people on this forum were planning to bid on your auction anyway.  And nothing you say will make them.  If you stay here posting in this thread it will just lead to more "I've got the biggest collection" dick-waving.

You have an impressive collection in that auction. And the price you asked is what it is worth to you.  It's a free market.  You can charge whatever you want.  

It is way too much for me to pay for those games (since I don't have any interest in most of them), but you might find someone who thinks that price is reasonable and they will buy it.  And that's great.  They get the games they want, you get the money you want. Everyone is happy.  There is NOTHING WRONG with that.  But as I said, it will not be a PCEngineFX forum member who buys it.  You are wasting your time posting here.

Just log off and never think of us again.  Sell your games and make a nice profit.  In the end it doesn't matter in any way that we don't like your auction.  We are a bunch of collectors on an internet forum.  You will never meet us in real life, and if you didn't bookmark this page, you will never even see us again.

I have no problem with you selling your stuff for any price you see fit.  But coming here and defending the price to non-buyers is not a good use of your time.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: TG 16 system w/100 games on eBay]

A fairly accurate price guide:

http://www.digitpress.com/

Go to "online Rarity Guide" (in the sidebar)

Scroll down to TurboGrafx 16

Click the "find it" button.

It's a pretty good place to start.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Turbo Grafx/Duo T-Shirts]

An official product or is this site like Cafepress?

[PC-FX Discussion / Re: How much did you pay for your FX?]

The Osaka SuperPotato has a stack of them for 500yen each though they are kind of buried and really hard to find without digging.  I've seen them cheaper in a lot of the local non-chain stores too.  I don't think there's much demand for that game (or most FX games in general).  Even the big 4 (Zenki, Zeroigar, CCK, TMCP) seem to be priced for less recently.  Lately Zeroigar seems to be the most expensive here, but the price is still much lower then the typical "rare game" prices for the popular systems.

Crazy!  I will have my Osaka friend check it this weekend.  Here the prices are actually going up.  I saw a Zenki for $270 last week and when I was in Tokyo (for TGS) I saw one going for over $300.

[PC-FX Discussion / Re: How much did you pay for your FX?]

Most stores in Japan sell Yuna for $2.00-5.00.  The game is common as dirt, only FX game thats usually cheaper is Team Innocent.

Really?  Where do you shop?

Are you confusing it with Graduation 2? 

The normal going price for Yuna is around $20-$30

But I would love to be wrong on this one.  $5 for Yuna would be great.

[General Gaming / Re: playdia]

In a nutshell:

http://www.risingstuff.com/index.php?p=183

[PC-FX Discussion / Re: How much did you pay for your FX?]

I bought mine about 3 years ago.  Boxed, mint for $140.  But I live in Japan and  didn't have to pay shipping.  So if I lived in America that one would come to about $200.  You can get them cheaper now. 

Rising Stuff sells loose one for $99

[Off-Topic / Re: The end of the VCR]

The same people who have a blinking "12:00" coming from their entertainment center....

I just put a piece of black tape over it.

[PC-FX Discussion / Re: prototype game on you tube]

"street fight" looked horrible.  The rest I would buy.

[PC-FX Discussion / Re: Mednafen, now with decent PC-FX emulation.]

Time to try to get this working on my Mac again. I am so dumb when it comes to having to do things in darwin/terminal/anything other than clicking "install".

I really want to try it but I fear I am not tech savvy enough.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: FS: PCE and PC-FX stuff and consoles & games]

finally, if anyone out there is interested, i have some bandai playdia games for sale as well as a bandai pippin console (US version), some rare japanese virtual boy games

PM about the Pippin sent.

[General Gaming / Re: Ys 1&2 DS US bound!]

IIRC, you have a choice of gameplay mechanics, you can either swing your sword like Ys 5 & up, or you can bump enemies, including the ability to use the stylus or the dpad.

Almost.  When you use the stylus you can bump into enemies but when using the D-pad you have to swing the sword.  But if Atlus can give us that option, that would be really great.  I don't think it would take too much effort.

[General Gaming / Re: Ys 1&2 DS US bound!]

Graphics look awful, but it could be fun.

Sadly it wasn't.  I played when it came out.  The changed the mechanics around a lot.

But I'm sure a sucker, I'll probably buy it again anyway.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: PC Engine DUO -R on the way! Thanks Sensei!]

Yeah it does look a little yellow-ish....  I noticed that too..

Yeah, it could use a cleaning.  You are getting that NEC Ave pad with it as well.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Favorite Turbo/PCE fighting games]

I like the Street Fighter II port on the system.  Very impressive for a PCE game though I still mostly play it on the Super Famicom.

Never spend much time with the SNK ports.  They look pretty good on the PCE but I have all of them for my Neo already and I prefer those versions (and the controller).

The Kabuki fighting game I think is the most impressive looking original fighting game on the system.  Great animation.

As has been said before the PCE is not really a fighter system but it does have respectable games from the genre.  After reading this thread I really want to try the Godzilla game.

[Off-Topic / Re: The Unofficial PCEFX junk box thread!]

Awesome idea!  I would be in but I think it would be unfair to the person who has it before me because of the shipping cost to Japan.

[Off-Topic / Re: My Tokyo Game Show Report (25% done)]

Thanks for the report Sensei!  I just posted my Tokyo trip highlights (but mine is more sightseeing/booth babe centric).

I could post about babes and sights too if people are interested.

I liked your report.  I have lived here for a long time but have yet to venture into a maid cafe.

I am looking forward to seeing what you bought.

[Off-Topic / My Tokyo Game Show Report (25% done)]

After a very relaxing first day in Tokyo it was time to actually enter the crazed, frantic world of the Tokyo Game Show.  Thursday was not a public day so there were far less people and much shorter lines.  We raced around trying to cover as much as possible. Here is a recap of the first actual day of TGS.



This is the first sight we were greeted with outside the convention center.  A giant inflatable hero of some sort.  Below him, trapped in a cage, were some people dressed all in black.  When I first saw it I thought it was advertising some new anime or Power Rangers type show.  But actually the product being advertised is Norton Internet Security software.  I guess the yellow guy is Norton Security Man and the caged people are malware or viruses or something.  The sheer scope of the ad was impressive and everyone noticed it.  Still almost no one stopped to pick up a flyer.



My main complaint for the first day of TGS was the foreign press line.  I usually actually enjoy being in this line.  It is a good chance to meet some other media guys and the line usually moves very swiftly.  I think last year it took about 10-15 minutes.  This year however, something was not right.  The line just took forever.  There would be 20-minute chunks where it wasn't moving at all.  I still don't really understand what the holdup was.  But we were in line so long that we nearly missed the keynote speech.  Though in retrospect, that might not have been such a bad thing.



The first two years I attended the keynote the speeches, they were delivered by Sony staff.  Ken Kutaragi in 2006 and Kaz in 2007.  While these speeches used questionable statistics and information they were also very fun to listen to.

The speaker this year was Wada-san from Square Enix and he was delivering a speech on the state of the Japanese video game industry.  It was a serious topic and contained none of the glitz that usually accompanies the keynote speeches. 

It was refreshing to hear him be so frank.  One of the first questions he posed was, "Why has Japan lost its leadership role in the industry?"  He went on to talk about the increased cost of development, how Japan was lagging behind on digital distribution and other important topics. It would have been a great keynote but unfortunately this interesting topic was presented in a very boring way.

There were no charts or graphs, no numbers really at all.  And while a lot of questions were asked, there didn't seem to be any answers given other than the fact that Japan really needs to work harder and be more original.



The first booth we went to was Hudson Soft.  There was a stage show in progress featuring Takahashi Meijin (the first real celebrity gamer) and a bunch of bikini idols.  We watched briefly and then went on to the games.

Kate and Holli played Kororinpa 2 and a mini-game collection called "Job Island". I was stuck playing the new fishing game, which I surprisingly enjoyed.  I will post more about that game later.



As we were leaving that booth, we noticed the Joysound Karaoke game for Wii.  It is beyond any Karaoke game ever made before, because it is literally like having a Karaoke Box (Japanese karaoke establishment) in your house.  Through the Internet you can choose from thousands of songs.  The same number that they have at actual Joysound Karaoke places.  You have to pay a fee to use the service and it may seem a bit steep at 300yen ($2.70) for 24 hours.  But when you consider that Japanese Karaoke places are usually 600yen per person for one hour.  It seems like a pretty good deal.

The game is coming out December 18th in Japan and next year in the USA/Japan.  You can use your Miis in the game and it will feature small plastic microphones.  The mics were not yet supported in the demo unit that they had at the show, but that did NOT stop me from belting out my own unique rendition of "Video Killed the Radio Star" which people actually applauded for.



After taking my bows, we went on to the Level 5 booth.  Kate and I are both fans of the Professor Layton series so we wanted to check out the new game.  First we went to the closed theater and watched some new trailers for Layton and other Level 5 games.  Inazuma 11, a soccer (football to Kate) RPG game looks fantastic.

After watching the trailers, Kate tried to play Layton 3 but sadly the Japanese was a bit too difficult and she wasn't able to do any of the puzzles.  She is really looking forward to the localization though (Hear that Nintendo?)



A highlight for me today was the press event from Marvoulous.  I went there with Patrick Alexander from Eegra.com. They showed 3 Wii games all of which I want to buy. 

Little Kings Story looks even more charming than it did last year and that is saying a lot.  We were able to see a demonstration of the actual gameplay.  I got a big Starcraft vibe from it.  But it is in no way just a simple clone. There were so many unique concepts on display. 

The second game, Muramasa: The Daemon Blade impressed me even more.  The Japanese developer VanillaWare who had previously worked on the game Odin Sphere, developed this game. Like Odin Sphere, this title is all in beautiful 2D.  I really couldn't even believe the amount of detail in this game.  In an age where every game is trying to the best, most realistic, 3D game experience, it is refreshing to see a developer take a step back and say "We have more powerful hardware these days but that doesn't prevent us from doing a 2D game".  This is the type of game I dreamed games would become back when I was a kid.  The type of game play I love but with absolutely beautiful graphics.



It would be hard to top my excitement after those 2 titles, but Marvelous pulled it off.  Their 3rd announcement was a reveal of the new Suda51 project, No More Heroes 2.



At this point the girls informed me that it was time for shopping.  Kate needed a gift for her sister and we all needed gifts for ourselves.  The Capcom store was full of cool and expensive things.  I bought a Rockman 9 T-Shirt and Kate bought a bunch of Phoenix Wright merchandise.



Sadly these figures were not for sale there (they are coming out next year) but since all 3 of us are fans of the series, we thought hey were very cool and worth taking a picture of.



After that we walked around the show floor.  Kate and Holli raced around getting as many photo of booth girls as they could.  It was becoming a game to them trying to "Catch 'em all" on film.  Holli commented, "I don't think I can show my camera to my family, they won't understand why 90% of my pictures are of attractive women".  They also spent a very long time at the Taito booth playing Cooking Mama and games of that sort.

The day went by very quickly.  There was still so much we wanted to see.  Luckily we will be returning tomorrow as well.  By the end of the show Kate and Holli were exhausted at decided to head back to the hotel.  I still had a lot of energy and decided to go with Patch (Patrick Alexander) to a launch party for a new iPhone game.

Of course first, as is TGS tradition for me, I had to get lost in the Tokyo train system.  Patch and I were supposed to be meeting up with Hirofumi Taniguchi who is a composer for the company Skip (he did the music for Chibi Robo).  First of all we got on the slow train (rather than express) making us late and then we had an amazingly difficult time finding the correct exit we were supposed to be meeting him at.

We were about an hour late when we finally found him.  He didn't seem at all upset that we kept him waiting so long.  In fact this guy was a class act all the way.  He noticed we looked hungry and took us to one of his favorite Ramen shops.



This is Zabon Ramen in Roppongi.  It looks a bit like a dive (as a lot of shops in this district do) but the food was amazing.



The above picture is of Patch and Taniguchi.  We ate Ramen and talked about old Japanese movies.  He was very friendly.  At the end of the meal I got up to pay the bill.  I was going to pay for Taniguchi's meal as well as a way of making up for him having to wait so long.  But he had already paid the bill when we weren't looking.  I offered him money and he refused it saying, "You get the next one".  I am sure there will be a next time too.  He's a person I would like to meet again.



After this we went to a party in honor of the game Newtonica that had just been released for iPhone.  The party was in a tiny hole in the wall bar but it was packed with about 100 people.  Most of whom worked in the game industry.



I spend a long time talking with Fumihiro Kanaya, a programmer for Skip.  He had just finished work on the WiiWare title "Orbient".  We talked about retro gaming and ton of things not related to gaming at all. He was another amazingly interesting and kind person. He is in the picture above in a blue shirt.  Before that he was wearing a black Newtonica shirt, but he actually gave me the shirt off him back so I would have something to take home from the party.  All the Skip guys and girls turned out to be awesome.



Here I am with Kanaya's boss and another Skip employee.  This company seems to employ a lot of women and they have very high positions in the company.  So many companies are still male dominated in the gaming industry so this was nice to see.  There were also I lot of employees from the company Brownie Brown (who do the Mother series).  Again I was surprised to find so many women working for the company.  They were all so nice.  One of the Brownie Brown design staff, Shinobu, was amazingly cool.  She was wearing a hat she knit herself and was so friendly with everyone. 



The party itself was excellent.  There were demo iPhone units out so everyone could try the game.  Lots of drinks and laughter.  The music was a good mix of electronic sounds.



Later that night one of my favorite people in the game industry, Kenji Eno (formerly of WARP) stepped in a did the DJ duties.  He was excellent.  Sadly this picture is not that flattering.  I had a chance to meet him briefly before the show and while he was very busy he took the time to talk to me and make sure I was having a good time.  He didn't have to worry, it was one of the best parties I have ever been to.

Sadly I had to leave early to catch the last train.  After saying my goodbyes I ran to the station and unexpectedly took the correct train back to the hotel.

This concludes my Day 2 report.  I hope you found it enjoyable.  There will be another report coming tomorrow about the same time.  See you then.

[Off-Topic / The “What-Did-You-Buy-Today?” Thread]

my hauls from the TGS hudson booth & shop

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Glorious!! Absolutely glorious!! 

Wow, you bought a lot.  I just got another 16-shot.

As for those hudson discs, I have an extra if anyone wants it.

[General Gaming / Re: Latest pics up for Oboro Muramasa Youtouden for Wii]

It plays fantastically.  As for the Wii controls, there is no pointing or shaking the controller.  It feels very natural.  I had no issues with slowdown or glitchy movements.  There are so many little touches in the animation I just can't get over how great this game looks.