A whole archive of CTW back issues does exist? This was something I was looking for several years ago in the search for SEGA game release dates in Europe. However, bad news, its successor MCV and other publications were "pulped" by the publisher: www.linkedin.com/posts/stuart...

In response to the unprecedented number of game developers laid off this year, we have created a bundle on itch to benefit a Game Industry Hardship Fund, managed by @videogameworkers.bsky.social. More than 100 games for 10+ bucks! Please share widely and donate generously! itch.io/b/3802/game-...

The cool thing about physical media? You can include that media in the inside hardcover of a video game history book. Like when this publisher in Japan put a Sega Dreamcast compilation of Yu Suzuki's arcade games in Game Works Vol. 1 back in 2002.

I was going through notes and found an email from KOEI-TECMO that sheds some light on the 1981 arcade game "PLEIADS". The idea for the game came from TECMO founder Akihito Kakihara but the programming was outsourced. They claim it has no connection to "Phoenix" but it could have the same programmer.

If you are dissatisfied with PlayStation halting the production of physical game discs, write and address your concerns to the SONY GROUP Board of Directors. Put your thoughts into a polite and respectful one-page typed letter to the SONY Group in Japan. See image below. Spread the word. Repost.

Toaplan Arcade Garage: Flying Fire Shark An explosive collection of action packed shmups! Complete with a suite of M2 Gadgets to support any ace pilot! From M2 Coming to Switch and PS4 Digital and Physical

Bring it back, Sega

Unfortunately due to a cancelled flight and weather conditions I had to cancel my trip to the Save The Games conference at the Strong Museum of Play in Rochester. I was really looking forward to presenting and seeing everybody, but I hope attendees have a great time. See you at the next event!

Gameplay footage of Kick Rider, a racing game released by Universal in 1984. Using the same combination of bird's-eye/third-person perspectives as found in Irem's Traverse U.S.A./Zippy Race, this game's main innovation on the formula comes in the form of its titular kick mechanic.

Some interesting articles in English come up for Katsuki Manabe who passed away in 2007, but at time of this article was CEO of legendary coin op company Sigma Enterprises, he was also a leader of the AOU event planning organization (among others AFAIK). www.deseret.com/1989/7/2/188...

Really good makeshift covers for Dino Crisis I saw at the used game store the other day. Unfortunately I was so scared I had to leave

The famous Jim Belushi 'Aw, come on!' animation being put together for SNES Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball. Video by @chunwah.bsky.social taken at Software Creations' Park Place building in 1993.

another home first from Namco's 3D era on Arcade Archives this week: the 1997 trackball-controlled racing game Armadillo Racing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDMD4OwRuzE once again, compatible USB trackballs/mice & Switch 2 joycon mouse functionality also, split-screen multi's exclusive to ACA2

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Walking through Target this morning. Was not expecting to see Tecmo Bowl: The Board Game. 😲

Unreleased Data East SFC RPG called "Hyper Tunnel and Trolls - Dragon's Heaven", based on tabletop book system, it almost got shifted to Saturn but did not make the shift (probably the devs got assigned to a Lemmings Saturn game...)

Even cats love physical media. After much consideration he has chosen Y’s The Vanished Omens for the SEGA Master System as his favorite. #caturday

HELL YEAH Arco Tower represent. First image, that two-story break room with the stairs -- that was where they kept the binder that had all the fan mail from the USA that was sent our way. I don't think you were allowed to smoke in that room.

A 1996 SQUARE recruitment ad featuring various tidy workstations at their Tokyo Arco Tower offices. A lot of Macintosh Quadra 700's, a Quadra 800/Workgroup Server 80, Digital Celebris GL-5133-ST's, (SGI) Indigo2. Looks like someone was a fan of Fatal Fury Special and Macross 7.

I do wish we had the capacity to just digitize everything...we all have dreams.

Square USA Media Tour 2000 press kit featuring the staff of Final Fantasy IX and The Bouncer.

I found a side-by-side 1996 Data East advertisement for their cancelled basketball game Air Walkers, which reveals their overseas marketing department renamed it Data East's B-Ball for outside Japan (as seen at their AM booth) . The ad on the right appears to be for arcade operators in South Korea.

1996: Game center in Japan, featuring Prop Cycle, Alpine Surfer, Alpine Racer (Namco), Side By Side (Taito), Exciting Boat Race (SEGA) and many SEGA Versus City candy cabs. Advertised and owned at the time by River Service Company. Monthly Coin Journal, 9/96.

While I am looking through these pages I noticed the original office of Hot B looking straight out of Shenmue 1... this is around when they made the Famicom version of Black Bass

The former CAPCOM Hirano Plant in Osaka, opened in Feb 1992, closed Dec 1996. The CAPCOM name was still on the awning in 2010. This was also a Service Center location printed in CAPCOM SFC game manuals. This plant and the CAPCOM Matsubara Plant (see image, video in reply) are almost identical. 1/2

Reading @mackeza.bsky.social’s Super Nintendo. This passage seems especially pertinent right now.

No one paying attention to poor Mega Man

31st Amusement Show 1993 / I love these wide shots of exhibition floor especially since I have been to Makuhari Messe what feels like 100 times (maybe 40 including concerts??)

Speaking of JALECO, I think I know which other titles are coming to the JALECO Arcade Collection, but I'm going to keep quiet - don't want to get anyone in trouble. 🤐 People won't be disappointed :)

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Two More Retro Arcade Collections Are On The Way To Switch. (Repost)

The old JALECO office in Tokyo, known in 1982 as Japan Leisure Company, the company opened this office on May 15th, 1982. The company would move out in 1988 but would keep this space as a service center. JALECO opened a new head office in 1988 and with it came a new JALECO logo.

Many people might recognize this. #IREM