San! Ni! Ichi! Hajime!!!, Nippon Marathon, the crazy game from onion soup interactive is coming to exA-Arcadia today! This arcade version faster than the domestic version is called Nippon Marathon Turbo Hyper Running. The goal of the game is to run and avoid all the obstacles, each one crazier than the other (barrels, animals, bicycles,...) as seen in some Japanese TV shows. The story is simple: the Nippon Marathon takes place every year. Thousands of candidates apply to participate in the marathon, but only 100 of them make it through the qualification stage. Competitors run in groups of four and accumulate points as they go along. The dream of each participant is to be at the top of the leaderboard at the end of the gruelling race. All races are original: from busy city streets to village alleys, bustling markets, mountain top shrines, supermarkets and even dangerous sake distilleries!). The arcade version contains 3 exclusive levels. The characters are not to be outdone with their totally crazy look (a lobster-man, a man dressed as a schoolgirl, a girl with a unicorn outfit,...). The handling is very simple, the player controls the character who runs, he can jump, avoid obstacles, dash, throw objects while negotiating perilous passages such as dashing across planks precariously balanced over waterfalls. Nippon Marathon Turbo Hyper Running is the perfect game for family entertainment centres and bars: groups of friends can play up to 4 and laughter is guaranteed. It is also perfect for hardcore arcades to score on the most difficult levels... The game is in Japanese and English and runs in 16:9 HD Widescreen and 4:3 SD CRT. The kit comes with an A1 poster (art by Tatsuya Ishikawa, famous for his work on Numan Athletics and Mach Breakers), 3 instruction sheets and instruction strips (in Japanese and English). You can order your copy from Red Sun Systems.
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Konami Amusement sort Sound Voltex Exceed Gear aujourd'hui. Le jeu tourne dans la nouvelle borne Valkyrie qui utilise un moniteur 120 Hz ainsi qu'un petit écran secondaire et le nouveau système de son Gungnir-R comprenant quatre haut-parleurs à large bande et un woofer de grand diamètre. La borne est équipée d'un panel et d'un écran tactile adaptés aux spécifications e-sports. L'écran tactile de 21,5 pouces permet de rechercher des chansons par titre ou par artiste. De nouvelles fonctions et de nouveaux modes de jeux spécialisés pour l'e-sports sont disponibles : le nouveau jugement "S-CRITICAL" plus précis que le jugement CRITICAL classique, le nouveau mode "Arena Battle" pour s'affronter pour le score total et le nouveau mode "Mega Mix Battle" pour s'affronter dans un format de mega-mix.
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After releasing DODONPACHI TRUE DEATH EXA LABEL last year on exA-Arcadia, Cave continues its momentum with the release of Akai Katana EXA Label / Crimson Katana EXA Label, the definitive version of its horizontal shooter released in 2010 on PCB and 2012 on NESiCAxlive. Thanks to exA-Arcadia technology, the 1 frame input lag offers players the most responsive version of the game compared to 2 frames for the PCB and 5 frames for the NESiCAxLive and Xbox 360 versions. Akai Katana EXA Label features 4 game modes: Original (original 4:3 PCB version with slowdowns and bugs fixed), Climax (Zetsu, Xbox 360 version in 16:9, Slash (Shin, Director's Cut version with an extra stage and the real end boss) and Label EXA mode (best of version that combines the best aspects of all modes and features real-time difficulty adjustments). In addition, an Ultimate difficulty mode for all game modes is selectable on the character selection screen. The original mode is playable in 4:3, all other modes are 16:9 on 16:9 HD displays and 4:3 on 4:3 31khz CRT monitors. It supports resolutions from 640x480 to 3840x2160. The visuals are now in 4K and the original and arranged soundtracks have been remastered in HD stereo and a new FM arranged soundtrack by Ryu Umemoto et Keishi Yonao is available. Akai Katana EXA Label is available as a standard kit from Red Sun Systems. It contains a reversible A1 bilingual (English/Japanese) poster, a standard bilingual (English/Japanese) artset (marquee, instruction strip and manual) and a Vewlix artset (marquee, bezel stickers, instruction strip in Japanese).
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The Bandai Card Division has released a teaser site for the new arcade card game Mobile Suit Gundam Arsenal Base which is scheduled to start operations in 2021. A teaser visual using the Strike Gundam standing in a dark hangar and a silhouette photo of the game housing that seems to be a new model are posted. The game genre is "real-time strategy type full-scale arcade card game" and the details of the game will be released in early March.
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CHUNITHM PARADISE starts operation in Japan today. This is the latest version of Sega's music game and it adds a lot of new songs in POPS & ANIME, niconico, Touhou Project and Irodori Midori categories. Many gorgeous collaborations will be soon available.
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Psyvariar Delta AC is released on exA-Arcadia for the international market today. The Japanese release is scheduled for January 2021. Psyvariar Delta was released in 2018 on PC and consoles. The arcade version is developped by SUCCESS/CITY CONNECTION and can be considered as the ultimate version of the game. It includes all the ships, stages and pulse pounding techno music from past installments, Medium Unit and Revision as well as the all new Delta stages and newly composed tracks by WASi303. A new character is also added: CYBATTLER. Extra informational gadgets have been added to allow players to get even higher scores, the scoring system of grazing enemy fire to level up is of course still present. The game is in HD and supports both horizontal and vertical mode. The different languages available are English, Japanese, French and Spanish. The Psyvariar Delta AC kit includes an A1 poster, an instruction sheet and instruction strips (in Japanese and English). You can order your kit from Red Sun Systems.
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Sunsoft’s master class in action platforming returns exclusively to the arcade with Gimmick! EXACT☆MIX! The game is developed by Team Exa AM1 and is released on exA-Arcadia today. The original Gimmick! game was released on Family Computer and NES in 1992. The story follows a small green youkai named Yumetaro who was mistaken as a toy and then was given to a young girl as a birthday present. One night, the girl's other toys become jealous of the attention he is receiving, and whisk the girl away to another dimension. Playing as Yumetaro, you must travel through a variety of levels, using the protagonist's star-throwing power to defeat enemies and progress through the game. Gimmick! EXACT☆MIX features smooth and detailed new graphics, an arranged soundtrack, and emphasised scoring mechanics to the NES/Famicom cult classic. The game is fully compatible with both modern 16:9 LCD displays and legacy 4:3 CRT monitors. Gimmick! EXACT☆MIX is played with four buttons: a star charge / fire button, a jump button, an item select button and an item use button. A new Time Attack mode has been added and stages may also be played in any order with the Stage Edit function. Gimmick! EXACT☆MIX kit includes an A1 poster, instruction sheet and instruction strip (Japanese and English). The game language can be switched between English, Japanese, French and Spanish. You can watch the trailer here. Like all exA-Arcadia games already released, Gimmick! EXACT☆MIX is available in Europe from Red Sun Systems.
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Armored Princess Battle Conductor is released in Japan today. The game was presented for the very first time by Konami at JAEPO 2020. The title features Busou Shinki. They are girls' figures in armour made by Konami since 2006. They can take different poses and have many interchangeable parts. The line of figurines has become a cross-media franchise with video games, manga, novels, anime, CD and artbook... Armored Princess Battle Conductor is a royal battle action game playable up to 4. The player trains a Shinki and the battles change depending on the relationship between the player and the Shinki. Before the battle, the player can communicate with her in her "home" as well as customize her appearance and weapons. She can carry two different types of weapons and change weapons during the battle whenever the player wishes. At the moment 15 Shinki are available, including Edelweiss who was not present during location tests. Konami has already announced that new Shinki will be added gradually. To push further the link between the Master and his Shinki, he can print cards with her own image on the Card Connect terminal.
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Raiden IV x MIKADO remix is originally a Switch port of Raiden IV with a new soundtrack by various artists linked to Mikado game center: Go Sato Band, Heavy Metal Raiden, Cosio, Fantom Iris, Keishi Yonao, Daisuke Matsumoto, Sochi Hosoi, O.T.K.). The game will also feature all game modes found in previous home ports and will be released on April 22nd, 2021. A preview of the new soundtracks is on YouTube. But that's not all: there will also be an arcade version that will be released on exA-Arcadia in December 2021. The exA-Arcadia version will feature at least two exclusive BGM songs by O.T.K.. There's a crowd funding campaign to finance the development of this game. The goal is 10,000,000 yen (78,900€). Rewards include two limited edition items: a limited edition bundle (10 copies) for 600,000 yen (4,730€) including a limited edition Raiden IV themed exA-Arcadia motherboard, a premium colour Raiden IV x MIKADO remix game cartridge (set on free play), an exclusive poster, a soundtrack CD and a coloured paper autographed by all artists. A limited edition software kit (25 copies) for 250,000 yen (1,970€) is also available including all the same items as the bundle without the exA-Arcadia motherboard. These editions are available on the Camp Fire page.
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A new game for Nintendo Vs. System is released today! Vs. From Below is the first game to be released on this hardware for 30 years and it's made by Matt Hughson (with art by Haller Zoltán and sound by Tuï). It may looks like a typical Tetris game but has an extra difficulty in the form of a giant octopus (a kraken) that pushes blocks upward with its tentacles. Vs. From Below features 3 game modes: "Timed" where the Kraken attacks every 10 seconds (pushing garbage blocks onto the screen), "Fixed" where the Kraken attacks every time a block lands and "Classic" where the Kraken is sleeping, causing no threat. Note that the garbage blocks created by the Kraken can be cleared like normal blocks. As you see the Classic mode is your usual Tetris but with both soft and hard drops available. Best of all: the game is free! You will need 10 64Kbit EPROMs to play this game on your Vs. System (5 for a Vs. Unisystem). You can use any PPU chip but you have to set the dipswitches accordingly to display the correct colours depending on your chip. If you want to see the game in action, there's a trailer on the official website. You can download the game here: https://mhughson.itch.io/from-below.
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