Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Digimon Story: Moonlight

The Digital World beckons once more with a new adventure where the player takes on the role of an agent who works at an organization known as Night Claw. The crew's adversaries across town are called Light Fang. When an attack by a skull-like apparition wrecks their respective headquarters, both Night Claw and Light Fang groups are devastated. The protagonist and Digimon cadre must venture forth and ferret out the motives behind the attack. The new Digimon games feature over 400 Digimon and the Moonlight version stars an exclusive Digimon known as Lunamon which is the floppy-eared creature seen on the left side of the game cover. Gamers may link up to Digimon Story Sunburst players and trade Digimon between the two versions. «more»

Digimon Story: Sunburst

The Digital World beckons once more with a new adventure where the player takes on the role of an agent who works at an organization known as Light Fang. The crew's adversaries across town are called Night Claw. When an attack by a skull-like apparition wrecks their respective headquarters, both Night Claw and Light Fang groups are devastated. The protagonist and Digimon cadre must venture forth and ferret out the motives behind the attack. The new Digimon games feature over 400 Digimon and the Moonlight version stars an exclusive Digimon known as Lunamon which is the floppy-eared creature seen on the left side of the game cover. Gamers may link up to Digimon Story Sunburst players and trade Digimon between the two versions. «more»

Hokuto no Ken

Originally released for the Atomiswave arcade hardware in 2005, Sega by way of Arc System Works finally unleashes Hokuto no Ken for the home console market. The coin-op version of the game was originally priced at JPY188,000 but this week's conversion clocks in at a humble and manageable US$65.
Set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia, the fighters in Hokuto no Ken live and die by the fist. Kenshiro Kasumi is one such fighter who struts around in leather duds with chest bared and pectorals rippling. Sharing the doomed world with him are gangs of roaming biker gangs and bandits who prey upon an unprotected populace. To get a little law and order back into the mix, Kenshiro battles thugs with his mighty Hokuto Shinken martial arts skills. Ken's encounters in the wastelands of the future invariably end in tears and gore. Lots of chunky red gore as in exploding bodies, projectile blood ejection, and organs literally leaping out of their crannies and cavities. Despite the fighting nature of the Hokuto no Ken manga and animation, there's been more video games based on the purely Japanese phenomenon of pachi-slot than fighting. To balance the scales a little bit, Arc System Works of Guilty Gear fame creates a fast-paced 2D fighting game which features 10 brusque and bulging bruisers from Hokuto no Ken.

Taito Memories II Vol. 2 + Book

Taito's historical archive is peppered with important games such as Space Invaders in 1978 and hundreds of releases hence which have ably gobbled tons of credits, quarters, and yen. Taito Memories II vol. 2 collects another 25 games from the company's vault as follows:
01) Field Goal 1979
02) Phoenix 1980
03) Polaris 1980
04) Great Swordsman 1984
05) Sea Fighter Poseidon 1984
06) Gyrodine 1984
07) Buggy Challenge 1984
08) Onna Sanshirou 1985
09) Metal Soldier Isaac 1985
10) Halley's Comet 1986
11) Land Sea Air Squad 1986
12) Operation Wolf 1987
13) Full Throttle 1988
14) Chase H.Q. 1988
15) Plump Pop 1988
16) Rainbow Islands Extra 1988
17) Volfied 1989
18) Night Striker 1989
19) Battle Shark 1989
20) Final Blow 1989
21) Master of Weapon 1989
22) Megablast 1989
23) ThunderFox 1990
24) Warrior Blade: Rastan III 1992
25) Bubble Symphony 1994

Imports Rescheduled for Friday

Due to an exception with the remainder of our shipments last night, please note that the rest of our PS2 Hokuto no Ken shipments are now scheduled to arrive on Friday of this week instead of tomorrow. The PS2 Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix+ game is also inside the delayed shipments.
We've never seen an "Export Gateway Hold" before but our shipper should be able to clear it tonight.