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GAMING THINGS WE THINK ARE COOL!! - In Far Ear of Eden: Kabuki Klash, a fighting game based on the Tengai Makyou series of RPGs, mirror matches end with the defeated player turning into a kitsune / fox, known in Japanese folklore for shapeshifting into human form.
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In Kabuki Klash: Far East of Eden, when a mirror match concludes, the losing player is revealed to be a kitsune (for women) or a tanuki (for men) impersonating the other character. Both are shapeshifters in Japanese folklore.
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qrt with the most useless fighting game fact you know
An IGS collection of 8 of their PGM arcade games is coming to Switch tomorrow in Japan? Including online play?! Hot damn, lots of Knights of Valor brawlers but official online Martial Masters sounds great!
store-jp.nintendo.com/list/software/
Gals Panic is an arcade game by Kaneko where you reveal a picture of a woman stripping across several stages, eventually becoming nude, by playing a Qix clone.
In a Korean variant, the stages that should be nude pictures are all replaced with images of dinosaurs.
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What is the most useless piece of video game knowledge you know?
Now the PC ver's out, here's our favourite Sonic Mania reference!
The sun icon here is from Mega Drive manual warning sections!
GAMING THINGS WE THINK ARE COOL!! - Just some of the warning screens you get for putting SNK vs. Capcom: Match of the Millennium into a non-colour Neo Geo Pocket. They all use art you won't see anywhere else.
The Street Fighter Alpha OVA from 2000 contains a pretty substantial cameo from Bandai's WonderSwan and its port of Pocket Fighter- Sakura's playing it in the hospital scene about halfway through the film. She's an Ibuki player, apparently!
One for the 'jokes lost in translation' folder: this is what you get when you meet the requirements to fight Roll in Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes
Y'see, that Mega Man fella's called Rock Man in Japan, so you can probably figure out what went wrong here.
Righto. What follows is the official Gaming Hell PS3 / PSP / PS Vita Store Closure Thread.
Not a robust guide by any means, just some basic notes and observations for surviving digital armageddon.
(Please wait 'til I'm done before replying to this. It's gonna be a long one.)
Three different hardware variants of GOOD! FRIENDS~
(PSP, PS4 / Arcade, Switch)
Surprise!! Steam pages for three mainline Touhou games- Mountain of Faith (10), Subterranean Animism (11) and Unidentified Fantastic Object (12) are up now, all releasing June 6th.
MoF
store.steampowered.com/app/1100140/To
SA
store.steampowered.com/app/1100150/To
UFO
store.steampowered.com/app/1100160/To
GAMING GALS WE THINK ARE COOL!! - Pastel.
Pastel is cool.
(from Detana!! TwinBee, 1991)
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Ah, someone asked if this was for the male characters too, and nope! In male mirror matches, it's a shapeshifting tanuki instead.
Oh good, Namco Super Heroes is still available on the internet! This is a fan-made fighting game starring classic Namco arcade characters in the style of Capcom's Marvel Super Heroes, in terms of looks anyway. Some amazing spritework here!
hiro.blue.coocan.jp/products/NSH/N
A few loading screens from the PS1 version of Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes. Every character in the game (except Lilith-style Morrigan, Mega War Machine, Hyper Venom and Orange Hulk) has one!
GAMING THINGS WE THINK ARE COOL!! - As well as character-specific win quotes (like the Sean vs. Sean one here), Street Fighter III: 2nd Impact has special win-quotes for when you defeat your opponent with a Super Art, with it usually being referred to by name.
GAMING THINGS WE THINK ARE... HUH?! - Reach the maximum mank in Combat School in Metal Slug X on the PS1- Super Devil- and not only does your drill instructor start getting weird, but your chosen character will now have green skin.
The Dark Awake session went well.
In Player Matches, you can play as the final boss, THE KING HAS NO NAME, and... Just look at this nonsense.
DANGEROUSLY RADICAL GAME BOXART - Shin Nekketsu Kōha: Kunio-tachi no Banka. (Almanac / Technos, 1994)
If you saw the River City Girls trailer, this is how Kyoko and Misako looked in 1994.
(Source: gamefaqs.gamespot.com/snes/578854-sh )
I was just checking the boxart used for the home computer versions of The Ninja Warriors, and was completely unprepared for this blurb on the back.
~Wow~
(Source: gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ast/950128-the)
Out of nowhere, the Neo Geo Pocket Color robot-themed RPG Biomotor Unitron has gotten a Switch rerelease! This one has semi-randomised dungeons, a tournament to fight in and lots and lots of customisation parts to make your own super fighting robot!
nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nintendo
The 17th Touhou game, Wily Beast and Weakest Creature, is now up on Steam!
store.steampowered.com/app/1079160/__
(What an age we live in, where that’s a thing I can say!)
GAMING THINGS WE THINK ARE COOL!! - Fighter/brawler games where the character select screen has the characters just hanging out
The original D&D sessions that lead to the creation of Record of Lodos War have been translated and are on Internet Archive!
archive.org/details/record
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Westone's lost arcade game Clockwork Aquario, famously location-tested multiple times but ultimately cancelled, is out now on European digital stores.
PSN
store.playstation.com/en-gb/product/
Switch
nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nintendo
Some evening reading for you, Capcom Illustrations, a Gamest mook from 1995 covering official and concept art of major Capcom arcade games, mostly fighting games, from roughly 1987-1995. Includes early Battle Circuit art, saying the game was unreleased?!
archive.org/details/gamest
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We're still on the fence as to the quality of Kaiser Knuckle and Dan-Ku-Ga- ask us tomorrow- but what we can say is we were hooting and hollering at this Super Move.
THAT'S how you use sprite-scaling!
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GAMING THINGS WE THINK ARE COOL!! - The title screen animation for Hot Rod (Sega, 1989). Lot of detail for the title screen of a top-down racer!
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A selection of Another Strikers and Maniac Strikers from The King of Fighters 2000.
Like Assists from Marvel vs. Capcom, you call these characters mid-match to help. While you can use playable characters for this, Another and Maniac Strikers come from all across SNK's library!
GAMING THINGS WE THINK ARE... HUH?! - The Williams-distributed version of Capcom's 1942 has a completely different ending, with a communiqué informing the player the war has been over for 40 years, and they must return to base.
tcrf.net/1942_(Arcade)#
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With that last RT, I will not lie: the original Darkstalkers character portraits are a Look
This moment from Human's Taekwon-Do on the Super Famicom is doing the rounds, but there's an interesting game behind this rule-changing boss fight! You can read all about it here~
kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2020/08/28/whe
GAMING THINGS WE THINK ARE COOL!! - The Japanese BIOS versions of Waku Waku 7- both MVS and AES- have 12 secret calendar images, one for each month of the year, usually depicting some kind of event, holiday or festival. These are the first 4, a thread of the rest follows~
Gaming Hell is 14 years old today?! So let's take a look at one of my very favourite puzzle games, the SNES classic Panel de Pon (Nintendo / Intelligent Systems, 1995)
gaminghell.co.uk/PanelDePon.html FOREVER FLIPPING PANELS
#nintendo
A treat for Capcom fans this afternoon, the first issue of Club Capcom- a newsletter / magazine sent to members of the official fan club. Only three issues were made but all of them are on Internet Archive. Some incredible art and spreads here!
archive.org/details/club-c
GAMING THINGS WE THINK ARE COOL!! - In Waku Waku 7 (JP BIOS only!, hold A+D+1P Start before a match on Arina's stage for karaoke lyrics!
GAMING THINGS WE THINK ARE COOL!! - The 'Hurry Up!' hand in The Simpsons (Arcade, 1991, Konami) will eventually get tired of waiting and flick your character, sapping half your lifebar!
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I was not ready for this message at the end of PS2 Rumble Roses's staff roll. That's one of the most polite end-game messages I've ever seen.
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Gaming Hell is 15 years old today! So I wrote about a game very close to my heart, Earthbound Beginnings / Mother (APE Inc. / Pax Softnica, 1989 / 2015)
gaminghell.co.uk/Mother.html
l I BELIEVE IN SECOND CHANCES AND THAT'S WHY I BELIEVE IN YOU
GAMING THINGS WE THINK ARE... HUH?! - The bizarre 'hurry up' mechanic of Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa (Konami, 1992), presented without further comment.
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I already posted this on my private account but I think everyone needs to see
An actual combo in FIGHT FOR LIFE
GAMING THINGS WE THINK ARE COOL!! - In the TMNT games Turtles in Time (SNES) and The Hyperstone Heist (Mega Drive, pictured), you have two palette choices for your characters.
The 1st, 'Comic' is based on the toyline's skintones, while the 2nd, 'Anime' is based on the cartoon.
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This OVA also showcases the essence of Sakura in four frames.
She's just really excited to see that Ryu fella.
Alright, time to waste our one final E3 tweet!
In the Smash Bros. presentation, Snake's series emblem has changed from the FOX Unit logo from MGS3- also used for the old Kojima Productions logo- to the series' trademark exclamation point.
A 'blink-and-you'll-miss-it' thing!
The four ending screens from the Game Boy port of The Tower of Druaga, the picture you get changes depending on the number of continues used and whether you beat the game in Another Druaga Mode.
Requirements source:
gamefaqs.gamespot.com/arcade/584193-
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New on Gaming Hell - Waku Waku 7 (Sunsoft, 1996) gaminghell.co.uk/WakuWaku7.html THE EXCITEMENT NEVER STOPS
THE iDOLM@STER: Million Live! Theater Days on smartphones has a fighting game minigame as an April Fools' Day joke... That was made in cooperation with Tekken Project themselves.
Incredible.
(Is Iori in this? Is she top-tier?!)
GAMING THINGS WE THINK ARE COOL!! - A famous one, this. Starting a new game in Phantasy Star III, sell your boots and buy an Escapipe then use it when you end up in jail after an event to escape.
You've softlocked the game, but at least you get acknowledgement for it!
RADICAL ARCADE GAME FLYERS - Secret File #14: X-Men vs. Street Fighter (Capcom, 1996)
flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=thumbs&d
Capcom's Secret File flyers were special multi-page affairs full of unique art and behind-the-scenes stuff. This one has a cover in the style of a '90s Marvel comic.
As verified accounts can no longer post, we've got the whole of this hellsite to ourselves! What do we post?
Pac-Man on the toilet, obviously.
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Like many releases in the Family series, the charming box art was provided by Hiroshi Fuji.
ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%86%A8
Decades later, he would bring the mascot lady back (apparently called Namko?) for a series of slot machine illustrations
famislo.com
As a heads-up, I've tested it myself and this PS3 firmware update prevents you from moving games from your PS3 to your PSP (an error code occurs) effectively cutting out the easiest way to put downloaded things onto the PSP.
Meanwhile, in arcade game preservation: apparently only one board of Data East's Sega Model 2 basketball game Air Walkers exists, and it's been found! 3D work by Data East, what a treasure.
GAMING THINGS WE THINK ARE COOL!! - Samurai Shodown II has different things floating across the title screen depending on what day of the week it is in the system's internal calendar.
Here's four of them- hanafuda cards, feathers, flowers and snow.
GAMING THINGS WE THINK ARE COOL!! - In The Last Blade 2, if you defeat Akari Ichijou with an attack that causes a fatality animaton, it'll look like it works... But then, it turns out you were fighting a dummy. She then appears from the side of the screen to berate you.
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GAMING THINGS WE THINK ARE COOL!! - In one of her win poses in Art of Fighting 3, Kasumi Todoh looks up an English one-liner in her Japanese to English phrasebook.
She settles on "Come back when you grow up!" although this is a GIF, you'll have to use your imagination.
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New on Gaming Hell - Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru (Nintendo R&D1 / Team Shikamaru / Intelligent Systems, 1992) gaminghell.co.uk/KaeruNoTameNiK A TALE OF FROGS AND SNAKES, ETERNALLY RECROAKED
Suddenly, OX
(from Fighter's History Dynamite - Neo Geo, 1994, Data East)
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A physical rerelease of the SNES port of Undercover Cops is on the way, huh? Neat. If you'd like to know more about the game- mostly the arcade game, but also the SNES game, the manga (!), the Game Boy spin-off (!!)- then look at that, it's on Gaming Hell!
gaminghell.co.uk/UndercoverCops
The final SEGA AGES release for Switch, Herzog Zwei, is out in the West today. A pioneering action-strategy game by Technosoft, this new version comes with an in-depth training mode hosted by a Live 2D teacher and an online versus mode.
nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nintendo
Something I somehow missed in previous playthroughs- one of the bonus items in Konami's Violent Storm is a doll of Princess Melora from Detana!! TwinBee! How cute~
GAMING THINGS WE THINK ARE COOL!! - In the arcade version of Alien Storm, the sign on the Alien Burgers / Alien Busters van reads 'Welcome To' followed by text you can enter yourself on the Test Menu.
You can use this to put your arcade's name! Or fill it with nonsense like so.
GAMING THINGS WE THINK ARE COOL!! - In The Last Blade 2, if you defeat Akari Ichijou with certain attacks, it looks like she's split and half and killed... But it's a trick she's playing on you. She then berates the other character from the other side of the screen.
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Breaking Guest Character news, I had to go through the Wayback Machine to find this save file from 2008 but I can ~finally~ screenshot all the guests from New International Track & Field!!
New on Gaming Hell - Idol Hakkenden (Natsume, 1989) gaminghell.co.uk/IdolHakkenden. IT'S THE YEAR 2020, AND THERE IS TIME FOR '80S VIDEO GAME IDOLS
Let's start the day with some cursed knowledge!
Klonoa's PS1 rerelease on PS3 uses the NTSC version in PAL territories.... But it forces it into 50hz which means the *entire soundtrack* is slowed down. Here's a little sample featuring the saddest Wahoos of all time.
GAMING THINGS WE THINK ARE COOL!! - In Japanese versions of Capcom's Marvel games, like Marvel Super Heroes shown here, Air Combos are referred to as AERIAL RAVES
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GAMING THINGS WE THINK ARE COOL!! - Zombie Revenge has a feature only seen in co-op- if you die and don't continue, your character will get back up as a zombie and attack the surviving player!
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In any case, fighting games dealing with mirror matches in a clever way is something I always like to see!
Other examples include Sonic the Fighters where Eggman clones your character before a mirror match, and Breakers where palette swaps use unique names in single player.
I don't really need an excuse to post this cutscene of Pastel from Detana!! TwinBee, right? Good.
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If you've ever played the Namco Museum games, you'll know they have a robot secretary. Her name's Uketsuke Komachi and she's still doing her job at Bandai Namco over 30 years after her creation in the 80s- here she is today!
This page in the digital manual for Sega Ages: Ichidant-R is absolutely adorable. Bless their hearts.
manuals.sega.com/sega-ages/ichi
In brighter news, because Terry's in Smash, a few Fatal Fury and KOF games have discounts on them on the Switch eShop:
Fatal Fury
Fatal Fury Special
Garou: Mark of the Wolves
The King of Fighters '95
The King of Fighters '97
The King of Fighters 2000
nintendo.co.uk/Search/Search-
As pointed out by someone on a Discord I visit, this has a 1994 copyright… Which lines up with an unreleased US version of the game!!
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Sega just announced #RainbowIslands for the #GenesisMini2 in North America!
This 1987 arcade spin-off features Bub & Bob in their human forms, now able to fire 
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Packed with bonuses, secrets and guest appearances, the game was widely ported at the time!
sega.jp/genesismini2/
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Packed with bonuses, secrets and guest appearances, the game was widely ported at the time!
sega.jp/genesismini2/
GAMING THINGS WE THINK ARE COOL!! - The PS1 port of Pocket Fighter has an Edit Fighter mode that determines your character choice and starting items / attributes with a personality quiz hosted by Red Earth's Tessa.
GAMING THINGS WE THINK ARE COOL!! - The Groucho enemy in Mother / Earthbound Beginnings will, if not knocked out immediately, just wander off and give your party experience points anyway.
GAMING THINGS WE THINK ARE COOL!! - In Kabuki Klash: Far East of Eden, when Tsunade is unarmed, tap LP, LK, MP, MP then Up.
She'll change the colour of her clothes! The grey colour scheme only shows up in mirror matches, though.
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Today's accidental video game discovery: there was a shortened manga adaptation of the Super Mario Bros. movie, wow!
Stop what you're doing, this week's Arcade Archives release is Konami's VENDETTA, the long-unported four-player brawler. Save Kate from the Dead End Gang!
PSN
store.playstation.com/en-gb/product/
Switch version later, had to post this immediately
A huge release here- an early version of Castlevania: Bloodlines on the Mega Drive containing, among other things, the cut blimp scene (seen in auction photos years ago then never again).
segasaturno.com/portal/exclusi
Yggdra Union, a tactical RPG in Sting's Dept. Heaven series originally released for Game Boy Advance and later PSP, is getting a Steam release on the 6th of February (in Early Access)
store.steampowered.com/app/2107860/Yg
New on Gaming Hell - Fighter's History Dynamite / Karnov's Revenge (Data East, 1994) gaminghell.co.uk/FightersHistor IT'S KARNOVEMBER, PUNKS! RYOKO GANG, PUT YOUR HANDS UP
The most important Switch release of the year is finally out on eShop! Yes, friends, it's...
SEGA AGES: VIRTUA RACING
nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nintendo
It took over two decades but this is a definitive, perfect port of the arcade game, starring Virt McPolygon!
While we're on PSN, can we appreciate how ramshackle the Fighting Vipers page is?
store.playstation.com/en-gb/product/
The screenshots used here are:
* Character Select (Saturn port)
* Arcade shot from GameSpy
* That's Fighting Vipers 2
* A shot of the Saturn version from our website (!)
Gaming Hell is 13 today! So time to look at perhaps my favourite Capcom scrolling brawler, The Punisher (Capcom, 1993) gaminghell.co.uk/ThePunisher.ht HE IS THE ONE WHO HAS SEEN THE UNLIMITED HELLS ON EARTH... HE IS THE PUNISHER!!
New on Gaming Hell - A guided tour of the the Namco Museum series on PS1 gaminghell.co.uk/NamcoMuseum.ht LEARNING ARCADE GAME HISTORY, ONE EXHIBIT AT A TIME
New on Gaming Hell - Wonder Momo (Namco, 1987) gaminghell.co.uk/WonderMomo.html WELCOME TO THE NAMCO THEATER
Some wisdom courtesy of Johnny Maximum from World Heroes Perfect (ADK, 1995)
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The next Neo Geo Pocket Color rerelease is out on Switch now- Fatal Fury: First Contact, a bite-sized rendition of Real Bout Fatal Fury 2 with a pint-sized roster
nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nintendo
We don't normally put retro gaming finds on this account but... We did not know a comic of STREET FIGHTER: THE MOVIE existed. UNTIL NOW
New on Gaming Hell - Bucky O'Hare (Arcade, Konami, 1992) gaminghell.co.uk/BuckyOHare.html GET THE FUNKY-FRESH RABBIT WHO CAN TAKE CARE OF IT
Do I need a particular reason to post cutscene art from El Viento? No? Good. This cutscene art is so great!
(Vincente DeMarco here was a character renamed for the US release. In the Japanese version, his name is... Al Capone.)
Some surprising additions to Nintendo Switch Online today- SNES Harvest Moon, Kirby's Tilt & Tumble (tilt youe Switch or use gyroscope controls to play), Blaster Master; Enemy Below and... A retitled localisation of Namco's Famicom puzzler Babel no Tou as Mystery Tower?!
A game we've been waiting for is finally out- Strange Telephone, an enhanced port of a mobile game, is a 2D adventure where you explore bizarre worlds created by six digit phone numbers.
On both Steam
store.steampowered.com/app/705290/Str
And Playism
playism.com/product/strang
GAMING THINGS WE THINK ARE COOL!! - A Korean version of Kaneko's Gals Panic replaces the nude picture in each stage with
DINOSAURS
GAMING THINGS WE THINK ARE COOL!! - Holding Down and pressing Medium Punch + Medium Kick in World Heroes Perfect performs a fake dizzy animation. You can attack out of it!
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Zoku Sonohigurashi vs Touhou Universe 2 is now out on Steam. This is a fighting video game, made with digitised actors, originally released in 2016. It looks glorious, like one heckin' video game.
store.steampowered.com/app/1320240/zo
