Lately I’ve been obsessed with arcade games. It might have something to do with me downloading 13GB of mame roms and my recent purchase of a Logitech cordless rumblepad(…2). Yea, I know, it’s wrong. But Arcades are dead here. REALLY dead. So this is the only way to play these things.
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Plus, I get to play and talk about games no one else would! Which I’m thinking about doing on a weekly basis when I have nothing else to talk about on my days of “random blabber”. Before I talk about any arcade games though, I have to mention my controller set-up.
First of all, it’s plug-and-play which is great because I hate using wonky drivers that come with hardware like this. Then I set all the “player 1 controls” in mame to certain keys on the keyboard so I could use a program a friend pointed to me called Joy2key. It takes joypad input and translates it into keyboard input. Very helpful when you want to some other game/emulator that doesn’t support joystick input. A great example/use would be Guxt, that game needs to be played with a joypad. Also, there’s no lag so if you have a joypad don’t be afraid to use it!
Set-up aside…(because I’m already posting this a bit late)
Today’s obscure Arcade game is: Far East of Eden Kabuki Klash
Audience: “eeeh?!”
It’s so obscure, it don’t even have a wikipedia entry!
And it’s too bad too, because it’s a wonderful fighting game developed by hudson and uh… a weird company simply called “red”.
It plays like Fatal Fury meets Samurai Showdown, except better. It’s got all your standard fighting-game stuff going on: Multiple characters, an overworld map, 2D fighting plane, the works. It’s the awesome detail work in the sprite animation, surprisingly decent character in dialog and voice overs, excellent balance, and the fact that it’s made by Hudson. Come on, I know you’re thinking of the countless Mario party and Bomerman sequels. I haven’t played too much of this game to be honest -Well, I beat it already. However, every character plays dramatically different. The whole game seems to have a simple balance between three main elements of; swordplay, magic, and fighting/strength. Each character has a bit of each with some other traits on the side to mix it up yet keeping the game perfectly balanced.
You can just just tell by looking at them. (Note: missing here are the four final characters, you may only play against them - not play as them.)
Aaaaaaand that does it for today. Hope you enjoyed this very quick preview of a very obscure arcade game. If you’re 1337 enough, you’ll track down the rom, bios, and run this in mame. It’s worth it!
