KEN ISHII: SPACE INVADERS
Madrigal just sent me this youtube video and made me think about the lisergic years when I was a techno producer and DJ at the beginning of the 90 techno revolution... natsukashi!!
Anyway this track has been produced by Ken Ishii for the (official) SPACE INVADERS CD released 4 years ago in Japan to celebrate the Taito shooting masterpiece.
45Th AM Show: arcade racing games

Update: a lots of videos from AM show has been posted on Youtube like Mamorukun ha noroware te shimatta! (GRev), Death Smiles (Cave) + Death Smiles Live, Tekken 6, Basara X, Quest of D: The battle Kingom, Chase HQ 2, Eternal Wheel, Pokemon Battrio, DragonBall DataCardass game, etc...
Update: Arcade Renaissance.com posted some impressions from the game.
Update: Game Video posted a trailer of the game.

D1GP, from Taito, is a arcade racing drifting simulator dedicated to the japanese D1 series. The D1 Grand Prix was the vision of a Japanese car enthusiast and magazine publisher Daijiro Inada, founder of the Japanese auto tuning title, Option Magazine and the Tokyo Auto Salon (our friend, the japanese Idol, Amano Ai appeared as a Race Queen model in the august issue of Option Magazine).

CHASE HQ 2 is the next gen version of the legendary arcade game from the 80s...
ETERNAL WHEEL: new SquareEnix Arcade

Another new arcade game from Taito (owned by Square Enix since 2005) is Eternal Wheel (or "The wheel of Eternity"): a satellite card game developed by Square Enix. Satellite arcade games with touch sesitive panels are really popular in japanese game arcades (one example is Derby Owners Club) but the size and the cost of these machines limited the distribution to Japan (and sometimes Asian game centers). One of the most famous Satellite platform is Sega Chihiro. Eternal Wheel has been programmed on NESYS: a new PC-based Taito Type-X Arcade Board which is a network-connected arcade machine that features a touch-sensitive panel. I think this release will stop the rumors about Square Enix working on a new hardware console that started spreading last year.
Akihiko Yoshida and Amano Yoshitaka took care of illustrations and character design so the card will be really succesfull also among trading card fans.
Seems that Square Enix has been pretty busy with the release of Crysis Core for PSP since Eternal Wheel has not even been listed on their homepage.






