Tatsumi appreciation thread
Jul 22, 2013 10:11:09 GMT -5
Post by 1983parrothead on Jul 22, 2013 10:11:09 GMT -5
Tatsumi (formally known as Tazmi) is quite obscure, due to most of their arcade games released only in the arcades. However, they are best known for two racing games: TX-1, which was probably the first game they created and the first multi-screen arcade game (as well as the first racing game with alternate routes), which later received a revision/sequel titled TX-1 V8...
(it was also featured in the earliest video game-based game show, Starcade)
...and Buggy Boy (released outside of Japan by Data East as Speed Buggy, ntbcw the Hanna-Barbara animated series and its title character), which I remember playing in a now-out of business restaurant in downtown Chickamauga, GA.
In later years, they developed a couple more driving games like Round Up 5: Super Delta Force, which is similar to Chase HQ and Lucky & Wild, but without the use of guns...
(it's also the first arcade game shown in this video)
...as well as a few other genres like the combat flight simulated Apache 3 (which I probably played this at another restaurant (located in Fort Oglethorpe, GA), that also went out of business, which was also one of the earliest places I've seen a Street Fighter II arcade, then rented and played the SNES version the same day for the first time)...
(its MAME port doesn't look accurate enough.)
...and two beat 'em ups: Cycle Warriors, a motorcycle-driving hack 'n' slash...
...and Big Fight: Big Trouble in the Atlantic Ocean, which isn't just a beat 'em up, it's also a versus fighting game. As Final Fight is to Pole Position, as Big Fight is to TX-1. Big Fight and TX-1 might be imitators, but they have plenty of originality. Big Fight was featured in The Large Cult-Classic Fighting Game March (yes, that is what the page's title literally means).
(here is Attract Mode and Part 1. Like Apache 3 and Cycle Warriors, Big Fight also has emulation problems.)
There are a couple of others I haven't mentioned, but in later years, they created a palm-reading machine, an original trading card machine and a Lovegety STATION. Since 2000, they have been focusing on manufacturing sticker-printing machines and other novelty machines; however, they had an official arcade game webpage. I sure would like for them or another company to release their library of arcade games to a compilation that can be compatible with cockpit-based peripherals.
(it was also featured in the earliest video game-based game show, Starcade)
...and Buggy Boy (released outside of Japan by Data East as Speed Buggy, ntbcw the Hanna-Barbara animated series and its title character), which I remember playing in a now-out of business restaurant in downtown Chickamauga, GA.
In later years, they developed a couple more driving games like Round Up 5: Super Delta Force, which is similar to Chase HQ and Lucky & Wild, but without the use of guns...
(it's also the first arcade game shown in this video)
...as well as a few other genres like the combat flight simulated Apache 3 (which I probably played this at another restaurant (located in Fort Oglethorpe, GA), that also went out of business, which was also one of the earliest places I've seen a Street Fighter II arcade, then rented and played the SNES version the same day for the first time)...
(its MAME port doesn't look accurate enough.)
...and two beat 'em ups: Cycle Warriors, a motorcycle-driving hack 'n' slash...
...and Big Fight: Big Trouble in the Atlantic Ocean, which isn't just a beat 'em up, it's also a versus fighting game. As Final Fight is to Pole Position, as Big Fight is to TX-1. Big Fight and TX-1 might be imitators, but they have plenty of originality. Big Fight was featured in The Large Cult-Classic Fighting Game March (yes, that is what the page's title literally means).
(here is Attract Mode and Part 1. Like Apache 3 and Cycle Warriors, Big Fight also has emulation problems.)
There are a couple of others I haven't mentioned, but in later years, they created a palm-reading machine, an original trading card machine and a Lovegety STATION. Since 2000, they have been focusing on manufacturing sticker-printing machines and other novelty machines; however, they had an official arcade game webpage. I sure would like for them or another company to release their library of arcade games to a compilation that can be compatible with cockpit-based peripherals.
