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A demo version of Fortune Summoners is planned for release sometime in September or October. Carpe Fulgur plan to release the full game sometime this fall during a November-to-early-December. Fortune Summoners: Secret of the Elemental Stone is a sidescrolling Action. Japanese release, as Carpe Fulgur used the visuals from the Deluxe version.
Grew up playing arcade games in the 80s, but by the time SNES came around never touched them. But them in the mid 90s would see the latest VF games and such in downtown arcades.Super Punch Out (arcade games from 1984, not SNES)Never knew this existed. I never saw it once in any arcade. Only found out about it googling old Punch Out videos long time agoTwo TigersPlayed this a lot at a pool hall in the late 80s.
But that was the only place I knew that ever had it. Hard as fuck. Never knew there were many different versions as the one I played used a Tron rotating dial and the ships had a big white aimer shooting you down. Many videos of this game have these twin cannon things shooting straight up.Golden Axe: Death AdderOne downtown arcade had it. Played it a few times and sucked at it. Harder than I thought.
Never saw it ever at any other arcade in the 90s. Played Virtua Cop 3 once at Dave & Busters and loved it. Naturally, no home release.Had Samurai Shodown 64 at my community college which got played a ton. I even set it on free play once when they left the coin door unlocked. No home release.Played Buriki One at an anime convention and it instantly became a favourite of mine. No home release.Players a VF with some cool guys in Columbus, OH when I was going to school and one of them actually bought a VF4: Final Tuned machine. Still my favorite VF game and no home release either.
Those are definitely some obscure games. Growing up I played at an Electric Castles Wunderland $2.50 entry/nickel arcade in Salem, OR as well as a $5 entry/'Free Play' arcade called Games People Play. Wunderland is still in business and located next to a great pizza joint called Pietro's Pizza that has a decent arcade of it's own. I take my kids there for birthdays and special events, just like when I was a kid. Games People Play became a strip club.Wunderland was better because people wouldn't just camp on the same game forever, which was especially true of the T2 arcade game.mouse over for the truth.
To Games People Play's credit, it was where I first played Knights of the Round, one of my favorite games ever.On the topic of Time Traveler, I was talking with a guy about the old arcades and he lived in a town with a Electric Castle's Wunderland, too, and he asked me if I remembered that weird hologram game. I said, 'Yeah, it was a fighter game', but he was positive it wasn't. We looked it up on Google and apparently Sega had made both the Time Traveler and Holosseum for the setup, but the latter was 2p. I played that Brave Firefighters game at GameWorks in Seattle. They have some other crazy-ass games like one with a giant toy horse you actually ride on to make it go. I'm so big I almost broke it.
I've been there a couple times like 10yrs ago and they had this huge-ass game where 4 people would get strapped in like a theme park ride on these huge columns, and you'd go up and down on this hydraulic/chain lift and try to pop the other team of 2 people's balloons. If you popped them you'd go up until you were like 12-15 feet off the ground. If you got popped, you'd drop way down. A crazy feeling. Can't find any info on it.Found it.Sky Pirates. I'll try to describe it since I can't find a picture of name online. It was a 3rd person multiplayer competitive shooter where you played as robots.
The controller was shaped as a Uzi. By pushing it forward you moved forward, pushing it to the sides you strafed and turning it made your character turn. Everyone started out with 10 gems and when you died you dropped most of them and others could collect them, the one with the most gems at the end of the round won. I think it was for 2 or 4 players and it was pretty good fun. I only saw it at my local cinema and nowhere else, not even in an arcade museum.