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For a board that uses the latest in PC graphics technology, these games didn't look all that stunning. The company showed off a number of titles including Battle Gear 4, Harikiri Online Pro Baseball, the Korean-developed Homura, Target: Force, The Fast and the Furious, Raiden III and Tetris The Grand Master 3 Terror - Instinct. Taito was the only company promoting new hardware through its Type X arcade board. The only new videogame-style game was Sangokushi Taisen, a fighting game based off the Sangokushi historical period.

A medal game based off of Monopoly was shown and actually has the Monopoly license. World Club Champion Football European Clubs 2004-2005 is the expected yearly update to the popular soccer franchise. Sega Network Taisen Mahjong 3 was shown on video only. Sega, which shared its booth with Sammy, had. Konami showed off two music games, Toy's March and Dance 86.4 Funky Radio Station. Sammy showed off Neo Geo Battle Coliseum and The Rumble Fish 2. Outside of Mario Kart, Namco showed Idol Master, a game in which you raise a pop-star into full pop and Taiko no Tatsujin 7 (already up to 7, eh?).

This game marks the return of Mario to the arcade scene, and could mark our return as well, as arcades haven't been all that much fun of late. While not much was shown, one big title did manage to come out of nowhere: the Nintendo and Namco co-developed Mario Kart. This first of two major yearly arcade shows in Japan (the second, JAMMA, takes place just prior to the Tokyo Game Show) was held at the Makuhari Messe over the weekend. Nintendo and its rock-solid customer support will be replacing the device for all those who bought it, with absolutely no effort required on the part of the buyer (Nintendo even pointed out the problem before we noticed it).Īside from the above releases, the big thing in gaming last week was the AOU arcade show. A slight problem: the device outputs sound in reverse, with right coming through left and left through right. The Play-Yan device is now sitting in our Japanese DS and Game Boy Advance SP units, playing back MP3s with good results and videos with somewhat-less-good results.

Nintendo continued with its typically empty mid-month game schedule, save for one limited release product: Play-Yan.