Here is another Volume of BB.TV. For those in Japan each episode of BB.TV highlights new and exciting features, levels and other interesting new additions to Segas online 20 vs. 20 mech fighting game Border Break.
To those of us not in Japan it’s another tantalizing look at an awesome game most of us will never get to play. Like googling attractive woman you’ll never get to… Erm, take to dinner.
A couple more Gettenka trailers for you to ponder over.
Gettenka being an Arcade/DS game aimed at Japanese children. So far you can only get this game in Japan. Where they like to get the kids hooked on collecting cards and playing arcade games young. Hell, I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s some kind of anime/cartoon in the works too.
What’s it about? I don’t even think the developers know, but you seem to insert the cards you collect into the game and they give you’re character new items or clothes or powers or something.
Hit the jump for the second trailer.
The GagaMan, creator for SEGA Memories and contributor to the SEGA Junkyard blogs, recently uploaded a series of game playthroughs* to his YouTube channel. Included in the playthroughs thus far are some pretty crazy SEGA games of the past including the SEGA CD’s Panic! (aka Switch) in two parts, the AM2 arcade game Dynamite Dux and Looney Tunes Desert Demolition for the Mega Drive. The videos are full length, no 10 minute increments here, and are fileld to the brim with the GagaMan’s usual comments. Check ’em out!
*the playthroughs are ones he had uploaded last year, however they appear here uncut and in full.
So to cut a long story short, my friend stopped over at my house the other day, with DVD in hand. Raving about this ‘great movie’ we just had to watch. It’s called ‘Big Man Japan’ I knew nothing about it at the time and now that I’ve watched it… I’m still not convinced I know anything about it.
But I do know that this scene is awesome. Enjoy!
If this is relevant to your interests. It’s called ‘Big Man Japan’ and it is subbed in English.
SEGA is making a DS version of one of their hit card reading arcade games (Great Battle History Gettenka), but instead of this version being a card based game, it will be a Super Smash Bros style fighter. Guess who makes a cameo?
If you read the title, you would already know that it is Sonic. In this game, unlike Super Smash Bros, a user can customize his fighter, adding weapons and items. One of the usable items is Sonic. The DS game is called Gettenka Tenkaichi Battle Royale and comes out November 25th in Japan.
SEGA stop this nonsense and just release SEGA All-Stars Fighters. You know you want to.
[Source: Siliconera]
Check out this brand new trailer for Shining Force Cross: Raid, a sequel to last years Shining Force Cross, Cross Raid is made exclusively for the Arcade.
The game doesn’t share a much if anything with classic Shining games, game play or art style wise. In fact it looks akin to a Phantasy Star Online game play wise. However I think the game does look like good fun on its own merits. I wouldn’t hesitate to try it out if ever I had the chance.
However a return to classic Shining Force in both game play and art style is long over due.
Here are the first screens for Initial D Stage 6AA, SEGA’s video game adaptation of the Manga called Initial D.
The game, so far, is only coming out on Arcades and was shown off at the JAMMA show.
[Source: SEGAOnline]
[Thanks: Robert via e-mail]
Another Initial D game has been announced, this time its Initial D Stage 6. You guys keeping track?
I actually don’t know much information on this game, so I will say it will be an upgrade to part 5. Isn’t it great? I hope they have the real life size cars for it as a cabinet. Would rock.
[Thanks: Suzuki Yu]
SEGA is beefing up their line up for JAMMA this year, they started it off by announcing 3 new titles. This one is one of those titles. Its a ‘expansion’ version of Shining Force Cross, only this one adds another word to the title. Raid!
This title is going to have more levels, more weapons, more items and new characters to play as. We won’t get to play it, so I guess it doesn’t matter.
[Thanks: Suzuki Yu]
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The guys over at Arcade Heroes have gotten the invite to test them out, we here at SEGAbits only got strange looks and pointing fingers. Games on the list are Grid, Let’s Go Island and Great American Road Trip.
What ‘Sonic Series’ and ‘New Sonic AllStars Addition Slideshow v2’ is, I don’t know. I guess we will find out sooner than later
I’m not even going to pretend to understand what’s happening here. It seems to be a new version of Sega’s hit kids Arcade game ‘MushiKing’. The cabinet has dual touch screens and a card reader.
If anyone has any further information about this game drop us some info in the comments below!
Edit; An interesting find by our forum member Suzuki Yu; at around the 6:30 mark on this video it shows some of the new arenas, 3 of which are straight out of Virtua Fighter 5. Good old Sega!
Here is the first trailer for both of Sega’s new Transformers Arcade games. The games are quite obviously geared towards a much younger audience.
Like many of Sega’s recent Arcade games this one requires you to collect real world playing cards with transformers on them then you can scan them into the game and use the transformer on the card. It appears that the same cards work on both machines.
One game is seems to be a simple onrail shooter where you play as your selected autobot and then shoot down other transformers. The other is a racer, I’m less clear on what this one involves but you seem to have to switch between your ‘car’ mode and ‘robot’ mode to chase down other transformers.
Here is a brand new trailer showing off some of the new moves you will be pulling off in Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown… If you ever get to play it that is!
Who remembers Pengo in the arcades? Probably not many of us as it was released way back in 1982. But it seems Sega are giving us another chance to catch Pengo in Arcades… Yep it’s coming back on Segas RingWide arcade hardware.
This time with a multiplayer vs. mode, it looks pretty fun too… A bit like Bomberman. Who said Sega don’t remember their classics huh!?
Boy I haven’t wanted to play an Arcade game THIS much in years and I love Arcade games. Here’s another BB.TV episode to tease us poor fools in the west and show us exactly what were missing.
It’s like Team Fortress on crack, with robots. WANT!