Since getting my Blast City I've started to explore the realms of 'high resolution' games (31khz 640x480, not exactly the high resolution you expect when you hear the term). I picked up a Naomi mainboard with JAMMA to JVS adapter, and realised how good games look on the monitor at 31khz, and also the quality of them. Being a fan of Street Fighter I decided I would delve a little further into the JVS world and pick up Street Fighter 4 and a Taito Type X2 motherboard. I've placed the order today, and I'm hoping it will be with me some time next week.
A year or so ago I thought I'd be sticking strictly with 15khz low resolution games, but it's amazing how things change. Game boards seem to be getting increasingly dearer, and I have quite a lot of the games I'm actually interested in aside from a few Cave titles, which I'll make do with on the Xbox 360 for the time being. With me never getting into the high resolution games earlier, there is now a wealth of them out there that I eager to explore. I've already grabbed a few Guilty Gear games for the Naomi, and am considering buying a Naomi cabinet once I'm in a position to buy more cabs. That will of course be dependent of the number of cabs I can fit into my new place.
On the X2 I'm also interested to try out the Blazblue series. The games are developed by Arc System works and are apparently like a successor to the Guilty Gear series, which is currently one of my favourites. Looking at the library for the X2 it seems that even arcade games are headed for digital distribution rather than the near 40 year old method of putting each game onto a printed circuit board which physically sits inside the cabinet. The next couple of years could see the last ever physically released joystick games into the arcades. It seems such a shame, but then there have only been a handful of games of interest to me released in the last 6 years into arcades. Most of those games were either shoot 'em ups' by Cave, or are 1 on 1 fighters.
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