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General Chat => Arcade Lifestyle => Topic started by: starlord on February 13, 2012, 11:07:38 AM

Title: has anyone heard of this?
Post by: starlord on February 13, 2012, 11:07:38 AM: Seems a laserdisk game based on the starblazers franchise by taito did hit it in japan for a while:

http://www.starblazers.com/html.php?page_id=363

Might anyone have info on this? it's preservation would be greatly appreciated by the fans of the franchise...
Title: Re: has anyone heard of this?
Post by: ataritoobin on February 13, 2012, 05:33:00 PM: I thought I read about a collector having a marquee, but not much more than that.

Here is some more info if you read Japanese:

http://blackzero717.blog113.fc2.com/blog-entry-26.html

(http://flashpass.redirectme.net/steve/ArcadePics/YG_LD002a.jpg) (http://flashpass.redirectme.net/steve/ArcadePics/YG_LD002b.jpg)

The Taito laserdisc stuff is extremely rare.

I spy a converted Namco Pole Position cockpit in the background hehe :-X
Title: Re: has anyone heard of this?
Post by: rdg2010 on February 13, 2012, 11:49:20 PM: I read that article before (at starblazers.com). As far as I know this was a rare game that came out only in Japan. Similar to Astron Belt/Galaxy Ranger with some Dragon's Lair type levels mixed in.
Title: Re: has anyone heard of this?
Post by: rdg2010 on February 13, 2012, 11:53:23 PM: .
Title: Re: has anyone heard of this?
Post by: Alpha1 on February 14, 2012, 11:43:15 AM: This threw me for a second.

Galaxy Ranger is actually called Star Blazer in Japan: http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=thumbs&db=videodb&id=6346

So I thought it would be that, but it's not and it is indeed a Taito game.

Very close names, seperated just be an 's' !
Title: Re: has anyone heard of this?
Post by: starlord on February 15, 2012, 08:49:55 PM: Pity: It looks like a blast!

Might taito themselves have an operational cab in their archives?
Title: Re: has anyone heard of this?
Post by: starlord on February 25, 2012, 12:34:52 PM: Sorry, simple question, but is anyone here fluent in japanese?

does the owner of the blog own a yamato cab? If not, perhaps he would know of taito or ex taito members who do...