This little known beauty was quite prominent in Japanese arcades in late 2005.
Rockman EXE: the Medal Operation marked the EXE series' first foray into the arcade scene. So, uh...what is it?
Players deposit a specific amount of "medals" (arcade tokens) into the machine to initiate the game. Once started, you play a series of EXE 5 themed mini games in order to win a boatload of tokens to trade for prizes. Very little details exist about each individual mini game, all I know is that there's five in all with varying gameplay styles. If you check out the
official website, you can sort of conjure up the objectives of each.
Don't you just love these obscure Japanese arcade games?
If
you aren't keyed into the Japanese arcade scene, Arcadia
Magazine is like the New York Times of arcade
games-it's THE place to go in Japan for amazingly
in-depth and expert coverage of a large amount of titles
(and no, I don't write for them anymore!). They
also sponsor the awesome Super Battle
Opera tournament, so it's safe to say that
these guys know what's up.
SFIV wasn't really in the running for any Game of
the Year awards in the West, since it's "merely" an
arcade game right now, but in the one place on earth
where the game is in wide distribution, it's blowing
everybody away.
Street
Fighter IV won:
-GAME OF THE
YEAR
-Best
Graphics
-Best Production
-Best
Character (Ryu)
I'm
not sure a single game has ever been
so dominant.
And just in case you
thought SFIV was only popular with the Arcadia editors,
here is where I tell you it also won the write-in
Reader's Choice voting for best game
of the year. Beastly!
Thanks MarkMan
and Reno
for the translations!
This little known beauty was quite prominent in Japanese arcades in late 2005. Rockman EXE: the Medal Operation marked the EXE series' first foray into the arcade scene. So, uh...what is it?
