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An awesome new Arcade Racing Game hit Japan this year and it's pretty sweet looking.. it's called Wangen Midnight: Maxi Boost.... check it out.... hopefully it hits arcades here in North America, and than maybe our consoles





Here's the official Site for those that can read it....

Wangan Midnight: Maxi Boost

bbarbulo

iTrader: (2)

aren't consoles bigger market/money for game producers than arcades??

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Oh and to add to that the system uses a new engine the 246 system that Namco just released. When playing this game you'll get an actual "Tuning Card" which lets you save your Tuned/Tricked out Car that you can keep and when you hit the arcades again just slide the card and load your saved games and rack-up points like a Memory Card and post them on the site like a contest and win tons of shizzzz.

imported_gatherer

no arcades are .. because they bring the game out for 10000 dollars arcade owners buy it... why? because they will recoup costs in a few short months

as for the developers they re-coup costs with sell a few units then it's all profit ... alot better then 70 bucks a game and having to get a larger production run going....and havingt he possibility of having the game cracked and copied....

Last In Line

yup exactly what I was gonna say... and if the game is crap than they sell/throw away the board and add another game in the cabinets... why do you think there are Street Fighter games in Flintstone Cabinets? cuz it's cheaper.. and they don't have to mass produce so much... you can just order a pcb board from the company and click the coin-up option and start profiting from these things. They're always upgradable and you never need to buy a new cabinet. Look at Mortal Kombat Series, Street Figter Series, House Of The Dead, Daytona USA, Raiden, Bust-A-Move etc... some of those games are over 10yrs old and people are still pumping quarters into those things... and Jitz... LOL don't get me started with Jitz those things get more quarters in there then a T.D. Bank... specially from me .... but then again you can't cross it over to a console cuz they you lose the fun.... that's why people that have the money drop a Classic Made in Italy Fabi Table in there homes. Well hope that helps... arcades are a good business specially if you got the right location... *cough*Near Schools*cough*..... and open up a pizzaria. That's a little business advice if you want to get into that.

spracingsports

sounds like initial D arcade to me.... looks like it too

DJTre

Looks nice, I love the seat

SpikeyLee

Sounds and looks like the Initial D arcade game crossed with Tokyo Xtreme Racer! It looks good though, if it ever comes to NA, I'd give it a shot!!

Notorious

Yeah look good. It sure is a cross between those two games spikey

SpikeyLee

And I love both games so I'll probably love this one too!

DoubaD

we need an arcade with a clutch, and not one thats like an on/off switch, a clutch that works like a real one, that would be sweet

DJTre

Yeah that would be awesome.
Then I wouldn't have to wait in line with a bunch of 8 year olds to play a car game. I would most likely be in like with twice as many adults
It would also help kids learn to drive manual at an early age, good stuff

imported_Gatsby

InitialD all the way!

imported_Promoking

Remember Ridgeracer in the arcade? That had a clutch.

imported_Rich@OptionJDM

ferrari 355 challenge has a clutch at playdium. hehe jitz is the future. screw arcade machine. jitz table costs like 1200 bucks, and it can probably make it back in a month. i have wasted so much on jitz it's not even funny.

punkindrublic

thats pretty sweet

T-Shirt Ninja

Bah Initial D still ownz it, it was the first I can remember to offer cards that save your progress. Looks decent tho, if it makes its way to playdium or funland on younge and gould Ill play it.

imported_i-WERKS

A previous version of this game is out for PS2. I got it and played it for maybe 30 minutes in total. It's very similar to tokyo extreme racer. Only it sucks a lot more ***. Maybe the arcade version is better.

imported_Syphon

there was only 1 arcade within driving distance (under 1 hour) that had initial D.. they got rid of the machine.. so i can never play that game. They need to remake it for ps2 or pc or something so i can play it again. the psx initial d sucks if you cannot read japanese.. which i cannot.

spracingsports

they do have initial d for playstation2.... but it is in japanese :cry: