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The Evolution of Arcade Games: Shooting Games

アーケードゲーム進化論 シューティング編

アーケードゲーム進化論 シューティング編

Covers 200+ arcade shmups; supervised by Maeda Hiroyuki.

Year
2016
Publisher
Oakla Publishing
Kind
Mook
Pages
127p
Language
Japanese

ABOUT

A single-volume history of arcade shooting games supervised by Hiroyuki Maeda, published by Oakla Publishing in March 2016 as part of its Oak Mook line, 127 pages. It selects more than 200 arcade shooters and presents them in full colour, organised by design lineage rather than chronology, which makes it effectively a taxonomy of the genre in six chapters.

The chapters run: single-screen shooters, from Space Invaders and Galaxian to Cosmo Gang the Video; scrolling shooters, from Scramble and Xevious to Star Force, TwinBee and Gradius; 3D shooters, including Space Harrier, After Burner II, Galaxy Force II and Night Striker; light-gun games, from Operation Wolf to Time Crisis and The House of the Dead; and FPS and TPS cabinets, from Battlezone to Virtual-On and Border Break. An appendix looks at the long pursuit of faithful PC and console conversions and reproduces a collection of arcade flyers. Its breadth, taking in gun games and cockpit 3D alongside the scrolling canon, distinguishes it from the strictly shmup-focused books in this collection.

CONTENTS

  • More than 200 arcade shooting games in full colour
  • Chapter 1: single-screen shooters (Space Invaders, Galaxian, Moon Cresta, Sasuke vs. Commander, Centipede, Cosmo Gang the Video)
  • Chapter 2: scrolling shooters (Scramble, Bosconian, Xevious, Star Force, 1942, Terra Cresta, TwinBee, Gradius)
  • Chapter 3: 3D shooters (Space Harrier, After Burner II, Galaxy Force II, Metal Hawk, Night Striker)
  • Chapter 4: light-gun games (Operation Wolf, Lethal Enforcers, Virtua Cop, Time Crisis, The House of the Dead)
  • Chapter 5: FPS and TPS cabinets (Battlezone, Cyber Sled, Virtual-On, Gundam Federation vs. Zeon, Border Break)
  • Appendix: PC and console conversions, arcade flyer collection

DESCRIPTION

Race through space, slip through the bullets, wipe out the enemy. The evolution of the arcade game does not stop. Over 200 arcade shooting games, selected and presented in full colour, from Space Invaders and Gradius to Salamander. Chapter 1, single-screen shooters: Space Invaders, Deep Scan, Galaxian, Moon Cresta, Sasuke vs. Commander, Centipede, Cosmo Gang the Video, Zunzun Kyou no Yabou. Chapter 2, scrolling shooters: Scramble, Bosconian, Xevious, SonSon, Star Force, 1942, Terra Cresta, TwinBee, Exed Exes, Gradius, Darwin 4078. Chapter 3, 3D shooters: Zoom 909, Astron Belt, Space Harrier, Thunder Ceptor II, After Burner II, Galaxy Force II, Metal Hawk, Night Striker. Chapter 4, light-gun shooters: Operation Wolf, Mad Dog McCree, Lethal Enforcers, Virtua Cop, Gun Bullet, Time Crisis, GunBlade NY, The House of the Dead. Chapter 5, FPS and TPS shooters: Battlezone, Senjyo, Xybots, Last Survivor, Cyber Sled, Cyber Troopers Virtual-On, Mobile Suit Gundam: Federation vs. Zeon, Border Break. Chapter 6, appendix: the unending pursuit of PC and home console conversions, and a collection of arcade game flyers.

Translated by this site from the publisher's Japanese blurb.

GAMES IN THIS BOOK

Moon Cresta 1980 Nichibutsu Cosmo Gang the Video 1992 Namco Centipede 1981 Atari Galaxian 1979 Namco Terra Cresta 1985 Nichibutsu Xevious 1982 Namco Bosconian 1981 Namco Star Force 1985 Tehkan TwinBee 1985 Konami 1942 1984 Capcom Gradius 1985 Konami Space Invaders 1978 Taito Deep Scan 1979 Gremlin Industries サスケVSコマンダ not in the index yet ずんずん教の野望 not in the index yet Scramble 1981 Konami Son Son 1984 Capcom Exed Exes 1985 Capcom Salamander 1986 Konami Darwin 4078 1986 Data East ズーム909 not in the index yet アストロンベルト not in the index yet スペースハリアー not in the index yet サンダーセプターII not in the index yet アフターバーナーII not in the index yet ギャラクシーフォースII not in the index yet Metal Hawk 1988 ナイトストライカー not in the index yet オペレーションウルフ not in the index yet マッドドッグマックリー not in the index yet リーサルエンフォーサーズ not in the index yet バーチャコップ not in the index yet ガンバレット not in the index yet タイムクライシス not in the index yet ガンブレードNY not in the index yet ハウスオブザデッド not in the index yet バトルゾーン not in the index yet センジョウ not in the index yet ザイボッツ not in the index yet ラストサバイバー not in the index yet サイバースレッド not in the index yet 電脳戦機バーチャロン not in the index yet 機動戦士ガンダム 連邦vs.ジオン not in the index yet ボーダーブレイク not in the index yet

DETAILS

Series
Oak Mook
By
前田尋之
Released
2016/3/31
ISBN
978-4-7755-2540-1

WHERE TO GET IT

Searched by ISBN, so a shop that has this exact edition will show it and one that does not will come back empty. Most of these were printed in Japan and never distributed elsewhere.