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Shooting Gameside Vol. 4

シューティングゲームサイド

Feature on Toaplan, with Uemura and Yuge interviews. The only shmup-dedicated magazine ever published; 13 volumes ran Oct 2010 to Jun 2015.

Year

2012

Publisher

Micro Magazine

Kind

Magazine

Pages

159p

Language

Japanese

ABOUT

The fourth issue of Shooting Gameside, published by Micro Magazine in 2012, and one of the most important documents in the series. Its lead feature unpicks the history of Toaplan, the Osaka studio behind Tiger-Heli, Truxton and Batsugun that laid the foundations of the modern shooting game before collapsing in 1994, seeding Cave, Raizing and others. The feature is anchored by interviews with two Toaplan veterans, composer and programmer Tatsuya Uemura and composer Masahiro Yuge; both interviews were later translated into English by shmuplations.com, an indication of how often this issue is cited.

Around the Toaplan material sit coverage of Valhellio, the iOS version of Mushihimesama and PixelJunk SideScroller, plus a classic-game feature on Steel Empire. The music pages report on a public lecture by Yuriko Keino, the early Namco composer of Xevious and Dig Dug, under the title The Pioneering Days of Game Music, and interview Koji Hayama. The doujin section covers RefRain ~prism memories~ and SATAZIUS. It runs to 159 pages.

IN THIS ISSUE

Lead feature: Toaplan history
Interview: Tatsuya Uemura (Toaplan)
Interview: Masahiro Yuge (Toaplan)
Valhellio
Mushihimesama (iOS)
PixelJunk SideScroller
Classic game feature: Steel Empire
Game music: Yuriko Keino public lecture report
Game music: Koji Hayama
Doujin: RefRain ~prism memories~, SATAZIUS

DESCRIPTION

Toaplan completed the foundations of the modern shooting game and then vanished like a comet. This issue unpicks its history. Toaplan feature, with interviews: Tatsuya Uemura and Masatoshi Yuge. Valhellio. Mushihimesama (iOS version). PixelJunk SideScroller. Classic game feature: Steel Empire. Game music: a report on Yuriko Keino's special public lecture, The Pioneering Days of Game Music. Game music: Koji Hayama. Doujin: RefRain ~prism memories~. Doujin: SATAZIUS, and more.

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

GAMES IN THIS BOOK

Mushihimesama 2004 CAVE Interactive

PixelJunk SideScroller 2011 Q-Games Ltd.

Steel Empire 1992 HOT-B

Satazius 2011 ASTRO PORT ヴァルへリオ not in the index yet RefRain ~prism memories~ not in the index yet

Batsugun 1993 Toaplan

Zero Wing 1989 Toaplan

Grind Stormer 1992 Toaplan

DETAILS

Series

Gameside Books vol.4

ゲームサイド編集部

ISBN

978-4-8963-7384-4

WHERE TO GET IT

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