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Shooting Gameside Vol. 11

シューティングゲームサイド

Feature on Nichibutsu. The only shmup-dedicated magazine ever published; 13 volumes ran Oct 2010 to Jun 2015.

Year

2015

Publisher

Micro Magazine

Kind

Magazine

Pages

159p

Language

Japanese

ABOUT

The eleventh issue of Shooting Gameside, published by Micro Magazine in February 2015, 159 pages. The lead feature is a memorial retrospective on Nichibutsu (Nihon Bussan), the maker of Moon Cresta, Terra Cresta and MagMax: a selection of its best shooting games, a company history, and interviews with three people from its orbit, developer Shigeki Fujiwara, composer Kenshi Yoshida and developer Juichi Kobayashi. Little else in print treats Nichibutsu's shooting output at this length.

The issue also carries a piece of arcade sociology, The Game Centre at Midnight, considering the Japanese arcade thirty years after it came under the entertainment business law, and imports the four-panel comic Musou Seyo!! Yoko Shooter from Arcadia magazine. Coverage of current games includes the doujin shooter Wolflame with an interview with its circle ASTRO PORT, and the Xbox One title Natsuki Chronicle with an interview and a specially drawn comic. The music pages interview Kazuhito Yamada, composer of Azure Striker Gunvolt, and the regular columns run from the Shooting Game Art Museum to Tatsuya Uemura's Do As You Like, closing with a feature on readers who turned rooms of their homes into private arcades.

IN THIS ISSUE

Lead feature: Nichibutsu classics retrospective and company history
Interviews: Shigeki Fujiwara, Kenshi Yoshida, Juichi Kobayashi
The Game Centre at Midnight: arcades 30 years under the entertainment business law
Four-panel comic from Arcadia: Musou Seyo!! Yoko Shooter
Doujin: Wolflame, with ASTRO PORT interview
Natsuki Chronicle (Xbox One) interview and comic
Game sound: Azure Striker Gunvolt composer Kazuhito Yamada interview
Columns: Shooting Game Art Museum, shooting game classics selection, BEEP column, Tatsuya Uemura's Do As You Like
Home arcade feature: rooms turned into game centres

DESCRIPTION

New releases, retro and doujin games, covering every generation and every platform. Issue 11 of the specialist shooting game magazine.

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

GAMES IN THIS BOOK

Wolflame 2016 ASTRO PORT

Natsuki Chronicles 2019 Qute Corporation SF-X not in the index yet

DETAILS

Series

Gameside Books vol.11

ゲームサイド編集部

Released

2015/2/7

Size

21 x 2 x 14.8 cm

ISBN

978-4-8963-7494-0

WHERE TO GET IT

Amazon Japan eBay Amazon US Amazon Canada

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