Friday 27 December 2013

Game Lists

I've now created two lists that you can access from the main index on the left, one for CPS1 releases, one for CPS2.

After chrd on Arcade Otaku very helpfully suggested I use web.archive.org to try and dig up some content from the system16 hosted site I mentioned in my last post, I've spent the day populating these lists with some relevant info. The two lists are not entirely complete, so hopefully I can add to them both in the future.

Tuesday 24 December 2013

Welcome to my blog!

So I've decided to start this blog. What is it for?

I'm passionate about arcade games, particularly those created by video games giant Capcom. This blog will serve as a way for me to record which games I pick up, but also will act as a virtual museum. I intend to post up info about each game I collect, along with any artwork I can find, dip settings and other related bits and pieces which might interest fellow otakus.

My inspiration for this blog comes from a few places, but in particular from an old page that used to be up on the web, but seems long-since gone. I believe it's author referred to himself as "Strider" and it was hosted up on www.system16.com - an excellent resource in itself. This page in particular had a list of all CPS-era Capcom games, scans of official art set pieces, information on suicide batteries and the like. It was great, but then one day it got hacked, was pulled from the web and never reappeared.

My goal is to collect every CPS-1 and CPS-2 game. Not full kits (hello richy13) as I don't have the funds for that, but maybe "gamer" kits. You know; working boards, move strips, manuals. Whether I'll ever get there I don't know. I'll certainly skip some Japan-only releases like quiz and mahjong games as they hold no interest for me, but I certainly want to cover the major releases.

I know very little about blogging, although I'm reasonably web-savvy, so this project is very much a work in progress. Expect sporadic updates as I tend to be pretty boom-and-bust with my hobbies. But I always come back to this stuff.