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turbo-digest digest, Volume 08, Issue 329 [message #4508] Fri, 27 July 2012 01:15
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	Implode 
	The ultimate game request of the homebrewers

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From: duo16@mindspring.com
Date: Thu Nov 28 00:55:50 EST 2002
Subject: Implode 


Hey List,
     Happy Thanksgiving to everyone out there.  Well, I can break my silence
about Implode because I finally just got around to ordering it on TZDs
website. Though I won't actually play the game until next week, it doesn't
really matter.  I'm into puzzle games and the music which I heard when I d/l a
video of the game from Dark City Productions sounds fantastic.  If it's a
genre I like, the control is there (and there is nothing saying otherwise in
this game), and the music is good...hell, it's hard to get games that have
some of the basic things down anymore.
     My excuse for taking so long was...honestly...there were still a couple
of Dreamcast games I needed to get, namely, Ikaruga (which seemed as though it
was going to be much tougher to get than even Implode.
      I think it would be a shame if Mindrec didn't release another game
though I understand the reasons for Implode possibly being the last release. 
I bought this game to support future efforts because I know all things must
start somewhere.  Puzzle game seems like a good start.  The next logical step
might be a shooter.  Of course, WE'D ALL probably like top see an RPG but we
can be realistic as well.  They are complicated and they take up so much time
(I'm assuming).  
     The 250+ copies that had sold as of a few weeks ago should be
encouraging.  I think at 500 the game is a record for a game of this type.  I
think a next release (assuming it's something which meets a little more
demand) will get better sales.  I also think that Mindrec should consider a
further release (again, assuming it's going to be at least as good as Implode)
at a higher price.  I SERIOUSLY doubt there is one person among us who owns
the game that  paid $20 that would probably not have paid $25 or $30.  I would
even have paid more.  Btw, for the guy who said taht he was only interested in
legitimate relases....that's a ridiculous statement.  There have been many a
Turbo collector trying to get LOCAL GIRLS of HAWAII discs  and that set is
completely homebrew.
    So, Bt, if you'd like suggestons, give us a choice at least.  We don't
want to be unrealistic is asking for something too difficult.  I'd be happy
with a souped up puzzle game with cut scenes and stuff like that.  I'd be
thrilled with a shooter to add to the great Turbo shump library.  I'd be
ecstatic if you did an RPG. But, whatever it is, I'll support it.  
    



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From: duo16@mindspring.com
Date: Thu Nov 28 01:10:08 EST 2002
Subject: The ultimate game request of the homebrewers


I hope I don't get the axe for this but the resources of this List are really
missing out on making something we all want.  Dave Shadoff and others have
been translating Turbo games and Mindrec has what I consider a label and some
(perhaps limited) means of getting a game made.  I think it's time to combine
the two and start releasing english versions  of PC Engine games.  I mean what
is everyone afraid of?  TTI is long gone and if you call Hudson in Seattle or
NEC and mention the Turbo Grafx 16 they'll just say "what's that?".  There's
no reason at all to fear any copyright lawsuit from Japan.  In all realism
here, this is what we want the most.  Who in the Turbo world doesn't want to
play ManjiMaru, Dead of the Brain, Legend of Xanadu, Kabukiden, Emerald
Dragon, and Xak in English? Implode quality packaging would be nice too.  If
anyone doubts that these would make money, think again...How many of us have
spent craploads of money for RPGs which we can barely read (if at all)?   I
just recently spent $80 for Record of Lodoss War I & II.  
    This List has Japanese speakers/ readers, programmers, and so on. 
Copyrights be damned.  Start with easy roms and make some fairly easy money. 
THEN get into more complex titles and even original titles.  If Mindrec went
through with this and did a Hudson game and say some jerk wanted to report it
to Hudson/ Konami of Japan.  Do you really think they'd listen?  Hell, Working
Designs got away with reprinting titles long after their license expired.  
     Just think about it, please?  Imagine Land of Y's, Cosmic Fantasy IV
(oooohhhhh double disc set), Macross SLG, Gulliver Boy and others on CDs (even
with hucard sound, so what) playing on your US TG-16 in English!  THIS is the
untapped side of the US Duo and the way for Mindrec and others to get the
funds together for bigger original projects.  Will anyone second this?


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