Initial D - Home Release
wrestleantares
and it sounded to be a very cool arcade racer.
I found out later it was based on an anime series. I decided to see
what made them base a racing game on an anime series, so I downloaded
an episode.
It was okay. That aside, it contains a wonderful concept for a racing
game. The main character is an incredible driver having honed his
skills from a very young age in delivering tofu for his family. Yes,
I know it sounds lame. The cool factor in the racing game idea is
that he is a master of drift, and while in the episode I saw he seems
uninterested in racing himself, the others are out to figure who it is
in this mysterious car that makes the Akina mountain run at record
times (his Tofu route). The others are racing teams made up of young
Japanese males.
The episode I saw had a very Tokyo Extreme Racer feel, and a home
conversion could easily take some cues from that series of games.
The BIG difference is, it is hill racing, and focuses on the need to
drift around curves.
The anime show was interesting as the character interaction scenes
were all traditional 2D art whereas the racing was 3D computer
generated.
I'd love to see the makers of Sega Rally 2 give us a nice home release
on one of the consoles - Even if its Japanese only I'll get the
import.
wrestleantares
Coming to you from North Carolina,
where we have a Governor whose claim to fame
is he got a minority scholarship (he's white)
to go to a primarily black law school because
he was too dumb to get into the white equivalent.
Kyo
"wrestleantares" <pada...@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> I saw the news about Initial D Arcade game (SEGA Rosso) a while ago,
> and it sounded to be a very cool arcade racer.
>
> I found out later it was based on an anime series. I decided to see
> what made them base a racing game on an anime series, so I downloaded
> an episode.
>
> It was okay. That aside, it contains a wonderful concept for a racing
> game. The main character is an incredible driver having honed his
> skills from a very young age in delivering tofu for his family. Yes,
> I know it sounds lame. The cool factor in the racing game idea is
> that he is a master of drift, and while in the episode I saw he seems
> uninterested in racing himself, the others are out to figure who it is
> in this mysterious car that makes the Akina mountain run at record
> times (his Tofu route). The others are racing teams made up of young
> Japanese males.
>
> The episode I saw had a very Tokyo Extreme Racer feel, and a home
> conversion could easily take some cues from that series of games.
>
> The BIG difference is, it is hill racing, and focuses on the need to
> drift around curves.
>
> The anime show was interesting as the character interaction scenes
> were all traditional 2D art whereas the racing was 3D computer
> generated.
>
> I'd love to see the makers of Sega Rally 2 give us a nice home release
> on one of the consoles - Even if its Japanese only I'll get the
> import.
>
>
I actually like the comic quite a bit, it's got an interesting art style and
the characters are all pretty good, especially the dad. I know there was a
game for PS1, though I've never had a chance to play it. An arcade version
would be great fun to play though, and you gotta love his car, which is an
old 80's Trueno I think, can't remember what year. As for the anime, I
have mixed feelings because while the 2-d parts look great, I thought the CG
was really terrible and already looks dated, but I have full expectations
that the arcade version would look great.
Eiji Hayashi
release (no mention of NA release).
pada...@bellsouth.net (wrestleantares) wrote in message news:<3d6a5623....@news.vistatech.net>...
On Topic Guy
>Initial D Arcade Stage has already been confirmed for PS2 Japan
>release (no mention of NA release).
I'm sure it won't get a US release. Just not a viable license in NA.
I'll certainly import one.
Raymond McKeithen II
"Eiji Hayashi" <li...@mcmaster.ca> wrote in message
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> Initial D Arcade Stage has already been confirmed for PS2 Japan
> release (no mention of NA release).
Spreading lies again. Confirmed by who? The voices in your head?
It's not on SOJ's official release list:
http://sega.jp/ps2/
...nor on the release lists at reliable sites like Gamspot Japan.
Eiji Hayashi
do you still not get it yet Ray. I don't have any voice in my head. I
certainly don't make any claims that wasn't published elsewhere. In
this case, maybe the word "confirm" is not quite appropriate, but its
probabably cause I don't remember every little detail about news that
was announced a few months ago.
http://www.the-magicbox.com/game040302.htm
http://www.newtechnix.com/Affichage_Article.php3?Id_Article=4918
http://www.vghq.de/sony/news.php3?id=3585&offset=60
http://web.pitas.com/tamarket/18_05_2002.html
Andrew Ryan Chang
>> It's not on SOJ's official release list:
>> http://sega.jp/ps2/
>> ...nor on the release lists at reliable sites like Gamspot Japan.
>
>do you still not get it yet Ray. I don't have any voice in my head. I
>certainly don't make any claims that wasn't published elsewhere. In
>this case, maybe the word "confirm" is not quite appropriate, but its
>probabably cause I don't remember every little detail about news that
>was announced a few months ago.
>
>http://www.the-magicbox.com/game040302.htm
>http://www.newtechnix.com/Affichage_Article.php3?Id_Article=4918
>http://www.vghq.de/sony/news.php3?id=3585&offset=60
>http://web.pitas.com/tamarket/18_05_2002.html
Two of those last three credit the Magic Box. I bet the third one
got its news from there as well, without crediting it. What you have is
one, maybe two cites, not four. The Magic Box itself lists the Initial D
game as unconfirmed. The German site says more info would be forthcoming
at E3, if Altavista's machine translation can be trusted.
From all available evidence, "confirmed" is indeed not
appropriate.
--
And we read of [George W. Bush's] insistence on the importance of individual
achievement and personal responsibility -- in a ghost-written autobiography.
-- Lars-Erik Nelson (http://www.bartcop.com/lnelson.htm)
Jose Barragan
"On Topic Guy" <padams2...@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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Tokyo Pop seems to thinks so, as they're publishing the manga and the anime,
even going so far as to change _names_ and censor the manga because they're
thinking Initial D will be a big hit "with the kids."
Sean X. Chang
"Jose Barragan" wrote >
> > I'm sure it won't get a US release. Just not a viable license in NA.
> >
> > I'll certainly import one.
> >
>
> Tokyo Pop seems to thinks so, as they're publishing the manga and the
anime,
> even going so far as to change _names_ and censor the manga because
they're
> thinking Initial D will be a big hit "with the kids."
Yeah, they're trying to make it a huge deal here, aiming at it being "the
next
Speed Racer." I'm sure people are more than skeptical about that statement.
wrestleantares
>Yeah, they're trying to make it a huge deal here, aiming at it being "the
>next
>Speed Racer." I'm sure people are more than skeptical about that statement.
>
Video Game wise, that license went to hell.
Kyo
> Tokyo Pop seems to thinks so, as they're publishing the manga and the
anime,
> even going so far as to change _names_ and censor the manga because
they're
> thinking Initial D will be a big hit "with the kids."
>
>
What did they do to censor the manga? I've only ever read the Japanese
manga so I've no idea. And how about name changes? The only Tokyopop
release I've ever seen is the G.T.O. anime and I thought that the dub was
pretty shitty but as far as I recall there were no name changes in the dub.