Gundam GO!
Yesterday I finally brought myself to go to the Sega World Arcade in Ueda in the hopes of finding some sort of entertainment in this boring city. By the way, this was a 40 minute uphill walk from the downtown station (if you're wondering why I haven't been before :P), and I even ended up walking to downtown from my apartment (which was another 40~50 minutes).
Anyway, I had looked it up ahead of time so I knew where to go and ended up finding it pretty easily, even though I had to take a narrow excuse for a road with turns and forks everywhere to get there (it was either that or spend another 15 minutes walking on the main road). Once I got there, I looked around for a particular game I wanted to play... it's this Online Game that you store your character data on an IC (rfid) card, and can use other cards as items in game, such as potions. Also, a lot of the game interaction happens by touching the screen to pickup and use items. It's pretty fun.
So, as you probably have guessed by now, that game was completely monopolized by hardcore gamers (I really should have seen that coming), so I found another game which was also tons of fun.
It's some sort of game based on the Gundam Wing anime, and it's played using a set of IC cards on a table that reads location and stats of the cards and your players. You move your gundam characters across the map using the cards on the table, and the point is to blow up the other guy's gundam things.
I played 4 times: Once in a tutorial (where I surprisingly understood most of it), twice against a CPU, and once (accidentally) against another player somewhere in Japan (battlefield selection was part of the tutorial I obviously didn't understand… until I looked at the manual. haha).
So the first two actual battles against the CPU was pretty fun, I managed to win and at the same time make myself look like an idiot to all those hardcore gamers who sit there playing for hours... but I had fun, so I'm happy.
Of course, I wasn't so successful in my match against another player, where I proceeded to get myself killed in a minute or so (I only had starter pack specs!).
So in conclusion:
The game was fun, the trek there was not. Looks like this is going to have to be a weekend only deal.
At least next week I'll be in Tokyo... It should be pretty easy to find arcades. haha.
Anyway, I had looked it up ahead of time so I knew where to go and ended up finding it pretty easily, even though I had to take a narrow excuse for a road with turns and forks everywhere to get there (it was either that or spend another 15 minutes walking on the main road). Once I got there, I looked around for a particular game I wanted to play... it's this Online Game that you store your character data on an IC (rfid) card, and can use other cards as items in game, such as potions. Also, a lot of the game interaction happens by touching the screen to pickup and use items. It's pretty fun.
So, as you probably have guessed by now, that game was completely monopolized by hardcore gamers (I really should have seen that coming), so I found another game which was also tons of fun.
It's some sort of game based on the Gundam Wing anime, and it's played using a set of IC cards on a table that reads location and stats of the cards and your players. You move your gundam characters across the map using the cards on the table, and the point is to blow up the other guy's gundam things.
I played 4 times: Once in a tutorial (where I surprisingly understood most of it), twice against a CPU, and once (accidentally) against another player somewhere in Japan (battlefield selection was part of the tutorial I obviously didn't understand… until I looked at the manual. haha).
So the first two actual battles against the CPU was pretty fun, I managed to win and at the same time make myself look like an idiot to all those hardcore gamers who sit there playing for hours... but I had fun, so I'm happy.
Of course, I wasn't so successful in my match against another player, where I proceeded to get myself killed in a minute or so (I only had starter pack specs!).
So in conclusion:
The game was fun, the trek there was not. Looks like this is going to have to be a weekend only deal.
At least next week I'll be in Tokyo... It should be pretty easy to find arcades. haha.
posted by Matt at
4/09/2006 09:33:00 PM
