Lucky & Wild - Episode 153

nothing there. That's like, that's my bag. Yeah, that's neat. You can tell I hadn't thought about that either. I have, I have the boat, the boat itineraries already. Yeah. All right. Well, that was a fun question. Thanks, Adam. Thanks for throwing one in the hat there. All right. Well, that will do it for Ivan Ironman Stewart's super off-road racing. Thank you. We hope you enjoyed this episode. We hope you enjoyed the game, if you've ever had a chance to play it. And again, if so hop on discord, let us know your thoughts, but that will wrap us up. So Jared, where can they find you? Yeah. So this week I'll be working on my papercraft and folding small little trucks.

Yeah. So the hardware is neat on this. So it's, it runs the, the baseboard is a Namco system too, which like, there's a lot of games that run on that hardware. We've had a couple. So like, you had an assault cabinet for a while. So that's the same kind of baseboard. Some other ones are like Cosmo gang golly ghosts. We've talked about that before, uh, Metal Hawk, Steel Gunner. But what's unique about this game, um, there's actually a couple there's final lap, uh, four tracks, Suzuka eight hours is another pretty common one. And lucky and wild, it had like a special kind of like graphics board, almost like its own like graphics section on the actual hardware. Um, so it's pretty neat. Again, it's the Namco system too. Unfortunately, super expensive hardware nowadays. I don't think I've ever owned a Namco system to where I know you, again, you did, you had an assault. We worked, I've worked on a couple, but I've never owned one. Yeah. I was looking at

Because the reception just wouldn't be there even from a control perspective. I think Portal was successful in Japan. But again I don't know if that was like Orange Box. Yeah Portal was very successful in Japan. You know and I do have a couple of comments as far as like viability outside of Japan. The reason why they put this together. Japan is very, when it comes to arcade games, very you know trend hopping. If they could successfully make Starcraft an arcade game when Starcraft 2 was popular, I'm sure they would have. And it would have just absolutely tore through every single arcade ever. Case in point, there's a there's a game called Mission Craft that was released in like 2000. It's a vertically scrolling shoot-em-up where this Korean company took art assets from Starcraft, the original Starcraft, and essentially made a shoot-em-up game out of it.

So instead of having to capture the doctor again each time, which even once you, I'll just mention once you collect all three keys from that last room, you have to make it to the exit within a certain amount of time or the villain on the first one will escape or the villain will capture your bride.