Volks Dollfie Dreams Okies! Time to revisit the Dollfie Dream scene! Today I’ll be showing you some of the newer dollfies that I haven’t really talked about much. We’ll be looking at the Fortune Arterial, Super Robot Wars and Fate/hollow ataraxia. Please note, all these dollfies are limited editions, so… Good luck!
A wonderful surprise in the mail today. I ordered this Arcanine (Windie for the Japanese name) from a Yahoo! Japan Auction. This plush is from the Pokemon Diamond and Pearl Plush Set and is a prize item that can only…
Custom headphones for Custom Beat Battle Draglade 2
Filed under: Imports, Accessories In order to entice customers into picking up the new sequel to last year's brawling pseudo-rhythm game Custom Beat Battle Draglade, publisher Namco Bandai has decided to offer a bonus that makes it seem even more like a rhythm game: free headphones. Japanese gamers who preorder Draglade 2 will receive, along with the game, a pair of over-the ear "Super Beat Headphones" just like the ones worn in the game by the new protagonist, Shibuya Goku Raio. The bonus wi
The distant sound of a glade fights, Draglade 2 dated for July
And if you pre-order Draglade 2 before it comes out on July 10th in Japan you can get a free set of headphones. A fitting pre-order bonus since Draglade’s deviates from 2D fighting games with custom beat combos. The roster is the major difference thus far, which has been updated to include a broader range of characters. New to the glade arena are Neon, the singer in a gothic dress on the left, and Kamuzou the elderly man on the right. His attacks consist of commanding walking dentures and fa
First SRW game which groups can be formed. Combination attacks can also be used, and the graphics is a lot better than the first SRW game on PS2 (SRW Impact). I chose the real robot route (again) so for those of you who want to see robots in super robot routes, sorry… I truly thought this was the last SRW alpha game because we killed almost all of the enemies. But apparently, they made SRW alpha 3 two years later. I still haven’t play the game yet (I hope I can do that in 2007) so I tried
Tokyo, Japan (JP / World) Santa Clara, California (U.S.)
Industry
Software and programming
Website
http://www.banpresto.co.jp/
Banpresto Co., Ltd.(æ ªå¼ä¼šç¤¾ãƒãƒ³ãƒ—レスト,Kabushiki-gaisha Banpuresuto?) (TYO: 7854) is a Japanese game development firm. It was founded April 1977 as Hoei Sangyo, Co. Ltd. The company was renamed Coreland in 1982, and during the 1980s it worked mainly as a subcontractor for Sega and its arcade division. It has been partially owned by Bandai since 1989, when it gained its current name. It was purchased by and became a wholly owned subsidiary of Namco Bandai Holdings, Inc. in March 2006.
Banpresto has created a variety of Japan-only video games, most notably the Super Robot Wars series and Summon Night series, both of which gained such a fanbase that part of both series were translated and released to the US market. Other projects include anime tie-in games such as the Tenchi Muyo! RPG, Panzer Bandit and several Sailor Moon games of differing genres. Banpresto also makes several varieties of mechanical prize-winning games.
Banpresto's video game operations were absorbed into Namco Bandai Games on April 1, 2008. As part of the merger, two of Banpresto's subsidiaries, Pleasure Cast Co. Ltd and Hanayashiki Co. Ltd, became Namco subsidiaries. Banpresto itself now focuses on its prize machines business.
References
^ MobyGames - Coreland
^ IGN.com: Banpresto
^ IGN.com UK: Sayonara, Banpresto
External links
Banpresto Co., Ltd. (in Japanese)
Banpresto Company Profile (in English)
Banpresto profile on MobyGames
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