It hadn’t really crossed my mind to that point that the orientation of the arcade games I loved was different than the console games I felt the same about.
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I used to turn my small TV on its side so I could play it vertically, which introduced me to the concept of TATE (pronounced tah-tay - it means vertical) mode. Ikaruga came at a time when I had a job, though, so I could buy games on my own: not often, but more often than before. (As you’ll find out if you keep reading this newsletter after this initial Nintendo project, you’ll realize things have changed in this regard.)
I grew up renting at Blockbuster and occasionally purchasing what I played at Funcoland when I could find it, swapping cartridges with friends so we could all get the most out of our consoles, and they didn’t have any shmups. Video games were expensive, and a thing I got as gifts or on the rare occasions my mom would say I could get a new game. It finally gave me an at-home shmup to play for the first time since Galaga on the Atari 7800 over a decade before - a system I only had, and had late, because my uncle had given it to us when his kids had moved a couple of console generations ahead of it - instead of just the ones I’d happen upon in arcades or at the local bowling alley. While I had no knowledge of Treasure or their previous works, I picked up the game case and saw what seemed like a pretty cool concept for a shoot-em-up, and that was that. Outside of Japan, though, it took until 2003 and Nintendo’s GameCube for Ikaruga to release. Ikaruga had originally been a Japanese exclusive for arcades back in 2001, and was eventually ported to the Sega Dreamcast there as well, since, like so many of Japan’s arcade games of the time, Ikaruga was designed to play on the Sega NAOMI arcade board that shared architecture with the Dreamcast. I didn’t know who Treasure was until Ikaruga’s release on the GameCube. You can keep up with the rankings so far through this link. I’m ranking the top 101 Nintendo developed/published games of all-time, and you can read about the thought process behind game eligibility and list construction here.
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