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after the m2 announcements the other day i keep thinking about how shmups are the worst genre for the Distribution Situation that they have and that basically all talk about how the scene can grow is moot until the biggest games are all available on all major platforms and regions

i cant think of a genre with a higher expectation of community literacy of The Classics. i played devil blade, loved it, then like many moved onto arcade emulation and am picking at the cave library. one of the most mismanaged, least accessible libraries in the history of all recorded media

anyway i know this is the boring thing i always bring up but i do think it's a far bigger problem than the friction of mass audiences being unwilling to open themselves up to arcade design imo and basically impossible to fix without kenichi takano's heart growing three sizes that day lmao

it's very funny that M2 is fine having a bunch of gaijin visit/film their office but will sell a game to them with all the willingness of a cat entering a bathtub

My favorite was M2 complaining about people passing around the GG Aleste 3 rom when it's only available on a Switch release in Japan.

looking up cave games on wikipedia is badass because sometimes you'll see shit like this