As introduced in the previous article, the pachinko/pachislot industry and the gaming industry have a close relationship with each other. Many popular games have been released on gaming machines, and popular titles such as “Resident Evil” and “Hokuto Musou” have become hits on gaming machines.
On the other hand: “Let’s go by train!” ”, “Virtua Fighter” and “Derby Stallion”, there are many machines that have been very successful as gaming software, but have failed to shine as gaming machines.
The original story of “Carpenter Gen-san” is a game
You might say there’s nothing to be done because fewer and fewer gaming machines become hits, but Capcom’s popular games have an outstanding track record as gaming machines. “Resident Evil”, “Monster Hunter”, “Onimusha”, etc. they are all produced by Capcom.
Talking about Capcom when I was a kid, I was familiar with games like “Street Fighter II”, “Makaimura” and “Rockman”, and they also released game machines along with Striker II and Rockmann. It seems that one day there will be a Makaimura pachislot machine.
Among the first new machines at the start of the new year are those from Sun ThreeP Drum Fireworks Source“, but in 2020”P Carpenter Gen-san Cho Idaten” is still fresh in my memory. I’m sure many of you are looking forward to it.
However, not many people know that Gen-san, the carpenter, is actually based on a game. The other day, while I was having drinks with some people in the industry, the topic of conversation came up: “Sanyo has a lot of original hits like Umi Monogatari and Iigen-san.”
No, no, no, no. “Carpenter Gen-san” is a real action game developed and published in 1990 by a game company called Irem at the time. It was originally released for arcades, but a Famicom version was later released as well.
It was transformed into a pachinko machine in 1996, and the first generation CR Daiku no Gen-san became a great success. Since then, it’s continued to be sold as a popular Sanyo title for decades, so it’s a really big deal.
The person who developed the “legendary Ku◯ game” that Famicom is proud of is…
I would like to include another surprising topic here. Do you know the game “Ikki” released for Famicom in 1985? Nowadays, it is exaggeratedly called “legendary 〇〇”, but it is really a famous game called “legendary ku◯ game”, and it is also called the original ku◯ game.
There are various theories as to why it is called the Ku◯ game, but the main reasons are said to be the poor operability and poor balance of the game. I also played it as a child, but I have a strong memory of it being so difficult that I couldn’t progress at all.
However, there are many reasons why it is also called a beloved game, and has been revived in various forms such as the Windows version, PlayStation and Nintendo Switch.
Now, here’s the important thing: this game was developed by a company called “Sun Denshi”, which operates pachinko-related equipment. The game’s category is currently “SUNSOFT”.
Is it easy to understand the pachinko department by saying “SUNTAC”? The main products are Holcon, but recently I think a lot of people have been using TRYSEM for updates on how new machines work.
So, we talked about the origins of unexpected game machines and the relationship with surprising games, but the relationship between game machine manufacturers and game manufacturers is really deep. I can’t wait to see what games and machines will be released next.
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