This Newsbytes was meant to be run back on February 8th, but as I was finishing it up, the site crashed and began the week long nightmare of not working properly. Fortunately that has past so it can be a distant memory before too long. I’m also happy that the post remained intact, although I will add a couple of things that were posted through the week. Let’s catch up!
JAEPO 2020 Wrap-Up
I think I managed to get to most of the relevant items in the first JAEPO post, but there are still a few more things I’ve caught out there. Bandai Namco has had both Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 6R & Jojo’s Bizzare Adventure: Last Survivor to show off.
Other JAEPO 2020 News Items:
Beat Saver VR (Asia Version, which is different from the one sold in the States by VRSenal) made some waves at the Sega booth
Famitsu overview, including GunArena CE, Tetote X Connect & the games of APM3
More details on Taiko No Tatsujin Nijiro Version
More footage of Tetote x Connect, Taito’s new dance-with-a-virtual-partner game
Footage of Space Invaders Counter Attack (This game was at IAAPA 2019)
Namco Brings Wacky Gators Back
Quick promo for the new gaming PC line that Konami is using in their latest arcade machines
If SNK brought one of their older King Of Fighters games to Western arcades, which one would you be interested in?
Here are links to livestreams (these are several hours in length) in case you are interested:
Konami’s 9th KAC
Konami’s Bemani Pro League Special Stage
Bandai Namco Amusement JAEPO 2020 Special Stage
Sega’s MaiMai DX
Guilty Gear Strive Stream via Arc System Works
American Takes The World Champion Crown On DDR A20 At Konami’s 9th KAC
Congrats to Chris4Life on the achievement, his second win in this annual tournament
I am The 9th KAC DDR World Champion!!!!! pic.twitter.com/7AiLpEomUJ
— iamchris4life@KAC(2/3-2/14) (@CHRS4LFE) February 8, 2020
I’m pretty