GSK | https://cohost.org/gosokkyuさんのイラストまとめ

they've also got all the Atlus 3DS stuff for ¥1000 each (including Etrian Mystery Dungeon 2 which iirc is the only game they didn't loc), Puyo Chronicle (the RPG-esque 25th anniversary game) for ¥500, etc

plus both Hero Bank games for ¥5~600 each, long live Segarion

(one guess at who this was originally supposed to be)

oh and because I don't think many people made the connection back in the day: this Cannon Spike character (whose name was spelled "Shiba" in the loc) was a next-gen reimagining of Siva from Three Wonders, similar to how they added a modern take on SonSon to MvC2

fun fact: veteran Capcom designer SENSEI switched careers from high-school teacher to game illustrator after seeing Chariot in an arcade—without Three Wonders, we would've been deprived of a ton of great art https://t.co/PYA09Z22kK

three more fighting games on the menu, including one actual fighting game

their sprites also fit within certain era-authentic boundaries: Saya-chan/Pocky's sprite & animations adhere to 32x32 pixel dimensions, sprites like these falling leaves aren't rotated in software but use lots of manually-dotted frames, etc

why did we allow Tecmo to keep making games after they did this

one of the games coming via update: 動・級・生, an all-animal riff on a certain school romance game

a lot of these games are silly & deliberately trashy but they also tend to be thoughtfully designed—one of the primary game designers is Mojipittan creator Hiroyuki Goto

for real, a lot of those dudes were straight up yokai https://t.co/RAlwefLDsy

speaking of Sammy mascots, I forgot they had Yuji Uekawa design mascots for their corporate baseball team

look at these Ristar Adventure characters