You know how the game works, video plays out and you react to the linear controls with split second timing in order to prevent our heroine from a grisly demise. I explained at length in my Dragon's Lair entry what LD games mean to me and why, so I'm not going to fight for their existence here. Time Gal is the second Laserdisc game to enter the 100 list. For that, I still have a couple thousand years wait left, until then, 1985 will have to suffice. Now, to me, 2010 sounds pretty much like it's "The Future" (Although SNK always assured me that the future "is now") but as I look around I see that, sadly, old movies and 1940's Bugs Bunny cartoons were lying all along, I have no hoverboard, no laser-gun, no spaceship car and The Running Man isn't a legitimate gameshow (Yet) What I'm missing most of all though, is super cool anime girls time travelling in ridiculously small costumes. …So there are at least a few spitballs that would make me lose my mind.As of this writing it's the very beginning of the year 2010. I, for one, am ready to go on another adventure with a third cat-dragon friend. But Lunar 3 has been rumored since the ’90s, so that’d be almost 30 years of buildup ready to explode into a confetti blast of fandom if they finally announced it.
#Time gal reika series#
But since Darkstalkers is by far my favorite fighting series (I’m not all that into fighting games in general, but I LOVE Darkstalkers), I’d be first in line to play a new one, ready to get back together with my main fish-bro Rikuo, and check out what monstrous new characters they might come up with.Īfter the disastrous attempt at a new Lunar title way back with Lunar: Dragon Song on the Nintendo DS, all hope has pretty much been lost for a revival of my favorite JRPG series, other than further remakes of the first game in the series (which has been remade no less than three times - four, if you count the minor differences between the Saturn and PlayStation versions). With the immense popularity of the characters, and the continued interest in fighting games, it’s actually kind of unbelievable that it hasn’t happened yet.
I know I’m not the only one who’s wishing for the proper return of the Vampire/Darkstalkers series. (OR OR OR - what if they put it on the Egret II Mini? hmmmmm….) Taito has brought back Reika a couple of times over the years (such as her appearances in Shikigami no Shiro III and Elevator Action Deluxe, not to mention the mobile edition of Time Gal which, sadly, is not available in North America), so since they’ve obviously not entirely forgotten about the character, I would hope that a quality re-release of the original game could see the light of day.
Even better, of course, would be a deluxe physical release containing an art book, interviews with anyone involved in the game’s creation and design, and any/every piece of historical ephemera that’s ever been produced in association with it. Well, one of my wildest dreams is to see Taito put out a fresh, high-definition remaster of Time Gal.
If you know me, you know I have my many pillars of gaming fandom: Metroid, Metal Gear, Actraiser…and of course, Laserdisc games, particularly Dragon’s Lair, Cliff Hanger, and Time Gal. So then I wondered, well, what kind of announcements would get me that excited again? What are some things that would literally make me lose my composure the way Actraiser Renaissance and Metroid Dread did? Well, let’s see: Other than that, I’m having a hard time coming up with any more moments that were truly mind-blowing to me that made me believe that anything could (and did) happen in this hobby. I do feel incredibly privileged to have seen this firsthand
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