Taito’s official YouTube channel posted a YouTube preview of COZMO, ZUNTATA’s upcoming album which celebrates their 25th Anniversary.
ZUNTATA is a band consisting of Taito’s amazing musicians who also perform live music live on stage. Just search for ZUNTATA on your video site of choice and you should be able to find some live performance clips and rips of their music from the games themselves or the CD soundtrack releases. Their Japanese site is here.
A trailer for Midway Arcade Origins was posted on the EGM site by AntDaGamer. Though the full game list isn’t out there yet, that “T for Teen” rating of the game has a Drug Reference warning possibly points to the inclusion of Narc. The early part of the trailer also has an obvious hint about another unannounced game. It’ll be interesting to see which games make the cut this time.
Joystiq reports that there will be a Midway Arcade Origins compilation of over 30 games for $30 for PS3 and X-Box 360. Don’t forget that Midway acquired the libraries of The game list in the press release mentions Defender, Gauntlet, Joust, Marble Madness, Rampage & Spy Hunter. Multiplayer modes will be local only, but there will be trophies and online leaderboards so the rest of the planet can make you feel crappy about the scores you’d normally be okay with. Backbone Entertainment will be doing the emulation duties again, so this thing is in good hands. Honestly, the extras like artwork and developer interviews are one of my favorite things about game compilations and I’d be happy if they just re-used some of the videos they included with the Midway Arcade Treasures series. Games like Gauntlet and Rampage that allow more than two players should be much more interesting now that these comps are on machines that don’t need multitaps. Midway’s Tapper actually shows up in the upcoming Wreck-it-Ralph’s, so maybe they’ll think of including that one, too.
Just in case you hadn’t heard about Keiji Inafune’s new game with the interesting concept and premise:
