What did take some extra work was adapting Half-Life's intimate, story driven affair from the long-form to the arcade form that's even shorter than the episodic releases! They've created three game types: story mode (single player), mission mode (co-op), and battle mode (multiplayer).ĭon't expect to stumble upon one in America's limping arcade market though they're still rocking broken House of the Dead machines from five years ago.
Taito and Valve teamed up, buddy copy style, to adapt the PC classic to Taito's Type X arcade board (not much of a challenge, since it's a PC already, Windows and everything). Take, for example, this arcadization (?) of gaming's most celebrated first person shooter: Half-Life 2. Just because Halo releases don't result in new sales records over there, doesn't mean the FPS has no place in their hearts. And here we thought Japanese gamers could care less about FPSs.
