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[verplant]

...not official, but the publisher "505 Game Street" will release some of the japanese games:

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SimpleDS Vol.2 - THE Billiards => Billiard Action (released - 2005/11/17)

Genre: Sport
In-Game Text: English
Manual Langauge: English, Italian, German, French, Spanish
Date: November 2005
System: DS - CDR

A new way to enjoy pool with friends!
Billard Action represent the new frontieer of fun thanks to the new special features created appositely for Nintendo DS hardware.
Share your ideas with your friends, sugges them the best shoot, draw
on the Nintendo DS Touch Screen to make fun of your opponent or to
suggest next shoot.
The Bet System is a game into a game.
During your shots or opponent shots you can bet on the result and try to win money from your opponents.
Up to 4 people can play together with only 1 cartdrige thanks to
the “Game Share”.
Loads of fun with the most famous billard variation such as 8-Balls, 9-Balls, Rotation and many more...

FEATURES:
- Several type of possible games as 9-Ball, 8-Ball, Rotation and many others!
- 2D and 3D action (even simultaneously) with an impressive graphic
- Wireless gameplay up to 4 people (only 1 cart requied)
- BET System. Place your bet before your opponent makes his shot and try to win more money
- Drawing system. Give suggestion or comments by drawing on the screen, share it by drawing on the Nintendo DS touch screen!

The next one will be:

SimpleDS Vol.3 - THE Mushi to ru Ookoku => Beetle King (2006/02/xx)

Genre: Simulation
In-Game Text: English
Manual Langauge: English, Italian, German, French, Spanish
Date: February 2006
System: DS - CDR

This very original game is about collecting insects and mating them to create new species.
Explore natural environment and use your stylus to find every spieces of the game: scratch grass and search through braches.
Tens of different insects to find! Collect them all! Try to make them mating and explore the wildest nature possibilities. It will be difficult to complete the collection, but you will find help in your friend: excange your rarest insects with them with DS wireless feature!

FEATURES:
- Tens of different insects
- Mating insects for creating new spiecies
- Interactive natual environments

 

[Rayven]

"FEATURES:
- Tens of different insects"

lol

EDIT: could be a typo i spose.

 

[verplant]

"FEATURES:
- Tens of different insects"

lol

EDIT: could be a typo i spose.

hmm... I'm from Germany - what's so funny about "Tens of different insects" ?

 

[Blackbird]

'tens' can also be used as 'hundreds'.
Where 'hundreds' means somewhere between 101 and 999, 'tens should mean '11-99'
By the way, 505 is also publishing Devilish

 

[dock]

They're releasing these at full price? Sucks!

http://www.play.com/play247.asp?pa=stcs5&page=title&r=DS&title=860685

 

[Deleted member 1235]

hmm... I'm from Germany - what's so funny about "Tens of different insects" ?

Well if you wanted to show off how many different insects there were, you would say "Tons of different insects!"

tens of different insects reads like "we have about 21 different insects " which isn't really alot :lol

 

[Kurosaki Ichigo]

Is 'Beetle King' the one coming to Europe? I thought it was Mushiking...

?.?

 

[pilonv1]

They're releasing these at full price? Sucks!

http://www.play.com/play247.asp?pa=stcs5&page=title&r=DS&title=860685

Yeah the Billiards game is the same price as Mario Kart here.

 

[verplant]

Is 'Beetle King' the one coming to Europe? I thought it was Mushiking...

?.?

No... look at www.505gamestreet.com

Beetle King has the same screenshots like the simpleDS-Game Vol. 3

 

[callous]

Is 'Beetle King' the one coming to Europe? I thought it was Mushiking...

?.?

Mushi means insect in Japanese. It's the same game.

 

[jarrod]

D3 USA should consider bringing these over at budget prices. They seem too content to rely on kiddie licenses now (Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, Naruto, etc)... the SIMPLE style budget stuff may not fly on PS2 with SCEA, but DS/PSP are another matter I bet.

 

[shoplifter]

505 sounds like the greatest publisher of all time...you euros get XII Stag.

 

[Moor-Angol]

The Billiard in Japan was the version with a bug...

and i think it's better to buy Daredemo Asobi Taizen, you got a lot of games, billiard included

 

[verplant]

Mushi means insect in Japanese. It's the same game.

the translation is right... but "Mushi King" (Sega) isn't the game released in Europe... The european "Beetle King" is - as ich wrote - the same as "SimpleDS Vol.3 - THE Mushi to ru Ookoku" in japan

 

[callous]

the translation is right... but "Mushi King" (Sega) isn't the game released in Europe... The european "Beetle King" is - as ich wrote - the same as "SimpleDS Vol.3 - THE Mushi to ru Ookoku" in japan

Oh. My bad. Who'd have thought they were making several games about insects being kings. I mean, what are the odds ...

 

[GDJustin]

D3 USA should consider bringing these over at budget prices. They seem too content to rely on kiddie licenses now (Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, Naruto, etc)... the SIMPLE style budget stuff may not fly on PS2 with SCEA, but DS/PSP are another matter I bet.

I interviewed D3's US head this summer right when they were getting started, and he told me they were going to intentionally avoid the budget stuff for a while... indefinetly, actually. He said when forming a new publisher you don't want to "Start" with that stuff. He says you build up your business, then think about opening a budget line.

Let me dig up the article...

EDIT: Besides, the kids stuff on the GBA isn't relevent to GAF, but regularly and handily moves like 300-500K at retail, so its a PERFECT way to get a base of capital, imo.

Edit2: Found the article-

http://biz.gamedaily.com/features.asp?article_id=9804#9804

"In Japan, a budget title might sacrifice quality to push a unique idea. You can release smaller, rougher, cheaper titles that have a unique, new idea, and consumers will respond to that," he said.

In America however, the budget market isn't one that D3 wants to enter—for now, at least. "In America, a new publisher needs quality to establish themselves. Americans are much more quality conscious. The budget market is something we might look at in the future, but for now we have no plans [to offer budget titles]," Takenaka said.

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

Oh. My bad. Who'd have thought they were making several games about insects being kings. I mean, what are the odds ...

I'd imagine its similar to the odds of Disney doing a big budget movie based on a public domain property, and coincidentally having cheap direct-to-video releases based on the same stories released at the same time by other companies.

EDIT: OK, so we don't see that very often with games... but I'm guessing it's what's going on this time.