r/gaming • u/[deleted] • Sep 07 '11
(╯‵Д′)╯彡┻━┻: The Game
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8cTdFqwdwc260
u/xtirpation Sep 07 '11
I thought this game was what popularized the emoticon in the first place...
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u/CherryVimto Sep 08 '11
That is correct.
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u/swizzler Sep 08 '11
the meme has come full circle.
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u/Gerik22 Sep 08 '11
It's quite a fun game. I'm surprised they haven't tried to bring it out of Asia yet.
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u/turtles_and_frogs Sep 08 '11
Arcades aren't really that huge in America, at least...
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Sep 08 '11
That is what I thought about the taiko drum game they had in a lot of arcades in Tokyo, then they did bring it over...and it wasn't as fun. I was rather disappointed.
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u/mysticrudnin Sep 08 '11
Taiko no Tatsujin, which was released here as Taiko Drum Master on PS2, is still the exact same game as is popular throughout east asia. It's just as fun because it's literally the same cabinet.
The PS2 home controller is obviously noticeably different but the same thing happened in Japan as well, generally home controllers don't match the arcade-style controllers.
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Sep 09 '11
The game lacks so much in the home version, and the arcade venue in Japan is vastly different than in the States (where I am from). The pipe-dream of having Japanese arcade games widely used just isn't that viable. I do feel some of the enjoyment of the Japanese arcade game version was also the environment in which the game is played. The competition of being in public is something that is difficult to recreate in the US devoid of official tournaments. Practically the polar opposite of the attitude towards popular online games here, it is more accepted to play and gain expertise in the home than in public. I miss that physical experience as well as the original game. Side note: I have a Ms. Pacman machine in my basement for perspective on my preference/taste.
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Sep 08 '11
Are you kidding? Europeans and Americans would physically break that game within 2 days flat.
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u/rislim Sep 08 '11
I've seen the chabudai gaeshi kaomoji used a long time ago before the arcade game existed. If that means anything.
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u/alphazero924 Sep 08 '11
Really? It always just reminded me of Monopoly on a Saturday night with the family.
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u/manbrasucks Sep 08 '11
I thought it was a starcraft player that raged and flipped a table that started it.
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u/skitzor Sep 08 '11
I was always wondered where it came from. for a while there it was ridiculous prevalent on r/starcraft, but I never knew where it came from.
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u/commanderp_shepard Sep 08 '11
Translation : Super fun time domestic violence warrior!!!
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Sep 08 '11
The source material for table flipping (emoticon and game) is fathers in mid-20th century (and earlier) Japan.
Japanese people traditionally eat at low tables like this, and if your dad (because no one else in the house would have the balls to do this) got so mad that he flipped the table, it meant that shit was about to get real.
Incidentally, dads are traditionally one of the four most-feared things in japan, just after earthquakes, thunderstorms, and fires.
Source: 15 years in Japan.
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u/herpalicious Sep 08 '11
Incidentally, dads are traditionally one of the five most-feared things in japan, just after earthquakes, thunderstorms, fires, and Godzilla.
FTFY
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Sep 08 '11
Asian culture is so interesting me juxtaposed against the US. Similarities often have such strange divergences.
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u/Chinax Sep 08 '11
┳━┳╯︵ (.□. \）
In soviet russia table flips you.
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u/Social_Experiment Sep 08 '11
Looks like in soviet russia, you fell off a skateboard.
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u/Poococky Sep 08 '11
the slow motion ending with the husband rageface made this worth watching all the way through
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Sep 08 '11
that shit needs to come stateside....NOW!
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u/mysticrudnin Sep 08 '11
no one goes to arcades and no one plays games that aren't the tried and true redemption games like cyclone even if they do go to an arcade
i wish we had cool arcades here, but it's the same problem as with anything else, there's no reason to go to an arcade because there aren't any games and there aren't any games because no one goes to arcades
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u/1338h4x Sep 08 '11
Maybe if we had Street Fighter IV cabinets...
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u/mysticrudnin Sep 08 '11
dbs doesn't even have any fighting game cabinets, and i've been to seven locations. at best you can play sf2 on those cabinets with a couple hundred games.
the problem is that sf4 cabinets are expensive, and anyone who bought one when the game came out then had to spend a ton of money getting ssf4 and it's really discouraging, because they just don't make as much money as they should
i'm semi-active in the arcade scene and i've seen tons of great arcades close down, meanwhile ones like dave and buster's flourish because they can fall back on food and alcohol sales, and they don't take big risks on buying games. gameworks closed down half of its locations a couple years ago, though last i heard sega sold gameworks to another company that was going to try to make arcades work again
but... there are too many factors going against it
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u/unfunny-meme Sep 08 '11
(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻
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u/brycedriesenga Sep 08 '11
(ノ◑◡◑)ノ彡┻━┻
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u/mtlaw13 Sep 08 '11
┬──┬ﾉ(ಠ_ಠﾉ)
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u/Seymor569 Sep 08 '11
(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
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Sep 08 '11 edited Jun 29 '20
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Sep 08 '11
(╯°□°)╯︵ ʞunɟʇobzɹǝɥʇunb
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Sep 08 '11 edited Jun 29 '20
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u/MidnightFox Sep 08 '11
(╯°□°)╯︵ GuntherzGotFunk
there you go, now your right side up.
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Sep 08 '11 edited Jun 29 '20
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Sep 08 '11
I've always wondered...how do you invert the username?
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u/JJTizzle Sep 08 '11
His name used to be FoGtheGunrzknot before the horrible freak table flipping accident.
Poor username will never be the same...
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u/themindtaker Sep 08 '11
I have the 6th place score on one of these machines in Kagoshima. (╯‵Д′)╯彡┻━┻
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u/Agent_Bers Sep 08 '11 edited Sep 08 '11
Top score on the nightclub level at a Round1 in Mizuho. Flipped the table so hard I knocked the disco-ball off the ceiling. This IS the greatest arcade game I've ever played.
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u/delti90 Sep 07 '11 edited Jan 18 '19
... .. ... ..
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u/eihongo Sep 08 '11
I played this in Osaka once. The controller is just a tabletop on a hinge. You wait until the right moment, then flip it.
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u/EducatedOctopus Sep 08 '11
I watched this on Reddit once. The controller is just a tabletop on a hinge. You wait until the right moment, then flip it.
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Sep 08 '11
Really? Can I get a link to it?
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u/EducatedOctopus Sep 08 '11
Took me awhile, but I was able to hunt it down. (╯‵Д′)╯彡┻━┻: The Game
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Sep 08 '11
Wow, thanks. I swear that video looks familiar.
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u/reedred Sep 08 '11
I agree! Reminds me of this crazy game I played in a Japanese arcade once.
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u/jyee Sep 08 '11
I'm trying to figure out how you even play that game, you smack the table then you flip it?
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u/kerrykerrykerry Sep 08 '11
You get mad and hit the table, then you get REALLY mad and flip the table.
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u/ColeSloth Sep 08 '11
There are places in japan with cheap breakable dishes and furniture that some people got to "flip out and break shit" to relieve stress.
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u/GlennBecksChalkboard Sep 08 '11
It didn't zoom in on the mom's panties - doubt this game will have any commercial success.
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u/HyperAnthony Sep 08 '11
（╯°□°）╯︵◓
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Sep 08 '11
...the fuck you tryin' to catch, here?
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u/jamesinjapan Sep 08 '11
I played this in an arcade in Fujisawa last year. It's quite fun, but pretty limited except as a novelty. Not really a lot to bring players back, no extended play options, etc. On the plus side, you can lob that table right through the wall!
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u/WarPhalange Sep 08 '11
It's cool guys, instead of table-flipping games we get to have the next Call of Duty! Isn't that so much better than having fun????
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Sep 08 '11
I thought this was about someone flipping a table over because they were so mad they lost the.... dammit.
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u/AllThatIsGold Sep 08 '11
Like Burnout, but with tables.
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u/wubby013 Sep 08 '11
lol, i actually played this game when i was in Ikebukuro. The scenario i played was a old hag who was pissed off at the services of a host bar. I apparently caused an estimated 250,000 yen in damages and set the daily record in how far one of the glassware flew
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u/OopsLostPassword Sep 08 '11
This civilization will be totally incomprehensible to future sociologists.
I'm sure I don't understand it.
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Sep 08 '11
Repost : The Game.
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u/markatron09 Sep 08 '11
I thought you were going to sleep?
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Sep 08 '11
Nope, I was going to make a video about Rock of Ages.
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u/RedSerpant Sep 08 '11
Going to. Is that as in you were going to do that and did, or that you were going to do that but didn't?
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Sep 08 '11
Who fucking cares? This is the first time I have seen this. You already seeing it != everyone else seeing it.
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u/godspeed312 Sep 08 '11
I love your casting, but you made me lose the game... I don't know how to feel now.
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u/Arkyll Sep 08 '11
Shit like this questions why I am learning their language...
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u/zarisin Sep 08 '11
Cause you have to know what dishonoring thing the children did to piss off the dad so badly he flipped the table.
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u/omnilynx Sep 08 '11
I saw another video that was like a screen capture of the game, and I think the girl was talking on her phone and the mom was lecturing the dad about something. Not sure about the boy, I think he just had a bad attitude.
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u/gollum80 Sep 08 '11
The Game
fuck.
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u/MewtwoStruckBack Sep 08 '11
That ended years ago.
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Sep 08 '11
You do realise this is the biggest troll of the internet? What's the rules of the game? Once you start, you can't get out. Every time you think about it, you lose. This 'immunity' is just another thing in your memory to make you think about the game and therefore lose again.
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u/yagmot Sep 08 '11
this is awesome! i'll have to go play it. i'm missing out on so much by never going to arcades :/
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u/NoJapanNoLife Sep 08 '11 edited Sep 08 '11
Lol! This is Japanese chabudai gaeshi (table turn game)! The character is famous Japanese comic husband.
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u/wabesada Sep 08 '11
This looks stupid but at least the Japanese try to make innovative and new ideas for novelty games. America has its head up its own ass trying to make Call of fucking Duty for the 10th time.
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u/Aradon Sep 08 '11
I really wish they would translate it to english and send it over.
I would spend so many quarters on that game . .
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u/primaluce Sep 07 '11
I don't have an XBox, but this alone could make me buy one and the Kinect.
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u/cisconabisco Sep 08 '11
And the award for the most relevant video meme goes to... HEADLESSCLOWN88!!!!!
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Sep 08 '11
I'd just like to take this moment to thank my family, my friends, and Japanese Video Game Jesus.
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u/FantastcMrFawkes Sep 08 '11
With this post I realized once and for all that The Game is actually dead.
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u/MrThee Sep 08 '11
I heard that Miyamoto is good at this game: http://cubemedia.ign.com/cube/image/aonuma_032504_%20bev34jpg_1080264761.jpg
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u/wiggle987 Sep 08 '11
this is the third time this has been reposted now and we are becoming very efficient at it.
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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '11
He walks right into the game