chabudai game

I wrote this post a long time ago that we have "spo kon manga/anime". it means sports and tough spirit manga/anime. The main characters of these stories try hard and get to be a winner in some sport. You can think it will be close to like the first Rocky but the big difference between spo kon manga and Rocky is basically spo kon manga is dark and sometimes sad. It might come from the thinking that you can get victory from burden and pain. It might fit to the feeling people had after ww2 though, now it's too old and we don't have such manga/animation (I guess). The representative works of spo kon anime were "Star of the Giants" and "Tomorrow's Joe." I remember I felt happy when the main character laughed because it hardly happend in the story.

Anyway in "Star of the Giants", the main character Hyuma's father turned over the table because of his anger. Since such scenes appear in this manga so often, it was made into a figure!! and finally it was made into an arcade game by Taito which they released at the Tokyo Toy show. It is called "Chabudai Gaeshi Game". Ha ha, for Japanese it would be intereseting, but I guess it might not make sense for foreign people.

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[Sam]

Actually, the first thing I thought of when I saw that video was, "I really want to play that game." It looks really funny. :D

I like weird games like Katamari Damashii though...