MAMEWorld Forums - News - Re: Haze wip updates (Xavix related)

> > It seems there is a real gulf in quality between the US/European/Chinese XaviX
> stuff, which
> > was usually just poorly designed game concepts with novelty movement control junk
> that
> > didn't really control well, and the Japan produced stuff, where designing the game
> actually
> > seemed to be first priority, and the controls, be they regular, or some kind of
> novelty,
> > were carefully integrated.
>
> I am guessing the US/N. America based region executives felt the N. American
> consumer market would only be interested in sports games (Madden Football) or action
> games (Star Wars).
>
> > I'd give most of the Japanese things we've seen A/B ratings, and the majority of the
> rest an F.
>
> Star Wars fans are going to disagree with that since they are looking forward to
> swinging around input devices in their living rooms (mouse/joystick/keyboard/glove)
> while accidentally knocking over furniture pieces when playing Star Wars.
>
>
> > It really is a fascinating journey, and there's a lot of XaviX stuff we don't have
> yet
> > that really seems to push the hardware too.
>
> I was amazed that there were a lot more items made than I first realized. I wasn't
> aware of Xavix stuff until it was first mentioned this year (January 2018).

To be honest, I wasn't either, aside from the vague mentions that Taito Nostalgia might be using such tech (which we just assumed was a bootleg SNES at the time or something)

I can't help but think if MAME hadn't expanded to start looking at this kind of thing (due to old arcade-only policy) nobody would be looking at it, so it makes a lot of the things done in recent years feel really worthwhile.