the maniac at netlab who wrote the article about how Capcom had to reissue 19XX got to interview the developers of Capcom Arcade Stadium about, among other things, why they decided to include 19XX nlab.itmedia.co.jp/nl/articles/21…🇯🇵
https://twitter.com/itm_nlab/status/1362235388472020996
the genesis of Capcom Arcade Stadium was an edict from Capcom boss Kenji Tsujimoto, who wanted to make Capcom's back catalog more widely available; from 2019, they basically investigated every game Capcom had released to see precisely what could & couldn't be reissued, either...
...due to prohibitive or ambiguous rights issues, technical issues, etc & from there, Capcom Arcade Stadium was devised as a means of releasing something substantive asap
this is the first shot towards mass archival & is separate from the likes of Belt Action Collection et al
this is the first shot towards mass archival & is separate from the likes of Belt Action Collection et al
as for why they're sold in packs of 10: basically, they wanted a cheaper point of entry than buying the whole thing, but they still wanted people to experience that arcade-like variety so they sold the games as packs rather than piecemeal, divided by generation
on whether they consciously sought to include specific games that hadn't been reissued: that was obviously a selling point but there weren't particular games in mind, nor did they get everything they wanted; this lineup was chosen as the best package they could put out right away
on how they solicited feedback for which games to include: they took it from all sorts of official channels as well as social media and so on, and their QA team is full of opinionated hardcore fans so they listened to their requests as well
the interviewer asks why they decided to include his beloved 19XX & why it wasn't ported before now: they're not sure why it was never ported & as time passes, whatever hurdles may have existed at the time tend to be forgotten, but they were able to do it now, so they did
the interviewer also mentions how it's widely believed by STG players that there's something specific to CPS2 that has prohibited ports of a lot of CPS2 STG, and they say that its more that all those indivudual STG with rights/contractual hurdles happened to be CPS2 games
(kinda went into this hoping they'd address the MAME thing but of course they didn't, I'll try to remember to come back to the rest later)
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