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Reworked for credit-based gratuities, the PSP version's first two mandatory stages have been excised so you only need to play three for a clear. As is typical for Darius, a choice of avenues dictate the difficulty of the game, allowing you to vary your route after each boss defeat. With vibrating body-sonic seats, complimentary headphone inputs and a host of futuristic ergonomic embellishments, the four-player crimson lacquer control panel is primed for take off.Īs a coin rolls into the slot and the speakers sound out, you enter a widescreen bay of starry space and shiny pyrotechnics. Enhancing the shooting game experience just as it did 30 years prior, the enormous taikan houses two 32-inch monitors, an array of bass heavy speakers, and flashing overhead lights beneath its enveloping hood. More powerful than its handheld counterpart on every possible front, it was both a nod to and an evolution of Taito's original 1986 three-screen Darius cabinet (now beautifully preserved in Tokyo's Kawasaki Warehouse). In 2010 Taito migrated it to arcades under the suffix Another Chronicle, featuring re-engineered stage structures, screen dimensions, mechanics, difficulty, audio and bosses.

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The first new instalment in Taito's shooting game series since 1997's G-Darius, Darius Burst was a 2009 Japan-only PSP game by Pyramid, developer of the Patapon series, that later received a revised iOS port. It's lost none of its ability to impress. The original Darius in its three-screen glory. Previously headed to the Trocadero's Funland before it got the kiss of death, Casino owner John Sturges prudently intercepted and rerouted. But then, wedged between Battle Gear and an Avatar Pinball machine, stood the comparatively ethereal Dariusburst, a shiny piece of Japan and a long way from home. Sandwiched between a Scientology centre and a Computer Exchange, Casino's upstairs entrance once greeted you with a carpet the same age as the outside signage, a couple of pinball machines and a Time Crisis 3 line-up.

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Goodge Street the destination, shooting-game groupies armed with pockets full of change went diving over ticket barriers, through rapidly closing train carriage doors, and headlong into sidewalk negotiations. Through the windows, beyond the crawling red double-deckers and people pursuing invisible paths to the workplace, you can see Casino amusements, its tubular neon sign a relic of 1980s tech, beaming against a grubby yellow backboard.Ī forum announcement that Dariusburst: Another Chronicle had entered the building, eventually corroborated with photographic proof, triggered an Olympian style citywide sprint for the Northern Line. It's July 2011 and, overlooking Tottenham Court Road from an elevated position, Café Nero's leather armchairs bask in rare afternoon sunshine.