Tozai Games will feature playable game kiosks for Lode Runner and R-Type Dimensions for Xbox LIVE Arcade at this year’s PAX 2009, beginning September 4th in Seattle, Washington. Additionally, PAX attendees will be able to view a trailer of Spelunker for PSN, which is coming to North America and Europe soon.
The Tozai Games booth (#3002) will be located near the North Lobby of the Washington State Convention Center, just off the open vestibule near the official PAX booth.
R-Type Dimensions was released in February of this year and received praise from the gaming media, including IGN naming it to the Top 10 list of Xbox LIVE Arcade games from the past 12 months. Released in April, Lode Runner has also won over the reviewers, including TeamXbox awarding it an Editor’s Choice badge. Together, the games have established Tozai Games’ reputation as a publisher dedicated to reimagining beloved classic titles, so it will come as no surprise that Spelunker for PSN is on its way from Irem and Tozai Games.
Irem and Tozai Games’ Spelunker for PSN, already released in Japan, features a fresh take on the side-scrolling graphics of Tim Martin’s classic, and with multiplayer support for up to six players on PSN, the new Spelunker is destined to be an online favorite.
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Spelunker is only going to be an ’online favorite’ if their network play code is better than in previous releases. I genuinely liked R-Type Dimensions and Lode Runner and felt they’re worth buying, but the online code was really not that good. I remember a Tozai rep telling me "the lag isn’t so bad if you’re the host." ...Yeah, but that’s obvious. The client player however is ice-skating around like it’s Quake 1 on a dial-up modem. That was... gosh, about 15 years ago? Kind of silly to see it happen today.