Sharing a new music arcadia game with all of you

anniechang · Basic Member Joined: 09 Mar 2005

Hi,

I just went to visit a march show last week. I found a new music arcadia game called Percussion Master. It is a drum game. I had played it for a while, and felt not bad. The character in this game is so cuteâ¦â¦â¦â¦,butâ¦â¦â¦I canât find this arcadia in my area.

Does anyone see it??

Please tell me the exactly location if you see it. Pleaseâ¦â¦â¦â¦I attach the picture; please help me to find it. Thank you.

http://tw.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/anniechang90/album?.dir=6050

By the way, I heard there will be other march showâ¦. I give the information so that you can go if you are interested.

March Shows of Percussion Master
State,Show Name,Date
Philadelphia,Distributor open house,3/12
Myrtle Beach, SC,Distributor open house,3/14-15
Atlantic City,Distributor open house,3/16-17
San Francisco & L.A,Distributor open house,3/15-17
Miami,Distributor open house,3/18

jbean3535 · Trick Member Joined: 08 May 2004 Location: KC Kansas

Not very new... I know nothing about it but have heard about it..maybe someone else can clue you in.
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anniechang · Basic Member Joined: 09 Mar 2005

Does any one know about this game?? Please help me.... besides, does anyone go to see the show?? And how do you feel??

Thomas Hobbes · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 9:31 pm Post subject:

Percussion Freaks/Master = DrumMania.

Therefore, it's not new at all, as already said. -_-
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Baka of the Orochi · Trick Member Joined: 26 Jan 2002 Location: Chicago area

Uh dude, did you even look at the picture she provided?

Percussion Master is NOT the same as Percussion Freaks.
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foyboy21 · Roxor Staff Joined: 21 Sep 2002 Location: Seattle

I just played this as ASI. I didn' realize it was alredy finished and actually in arcades yet. Btw, did you ever get a step that was not eitehr "cool" or "miss"?
It seemed kinda fun, but the grading was sub par. Danford got all cools (perfects) and got an A+, I got ONE non cool step and dropped all the way to a B. Kinda defeats the purpose of haveing an A+ if there is no A grade.

Rancidfish · Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 7:00 pm Post subject:

Yeah, scoring on this game is incredibly difficult. Just one miss screws you up bad.

I like the fact that it senses if you're using both sticks for the center drum, as well as if you're hitting the middle or the outside.
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anniechang · Basic Member Joined: 09 Mar 2005

Which level do you play?? If I am not wrong.... I remember there are four level in this game---- easy, normal, hard and expert. And I have played hard level 2-3 times, I feel it is a little bit harder to get Perfect (A+). Of course, don't mention the expert level. But, I think if you can listen to the music and follow the tempo..... it will be easier to get A+.

By the way..... I finally get some arcade game location.....Share with all of you to play......

GolfLand Entertainment Ctr.
855 E. El Camino
Sunnyvale, CA 99087
408.245.8434

Santa Cruz Pier
400 Beach Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
831.423.5590

Boomers!
3405 Mickelson Drive
Irvine, CA 92612
949.559.8341

Mohegan Sun
1 Mohegan Sun Blvd.
Uncasville, CT 06382 (In game room arcade)
888.226.7711

The Works
1109 Bern Road
Wyomissing, PA 19610
610.375.2700

Does anyone else play this game?? welcome to join us and discuss it.

JayveemoÃ±. · Trick Member Joined: 22 Apr 2003 Location: Cheshire, CT

Good Times Emporium in MA has the game I saw it there last January.

anniechang · Basic Member Joined: 09 Mar 2005

cmcm · Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 10:20 pm Post subject:

Got one at Putt-Putt in Midlothian, VA. Not worth the $ at all.
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JayveemoÃ±. · Trick Member Joined: 22 Apr 2003 Location: Cheshire, CT

I didn't play because it looked pretty lame and I was too busy with the PPP 2nd Mix machine.

anniechang · Basic Member Joined: 09 Mar 2005

Does anyone else have other feeling about this arcade game??

Just say it loudly in here if you have any feeling and comment......
I hope I can discuss with all of you.....

anniechang · Basic Member Joined: 09 Mar 2005

foyboy21 · Roxor Staff Joined: 21 Sep 2002 Location: Seattle

There was good and bad about this. Was it overall fun as a game I would play once in a long while? Sure you bet. But I sure would not play it often. Why? Scoring sucks. Timing windows are so large that I never actually got a single step that was not either "cool" or a "miss" (and this was after several full games.

To answer someones question we played expert. I belive we played what was rated 13 and 14 stars?

A huge minus is that the drum incorrectly belives you are hitting the sides when you are hitting the normal part. It does then when you are as far as 1 to 2 inches from the actuall side.

The double hits are kinda cool.
The difficulity is hard enough that some songs have some challange (though nothing in the relm of IIDX).

Anyway, it was a fun game to dabble with, but I would never spend copious amounts of time playing.

anniechang · Basic Member Joined: 09 Mar 2005

goodtimesddr · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 5:36 pm Post subject:

I go to goodtimes in MA pretty often. I must say the game is fun, something that gets you in the mood to play music games. Only problem I have with it, is that the music selection wasn't that great. There could have been more songs to play, I do like the camera idea. Overall, I think Percussion Master is aimed towards the little kids, but older people and teenagers will find it fun also.
Does this game remind me of Taiko Drum Master.
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Severance · Trick Member Joined: 14 Jul 2002

balls...i was just at good times last night and didnt see it. must not have been paying attention =\

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Agent J · Trick Member Joined: 29 Feb 2004 Location: Dimension X

Hmm, I had never heard of this game prior to this post. I dug around a bit on Google and found out the game is made by IGS, a company I knew better for their Neo*Geo-like PGM arcade hardware and their popular (in Taiwan and China anyway) Knights of Valour series. Anyway, IGS is a Taiwanese company, which pretty much means that their games aren't going to be very common in America, if at all. An arcade might get a Percussion Master machine, for example, if people in the area want a music game and they're not specific about which one or Percussion Master turns out to be cheaper than the game customers are asking for.

Other than that I don't think Percussion master will show up in America aside from a few arcades here and there and arcade trade shows. Why? It doesn't look like anything new to me. There's already Namco's Taiko no Tatsujin, a similar game which Namco released for PS2 here. This is a problem that I think many IGS games have. I like Knights of Valour, for example, but to many people the game would probably just look old and boring. Dynasty Warriors fans might enjoy it, though, seeing as the games feature the same characters. Then there's Demon Front, a game that looks so similar to SNK's Metal Slug series I thought it was just a hack of Metal Slug when I first saw it. So anyway, the game is probably all over Taiwan, but I wouldn't expect to find it many places here.