Capcom Arcade to bring retro thrills and clever pricing to your iPhone
Capcom has announced that in early November an App Store near you will be graced with Capcom Arcade, featuring at launch arcade classics Street Fighter II, 1942, Commando, and Ghouls 'n' Ghosts. IGN has a positive writeup of a preview it played, saying that the touch-based controls worked fine but it was disappointed by the lack of online play or leaderboards. Capcom is promising these features in updates down the line, as well as an additional game every month.
Personally I find Ghouls 'n' Ghosts horrendously difficult with a proper joystick, let alone a touch interface. Still though, our own Mike Schramm was impressed by iPhone version of Street Fighter 4, and the games will offer the option of adjusted (read: easier) difficulty levels for iPhone play to reduce the number of expensive devices thrown against walls because of the first boss in GnG.
Anyway, touch screen controls aren't the clever bit. The clever bit is how you'll be paying for this slice of retro goodness. The app itself will be free, and come with a few tokens you can use to play the games a few times for free. If you run out, you can buy more tokens, or just wait because you'll get a few free ones each day. Eventually Capcom hopes you'll tire of the drip-feeding and pay out for unlimited play of one or more of the games, although exactly how much you'll be paying for this privilege it isn't letting on yet.
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I like the fact that none of the comments up until now (apart from the first one, probably) referred to the article at hand. =D
October 10 2010 at 10:00 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply@Richard Gaywood
Your response to my original comment was so reasonable that I thought I would share with you where I was coming from at the time that I commented.
In recent years I have noticed a growing internet trend to, I believe, purposefully use the plural form of expression when referring to an entity like Apple. Until this recent trend I don't recall that usage in print or spoken english.
I began to notice that it was not only used by commenters but also by bloggers as well.
When I read your opening sentence ("Capcom have announced") I believed that you were an experienced educated writer and that TUAW editors had approved your article. I also believed that you were now introducing that style to TUAW.
Up until that point I had never seen a blogger use that sentence structure on TUAW. As others are eager to point out, I am not an expert on (spoken or) written english. (I don't blog for a living either). However, I was familiar with this rule and believed that most educated people would find it to be obvious.
I don't recall anyone saying words to the effect of," Apple "are" selling a lot of iPads"! It seemed obvious. Maybe it isn't.
So my response was based on those beliefs.
In retrospect if I understood that it was more a lapse in thought (which we all do) rather than an intentional crossing of the line I would have just mentioned the mistake and left it at that.
I look forward to your future articles and wish you well.
I am off to start my search for an english usage app.
Rego, your original comment was more than a little bit obnoxious, so thanks for walking it back.
"I was familiar with this rule and believed that most educated people would find it to be obvious."
What you do not know (and what Richard, tactfully, did not say) is that UK style IS to treat companies as plural entities -- "Apple are selling more iPads than Macs this year" -- and that Richard, along with a few other TUAW writers, lives/writes/speaks in the UK. While we do try to enforce a house style based on US rules, it is always tricky to overcome the habits of a lifetime. Thus, from an editorial perspective, we cut him some additional slack.
I wish Richard had let me know, about UK style. Is that traditional original UK modern English style or is that a new modified style? I don't recall seeing a UK writer use that style.
I do hope that future blog posts at TUAW will follow the US style.
It appears that I hit a few nerves here and there (not their). We are all awake now.
Now, if only Mike Schramm would review more of the productive apps, instead of 90% game apps, that would be great.
did IGN have a "posTitive" review or a "positive" review? I don't know what "posTitive" means.
October 05 2010 at 8:41 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWhatever they wrote, I hope that, unlike you, they started their sentences with capital letters. Still feel like helping out?
October 06 2010 at 11:35 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply@Richard Gaywood
"Capcom have announced"
Most if not all of the adult bloggers who write for TUAW generally seem to follow the Rules of Grammar.
When you are referring to a company it is an it not a they. Therefore it should be Capcom has announced. You repeated the error in the last sentence as well.
When someone makes that error, or does it in spite of knowing the correct way to write it, I personally assign them less credibility.
The best thing would be to learn the correct way to write and say it or at least save it for your 12 year old buddies.
The 80's called. They want their business model back.
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