donpachi -- your taste is refined, and laser-honed on the intersection of jank and genius. a bit of a hipster. you think about the old cave logo a lot
dodonpachi -- you asked someone which game to start with, and they wisely suggested DDP. your wings are likely yet to grow -- enjoy your metamorphosis, and don't forget to bomb!
Puzzle Uo Poko: Nope, we're still not fucking doing that.
Any given Touge game, including Mountain Racing Challenge: You're probably the closest thing to a conventional CAVE fan on this list. You deeply cherish the arcade experience, but less for the experience of digging into a given game's mechanical intricacies_ than for the mise-en-scene of the arcade itself. You miss the pop-out vibrant colors of the 90s, back when games left an impact on you, you know? Why do games have to be so complicated nowadays? All you need is a timer and a few checkpoints every now and then to refresh it. There is a non-zero chance you have a YouTube playlist full of mall music.
Delisoba Deluxe: There's not getting around it: you are a retro game enthusiast. You either emulated this through your Satiator (no emulation in this household) or you tracked down a legitimate copy on Yahoo Auctions and mortgaged your house to buy it. In all honesty, you're probably the most likely to have played through CAVE's shooters - but in your heart of hearts, Delisoba Deluxe will always reign supreme.
Steep Slope Sliders: You can't decide whether you like SSX or Sega's arcade games more and thought this would split the difference.
Yanya Caballista: City Skater: 90s nostalgia is so blasé. For you, it's 2000s nostalgia all the way. You have a signed Takashi Murakami print hanging on your wall and you use the custom soundtrack feature on your Xbox to blast L'Arc-en-Ciel in Tony Hawk's Underground. While you agree with the Touge fans on some things - mainly, lamenting the supposed decline of public social spaces without much appreciation for the late-capitalist forces that infected those spaces - you mostly want to beat the shit out of them.
Shin Megami Tensei Online: Imagine: Wait, seriously? CAVE made this? Well...
Guess we know what you spent the better part of four years trying to build a custom server for.
Nin2-Jump: I foresee two possibilities: either you're the type of person who keeps track of all the semi-obscure stuff that medium-scale developers have put out - Tembo the Badass Elephant, Anata wo Yurusanai - or, more likely, you're just into indie games circa the early to mid 10s. To the latter type, I say: How was the last GDC talk? Did they discuss polish and flow and juice and other such buzzwords in sufficient depth?
