Taito just announced the contents of Arcade Memories vol.2, the second 10-game SD card expansion for their mini arcade cabinet plug-and-play, the Egret II Mini. ICYMI, this was Taito's foray into the "mini" market, released early last year, and they tried to pitch it as a more higher-end, core-oriented product than competing systems via a focus on design features like the rotatable screen, abundance of peripherals, SD slot for firmware/content updates, etc—I don't think that market was especially satisfied with it, nor were the more casual fans happy to pay what Taito was charging for it, but it found just enough support for them to put out these game packs (in Japan; the intl distributor tapped out early), and I see a decent amount of excitement around this one.
Here's the trailer; read more for the infodump:
oh and the producer teased some future Night Striker-related project, which I took to be a hint at an Arcade Archives reissue, but a lot of people immediately jumped at it being a sequel/remake and I suppose weirder things have happened
like, for instance, this terrible looking licensed Operation Wolf game that unceremoniously flopped out a couple months ago to an audience of nobody: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT_9mdYKTv4
