Hey! I stumbled upon here via Gaming-Age somehow. thought I was the only one out there that gave a shit about these PAL Simple 2000 releases. Your site's come in handy, thanks!

hey, no problem. if it's specifically Simple 2000 you're interested in, there's also this: http://www.drillspirits.net/simple

yeah, which has now moved. also damn leaving it on SJIS mode.

Some U.S. companay needs to get to localizing the Simple 2000 games to the U.S. -- it's a travesty that's we're missing out on such gems as The Zombie vs Ambulance.

>>4
It'll probably happen after the PS3 comes out, and SCEA drops their standards a bit.

So the news just broke that a websiteless publisher called Essential Games might localize EDF2 under the title Global Defence Force but your list claims that this is actually the upcoming Tactics games and also that 505 Game Street is the one localizing EDF2 under the title Monster Attack: Invasion. Where'd you get that name from? The 505 Game Street page doesn't list it and a google only leads to domains with *.nl endings :)

And there's also the release date discrepancy:
Global Defence Force: July 28th
THE Chikyuu Boueigun Tactics July 27th

Anyway, keep up the excellent work, these lists are very useful.

>> Essential Games (D3P Europe)

really? :0

Christ, I should've read the front page. Disregard my previous babble.

>>6-8

The thing with these games is, quite frequently all I have to go on is a name and a release date. The first one I found was 505's "Monster Attack: Invasion" on one of the .nl sites, which I assumed to be Chikyuu Boueigun 2. But Essential Games' listings started appearing on amazon.co.uk, and since Invasion had only appeared on the Dutch sites I though 505's release had been cancelled and it had gone to Essential instead, as Global Defence Force.

Then a cover for GDF was posted on Amazon featuring art from the Japanese Tactics cover, and some of the .nl sites updated the release date for Invasion to later in July - they must have got that date from somewhere, indicating that Invasion was still on. So it seemed to make sense that Invasion is Chikyuu Boueigun 2, and GDF is Tactics.

Still, though, I really have no idea if any of that is true, and I won't really know until one of the companies releases a description or some screenshots - it's possible that, since Essential is actually D3 Europe, they have access to all of D3's art library and just chose to use the Tactics art for CB2. And it's equally possible that Monster Attack Invasion actually isn't anything to do with the Chikyuu Boueigun, and it's just another of 505's generic names (like "Space War Attack"). It's even possible that Invasion was Chikyuu Boueigun 2, it was cancelled and the Dutch distributor just didn't know about it.

So, yeah, basically I have no fucking clue.

hmv.co.uk has the Essential games listed for release, with descriptions, and Global Defence Force does seem to be EDF2.

ah, so it is. excellent.

>>10
Fantastic. Plus I've never heard of HMV and they seem to have a pretty nice shipping policy for international customers.

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and Zombie Zone, even if you own vol 61 and 80
hell, its only 20 bucks!! :-P

Always thought Oneechanbara was vastly overrated, myself. Seems like Tamsoft spent all the development time working on the tits and blood, and not so much on the actual game.

They've changed the release date for GDF. It's 6-7-2006 at HMV and July 28, 2006 at Amazon. Bummer.

Oh, and taizou, you have a small spelling mistake in the Simple 2000 list. The English title of EDF2 is Global Defen'c'e Force, not Defen's'e.

>They've changed the release date for GDF. It's 6-7-2006 at HMV and July 28, 2006 at Amazon. Bummer.

that's a bit of an arse. hopefully it won't slip again... they usually do, though.

>Oh, and taizou, you have a small spelling mistake in the Simple 2000 list. The English title of EDF2 is Global Defen'c'e Force, not Defen's'e.

thanks. fixed.

http://watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20060807/d3/d3.htm

boxarts and screenshots galore.

This site is great. I'd recently found out lots about the Simple 2000 games due to seeing a great customer review of 'Simply 20 Party Girls' on amazon.co.uk (which amused me to the max), followed shortly by finding out about Oneechanbara after seeing the 360 version screenshots.

I spontaneously ordered four of the so-called 'Simply 20' games today, and this site sure helped in finding out the changes in game names between the Japanese and European releases!

>>18

ha! optimism there. actual release date: july 2007.

...spam removed. bollocks.