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How Under Defeat HD fills your HDTV

by JC Fletcher (Dec 18th 2012 8:00PM)

Welcome to Living in the Past, a weekly column about what's new in old games. Now get off our lawn. Vertical shooters don't really mix well with HDTVs and their 16-by-9 aspect ratios. They would if people were crazy enough to turn their TVs sideways, but that's generally not the most feasible ...

Under Defeat's Maruyama on shmup stagnation

by JC Fletcher (Nov 19th 2012 9:30PM)

G.Rev's Under Defeat was already part of a "new generation" of shooters when it was released in arcades in 2005 and on Dreamcast in 2006 – at least, compared with what most people would think of as the "golden age" for the genre in the late '80s and early '90s. And now, six years later, Under ...

Under Defeat HD drops price to $30, retail version full of extras

by JC Fletcher (Oct 5th 2012 5:30PM)

Under Defeat, a vertical shooter by G.Rev, was originally an arcade game, and then it saw home release on the Dreamcast in Japan – in 2006, long after the Dreamcast's natural lifespan had ended. Under Defeat returns this fall in high definition, on the PS3, a platform that is currently being ...