Capcom Arcade Cabinet

This week on the marketplace, the Sales & Specials area is filled with a variety of sales for gamers of all kinds. From an Assassins Creed themed sale to …
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This past Tuesday saw the release of the first trio of games — 1943: The Battle of Midway, Avengers and Black Tiger — in the planned 15-game Capcom Arcade Cabinet for XBLA and PSN. Capcom will bring three more selections from its 1980s library of 8-bit games to Xbox Live Arcade every two weeks, and XBLA gamers will eventually be able to purchase all 15 of the Capcom Arcade Cabinet games in one 2000-MSP bundle.

Neither Xbox Live Arcade nor Capcom are strangers to revisiting old classics, so why release these particular games? Why now? Speaking with Japanese site GAME Watch, Producter Kenji Kataoka “a lot of requests from users about porting our old games,” according to a rough translation provided by XBLAFans prolific tipster @lifelower. “We couldn’t at that time,” Kataoka continued, “but…Capcom’s 30th anniversary year is good timing for it. So finally, [we said,] ‘Let’s make a game for users.’ We also wanted to release games that are completely converted using [the] current gen consoles’ power as we can.”

Kataoka’s initial remarks didn’t quite explain why these exact titles were chosen, but GAME Watch pushed him further. “We roughly chose games based on popularity inside and outside of Japan,” the producer explained, “and narrowed down these 17 games. Most of them are requested a lot from users but we can’t release some games due to various reasons. Personally I wanted Street Fighter or Tiger Road.”

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Capcom Unity announced the full list of titles for its upcoming release: Capcom’s Arcade Cabinet. The 8-bit games, originally released in 1984-1988, will be grouped in five different packs and …
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