Bishi Bashi Special

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Arcade-Perfect Port: The console ports are generally very faithful to the arcade originals, aided by the relatively simple 2D graphics. Please Note: Despite our best efforts, we cannot guarantee that a particular machine is available at your chosen location, on a particular day. A few games is nothing but button bashing as you press any button as hard or as fast as you can and a driving game requires just a press of left and right to dodge the other cars (there are no corners to turn) but this doesn't affect anything for the truth is that Bishi Bashi is the perfect party game - end of story. Minigame Game: The main defining feature of the series is that all releases are made of multiple minigames. Shout-Out: In Hyper Bishi Bashi Champ, players can choose their names from a list of pre-defined choices.

is set to a relaxing background music with the players blowing up fireworks and the game's credits scrolling at the bottom of the screen. While a couple of the early arcade machines received international releases, in the west the series is perhaps best known for the expanded re-release Bishi Bashi Special, released in 2000 for PlayStation. The game is a compilation of mini games, some are loosely based around arcade classics such as Breakout ("Car Destroyer) and Pac-Man ("Super Gulper"). These include eating as much food as you can, catching the pieces of a burger, knocking down bowling pins with cars, shaking a can to see how far up it goes when launched and even shooting men out of a cannon onto the plates of a moving statue!Additionally, some titles have spiced things up with joysticks, steering wheels and even dance pads.

The series began with Bishi Bashi Championship Mini Game Senshuken, or just simply Bishi Bashi Champ, which was released to Japanese arcades in 1996. After a few sequels, the first three titles were combined and ported to PlayStation under the title Bishi Bashi Special in 1998, with a sequel combining further two arcade releases following in the next year. For The★BishiBashi, the Gachaga Champ protagonists were brought back as selectable characters, in addition to a host of other characters that had previously appeared in individual minigames.Big Eater: Quite a few of the minigames involve eating something, usually the more and faster the better. has characters performing various martial arts moves on a cliff, before transforming into superheroes with Stuff Blowing Up in the background.