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High Score Girl #8
Hi Score Girl 08
Hi Score Girl , Rensuke Oshikiri's love letter to arcade gaming, finally comes to print! Read the manga that inspired the Netflix Original anime series!
Wanna go to the arcade? Or should we play at home?
The year is 1996, and the world of good ol' video games is being tugged between arcade games and their many, many console ports. And in an arcade on the outskirts of town, where the number of customers is slowly dwindling, teenage emotions collide...
Wanna go to the arcade? Or should we play at home?
The year is 1996, and the world of good ol' video games is being tugged between arcade games and their many, many console ports. And in an arcade on the outskirts of town, where the number of customers is slowly dwindling, teenage emotions collide...
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176 pages, Paperback
Published December 7, 2021
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March 13, 2022
My only complaint on finishing Hi Score Girl v.8 is, now that I've caught up on the English releases of this series, I have to wait until September for v.9. Thankfully, the series will be done by the end of this year, so it won't be THAT long to wait. *Shrug*
This series continues to do what it does best: telling a coming-of-age story centered on a video game nerd who spends most of his free time hanging out in arcades (this is set in 1990s Japan).
The details of arcade culture and video game history that you pick up along the way are fascinating. After finishing v.8, I started looking up the Astro City cabinet (a very common type of arcade cabinet created by SEGA and used pervasively in Japanese arcades in the 1990s) and found out that a mini version of the cabinet was released recently with several dozen Sega games built in.
I also couldn't help investigating the "Rainbow Edition" of Street Fighter II, which was a real-life bootleg that basically removed most of the physics rules of the game and made it delightfully ridiculous (there is, in fact, a YouTube documentary that came out just a few days ago describing the history of SFII: Rainbow Edition).
This series is a fun story, regardless, but people who grew up loving arcade games and the early consoles will certainly get the most out of it.
This series continues to do what it does best: telling a coming-of-age story centered on a video game nerd who spends most of his free time hanging out in arcades (this is set in 1990s Japan).
The details of arcade culture and video game history that you pick up along the way are fascinating. After finishing v.8, I started looking up the Astro City cabinet (a very common type of arcade cabinet created by SEGA and used pervasively in Japanese arcades in the 1990s) and found out that a mini version of the cabinet was released recently with several dozen Sega games built in.
I also couldn't help investigating the "Rainbow Edition" of Street Fighter II, which was a real-life bootleg that basically removed most of the physics rules of the game and made it delightfully ridiculous (there is, in fact, a YouTube documentary that came out just a few days ago describing the history of SFII: Rainbow Edition).
This series is a fun story, regardless, but people who grew up loving arcade games and the early consoles will certainly get the most out of it.
November 28, 2022
I don’t know what I’m going to do when this is over. It was one of the first manga I bought after a 10 year hiatus. What a journey.
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