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The world would be a better place if all the leaders of all the great nations of the world would spend a little more time sitting on the potty.

My name is James A. Calwell III and I'm legal. I play shmups, mostly of the horizontal, non-danmaku variety, but once in a while I like to do something different. My personal site is located at http://whatistheexcel.com. I go by a number of names throughout the internet, including:

Excel-2010
Excel-2009
Excel-2008
The-Excel
Exy

No my name does not have any intended connection to Microsoft Excel, Excel Saga, the Exhibition Center of London, the Excel Energy Center in St. Paul or anything else you can think of. Don't ask where it came from; I don't remember and I don't care to. Exy was adopted as a shorthand form from the (female) character of the same name in DoDonPachi dai-ou-jou.

I put very low priority on merit-based ranking systems within large communities, including Achievements, community ranks and leaderboards. I don't get why so many people are conscious about their scores because as one person I will not name here says, I play for fun. The only time I ever pay attention to my score is if I'm playing a shmup or a similarly difficult game and it's used to award extends.

My favorite games include the Gradius series, Darius Gaiden, Picross DS, the Metal Slug series, Twinkle Star Sprites and the bemani games (beatmania IIDX, pop'n music, etc). In other words, I'm not like you and I don't try to be. I respect that you're different from me, except you're not. I cannot believe how ignorant you can be sometimes. Incidentally, if you ever feel the need to get destroyed at Twinkle Star Sprites, just let me know and we can set up a match over 2df.



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Elevator Action Returns Again Excel-2011 | 11:16 AM on 09.30.2008 4 comments

[Note to the administrator: This really belongs in an Arcade category. Maybe you should consider adding one?] The Siliconera reports that Taito is making an Elevator Action sequel due out in Japan next summer in the spirit of the current revivals of their past franchises such as Space Invaders Extreme and Arkanoid DS, this time in the form of a light gun cabinet with working elevator doors that close over the screen. Elevator Action Death Parade features a button on the panel to open and close the door, presumably to engage and hide from the enemy in a botched Time Crisis kind of way. Little other information has been released at this time. I don't know how this is supposed to work. The two original games were platformers about secret agents either retrieving enemy intelligence or disarming nuclear weapons in a variety of typical target or covert buildings by entering conspicuous red doors. How this is going to carry over in what appears to be a game all about shooting from a cramped elevator is anyone's guess, but it's still going to be interesting to see how it's going to work out. I've never played a Taito light gun game (did they actually ever go down that route?), but Elevator Action II (Elevator Action Returns outside North America) featured only three weapons: a pistol, a machine gun and a missile launcher. For their sake they better come up with better weaponry than that. The design of the cabinet also appears to preclude any tense in-elevator battles like in Crisis Zone, but whatever. Also note that neither of the games before this one actually had conventional elevators like this cabinet simulates. They were more like lifts than anything else, really.