Super High Speed Family Car King, Vrooom!!!

Here in Japan there is a series of PS2 games called the Simple Series which would basically be described as low budget games.

This week I guess is the first time one of those games made it to the #1 sales position. The game is called “超最速!族車キングBU” which translated I think means “Super High Speed Family Car King, Vrooom!!!” which features this screen

There are some treasures in the series. For example “The Earth Defense Force” is a pretty awesome game about fighting off giant ants, monsters and aliens. There’s also lots of funky ones like “The大美人” (The Giant Beautiful Woman) or “ラブ★エアロビ♪　(Love Aerobics)

Lots of people complain about the fact that there is no place for indy games for consoles. I don’t know how these games are created but it sure seems like they are indy games. Maybe they should try this in other markets as well.

Omar

April 24th, 2004 at 8:33 am

The first game of this serie:

SIMPLE2000シリーズ Vol.1 THEテーブルゲーム～麻雀･囲碁･将棋･カード･花札･リバーシ･五目ならべ～

Sold about 260000 units!!

Other seems to usually range aound 5000/10000 units.

I agree that D3 publisher is a great exemple. They released more than two hundred “budget” games and have probably developped a production chain allowing them to start and complete games in a matter of months.