![]() On the surface, Dancing Eyes is not original - plenty of other girlie arcade games, like the Gals Panic series, employed a variation of Qix's gameplay to get the player to slowly reveal a picture of a scantily-clad woman. Your "reward" for beating the stage is to (typically) watch the model prance around in her skivvies or otherwise play around with the "set" she's on. You don't have to connect the ends - as long as you complete a whole shape, you can watch it get cleared away. You do this by holding the action button to set down a peg, then run along the grid trying to complete a whole shape while avoiding the enemies honing in on you. Most of the time, though, it's going to be women whom you must disrobe by clearing the panels on the grid. In it, you control a cute little monkey, running along a grid that's laid over some surface that needs to be broken away, be it a schoolgirl's uniform, a magician's box, or a tree stump with mischievous twins inside. But there's perhaps no better time for it to appear, given what I said at the start. Namco recently announced a remake of Dancing Eyes, which is, so far, a Japan-only game for the PS3. In 1996, using their expertise in 3D polygonal graphics, they produced the arcade action game Dancing Eyes (no relation to the Gary Stewart song. But when it came to out-and-out pandering, Namco was ahead of the pack. But there's a touch of truth to it, as the number of ways you can ogle cartoon girls in games is larger than ever. of the Japanese game industry these days, at least if you go by the stereotypes. ![]() Gratuitous titillation seems to be the M.O. ![]() And for better or worse, quite a few did. Why just arcade games? Because while arcades gave us plenty of amazing games that are now classic franchises, it wasn't unlike the PC market, where any ol' group of people could make and distribute them, and with that sort of freedom, crazy ideas had a better chance of making it through. ![]() This article originally appeared on .Īrcade Games That Time Forgot is a feature about weird, brilliant, kooky, terrible, or just interesting arcade games. ![]()
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