Mizuguchi's brand new games

By Ellie Gibson Published 6 July, 2006

For PSP and Nintendo DS.

Tetsuya Mizuguchi, the man behind Space Channel 5, Lumines and Meteos, is taking on the role of executive producer for two new games for the PSP and Nintendo DS.

That's according to an article in the latest issue of Famitsu, partially translated by IGN, which says that the PSP game will be titled Gunpey-R - that's short for Gunpey Reverse. Old folks may recall that the first Gunpey game originally appeared on the Wonderswan; it was named after Gunpei Yoko, the designer of the WS, the original Game Boy and the rubbish old Virtual Boy.

Gunpey-R, a music-based puzzler, will feature the same "skin" element as Lumines - you'll earn new skins, complete with new animations and tunes, as you progress through the game. There will be more than 40 to collect.

You'll be tasked with moving square panels up and down the screen in a bid to form lines running from left to right. If you do well, the panels will disappear; but if they reach the top of the screen, it's game over.

DS title Oto Wo Tsunagou! Gunpey Reverse (Connect the Sounds! Gunpey Reverse) will feature similar gameplay, but you'll use the stylus to control the panels. Whenever you clear a panel, you'll a new sound will be released - and you can compose your own tunes by lining the sounds up with the background music.

Both games will be produced by Q Entertainment, and published in Japan by Namco Bandai. They're due out over there in the autumn, but there's no word on a European release just yet.

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Comments (9) Latest comment 6 years ago

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  • Drakron #1 6 years ago

    "Namco Bandai"

    Forget about a european release then.

  • regmund #2 6 years ago

    wasn't Yukoi given the boot from Nintendo after the Virtual Boy fiasco and died poor and penniless shortly afterwards?
    (Dubious Gaming Fact #36216)
    Edited by 1 at 06/07/06 @ 14:15

  • bionutz #3 6 years ago

    Gunpey Reverse.
    I feel a tad ashamed for this but first I read Gunpey Perverse...

  • regmund #4 6 years ago

    ..and he invented Metroid
    (Dubious Gaming Fact #36217)

  • AcidSnake #5 6 years ago

    ...And is Shigeru Miyamoto's evil twin...
    (Dubious Gaming Fact #36218)

  • Xephon70 #6 6 years ago

    Awesome news. At least they're not resting on their laurels.

    We can always import them if they don't come here...or the lovely Ubisoft will pick them up.

  • Cabelo #7 6 years ago

    Where's Every Extend Extra? :(

  • chupachups #8 6 years ago

    --Gunpei Yoko, the designer of the WS, the original Game Boy and the rubbish old Virtual Boy.--

    (cue Python rip-off)

    And the pre-console Game & Watch series, which introduced the familiar cross-shaped D-pad that Nintendo continues to use to this day.

    And he designed the joypad for the Famicom, which has formed the basis of all modern controllers (except ironically the new Nintendo Wii controller).

    And he was the producer on Donkey Kong and Mario Bros (and Metroid as someone else mentioned).

    He created the entire mobile console industry, he helped create Nintendo's best-known franchises, and he helped define how consoles would be controlled.

    ...but apart from that... nothing!


    Pretty much everything he was involved with was a huge success, except the Virtual Boy, but unfortunately because that was his last completed project people keep mentioning it. Personally I'd rather have someone thinking up new things with the occasional failure than just blindly following whatever they think is safe.

    I'm sure he'd approve of the DS and Wii, it seems just the kind of thing he'd have done.
    Edited by 1 at 06/07/06 @ 15:08

  • Mr_Whacker #9 6 years ago

    One failure out of that list is a fantastic rate for inventions.