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TAITO, the largest game center operator in Japan, has announced the addition of the Music and Puzzle divisions to next year's " Toushin Matsuri 2020: World Championship of ARCADE ", one of Japan's largest arcade version e-sports tournaments, to be held at the " Toushin Matsuri 2020 ". TAITO also announced on its official YouTube channel that the music and puzzle divisions will be added.

In addition, a video of the announcement by Shohei Shiiki, the producer of Toushin Festival, and Yasuaki Matsuda of Universal Gravity, Inc. was also released on Taito's official YouTube channel along with the announcement of the new divisions and their titles.

What is the Toushin Festival?

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Last year, 2018 was the first year of e-sports, a year in which e-sports became so recognized and popularized that it was called the "first year of e-sports". The Toushin Festival is an arcade game tournament centered on fighting games that has been held by Taito since 2015.

The competitive nature of games is said to have originally originated in game arcades, and TAITO has been developing, manufacturing, and selling arcade game machines and operating game arcades (amusement facilities), supporting the competitive nature of e-sports since the early days of gaming.

As the title says, "Toushin Matsuri" is a tournament for fighting game-centered titles, and Fangler Games went to the last Toushin Matsuri as a private party and was impressed by the great turnout.

New divisions and titles added to the Toushin Festival

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Toushin Festival 2020
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This year's festival not only added new titles, but also new divisions, the Music Division and the Puzzle Division.
The titles in the music and puzzle divisions are as follows

Music Division

  • SOUND VOLTEX VIVID WAVE
  • jubeat festo
  • Taiko Drum Master Green Ver.

Puzzle Division

  • SOUND VOLTEX VIVID WAVE
  • jubeat festo
  • Tetris® The Absolute The Grandmaster 2 PLUS

These are all titles that are considered arcade games. Taiko Drum Master has been released on a variety of platforms, including consumer and smartphone platforms.

Titles for the Fighting Action and Drive divisions also announced

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Titles for the existing Fighting Action and Drive divisions have also been announced!

Fighting Action Division

  • SAMURAI SPIRITS
  • Street Fighter V Type Arcade
  • Ultra Street Fighter IV
  • Tekken 7 FATED RETRIBUTION ROUND 2
  • GUILTY GEAR Xrd REV 2
  • DISSIDIA FINAL FANTASY

Drive Division

  • Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 6
  • Initial D ARCADE STAGE Zero

The surprise this time was the selection of SAMURAI SPIRITS for the Fighting Action Division.
Since the arcade version of Samurai Spirits for NESiCAxLive2 has not yet been officially launched, we were worried about whether it would be selected for the "Fighting Festival", but it was successfully selected.

Call for preliminary contests is now open!

At the same time as this announcement, we started accepting applications for the preliminary contests. The deadline for applications is November 1.
The final is scheduled for spring 2020. We are looking forward to next spring!

For more information, please check the official Toushin Matsuri website andToushin Matsuri official Twitter!

Location test decided!  Arcade version of
Location test decided! Arcade version of "Samspi"...

Arcade version will be available this fall on Taito's NESiCAxLive2, a content download system that supports inter-store online battles and a location test

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