#JUSCO

[atohiro]

佐久平イオンの看板から、ジャスコの呪いが解けていた。

（単に看板を塗り直しただけ。）

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ジャスコ

ジャスコは、かつて日本に存在した大手小売業チェーンです。現在は「イオン」に名称が変わり、全国に展開しています。1969年に「岡田屋」「フタギ」「シロ」の3社が合併して誕生した「ジャスコ株式会社」を起源とします。社名の「ジャスコ」は、3社の頭文字（JUSCO）を取ったものです。スーパーマーケットやショッピングセンターを展開し、食料品や日用品、衣料品など幅広い商品を販売しました。特に、大型のショッピングセンターの開発に力を入れ、地域住民の生活拠点となるような店舗づくりを目指しました。また、積極的な全国展開を行い、店舗数を拡大しました。店舗名は、地域名を冠した「ジャスコ〇〇店」とすることが多く、地域に密着した店舗運営を行っていました。

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[townpostin]

Bagbera Residents Felicitate Panchayat Representatives for Free Water Distribution

Panchayat representatives were felicitated by Bagbera residents for organizing free water distribution. – Sunil Gupta and others were honored for providing free water in Bagbera. – A ceremony was held near Shantiniketan School, Bagbera. – Residents received assurance of new borewell installation before summer. JAMSHEDPUR – Bagbera residents honored local panchayat representatives for their…

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[foreveranonymousfa]

I just want y'all to know I found this in my drafts from like... 9 or 10 years ago and I have in fact succeeded in buying all of these (and more) :)

Mario Party 2 in English, Japanese, and German (boxed)

Majora's Mask and Wind Waker Nendoroid and.... a lot more. Like too much ft. my moms urn (the collection is for her)

Japanese Clear Blue N64 w/ two controllers and Japanese Daiei Hawks N64 w/ four controllers ft. the Australian Pokemanic N64 (that one is my actual Holy Grail)

Cubone bootleg from Amazon (what I originally wanted) and the new Pokemon Sleep Cubone (I have more Cubone but in a different place)

[siphersaysstuff]

WIKI TOYPICS UPDATE: TFCON HAUL

Went to TFcon Anaheim, and walked out with a few choice pieces I'd been after at nice prices. And I decided to go ahead and pic them up for to add to @tfwiki.

The "big" one is one I didn't even buy, just took pics of, shown up top: the red-face/silver-weapons variant of the European-market exclusive "Rescue Force" claw-tank from 1992. I had the silver-face/red-weapon version (and I re-took pics of it so adding the variant blended better), and finally getting the chance to have the variants on at least one Rescue Force toy up on the wiki just feels good.

I've decided I want the Throttlebots back, but only if they're cheap. Freeway here was nicely cheap.

Adventure Scorponok, the Japanese release of Robots in Disguise Scorponok, was my first buy at the show, and got him for a whopping $5, which made me quite happy after a frankly terrible drive up. Lord, he's so pretty, a genuine vast improvement over the Hasbro release.

Speaking of Adventure, the last thing I got that day was the EZ Collection "Team Bumblebee VS Megatronus" pack loose. Honestly I only wanted Strongarm because Strongarm, but they were being sold as a whole set and it wasn't a bad price so hey. Once again, much improved decos, but not super-huge diffs for anyone but Strongarm.

The Japanese JUSCO-exclusive Car Robots "Original Super Indy Heat" promotional toy had slipped from my grasp a few times, but finally managed to pick him up for not-expensive. You might know him better, and in a purple/white deco, as Skid-Z from the first Robots in Disguise series.

And finally, I picked up a trio of Japanese Rise of the Beasts promotional toys: Burning Plasma Blaster, Burning Cheetor, and Burning Chainclaw. I also got Burn, an Adventure promo Mini-Con who is also a clear-red robot-to-weapon bot, who I'd been missing for years, but he already has a wiki pic. I didn't plan on getting a whole pile of clear-red weapon bots with "Burn" in/as their names, it just turned out that way.

There were a couple other small pieces, some of which will show up later. But I figured heck, let's get these out now.

[everygame]

Battle City (NES)

Developed/Published by: Namco Released: 9/9/1985 Completed: 20/11/2022 Completion: Beat all 35 unique levels. Version Played: Switch Online Trophies / Achievements: n/a

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There are iconic NES games–Super Mario Bros. and that. And then there are iconic NES pirate cart games. Battle City is the latter. 

I have a funny history with NES piracy, actually. As most people know, the NES wasn’t really a thing in the UK for most people (I certainly didn’t know anyone with one as a child) and by the time I reached the age where my family were spending more time in Malaysia, I was already an avowed PC gamer. So even though I have so many memories of department stores with rows of pirate carts and knock off Famicoms… I wasn’t interested at all, and instead filled my boots with copied floppies (seeking out the stalls with the best reproductions of manuals and that sort of thing.)

In some respects, I regret this–so much of the video game culture of South East Asia in the 90s seems to be lost forever (see tweets) and now all I really have is snatches of memories–usually a gaggle of kids crowded round a pirate cart version of Street Fighter II in a Jaya Jusco–but I also know that games like Battle City squandered the chance to get me lugging a Malaysian famiclone home with a couple of 150-in-1 carts.

Let’s remember here I’m not yet a teenager and I’ve just discovered the glory of things like Wolfenstein 3D’s vibrant ultraviolence and Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis’ cinematic narrative. And while in Malaysia I’m putting the exchange-rate equivalent of pennies into big fancy sit down/ride cabinets of the likes of Suzuka 8 Hours or Rad Mobile. So when an uncle digs out a faimclone and a pirate cart and you boot it up to find you can play 30 versions of the dustiest-ass tank game for babies you’d ever seen…

(And what was the deal with every single pirate cart massively over-inflating the number of games anyway? Was anyone fooled when they selected ���Fancy Excitebike” in the list and just got Excitebike again??? I have one of those snatches of memory of standing in a wee store with my dad, him saying “you can get another game for the house!” and me, unable to tell which cart offered any value at all–after all, 80 of the games would probably be the same ones on the cart we already had–going home empty handed! Empty handed! When do kids ever do that???)

Anyway. When I think of pirate carts, I think of Battle City. Maybe it isn’t iconic to everyone, maybe it’s only iconic to me because it was on the cart I had for one summer at least… but it’s such a pirate cart game that it almost feels weird to play it in an “official” way.

And I suppose, this many years later, it’s kind of weird that I put a bunch of time into it?

I’ll say this. It’s not surprising that at the time I gave it short shrift. It’s got horrible sound (a constant buzzing of engines) and feels extremely simplistic and limiting as you awkwardly move your tank around sans diagonals. It was, after all, based on a game from 1980 with a bit of a graphical touch-up–contemporary with the timeless Pac-Man, sure, but this ain’t Pac-Man. I’ll admit the tank movement feels better than I remember it (smooth, and perfect speed) but the game sort of doesn’t really feel like anything.

Look at it this way. The game has you as a tank trying to defend one poorly walled-in base, always at the bottom center of the screen, from being shot by enemy tanks. There’s some terrain, but it’s mostly brick walls that can be shot through. Enemies spawn from the same three spawn points at the top of the level, and there’s some variation between them (some fast tanks, some tanks that take a bunch of hits). None of the enemies have any real AI–they don’t seek you, or really seek the base, either. Sometimes there are power-ups; you can improve your gun to destroy steel walls; there’s an occasional smart bomb or time-stop which are must-grabs. Shoot 20 tanks to get to the next level.

It’s, you know… fine. It’s an alright game design. But when you actually sit down and play it, the game very quickly devolves into getting your tank as far up the screen as you can manage where you are able to shoot clearly to both the left and right boundaries without being shot from a tank spawning above, and then just… firing constantly left or right based on which side tanks are traveling down from most urgently.

There are a few levels where this is not simple to do (a total bastard of a level mostly with tree coverage, making tanks near-impossible to see) and you can’t consider this tactic a total slam dunk because if a tank does slip past, they’ll often destroy your base before you can get to them, leading to an instant game over (no matter how many lives you have!) which can be infuriating. But it’s not like there’s better tactics; on a level by level basis you’ll do your best to shoot your enemies straight paths to your base, so you kind of just have to accept the variance.

In the cold light of 2022, Battle City is… a half-hour or so of near-mindless blasting that you wish had any sort of twist, or spark, or even particularly interesting level design, to make it a charming bit of classic arcade action worth score attacking.

In the early 90s it’s a dusty-ass tank game for babies that is indirectly responsible for the total lack of preservation of south-east Asian game culture history. Probably.

Will I ever play it again? Nope but I’ve got 1991’s Tank Force waiting to be played which is a baffling (and obscure) sequel that’s maybe brilliant. I mean who knows.

Final Thought: One of the most annoying things about Battle City of course is when you’re shot from the side by a tank that’s turned on a dime before you could notice, and I have to admit I’d be interested to play this exact game but with real, slow-ass tank turning. Would it be better? Would it actually be even more annoying? I’m kind of imagining these situations where you watch your tank turn, watching another tank turn, thinking “oh god, I hope I get this shot off” like you’re actually in the tank, feeling it slowly spin around… [“That’s why tanks have turrets though. So they can shoot in different directions more quickly”--Ed.] Shut up!

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[sharpbharat]

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[lewliets]

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[townpostin]

Trees Cut Near Jamshedpur JNAC Office Spark Controversy

Two Neem and Two Amla Trees Cut Near Sakchi Roundabout; Complaint Filed by Retired Inspector. The cutting of four trees near the Jamshedpur Akshes office and Sakchi No. 9 roundabout has raised concerns, leading to a complaint by a retired sanitation inspector. JAMSHEDPUR – A case of tree cutting near the Jamshedpur Notified Area Committee office and Sakchi No. 9 roundabout has come to light, with…

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[suiyoubis]

peanut butters — jusco, ueno