Taito introduces Surface-like arcade game

via Engadget


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Well, it didn't take long for Microsoft's Surface to trickle down into the fast-paced world of card gaming (ala Magic). Feast your eyes on the next device your children will be shoveling money into like it's going out of style, a new Square Enix (makers of Final Fantasy) and Taito collaboration called The Wheel of Eternity.

The card-based RPG appears to function much in the same way that Bill Gates described Surface's object recognition properties as working, "sensing" cards which are placed on the game area, and reacting to their status, movement and arrangement. There's no word on when or if this game is coming to the states, but with kids' unnatural obsession with card games (particularly those of a Japanese ilk), it seems likely this will be popping up on these shores before long.

Soon playing with yu gi-oh cards (or any other card franchise) will become as real as their cartoons.

I saw a three player cabinet in Hong Kong last year that looked very similar. It was pretty popular but I didn't have a clue what was going in. Seemed to involve storming a castle or some such.