Jared Rea

There are two comments that must always be made when discussing Arc System Works’ (Guilty Gear) upcoming HD-2D fighter, BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger. The first being, “My arcade will never get it / There are no more arcades,” which is immediately followed by, “I’ll just wait for the console port.” I have some bad news. BlazBlue most likely won’t be hitting consoles until late 2009. The good news, however, is that US publisher Aksys Games wants to help you play it now.

A representative for the publisher has been posting on Shoryuken, asking that we send them the information they need to try and get BlazBlue at an arcade near you.

I do feel some of you may not have an arcade near you, however, here’s where you guys step up and help the scene. If you have a arcade near you and you know they may not know about BlazeBlue, please let me know by sending me a PM, emailing me, send a bird out with a note, whatever it takes and I’ll personally call that arcade and I’ll work it out with them on getting a blazblue board or cabinet. This is our chance folks, to try to broaden this release beyond just the usual arcades. Granted, I can’t promise all arcades will take them, but if we don’t try, we’ll never know, right?

And what if you don’t have an arcade in your area? If there’s a movie theatre or some other location with a decent collection in your area, you could always try and get in touch with them via the contact information found on the machine themselves and send that Aksys’ way.

So if you want to try and help get this amazing fighter in as many arcades as possible, shoot them a line. Their email address is support@aksysgames.com. Try to include as much information as possible, including the address, telephone number and appropriate people to contact for arcade sales.