History VideoGame / GameTengoku

''Game Tengoku'' received in 1997 an UpdatedRerelease for UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn and in 1998 a sequel, '''[=GUNbare=]! Game Tengoku''', but only for the Japanese UsefulNotes/PlayStation. The sequel adds home console games and handhelds to the list of the featured devices. In November 2017 a remake of the Saturn Port titled ''Game Tengoku [=CruisinMix=]'' was released for UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, with all the elements from the Saturn port plus new modes like Time Attack Mode and Arcade Mode+, where one can use brand new DLC characters. It was later released for UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 in July 2018, and a further enhanced edition subtitled ''[=CruisinMix=] Special'' was released in November 2018, alongside an English version. A UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch port has since been released.

* TheAnimeOfTheGame: The Sega Saturn limited edition of the game came with an actual tape featuring an anime short with all the characters plus interviews with their voice actors. The UsefulNotes/PlayStation game had another anime short that could be bought in the in-game shop. All of their tropes will be described below.

* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: The original arcade game has Z-DYNE speak all his sentences in English (still understandable despite the accent).

* VocalDissonance: Pig is a cute little pig in a polka-dot diaper who speaks in Creator/AkioOhtsuka's deep, manly voice. Then again, you have to be a badass to use bombs as your only weapon of choice.

Basically, it's a MassiveMultiplayerCrossover featuring several of Jaleco's characters from their older franchises (and not only shmups) inside shooting stages made to look like other video games and arcade machinery. An arcade game about arcade games set in an arcade... it's all very meta, and this also allows it to feature several nods to other Jaleco properties and [[AffectionateParody parodies]] of gaming franchises from other companies. It not only homages arcade culture but anime as well, with several anime tropes and, most importantly, the characters being voiced by [[NamesToKnowInAnime famous voice actors]] such as Creator/TomokazuSeki, Creator/HekiruShiina, Creator/KaeAraki, Creator/RyotaroOkiayu, Creator/ShigeruChiba among others. These ''seiyuu'' reprised the roles in TheAnimeOfTheGame (see the trope list below) in typical hammy fashion.

'''Game Tengoku - The Game Paradise!''', also known as ''The Game Paradise! - Master of Shooting!'' in the Western release, is a 1995 vertical ShootEmUp UsefulNotes/ArcadeGame made by Creator/{{Jaleco}} featuring actual arcade game characters traveling through the fictional arcade games of a Japanese game center to save it from the menace of one [[MadScientist Genius]] [[DirtyOldMan Yamada]] who wants to conquer it and, through it, the entire arcade game world. Confused yet?

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: This trope is taken UpToEleven with the female characters. We have light green (Yuki, changed to dark green in the sequel), blue (Selia, changed to purple in the sequel), lilac (Sakura), teal (Miki), bubblegum pink (Misato). Genius Yamada has dark blue hair as well. Inverted by Claris, who had long aqua hair in her original game and who became a short-haired blonde.

* DoItYourselfThemeTune: The ending theme of the first game, "I'm Not Fine", is sung by Creator/KumikoNishihara, the voice of Yuki Ito. She also performs the opening theme of the second game, "To Your Dream".

* AnimeThemeSong: The first and second game start with these.

* PlayboyBunny: Yuki in the sequel. According to the manga it was made explicity to her specifications (means no one else can wear it) and grants her the power to make all (but Genius Yamada, who is immune) others follow her lead.

* ShoutOut: Bosses in the sequel include a parody of the Andor Genesis Mothership from ''VideoGame/{{Xevious}}'', a VideoGame/{{Tamagotchi}}, the Big Core from ''VideoGame/{{Gradius}}'', and King Fossil from ''VideoGame/{{Darius}}''.