Shooting Game Historica Gashapon - New, Sets Sold Out

Yujin appeals to the shmup collective by releasing a gashapon collection which fetes the shooters we've known and loved through the years. Why hasn't anyone done this before? We're not sure but the adage "Better late than never" might apply here. The five games and their attendant ships featured in the Shooting Game Historica set are:

R-Type featuring R-9A Arrow-Head
Image Fight featuring 0F-1 Daedalus
Gradius featuring Vic Viper T301
Gradius 2 featuring Metarion
Darius Gaiden featuring Silver Hawk (Note: Either Blue or Red Version)

There was an unequal quantity of red and blue Silver Hawks so we'll include either version in each set. There are no color variants for the other ships but please note that the boxed version of the Shooting Game Historica toys which are scheduled to ship in February 2008 will feature color variants for four of the ships.

Please note that there was a shortage of two ships in all of the cartons that we received from Yujin. There was not enough of the "R-9A Arrow-Head" and the "0F-1 Daedalus" ships to create enough complete sets to fill all of our preorders. We will contact customers by email within 1-2 days if we are unable to fill your preorder - there aren't too many but it still stings.

We have asked our Japanese distributors for additional supplies but we won't know if there will be another shipment available for us until the end of December 2007. As mentioned earlier, Yujin will re-release the same toys in February 2008 which will be packaged in cardboard boxes and may be viewed though this preorder link. View the NCS Photo Gallery.