Let’s Tap, former Sega talisman Yuji Naka’s quirky Wii party game that involved…tapping things, is coming to the iPhone as a series of individual apps.
When former Sonic Team lead Yuji Naka left Sega to form the semi-independent Prope, he said the studio would focus on “original entertainment.” Prope’s first major release, Let’s Tap, is certainly original, packing five multiplayer focused mini-games into one title.
Sega and Prope’s Let’s Tap has shipped for the Wii, a mini-game compilation that requires players to lightly tap or firmly rap whatever surface the Wii Remote rests upon. Sadly, Sega did not provide North American consumers with cardboard boxes.
Sega has released the North American box art for its upcoming Wii mini-game collection Let’s Tap. What does it tell us? Pretty much everything we need to know about Let’s Tap!
Typically, when rhythm video games come across the pond, their poppy bubblegum Japanese soundtracks get amputated in favour of something more lowest common denominator. Not Sega’s Let’s Tap!, though. Its soundtrack is staying intact.
Try asking Harrison Ford about Han Solo, and you’ll only get dirty looks. But ask Sonic programmer Yuji Naka (pictured) about working on Sonic the Hedgehog, and he’ll gladly cooperate…
Former Sonic Team head honcho Yuji Naka is a Dreamcast fanboy. And he was very much against Sega’s decision to bail on the hardware business, to kill off the Dreamcast, he says in a new interview.
While penguin-playable game Let’s Tap didn’t exactly set the Japanese sales charts ablaze, that doesn’t mean it, um, won’t set American sales charts on fire.