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Segaiden #51: Great Soccer, Great Basketball, and Fantasy Zone II
🕑 Added 2023-05-17 11:53:04 +0000 UTCYou know what I really appreciate about the Sega Master System? Every time something dreadful appears to exist as the Opposite of Fun, you can count on some sort of leavening content to balance it out. In this case, Great Soccer and Great Basketball arrive, fully determined to set back progress in their respective genre of sports by a few years, only to find themselves stymied by the excellence of Fantasy Zone II.
Of course, the downside of Sega Master System is that even the great games are ball-breakingly hard and demand youthful reflexes, not the slow-firing neural twitches of my sluggish old man brain. I should have embarked on this endeavor 20 years ago. Oh, wait, actually... I kind of did... but it was in the form of a blog that no one read.
Anyway, Fantasy Zone II is neat. But difficult. You know the drill by now.
Comments
JJR
Between Zillion and Great Basketball, you’ve recently hit 2/3rds of the games I used to play as a kid at a friend’s house. I loved Great Basketball only because of the 2 player mode and it never called goal-tending. Once you caught the opponents shot mid-air, you could also then shoot the ball and make a superhuman full court shot and jeopardize your friendship.
PT
More like the Great Value line of sports titles! Yeah, got them. (I am so sorry. That was in my head and it had to escape.)
