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Segaiden #040: Mark III JP exclusives (1986)
🕑 Added 2023-03-01 12:59:05 +0000 UTCThis episode actually made me regret my decision to cover Japan-only (and never-released-in-America) Mark III titles for the Segaiden series. As interesting as things like Galactic Protector, Bubble Bobble, and Alex Kidd BMX Trial promise to be, focusing on this facet of the Sega library also means that episodes like this will pop up from time to time. Comical MachineGun Joe and High School! Kimengumi offer a pointed reminder that many games back in the day remained Japan-exclusive because they weren't good enough to bother releasing in other territories. That's understandable with High School! Kimengumi, which draws too heavily and specifically on the setting and character traits of an unlocalized anime for Sega to have given it the Hokuto no Ken > Black Belt treatment. But Comical MachineGun Joe is a shooting game about a trigger-happy detective in what appears to be Prohibition-era America! It has no Japanese text! It would have been trivial to put out on Master System as a launch title in the U.S.! And yet—
Oh well. Next week brings us back to quality fare, so you won't have to suffer in the cold and dark for too long.
Comments
Al
Great episode! This kind of thing is why we're here in the first place :)
Tony Toon
“Invisible items and inscrutable actions” needed a cutaway to Tower of Druaga
