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Segaiden #039: Mark III JP exclusives (1985)
🕑 Added 2023-02-22 12:50:15 +0000 UTCI guess you could call this one Segaiden Gaiden, if you were inclined to do horrible things to the English (and Japanese??) language. I don't recommend doing that, though. It will make people dislike you.
This episode is one of roughly half a dozen videos that will present sidebars to the American Master System chronology by looking at the very few Japan-exclusive titles that got away from Americans (though as you'll see here, didn't necessarily skip Europe). There were honestly not that many of these! In fact, the Famicom saw more releases in 1985 that never made it to the States than the Mark III did throughout its entire lifetime.
I find these games quite interesting, because (again, as you'll see here) quality doesn't appear to have always been the primary limiting factor. Why didn't we get this version of Great Golf? Why did Pit Pot show up in Europe but not America? I do not have these answers, so all I can do provide you with a guided tour to a window through which to gawk and wonder.
Comments
Alex Reid
Thanks for making sure to answer the burning question I assume every viewer had upon seeing the princess’s room in Pit Pot in the final moments of the video
James Jackson
What's going on with the Dig Dug II video? Do the colors invert like that in a late stage, or was it an artistic choice? Just curious
