Jeremy Parish
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Segaiden #032: Choplifter / My Hero / Teddy Boy
🕑 Added 2023-01-04 13:12:48 +0000 UTC2023 kicks off here with, yes, more Master System. You may as well settle in and enjoy the ride, because there's a LOT of Master System on the way. It's gonna be one of THOSE years.
This episode feels nicely emblematic of the Master System experience. Some good stuff, some very frustrating stuff, some impressive arcade conversions, some weirdly misaimed revisions to arcade material. And no teen idol singers, thankyouverymuch.
Comments
Jeremy Parish
The typography JWT selected was extremely similar to Apple's custom version of Garamond, and they employed it to very similar effect. Of course, in later years, it would be Nintendo that took its design cues from Apple.
Vinushika
My Hero feels like if they put it on a full cart it would have been one of the closest things to a 1:1 conversion since Donkey Kong on Famicom. It's a shame they went for the My Card format that couldn't hold the full vision; it had so much potential squandered.
Robbie Martine-McEvoy
It's great you gave some context to The Master System's minimalist packaging design in the last video. I never made the connection that it was similar to what Apple was doing.
