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Segaiden #056: Global Defense & Zaxxon 3-D
🕑 Added 2023-09-27 12:47:50 +0000 UTCOops, did I make fun of bad politics from worse politicians this episode? Well, blame Sega for starting it. There's probably a really interesting academic study to be conducted about the way terrible American politics creep their way into the pop media of other countries in a way that distorts and softens the actual negative impact of those policies. But I'm not an academic, so I'll leave that to someone else and simply settle for lobbing softballs while explaining the real-world history behind Global Defense... or, as we Real Ones call it, S.D.I.
I also had to write about Zaxxon 3-D, a personal affront to me, a lifelong fan of Actual Zaxxon. Oh well. Starting next week, we move back over to some real NES bangers. Well, OK, no, next week's games are kind of mediocre-to-bad. But after that...!
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Nicole Express
Awesome video for some less than awesome games. Minor correction: Zaxxon in the arcades predated Congo Bongo by over a year, if the Japan dates on Sega Retro are to be believed
Marcus Trapp
Regardless of the storied history of SDI and its "Star Wars" nickname, I never tire of seeing that clip of Porkins getting smoked.
