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Segaiden #27: Graphic Tablet / Wonder Boy / Champion Billiards
🕑 Added 2022-01-19 13:57:32 +0000 UTCSome pretty wild stuff this week as the SG-1000 library nears its finale. Video games had changed a lot over the three years since the console's debut, and while this particular hardware really didn't stand a chance against the likes of The Legend of Zelda and After Burner, god bless ’em, Sega's home dev team did their damnedest. These games, especially Wonder Boy, are basically the equivalent of ambitious, latter-day, end-of-life hardware stunts like Nintendo trying to convince us that Hyrule Warriors was perfectly tolerable on 3DS or someone hacking Tomb Raider to run on Game Boy Advance. It's very impressive, but was it really a good idea? This entire episode is a perfect example of your scientists never stopping to ask if they should. Buckle in, ’cause it's a bumpy but fascinating ride.
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Vinushika
It's funny, I know someone with a Terebi Oekaki which functions perfectly...but they aren't particularly good with art so they don't have that much use with it. Maybe these need to be pooled together or something. Wonder Boy for SG-1000 is such a fascinating contraption. Thoroughly impressive yet ultimately not nearly as enjoyable as other games pushing right up against the system's limit. At least, this might be the start of Sega's knack for throwing a bone to their diehards at the end of a console's lifespan going all the way through to Segagaga at the end of the Dreamcast.
TheyCallMeSleeper
Wow, there actually is a game I would to decline to play in the branching Wonder Boy/Adventure Island lineage. Who would've thought? But at least it's nice to know Sega was still giving the SG-1000 some sprinkles of support as the Mark III took over as its dominant home focus during those last couple years, especially with some of these titles from the last couple episodes. Talk about trying to go out with a bang. I've got a feeling next episode won't be as high, but I sure hope it won't be a big crash after some of these games we've seen.
