Jeremy Parish

Segaiden #009: Two of the Four Kings of Terror (Patreon)

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2021-03-17 13:00:06

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2024-04

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Jaleco irem pachinko sega segaiden

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If you have seen Virtual Boy Works, you will be familiar with that's console's shitennou: Its "four heavenly kings," games so rare and expensive that you might as well forget ever owning a full set of authentic games. I don't know if anything on SG-1000 is quite as rare as SD Gundam Dimension War or Virtual Lab, which supposedly were produced in double digit quantities. But I do know that if you want to own a full set of SG-1000 carts, you're gonna have to pony up a total of $3000 or so for Space Slalom and Pachinko. Thankfully, Sega expert and collector Omar Cornut was able to help me source scans of those games! Otherwise, they'd have been notable gaps in this series.

Also up this week: Zippy Race and Exerion, neither of which is especially hard to come by. Heck, Zippy Race was released on two different formats!

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Space Slalom / Zippy Race / Pachinko / Exerion retrospective: Priced to hell | Segaiden #009

This week we hit on the two most expensive games for the SG-1000. Every console's gotta have at least one of them, right? The ultra-rare collector's chase piece that hits the brakes on any reasonable dream of ever owning a complete set? In this case, those disasterpieces are Space Slalom, a mere slip of an almost-racing game, and Pachinko, the pachinko sim so busted they recalled it. Yes, the great console gaming tradition of incredibly expensive games also being incredibly undesirable for gameplay purposes really begins here, with the SG-1000. On the plus side, there's also Zippy Race, a pretty good conversion of a minor Irem arcade hit, and Exerion, a Jaleco arcade port that tries really hard, bless its heart. And that wraps it up for 1983! Next up: 1984, surprisingly enough. This series has been made possible in part by the work of Omar Cornut, the Game Developers Research Institute, segaretro.org, iFixRetro, and Analogue Co. Video Works is funded via Patreon (http://www.patreon.com/gamespite) — support the show and get access to every episode up to two weeks in advance of its YouTube debut! And be sure to check out the Retronauts podcast (http://www.retronauts.com), where I (and many others!) tackle a much wider array of classic gaming topics each week.