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Segaiden #018: Zoom 909 / Choplifter / Pitfall II (Patreon)

Published:

2021-10-27 12:00:00

Imported:

2024-04

Tags:

sega segaiden sg-1000 video

Content

The end-of-year countdown begins here. My goal for the remainder of 2021 is to wrap up the SG-1000 series before shifting my focus back to NES Works 1988 and the Master System for the new year (along with catching up to a backlog of patron requests). That's only seven more SG-1000 videos, in case you were wondering. The system had a pretty small library!

This week, we come to a game I was looking forward to but let me down with Zoom 909. I played a lot of its ColecoVision counterpart back in the day, and this version underwhelmed, and the new content was awful. Happily, Pitfall II and Choplifter fare better, even if they're both crazy hard.

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Zoom 909 / Choplifter / Pitfall II retrospective: Nasty, brutish, and short | Segaiden #018

Beginning with this episode, I'll be knuckling down to wrap up as much of the SG-1000 video series as possible by the end of 2021. There are only about half a dozen episodes to go after this! It's a pretty small library, but the best times are ahead of us. This episode looks at, technically, three arcade conversions: Zoom 909, Choplifter, and Pitfall II. Of course, the two latter games got their start on Apple II and Atari 2600, respectively, but around the same time these carts hit stores, Sega also reworked them into pretty good arcade games. The question is whether or not that arcade magic rubbed off on these releases... 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! Plus, exclusive podcasts, eBooks, and more! Production note: SG-1000 footage in this episode was captured from a combination of Sega SG-1000 II with (with Card Catcher; RGB amp mod by @iFixRetro) and @Analogue Mega Sg with card adapter module and DAC. Famicom, NES, and Atari 7800 footage captured from @Analogue Nt Mini / Nt Mini Noir. Video upscaled to 720 with xRGB Mini Framemeister and @Retro Tink 5X.