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Segaiden #033: F-16 Fighting Falcon / TransBot / World Grand Prix (Patreon)

Published:

2023-01-11 12:37:02

Edited:

2023-01-11 12:37:33

Imported:

2024-04

Tags:

f-16 fighting falcon master system sega segaiden transbot world grand prix yuji naka

Content

This episode didn't quite turn out as expected! I thought I was mostly going to talk about TransBot. Yet fully half of this episode's run time covers F-16, a game that I did not enjoy playing at all. However, as I dug deeper and deeper into its history, I found more and more super weird stuff about it. I honestly did not expect to come across a game that did this much with the Master System's tech so early... and all for the sake of playing a bad, overly complicated flight sim. Bizarre.

The other two games are fine. Perfectly acceptable.

If you stick around through the end of the video, you'll notice the end-of-episode book promo card has been replaced by a charitable pledge. I decided to do this several months ago, and it has nothing to do with Certain Recent Events at work. The timing just kind of worked out to be one of those things. Anyway, I know perfectly well the kind of Gaming YouTube comments and attitudes that tend to follow around in the wake of TransBot, so I wanted to do my own small part to balance them out.

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Driven to tears: F-16 Fighting Falcon / TransBot / World Grand Prix | Segaiden #033

I thought the main feature this week would be TransBot, a pretty OK shooter based on a pretty good arcade game that rectifies the failings of Orguss for SG-1000 while basically swiping the concept wholesale, but no. TransBot is fine. The main feature, however, turned out to be F-16 Fighting Falcon, a game no one would reasonably ever want to play, which does some absolutely ridiculous things with the Master System's more esoteric capabilities. Yuji Naka supposedly programmed this port, and all I can say is: What a mad man. There's also World Grand Prix, the sequel to GP World. It's a game about racing the same track over and over again because the requirements for qualifying for later tracks are human impossible to achieve. Finally, I know a video with "TransBot" in the title is bound to inspire some cruel drive-by comments, so I'd like to balance things out a bit. All ad revenue generated by this video through March 15 will be donated to TransRescue.org, along with my own 4x matching donation. Production notes: Why watch when you can read? Check out the massive hardcover print editions of NES Works, Super NES Works, and Virtual Boy works, available now at Limited Run Games (https://limitedrungames.com/collections/books)! Look forward to SG-1000 Works: Segaiden Vol. I, due summer 2023. 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! Arcade footage captured from MiSTer with thanks to MiSTerAddOns. Most Master System footage captured from U.S. carts running through an adapter on Sega Mark III hardware with FM Sound Unit and RGB bypass modification by iFixRetro. Video upscaled to 720 with xRGB Mini Framemeister.