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Segaiden #035: Marksman Shooting / Trap Shooting & Rambo: First Blood Pt. II (Patreon)

Published:

2023-02-01 13:11:07

Imported:

2024-04

Tags:

light gun marksman shooting master system rambo sega segaiden trap shooting

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My Master System journey so far has been quite eventful and remarkably interesting in surprising ways, but every once in a while (read: probably most of the time now that we're out of the launch window) we'll arrive at episodes where the games don't really do anything astonishing and simply attempt to carry forward trends or copy hits. So it goes this week, with two (three?) duplicates of games already covered on NES Works—though, to its credit, Rambo beat Ikari Warriors' NES release to market by a good half-year. And it's a whole lot more tolerable, though wildly difficult to the point of unfairness. Eh, what are ya gonna do. It's 8-bit.

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Padded-out content: Great Ice Hockey & Astro Warrior | Segaiden #035

It's an all-shooting episode of Segaiden with the Master System's second light gun game. (Or third, if you take a doggedly literal view on the names on cartridge labels and count Marksman Shooting / Trap Shooting as two separate games. I bet you probably still put an apostrophe in Ys, too, don't you?) That's followed by the first of December 1986's Commando / Front Line clones, Rambo: First Blood Part II. OK, that's not fair to Rambo. It doesn't want to be Front Line (who does?) but rather Ikari Warriors, and it has the cooperative play to prove it. Although it certainly is fussier about its secret continue codes. 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! 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. Most arcade and Master System Light Phaser footage captured from MiSTer, with thanks to MiSTerAddOns. Video upscaled to 720 with xRGB Mini Framemeister.