SG-1000

However, for SegTember...

I was dipping in and out of a lot of different Sega games, and particularly with me, I wanted to check out games on the Game Gear, on the SG-1000, on the Master System, instead of the consoles that most people remember, right? Like the Dreamcast we did last year, the Sega Genesis is very prolific.

I wanted to check out some of the lesser remembered consoles.

So I did dip into Phantasy Star for the first time via Magic Antenna, And I had a lot of difficulty with it.

They were like, we can make our own platform.

They released the SG-1000 around the same time as their own home console, and they didn't treat it as a primary, you know, thing.

It was just like, oh, maybe we can make some extra money off the IP we have for arcade games and call it good.

So...

This is the tech toy version.

It even came out for the SG-1000.

I'm oddly addicted to this game as soon as I discovered it.

I've been playing it a bunch.

Because you look at Sega during the 80s, right? Because like some of you said, this was your introduction to video games, but this wasn't Sega's first home console.

And this was actually a follow-up to the SG-1000.

And I kind of find it interesting to look at Sega's older hardware.

Because Sega was so... focused on doing like the game center experiences at home and especially their own titles kind of bring conversions back home and like early nes has a bit of that but it's very quickly nes becomes kind of more like an approximation of like the idea of like bionic commando and stuff right just gets completely reimagined for home consoles but like the sega stuff was always like how close can we get to the original game center version And so when you look at the Mark III and its continuation from the SG-1000, it is sort of similar to that.

I always felt like from the time I discovered the Master System, the games were just inherently different feeling.

The first game I think I played when I met...

I mean...

We got, so the Master System or the Mark III, right? I think it came out in 85 in Japan.

And, uh, I had time and of course, you know, uh, the, the money that we all got during COVID, uh, to say, I want to do something interesting.

And that was get the SG 1000 library and kind of use that as the starting point for really giving Sega's chronology there, their publishing library, uh, a fair shake.

And, uh, Hey, wait.

Didn't

This is where I was led astray because I was looking for...

some Game Gear games, some Master System games, even some SG-1000 games that I could discuss for this month.

And I was looking for hidden gems, and I kept coming across something that was described as a Golden Axe RPG, Axe Battler, where you play the titular Axe Battler, you know, the sword wielder, Axe Battler.

That's because of the golden axe.

That dang rabbit.

That dang rabbit that had been in all of the SG-1000 manuals.

Because that's always looking.

But if I have to look at something that's actually more English-speaking in terms of power...