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20 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Sega Mark III is 35 years old! the mkIII was initially positioned more as a successor to the SG1000/SC3000 & as such, one of the selling points on the box is compatibility with older computer-esque peripherals like the keyboard, tape recorder & tablet that were ultimately ignored
the Master System, the redesigned & consciously game-focused intl version of the Mark III, came out the year after in various countries, and was eventually back-imported to Japan with a few extra perks like the Mark III's FM Adapter built in as standard sega.jp/fb/segahard/ma…
incidentally, Yuji Naka recently revealed that both the mkIII port of Space Harrier and the FM Sound Unit, which he built for his own sake during the production of the mkIII port of Outrun, were projects he started without authorisation that were then commercialised
he also said that he was a Weekly Shonen Sunday fanboy back in school and thus reflexively hated Fist of the North Star since it ran in Jump & his Jump-loving friends never shut up about it, and so he had to read the manga for the first time in order to make the mkIII game

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20 Oct
Tengo Project's director Toshiyasu Miyabe shared a few comments on Kikikaikai: Kuro Mantle no Nazo famitsu.com/news/202010/20…🇯🇵
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17 Oct
the enormity of the problem didn't really register with me while it would've mattered but wow the search function on the Vita/PS3 stores are complete trash, huh
like, it's shocking how many big games on PSN are completely invisible unless you buy through the web store…what % of people even buy that way, I wonder

icymi, they're closing the PS3/PSP/Vita web stores next week, so I'm sweeping games that can only be bought that way
oh and you have to turn off 2FA in order to transfer games from PS3 to PSP because Sony couldn't figure out how to make it work without breaking, peachy
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13 Oct
Taito's Yuichi Toyama & Katsuhisa Ishikawa, M2's Naoki Horii, Yukiko Karashima, Shinpei Yamada, Tatsuhiko Kasuga & Takayuki Komabayashi, Sega's Yosuke Okunari & homebrew dev Hideki Konishi discuss the production of Darius EXTRA MD famitsu.com/news/202010/13…🇯🇵
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12 Oct
well yeah, they're not putting games out: Layton's MIA, Inazuma's in dev hell, Snack World had no staying power, Inafune's mobile game utterly flopped, Musashi's still not a sure thing & is yet another media-mix they won't be able to pull off overseas, Yokai Watch has flatlined…
Inafune's mobile game flopped twice, even—when it became immediately clear that it wasn't doing well, they drastically overhauled it in the space of 2-3 months, only for people to not care all over again

oh and they're also "making" "Ushiro", how could I forget
oh and iirc L5IA was reputedly an awful place to work so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I can't knock a company for being bullish but they really did flush all that yokai cash down the toilet, didn't they
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12 Oct
the Amazon JP listings for Darius Cozmic Revelations are up but they don't currently have the Prime Day bonus listed (a digital PS4 or Switch copy of Darius EXTRA MD, a revised version of the port featured on Genesis/Mega Drive Mini) so maybe wait until they straighten that out
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PS4 amazon.co.jp/dp/B08KWGQNX1/
Switch amazon.co.jp/dp/B08KWGBWTL/

the LE/DX links keep going up&down, check for yourself if you so desire
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9 Oct
Darius Cozmic Revelation's out in Japan on Feb.25 taito.co.jp/mob/topics/4522🇯🇵

¥6800 for the standard edition, ¥16800 for the LE w/ book, arrange CD, Zuntata DVD & papercraft, ¥22800 for the Famitsu DX ebten pack which also includes Darius EXTRA MD on a genuine Mega Drive cartridge
Darius EXTRA MD is a revision of the Darius Mega Drive port featured on Genesis/MD Mini

they're also using a DL version of Darius EXTRA MD as the Amazon Prime Day promo item—if you want it, ya gotta buy Darius Cozmic Revelation from Amazon JP between 00:00 Oct.13 & 23:59 Oct.14
they're also doing another Proco/Tiat arrange gimmick between stores

this is the 3rd or 4th time Taito's done one of these exclusive limited-window Amazon DL games and they've never made them available elsewhere after the fact, so don't think you'll be able to just buy it later
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