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21 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Musha Aleste, Compile's "Edo Metal"-themed vertical STG for Mega Drive, is 30 years old! it was recently included on the Japanese Mega Drive Mini but I guess the Genesis Mini had to make room for Alex Kidd, oh well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
MUSHA methadone:

sister games Seirei Senshi Spriggan & Spriggan mkII are available via TG16 Mini

spiritual successor Mahou Daisakusen is available on J-PSN store.playstation.com/ja-jp/product/…🇯🇵

the 8-bit Aleste Collection launches in Japan on PS4/Switch this week store-jp.nintendo.com/list/software/…🇯🇵
icymi, Aleste Collection features a brand-new Aleste game made to Game Gear spec, developed by a small team of STG veterans including Kazuyuki Nakashima, artist and/or planner on MUSHA, Spriggan & Mahou Daisakusen (55:19🇯🇵)
oh, and it bears mentioning that the programmer on GG Aleste 3 was responsible for, among many other things, this proof-of-concept version of MUSHA for mkIII

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