Panel de ’Pot: Great Soccer [JP] / Great Golf [JP] / Fushigi no Oshiro Pit Pot | Segaiden
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ก.ย. 2024
- Sega didn't publish a lot of Mark III titles in Japan but not America-just about everything the company released for its home territory always made its way to the U.S. Segaiden/Master System Works will be examining the handful of exceptions, which adds up to roughly a dozen games over the course of the Mark III's lifetime. Not all of these Japan-exclusive titles are worth playing, but you'll find enough interesting oddities here to merit some cursory exploration.
Case in point, this episode. Although Great Soccer (not to be mistaken for the completely different game that shipped in America as Great Soccer) doesn't have much to offer the world, Great Golf (again, not our Great Golf) is a very different and quite enjoyable take on the sport, while Fushigi no Oshiro Pit Pot (not strictly a Japan-exclusive since it did show up on a European combo cart) scratches a primal action-RPG puzzle-dungeon exploration itch that The Legend of Zelda would properly treat with a metaphorical calamine poultice a few months later. Two out of three ain't bad... unless we're talking about how the U.S. missed out on two pretty good early Mark III games, in which case, it's kinda bad.
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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.
Angel's Egg is an ominous way to start a video about a soccer game...
The thumbnail is such an inviting shade of brown. Stylish as always!
i think it's sort of a maroon
@@tsvtsvtsv If so, it's a sumptuous and chocolatey maroon. Whatever you call it, my eyes like it.
Yeah, it's meant to be the deep earthy maroon Sega used for Mark III MyCard packages. I always try to tie thumbnails to a key color element of that platform's branding or packaging.
15:54 I've played this game a lot, and that was immensely cathartic
I just watched the video to the ending and burst out laughing.
The name Pit Pot just reminds me of Mr. Show's Globochem sketch. "Take it from me: I love you!"
Pit Pat: the magical, pan-sexual, non-threatening spokesthing!
Genuine lol at the prospect of Princess lost! It seems like she might bother not taking a nap in an empty room of disposable floor tiles
"Sega does what Namcould" was right there man.
Drat, beat me to it!
Shouldn't it be "Namcouldn't", in this instance?
EDIT: Disregard this, I went back and listened to what he actually said, Namcould is correct.
Oh, so that's why the soundtrack to Pit Pot was included in the Alex Kidd Complete Album! Fun fact: Hiro did the music for this game.
Lol! Apparently that golf course is located on a river. Great ep.
(Oh yeah...Namcould?)
Pit Pot was also bundled with Astro Warrior in Europe which is what we got. And sadly we overlooked Pit Pot for its childish looks while it was actually the better game on the cartridge.
It's rough for Sega when Epoch winds up doing a better soccer game. But Great Golf and Pit Pot are both good games that America missed out on. 1986 Mark III exclusives will be interesting too.
I chomped this video down like a madman
Nice Mamoru Oshii insertion there. Loving these Sega history vids.
Pit Pot should have been released in the USA in the first place. 😀👍🎮
And now you're gonna be humming that catchy Pit Pot tune all day long. You're welcome.
Sega does what Namcome up with!
11:36 - "Oh, boy! A taco!"
"What Nam[co] could?"
You really deserve more subs, man.
THIS CHANNEL HAS WORKED 0 DAYS WITHOUT A TOWER OF DRUAGA REFERENCE
Managed not to reference Xevious, though!
Hiyanko Alien calls out in the wilderness
Sometimes a running joke works best if it’s merely implied
@@JeremyParish Which is why you're the one with the successful and entertaining video series and not me!
You let her have it right there at the end... Right castle wrong princess?
I'm grateful you added a caveat just in case maybe I HAVE gone senile but still remember old soccer games
Should've gone with "do what Nam-can't" chief
Also I propose a tower of druaga counter like xevious and heiankyo alien to complete the trifecta
Great video as usual and I'm really enjoying this series.
A game where you use an every day tool to cause enemies chasing you to fall into holes, and nary a Heiankyō Alien or Lode Runner reference to be found? I'm sorry Jeremy, but we may have to put your membership up for review at the next Excessive Reference Guild meeting.
The blueprint for Great Golf JP was almost certainly "Albatross" by Telenet, which came out in February '86 for the Japanese 8-bit micros, and seems to have been reasonably popular, given that multiple expansion packs were released for it. Given Sega's grueling console development schedule, 10 months is more than enough time to develop their own take on it for consoles. Gameplay and presentation are *extremely* similar, with the most significant change being that Albatross uses three timed button presses for each swing, the first two determining where on the X and Y axes you hit the ball, and the third determining power. In Great Golf these first two timed hits are simply replaced by a free-targeting crosshair. Also in Albatross, being a computer game, you don't have a handy on-screen indicator of the maximum range for each club, and instead have to refer to the manual, but it's no worse than Nintendo's Golf in that regard.
I want to play this version of Dig Dug II crossed with LSD Dream Emulator.
(Though I imagine there's a reason for the inversion)
I was curious enough about this to look up the source. The channel that Jeremy pulled the footage from in turn just ripped another channel's video (Replay Burners) and inverted the colors. Really weird choice.
What I took from all this is that sports games for these early 8-bit consoles are an unexpectedly complicated affair, just not gameplay wise, and the identity of Alex Kidd's brother! Now I wonder if the remake has any references to the knight from Pit Pot.
0 days since we referenced tower of duraga, folks
Great episode. That golf game looks dope.
Mark III lacks a reset button, but it does have a pause button! :)
thank you jeremy 😊
I'm really looking forward to when you get to Phantasy Star. I loved that game, and even bought the SMS adapter for my Genesis just to play it.
It's the first, and best, JRPG ever, IMO. So much better than FF1 and Dragon Warrior on the NES.
I love pit pot won a copy of it on a combo cart with astro warrior for 6 dollars in 2022 I was surprised no one wanted it it rarely comes up for auction yes the care was badly tore up on the lable but the game works great
Oh, my emulation machine lusts for more golf games!
I can confirm that Great Golf is heckin' good on Analogue Pocket.
@@JeremyParish Today I tried the thematic snake tongue that is 'Supershot Golf Robot'. Very strange this.
Heck yeah Angel's Egg
11:05 "Sega loves to do what Namcan't" was right there. Just saying.
Keep up the stellar work
pit/pot/pit/pot/pitpotpitpotpitpot/it's a holiday in Segbodia
This Great soccer is no Captain Tsubasa (but then, who really is?)
3:49 MILK, the official beverage of Great Soccer
"Sega did what Namcould."
Jeremy, unrelated to video games...have you ever written or created a video covering music that you like? I get a sense that you're a big music fan as I recall you name-dropping a few bands over the years but have never seen you expand on that. I have a hunch you're a post-punk fan for some reason...Wire, Joy Division, The Chameleons, Echo & The Bunnymen, etc. but I could be wrong.
Retronauts has some prog rock episodes in their back catalog. But I seem to recall Parish saying that their patreon numbers crater each time they do one, sadly
PAL wins again boys!!!
tenshi no tamago spotted 😤
I love Pit Pot. There. I said it.
i'm wondering how much the tile layouts in pit pot are hints as to where to go and what to do -- i've noticed the tiles make up the word GO on what i think is the first screen, and i've also seen kanji for "right" 右, "up" 上, and "gate" 門 in other screens. there's also images of a skull, car, and heart..... i dunno, i've never heard of this game but it looks really appealing to me in a way that druaga doesn't
I don't know why Sega decided to release Pit Pot and Bank Panic in PAL region but not in North America. Fortunately most PAL region Sega Master System games, including combo cartridges containing Pit Pot, can be played on NTSC consoles.
I always did wonder who Igul from Alex Kidd was. Is his name supposed to be “Eagle”, or “Igor”?
Hey I've got a slightly unrelated question. I've always wondered if the Mark III controllers are mostly identical to the Master System controllers; my biggest problem with the SMS controllers have always been how squishy the buttons feel, and I'm curious if the Mark III controllers are the same way.
PRINCESS LOST!
Have you ever seen Alpha Denshi's Exciting Soccer? It really looks like the graphics and gameplay of Great Soccer were pretty much cloned from it.
SEGA did what _Namcouldn't_
"Sega did what NamcAN?" Maybe? lol.
Nam-could
Didn't they make a version of Sensible Soccer for the SMS in Pal land? Or was it only on Genesis/MD? If the former don't worry it had a good game of footie. Sensi is probably best Soccer game period. And I don't even hate FIFA EA games here and there but Sensi Soccer is just GOOD.
Oh. And im pretty sure it was on the sms as its on the Game Gear but World Class Leaderboard is an excellent golf game.
There is a Sensi on Game Gear. Not sure about its big brother.
@@KeenRetroGames man the GG had some solid titles in spite of it being far behind the GB. Almost like the PSP which has a killer library in spite of it seemingly not being remotely cared about by anyone anywhere ever.
11:12 SEGA does what Namco BanDID...?
I'll see myself out...
SEGA does what Namcould? 🥴
NAMCan't