The First SEGA TV Game! Meet The SG-1000 (and SC-3000) Every Game Included!!

[@GTV-Japan]

What was your favorite SG-1000 game? Did you ever get a chance to play any? Let me know!

[@PartyDude_19]

My favorite SG1000 game is Star Jacker Also you can play SG 1000 games at www.retrosega.com/

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Nice!

[@GTV-Japan]

Neat! I’ll do that at work

[@metacrosser]

Black Onyx is definitely one of the most impressive games of the system I'd say and is my favorite since I'm a rpg guy personally but star jacker is a close second!

[@GTV-Japan]

Yea I know what you mean! I was playing through these games and some of the final released were very impressive. If they were NES games they’d be called gems and classics and so on

[@inceptional]

Some really great box artwork for those games.

[@GTV-Japan]

Yea! I love the simple style and it fills the whole box for later games

[@rwiseart2269]

You know what, I’ve always had trouble with your videos. After watching a new one, I’d always wanna watch more, and you’ve definitely satisfied my problem with 90 minutes worth of info! This is gonna be entertaining!

[@GTV-Japan]

Ha you had me worried there for a while! I hope you watched all 90! Thanks

[@Mechanicoid]

I could listen to that Sega jingle forever. Thanks for this. As a Sega fan it's rare to get this much information on Sega before the Mega Drive/Genesis. I love these older machines and the arcades that all led up to the 90s.

[@GTV-Japan]

There’s a book I reviewed later that is about mega drive but does cover 8 bit in one chapter. Really neat stuff and I love it too. Thanks for watching! Sega!! 🎶

[@Mechanicoid]

@@GTV-Japan Excellent! I'll give that a watch.

[@GTV-Japan]

Cool it’s number 68

[@powpuck5031]

16:54 That's "Windy" by The Association!

[@GTV-Japan]

You’re the 4th person to notice that!

[@powpuck5031]

D'oh!

[@eaabrego]

I knew i wasnt crazy when i heard that

[@MrCalverino]

I love the fact that have old commercials ☝🏾🤘🏾🙌🏿

[@GTV-Japan]

I know. Isn’t that cool?!

[@GanjsmostPrime]

My most wanted console purely in looks alone. Such a sexy retro block of plastic. Even if I could just obtain a shell with no guts I'd be happy!

[@rickylovesyou9063]

GanjamostPrime me too brother. Me too.

[@camrynsumner1899]

Can't Get Enough Of Your Wayback Videos! 😭

[@GTV-Japan]

Thanks! I’m working on another one that’s 30+ minutes for March that I hope you’ll like

[@leroyvisiongames2294]

I like how you used the music from Quartet in the background. That game is amazing, and IMO it’s basically the lovechild of Gradius and Gauntlet. And the soundtrack has to be one of the 80’s-est video game OSTs I’ve heard, along with the likes of Space Harrier and Dragon Spirit.

[@GTV-Japan]

There just isn’t any catchy sg1000 music but that is to me the best sms track !

[@djkaneck1]

Always was and will be a Sega man.

[@GTV-Japan]

Awesome! I live Sega but I just bought everything I could

[@nahumgardner]

In 1983 Nintendo published nine games for their famicom and two of those were educational titles that were essentially modifications of two other games. I had no idea sega had so many more.

[@GTV-Japan]

Sega had a huge pool of arcade games to pick from. Nintendo didn’t so it is quite unusual how successful it was

[@rickylovesyou9063]

Love the Space Harrier theme in the background well done! Enjoyed the vid. I'm off to look for an arcade that still has a working hydraulic Space Harrier game now. Damn I miss those days.

[@GTV-Japan]

It was also the startup music for the master system in japan

[@robbyrobot3303]

I like Champion Tennis because it blatantly lifts the melody from 'Windy' by The Association! I'm curious about the others now.

[@GTV-Japan]

You’re literally the 11th person to mention this! 😂

[@OGBuddah]

Once again good Sir kudos for the awesome video. I was on a work trip away from home and this and a few other of your videos kept me entertained and helped to avoid feeling homesick. I cannot thank you enough for the amazing content. As for my favourite SG-1000 game, I never really had a chance to play this growing up. I did however know someone who had a power base converter for their Genesis and recall playing James Pond. Not sure if that was an early enough title for the SG-1000 but all I can recall. This video also made me notice the "Sega" chant that I thought was from the opening to Sonic actually came from the early commercials. That is so cool to learn. Keep up the amazing work my friend!

[@GTV-Japan]

Thanks. I’m not sure when the Sega song started but at least since 1983! It was used at least till 1994 as far as I know. James pond was a SMS game but this video has me playing every sg game that was official and not a hack or anything. I’m glad you enjoyed it. I’ll make another one like it soon

[@Eric_Plunk]

My SG-1000 knowledge was sorely lacking before this video. It definitely had to take some time to capture all that footage. You truly are doing the Lord’s work!

[@GTV-Japan]

Haha you know I’ve heard the phrase Gods work or the lords work a lot with this video! Really you aren’t the first to say it. So thanks! Actually I record everything I do on the commuter train to work. So now imagine me trying to play and record on a crowded box going 100 kmph! This video was an4 part where I covered each major game machine that was big in Japan in 1983 So you have to see the others to get the full perspective. Thanks for watching!

[@Eric_Plunk]

Gaijillionaire That takes multitasking to a whole new level! I’ll definitely catch the other videos you mentioned.

[@GTV-Japan]

Cool ! It is easy to do once you find a groove. And an open seat! But it’s part of why I appear in so few videos

[@mootbooxle]

I was two days old when the Family Computer was released :)

[@lifestream_real]

This is the most amazing--and strangest--video I've ever seen on KZbin. I love it!! I've always wanted to know more about the early-gen SEGA consoles and this only fuels my desire to get one of these consoles and a lot of the games for myself. Thank you so much for this!! :D

[@GTV-Japan]

Thanks so much! What makes it so strange? I like the SG1000 and mark 3 games a lot! This video is one of 4 I did about Japanese gaming in 1983 so check the Famicom Atari and cassette vision videos when you can

[@lifestream_real]

@@GTV-Japan The only strange thing about it--to me--is how it goes from a historical video into a lineup and demonstration of every single game released that you could track down. It's strange in a good way, though; I really appreciated the unique structure. I've always been interested, but it's hard finding good resources about them sometimes. This video really was informative and helped me learn more about them. I will be sure to do that!! Thanks for the suggestions.

[@GTV-Japan]

oh I see what you mean. Well, I kind of just do my own thing. I don't even know how other channels do theirs but I'm glad you liked it.

[@lifestream_real]

@@GTV-Japan Keep doing your own thing!! It makes your channel excellent. ^_^

[@GTV-Japan]

Thanks of course I will! Actually I’m working on a video now and found something for the SG1000 so rare I had no idea. Wish it could go in this video but too late

[@tatertot64]

The drawing tablet and racing wheel commercials were SO charming!!! I would have totally been suckered into buying an SG-1000 as a kid.

[@GTV-Japan]

I think they were pretty neat. Oh the guy in the commercial was the head of Sega at the time too. Thanks for watching.

[@hoobaguy]

The name's Golgo 13. I shoot trains.

[@GTV-Japan]

Top comment!

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

The Sherlock Holmes game did confuse someone I know who thought it was a Mark III title given the box it came in resembling the Mark III/Master System releases in Japan.

[@GTV-Japan]

Yeah I can see that. After the Mark 3 was out Sega only made two carts and since they play on the Mark 3 anyway I can see why they did that. All the rest were cards after 1985

[@akalyx]

i wish all your videos were this long...well done, thanks for this!

[@GTV-Japan]

Haha! Well it’s only like 13 minutes then gameplay. But I will make another video of this type next year covering one library of games. They just take a long time to make ya know

[@georgehenson2412]

It's interesting how you embarked on this look at Japanese video game consoles at the exact same time as my good friend Alex Smith at the They Create Worlds podcast did! I've been showing him the videos as they come out. We did get a little boost in information because an oral history interview with Hideki Sato, the man behind a lot of Sega hardware, came out very recently. If you're interested I can give you a link. It's all in Japanese but we went about translating it, Google style. 1:15 Sega was actually *the* most prolific manufacturer of arcade video games through the 70s and 80s, period. Between it's Japan operation, Gremlin, and licensing they completely beat everybody else. 1:26 EE-PAW-KUH 2:35 Not exactly. The hardware was a computer. A home computer with game playing capability, but that was no different than the Commodore 64. So the SC-3000 was the original machine, the SG-1000 was the spin-off. 4:03 Actually Sega didn't really have a strong brand recognition. They may have been a large arcade force, but they never had any hits on the level of Namco or Taito. On the consumer end they had nothing and that's what made the biggest difference in the early days. 9:42 "How could that be a failure?" Cuz they lost a ton of money and consumer confidence by doing it :P

[@georgehenson2412]

Here's the interviews. They did more than Sato, also the founder of Compile, Tomohiro Nishikado, Toru Iwatani, and some game magazine editors. You have to download the PDFs. pubs.iir.hit-u.ac.jp/ja/pdfs/index?lid[]=52&s=di&ppc=56

[@GTV-Japan]

Very cool. Thank you

[@valjean3663]

16:56 "Windy!" by The Association! (kzbin.info/www/bejne/jIbZaoKBabCIrJo) I wonder how they managed to use it without getting sued.

[@GTV-Japan]

Totally right! Actually within two hours of putting this up someone else told me the same thing! It’s not a legal defense but I’ve seen in Japan over and over that if the copyright holder isn’t Japanese they just go for it. Though Sega was owned by a conglomerate back then so maybe they owned that song too. Ya never know!!

[@KingofCrusher]

Thank you! That drove me nuts, I knew the song but couldn't remember any of the lyrics to google it!

[@GTV-Japan]

Everyone knows it’s Windy!!

[@e11aguru]

The opening jingle in Champion Tennis is "Windy" by the Association.

[@GTV-Japan]

You are the SIXTH person to say that! And you’re right. Funny how no one raised a complaint about it

[@e11aguru]

Hey man, I love retro gaming and I just recently discovered and subscribed to your channel.

[@GTV-Japan]

Thanks! I’m up to 70 videos so check them out and comment on what you like. I’m glad you found me

[@blackphoenix77]

13:00 why were they naked?!?

[@GTV-Japan]

Birth of a new era? You got me!!

[@y0sh1rulez]

It’s a subliminal message to parents to connect to their children...by buying them an SG-1000!

[@loganjorgensen]

I don't listen to the "FAIL" community, they don't have a attention span long enough to watch this good stuff IE. "Geez man, couldn't you make this history fit into a 2 minute video?". :B #Duhhhhhh! I can't imagine JUST following Nintendo games, hell even the Famicom stuff has interesting history over my personal NES experiences.

[@GTV-Japan]

Yea I hear ya. I tend to make more Nintendo stuff because it’s very dominant in japan and they left behind a lot of interesting things. If you watch enough videos you see I have a contempt for the OMG Fail!! Kind of people and get a few jabs in when I can. Glad you liked this one. I got 4 more Sega videos on there drawing board right now and they’ll eventually come out

[@loganjorgensen]

Well we are at a point where I'm hearing unnecessary apologies from people when they exceed 15 mins, or they split a video feature into pieces because people can't bookmark or watch one video over multiple sessions. :\ Still what do you do when people are clearly watching videos about things they don't even like? O_o??? More Sega vids awesome, pretty sick of SNES videos heh. :)

[@GTV-Japan]

Actually I don’t think I’ll make any snes videos because I don’t have much experience with the machine as I went full on Sega and turbo grafx in the 90s! To be honest I don’t really know anything about other people on KZbin or their habits because I don’t watch anything. Too busy!!

[@holotape]

That Yamaha FM chip bass at 0:45 😎😎😎

[@GTV-Japan]

Hell yes!! You can tell I turned it up because it’s so awesome!

[@holotape]

Gaijillionaire Yeahhhh!

[@BenjaminDaws]

The song at 16:52 was so familiar it was driving me nuts. So I looked it up. It's "Windy" by The Association kzbin.info/www/bejne/iKS8aZ9mf8xmors

[@GTV-Japan]

What ? No way! I need to look that up!!

[@sega-re-trop-vieux]

Great video ! Sega was amazing with so many different sticks and addon even for the mark3 and his famous fm.

[@GTV-Japan]

Thanks! I loved the days of constant hardware upgrades. So primitive now but it meant the world back then

[@snesdudeZX]

Amazing

[@GTV-Japan]

Thanks

[@PatTheRedMonkey]

Me: I'll get in a few GTV vids before going to sleep GTV: here's a 90 minute video Me: ::: insert open mouthed pikachu face :::

[@GTV-Japan]

The sounds of the sg 1000 are a perfect white noise for sleep. I’ll say!

[@mootbooxle]

btw your videos are GREAT! I am completely blown away by the quality and quantity of your content. Been watching a lot lately!

[@GTV-Japan]

thanks! I got a new video coming out today about the dreamcast! youll love it if youre a sega fan

[@ladyjaye27]

I own a Japanese Sega Master System (NOT the Mark III), and the only SG-1000 game I own is a loose copy of Black Onyx. Not an easy game to play!

[@GTV-Japan]

cool! yea playing that with no manual or anything made me crazy. thanks for watching.

[@GamingHistorySource]

15:51 Batter 1 FUKU ... ummm .. I don't think I need to decipher this. lol

[@GTV-Japan]

Fuku as in Fukushima or Fukugawa or whatever means happiness so they picked a pretty good word! Thanks for watching and I’m a fan of your videos

[@GamingHistorySource]

I know. ;) My twisted mind is seeing something. lol Great video ! I enjoyed it ! :D Glad you enjoy my vids too ! :)

[@GTV-Japan]

You were one of the first I saw when I first used KZbin!

[@thabluntroller9637]

This is a well made video!

[@GTV-Japan]

Thanks for liking it!

[@thabluntroller9637]

Anytime! It's an awesome blast to the past 😎💯

[@jeremyhyde6151]

So many of these games remind me of Atari 7800 games, visually.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

I still think of the ColecoVision myself.

[@GTV-Japan]

Yea the two machines are very close. The 7800 and NES are actually closer to each other

[@GTV-Japan]

I do appreciate that graphic style a lot

[@amerigocosta7452]

The closest match is the MSX-1 wich for better or worse shares most hardware specs and I presume people working on games.

[@The_Real_DCT]

@@amerigocosta7452 well the MSX 1 and the Colecovision hell people have even been able to port over SG-1000 and MSX 1 games to the Colecovision due to how similar they all are granted some titles like Gradius and Vampire Killer require a memory expansion add on for Colecovision but it works. Hell Collectorvision just ported over the MSX version of Goonies to Colecovision

[@LemonicParade]

Wow, Sega really has a history of discontinuing their systems and immediately replacing it with a new one. I thought they only started that bad habit with the 32X.

[@GTV-Japan]

In japan in those days it was very common to upgrade electronics constantly. Employees would receive huge bonuses 2-3 times a year and go shopping. They ended up buying things made in japan and so everyone got and stayed rich and since money was just falling from the sky, to keep it going they all made more newer better stuff. It’s not like that anymore tho

[@Rando1975]

I've been reading some old gaming magazines the last few months and it's mind blowing how quickly Sega would abandon hardware, or not even release some hardware they were developing.

[@GTV-Japan]

That’s the bubble jidai for ya

[@dodgykebaab]

Loving the use of FM Funk at the start of the video

[@GTV-Japan]

Thanks! Glad you liked it!!

[@Pichuscute]

This is simply an awesome video.

[@GTV-Japan]

Thanks! If you don’t go the full 90 that’s ok but I figured what the heck why not?

[@gevdarg]

Love your work. Keep it up!!

[@GTV-Japan]

Thanks I’ll try to keep it going

[@MaryTownsendRyokansDomain]

You're making me want to get this system now mainly because of Monaco GP. Since I'm a Sega fan I also want as part of my Sega history collection. It's tiny one collection on well

[@GTV-Japan]

My advice is just emulate. Save yourself a ton of money!

[@MaryTownsendRyokansDomain]

@@GTV-Japan well after seeing the prices on Ebay I changed my mind on it

[@BenjaminDaws]

I'd like to play Bomb Jack sometime, although I'd probably just go with the NES/famicom version. Actually there's a bunch of games on the SG-1000 that were also on the Famicom it seems, like Chack 'n Pop, Lode Runner, Wonder boy (adventure island) Other games that look maybe interesting: Rock n' Bolt, The castle, and Ninja Princess Shinnyuushain Tooru-kun looks odd. Tooru's engaging in some strange behavior there. Maybe it's based on something. 1:29:38 SEGA

[@GTV-Japan]

Tooru is based on something! It’s a reskin of an existing game that removed all licensing. It is on my list of games to do, after all this anniversary stuff is out of the way!

[@BenjaminDaws]

Speaking of Tooru-kun and music 8-bit versions of songs, The BGM is The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night.

[@GTV-Japan]

Yea! The original game was kind of like a Beatles tie in. It’s called Mikie and instead of an office it was a high school. Also it was made just before the Beatles bought back most song rights

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Yeah, Mikie was what Konami called the title outside Japan I believe.

[@ymotechnopopfan]

3:51 i thought you would say Yuki Saito,An 1980s era Japanese singer.

[@GTV-Japan]

No. She’s a different kind of cute. So she’s not allowed to sing

[@ymotechnopopfan]

@@GTV-Japan why?

[@GTV-Japan]

@@ymotechnopopfan because she doesn’t look like Seiko Matsuda simply

[@GTV-Japan]

@@ymotechnopopfan media in Japan isn’t based on merit. But she fit well into acting and voice work

[@ymotechnopopfan]

@@GTV-Japan are you talking about Yuko Saito or Yuki Saito? Yuki can sing.

[@jfroco]

Beautiful console and what a great video! Subscribing now...

[@GTV-Japan]

Hey awesome! Thanks! Mega Drive and Dreamcast vids are coming later this year, but the style will be a little different

[@DanielMonteiroNit]

34:30 so...Sonic 2D Blast? :P (yes, I know its a SEGA classic)

[@GTV-Japan]

Looks like it to me! I do like how flicking show up in a lot of places that’s for sure

[@mcorleonep]

They had a passable version of Galaga it seems. Why couldn’t we get that on Colecovision since the hardware was very similar to the SG-1000?

[@GTV-Japan]

Good question! But home galaga in America was under Atari so they’d‘ve had to make one

[@mcorleonep]

Atari released Galaxian across multiple platforms but to my recollection Galaga didn’t come out for a home console in the US until the NES.

[@GTV-Japan]

There was one for Atari 7800 but after digging deep it seems like someone home brewed a version for the CV!

[@cristianmastrocicco4552]

@@GTV-Japan Now we need a version for the Master System XD

[@GTV-Japan]

Well it’s playable on master system anyways

[@Kojirremer]

Is it an unlucky coincidence that Flicky was the game with the most flickering?

[@GTV-Japan]

Ha ha. I think flicky got her name because of the items flicked at cats in the game

[@TMORAF]

I say the games and console specs is a mix of famicom/NES combined with Atari 2600.

[@akalyx]

i always wanted to know more about this console!

[@GTV-Japan]

And now you know!

[@akalyx]

@@GTV-Japan is CM an acronym? gleaned it's basically "commercial" [(just like tv game(s) = video game(s)]

[@GTV-Japan]

Cm means commercial message actually but yea, it’s a commercial. I’ve decided to adopt more Japanese terms to stand out and sound original. I abhor the terms others use like console and launch so I replace tho with others

[@eileenriley9253]

SG-1000?! I'm not sure if it wasn't long before Sonic became a legend. Sapphire is so curious about how that happened.

[@GTV-Japan]

About Sonic? He was designed to e a counterpunch to Mario in every way

[@DuwangKaizer]

Hey Gaijillionare, Where did you get the sales stats for the SG-1000?

[@GTV-Japan]

The main English source is here books.google.co.uk/books?id=6CS7AAAAIAAJ&q=sg-1000&hl=en a Japanese source states 1.4 m sg1000 and 600k sc3000 for 1.9m total god-bird.net/research/gameconsoles.html thanks for asking and sorry if I didn’t make it clear

[@Left-Earth]

@15:41 - 15:57 in the lower right hand corner of the screen, you can see a curse word as the team name. 🤣

[@GTV-Japan]

Yup! One of many hidden messages you’ll find if you watch closely 😂

[@Left-Earth]

I also noticed that a few of the games had music that borrowed a portion of the melody from popular music of the time. Conspiracy? 🤔🎵🎶

[@GTV-Japan]

No. Actually I’ve had about 7 people say the same thing!

[@holotape]

Choplifter (50:04) looks pretty similar to the Master System version, just with worse graphics

[@GTV-Japan]

I never had that but I loved the one on Atari 7800

[@num1shinfan]

Why was the famicom recalled in 1984? I can't find any information on this claim

[@GTV-Japan]

Same here. But supposedly the motherboards would short out and it didn’t affect every unit

[@towermoss]

A Sega commerical featuring 3 naked children...mmmkay

[@Sinn0100]

Here's what is very intriguing too me and I don't quite understand. So, the Mark 1-Master System use the exact same Z-80 Zilog processor at 3.5 mhz why was the Nes considered a more powerful console (too the Mark 1 and 2). Was it video RAM or efficiency...could it be the MMC chips?

[@GTV-Japan]

Simply it’s not as powerful. But it’s long life and flexibility made it do things that seemed incredible

[@amerigocosta7452]

I think it's safe to say that these games were perfectly fine in 1983 but they would look outdated shortly after. The hardware is designed around fixed screen games and any sidescrolling action seems to exceed the system capabilities.

[@GTV-Japan]

Yea and I don’t think anyone expected us to look back and try to preserve many of these. They were just to put out and consume at the time. Even the NES needs a special chip to scroll smoothly

[@scottbogfoot]

Your sega timeline doesn't mention the master system 2 or the nomad.

[@GTV-Japan]

Oops! Well those do belong in there too

[@thehumbleone1983]

I enjoy the video thank you

[@GTV-Japan]

Glad you liked it! I have many other videos if you are interested, so please check them out

[@pferreira1983]

Good overview of the system, looks very underrated. I wish I had money and space to collect the systems games. 1:02:27 Not sure how they were allowed to include A Hard Day's Night 🤣

[@GTV-Japan]

I will eventually get to how those Beatles songs were in there. Maybe in 22!

[@pferreira1983]

@@GTV-Japan Cool!

[@ornerycuss5804]

I recognize the music for Championship Tennis as the melody from the 1967 hit "Windy" by The Association. Wow lol

[@GTV-Japan]

You are the 11th person to catch this!

[@ornerycuss5804]

@@GTV-Japan LOL nice...I figured I couldn't be the only one. Dude...thank you for your wonderful videos. You're great at writing and editing these things and you do it with love and care. Your sense of humor is admirable and refreshing. Not sure I commented on the other video but I recently watched your power rangers video and I became so enlightened on the subject. As a kid I always wondered why it was so weird and I never got into it. I think I could enjoy it more now since educating myself with your content. Thanks so much!

[@GTV-Japan]

I’m glad you like my sense of humor!! Some think I’m being too mean boohoo ❄️ or they just don’t get it.

[@ornerycuss5804]

@@GTV-Japan lol I actually found you from sharing comments on Radical Rick's Metal Jesus videos...LOL

[@GTV-Japan]

Oh well then there ya go! You could say someone like that inspired me to start this channel just so there’d something out there to run counter to it.

[@sotirisnikolaidis4835]

is it easy to connect it in the tv?

[@GTV-Japan]

No. You need a Japanese tv it old style RF out. Much easier to play the games on a mark 3 with av outs

[@sotirisnikolaidis4835]

Gaijillionaire thanks...

[@GTV-Japan]

No problem. Mark 3 is much cheaper to find anyway and sg1000 are very cheap because of low demand

[@emmastarr5242]

I own an AV Modded Famicom (which I made a video about on my channel), but I've always wanted an AV Modded SG-1000 as well...but sadly, that seems like a much more expensive endeavor than the $60 I paid for my modded Famicom...

[@GTV-Japan]

When i get WiFi I will go see that video. Unless you want the style of the casing, its better to just get a mark 3. And lots cheaper! Glad to see you around again too!

[@cristibratu5616]

The SG-1000 also marks the 40th anniversary. Here is the birthday song: Happy birthday to you Happy birthday to you Happy birthday dear SG-1000. Happy birthday to you 😊

[@TimWells-q2o]

I’m happy that I can play these on my master system with the master everdrive X7 flash cart since it’s backwards compatible with the sg-1000 😊

[@NoelComiX]

Seeegaaa❤

[@GTV-Japan]

Sega 🎵

[@NoelComiX]

As someone with a retro gaming channel I love your content!

[@GTV-Japan]

Thanks! I’ll come visit yours in my free time

[@jacklazzaro9820]

I want to ask. Was it all coincidental, or did Sega/Nintendo move their launch date to compete with the other?

[@GTV-Japan]

Honestly no idea! Some sources say July 15 can’t actually be confirmed but a lot of advertising says so. I looked back at Nintendo ads from 1983 and the fine print will have dates that change. For example early ones say “summer 1983” and then “July 1983” then “early July” etc as releases got closer. Sega didn’t put dates on their ads or promo materials. Unofficially I’d say coincidence because if it was planned way ahead why not move it up one week to get a leg up? It’s a great point. Thanks for bringing it up!

[@jacklazzaro9820]

You're welcome. And thank *you* for teaching me info about the SG-1000 that I couldn't add up.

[@GTV-Japan]

For all the legacy Sega has, it deserves to be told! I’ll be doing vids on the Genesis and game gear later on too even though those are more well known

[@jacklazzaro9820]

Gaijillionaire, you ever heard of Adam Ruins Everything? It's an educational comedy show that debunks common misconceptions. You just did what the show's about.

[@GTV-Japan]

Actually no. It's a little sad to say, but I dont keep up with what happens outside of Japan, and especially the last 5 years I'm so busy I dont have much free time to even watch Japanese TV. But I looked it up and I see what you mean. hah pretty funny!

[@Gecko1993HogheadIncOfficial]

I actually remember emulating the Sega SG-1000 on my MacBook Pro in the early to mid 2010s via OpenEmu. It supports Sega SG-1000 games, and I thought they were all absolutely charming! My favorite game on the system has GOT to be a 4-way-tie between Congo Bongo, Pitfall II: The Lost Caverns, Zoom and especially The Castle (also is it JUST me, or does Orguss remind me of Trans-Bot on the Master System? The foes in Chaco N’ Pop look like the ones from Bubble Bobble, too)! The SG-1000’s legacy DOES live on! They are being re-released on the ColecoVision through AtariAge.com... more specifically: the Super Game Expansion Module-which finally resurfaced decades after the 1983 Video Game Crash ruined THOSE plans-allows BOTH MSX & SG-1000 games to be playable for cheaper prices (and BELIEVE ME, finding an SG-1000 ain’t easy. When compared to the Famicom, they’re as rare as hen’s teeth)! All in all, I don’t think the SG-1000 is a failure. Sure it’s not graphically capable when compared to the Famicom, but as Sega’s first game system, I think they did GOOD! One last thing: I wonder IF Hulk Hogan has a “Dragon Wang” in his manga adaptation...

[@GTV-Japan]

thats cool! I check AA sometimes but im mostly done with games personally

[@BENULTIMAN2000]

Are SG-1000 Games and Systems affordable to Import ????

[@GTV-Japan]

Games yes. Hardware no. They all work on a mark 3 so that’s the better bet

[@dylanjwicklund92]

So whats the G stand for? I've always what it did i just say great oh never mind I just seen why lol I've seen that a few times before but never but 2 and 2 together

[@GTV-Japan]

The G in GTV stands for gokujo!

[@dylanjwicklund92]

@@GTV-Japan so its not the thing I saw in the video either learned something new

[@GTV-Japan]

@@dylanjwicklund92 I say it in the startropics video

[@KawaiiNeko333]

So sounds like the war between Planeptune and Lowee started off in Nep's favor.

[@itsGeorgeAgain]

Really interesting video - history lesson wise, but saying that it wasn't a failure because it was cloned and because its cpu was used in other products is a bit of a wrong logic i think. After all the famicom is *still* being cloned, and it did have its own keyboard attachment as well.

[@saintmerakbeta]

It's crazy to think both this and the Famicom came in the same day, yet Sega's games here feel so outdated and archaic compared to pretty much any other Nintendo game then... No wonder why it didn't do well.

[@GTV-Japan]

It is pretty crazy. I think Nintendo making characters have multiple colors on a sprite really helped it age better thanks for watching !

[@saintmerakbeta]

@@GTV-Japan i didn't expect a reply so fast haha. Thank YOU for the amazing content!!

[@GTV-Japan]

I only get a few comments a day if there’s no no video up and I really want to reply to as many good quality comments as I can. Even if I have 10 million subscribers I still want to try and read them all and connect. Some channels just don’t do it. So for now I can still do it easily, I. Glad you like the channel, I’m going to go for as long as I have ideas so I hope to see you again! 🍺

[@inceptional]

Eventually that model of releasing basically all new consoles year after year screwed Sega over in the long run. Sega is for all intents and purposes out of the main console hardware business while Nintendo still sits strong, and I'd say its business model of releasing a system then kinda screwing over its loyal customers by almost immediately moving onto the next new thing, leaving the current console owners left wanting or maybe having to buy an expensive new console again, was a major, major contributor to this. So, yeah, Sega's business model was definitely flawed then imo and it would still be a terribly flawed model now too. Hopefully all the modern console manufacturers are aware of this.

[@GTV-Japan]

Sure! They didn’t think that then. But it’s exciting for me to see new hardware all the time

[@Stoppskylten]

Doubt that had much, if anything, to do with it. Nintendo relesead way more revisions (semi-incompatible ones even) than SEGA did. The thing is, in their different ways both Nintendo and SEGA gave up against the new players.

[@HeIsTheBluesCat]

5:19 That's funny! XD

[@GTV-Japan]

I see you're a man of culture

[@davarosmith1334]

The zx spectrum was better , in some cases. I like some of the space games though. Would I have had one back then? A big yes I was 6 so that would have been brilliant. I had the ZX Spectrum 5 year's later 88. The graphics get better later on the video but the building blocks are plain to see for the master system! I had it's big brother the mega drive in 92!

[@GTV-Japan]

I’ve never played one but everyone who has had one swears buy it. And it had thousands of affordable games I hear. Can’t go wrong with that

[@The1uptriforce]

aretro games that plays A Hard Days Night YESSSSS 10/10 PERFECT GAME!!!!!!!!

[@GTV-Japan]

Tooru kun? Yep and that game will get its own video soon enough

[@bongobeerpsvita9422]

"Everyone knows it's Wendy"

[@GTV-Japan]

You’re the 12th person to notice!!

[@bongobeerpsvita9422]

@@GTV-Japan Classic tune.

[@GTV-Japan]

Sure is!

[@samiral-suwaidi8769]

SEGA Genesis ❤💜

[@GTV-Japan]

❤️ thanks for watching

[@fedup7496]

Wow, one hour. I always wondered what the difference between the sg-1000 mark III and the master system was, then I'd look it up... But now I've forgotten again. The master system is that home console I find interesting (better specs than the NES), and that I wish I liked, but for the life of me I just don't find the games available for it to be particularly good. Sorry europeans, I'm sticking to that NES you hate so much and bash like crazy.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

There really isn't a difference (besides changing the cart size, though the Mark III also got the FM sound upgrade as well).

[@GTV-Japan]

Ha I didn’t know they hated it. I just thought it wasn’t available or they couldn’t afford it. I find Sega fascinating because they were just cranking out games and machines by themselves for so long

[@GTV-Japan]

Yep! The “master” system!

[@fedup7496]

Oh yeah. There was this british youtuber who started every video by showing his consoles and as he brought up an NES, he proceeded to drop it in a trash bin... I mean it was a joke, but yeah, they resent the NES. I think maybe it was the nostalgia nerd, but I'm not sure who it was. I also keep seeing thumbnails for videos that go "7 times the MASTAH SYSTEM SHIETED ON THE NES", with a very graphic thumbnail of the console taking a dump on an NES. In America, Latin America and japan the console is super loved, glorified, while their top player the master system is damn nearly ignored, I can sort of see why they would dislike it.

[@fedup7496]

I thought it was the other way around, you could add the FM upgrade for the mark III but all the master systems came with the upgrade.

[@conradojavier7547]

SG-1000's Nerdy Girl vs PS3's Kevin Butler.

[@GTV-Japan]

Kevin taps out after 17 seconds. As a weird aside, she was a voice in the anime Magical doremi which in the English version has a character named Justin Bailey of all things

[@tedgregersenvalasko2375]

Millenial Nintendo fan boy thiniking tha NEs was the very first video game to come to existence? Never heard of ATARI 2600, for example? And the previous ones? Gosh...

[@GTV-Japan]

Yea those people are out there. They also fully worship the robot! Thanks for watching

[@campaug]

I do enjoy this video. But I also saw there were 665 likes…

[@GTV-Japan]

Hey that’s a pretty high number!

[@campaug]

@@GTV-Japan it is!! I made it one more…

[@GTV-Japan]

So it’s 2/3 to a cool thou!

[@Duke_Togo_G13]

....

[@GTV-Japan]

Uhh am I in trouble?

[@bfish89ryuhayabusa]

I'm afraid you've got Togo.

[@cristianmastrocicco4552]

Elevator Action looks nice, much better than the NES version!

[@GTV-Japan]

Yea I noticed that too

[@TheAgentloser]

Raiden V vs. Series

[@skins4thewin]

13:00 - Uhhhhhhh.... wtf Japan??

[@jonniefast]

💖🥺

[@GTV-Japan]

❤️

Sorry, but there is NO WAY my attention span will last for nearly an hour and a half! Blimey! 15 minutes is my max. Onto the next.

[@GTV-Japan]

The story actually ends at 15. The rest is just gameplay

[@inceptional]

Saaaygaaa!

[@GTV-Japan]

Sega 🎵

[@TanookiSuit]

Not a failure itself, the company was because they felt they needed to keep dumping hardware for small revisions or add-ons that divided and cut their market time and again eventually outside of die hard fans causing company/brand name animosity that hammered them so far into debt they put themselves out of the hardware business. But in the end the legacy of that system went beyond Sega borders, the hardware brains at least, as a modified version of the z80 (z80a) was the heart of Gameboy, which got x2 beefed up in the Color, and then as a co-processor in the GBA line which like Sega kept old games ticking for over 20 years.

[@GTV-Japan]

That’s just how bubble era japan worked

[@VCR_Repairman]

Wow, Sega released a bunch of silly games about Car Insurance.

[@GTV-Japan]

Yeah pretty strange. Thanks for watching

[@TheAgentloser]

Raiden V & series

[@urkelheimer]

12:51 is this where Michael Jackson got involved with sega?

[@GTV-Japan]

perhaps it is the origin point

[@dionvandenberg]

Dear god, the audio terror parents had to go through back then, it's just too much. Was early game music explicitly designed to be as annoying as possible?

[@GTV-Japan]

Yes. Certainly.

[@kennethwalker086]

Who thought pachinko would make for a good game, i know its big in japan but theres absolutely no gameplay lol

[@GTV-Japan]

It played terribly too. I just hit one button over and over. Thanks for watching

[@charvelgtrs]

Holy Crap is Championship Baseball atrocious. Just compare it to RBI Baseball or Baseball Stars on NES.

[@GTV-Japan]

I agree

[@kins749]

Rally X has to have some of the worst game music ever!

[@GTV-Japan]

Yea but I like the arcade one

[@napoleonfeanor]

boring to watch the games without commentary

[@GTV-Japan]

Sorry! I tried something and it failed

[@ernestmac13]

So, the video admits other systems predated the SG1000; and the Colecovision which predated it was equally powerful. To say the SG1000 ushered in the Home video games market is disingenuous.

[@GTV-Japan]

July 15, 1983 is considered the birth of home gaming in Japan, despite other machines existing prior