Othello / Space Invaders / Dragon Wang retrospective: All in the cards | Segaiden #17

[@BB-te8tc]

I remember the early 2000s where the Dragon Wang message board on GameFAQs was a fairly popular "secret board" with exactly the jokes you'd expect posted regularly.

[@JeremyParish]

That does sound very early 2000s GameFAQs, yeah

[@appleblossom800]

Not many protagonists are proud and comfortable enough to wear a name like D-Wang with such enthusiasm. An early example of just being your best self. Ehehehe

[@gfhrtshergheghegewgewgew1730]

"the cartridges looked like tombstones!" that's metal as fuck, makes me want to make a retro console that uses vertical cartridges actually modeled after tombstones in full gothic aesthetic with the development cycle as the lifespan dates on the tombstone

[@MapleMilk]

Here's a free idea Do this, but with NES games That'll sell well especially in October where every Nintendo KZbinr is doing their Halloween special

[@MrTableDesk]

I love this series! You always joke about this series' bad numbers, but it's super interesting. Also who else but you would even bother to cover this system in the first place. Thank you for your commitment to the more obscure side of retro gaming.

[@MrTableDesk]

@@retrogamestudios7649 I mean't it more in the sense that there's nobody else in the world that has the knowledge base and dedication to do complete video series on such an obscure, yet historically significant console.

[@RabbitEarsCh]

Dragon Wang is how I found out about the SG-1000's existence as a teenager. You can imagine the kind of immature reasons why a teenager would find such a game. I never managed to find video, though, since SG-1000 was very poorly documented in English at the time, just a couple screenshots. I think I was the first person in the English-speaking world to make a "Sonic in SG-1000!" hoax image by tossing a vaguely appropriate sprite into Dragon Wang and changing the HUD to accommodate him. I'm happy to see that it's a perfectly Okay game. If it weren't for the long shadow cast by Kung Fu on NES, this would likely have stood out as a slightly above-average SG-1000 release. Maybe Sega thought about it this way too, not knowing that Kung Fu/Spartan X was coming to Famicom soon after.

[@AQuestionofCharacter]

Oh man. I didn't realize Sega started Frankensteining their consoles so early. Wonderful ep as usual.

[@joesaiditstrue]

Thanks for all the hard work you put into the content on this channel, I'm so glad I found you, I've been binge watching every video!

[@absolutezeronow7928]

We built this city....on Othello and Space Invaders?! Well, Dragon Wang is not definitely not the best way to show off that MyCard, Sega but we're inching closer to the Mark III/Master System and that's something to look forward to.

[@beipiaosaurus]

Come on. "... on Oth-el-lo!" matches so much better.

[@2dskillz]

Fantastic work as always. I have always found the My Card format incredibly fascinating.

[@jasonblalock4429]

Yeah. I actually had a Power Base Converter for my Genesis back in the day, and I was always a little disappointed I never came across a Sega Card game to try in it.

[@ginormousaurus8394]

@@jasonblalock4429 The card slot was also used to plug in the Sega Master System's 3D glasses, so it was a nice feature for the Power Base Converter to have. The Master System II model didn't have the card slot.

[@JustinKolata]

@@jasonblalock4429 the only Sega Card game I ever got was Ghost House... It was alright. Just a hair simpler than the simplest Master System cartridge games, about on par with a very early NES game.

[@Poever]

Doesn’t look like it’s hard for even the primitive SG-1000 to perfectly emulate Space Invaders

[@LevitatingCups]

The VHS recording things have really taken this to a new low (but in a good way).

[@RndStranger]

While Space Invaders didn't come to any Japanese made consoles until 1985, it was released in Japan for consoles in 1983 on the Atari 2800, the ill-fated attempt to sell the VCS in Japan that hit shelves months after the Famicom and the SG-1000. Given how long it took to get Space Invaders on other systems and the close releases, I have to wonder if there was an exclusivity agreement in place.

[@JeremyParish]

Do we count the 2800? It was the Xbox of the early ‘80s over there…

[@RndStranger]

@@JeremyParish As a Japanese console? Not a chance. In fact, one of the reasons given for its failure is Atari manufacturing it in the US and the strong yen making it even more absurdly expensive than it already was when you compare it to the other eight consoles that reached Japanese shelves in 1983. Personally, I'd blame that failure more on releasing a system that was severely out of date into an overcrowded market that was catering to domestic tastes, but Atari wasn't big on introspection in the 80's. Still, the boxes and manuals were all localized with a big "Atari 2800" trade dress. It was out there if Japanese consumers really wanted to spend their hard earned yen on it. A lot of their hard earned yen on it, and by 1983 you could probably pick up an Invaders cocktail cabinet for the price of the 2800 in Japan.

[@abraveastronaut]

Always fun to see the Standard Japanese Media Chinese Lady turn up unexpectedly.

[@MCastleberry1980]

Finally a game title that surpasses "Nuts & Milk" on the childish giggle factor chart

[@MercuryCDX]

Dragon Wang's movements and the way the protagonist gets hit by an enemy gives me slight Famicom "Yie Ar Kung-Fu" vibes.

[@JustinKolata]

Given the opponents, I'd say it was no coincidence (just compare each game's box art... And try to ignore the bomb)😉

[@JomasterTheSecond]

The SG-1000 version of Space Invaders is objectively better because they didn't crush up the Crab's sprite.

[@FloatingSunfish]

"Dragon Wang," huh? I wonder how well it would fly by today's standards. 😂

[@NukeOTron]

Well, we already had Dragonball...

[@negirno]

@@NukeOTron Kid Goku screaming "No balls!"

[@exzisd]

You picked a great time to start this Sega series a few weeks ago considering SEGA Genesis + Nintendo 64 Expansion Pack was just announced for Nintendo Switch Online (NSO) yesterday during the September 23, 2021 Nintendo Direct. I'm sure you likely saw that already but you started this series weeks before so that's cool you were just doing what you want to do and it is lining up with this somewhat unexpected Sega drop for Switch. I wonder if master system will come to the Switch ever. Master system doesn't get nearly enough coverage in retro conversations. To me Sega Genesis and Dreamcast are my favorite SEGA consoles. Dreamcast is the only one I owned and I sold it for booze years ago when I was down and out after dropping out of school and moving back home to my parents home. To add irony to the story the Dreamcast was a gift my youth pastor found for cheap at a garage sale and he thought of me and bought it and gave it to me for free. I immediately felt like a dick for selling it and a few days later I had a big headache and no Dreamcast. If I could turn back the hands of time...

[@jamesmoss3424]

Space invaders kick ass. 😀👍🎮

[@tsp1999]

I remember 2 years ago I found your Metroid in my feed. I'm so glad I did. I'm gonna have to get your books

[@thejackal007]

Starting a video with Starship... easy way to get my attention, for starters. Also, glad to see Demon Attack show up. That's one that I feel gets overshadowed a lot.

[@vorlonesque1830]

My favorite video game Othello-like game will always 7up Spot.

[@nesmario123]

funilly enough this game also resembles a game i know... shao-lin's road... it's a strange coincidence that these games look similar

[@ScottALowe]

I know those are dragon patterns but it looks like Dragon Wang is traversing a building made out of bacon strips.

[@JeremyParish]

Castle Char-siu

[@PrinceAkkanatan]

Corporate Teabagging ftw

[@SaadAzim]

I'm surprised SEGA never made a sequel to "Dragon Wang" and call it "Dragon Wang Z". :)

[@jasonblalock4429]

Followed a couple years later by Dragon Wang GT, I assume?

[@jamesmoss3424]

Sega should have released dragon Wang in the USA in the first place. 😀👍🎮

[@Panzer_the_Merganser]

6:10 A handful? That doesn’t sound so bad; the new size would afford one to potentially hold many cartridges.

[@JeremyParish]

Not if you hold them as recommended (displayed while held between thumb and forefinger in front of a grid on white)

[@Panzer_the_Merganser]

@@JeremyParish But there was a snazzy little jump in space-time right around there in the video, so maybe holding them as you suggest opens a pocket dimension chock full of entertainment?

[@beeqool]

Jeremy, do you know an rts game from early 2000s with robots and gathering crystals and maps with big mountains? i cant find it anymore.

[@JeremyParish]

StarCraft? I dunno, man I'm not an RTS person.

[@beeqool]

@@JeremyParish aah i suspected so.

[@allecazzam8224]

1988 (or 1989) can’t come soon enough my good sir! I NEED my MEGAMAN 2 on the NES fix lol.

[@JeremyParish]

It’s a long wait.

[@allecazzam8224]

@@JeremyParish i meow… 😢well, good thing all your videos are amazing to watch while I wait

[@doricdream498]

you really dodged a bullet with that pronunciation lol

[@s.p.tucker1604]

Don't sell Dragon Wang short- there's at least one company making millions off selling people dragon wangs.

[@JeremyParish]

It's funny because "wang" can be slang for "penis"

[@matthewlane518]

Corporate tea bagging lol