Jeremy Parish

Segaiden #052: Sukeban Deka II & Mahjong Sengoku Jidai

Added 2023-05-24 11:47:33 +0000 UTC

Apologies that this week's episode can't actually be viewed here on Patreon. One of the games here descends from a franchise comprised entirely of porn, and even though I placed little icons to obscure the pixel-art lady nipples so that no one would succumb to Satan's call to commit onanism, YouTube still confirmed that this material is too spicy for prime time TV. I'm sure the sociopolitical commentary that accompanied the historical retrospective probably played into that as well; we couldn't very well have America's children learning to recognize moral hypocrisy among our elected leaders, now, could we? Best to age gate that.

Anyway, the fun plot twist here is that the game with a bunch of schoolgirls on the cover is not the one that involves spicy commentary. That title just involves confusion over the decision to jam together a Renegade-derived brawler with a Portopia knockoff. There were no rules back then, man. People just did what they wanted.

Next week will be the final Segaiden episode for a while. I know I posted a schedule a few weeks back, but an exciting opportunity has arisen that I couldn't turn down, so it looks like the next three months will see a deep dive into Metroidvania Works to take us through the end of the ’80s before resuming the console chronology. Hope you like exploratory 8-bit games! (I certainly do.)