Jeremy Parish

Segaiden #012: Hustle Chumy / Flicky / Girl's Garden

Added 2021-04-21 13:00:06 +0000 UTC

Today marks the seventh anniversary of this video project. Seventh! Wild. It's evolved a lot over time, and I've made plenty of false starts and failed experiments in that time. But I'm very happy with the current direction of this endeavor, and I hope the world holds itself together long enough for me to make some real headway with it over the next... years? Decades? Anyway, this episode is a case-in-point.

In fact, this week's video may be my favorite so far. I'm not talking about my favorite in the SG-1000 retrospectives, though certainly it focuses on the strongest batch of releases the platform had seen to this date—I mean, this is possibly my favorite video since this venture started seven years ago today, period. All the pieces fit together: Good games, some fun writing, solid production values, effective (and properly lit/focused) on-camera bits, and I even recorded some excellent B-roll footage of myself playing Flicky.

My video efforts have been entirely self-taught, and I'm always striving to improve the quality of my work. Those of you who have been around since the start have definitely seen things improve from a pretty rocky beginning. I couldn't have gotten to this point without the support (moral, financial, and material) from the many people who believe in my efforts to curate and connect the history of video games. Thank you, everyone, for your ongoing support! I promise to continue doing my best to up my game for the next seven years (and beyond!).