Jeremy Parish

Segaiden 91: Last Battle & Tommy Lasorda Baseball

Is the Sega Genesis already dead?! No, silly, it's doing just fine here in August 1989. However, it does have a game based on Fist of the North Star now. Even if Sega was too miserly to ch...

Segaiden 90: Super Thunder Blade & Space Harrier

Can you believe that Sega launched Genesis (Mega Drive) in Japan with only two games? And that they were both Super Scaler conversions? Well, kinda-conversions. Space Harrier II is technic...

Segaiden 89: Altered Beast

It seems fitting that episode 89 of Segaiden tackles Sega's most significant game release for ’89. I didn't plan it that way, mind you. The universe just loves me, if only in small, meaningless w...

Segaiden 88: Sega Genesis

Well, I finally had to stop dragging my feet and get on with the 16-bit era in earnest. So here we are: Sega Genesis. The opening few minutes admittedly may feel a little bit familiar after last we...

Segaiden Special #3: A pre-Genesis recap of Sega's arcade history

This episode is coming in a bit hot—so hot that I'm going to have to do some editing and re-upload this weekend. The jerks at the IOC hit me with a copyright strike for a couple of seconds of rel...

NES Works 150: Shinobi & Rolling Thunder

The sesquicentennial episode of NES Works brings the brief NES Works/Segaiden crossover sensation to a close. The closest thing we'll see to something like that in this series again will be, I dunn...

NES Works 149: Fantasy Zone

Thankfully, this is not the final Fantasy (Zone). If nothing else, I can justify doing a Turbo Works side episode on the tragically canceled (but illegally uploaded for the sake o...

NES Works 148: Alien Syndrome & Vindicators

You know, it's strange. I had it in my head as a kid that unlicensed NES games were generally pretty terrible. I guess I really bought into Nintendo's corporate messaging after reading all those 2025-07-02 11:43:44 +0000 UTC View Post

CORRECTED: NES Works 147 (After Burner)

I have a few frustrating blind spots in my mental catalogue of video game history—things that have cemented themselves as fact in my brain despite being completely wrong. That includes the relati...

NES Works 147: After Burner

Sega? On my Nintendo?! It's more likely than you think.

Yes, long before Sega became a third-party publisher for GameCube, the company put a few of its hottest arcade titles on NES. Well, Seg...

Segaiden 86: Cloud Master & Wanted

Here's something of a first for this project: the first time my chronological journey through American game systems has reached the point where an older system is supplanted by a new one from the s...

Segaiden 86: Montezuma's Revenge & King's Quest

Well, this one takes me back. I covered Montezuma's Revenge a long, long time ago as a primal metroidvania game. And now, here we are again. Covering it as a... well, not primal. I'm not s...

Segaiden 85: Altered Beast

This is not the version of Altered Beast that millions of Genesis owners played. This is the other Sega-published port of Altered Beast, which was played by tens of thousands of M...

Segaiden 84: Vigilante & Alex Kidd: High Tech World

I've become aware of a curious dynamic with the Master System library. When I embarked upon this phase of Segaiden, my intent was to give Sega's 8-bit system a fair shake, approaching it with the s...

Super NES Works #30: Wanderers from Ys III

Super NES Works is back?! Eh, sorry, not really. This is one of the last few remaining patron-request episodes I had on my production docket from the days when I took patron requests, and I've been...

Segaiden 83: Time Soldiers & Ys

I've been holding on to the Master System version of Ys as a treat for a rainy day. By which I mean as a sort of palette-cleanser after surviving a succession of extremely unpleasant games...

Segaiden 82: ALF

Hmm, yeah. ALF. It was bound to happen eventually.

There's not actually all THAT much to say about this game, and it's not like Sega based it on a classic media property that I love ...

Segaiden.com

Recent events (for example, chilling-effect legal attacks on the Internet Archive/the fascistic enshittification of the social media platforms that I used as my primary means of self-promotion/the ...

Segaiden 82: Rastan & California Games

You know, I remembered Rastan being pretty good on Master System, but putting together brought the memories all rushing back. It is, in fact, not especially good. It feels like Se...

Segaiden Special #2: The History of Shinobi

Something a bit different this week, but not actually different in terms of tone or focus. It's more an administrative difference, because this is a rare piece of Sponsored Content. I get ...

Segaiden 80: Poseidon Wars 3-D & Lord of the Sword

You can tell I've been a little off my game lately while trying to get life back on track after its recent succession of crises and commitments. I forgot to wear my Sega 3-D Glasses for this sendof...

NES Works Recap #2: The Worst NES Games of 1985-87

So here's the thing: The early NES library has a lot more good than bad in it. Where I struggled pretty hard to whittle down the best-of list a few weeks back to a mere 10 (-ish) titles, the lower ...

Segaiden 079: Rampage & Reggie Jackson Baseball

Whew, I managed to get my production schedule back on track... well, mostly. Normally I produce videos on weekends, but the editing on this one happened last night after work. Thankfully it was an ...

Segaiden 78: Cyborg Hunter

Whew, I finally had time to edit together the latest episode. Merry... something? Sorry to keep you waiting.

Quick note on this week's post

Hey all, I'm still running way behind on, basically, everything at the moment... actually, it's piling up and getting worse! The good news is that things will return to normal after next weekend, o...

NES Era preorders open through March 30

I should have mentioned this here sooner! But I am mentioning it now! All three of The NES Era books are available for short second round of preorders, individually, in case you misse...

March bonus #3: The King of Fighters ’97

This week's bonus is another VHS rip, this time a Gamest Video showcase of The King of Fighters ’97 (you may recognize some of this material from my King of Fighters R-1&nb...

NES Recap: The Best of 1985-87

Don't look at the tags for this episode, you'll spoil the countdown for yourself.

Yes, in order to bring NES Works and Segaiden into parity, I have created... a top 10 countdown. This one foc...

Running late this week

Hi all, just letting you know that this week's video will be a few days late, and that'll probably be the case into next month. I am currently in the process of finishing up the NES Era books (whic...

March bonus #2: Misplaced Childhood [airplay banded vinyl rip, Side B]

As promised, the second side of the more-or-less lost-media version of this 40-year-old album. I can't promise that anything on here is a good listen, since the album was meant to be listened to as...