played the hell out of this as a kid. i think it was very much a USA type of game
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Wow, interesting bag of looks to that racing game. And yeah, there’s Sonic!:
Had to re-read and then look up this thing about it being Sonic’s first appearance. But yep, dangling around in the arcade version Rad Mobile in 1990, before '91’s Sonic the Hedgehog.
“Interested in getting their new character visible to the public, Sonic Team approved of his appearance in the game”
says Wikipedia. I’d had no idea. Also via Wikipedia, Rad Mobile was apparently made by Sega AM3, rather than usual sprite-scaley suspect Yu Suzuki and his Sega AM2.
Saturn version:
(Plus Tails, Robotnik, Metal Sonic, Knuckles, etc etc etc.)
Arcade version:
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I’d definitely heard the name “Code Name Viper” before, but I’m not sure I knew what it was. An early Arc System Works game–and they’d done the Famicom port of Rolling Thunder the year before. ^ )^ Arc System Works - Wikipedia
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ah, that’s an interesting detail! i guess they must have had lots of ideas that they couldn’t implement in a port of someone else’s game
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it’s about time, isn’t it?
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i’ve been doing research today into some games i’ll be covering in 2023!
and here’s a game i wrote about in 2022:
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final post of 2022!
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it feels weird saying this title out loud
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jan-ken-pon
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you should definitely play this game
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it’s lilith! she’s back, in platformer form
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pretty disappointed this isn’t a motorbike game with that title
does she walk everywhere like that?
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unfortunately, no
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it is once again polygon time
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twice in a row, it’s polygon time
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The usual happy title screen children’s chorus says “Guranyū-Tou,” so whoever put “島” as “Shima” was not listening to the game. : P
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it’s chuuni time
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two games in a row with absurdly long titles
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