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The Teddy Boy Blues Just Don't Stop
Oh, sure, you know Teddy Boy Blues in the arcades. But that was just the beginning for Teddy Boy. Before you know it, he’ll be traveling around the world and across platforms– and as we’ll see, he won’t be taking Yohko Ishino with him. Where will Teddy Boy go? Why would you trust him to launch your new console? Just how many soundtracks does one game need?
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The Power of Cross-Marketing: Teddy Boy Blues
Imagine making a game based on a song. A song of a futile love, heartbreak, and a teddy boy. Now, remember that it’s 1985, and you’re making an arcade game. (For the Sega System 1, as this is just the Sega System 1 blog now) Would you come up with a boy with a tiny grease gun that can shrink your foes rather than pump them full of lead running through a series of non-Euclidean mazes? …you wouldn’t? Well, thankfully, Ishii Youji did.
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The Memories of Z80 Past: Zaxxon and Future Spy
The Sega System 1 was not Sega’s first arcade board system; of course, they had been releasing arcade games since the 1970’s. Of course, once one moves before 1983, things get more complicated thanks to the Sega/Gremlin split, and the lack of parts standardization pre-JAMMA, but we can probably handle a year or so before. But first, an irrelevant digression.
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Loopy 2: The Accessorizing
Remember the Casio Loopy? It’s a game console whose target audience is very much not me, which was designed to allow preteen girls to make stickers. But while we all know little girls love stickers, what else do they love? And if you didn’t say “game console add-ons”, well, you can kiss that dream job at Casio good-bye, because that’s what we’ve got from them today.
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Fun With 3 Colors: The Vectrex 3-D Imager!
Oh gosh, I never thought I would get the chance to talk about this– this is one of the coolest devices out there in my book. It’s got everything; vector graphics, colors from a monochrome image, motors, CRTs, failed add-ons for a flopped console, and it’s impossible to screenshot. How do you make a black-and-white screen color?
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