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All Jaguar Games In Order: 1995 (Part 1) We begin our look at the Jaguar in 1995 with Syndicate, Troy Aikman NFL Football, Cannon Fodder, Theme Park, and Double Dragon V: The Shadow Falls

While I'm at it, I've finally been able to get my next blog post out. This time you can watch me go through all the stages of Jaguar cope:
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I've also gone insane and played Star Ocean: Til the End of Time. Here's a little something to activate traumatic flashbacks for anyone who's played it:

Deep Listens: Chariots of the Pods Join Adam "Borgmaster" [REDACTED], Tyler "Grav" [REDACTED], Jason "Jatzu" [REDACTED], and Justin "Justinr258" [REDACTED] as they journey through the Stargate franchise. In this first installment they ...

Coming back in from hiatus. One of the things I got up to was starting a Stargate rewatch podcast with some members of the @deeplistenspodcast.bsky.social community! After three installments we're about halfway through season 1 of SG-1. Here's a link to our first episode: tinyurl.com/mrxkppwb

YouTube video by Fifth Gen Gaming Tokyo Extreme Racer (Fourth Stream)

Streamed some more Tokyo Xtreme Racer, and this time I finally beat the Grim Reaper like it's Castlevania or something
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Top 25 Best Selling TV Video Game Titles for October 1996 In order: 1. Super Mario 64 2. Mortal Kombat Trilogy 3. Madden '97 (PS1) 4. Pilotwings 64 5. Crash Bandicoot 6. Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (SNES) 7. Tekken 2 8. Ms. Pacman 9. Madden NFL '97 (Genesis) 10. Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (Genesis) 11. NHL Hockey '97 (Genesis) 12. Madden '97 (Saturn) 13. Monopoly (Genesis) 14. Ridge Racer Revolution 15. Super Mario RPG 16. Donkey Kong Country 2 17. Andretti Racing '97 18. Super Mario Kart 19. Tetris Attack 20. Resident Evil 21. Major League Baseball Pennant Race 22. Super Mario All-Starts 23. Madden NFL '97 (SNES) 24. Final Doom (PS1) 25. NCAA Football GameBreaker

You seemed to like that sales chart, so here's another, guaranteed to set off some arguments...

In fall 1996, Super Mario 64 and Pilotwings 64 dominated sales, but no other N64 games cracked the top 25. Ten PS1 games did make the chart though!

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All Saturn Games In Order: July 1996 Covering the July ’96 Saturn releases of NHL Powerplay ’96, Galaxy Fight, DecAthlete, and The Legend of Oasis.

Not the most exciting lineup, but I'm glad to have gotten back to covering the Saturn.
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relooted is being made by a team of developers from numerous african countries, but only its white south african creative director was able to demo it to summer game fest attendees. this was most certainly not always the plan

I had the intrusive thought that I should go insane and play every indie 3D Platformer. I had to remind myself that I'm still in the middle of going insane and playing every Tokyo Xtreme Racer. Does this count as self-control?

All Jaguar and 3DO Games (Kinda) In Order: 1994 Round-Up Looking back on the Atari Jaguar and 3DO in 1994.

Finally got my 1994 Round-Up posted after all these weeks.
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There is something deeply broken inside of me, the one thing that makes me want a Switch 2 right now instead of later is the Ridge Racer arcade archives release.

That feeling of accidentally dropping your phone such that it perfectly lands corner first onto your barefoot middle toe.

YouTube video by Fifth Gen Gaming Tokyo Xtreme Racer (First Stream)

I streamed some Tokyo Xtreme Racer (1999) as part of my Genki obsession. This is where I admit the whole reason for this process was because I wanted to play this game.
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Also, the password is 'action', which, ugh

Playing Wizardry 7, and you hear about old copy protection schemes, but experiencing it first hand really brings home how monumentally lame those could be.

YouTube video by Fifth Gen Gaming Genki Racing Games: '96 - '97

I streamed more Genki racing games, including the Wangan Dead Heat bonus disc, which unlike a lot of Japanese Saturn discs is SFW. I'm sure there were more than a few guys at the time who felt cheated by that fact.
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When looking up Genki's 1996 re-release of Wangan Dead Heat, I noticed that they added a bunch of pictures of models to the back of the box. It didn't really register with me why they were there until I played the thing. Let's just say it comes with a bonus disc.

YouTube video by The Video Game History Foundation The unseen history of Myst | VGHF Library Highlights

The creators of Myst series (@cyan.com) saved hundreds of video tapes from the making of their iconic adventure game franchose.

We helped preserve them. Here's what we found.

I really tried to put some time into it, but Wangan Dead Heat is a truly uninteresting Daytona USA knock-off with a busted drifting mechanic. There's a drift button that doesn't work 1/4 of the time and the camera shows the side of the car in a drift so that you have no idea where you're going.

Genki was definitely using the Hang-On GP tech for Wangan Dead Heat. You can tell because the road melts at the bottom of the screen.

Also, Wangan Dead Heat is piping hot garbage.

YouTube video by Fifth Gen Gaming Genki Racing Games: '93 - '95

I went ahead and streamed a bunch of early Genki racing games even though I'm using my crummy back-up headset. This is definitely a way to experience these games: youtu.be/1ZcuUO7QXoE

Man, that Die Hard 3 section is so messed up. The whole thing is basically a good top down action game with two extra modes.

You go from winning first try in every race ton RPG superboss level of difficulty.

The difficulty curve is also weird in Shutoko Battle 2. There's a Mega Man style level select with 9 tracks where you beat up on jobbers, and then you have to race Keiichi Tsuchiya on each of those courses as boss fights. He's like 10 seconds a lap faster than you when you have a maxed out car

Now that I look at it, there's a tenth circuit you have to unlock in Scenario Mode that's also a race track, so that makes it a full half the game is circuit racing.

An odd thing about Shutoko Battle 2 is that even though it's supposed to be about street racing, four of the nine tracks are just different configurations of Sebring, like, what are we even doing here. At least in the first game there was a journey you took as a player from street to circuit.

It's easy to see how they structurally go from Shutoko Battle 2 to Tokyo Highway Battle, but now I all I think about is the one thing that was lost along the way: unhinged character vignettes.

The one thing that really bothers me is that they changed the rival racer screens from the first one and excised literally all of the personality and charm. Genki went from this first style to the second.

Turns out Shutoko Battle 2 is a better video in almost every way to the first one. Better handling, cleaner graphics, no slowdown, more tracks, and a more involved upgrade system.