Tag: Megadrive

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Sega console jumper jackets at Don Quijote

As of today, these Sega jumper jackets (called “zipper parkers”) went on sale at Don Quijote locations across Japan, but not all of them apparently. The closest location to me is the Apita in Keyaki Walk Mall in Maebashi. The mall opened at 9am, and not even an hour later this is all I saw:

Each of these come with a sticker, which is neat. Here are the front and back of each. As you can see in the pictures below, the console logos on the back are fuzzy and raised.

I bought the LL size Mega Drive jacket. These feel thicker than the similar jackets that Shimamura sold over 10 years ago. Unfortunately, these are 100% polyester. So, I do not know if it’ll make my skin crawl after a while. The Shimamura ones I have are 65% polyester.

Another shopper arrived while I was there, wearing a Mega Drive T-shirt. So I said to him, “So you’re a big fan too.” He was looking for the L-sized jackets, and I think he bought two. I told him the other nearest location selling these was in Isesaki.

When I passed by a bit later, there were only two left, a Mega Drive and a Saturn one, both M size. These sold out fast!

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Mega R-Type: a fan/doujin R-Type game on the Megadrive!

Last night I played the demo of the fan/doujin port of R-Type on the Megadrive that shmuppers were deprived of back in the day! The Master System and PC Engine got ports of R-Type, but not the Megadrive… until now! It’s actually not a “port” per se, as it is being built ground-up by an Italian family guy living in China who goes by “TheRoboz” on YouTube. The MD-generated music is fantastic! I paid for the demo rom and gave it a shot. You go from stage 1 to stages I’ve never gotten to before. The game isn’t complete and it seems to be a bit too liberal with the 1UPs for some reason. You can play as the standard R-9 Arrowhead, but also the “Leo Prototype.” Don’t get too excited about the Leo though… it doesn’t have the dual force orbs that R-Type Leo has, but rather no force orb and each powerup gives you the instant special weapons. You can shoot the powerups to change their color, like a Cotton game does. It’s definitely the Leo though, as you can tell by the sprites that it’s a rendering of the ship from R-Type Leo, but on the Megadrive. Neat gimmick, but I think I prefer having the force orb.

R-Type Leo (Arcade)
Leo Prototype (Megadrive)

I used SimpleScreenRecorder in Linux to record playing as both ships. I did better the first try, but then I realized that it was recording audio from my webcam’s mic and not the actual game. So I re-did the video all over again and I ended up not doing as well. That’s what you see here. Stick around to the end… the music for the ranking screen is a fantastic MD chiptune!

(Gosh, it is a pain in the ass to embed Odysee links in WordPress!)

The site to buy and download the rom: https://theroboz.itch.io/mega-r-type

The creator’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@theroboz

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Devil Hunter Yohko is an avid video gamer

Retro gaming spotted in a classic anime! From Devil Hunter Yohko episode 2, here we see that Yohko is an avid gamer from the early ‘90s. You can spot an NEC PC Engine Turbo Duo-R, Sega Megadrive, Nintendo Super Famicom, a Sega Game Gear, and even an Atari Lynx! Oh yeah, and there’s some manga there too.

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Sega pajamas at Shimamura

Since I’ve shown lots of cool Sega swag from Shimamura stores, I thought I’d share these images I found on my Flickr account. I bought the Saturn pajamas, but I wish I had gone into debt and bought the Megadrive and Dreamcast pajamas too. Drat.

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Sega Megadrive T-shirt from Shimamura

By creating an account on Mercari, I’ve expanded my ability to buy neat crap. Something I missed out on at Shimamura is this neat Megadrive T-shirt. This shirt is brand new and still has the tag attached! The front breast has the MD logo, the 3-button controller, and under that it says “16-BIT.”

This neat little tag is on the sleeve.

This is on the back. Neat!

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More Sega love from Shimamura, plus other game-related stuff for home

These are plush tissue covers I bought on discount at Shimamura, the Mega Drive and Dreamcast. There was also an SG-1000 tissue cover, but I passed on that because I have no emotional attachment to that old console.

One more Mega Drive bath towel!

This is a blanket of a pixelated Neo Kobe skyline from Konami’s game Snatcher I bought on Ali Express. My wife is holding it up for me to take this picture. It is so soft that Ulan got jealous. So, I got her a Dragon Quest Slime blanket from Ali Express for her as a Christmas present. Snuggly girl is snuggly.

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My new Sega towels from Shimamura

I went back to Shimamura a few days later and found Sega towels on sale! They were all discounted from their regular price. For each of the Megadrive, Saturn and Dreamcast, I bought hand towels, face towels, and bath towels. The hand and face towels are a two towel set.

Here are the hand towels:

Here are the face towels:

And here are the bath towels:

BONUS! Here is a set of Urusei Yatsura’s Lum-chan face towels I also bought: