100 import-only Sega Saturn games in 10 minutes video

[greg]

Okay, first some credit where credit is due.
Here is the 100 Sega Saturn Games in 10 Minutes video This is a nice video, featuring both domestic and Japanese Saturn games. The big downside, in my opinion, is the trance music. While I like trance, I prefer these videos to have the original game sounds. I don't know why these 100 games in 10 minutes videos tend to have music put on top of the games.

Here is a Top 65 Sega Saturn Import Games video. Great video, although again it'd be nice to ditch the music. My other complaint is how arbitrary such a video is when it claims to be the "top such and such number" of anything.

This has been in the works for nearly 2 years, but tonight I finally completed my very own "100 import-only Sega Saturn games in 10 minutes" video.

Here is my video.

Some may criticize it for being too shmup-centered (although hopefully not by anyone on here) or too fighting game-centered. I tried to show a bit of a balance and included several puzzle, RPG, and SRPG games in the mix as well. A volume 2 is already in the works. A big thanks to Undamned, Specineff, and another friend of mine for chipping in and lending me these games to record footage from. The majority of these games are my own. Here is a list of the games featured, in order:
Gekirindan
Planet Joker
Dark Seed
Chou Jikyuu Yousai Macross
Layer Section 2
Magical Girl Pretty Samy: Heart no Kimochi
Falcom Classics II
Cho Aniki
Magical Drop 2
King of Fighters 97
Gun Frontier
Final Fight Revenge
Steam Hearts
Darius II
Dead or Alive
Gokujou Parodius Da! Deluxe Pack
Pukunpa
Bokan To Ippatsu!
Tenchi Muyou Rensa Hitsuyou
Wipeout XL
Thunder Force V
Lunar: Silver Star Story
Wonder 3
Galaxy Force 2
Metal Black
Salamander Deluxe Pack
Quo Vadis
Battle Garegga
Blast Wind
Kyukyoku Tiger II Plus
Shienryu
Segata Sanshiro
Sakura Taisen
Cyberbots
Vampire Savior
X-Men vs Street Fighter
Waku Waku Puyo Puyo Dungeon
Capcom Generations 1
Capcom Generations 4
Evangelion Mahjong
Saturn Bomberman Fight
Tokimeki Memorial Taisen Puzzle Dama
Bubble Symphony
Sonic Wings Special
Langrisser 3
Black Matrix
Steamgear Mash
Waku Waku 7
Uno DX
Guardian Force
Galaxy Fraulein Yuna 3 LIGHTNING ANGEL
Gunbird
Hanagumi Columns
Ginga Eiyuu Densestsu
Deta na Twinbee Yahoo Deluxe Pack
Melty Lancer
Magical Drop III
Lunar: Eternal Blue
Sexy Parodius
Puyo Puyo Sun
Silhouette Mirage
Super Robot Taisen F
Keio Flying Squadron II
Game Tengoku
Real Bout Garou Densetsu
Suchie Pai Dokidoki Nightmare
Tokimeki Memorial Forever With You
Soukyuu Gurentai
Linkle Liver Story
Asuka 120% Burning Fest Ltd.
Akumajo Dracula X: Gekka No Yasoukyoku
Cotton 2
Assault Suits Leynos 2
Policenauts
Sengoku Blade
Kidou Senshi Z Gundam (Kouhen)
Batsugun
Farland Saga
Samurai Spirits 3: Zankuro Musouken
Time Gal
Strikers 1945
Langrisser 4
Elevator Action Returns
Twinkle Star Sprites
Street Fighter Zero 3
Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter
Metal Slug
Hyper Duel
Astra Superstars
Bulk Slash
Kyuutenkai
Strikers 1945 II
Purikura Daisakusen
Grandia
Sakura Taisen 2
Princess Crown
Dungeons & Dragons Collection
Radiant Silvergun
Dodonpachi
Yumimi Mix Remix

[Specineff]

Giving a bump to this post for those who haven't seen it. Greg spent quite some time capturing and editing this video, so it would be mighty kind of you if you followed the link and watched it.

Thanks.

[Udderdude]

Cool stuff.

[EmperorIng]

A really nice video. While I think some of the footage that is entirely animated cutscene might not exactly tell the viewer what the game is about, I assume you did that because the reason you would buy those games is for aforesaid cutscenes. If that makes sense. It's a real nice selection too, though I am biased and only cared about the arcade games!

[greg]

Giving a bump to this post for those who haven't seen it.

Thanks for the bump!

A really nice video. While I think some of the footage that is entirely animated cutscene might not exactly tell the viewer what the game is about, I assume you did that because the reason you would buy those games is for aforesaid cutscenes. If that makes sense. It's a real nice selection too, though I am biased and only cared about the arcade games!

I showed the animated cutscenes for some of the games because they stood out to me. I showed cutscenes of Langrisser III and Suchie Pai Dokidoki Nightmare because I really like the character designs of Satoshi Urushihara and Kenichi Sonoda respectively.

[Kiken]

A really nice video. While I think some of the footage that is entirely animated cutscene might not exactly tell the viewer what the game is about, I assume you did that because the reason you would buy those games is for aforesaid cutscenes. If that makes sense. It's a real nice selection too, though I am biased and only cared about the arcade games!

I showed the animated cutscenes for some of the games because they stood out to me. I showed cutscenes of Langrisser III and Suchie Pai Dokidoki Nightmare because I really like the character designs of Satoshi Urushihara and Kenichi Sonoda respectively.

And thank you for putting something Suchie Pai related in there. Love the series. It went out with a bang before Jaleco dissolved (part IV is really good, if not laughably broken). I understand that someone still has the rights to the series though.

[Obiwanshinobi]

Good place to namedrop Konami Antiques MSX Collection I guess.
I believe Guardian Force should be shown as you circle around one of the later bosses, or score hefty time bonus (can be easily done on training stage). Any distinguishing feature among so many 2D shooters would be welcome.
Analogically, I'd put Shienryu's lightning weapon in there. Might have seen a similar sight in Gunhed, but it looks very distinctive.
Garegga bit shows medalling and that's fine with me.

[BulletMagnet]

Thanks for posting, it was fun to see how many I could recognize without looking at the list.

[greg]

Regarding Suchie Pai, Jaleco has a series of game music CDs that I keep getting hit up for on Amazon Japan. I'm not the hugest fan, nor am I willing to pay more than 3,000 yen for a CD. But it's worth checking out if you're interested.

About Konami MSX Antiques, I actually did record a bit of footage of that game. My friend has it and lent it to me. However, I opted to not put it in this first video. It will go into a second video whenever it's made! That same friend also had Gradius Deluxe Pack, which unfortunately was sealed mint and he is too big of a goofball to just open it up and enjoy it. I don't think he intends to sell it, so why's he so stingy? I actually owned it long ago, and scanned the included papercraft and shared it with the forum here many years ago (I may still have it on my FTP server somewhere).

There were several games I managed to get footage of 2 player action for when my friend came to visit me back in September. Guardian Force, the Psikyo shmups, Radiant Silvergun, and especially D&D. I re-watched the footage to find about 6 seconds worth of video that had the most action.

So a second video is already underway, with footage already taken of Konami Antiques, the Thunderforce collections, and two other Capcom Generations recorded. However, to get 100 games, I'm hoping that the guy from Segagagadomain will let me borrow footage from a handful of games. He's agreed to let me use materials from his site for my Masaya fanpage (sadly I haven't done much with it and is still incomplete), so I hope he'll let me borrow video of some of the more expensive games like Delisoba, Crows, and Ninja Haomaru (or whatever it's called--the lightning bolt ninja game).

[D]

Wow, if anybody on the internet ever says anything bad about the Satty, I'll send them your vid. Amazing.

[greg]

Thanks! While watching this video over and over again through the editing process, I noticed how the vast majority of these games are all 2D and sprite-based. Bernie Stolar only cared about stupid sports games. Nowadays, who gives a shit about NHL '96? Now how many people care about Radiant Silvergun?

I posted this video on the Racketboy forum, and that's a rather tough crowd. I had to explain to a guy on there that the purpose of these videos is not to thoroughly educate people on gameplay, but rather to trigger nostalgia for those who have played them, and to introduce games that people haven't seen before. "Wow, there was a Tenchi Muyou puzzle game? Ah, so Galaxy Fraulein Yuna 3 is an SRPG. Hey, what was that awesome-looking pinball game?" etc. Even one of the moderators told me that the segments I put in the video were uninteresting. Here's my response to that. To me, hearing "Just a couple more shots!" in Dodonpachi is far from boring. I showed action against the end boss of Leynos, Sexy Parodius, and pretty far into many other games. Lots of Japanese import gaming videos just show people screwing around with level 1 characters and it's obvious they don't know what they're doing. I also made a point to include 2-player gameplay of several games. I imagine people just don't care for RPGs and SRPGs. You can't devote a ton of time to those when working with a 10 minute timeframe.