Vinny - Weird and Obscure Dreamcast Games
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- 00:00 Intro
00:40 Cool Cool Toon
13:25 Cosmic Smash
21:55 Godzilla Generations
26:15 Godzilla Generations Maximum Impact
35:59 Lack of Love
50:50 Rainbow Cotton
01:05:10 Tokyo Bus Guide
01:17:57 Outro
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Vinny not being good at Rhythm games despite being a musician will never not be the silliest thing to me
I want to go to the parallel universe where the Dreamcast was wildly successful and got thousands of games
Imagine the world of dreamcast shovelware
Every time someone says they want to got a parallel universe, I just imagine in that universe, the Axis powers won WW2.
46:09 Happy 5 year anniversary to Vinny playing Lack of Love.
51:38 Vinny's reaction to the jiggle in Rainbow Cotton sent me, hooooly.
Then his question right after.
Was Rainbow Cotton made with PAINT ? ?
@@jeanmouloudewhy are you saying that?
@@fco64 the animation to be more precise
look how the demon guy was drawn, thats literaly Paint spray tool
*"CHITTY JIGGLE"*
@@jeanmouloude Pretty sure it's either digitized cels or if it is all digital it would've been done on something like an Amiga or Mac.
38:46 LOL’s soundtrack was composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto, an insanely talented and influential dude who made a lot of cool ambient music, film scores, etc.
Weird that he got attached to a project like this though, idk what the deal is with this game
That's crazy, I love him. Yellow magic orchestra is a fav of mine
LOL's director, Kenichi Nishi, is Sakamoto's best friend, and the studio behind the game, Love-de-Lic, was founded with the objective of pushing the envelope of artistic talent, themes and messages in videogames, so nothing better than to have one of the biggest names ever in Japanese music to compose the game's soundtrack.
LOL was Love-de-Lic's last game (their first and previous title, MOON: Remix RPG Adventure, being notable for being a key inspiration for Undertale, maybe even more so than Earthbound), but its staff - all former Square and Telenet devs - went on to form companies like Punchline and Onion Games, while Nishi himself went to head Skip Ltd., famous for Chibi-Robo and Captain Rainbow
He did some music for Radiata Stories and I think also a weird action game that was a sci-fi remake of seven samurai that had character design by moebius. I’ve heard that game kind of sucks but I think I might check it out tonight just cause it does seem cool.
his song forbidden colours featured in merry christmas mr lawrence is a fav of mine
@@thestripedmenaceoh shit, Moon? No wonder DesertP was going crazy in chat, that's like his favorite game ever
51:39 was my introduction to the Cotton series.
Imagine getting introduced to a game because the funni speen pizza man activated his neurons due to tiddy jiggle.
I've seen worse ways to be introduced to things.
Cotton is soooo goooooddddd tbh
@@thestripedmenace Reboot is honestly a great intro to the series and danmaku games in general.
Also the whole series is kawaii AF.
Mine was Jontron...
@@spugintrntl *Translate to English*
We did it boys, we got Binty to watch Anime
But at what cost
It's a lot like Panorama Cotton for Sega Genesis. Same series and it's the only other one in 3D.
Watching the first half of rainbow cotton and hearing vinny talk reminds me of watching pokemon with my dad when i was little.
Man, Vinny should play that obscure Dreamcast RPG, Skies of Arcadia sometime
Cutlass Wraaaath
Obscure... if you wear sunglasses all the time, I guess.
@@OM19_MO79 you're missing the joke
Didn't he stream the gamecube version in the early days of vinesauce?
Would he cool if he played the original tho, that i can agree with
@@SlyHikari03 Yeah, I was there for that stream. It’s where “Dheerse” came from in Tomodachi Life.
I'm sad the person who sent this in didn't mention that Cotton was the main inspiration for Marisa Kirisame, according to Zun himself, given that's like the single 2hu character vinny knows.
Wow, I've been a 2hu fan for years and I didn't know that. 🧹⋆˖⁺‧₊/10
@@Tiamat768 Why you keep saying it wrong. It’s not “two who”, is more like “tow hoe”.
@@Tiamat768 Funnily, learning that is how I found out about *_Cotton_* as a series.
Which is why it's like the one bit of trivia I know about the series, lol. GREAT shmup series in its own right obviously though.
If Marisa is Cotton and Sakuya is Dio, what's Reimu?
@@Thorn16 There's a Miko in Samurai Aces who also has homing shots, but I don't think they're related.
Edit: I'm braindead! Zun is a huge taito-stan (which is why he ended up applying to work there, and his 2 games were inspired by Arkanoid and Darius/Raystorm) so there's like a 90% chance Reimu is based on/inspired by Sayo-chan from Kiki Kaikai, aka Pocky from Pocky & Rocky.
Edit 2: Can now confirm this to be the case. Also the reason there are ghost enemies in the first few PC-98 2hus.
Rainbow Cotton is getting a remaster this year with an official English release. Everyone needs to buy it.
If the goal is to support SUCCESS, just buy any of the other cotton games on Steam, eShop, etc. Reboot, 2, Boomerang, Panorama, 100%, and Rock n Roll are all on Switch along with Kasiori (puzzle game similar to Puyo).
I say all of this because while not the worst game ever, Rainbow Cotton is unquestionably the worst Cotton game. And Success themselves have openly said as much. It was made by a bunch of new hires with development starting before Dreamcast dev units were even sent out.
Anything short of a Reboot-style ground-up remake/reimagining of Rainbow isn't really worth playing when Panorama already exists.
Edit: also there's Trouble Witches, which is a Cotton ripoff that later got Cotton as guest a character in the newest Steam release.
LOL has a standout score from Ryuichi Sakamoto. One of the best parts
51:39 TITTY JIGGLE, TITTY JIGGLE
*CHITTY DRIGGLE, CHITTY DRIGGLE*
It's when JC Denton juggles credit chits to distract the NSF, or something.
23:43 Vinny, as one of the Keepers of the Godzilla Lore, I have consulted with my brothers, and we have deigned to "give you a pass on this one," as it were. It is occasionally referred to as a "heat ray" in various canon sources. Blessings of the Shobijin be upon you, my child.
Especially since he just watched minus one, where it is referred to as such
@@Pasta_Priest What a movie, right? Shin Godzilla, Shin Ultraman, and now Godzilla Minus One... just some awesome stuff recently.
22:50 Just clubbin through the city while a trance remix of the Destroy All Monsters March plays on the speakers.
Never played Rainbow Cotton, but the Cotton series is actually pretty solid. Fun fact, if you dodge every tea cup during Tea Time, you get a bonus valued at much higher than you were likely to earn from actually trying to collect as many as you can.
1:07:33 Tokyo Bus Annai is really difficult. It has strict punishments and it goes even further when Arino played the PS2 version on GCCX in 2021, so much that an actual bus driver had to help him.
God damn, I know video games are supposed to take breaks from reality but going that hard on it is really something.
That's insane 😂 amazing one was there to help though!
Thank you for constantly playing some of the strangest games I've ever seen. This feels like the new Gettin Weird With It.
Smaller platforms like the Dreamcast, Saturn, 3DO, and PC-Engine are always full of weird experimental stuff. It just seems to come with the territory.
Brings back memories of the weird and budgety PS2 games videos. Nostalgic.
I'm still waiting for a Poinie's Poin full playthrough.
Another good one is Under The Skin.
As a fan of the Cotton Series I can die happy that Vinny played Rainbow Cotton.
I would've preferred he play one of the 2D ones but this is fine I suppose.
I'm just sad nobody mentioned the Cotton:2hu connection (ie replace Mushrooms with Willows, and suddenly Marisa is just Cotton in a new outfit).
Wait til he plays the Switch port after forgetting that he played it already.
@@OtakuUnitedStudio wich one, the Reboot or the saturn tribute of cotton 2
@@psifox5102 They're doing a rerelease of Rainbow Cotton... for some reason.
Also, just a heads up but outside of supporting success' random return, the Saturn Tribute release of Cotton 2 is kind of a waste when there's an EN patch of it and the Mednafen saturn core is just as good if not better than the Zebra engine.
@warbossgegguz679 I see! I'll definitely lookinto that now.
Holy shit I never expected Vinny to play cotton in a billion years
one step closer to 2hu aswell LOL
4:14 tHiS iS aN iSEkAi
why is this joke so funny
its too factual
Maybe because he says “love world” (I-seh-ky) and not “another world” (ee-seh-ky).
Because vinny barely knows what that means but chat spams it.
So it's a joke about a stale joke.
Icy-guy
'what a beautiful Duwang!' energy
"BOOB JIGGLE" *assorted pained streamer noises*
Saying Oppenheimer is indirectly responsible for Godzilla is a WILD observation
canon
Somewhere between directly and indirectly
Oppenzilla
Is it? I think it's a kind of plainly obvious observation. You can probably put Hitler and George Washington on that list of responsible individuals too if you want to take this to its logical extreme.
@@KrypXernthe best place to live is in the logical extremes
Ironically, Godzilla 1998 is my favorite monster to play in "Godzilla Generations" simply due to his blistering speed. Makes short work of most stages. Also glad you were enjoying yourself on "Maximum Impact" for a bit! A bit on the slower side, but still fairly engaging if on the simpler side.
If the game had come out just a year later, you could probably justify it by saying he's Godzilla Jr. from the sequel cartoon.
But the best character of all was Dr. Serizawa with his Eyepatch Laser.
Godzilla fans are crazy
@@OtakuUnitedStudio Giant Dr. Serizawa is amazing, as is his haunting music track! Played so seriously for such an outlandish concept.
@@Tokiko I'm not trying to be rude when I say this, but a fair amount of them are literally autistic.
Including my step brother, who got me into Goji in the first place.
I respect the decision to play the Godzilla roar at every opportunity in that Godzilla game
Glad you liked the pack!
Luckly Rainbow Cotton and Cool Cool Toon had fan translations, otherwise we wouldn't have been able to understand there riveting stories!. Also Cosmic Smash got a VR version on PSVR2 last year called C-Smash, and Rainbow Cotton is getting re-released on modern platforms later this year.
I had no idea that Vinny had already played LOL, but I guess it worked out since He has zero recollection of it.
Also if you've ever played that super expensive Godzilla game on PS4, you'd actually find it to be sort of a spiritual successor to the first Godzilla Generations.
I included Tokyo Bus Guide in there as a joke, but I'm glad it turned out to actually be kinda funny.
Lastly, I wouldv'e included Seaman, but I think that game is too fascinating for Vinny to just play 15 minutes of it.
Success randomly springing back into life is not something I would've ever put money on, but I'm here for it.
Fingers crossed that can happen to the likes of Treasure and Cave at some point... pls.
Rainbow Cotton is getting ported to Switch this Spring, including internationally according to current plans. So Binyot playing it was inevitable.
@@OtakuUnitedStudio I doubt he would've played that m8. It's not like he played Rock n Roll or Reboot.
I haven't even heard vinny talk about shmups outside of UN Squadron tbh.
Edit: He's mentioned Silpheed being awesome before, which is extremely based but also a very different game.
@@warbossgegguz679 He already played Rainbow Cotton before. Briefly, forever ago, but still.
Idk if im reading into it too much but the 'RETIRE' thing for the bus simulator is also in the colors of the japanese "driver in training" Chevron, this thing here -> 🔰 apparently its a pretty big cultural indicator of "newbie" over there.
So glad Cool Cool Toon was translated. It's such a Y2k kinda game. :D
Finally, my two favorite things. Vinny and Godzilla.
Vinezilla
Finally, my two favorite things. Vinny and anime tiddies.
Now we just need him to record a cover of Godzilla by Blue Öyster Cult and the circle will be complete.
🤝
Expect Silk to Cotton to be a recurring franchise on this channel going forward.
Given how much of the series was recently ported to Switch, including Rainbow having an upcoming rerelease, and I foresee most of them ending up on "Weird and Obscure Games" and "Gettin' Weird With It" going forward.
@@OtakuUnitedStudio nah. Also, the ports of Cotton 2 and Boomerang aren't worth it when they aren't translated. Especially when an English patch for the Saturn version already exists.
You're saying this throughout the comments, and I think you're seriously overestimating how much Moe vinny is willing to handle.
Well, won't stop chatyot begging him to play the series since he's been a bit of a retro kick lately.@@warbossgegguz679
Panorama Cotton is still one of the best looking Genesis games imo
@warbossgegguz679 agreed, you are so right. it's weird they aren't translated since there is a translation patch online. Why not just steal it.
That Cosmic Bus game is the type of bgm to be featured in those "2000s PS1/Dreamcast DNB" playlists
I remember being in chat 5 years ago when Vinny played LOL.... it was so long ago. it feels strange to remember the memory of being in a funny italian man's chat so long ago....
i remember i was there too, one of the very few streams i've seen live
Cool Cool Toon looks like one of those forgotten one season cartoons you'd see on one of the WEIRD channels at 6am in 2005
Damn we were so close to getting Bindy to love Cotton.
24:36 cinematic backshots sent me to orbit
24:31
*building fucking explodes*
Vinny: "cinematic backshots"
The last person i would hear backshots from is vinny
@@ethanawaao1291Vinny once said he was a "bit of a size-queen", there is a precedent for Melpert saying such things unintentionally.
Edit: Oracle of Ages pt.8 @ 13:19
Vinny is the only thing that has been consistent in my life for over ten years and i can't be grateful enough
Hell yeah, Cosmic Smash and Ranbow Cotton. Someone should have sent him Radirgy too; not a weird game but it's so visually striking.
I’m so glad you finally played Rainbow Cotton! I used to love the opening cutscene of that even though it took me way too long to fully understand what was happening lol
Godzilla do be getting a Sloppenheimer
He got that Gyattzilla
"Retire"
Damn, Vinny was EXTRA sassy during the Rainbow Cotton game... Gotta love him for it tho.
1:01:29 The straight "oni-chan" that came out of Vinny's mouth was way more amusing to me than it reasonably should be.
That second Godzilla game looks very similar to the Godzilla game on PS4, which I consider highly underrated.
Rainbow Cotton was a trip for sure.
Also, there needs to be a Saturn games one off, I’d love to see vinny play Grandia.
He would love it.
This first game feels like a prequel to poiny's poin.
Cosmic smash still holds up really well! It's underrated... Just like every other dreamcast game
I'm a dreamcast fan but "every other dreamcast game" is a huge stretch m8
@@warbossgegguz679after seeing 'rainbow cotton'. I think you're right
@@Spaceman_u I was more so thinking shit like The Ring Terror's Realm, but K.
Nothing on Dreamcast is underrated.
They're only unknown or obscure.
@@Spaceman_uPanorama Cotton, its predecessor on the Mega Drive/Genesis, is way better tbh (and actually HELLA impressive for the hardware it's on)
I'm glad Vinny asked the same question as me. "Where did they get a modern trash can?"
Techmoan did a video at one point about a Japanese train sim that came on a plug-and-play device. I wonder if this bus simulator was from the same company.
Thank you for playing Rainbow Cotton, Vinny. Really great video game series.
Cosmic Smash is something they'd play on the holodeck on Star Trek.
Surprised Vinny knows about Gitaroo Man. He should play it on stream. Game is about 2-3 hours
I missed the rest of this segment and the stream as I fell asleep midway through Rainbow Cotton's cutscene.
NEXT LEVEL.....COSMIC BUS......HAVE A BLAST
Godzilla Generations 2 is absolutely worth a play for anyone who hasn't
Nice, I love this type of video because I never had a dreamcast and seeing these games played now, I can fully see the nostalgic potential from them.
51:55 Quit staring at me
Cosmic smash announcer sounds like hes about to tell me how it feels to chew 5 gum
51:39 I see Vinny still hasn't recovered from his ban.
Some madlad really wanted to put the fear of god into him by sending this game in.
@@JanitorAntisocial To be fair, I submitted this pack like 2 months before he got banned lol
Tirdly girgle.
Not only was he fearful of any unprovoked sexual content, he's been more open lately on the lewd terms - it's weird.
damn, blessed with uploads
1:07:09 These types of games sell like cocaine here in Germany and i don't understand
*b ü s*
Godzilla on PS3/PS4 was kind of like a successor to this game, and I love it.
The gooning of the vinegoons.
Is that the Tekken 4 announcer I hear in Cosmic Smash?
Dude I thought the exact same thing, even the filter is similar
I KNEW I recognized that voice from somewhere!
absolutely art. Love it
51:48 Nah that's what the 3DO was for in Japan. That, and a bizarre amount of awesome JRPGs.
53:52 *SODA*
57:00 Unintentional Mario came outta nowhere.
The Cosmic Smash announcer sounds like Tekken 4
Cotton! I prefer the horizontal shmup versions of Cotton Reboot and Cotton Fantasy/ Cotton Rock n Roll personally. But i heard panoramic Cotton is supposed to be good
I've heard a while ago about the Rainbow Cotton remaster, I had no interest at all, but after watching that intro, I have to buy the game now
he always breaks out the truly bizarre stuff when i’m deliriously sleepy and questioning reality. tremendous.
He should try Seaman.
@@MacUser2-il2cx only if he beats it in one sitting like Jerma did
Look out for evil farming games
Godzilla is approaching the generator! The generator is losing power!
Streams like this are great for me since I have a Dreamcast with a GDEMU. Introducing me to new DC games and stuff.
I did the same thing as vinny did with LoL, but it was a game I played once until 6am, and then a couple years later on the same day I did the same thing, staying up til 6am, having not played it for years
We need to get Vinny to watch Godzilla final wars and Shin Ultraman also make Vinny replay Bloodborne
Speaking of Bloodborne, the fan made Bloodborne Kart racing game was attacked by Sony and now it's being remade into a new IP kart racer.
@@MacUser2-il2cx Good, the dev's a pedophile.
The Dreamcast is the gift that keeps on giving. I've barely played the library of this system. Sonic Adventure and Power Stone got hundreds of hours of play from me growing up.
Cosmic Smash reminds me of another game Sega published for the Dreamcast. Rez, it had a PS2 port as well, and an HD remaster on XB Live arcade.
I swear he's played the 2D Cotton games but i could be wrong
I kind of want to see more Cool Cool Toon. I want to know where the story goes.
Oh cool, didnt know Cool Cool Toon had a fan translation. Someone should send Vinny Rhythm Heaven Silver
I love this stuff
Rainbow cotton looked like it'd be a generic cdi-zelda style game where all the budget went into the cutscenes, but it actually looked really good
Whatever you do dont google cinematic backshots
46:05 The really weird thing is that this is not the first nor the second time this has happen, we really live in a simulation.
What controller was Vinny using for this stream? If he was using an Xbox controller the buttons would've matched up just fine
That Tokyo Bus simulator game was pretty interesting. Considering it's on the Dreamcast it seems pretty detailed. Definitely for real bus otakus though
Vinny aisikai'd for the goon chance
Cool Cool Toon's menus remind me a lot of petscop sound design
no
Makes sense to me, Petscop was based on the weird visual and sound design of early full 3D games.
55:39 💀💀💀
Vinny's exasperation saying "ehh.. eto~~" 6:27
this better include super magnetic neo
After someone said that Cosmic Smash got a VR game made recently, I looked it up. It's called C-Smash, and it's for PSVR2, Meta Quest and the Pico 4, strangely enough. Don't see that one advertised too often.
13:47 Man who has never heard of "Giggly Goon Clown".
i think i love that first game and i shall try it in the future
Seeing Cosmic Smash just reiterates even harder how obsessed Sega were with arcades, and arcade experiences. They just had no taste for long play experiences at all from the Saturn through the Dreamcast. Crazy Taxi, Soul Calibur, Daytona USA, Virtua Fighter... Sega was HOT for arcade stuff. Which makes sense... they were very good at it. But home consoles users didn't actually want just arcade experiences at home. They wanted Resident Evils and Zelders.
Correction: WESTERN home console users didn't want arcade experiences at home.
The Saturn sold great in Japan and even outsold the N64 for most of its life. Also, a lot of the lack of support for the Saturn in the US came down to issues with retailers rather than pure lack of interest. The main reason the DC was discontinued was because Sega was already getting ready to pull out of the console market before it even released. In its first year though, it sold extremely well.
SEGA was fully capable of long-form experiences. Phantasy Star, Panzer Dragoon Saga, Skies of Arcadia, Sakura Wars, Rent-a-Hero and Shenmue (which were made *BY AM2* hilariously) etc. Also RE 1-3 and CV were on the Dreamcast so... Other than the lack of Sonic on the Saturn, both had a ton of great titles that weren't just Arcade ports.
The arcade ports were AMAZING and usually arcade-perfect (especially when the AtomisWave board was just straight-up a Dreamcast), but there was definitely more to each of them than just that.
@@warbossgegguz679 Fair points. That said, while Sega did have long-form experiences (Skies of Arcadia is one of the absolute greats, and we can also mention Valkyria Chronicles later on), and even excellent ones, (Hell, the Saturn has one of my top five favorite games of all time, Grandia, and that's a JRPG), they really did not have many proportionately, compared to the rest of the library. It's always struck me what an arcade company Sega was.
As to RE on the Dreamcast, for sure. Sega didn't make them though. And sure, Sega didn't make Soul Calibur either, so I'll take that ding against my own example too.
But I'm talking broadly, like... the whole library, particularly of the Saturn and Dreamcast, taken as a mass... at least the Sega-developed and produced stuff... it was disproportionately much more arcade-y than their counterparts. That's my claim. My hypothesis, I guess.
If that hypothesis holds up, then I can Pepe Silvia this thing. My conspiracy theory is that while Sega of America and Sega of Japan were spatting about the Saturn and the 32X, AM2 had more influence over Sega of Japan's decision-making, and steered them naturally into more arcade-y directions, since that was what had made AM2 so great. And I think AM2 had influence on the hardware of the Saturn to make it more of an arcade-like machine, which made it harder to develop for. But that, I have nothing to back up except idle speculation.
@@JadeFoxAlpha Oh, don't get me wrong, the Saturn and Dreamcast (and even the Mega Drive tbh) were all absolutely geared towards arcade and arcade-style titles even down to a technical level. So much so that the Saturn was directly built off of Super Scaler tech. Hell my main interest in Saturn and dreamcast emulation came from arcade titles that are exclusive to those platforms (the only home console ports of Rival Schools 2, Star Gladiator, Tech Romancer, Cotton 2 and Boomerang, Fighters Megamix, etc.) I'm just saying the whole appeal of long-form games hit Sega way before that point, and their was a healthy library of titles in that vein,
To get super specific as a retro sega nerd, the realization happened after Dragon Quest 3 sold as well as it did in Japan. That, combined with Zelda and Final Fantasy made sega invest HUGELY into developing and publishing a ton of RPGs and adventure games. Hence you get teams like Sonic Team and AM2 (a literal arcade-specific divison) making long-form games in the late 80s and 90s. Most obviously Phantasy Star came out of this, but also Rent A Hero, Beyond Oasis & Legend of Oasis, Crusader of Centy (though not in the west), Sorcery Saga, all of the MegaTen games on Game Gear, etc. So they saw the writing on the wall.
The main issue I would say (and something that's sort of plagued SEGA for all time) is that they're interests are split. Nintendo and Sony are exclusively home-console focused, while SEGA has always been split between their arcade division and home console divisions. So they've basically had to compete with Sony and Nintendo (and by extension Square and Enix) in one sphere and compete with Namco in another. And usually the arcade side wins out over the home-entertainment side.
They had close relations with Atlus and Compile when it came to home-focused devs, but that was about it. So everything else had to be in-house. Capcom and other arcade companies naturally liked the hardware of the Saturn and Dreamcast because it was so similar to arcades, but that was about it.
@@warbossgegguz679 Sega's history is just so fascinating, especially the post-Genesis days. It's almost like the Genesis being so successful took them completely by surprise and their whole company couldn't pivot to it, and then afterwards, they had all these directions they could have gone in and couldn't commit to one.
@@JadeFoxAlpha All 3 of the big JP arcade manufactures (SEGA, Taito, and Namco) all have super fascinating and bizarre histories, but SEGA's is by far the most convoluted. Like most people outside of the hardcore emulation scene don't even know the SG-1000 was a thing (even if it was basically just a reskinned MSX). And on that note, I personally think their defining feature is that they've always been exceedingly ambitious. Usually too ambitious for their own good.
Sometimes it pays off amazingly like with AM2's library, Sonic, and the Mega Drive. Other times, it's the Saturn and Dreamcast. Not that those are bad consoles, but they absolutely underperformed. The problem with them during the mid-90s was their inability to appeal to a more global market.
The conflict between 90s SEGA of America and SEGA of Japan is well documented and basically what led to the company's global strength falling apart. It's literally the reason the 32X exists, why Sonic Extreme got canceled, why the Saturn's marketing and distribution fell apart in NA, and many, MANY other issues. Kind of ironic when they were founded by an American.
They stretched themselves so thin that it eventually pitted both sides of the pacific against each other, and eventually the east won over the west. Not that I can blame them when ALL of the main successful studios were in japan, but that internal conflict and inability to adapt basically killed their market in North America and Europe. And in a time where American consumption of video games was outpacing Asia, that was a problem.
And none of this was helped by the fact that their literal biggest rival at the time outside of Nintendo (Namco) signed a massive exclusivity deal with Sony to basically be the backbone of the Playstation. Kind of astounding that SC ended up being a Dreamcast launch title tbh when for 3 generations Namco and Sega HATED each other in the arcade sector, lol.
Edit: Also, just as an aside I'd like to note that Sega and Namco's rivalry goes all the way back to Periscope in *1968.* Back when namco was still Nakamura Manufacturing Co. and before modern arcade cabs even existed. So yeah, the bad blood debatably goes back WAY farther than just the arcade golden age. Which makes things like SC as a dreamcast launch title and Tekken outfits in VF5 kind of surreal historically speaking.
Cool Cool Toon's presentation is on point, but the music is kind of whatever honestly
Vinny should watch more Godzilla movies
I just saw that Rainbow Cotton was getting a remaster and had to come here to confirm it's the same anime booba shoot game -- _and it is_
What a world we live in
holy hell i've played one of those cotton games