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June bonus #2: Game Tech Video issue 4 (May 1988)
🕑 Added 2024-06-16 12:50:59 +0000 UTCIt's time for a rare Content Warning from me, although I don't think the material here is that upsetting given the context. It's another Game Tech Video from Sony, this time hailing from May 1988, that once again takes a more offbeat look at contemporary games than other Japanese video or print publications of the era. GTV almost feels like a zine with its focus on less-popular games and interests outside of the usual "ages 5-to-12" audience that Famicom was marketed to. There are a couple of dense RPGs from Bothtec and Hummingbird Soft this issue, which were far more demanding than your usual Dragon Quest clone, plus an entire segment on games that were popular in the U.S. (and how they differed from the Japanese versions!). And, at the very end, you have a short segment on bootleg/pirate Famicom software, including a kaizo Mario hack (!!) and, unfortunately, games like Super Maruo, which involve nudity and girls whose ages appear to be, shall we say, questionable. There's only a tiny flash of lady butt and 8-bit nipple, but it's there, so please consider yourself warned (as if the age gate didn't already wave you off).
As always, please turn on your auto-translated subtitles for best effect! Unless you speak Japanese already, you sexy polyglot, you.
