Mine has to be Dragon Quest: Rocket Slime, a DS spin off of the Dragon Quest series that sees you playing as a slime operating a tank and rescuing the people from your town. You run around the overworld, collecting items to use as ammunition and saving money to upgrade your tank. The art and music are just as great as you’d expect from the Dragon Quest series. It made fantastic use of the DS’s dual screens. It’s also written for a younger audience, so a lot of it is just really silly and fun! Try it out for sure, I’m so sad there’s no sequel :(

    • richyawyingtmvEnglish
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      1 year ago

      It was the very first third party game Sega released after pulling out of the hardware race. It was a GBA launch title if I remember right and it was seriously fucking weird booting up my new Nintendo handheld and seeing SEGA on the screen!!!

      • theragu40@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        That’s a cool bit of trivia, I had no idea. Just goes to show how eras change as far as how you get information. Back then if it wasn’t something that caught my eye in that months issue of EGM, it wouldn’t really be on my radar. I’m still waiting for the GBC port of RE1 that got previewed in EGM and never released :)

        Honestly it’s still surreal to me to see the Sega logo (or hear the voices “Seeeeegaaaaa” when they use it) on a Nintendo system. It was such a bloody divide back in the day.

        • richyawyingtmvEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Heh yeah, I don’t know if you’re in the UK, but we had a service called Ceefax/Teletext, which was a text based service sent through to your TV (sorry if I’m explaining obvious things)

          Digitiser was the games magazine on Channel Four’s Teletext service. It was about 30 pages in total, split between news, reviews, features, and letters. It was updated every day. I was the very first person to know about Sega pulling out back at school in my class because Digitiser had the news that very same day.

          Digitiser was also fucking hilarious. They got pulled from air more than once due to their content constantly pushing boundaries. A feature each week had a different guest writer (all fictitious), such as Mr T (constantly shouting about people messing with his bins), Fat Sow (a pig), George Michael and Phil Mitchell from EastEnders. I genuinely miss it so much. At least we have it mostly backed up online!

          Here’s an example of Digitiser in the GameCube era, talking about the upcoming launch of Xbox live: https://www.superpage58.com/digitiser-vault-teletext-screenshot-image-archive-2002-06-14.htm

          When they finally got cancelled, they had a final message, asking you to press reveal on the remote. When pressed, it showed you the channel Four Teletext mascot, turner the worm (a pink worm), being sick (white fluid). Yeah, it’s exactly what it sounds like: https://live.staticflickr.com/212/506622777_1b9520378f_z.jpg

          And it was fucking insane

          • theragu40@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            1 year ago

            Lol wow. I’m from the US so that is all completely unknown to me. I’m very sure we didn’t have anything quite like that. Fascinating!