11 Lovely Mega Drive Platformers That Sadly Never Left Japan

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Published on October 6, 2022 3:00:14 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQaNmv4xwVg

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Monster World IV (1994)

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Though the SEGA Genesis/Mega Drive was immensely successful in North America, there are still quite a number of beautiful platform games that remained in Japan for a variety of reasons.

The fourth generation of video game consoles wasn’t so great in the west. Video games hadn’t caught on as much as they would eventually, so many games that were produced in Japan, stayed there. Japanese game developers feared that their games wouldn’t appeal to gamers in the west so they decided to just keep them in the land of the rising sun rather than spending money on localization.

There were over 900 games released on the Sega's 16 bit console, known as the Mega Drive in Japan and Europe, with only over 700 being brought overseas. Because of this, we missed out on some fantastic games, some of which are the best the console has to offer. So to help undo this wrong, Bits & Beats have collected 11 great Mega Drive platform games that were released in Japan that weren’t released in the western market, so you can finally see what you were missing out on!

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Games Featured

0:00 Intro
0:23 1988 Osomatsu-kun: Hachamecha Gekijō
0:58 1990 Magical Flying Hat Turbo Adventure!
1:29 1990 The NewZealand Story
2:01 1990 Rainbow Islands Extra
2:32 1992 Magical Taruruto-kun
3:07 1992 Wani Wani World
3:41 1993 Doraemon: The Dream Thief and the Seven Gozans
4:22 1993 Snow Bros. Nick & Tom
4:54 1994 Monster World IV
5:27 1994 Pulseman
6:02 1994 Crayon Shin-chan: Arashi o Yobu Enji
6:52 Outro

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