Virtua Cop Documentary | Reviewing Every U.S. Saturn Game | Episode 31 of 246
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This is a journey through time analyzing the history of Virtua Cop, its Saturn port, and revelations on why Sega's 5th gen console performed the way it did. You will see source material that you cannot find anywhere else — woven into a tale straight from the trenches of 90's video game development.
Please note the chapters in this video. If you think sitting through a 4+ hour video sounds like too much of a task, then I encourage you to watch the chapters by themselves over time, like you would episodes of a TV show. Think of this like a streaming service dropping an entire season of a show all at once. Marathon it if you want, but don't feel like you must.
This was not a solo project. While it is true that I wrote and edited this 4+ hour piece, it would not be close to half of what it is without SamIAm and the tremendous help from other friends across the Saturn community. SamIAm is the translator working on the Princess Crown English patch (yes, he is still working on it). He translated a massive amount of Japanese source material for this video. Pimpeaux contributed mountains of her time to release date research for the overall series, sales data, and other assets used throughout. My partners with SHIRO! Media Group lent their time to QA, and their voices to some magazine interviews. Other voice overs were provided by the likes of SlappyBag9, Jordan Ryan of GBATemp, Greg Lacquerware, and Tit0 from Hall of Game. The SHIRO! crew consists of myself, Patrick Traynor, David Lee (SaturnDave), Peter Malek and Ben Wallace.
Homebrew developers XL2 and TrekkiesUnite118 helped me with understanding the inner machinations of SGL and proofreading parts of my script that go over technical details.
SHIRO! also lent their skills and connections for past interviews with Tom Kalinske, Chuck Tolman, and Paul Kerchen. I must also thank 90's devs Robert Leyland, Chris Kirby and Steve Snake, along with Jarrod Nichol of Project COE.
Random Stuff and May Rosencratz allowed me to use some of their original music for parts of this video. Random even made a couple of tracks just for this episode. Big thanks to both of you.
As for the others who took part... Well... Watch the video and find out who they are. :)
I extend my most heartfelt thanks to all who contributed to this project, and to all who have supported me over the years. Be it a financial contribution, shoutout, or kind message — you all mean a lot and continue to motivate me to carry on this passion project. Thank you for watching. Sorry for taking so long.
POST UPLOAD NOTES: Turns out the M2 Emulator I use (to play the arcade original) fakes transparencies instead of displaying mesh graphics. There is a way to turn this off, so I will be doing that in future videos.
DISCLAIMER: Virtua Cop is a 1994 arcade game in which the player assumes the role of a police officer, shooting several hundred fictitious criminals without question. This video is a journalistic analysis of that specific video game and other works it influenced. Any potential reference to modern United States politics, police brutality or the debate on western law enforcement reform is purely coincidental.
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Welcome to the series where I review every single Sega Saturn game released in North America by order of release date. It is produced in association with SHIRO! Media Group: https://www.segasaturnshiro.com/
I made a spreadsheet with all the games satakore.com has as American releases, listing them off by order of release date, including sources. All the games are narrowed down to the day they came out in the U.S. Big thanks to Pimpeaux for the years of research help. (Her channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/Pimpeaux)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15tfzGsJZ08Ms_qneV7OYxPcqrw8Uu5HpSTqA_VeBbvI/edit?usp=sharing
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00:00:00 Intro
00:04:53 Chapter 1 — Virtua Coffee
00:41:55 Chapter 2 — Operating System
02:11:20 Chapter 3 — Internal Investigation
03:18:16 Chapter 4 — Shipping Out West
03:56:52 Chapter 5 — Publicly Funded Success
04:20:54 Post Credits
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