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The Sega Astro City Mini - Review - Game Sack

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Episode 299 - Sega is celebrating their 60th anniversary with the release of the Sega Astro City Mini in Japan. I imported it even though I'm not really into "Mini" consoles, but being all arcade games by Sega, I couldn't resist.

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20 Comments

@nomadicmonkey3186 5 years ago

When you've played countless versions of Space Harrier that you're able to tell it's a brand-new emulation from some rocks behaving odd. Mad props to you Joe.

@SotNist 5 years ago

This made me realize that PS4 and PS5 controllers have mono of the art sound.

@pwnswoggle 5 years ago

Dottori Kun was a JAMMA board that Sega sold with Astro City and other arcade cabinets because there was a weird law in Japan that said JAMMA cabinets could not be sold without any games in them, hence the description on the Astro City Mini.

@BlaizeV 5 years ago (edited)

Be nice to see Sega finally move on from Genesis compilations on consoles into Arcade, Saturn and Dreamcast stuff instead.

@chico20m 5 years ago

Everybody knows if someday SEGA launches a new console, Columns will be there.

@Hullabaloo75 5 years ago

This is the only intro of any channel I'm subbed to that I do not skip. Riff is too tasty

@Not-Great-at-Gaming 5 years ago

"You need to beat the entire game on one credit. Can you?"
Looking at my user name... no.

@deltakid0 5 years ago (edited)

23:04 for me this is the main event: Virtua Fighter

@TheCooterpuppet 5 years ago

Thank you for taking the time to put in your own closed captions, so much better than random YouTube generated ones

@MarcBarkyMarta 5 years ago

Also, Joe, the Dottori Kun Arcade PCB was included with every Astro City cabinet when purchased in Japan. By law, they had to include some sort of test game with an arcade cabinet, and this is what Sega made (hence why they said that goofy text). Taito also included “Mini-vader” Space invaders with their cabs, and Konami included some kind of target shooting game.

@spiderjerusalem100 5 years ago

Finally Sega releases some of their old arcade games instead of the same old Mega Drive games everyone already has.
This looks great and i want one.

@ionmyke 5 years ago

I'm pretty impressed with this one. I was expecting it to be more of a novelty (which is still is, really), but it's quite playable. The stick and buttons feel great, and the overall build is really high quality. SNK should seriously take notes, this blows the Neo Geo Mini out of the water, hardware wise.

@themcadamsminute8494 5 years ago (edited)

Since we won’t see you next week, HAPPY NEW YEARS GAMESACK!!!!

@chrisr024 4 years ago

Thanks Joe. I love the way you edit your videos. Your tremendous effort is greatly appreciated.

@reagandow850 5 years ago

Over all I’m really happy I bought the Astro City and it blows the Neo Geo mini out of the water and many of the other “mini” consoles as well but I must say I enjoy the TG-16/PC Engine mini more and still play it frequently.

@Skyk0rn 5 years ago

It's really amazing how Sega pulls off rereleasing the same couple of dozen of old games each year. They're really getting crafty at it to the point that it's even is an art of some sort. I wonder will they run out of ideas to repackage the same games over and over again or fans who were actually alive during the bit wars?

@importaku 5 years ago (edited)

Dottori kun is what appears if you power on an astro arcade without a board attached, that's why it's included in here as a little extra for astro fans. Thats also why that description is a little cryptic as it is indeed always there every astro arcade has it built in.

@robertgorby7856 5 years ago

Joe, your post video vignette was absolutely hilarious. “200%!!! and it can be measured!!!”

@kildogery 5 years ago

The ending was too funny.

@Azuris190 5 years ago

Bought a Gamegear last Month, the Desciption said that Shinobi comes with it.
What was not mentioned that also Columns will come with it... Nobody wants Columns so the have to secretly sell it with other Games.