Nicole Express

I’m bringing out the truth about TMSS! Admit it! Sega never made a game console that can’t play that region’s release of Phantasy Star II, and it’s time to show exactly what that means and why. Let’s dig into the technical nitty-gritty of one of the biggest flops in console licensing history. Spoilers: It’s a little more complicated than you think, at least in Japan.

There’s a problem with my current series on mahjong games– when I say “mahjong”, people in my home country of the United States of America probably don’t think of the 2-4 player competitive game. They think of the single-player tile-matching game, Mahjong Solitaire, also known as Shanghai, beloved of office-workers and casual gamers everywhere. And that’s popular in Japan too; p...