Segaiden #018: Zoom 909 / Choplifter / Pitfall

Video Works by Jeremy Parish

Beginning with this episode, I'm knuckling down to wrap up as much of the SG-1000 video series as possible by the end of 2021. There are only about half a dozen episodes to go after this! It's a pretty small library, but the best times are ahead of us. This episode looks at, technically, three arcade conversions: Zoom 909, Choplifter, and Pitfall II. Of course, the two latter games got their start on Apple II and Atari 2600, respectively, but around the same time these carts hit stores, Sega also reworked them into pretty good arcade games. The question is whether or not that arcade magic rubbed off on these releases...

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Production notes:

• SG-1000 footage in this episode was captured from a combination of Sega SG-1000 II with (with Card Catcher; RGB amp mod by @iFixRetro ) and @Analogue Mega Sg with card adapter module and DAC.
• Famicom, NES, and Atari 7800 footage captured from @Analogue Nt Mini / Nt Mini Noir. Video upscaled to 720 with xRGB Mini Framemeister and @Retro Tink 5X.