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Console conversions, paired down: Shooting Gallery & Quartet

Sega draws once again upon its arcade work for this episode's set of releases, though they delve much further back into the past for one than the other. Shooting Gallery uses an electromechanical target gallery cabinet from the 1960s as its jumping-off point. Between that primal legacy and the addition of lots of other stuff to the mix, no one could ever accuse it of being a mere ripoff of a certain iconic Nintendo light gun shooter. As for Quartet, it looks to much more recent coin-op history—a 1986 game by the same name. Unfortunately, the Master System's limitations forced the company's designers to pare down the design to a mere pair of players, falsifying the title. To make up for the compromise, they also removed more than 90% of the original arcade game's stages as well. Sounds terrible, right? Well, Quartet on Master System isn't actually as bad as all that, undergoing a similar arcade-to-home reinvention as Capcom's Section Z. It's just too bad about the reversed button setup

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  • Originally Aired March 29, 2023
  • Runtime 18 minutes
  • Created May 11, 2025 by
    akerasi
  • Modified May 11, 2025 by
    akerasi