This week brings us to our 50th (!) episode of Segaiden, which suggests that the "gaiden" part of the name has become a lie. And what more fitting subject with which to violate this semantic sanctity than with Zillion, the game whose title and license implies it should make use of the Light Phaser—but which doesn't? Yes, there is no truth in advertising when it comes to video games. Pretty good game, though, if unusually derivative of someone else's work. Sega usually works more discreetly with their clean room reverse-engineering. Speaking of advertising, this episode also bring us to parity with NES Works as we begin to take into consideration Sega's promotional efforts with its own in-house promotional newsletter (Sega Challenge/Team Sega) that would eventually evolve into a proper magazine (Sega Visions).