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It's simple-looking (solid black background and limited graphical detail) and there isn't much in the way of animation, but The Castle has an immediate charm to it-a contagious sense of whimsy I wasn't expecting to emanate from the game in the moments before its characters sprung into action at the touch of the d-pad. Right off the bat, The Castle reminds me a lot of Nuts & Milk in how it wastes no time conveying an old computer-game aesthetic, which might be hinting toward its true origin. But now that my mind has since been pried wide open by the crowbar of enlightenment, and I stand here at the pinnacle of my appreciation for video games in all of their wonderfully divergent forms, it seems like a good a time as any for me to dive right into the depths of the SG-1000. What initially turned me off was that its games looked more like those I'd seen running on the ColecoVision, which I hardly considered capable of reproducing the NES-equivalent "8-bit" games I was hoping to see. Truthfully, I wasn't so much interested in its in actual game library until recently. The console has been an object of fascination for me ever since. "And it came out on the same day as the Famicom in Japan?! That's nuts!" All I could wonder was how I never heard of SG-1000 before then and how its coinciding release somehow avoided becoming common knowledge. "Wait-Sega had another 8-bit console that predated the Master System?" I questioned, almost in disbelief. My journey into gaming's history had been marked by one astonishing discovery after another, but there were very few that managed to shock me quite like the uncovering of the SG-1000.
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"The SG-1000," it explained, "Sega's first foray into the console market." "But wait!" a voice soon cried out from the pages of history. And I had the whole story worked out in my head: Arcade-game-maker Sega watched on as the NES enjoyed great success and decided to get in on the action by releasing the Master System ("the Sega," as we called it), a graphically superior 8-bit console that vied for attention with its unique game library but ultimately wound up wallowing in obscurity. I mean, it doesn't seem like all that long ago when I was dead certain that Sega's first home console was the Sega Master System-that curious black trapezoid I remembered best for its bright, colorful games and those weird checkered cases. I've been deeply immersed in the medium's history for more than a decade now, yet I continue to stand in amazement at how much the fully formed picture differs from the one my mind once rendered. Unearthed Treasures: The Castle (SG-1000 / MSX)