/v/ - Video Games

>tfw actually had this but not the music game with tails

It's a console intended for children and toddlers, I don't know what you're expecting. There's plenty of things you could do with that stylus to make something actually good, but who would bother on a console made to teach kids their ABC's?

>>15993193

Someone post the comic

>>15992639

There are no proper games, to the best of my knowledge, but my library of Pico bookware isn't super huge. I have maybe a dozen titles. Japan got more stuff than the US, but I haven't looked into it. Really, about everything I have is all activity book stuff and simple educational software. As was already stated, the Pico is for very young children, toddlers.

>>15992639

My cousin had one of these, I thought I fucking hallucinated it because nobody ever knew what I was talking about.

>>15993193

>>15998632

Maybe they're kawaii as fuck as you say, but it's a trick. The show is sometimes brutal.

I'm not saying don't watch it, I'm just warning you. Most of the episodes that aren't about racism against the black race, racism against the Japanese race and culture, racism against the white race, suicide, deep depression, miscarriage, divorce, xenophobia, social isolation, child abuse, alcoholism and dementia are really very funny and cute.

I wonder why those games seem to be mini-games about nothing when the source material is so rich.

>>15999171

>Wait, that's a magical girl deconstruction anime?

I wouldn't say that exactly. It's more like a show that teaches kids stuff about the world, including the ugly parts.

But yeah, watch it if you wanna feel feelings. As the chart says most episodes aren't about heavy stuff though. Pretty good show, a huge hit in most of the world.

The one with glasses that you liked is kinda dull and has a bad-boy BF so maybe you wanna get a different waifu.

>Pico was a console

>Console Gamers

>>15999936

>Unlikeable

Lee is good boy you fucking faggot.

>>16000090

Oh, yeah, I forgot she was kidnapped and there was a gun there.

>Also hana a slut

Hana is a 2 year old baby and I know she's shameless, dresses like a teen slut and shakes her butt in most episodes but that's because she's a naive toddler and she's unaware of sexuality, not because she's a slut.

The ony one that's close to a slut is Onpu, and not even her is a real slut. She's just flirty.

I wanna talk about this show because honestly it's very good, but also I wanna see if we can talk about the PICO.

I don't ever go to /a but if any of you chooses to make a thread there about Ojamajo Doremi, then I'll follow.

Now, about the Sega Pico, worth getting one and some games just for the novelty?

>>16000306

Don't shame junior idols.

>>16000494

Though thou art a heathen for using .si, I must say it was kind of you to find it for me. Sometimes even I find it upon myself to depend upon cartelniggers. Thank you, anon.

I sure wanna talk about Ojamajo Doremi, specially with the guy who just found out about the show, but this isn't the board for it and also I wanna see if we can talk about the Sega Pico.

So I made a thread over there on /a

https://8ch.net/a/res/898393.html

>>16000602

In case you don't wanna go there to the thread, I wanted to share some episodes you could watch first just to see if you like the show in general. They spoil almost nothing, you don't need much context to get them and what little they spoil doesn't matter.

I chose these episodes not only because I like them (neither of the is my favorite) but because I feel they represent the show:

Season 1, episode 44

"I Want to Be a Female Pro Wrestler!"

Cute wrestling loli Mutsumi Kudo goes with the witches to see a match live and cheers for her favorite wrestling champion.

Season 4, episode 13

"Mutsumi's Retirement Announcement!"

Cute wrestling loli Mutsumi Kudo goes full identity crisis when her favorite wrestling champion announces she's gonna retire, and on top of that all the boys who wrestled with her the year before don't want to wrestle any more. She's clueless as to why, so she chooses to retire as well and bury her own identity. This episode has cool and funny animation and lots of very good jokes and funny situations.

Season 4, episode 17

"Protect the Secret Base!"

The boys form a secret club to do cool shit in and keep it secret from the girls, but the girls one by one find it and then they protect it together against the adults that just don't understand kids.

Season 3, episode 9

"Hazuki and Masaru's Treasure"

Because she doesn't know much Japanese, Momo-chan misunderstands Hazuki and thinks she's been given a tiny ocarina to keep, but in fact it was a gift from her bad-boy boyfriend. When the boy finds out Hazuki is giving away his gifts, he becomes a badder boy.

OVA episode 5

"Someone Who Knows the Sorrow ~Pop and Hana's Secret~"

Baby Hana and Pop (Doremi's six year old sister) trade bodies leaving Pop in the body of a baby that can't talk, and Hana goes to school where she acts like a baby to the shock of the entire class. Then she chooses to pee her pants (or rather, Pop's pants) in class, which would humiliate Pop for ever.

Season 4, episode 24

"With Love and Justice! We Are Majo Ranger!"

Hana becomes a fan of some Power rangers show, but since she has the mind of a baby can't differentiate between TV and reality and so she chooses to become a sentai heroine. The other witches try to stop her at first but soon reconsider.

Season 4, episode 32

"Even a Good Child Worries"

Hana runs away from home because the oldest witches treat her like a baby (which she is) and finds her classmate Sachiko on her way. They talk and become friends, and then Hana messes things up, and we all learn a valuable lesson.

If you watch those and you like them, then you'll know you'll like the show and also you'll get a pretty good idea of what's it all about in tone, humor and themes.

>>15999043

>Oh and this is the season with the

RACISM EPISODE

Somebody give me the details.

>>16003484

Momoko, the one with hoops on her hair, grew in Ney York and has all sorts of friends of different races and her BFF is a dorky but kind blackie, and one of the many episodes that explore culture shock is about her finding out that the Japanese can be racially insensitive.

The blonde one with long hair assumed no one would have a black for a friend.

>>15999171

I hate this "deconstruction" shit. Magical girl stuff has always been miserably depressing. Mecha has always been miserably depressing. Toku has always been miserably depressing. "Deconstruction" is just western marketing speech for "It's okay, you can watch this one ironically!", leading to entire generations of non-fans who only watch things that promise a safe viewing that they can tell all their friends about with a wink saying "Oh, but this kids show is different, it's MOODY and HAS THEMES".

>>16004576

>soundless

>>16004576

I agree that MUH DECONSTRUCTION is a shitty non-descriptor, but it's a mostly false claim to say that most Magical Girl, Mecha, etc anime are "miserably depressing". They have their moments, sure, but those are made to emphasize some kind of triumph. Shows like Eva and Madoka don't have any real form of "triumph" in the end; if anything, you only see it in the beginning.

NGE+EoE is great despite some 2deep4u bullshit, everything else is shit

Madoka is just pure shit, with an extra dose of 2DEEP4U

>>16004724

>I'm not saying that's most of what it has to offer, I'm just saying it's always been there.

>Magical girl stuff has always been miserably depressing.

>>16004992

indeed

Majokko Megu dealt with situations that could be described as aggressively real, including child abuse and shit like that

Miracle Girl Limit-chan was named because the original premise was going to be that she had one year to live. Deciding this was too depressing, they changed the story so that she was a full-body cyborg. She stresses over whether she can still be considered human.

>>16004192

>you can actually emulate Pico games on one of the Genesis emulators

That's a big shock, actually.

I guess I like the touch pad and the limited interactivity with the tiny books, though. What happens if you somehow jam a Pico cartridge into a Genesis?

>>16004576

>I hate this "deconstruction" shit

Even if you feel that way, Ojamajo Doremi isn't deconstructing anything. It's basically a show about friendship in a world where magic is real and lessons are learned.

>>16005710

For sure.

Right, it's not like I don't agree or I wouldn't spend hours talking about Ojamajo Doremi and the deconstruction of generes, but maybe we shoul do it over there on /a?

The Pico is, I think, a very interesting console.ñ/toy.

Oh wow, a Sega Pico thread?

Well, to be honest, you're not really gonna find many games worth playing unless you're a super anime enthusiast, as most of the games are built for small children/toddlers, and are based on existing animes, but the console itself is actually a pretty nifty piece of history.

It has over 300 games, was supported for over 10 years, and is one of Sega's most successful consoles of all time (inside Japan). The Pico also had an early touchscreen, and was based off of the architecture of the Mega Drive, which is why you can run ROMs on genesis emulator, as another anon has said.

But that's not all. The Pico's success was completely overhwhelming; it created a 90s techno craze that threatened to swallow the worldwide toy market whole. These consoles were expected to surpass and replace conventional children's toys - a sentiment that seems absurd now, but in the 90s, seemed quite plausible. Its success spawned the Vtech and Leapfrog systems in the US, which were very popular for a while.

Bandai, being Japan's supreme leader in toys, saw this as a danger to their business, and a year after the Pico's release, decided to create their own system, the Playdia. They dumped a ton of money into it, and gave it superior hardware, full CD-ROM and FMV capabilities, and used as many of their licenses as they could muster to crank out shovelware (and they had a lot of licenses, being a huge toy company and all). Unfortunately, it flopped, mainly because it was too expensive compared to the Pico, but its still peculiar how many games it had. There exist no emulators whatsoever that can emulate the Playdia, but you can still find gameplay footage online. Most of it appears very similar to watching a typical 90s anime with interludes of crudely drawn "graphics", but all of the footage was unique to the console.

There's also a number of very obscure and lost-media type games that existed on these sorts of consoles, especially as the market became more saturated. I think there was even a Sonic game at one point.

>>16011422

Oh? you like? Then I've got more for you.

I'm actually a huge Sailor Moon fanatic, which is why I know anything about the Playdia or Pico. Sailor Moon was massive in Japan in the 90s (and to this day still has stuff coming out), so subsequently, there's a lot of lost media surrounding it.

One of these loosely relates to the Pico. As I said earlier, the Pico cemented a Japanese craze that spawned a lot of "techno-toys" that blurred the line between game console and child's plaything. You may recognize the Tamagotchi as one of these ideas that gained widespread appeal, but many of them… ah… maybe it's better to say MOST of them, didn't have as much success. Bandai was busy firing off crazy ideas left and right around the time of the Playdia, desperately trying to emulate the success of the Pico. One of these was the "Terebikko" - a strange telephone-shaped "console" that hooked up to your VCR via analog audio and used inaudible audio signals to skip through the tape, creating the illusion of interactivity. It had four colored buttons which corresponded to on-screen quiz options, requiring players to answer basic questions (or more importantly, learn to read what was on the screen) to progress. Up until recently, very little was known about the console, including its release date, but it was discovered that it was actually released in 1988 - far before the Sega Pico, which means it likely WASN'T directly made as a response to the pico; in fact, many of the VHS tapes discovered for it were based on very old and recognizable franchises, such as Doraemon, Mumin and even Mario World

One of them, however, WAS released around the time of the Playdia - Kotaete Moon Call, which was a Sailor Moon themed tape that featured a unique story made specifically for the Terebikko. It was based on Sailor Moon Super, which meant it was released sometime in 1994 - a year after the Pico's release. For roughly two decades, no footage of the game existed, and it was considered a permanently lost episode. All that remained of it was a single TV spot from 1994, which also featured what appeared to be an updated version of the Terebikko - was it a new model released as part of the techno-toys craze? No-one knows. However, as early as the late 2000s, a photo of the tape's case emerged, and a few years later, a fully fansubbed playthrough of the game emerged as well. Toei are as copyright trolly as Nintendo, so keeping footage of it on youtube is spotty, but if you're interested in seeing Terebikko footage, there's currently an upload at this link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEwUa3YfYIA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4cECoCp0PM - The commerical in question.

I genuinely love you faggots. Very interesting thread.

>>16016421

I don't even know if it's sarcasm, but it is a very nice and interesting thread. I've been trying to bring it back to the Pico because that's the point of the board, to my credit.

>>16018393

I wanna tap Hana's head, as Doremi demonstrates here.

But yes, Beth is very cute and a nice little nig, I wish she showed up more in doujinshi.

>>16011773

Where are you getting all this info?

One of the most acclaimed features of the Pico was its touch pen, or "magic pen", which allowed children to interact with the storyware via the touch pad. It was certainly ahead of its time, even if the tech was archaic compared to touch screens today.

Speaking of touch screens, another one of Bandai's attempts to de-throne the pico came in the form of a touch-heavy device called the "Design Master Senshi Mangajukuu" (Design Master Electronic Manga Lessons), or just the Design Master for short. Introduced in 1995, it was likely loosely inspired by the recent surge in popularity of PDAs, and featured a technically superior touch screen that was built for drawing. In fact, the console had no buttons whatsoever, and most of its library revolved around learning to draw. With its black color scheme, the device was probably aimed at older children who were aspiring artists.

The Design Master is extremely rare, and was only ever released in Japan. It's so rare, in fact, that I can hardly find any pictures or info of it; very little remains on its library or specifications. It did have a bright red stylus for drawing, and likely used a touch LCD similar to others of the era. The device itself had a plastic cover over the screen that opened upwards when in use, and probably ran on batteries. Design Master cartridges were labeled on the top-right corner of the box with either a "G" for "Game", or an "M" for "Manga" (which likely were unbranded drawing lessons). The touch screen seems like it would have worked better than you'd expect, as the screenshots I have seem to show a decent amount of fidelity in its drawing capabilities, but it probably failed due to the resulting pricetag, or all that expensive tech's inability to withstand much roughhousing.

And of course, there was a Sailor Moon game on here, too. It seems to have been based on the SuperS series, which matches up with the device's 1995 release.The game is absurdly rare; I do have a booklet and scans of the box, but of course, a ROM or even footage is out of the question. It will likely remain lost media forever. From what I can gather, the game tasked players with imitating character artwork, drawing pictures requested by the characters, and would attempt to rate players' drawings by a percentage metric.