Segata Sanshiro The Game!

When I get into something, I get RIGHT INTO IT... I don't do things by half measures. January's obsession was the wonderful Segata Sanshiro, human face of the Sega Saturn on Japanese TV, way back in the nineties.









Last month if someone was selling a pair of soiled tramp's underpants on ebay, I'd have bid for them... as long as they'd had a picture of Segata Sanshiro on them, or were endorsed by him in some way.

Hell, I even set up a cult to the guy, although it didn't actually take off that well, only peaking at four members...(me, Elderly, Gnome and Seamus).

So you might be unsurprised to know that when I discovered that there was actually a game devoted to my idol and guru, I had to have it.

Thus I scoured the Internet for this Japanese only release, and was stunned to find that it arrived within 24 hours of me ordering it.





£24 including P + P. Now that is a lot to pay for a Saturn game, even a rare one, albeit a Japanese import. That could buy you ten Dreamcast games, twelve standard Saturn titles.
It could buy you a ticket to go and watch Manchester City lose at home. I'm sure it could buy you the full works from one of the working girls down Whalley Range, and still leave you enough for a bag of chips and a taxi home....

In short it's a lot.

However, hell nor highwater would have stopped me from getting it, whilst I was in the "Sanshiro Zone", as I was just a week ago...

So what does the committed Sanshirophile get for his dough? Essentially a collection of 2D mini-games and puzzles. Very similar to those you find on sites like Miniclip or Funnygames, but all featuring the great man himself.

You can play as Segata Christmas, flying through the air and throwing presents down chimneys.

Or perhaps enjoy the 'Segata butting through stacks of roof-tiles challenge'...

Maybe you could while away the hours or minutes playing as Segata kicking items dropped off a cliff, into a skip.

Go crazy playing the Segata Sanshiro crazy hair style 'snap' game or enjoy my own particular favourite, entitled "Watch Segata Drown Whilst You Play A 'Columns' Style Game Against The Clock-a-thon"....

Heaven knows what the real game titles are because all the script is in Japanese... Suffice to say, that only the committed Segata Sanshiro obsessive would part with £24 for such a game...





As a bonus you get to watch the commercials you can watch for...erm... free on Youtube....





No wonder I'm a fucking pauper... If only I could curb my game collecting ways, I'd be sunning myself in the Carribbean right now (perhaps).

Bollocks! It's a one off collectors item, I own it, I love it and I wouldn't have it any other way...

Now for one last time let's all join in THAT song... 1,2,3... SAY-GAH-TA SAN-SHE-ROW...etc. etc...