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bombman
12-24-2008, 02:26 PM
Is this Sega's way of, erm.. judging their own games? I really wouldn't put it past them to do something like this.

Looking quickly through my collection. Most of my games have 5 stars including Alex Kidd, Kenseiden, Maou Golvellius, Blade Eagle 3D, Alien Syndrome, etc.

Family Games, Mahjong Senkoku Jidai, Ninja Princess, Tensai Bakabon, Doki Doki Penguin Land, Masters Golf, some other games, have 4 stars.

Phantasy Star and Haja No Fuuin (both are pretty flashy as far as packaging) have 6 stars. After Burner also has 6 stars.

None of the games go below 4 stars... lawl

If you go to the museum on SMS Power, you can check the few Mark III boxes they have there, and see for yourself.

bombman
12-24-2008, 02:30 PM
Oh, scratch that. The SG-1000 and 3000 games all have ranging from 1 to 3 stars. Yep, pretty weird.

ccovell
12-24-2008, 09:18 PM
Luckily I have a "Sega Consumer History" book (Japanese) right here, which explains it all.

It's a pricing code.

Stars->Price
1 = 3800 yen (N-SUB, Congo Bongo, etc)
2 = 4300 yen (Champion Baseball, Sindbad, etc)
3 = 4800 yen (Choplifter, Pitfall II, etc)
4 = 5000 yen (Hokuto no Ken, Fantasy Zone, etc)
5 = 5500 yen (Rocky, Enduro Racer, etc)
6 = 5800/6000 yen (Haja no Fuuin, Phantasy Star)
7 = no titles
8 = 9800 yen (Zaxxon 3-D + 3-D Glasses Set)

bombman
12-24-2008, 11:03 PM
oh, well that makes infinitely more sense