ヴァージンゲーム - Virgin Games in Japan!
I'm clearly a fan of Virgin Games, having done a few blogs about games they've released, but having recently obtained 2 Japanese consoles and doing some research, I've found that Virgin had a Japanese subsidiary in the mid 90's. My first thought was that it was set up to bring their most popular games from the West to the Japanese market. In the most part, this is what they did. However, the are some unique, Japanese based games that were clearly made for their own market. Let's look at each console and what offerings Virgin Games K.K. (as they were known in Japan) gave the land of the rising sun. SEGA MEGA DRIVE 1) Aladdin (1993) One of the best games released on the Mega Drive, it was actually released by Sega worldwide, but I've included it as it was developed by Virgin Games and released in Japan. Due to the storytelling aspects in the game, it was translated into Japanese. Having played the Japanese version, it's a straight conversion, but runs 16.67% s