Gotta give a shoutout to PandaMoniumReviews on YouTube/PandaMoniumGR on Twitter, who does a documentary series on US-released Sega Saturn games (I highly recommend his video on Virtua Cop which is FOUR HOURS LONG but also he interviews several of the Japanese developers that were responsible for the Saturn port of Virtua Cop, so it's a nice rare look at what development on the Saturn was like for not only Japanese developers, but internal Sega developers). For some reason he followed me on Twitter, probably because of some of my Sega-related tweets floating around online, and then he heard about this project and out of nowhere dropped high resolution camera photos of the charts from the February and March 1995 issues of Sega Saturn Magazine. He mentioned that he acquired those issues of Sega Saturn Magazine, along with two others, in the hopes of getting them scanned and uploaded on the internet as they are currently the issues of Sega Saturn Magazine that aren't available online yet. Thanks to those charts, I was able to go back and make sure that my reverse-engineering of the February 1995 charts using the March 1995 charts was actually correct (it was), and then I was able to add in the average reader review scores for each of those entries, which I feel is the more important numbers to look at rather than the actual rankings.

I now only have four charts left to transcribe, and once I'm done with that, the rest should just be any editing I need to do to clean it up, from fixing any potential typos I missed to perhaps better accessibility options if need be.

My eyes hurt working on these charts for too long.


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in reply to @MercuryCDX's post:

amazing how you got the formatted spreadsheet in here (or good job Cohost, maybe)

great to see my girl Thunder Force III getting all that respect. and surprised how dominant Castle of Illusion was.

From the charts you can kind of tell the thought process Sega had when deciding what games to put on both Mega Drive Mini 2 mini consoles in Japan. Few duplicate franchise entries and specifically choosing certain titles based on Beep! rankings (the producer mentions this magazine and Mega Drive Fan magazine a lot as part of the research they did in the development of those mini consoles).