exploring japanese home computer games as an american is wild because like, even the most obscure console sludge has some coverage on the english speaking web. someone back in 2007 wrote an article on their website, hardcoreoldschoolgaming dot net, it's dot com, about whatever hot trash sega master system mini golf title you're contemplating firing up. you don't even have to do any work. just look at that guys screenshots. hell, maybe the google link shows the page is titled "Great Minigolf - A Disaster In Three Levels" so you don't even fucking click it and move on to another .sg file. the edges of this stone are smoothed over by millennia of waves.
i just played a game on pc88 that looks like it should absolutely be a namco arcade port from the early 80s golden era, except it was probably made by Some Guy and there are zero google results for it. the only way to know most of these games exist is simply to put virtual disks in the virtual drive and flip between V1 and V2 until you get a picture, then figure out what the picture wants you to do
