Teddy Boy Blues?

[Elusive]

I've gotten my hands on a copy of 'SING!! SEGA GAMES MUSIC'. It's a 1992 CD album featuring vocal (English) versions of tracks from SEGA games - for instance, track 4, 'After Tonight', is Last Wave from OutRun, with vocals.

The interesting thing is, track 1 is a Japanese Mega-CD game, called Teddy Boy Blues. The copyright on the title screen is 1985 & 1992, so I'm guessing it's possibly a version/port of a previous game.

Besides being able to select the soundtrack (from the other tracks on the CD, obviously), it plays like a weird combination of Mega Man and Flicky. You have to shoot toys and things as they pop out of ringing alarm clocks.

It's not on the Master List - a) should this count, and b) is there any evidence it appeared anywhere else (i.e. a commercial release)?

[Genesis Knight]

I've never heard of this one. Ever. Can you put up some screen grabs?

[Zebbe]

Found some info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_Boy_(video_game))

Elusive: Write a feature and/or review, it would be awesome!

[redrum666]

Found some info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_Boy_(video_game))

Elusive: Write a feature and/or review, it would be awesome!

it was released in japan as part of the sega game can compilations for mega cd

man you got to love wikipedia they are right about every thing:bull:

[redrum666]

by the way if any one want to know more about Sega Games Can series here is a video i found on youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE__TREfWgs

[Elusive]

Found some info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_Boy_(video_game))

Elusive: Write a feature and/or review, it would be awesome!

Hmm. I'll see if I can dig up any dirt on this CD, first. Right now there's nothing to say except 'what the hell am I doing in this game?!' There's some handy instruction text in the liner notes, but I cannot read Japanese :(

The Wikipedia article looks to be accurate, track 2 is titled 'Teddy Boy Blues', and is the default BGM. Apologies for the odd resolution & scanlines, I've been messing around with Fusion:

http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/4153/titlebf8.th.jpg (http://img442.imageshack.us/my.php?image=titlebf8.jpg)
Title screen (which appears right after the BIOS screen, thanks Mega Cart!)

http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/2859/copyrightithinkix3.th.jpg (http://img236.imageshack.us/my.php?image=copyrightithinkix3.jpg)
A copyright screen? This appears after pressing Start at the title screen.

http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/9770/getreadyfu1.th.jpg (http://img212.imageshack.us/my.php?image=getreadyfu1.jpg)
And we're getting ready...

http://img471.imageshack.us/img471/9885/ohnoiamnotgoodatthisgammn5.th.jpg (http://img471.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ohnoiamnotgoodatthisgammn5.jpg)
oh no i am not good at this game :(

edit: Game Can? The Mega-CD game compilations? Hmm. There's no evidence of SEGA sponsorship or whatever, besides a classic Sonic waving his finger on the cover. Besides, didn't SEGA have their own SST Team from like 1989 onwards (now SEGAROCK?) to do commercial remixes of their songs?

[Joe Redifer]

I have this. It's on one o' them compilation CDs or something.

EDIT: Yeah, Game Can. I'll try to post pics soon.

[Zebbe]

redrum666: I didn't say that.

Elusive: Do you see any copyright stuff in Romaji?

Joe Redifer: Is it good? Is it ultr@ r@re?

[playgen]

The game was originally distributed across the Japanese internet service for megadrive - Meganet. But since that service didn't last very long, they decided to put some of its games on CD - The Gamecan disks.

[redrum666]

redrum666: I didn't say that.

i never said you said that i was talking about the wikipedia artcle if you had readed it said


The game was ported to the Sega Genesis, and virtually completed, but never released.

but how ever the game was released as part of the sega game can series for the mega cd in japan

[Zebbe]

Maybe the Wikipedophiles didn't know that.

[Joe Redifer]

Here's some pics of the game running on my award-winning Sega CD:

http://pixelcraze.film-tech.net/crap/tbb3.jpg
Select from many games including many of the Phantasy Star 2 Text Adventures
as well as stunning games like Penguin Land!!!! A voice tells you which
button you are pressing, even if you press MODE! Wow. Technology is amazing!

http://pixelcraze.film-tech.net/crap/tbb5.jpg
The title screen. It surpasses the Sega Master System Version because
it has an extra word (the SMS is technically not capable of the word "Blues").

http://pixelcraze.film-tech.net/crap/tbb6.jpg
I don't really understand this game. The alarms keep ringing and ringing.
I think I am supposed to collect things. I advance to the next stage randomly.

http://pixelcraze.film-tech.net/crap/tbb9.jpg
This looks cool I think. The PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16 could never do graphics like these!!!

[Elusive]

That's the one. Shoot anything that moves, then pick it up. Is there only one background redbook music track?

[Joe Redifer]

Yeah, I don't think the music changed at all... and it is CD quality redbook power from the future! The game also has two independent scrolling backgrounds. High-tech for sure.

[outrunner]

Teddy boy sega cd very cool indeed. Now all we need is pengo and penguin land.
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I like aquatic birds.

[Joe Redifer]

We do have Penguin Land, it's on the same disc. I don't know what Pengo is, though.

[outrunner]

Pengo is an ice shoving game. Like sokoban.
http://www.mobygames.com/game/pengo
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[David J.]

Teddy Boy Blues was first an arcade game based on a song from some famous Japanese Idol (Yohko Ishino ) and it was ported to the SMS, where the Japanese version was called Teddy Boy Blues, and just Teddy Boy in the USA. It was released on the Meganet for the Japanese Megadrive, and then found its way to the Gamenokan discs for the Mega CD which where just SegaNET complitation discs.

[Joe Redifer]

Where have you been? You may have said where you were going, but I wasn't listening. Don't leave again or I will BAN you!

[evildragon]

Don't leave again or I will BAN you!
damn your strict :p

[David J.]

Where have you been? You may have said where you were going, but I wasn't listening. Don't leave again or I will BAN you!

I leave for Texas on November 13th... going to be in San Antinono for six and a half weeks, and damned if I know where I'll be for tech school.