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The Kataban Podcast
by Kataban
Two gamers talk about Japanese retro games: the hidden gems, the ones that never got a sequel, and the stories behind them. New episodes every week.
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#6 Golden Axe: The Hero Named Ax Has No Axe
Sega's Golden Axe hit Japanese arcades in January 1989: a barbarian, an amazon and a dwarf against Death Adder. Thirty-seven years later, the guy named Ax still carries a sword. Emily and James talk about kicking blue thieves for magic pots, a riding monster borrowed from Altered Beast, a village...
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#5 Fire Emblem: Six Games That Never Left Japan
Fire Emblem began on the Famicom in 1990 — and its first six games never left Japan. The West started at game number seven and didn't know it. Emily and James talk about soldiers who stay dead, swords that break, the two sword guys in Smash Bros. nobody recognized, the Super Famicom game where…
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#4 Rondo of Blood: The Castlevania Japan Kept for 14 Years
In 1993, Konami released Castlevania: Rondo of Blood on the PC Engine CD — and for fourteen years, it stayed in Japan. Alice and Brian talk about a spooky German intro, a twelve-year-old with doves who outplays the hero, the joke game that boots when you use the wrong System Card, and how its…
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#3 Top Hunter: SNK's Stretchy-Armed Brawler That Got a Cameo Instead of a Sequel
In 1994, SNK put a stretchy-armed bounty hunter game in arcades, then on a cartridge that cost more than a console. It charted, it was re-released for thirty years, and it never got a sequel. Ray and Jay talk about Top Hunter: Roddy & Cathy: two lanes to hop between, chains that might drop a…
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#2 Mutation Nation: The Neo Geo Brawler Everyone Liked and Nobody Remembers
In 1992, with Street Fighter II in every arcade, SNK released a beat-'em-up about punching mutants in the year 2050. It charted, it reviewed well, and it never got a sequel. Ray and Jay talk about Mutation Nation: four elemental spheres, a character select screen with nothing to select, a hero…
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#1 Neo Turf Masters: The Golf Game From the Metal Slug Studio
In 1996, a tiny Osaka studio called Nazca released two games. One was Metal Slug. The other was a golf game. Ray and Jay talk about Neo Turf Masters: two-click swings, six golfers from six countries, brutal wind, why it never got a sequel, and its surprise return at Tokyo Game Show 2026. Read…
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Two gamers talk about Japanese retro games: the hidden gems, the ones that never got a sequel, and the stories behind them. New episodes every week.
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