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End of an era and Saint Seiya Knights of the Zodiac

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India was not a very good place to be a fan of Japanese role playing games on NES. We did not get original cartridges. Instead we got cartridges filled with many games. I remember having NES cartridges having 4 to 6 games in them. Older games like Tetris and Super Mario Bros were found on cartridges that came with 100000 games and it read on the cover 100000 in 1 while there were maybe 20 original games iterated over and over in different menus. Those were dark times for gaming I guess. This was the condition in the 2000’s. We also did not have original NES console as it was too expensive to import to India. Instead we had knock offs but I was super happy to play on them. Even if I knew that it was not the original console do you think I would mind? Saint Seiya Knights of the Zodiac main screen. Back when I played it on the NES it was all in Japanese. This screenshot is from a Longplay video on Youtube. And then, in around 2004 to 2006 I started discovering JRPG game...