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This Month In Retro July 2022

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Hello all and welcome to This Month in Retro! Today, I am taking you back to July 1991, a month after which Sonic the Hedgehog started his domination of the video game market. While everyone was recovering this month from the idea that something could counter the big N on the home console market, Atari had set their sights on dominating the handheld market by upgrading the Atari Lynx into the Atari Lynx II. Although it was a massive upgrade with a slick new model, a better screen, and better battery life, we all know how it ended up like pretty much anything Atari. It is a shame though, because the Atari Lynx II is arguably one of Atari's best systems ever--not that it's too hard to accomplish that but still.

The other industry happening was that ASCII Entertainment Software Inc acquired NEXOFT corporation, a publisher with a small library of games. Some of those games are true hidden gems though, like Gun-Nac and Faria: A World of Mystery & Danger!. ASCII Entertainment Software was the U.S. division of the now-defunct ASCII Corporation, but ended up becoming Agetec Inc. Some of the games they published include the first two King's Field games, Armored Core: Project Phantasma, Aerogauge, and many more.

The game side of this month didn't have too many outstanding games, but there are still a few neat little gems to talk about. As with the first edition two issues back, I'll be splitting it up in two categories: games that came to the west for the first time, and games that have never left Japan to this date. That means that unfortunately I won't be talking about Final Fantasy II... IV... whatever, as it released in July in Japan but has seen a western release only a few months later. I'll be taking a look at some of the best games, the worst games, and some of the hidden gems, together with documenting their sales, scores, and achievement sets if available. Do keep in mind that the early 80s and 90s were all documented rather poorly, so scores may not always reflect the true quality. Of course, I'll be going in-depth when this is the case.

Also, I talked about the Atari Lynx II earlier and I wouldn't be surprised if there were some games released this month for the system, but release dates for these games have also been documented extremely poorly so I unfortunately won't be talking about any of them. If you have a good place that documents release dates for the Atari Lynx II or any other system, please let me know through a direct message on either Discord or RetroAchievements!


Western Releases

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Release dates JP: March 9, 1996
NA: May 13, 1996
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Japanese-exclusive Releases

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Release date JP: ..
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Conclusion

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