This Month in Retro September 2023
Hello all and welcome back to This Month in Retro! Today, we'll be taking a trip back to September of 1989, where... nothing too interesting happened actually! After all, only a month prior is when NEC launched the TurboGrafx-16 in America, while Sega took their opportunity to release the Sega Genesis. It's not too surprising then that the industry would take their chance to cool down a month after. Fortunately, we still have a bunch of interesting games to look at!
As usual, I will be taking you through both the games released this month in the west, as well as the games that have to this day never left Japan. Surprisingly however, the number of Japanese-exclusive games this month is actually really low, so this month is a bit of a "TMIR Lite" edition. Don't think I've used that term before, looks cool. I will also be talking about the reception the games got from critics- and players like, though do keep in mind that everything released during- and before the third generation of gaming is a bit scarce in information, so sales numbers are the like may not be accurate or not even present. But we'll find that out along the way; let's talk about games!
Wait... can you hear that? There, in the distance! It's... the Nepiki Bias Alarm, NBA™ for short! Of course when I saw this game pop up on the list of releases, there was no doubt in my mind it would be the first game to talk about today.
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 Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap (Master System)
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| Release dates | NA: September ??, 1989 |
| PAL: October ??, 1989 | |
| Sales | Unknown |
| Average score | 85% (MobyGames, 23 reviews) |
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 Bleach: Erabareshi Tamashii (PlayStation 2)
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| Release dates | JP: August 4, 2005 |
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