Front and back cover of the Japanese only 2001 Dreamcast title from Softmax:

Golf Shiyouyo 2 ~New Challengers~ / Tee Off 2 / ゴルフしようよ２ 〜新たなる挑戦〜

Scan from Sega Retro and cleaned up by us, the sequel to Tee Off on Dreamcast remained only in Japan. You can see our stream on it above, while not the best looking game it's packed with unlockable content to earn in-game and is a nice clone of titles like Everybody's Golf / Hot Shots Golf.

Lychnis

Developed and released exclusively in South Korea during the DOS heydays, Lychnis is a 2D platformer, and a very average one at that. It stars the courageous knight Lychnis and the tomboyish mage Iris, on their way to save the fantasy land from clutches of the overlord Sakiski. It also bears some very uncanny semblance to Mario games, specifically Super Mario World from four years prior, from aromatic aesthetics to familiar enemy design to the shape of rigid slopes. This kind of imitation wasn’t uncommon in Korea, where most developers at the time focused their development on the computers, usually copying something popular on consoles and then selling it to those who couldn’t afford them. 

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