Little Samson

Little Samson is a rather obscure game with mechanics similar to Mega Man, where you play as four characters with different abilities.

It's pretty well regarded and generally considered a hidden gem... However, gems aren't cheap. Thanks to its rarity, it has become notorious for how expensive it (the US version mainly) is nowadays, usually costing thousands, worse so if you want it boxed.

Unused Graphics#

Griffin Statue#

This statue is technically used, as a background decoration, in the second wizard stage. However, because of an oversight, the palette it should be using is entirely black at that point in the stage, turning the proper color shortly after it gets offscreen.

Skull#

A skull sprite loaded among the rest of the wizard's tiles. It vaguely resembles their projectiles and a completely different enemy, but it's never used.

Regional Differences#

Intro Cutscene#

On powerup/reset, the Japanese version immediately jumps to the introduction cutscene. In the international versions, the title screen appears for a moment beforehand.

Font#

Japan	International

The international versions have the order of the letters altered, dropping the vowels on the end and adding the "?" and "&" symbols. This affects the password screen and the passwords themselves, as they have the same values but use the different font, so the letters shown are different.

Graphical Changes#

Japan	International

A little bit of cleavage was removed from this boss.

Japan	International

For some reason, two of the background sparkles got edited.

Staff Roll#

International	Japan	Text	Translation
		脚本 吉本伸一 David Boowy	Scenario Shinichi Yoshimoto
		演出 吉本伸一 転　清	Production Shinichi Yoshimoto Kiyoshi Utata
		技術 知花 司 David Boowy	Programming Tsukasa Chibana
		殺陣 転　清 北村　洋	Swordfight Kiyoshi Utata Hiroshi Kitamura
		美術 中村幽子 熊谷由佳	Art Yuko Nakamura Yuka Kumagai
		音楽 流石一秀 ゆきまり	Music Kazuhide Sasuga Yukimari
		協力 こみやまゆみ	Cooperation Mayumi Komiya
		美術監督 中村幽子	Art Director Yuko Nakamura
		監督 吉本伸一	Director Shinichi Yoshimoto
	N/A

• The Japanese version has the credits against a black background, while the international version shows Kikira carrying Samson with a mountainscape in the background, which transitions into the four heroes being congratulated by a crowd of soldiers.
• The Japanese version uses 16x16 Japanese characters for the credits text, while the international version uses standard 8x8 text. Also note the "David Boowy" name in the Japanese version is written in cursive.
• Some of the developers use their real names in the Japanese version, and later used aliases in the international version.
• The closing logos were placed differently.

Sound Test#

The password NB50 (KAZU in the Japanese version) brings you to a Music Room. Up and Down change the number, A or B both play the selected track.

The game uses Tsukasa Masuko's (former composer and programmer at Atlus Co., Ltd.) sound driver.