Sat, 22 December 2018
Japanese publisher Taito makes its NES debut with a pair of games that, in stark contrast to the games that immediately precede them, quite faithfully recreate their arcade predecessors rather than reinvent them. That's not a bad thing, necessarily, but given the ambitious design of the games released on either side of this duo, it does cause Taito to feel a bit behind the curve. (They'll sort it out eventually.)
Direct download: Elevator_Action_26_Legend_of_Kage_retrospective_Ups_and_downs___NES_Works_23046.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 11:48am EDT |
Sat, 22 December 2018
Young Kevin McAllister had it rough being stuck all by himself with a house full of crooks for Christmas, but really that was nothing compared to the suffering experienced by anyone who played his game. Home Alone leads into the final run of 1991 Super NES games, and... they aren't great.
Direct download: Home_Alone_retrospective_Doing_hard_time_in_solitary___Super_NES_Works_23027.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 11:46am EDT |
Sat, 22 December 2018
Capcom continues its diligent efforts to overhaul its arcade games for NES with a revamp every bit as admirable as Tecmo's fresh take on Rygar. A liner 1985 corridor shooter becomes a complex space labyrinth demanding patience, persistence, and a willingness to plot out some complicated connections, in effect becoming an all-new game—one diminished in history by its close proximity to Nintendo's Metroid and an unfortunate decision by Capcom USA to remove the save feature present in the Japanese release.
Direct download: Section-Z_retrospective_Tunnel_visionary___NES_Works_23045.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 11:45am EDT |
Fri, 23 November 2018
Tecmo delivers its third game almost immediately on the heels of Solomon's Key and Mighty Bomb Jack, and it's a doozy. Rygar kicks off a couple of trends we're going to see a lot of in the coming years on NES: It radically reinvents an arcade game for the console, and it's pretty much a proto-metroidvania action title. Good stuff here that deserves to be enshrined in history.
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Fri, 23 November 2018
The first of Nintendo's major releases for 1987 arrives, bringing with it some new technical innovations that will play a huge part in allowing U.S. releases for the system to maintain parity with titles that ran on pricey expansion hardware in Japan—and to go even further beyond that in the years to come. Oh, and the game itself is pretty good, too. Just be sure to take care when writing down those passwords...
Direct download: Kid_Icarus_retrospective_A_stygian_Pit___NES_Works_043.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 5:20pm EDT |
Fri, 23 November 2018
A new third-party challenger has appeared! Tecmo arrives on NES with two simultaneous launches, both of which more or less fall into the puzzle-platformer genre. Solomon's Key and Mighty Bomb Jack are full of arcane secrets and high difficulty levels. Just the kind of thing a growing video game boy needs in his diet.
Direct download: Mighty_Bomb_Jack__Solomons_Key_retrospective_Tecmos_inception___NES_Works_042.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 5:18pm EDT |
Fri, 23 November 2018
Future console first-party SNK makes its NES debut this week, and... well, let's just say there's room for improvement. Ikari Warriors was good and fun in the arcades, and on NES, it exists and doesn't cause your console to self-destruct. So that's something. Also, a half-look at Bandai's first Power Pad title, Athletic World.
Direct download: Ikari_Warriors__Athletic_World_retrospective_Anger_mismanagement___NES_Works_041.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 5:17pm EDT |
Fri, 23 November 2018
We looked at the original Castlevania for NES; now here is its Super NES remake. Sort of. Super Castlevania IV is kind of like a remix of Castlevania 1 and 3 (which does add up to IV!), but it makes some pretty big changes to the core mechanics of controlling Simon Belmont. On the other hand, it carries over a lot of elements from the NES, too. It's an odd duck in the Castlevania series that doesn't always work but has so much loving detail invested into it that it holds up regardless of its flaws.
Direct download: Super_Castlevania_IV_retrospective_Simons_big_adventure___Super_NES_Works_026.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 5:14pm EDT |
Fri, 26 October 2018
Yeah, it's another Konami game... but not just any ol' Konami game. Castlevania is huge for both the publisher and the platform. A compact, challenging, six-stage adventure, Castlevania manages to be one of those rare works that nails its concepts on the first go. It may owe its basic concept to Ghosts ’N Goblins, but this adventure is so much more than its inspiration. The first NES third-party masterpiece.
Direct download: Castlevania_retrospective_Vlad_tidings___NES_Works_040.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 9:58am EDT |
Fri, 26 October 2018
Another double-header of sports-themed games, but this time the works under the microscope don't adhere quite so rigidly to genre standards. Instead, both Bill Laimbeer's Combat Basketball and Super Off-Road take more inventive approaches to their subjects in pursuit of fun... though one of these is definitely more successful in that objective than the other.
Direct download: Super_Off_Road__Bill_Laimbeers_Combat_Basketball_Super_star_sagas___Super_NES_Works_025.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 9:56am EDT |
Fri, 26 October 2018
A pair of bog-standard sports titles awaits us as the Super NES library makes the transition from November to December 1991. We've already seen takes on these sports (golf and baseball) in very similar formats. What do T&E Soft and Culture Brain have to offer that HAL and Jaleco didn't? If anything!?
Direct download: Waialae_Country_Club__Super_Baseball_Simulator_1.000_Sporting_chance___Super_NES_Works_024.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 9:54am EDT |
Fri, 26 October 2018
Moving on to April and May 1987, three classic arcade games (well, maybe more like two classics and one "whuzzat?") arrive on NES in rapid succession courtesy of Data East and Konami. Konami's two games share a tenuous link in their cold wars roots, while Data East's game is... well, it's weird.
Direct download: Track__Field___Rush_N_Attack___BurgerTime_retrospective_Arcade_fire___NES_Works_039.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 9:53am EDT |
Thu, 20 September 2018
Metroidvania Chronicles gets a new name and look, but it's the same old retrospective journey through the evolution of exploratory action-RPGs and platformers all the same. This time we jump ahead to 1984 and Utopia's treasure-hunting pyramid platformer Montezuma's Revenge. Other games of note this episode: Pharaoh's Curse, Spelunker, Jet Set Willy.
Direct download: Metroidvania_Works_06_Montezumas_Revenge_Utopia_Parker_Bros._1983_That_funky_funky_flow.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 8:29am EDT |
Thu, 20 September 2018
We bid farewell to the Black Box era of Nintendo games even as we welcome an NES powerhouse into the fold. Slalom sees UK developer Rare make its console debut with a high-speed downhill racing game and the most carefully rendered video game man-butts this side of Metal Gear.
Direct download: Slalom_retrospective_Rares_slippery_slope_to_fame___NES_Works_038.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 8:27am EDT |
Thu, 20 September 2018
We're reaching the end of Nintendo's Black Box series of releases, and Pro Wrestling shows why: The NES library evolved beyond the basic experiences contained within the early Black Boxes. In this case, we have a remarkably well-designed wrestling game loaded with personality and memorable characters. Quite a change from all those earlier NES wrestling games... Also in this episode: Brief looks at Soccer and Volleyball.
Direct download: Pro_Wrestling___Soccer___Volleyball_retrospective_Amazon_delivers_pain___NES_Works_037.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 8:25am EDT |
Thu, 20 September 2018
The NES's third year in America kicks off in fine style with Capcom's Trojan, a fairly faithful (and slightly enhanced) conversion of a Kung-Fu style arcade hack-and-slash brawler. It's an interesting nexus for Capcom's history, and a promising start for NES's 1987 lineup.
Direct download: Trojan_retrospective_Apocalyptic_measures___NES_Works_036.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 8:21am EDT |
Thu, 20 September 2018
The second volume of Game Boy Works comes to a conclusion (look for the book this fall!) with a look at the system's first Zelda-style game. Uhhh… kinda. Rolan's Curse offers a glancing tangent to the top-down action-RPG, but there's not a lot of substance here — just the appearance of the thing.
Direct download: Rolans_Curse_retrospective_Hackneyed_slash___Game_Boy_Works_112.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 8:19am EDT |
Fri, 31 August 2018
Taito arrives on Super NES with a splash. Well, it should be a splash... you know, because of all the fish bosses. But they're actually in outer space? Darius is weird. But that's OK, because this Darius balances its quirkiness with the silkiest, smoothest action yet seen on the console. It's the cure for the common slowdown, and all it took was... not using any of the console's unique hardware features. Oh well!
Direct download: Darius_Twin_retrospective_Sashimi-grade_shooting___Super_NES_Works_023.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 7:24am EDT |
Tue, 7 August 2018
Another Game Boy follow-up to an NES game appears this week, and it's just as compromised and frustrating as you've come to expect. The Rescue of Princess Blobette consists almost entirely of recycled material from A Boy and His Blob, but it's a much smaller game — and a more limited one. And slower. And more cramped. And it sounds a lot worse. But on the plus side, uh… well, it won't melt down your Game Boy, probably. So that's something.
Direct download: The_Rescue_of_Princess_Blobette_retrospective_About_a_boy_and_a_blob____Game_Boy_Works_111.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 3:33pm EDT |
Tue, 7 August 2018
The Makaimura/Ghosts ’N Goblins series makes its debut on a third Nintendo console, and yeah, it's every bit as harsh as you'd expect. But is the beauty of the game's visuals and the intense satisfaction of finally reaching the next checkpoint enough to make it worth the suffering?
Direct download: Super_Ghouls_N_Ghosts_retrospective_Live._Die._Repeat___Super_NES_Works_022.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 3:30pm EDT |
Tue, 7 August 2018
And here at last we reach the end of this retrospective saga with a look at how Final Fantasy's fourth installment reworked the raw materials of its 8-bit predecessor to present a new and completely holistic take on the role-playing genre.
Direct download: Final_Fantasy_II_retrospective_Pt._3_Ludonarrative_Lunarians___Super_NES_Works_021_Pt._3.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 3:28pm EDT |
Tue, 7 August 2018
The middle chapter of this in-depth Final Fantasy II retrospective leaps from the game's innovative play mechanics to its equally striking approach to storytelling. By using all aspects of the game to relay its narrative, Final Fantasy II changed the way RPGs (and games!) integrated plots and characters into their design.
Direct download: Final_Fantasy_II_retrospective_Pt._2_The_revolution_televised___Super_NES_Works_021_Pt._2.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 3:26pm EDT |
Wed, 25 July 2018
This first of a multi-part look back at the original U.S. release of Final Fantasy IV explores the history behind the game and the significance of its innovative combat engine, the Active-Time Battle System.
Direct download: Final_Fantasy_II_retrospective_Pt._1_Active-Time_babble___Super_NES_Works_021_Pt._1.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 8:53am EDT |
Wed, 25 July 2018
A fascinating bit of Super NES technology fails to match its one-of-a-kind visual approach with equally unique gameplay. There are probably worse racers on the system, but R.P.M. Racing feels particularly disappointing given the unconventional graphical approach it takes and the impressive legacy that lay ahead for developer Silicon & Synapse. It one-of-a-kind bit of tech for Super NES, and it includes the system's first custom level creator complete with battery back-up, but it just isn't fun.
Direct download: R.P.M._Racing_retrospective_High_resolution_middling_evolution___Super_NES_Works_020.mp4
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Wed, 25 July 2018
One of gaming's greatest legacies gets its kickoff here... but it's not quite a slam dunk. More like a weak fly to left field. Um. Football? Yes.
Direct download: John_Madden_Football_retrospective_Block_and_tackle___Super_NES_Works_019.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 8:47am EDT |
Wed, 25 July 2018
Tengen scored a hit with its home rendition of Atari Games' arcade classic Paperboy, so naturally they wasted no time following up on it. But was this sequel really necessary? Did Tengen improve on a masterpiece, or merely spin their wheels? Find out by watching this video... next time you drop by my apartment unannounced to raid my pantry for cereal.
Direct download: Paperboy_2_retrospective_A_game_about_nothing___Super_NES_Works_018.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 8:45am EDT |
Mon, 28 May 2018
Game Boy shipped with the ability to allow two systems to link together for multiplayer sessions. But in late 1990, Nintendo took their portable multiplayer options one step further through the Four-Player Adapter, which shipped in the U.S. as a pack-in with the game F-1 Race. This week, we look at both game and peripheral.
Direct download: F-1_Race_and_the_Nintendo_4-Player_Adapter_A_mess_o_multiplayer___Game_Boy_Works_110.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 7:59pm EDT |
Mon, 28 May 2018
NOTE: After uploading this video, I discovered Pac-Man on Game Boy contains a hidden full-screen option, which would somewhat mitigate my criticisms of the game. Unfortunately, since I'm currently traveling and don't have access to video recording equipment, I can't amend the video. Expect a revised look (along with a second chance for Palamedes) once this "season" of Game Boy Works ends. Namco buries the axe with Nintendo long enough to bring its classic maze-chase arcade hit to Game Boy, and the results are… mixed. A strong game gets a slow, cramped rendition here. It's playable, yes, but this icon loses a few vital details in the process of squeezing down to fit Game Boy's limits, which means this is far from the definitive handheld take on Pac-Man… something that was true even back in the day.
Direct download: Pac-Man_retrospective_When_a_Man_becomes_a_Boy___Game_Boy_Works_109.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 7:56pm EDT |
Mon, 28 May 2018
Game Boy gets its second quick-iteration sequel to a previous release for the platform, and it's even less noteworthy than Boxxle II. Like the original Trump Boy, this follow-up contains three card game variants based around a pack of 52. The visuals look a little nicer and have some personality this time, and there's a four-player mode (that we'll look at in a different episode), but it's pretty just, you know, Trump Boy. Again.
Direct download: Trump_Boy_II_retrospective_Executive_disorder___Game_Boy_Works_108.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 7:53pm EDT |
Mon, 28 May 2018
An interesting spin on the puzzle platformer as only Masaya could deliver: This time, you solve puzzles by blowing up stuff. Unfortunately, the unconventional premise is let down by the clunky tech and programming. It's pretty good, but it should have been great.
Direct download: After_Burst_retrospective_Solve-em-up___Game_Boy_Works_107.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 7:51pm EDT |
Sun, 29 April 2018
Another Game Boy puzzler? Yes, but at least this one is different. Rather than involving boxes and tiles, Amida-kun riffs on the traditional Japanese lottery game, amidakuji… the same game that inspired Konami's Amidar. It's pretty basic as games go, but the underlying principle is fun, and challenging, so this one's not so bad.
Direct download: Soreyuke_Amida-kun_retrospective_Fakes_and_ladders___Game_Boy_Works_106.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 12:00pm EDT |
Mon, 23 April 2018
Another game licensed from a Japanese media property hits Super NES, but this one isn't quite as good as U.N. Squadron. In fact, it's really quite poor: A clumsy fighting game based on Ultraman's short-lived push into the U.S. television market. It might not be all bad if not for the unspeakably boneheaded victory condition requirement, which turns this into a jarring example of a faithful video game adaptation that suffers for its accuracy to the source material…
Direct download: Ultraman_Towards_the_Future_retrospective_Leave_it_in_the_past___Super_NES_Works_015.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 2:19pm EDT |
Mon, 23 April 2018
The Super NES gets its first sports game in the form of an entry in Jaleco's Bases Loaded baseball series, which doesn't offer a whole lot that you couldn't find in Jaleco's simultaneous release for NES, Bases Loaded 3. All this 16-bit iteration really offers over its 8-bit counterpart is a questionable race not for the pennant but rather for a "perfect" game, a task best left to masochists drowning in free time.
Direct download: Super_Bases_Loaded_retrospective_Yer_out___Super_NES_Works_014.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 2:17pm EDT |
Mon, 23 April 2018
As if to prove there's no idea so good that you can't do it several times over in mostly identical ways, here is the third Battleship-like naval combat game for Game Boy. This one is from Nintendo themselves, which means that it's less offbeat than Use's Battleship/Navy Blue or NTVIC's Power Mission, but it's a lot more polished. And it includes an entirely original secondary sub combat mode, too! Just be sure to play with a friend, because the computer cheats like crazy in this one… as usual.
Direct download: Radar_Mission_retrospective_War_is_much_better_down_where_its_wetter___Game_Boy_Works_105.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 2:11pm EDT |
Mon, 23 April 2018
Who says Game Boy racing games have to be awful? Not TOSE and Tonkin House, who evidently took the likes of Monster Truck as a challenge. Roadster is everything previous Game Boy racers weren't: Fun, a joy to control, fairly balanced, thoughtfully designed. Will wonders never cease?
Direct download: Roadster_retrospective_From_Game_Boy_to_turbo_teen___Game_Boy_Works_104.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 2:09pm EDT |
Mon, 23 April 2018
It's weird that someone in Japan made a game about the all-American pastime of monster trucks and didn't bring it to the U.S., right? Well, mystery solved: The game is a terrible Excitebike clone with inscrutable mechanics, and it would have bombed terribly here in America. It certainly didn't win many fans in its own home territory…
Direct download: Monster_Truck_retrospective_Monstrously_underwhelming___Game_Boy_Works_103.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 2:07pm EDT |
Mon, 23 April 2018
What a relief: A genuinely great game, and a licensed one to boot!? Yes, Ghostbusters II defies the odds by ditching all connections to Activision's other Ghostbusters games and going with a portable adaptation of HAL Labs' charming-as-heck Famicom game New Ghostbusters II. Sure, it has some rough patches, but it's sweet and entertaining — a nice, breezy, personality-packed rendition of the movie.
Direct download: Ghostbusters_II_retrospective_Were_ready_to_relieve_you___Game_Boy_Works_102.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 2:06pm EDT |
Mon, 23 April 2018
Ah, here we go: The second set of 100 Game Boy Works episodes begins with the quintessential Game Boy experience. Yes, it's a mediocre puzzle-ish game that plays better on other platforms. Not an auspicious beginning, perhaps, but at least it's a realistic one. It appears I missed a play mechanic here (clearing rows by pressing down) due to the manuals to this game only being available in German and Japanese, so I will revisit this game in some capacity in the future to make a small note. Just a small one — the added mechanic makes it a little less difficult but doesn't fix the color ambiguity issue.
Direct download: Palamedes_retrospective_An_unlucky_roll_of_the_dice___Game_Boy_Works_101.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 2:05pm EDT |
Mon, 23 April 2018
The series hits its 100th episode and to celebrate… uh, well, it's business as usual. Thankfully, this episode tackles a pretty good (if somewhat unfairly balanced) shooter by none other than Konami: Pop ’N Twinbee. This shooter originally appeared in Japan in 1990 as Twinbee Da! (pictured in the video); the European version showed up four years later and is almost impossible to find complete these days (hence the lack of European packaging photos).
Direct download: Pop_N_Twinbee_retrospective_Cute_the_messenger___Game_Boy_Works_100.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 2:03pm EDT |
Sun, 11 March 2018
A pleasant surprise this week, as one of the most charming game boxes to have appeared in some time contains… a thoroughly pleasant and enjoyable little game. Astro Rabby turns out to be a little-known Japan-only release that isn't a puzzler, isn't shoddily made, and isn't painful to play. It's a good-natured top-down platformer for flexible controls and a decent difficulty curve that steadily ramps up from breezy to brutal. Not a classic, but in a way it's better than a masterpiece: It's just a fun little diversion with no frills and no expectations attached.
Direct download: Astro_Rabby_retrospective_Lapin_it_up___Game_Boy_Works_099.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 12:00pm EDT |
Sun, 4 March 2018
Nintendo's lone first-party straggler for Super NES's 1991 post-launch period lands in the form of a game by TOSE and Tonkin House that hews so closely to Tennis for NES and Game Boy that it really does deserve the name "Super Tennis." A fast-paced if visually unexciting take on the sport, Super Tennis finally rectifies the shortcomings of its predecessors by incorporating a full array of single- and multiplayer options, as well as a complete, long-term, bracket-based tournament mode. You might say it's… smashing. Special thanks to Steve Lin of the Video Game History Foundation for providing the game and packaging for this video retrospective.
Direct download: Super_Tennis_retrospective_Love-40_is_in_the_air___Super_NES_Works_017.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 10:11am EDT |
Sun, 4 March 2018
An in-depth look at one of the most unique games ever to appear on Super NES: The god-sim/RPG/platformer ActRaiser. With its incredible soundtrack, challenging action, and low-calorie simulation mode, ActRaiser manages to be far more than the sum of its decent individual components. It stands as a classic for the ages, and this retrospective attempts to explain why. Special thanks to Steve Lin of the Video Game History Foundation for providing access to the packaged copy of the game for this video.
Direct download: ActRaiser_retrospective_Alls_right_with_the_world___Super_NES_Works_016.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 10:07am EDT |
Sun, 4 March 2018
A look at Nintendo's very own console conversion of Peter Molyneux's god-sim, Populous. Wedged in between the superlative SimCity and the excellent ActRaiser, Populous admittedly struggles a bit to hold its own among its peers. But all credit goes to developer Infinity, who did a bang-up job with the conversion and used this as the cornerstone of a brief but well-intended career transforming Western PC games into forms suitable for Japanese gamers.
Direct download: Populous_retrospective_Foster_the_Papal___Super_NES_Works_013.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 10:05am EDT |
Sun, 4 March 2018
Strategy and simulation powerhouse Koei makes its debut on Game Boy with… a strategic simulation game. Nobunaga's Ambition does a pretty respectable job of bringing a huge PC war simulation into a tiny, monochrome format. As the world's first proper handheld simulation game, it's pretty respectable, if not precisely something you'd want to spent a lot of time with today.
Direct download: Nobunagas_Ambition_retrospective_Downsizing_Japan___Game_Boy_Works_098.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 10:01am EDT |
Sun, 4 March 2018
Our second Game Boy Gundam game, and can you believe it? It's also not very good. This one is bad in a boring, predictable way: It's a game adaptation of a video series designed in the mold of Dragon Quest. You'd think an obvious formula for success as a video game would present itself based on that pretext, but…
Direct download: SD_Gundam_Gaiden_Lacroan_Heroes_retrospective_Gun-dammit___Game_Boy_Works_097.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 10:00am EDT |
Fri, 8 December 2017
It's here: The first true Game Boy collector's grail piece (and just in time for our recent "collector's bubble" episode of Retronauts - https://retronauts.com/article/699/ep...). Fish Dude is not a good or memorable game, but it is very, very rare and expensive. Which is… something, I suppose. Anyway, to mark the occasion, I tried to make this episode a little different than usual. Please enjoy.
Direct download: Fish_Dude_retrospective_The_dude_abides___Game_Boy_Works_096.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 5:26pm EDT |
Fri, 8 December 2017
Another HAL creation: Hole In One Golf follows up on the company's landmark MSX take on the sport, adds in a Japanese golf legend, removes the golf legend for good measure, and allows players to explore a single course with exhaustive detail (via an isometric perspective that just might have served as the basis for Kirby's Dream Course).
Direct download: HALs_Hole_in_One_Golf_retrospective_Links_awakening___Super_NES_Works_012.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 5:25pm EDT |
Fri, 8 December 2017
A strange and obscure little U.S.-only release for Game Boy in which the protagonist of equally obscure NES game Thunder & Lightning turns monsters into peaches and eats them. Developed anonymously and tied inexplicably to a completely unrelated game, this one's a real mystery. Sadly, the gameplay turns out to be far less interesting than the enigma surrounding Mr. Chin's existence.
Direct download: Mr._Chins_Gourmet_Paradise_retrospective_Peaches_en_regalia___Game_Boy_Works_095.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 5:23pm EDT |
Fri, 8 December 2017
Finally, a great-as-heck third-party Super NES game. Capcom's U.N. Squadron marks a welcome turnaround from the bumpy unpleasantness of Final Fight, with smoother gameplay, fewer conversion compromises, and smart gameplay tweaks to improve replayability. It's a high-water mark for Super NES shooters, and a game worth hunting down all these years later.
Direct download: U.N._Squadron_retrospective_Top_fun___Super_NES_Works_011.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 5:22pm EDT |
Mon, 13 November 2017
By request of patron David Morton: A look back at Kirby's Dream Course. Yeah, it's way out of sequence, but that's the law that was laid down. A clever if unforgiving combination of Kirby and golf, Dream Course has flown under the Super NES fan radar for decades now. With its fresh re-release on the Super NES Classic Edition, now seems like the time to reevaluate the game… especially since its cruelest elements can be mitigated with liberal use of the Super NES mini's save states.
Direct download: Kirbys_Dream_Course_retrospective_Golf_sob-story___Super_NES_Works_561.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 8:42am EDT |
Mon, 13 November 2017
The Game Boy takes up its mantle as the true successor to the NES (sort of) with the first of several Nintendo R&D1-developed sequels to classic NES games: Balloon Kid, a greatly expanded (and great) reworking of Balloon Fight's "Balloon Trip" mode.
Direct download: Balloon_Kid_retrospective_99_kinder_ballons___Game_Boy_Works_093.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 8:35am EDT |
Mon, 13 November 2017
Jaleco's long-running Ninja Jajamaru-kun series finally makes its debut in the U.S., and... it's very unfortunate that it does so in this form. Jajamaru's first portable has some interesting moments, but it's a total mess on the technical side and features some weirdly bizarre and hostile design choices. Oh well. Please note: This game incorporates a flickering strobe effect that appeared to create a fifth shade of grey on Game Boy. However, in this high-definition/60fps format, it could cause issues for those with sensitivity to flashing, high-contrast color.
Direct download: Marus_Mission_retrospective_Slow-gun_warrior___Game_Boy_Works_092_EPILEPSY_WARNING.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 8:33am EDT |
Mon, 13 November 2017
SunSoft gives Europe an unremarkable but perfectly decent adaptation of formula one racing… roughly two months before Nintendo releases its own revolutionary take on the sport.
Direct download: SunSoft_Grand_Prix_retrospective_Formulaic_one___Game_Boy_Works_091.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 8:31am EDT |
Mon, 13 November 2017
In the second of this three-part look at Super Mario 64 and Nintendo's leap into 3D game design, we explore what Mario's polygonal upgrade took from his sprite-based adventures… and where this pioneering work left room for improvements.
Direct download: Super_Mario_64_retrospective_The_pluses_and_perils_of_polygons___N64_Works_Episode_001_Pt._2.mp4
Category:podcast -- posted at: 8:23am EDT |
Mon, 13 November 2017
The creme de la creme of the chess world? Well, maybe so far as Super NES chess games go; it's easy to come out on top when you're the only one in the running. But The Chessmaster doesn't leave much of an impression. There are better chess simulations, and more satisfying chapters in this particular series, on other platforms. This is like the board game equivalent of a vintage franchise sports game: It probably sold well to a general audience at the time, but it offers very little return for anyone today to return to it.
Direct download: The_Chessmaster_retrospective_Every_moves_among_the_purest___Super_NES_Works_010.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 8:16am EDT |
Mon, 13 November 2017
It's Space Harrier action in an F-Zero wrapper with this forgotten shoot-em-up by Nintendo mainstays HAL. A slight game, it's nevertheless memorable for its trippy visuals… and notable for its secret true-3D mode. Unfortunately, the visuals in this game don't really play well with YouTube's compression algorithms… so, my apologies for the rather rough look of this episode.
Direct download: HyperZone_retrospective_F-Zero_times_two_is_still_zero___Super_NES_Works_009.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 8:11am EDT |
Tue, 31 October 2017
America's most undying game show makes its handheld debut, simplifying the TV show's format and rules for head-to-head portable play. It also simplifies the TV theme to a single audio channel. While barely passable as a work of programming, the fundamental appeal inherent in the show's mix of luck, strategy, and word puzzles allows this to be a mildly diverting little cartridge regardless.
Direct download: Wheel_of_Fortune_retrospective_Id_like_to_buy_a_better_game___Game_Boy_Works_094.mp4
Category:general -- posted at: 8:19am EDT |
Tue, 31 October 2017
With Super Mario Odyssey just around the corner, now seems a perfect time to look back to Mario's first 3D adventure: Super Mario 64 for Nintendo 64. This, the first part of a multiple-entry retrospective, explores the game's relationship to the platform and the lengths to which it goes to make the intricacies of navigating three-dimensional space intuitive for all players.
Direct download: Super_Mario_64_retrospective_Mario_gets_thicc___N64_Works_Episode_001_Pt._1.mp4
Category:general -- posted at: 8:16am EDT |
Tue, 31 October 2017
Irem's classic shooter series makes its debut on a Nintendo home console at last with a remixed conversion of R-Type II. And it's… OK. Riddled with slowdown and hilariously unfair, Super R-Type really has quite a lot in common with Gradius III. Not a terrible game, but a little bit of a letdown.
Direct download: Super_R-Type_retrospective_Bydo_your_time___Super_NES_Works_008.mp4
Category:general -- posted at: 8:01am EDT |
Tue, 31 October 2017
The Super NES gets its very first RPG, borrowed from the European PC scene, and it's pretty weird! Intriguingly weird, but weird all the same. For example: it's a 3D RPG that uses a flat scrolling visual effect but doesn't make use of Mode 7. What a strange little adventure.
Direct download: Drakkhen_retrospective_Hak_hak_n_slash___Super_NES_Works_007.mp4
Category:general -- posted at: 7:59am EDT |
Sun, 20 August 2017
Capcom arrives half-heartedly on Super NES with a deeply flawed conversion of arcade smash Final Fight. Missing stages, characters, and play options, this 16-bit debut looked nice in magazines, but didn't play nearly as impressively as Nintendo's own releases.
Direct download: Final_Fight_retrospective_Going_it_alone___Super_NES_Works_006.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 12:00pm EDT |
Sun, 13 August 2017
Konami makes its Super NES debut (and so soon on this channel after their first NES game!) with the third Gradius game, and the second to make its way to the U.S.: Gradius III, a verrrrry sloooow adaptaaaation of a murderous arcade game. While it doesn't show off Nintendo's shiny new Super NES hardware to the most flattering effect, the constant, all-consuming slowdown actually does have its share of beneficial side effects....
Direct download: Gradius_III_retrospective_Life_at_half-speed___Super_NES_Works_005.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 8:09am EDT |
Sun, 6 August 2017
We resume a retrospective journey through the Super NES's 1991 U.S. lineup with this wonderful adaptation of the Maxis PC classic SimCity. Developed by Nintendo and Intelligent Systems, SimCity showed off a different side of the Super NES. Also in this episode: An explanation of the change in name from Mode Seven to Super NES Works.
Direct download: SimCity_retrospective_Civic_responsibilities___Super_NES_Works_004.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 7:59am EDT |
Mon, 31 July 2017
A real blast(-off) from the past here, with Pack-In Video's oddball rendition of classic computer simulation Lunar Lander... or more likely Atari's arcade rendition of the concept. There has never been another adaptation of Lunar Lander quite like this before, though... especially the parts where you dodge aliens while plundering the moon's resources.
Direct download: Lunar_Lander_retrospective_Moons_over_my_Game_Boy___Game_Boy_Works_090.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 12:37am EDT |
Sun, 23 July 2017
And here we arrive at last at the end of NES Works 1986. Thankfully, we've saved the best for last. Gradius turns the tables on the NES's woeful early third-party days, presenting a cutting-edge contemporary arcade shooter with a minimum of compromises. It's not arcade-perfect, but it's every bit as satisfying as the original Gradius — a promising sign for new NES publisher Konami, who jumps immediately to the front of the console race with this debut release.
Direct download: Gradius_retrospective_A_stellar_finish___NES_Works_035.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 8:53am EDT |
Sun, 23 July 2017
The penultimate NES release of 1986 finds Data East once again struggling to find its voice as a console publisher. Karate Champ takes a seminal arcade release and turns it into an NES dud best forgotten, despite appearing on the surface to be a largely faithful conversion. It's all in the details....
Direct download: Karate_Champ_retrospective_Weak_jab___NES_Works_034.mp4
Category:general -- posted at: 8:51am EDT |
Sun, 23 July 2017
Capcom brings its NES development in-house with its third NES release, Commando, and nothing will ever be the same again. A fairly straightforward shoot-em-up offers a perfect trial run for the factors that will help propel the company to the upper echelons of NES development: Rock-solid technical underpinnings and home-exclusive content.
Direct download: Commando_retrospective_A_rapid_assault_of_quality___NES_Works_033.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 8:50am EDT |
Sun, 23 July 2017
The second (and, as it happens, final) Micronics/Capcom joint for NES falls upon the cruel arcade torture implement known as Ghosts ’N Goblins. While it's a more technically competent port than 1942, the trademark Micronics jank makes a tough game even more brutal. You'll notice this video doesn't contain any footage captured beyond the second boss, and that is because I have better things to do with my life than dash my brains repeatedly against the torture implement that is this game. Anyway! Things get better from here.
Direct download: Ghosts_N_Goblins_retrospective_The_delicate_art_of_self-flagellation___NES_Works_032.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 8:48am EDT |
Mon, 26 June 2017
Yet another old PC game makes its way to Game Boy: First Star's Boulder Dash. It loses the custom level builder and gains a new art style, but otherwise this is a faithful (and perfectly decent) conversion of a computer gaming classic for the small screen. Again.
Direct download: Boulder_Dash_retrospective_A_fine_PC_vintage___Game_Boy_Works_089.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 7:24am EDT |
Mon, 26 June 2017
By Patron request, here's a "controversial game": An unlicensed and slightly smutty American game that became straight-up porn when Japanese publisher Hacker International got ahold of it. And to further tempt the fates, they sold it with packaging that made it look like a Mario game starring Princess Peach. Some men want to watch the world burn; myself, I'd settle for burning this janky excuse for an NES game.
Direct download: Miss_Peach_World_NSFW_retrospective_American_trash_becomes_Japanese_filth___NES_Works_Gaiden_07.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 7:22am EDT |
Mon, 26 June 2017
One of the all-time great Nintendo third-party publishers makes its debut on NES here, but this release — produced by infamous low-grade development contractor Micronics — offers little to hint at the greatness we could eventually come to expect from the Capcom name.
Direct download: 1942_retrospective_Capcoms_disaster_at_sea___NES_Works_031.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 7:21am EDT |
Sun, 4 June 2017
Yet another game by TOSE and Bandai based on a Japanese manga and anime property. Oh noooo! But wait. Ninja Kid is actually... kinda good? Like, legit fun in an old-school arcade sort of way, with varied level objectives and play styles, and a pretty decent power-up system. Maybe this whole "NES third party content" thing isn't doomed to trash-tier video game hell after all....
Direct download: Ninja_Kid_retrospective_An_unlikely_glimmer_of_hope___NES_Works_030.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 8:59am EDT |
Wed, 31 May 2017
The NES gets its third third-party title, its second wrestling game, and yet another trash fire to burn away into the night. This may be the worst NES release yet thanks to its bizarre and poorly handled rendition of pro wrestling. But at least it gave us some memes.
Direct download: Tag_Team_Wrestling_retrospective_The_NES_gets_jobbed___NES_Works_029.mp4
Category:general -- posted at: 7:43am EDT |
Wed, 31 May 2017
The NES's second third-party release came to us courtesy of the same companies behind M.U.S.C.L.E., but thankfully it wasn't quite so dire. It's certainly not great, but there seems to have been a modicum of competence and even creativity behind it — this, despite its basis in another anime license. Thanks to Steve Lin for use of the boxed copy of the game!
Direct download: Chubby_Cherub_retrospective_Fallen_angel___NES_Works_028.mp4
Category:general -- posted at: 7:42am EDT |
Wed, 31 May 2017
The NES gets its very first game from a third-party publisher, and... it really makes you pine for relative classics like Urban Champion and Stack-Up. TOSE and Bandai assault the sense with this vaguely wrestling-like brawler based on the M.U.S.C.L.E. Things toyline and Kinnikuman anime. The Nintendo Seal of Quality finds itself stretched to the breaking point in its very first outing.
Direct download: M.U.S.C.L.E._retrospective_Its_third_party_and_Ill_cry_if_I_want_to___NES_Works_027.mp4
Category:general -- posted at: 7:41am EDT |
Wed, 31 May 2017
While far from perfect (check out that abominable frame rate!), this adaptation of Capcom's popular platformer based on Disney's DuckTales cartoon is without question the best NES-to-Game Boy conversion we've yet seen on Game Boy Works. Demonstrating smart choices in terms of sprite art, level design, and mechanics, it's a fantastic port hampered only by a few instances of iffy programming. Once again, Capcom gets it when it comes to Game Boy.
Direct download: Disneys_DuckTales_retrospective_Conversion_inversion_woo-ooh___Game_Boy_Works_088.mp4
Category:general -- posted at: 7:39am EDT |
Wed, 31 May 2017
Wrapping up Game Boy Works' solid month of sports titles, we have the most leisurely of the bunch: Data East's Side Pocket. Despite lacking a few features found in other ports of the game, this is a well-crafted take on billiards — albeit quite an unforgiving one.
Direct download: Side_Pocket_retrospective_Add_to_cue___Game_Boy_Works_087.mp4
Category:general -- posted at: 7:38am EDT |
Wed, 31 May 2017
Created by Human Entertainment and following on the heels of Nintendo's Pro Wrestling and the legendary Fire Prowrestling franchise, HAL Wrestling is regarded by some as the high point of pro wrestling games on Game Boy. There are plenty more to come, though, so it looks like the genre peaked early…
Direct download: HAL_Wrestling_retrospective_A_Human_work___Game_Boy_Works_086.mp4
Category:general -- posted at: 7:37am EDT |
Mon, 17 April 2017
The Game Boy gets its third baseball title, unsurprisingly making the so-called "thinking man's sport" also the most prolific "gaming boy's sport" as well. You may know this franchise better as R.B.I. Baseball, but since that particular bit of branding had become associated with unlicensed provocateurs attempting to undermine Nintendo's lock on the U.S. market, publisher Bandai unsurprisingly went with the different title.
Direct download: Extra_Bases_retrospective_The_Game_Boys_of_summer___Game_Boy_Works_08.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 9:02pm EDT |
Mon, 10 April 2017
By request, a look at another cult favorite Konami game that never made its way west. Arumana no Kiseki (The Miracle of Almana) will remind you of a lot of different Konami NES games... and of a certain movie franchise, too. It's not quite polished enough to have made its way to the U.S., but you can definitely see Konami's 8-bit prowess at work here.
Direct download: Arumana_no_Kiseki_retrospective_Old-school_Indy_gaming___Good_Nintentions_Gaiden_05.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 8:50am EDT |
Mon, 10 April 2017
Konami follows up on its popular NES conversion of EA skating sim Skate or Die with a game that has almost nothing to do with the source material aside from the use of skateboards. While not an entirely successful game, thanks largely to its memorization-heavy design, it is at least one of the more interesting original projects we've seen for the platform so far. |
Mon, 27 March 2017
Don't let the weird name fool you: This is totally a Bomberman game. In fact, it's one of the first Bomberman titles to have evolved the series beyond the basic maze action design, incorporating an adventure element, an economy, and a smartly balanced customizable power-up scheme. Weird that such an important entry in the long-running franchise would be hidden away behind an unrelated name… but that's the choppy localization history of Bomberman for ya.
Direct download: Atomic_Punk_retrospective_A_Bomberman_by_any_other_name___Game_Boy_World_083.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 1:49pm EDT |
Mon, 20 March 2017
We wrap our look at the second wave of Nintendo's Black Box launch titles for the NES with a notable capstone: Gumshoe. Besides being one of the most inventive concepts for a shooter ever, Gumshoe also has the distinction of being the first NES game designed exclusively for the U.S. (and European) market. Too bad it's so punishingly difficult most American kids never saw the ending! Or even stage 2!
Direct download: Gumshoe_retrospective_Nintendo_loves_America_America_loves_shootin___Good_Nintentions_026.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 2:12pm EDT |
Mon, 13 March 2017
A shamelessly derivative Nintendo game? Yeah, these things do happen. But even if Balloon Fight looks suspiciously similar to a certain other game, it has a heck of a legacy... and it's totally a blast, thanks to its fluid, fast-paced action, two-player co-op, and fantastic Balloon Trip mode. It's one of the good ones.
Direct download: Balloon_Fight_retrospective_A_legend_in_our_own_time___Good_Nintentions_025.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 7:30pm EDT |
Mon, 6 March 2017
Nintendo's very first entry into the brawler genre was in some respects a landmark work, but it doesn't hold up well at all more than 30 years later — especially in light of the fact that Nintendo released the NES version of Kung-Fu a few months prior in the U.S. Whoops!
Direct download: Urban_Champion_retrospective_Fun_like_a_punch_to_the_face___Good_Nintentions_024.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 4:46pm EDT |
Mon, 27 February 2017
Donkey Kong bids a surprisingly hasty adieu to the console expressly designed to showcase his exploits. Donkey Kong 3 would be the final game dedicated to the big ape util 1994. And not really the most impressive swan song.
Direct download: Donkey_Kong_3_retrospective_Farewell_my_monkey_vine___Good_Nintentions_023.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 8:20am EDT |
Mon, 20 February 2017
Mario recovers from his brief descent into villainy and lays down the groundwork for the platforming concepts that would make him (and his green sibling) long-term fixture of video gaming. But the difference in timing between the game's arrival in Japan and the west created a tremendous gulf in public perception of this arcade classic...
Direct download: Mario_Bros._retrospective_The_overlooked_evolutionary_link___Good_Nintentions_022.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 9:00am EDT |
Sun, 19 February 2017
A look into the history of a game that almost was something completely different, in a sense: Nintendo's Popeye, the held-over take on the arcade platformer that Donkey Kong was meant to be. Sort of. It's an interesting slice of Nintendo history, as we wrap the NES releases of the company's trio of Famicom launch titles.
Direct download: Popeye_retrospective_An_echo_of_what_might_have_been___Good_Nintentions_021.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 3:46pm EDT |
Sun, 19 February 2017
The companion piece to Donkey Kong, this pint-sized (not really) sequel showed up on both Famicom — and NES three years later! — day-and-date with dad. The two make a tidy pair, though for various small reasons, Jr. doesn't quite live up to his vaunted papa's legacy. These minor quibbles don't keep Nintendo's second chapter in the Mario and Donkey Kong legacy from meriting some praise, though!
Direct download: Donkey_Kong_Jr._retrospective_Another_vine_mess___Good_Nintentions_020.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 3:45pm EDT |
Mon, 30 January 2017
A legendary developer still finding its voice gives us a remarkable, but not particularly good, take on table tennis. Somehow, a ping pong game from 1990 arguably offers players even less control over the action than Pong did! But it looks pretty nice, at least. This video is made possible through support on Patreon: www.patreon.com/gamespite
Direct download: Battle_Ping_Pong_retrospective_Walk_through_the_volley_of_the_shadow_of_death___Game_Boy_World_082.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 9:00am EDT |
Mon, 23 January 2017
More songs about buildings and kongs. The origins of Donkey Kong, and how his NES version came about and compared to other adaptations of the game. And now we can move along to... other Donkey Kong games.
Direct download: Donkey_Kong_retrospective_Pt_2_Welcome_to_NES_Donk_City___Good_Nintentions_019-B.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 9:33am EDT |
Mon, 16 January 2017
The first entry in a two-part look back at the most important game of Nintendo's early days, Donkey Kong. This half of the retrospective focuses on the design of the game and why it stood out from its arcade peers to become such a phenomenon.
Direct download: Donkey_Kong_retrospective_Pt_1_Nintendos_800-lb._gorilla___Good_Nintentions_019-A.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 9:00am EDT |
Mon, 9 January 2017
Yep, it's another Game Boy release based on an anime, and you know what that means: The game itself is pretty lousy and forgettable, so the episode mostly consists of me waxing rhapsodic about the property itself. Patlabor was great, and deserved a MUCH nicer interactive adaptation. But such is the world we live in.
Direct download: Patlabor_The_Mobile_Police_retrospective_Well_at_least_the_animes_good___Game_Boy_World_081.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 10:00am EDT |
Sat, 31 December 2016
The second racing game developed by HAL for Nintendo would be the first to reach the U.S. — and little surprise, as Mach Rider more than any other NES launch title seems deliberated crafted to appeal to the tastes and interests of American gamers! For more on the history of the NES check out goodnintentions.com — and please considering using Patreon to help make possible these videos (www.patreon.com/gamespite) and the Retronauts podcast (www.patreon.com/retronauts)!
Direct download: Mach_Rider_retrospective_The_sum_total_of_80s_pop_culture_in_game_form___Good_Nintentions_018.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 9:53am EDT |
Sun, 25 December 2016
Nintendo's third creation for their 16-bit console took an atypical approach for the company at the time, presenting players with a highly technical flight sim that demanded consistent, precision mastery of its varied mechanics. There's not really all that much game here, as the developers strained to exceed the boundaries of their new console, but good luck seeing this brief flight school course through to the end!
Direct download: Mode_Seven_003_Pilotwings_Nintendo_1991.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 9:00am EDT |
Sat, 24 December 2016
Welcome to Good Nintentions 1986! Sort of! Donkey Kong Jr. Math's release date is the subject of some uncertainty, but it's hard to imagine much of anyone cares. There's not much good about this game, which in some ways feels as though it was shipped before being completed. The very definition of a quick-and-dirty attempt to fill out a release schedule with a game nobody ever asked for.
Direct download: Good_Nintentions_Episode_017_Donkey_Kong_Jr._Math_Nintendo_1986.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 8:30am EDT |
Sat, 24 December 2016
Join me on an exciting journey beyond the realm of my comfort zone for this look at a vintage war game best enjoyed by two people. Power Mission (or rather, "Power Missiøn") was a reasonably decent strategy game that would be immediately overshadowed by superior and better-promoted takes on the genre, including Nobunaga's Ambition and (in Japan) the precursor to the Advance Wars series. A perfectly acceptable genre piece lost forever to history…
Direct download: Game_Boy_World_080_Power_Missin_Graphic_Research_VAP_NTVIC_1990.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 8:26am EDT |
Sat, 24 December 2016
As a preface to Good Nintentions 1986, here's a look at an early 1986 game thaaaaat never actually came to the U.S. on NES and is therefore ineligible for normal coverage. Yes, it's Konami's The Goonies, the oddly missing link to The Goonies II that Americans only ever saw on PlayChoice-10.
Direct download: Good_Nintentions_Gaiden_Episode_04_The_Goonies_Konami_1986.mp4
Category:general -- posted at: 8:17am EDT |
Tue, 29 November 2016
By request of David Morton, a look at a game that wouldn't normally have come up in Good Nintentions: Konami's Bio-Miracle Bokutte Upa. A charming little platformer, the most fascinating thing about it may be the way it deftly combines elements from games that had come before it while also including mechanics and aesthetics of classics that would show up months or even years after its debut. Not bad! Definitely worth tracking down on Wii Virtual Console.
Direct download: Good_Nintentions_Gaiden_Episode_03_Bio-Miracle_Bokutte_Upa_Konami_1988.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 9:51am EDT |
Mon, 21 November 2016
It's the end of the NES hardware retrospective as we know it, and I hope you feel fine. You'll probably feel better if you catch up with the first two chapters first...
Direct download: Good_Nintentions_Episode_000_Part_3_The_NES_Nintendo_Entertainment_System.mp4
Category:Video Games -- posted at: 5:28pm EDT |