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PumpkinSpice · Jul 13, 2016

BearChair said:
I ready it cover to cover around Christmas and found the transition over the NES' lifetime fascinating.

I hope Parish gives his Playstation books from GameSpite a similar full-color, high quality treatment someday. I still find myself flipping through my original copy every couple of months. But between the better layout and improved writing on Good Nintendations, I'd love to see what he could to for the PS1 volume.

I spent some time this morning eyeing that PS1 issue of GameSpite Quarterly and the only thing that held me off from ordering that is the potential of an updated edition.

Amalthea · Jul 13, 2016

Nerdkiller said:
Game Boy World #69: Tasmania Story [Pony Canyon/FCI, 1990]

I have that game on one of these 30in1 cartridges. Yeah, it's really crappy but even worse it is like one of these bad games that feel very "off" as if playing them too long would hurt your brain.

ToastyFrog · Jul 13, 2016

BearChair said:
I hope Parish gives his Playstation books from GameSpite a similar full-color, high quality treatment someday. I still find myself flipping through my original copy every couple of months. But between the better layout and improved writing on Good Nintendations, I'd love to see what he could to for the PS1 volume.

I'd like to, but that seems like something that will be a few years down the road, if ever. The next old book I'd like to update is the Super NES issue. All the art files have vanished, though, so I'll have to rebuild it from scratch. And I'll want to add more games and lots of supplemental essays and indices as in the Good Nintentions book, so that's a months-long project. At the moment, I'm far more interested in working on Game Boy videos and getting the Good Nintentions 1985 book together.

BorkBork · Jul 13, 2016

Super late to this, but these videos are great. Gargoyle Quest yes!

Boney · Jul 13, 2016

Didn't realize he came back from th GB break. Jeremy Parish is my hero 🐝

Nerdkiller · Jul 13, 2016

Amalthea said:
I have that game on one of these 30in1 cartridges. Yeah, it's really crappy but even worse it is like one of these bad games that feel very "off" as if playing them too long would hurt your brain.

Hey, I too also had one of those pirate cartridges that my parents got me while they were on holiday one year. Contained Heiankyo Alien, which was mentioned in the video quoted, Contra: The Alien Wars, Flipull, Dr. Mario, that one Simpsons game in the vein of Jack and the Beanstalk, and Wheel of Fortune. That's about as much as I can remember.

Nerdkiller · Jul 19, 2016

Game Boy World #070: Dr. Mario [Nintendo, 1990]

The good-but-not-amazing Nintendo puzzler gets a curiously compromised Game Boy version, which established a world first: Namely, the first game to debut day-and-date on both a console and a handheld system. They're essentially identical, barring some unfortunate visual changes and the lack of title screen music and intermission graphics in the Game Boy release.

butalala · Jul 20, 2016

This series has made me realize how good I had it in 1997 when I got my first GB Pocket. My first games were James Bond 007 and Donkey Kong Land 3. Worlds better than the kind of stuff that was available in 1990!

Nerdkiller · Jul 27, 2016

Game Boy World #071: Ranma 1/2 Kakuren Bodesu Match [Nova/Banpresto, 1990]

Ah, now here's a combination to strike fear into the hearts of mortal man: Nova and Banpresto. But soft! Ranma 1/2 may be no staggering work of heartbreaking genius or whatever, but it's a lot better than you might expect from this dire duo. Glory be.

SonicMegaDrive · Jul 27, 2016

Ah, I wasn't aware that we had a thread on this excellent series. Subscribing.

NOLA_Gaffer · Jul 29, 2016

I've been listening to a lot of Retronauts podcasts lately and I've grown to really like Jeremy Parish, namely because a lot of our tastes line up so much. He detests mobile gaming and doesn't seem to own a gaming PC. Don't see that too much these days.

Nerdkiller · Aug 3, 2016

What's this? You want more puzzle games? WELL, BE MY GUEST!

Game Boy World #072: Puzznic [Taito, 1990]

Hmm, a Game Boy release called "Puzznic"! Whatever genre could this game belong to?

Props to Taito for even caring about this one when they could have just asked TOSE or Nova Games to barf out some rough, rushed port, but I'm having a hard time finding it in my heart to do likewise.

Contains brief nudity, sooo...yeah.

Nerdkiller · Aug 9, 2016

Game Boy World #073: Ishidō: The Way of Stones [Software Resources/Nexoft]

A classic Mac and PC puzzler takes up residence the handheld realm and finds itself an unwelcome arrival in an overcrowded neighborhood. "We already got too many of your kind! Go back to your posh world of 16-bit color and mouse interfaces!" shouted the residents of Game Boy's portable puzzle slum, pelting this unwanted intruder with tomatoes (much to Kwirk's horror).

Nerdkiller · Aug 17, 2016

YES! A NON-PUZZLE GAME THIS WEEK!

Game Boy World #074: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan [Konami/Ultra, 1990]

Travel back to a time when "radical" was an innocent expression of joy rather than a loaded tool of political rhetoric. When America's hearts belonged to a quartet of adolescent amphibians named for Renaissance masters. When you could sell a portable console with a phoned-in belt-scroller. Yes, let's travel back to summer 1990 and the last days of the Foot Clan.

-KRS- · Aug 17, 2016

Had that as a kid and as a result I played it a lot, and even enjoyed it even though I could never beat the final stage. But yeah these days I realize it's kinda terrible compared to other TMNT games.

Interesting to hear that the devs at Konami didn't seem to understand the TMNT phenomenon. The other games in the series at least goes to show that even though they didn't understand it, they still took the time to research the franchise enough to learn it's strengths and use them to make great games.

Nerdkiller · Aug 24, 2016

Jeremy Parish has got a new series now, dedicated to SNES games.

Mode Seven #001: F-Zero [Nintendo, 1991]

Hey kids, let's celebrate 25 Super NES by kicking off a (very infrequently updated) new video series: Mode Seven. Like Good Nintentions, it'll be a chronological survey of U.S. releases for Super NES, sequenced according to Nintendo's official launch dates.

This first episode, fittingly, dives into a game built entirely around this series' namesake: F-Zero, the futuristic racing game designed as a showcase for the Super NES Mode 7 feature. Convenient!

Man God · Aug 24, 2016

Nerdkiller said:
Jeremy Parish has got a new series now, dedicated to SNES games.

Mode Seven #001: F-Zero [Nintendo, 1991]

At least he'll probably have a chance of finishing the next project, Seeing Red, chronicling all US releases of Virtual Boy titles!

mieumieu · Aug 24, 2016

I love Jeremy's sexy voice.

But would it be better to focus on one project first the move onto something else?

ToastyFrog · Aug 24, 2016

mieumieu said:
But would it be better to focus on one project first the move onto something else?

I thought so too, until I had to cover five Game Boy puzzlers in a row.

Dreavus · Aug 24, 2016

Missed this over the years, but these revisits/reviews(?) are extremely well articulated. Kudos.

I'll have to go through the series over the next little while.

JDdelphin · Aug 24, 2016

Quadraphonic said:
God, that Castlevania game was such a disappointment.

"Want this open-world side scroller? Too bad. Here's a shitty fucking platformer that feels like it's running through molasses"

"ALSO, ENJOY OUR CLASSIC JUMP MECHANIC."

"NOW WITH MORE PLATFORMS."

"AND SPIKES."

"WATCH OUT FOR THE SPIKES."

"...seriously, its like INSTANT death.
-and they're eeeeeverywhere."

HawthorneKitty · Aug 24, 2016

It's been bugging me for a while, but does the usual ending song come from something?

hosannainexcelsis · Aug 24, 2016

ToastyFrog said:
I thought so too, until I had to cover five Game Boy puzzlers in a row.

Game Boy World has made me realize just how awash the system is with mediocrity. It's worse than going through the NES in Chrontendo. Can't you just, you know, skip to the good stuff later on or something? I'd like to hear you talk about, say, Oracle of Ages/Seasons, not Licensed Puzzle Platformer #4850.

Lionel Richie · Aug 24, 2016

Nerdkiller said:
Jeremy Parish has got a new series now, dedicated to SNES games.

Mode Seven #001: F-Zero [Nintendo, 1991]

Watched it earlier and oh my god he absolutely NAILED it. The video is very informative and so entertaining, the depth is just all around tremendous. I always feel like I learned something about the stuff I have loved all my life. Parish is just the fucking man.

Man God · Aug 24, 2016

Skipping around and taking time off is how I do all my passion projects as well. Love GBW though.

butalala · Aug 24, 2016

The F-Zero episode was really great. I loved seeing F-Zero in context of other racing games of the times.

Opa-Pa · Aug 24, 2016

Nerdkiller said:
Jeremy Parish has got a new series now, dedicated to SNES games.

Mode Seven #001: F-Zero [Nintendo, 1991]

Oh hell yes. I love Game Boy World but this is right up my alley.

Tiktaalik · Aug 25, 2016

ToastyFrog said:
I thought so too, until I had to cover five Game Boy puzzlers in a row.

lol understandable

Shard · Aug 25, 2016

ToastyFrog said:
I thought so too, until I had to cover five Game Boy puzzlers in a row.

This is probably going to happen in the future, the near future, I would imagine.

Decider · Aug 27, 2016

Nerdkiller said:
Jeremy Parish has got a new series now, dedicated to SNES games.

Mode Seven #001: F-Zero [Nintendo, 1991]

A nice start but calling it "Mode Seven" is a bit on the nose.

ToastyFrog · Aug 27, 2016

That was kind of the point. Imagine a title that instantly communicates the series' nature and purpose to its intended audience!

entremet · Aug 27, 2016

Damn, Jeremy. Where do you find the time lol.

I'm not complaining, but you're pretty prolific with these series.

redcrayon · Aug 27, 2016

Really enjoying these. I grew up with a Game Boy almost permanently clutched in my grubby mitts and so seeing some of the titles reviewed hits my nostalgia spot. So many gems on the GB, and so much trash too.

Decider · Aug 27, 2016

ToastyFrog said:
That was kind of the point. Imagine a title that instantly communicates the series' nature and purpose to its intended audience!

Sorry, it just seemed like something obvious enough to have been used many times over in the last twenty-five years. I suppose the MD equivalent would've been "Blast Processing" or something similar.

Good luck with the series.

ToastyFrog · Aug 27, 2016

Decider said:
Sorry, it just seemed like something obvious enough to have been used many times over in the last twenty-five years. I suppose the MD equivalent would've been "Blast Processing" or something similar.

I thought the same thing, but I couldn't find anything substantial on the web or YouTube by that name when I did my preliminaries, so I figured, "Well, what the hell."

PumpkinSpice · Aug 30, 2016

Good Nintentions #016: Super Mario Bros.

@ToastyFrog: Nitpicking (really, otherwise this video was great), but is there noise on the RGB output of your Analouge NT? The blue backgrounds in this video are shaking with compression artifacts that I wouldn't expect to be there otherwise.

ToastyFrog · Aug 30, 2016

The noise in solid blue areas is something I've been aware of for a while, but couldn't be helped. I've been waiting on some boutique parts for ages in order to finalize my capture setup connections. The main missing piece (an 8-way SCART switcher from gRetroStuff) arrived a few days ago, and now I'm just waiting on a final cable to arrive from Retro Console Accessories. At that point, I'll be using all high-end custom-built components, so it should cut way back on noise. Probably. My plan is to have my setup feeding into a PVM before passing through to capture, so it's possible the passthrough could affect the final RGB output. In which case, oh wella little analog noise is part of the charm of capturing from actual vintage hardware.

PumpkinSpice · Aug 30, 2016

Ah yeah makes sense. You've uploaded a bunch of your recordings as reference quality archival footage so I assumed you were trying to keep things as clean as possible.

ToastyFrog · Aug 30, 2016

Yep, that's why I'm $400 out of pocket on better switchers and cables for this.

LiveFromKyoto · Sep 5, 2016

Just discovered this series, as a fan of these chronological retrospectives I'm digging it.

Nerdkiller said:
Game Boy World #071: Ranma 1/2 Kakuren Bodesu Match [Nova/Banpresto, 1990]

The game's title should properly be: Ranma 1/2 Kakurenbo Desumacchi. Kakurenbo = hide & seek. Desumacchi = Death Match.

Nerdkiller · Sep 6, 2016

Bit of a diversion today from the usual.

Good Nintentions Gaiden Episode #01: Yume Kōjō Doki Doki Panic

By patron request, a follow-up to last week's look at Super Mario Bros. in the form of a look at the sequel to Super Mario Bros., more or less. Yume Kōjō Doki Doki Panic is probably the best-known Famicom Disk System release of all time, and all because its relationship to Super Mario Bros. 2 rendered countless American childhoods a lie...

Nerdkiller · Sep 14, 2016

Good Nintentions Gaiden Episode #02: Family Computer 1983

You've seen the NES lineup for 1985, when the console debuted in America. Now compare those sixteen games to the nine contained in this episode, which explores the equivalent launch time frame for the console's Japanese birth as the Family Computer back in 1983. How different were the early days for the console in its two biggest territories?

Shard · Sep 14, 2016

I am guessing that another 5 or so puzzle games awaits Toastyfrog on the Game Boy.

Baleoce · Sep 14, 2016

Bookmarked and subbed. Will check this out when I get home. Loved this era. Links Awakening and Wario Land are some of my all time favourites.

ToastyFrog · Sep 14, 2016

Shard said:
I am guessing that another 5 or so puzzle games awaits Toastyfrog on the Game Boy.

Thankfully, no. Unfortunately there are plenty of awful licensed games ahead.

If you're genuinely interested in seeing the upcoming production sequence to get a sense at what's next, my chronology/planning doc/acquisitions tracker is publicly visible: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sbFYQ4JtxkgFoL3eo_xd6NuI4r_wH1BUQv21f_rI3pg/edit?usp=sharing

Boney · Sep 14, 2016

Can't wait for the next wave of Nintendo developed stuff, like Metroid 2, the frog for whom the Bell tolls, kid Icarus and Balloon kid.

You're a saint

mokeyjoe · Sep 14, 2016

butalala said:
This series has made me realize how good I had it in 1997 when I got my first GB Pocket. My first games were James Bond 007 and Donkey Kong Land 3. Worlds better than the kind of stuff that was available in 1990!

James Bond 007 was a terrible game.

My first Gameboy games were Tetris and Super Mario Land. Better games, I feel.

On the other hand the GB Pocket was a great system. Gameboy perfection.

Nerdkiller · Sep 20, 2016

Game Boy World #075: Sakigake!! Otokojuku: Meioutou Kessen [Yutaka, 1990]

Wow! It's a really bad fighting game on Game Boy. Who'd have guessed? This Japan-only game adaptation of a Japan-only manga and anime series from the '80s offers nothing of value for anyone unfamiliar with the franchise, or in fact to anyone, so feel free not to bother hunting it down. Let it lay forgotten in history.

This game marks the entry of new publisher Yutaka into the market. And by "new" I mean "a crummy old publisher under a new name." Can you guess which one? Do you even care?

Note: I realized after this episode was posted that the reading of the title's kanji characters found in most online English-language resources, while correct, is not the actual reading the game gives. So it's "Meioutou Kessen," not "Meikoushima Kessen." My big dumb American mistake. But, arguably the same level of quality control the game itself demonstrates, so... fitting.

joedick · Sep 24, 2016

Canucks, Good Nintentions 1985 is down to $31.79 on amazon.ca with free...wait they raised free shipping to $35? Dang, okay time to scour the wishlist.

RadarScope1 · Sep 25, 2016

mokeyjoe said:
James Bond 007 was a terrible game.

I think people have praised the game in this thread. Unless I'm thinking of a different James Bond game.

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