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[mokeyjoe]

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

You must be. It was so bad and so short. I mean insultingly short. I mean it could have been a good game, maybe, the concept was good. But I literally completed it in an afternoon. I doubt there was more than 2 hours of gameplay there and it was stupidly easy and shabbily put together. I genuinely felt insulted by it.

With that said, it's been nearly 20 years since I played it, and I barely remember most of it.

 

[Nerdkiller]

Oooh, multiparter.

Mode Seven Episode #002a: Super Mario World, Part 1

If F-Zero was Nintendo's Super NES tech showcase, Super Mario World showed how their developers could expand on existing game concepts with the new hardware. This first half of Mode Seven's Super Mario World retrospective looks at the history of the game, where it sits in Nintendo's c.v., and the enormous impact on the adventure's design of a little green dinosaur.

 

[Nerdkiller]

Game Boy World #076: Amazing Penguin [Natsume, 1990]

A wonderfully charming and immensely playable little puzzle-action game from Natsume. Yes, even on a system loaded down with games like this, there's still breathing room to appreciate exemplary renditions of the genre. Definitely one worth tracking down. (Special thanks this episode: Armen Ashekian.)

 

[Seraphis Cain]

How did I miss this thread all this time? Yeesh.

Guess I know what I'm gonna be binging on today.

 

[sixteen-bit]

New Nintentions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ugMeN4Zqy4

The first part of a look back at the NES hardware itself begins with the origins of its Japanese version, the Family Computer — Famicom for short. This episode adapted from the text of Good Nintentions 1985, with special thanks to Steven Lin.

 

[Syril]

New Nintentions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ugMeN4Zqy4

Huh, I didn't know Masayuki Uemura had come to Nintendo from Sharp. I guess that's where their long history of collaborations started.

 

[Nerdkiller]

Game Boy World #077: Bionic Battler [Copya Systems/Toei/Use/Electro Brain]

First-person head-to-head 3D maze combat comes to Game Boy! I'm so, so sorry. Bionic Battler means well, but it sure does flop hard. With stiff and limited controls, choppy graphics, and some very weird and out-of-place music, this is a bizarre little game best left to the dustbin of history.

 

[Nerdkiller]

Game Boy World #078: Hong Kong [Onion Soft/Tokuma Shoten, 1990]

As the title might hint for those paying attention, what we have here is a Shanghai-style game about matching mahjong tiles. It adds a few unique elements and ideas, but ultimately feels less interesting as a game than as a historical footnote to a completely different game platform.

 

[Nerdkiller]

Game Boy World #079: Dragon Slayer I [Nihon Falcom/Epoch, 1990]

Well, well, well, what have we here? It's a game by legendary developer Nihon Falcom! Don't get excited, though — this is a port of the very first game by Nihon Falcom, Dragon Slayer, which was six years old by this point but felt far more ancient than that. The action RPG had come a long way since Falcom staked their claim on the genre in 1984, and considering you could play the likes of its own successors Legacy of the Wizard and Ys on NES and Famicom by this point, this clunky and dated game is a hard sell. It has a certain appeal, but since it consists of a lengthy quest and lacks any option to save progress, it makes for a pretty awful Game Boy release. Oh well!

 

[sixteen-bit]

Game Boy World #079: Dragon Slayer I [Nihon Falcom/Epoch, 1990]

lol it's so weird. A game like that would never be released these days. Were folks ever able to beat it without save states?

 

[sugarless]

Ayakashi no Shiro looks really interesting and I could easily see myself playing an English version of that while laying on the couch watching something.

You're in luck - I have been working with a programmer over at Romhacking.net on a fan translation and we have it at pre-release readiness stage. Just needs some testing to work out some bugs and it will be ready for release.

[GB] Doman's Revenge (Ayakashi no Shiro) Translation Project

 

[Nerdkiller]

Mode Seven's back with the second part of Super Mario World.

Mode Seven #002b: Super Mario World, Part 2 [Nintendo, 1991]

The second part of this rather overlong examination of the Super NES's key launch title looks at the importance of the mighty Cape power-up, and how Super Mario World embodies the concept of "Nintendo-esque." Look for the final part in this retrospective next week! (I hope.)

 

[Terrell]

Game Boy World #076: Amazing Penguin [Natsume, 1990]

I was looking for this to be part of it. This game is seriously DOPE AF.

 

[gingerbeardman]

I was looking for this to be part of it.

Look no further. He's doing every GB game.

 

[Nerdkiller]

Mode Seven #002c: Super Mario World, Part 3 [Nintendo, 1991]

And that about wraps it up for Super Mario World. Thanks and good night, everyone. I promise I won't do another multi-parter ever, ever again. Well, campaign promise. Which is to say: Expect a multi-parter for Final Fantasy II in a few months.

 

[PaulBizkit]

Mode Seven #002c: Super Mario World, Part 3 [Nintendo, 1991]

fuck yeah part 3 !!!

 

[Nerdkiller]

Got a couple of videos this week, continuing on with the NES/Famicom story.

Good Nintentions Episode 000, Part 2: The NES/Advanced Video System

A quick interstitial episode of the Good Nintentions origin story before we move along to the main event. The Advanced Video System never actually made its way to market, but it nevertheless existed as a key link between the Famicom and the NES and deserves study.

Good Nintentions Episode 000, Part 3: The NES/Nintendo Entertainment System

It's the end of the NES hardware retrospective as we know it, and I hope you feel fine.

This concludes Good Nintentions 1985! Look forward to 1986...someday.

 

[Nerdkiller]

Good Nintentions Gaiden Episode #03: Bio-Miracle Bokutte Upa

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.

 

[Nerdkiller]

Good Nintentions Gaiden Episode #04: The Goonies [Konami, 1986]

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.

 

[RadarScope1]

Good Nintentions Gaiden Episode #04: The Goonies [Konami, 1986]

Watched this a couple days ago via Patreon. Nice vid on a sweet little game. Well worth tracking down if you're a Famicom owner. The game is only a few bucks.

 

[dead souls]

Great video for a great game. I had a Pizza Hut near my house growing up that had a machine with Goonies in it. I spent so many quarters on it.

I mean, it's not like I had to pay for the pizza due to Book It.

 

[Nerdkiller]

Game Boy World #080: Power Missiøn [Graphic Research/VAP/NTVIC, 1990]

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…

 

[Nerdkiller]

Good Nintentions Episode 017: Donkey Kong Jr. Math [Nintendo, 1986]

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.

 

[watershed]

I like this video series a lot. It's cool to see someone kind of unearthing gameboy history.

 

[Nerdkiller]

Pilotwings review: A bold attempt to one-up the PC flight sim | Mode Seven #003

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!

 

[Nerdkiller]

Mach Rider retrospective: The sum total of ’80s pop culture in game form | Good Nintentions #018

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)!

 

[HotHamBoy]

Are there any actual really good games on the original game boy? Even as a kid I remember that even the good games were just alright.

Link's Awakening is still the best Zelda game, so...

 

[Nerdkiller]

Patlabor: The Mobile Police retrospective: Well, at least the anime's good | Game Boy World #081

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.

 

[sixteen-bit]

I've only seen the first movie, but It rocked. I should check out the TV show and OVAs.

 

[EvilMario]

I wasn't aware he was doing a SNES version. Game Boy World is really excellent. Excited to see it continue.

 

[hosannainexcelsis]

I've only seen the first movie, but It rocked. I should check out the TV show and OVAs.

Watch the second movie too!

 

[Nerdkiller]

Donkey Kong retrospective, Pt 1: Nintendo's 800-lb. gorilla | Good Nintentions #019-A

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.

I realize there's an error in the script (re: Space War), but I was unable to go back and correct it because I currently have a nasty cold and thus no voice. I'm just glad I recorded the voiceover for this before I fell ill.

 

[Nerdkiller]

Donkey Kong retrospective, Pt 2: Welcome to NES Donk City | Good Nintentions #019-B

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.

 

[Nerdkiller]

Battle Ping Pong retrospective: Walk through the volley of the shadow of death | Game Boy World #082

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.

 

[PaulBizkit]

Jeremy Parish's channel is so awesoooome.

I love your SNES-related episodes. I've never seen, read or heard such an in-depth analysis of Pilotwings, people only talk about F-Zero or Mario Kart when addressing Mode-7 graphics.

The Patlabor episode was really good.

 

[Worthintendo]

Battle Ping Pong retrospective: Walk through the volley of the shadow of death | Game Boy World #082

I love how indepth he went on this, managed to make a near 10 minute video out of a Ping Pong game
Parish is the best

 

[Nerdkiller]

Popeye retrospective: An echo of what might have been | Good Nintentions #021

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.

 

[Nerdkiller]

Mario Bros. retrospective: The overlooked evolutionary link | Good Nintentions #022

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...

 

[Nerdkiller]

Donkey Kong 3 retrospective: Farewell, my monkey vine | Good Nintentions #023

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.

 

[Nerdkiller]

Urban Champion retrospective: Fun like a punch to the face | Good Nintentions #024

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!

 

[Worthintendo]

Its been ages since Game Boy World, has Jeremy finally burnt out on black and white games.

 

[Nerdkiller]

Its been ages since Game Boy World, has Jeremy finally burnt out on black and white games.

He'll be back. It's only been a month since his last one.

 

[AmyS]

I just starting watching this series - I love it. Very good chronologically and I wonder if Jeremy Parish has done anything similar for other systems?

 

[ToastyFrog]

Its been ages since Game Boy World, has Jeremy finally burnt out on black and white games.

I've been trying to power through the NES Black Box stuff.

 

[Nerdkiller]

I just starting watching this series - I love it. Very good chronologically and I wonder if Jeremy Parish has done anything similar for other systems?

He's also got "Good Nintentions" which covers NES games, and "Mode Seven" for the SNES.

 

[Josh5890]

Is he still looking to take Game Boy cart donations? I think I might have a couple that he is missing, providing that google doc is updated.

 

[Nerdkiller]

Balloon Fight retrospective: A legend in our own time | Good Nintentions #025

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.

 

[Nerdkiller]

Gumshoe retrospective: Nintendo loves America, America loves shootin' | Good Nintentions #026

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!

 

[Like the hat?]

I really liked gumshoe even though I barely ever could make it to level two

 

[PumpkinSpice]

I really liked gumshoe even though I barely ever could make it to level two

I hated it so much. I mean it was one of like 6 NES games we had so I played it but it was easily the worst. Stupid to control, not fun to play, just awful.

Edit: I just remembered I had Back to the Future on NES as a kid and I standby my statement that Gumshoe was the worst game we had.