This week's public video takes us back to December 1990 and Game Boy for two good games, Godzilla, a puzzle platformer made by Compile and Nekojara Monogatari, a Kemco RPG using a engine they developed for a previous game. Patrons get a Game Boy Works video on Gremlins 2 and Pocket Stadium and a NES Works Gaiden episode on a trio of familiar games for Famicom: Wrecking Crew, Hyper Olympics, and Spartan-X
Gremlins 2 was released in 1990. It's definitely different from the first film. Loved that projector scene with Hulk Hogan as a kid, I have no idea how well the film holds up now.Half the fun of these videos to me (as someone who's first game system was the GBA) is to just see what pop culture of the 1980s was like. Never would've guessed that Grimlins 2 was like that.
Rewatched it with a few friends a month or two back. It holds up as long as you go into expecting nothing at all like the first movie, and more of marketing vehicle for toys (as was the case with lot of media in that era).Gremlins 2 was released in 1990. It's definitely different from the first film. Loved that projector scene with Hulk Hogan as a kid, I have no idea how well the film holds up now.
Still ownsGremlins 2 was released in 1990. It's definitely different from the first film. Loved that projector scene with Hulk Hogan as a kid, I have no idea how well the film holds up now.
It's not a filter. Trust me, I already asked and got a nice explaining toI love these videos but when he started putting himself on screen Ive started watching way less. The original videos had such a clean presentation that I greatly preferred. Hes pretty awkward and the awful "VHS" filter really doesn't help either.
There might be Portopia references too since that was also a Yuji Horii game and it helped popularize adventure games in Japan which would eventually give us the visual novel, the Tokimeki Memorial (TokiMemo) series being an early example.Thereās going to be a competiton between Heyankio Alien, Xevious, and Tower of Druaga for the most number of references in an episode. Or at least until Dragon Quest arrives and blows all of them out the water
Maybe not since it sounds like from the Patreon update that the Famicom Works chronology is stopping once he's done with 1985...Patrons get NES Works Gaiden videos on The Tower of Druaga, a game that will get referenced a lot
I expect a brutal takedown on that video. I played the hell out of those with my sister at my grandparents place, but they probably don't hold up at all, but are probably better than yet another GBW puzzle or shogi/mahjong game.Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy!
List of games left for NES Works 1988:
This week's public video is the second on a Mario themed trilogy. The 1986 FDS release of Super Mario Brothers 2 (which wasn't localized until the SNES as The Lost Levels for Super Mario All-Stars) built on the previous year's Super Mario Brothers. Japan would see the next Mario game Super Mario Brothers 3 in 1988. And what a game that was. Patrons get a pair of NES Works 1988 episodes. One on Super Mario Brothers 2 and the other on Blaster Master. Both got great coverage in Nintendo Power.
I'd always recommend anyone to try Tower of Druaga or Xevious. Both are very important games from Namco.PSA: You can now get Tower of Druaga to go with Xevious on all modern systems. Not sure when we'll see Heiyankyo Alien on anything modern.
Classic Maze RPG 'The Tower of Druaga' Is This Week's Arcade Archives Game
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So I've heard. Never played it myself.Battle City, a staple of the famicom multicarts you see alot.
I wish Jeremy posted here, because he did an astounding job on the Lost Levels coverage and putting it into its proper context. Much respect to that and it really makes me want to give the game a 3rd or 4th try (and hopefully get past 1-2 before tapping out). That World 9 tileset is crazy.