Good Nintentions #014: Stack-Up
Added 2016-05-01 20:57:01 +0000 UTCHello! Welcome to May. And thanks as always for another month of support for these mad projects of mine.
The latest fruit of my labor has arrived to kick off the new calendar page, in fact: A look at Stack-Up for NES. The second R.O.B. game, this one is even more poorly understood than Gyromite since it didn't come packed in with consoles and vanished from circulation pretty quickly. A complete copy of the game will currently run you about $400-500. The good news is that you don't need to pay a lot of money to learn how Stack-Up worked, because this video exists. That's really good news, in fact, because Stack-Up was actually pretty terrible and definitely is not worth $500.
So, thank you for supporting this public service.
The keen-eyed among you may notice that R.O.B.'s Stack-Up platforms and hand attachments don't look quite right in my videos and photos. That's because I cheated and used the much, much less expensive Japanese accessories (I think a new, sealed Robot Block Set cost me all of $40 — that wouldn't even buy the colored blocks for the American version). So I suppose authenticity takes a hit here. Alas, I am but one man, and one who pays out of pocket for his own insurance at that.
Anyway, enjoy the video! Other items of note:
For those of you who pledge at the PDF level, don't forget to grab your digital copy of Game Boy World 1990 Vol. 1 that went up yesterday.
For those of you who pledge at the book levels and have given me your shipping info, your Game Boy World print editions have been ordered and should be in your hands by the middle of next week at the latest (except a few international folks whose shipments will take a little longer). Hoorah! I'll set the book live on Amazon sometime in the next few days for general purchase.
Comments
I dressed up my ROB in tiny toddler clothes #noshame
Bryan Flanders
2016-05-30 19:47:35 +0000 UTCI'm playing Faselei! on NGPC right now and it plays pretty much the exact same way as Stack-Up's first game mode, just as a strategy game with no physical robot. Neat, if a little tedious.
John Learned
2016-05-02 18:18:16 +0000 UTCDoes make you wonder if there were any other games that would have been suitable for ROB. It's so slow, big and bulky its a surprise it even got Stack Up.
Lorfarius
2016-05-01 23:02:07 +0000 UTCJeremy, this is so great! Your attention to detail and analysis make this videos worth the wait! I remember the jealousy of my cousins obtaining the original NES set but never showing off their R.O.B. I had to wait until February '87 to finally have my beleaguered parents to pull a miracle , "a la the Cabbage Patch Kid debacle" and get us a NES Action Set. My cousins had Gyromite sitting on the sidelines with an unused R.O.B. (which I now realize because they didn't want to spend the money for all the batteries!) I figured out how to play the game with two NES controllers and enjoyed myself at the times I was over at their place, but I stared confused as to why that robot sat there on the shelf...
Steve Martin
2016-05-01 22:32:23 +0000 UTC
