Good evening! Or morning. Wherever you are in the world, I hope it's good. Maybe this video will make it a little better? It's a look back at Karnov, the NES game. Strangely enough, the fi...
2020-09-02 13:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Atari Lynx isn't the only handheld getting Gaiden love! Game Gear coverage has been in the cards since the beginning, and now we're near the end of 1990 for Game Boy, it's time to look at Game Gear...
2020-08-26 13:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I know people are excited for coverage of Bubble Bobble, but this is not the one to be excited about, sadly. The Game Boy release was not a direct adaptation of the NES or arcade ...
2020-08-19 13:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
This brings us halfway to bringing Lynx's release chronology up to date where we are with Game Boy—a little sad, innit? The system just didn't have all that much software support; going by the ti...
2020-08-12 14:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostGood afternoon! As I work to refocus and generally improve this project, I realize it couldn't hurt to give everyone a sense of what's in the works right now and in the coming weeks. I've tentative...
2020-08-09 20:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostHi all, it seems like the links to old book files have become muddled. Unfortunately, these PDFs are far too large to post directly to Patreon (for some reason... that reason being "Patreon is very...
2020-08-09 14:16:50 +0000 UTC View PostHi all,
I don't post non-video updates here too often, because there's not really all that much to say beyond "thank you for helping me create these videos." Lately, though, I've been t...
2020-08-07 00:29:23 +0000 UTC View Post
When is a Double Dragon game not a Double Dragon game? When it's actually a Kunio-kun game. Now you see why I needed to cover Renegade first.
Unfortunately...
2020-08-05 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
This episode has been a very long time coming—as in, since 2014. I've struggled for a long with the capture technology and the overall methodology of how to approach Atari Lynx, and I th...
2020-07-29 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
This chapter of Metroidvania Works goes a bit out of chronological order to bundle together four games by Nihon Falcom, who did a lot of heavy lifting for the action-RPG genre in the mid ’80s. We...
2020-07-22 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
This week's Metroidvania Works brings us to the end of the small bubble in which several of the titles concerned have already been explored in NES Works. From here on out, it's pretty much going to...
2020-07-15 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm honestly not sure how this episode will go over—it's the longest video I've produced to date, and it's kind of off-topic (grouped under Game Boy Works Gaiden because Mr. Driller 2 wi...
2020-07-08 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
I wasn't planning to put together a new NES Works episode for quite a while, but the next Game Boy Works covers a Double Dragon game that is actually a Kunio game. And given that ...
2020-07-01 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostHello, all! As we're right at the midpoint of the year, which has somehow passed with agonizing lethargy yet also alarming speed, I wanted to share a teaser of the Virtual Boy Works book. It's curr...
2020-06-29 22:25:00 +0000 UTC View Post
This week's episode is a little messy, though in a way that might not be immediately obvious: It lacks any photography of In Your Face's physical release. Somehow the images I shot a few years (!) ...
2020-06-24 14:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
I found a great deal of satisfaction in putting together this week's video! Wonder Project J2 received extensive coverage in gaming publications back in 1996 (both print and online, notabl...
2020-06-17 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
I think this is the last Metroidvania Works episode that'll be focused entirely on obscurities; from here on out, I'm pretty sure you'll have heard of most if not all the games to show up. Anyway, ...
2020-06-10 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm posting this week's piece a little early to make up for last week's delay. This is another one of those difficult episodes I had to power through the best I could, although I couldn't seem to g...
2020-06-03 00:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, I'm a liar twice over. After all the frustration I had hunting for my copy of MK Trilogy, I stumbled across photos I took of the packaging several years ago. I could have sw...
2020-05-28 00:08:15 +0000 UTC View Post...namely, that it won't be going up at the usual time tomorrow. My copy of the game covered in the video (Mortal Kombat Trilogy) has gone missing, so I had to order a replacement. T...
2020-05-26 20:42:40 +0000 UTC View Post
We did it! We finally got to a Metroid game in Metroidvania Works... and a Castlevania game, too, though technically this one has never been officially issued under the name C...
2020-05-20 13:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey! Remember Metroidvania Works? I do. I'd been waiting to produce this episode until I could record Xanadu footage, but... after buying a very expensive copy of the game that didn't work AND an M...
2020-05-13 13:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
This one has been sitting in my to-do queue for something like half a year, so I finally decided to just brace up and do the danged thing. Now I can move forward with Game Boy Works, hooray. <...
2020-05-06 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
This game does not really fall within the Video Works remit, and I will get back to the regularly programmed content soon—but you have to admit that I'm pretty good at coming up with flimsy excus...
2020-04-29 14:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
This one is another patron request, though as sometimes happens when I set out to tackle a topic, it mutated a bit along the way. This began as a survey of NES collecting, but soon grew to encompas...
2020-04-20 13:18:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone! Thank you for your words of support after last week's post. That was meant as a simple statement of gratitude (not a request or anything), but everyone seemed totally supportive, and ...
2020-04-12 20:13:01 +0000 UTC View Post
This week, we have a patron-requested Game Boy episode, and (I hope) the last time we'll see a significant break in the planned sequence of coverage for the platforms I'm chronicling. Not much of a...
2020-04-08 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Ah, that's more like it. It's been a long road, getting from there to here, but... Mega Man! A fine finale to 1987. Come to think of it, all three volumes of NES Works have ended on a stro...
2020-04-01 14:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post
I have a soft spot for this one, although I recognize its flaws in hindsight. I also have come to better appreciate the heritage behind it, which (in my humble opinion) goes a long way toward balan...
2020-03-25 14:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
This is me, powering through the last dregs of 1987. Ah, I guess these games aren't that bad, especially after The Karate Kid. Still! Better stuff is coming soon. Thanks for beari...
2020-03-18 14:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post