Here at the tail end of 1987, the western licensees have begun to arrive on NES in full force. The material you see here will become far more common once we move along into NES Works 1988. After tw...
2020-03-11 14:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
This episode did not go the way I expected. I figured Kid Niki would be the main course, with Gotcha! as the brief side dish. But the more I read up on Gotcha! and dug in...
2020-03-04 14:59:59 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm afraid we've a bit of ho-hum content to work our way through before we get to The Good Stuff™. This week's episode isn't especially inspiring—it's essentially a low-grade repeat of the ...
2020-02-26 15:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, the good games couldn't last forever. Here's one that aims high and falls low. Low into the... DARK WORLD.
2020-02-19 14:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
It's always a pleasure to cover a personal favorite, though I did try not to drone on about it. I worried it might be unseemly after giving Punch-Out!! relatively short shrift.
2020-02-12 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, one thing is for sure with this episode: I'm in no danger of setting blindfolded perfect play speed records for this game. But hey, I'm about providing retrospective insight and context, not ...
2020-02-05 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
This week's episode is a request by Joseph Wawzonek, and it's the best kind of patron request: One on a topic I love dearly. This episode not only gave me an excuse to carry a tricked-out telephoto...
2020-01-29 15:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
This week's episode features a personal lamentation as I recount my harrowing brush with tragedy, precipitated by this physically taxing game. Also, I once again reveal my mancrush on Akitoshi Kawa...
2020-01-22 15:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I've decided to up the frequency of N64 Works from "once every few years" to "a few times every year." Nah, just kidding. Once I power through NES Works 1987, I'll get serious about finishing up N6...
2020-01-15 13:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
A fine palette cleanser after last week's soggy beginning to the year, don't you think? Neither Zanac nor Lunar Pool are the most beautiful-looking games on NES, but they both pla...
2020-01-08 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Sometimes you gotta slog through the bad to get to the good. Next episode... is very good. This episode... well, the games aren't bad, but I sure don't want to revisit them. Sorry for the bummer of...
2020-01-01 15:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Double Dribble is a good Christmas gift! Ring King less so. Especially for me. I'm gonna have to clean up so many YouTube comments about that stupid interstitial animation....
This is the fin...
2019-12-26 03:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I know I said I was going to stop publishing retrospectives out of sequence, and now here's a 1991 NES game. I didn't lie, though! This is actually a 1992 Famicom game, newly localized and converte...
2019-12-18 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Yeah, this one's WAY out of place, but (1) it's a patron request and (2) it's going up Christmas day and (3) it's a patron request for Christmas. The hat trick!
(Also, I have a lot of nostalg...
2019-12-11 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Huh, somehow the post I had scheduled for today... disappeared? Anyway, here is the unintentionally belated video for this week. It's a little out of chronological sequence, but it seemed like it n...
2019-12-04 21:30:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey! We're all caught up again to the usual two-week lead time on these videos. Thanks for bearing with me while I got things back on track.
This week we see, by far, the most valuable game I...
2019-11-27 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
The Game Boy Advance was the last platform, to my knowledge, on which we saw a significant number of intriguing first-party titles fail to reach the U.S.; on DS and everything after, the Japan-only...
2019-11-25 14:52:17 +0000 UTC View Post
I didn't quite manage to catch up with my video backlog over the weekend, but I did make some progress. This video is four days late instead of seven. I've also written all video ...
2019-11-18 03:25:48 +0000 UTC View Post(By a week or so.)
Alas, it has finally happened—five consecutive weekends of cross-country travel have disrupted my weekend productivity for this, my favorite weekend project. I do enjoy h...
2019-11-13 13:41:26 +0000 UTC View Post
I feel like NES Works is truly settling into its own here. After a string of amazing, groundbreaking, world-class creations, now we're on to the mundane mediocrity. Games that were okayish, not gre...
2019-11-06 14:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
I apologize for this hyperbole-free retrospective on a much-hated game. I've accidentally gone and put together an even-handed piece that offers ample criticism but also extensive context. Whoops! ...
2019-10-30 13:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
A quick side dalliance in one of my long-simmering projects before we dive back into the NES in earnest. At some point in the relatively near future, this series will converge with NES Works... won...
2019-10-23 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
If you're wondering why I jumped the gun a bit and launched Game Boy Works Advance now, here's the answer. I hit a pair of Castlevania games last year for Halloween, and by cracky, I feel like that...
2019-10-16 14:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I added a few new pieces of capture hardware to my recording setup over the summer: A Mega SD for convenient Sega CD capture, a Wide Boy 64 GBC for Game Boy Color, and an Intelligent System GBA cap...
2019-10-09 13:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Stinger is an unusual entry in a long-running Konami series that has barely had any traction in the U.S. And... that's about all I have to say about it that wasn't covered in the video. 2019-10-02 13:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Sometimes, in the course of creating a chronological survey of old video games, one must inevitably Fudge It. This is one such case: I know at least one of these games shipped in 1987 in the U.S., ...
2019-09-25 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
My overall plans for Video Works are somewhat up in the air at the moment—I'm torn between doubling down on NES, focusing on Game Boy Color, or tackling a different platform and throwing in some ...
2019-09-18 14:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
It's been a long, long time since the last N64 Works episode, but since my head has been in the "mid-to-late ’90s" space with Virtual Boy Work and Game Boy Works Color, I wanted to throw the occa...
2019-09-11 14:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
I tackled this one slightly out of the actual chronological order of Game Boy Color releases. But sometimes you've gotta fudge it a bit, and this one's slated to go public the same week the Lin...
2019-09-04 12:59:59 +0000 UTC View Post