Hey! It's an NES game. Two, actually. See, I haven't forgotten about the NES! It still has a place in my heart. We'll be wrapping up NES 1987 in due time, if only because I really want to cover
Whoa! What's this? Monochrome!? How curious.
Yes, Game Boy Works Color isn't the only Game Boy series in town. I won't be updating GBW as frequently as other series for the time being, but it...
2019-08-21 14:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I feel like this is a game that I could have gone into greater depth about, but I decided to save my energy for the next Game Boy Works Color episode...
Still, some kind of cool stuf...
2019-08-14 14:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Man, Game Boy Color sure was front-loaded with some good stuff, huh? Here’s another Nintendo joint, with (yep) deep connections to GBC's precursor portables. It’s a remarkable treatment for som...
2019-08-08 01:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Wow, I'm really glad I decided to follow up Virtual Boy Works with Game Boy Works Color. It turns out there's a lot of continuity between them, and this episode in particular is a striking...
2019-07-31 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Virtual Boy Works isn't quite over! Almost, but not quite. There's still one more episode to go after this look at the hardware itself....
2019-07-24 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
You can usually tell how enthusiastic I am about a game by how long its video retrospective turns out to be. That rubric holds true here; Wario Land II is genius, and I could have gone on ...
2019-07-17 17:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
There's some pretty cool stuff to look forward to in Game Boy Works Color.
This, however, does not fall into that category.
2019-07-10 21:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Yes, that's right: A new adventure begins here. Except it's really just more of the same, only in color.
I'm not giving up on classic Game Boy, but interleaving some color games into th...
2019-07-03 15:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
You know, I enjoyed producing the Virtual Boy Works series, but this episode was a relief and a genuine pleasure to work on. With its weird tech and short life, Virtual Boy amounted to a little arc...
2019-06-26 20:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
This is it! The final officially licensed and released Virtual Boy game. As with the other three most recent games I've covered, it's crazy expensive now due to its rarity. A shame, because this is...
2019-06-19 15:59:59 +0000 UTC View Post
There is, after all, life beyond Virtual Boy.
2019-06-17 02:14:50 +0000 UTC View Post
This was one of those "difficult last step" episodes. The end of Virtual Boy Works is so near! I almost have the entire series wrapped up! But... first, there's SD Gundam: Dimension War. 2019-06-12 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Folks, this game ain't good. It also ain't cheap. It's one of those unhappy cases where completist collectors have to dig deep and spend tons on something no one would realistically want to pay any...
2019-06-05 16:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a much less interesting adaptation of Space Invaders than the one on Game Boy, but the semi-3D mode is kind of neat. Too bad it's locked away, probably forever, behind its prohibitive scarc...
2019-05-29 15:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
I was curious about this one going into the Virtual Boy Works project, and I have to say I'm thrilled that it did not disappoint. It's a strange game in a lot of ways, but also feels like something...
2019-05-22 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
You ever come across one of those old games that you're obligated to review but doesn't really support much critical discourse so you just have to wring as much material out of it as possible? No? ...
2019-05-15 15:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
The Virtual Boy train keeps a-chuggin'...
This one's pretty decent, and I really wish they'd been able to follow through and make it great. Ah, what could have been.
2019-05-09 00:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hmmm, yep, another Tetris game. But a completely different Tetris game than 3D-Tetris. Did Virtual Boy need two different takes on the same franchise? No, but at...
2019-05-01 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
I went to the trouble of tracking down the complete Famicom Athena set and bought a tape player, so I figured I might as well post the whole danged contents of the cassette. The s...
2019-04-25 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I like when I do one of these combo episodes and the games lend themselves to a tidy narrative. Both Athena and Arkanoid are know for being punishingly hard, and both came in jumb...
2019-04-24 14:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Wow, dang. I really wanted to like this one. I didn't like it at all back in the day, but the reasons for my lukewarm sentiments had faded in memory, so I had hoped it would be one that impressed m...
2019-04-17 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all, I decided to produce an impromptu and unscheduled Game Boy Works episode this week, because... it's almost the system's 30th anniversary. And that means Video Works has been around for fiv...
2019-04-10 14:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
It's been a while, huh? I'm finally back in the swing of video production after a rather complicated month, and I bring with me nothing less than the very final U.S. entry in the Virtual Boy lineup...
2019-04-04 02:01:25 +0000 UTC View Post(I do feel kind of dead, though... I picked up some nasty bug last week at Game Developers Conference. Too many hands to shake, not enough sanitizer.)
Hi all, just wanted to post a q...
2019-03-28 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
My assault on your senses continues with the next-to-last U.S. release for Virtual Boy. Wowzers! There's a lot to unpack with this one...
2019-03-09 13:54:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Well... my enjoyable run of creating videos about good and notable games has come to an end. Now we're onto a lengthy stretch of absolute doldrums, beginning with this notorious dud. Although it wa...
2019-03-03 21:57:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Yeah, so I had more to say about Metroid. Can you believe it? Shocking but true.
This episode reminded me how much I enjoy talking about NES games—but no! Must... finish... Virtual...
2019-02-26 18:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Let's take a break from Virtual Boy, shall we? I wanted to commemorate the upcoming 25th anniversary of Super Metroid by looking at the game it was based on, which just happened to be next...
2019-02-24 15:51:32 +0000 UTC View Post
I think we're halfway through Virtual Boy Works now. That's pretty wild!
2019-02-21 15:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post