Another bonus video upload, continuing the GTV series—which means, yeah, another set of surreal framing sequences surrounding preview and commentary segments on games both familiar and foreign. Y...
2024-05-15 00:56:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Another massive monstrosity of a game! NES, please, I am begging for you to go easy on me just this once.
Honestly, I don't really have Manager Brain, so games like Nobunaga's Ambition 2024-05-08 12:05:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello! If you happen to be a cool Retronauts patreon subscriber, you know that I've been hunting down interesting game related vinyl and cassette releases from the 1980s over the past few years to ...
2024-05-07 12:57:30 +0000 UTC View Post
It looks like the most recent bonus upload (Gametech Video Vol. 1) wasn't watched by a lot of people, which is a shame! Gametech Video is not your typical game magazine material. It featur...
2024-05-02 22:58:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello and welcome to May ’24. Here is an episode about Strider. Well, partially. It's also about some legislative and cultural shifts in America and Japan during the first half of the 19...
2024-05-01 12:39:40 +0000 UTC View Post
This past month has been a bit challenging for me, and I've been remiss in posting bonus materials for patrons. I'm going to make it up for you in May by posting far more frequently, beginning here...
2024-04-30 02:59:30 +0000 UTC View Post
And with this, the Game Boy launch lineup comes to an end—and there's only one more game for the platform due in 1989, so don't expect much more Game Boy material until, uh... looks like 2026? So...
2024-04-24 11:33:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Whew! I managed to pull this episode together with time to spare in the month, despite how disruptive the past six weeks have been. And I had an excuse to play Lady Bug, which will probabl...
2024-04-21 02:03:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Two things about this episode, which continues our Month of Game Boy Reprises For The American Launch (a title that truly just dances off the tongue):
The opening section is material I held ...
2024-04-17 11:58:35 +0000 UTC View Post
It did not sit well with me that my attempt to revisit the Game Boy was wrecked by technical failings. That video should have been a milestone video for this documentary project! So—now that I ha...
2024-04-16 21:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
The revisited Game Boy Works (U.S.A. Remix) series won't include many single-game episodes, since I've already discussed these early games in the context of their Japanese launch. HOWEVER, the U.S....
2024-04-10 11:40:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, I guess this isn't really a bonus video in the usual sense, but... two weeks from today will be the 10th anniversary of my first Game Boy Works (World) upload. Seemed worth marking the occasi...
2024-04-08 00:54:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Good morning. First, a couple of apologies are in order. I'm sorry that I did not post a bonus video this past weekend, for those who subscribe to such things; I've been dealing with an ongoing fam...
2024-04-03 11:46:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Piping hot from the NES Works oven, it's a freshly rendered mega-sized episode on a game that totally deserves it. I've pooled all of my resources here: Personal experience, tons of reading and res...
2024-03-28 01:23:03 +0000 UTC View PostHey all, just wanted to let you know that the weekly Wednesday morning (U.S. time) post won't happen until Wednesday evening or Thursday morning. I'm waiting on one last component to arrive, which ...
2024-03-27 12:17:40 +0000 UTC View Post
The most notable thing about this video is that I accidentally hit the "cinematic" frame rate feature on my camera and made the hosting segments look about 90% classier than before. Otherwise... it...
2024-03-22 23:13:04 +0000 UTC View Post
I hope you don't mind that this episode goes off the rails a little bit toward the end. It's been a long and difficult few months, and this episode is the equivalent of my falling into a fugue stat...
2024-03-20 13:22:32 +0000 UTC View PostWell... I finished text and layouts on the Metroidvania Works book this weekend. "Metroidvania Works" ended up being a working title only; the book will be called The History Metroidvania: The ...
2024-03-18 14:21:51 +0000 UTC View Post
I keep telling myself that I need to get my scripts under control. These videos get longer and longer with each passing year. Remember when I was publishing five-minute weekly videos on Game Boy ga...
2024-03-13 13:00:18 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been sitting on this one a while, and the recent passing of Akira Toriyama reminded me that it needs to go live. It's another in the V-Jump video series; this time a document of the 1996 V-Jum...
2024-03-09 15:35:34 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we have some absolutely mismatched games: Desert Commander and California Games. One is a very serious war game in which you fight against (or even command) the Nazi's A...
2024-03-06 13:20:08 +0000 UTC View Post
This video is what they did to promote games back before Mega64 existed.
2024-03-04 03:03:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Hope you like sweet-ass game music and hard-ass difficulty, because The Adventures of Bayou Billy offers both in spades. It's the game so hard it killed my VHS camcorder.
2024-02-28 12:23:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, here we go. I've had to bid farewell to my trusted VHS camcorder, which recently passed a sort of functional point of no return. Maybe it was just sad about all the mooks in the comments sect...
2024-02-25 02:07:57 +0000 UTC View Post
After last week's utterly enormous Mega Man 2 retrospective, I wanted to dial things down to a more manageable length for this episode and decided to hold on to the backup title (Calif...
2024-02-21 13:43:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, friends—your Sunday treat has arrived. This time, it's a high-quality video rip of a Mario Paint tutorial video, which appears have been produced by APE. There's some really inter...
2024-02-18 15:37:19 +0000 UTC View Post
If you subscribe to this channel, you probably don't need me to tell you that I love Mega Man 2. And if you somehow didn't know that, this 25-minute video should drive the point home. You don't nee...
2024-02-14 13:53:15 +0000 UTC View Post
I've covered the short-lived "idol game" phenomenon here with Teddy Boy for Master System. Now here's further evidence! It's the prize tape that fans received for uploading their completed...
2024-02-11 23:31:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to the bulk filler aisle of the NES. These games flesh out the library. They were products that probably made their respective publishers more money than they cost to develop and manufactur...
2024-02-07 13:23:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello! I barely managed to squeeze this in before weekend's end, but here it is. The first of a few episodes of NES Works Gaiden Casio. This episode took quite a bit longer to create than the usual...
2024-02-05 01:33:49 +0000 UTC View Post