Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Year of the Animal: Day 243 - Disney's The Lion King

 Today's video takes a look at the final NES game released in Europe, Disney's The Lion King from Virgin Interactive. 






Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Monday, August 29, 2022

Year of the Animal: Day 241 - John Elway's Quarterback

 Today's video takes a look at the NES port of Leland Corporation's arcade football title John Elway's Quarterback. This was published by Tradewest in a post-Tecmo Bowl world and it definitely suffered for it.






Sunday, August 28, 2022

Year of the Animal: Day 240 - Bartman Meets Radioactive Man

 Today's video takes a look at one of the four titles based on The Simpsons released on the NES, Bartman Meets Radioactive Man from Acclaim.






Saturday, August 27, 2022

Year of the Animal: Day 239 - Ms. Pac Man

Today's video takes a look at both NES ports of Ms. Pac Man, the conversion kit that became an arcade legend it her own right.

 


 


 


 

Friday, August 26, 2022

Year of the Animal: Day 238 - Sunman (Unreleased)

 Today's video takes a look at Sunman, the unreleased reskin of Sunsoft's also unreleased Superman game.






Thursday, August 25, 2022

Year of the Animal: Day 237 - Bo Jackson Baseball

 Today's video takes a look at Bo Jackson Baseball published by Data East and developed by Beam Software.






Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Year of the Animal: Day 236 - Hudson's Adventure Island

 Today's video takes a look at Hudson's Adventure Island, which was born from an agreement between Hudson and Westone (or Escape, I don't remember what their name was at the time) and featured the visage of Toshiyuki Takahashi as the series' protagonist.





Toshiyuki Takahashi around 1986. Fun fact: he's basically the father of the turbo button.
 
 

 

Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Year of the Animal: Day 235 - Predator

 Today's video takes a look at the NES port of Predator from Activision and Pack-In Video.






Sunday, August 21, 2022

Year of the Animal: Day 233 - Mig 29: Soviet Fighter

 Today's video takes a look at the NES port of Mig 29: Soviet Fighter from Codemasters / Camerica.






Saturday, August 20, 2022

Year of the Animal: Day 232 - Castelian

 Today's video goes by several names, but we'll be focusing on the NES port, titled Castelian from Triffix,






Friday, August 19, 2022

Year of the Animal: Day 231 - The Jetsons: Cogswell's Caper

 Today's video takes a look at another one of Taito's incredibly pricey at resale late NES releases: The Jetsons: Cogswell's Caper.






Thursday, August 18, 2022

Year of the Animal: Day 230 - Master Chu And The Drunkard Hu

 Today's video takes a look at Master Chu And The Drunkard Hu from Color Dreams. Yeah, I know and I'm sorry. It had to be done.






Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Year of the Animal: Day 229 - Puzznic

 Today's video takes a quick look at the NES port of Taito's arcade puzzle game, Puzznic.






Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Year of the Animal: Day 228 - Wolverine

 Today's video takes a look at Wolverine, the second game based on a character from Marvel's X-Men. This game was developed by Software Creations and published by LJN. In short, it's a rough play with a good soundtrack.






Monday, August 15, 2022

Year of the Animal: Day 227 - Jurassic Park

 Today's video takes a look at Ocean Software's NES title based on Jurassic Park.

 


 



Sunday, August 14, 2022

Saturday, August 13, 2022

Year of the Animal: Day 225 - Super Turrican

 Today's video takes a look at the Pal-Exclusive Super Turrican from Imagineering.






Friday, August 12, 2022

Year of the Animal: Day 224 - Spiritual Warfare

 Today's video takes a look at Spiritual Warfare, Wisdom Tree's remarkably competent Legend of Zelda clone.






Thursday, August 11, 2022

Year of the Animal: Day 223 - Seicross

 Today's video takes a look at the FCI - published NES port of Nichibutsu's Seicross.

 


 



Wednesday, August 10, 2022

Tuesday, August 9, 2022

Monday, August 8, 2022

Year of the Animal: Day 220 - Major League Baseball

 Today's video takes a look at Major League Baseball, developed by Atlus and published by LJN. The first NES baseball game officially licensed by Major League Baseball.






Sunday, August 7, 2022

Year of the Animal: Day 219 - Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat

Today's video takes a look at the NES port of Leland Corporation's racing title Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat.

 


 




 

Saturday, August 6, 2022

Year of the Animal: Day 218 - DuckTales 2

 Today's video takes a look at DuckTales 2, the sequel to Capcom's classic Disney platformer.

 


 
 



Friday, August 5, 2022

Year of the Animal: Day 217 - Hammerin' Harry

 Today's video takes a look at the NES version of Hammerin' Harry from Irem.






Thursday, August 4, 2022

Year of the Animal: Day 216 - Cobra Command

 Today's video takes a look at the NES port of Cobra Command from Data East. This was the third game Data East released under that title.






Wednesday, August 3, 2022

Year of the Animal: Day 215 - Metal Mech: Man & Machine

 Today's video takes a look at Metal Mech: Man & Machine, the rather disappointing action platformer from Jaleco.






Tuesday, August 2, 2022

Monday, August 1, 2022