Thursday, September 29, 2022

Year of the Animal: Day 272 - Crackout

 Today's video takes a look at Konami's "released everywhere but the US" Arkanoid clone Crackout.

 


 



Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Year of the Animal: Day 271 - Disney's Aladdin

 Today's video takes a look at the Pal-Exclusive NES port of Disney's Aladdin from Virgin Games.






Tuesday, September 27, 2022

Year of the Animal: Day 270 - Firehawk

 Today's video takes a look at Firehawk, the helicopter combat game from Codemasters and Camerica.






Monday, September 26, 2022

Year of the Animal: Day 269 - Nobunaga's Ambition

 Today's video takes a look at Nobunaga' Ambition from Koei. The first game in the long standing strategy series to get a release outside of Japan.






Sunday, September 25, 2022

Year of the Animal: Day 268 - Touch Down Fever

 Today's video takes a look at the NES port of SNK's arcade football game, Touch Down Fever.






Saturday, September 24, 2022

Year of the Animal: Day 267 - Alien 3

 Today's video takes a look at the NES port of the game based on Alien 3, based on the Sigourney Weaver film, from Probe and LJN.






Year of the Animal: Day 266 - Millipede

 Today's video takes a look at the NES port of Atari's Millipede from Hal America.






Thursday, September 22, 2022

Year of the Animal: Day 265 - Gumshoe

 Today's video takes a look at Nintendo's R&D1 developed all light gun controlled platformer, Gumshoe.






Wednesday, September 21, 2022

Year of the Animal: Day 264 - Q*Bert

 Today's video takes a look at the NES port of Q*Bert from Konami's Ultra Games label.






Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Year of the Animal: Day 263 - Taboo: The Sixth Sense

 Today's video takes a look at Taboo: The Sixth Sense, Tradewest's Rare - developed Tarot simulator.






Monday, September 19, 2022

Year of the Animal: Day 262 - Motor City Patrol

 Today's video takes a look at Matchbox's debut entry into video games with Motor City Patrol. Let's just say it went as well as you'd expect.






Sunday, September 18, 2022

Year of the Animal: Day 261 - Cool World

 Today's video takes a look at the NES port of Cool World, Ocean's video game based on the 1992 animated film.






Saturday, September 17, 2022

Year of the Animal: Day 260 - The Hunt Of Red October

 Today's video takes a look at the NES port of the video game adaptation of The Hunt For Red October from Hi-Tech Expressions and Beam Software.






Friday, September 16, 2022

Year of the Animal: Day 259 - Rock 'N Ball

 Today's video takes a look at Rock 'N Ball from NTVIC. It was originally released on the Famicom as Family Pinball from Namco.






Year of the Animal: Day 258 - The Mutant Virus: Crisis In A Computer World

 Today's video looks at The Mutant Virus: Crisis In A Computer World.American Softworks Corporation's eccentric puzzle, shmup hybrid.






Wednesday, September 14, 2022

Year of the Animal: Day 257 - Thunderbirds

 Today's video takes a look at Thunderbirds, based on the British TV series, from Activision.






Tuesday, September 13, 2022

Year of the Animal: Day 256 - Wurm: Journey To The Center Of The Earth

 Today's video takes a look at Wurm: Journey To The Center Of The Earth from Asmik. A solid game that involves a lot of weird stuff after the apocalypse of 1999.






Monday, September 12, 2022

Year of the Animal: Day 255 - NFL

 Today video takes a look at NFL from LJN. If I'm right, it might be the second console football video game to have a National Football League license since 1979's NFL Football for the Intellivision.






Sunday, September 11, 2022

Year of the Animal: Day 254 - Castlequest

 Today's video takes a look at Castlequest, the NES port of ASCII's Castle Excellent, from Nexoft.






Saturday, September 10, 2022

Year of the Animal: Day 253 - Barbie

 Today's video takes a look at the first game based on Mattel's Barbie from Hi Tech Expressions.






Friday, September 9, 2022

Year of the Animal: Day 252 - Juuouki (Altered Beast)

 Today's video takes a look at the Famicom port of Sega's Altered Beast, known in Japan as Juuouki, from Asmik

 


 




Thursday, September 8, 2022

Year of the Animal: Day 251 - Tag Team Match: M.U.S.C.L.E.

 Today's video takes a look at the US release of Kinnikuman: Muscle Tag Match, which was was known here as Tag Team Match: M.U.S.C.L.E. from Bandai.






Wednesday, September 7, 2022

Tuesday, September 6, 2022

Year of the Animal: Day 249 - Raid 2020

 Today's video takes a look at Raid 2020, another remarkable piece of work from Color Dreams.






Monday, September 5, 2022

Year of the Animal: Day 248 - SonSon

 Today's video takes a look at the Famicom port of Capcom's early arcade release SonSon. Micronics developed it, It was a bad port when it was released in 1986, and the lens of history sees it as worse than it was before.






Year of the Animal: Day 247 - Pirates!

 Today's video takes a look at the NES port of Sid Meier's Pirates! published by Ultra Games.






Saturday, September 3, 2022

Year of the Animal: Day 246 - Airwolf

 Today's video takes a look at the NES port of Airwolf, based on the 80s tv series, from Acclaim and Beam Software.






Friday, September 2, 2022

Year of the Animal: Day 245 - Thunder & Lightning

 Today's video takes a look at the NES port of Thunder & Lightning from Romstar.






Thursday, September 1, 2022