Year of the Animal: Day 304 - Sweet Home

 Today's video takes a look at Sweet Home, the Famicom - exclusive title from Capcom that served as inspiration for Resident Evil.

 

 

 

Year of the Animal: Day 303 - A Nightmare On Elm Street

 Today's video takes a look at A Nightmare On Elm Street, based on Wes Craven's legendary slasher film franchise, from LJN and Rare.

Year of the Animal: Day 302 - Dr. Chaos

 Today's video takes a look at Dr. Chaos, FCI's action adventure game that borrowed heavily from Konami's Goonies II but fell very short.

Year of the Animal: Day 301 - Bram Stoker's Dracula

 Today's video takes a look at the NES port of Bram Stoker's Dracula, which is based on the 1992 film which is in turn based on the 1897 novel of the same name, from Sony Imagesoft.

Year of the Animal: Day 300 - Ghostbusters II & New Ghostbusters II

 Today's video takes a look at Ghostbusters II from Activision and the Japan and Pal Region exclusive New Ghostbusters II from HAL Laboratory. both games based on the 1989 film.

Year of the Animal: Day 299 - Ghostbusters

 Today's video takes a look at the NES port of Ghostbusters, based on the classic 1984 film, from Activision.

Year of the Animal: Day 298 Robodemons

 Today's video takes a look at an absolute piece of garbage from Color Dreams called Robodemons.

Year of the Animal: Day 297 - Shadowgate

 Today's video takes a look at the NES port of the third of Aicom Simulations' "Macventure" titles to be ported to the NES (actually the first to appear on the console) Shadowgate.

Year of the Animal: Day 296 - Ninja Kid

 Today's video takes a look at Ninja Kid, one of the first NES releases from Bandai.

Year of the Animal: Day 295 - Getsu Fuuma Den

 Today's video takes a look at Getsu Fuuma Den, the Famicom - exclusive action RPG title from Konami.

Year of the Animal: Day 294 - Deathbots

 Today's video takes a look at Deathbots, the unlicensed Berzerk ripofff, from American Video Entertainment and Odyssey Software.

Year of the Animal: Day 293 - Ghoul School

 Today's video takes a look at Electro Brain's 1992 Survival Horror title Ghoul School.

Year of the Animal: Day 292 - Jaws

 Today's video takes a look at Jaws, published by LJN, and developed by Atlus / Westone.

Year of the Animal: Day 291 - King Kong 2: Ikari no Megaton Punch

 Today's video takes a look at Konami's Famicom - exclusive game based on 1986's King Kong Lives, King Kong 2: Ikari no Megaton Punch.

 

 

Year of the Animal: Day 290 - Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

 Today's video takes a look at the much maligned Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde from Bandai.

Year of the Animal: Day 289 - Joe & Mac

 Today's video takes a look at the NES port of Data East's Caveman Ninja, renamed for home consoles as Joe & Mac.

 

 

 

 

Year of the Animal: Day 288 - Stealth ATF

 Today's video takes a look at Activision and Imagineering's pseudo-flight sim title Stealth ATF.

 

 

 

Year of the Animal: Day 287 - Bee 52

 Today's video takes a look at Bee 52, an unlicensed shmup from Codemasters and published by Camerica.

Year of the Animal: Day 286 - Bubble Bobble Part 2

 Today's video takes a look at the console - exclusive Bubble Bobble Part 2, the sequel to Taito's 1986 Arcade classic Bubble Bobble.

 

 

 

Year of the Animal: Day 285 - Kid Dracula

 Today's video takes a look at Akumajō Special: Boku Dracula-kun known in the US as Kid Dracula, Konami's parody of the original Castlevania trilogy.

Year of the Animal: Day 284 - Beetlejuice

 Today's video takes a look at Beetlejuice, based on the Tim Burton - directed film, from LJN.

Year of the Animal: Day 283 - Uninvited

 Today's video takes a look at the NES port of Icom Simulations' Uninvited from Kemco.

Year of the Animal: Day 282 - Frankenstein: The Monster Returns

 Today's video takes a look that Frankenstein: The Monster Returns from Bandai and Tose. As an aside, Frankenstein is the name of the scientist who created the creature, not the creature himself. In the novel, Victor Frankenstein never game his creation a name. In some instances, he was called everything from the creature to "Adam".

Year of the Animal: Day 281 - Chiller

 Today's video takes a look at the NES port of Exidy's shocking light gun game, Chiller, published by  American Game Cartridges.

Year of the Animal: Day 280 - The Simpsons: Bart Vs The Space Mutants

 Today's video takes a look at The Simpsons: Bart Vs The Space Mutants, the first NES title based on the iconic animated series. from Acclaim and Imagineering.

Year of the Animal: Day 279 - Over Horizon

 Today's video takes a look at Over Horizon from Hot B.

 

 

 

Year of the Animal: Day 278 - Defenders of Dynatron City

 Today's video takes a look at Defenders of Dynatron City from Lucasfilm Games and JVC. This was an attempt at making a franchise happen that failed miserably.

Year of the Animal: Day 277 - Back to the Future II & III

 Today's video takes a look at Back to the Future II & III from LJN and Beam Software. This dastardly combo teamed up again to give something possibly worse than the original.

Year of the Animal: Day 276 - Devil World

 Today's video takes a look at possibly the only Shigeru Miyamoto -produced title to be published by Nintendo to not be released in the US, Devil World.

Famicom box art

 

European box art

Year of the Animal: Day 275 - Crystalis

 Today's video takes a look at Crystalis, SNK's 1990 Action RPG opus.

Year of the Animal: Day 274 - Battle City

 Today's video takes a look at Battle City, a Famicom - only release from Namco. 

Year of the Animal: Day 273 - Hook

 Today's video takes a look at the NES version of Hook, based on the Steven Spielberg directed Peter Pan film starring Robin Williams, from Ocean Software and Sony Imagesoft.