#nes works

[anotherstrongaliens]

Compile's The Guardian Legend / Guardic Gaiden is the lone NES cartridge I managed to hold onto. I'm guessing I didn't attempt to sell it due to the label having been ruined. If I was going to be stuck with only a single game, The Guardian Legend is a splendid problem to have.

[wolfgabe]

Gabe Hoffman on Spoutible

On this day 40 years ago, the Nintendo Famicom released in Japan. Often regarded as one of the most important video game consoles of all tim

It's the Famicom's 40th Anniversary so here is a Spoutible thread I made detailing the history of the system. I credit Jeremy Parish's NES Works video on the Famicom for much of my information.

[mendelpalace]

Jeremy Parish of NES & SNES Works recently covered a pair of modern re-releases of obscure or otherwise unavailable games (in this case the Satellaview exclusive BS Shibibiman Zero and the Japan-only Famicom release Holy Diver) while also touching on recent discussions surrounding emulation and game preservation. 

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[retronauts]

Capcom enters the ring on NES Works, falls flat on face

E3 kicks off properly today in Los Angeles, but the inevitable grind of video game hype can’t stop Retronauts Video Works from maintaining its steady schedule. In addition to the daily livestreams I’m hosting this week, I’ve also posted a slightly extended-length NES Works that explores a fairly momentous occasion in the NES’s life: The arrival of Capcom on the platform. Would that their debut…

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[retronauts]

On NES Works: Third parties continue to grapple with the idea of quality

The NES Works series continues powering through the NES 1986 library in a desperate race to Gradius, aka the one genuinely excellent third-party release from the latter half of the year. I have to say, this project has given me a new appreciation for Black Box games. I became an NES owner at the end of 1987, by which time there were enough great post-launch-era releases available that the Black…

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[retronauts]

And now for something completely different: A good TOSE/Bandai game

Between Game Boy Work (World) and NES Works, I’ve tackled quite a few games developed by the mystery humans at TOSE and the heartless suits at Bandai, and they have universally been pretty bad. Likewise for games from Bandai-affiliated publishers like Banpresto and Bandai Shinsei (which transmuted into Yutaka before our very eyes!). They’re all based on licenses, and they’re all bereft of those…

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[retronauts]

Chubby Cherub reconsidered, kinda

The game Chubby Cherub, when it bobs to the surface of the collective conscious at all, tends to be treated as one of those NES games that makes a nice, easy target for a few softball jokes, and little more. I mean, come on: It stars a fat, naked angel eating candy and avoiding dogs. I suppose any concept can make for a great game, but it’s an early third-party release for NES, so the chances of…

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[retronauts]

The sad day that third parties arrived on NES

For the next few weeks, Retronauts Video Chronicles will be mired in October 1986. Although U.S. release dates from the 8- and 16-bit eras have proven to be depressingly vague — we can pin releases to the month, and not always accurately, but precise days are out of the question — whichever day in October 1986 saw the American debut of third-party publishers for NES will live in infamy. Until we…

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