The Last 30 NES Games!
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- čas přidán 7. 06. 2024
- In this installment of the Every Game Ever, we take a look at the final 30 games on the NES. There are some good ones, there are some bad ones, but no matter what we think of them, they are all key part of the history of the system we know and love.
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Developers: I know there’s a shiny new system out with more power, but hear us out. What about Battleship?
hey some of us didn't have friends or siblings to play board games with and needed a computer version just to have a second player. :P
"Now featuring air support" lmao
From what I understand, it's not a bad game. I couldn't justify $50 to buy it then. Maybe $5?
You know Back to the Future? How it ended on a sudden cliffhanger that teased audiences for years with a brief taste of a future where you weren't limited by the narrow roads of 1985?
That's how it felt to want a next generation machine you couldn't afford.
That's pretty descriptive haha.
Wow. Yeahs 😮
My mom refused to get me an NES when I was a kid. In fact my big X-Mas gift in fourth grade was a used Atari 2600 she got from the parents of a classmate who never played it because he had an NES. The next year I got a Gameboy, and the year after that I finally got an NES... in 1990. I got an SNES, Genesis, and Game Gear each year after. However, I was there and present for the final days, and even had the resdesined NES with the SNES style controllers. The last two modern game I got for it were Star Tropics 2 and Mega Man 6. I adored them both. It was a fun time!
That's awesome! I think it's always dope to hear of times where our parents knew we couldn't afford game stuff, but they still figured out a way to make it work for us.
Slight correction: "The Addams Family" was based on a group of unnamed characters from Chas Addams' *single-panel* comics, originally published in The New Yorker.
They weren't strips, and there was no series specifically dedicated to those characters. They didn't have names until the first TV show in 1964.
Lmao.
I was about 10 when the SNES came. I remember everyone being excited for it and my friends competing over who could finish a game first. A friend got Chronotrigger a week before me and I still beat it four hours before him.
That's AWESOME!
Dude, Chronotrigger came out far in the SNES life. Unless I misread your comment, you couldn't have bought a SNES at 10 and Chronotrigger at the same time.
@roberthunter479 I am referring to a favorite memory in the era of the SNES. Of course Chronotrigger came out later.
I also remember buying LTTP at Toys-R-Us and my first encounter with FF3 being seeing it at Electronics Boutique.
@@gamingtheologian8515 I was at the store the day FF3 was released, waiting for them to put it on the shelf. I even called in to my job and told them I might not come in that day.
The last 30 games on game system it's a great concept and I haven't noticed that other people have done it. Would you consider doing a last 10 releases on the European nes? I'm not sure if those titles are different. But I always like to hear your take on important goodies. This was really fun. Thanks. I go out of my way to give a thumbs up to your videos cuz I want to try and help your channel anyway I can.
Yeah, I can do a European focus, I'll add it to the list :)
Zoda's Revenge was an awesome game. I remember buying it with my paper route money, even though I had already gotten an SNES from my parents a year prior and had just recently bought myself a Model 2 Genesis...didn't regret it one bit.
Nice!
I had a SNES when it released and had no idea of its existence until I started collecting in the late '90s. I was surprised to see it and was delighted once I played it. More Star Tropics isn't a bad thing.
When the SNES came out I was still going to town on the NES games I had. The only experience for SNES I had was at the local bowling alley where they had the Super Mario World and FZero two in one arcade. My parents didn't buy me an SNES and figured having a NES with a few games was good enough forever. I ended up getting my SNES from my buddy for $25 with Ken Griffey Jr Baseball and Mario World halfway through its life cycle. It was at that point my parents realized that Video games were not like a puppy, you can't just get one system and 5 games and that is sufficient until it dies. P.S. good public service announcement, it brought me back to those "The More You Know" commercials about drugs during Saturday Morning Cartoons.
That's awesome! Thank you so much for sharing this insight into your life!
Pooh, that’s another game that should have been on your Shortest NES games list, A Boy and His Blob. The developers never dreamed someone would intentionally die to skip like 90% of the game.
Ooh, not Pooh. Autocorrect is strange.
Jesus lmao
Great video my friend. Brings back some memories. I was always the kid that was behind a generation with consoles. I had a 7800 and NES well into the SNES life cycle and I remember some of these games being released late in the consoles life. I was so excited that I could get new games at the rental place even though everyone else had these super realistic graphics on the new console.
Thank you!
I subscribed. Great channel alot of nostalgia. So much love for the nes👍👍
Thanks!
I remember being super excited for the SNES as a kid. I had been following it's release in Nintendo Power and discussing it on the playground at school. It was a big deal. But I wouldn't get one of my own until 1994ish after Mario All Stars came out and was bundled with the console and Super Mario World. I got it for Christmas that year and lost my mind. Was a huge deal. Of all games on it though, the one that made me want the console the most was Super Double Dragon.
That's basically how it was with the N64 for me.
7:07 This may sound like a nitpick but it is not: DMA Design became *Rockstar North,* not Rockstar Games. Rockstar Games started as a publishing subsidiary created by Take-Two using assets they bought from the recently closed BMG Interactive (the publisher of the original Grand Theft Auto). DMA Design were themselves bought by Take-Two (from their previous owner Infogrames) shortly before the release of GTA2, but they were not renamed to Rockstar North until after GTA3.
Semantics lol. I cover it more in depth correctly on the episode about it.
Great work. Enjoyed the upload
Thank you!
On N64 i remember seeing Tetrisphere at my local rental place, but i never did play it. Looked interesting though.
I never played that, but I remember seeing it. There was this chameleon one I never played that I recall seeing all the time too.
My experience with Bubble Bobble 2 is limited to seeing a buyer find it in an episode of Storage Wars.
My experience with Bubble Bobble 2 is my friend and I getting excited to play it (we'd played the first game on a ton on various formats) and finding that it's "2 player mode" was taking it in turns rather than being at the same time like the first game did so well. :/ Hopefully someone can do a rom hack of it to put that 2 player mode back in someday. Heck, they've done it with games that never had a 2 player at same time mode like Super Mario Bros and Duck Tales. :O
Oh really? I hope it wasn't that YUUUUUP guy
@@Fortefyre I think it was the German guy
Nice video! I was born in the late 80s and we got the NES for Christmas in the early 90s. I really don't remember anyone being jealous about "next gen" or there being any "console wars". One guy in school had Sega, but everyone else had NES. In Finland we were just happy with what we were given back in the days. Things and fads arrived late.
I think it was slightly different here in America because there was a GNARLY ad campaign that went on between sega and Nintendo with Sega being harsher.
There was a big console wars thing here. My friend had a Genesis in high school and kept telling me, even before the SNES came out, Genesis would kill it. He rubbed Sega in my face so hard, I hated Sega just because of the fans. There was rivalry out there, and ads from both companies loved to rile their followers into a frenzy. It wasn't as strong of a rivalry in the '80s, between NES and SMC, as it was in the early '90s.
Then Neo Geo tried to enter the fray and nobody could afford it lmao.
Indiana Jones and the last crusade belongs in Hancock's museum.
Facts haha
Mega man 6 will always hold a special in my heart. I had to call multiple stores to find the 39.99 price for it so my g.parents could buy it for me for Christmas. I got this and where in time is Carmon San Diego that came with a encyclopedia with the game. Guess which I beat first. ... And yes I still have them both.
That's dope as hell!
Dang. I was just remembering being a kid and when my parents and I went to a store that sold games, I would look around to find that World of Nintendo sign and made a beeline for it.
Haha nice!
Fun(?) fact: Ocean Software was planning on developing a game for the SNES based upon the movie “RADIO FLYER”. A movie which had a major plot point revolving around an abusive drunken stepfather!
How did that IP even get onto the drawing board to make a game out of?
That is indeed a weird choice. Though Ocean did grab a lot of licenses and were generally much loved by home computer gamers. Particularly for games like RoboCop (which was a HUGE success on the ZX Spectrum) which fortunately the Gameboy version is based on and is a lot more playable than the awful NES game.
But yeah Radio Flyer, kinda curious what they were thinking with that one.
Never heard of that! Lmao.
Back during the SNES days, I always hated it when a company like Ocean grabbed a movie license. Few companies can do it right, and they are no exception. I'm not really surprised they'd even consider doing something on Radio Flyer. Maybe they dropped the idea after someone with a bit of common sense told them it wouldn't sell.
I really like your video keep up the great work
Thank you!
Cliffhanger looks like a terrible game but damn, it is a horribly under-appreciated action movie. I did not have high hopes but I was genuinely shocked. Absolutely worth watching.
I should watch it!
Anytime you start to feel like a loser, just imagine someone sitting at home on a Saturday, alone, playing single player mode Battleship on NES. Whatever you are going through probably won't seem so bad.
Truer words lol
You forgot a big one: Kirby’s Adventure! It was a late game, released late 1993 or early 1994.
Maybe it didn't get into the last 30. The first game here is Color A Dinosaur which was July 1993. Kirby's Adventure was a few months earlier in March of 1993. :)
I think Mighty Final Fight juuuuust missed the 30 too as that was July 1993 but perhaps released days or a couple weeks before Color A Dinosaur. :)
Carn hit it on the head, I have a full list of every single game released broken down and itemized by the week they were released (in america). Kirbys adventure is dope though!
Re: jungle book section. I actually quit my job last summer to spend the summer with my girls.
I was really worried about the little one being behind starting school. But with 24/7 daddy time. And trying to keep up with dad and big sis on our adventures and learning... She more than caught up and actually excelled.
And I got a whole summer of daddy daughter time.
That's a beautiful thing. Enjoy that time!
I realy loved the nes version of Nigel Mansels F1 grand prix I loved it much more than the snes version
Because of the very good arcade feeling the hard figths against the other drivers the amazing soundtrack and the amazing speeds feeling in the curves
One of the best racing games I ever owned on nes
I agree! It looks wonderful!
Alright I'll watch again
I got my NES late i guess, the xmas of 1990 i believe it was. I had years of fun with it till the SNES came out, i believe I got that in 1992 or 1993. I remember the jump in graphics and such, it was mind blowing at the time. I remember asking my parents for one and I wanted NHLPA hockey 93 and or Street Fighter 2. I couldnt believe that xmas morning opening it up to see both games. I was about 13 or 14 when SNES came out so I had been playing NES for a while and everyone was so amazed at how much better games were.
I think I felt the same way as in 98 with the N64.
@@Fortefyre No one around me got an N64, I think in late 1994 i got a playstation when I was working at mcd's and yeah that was another huge jump.
Yes! Do a video on the best composers on the NES!
Tanaka, Kodaka, and most importantly, Chikuma for Faxanadu.
TIM FOLLIN
I say the best of the last batch of NES games is Chip 'N Dale Rescue Rangers 2.
However, the best box art is Mega Man 6. While I prefer the Japanese box art, the North American box art is kinda cool. Heck, classic Mega Man finally looked good on the American box arts.
It's funny because japan usually got it better in the box department.
No doubt you need to take a look at Sony of America's small long-box era. The boxes themselves were poorly constructed, but they were home to Resident Evil, Twisted Metal, Doom, Rayman, Tekken, Darkstalkers, and Ridge Racer.
I like those long boxes, I wish they made all the games like that..my boxes still hold up great to this day..
I have a few a long boxes myself. Tekken, Revolution X, D
I've wondered about the PSX Long Boxes myself. Was Sony trying to make cases similar to Sega CD and Saturn?
If you want to do a journey in exploring random cases, CD-i couldn't make up their mind to save their lives. They had longboxes (like steelbooks), jewel cases that opened up vertically (which irritates me on a OCD level) and traditional jewel cases.
Yuus! I was looking forward to this one
It was an all day edit LMAO, I'm glad it's done.
I appreciate it so much, I watched it twice. 😂 thanks bro.
Interesting set of games. I'd say the best is Star Tropics 2
I've yet to play any star tropics ones
I remember renting a few of these games but I never owned any of them
They aren't bad!
Are the middle 30 games next? Cuz that would be cool.
That would be incredibly difficult, because I'd have to painstakingly go through the entire list of US releases. It would be a massive pain in the ass.
Sounds fun! I'll add it to the list :P
Great video keep it up
Thanks! I appreciate the kind words :)
" I was a fuckin idiot in highschool" wasn't we all bro 🤣🤣🤣
XD
That's pretty funny. The "wasn't we" was a nice touch.
There are at least three NES Indiana Jones games I'm aware of. The other two being Temple of Doom and Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. My fave is personally Young Indy (for some reason he feels very much like the guy from Shatterhand in his sprite design and punching) but that may also be down to that first stage of Last Crusade makes me a lil ill with all the boat swaying. Which is weird because I've been on real boats many times and never felt seasick. :P Great music though as you pointed out.
Oh wow! I didn't realize there were 3!
@@Fortefyre 4. There's another officially licensed Last Crusade game, and it's a lazy port of a bad European Gameboy title. It's barely colored in.
@@juststatedtheobvious9633 yeah, that's the one I couldn't remember if it definitely came out on NES or not but your comment made me go check and you're right. It's referred to as Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade: The Action Game. I actually had a version of it on Amstrad CPC but yeah it's not a good game on any of the many formats it came out, the others being DOS, C64, ZX Spectrum, Amiga, Atari ST, Genesis, Master System, Game Gear, MSX.
I just compared the player sprites from Young Indiana Jones and Shatterhand since I felt the games looked a lil similar. And yep, Young Indy shares enough details with Shatterhand that it looks very much like whoever sprited Indy absolutely copied Shatterhand sprites. :O I dunno if anyone's noticed that before.
Dracula goes back further than the movie. The description comes from the Bram Stoker novel and Dracula was actually based on the seven deadly sins.
Haha well yeahhhhhh.
Next give us a list of the 30 middle NES games 😂
Jokes on you, I calculated the median and have it planned 🤪
"my dad wouldn't let me watch Ren & Stimpy, because he thought it was too raunchy"
"I would have been 2 in 1994"
So your dad stopped you from watching Adult Party Cartoon.
Also it wasn't raunchy in its first season and he later admits he's never watched an episode. Fuck this guy
Essentially lmfao
Wario's Woods is my favorite NES game 😍
Really? I might need to check it out lol
@@Fortefyre It's a puyo puyo-like. The difference is that instead of controlling a falling piece, you control Toad, who can rearrange the structures and move through them. This great freedom of movement allows you to create complex strategies to clear the board efficiently, before Wario picks up the pace and deprives you of credits, delaying game over. The first stages are very straightforward, but clearing the advanced stages, which are saturated with parts, will require a great deal of technique, or you'll quickly die.
Fortunately, you can restart from a stage you've already beaten (the cartridge has a save stack). For the moment, I'm stuck on level 70.
It's a lot freer than Tetris, which is more about speed. But toad has to move before he can act, and you can quickly find yourself overwhelmed by superfluous moves.
The learning curve is highly satisfactory. Game vision, technical learning, fast execution, adaptation.
The snes remake is good, but I prefer the original on nes: more balanced, more streamlined.
Nice! I'll have to check it out!
As for the NES's small but highly influential buddy known as the Game Boy, my favorite composers for that are;
Kazumi Totaka (X, Super Mario Land 2, and Link's Awakening)
Kouji Murata (Mega Man IV and Mega Man V)
Kozue Ishikawa (Link's Awakening and Wario Land 2)
Junichi Masuda (Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow/Green)
David Wise (Donkey Kong Land 1, DKL 2, and Battletoads)
Grant Kirkhope (Donkey Kong Land 2)
Michiru Yamane (Nemesis Game Boy)
Kaoru Okada (Castlevania Legends)
Akihiro Juichiya (TMNT 3: Radical Rescue)
Masato Ishizaki (R-Type)
Ryuji Sasai (Final Fantasy Legend 3)
Chihiro Fujioka (Final Fantasy Legend 3; later on directed Super Mario RPG)
Great list there.
I remember Taito for Operation Wolf in the arcade.
Such a good game! Hard one too!
I too have never beat a Star Trek guy, my dad watched all of them but i never could rock with the series overall.
Yeah it's strange to me.
25:15 I've never heard the name 'Geoff' pronounced like that before. :O It's usually pronounced just like 'Jeff'.
🤣
@@Fortefyre I dunno if you saw the news but Geoff Follin recently passed away at age 58 from cancer. :(
You know, I often wonder if “When SNL was good” is just me being a crotchety old man. But then I think of how there aren’t any SNL movies worth making from the current lineup and I realize it did used to be better.
Not all SNL movies were as good as The Blues Brothers and Wayne's World though. It's Pat (1994), Superstar (1999) and The Ladies Man (2000) are terrible.
Superstar was HORRID
@@carn9507 I liked Superstar, and I both own and highly recommend The Ladies Man.
Interesting comment. I'm beginning to wonder if I'm also a crotchety old man, getting angry at the stupid things these new gamers consider good. Reminds me of that Simpsons clip where it shows Grandpa Simpson in a newspaper and the title reads "Old Man Yells at a Cloud". I might be a gamer like that in a few years.
I didn't mind Coneheads tbh.
REN and Stimpy got pretty dark. It gave me nightmares as a kid. But then again so did Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Yeah are you afraid of the dark kept me away from Nickelodeon for most of my life lmao.
Sure; talk about the greatest composers for the NES. My personal favorites are;
Hidenori Maezawa (Castlevania 3, Contra, and Gradius 2 NES)
Yukie Morimoto (Castlevania 3 and Gradius 2 NES)
Jun Funahashi (Castlevania 3)
Takashi Tateishi (Mega Man 2)
Yasuaki Fujita (Mega Man 3)
Yuko Takehara (Mega Man 6)
David Wise (Battletoads; he would famously go on to compose for DKC 1 and 2; but sadly not the SNES version of DKC3)
Koji Kondo (Super Mario Bros 1-3, The Legend of Zelda, and Punch-Out)
Akito Nakatsuka (Link's Adventure and Punch-Out)
Miki Higashino (Gradius and Life Force)
Kenji Yamamoto (Punch-Out and Famicom Wars)
Yuka Tsujiyoko (Fire Emblem Gaiden; would go on to do Mystery of the Emblem's, Genealogy's, and Thracia 776's music for the Super Famicom)
Where is TIM?!?! lmao
Ren & Stimpy was a weird cartoon. It was fresh and interesting when it originally aired but hasn't aged well. And given what a creep it's creator John K is, it's bizarre how the characters are still appearing in games aimed at children (such as the recent Nickelodeon 'Smash Bros' style games). Just doesn't sit well knowing those characters represent a man who used his success of that show to groom minors...
And the early 2000's Ren & Stimpy Adult Party Cartoon is even weirder.
Yikes. What a weird guy.
Btw, where’s the Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade UBIsoft version? Are you sure that you didn’t get the earlier Taito published version mixed up with the later UBIsoft release?
Sure did lmao. I think I Freudian slipped the one I wanted to work with.
TIM FOLLIN ❤❤❤
TIMMY
You don't want to play the Wayne's World Dos game. Point and click game that shits the bed hard. Done by Capstone Entertainment...or as I lovingly call them. "Crapstone"
THE PINNACLE OF ENTERTAINMENT
Hmm, I thought Kabuki Quantum Fighter was one of the last NES games. I remember seeing Kabuki Quantum Fighter in Nintendo Power and I was thinking about buying that, but instead I used the money to put it towards a SNES. Years later I played Kabuki Quantum Fighter on a flash cart and boy was I glad I did not buy that game back in the day. It's not a bad game, kind of unique with great graphics, but the checkpoints in the game are terrible making the game a chore and not fun to play. I must be mistaken for thinking Kabuki Quantum Fighter was one of the last NES games.
Nah, Kabuki: Quantum Fighter came out in Japan in 1990, US in 1991 and Europe in 1992. Nowhere near being one of the last. And it's a solid game.
Definitely a solid game!
Is NES your favorite system? You have been doing a lot and you seem too young for the 8 bit error unless you had older siblings.
Not particularly, it's just the first library I've collected, so I make a lot of videos on it. I own 67 consoles, I'll be mixing it up soon!
@Fortefyre I'm not implying it's a bad thing. NES was my first console and I love it the most. It's cool to get a fresh take on it from a different perspective. I started collecting for NES back in the late 90's before it was cool or profitable.
Seems a little misleading to say Color a Dinosaur is $1000 and not clarify that that is a complete in box copy and a loose copy is around 100.
Do you feel my videos exist to misinform folks?
I vividly remember walking into Movie Gallery after the SNES had been out a few months, seeing they still had NES games, and thinking to myself “Why?”
Seems about right. I felt the same way for the N64/GameCube era.
Wait a moment, you were in school when the LOTR Extended Cut came out on DVD? Geez... How old even are you? You speak as though you have some nostalgia for a system well before your time. If my math is right, wouldn't you be more of an N64 kid? I guess there aren't many gamers that have gamed as long as I have.
I'm 32 lol. I do have compassion for every aspect of gaming history:)
@@Fortefyre 32? I'm 48. Never understood people who didn't grow up during the era collecting games outside their age. I suppose I can't blame you.
Video games have the potential to be so much more, but I feel Triple A game developers are just lazy. You can't trust game magazines, cause those game journalists really don't have ethics. Hard to trust anyone who gives any game a 10/10 when no game is perfect. Like Breath of the Wild or any Zelda game. Idiots... Yeah, I'm looking at IGN here. Easily influenced "gamer" journalists who like the pretty colors and games with no substance. It has Zelda stamped on it, therefore, masterpiece, no questions asked and no criticism permitted. Many dishonest publishers are like this.
I also can't stand this WATA crap. Even if you ignore the controversy of the owners, these people are partly to blame for expensive games. I also partly blame new and inexperienced gamers trying to emulate AVGN (who isn't the final opinion of all things game related).
RPG's used to be good, now they're just shit CGI movies with a few minutes of gameplay. This is what new gamers want, and so they buy it, perpetuating more shit. Sort of how Final Fantasy used to be good. I'm in the minority and see 6 as better than 7. 8 was the first real bad one. 9 was okay, then abandon ship for the rest. Square Enix (Square was the worst thing to happen to Enix, by the way) keeps pumping out shit because this new generation keeps buying it. I could say the same thing about the last 2 Zelda entries, but I already addressed that. Enix made awesome games before the bastardization happened.
So yeah, I can totally understand why someone would look back to the '80s and '90s and want to collect those imperfect things. Back when I bought my CD version of Elder Scrolls Arena and beat it for the second time, even before Daggerfall came out. There were issues back then as well. I do miss the NES, SNES days. Not so fond of the N64, but I did love the Cube.
Wow, what a rant... I just need a rocking chair and a copy of Yars Revenge.
I agree in many ways. For me, my current cognitive approach to collecting outside of my youth "era" is primarily for a few reasons: to explore the evolution of video gaming, to preserve pieces of history that are often forgotten, to educate a newer generation on something that they might not know, and because I really just enjoy it.
Modern devs, they are horrid, the stories are lackluster, and you're right, it's more like Movies. I don't know who paved the way for that, be it Final Fantasy or Squeeenix as a whole. In playing these original games, I get frustrated with the instant blessing Zelda gets as well, these legacy companies are losing track of what made the game relevant, cherished by their consumers, they are out of touch. Konami's been on my shitlist for going the Pachinko/Pachislot focus for a while now. I actually hold disdain for Daggerfall, but I view it as a fractured masterpiece for all the elements that remained in the Elder Scrolls franchise.
No rant is a bad rant, I loved reading this!
@@Fortefyre Yeah, sorry. I don't know why, but sometimes I get snotty when I hear kids telling me about the NES days when even their parents weren't old enough to remember. It is good to preserve history, learn from it and see how we can make it better. Back when playing video games wasn't what it is now. It was more of a hobby back then, akin to just watching TV, but now you have "gamers". People see it as a legitimate leisurely activity that isn't just reserved for nerds. I do like that. I don't watch TV because I refuse to watch commercials, so it's gaming for me.
Ah, Konami.... A company I used to love. It's a shame they've become what they are. They have taken a similar path that other big game companies take. Rather than take time with a game, it becomes something where they put as little effort into it and expect big returns, except with Konami it's pachinko.
And you want to talk about another trend that other companies use? Either microtransactions or season passes. Mortal Kombat 11 had 3 different versions before stopping. Total bullshit. Imagine if they released the original Zelda on 3 or cartridges? I won't play the FFVII remake because it's bullshit. Once I heard the 1st one was just Midgar, I wasn't going to play it. Plus... SquareEnix hand help but bastardize something that was 'okay'. Not a huge fan of FFVII as I thought it was vastly overrated compared to VI. If I have an interest in the game, buying it day 1 is a bad idea now. If more gamers stopped believing the hype and waited to buy, they wouldn't do it.
Back in the day, they used to call those things expansion packs. Except they didn't split the game up into 4 pieces. They were usually after thoughts where Doom would release more levels, or a flight sim would add a speech pack because more computer owners started adding sound cards (cause PC Speakers are awful). A lot of games had speech pack expansions.
Side note, not really game relevant: I've always thought it was strange that sound has been harder to capture than light for humans. We have photos dating back to at least the 1830's. First sound recordings decades later. It was the same with computers. They had games with no sound or very, very bad sound but decent graphics (for the time). Sound was exponentially better on computers with sound cards. It's a bit more complex than that but still. Light is slower than sound, and yet we can catch light easier. Stupid side note.
Daggerfall? So you've played that one, eh? Even back before Daggerfall, the only game I knew from Bethesda was Arena, and I thought their game was unusually buggy. They had a few Terminator demos or whatever, but people really didn't know about them unless they had Arena. I think Arena had fewer bugs than Daggerfall. It was sort of unnerving playing Arena only to have the game pause for a minute, because that meant the game was loading a monster. Either that or wake up to see the message "Troll is Regenerating" and have to find another place to sleep.
Daggerfall has some things that really make it annoying, more than Arena. Arena is fairly easy to beat, except Jagar Tharn always gives me trouble. Daggerfall, despite my love for the game, is unforgiving. If you receive a letter telling you someone will be somewhere for 34 days, and you're too far away to make it, the game is then in an unwinnable state. Visit a noble in Wayrest who wants you to do a required mission and tell them "no" because you want to do other stuff first, or fail to finish it within the allotted time, might as well reset. They won't offer it again and likely won't speak to you at all. Not to mention the bullshit size of the dungeon of the lich you have to kill beneath Sentinel.
At the same time, though, I created a character that could jump high, swing a long sword fast and wear heavy daedric armor. I could climb walls and jump fairly far. The magic system is very shit, until maybe Oblivion but they do hit you hard with it. I think some horny teenagers liked it because as the only M rated game, you could create a female character and take her cloths off. Or visit the orgy chambers of the King of Worms. Geez...
Let me rant about terms people use. JRPG. Fuck that one. They are all RPG's. Japan didn't invent them, they played ones we had here that made it there, or played D&D. They do love Wizardry. Technically, companies like SquareEnix they don't make RPG's anymore. I mean, you don't roll for states and go through the painstaking process of creating a character to represent you. You're "given" one. You really aren't Role Playing, more watching a movie and maybe level up for 10 minutes before the next cinematic even comes. I blame new gamers for this. Buying shit because it's pretty and so they make more shit, like Final Fantasy.
Some 20-year-old told me about how "epic" FFXV is. My reply was FFIV began with the Red Wings returning to Baron after stealing a crystal. FFV began with a meteor crashing to earth. Final Fantasy VI began with the then awesome looking magic tech armor walking towards the frozen town of Narshe. How does FFXV begin? With a bunch of androgynous fuckers pushing a car down the road. That's what SquareEnix is to me, except they're pushing what used to be a good car. Fans sticking with them instead of moving on.
I miss the days when you did role play. Games like Eye of the Beholder (one of my favorites, especially bringing your character to game 2), Black Crypt, Dungeon Master, Lands of Lore (only the 1st one), Dark Sun, etc. Thankfully, someone made a recent dungeon crawler called Legend of Grimrock and both are great.
I hate the term Metroidvania because it's a huge misnomer. All Metroid games are like Metroid, but there are only a handful of Castlevania games like Metroid.
Finally, I hate MMORPG's. Not necessarily the term, but paying for a game and then paying a monthly fee to play it. I did my time with Star Wars Galaxies and FFXI. I don't care how much I adore The Elder Scrolls, I'm not fucking doing it. Those games aren't meant for you to beat alone.
How's that for a rant? There are things I do like about modern gaming, but few good things are coming from big game developers for me. I think all arcade games should be released on modern consoles. Anyway. Take care. I probably repeated myself here.
Believe it or not, I've run out of space with these CZcams posts.
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I have an extra Namco Ms. Pac-Man with a busted label. I do high quality repro labels...hit me up if you wanna make a deal
I don't have much money lol.
I like your videos but my little kid watches and the random f bombs shocks us. Want to keep watching maybe you can censor 😂
I am a veteran, so it gets tough lol. I'm not really a family friendly content creator, but I'd be open to making kid conscious content. Does your kid play smash? I could make a video about the origins of every character or their first game.
She's 4.5 yrs and I'm getting her into gaming starting with retro. Make what you like man, just suggesting maybe a few less bombs haha