29 INCREDIBLE 8-BIT MODERN NES Games

[@st1ka]

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[@MattHughson]

I might be mistaken, but I think for Battle Kid 1 you were playing the Japanese re-release which made some changes to reduce the difficulty. I'm pretty sure my version of Battle Kid 1 is a 1 hit death. Someone more knowledgeable can probably confirm though.

[@st1ka]

@@MattHughson yeah some people said something similar. If so, I have to say, the second game needs a similar update BADLY

[@TarikA]

Earned a sub. Great video! Love modern NES games!

[@foobar2653]

The Stien's;Gate anime is actually based on a visual novel, which is the original version of the story. So the NES version is more of a demake.

[@soaremicheledavid6020]

One thing i dont like in these modern games, some games like Micro Mages, they made the main character so small, also the enimies, you cant even see yourself, if you play this on a retro pocket you dont see nothing.

[@bgpixlarn6855]

As the pixel artist for Alwa's Awakening I want to say thanks for all the kind words. The Nes version has some graphical comprimises compared to the original, but we did add some extra content and I would argue it has a better pacing because of the 4:3 aspect ratio. I guess it comes down to personal preference which version is supperior :)

[@st1ka]

Oh, I should be the one thanking you. Thank you for the incredible game. I loved it to bits

[@paxhumana2015]

@BG Pixlam, may you, as well as your company, please be so kind as to make ports of the game to other retro consoles, as well as to modern consoles, PC, Mac, Linux, Android, iPhone, tablets, and iPad, please? Thank you.

[@milky3ay566]

I just bought the game + extra. I love this kind of game. Please keep it up! Thank you.

[@zenbyo]

The game looks amazing. I didnt know the NES independent games scene was popping like this.

[@Mooskym]

I've played this game (and its sequel) on pc, and I really recommend them (especially the first). @bgpixlarn6855, did you have anything to do with the '"word" or "password" puzzles? Cause those were insane!

[@Dhalin]

About Micro Mages: Most NES carts, especially newer games, make use of all the "newer" (in respect to the NES itself) chips and programming methods, especially banking (to allow for one to use more filesize than normal), to make better NES games. Morphcat went the other direction. They squashed their game into a tiny, _tiny_ 48kb, which is what the original NES carts were without any special trickery. They got a game THAT detailed, squeezed onto a 48kb original run NES cart.

[@st1ka]

Damn, that's pretty damn impressive

[@Mari_Izu]

@@st1ka They have a video explaining the developement, it's a really good watch!

[@CptJistuce]

Yeah, there's something very respectable about not asking "how big a ROM can I attach to a regular Nintendo today?" but instead going "What is the most I can do with the ROM sizes the Nintendo actually supports?", and in my opinion it makes the result a lot more impressive knowing the technical constraints were so much larger(no pun intended).

[@Famicuber]

I'm genuinely surprised to hear about my NES soundtrack for Eyra being prefered over the 16-bit versions, it's usually the opposite I hear (and understandably so, tacha did a fantastic job with their 16-bit tracks). I had to battle with the space limitations given by the programmer to fit all nine tracks in, which was only 8k(!!) and I also had to make some cuts and simplify the soundtrack further to accommodate for a rather outdated sound driver used for the NES version, but I was overall happy with the result, I've enjoyed doing the music and SFX for the game. Thanks for checking out NES Eyra and the other games featured. :)

[@st1ka]

To be fair, I also love the 16-bit soundtrack, but I really enjoyed the NES one. I think you did an awesome job ^^

[@TarikA]

Kudos for your work! =)

[@RagnarokB]

A fun fact about Gaplus: much like the NES Jim Powers, this is actually an official demake of an arcade game. When Namco released their Namco Museum Archives titles, they had M2 make two NES style "demasters"; volume one got a surprisingly awesome version of Pac-Man Championship Edition, and volume 2 got this one of Gaplus.

[@st1ka]

Thank you for the extra context ^^

[@SmaMan]

The Pac Man Championship Edition story goes even deeper. There's videos from nearly a decade ago showing a Japanese programmer's early version of it, but without the Namco N163 sound enhancements. What we don't know is if that programmer now works for M2 and finished the game with them, or his work was bought out by Namco and reworked into the version we have now.

[@ChachaNuVaughn]

Great video! Some added context for Steins;Gate: Steins;Gate was a visual novel (VN) first, and then an anime adaptation. With the Switch release of Steins;Gate Elite (basically the same game as the original, but uses images/video from the anime instead of the original art), Mages worked with M2 on making an NES version of the story. It was a pre-order bonus for the Switch release, but the Switch game is just an NES emulator! As such, the game data was extracted from that and is playable on any NES emulator! Steins;Gate 8-Bit Adventure is an *extremely* truncated version of the Steins;Gate story, with some slight differences in the chain of events. It's kind of spoiler-ish for the main game, and honestly doesn't make a lot of sense if you don't already know the full story. It's really basic and short, since I think the intent was to design the game as if it came out during the FC/NES days.

[@st1ka]

aah thank you!

[@jbmaru]

Some of these games seem to move incredibly well on screen, others to use the colour palette very skillfully... And some do both! Looking forward to the video!

[@st1ka]

Thank you! Hope you'll enjoy it! :D

[@EmeralBookwise]

Alwas Awakening might just be the best pallet work I've ever seen in 8-bit. It's not the most complex, but it's just so clean and crisp, and everything pops with just the right amount of contrast.

[@st1ka]

Yep it's such a beautiful game despite being very simple on many technical levels.

[@Prodmullefc]

I truly hope that NES sprite number / palette limitations faithfulness catches on with indie retro. Alwa's Awakening and Panzer Paladin were the first ones that made me notice it actually becoming a trend.

[@kivatkjiggy6863]

35:48 it’s great seeing Sailor Jupiter continuing to fight evil even without her powers.

[@st1ka]

haha, yeah I remember thinking her design seemed familiar

[@James_Bee]

The best and most based Sailor.

[@dellagustin]

I had the pleasure to play Micromages with other 3 strangers at Gamescom some years ago - that multiplayer is great - part of the fun is that each mage blocks the path of each other, so with 4 of them trying to go up, some delightful chaos takes place. It was a blast!

[@st1ka]

oh I cah imagine. It really feels like the sort of game that only gets better with friends

[@mtnnoonan]

I think at this point it's safe to say I'll be playing NES games for the rest of my life

[@st1ka]

not a bad way to spend a life!

[@Dragonking1984]

It's amazing that the golden age of gaming lives on in so many indie & AA games. So many great games i will never run out of games to play & enjoy. I started my life as a gamer on the NES in 92 & have been one since. The stories I've played though, the worlds i have visited, the characters i have met & grown attached to what a journey it's been.

[@Dimensiom]

The original version of Alwa's Awakening has slightly different screens (due to being in a widescreen ratio) and somewhat more colorful sprites due to not being limited by the NES hardware. The music and sound is identical as far as I can tell, likely originally made with Famitracker.

[@st1ka]

ah makes sense!

[@fista1331]

I have a couple NES homebrews if you wanna check em out. Carpet Shark, Plummet Challenge Game, and The Arm Wrestling Classic. Trailers and info can be found on my page. Can’t wait to see your video when it releases! Love to see what’s going on in the community 🙌🏻

[@st1ka]

ooh thank you for the tip

[@lancasterbristow9410]

It's such a great feeling to see and hear NES games which is new but gives off a nostalgia vibes. Kudos to all the crazy 8 bit game nerds out there that is keeping the fire burning. Yesterday's kid gamers become today's 8 bit game creators. 😊

[@st1ka]

agreed! :D

[@shade221]

i like that you made the artwork fit the pillarboxing for each game :)

[@st1ka]

Sometimes they require a lot of effort lol

[@SHNASTDOG]

I want to make NES games. This would be my childhood dreams come true.

[@st1ka]

do it! Then I can feature you :D

[@SilasFink]

Find nesdev, start grinding away. Show us what you did.

[@Gojiro7]

Battle Kid did not originally have multiple hit health, it was one touch of death in its original form, the version you played is an updated version, (I can tell by the updated visual style in the cutscenes because I own an original Version one Cartridge) likely made for the switch port thats coming, that hasn't happened to the sequel yet so thats probably why it hasn't seen the changes

[@hdofu]

Yeah they added some other modes, probably people complaining it was too hard.

[@arnauddemarais9104]

I bought battle kid at its release and I completed it 6thmonth ago (more than 10 years after purchase) and I confirm : it is a 1 hit/die game

[@st1ka]

Ah interesting, so I have an updated version

[@TheBLBShow]

Yes Battle Kid 2 was actually much more forgiving by introducing the option to have 3 hit points. The easiest Setting in the Original BK1 just had enemies have less hitpoints but you still had just 1HP Overall I think BK2 was a better game although many Problems of the Original have been fixed in the updated Versions

[@st1ka]

@@TheBLBShow ah makes sense

[@igodreamer7096]

Good selection. I got really intriguing by the "Full Quiet" one there. 8-bit survivor horror game is something that you just have to play to believe it! HAHAHAHHA

[@st1ka]

It's a really imprrive game.

[@8BitLegit]

Thanks so much! Full Quiet from Retrotainment hits Switch, Xbox, Steam and NES Friday, July 7th if you are interested!

[@nekonekopanicnekonekopanic7335]

Your channel has been doing amazing. happy to see good content get recognized.

[@st1ka]

haha thank you! ^^

[@DigiPen92]

@St1ka Actually, Stein;Gate originated released as a Visual Novel game from 2009 in Japan. The TV series and Manga were based off from the Visual Novel. It's similar to like Pokémon was originated as a video game before the Anime adapted. Also, that Galpus version was from Namco Museum Archives since you have not mentioned it in this video.

[@st1ka]

aaah thank you!

[@freeculture]

Steins;Gate Anime is based on Steins;Gate visual novel for the 360. You don't have to watch the anime, but dare to play the original game (which is THE source, not anime/manga), and you'll never be the same... Just listening to that 8bit rendition of the tune gave me the creeps, you have no idea what you are missing. EL PSY CONGROO.

[@mistertagomago7974]

Yu-No is better >:)

[@st1ka]

is the 360 game translated or is it Japan only?

[@ENiceGeo]

@@st1ka Stein's;Gate is available in English on the Vita, PS3, PS4 and Switch.

[@Monhamd1000]

Downloaded them all and man, the Gotta Protectors mini game was my favorite, also here's a trivia about Yuzo Koshiro, He was working for the soundtrack for Streets of Rage 4 at the time and he composed this one in a few days.

[@kbxthegamemaster06]

goofy ahh thumbnail 💀

[@Randomgames97]

wtf

[@kbxthegamemaster06]

@@Randomgames97 bcuz her eyes are a higher resoulution than the rest of her, it looks funny

[@Randomgames97]

​@@kbxthegamemaster06 It's true lmao

[@GarlicMonoxide]

😂

[@st1ka]

It worked though

[@mariusamber3237]

I really liked Full Quiet; great atmosphere, I have to say. There's just something about it that I enjoyed a lot, might be the combination of the maps with the gameplay. One game you didn't mention I also kinda liked was Garbage Pail Kids, which is an action platformer with fun designs. Overall, this is an interesting list, will have to check out a few more games from it!

[@st1ka]

Full quiet is SO good!

[@8BitLegit]

Thanks so much! Full Quiet releases on Switch, Xbox, Steam and NES Friday, July 7th! Retrotainment packed so much adventure into this game.

[@FoxMan_FF]

To be fair, Amazon's Running Diet is more a spinoff title for Gotta Protectors, which Ancient and Yuzo Koshiro worked on previously, and _definitely_ not a barely disguised fetish game. 😂 The original game itself though is actually a lot of fun, being a 4-player psuedo-tower defense game with a sweet soundtrack that you'd come to expect from Yuzo Koshiro.

[@st1ka]

hahah

[@Asobitech]

An excellent spread of homebrew games for the NES. I appreciate you taking the time to give your thoughts on every single one of them.

[@st1ka]

Thank you my dude ^^

[@Dongled]

Great list of games here! I really wish I jumped on Legend of Owlia when carts were still available. Jay and Silent Bob is one of the best beat em ups on the console. Glad I got that one! Rollie is a lot of fun too, I did a review on it a while back. The animation on that cutscene for the racing game is impressive but man, that game looks rough.

[@st1ka]

Making this video made me wish I had jumped on the bandwagon for all of these

[@southparkenterprise]

Great video. I think Owlia looks like a Startropics clone, which is a game Nintendo needs to revive.

[@st1ka]

that's a good point ^^

[@InfinityMayo]

Based video, based modern NES games

[@st1ka]

thank you ^^

[@LorenHelgeson]

Very cool video. Cheesecake thumbnail or not, that racing game's soundtrack really slaps. But the one game in the list that has impressed me the most is Micro Mages. I bought it back when it first came out, and I still play it regularly. Two things about it: 1. After you beat the game, there's a hard mode. Same levels, but laid out differently, and some enemies have different or faster attacks. Beat that mode, and you get Hell Mode, even harder and very unforgiving. Continuing after a game over on that one sends back to the very start. 2. Amazingly, with all of that included, on top of the four player multi-player, the game's file size comes in around 40kb. Morphcat Games did a video on their KZbin channel explaining how they pulled it off. Very slick work on their part.

[@st1ka]

Micro Mages is incredible. Such a great game.

[@d3v1lsummoner]

28:50 It's worth noting that Yuzo Koshiro not only founded and was (at least at the time) president of Ancient (which has made a few niche but critically acclaimed games), but also that he was never retired to begin with. Even if his most renowned work might be from the 90s, he's been doing game music since. He has arrangements in Smash Bros and does work for Indie games. He just loves making music and silly games. Worth following on twitter.

[@st1ka]

Oh that was just a setup for a joke

[@lokuzt]

whoa! I remember Alfonzo from "Eskimo Bob" - a series of short flash animations that were kind of popular in the days before youtube :O good to know SpoonyBard is still around!

[@st1ka]

I have to admit, I had never heard of Alfonzo before

[@Phytoon]

I clicked for the pixel babe, but now I'm excited for Alwa Awakens.

[@st1ka]

Alwa's Awakening is SO good

[@rollanddev]

Ha, I remember playing these games when I was a kid. I used to rent them from the video store on fridays after school with my brother.

[@LeonmitchelliGalette]

Mentioning mappers would be interesting. Because they are gamechangers and drastically change what game can push from famicom.

[@st1ka]

I actually have no idea which of these modern games (if any) use special helper chips :\

[@Prodmullefc]

Every time I get your uploads recommended to me they end up being interesting when I finally get around to clicking on them. What the hell, I'm just gonna sub.

[@st1ka]

haha thank you

[@SylvesterAshcroft88]

Alma's Awakening is one of the best looking NES games I've ever seen, and it just shows how much people are pushing the hardware even today!

[@st1ka]

It's such a cool game

[@ittylink]

Thanks for the video, would never know most of these existed.

[@st1ka]

That's my aim, to inform people on lesser known games ^^

[@karikasi]

"Super easy, barely an inconvenience" 😂 Great Pitch Meeting reference!

[@st1ka]

Pitch meeting references are TIGHT

[@whitestararmada103]

of course you needed a thumbnail like that, real good job there

[@st1ka]

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@RhythicManRhythm]

A great list. Found ones to keep a eye on.

[@st1ka]

glad I could help ^^

[@JustSomeRetroGamer]

I'll have to check a few of these out, definitely not too shabby! Thanks for sharing!

[@st1ka]

glad I could help!

[@Geno746]

If I remember correctly the Steins Gate adventure game was a bonus game that came with the switch copy of Steins Gate. Im assuming somebody ported it to the NES which is pretty cool.

[@st1ka]

Oh how interesting, I had no idea.

[@samred329]

​@@st1ka Also Steins Gate was a visual novel first before they made an anime adaptation. It also has several endings centering around different characters

[@kal2045]

Love these dense multi game reviews!

[@st1ka]

glad to hear it! ^_^

[@10p6]

28:00 gives new meaning to 'Flappy Bird'

[@st1ka]

Haha

[@Pridetoons]

Bobl and Spacegulls are also great NES games!

[@st1ka]

oooh I'l ladd them to the list

[@Robert_Shmigelsky]

Spacegulls is pretty short; otherwise, it'll be up there with Micro Mages (same developers).

[@st1ka]

@@Robert_Shmigelsky I actually hadn't heard of that game before. clearly I need to check it out

[@drcidd8153]

It's nice to see Eskimo Bob is still around.

[@st1ka]

I had actually never heard of that character until I made this video lol

[@drcidd8153]

@@st1ka Yeah, it was a small ish flash cartoon series. It was really dumb, cringe in the best way, and super low quality. But that was part of its charm. I recommend watching the episode Eskimo Bob Z

[@st1ka]

@@drcidd8153 I'll see if I can check it out ^^

[@markaitkenguitar]

I’m not familiar with new NES games but I’m constantly trying to find hidden gems for the system. This was so awesome, thank you!!

[@st1ka]

glad I could help! :D

[@Prodmullefc]

@@st1ka So are these NES games literally cartridges that work on an NES system or just mostly Steam based? I'm still new to this genre concept haha

[@hantuberaksi]

​@@Prodmullefcits real

[@liamfslal]

Chumlee's is like Kung Fu! Jay and Silent Bob is like Skate or Die 2!

[@st1ka]

Indeed

[@theloverboy99]

pela thumbnail eu já sei que o video vai ser bom

[@st1ka]

haha

[@akiradkcn]

Hehe...

[@theloverboy99]

hihi

[@st1ka]

@@theloverboy99 hoho

[@luzroja29AKApeyo]

@@st1ka huhu... that was cool

[@ZeroGForce]

Never in my life would I have expected to see a game based on the old *_Eskimo Bob_* Flash cartoons, much less on the NES of all systems.

[@st1ka]

haha

[@josephmatthewspearsslade8900]

Such an amazing video full of interesting NES games. Not only would I love to see a modern Super Mario NES game called Super Mario Adventure based off of the later Mario NES games similar to Mario Odyssey, but the girls, man. They were some of the “hottest” of the season. :D

[@josephmatthewspearsslade8900]

Though, I personally disagree with the one thing that one guy said before the premiere. I’d prefer AAA over indie; it’s a pet peeve of mine for one to say otherwise since I know what they’re saying isn’t true… :/

[@st1ka]

yeah, some of those NES devs to be horny

[@retrojoe85]

Never heard about most of these games, thank you!

[@st1ka]

glad I could help!

[@Pon3TorLord]

Chumlee's Adventure was actually made in the Pawn Stars series. In one episode, Chumlee revealed he made an NES game in his past time and showed it to the rest of the team, I also think they had a sequence for retro game collecting in the same episode. I didn't know you could actually play it yourself though.

[@st1ka]

You can play it, but really, the game is just more of a curiosity

[@Pon3TorLord]

@@st1ka It had to be made just for that skit alone, so I can understand why that's the case.

[@st1ka]

@@Pon3TorLord yep exactly ^^

[@psyhodelik]

thanks for this compilation ^^

[@st1ka]

I aim to please! ^_^

[@jengelenm]

Black Box Challenge is also a very nice homebrew to enjoy!

[@st1ka]

oh thank you! adding it to the list

[@BlackBeard1833]

I'd love for you to do a series on 16 bit modern games

[@st1ka]

Oh I've done a video on modern Sega Genesis / Mega Drive games. Sadly, the Super Nintendo scene is still in its infancy. The PC Engine has gotten some modern games, but not many AFAIK

[@redrum0127]

raven's gate is probably the best zelda-type nes game i've played. definitely worth checking out.

[@TililioChaosLord]

Aktually : Steins Gate was initially a Visual Novel itself. So this nes version is definitely a big downgrade ^^''

[@OnyxJaguar]

And originally a Xbox 360 exclusive. What crazy days

[@kameoosama]

It's kind of a tribute to 8-bit adv games too and some of the frustrating aspects were intentional since that was the style at the time.

[@st1ka]

Whoops! I did not know that.

[@liveyourdreammedia]

45 mins of St1ka, roll up boooys!

[@st1ka]

have fun! :D

[@mmpsp693]

Some interesting games for sure

[@st1ka]

glad I could help ^^

[@OdaKa]

I think battle kid 2 is subverting the trope from megaman 2 where the "normal" difficulty setting in the export version is originally easy mode in the original Japanese, and "difficult" setting was normal setting in Japan.

[@st1ka]

aaaah! that's possible

[@azazelleblack]

I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but as an American, your accent in English (surely much better than my accent in Portuguese!) makes these videos oddly more enjoyable. I dunno why, I just feel like I wouldn't enjoy your content the same way if Kevin from Portland was narrating it over his soy latte.

[@st1ka]

Haha thank you

[@pbjandahighfive]

9:05 IWBTG isn't flash, it's Gamemaker. Also there is an absolutely massive IWBTG fangame community where Battle Kid is just one of literally thousands of IWBTG fangame projects. Take a look at Delicious-Fruit or the IWannaWiki sometime if you want to know a bit more.

[@Samuelisakson]

I knew i recognized the superstar soldier theme in bladebuster

[@ruggie.74]

just at first glance without really looking into it the jay and silent bob game looks fantastic. i was hoping after those guys made that little 4-player wizard NES game that we'd start getting tons of limit-pushing NES games, but I really haven't seen much since.... the jay and silent bob game seems like it has some really good potential though.

[@hdofu]

It's up there with the likes of Target Renegade. Probably the best modern game is Micro Mage.

[@st1ka]

Jay and Silent Bob is way better than it has any right to be. It's so well done

[@theratedrshimmer]

It's weird how games like Steins;Gate and Pacman Championship are recent creations meant to be bonuses in main current-gen games, like saying "Yes, It's possible, and always has been"

[@st1ka]

Right? It's So cool!

[@JinzoCrash]

The Jay and Silent Bob game is hurt by the fact Kevin Smith is a little crybaby Disney shill. And everyone knows it.

[@thereub8166]

I can't wait to see speedruns for some of these!

[@st1ka]

Ooh very true

[@newkfromrotterdam]

thanx for bringing these games games to attention! i would like to add the game "Böbl" to the list. Fun metroidvania style game, but you play as a bubble moving through various terrain of single screens connected to form a pretty big world

[@GodzillasaurusJr]

Surprised that there’s a version of Larry 1 without Graham and the factory, tbh. Back in the day we got treated to it many many times! (Every time we died)

[@st1ka]

Oh that's right! I forgot that was a thing in the original

[@Samuelisakson]

steinsgate is originally a visual novel which was then given an anime adaptation

[@MaxW-er1hm]

I just wanted to check out some new NES games, and thought this might be a nice Roundup, but I really enjoy your commentary and opinion, consider this a subscription

[@MaxW-er1hm]

I do disagree about Steins Gate, at least the graphics, the Sprites are rather unimpressive but I think the backgrounds and the faux 3D rendering is pretty impressive

[@Gojiro7]

Gotta Protector's Amazon's Running Diet is of a sorta joke side game to the Gotta Protectors series that Ancient and Yuzo Koshiro make which just got a new entry last year, it was offered on the 3DS as a supplement to the main game at the time but it was made to run on NES hardware and they did produce limited run pink NES carts of the game. The Amazon is a character who appears in all entries and has a running gag of wanting to Eat sweets and characters pointing out she's chubby (in japanese humor kind of way) hence the game here is comically about her dieting Adventure Island style

[@st1ka]

aah thank you!

[@MrShadow2x]

There was an entry on the Xbox 360 Indies platform, entirely in Japanese, titled "Protect Me, Knight!" but was stupidly fun! The 3DS and Switch games expand on that original concept a lot, but each entry is a unique experience, and worth checking out on their own!

[@Gojiro7]

@@MrShadow2x yes, that is the often forgotten original, but since its trapped on XBLA and the series rebranded, its now a minor footnote in the series

[@Gojiro7]

@@st1ka for the record the Gotta Protector games are all 8-bit style variations on Tower Defence with JRPG elements that all try different things but always revolving around keeping a princess safe, whether its picking her up or cruising on a track in her giant tank castle

[@chickenfish6867]

St1ka is the thumbnail champion 🏆😊

[@st1ka]

haha thank you

[@DrCoeloCephalo]

Thanks for using my desire to see a cutesy chubby pink amazon lady to learn about a Steins Gate game.

[@jengelenm]

That robot bit was also on the PC version of Larry if i remember correctly.

[@st1ka]

Yep if you die ^^

[@ITISWHATIS]

Yo dawg I love ya and Imma let you finish, but the NES is the greatest console of all time. OF ALL TIME.

[@st1ka]

haha that's fair

[@thenewnostalgia]

Astro Ninja Man giving me Down Well vibes.

[@st1ka]

hah yeah kinda

[@ImperatorGrausam]

Wait... you've NEVER seen Steins;Gate? Stop whatever you're doing at this moment in time and go do it. So worth it. One of my top 5 honestly.

[@st1ka]

I don't know If have the patience for a mindfuck anime xD

[@ImperatorGrausam]

@@st1ka Aye... if that isn't your thing I get it :d. I loved Madoka Magica (it's my #1 favorite show, my YT avatar's Sayaka Miki) and that show was a huge mindfuck so I love any kind of mindfuck show. P.S. Galplus looks great. Any appreciation for late 70s-early 80s arcade stuff I respect. Despite its popularity and relevance I don't see many people talk about them, seemingly because they think of those games as "too simple". I disagree, I think their simplicity is charming.

[@MaesePe]

You probably know about it, but there is a game in development for a few years now called Orange island. It releases late this year (hopefully) and it's a great looking RPG that might be one of the best new games for the NES!

[@st1ka]

yep! There are a lot of NES games I haven't covered yet, so I'd like to do a sequel video sometime in the future.

[@paxhumana2015]

Gaplus also went by the name of Galaga 3, so, yes, this game is a legitimate arcade game, but it also never got an official NES/FDS port.

[@st1ka]

Yep exactly. Only, too late did I realize I kept calling it "Galplus" whoops

[@OnyeNacho]

Jim Power looks like Matthew Josten from the Matt & Justus Show.

[@st1ka]

Hah he kinda does

[@Mark73]

The robot bit of LLL is actually in the original version.

[@SnDFrostey]

Alfonzo's Artic Adventure is based on a 2000s Flash Animation series called Eskimo Bob. Which, yes, features Alfonzo. Ah, the memories.

[@st1ka]

yeah, I had no idea until some people started commenting the same. xD

[@tedwink6652]

blade buster also reminds me of Tyrian so much

[@st1ka]

Oh man, I remember playing Tyrian on my PC

[@vidarlystadjohansen9829]

Great Channel , cool to see new NES games

[@st1ka]

glad you liked it! :D

[@Shaddonius]

Where do you even find these... some of them look really interesting.

[@justtestingmycurrentskills747]

Awesome Thumbnail as always

[@st1ka]

thank you! ^^

[@CarlosMW]

I hope that one day you will talk about the Megami Tensei series Both FC games are excellent & have great soundtrack as well as an immersive story It's definitely a MUST PLAY if you love the Jrpg genre

[@st1ka]

I definitely should. Admittedly the issue with going in-depth on them is that it requires me to play and finish the series which requires a LOT of time

[@CarlosMW]

@@st1ka agree The FC MegaTen duology are known for being some of the toughest games from the franchise for the amount of grind you have to do, vague information to where you must go (even though they're linear as shit) and especially, random encounters that can fucked up your entire progress if you're not using save states. In my experience, both Megami Tensei games will take you around 30-40 hours each; if you are interested or you want some advice to make the games tolerable please let me know, I would gladly help you :)

[@st1ka]

@@CarlosMW yeah I'm kinda intimated xD

[@Mankey619]

So many indie retro games, and I really don’t know which one I should start first, cause they’re all so good and fun.

[@st1ka]

that's a good port to have :D

[@Mankey619]

@@st1ka can you recommend me of which games I should play on this list.

[@st1ka]

​@@Mankey619 alwa's awakening, eyra the crow maiden, Micro Mages, Jay and Silent Bob, Blade Buster, Battle Kid 1, Jim Power, Gaplus and L'abbaye des morts are probably my favorites but the others are worth checking out too

[@autumn948]

i like your magic words, funny man

[@diabolo1]

I feel inspired by this video... Truly in my bucket list to make an NES game... hopefully one my son can play

[@st1ka]

Oooh that's awesome

[@milanzuiderveld5189]

You should do one of these but instead of nes games gameboy games! Really enjoy the video! Keep it up!

[@st1ka]

Oh I plan to do one for the game boy eventually

[@SmaMan]

Gold Guardian Gun Girl looks fun. Shame there doesn't appear to even be a place to download or legally buy it anymore. Amazon's Running Diet's sequel also seems to have suffered a similar fate, being only offered for a short time on Limited Run, and the game rom still considered undumped to this day.

[@st1ka]

yeah tracking down physical copies of these games is super hard

[@Strakester]

I was expecting at least an honorable mention of the Pac-Man Championship Edition demake.

[@st1ka]

Honestly, I couldn't include every NES game even if I tried. Doing 29 games in a single setting nearly killed me. So I left out enough for a sequel video

[@jengelenm]

Owlia is a great game!!!! I do agree on the color palet.

[@st1ka]

It's a pretty fun game, I just wish the color choices were better and that the puzzle design was a little less cryptic

[@bitwize]

I hear Portuguese Stimpy's voice, I have to watch the video all the way to the end. It's that simple.

[@st1ka]

haha thank you

[@relivingretro]

This game look great!

[@st1ka]

games xD

[@relivingretro]

@@st1ka haha I was watching this live and meant to comment this in the live chat!

[@st1ka]

@@relivingretro oh xD

[@AirZonkWorldChamp]

Cool, I gonna get Blade Buster!

[@st1ka]

hope you'll enjoy it! :D

[@michaelbaker8890]

OK, two more for you to look up: 1. Kira-Kira Star Knight. This apparently started as a game demo that never went anywhere, until years later a manga artist named RIKI and his programmer friend found the demo cart in the depths of Akihabara and decided to complete it. RIKI designed new graphics while his friend fixed the code. Then they kept going. It was never a complicated game (collect as many stars as possible as they fly past, in a reverse bullet hell situation), but they managed to included parallaxed backgrounds and twinkly stars that are as close as the Famicom can get to 3D modelled. Also, the soundtrack reads like a who's who list of classic 8-bit composers, because RIKI knew a lot of people in the industry... I've actually played this on both tablet and Famicom, because RIKI managed to get a physical edition released 2. Dragon Warrior: Begin a New Quest. This is a fan-made Dragon Quest game that a friend of mine made a few years ago. It's a definite homage to the original DQ trilogy, and plays better than many RPGs I've played.

[@st1ka]

thank you! I'll add them to my list! ^^