5 Surprising Game Ports You Never Knew Existed | Nintendrew

[@Nintendrew]

Did you know about any of these surprising ports before watching the video? Let me know in the comments! :) Thanks for watching.

[@MusharnaMush]

does it count if I say yes because I watched the live stream? that being said I knew about the half life one already

[@Nintendrew]

Nicolas Cyprus, if you're referring to the improved models and visual effects, I did mention that upgrade. 😉

[@PSVitaat2am]

I knew about half of them, good stuff man.

[@lynestrotheconqueror5010]

The Atari 2600 version of Donkey Kong is a game I grew up with and the only DK game I've ever played.

[@NinjastarCompass]

I own an N-Gage, if I ever buy it I'll review it ;)

[@kryskarr23]

Call of duty on the ngage looks like it was running at a buttery smooth 8fps.

[@crazisaturn2274]

Lol

[@juneru2]

Friend: Wanna play some COD? Me: Sure! (Pulls out Nokia N-Gage) Friend: ...

[@simtrimz4125]

Lol me

[@kenrickkahn]

LMAO!!!!!!! (AWKWARD SILENCE ARISES)

[@connormackay6257]

Then the friend plus out a ds

[@MonosShenanigans]

Friend: * pulls out NDS*

[@zandyboy-jd5gx]

your profile explains the friends face

[@arhneu]

Thanks for crediting the use of our footage! Really appreciate it. If you ever need rare N-Gage gameplay, we have a whole separate channel dedicated to N-Gage preservation. Just let us know!

[@Nintendrew]

Absolutely, thanks for your work to preserve it's gameplay.

[@claytonmoorawa9512]

O proszę, i tu Archon :)

[@_lun4r_]

Nice one of you being here! Yyy... to znaczy Miło cię tu widzieć!

[@smakuwa459]

O Polska 😉

[@fran5678can]

Do you guys have Super Monkey Ball and Puyo Pop gameplay?

[@TetraBitGaming]

Didn't Call of Duty get ported to the Nintendo DS... ... with an M rating?

[@Nintendrew]

You monster...

[@PokeTube]

TetraBitGaming I Know Cod On 3DS, It WAS T FOR TEEN

[@arsyn4504]

TetraBitGaming We don't mention that one

[@malakaibrown94]

Call of duty was ported on everything even cell phones except the GBA

[@FixTheWi-Fi]

Chinatown Wars was fun.

[@toonthewindwaker4448]

You should try doing a second one of these, really interesting stuff I'd never heard of

[@PSVitaat2am]

They are always fun to watch

[@SuperLoneStarBros]

I know right

[@appleboy3973]

Plants Vs. Zombies DS?

[@Charriii5]

Grand Theft Auto on GameBoy AND rated T? Welp, I've seen it all now.

[@gabrieleriva651]

Charriii5 and playable on a Snes via SGB.

[@aidan_m_2007]

Taco Dude GTA 2 has always been T rated

[@malakaibrown94]

Gta 2 got a port on the same console too and the devs have made some Austin Powers games in case anyone forgot about him

[@requiem165]

ikr

[@TheGameMage_]

There was actually two I have both

[@JohnRiggs]

Yeah, that Half-Life for Dreamcast would've been perfect, too :(

[@KylerFlame]

The Dreamcast wasn't made with Half-Life or FPS's really in mind from what I understand

[@RetroPlus]

John Riggs: RIGG'd Games it's been ported to playstation portable too but obviously it's unnofical

[@nitrax8629]

Retro Plus - None of the gameplay is intact in that version, its just the maps ported to a Quake 1 source port.

[@RetroPlus]

AlexNitro44 Ah, so that's why is so similar to quake.

[@deadturtleproduction]

The keyboard and mouse make it 10x better to play through, as it has full support. (You can even open the console and turn on noclip!)

[@jrizzo0413]

Videos like this seem to just repeat stuff I already knew but you always seem to surprise me with new and interesting information. Awesome job, Nintendrew!

[@PSVitaat2am]

I have to agree with that

[@funkybunko]

“Never Heard Of” “Donkey Kong on the Atari 2600” This makes me feel old, and I wasn’t even born in the Atari generation

[@steadyb1516]

Well done! You're doing some great work here. No gimmicks, self effacing, and simply dropping knowledge. And the Taco Phone competing with the Game Boy Advance? HA! Keep 'em coming Drew!

[@zandyboy-jd5gx]

Titas21 r/whoooosh

[@LonSeidman]

I remember when those Coleco ports made their way to the 2600. They made the cartridges look very similar the Coleco carts! But a different color of course. One surprising port for a future video would be Wing Commander Prophecy for the GBA - really well done port of a huge PC title.

[@Nintendrew]

Awesome, thanks for dropping by!

[@aitek_z1161]

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[@nothin1456]

Hey man! I really like your content and the way you do you!. But seriously, YOU are totally filling a gap that we have been missing on youtube :).. Thanks for tackling some seriously awesome (Pretty well Nintendo related) subjects! Will totally be looking for more from you :). PS: Personally, I love the rare game, emulator, home brew, hardware flashing modding, type subjects/ videos. But since you include a lot of good information, I am straight up enjoying some of the BASICS to. Cheers to your success! From another fan

[@theSato]

I actually had the Half-Life one, long ago. It wasn't a bad port IMO. As a bonus - the beta port of Resident Evil to gameboy color is just insane, it's honestly a shame it wasn't finished as it was really cool and very technically impressive. Another great video in the books Drew - I can't help but wonder if we're hitting 100k before February is over! Still 5 days to go!

[@jasonblalock4429]

Yeah, I also burned HL for DC back in the day. And yeah, it was great except for the ridiculous number of loading screens. I mean, it stops to load like three or four different times in the intro subway ride alone! The loads are just so incessant and immersion-breaking that it's really hard to get into.

[@theSato]

It wasn't terrible, it was great. It was a bit more of a "cinematic" experience than a gameplay focused one, but there were very few things that could match that level of presentation on the GBC at the time, it was as good as one could get for atmosphere and technically impressive on every level. The puzzles were surprisingly adequate too. The combat was a little lacking, but workable -- and it WAS a beta after all

[@PSVitaat2am]

I had it burned on CD, then bought the official unofficial version of the game.

[@marx4538]

PSVita at 2am Official unofficial?

[@blackkllight]

Great video, as always! If you can find any more, you should do another one. I love these top 5 videos!

[@DukowskiX]

Missed the opportunity of mentioning that the Donkey Kong port of NES was made intentionally crappy so Coleco could advertise their console as superior.

[@JillieF00]

Just gonna point out time stamp 2:19. Sneaky Drew... Poop indeed.

[@DPadGamer]

I knew at least one of these before watching the video ;)

[@Nintendrew]

Whoops, I will give you a full refund

[@PokeTube]

DPadGamer l knew gta

[@PokeTube]

And Donkey Kong

[@notthebizzbox]

Wow it is DPadGamer

[@hypershadicgamingfes246]

DPadGamer Hi DPad ☺😃☺

[@zdog90210]

I can vividly remember my local EB games had the ngage call of duty in the window with a deal on the system idk why I still remember it

[@ChumboFumbo]

Almost there drew. Before you reach this limit. I just want to say, that your channel has grown so much. I can tell the lord has a plan for your future, your so clean and enjoyable. God bless you Drew.

[@PixelSlayers]

We've got that version of Donkey Kong for the Atari 2600! Our daughter watched my wife playing it and commented "run from those giant cookies, Mario!" 😂

[@fran5678can]

lol like

[@I_ran_out_of_ideas]

What is the music at 4:18?

[@MatthewSmart]

It was cool seeing you edit this on stream, technically making this my fourth time watching this video haha.

[@misbit8]

How did I just discover this channel? Totally love the whole informative gaming stuff. :D

[@shellonasnail]

So close to 100,000 subs dude, hope to see u get 1mil some day soon

[@Zrorro]

I once had a burned copy of half life on Dreamcast, but it had a bug where every time you saved your game the save file would get bigger and bigger to the point that your vmu couldn't hold it

[@Nintendrew]

That's just the way the game is 😂 another possible factor in cancellation. Cheers!

[@supermegabenji1026]

The Game Eats up or Takes an Entire VMU Dreamcast Memory Card, Its why People Always use a Spare or Extra Memory Card just for that Game.

[@TeqieLemon]

I'm really surprised that you found footage of CoD for Nokia N-Gage on polish site/youtube channel not on some sites with english language. Always good to see arhn.eu community in not-polish videos. And you did good video as always.

[@eksmad]

Me, starting to watch "I've seen these kinds of videos since 2006 so it's probably not worth it" but NO... YOU... Nintendrew, always get some fresh and new discoveries and don't just copy old videos! I only knew two of these, thanks for the great video. :)

[@lurkerrekrul]

There were two licensed ports of Frogger on the Atari 2600. The first was a normal cartridge by Parker Brothers. The second port was released for the Starpath Supercharger on cassette. This second port had nicer, more detailed graphics and was generally more polished than the Parker Brothers version. However many people never knew about it because of the relative obscurity of the Supercharger itself and the later games for it being even more obscure. I knew Frogger existed for it, but I never actually saw it for sale. In fact I only ever saw the first six Starpath games in a store.

[@Killuminati1blood]

you had 93k when i subbed and now you have over 100k. keep it up man, your vids are interesting

[@Gojiro7]

the DS port of Resident Evil is pretty snazzy :3 btw does anyone know where I can find that Donkey kong country tune heard at 4:17

[@cristianodettori]

watch?v=B6_ZtVNYQHE

[@n8mare28cj]

This video got me all hooked on our channel. Keep it up man.

[@n8mare28cj]

Side note: i'm actually surprised that you don't have alot of subs right now. Completely underrated

[@stinkbrain2566]

You're almost there Nintendrew!!!!!

[@thegameradmin]

There's so many I want now. There's this shop in my city named 2nd & Charles. They have a BOMB of retro games. Two rows of NES/SNES games, old genesis consoles, etc. They got it all.

[@Ruyeman]

Man, I actually bought into the hype when the N-gage hit the market. It is still the most infuriating handheld I ever owned. Lot of games, all wonky or broken. It is why I don't buy at launch anymore.

[@eyehatescott]

Ruyeman I always wanted to play that Rifts game they released on there.

[@Toby_Kat]

I bought a QD just a couple of years ago, and had quite a bit of fun playing TOTALLY LEGAL 100% LEGITIMATELY-ACQUIRED GAMES (shh) and messing about with that lil composer function. I still have the thing, but would gladly sell it if there was a legit N-Gage emulator somewhere around. I'm sure that there's already some way to play that shtuff on a PC (would still love a first-party remaster of EST: Shadowkey or Ashen), but I have no idea how to go about doing that, lol.

[@stevet7223]

I bought an N-Gage QD which I modded to play all the games on usb. It’s quite nice to have it because the QD was a lot better.

[@stevet7223]

Sage Hensley Wouldn’t it be nice if they added it to the Raspberry Pi emulator? (Retro Pi)

[@Toby_Kat]

Ooh, that would be pretty neat, yeah :p

[@equinn4840]

Please post videos more often! I was waiting for almost a week for this video and I don't think it was quite worth it. Not that I didn't like it, I love your videos and your channel, but since I was waiting for a week (almost) I expected a really, really, really good video. I am a huge fan of you so please keep making videos! P.S. Can you do more DIYs and a new Room Tour?

[@Nintendrew]

These videos take me a week to produce haha. I'm trying my best, but I can't afford to hire anyone like an editor with the amount I make from youtube. Each video has at least a couple days of brainstorming+writing, a day of research, a day of recording and a day of editing. My game room is exactly the same as it was during my last tour ;) But I'll be moving soon and can do one then.

[@FormulaFanboy]

Awesome video!! Almost at 100k!!

[@aracellybaires5615]

doom: wow im in a lot of platforms minecraft: hold my beer

[@DakanaGarretson]

Myst past it’s hay day? The recently kickstarted Anniversary collection would prove you wrong there! :p Seriously though, I just found your channel and have been kinda binge watching. You’ve got a new subscriber :) keep it up

[@SmashJT]

I actually have that Donkey Kong. Cool idea for a video, Drew. Never knew about the story behind Half Life on the Dreamcast. Great job on this! Surprised you didn't talk about Wolfenstein on the TI-83 calculator haha

[@Nintendrew]

Well if I made the leap to unofficial/fan-made ports, that would be its own can of worms 🤣

[@SmashJT]

Nintendrew oooooooh I missed that tiny detail. Touché.

[@manbirmann4421]

Your videos are some of the best and refreshing content. Well done sir continue the great work!

[@Nintendrew]

Thanks!

[@VanillaMidgetSSBM]

Another one that you'd be surprised about was a pitched PC Port of Super Mario bros 3 by iD software (The Guys behind DooM, Wolfenstein, and the Commander Keen series). When they were getting started, Tom Hall and John Carmack had created a DOS compatible PC game engine that could preform Smooth tile scrolling, something that was Unheard of for PC compatibles at the time. (For those unaware, Smooth Scrolling is how Mario handles the Camera, where the Camera moves along with the player, instead of having the camera move in chunk-based increments.) They tested this by creating a Tech Demo called "Dangerous Dave in: Copyright Infringement", Which was a recreation of Super Mario Bros. 3's World 1-1, Remember that PC Hardware was not seen as the standard for Cutting edge gameplay yet. Consoles and Arcades at this point were just more adept at it. So this was a huge leap forward. However - Nintendo did not give iD the rights to make a full SMB3 port for PC, This led to the creation of "Commander Keen" which would later be the Catalyst for the rest of iD softwares mega hits

[@15-Peter-20]

Great vid bro keep up the good work

[@xWindreaderx]

Half-Life 2 and Doom 3 are pretty impressive, yet forgotten Original Xbox ports! Both shouldn't have been possible to work on the hardware and many people don't realize that they even exist on the console! ☺

[@Nintendrew]

True, Doom 3 for orig Xbox is another that caught me off-guard. 😁

[@xWindreaderx]

Nintendrew Yeah, same with me too! 👍

[@nothin1456]

Haha! cs source on xbox :)

[@KohlDayvhis]

Growing up I remember asking every video game store I ever went to if they had the PS2 copy of Half-Life because it was the only way I was ever going to be able to play it and no one ever did :'(

[@niespeludo]

Wait what?! Half life TWO on OG Xbox? Holy shit.

[@stuff9714]

0:51 what a lovely combination of words

[@BRCIce]

I really enjoy your channel. Thank you very much.

[@yoteawhirl1987]

I had the GTA for gameboy port. I remember classmates would bug me about it in school so I had to pass it around a lot. Seemed less buggy than the ps1 version.

[@absoluteclownworld]

Subscribed! Your so close to 100k

[@mistamontiel00]

4:16 0mG what's that song please

[@ianholmes4723]

Your almost at 100k!

[@kevandre]

In general, the name of this video would irritate me but honestly, the only ones I DID know of were the GTA and Donkey Kong ports. Good job!

[@jbhga]

Thank you finally someone I watch ACTUALLY recognizes Half Life! Amazing video!

[@Rountree1985]

JoshPlays it’s one of the most universally loved games of all time. Stop acting like it’s under appreciated.

[@Gfreak250]

It's funny how literally the only game that I was going to talk about if you didn't mention it, was the first game you talked about in this video. I've played the original GTA on Gameboy Color and it's definitely worth picking up as it can be highly entertaining.

[@TheIzzyNobreShow]

JESUS CHRIST that Call of Duty footage gave me cancer. Man, that was teeeeeerrible.

[@Nintendrew]

Hahaha

[@wisteela]

Great video. I'm curious about the free pager offer with GTA. Subscribed.

[@RokmanGTR]

0:42... The music in the background is an 8-bit version of Yamaha's "BeatXG.mid"... I felt excited when I recognized that melody ;-)

[@QueenToto99]

Second part pls if you can find/know more. Great amd informative video. Thanks. :)

[@Tyresome]

Awesome stuff man! I'm definitely gonna keep an eye on these on eBay! :P

[@ike.8656]

Well hey Nintendrew remember me from that live stream on Tuesday well you make good vids

[@bravobird9435]

You're almost@100k congratulations

[@RetroStylz]

This video is awesome man!!! Keep plugging away at your videos!

[@derdestroyer5566]

There were actually games from a few popular series on the N-Gage, like a Metal Gear Solid and a Tomb Raider game.

[@buffedgreg6062]

Massi HDLPXD on what system

[@derdestroyer5566]

TheBlueStream On the N-GAGE

[@linomota8055]

Nice video man

[@aNi-fc6bq]

Excited for the next stream!

[@CaioMav]

Where is that piece of music that plays during the donkey kong part comes from?

[@MidnightFireHuntress]

Loved it! Keep up the awesomeness! ♡♡♡

[@makeminemint]

I knew about the Donkey Kong one, but not the rest. That's pretty cool stuff!

[@lildirtychucks710]

Love your videos man

[@WhateverWhenever888]

Im really enjoying your content

[@LettyWhiterock]

It's also worth noting that Coleco deliberately gimped the Atari version of Donkey Kong, in order to use that as a selling point for their console.

[@aryaman7273]

That intro... just... yes... the best!!!!

[@frisky7404]

I love weird ports like these! Great video 👍🏻

[@Aiyoros]

Oh man, I wished for an Half Life N64 port! The console could handle Quake (HL is based on Quake's engine) and Quake II.

[@MultiLeoVideos]

Nicolás Sotelo Maybe the game would be too big to fit on a cartridge.

[@Aiyoros]

I know, but it's just a wish :P

[@romeolz]

4:16 music?

[@ConservativeCalifornian1032]

This is probably the only channel that ive seen that hasnt used crappy clickbait. Thanks for that mate.

[@jasonjones7461]

I know this is old content, but there's a Gameboy color port of the first original resident evil. It was nearly complete when it was cancelled. It exists online and is seriously as cool as it is ridiculous

[@victorhernandezbennetts5431]

Great content Drew, but I must ask, are you the mutant mudds guy?

[@OnlyEpicEmber]

I knew about all of these, but it was still a fun video. You forgot to mention that Coleco completely screwed its competitors by releasing terrible (but functional) ports to make their system look supirior, along with the timed exclusivity. A homebrew dev has now created a near arcade perfect port of DK to the 2600 to prove that they could have done much, much better. And now history has repeated itself with Watch_Dogs and plenty of other console ports.

[@Riz2336]

I knew about the Half Life on Dreamcast, burned that up and played it myself. Great video man

[@yoshifan0312]

I have that Donkey Kong port. Took two weeks to arrive, but it was worth it to have it in my collection.

[@podcastbranch]

these is the only one of the all the youtubers wo don´t like to put a clickbite nice and great for you bro!

[@DuckiesUnite]

If you ever do a part 2. Civilization 1 on SNES and 2 on PS1 might be a good idea. :)

[@jasonblalock4429]

The really interesting thing is that the Super Nintendo Civilization port was done by KOEI. They must have genuinely loved Civ, to work on porting it when they could have been working on their own strategy games instead.

[@wardrich]

Donkey Kong probably wasn't news for anybody alive through the 2600 years lol. It was a pretty popular game. Fun fact: Coleco nerfed the Atari version to make the Colecovision appear to be superior to the Atari

[@VGamingJunkieVT]

Call of Duty for the N-Gage probably looks the closest to the ones on the DS, except the ones on the DS actually look more polished and tend to have generally perfect framerates.

[@bummerdrummer1902]

Just when I thought I heard it all, Half life on the Dreamcast?! Great video, Drew. Informative as always

[@dbozan99]

If you want to play the DC version of HL on PC, you can! Check it out here: www.moddb.com/mods/half-life-dreamcast

[@hamishbennett8084]

I just realised This was uploaded on my birthday

[@pwnswoggle]

Did you capture that footage from the N-Gage and if so then how? Is there an emulator? I was one of the idiots that bought one when they were released and had a bunch of games but I got rid of it. Despite it's flaws there were a few good games on there and I wouldn't mind going back and trying them if there's an emulator.

[@JackLucasCaffrey]

I thought the thumbnail was click bait, it wasn't, good job!

[@ethanburns8209]

I knew about all of these but I still loved the video

[@tannerrennat7786]

Thanks Drew, ive been watching crap on the school shooting. You broke the cycle I owe you, heres a sub

[@boomtastic5483]

Cool video..and sick collection but why do you have like 3 nes's? Lol

[@kironoschannel]

Another problem with the Dreamcast build of Half-Life is it takes a HUGE amount of space on the VMU for saves. It ate up an entire VMU of mine just to save.

[@Shmorpicle]

Jelly baby throwing pizza at Mario, love it!

[@ps4fan794]

Ones I knew about 1: yeah 2: sort of 3:yeah 4:yeet (also dk looks like a burger meat package) 5: yep

[@MassiveSwingingProductions]

The myst port was dank for a while but you’re right the controls were not tight enough to solve some of the puzzles

[@NeoBlueCD]

The only one I knew about previously was the Donkey Kong on Atari 2600. Had NO idea about GTA on GBC, that's absolutely wild.

[@sam_lawson]

Yesterday I was out and found a copy of Freddi Fish 2. It wasn't a PC game though. It was actually a DVD game, I can't find much info on it but it appears to be a full port. The inventory is scrapped in favour of automatically using an item once you've found it. It also has a password system so you can even play it in multiple sittings.

[@bruhdepartment4971]

Your channel has more quality content than %70 of Turkey

[@justanotheryoutubechannel]

Honestly the Half-Life port wasn't too surprising. And same with the Donkey Kong port. Mario and Donkey Kong were just single games, not franchises back then, so Nintendo had no reason to restrict them to just their own consoles.