Fish Dude retrospective: The dude abides | Game Boy Works

[@alasyon]

That octopus really tied the room together.

[@DGR_Dave]

These are some of the best and highest quality videos on youtube...the presentation is so clean and the narrative is crisp and a joy to listen to. Thank you so much for all the hard work on the amazing content!

[@bennyfactor]

Never fish a stranger in the Alps.

[@JeremyParish]

Yes, very well done.

[@andrewmcilvaney]

This opening is a masterpiece.

[@CandisClassicGameShrine]

Great video. Absolutely LOVED your nod to The Dude in the intro. The Big Lebowski would be proud.

[@zackschilling4376]

Man, you even mentioned EVO and Cubivore. This is one pricey episode of GB Works. Great video as always!

[@pentelegomenon1175]

This is the kind of game that no one would want to get, but it's still nice to have. If there's such a thing as "Game Boy jank" then this game easily qualifies, but it definitely has something.

[@VGColosseum]

Your dedication to this intro was beautiful. Thank you

[@karmatose]

The intro is spectacular. I love how it just works.

[@MichaelHeide]

Wow, that intro was really 40 seconds of commitment to one single pun. I love it.

[@JeremyParish]

Be sure to check the outtro, too.

[@MichaelHeide]

@@JeremyParish I hadn't by the time I commented, but I have since then. Great bookends. The problem with watching these in a playlist is that I'm sometimes still typing at the end of the video when KZbin transports me to the next one in the list, so I've started to write comments before finishing the video.

[@EpicMatthew]

That's the best intro I've ever seen. I seriously don't understand how you don't get more than 2000 or so views. So funny and informative.

[@bombfog1]

Fish Dude’s Music is incredible.

[@Poever]

Fish Dude is simultaneously a generic and super 90s game name

[@littlemissnintendofan6558]

Fish Dude was one of the first games i got in my full collection pursuit of the Game Boy.

[@koobert]

I think that cat ended up in Night in the Woods.

[@apanapane]

That intro though... :D

[@Pawelism]

This was the best intro ever!

[@bartsimpson83]

FYI, Fish Dude is basically a more complex and difficult variation of an old Intellivision game called Shark Shark. So it fits the theme of the Game Boy repurposing older games from the early 80s.

[@FloatingSunfish]

Dude, it's like the Feeding Frenzy we never had!

[@jonothanthrace1530]

That intro and ending was great, well done Mr. Parish.

[@scyther1141]

I've been meaning to watch one of your videos for over a month. I was really missing out, great job.

[@DrCorndog1]

Your dad humor is in full force on this one.

[@RabbitEarsCh]

I love your commitment to intro bits whenever the opportunity arises. I hope something shows up in the Master System library that justifies such an excursion.

[@flyingerasehead]

Holy mackerel! I was looking forward to this episode, and you did not let us down.

[@RobertHMayfire]

Aka The Big LeTroutSki

[@WrathOfNolla]

So basically the best thing to be said about Fish Dude's legacy is the aptly made Lebowski reference made by Jeremy Parish almost 30 years after its inception lol

[@MattHall]

Great work, as always. Rather enjoyed the bit at the end, reminded me of Gamesack.

[@abraveastronaut]

Nice music in this one, though.

[@DSMTheEditor]

Also, fish dude is not the preferred nomenclature

[@Rstraub12]

Lol, love the opening

[@BanditTheCatRIP]

Gamedude should have reviewed this game

[@Trainy2]

I didn’t know you could act, Jeremy. Incredible.

[@JeremyParish]

"act"

[@THEmuteKi]

see if you can find the 1-up video about mario galaxy where he sings

[@TheT3rr0rMask]

Can't believe this game has a connection to one of my favorite nes games Dragon Fighter

[@Ebeeto]

Such a rad fish.

[@Nuclearlandlord]

Outro is great, too

[@Tanukitsune2]

Fish Dude reminds me a lot of "Shark! Shark!", it even has the same "end"? In both you have to bite the tail of the bigger fish to win.

[@cinnamonnoir2487]

There's something subtly horrifying about that cat in a boat. Maybe it's because the cat's head is so big, and the boat is so simple, that they appear to be part of one organism. I really admire your perseverance with this series, by the way. I don't think any video game journalist has tried to make a comprehensive review of *any* system's titles, let alone the sprawling labyrinth that is Game Boy. It's an incredibly ambitious goal, and something that could and should inspire other game writers to break out of the mold of current events and industry-generated hype.

[@mackerelphones]

There's a guy known as Dr. Sparkle who is making a comprehensive review of the Famicom, Master System, Genesis, and PC Engine. Though on a given game the good doctor doesn't normally go into as much detail as Jeremy Parish. But Dr. Sparkle doesn't do anything with Game Boy, and I don't think he's a journalist. May Jeremy Parish keep up his great work.

[@JeremyParish]

Dr. Sparkle's work by definition makes him a journalist! That's not his profession, though.

[@mackerelphones]

Jeremy Parish That makes sense. He does great work, either way.

[@JeremyParish]

It definitely looks like they swiped it from Parodius, but I guess it predates Parodius, so…

[@KuraIthys]

Yeah, I kind of expected someone had attempted it, when I thought of doing something along those lines a few months ago... mainly because I assume everything has been done before, multiple times. And of course, this channel is proof of that. XD But on the other hand, this channel also seems to prove it's not a widespread idea that lots of people have attempted. Go figure.

[@neuroKip]

that ending

[@JustinKolata]

I see other comments comparing Fish Dude to games like Shark! Shark! and Feeding Frenzy. Surprised to see no mentions of the superior "big fish eat little fish" game, Commodore 64's Chomp!

[@JohnSmith-zl8rz]

1:46 how do you capture that gameplay of kid dracula with that beautiful yellow/green tone? is an emulator? or the camera o a real gameboy?????

[@KuraIthys]

Looking at it carefully my guess is it's a real gameboy, filmed with a camera.

[@CarozQH]

One of the game's two programmers was also the main programmer of the legendarily awful Famicom game A Week of Garfield - also a Towa Chiki game. But at the very least this game looks more fun than that atrocity...

[@JeremyParish]

Oh, where did you find staff info?

[@CarozQH]

The Japanese version lets you enter four-character passcodes (they're listed on GameFAQs), and entering "STAF" , then holding down on the D-Pad while pressing the Start button gives you the staff credits. There are also codes for a secret option screen, and different font and the sound test.

[@gdripresents]

Specifically it was the sound programmer who also worked on Garfield. It looks like they handed off the sound to the group behind that game. Fish Dude has this string hidden in the ROM: "SALIO & ANex". ANex might be the developer. Salio was just Tecmo. They were located at what was Tecmo's headquarters in the early '80s. SOFEL is still around and involved with RFID stuff.

[@JeremyParish]

Oh, yeah, TCRF. I didn't think to look there this time, derp.

[@mackerelphones]

I played an online game with a similar premise to this. I think it was made for a game jam. I wonder if the creator knew about Fish Dude? Also, the opening and closing bits were too good for this game.

[@gabrieleriva651]

That's, like, your opinion, man.

[@hikaruk.981]

Dragon Fighter is pretty damned expensive in and of itself.

[@Mysterysheep]

Seems kinda like a game boy version of Feeding Frenzy. Wonder if the developers of that ever played this...

[@katt-the-pig]

Holy cow! I have Avenging Spirit, and I bought it in 2014 for $20. Now I see it's going for over $70?

[@SendyTheEndless]

Why do I remember this game from somewhere? Especially that silly music "bubbadi-dub, ba da da da da daaa daa daa daaa". I guess I must have seen it on another video.

[@Seantendo]

Aww... nice marmot.

[@SatoshiMatrix1]

7:00 Jeremy, what did you mean when. you said "Z-tier NES titles"? Klash Ball is total crap, but Dragon Fighter is one of the better late NES games. Nothing outstanding, but above average when it comes to NES action platformers.

[@matthewlane518]

Lol fish dude looks kinda fun!

[@tangentofaj]

What is the music used during the previews for the next episode? I LOVE IT!

[@beipiaosaurus]

I like that the boats are driven by cats. A default boat driven by humans is probably the object that kills the most fish in the world as it is, but nope, they have to make it even more stereotypically anti-fish.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

What was Salio's third title?

[@AnimatedAF]

That is clearly a dolphin on the box art.

[@mattdgroves]

There was a brief craze of mobile games similar to the mechanic in this game. Slither.io and Agar.io and such

[@TheSmart-CasualGamer]

Remember Hungry Shark? That was basically this.

[@jamesmoss3424]

Fish dude is an weird name for a fish game. 😀👍🎮

[@GameEnthus]

I saw this game at a local store for $15 and I didn't get it. This price will likely drop so I'm ok with this...I think

[@briandecker3994]

Looks like the kind of time waster an ignorant grandparent would have foisted upon their little 'uns. On the collecting front, did a boxed copy just sell from Italy for $80 (w/ shipping) back at the start of November? I see one in a search for sold eBay auctions. If so, that is both a steal and not because at the end of the day you still just have... Fish Dude.

[@JeremyParish]

Uhhh... how did that not show up on any of my searches? I get a daily update on all international Fish Dude auctions, and that never appeared for me. eBay is just the worst.

[@briandecker3994]

Yeah, I was shocked when I saw it. I've never been super pleased with how the different versions of eBay integrate with each other. re: finding people with rare boxes -- You've probably already tried him, but I believe the founder of NintendoAge had a complete US CIB GameBoy set at one point. It's been years since I've visited there with any regularity though, so for all I know that collection's been broken up and sold.

[@JeremyParish]

Yeah. The fact that that copy sold for less than $100 suggests that there was some kind of listing/promotion mishap - clearly NO ONE saw it. The other Fish Dude CIB auctions I've seen ended at $300-500.

[@formerfatboy90]

I can get you a cart. There are ways, Dude. You don’t wanna know. I can get you a cart by 3 o’clock, with shrink wrap.

[@radioactivechimp]

Hearing you say E.V.O. out loud made me realize that it's supposed to be an acronym, but for what? Does B.O.B. stand for something too?

[@JeremyParish]

Big Ol' Butt

[@JetstreamGW]

Hmm... No mustache. Hard to be Sam Elliott like that. Maybe the hat would've been a good idea though...

[@2yoyoyo1Unplugged]

What emulator is that? I need that

[@JeremyParish]

What emulator are you referring to?

[@KuraIthys]

The majority of the content in the video is quite clearly recorded off a Super Gameboy 2 (that's a second revision only sold in Japan. It has some different backgrounds, but mainly it has a link cable port that the original does not.) The Super Gameboy is a cartridge that plugs into a Super NES or Super Famicom that you can then plug a gameboy game into. It's not strictly speaking an emulator, given that it works by virtue of basically containing a gameboy in a SNES cart... If there are any emulators in the footage, I wouldn't know...

[@PositronRobo]

I guess you left your mustache at home huh?

[@Padoca]

Looks like "evolutionary" games have a tendency to become rare.

[@JeremyParish]

At least we'll always have Spore...?

[@Padoca]

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@SarahLJP]

I'm learning Japanese and it took me a while to figure out that the last kana is supposed to be ズ. Also, I've never seen a mixing of hiragana and katakana like that. It threw me for a loop. I thought that third kana might be the dash that elongates kana sounds but I knew that it wasn't used for hiragana. The stylized nature of the script didn't help either. Finally, I didn't know うお was another way to say fish. I thought さかな was the only way.

[@Kafei2006]

Bad Sam Elliott impression. Thumb down!! ... jk :P Also... Kid Dracula is expensive? I have that game. Paid 7€ for it.

[@JeremyParish]

I saw someone asking $999 for the boxed version a few weeks ago at PRGE. The cart goes for about $90. U.S. version, anyway… the Japanese version is fairly cheap.

[@Kafei2006]

It's the U.S. version I have, it was never release anywhere but in North America and Japan, so it's easy to tell, if the game is in English, you know it's not the Japanese version :P.

[@littlemissnintendofan6558]

Funny how if it was never released anywhere else besides US and Japan, how have i owned a UKV Pal CIB version as well as a NOE Pal cart?

[@Kafei2006]

If it was, then I have never seen it and the one I own still is a US version that found its way in Europe by some unlikely combination of events then.

[@littlemissnintendofan6558]

I sold my UKV Pal for £400 a while ago (to someone in the US) and i sold my Noe version for £45. As i have a near full collection for the Game Boy i know all the variants and Kid Dracula was a worldwide release and a good game too!