Open T-H-E - P-O-D - B-A-Y doors, H-A-L: Air Fortress & Sesame Street ABC | NES Works 144

[@juststatedtheobvious9633]

Air Fortress is the rare game where NES color and tile limitations are used as inspiration, rather than fought against. I got into it solely for the clean, shiny graphics, and was pleasantly surprised.

[@itsmerickv]

In 1999, I painted an NES baby blue and gave it to my four year old brother. He loved the Sesame Street 1-2-3 game. He recently hit me up talking about how much he loved the music for it. And as an elementary school kid in the early 90s, my friend Eric and I spent most the night playing the Ernie's bathtub game just to see if we could possibly fill every tile. We had more enjoyment out of that than the racing game we rented.

[@Faction.Paradox]

I skimmed the title and read it as "Air Fortress Sesame Street"

[@EddieSlabb]

If only our conflicts were resolved by talking it out, taking turns, sharing, and spelling three letter words ... ❤️‍🩹🫂💝

[@LakituAl]

Now I know why so many people don't know how to get there, it's an air fortress!

[@MrERLoner]

Oscar is not.taking anymore.shit and.Snuffy is.about to.prove hes very very real

[@holdingpattern245]

That reminds me of that show about all the Hanna-Barbera characters flying around in an airship and solving all the world's problems.

[@beanburritos6393]

The cast of Sesame Street flying a B-17 and bombing the Germans of WW2? Can you imagine?

[@felixvasquez1797]

These uploads are comfort. Thank you for them and your efforts!

[@RetroHousecr]

One important influence for Air Fortress got to be NAMCO’s Baraduke(1985)

[@todesziege]

The similarities are too many to be coincidence. I guess Baraduke is one of those very "overlooked influence" titles, as it seems to have made some splash in Japan but never outside of it.

[@pjw5328]

Agreed. Also see some influence from Atari’s Major Havoc too, with the space combat, land, explore outside ship, destroy reactor, escape back to ship cycle.

[@MayorMcCheeseYouFuckers]

Namco made a game about that big goofy comic strip dog? Interesting

[@WrysWendellBoah]

can only read Baraduke in Tim Rogers's voice ...

[@MojaveManiac]

Always glad for a video drop in the morning. It's like my gaming history newspaper. Also I think my father had Air Fortess based on a game he described. Neat!

[@OnslaughtSix]

I LOVED the Ernie minigame as a wee tot. Ernie and Grover were my two favourite Sesame Street characters. I liked the animations and the Pipe Dream aspect of the game was just enough for my little baby brain. I still remember the cool obviously Rare music to this day.

[@OGNoNameNobody]

"Are you ready for some Football? Because I sure-the-hell am Not" Same, dude. Same.

[@TeruteruBozusama]

Same here.

[@subtlewhatssubtle]

Air Fortress was one of the games I got when I first got an NES and it was by a fairly wide margin one of the toughest as it went on, between the fragility of Hal during the side scrolling space shooter stages and the increasingly obtuse layouts in the escape sequences. The title screen really had a peppy, optimistic space-opera feel that really sold the game's tone IMO.

[@cashnelson2306]

That Sesame Street game was absolutely formative for three year old me

[@PapiCuatro0221]

Oh no, I'm the schmuck! I have vivid memories of that ferris wheel and the bathtub. I remember actually liking it a lot.

[@JeremyParish]

If you were like 3 or 4 years old at the time, that's fine! You were the target audience! If you were, like, 15 or 16... I don't know what to tell you.

[@AQuestionofCharacter]

So insane that the idea for regenerative health came this early, way before any fps titles would use it as the industry standard. I'm disappointed I slept on Air Fortress. It looks fantastic.

[@Obscusion2]

Regenerating health came years before Air Fortress, with Hydlide being one of the first major games (in Japan, at least) doing it back in 1984, though I believe there was one or two other games that technically did it first.

[@JohahnDiechter]

Rogue had it in 1980

[@Eve619]

The first password I ever memorized was from air fortress KA91 I believe was level 3 lmao I cant believe I remember that for almost 40 years

[@EriChanTheRetroGamerNerd]

@@Eve619 Rented this as a kid, I8FA is still burned somewhere in my brain. Six-year old me thought she was cheating by memorizing it instead of writing it down.

[@mattdgroves]

Air Fortress has some of my favorite 8-bit music, would love to learn more about the artist.

[@ColdSnapVA]

The artist is known only as "Escaper Kanagushi." Can't find their real name.

[@mattdgroves]

@@ColdSnapVA based on that, I found a link on VGMdb: Hideki Kanasashi might be the real name. 🤷‍♂ A handful of other famicom games listed, including some featured already on Video Works, but nothing after 1990.

[@duhdeedee]

I learned to read from videogame manuals "He appears here and there, letting out spells Link's little shield can't hold back. He's pretty strong. Watch out!"

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Ernie's Big Splash is like an early version of the mobile game "Where's My Water".

[@gun_toucher_LLC]

oh my god i played so much Sesame Street ABC

[@cerberus144]

Air Fortress is a game locked in my brain's deepest parts. I never owned or rented it, but my childhood Dentist had an NES hooked up in their waiting room, and it was this (along with Strider) that I played a bunch every few months while waiting for me or some other family member to get their oral care done. Once they took the NES out of the waiting room, this game was forgotten for over 15 years. That was until I started messing around with Emulators in the late 2000s. Going through NES titles alphabetically, it didn't take long to download this ROM and rediscover a game I was fascinated with as a kid, unlocking memories and a love for a forgotten game hidden deep away. Also we have, yet again, had ZERO days since the last Vexious reference.

[@TheThreeTwo]

I have such a soft spot for air fortress

[@IffyJottere]

Jeremy, good man, I love your channel, and I knew this video in particular would knock it out of the park yet again! Not only did you dig into one of my old favorite "games I played but everyone else forgot" titles, in Air Fortress, you also opened with one of my favorite songs for this episode's channel flip intro! I first heard of Air Fortress in the Counselor's Corner in Nintendo Power, with a guide for clearing Stage 6. As I read the involved directions for finding the nucleus and escaping, I thought "this game looks really complicated. I gotta rent this!" Sure enough, I did so when I could, and sure enough, for child me, it was complicated enough to hold my interest and earn a place in my secondary market retro searches as an adult. I always believed if I had the skill to make an indie game *right now* (not discounting the idea of learning and making one someday), I would go hard on a modernized spiritual successor, much in the style of what Shovel Knight did for DuckTales' unique movement mechanics, for the unique "approach-inflitrate-destroy-escape" loop of Air Fortress :)

[@rodneylives]

Air Fortress is a true classic! One correction though, which no one would fault you for I think: Air Fortress actually has _sixteen_ levels! Eight in a first quest, and eight more in a secret second quest!

[@TacoDiceCosas]

Hi, I played this Sesame Street game once as a kid in a relatives house. I was the intended audience and I remember enjoying the animations of the rubber ducky a lot. That was a fun afternoon. That being said: the other game we played was Super Mario Bros 3. Unsurprisingly, a more memorable experience.

[@J45yu456]

I love these titles. Having played these as a kid!

[@mr.nobody7958]

Love this channel ❤

[@diamondsmasher]

I remember renting Air Fortress many times back in the day, that haunting music after destroying the core will stay with me forever.

[@gravelstudios]

Sesame Street ABC was one of the first NES games my family got. My older siblings weren't too interested, but for my younger brother and I, who were 5 and 6 respectively at the time, it was right up our alley. I do admit that Letter Go Round got a little boring after a while, but I remember us loving Ernie's Big Splash. We were most certainly not disappointed to have found it under the Christmas tree. And a lot of other classic NES games really just went over our heads until we were a year or two older.

[@EriChanTheRetroGamerNerd]

I wonder if the fortress parts of Air Fortress were influenced by Namco's Alien Sector/Baraduke (arcade, 1985)? You jet around stages and have recoil on fire in the same way, and your recoil can even be used to maneuver in one direction while facing another. Also, Baraduke was designed by Kissy, the designer of Pac-Land. They're both games that were a little ahead of their time. Seriously, if you like arcade games from around that time, and you haven't already, go play Baraduke. It's on Arcade Archives.

[@goldenphonautogram6141]

Air Fortress seems like the mean of all the NES and 8 bit games to this point. Particularly it reminds me a lot of Thexder meets Hero meets Gradius meets Astro Robo Sasa.

[@TedDiabetes]

Air Fortress has always been a personal favorite.

[@Biggi87]

I never played or even heard of Air Fortress before, but I got a strong Baraduke vibe with the look of the player character, the jetpack movement and the recoil pushback from shooting. So I would bet that was a major inspiration for HAL here.

[@MisterAzathoth]

Air Fortess' on foot segments remind me a lot of SMS Quartet with the jet pack power up.

[@joemccallister4883]

First appearance of Scooty-Puff jr.

[@schaffiourketaris2691]

That was my thought too, 🤣 poor Hal although it actually looks more like the Senior 🤔.

[@Dwedit]

Sesame Street ABC contains the complete full Sesame Street opening theme song, including the rarely heard bridge (It's a magic carpet ride...)

[@Mansini77]

That Real Life “Send Me an Angel” intro. What a banger!

[@Sixfortyfive]

Reader Rabbit is a core memory. My parents actually found a box of our old 5-inch floppy disk games and shipped them to me a few years ago since they figured no one else could ever make use of them. I mean, I can't either, but it was a nice gesture.

[@Trygon]

USB floppy drives are surprisingly cheap, if you want to.

[@ZeroCrystal]

Air Fortress: The epitome of "You suck just enough to be interesting."

[@darktetsuya]

wait a xevious mention without resetting the sign? 7:20 oh. there it is, haha. I rented air fortress and found it to be a lot of fun! sure the shmup sections could've been more fleshed out (as well as the exploration stuff) but as is I felt it was still a pretty fun space adventure. The sesame street stuff I think I was probably too far out of the target age for these, but had I been a few years younger I probably would've dug those. especially having grown up with the show itself.

[@kazinwho]

It's so interesting, this far out from the actual NES era - I think Air Fortress looks good actually. I should give it a shot, I've never played it!

[@MaidenHell1977]

Amazing episode as always. As for that ending, if it's Tecmo Bowl, I'm ready. Anything else, forget it, haha

[@lampdevil]

I will accept no slander of Ernie's Big Splash, I fondly remember passing time on slow afternoons at my cousin's place making the most complicated possible paths for rubber ducky. Yeah it's no Mega Man 2, but I had garbage reflexes and a budding love of puzzle games. It scratched a particular itch that you didn't much see scratched on the NES.

[@balaam_7087]

This video is brought to you by the letter A, for Awesome

[@tayasigerson]

Air Fortress was an important game in my childhood. When you destroy the core and the stage goes dark and starts to shake, it always scared me so much! Even when I got older it was still too scary for me to play the later stages. But I love it anyway. It was baby's first horror game. The soundtrack is a banger too.

[@popculturehero]

Air Fortress is really good. I only played it in recent years as well. Though the find the escape before the base explodes gimmick Immediately made me think of the 90s PC gaming classic Descent. The brief mention of reader rabbit, was very nostalgic. What a good edutainment game. Only thing better was the Super solvers games.

[@autoneurotic]

I found a copy of Air Fortress a couple of years ago and I've only played it a handful of times, but I rather like the graphics - particularly the backgrounds. The music is some of my favorite on the system.

[@nicholasromig5506]

so when my brothers and I got our NES one christmas, the first two games we got were Q-Bert and Sesame Street ABC. so you were talking to us just now.

[@fatenabu1]

Air Fortress reminds of Macross seriously it could've been a Macross game easily. You could be the jet mode and then the robot or gerwalk mode in the base

[@EriChanTheRetroGamerNerd]

@@fatenabu1 Namco already had a mediocre Macross game on Famicom

[@thedrunkmonkshow]

I love Iwata and all ,and maybe had the question been posed this way to him when he was alive he would have confirmed it, but the game play in the 2nd half of the game or demolition phase is 100% lifted from Namco's Baraduke aka Alien Sector which was released in arcades back in 1985. You control a woman named Kissy in outer space who enters 8 worlds using a biohazard suit with wavegun and jetpack to clear out alien threats and their bosses. It's the same fundamental gameplay of floating by jetpack, unlocking gates and experiencing kickback while firing at enemies. What is unique in Air Fortress though is your shield number is greatly increased, you get a power or bomb shot, the areas are much larger/complex to traverse and after defeating the main boss or core you have a time limit to escape the fortress and the sector. Nintendo also borrowed something else unique from that game where in when you beat the game the player is revealed to be a woman and not an assumed man in the suit which was adopted with Samus in Metroid's gender reveal depending on game time. 😇

[@swarmland]

Yeah I'm really surprised Jeremy didn't make the Baraduke connection. I don't think the game is particularly obscure or anything.

[@matthuck378]

Never played it back in the day, but from this video, Air Fortress looks pretty good compared to other NES games I did play, IMO.

[@brendanfay7476]

Excellent episode as usual! That Sesame Street game was one of those that even as a kid you find wanting - at 3:04 did you mean to reference exploding at a single touch twice?

[@TitanSix]

I had exactly four cartridges for the NES growing up: Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt, Dr. Mario, Tetris, and Sesame Street ABC. The Sesame Street game was definitely picked up on a budget because my mom thought it would help my ability to read. It didn’t. And as such, it didn’t get more than one or two plays when I had it. The NES we had also barely worked, as most of them were after a while.

[@michaelturner2806]

The sequence of Cookie Monster and Ernie moving around made me think of a Street Fighter like one on one fighter.

[@JeremyParish]

ME AM STRONGEST WOMAN IN WORLD

[@ginormousaurus8394]

Now there's an idea: Sesame Street Fighter!

[@turbinegraphics16]

the mode 7 effect on the ferris wheel is pretty good though

[@beanburritos6393]

Air Fortress looks like a fascinating summation of a bunch of early 80's games, I'll have to give it a try! As far as Sesame Street goes, I think Prof. Atombender of Impossible Mission could have this as an alt-history villianous origin.

[@rabiroden]

Sesame Street didn't need to take place on a moody moonlit night by the riverside, but I appreciate that it did.

[@owlyus]

The first things I remember reading on my own was the Dr Mario instruction manual

[@lhfirex]

If the next NES Works is a Tecmo Bowl game, then yes, I'm definitely ready for some football. Still one of the best "arcade" sports experiences out there, and lots of fun precisely because it's not trying to be realistic.

[@katt-the-pig]

I've played Sesame Street ABC, albeit someone else's copy. And I found it to be a mildly entertaining distraction, especially Earnie's Big Splash. It was always a personal goal to make the chain as long as possible.

[@MtnSmithy]

No yeah, we had those Sesame Street games growing up. I guess in hindsight I never really did have "fun" playing them, but just playing something on the NES was cool on its own.

[@Trygon]

I suppose I'll come out in defense of sesame street. I had that game as a kid, and while it wasn't my favorite, it got a lot of play and probably did contribute to my early skill in reading - Though the lion's share of the credit for that lies with my parents refusing to read the game genie manual for me anymore. One thing not really touched on in this video is that the sound design is REALLY good throughout. Ernie's Big Splash is less a game and more a sequencer gamified enough to be operable by actual toddlers. I distinctly remember finding really pleasing 'songs' in the various segments you could put the duck through.

[@secondratesaint9418]

Scooty Puff Jr suuuuucks!

[@michaelwulfbane]

I remember being a very easily influenced youth. I forget what the exact detail of the marketing push was, but there was something for Air Fortress that urged me to beg for it. But I seem to recall this was a later in the games life and I would have already had at least Mega Man 2 if not MM3. So it was interesting but yeah got really difficult for me around area 4-5 IIRC. But I for the life of me can't remember what the marketing offer was. Like was it a "if you can do well, you can get a prize" type thing or was it just HAL offering it for a discount. I do have a good memory of that zero gravity recoil and the way his legs would kick forward as he was floating.

[@rootbeer_666]

I rented this a few times from our regional, quasi-non-chain grocery store back in the day, as their stock comprised a lot of lesser-known (read: cheaper), quirkier stuff. I do recall thinking that it felt like an older game than it was-turns out I was right-but I thought it was surprisingly pretty good. Renting at that place was a crapshoot, where I could end up with some real garbage (Ghoul School) but there were a lot of gems too (Fantasy Zone, Little Samson).

[@lordmanimani-]

Air Fortress predicting the fused character Halman from Clark's 1997, "3001: The Final Odyssey"

[@shaggyturtlestudios]

Great episode as usual! Although, I feel you missed 1 interesting note regarding Air Fortress. (I’m sure I’m not the only person to bring this up. But I’ll try to be the most thorough.) The comparisons to Section Z and Metroid are apt. But there’s a game that predates even them in May of 1985 that Air Fortress bears a STRIKING resemblance to. (The demolition phase at least.) That being Namco’s Baraduke. A game in which you play as a yellow suited space person flying in all directions with a jetpack through alien fortresses, blasting away a variety of foes, including dark recolors of the player sprite that directly mirror you. The resemblance is so strong infact, that were you to place screenshots side by side, one might mistake Air Fortress as a Famicom port of Baraduke! And it might as well be, as the only home port of Baraduke was on the X68000. Until it started being included on Namco Museum compilations as with all their 80s titles. (There was apparently a short lived American release of the game in arcades as Alien Sector. But I’ve never seen this cab myself. It ran on the Pac Land hardware. So I have to assume nobody wanted to convert it. ) Baraduke really seems to be one of the unsung inspirations of the Sci-Fi Alien-inspired sub genre of video game. Since it also bears a passing resemblance to Metroid, not in gameplay. But certainly in aesthetics and even thematically in some places. I recommend giving it a look just for curiosity’s sake. Even if you don’t want to cover it, I think you’ll find it interesting!

[@nojot0]

i feel like the little guy in H-A-L: Air Fortress reminds me of the guy from Baraduke; they have similar color and pose.

[@gmitch1978]

I always felt air fortress was influenced by Baraduke/Alien Sector. The interior segments look and control almost identically to that game, but take the gameplay a lot further and cranked up the ambience. Air fortress was also meant for the disk system but got canceled for some reason.

[@EriChanTheRetroGamerNerd]

@@gmitch1978 Baraduke is the same thing as the fortress section, fit into coin-op form factor. Have you seen the placeholder intro text for the Air Fortress prototype? It's bizarre and silly.

[@gmitch1978]

@@EriChanTheRetroGamerNerd yeah, it’s hilarious 😂 clearly not meant for public consumption. I find the audio in air fortress to be really awesome. It’s too bad we never got to hear it with the additional audio channels.

[@todesziege]

Air Fortress' little yellow jetpack guy and space stations seem highly reminiscent of Namco's 1985 arcade title _Alien Sector/Baraduke,_ down to the cutesy-blocky art style --- too much so to be a coincidence in my view.

[@nicktheneshero9010]

To me, the on foot segments of Air Fortress seem like a riff on Namco's Alien Sector/Baraduke.

[@jonothanthrace1530]

It suddenly occurs to me that Air Fortress feels a lot like Fry's attack on the Space Brain Fortress, complete with a Scootie Puff Jr.

[@etheweirdo_art]

Huh, air fortress does actually seem fairly interesting

[@Dogtoupee]

8:40 i got this game for Christmas when i was a child and played that sesame street game with the martians. Whenever you got the math problem wrong they'd play this sad disheartening music and the moon would shake his head with a sad face. My brother would play that game and get all the problems wrong just to upset me.

[@2WaterGuns]

I do wonder if the "flight mode, then an infiltration mode" of Air Fortress rubbed off on Masahiro Sakurai, another HAL creative, when he later conceptualized Kid Icarus Uprising. Or maybe it's just a very general concept.

[@struntsi]

I learnt english from the first Leisure suit Larry 😬

[@georginabensley9453]

i used to play ernie's big splash on the PC when I was itty-bitty

[@analogmoz]

I can't believe Dr. Xevious wrote the Tower of Druaga in 1923.

[@rottenparts]

HAL of a good video!

[@Bibvock]

You do fantastic reviews! I've been wondering if you can someday do a vid on the game Mission Impossible on NES. It was a childhood favorite!

[@JeremyParish]

This is a chronological series, so I'll get there eventually. But first, Impossible Mission on 7800

[@teruienages962]

the two modes of Air Forteress make me wonder what it could have been like if Konami gave Hikaru and Akane of Parodius fame their own game where they ride around on their rockets half the time, and traverse platforming stages the other half of the time.

[@Wyldfyre.84]

I wonder why they didn't use the Air Fortress approach to the energy meter for Super Mario 64 rather than allowing us to heal a battered Mario by quickly diving in the water coming back up for air.

[@herodelic]

I had both Sesame Street games as a child and I can say the only two things I enjoyed about them were the music and that Ernie mini game. Otherwise I felt like the characters were taunting me as a did the problems lol.

[@TheDonSolo]

Daemon Hatfield sent me here. ❤

[@Eye-am-Metalchip]

I thought Air Fortress looks pretty good as a game from 1987 & stands way better as a 1989 US release than some other games from simular developers, plus the screen shaking effect done when the core's destroyed probably looked impressive at the time.

[@Wavyhill]

I'd never claim it was a good game, but I have strange nostalgia for Sesame Street ABC; my parents got it for my sister when we were kids and I ended up playing a fair bit of it. The Ernie game was sorta fun with the different animations for each type of segment. Compared to some of the "real" games I owned back then at least Sesame Street ABC didn't make me frustrated and angry when I was still young enough to not yet understand that bad games/bad controls/bad design were a thing, and I figured they were just too "hard".

[@spacepluto]

Jeremy if you havent heard of it, you should give Baraduke a try. Its an arcade/MAME game sort of like air fortress, but without the approach sequences and the cores to blow up

[@JeremyParish]

I've touched on Baraduke several times, in my Mr. Driller and Section-Z episodes. But we really can't afford to add another 0-day counter here for yet another Namco game....

[@EriChanTheRetroGamerNerd]

@@JeremyParish But what if you had one for *every* Namco game? Also disappointed in myself I didn't see the other Baraduke comments before I made mine, I swear I skimmed! And thought I was a clever girl for noticing the Baraduke connection too. Hmph.

[@fooblesFire]

When you mentioned the gun having very high recoil in a low-gravity environment, my mind immediately went to Astro Robo Sasa. Do you think that could have been a possible influence as well?

[@roguerifter9724]

I'm not sure which Sesame Street Edutainment game I got with my NES but its not like I needed either. If they had to get me an edutainment game for Christmas 89 there had to be something more interesting out there right?

[@Tr3vor42532]

The recoil physics may have been inspired by astro robo sasa on famicom

[@JeremyParish]

Nah, you can’t fly with this recoil.

[@Tr3vor42532]

@@JeremyParish just because you can't fly upwards with it doesn't mean it couldn't have been inspired by it.

[@shelfcompact]

Baraduke also had the recoil physics.

[@absolutezeronow7928]

HAL probably was a letter shift from IBM, which is no knock on the late Arthur C. Clark. Air Fortress seems like a better game than Adventures of Tom Sawyer or Dino Riki though.

[@todesziege]

Dino Riki is already much better than Tom Sawyer.

[@absolutezeronow7928]

@@todesziege yes, it would be but Air Fortress seems to be better than Dino Riki.

[@BootlegSeraphim]

that Air Force game looks strikingly similar to the game Baraduke to me... Maybe even Baraduke 2. In specific, The Spaceguy's suit activates my neurons in the way where It feels like a weird Tobi Masuyo... I'll admit, My father was watching this on the tv so I may have missed if you mentioned Baraduke as being similar, but... Well. I love an excuse to think about Dig Dug's Ex Wife.

[@TheWorstThingEver]

Somehow, I never even hear of Air Fortress until like a year ago. It must be the game's generic name. Anyway, I happened to play it on one of those little emulation devices, and I was surprised at how good it was.

[@Poever]

Sesame Street ABC, it’s easy as Sesame Street 123 As simple as Sesame Street DoReMi, Sesame Street ABC, Sesame Street 123, Sesame Street you and me, girl~

[@Ratralsis]

So you've decided to come down hard on the side of pronouncing it "Adventurers of Dino Ree-kee," I see, based on 0:45.

[@goranisacson2502]

Surprised to see that Air Fortress hasn't made it onto NSO, you wouldn't think there's anything in the way for Nintendo to add that to the service... even if people may perhaps cry injustice if that game made it there and not Sesame Street. Sarcasm aside, I liked the eudcation in where the whole "lay out a pipeline that takes some object from X to Y" started from. Found it far more educational than the Sesame Street game at least. Take that video game- I already HAVE basic spelling skills!

[@tekkensentai]

I don’t recall an ending to the game. Either that or it was not worth remembering

[@GavinAnderegg]

At @7:52 you say "Like Dragon Warrior - also a HAL joint, to some degree". I'm curious about that. How did HAL help with Dragon Quest? Were there Enix employees who went to HAL?

[@JeremyParish]

Read the text on screen when I mention it, the answer is literally right there

[@butthoumust8439]

Satoru Iwata was strongly involved in the localization of Famicom Dragon Quest to NES Dragon Warrior.

[@GavinAnderegg]

@@JeremyParish Dude, I love your work, but this really isn't helpful. I saw that text, but I didn't understand how HAL was involved. I totally believe you when you say they were, but I was wondering about the details. Happily, @butthoumust8439 was able to fill me in.

[@slightlyevolved]

9:30, we all onna ignore how cheap this is, that even on top of absolutely no animation... They didn't even black out the inside of Cookie Monster's mouth, so you can see the background through him....

[@jamesmoss3424]

Air Fortress looks great for me to play. 😀👍🎮