Terrible NES Accessory Leads to an EXCELLENT Game

[@IntegerOfDoom]

The gas station across the street sells a variety of "deck enhancers" Haven't been brave enough to try them.

[@btr3k]

Shark? Rhino? Or maybe King Kong... so many choices!

[@mark6302]

lol

[@AwesomeHairo]

Same with their gas station sushi

[@supercomputer276]

Even 25 years later, the Oliver Twins can't figure out how to have a character face not toward the player and stand still at the same time.

[@jpjokela1]

I just don't understand what's so "terrible" about the Aladdin Deck Enhancer (except for being terribly late to the market), I think the idea is great. Not only does it contain hardware to bypass NES lockout chip, it also contains extra RAM, which every game can use, without having to increase cost by adding it to the game cartridge itself.

[@billkeithchannel]

That is what the Game Genie did but also had cheat codes to enhance the game play.

[@jpjokela1]

@@billkeithchannel Except that it lacked extra memory (afaik), that plugged in cartridged could use, without need to have their own onboard. No idea if it can be used with games lacking NES security chip (as it was designed to be used with original cartridges, maybe with "wrong" region) In a way it's a bit pointless to have expansion chips & extra ram on many cartridges, if you only play one of them at once. This can also lead to games having to be downgraded "to make the cartridge cheaper". The best thing it could have done, it could have made the games industry more free & independent from hardware manufacturers - game designers would have no longer needed to stop releasing (same) games on other platforms to be allowed to make a NES version, without the need to reverse-engineer NES & produce their own, more complex cartridges (they could just make a deal with Aladdin creators, and they could handle production & maybe also distribution) But as said, it was too late. There wasn't enough interest in NES development at that point.

[@Kisai_Yuki]

Consider that new flash cart devices exist today, it's likely that Nintendo would have sued them like they sued them and Galoob for the game genie anyway. The Game Genie was 1990, the Aladdin was 1992. Camerica went out of business in 1993.

[@jpjokela1]

@@Kisai_Yuki Getting sued by nintendo, and court concluding there's nothing illegal in your product is one of the best proofs that you DO have a good product for Nintendo console (if that would have happened, at least some lockout chip workarounds were deemed legal back in the day)

[@brunch1572]

The real magic of the Aladdin Deck Enhancer was that by unloading many of the necessary cartridge chips onto it, it could lower the cost of games by around half. I wish Nintendo would have done something like this because it could also increase quality and capability by having something like the MMC5 chip included.

[@werewolf2747]

They would've thrown a fit about having to butcher hardware. Nintendo, in their own opinion, are flawlessly perfect. Trying to convince them this was a good idea would be near impossible, even today.

[@SweetStevieAaron]

I grew up in the U.K. when Code Masters started doing serious business and the Oliver Twins were very much local heroes and near unknown worldwide. So it’s nice to hear an American voice cover their achievements.

[@battra92]

Always enjoyed Super Robin Hood and the Dizzy games. No one ever knee what I was talking about. I'd say Camerica and Tengen released the best unlicensed NES games.

[@adultmoshifan87]

I really must give Super Robin Hood a proper playthrough, I have it on Evercade as part of the Oliver Twins Collection!

[@pojr]

I agree. It definitely feels weird putting Codemasters in the same category as color dreams

[@RickyRockstarTNS]

Another favorite of mine is Big Nose the Caveman. That was only released on gold cartridge at least in USA format. UK might've gotten it in pass-thru cartridge format like the Game Genie. I didn't think Bignose Freaks Out was as good as the first one. It lacked music in stages and was harder to control. The idea of a caveman on a skateboard was fun though. It just could have been implemented a bit better.

[@Dwedit]

Sachen released some of the worst unlicensed NES games. Tagin' Dragon anyone? Master Chu was one of their better games, and the AVGN review of that game heavily featured 💩🥒.

[@theloanranger2632]

The Ultimate Stuntman is a very fun game. Does have its frustrating moments and some weird enemies like birds and bees.

[@EireProductions]

"The peripheral was discontinued early on" Actually, Gaming Historian couldn't find any evidence that it was even RELEASED.

[@billkeithchannel]

Interesting. His Tengen documentary is epic.

[@joesshows6793]

Thank you for not adding 15min of the history of video games to lengthen them like some fools do. I swear I’ve seen 18min videos for a game that was mentioned once in EGM and it’s 16min of ‘the nes is an 8bit…’.

[@coolbro6969]

So you’re being sarcastic right?

[@nxtvim2521]

​@@coolbro6969no it's a 10 minute video that shows directly as advertised. it's about the Aladdin deck enhancer and that's all he showed. there was a little bit of backstory for the company and developer itself, but not nintendo

[@MarcusFigueras]

I wonder how NES games would've shaked out if the Aladdin Deck Enhancer took off more. Would it have been the west's version of the Famicom Disk System?

[@vincenzomottola7778]

Well, it was too little too late, by then, the SNES and Genesis were already out. But I kinda wish Nintendo had conceived the MMC5 adapter for the NES. The adapter would have contained the MMC5 chip and other components, while the compact cartridges would have only contained the ROM. The MMC5 chip had so much untapped potential, but for a standalone cartridge, it was too expensive to produce

[@pojr]

If more unlicensed game developers were on board, it could have been an interesting add-on.

[@Dwedit]

Shipping just a single ROM chip on a board, and getting all the features of a UxROM board would have been really neat, no need to add RAM and Lockout. But then you enter the problem of mandatory peripherals, and cartridges that are dependent on that peripheral being present. Getting the "one chip" cartridge would happen a lot later with the VT02 and VT03 Famicom clones, which supported "OneBus" mode and integrated MMC3.

[@JamesTDG]

Either that, or Nintendo would have sued em into the ground

[@jameslangridge8849]

I've always wondered why Nintendo didn't slap a superfx chip in a cart like the Aladdin deck enchancer, and then save the whole price of one chip per cart. They could have sold the games cheaper and still made more profit per cart 🤔

[@3rdalbum]

@@jameslangridge8849 Codemasters had a patent for this very idea.

[@eins2001]

Probably saw the 32X failure

[@billkeithchannel]

SEGA could have put their extra SID chips in an adapter like this instead of including it in every Gauntlet 4 cartridge only. This would have inspired more developers to improve the quality of their music. But the CD was catching on which had Red Book Audio so it became a moot point.

[@jimbox114]

Cool I have a couple of those games. Quattro Adventure has Boomerang Kid, Super Robin Hood, Treasure Island Dizzy and Linus Spacehead. One of those golden all in one carts.

[@bestselling_octopus]

I'm so glad someone else recognises the Pogie game, i think it's good

[@JoeBee9]

I would have loved this as a kid; shame it never came out officially. I was really into simplistic colourful platformers like this, Kiwi Kraze, or Hudson's Adventure island back then and still am to a certain degree. Anyway, found the rom and put it on my phone for Retroarch. Plays very well.

[@jcags]

As terrible as it might be, the deck enhancer was such a missed oportunity. It was too little too late and didn't enhance anything but it could have been great for unofficial developers had it been released 5 years earlier. Specially with the chip shortage.

[@arrestedeffort]

I often find myself saying "What's going on? Iiiit's POJR! Comin' atchaaa wiiith another video!" randomly throughout the day.

[@pojr]

I love that lol

[@Blas4ublasphemy]

This should be made available on the Evercade!

[@harrysbidos]

All these games shown on the video are already available on Evercade.

[@Black_Revue]

Some Developers just wouldn't move on from the NES

[@Nosaveddataretro]

I'm fine with that

[@ferndog1461]

NES was 2600 of its day. Most developers of the day don't have resources to develop for smaller platforms.

[@JeffreyPiatt]

They did they made Xbox /Xbox 360 hybrid games for Burger King

[@eelobrian6727]

Good.

[@LeftEarth2]

I'm a present day developer for the Gameboy. _Long live the grey brick!_

[@TBustah]

It wasn’t a “terrible” accessory, just some of the games for it were and it came out too late. If somebody thought of this arrangement earlier, it probably would’ve caught on.

[@Pon3TorLord]

KZbin video titles is most often clickbait.

[@TBustah]

@@Pon3TorLord*Are*, and lots of other people have shit on this thing. I don’t know if it’s clickbait.

[@PhilipMarcYT]

Micro Machines is easily the best unlicensed game. I still like to play it today.

[@pojr]

It is a great game. In my opinion, there are a few contenders for the best unlicensed game, including micro machines

[@SlickBlackCadillac]

I rented it when I was like 5 and it didn't work 😢😢 never got to play it

[@LoremIpsum1919]

@@SlickBlackCadillac No one cares

[@SlickBlackCadillac]

@@LoremIpsum1919 yeah that's the sad part

[@FoxFromMars]

One of the best channels I have discovered this year.

[@valentonto]

Rn you are my favorite yt channel for real. I really enjoy your content. Pls keep it up. Love you from argentina

[@teh_supar_hackr]

It's legendary how the original duo that made these games ended up releasing the canned game many years later.

[@BlueMSX.]

fascinating, i had no idea there were unreleased games for the Deck Enhancer. Great video Pojr!

[@mrpdg89]

I appreciate this side of the story. I've heard some takes on the camerica cartridges but they left of the personal touches and the people behind the games. 👍

[@SamCo-]

Nintendo turned super robin hood in to two obscure games no one talks about super Mario and zelda.

[@aschreil]

Absolutely love all your videos. Great content. Keep grinding till you get 1M subscribers!

[@TronixGuy93]

I remember using mine for the brief time it was it was in labs. Late 91, like December, through September of 92.

[@polygonlegends]

Hey man, I just want to say I love watching your videos and you even inspired me to resurrect my channel! Great work! Your videos are perfect for me to watch on my lunch breaks. That being said, I love collecting unlicensed games for the NES and I also have a copy to one of the Dizzy games! Thanks for the inspiration!

[@FaTBoYs_GaMInG_N_NoNsEnSe]

Let's Go it's POJR awesome video & insights keep up the great work 👍

[@randy7894]

I have no nostalgia for the Oliver Twins, but I do love their passion for making games.

[@Dwedit]

Fun fact, the Oliver Twins would go on to produce Sneak King for the XBOX.

[@billkeithchannel]

Not sure if you covered this one but _Fire 'n' Ice_ is a fantastic puzzle game and had great music. It was different enough from _Lolo_ and _Dudes With Attitudes_ to be it's own thing.

[@Riz2336]

Never heard of this title but glad they decided to put it out after all this time

[@ChanceRoth]

Super Robinhood got Goonies vibe.

[@seanmachan6551]

I still have my signed cartridge from the Kickstarter. It is a nice game, glad it got released eventually

[@braillynn]

Another great video Pojr :)

[@harrysbidos]

I played these games on Evercade for first time... I'd never heard of them before.

[@FireWaia]

So last 3 minutes is what the title refers to. Bit badly represented

[@baalfgames5318]

8:20 Not gonna lie, I'm kinda surprised at how diverse Pogie's design is from the derpy goofball on the cover to this Taz-looking character. Kinda cute.

[@Littlefighter1911]

The graphics look very nice and well adjusted towards the platform

[@philtrauferson]

Something about that gameplay footage really reminds me of Cosmic Spacehead, another Codemasters/Camerica game. I suppose it would be no small leap to assume developers and ideas, maybe even code, was shared between them.

[@videogames4life475]

I've enjoyed many of your videos however I finally subscribed in your goal to hit 30,000.

[@VolJoe]

I like this format and especially the info about salmon.

[@bltvd]

They went from being the Oliver twins to the Constanza twins!

[@Volcell-85]

I dont think it was a 'terrible' accessory i thought it was a clever way to get around the lockout chip by seperating the rom chip from the tech needed to bypass the 10 nes

[@drcat1313]

It's just funny how normal people can do lockout chip mods today in a matter of mins.

[@kins749]

Their first Code Masters games were on the Amstrad CPC, not the BBC or Dragon 32, you should have clarified this.

[@Pon3TorLord]

He talks about the limeline like this "They began programming from the ZX-80 to Dragon 32, to BBC and later licenced out to the NES". When talking about the NES games, he stated they were ports based on the Amstrad games, so there's the Amstrad reference at least.

[@maxbetatron]

Pogie the fluffle is in fantastic adventures of dizzy.

[@drcat1313]

Nes had so many side scrollers. I'm not let down I never played this game after seeing the backgrounds

[@RooMan93]

Camerica sounds like a show you would see on MTV in the 2000s

[@sirianfelixbrightonesquire3247]

Funny I haven’t started the video but I know it’s a spin off to the Fantastic adventures of Dizzy!!! Cause I see Pogie.

[@tarstarkusz]

0:52 That face. This should be a talking channel, where only the game is shown.

[@sirianfelixbrightonesquire3247]

That was incredible rude. You oughta get on a stage and tell zingers like that. Get paid for it. But I imagine you probably thought you’d have everyone loling in the comments.

[@tarstarkusz]

@@sirianfelixbrightonesquire3247 He rubs me the wrong way. Get over it.

[@RaposaCadela]

5:48 OH MY GOD that is one of the coolest effects I've EVER seen on NES, and I've seen plenty of NES games and demos! So smooth :D

[@samstersvideos7202]

BTW - in the UK it's better known as the ZED EX 81 :)

[@fattomandeibu]

Have the Super Robin Hood and the first three Dizzy games on C64 cassette, and just like the NES, the C64 has hardware scrolling that is unused by all of them. They do at least make use of hardware sprites, which isn't a feature of the Spectrum hardware they were originally made for. For Super Robin Hood, whilst having the "HELP ME ROBIN!" voice sample at the start was impressive, the mechanics sucked big time. Having to walk along moving platforms manually should be considered a crime. Dizzy were really great games that really should've utilised the keyboard for using items. Fun fact on the PAL version of Fantastic Adventures; it was an Deck Enhancer cart, but a cart that looked like a Game Genie and piggybacked an official cart to use the 10NES chip from that. Same went for Micro Machines. The really great thing about Codemasters cassette games, which is one of the reasons the NES versions didn't do too well IMO, is that they only cost £1.99 each, less than a tenth of the price of a NES cart.

[@OMG-ws6lx]

Great story! Great content! Thanks!!!

[@JeffreyPiatt]

Noclip discovered the twins worked on the Burger King Xbox 360 /Xbox games.

[@FeralInferno]

Could Pogie be what hatched from the Dizzy egg?!

[@sirianfelixbrightonesquire3247]

In fantastic adventures of Dizzy, Pogie is running all over the world and you have to get a cage, trap him, and take Pogie to a friends house. I don’t think he hatched from the egg.

[@FeralInferno]

@@sirianfelixbrightonesquire3247 ahhh my theory has been debunked! Haha. That's a pretty cool Easter egg in Fantastic Adventures of Dizzy 🥚

[@blackmesacake5361]

Dizzy was always a go to game for me, ill have to check this one out!

[@h2ofan80]

The ROM of this was already dumped years ago. They probably put the game on this after it was dumped.

[@Alcastar607]

Dizzy got turned into scrambled egg😂

[@bobbyllama]

super robinhood looks like it was built on a very similar engine to mickey mousecapade

[@DannyCasrtol]

What is the song at the end of your videos? Love it. Is it from some game?

[@adultmoshifan87]

Knowing the automated lockout bypass on some Deck Enhancers, and the PAL black cart Codemasters games, fry NES systems that each have no working lockout chip, is there a way to disable that lockout bypass, making those carts safe to use on region free NES systems? I’ve also heard that carts that spike the lockout chip, like ones from Color Dreams and Active Enterprises, get hot if you play them on a region free system for more than an hour, worrying me that those carts could shorten the life of such consoles! Anyone got an idea for a fix or workaround? Maybe a Game Genie-like device with a lockout chip in it? Cheers. Still, at least Dizzy The Adventurer is also on the Game Gear as part of The Excellent Dizzy Collection, and the Evercade as part of the Oliver Twins Collection!

[@Slime_Bull]

What's the name of that song at the very start of the vid?

[@segamatthews5023]

Nice your up early in the morning with a new video

[@abbas-aliibnmohammadal-nam929]

It's evening

[@pojr]

Lately I've been uploading early because I have an early class lol

[@segamatthews5023]

@@abbas-aliibnmohammadal-nam929 nice always like to hear the time difference from other people. It's 11am right now here in Canada

[@segamatthews5023]

@@pojr nice have a good day in school.

[@MrOrthopedia]

Looks fun. I hope there'll be a Switch versuon.

[@xxnoxx-xp5bl]

'Zed' X81.

[@billkeithchannel]

Zee

[@xxnoxx-xp5bl]

@@billkeithchannel It's a UK system - Zed.

[@billkeithchannel]

@@xxnoxx-xp5bl I remember it being marketed in the US.

[@xxnoxx-xp5bl]

@@billkeithchannel After being created by a UK company. The Issue isn't the centre of the world you know...

[@Nidhoegger666]

The chip you show as the 10NES is not the 10NES, its the SNES equivalent!

[@ZeroWind2014]

Why doe dreamworld pogie sounds like it's from the master system?

[@HeiseSays]

Sharp jacket.

[@joesshows6793]

Kick ass video.

[@fco64]

Oh boy I can't wait to watch this video

[@pojr]

Enjoy!

[@JoshStribling]

I remember seeing Dizzy in the Game Genie commercial from the 90s, but did not know what game that was until many years later. Here's the commercial that came to mind when I saw Dizzy in this video... kzbin.info/www/bejne/oaPal5mGprKGiNE

[@jasonbohy3777]

Mmmm the things I wish I would of known growing up

[@rockerteen8300]

Goto 0:56 to skip the creepy smile and start the actual video.

[@Kronos-t5i]

Lmao dude literally looks like he's going to kill you or make you RP with MLP figures

[@Seth______]

I kinda like the consistency of it. To skip it would take away from the full experience imo.

[@Seth______]

It's his "Hey all Scott here" kind of thing.

[@Jupiter_Rsabbit]

alan smiling friends

[@lordterra1377]

Serial killer smile? Weird bro.

[@Mike-kw5xv]

Interesting episode

[@GordonFreeman-e7i]

Can you please cover the red riding hood nes bootleg?

[@SussyAmogusmapper-qs1sm]

Pojr I made a new intro for you.

[@Jasonhoods]

1kb of ram is just bonkers

[@RiayToons]

המשחק הזה כל כך מוצלח שהחלטתי לקרוא לחתול שלי "פוגי"

[@countryballs-]

Very Good Game And Whers the Link?

[@Nautimac]

Filipinos must of gotten a good laugh with this game

[@MegaCrazycat666]

Anyone else not getting audio?

[@Ayrshore]

Terrible NES accesory? Nope.

[@mattsmedley.onehandedgamin9029]

ZED - EX 81. The Z, is not pronounced the American way 🇬🇧

[@jasonz7788]

Thanks pogr

[@DoctorTrone]

1:20 Torille! 🇫🇮

[@afuzzyduck]

more like EGGCELLENT game

[@ChanceRoth]

Who is it? Iiiiiiit's pojr! ; D

[@LeftEarth2]

POJR > Pogie 😅

[@JustinEmlay]

Must be nice to be filthy rich!

[@SleepyLuigi]

Holy sh*t.

[@willcarpenter5546]

Pretty sure I've seen series about how shit dizzy is

[@momosgarage]

Does it predate Sonic?

[@churchofthelambofsat]

Evercade video!

[@everycloud3388]

pojr, You are my ideal man! Marry me!

[@jimcampbell]

Dizzy reminds me of the video game character from the show I think you should leave. Haha

[@3rdalbum]

"Excellent" game? It looks a bit dull and lacking in level originality.

[@Nosaveddataretro]

Play it before passing judgement.