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Avenging Spirit  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEnLl1Dmu8I ooOOOOoooo! Welcome mortals! It's time to begin our journey through 5 spoooOOOOoooky game boy titles! Just in time to be vaguely close to Halloween by the end! Sorta! We're kicking it off with Jaleco's kirby-like, Avenging Spirit! This game is, in a word: precious. A delightfully designed portable piece that provides a light challenge and satisfying mechanics. This is another one where we're lucky enough to have manual scans, so do give it a look!  Snake count: 21
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-ouS_jXB7M A new uncut for ya! Featuring the uncut, unedited, exhaustive "who would win" conversation we had throughout the whole fuckin game. Sometimes an idea just sticks.
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Castlevania: The Adventure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYvwFPcwTt0 Bleh! Velcome to another blood-chilling entry in 50 Shades of Grayscale! This week, we tackle an entry in a much better known property: Castlevania! Now I don't have a lot of experience with the series outside of bits and pieces I've watched, but I'd guess it's not a wild take to say that this one might be the worst! Or at least a heavy contender. Either way, with perseverance and a bit of our own hand-crafted lore, we made it through with out necks in-tact. Not much else to say, but here's a deleted scene from Dracula's castle! We...we spent a lot of time there. https://twitter.com/thatgalinthehat/status/1440505286444269581
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This is The Dinkster, live at the Philadelphia Philharmonic Hall. We're at intermission and have been graced with an interview with Mr. Pavarotti.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEKi7Cte0a0 Another uncut coming at ya, this time featuring the full deep dive into the history of the Great Khans, and their mysterious baby entry. Also Bill and Ted I guess. FeyerbrandX posted:This is The Dinkster, live at the Philadelphia Philharmonic Hall. We're at intermission and have been graced with an interview with Mr. Pavarotti. 
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Kid Dracula https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQYBfBQFgZ8 Bleh! Again! It's time for another episode, this time featuring the only properly localized entry int he Kid Dracula series! While the Famicom title never made it to the states, it's pseudo sequel came in virtually unchanged, which meant the localizers just kinda had to wing it. Especially the writers for the manual! In true Halloween spirit, they made every effort to reference their share of b-movie horror titles, and then probably threw away all game materials they needed as reference and called it a day. It was the 90s, baby!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1y7oDa95w8 Another totally EXCELLENT uncut with our good buddy Rinchinbal.
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Gargoyle's Quest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnTBIUULzrs Hello boys, ghouls, and non-BOO-nary fools! It's time for another entry in the spooky block! And what could be spookier than demons, devils, and localization choices meant to prevent christian outrage?? I, for one, am very happy to have this game on the list. Not only because it's good and has kickass graphics, and a very fun manual, but I discovered only later that it's another series progenitor! Nothing pleases my Game Boy propaganda spewing heart more than a bit of gaming history starting on my favorite lil console. Speaking of the graphics, the detailed sprite work was a genuine selling point for the series, and well deserved. A lot of little tricks are put in place to make the experience incredibly readable, even on tiny screens. It's like Capcom knew how to make games or something! Anyways please enjoy some hokey advertising and cute official artwork, featuring our boy Firebrand in his proper colors.  
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Great fuckin game. Shout out to my friend Dillon whose copy I borrowed and never gave back  E: And yeah, if you tell Darkoan that you'll save the kingdom when you speak to him, he upgrades your jump and wing power. Kind of important to have for the back half of the game! C-Euro fucked around with this message at 20:43 on Oct 13, 2021 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMPqcBjAygg Another uncut, featuring the full, ice cold experience of THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER. Please enjoy things like: repeating levels, talking about Worf, and repeating levels! C-Euro posted:Shout out to my friend Dillon whose copy I borrowed and never gave back This one goes out to all the games we stole from our friends. My rap sheet includes: Viewtiful Joe, Sonic 2006, and Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance.
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Kirby Super Star from my cousin, and a swap of my brother's Mega Man Zero 3 cart for my friend's Mega Man Zero 2 cart. I never bothered to play 2 and then I randomly had a chance to swap back with the same guy five or six years ago, but was too lazy to follow through on 
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Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6J3-ErAY2s It's time to finally wrap up the spooky block proper with a game full of beasts and terrors! Also a little angel boy. That's right, it's the sequel to Kid Icarus. It's still very strange to me that this never got a full Japanese release. There's probably some potential sales reason, but for a first party Nintendo title it's still pretty baffling. Then again, they also just shelved the series proper until 2012. Who knows what they're thinking over there? Snake Count: 24
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Somehow I completely missed that this game existed, I thought the series just jumped from an old NES property to the 3DS.
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Never actually played this series. It’s only thanks to Captain N the Game Master that I know who Kid Icarus is.
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Action Shakespeare posted:When I was a child, I used to pour through a guidebook of several Game Boy titles, full of mostly correct information and tips for beating these titles. I, of course, owned maybe three of the titles that had guides written for them, but for some reason I drank in as much as I could. I definitely read through quite a few strategy guides for games I didn't own growing up- I don't know why, I had other stuff to read, I just did. I know I had a Banjo-Kazooie one I read maybe three times, but I've never played it, and by this point I've pretty much forgotten everything that I had learned from it.  Captain DIEgiene posted:
I knew this one existed, and it happens to be the only one of the three I've actually played. Young me was... not good at it though I did get decently far in. I really ought to try my hand at it again now that I have a reasonable attention span.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sZRdX6i3mQ Another uncut edition coming at you! Wild, untamed, just like the time of the dinosaurs. Will you survive?
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Hammerin' Harry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8GIJtQzFO8 Surprise! Despite it being over, the SPOOKY BLOCK LIVES ON with Hammerin' Harry! I have no loving clue why they decided he has to fight ghosts, but it does make for some pretty sick imagery. The perspective change boss is one of my all time favorites so far, even if getting to it could be an ordeal.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98zFoNT2j1k Back at it again in New Donk City! Another uncut entry to reveal just how little I had to actually edit out!
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Bonk's Adventure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7wl3PV3gIo Oogabalooga! It's time for everyone's favorite moderately deformed child: Bonk! I actually find Bonk, as a character and a concept, incredibly charming. He truly has the qualities of something that started as an inside joke and became progressively more real every time he came up. The game itself was nothing insane, really. Probably among the easiest we've ever played, but given it's predecessor that is far from a bad thing. Wish it had more snakes, though.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkEP4cD25NY Session 2 of the Donkey Kong uncut streams is up! Thrill as we amass extra lives only to lose 80% of them on two levels!!
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Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owEW9HTxQRU Grab your kunai and ready your turbo buttons because it's time for the 38th game in the lineup! Goemon is another series that I have yet to properly dig into, but I'd definitely like to! Even amidst the laborious issues with this title, the charm of the characters shines through, and some day I'd love to at least check out that famous n64 title. Speaking of those issues, I have to wonder how possible those drat minigames truly are. Favorable reviews apparently existed at the time of this game's release, but I can't help but wonder if they just had some passwords or game genie'd it to progress. A mystery lost to the ancient Edo period! All I can offer now, is this awful awful magazine ad:  wanted: rock hard arse
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Action Shakespeare posted:
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Caught up after falling behind. Had no idea there was a Kid Icarus game on game boy. That was pretty cool.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAeC-8ULMc8 If you liked Avenging Spirit, but thought it'd be cooler if you watched me die a little more, then this is for you! Angry_Ed posted:The 90s were weird. I think what continues to get me is they call him a Samurai type. In the game with a localized title reminding you that he is, in fact, a ninja. A mystical one no less!
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Turok: Battle of the Bionosaurs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgriwbdluoA It's time to go back...TO THE PAST. Again? Wait. Maybe this is the future. All this time travel is confusing the hell out of me, but one thing is for certain: there will be a non-zero amount of dinosaurs being shot with guns in this one. There will also be reminders of our past with this series, as a surprising name emerges. I mean, we talk about it immediately, so you won't have to wait in suspense too long.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LmudAX3QZs Time for the beginning of the uncut archives of CASTLEVANIA: THE ADVENTURE. This is the light portion. The real meat will be next time.
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CV: The Adventure and CV: The Adventure II were some of the few classic Castlevanias I could beat on a regular basis. Really the only ones I could beat, given that I only managed to beat the original Castlevania once, and never any of the others.
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Donkey Kong Land https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMcm6-H3_pg Everyone's favorite apes are back...on the Game Boy! Still gotta reiterate that that is an actual plot point, and not just me pointing out the gimmick of the show. Donkey Kong Land is a lot of ambition packed into a tiny yellow cartridge, and I think for the most part it succeeded! There isn't much else to say about that, so I hope instead you enjoy our strange dive into the deep lore of Ronald McDonald, and also a truly awful statue of a minion. Snake Count: 25
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSBOcKvgltA Behold! The real meat and potatoes of the pain that is Castlevania: The Adventure. Perhaps the first game that I trimmed down into three superspeed segments? Well now you know why.
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Showcase #4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgK2dvMM8qE That's right folks we passed another milestone so it's time for another showcase! This one is focused on ports and adaptations of titles most folks might be familiar with. Some of these definitely could have been entries on their own, but space on the schedule, difficulty, or just plain bad quality has relegated them here. I still felt they were worth mentioning though! Maybe some day, down the road, I can beat one. And then I'll have 49 to go from there! What a concept.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3qmExhpPGs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtEB5kluuwc I knew I forgot to do something today, and that's post a double dose of uncut drac! Wow that sounded WAY better in my head. Sorry I'm just...gonna go...
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Action Shakespeare posted:Donkey Kong Land It's been a bit since I've caught up, but man, this was one of the games I played forever. I was weirdly obsessed with DKC to the point of making scrapbook pages of screenshots and pictures from ads, and since I only had a gameboy myself, and this coming out was just the best thing ever. The art style is kind of incredible for gameboy, it does a surprisingly good recreation of the SNES graphics for Gameboy, but at the expense of having a playable view. The second game did a much better version, with sparser background graphics that got the general idea across but were much easier to deal with. I'll be curious to see how this plays out nowadays. My weird DKL anecdote is that I was so into the game, I beat the official shortest 100% time published in a Nintendo Power fan contest, but since I didn't have a subscription I just randomly sent them a photo of my gameboy showing the completion time and obviously never heard anything back. So, somewhere in my apartment I have a second print of a photo showing I'm the awesome but pointless winner of a vague mid-1990s speedrun contest 
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Fortified Zone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyZQEXqqLpE Hey kids! Do you like some levels of Contra? Do you like Metal Gear? Do you dislike plot? Well then I have the game for you!! Avenging Spirit's developers, Jaleco, have a short and sweet top down shooter for us, with a fun duo mechanic. Also a built in mix tape function?? Eat your heart out, Smash Bros! Captain Hygiene posted:My weird DKL anecdote is that I was so into the game, I beat the official shortest 100% time published in a Nintendo Power fan contest, but since I didn't have a subscription I just randomly sent them a photo of my gameboy showing the completion time and obviously never heard anything back. So, somewhere in my apartment I have a second print of a photo showing I'm the awesome but pointless winner of a vague mid-1990s speedrun contest Please show that off if you can find it.
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Action Shakespeare posted:
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Action Shakespeare posted:Fortified Zone I loved Fortified Zone. Took me quite a few road trips to finally beat. Unfortunately you didn't find the super useful trick of switching to the dead character next to a medkit (so their sprite touches it) or while possessing an extra medkit (I think). It revives them. Then again you didn't seem to get into a situation where you lost one character without losing the other soon after.
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Angry_Ed posted:I loved Fortified Zone. Took me quite a few road trips to finally beat. Unfortunately you didn't find the super useful trick of switching to the dead character next to a medkit (so their sprite touches it) or while possessing an extra medkit (I think). It revives them. Then again you didn't seem to get into a situation where you lost one character without losing the other soon after. God I'm sure in some of the numerous edited out runs that this advice would have helped severely but alas, here we are, penniless with Oprah standing over us as always.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK5BOQV2W2U Another uncut entry, in which we beat a witch and robot...eventually! God it took a while, didn't it?
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Catrap https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUnfUMguMsA Is everyone ready for MORE PUZZLES? Of course you are! We're back at it in the catgirl dungeons to bring you the underrated classic CATRAP. I was delighted to dig in and find the surprising amount of history attached to this game. Hardcore Gaming 101 has a great article on its general history and creator, including a download link to the original magazine article featuring the source code of its first incarnation! The link still works last I checked, but in case something gets lost down the line I can at least put it up on imgur. If you know enough japanese and feel like manually inputting the code yourself, please post your results!  Finally, HG101 also conducted an interview with the developer himself, presenting him the original magazine as well as discussing his other work for Namco. It's a lovely watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdDe0ENDz9w
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Action Shakespeare posted:Catrap Catrap is an absolute wonder. Where I usually find a lot of my obscure games from HG101, I managed to find this one on my own one day. I've always had a soft spot for these little puzzle games you'd find like Clu Clu land and Little Magic, though I must admit I've never been very good at them. I'm better with more "open" puzzles I guess.
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Action Shakespeare posted:Catrap One of those games that I've literally never heard of, I have no idea how I would've processed the idea of catboys and catgirls if I'd found it back in the day. It actually looks decent so far, my mind is kinda blown by the idea of a rewind feature way back on the Gameboy  As an aside, I haven't managed to find the Donkey Kong Land speedrun photo I mentioned earlier, so I guess I can't prove I was one of the coolest 90s kids after all
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