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  NEXT STREAM PLANNED FOR: Jan 11th, 12:00PM PSThttps://www.twitch.tv/kaubocks I absolutely adore retro games. I fully understand and in most cases agree that modern games are just better; we've learned a lot about making games over the years and we're capable of so much more! But there's something about retro games gives me the warm fuzzies that I just can't deny. When I think about retro games, it's always Nintendo; never Sega, never Sony. I'm a Nintendo boy through and through. It can't be helped. The first games I remember playing were on the family NES, I would run home from school to play Super Mario World on our new SNES, and when we finally bought an N64 they let me set it up in my room! My bedroom!! I sneaked my Game Boy and Game Boy Color to school to trade Pokémon in the schoolyard, and the Game Boy Advance was the first video game platform I bought solely with my own money. I didn't own a lot of games, though, and my parents were none too happy about how badly I wanted to play them all the time. I wasn't allowed to play games on weekdays due to school, but I was allowed to read about them. Through my early teens I had a decent chunk of Nintendo Power magazines that I'd read cover to cover; looking at the video games that I couldn't afford and wouldn't be able to play most of the time even if I could. It's easy to say they were glorified advertisements for their own system-- of course they were! But they were still so much fun for me to read, and I'm dying to revisit them. Nintendo Power Quest is a series of streams where I'll be picking an issue of Nintendo Power, reading it, and playing any game that piques our interest. Maybe it's something I looked at as a kid and wanted to play but never could! Maybe it's an old favorite that we'd all love to talk about! Maybe it's just something we thought looked hilarious! For whatever the reason, these videos will be chill background reading with smooth video game jams interspersed with fun looks at retro games. Due to the length of the streams and how much work they can be, I'm aiming to stream at least every other Saturday with the archive uploaded to my YouTube channel by the next day. If I decide I can do another stream earlier than that, I will update the thread as soon as possible. As with my other stream-related videos, all YouTube uploads will be included with the Twitch chat available as Closed Captioning so you have the choice of turning it on or off. I'm hoping to use this thread as a springboard for any discussion that couldn't be had in a chat format. Did you see a game that you know has a cool LP available for it? Link it! Did we read about a game that you loved as a kid? Tell us about it! Let's cozy up on the couch and read about games~   Episode #1: Vol 143 Episode #2: Vol 150 Episode #3: Vol 114 Episode #4: Vol 92 Episode #5: Vol 11 Episode #6: Vol 60 Episode #7: Vol 20 Episode #8: Vol 64 Episode #9: Vol 108 Episode #10: Vol 23 Episode #11: Vol 41 Episode #12: Vol 77 Episode #13: Vol 69 Episode #14: Vol 73 Episode #15: Vol 47 Episode #16: Vol 50 Episode #17: Vol 85 Episode #18: Vol 98 Episode #19: Vol 31 Episode #20: Vol 66 Episode #21: Vol 111
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I've got two updates ready to go for this new thread! Episode #1: Vol 143 Points of discussion: - most sentimental gaming moment - Lufia II and the Tower of Death - Razor Freestyle Scooter's extreme menus - Googling images of Darunia - Pokemon Stadium 2's incredible quizzes - the launch of the Game Boy Advance - Chu Chu Rocket and its questionable icons - Iridion 3D, space janitor - Aidyn Chronicles versus Final Fantasy VII - Magi Nation's iconic Tony Jones - How Project M hosed me up (not THAT Project M) - Toki Tori waddles into adventure - Scott's terrible opinions - Toy Story Racer brings 3D to the Game Boy Color Episode #2: Vol 150Points of discussion: - women in gaming - Seattle's cubistic humans - Charlton Heston controls like an arthritic hippo - cracking coconuts with Donkey Kong - the funky beats of Luigi's Mansion - 150th issue celebration - Bob Burnquist's longest benihana ever - Rogue Squadron II nails the aesthetic - Tekken Advance brings 3D fighting to the GBA - move over, Tony Hawk, it's more Razor Freestyle Scooter - the fastest version of Doom - the best 2001 GBA game for 12 year olds - does Wario Land 4 hold up? Kaubocks fucked around with this message at 05:19 on Feb 16, 2019 |
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Feb 16, 2019 05:17
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Seems a bit redundant to triple post, but I want to get in the habit of posting here to announce when a stream is coming up. I currently plan to stream a new episode of Nintendo Power Quest tomorrow (Saturday the 16th) at 12:00PM PST! https://www.twitch.tv/kaubocks All planned future streams will be kept up to date at the top of the OP, so check there to remain informed.
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Feb 16, 2019 06:48
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hey guys i like when kaubocks does these and if you complain enough in the chat he'll play battletoads
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Feb 16, 2019 08:13
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So...your first issue was #143. Seems a bit of a late-start, but I don't remember exactly when they stopped printing. Are you only going up from there, or will you be bouncing back to earlier issues too? I've got lots of memories from all the issues I had. I always loved their detailed looks at games, mapping out entire levels, pinpointing powerups and bonuses.... Without them delivering me a big, centerfold map for Metroid 2 I'd probably have forever been lost in that. I'd probably die of nostalgia if you covered any issues I actually own.
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Feb 16, 2019 11:49
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Good question! I started with issue 143 because, near as I could pin down, it was the first issue I can remember owning. It was also the issue concerning the launch of the GBA which is one of my favorite Nintendo systems — within the last year I’ve bought an original model GBA modded to have a backlight and have been collecting physical games again. For a pilot stream where I wasn’t sure how it would all work of if I’d continue the series, I wanted to make sure I’d at least cover the issue that mattered most to me personally. I wasn’t interested in doing a pure chronological series though, so rather than tackle 144 next I jumped to 150 for the second stream. It seemed fitting because, like 143 it covered the launch of a new platform while still being part of the 20-30 span of issues I owned as a teen. Now that I’ve got a couple streams under my belt and I’m feeling more confident about how the whole thing goes, I definitely plan to hop around and especially to earlier issues. I’m dying to see even older ones covering SNES and even NES games. Also the first 100~ or so issues are more readily archived on the internet than the rest, honestly. Just trying to find issues around the 150 range was a bit of a challenge. Nintendo Power has, I believe, 285 issues total so that puts my starting point pretty firmly in the middle of its lifespan. I’d love to see some of the later issues as well! But for the time being this will definitely be a very 1990s-heavy series. The issue I’ll be covering next is 114 by request of a friend — the issue coinciding with the release of Ocarina of Time! After that I would not be surprised to see myself jumping back even further to a random double-digit issue. 
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Feb 16, 2019 13:26
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Episode 2 is unavailable on youtube because copyright on some music. You might want to switch the link to the Twitch VOD.
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Feb 18, 2019 03:16
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New episode available! This time we looked at issue 114 -- the issue released around the launch of Ocarina of Time and the Game Boy Color! Episode #3: Vol 114 Points of discussion: - the rough customers of James Bond 007 - Ocarina of Time's missing heart piece - Rogue Squadron predating Mass Effect's codex - the only good part of Buck Bumble - Mission: Impossible's humongous head mode - discovering new profanity in Twisted Edge - Rockstar North's finest game - love the glove - the launch of the Game Boy Color - we can't avoid Superman 64 forever - creating phat beatz in Game Boy Camera's DJ Mode - the selling points of the N64 Expansion Pak Faylone posted:Episode 2 is unavailable on youtube because copyright on some music. You might want to switch the link to the Twitch VOD. yeahhhhhh it got blocked last night and it made me so mad i had to immediately go to sleep lmao. filed a dispute but the complainer doesn't have any obligation to lift a finger for a loving month so it's just gonna be blocked for a while i guess?? updating the links to it in the meanwhile
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Feb 18, 2019 03:44
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God I have so many old Nintendo Power issues at my parents' house, this is a cool idea for a thread.
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Feb 18, 2019 04:35
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This is giving a real nostalgia trip. I lost all my NINTENDO POWER magazines in a house fire so it's nice to relive my childhood for a bit.
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Feb 18, 2019 06:48
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I wonder if the whole banker's box of Nintendo Power magazine (pieces) is still in our garage or attic. Maybe my parents just tossed the drat things decades ago. For what it's worth, my first issue was issue 21. Covered Star Tropics (*still* the only Wii game my dad ever played, and still his favorite video game), Magician (which would be one of my favorite NES games if it weren't for the $%#& difficulty), and the NES port of Ultima IV if I recall.
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Feb 19, 2019 07:37
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It's been a couple weeks, so as a reminder to those of you who have this thread bookmarked I will be streaming a new episode tomorrow at 12PM PST! If you wish to catch it live, you can do so on my Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/kaubocks Suggested by a friend, we'll keep going back earlier in the Nintendo Power lifespan and check out volume 92, covering Shadows of the Empire, Mario Kart 64, Donkey Kong Country 3, and more!
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Bursts into thread. HEY, did someone say Shadows of the Empire?!?! I got here as soon as I could! (This is super rad--I've never actually seen the SOTE issue of NP, so this'll be cool to see).
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Mar 1, 2019 20:55
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Kaubocks posted:Suggested by a friend, we'll keep going back earlier in the Nintendo Power lifespan and check out volume 92, covering Shadows of the Empire, Mario Kart 64, Donkey Kong Country 3, and more! This friend sounds very cool and has good taste. Looking forward to this one. 92 is the second issue I ever got with an actual subscription so the nostalgia runs deep.
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Mar 1, 2019 22:26
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kaubocks play all of shadows of the empire
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Mar 1, 2019 22:28
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Bogart posted:kaubocks play all of shadows of the empire dash rendar
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Mar 1, 2019 22:29
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i like that the Nintendo Power cover uses the CGI cutscene Dash that never once appears in the N64 version of the game. That's PC Dash only!!
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Bogart posted:kaubocks play all of shadows of the empire some yes all no Blind Sally posted:i like that the Nintendo Power cover uses the CGI cutscene Dash that never once appears in the N64 version of the game. That's PC Dash only!! We've seen this kind of thing crop up a couple times in the issues we've looked at so far, weirdly, but only in advertisements. There was one Power Rangers game ad that used screenshots of a 3D game, but the only Nintendo platform is was coming to was Game Boy Color/Advance. There was also an ad for a racing game that was on N64 but the ad featured a PlayStation controller! What the hell! I hope someone got fired for that. 
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Hm. I remember a Shadows of the Empire issue that had four variants-- please don't ask me why and how I remember this, but it was 40% Stormtrooper, 25% Dash Rendar, 25% Boba Fett, and 10% IG-88. I got a Stormtrooper cover. =/
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huh, neat, i didn't know that was a thing. found'em, for comparison:  Kaubocks posted:some yes all no which level is being skipped, Gall Spaceport or the Imperial Sewers?
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Well, Gall Spaceport was just a slog, the only benefit of Yes, even Super Mario 64. If anything, I'd say they should skip Xizor's Palace and just get right to the Skyhook Battle.
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The new episode is up on YouTube! Sorry I couldn't look at Shadows of the Empire as much as I'd have liked to-- I wasn't going to make people watch me fail at Hoth over and over. Episode #4: Vol 92 Points of discussion: - people care a LOT about manila envelopes - what does it take to be a game tester? - Dash Rendar, the true hero behind the scenes - hot new upcoming N64 titles - 64DD will create INFINITE RPGs - Dual Heroes' Gun's funky jams - Dash Rendar blends so seamlessly into the Star Wars universe you can't even see him - infinite Whizz - the best shortcut in Mario Kart 64 - Cruisin' (across) USA in a school bus - why Donkey Kong Country 3 is my least favorite Donkey Kong - reviewing games from a decade ago - tiny Q*bert Kaubocks fucked around with this message at 00:40 on Mar 4, 2019 |
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Mar 4, 2019 00:33
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--next time clay fighter
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I feel lucky, not to mention old; I got in on the ground floor. The first issue had SMB 2 on the cover, and a fold-out map of Legend of Zelda's second Quest with all the hidden stuff marked. Also a full (but very small) map of the two main areas of Metroid. Also some small blurb about this little game coming out in Japan called "Dragon Quest III" or some poo poo like that, it had these weird-looking cartoon characters in it and was probably no big deal. I wish I had kept my old video game propaganda magazines sometimes.
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It's been another couple weeks, so as a reminder I will be streaming a new episode tomorrow at 11AM PDT! This is starting an hour earlier than usual due to obligations I need to take care of later in the day. Sorry! If you wish to catch it live, you can do so on my Twitch channel linked in the OP. I'm really itching to dig deep into the archives and look at a really old issue, so tomorrow we'll be looking at Volume 11 which covers Super Mario Bros. 3, Final Fantasy, A Boy and His Blob, and more! Kaubocks fucked around with this message at 22:44 on Mar 17, 2019 |
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Mar 15, 2019 22:58
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That’s not the Clay Fighter issue.
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The new episode is up on YouTube! Come check out my death-defying stunts, such as "dumping a half full glass of ice water on my desk/me" and "trying to wrangle chat into doing a CYOA". Episode #5: Vol 11 Points of discussion: - the Video Warlords are the most hardcore gamers known to man - the best world of Super Mario Bros 3 - reporting from the 1990 CES - 3D and isometric are basically the same thing, right? - Pinbot is going to hurtle you into the sun - throwing jellybeans on the ground in A Boy and His Blob - 4 butts travel the lands in Final Fantasy - Dragon Warrior's choose-your-own-adventure - Kaubocks VS Mr Dream - take your best shot at the NES Power Trivia Quiz! - Sara Gilbert's NES review - Tim Follin is a chiptune god
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Been listening to this at work after watching the first stream and totally forgetting about it. Got to say, that fan letter in the latest one about designing entire cool games in a notebook is too real. I've got notebooks packed with stuff like that.
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It's time for that "it's been another couple weeks" reminder post! I will be streaming a new episode tomorrow at 12PM PDT. If you wish to catch it live, you can do so on my Twitch channel linked in the OP. At the end of the last episode I had a random hankering to look at whatever issue had Super Metroid on the cover, so lo and behold I found it-- we'll be looking at Vol 60! Kaubocks fucked around with this message at 19:55 on Mar 31, 2019 |
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Mar 30, 2019 02:33
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The new episode is up on YouTube! The issue starts with Super Metroid but thankfully once that game that nobody cares about is out of the way we get to look at REAL video games like Spectre, Tetris 2 (the sequel to Tetris), and reading every known piece of information about Future Zone. Episode #6: Vol 60 Points of discussion: - Nintendo fans are milk cap crazy - the oppressive tone of Super Metroid - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7u9hP4r1S8 - the virtual battlefield of Spectre - who is the editor who gave up on Knights of the Round - opening a game with hot ant mating rituals - combining the SNES and Game Boy, it's the Super Game Boy! - breaking every known rule about Tetris in Tetris 2 - a brief glimpse into Project Reality - the only known information about Future Zone - the warlord Raptor rules Neo New York in X-Kaliber 2097
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Mar 31, 2019 19:55
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Kaubocks posted:The new episode is up on YouTube! The issue starts with Super Metroid but thankfully once that game that nobody cares about is out of the way we get to look at REAL video games like Spectre, Tetris 2 (the sequel to Tetris), and reading every known piece of information about Future Zone. Can you put the challenges in the thread? it might make it easier for us to actually remember them.
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oh lol i just hype those up as a joke without actually expecting to get anyone trying them, but if anyone is actually interested in a reason to try to get a high score in mr nutz or something i can start posting challenges alongside the videos
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Kaubocks posted:oh lol i just hype those up as a joke without actually expecting to get anyone trying them, but if anyone is actually interested in a reason to try to get a high score in mr nutz or something i can start posting challenges alongside the videos It's mostly that i finally got my retropie setup and need an excuse to play old games i haven't played before.
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I will become the master of Mr Nutz
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I think the "bonus" issues were the January ones. I rememeber one which had a bunch of controller decals, and the Mega Man X silver covered one (these may be one and the same)
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Put that nostalgia right into my veins. I eventually pleaded my way into a subscription that I think ran from volume 44 to 67 or 68? Around that time the great whore Internet claimed my soul through the conduit of the PC and we gave the SNES and the stack of Nintendo Power mags to my younger cousins shortly after. Collection of covers The early ones where they rigged up models (clay or otherwise) are really cool. #20 seems to be a real  outlier though.
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Nah, that's just sticking with the Megaman box art marketing strategy in the USA.
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Fabulousity posted:#20 seems to be a real
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Here's that "new stream tomorrow" reminder post! I will be streaming tomorrow at 12PM PDT. If you wish to catch it live, you can do so on my Twitch channel linked in the OP. Last episode I said I wanted to do something with Mega Man on the cover and this thread has graciously delivered. Tomorrow we'll be looking at Vol 20-- covering Mega Man 3, The Immortal, the extremely bad version of Dragon's Lair, and more! Kaubocks fucked around with this message at 21:33 on Apr 14, 2019 |
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The new episode is live! Lots of really cool stuff in this one, in my opinion; most notably coming across a couple games unknown to me I'd love to revisit in my own time (Dragon Spirit, Daedalian Opus), getting an excuse to play Mega Man 3 again, and more information about games that never actually came out. Episode #7: Vol 20 Points of discussion: - Steve Wozniak's Tetris high scores - 20 whole pages of Mega Man 3 - more technical information than you'd ever want to know about game paks - revisiting the first Let's Play ever made - debugging our way through Dragon Spirit - deciphering scribbles left behind on Gremlins 2: The New Batch - the worst version of Dragon's Lair - Daedalian Opus is a surprisingly quaint puzzle game - having hooks for hands in Werewolf - scouring for information about the New Kids on the Block
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