It's Game Boy World Episode 43, yo. (Patreon)

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2015-08-17 11:41:27

Imported:

2024-04

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Man, yesterday was pretty much the worst day I can remember. BUT I did channel all of my waiting and anxiety and frustration into productivity by taking my mind off things through the magic of video editing. So that's something. Thus: Enjoy a video about another Taito arcade classic that gained some slight notability through the circumstances of its Game Boy conversion. It's like the less cool version of Space Invaders.

Note: Beware the brief presence of naked cartoon boobies in this one. And don't even get started on how the title is supposed to be pronounced. I cross-referenced against the Japanese version to confirm, so I'm gonna go with Taito's official phonetic spelling if it's all the same....

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Game Boy World #043: Qix [Taito/Minakuchi Engineering/Nintendo, 1990]

It's another arcade classic on Game Boy, sure enough. But for some reason, Nintendo decided to take this one under its wing and produce it as a first-party title. Why? Who knows! But the upside is (1) this is a great conversion on Qix; (2) it has a customs Super Game Boy palette; and (3) it has these weird endings with Mario in ethnic costumes.