Good Nintentions Episode #004 (Patreon)

Published:

2016-01-11 17:00:02

Imported:

2024-04

Content

Alright! At least something has gone right lately: I managed to put together the fourth episode of Good Nintentions. As usual, the length of the episode may seem incongruous in light of the simplicity of the game, but there's a lot of broader history going on here. And as usual, that meant this episode was quite complex and took a long time to assemble. But I think the effort paid off, because I sincerely feel this is a top-class retrospective... despite my unusually clumsy narration. No idea what was up with that. Hopefully you'll be able to enjoy it regardless?

Also, I will be adjusting Patreon tiers by the end of the week. I still need to do some cost analyses on the books, but the levels should come in pretty close to where my post a while back predicted.

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Good Nintentions #004: Wild Gunman [Nintendo, 1985]

A look back at Nintendo's Wild Gunman, the first-ever NES light gun game, and a shooter whose simple design belies its remarkable heritage. Best known in the U.S. for its faked-up cameo in Back to the Future Part II, Wild Gunman was to Japanese fans at the time the latest entry in a line of product evolution that stretched back more than a decade.