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NES Works Gaiden #022: Famicom ’84 finale (Patreon)

Published:

2021-05-05 13:00:00

Imported:

2024-04

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And that's it for 1984... mostly. (I still need to tackle the Othello Multivision.) Pretty strong close to the year, and man is there a LOT of ground to cover in 1985! I'm going to take a break from this chronology for a while, though, to focus on some other things... I could definitely go for making some videos that aren't 20-minute surveys of three or four games at once.

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Mappy /Urban Champion/Clu Clu Land/Excitebike retrospective: Never sleep | NES Works Gaiden #22

1984 comes to an end for the Famicom with a trio of releases that American fans will recognize from the Black Box launch era of the NES. Arriving singly in 1984 rather than en masse a year or two later amidst dozens of other games with a similar visual vibe, benighted NES releases Urban Champion and Clu Clu Land stand up a bit better here. (Excitebike, of course, rules no matter what the context.) Also this episode, Namco's Mappy brings the company's most uninspired mascot of the early ’80s to Famicom in another respectable home adaptation that flatters the Famicom hardware when held up against contemporary conversions. And that's it for Nintendo and Sega's ’84 offerings! When NES Works Gaiden resumes later this year, we'll be in the heady days of 1985. Video Works is funded via Patreon (http://www.patreon.com/gamespite) — support the show and get access to every episode up to two weeks in advance of its YouTube debut! And be sure to check out the Retronauts podcast (http://www.retronauts.com), where I (and many others!) tackle a much wider array of classic gaming topics each week.