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NES Works Gaiden #24: Summer Games & Desert Falcon [7800] (Patreon)

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2021-05-26 12:00:00

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2024-04

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Another two-cylinder episode for 7800 this week, and another with the "reading ransom demands on public access TV circa 1989" hosting video quality. It'll get better next episode, I promise.

This channel finally gets to Epyx's Summer Games (having already looked at California Games and Winter Games twice now), but the real prize here is Desert Falcon: The first-ever game designed specifically for 7800. And... one that shipped about four years later than intended. It probably would have been a lot more notable in ’84, but, well, that's market implosions for you. It's still neat, if dated.

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Summer & Games & Desert Falcon retrospective: Struggling for the bronze | NES Works Gaiden #024

The other two mid-’88 releases for Atari 7800 consist of yet another computer port and—wow!—the console's first original creation. Although this original creation ended up being ported to several other Atari systems, which rather undermines its exclusive appeal. Still, it's good to see a game on 7800 that hadn't already shown up in arcades and on computers four or five years earlier, you know? 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!