Good Nintentions #014: Stack-Up (Patreon)

Hello! Welcome to May. And thanks as always for another month of support for these mad projects of mine.

The latest fruit of my labor has arrived to kick off the new calendar page, in fact: A look at Stack-Up for NES. The second R.O.B. game, this one is even more poorly understood than Gyromite since it didn't come packed in with consoles and vanished from circulation pretty quickly. A complete copy of the game will currently run you about $400-500. The good news is that you don't need to pay a lot of money to learn how Stack-Up worked, because this video exists. That's really good news, in fact, because Stack-Up was actually pretty terrible and definitely is not worth $500.

So, thank you for supporting this public service.

The keen-eyed among you may notice that R.O.B.'s Stack-Up platforms and hand attachments don't look quite right in my videos and photos. That's because I cheated and used the much, much less expensive Japanese accessories (I think a new, sealed Robot Block Set cost me all of $40 — that wouldn't even buy the colored blocks for the American version). So I suppose authenticity takes a hit here. Alas, I am but one man, and one who pays out of pocket for his own insurance at that.

Anyway, enjoy the video! Other items of note:

For those of you who pledge at the PDF level, don't forget to grab your digital copy of Game Boy World 1990 Vol. 1 that went up yesterday.

For those of you who pledge at the book levels and have given me your shipping info, your Game Boy World print editions have been ordered and should be in your hands by the middle of next week at the latest (except a few international folks whose shipments will take a little longer). Hoorah! I'll set the book live on Amazon sometime in the next few days for general purchase.