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NES Works Gaiden #30: Antarctic Adventure / Yie Ar Kung-Fu / Ninja-Kun (Patreon)

Published:

2021-12-01 12:58:57

Imported:

2024-04

Tags:

Jaleco famicom konami nes nes works gaiden tose

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I guess Yie Ar Kung Fu is the bridge game this episode: Like Antarctic Adventure, it comes to us courtesy of the Famicom freshmen at Konami, and like Ninja-Kun, it involves martial arts. Also, its middling quality sits squarely between that of the former game's (quite good!) and the latter's (quite awful!). I guess that's not a very compelling episode pitch, though: "The longer you watch, the worse the games get." Well. Please enjoy this episode's progressive journey away from God's light, then.

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Antarctic Adventure / Yie Ar Kung Fu / Ninja-Kun retrospective: Icecapades | NES Works Gaiden #30

An 8-bit heavy hitter makes its Famicom debut, right around the same time as they first dipped a toe into the SG-1000 market: Konami, eventual creators of Castlevania and Contra, here still a mere stripling of a home games developer. As on Sega's platform, Konami made its debut in Nintendo-land with two games, though I would say both turned out far better than their SG-1000 counterparts. I mean, nobody's going to fall in love with Yie Ar Kung-Fu here in 2021, but Antarctic Adventure (or Kekkyoku Nankyoku Daibouken, if you want to be formal about it) is a good time for all. Less so the third entry in this episode, Jaleco and TOSE's dire rendition of UPL's Ninja-kun. 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! Plus, exclusive podcasts, eBooks, and more! Production notes: - NES and Famicom footage in this episode was captured from @Analogue Nt / Nt Mini / Nt Mini Noir via RGB out. - SG-1000 footage captured from Analogue Sg with cart adapter and SG-1000 II (RGB mod by @iFixRetro) - Game Boy footage captured from Super Game Boy 2 / Super NES model 2 via JP21 SCART cable. - Standard definition video upscaled to 720 with xRGB Mini Framemeister and @Retro Tink 5X.