Jeremy Parish

NES Works #098: Blades of Steel & Super Team Games (Patreon)

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2022-07-27 11:48:56

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2024-04

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Sports games, as you can surely tell just by looking at me, aren't really my thing. But I gave it my very best this episode regardless. It helps that neither Blades of Steel and Super Team Games require much of a mental commitment... though Super Team Games certainly requires a physical commitment. One that proves difficult to follow through on when your Power Pad mat keeps slipping around the floor. Wretched device.

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Blades of Steel & Super Team Games retrospective: Body checks | NES Works #098

In this episode, I learned that the Power Pad is not really designed for use on hardwood floors. Bring back that deep-pile ’70s shag, baby. My feet are killing me. Super Team Games gives us the last of Nintendo's casual-appeal titles for 1988. There's still one final Nintendo-published game for the year, but it's kind of the opposite of casual-appeal—really, the closest Nintendo themselves ever got to "git gud" difficulty on NES. But Super Team Games is meant for small people to pretend to exercise with, or for big people to be uncomfortably intimate with. As for the headline feature, Blades of Steel, it's an even more casual-appeal approach to hockey than Nintendo's Ice Hockey. You don't have to make any meaningful choices in this game besides deciding when to shoot for the goal... and how hard to hammer the punch button during player-versus-player fights. Production note: NES footage captured from @Analogue Nt Mini. Video upscaled to 720 with XRGB Mini Framemeister. 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!