NES Works Gaiden #28: Balloon Fight / Ice Climber / Exerion / Galaga / Bungeling Bay

Video Works by Jeremy Parish

1985 starts the Famicom on some familiar footing with a couple of future Black Box releases (one great, one meh); two shooters previously seen on SG-1000; and a Commodore 64 conversion from Hudson that would show up on NES under the aegis of its original publisher. No big surprises here (including the apparent Nintendo debut of TOSE, and the fact that the games previously seen on SG-1000 fare a lot better on Famicom), but that won't be the case for long. By the midpoint of 1985, the Famicom library will look wildly different from the NES's as more third parties (and, specifically, more third parties of wildly variable quality) stake their claim on NES.

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Production note: Footage in this episode was captured from an @Analogue Nt Mini via RGB out. Video upscaled to 720 with xRGB Mini Framemeister and @Retro Tink 5X.