Hello class, Professor Brigands here and welcome to the official home for Video Games 101!
Video Games 101 is your weekly infotainment series in which we offer equal parts entertainment driven walkthroughs/deep dives on your favorite classic video games.
Joined by my three teaching assistants, Gary (Boss Guru), Blaze (Item and Beastiary Guide), and Fluff (Game Fact Provider), we teach you both everything you need to know to beat the classics but also some very interesting things you might not have known about the games, as well.
And you might even laugh every once in awhile, as well.
Check out our weekly class (a new video walkthrough is uploaded every Tuesday at 3PM, Eastern Time) OR BETTER YET enroll in class and join us by subscribing to this channel.
We also feature 4K 60FPS playthroughs with no commentary alongside, fyi.
Also check out my main let's play YT channel which this channel is an offshoot of, Let's Play With Brigands (ru-vid.com).
The hieroglyphics actually translate into "Buy more Capcom Games" and you had to already purchase enough Capcom Games in order to get the decoder ring...
I dunno, pretty much being an international terrorist, dracula probably avoided banks so he didnt get his accounts frozen and sanctioned by the international order
We rented this game the week it came out. I got to world 8 and then our power was out. I remember not being very impressed with the game and didn't care to play it anymore once I'd lost progress. Decades later, I watch RU-vid channels where people just love this game and I was shocked (same thing happened with Faxanadu). I couldn't believe so many people adore this game. About 15 years ago, I decided to get my old NES collection back and started buying games here and there. I found Little Nemo and just shrugged my shoulders and bought it, along with others. I think it cost me $0.50. Now I have just barely over 70% of the NES library physical copy.
Thank you, yes I had to run this one many times to become familiar enough with it but following the walkthrough it's doable. Those trap floors are especially tricky so unless you've memorized those which is difficult to do, the pause trick works very well.
I seem to remember there's more than three quests, with different ending puzzles for each and items in different locations, but it has been a long long time since I finished 8 Eyes and I could be wrong. Taxan had a thing for multiple quests, which was something their then-PR person Ken Lobb (later of Nintendo, then Microsoft) pushed in their newsletter.
Yep, ever since The Legend of Zelda did it; it's a nice touch though and certainly a way to encourage replayability and add some value, though the subsequent "quests" here don't have the same attraction as TLoZ.
Yeah it's still crazy to me that a 6th entry to any game series could have come out in 1990, but I guess Mega Man 6's release date wasn't too far later.
Surprising that the 101s that didn't premier on LPWB are getting remakes too. I imagine there are improvements but hard to know what is differences are since the originals were so good that I don't know what there was to improve.
Fixing the aspect ratio is a big pet peeve of mine now heh, but yeah beyond that and small quality of life fixes I add anything that we missed the first time, including any comments the class has left, additional Fluff facts in some cases, etc.
There are other tie ins to Duck Tales, Gizmoduck appears in a two part episode of Darkwing Duck that parodies the Justice League from DC Comics, and two other standalone episodes. In one of those episodes Launchpad actually mentions that they had both worked with Mr. McDuck in the past, thus setting Darkwing Duck after the events of Duck Tales. This is one of the few games I beat back in the days before internet access. My personal strategy for Steel Beak was to go in with Heavy Gas, then when you get him to go to the floor just keep hitting him with the Heavy Gas every time he walked past and you never put yourself in danger on the ground level since the HG would fall to the ground, split in two, and then hit him in the back. Arrow Gas was the GOAT for it's utility however.
Nice alternative solution on the Steel Beak battle, yeah this one has a very satisfying level of challenge to it where you can knock it out with repeated plays, figuring out the ins and outs for each boss in particular.
The flaming turtles in Stage 3 may be a reference to Gamera, a popular Kaiju series. When in flight, Gamera withdraws into his shell and jet fire spews out of the holes, spinning like a top while doing so. How does he not vomit?😂
There was a glitch too inside the truck 5:19 If you use the binoculars while inside the truck you can see the enemies inside building 1 just press up down left right ( one at a time)
Yeah I have to credit the members of the class for requesting this one as I didn't have a lot of experience with it before I sat down with it (like the original movie), very pleasantly surprised.
I waited...and I waited, and I finally heard "thread the needle between these two clouds". Haha, as I've commented before, it's a thing I listen for now. But in all seriousness, another great video. Love the consistent output of quality content. No idea as to why you don't have a bazillion views on these videos. Cheers!
do you play on emulator or do you have all of these NES carts? i only ask because i been adding alot of carts to my collection lately. i got a mix of my carts from the 80s 👨🏼🦳 and some recent ebay/FB marketplace buys. just wondering how you acquire some of these nice carts. i got some from 'retro' shops near me also...but those usually dont work well (even after intense pin cleaning).
If I have the cartridge I try to do the hardware because it's genuinely more fun... heh unfortunately I've had some great runs on some tough games compromised when something shifts slightly and it locks up on me. I grew up in the 90's and my brother and I amassed a collection of about 150 games at the time, then in the early 2000's I started doing some hunting on my own at game stores, pawn shops, etc. so we've got about 300 or so, so maybe a little less than half of the entire NES (non Japan/Famicom exclusives) library. I haven't bought an NES cartridge in a few years now in part because what you mentioned in that you never know if they'll work these days when you buy one but mostly simply because I own pretty much all the games that I loved and wanted.
This game is one I grew up with and one of my favorite cartridges! This was actually developed by another Japanese company called NOW Productions and only published by Hudsonsoft. Also the case with the second and third adventure island games and Dragon Spirit, published by Bandai. NOW Productions produced these and several famicom titles and some were published in the west by other studios. Some sound effects were cross-purposed in both Dragon Spirit and this game. The soundtracks kinda sound like they were worked on by the same folks as well.
What can be said that hasn't already been said? This game is as close to whatever could make a video game flawless as a game could be. There aren't a lot of games that can claim to have spawned a whole genre, either. This is probably what it feels like to drive a new Jaguar.
That devil up above the big man, skeleton and devil always aggros when I'm killing the big man, any tips how to avoid him? Seems like a glitch that happens after killing the first big man and the skeleton goes nuts. (Loop 2 level 6, refuse to reset)
That's pretty awful, I can't say I've had that glitch there but you can expect about anything in this game. I guess backtracking doesn't do anything to de-scroll them when you come back?
Not sure why the professor was surprised Fluff found that clip, it's literally his job to seek out facts, hell, Fluff probably knows stuff about me that i don't even know about.
I'm also a huge Jackie Chan fan , I had a dream where I talked to him on a movie set before he was going to do a dangerous boat stunt. I asked if he was afraid of being paralyzed and he said " If I break my neck and become paralyzed my next movie is going to be very boring"
Had hard time beating this game back in the Wii days. Felt good winning but nah dog I ain’t doing the best ending I’m not that good. Love ya vids dude thanks.
