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It also released for the Playchoice-10

Yeah, I'm surprised we never got the NES release. Definitely a bit of an odd one to never leave Japan.

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Game Boy Wars is a long game. A VERY long game. I've now passed 100 hours of play time and it's still not quite over yet. To avoid exclusively playing it, I've been switching to it between games and completing 1 map after each game. There was one extra video here because I was having trouble playing Super Scope 6 for extended periods of time, and I switched to Game Boy Wars to give my arms a break. There's going to be even more this upcoming week because I ordered a missing part for the Super Scope off of eBay, so I played this exclusively while waiting.

I will be talking more about 3rd-party arcade games in an upcoming video, but I'll give you the quick answer here. When it comes to publishing arcade machines, it's a bit different than with consoles, and it gets kind of messy once you start looking at machines that had swappable games. Since Nintendo made the arcade machines themselves, most places just list Nintendo as the publisher of any game on that system. Typically though, those third-party games did not come with the arcade machines, and they were instead sold separately as individual games to arcade owners. In most cases, it was NOT Nintendo that actually sold the third-party games to arcade owners. If you look at the flyers for a lot of these games, it's clearly the original developers advertising the games, and you'll typically find their contact info on them, NOT Nintendo's. Apparently, in these cases, Nintendo just sold the PPUs to the third parties and they'd let the third parties handle everything else. In other words, the third parties were the ones doing the actual "publishing" work for the individual games. In my mind, this is really similar to a typical third-party game on a home console. Nintendo sold the machine that plays the game, but the third parties are the ones selling the actual games. It's just obfuscated behind the fact that arcade owners are the ones buying the machines/games. Now, your comment did make me look into this a little deeper, and I found out that there actually ARE a small handful of third-party VS. System games that Nintendo themselves sold. Initially, I suspected this might have been the case, but since I wasn't really confident about which ones Nintendo sold, I wasn't going to include any of them. However, I found a pretty good list with sources that explained which ones Nintendo sold themselves. These are: VS. Raid on Bungeling Bay VS. Slalom (which I already played) VS. Gradius VS. The Goonies VS. Castlevania I plan on going back and playing these soon.

@@ShmoopshyVODs thanks for the reply, is fair your conclusion. I thought that the player choice 10 games were published by nintendo because of the banners, these games are in cuestionable status, hardly "nintendo" games.

Returning back to this, I have actually decided to include PlayChoice-10 games after all! While many of the VS. System games were not published by Nintendo, it looks like every single PlayChoice-10 game actually was! You'll start seeing VODs for them soon.

Currently, I do not plan on playing games that were included on the Nintendo Classic systems. I see the case for it since they came bundled with a system Nintendo sold, but I do not think it's entirely the same as selling a game individually. Including these would bring into question ALL systems bundled with third-party games included. For example, there's a Monster Hunter: Rise Switch that comes with the game, and there's even a Fortnite themed Switch that comes with V-Bucks. There's probably a lot more out there too. I won't completely rule out playing these eventually, but for now I want to focus on games that were more clearly Nintendo's. Part of me even regrets including games that were licensed to Nintendo in other regions, and I kind of wish I took a more "layered" approach to the challenge, where I would have started with the most obvious games and moved further and further out with each layer of the list completed. As far as the Switch Online service goes, I'm sorta treating those as "applications" that include games rather than games themselves. Is that kind of hand wavy? Yeah, probably. However, these are once again good candidates for games I could go back to and play once I catch up. If I do end up playing them, I will probably use the save state/rewind features liberally, since those are part of the applications themselves, and the actual applications are what I will be reviewing.

@@ShmoopshyVODs fair, good luck in the challenge, at least looks that you are enjoying the games.

The big problem was that I was missing a piece to the scope itself. I ended up buying a 3D-printed part to replace it, and you'll see the impact it had in an upcoming video!

@@ShmoopshyVODs Gotcha, I actually noticed that recently in your recent video from the description. I was kinda confused what you meant by that since I saw the side piece on for aiming, but then finally saw it was missing the actual black eye piece. That does make a world of difference.

That final boss song is way too good.

There is indeed a lot more unique courses in the Japanese version, but I currently don't plan on playing it. Many games have regional differences, ranging from only a few small changes to big ones like this. Since I'm not really sure where to draw the line, I have decided to just play the US version of games when possible. I won't rule out the possibility that I might return at some point in the future to play it though.

@@ShmoopshyVODs Gotcha. This is a weird situation because of the name change for the PlayChoice 10 version in the US being the same as the Japanese version. So its like, is this really an arcade version of NES Open, or is it the first US adaption of the Famicom "exclusive" Mario's Open? I guess to me I would see them as two different games, like the men and womens version of VS Golf or the various new Switch ports of Wii U games that add in new content or even the original Japanese Pokemon Red/Green compared to Japanese Blue/International Red/Blue.

It might be funny if he watches the movie right before writing the review video!

Huh, that's the first I've heard of them. The List of Nintendo Products page I am using doesn't even list them as Nintendo products. After doing a preliminary look, it seems like Nintendo didn't actually publish/distribute them, so they don't actually fit my definition for the challenge. I'll look a bit more into it, though.

@@ShmoopshyVODs Yeah it seems like they had a wide variety of distributors globally that were just given the OK to use the Nintendo logo. I believe there may be variations in programming based on that fact, so may be a nightmare if you were trying to test all versions of each title. They are interesting though in the sense of being a continuation of the G&W series to an extent. There were re-releases of the original G&W titles, but there were also a bunch of new games made for the series as well based on properties like Star Trek, Spiderman and Yu-Gi-Oh, so they are neat curiosities in that sense to see those IPs attached to Nintendo.

I agree! That's why there's a part 2 on my channel :)

@@ShmoopshyVODs Oh that's great! I'm looking forward to it! I wasn't expecting it because it often says part 1 in the title, but next time I'll look more carefully!

Yeah, I didn't realize the game had those cutscenes until later, so it wasn't initially a 2 parter. The second video is a "revisited' video.