Deja Vu on the NES | A Friday Night Arcade Retrospective 

Great movie, one of my faves

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Thanks Mike - yeah, always felt like there could have been a few more of these games. Not sure how hard they'd be to conceptualize and program but seemed like we could have gotten a few more. There's a fan made game that is similar in concept called Infested that you may wanna check out. At some point I'm going to take a look at it either on the LP side or perhaps a full review, haven't had a chance to play it for myself, but it looks like it's in the spirit. grahfmetal.itch.io/infested

Friday Night Arcade Nice man, I'll have to check it out. Thank you again.

Hey thanks! .. hmm, never heard of Tex Murphy but now I'm curious lol. Was it like those Carmen Sandiego CDROM games you'd see all in the little jewel cases on the bottom row? Will have to look i to that :D

Nope! Think Blade Runner meets Deja Vu meets Total Recall meets Phantasmagoria. I just looked them up and there were a lot more than I ever played. Mean Streets and Martian Memorandum were the two I was familiar with.

Well now I'm ridiculously intrigued by that description lol... added to the backlog to check out :D

Hey thanks - this Mike Russell channel helped me out a lot. Lots of good post processing tips to get the most out of even a budgetary mic: ru-vid.com/show-UCYEiWHoP2IHHgjOapTAYMQw

This is a factual statement in all facets.

iwonderifthisislegal you are doing yourself a great disservice not playing these games, trust me.

Yeah seemed like this one popped up a lot in Counselor's Corner lol. Thanks - glad you enjoyed!

Same here

You have no idea how much your kind words mean. I'm glad you're enjoying the show and thank you so much for taking the time to write in.

That's right. They did eventually release I and II as a combo cartridge for Game Boy Advance I think.

Thanks for watching! Glad you're enjoying the show.

Really enjoy the show. Wish you much success bc the content is something I love AND the video quality/editing/narration is great! Hoping to see the Legend of Zelda sometime! Maybe I just didn't see that video but I try to watch them all. Keep up the great work!

Thank you so much for the kind words. So fun fact... I've never (gasp) played the original NES Legend of Zelda all the way through. Loved Ocarina and Link to the Past was my favorite. I asked for NES Zelda one year for Christmas as a present and ended up getting ... Dr. Mario. It was a very "Nintendo-game-sized-box" under the tree and although I was truly thankful to get anything... and no disrespect to Dr. Mario, it's not an awful puzzle game... but uh, that was a bit of an underwhelming title when I was hoping for a heroic quest through Hyrule lol. And then I ended up being a StarTropics kid after saving up my allowance lol, which was basically Zelda - Lite. I'm sorta saving NES Zelda now because I may do that as a true vanilla playthrough over on the LP channel. Kinda wanna savor the experience.

Enjoy your vanilla Zelda play-through though I can’t imagine finding all the hidden things without a walkthrough. Now-a-day’s there is usually a slight clue for your brain to think maybe there is a secret there but back then they were so random I don’t know how some of them were ever found without a guide. I played original Zelda as a kid for tens of hours until someone told me about a certain secret something or other you could do in dungeons which broke the game wide open for me. Would have been so easy to miss and just give up and shelve it otherwise. No hand holding back then!

Yes... yes you did 😆

Also look up a game called Nightshade! Its one of those odd rare and GOOD games!

That's a good one!

Whoa... Gonna have to look for those. Thanks for the tip!

@@FridayNightArcade I actually tried to play Sword of Hope on my Game Boy last year but I'm now 50 and my eyes aren't as good as they were at 20. The eye strain for the lack of a back lit screen is terrible to me. I'm in the market for a GBA SP to play these iconic games from my past. Some day.

Saving Uninvited for October :D

KWKBOX They are all great imo.

Shadowgate, Deja Vu, and The Uninvited trio are all equally great games. Each one has it's own interesting unique storyline.

Thanks for sharing Xaero Gravity and agreed - would love a remake. I really want to play through the original versions at some point especially the Apple IIGS version - the graphics look great.

That's very kind of you to say - thank you.

It seems like most people just had one of the three but not necessarily all of them... heh, I always wanted to try Princess Tomato but the little gas station in my hometown never had it to rent and trying to ask for it for Christmas would have been too complicated with a title like that lol. Thanks for sharing Rhys.

I think they are definitely an acquired taste - you either really like them or just don't find them interesting at all. And yes, I remember those Funcoland days... we had a similar smaller chain in our area and you could find all these games for like $2 each. If only we knew then ....

Yeah, I remember as a kid these just felt so immersive to me, and the art style is just so neat.

Thank you so much projectOMA, really glad you're enjoying the show. I'll have to look into Void, hadn't heard of it. That's why I love doing this - I love hearing about these types of random old interesting games we missed or didn't get a chance to play back in the day. Added that one to the backlog to check out. Heh... someday I'm gonna have to actually do a Blaster Master video and then physically refrain myself from just having an 8-minute video of that tune.

Friday Night Arcade - I whole heartedly and honestly enjoy your content and your approach to reviews and gameplay videos. Believe I said it before, but it's refreshing to see someone my age have a channel with great content that is intelligently done. Probably comment quite a bit on you videos, more than most other creators I follow, but your videos strike a cord with me. Your commentary is intelligent yet humorous without having to try and dumb things down and act like someone half our age. I'm just one person, but the praise is genuine and I know that all those who view your channel feel the same way as I've read their comments as well. Really hope you expand and get the subscribers you deserve. Void is a really deep and weird game, but I really think you'll like it. It's on GOG. It's one of those rare tough gems that's hard but pretty fair, and you cannot expect to finish it on your first play through. It's hard and will require you to restart a few times from the beginning til you get the hang of it, but the deep story, choices, gameplay, and art design really make it a rare diamond that many people have missed over, whether by never hearing of it or giving up early because it doesn't hold your hand and has a huge learning curve. But the story is deep and may make you have an existential crisis. You should also do a review of the classic Pathologic! They released an HD version and are working on a sequel that should be out this year I think. That was another PC classic that is somewhat lesser known

Hey thanks!

This is a tough one - it gets to a point where it's not straightforward how to proceed.

Friday Night Arcade - have you ever finished this bad boy? I got stuck at a certain point and no matter how many times I came back to it I couldn’t go any further. Back then we didn’t have the internet, just BBS!! Damn I’m old

I'll have to look into that one... sounds cool!

The battery inside the cart can go bad after 20+ years causing your save files to ... well.. not save. Usually will have to be replaced once in your lifetime if you wish to play on original hardware.

@@FridayNightArcade I did some digging and there have been some confirmation to that being more of a bug. As per comment from GameFAQ: "This seems more like a bug than a feature: If your 3 most recent "GAME OVERs" occur on the same screen then the game will reset and delete the save for whichever file you were using. This means you could have as few as 3 continues or an infinite number of them, depending on where & when your deaths/arrests occur."

@@neonnwave1 Whoa... well that stinks. I guess I never noticed that or had it happen to me as a kid when I played through this. Made it all the way through too. Guess I got lucky. I don't disagree with your earlier comment though. If you're just now discovering these games, it's probably way more accessible to just play the PC versions since it's so point-and-clicky. I guess 10-year-old me with no computer at the time was more forgiving and just happy to have a "PC experience" on the NES :D

@@FridayNightArcade I've played Clock Tower on the SNES (a translated repro-cart) and the sequel on PS1, which were also point and click. It wasn't an issue with those games since it was fast and easy to use. Deja Vu was just clearly meant for a computer. I don't mind point and click on consoles, so long as they are smooth and not tedious.

I liked Clock Tower a lot.... These MacVenture games aren't for everybody. ¯\_(ツ)_/

I may have been a little hard to understand... the series is actually called the "MacVenture Series" ... I should have spelled that out more in the video so it didn't sound like I was calling it the "adventure series" lol... sorry about that. You are correct. These games were first released on Apple IIGs, Mac, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Amiga before eventually being ported to the Famicom and NES. The MacVenture games were created by ICOM Simulations who were also responsible I'm not even sure if they officially marketed it as "MacVenture," it just kinda came to be called that. Glad you're still enjoying the show! Thanks for sticking with me all this time! - A

oh actually cuz it did sound like you were saying something like adventure with a prefix before it and I had forgotten they were called mac venture so now that you mention it you said it properly and it isn't hard to understand, also to with my grandmother being from Scotland I tend to over emphasize the pronunciation of Mac to clearly distinguish it from the anglicized Mc which has now been know as the Irish Gaelic prefix, but yeah awesome job man keep making great stuff cuz your production quality is so superior to a lot of other channels I've seen so I'm sure you will grow into 10's of thousand of subcribers then onto 100,000 and I'm not just saying this cuz there are youtubers I know who started with a couple hundred of subs and now have over 200k and there videos even at this point are not of your quality

Your grandmother was from Scotland, you say? That's really interesting. If you don't mind me asking, whereabouts are you calling from? You're too kind, thank you. I don't really know what to say. Thank you.

oh well I live in Massachusetts suburbs between Boston and Worcester, i'm from boston originally, but sorry to ramble on I just thought of that cuz the Mac prefix I was going on about with these games. where on the states are you?

Need to track down a copy. I'd like to.

@@FridayNightArcade It's on Steam if you're curious.