NES Games That Were Actually Game Boy Titles in Disguise | PART 3 (Nintendo Entertainment System)

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NES GAMES THAT WERE ACTUALLY GAME BOY TITLES IN DISGUISE ► Covering one of the oddest trends at the tail end of the NES's lifespan where games were made for multiple consoles and handhelds with no real additional programming done.
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PART 1 can be found here: • 8 NES Games That Were ...
PART 2 can be found here: • 8 More NES Games That ...
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CONTENTS OF THIS VIDEO
0:00 - Intro
2:13 - Alfred Chicken
3:09 - Jimmy Connors Tennis
4:16 - Krusty's Fun House
5:05 - Monopoly
6:03 - Yoshi
7:01 - Judging All the Game Boy to NES Candidates
11:46 - Outro
After years of focusing on the best games for the NES, I decided to change gears and focus on lesser known cartridges that have, for one reason or another, generally escaped the public discussion and general nostalgia. This series highlights many of the relatively unknown, obscure, and unloved titles in the Nintendo Entertainment System's library. Some of these games are at best mediocre. Many are painfully bad, some of the worst NES games around. Most are hilarious for all the wrong reasons! Occasionally, OCCASIONALLY, a handful of them are actually good, borderline hidden gems.
While you won't find any of these on the NES Classic, some of these titles have managed to make their way onto the Nintendo Switch, so if you don't have an original Nintendo console or ROMs escape you ethically or technologically, there are several ways to play them.
Want more? Me too! Until then, lots of other articles where the pictures don't move and words have to be read can be found on my website: top100nesgames.com
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@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

Now let’s never speak of it again ;) PART 1 can be found here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yPLV-mle--o.html PART 2 can be found here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--OgiUuUnXBg.html

@toddburgess5056 10 месяцев назад

🤐🤐🤐

@migueldias8546 10 месяцев назад

Krusty's Fun House is just a reskin of an Amiga game: Rat Trap. This is why it looks out of character...

@carn9507 10 месяцев назад

Yeah, it's strange. Rat Trap was supposed to be released in 1991. Then it got bought and rebranded to be Krusty's Super Fun House in 1993 which the Amiga still got. Weird.

@namebrandmason 10 месяцев назад

This might explain why it's the least terrible Simpsons game on the NES.

@migueldias8546 10 месяцев назад

@@namebrandmason A lot of Amiga games have been ported on consoles. It was easy, a lot of older programmers learned how to code on Amiga and it was a very popular computer in Europe!

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

That makes more sense!

@gravitywaves2796 10 месяцев назад

Wow I had no idea. Cool info. Thanks.

@almightycinder 10 месяцев назад

I think with a lot of them, they're multiplatform games designed with the limitations of the Game Boy in mind. I think this is closer to what goes on with modern day games. If a company wants its games to be multiplatform and doesn't want them all different, you work with the limitations of the weakest one you want it on, and it just looks a bit weaker compared to other games on the more powerful systems.

@eelobrian6727 10 месяцев назад

I'm a software developer and I assume these nes titles were developed using GB graphics so that it could be ported with little to no effort. This was a shortcut (laziness at worst) and a definite slight to those who bought the nes version.

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

And that’s honestly the clearest way to explain what I’m getting at. People keep chiming in to talk about the technical aspects of each system. I’m really just talking about the aesthetics of design.

@BB-te8tc 10 месяцев назад

What's funny is that you could get a much better effect by buying the GB one, playing it on Super Game Boy, and doing stuff like designing custom colour pallettes for each level. Nintendo Power even sorta encouraged it back in the day with stuff like their Super Game Boy guide.

@eelobrian6727 10 месяцев назад

Absolute truth!

@gluttonousmaximus9048 10 месяцев назад

I'd probably not consider a lot of them "ports" per se but rather concurrently made titles that shared assets and design documents, but some of them definitely favored one 8-bit platform over another.

@deku812 10 месяцев назад

Right, i came in expecting a literal GB rom in an NES cart emulating the z80 or something.

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

Yeah that may be the wrong word but it’s for sure the point I’m making :)

@austinreed7343 8 месяцев назад

Or in other words, they’re early examples of multi-platform games.

@costby1105 10 месяцев назад

Yoshi was developed by Game freak and was the games that got their foot in the door so to speak for Pokemon. The original Pokemon games went through development off and on for about 6 years. IIRC some Game Gear games are literally Master System roms running on the Game Gear. The Game Gear apparently shares some internals with the Master System to make it possible and can run Master System games via an adapter.

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

Did not know that! The only NES game I knew they made was Mendel Palace

@HylianFox3 10 месяцев назад

@@BigOleWords Mendel Palace is a solid contender for "Games No-One Played"

@user-pe7up5od7i 10 месяцев назад

The Game Gear was the precursor to the Sony PSP and PS Vita, in the fact that it was capable of home console ports.

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

@@HylianFox3 It's on the list!

@carn9507 10 месяцев назад

Jimmy Connors Tennis. I wonder if it's intentionally slower on Gameboy so you can see the ball easier cos motion had a nasty habit of being blurry on the original GB screen.

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

Interesting!

@namebrandmason 10 месяцев назад

What's funny is this third collection is probably the best games of the three. I actually enjoy Yoshi and Alfred Chicken. And while Krusty's Fun House isn't great; It's leagues better than the other three Simpsons NES games.

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

You’re absolutely right, these are the best of the worst for sure

@HylianFox3 10 месяцев назад

I dunno, I still have lots of love for the Star Wars NES game (TESB sucks though. The graphics are worse, the music is worse, the controls are worse. It was a HUGE disappointment back in the day and only I played it like once as a rental, prior to the magic of emulation)

@therealbitwars 10 месяцев назад

That's just a gameboy game in disguise! Gameboy Game: "And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids!"

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

Hahahaha

@burgerinabox6063 10 месяцев назад

Alfred Chicken on NES is kind of a "guilty pleasure" game for me. Sure, it gets boring after a while and it can be confusing getting all the diamonds and collectables, but the way Alfred controls, alongside the sharp and simple graphics and lovely music (I love all the Vibrato in the music) makes it amongst my go-to for a simple, fun game.

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

Totally agree! I had low expectations at first but it was way better than I thought.

@AltairEgo1 10 месяцев назад

Alfred Chicken. I keep hearing about that one. I really should play it at some point in my life. Seems to be rather infamous

@powerfulaura5166 10 месяцев назад

Thank you for mastering & exporting this video in 4:3, that was a sensible, period-correct presentation choice & great on my CRT VGA monitor.

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

Haha well it’s mostly so the footage doesn’t look so little but I’m glad it’s solid on your CRT :)

@LuwiigiMaster 10 месяцев назад

One good way to tell if the games were for the NES or the GB is to look at the sprites. To accommodate the much smaller screen real estate, sprites were much smaller, and scenes were 'scaled' to look right on them. Hook looks like a NES game, Alfred Chicken looks like a Game Boy game. That being said, I'm surprised the Indiana Jones game *wasn't* a colorized Game Boy game - the graphical style looks like it was designed for monochrome screens, but the size of the sprites makes it look more 'NES like'.

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

Yep good call! It’s much more obvious with Cliffhanger or Lion King than with Jurassic Park.

@ChristopherBurtraw 10 месяцев назад

Every time I see only 16K subscribers I'm shocked, this channel definitely plays like it's much larger and is ready to grow into triple digit sub counts. Well done, and I hope this happens!

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

I should’ve hired those guys that give you 1000 subscribers for a $1000!

@bluedistortions 4 месяца назад

Krusty's fun house was actually a great gameboy game back in the day. It had plenty of levels to keep you busy on a car trip. Games like the original TMNT for the gameboy were more fun in the short term, better action and whatnot, but theyre so short and easy, so they dont keep you occupied long, and eventually you arent interested in replaying them anymore. So in that sense, I have very fond memories of Krusty. Provided months of entertainment off and on.

@MidnightMovieMavenn 10 месяцев назад

Your quirky modest approach is honestly what makes your videos so much fun. Drawing for your patreons is pretty cool too. Stay cool

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

Hey thanks so much, that’s kind of you to say!

@thecunninlynguist 10 месяцев назад

played the SNES version of Krusty's FH...remember seeing the NES version, but never figured it was a GB port.

@Ruudos 10 месяцев назад

At least Alfred Chicken had his own political party: The Alfred Chicken Party. No joke.

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

I had to look it up, that’s wild!

@ClampEEGEE 10 месяцев назад

Monopoly is actually a *triple* offender. It also has a GBC release that is just a colorized version of the GB game, and it's a Black cart GBC game that also has the original Game Boy version if played on an original Game Boy.

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

Huh, neat!

@Dwedit 10 месяцев назад

I'm pretty sure that Monopoly was a NES game first, then the GB version was a secondary project. The GB version has a little bit of jank, especially the dice animation, but otherwise is very faithful to the NES version.

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

Probably. They were released at the same time so I figured they just made adjustments so each would run a little smoother

@DarkAngelBluejay 10 месяцев назад

A bunch of these games also had SNES versions. Jurassic Park looks VERY similar, at least the over world parts.

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

For sure

@dc9662 10 месяцев назад

The whole time I was watching your Cliffhanger footage, I was just waiting for you to show the part where your character rides a dead body down the mountain. That's why I like you, James! Don't ever change!

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

You know I can’t resist!

@mr.g4990 10 месяцев назад

Welcome to the Painting by Numbers world, where everything is slippery and sprites are pale white. You may already have played some of their other games... Darkman and RoboCop 2 come to mind.

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

Oh snap! I see it now!

@GoodVibeCollecting 10 месяцев назад

Now onto Master System games that were actually Game Gear games in disguise. LOL

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

Somebody missed my pledge of allegiance to the NES at the end ;)

@BlastMaster 10 месяцев назад

This series is how I first noticed your channel, and why I subscribed. Good stuff!

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

Oh word? Awesome!

@ilovecoffee6318 10 месяцев назад

That Monopoly game was fun, but the CPU was ruthless. If you play it solo, it will try to run you out of business as fast as possible!

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

Bastards

@toddburgess5056 10 месяцев назад

"I'm married to the NES, and she's not much for swinging." ---Big Ol' Words 🗽

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

Put it on my tombstone!

@hotmoffitt 10 месяцев назад

I love seeing your subscriber number continuing to go up!

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

All thanks to your copy of 3D World Runner ;)

@hotmoffitt 10 месяцев назад

@@BigOleWords haha, and just like that, the music is now stuck in my head again - dah-da-da-da daaaaah da-da-daaaah da-da-dah dah dah, du-de-du-de-du-de-du-de-duuu da-da-dah dah dah…

@GermanPeter 10 месяцев назад

Jurassic Park was also available for the SNES and looks LEAGUES better than the other two, so I'm assuming they ported that one to the NES and Gameboy.

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

You may be right!

@picketf 10 месяцев назад

Alfred Chicken was an Amiga game. I played the Amiga CD32 / CDTV version and I've also seen it on the Amiga 1200 before it was ever ported to any Nintendo console.

@BagOfMagicFood 4 месяца назад

Cliffhanger also came out on Amiga and looked significantly nicer on it. I wonder if that was the game's target platform too.

@mightyfilm 10 месяцев назад

I'll never be able to unsee just how pathetic the NES Lion King was. The dinky sprites and those large, ugly patches of negative space that naturally happen when you have to blow up the screen. There's probably effort they don't want to spend making the sprites more in scale with the rest of the screen. Compromises do have to be made, look at how giant the sprites are for the GB Mega Man games. But this really feels like there was a reason they just released it in European regions. Big movie license name alone couldn't sell this one.

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

It truly is a marvel to behold

@Jackrost01 10 месяцев назад

Funny thing that bootleg Lion King on NES is better than official

@zeliardforty-two4692 10 месяцев назад

I remember renting Krusty’s Fun House for NES and actually having fun with it. Then I never thought about it again until this video 😝 anyways, because of its puzzle game format it make sense it was released on Game Boy. Definitely a solid game compared to other Simpson games. I was reading a different comment and learned it was a rebranding of something else, so I guess that makes sense

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

Easily the best Simpsons game on the NES and maybe SNES as well!

@GenerationPixel 10 месяцев назад

Now I've just got to get my hands on Cliffhanger! You really need to stop drawing my attention to truly bad games 😂

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

It is my favorite terrible game :)

@sydneymeanstreet 10 месяцев назад

And of course Krusty's (Super) Fun House is itself a port of an Amiga game called Rat Trap. So if you're wondering what playing Pied Piper and leading rats to their deaths has to do with The Simpsons, the answer is "absolutely nothing".

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

That’s actually reassuring, thanks!

@danbauer3669 10 месяцев назад

Some of these games are on Game Gear, too. I found that I had Cliffhanger on a GG multi cart "Super 40 in 1" which actually 32 games with 8 doubles and more than half the games are SG-1000, I think? Anyway, I don't have to spend the $100 to get a copy on NES so I can snowboard a corpse for 2 seconds. I'll just hold the screen right up to my eyes and it'll be awesome!!

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

Yeah but we both know that there is no better way to blow $100 than that!

@danbauer3669 10 месяцев назад

@@BigOleWords I mean.... the CRT is literally 10 times the size of the GG screen... But, it costs $300 just to go outside these days. I can't buy a $100 game for a while unless I do a trade. Did you finish reading Song of Ice and Fire? I'm like halfway through the last book.

@generalkawasaki9485 10 месяцев назад

you probably know that krusty's funhouse was a carbon copy of rat-trap for the commodore amiga, home system we didn't know that at the time but already all flags were raised because it was unlikely there existed a decent simpsons game [other than the arcade game that we all were begging to be released on consoles], on top of that ti didn't have much to do with the simpsons universe and made zilch sense.

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

I’d never heard of Rat Trap, but you’re right something feels off about Funhouse immediately

@glowingfish 10 месяцев назад

Krusty's Fun House was also a SNES game. I don't know if there were many examples of triple ports at the time.

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

I think a few of these like Jurassic Park? I honestly haven’t explored the SNES versions too much :)

@christianhunt7382 10 месяцев назад

All of your videos are great, you youself sir are a hidden gem in NES reviews. Thanks for entertaining us!

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

Hey thanks bud! That means a lot :)

@Sweetestsadist 10 месяцев назад

Aero the Acrobat is a decent game. Doesn't deserve to be lumped in with jank like Bubsy.

@sentropez1337 10 месяцев назад

Bubsy isn't jank; the controls are actually pretty fluid, the in-air movement is forgiving, etc. it's just that it's a Sonic ripoff that forgets to rip off the most important thing about Sonic: the rings system. It's a speed game where going fast almost always kills you, because every hit is a death - so you always have to fight against the game's desire to accelerate you, instead of following it! No clue why they didn't just make you lose yarn balls like rings. They even made the animation for it, proving it wasn't a sprite limit problem! But then they only used it as a boss death animation. I feel like a romhack to make Bubsy lose yarn when hit would be pretty easy... (Also, the game designer in me tells me that the level design of Bubsy seems to assume that there's a button you should be able to press while going full-speed that does a forward-directed attack - like the cat suit in SM3DW. Perhaps they had that planned, but just gave up on implementing it due to scheduling pressure...)

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

I’m not really talking about the games, more just their attempts to replicate Sonic ;)

@Jackrost01 10 месяцев назад

@@sentropez1337but Bubsy 2 is exist and there is no new attack ability while you runing

@sentropez1337 10 месяцев назад

@@Jackrost01 See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubsy_2#Development - a different team made the second game. They were likely handed the codebase from the first game, and told to do whatever. There's a general software-industry problem of "ossification" - where engineers who _are_ free to change a piece of code, but who didn't originally write said piece of code, don't feel they _understand_ that existing code well enough to change it, and so instead just build a rickety pile of "fixes" on top of the existing code. There's also the app/game-specific version of the problem, where game designers / product managers coming in to lead production of a sequel, tend to assume that there "must have been a reason" for every existing design decisions, and so don't question any of the existing design elements, instead just proposing bolting on new features/systems - usually ones that redundantly do what the existing system should have done. I have a strong feeling that the Bubsy II team didn't realize that the Bubsy I team wasn't "making a design choice" to leave out a Sonic-like spin-dash forward-attack; nor were they "making a design choice" to leave out a Sonic-like rings health mechanic. They likely assumed that the Bubsy 1 team had left out these design elements intentionally - that they wanted Bubsy as a series to "not play like Sonic" (even though Bubsy 1 level design is trying to exactly ape Sonic level design.) And so they designed Bubsy II to intentionally "not play like Sonic" - giving the level design more verticality so that the first game's "creep up and pounce" attack style is the only viable style. (You could also call this "designing to appease the kind of player who enjoyed the first Bubsy game, rather than trying to expand Total Addressable Market by making an easier-to-play game.") Essentially, the Bubsy II team observed that the only way you can actually _play_ Bubsy is as a puzzle platformer... and so they designed Bubsy II to _be_ a puzzle platformer, by taking the same game physics and making fighting against them "the point." Note how Bubsy II _did_ get a health system - but rather than the forgiving Sonic-like rings system to go together with the constant rings-equivalent yarn pickups, it was a "three hearts with rare healing pickups" system - the exact kind of system you'd expect to find in a puzzle platformer.

@KasumiKenshirou 10 месяцев назад

Amazingly, a fan fairly recently ported that Game Gear / SMS Sonic game to the Commodore 64! A C64 port of Super Mario Bros. was also created, but Nintendo demanded they pull it down. (But you can still find it without searching too hard.) SMB is a bit more difficult to play since the C64 only has one joystick button and SMB was designed for two, so they had to change how the controls work.

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

Huh cool! And yeah Sonics one button controls probably work better with the C64

@slipperynickels 10 месяцев назад

i'm sure everyone knows by now but the monopoly video games are so fast because they implement all of the rules that most people forget about or inadvertently break when playing the board game.

@marcelthoma8890 10 месяцев назад

Some of these had also SNES-Ports: Krusty's Funhouse (a reskined Amiga-game) and Jurassic seem to have a similar level layout, the SNES-port has the first-person levels. There was an Alfred Chicken game for SNES but I don't know if it's similar. Jungle Book on the other hand is a total different game on the SNES.

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

I don’t think I’ve seen the Alfred Chicken on the SNES!

@marcelthoma8890 10 месяцев назад

@@BigOleWords Sorry. It is Super Alfred Chicken.

@Gatorade69 10 месяцев назад

Hey, Nice shirt. My friend stole my RTJ shirt.

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

That does not sound like a friend!

@PontiacSunfire04 10 месяцев назад

I love how all your vids are in 4:3

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

You know it!

@ramicom 6 месяцев назад

NES's Little Mermaid seems to be carbon copy of it's GB counterpart. And little obscure one is on Famicom: Hello Kitty World which is port of GameBoy's Balloon Kid (sequel to Balloon Fight) with kitty characters!

@Riz2336 10 месяцев назад

Seems as though the nes version is always the better choice since your not playing a zoomed in screen

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

With a few exceptions absolutely

@scottbogfoot 10 месяцев назад

One and only one of Jimmy Connors Spectators has coloured hair, blue. And she's wearing rayban wayfarers. Odd. And actually now that I look at it more closely the Jimmy Connors game is different on the Game Boy! If you look for the lady with the blue hair in the top-right corner of the screen, in the stands. You'll notice that she has three people to her right. If you look at the Game Boy game there is only one person to her right it may be the same lines of code used to create the gameplay but there are slight differences between the two it also looks like the ball is bigger in the game boy version and I don't mean just zoomed in I mean bigger in comparison to the tennis rackets. Lol monopoly takes forever because everyone playes it wrong, if you read the monopoly instructions it's way harder and goes much quicker

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

Damn dude you sleuthed out the truth to that mystery!

@scottbogfoot 10 месяцев назад

@@BigOleWords 😂😂🤣

@Elucidus 10 месяцев назад

Did you intentionally grab video of you buying St Bimmy’s Place in the Monopoly footage?

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

Who me?! 🐣

@joeymusashi3995 10 месяцев назад

love the videos very cool rocking the rtj merch

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

Props to the wife for the shirt :)

@thenewnostalgia 5 месяцев назад

My windshield wipers' lowest setting is still too fast.

@BigOleWords 5 месяцев назад

Haha mine too!

@Matty0mega 10 месяцев назад

i believe nintendo mostly wanted us to have the same experiences on the go and at home. we came full circle with the switch! only took 30 years for the hardware to catch up, no big deal.

@dieinfire920 10 месяцев назад

Thats… has nothing to do with what this video series is about…

@Matty0mega 10 месяцев назад

@@dieinfire920it does though. Devs no longer have to make games twice or port the same game for 2 Nintendo systems. It's all in one now. No cheap ports.

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

Haha I wish any of this had that much intention!

@Matty0mega 10 месяцев назад

@@BigOleWords 🤣 insert Simpsons at least you tried cake gif lol but towards Nintendo and the devs of course

@HylianFox3 10 месяцев назад

It's funny because Link's Awakening was originally planned to be a watered-down port of ALttP for GB, until wiser heads prevailed and it became its own thing. And it only took 30 years for the division between "console" and "handheld" to be done away with! Will wonders never cease...

@FarmerSlideJoeBob 10 месяцев назад

Really enjoy these series😃

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

Hey thanks, it’s been fun making them

@FarmerSlideJoeBob 10 месяцев назад

@@BigOleWords It was really fun to see that and also to know which one could be gameboyish or a 1:1 port but with colors. Really really cool🙂

@akumagouki8668 10 месяцев назад

Some games can be designed for one system then stuff happens and its put onto another so some could've been developed for Gameboy first then something happened and it was put onto the nes first instead.

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

Hmmm maybe! Sounds reasonable for sure

@SirRosser 10 месяцев назад

How the hell did BoO have a Gameboy port and me not know about it?

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

BoO?

@SirRosser 10 месяцев назад

@@BigOleWords Battle of Olympus.

@jgordon7719 10 месяцев назад

I'm curious if Tecmo bowl also fits in this category

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

Tecmo Bowl? I don’t think so, the GB port came out 2 years later.

@jgordon7719 10 месяцев назад

@@BigOleWords ah ic, so a true port then rather than the other way

@toddburgess5056 10 месяцев назад

Hey, how come Whoopi Goldberg isn't on the cover of the NES cart Star Trek The Next Generation ? 🤔 🖖

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

Haha she wasn’t really on deck like that :)

@BB-te8tc 10 месяцев назад

On the port argument: I think the word "port" implies that it was released a considerable amount of time after the source game and was "ported over" but I recall many of these games releasing almost simultaneously with each other (and were even advertised together). Semantics, sure, but something to consider.

@elementalblaze79 Месяц назад

Even though I was gifted the game Yoshi for the nes through Nintendo Power(it came in a box with my subscription claiming i was one of a few to test out the game and say if we liked it or not) and I wasn't into those types of games, it was a fun little game that was hard to put down!(which I reported) I do believe it wasn't a port of the gameboy other then an upgrade, for they had to change the layout of the screen a tad bit! Sure, I played both and at the time, they played the same, it just felt different to me so you can take my thoughts as well with a grain of salt!

@GamingLampYT 5 месяцев назад

what's the song that's used during 9:09? it sounds pleasant

@BigOleWords 5 месяцев назад

Huh I actually don't remember! Probably from one of these games!

@toddburgess5056 10 месяцев назад

I love love love Paperboy II ❤️ 🗞️📰🚲📭

@mobiusprimal 10 месяцев назад

Does James Rolfe know about these videos?

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

One can only dream :)

@HylianFox3 10 месяцев назад

I can't be the only one who thought Rolfe was never funny. I watched a couple of his videos many years ago and his "playing games badly while making faces" gimmick got old quick. I _much_ prefer this style of review and retrospective.

@Godzilla1982 10 месяцев назад

Is Cliffhanger the worst looking NES game ever? Maybe?

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

Yes it is! Even Lion King is a vast improvement

@ChadBonin 9 месяцев назад

By chance, are you an Atlanta native?

@BigOleWords 9 месяцев назад

What gave it away?! ;)

@ChadBonin 9 месяцев назад

@@BigOleWords Being another retro gaming RU-vid Atlanta guy who recognizes the unique intersection of Run The Jewels and Atlanta United

@BigOleWords 9 месяцев назад

@@ChadBonin haha that's awesome!

@PCGGC 10 месяцев назад

"Most of these are PROBABLY ports of NES games and not the other way around" You do know release dates exist right? It is VERY easy to verify this information instead of just making random stuff up and looking foolish?

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

You got me!

@mattsweeney3790 10 месяцев назад

Love ya as always, Bimmy. Great series wrap up. Kudos for saying when you have no idea lol. Looking forward to Thursday. NES monopoly is friggin great

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

Yeah it is!

@blackenedheart9592 10 месяцев назад

Ill never understand anyone who wants to spend thousands upon thousands of dollars on games like this. Its the same wirh John Hancock. He'll say oh they only made 4 copies of this game and theyre $45,000 each but i own 3 of rhem! Why? It makes no sense? Nobody in their right mind will buy any of these games and when you die theyll probably all get donated to goodwill.

@carn9507 10 месяцев назад

collectors gotta collect i guess. a lot of them barely ever get around to playing the good games, never mind the bad ones. They like the satisfaction of simply owning a rarity or complete set. :)

@christianhunt7382 10 месяцев назад

You honestly shouldn't be on here commenting about the things you don't understand because you can't afford them. I'm poor too dude, it's not about that. And honestly youtube is here for the people who can't afford things to live vicariously through. If your mad about it, get a better job, live in a different area, or just shut up. It's not conducive to anything

@System_Sega 10 месяцев назад

They buy a game, show it in a video and the video makes them money. That's how a lot of youtubers operate. And it's not just Gaming related, it's across many different types of content.

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

Why would I care what happens to them when I die, I’ll be dead! If my kids want to keep them, sell them, or burn them in a pyre to honor their fallen father that’s their call. Because again, I’ll be dead.

@erika_fuzzbottom 10 месяцев назад

I was a fan of the Super Nintendo version of Krusty's Fun House, though I was never able to beat it. Sometime I'll get the Game Boy version to have a portable version.

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

It’s not too bad but way more confusing than it’s zoomed out siblings

@blarghblargh 10 месяцев назад

"spitting image" is the idiom. for some reason.

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

It is, but not when you’re punning on a split image ;)

@sydneymeanstreet 10 месяцев назад

And here I was thinking you were referencing the 1986 home computer sliding puzzle game of the same name... @@BigOleWords

@blarghblargh 10 месяцев назад

@@BigOleWords oh. you're too clever for me! :D :D or at least too clever for me on negative hours of sleep. cheers!

@worldoffood123 10 месяцев назад

this has been a really fun series!

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

Glad you liked it!

@sentropez1337 10 месяцев назад

I would note that the NES uses a 6502-derived CPU instruction set, while the Gameboy uses a 8088-derived CPU instruction set - the assembly code for games on these two platforms is entirely incompatible, and so a game would need to be re-coded from scratch to port it from one platform to the other. (And no, you can't "just use C" or some other higher-level language - even the object code generated by C compilers of the era was far too slow and bloated for these puny systems. It was hand-written assembly all the way!) If you want to talk about "enhanced ports", you should be talking about dual-release NES and SNES games! The SNES CPU instruction set is fully backward-compatible to the NES CPU instruction set, and there are even considerations for running NES games "directly" on the SNES (e.g. ensuring the controller is memory-mapped to the same addresses, having the default tile and sprite drawing modes on the SNES match the NES, etc.) Likely many NES+SNES dual releases were made by coding the NES game first, and then taking that codebase and "adding stuff" to make it into a SNES game (with testing of the port being immediately possible directly on SNES hardware.) Might be something you could explore in another of these series :) That being said - why do those NES games you mention look like ported GB games? Very likely because the studio aimed to create two games at the _same_ time, using less than 2x the effort, by creating the _assets_ (backgrounds, sprites) only once, in a *lowest-common-denominator format* that would work for both the NES and GB. Which meant that the assets had to be legible both in black-and-white and in color - and that the color versions had to just be the black-and-white assets "with a color palette applied." The constraint of "legibility in black-and-white", leads to two options for designs for GB assets: either they are drawn mostly "empty"/white, only having sparse areas of "highlight color" - which gives the NES games an "under-colored" look; _or_, if they're clever, the GB assets are drawn with large patches of dark-grey + light-grey, and the dark-grey is colorized as color while the light-grey is colorized as white or another color depending on the particular tile. This leads to the "blocky-coloration" look on the sprites in some of the other games you mentioned.

@blarghblargh 10 месяцев назад

I don't think the ports are as hard as you are implying here. Sure, they aren't binary or source compatible so you can't just cross-assemble. But I'm fairly confident it'd only take a single decently seasoned dev a couple weeks or maybe a couple months to do a lot of these ports, assuming they didn't have to hand-disassemble the original game on 1980s computers. Sure, you have to "reprogram it". But with full original source available, with all the variables and comments intact, it's far from having to do the port from scratch. The game code and hardware weren't really that complex, and those games look like they were not pushing up against limits in a way that would cause a need for a lot of hard decision making or workarounds. The ports would probably be mostly rote. I do appreciate your more detailed speculation on what happened, though. I think what you're saying is basically right. I just think the distinction you're making of port vs two-parallel-games doesn't result in a difference.

@sentropez1337 10 месяцев назад

@@blarghblargh it's not like a from-scratch port, no, but it's a difficult one, because the NES and Gameboy are each very constrained but in different ways. The NES's 6502 only has three 8-bit registers, runs at 2MHz, and has access to only 2KB of WRAM; while the GB's Z80 has 14 16-bit registers, runs at 4MHz, and has access to 8KB of WRAM _plus_ another 8KB of VRAM. (Thus, squishing business-logic code down _from_ the GB _to_ the NES is an extremely frustrating optimization exercise.) Meanwhile, the NES has a PPU whose access to CHR ROM can be intermediated by memory-mapper chips; the GB has nothing like this, as all CHR data must be loaded into the GB PPU's 8KB of internal VRAM. Thus, animations that are "free" by "riding the beam" on the NES, must instead be done on the GB by pre-compositing tiles in CPU WRAM before copying them to VRAM per frame. Also, the NES PPU allows the drawing of 64 8x8 sprites per frame (with 8 per scan-line) while the GB PPU allows for 40 8x8 sprites per frame (with 10 per scan-line.) Like I said, if you plan for it, you can write code and plan asset use in a way that fits the lowest common denominator of these two sets of requirements. If you do that (by e.g. only using three registers even on the GB, not using any mappers on the NES, etc.), then porting in either direction is trivial. But if you plan one game or the other first, only thinking you're developing the game for one system first, then you'd intuitively make use of those features - and so develop yourself into a corner at porting time, that you'd have to work your way out of.

@blarghblargh 10 месяцев назад

@@sentropez1337 I agree that if you didn't think ahead of time about the port and were trying to maximize your use of the hardware glitz, then you'd be in trouble, or have to get creative and burn through a lot of effort. but I wasn't intending to imply that's what they did. My hypothesis: their whole team knew they were going to build for both. they built on NES first. they chose not to use a lot of fancy mapper tricks (little to no pseudo-parallax, few to no animated tiles). they used a reduced graphics complexity that works fine on the gameboy as well. I think there's evidence for this in the video. As James said, the gfx are kinda a lowest common denominator. And I'm not seeing a lot of the telltale mapper tricks in my skim-through. and we have a case of animated crowd graphics in the wrestling game just not being animated on the gboy. once the NES version was done, they ported to gboy. the port only took a few weeks, because all the register and ram and sprite count per line restrictions were already constrained to the lowest common denominator of the two systems. Maybe we're quibbling over minute details. Maybe this is close enough to "parallel development" to just call it that. Tho I think I'd personally rather manage it this way than try to have two teams working on parallel products together and bickering over features to include, or stepping on one another's toes. just tell the artist to make gfx that work on both systems, and tell the programmer "you're gonna have to port to the gboy in a few weeks, so don't do anything too fancy" and after having written this and re-reading what you wrote, I think we're basically in agreement :P :D

@lukesmith9692 9 месяцев назад

This guy is a sex offender for touching a little girl. Don't support him

@lukesmith9692 9 месяцев назад

@@blarghblarghThis guy is a sex offender for touching a little girl. Don't support him

@Dystnine 10 месяцев назад

NES Lion King is terrible. At least the GB version is a bit better.

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

Too true!

@juseschrustfush 10 месяцев назад

👉 🤛

@blackenedheart9592 10 месяцев назад

Must be nice to be rich I'll never know what it's like.

@christianhunt7382 10 месяцев назад

Save your woes for other outlets or channels. This a channel featuring media from 35+ years ago, if you can't afford this hobby maybe you should take the same effort you had commenting into filling out job applications.

@carn9507 10 месяцев назад

@@christianhunt7382 that's kinda harsh. I don't make much money either, but due to my long term health condition which makes it super difficult to find suitable work, never mind something that pays a decent wage.

@BigOleWords 10 месяцев назад

When I get rich I’ll check back in to describe to you how it feels in detail.

@christianhunt7382 10 месяцев назад

@carn9507 anyone can enjoy an emulator and download for free. Collecting is one thing, enjoying the thing your collecting is another. It may be harsh, and everyone's lives are different, but I stand by my statement, if you have the time to make ignorant comments on RU-vid about finances you have time to fill out applications or research better money opportunities instead of hating on a guy who's sharing his love of nostalgic games with the world.

@carn9507 10 месяцев назад

@@christianhunt7382 Yeah and I do emulate and have roms (especially after having to sell off my entire vintage console and games collection I had built up since I was a child in the 80s) but you don't know anything about whether they've got a job or not or a health condition or not. Their comment didn't seem like an ignorant statement to me. I didn't think they were hating on Big Ole Words much myself, but just a self-deprecating and/or sarcastic comment about collecting old video games and the silly costs of some of those games in general. Especially lousy games like some of the ones shown here that are expensive more for their rarity than their quality.