NES DuckTales 2

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Here we have the little-known sequel to DuckTales. Compared to Rescue Rangers 2, this is definitely closer in quality to the original game, and it makes some additions that are somewhat interesting. Most notably, the game is much less linear than its predecessor, it takes some decent exploration to complete the treasure map.

The price of this game has also really shot up in recent years. I paid $30 only a few years ago, and you'd be lucky to land this game for less than $75 now. I guess this just highlights why it's better to buy retro games sooner rather than later.

DOS XMas Skyroads

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Well, the fans demanded it, this video has commentary attached to it. It's not a particularly interesting commentary, but hopefully this should stop some of the requests.

Anyway, Skyroads was an early 3D game, predating the N64 by two whole years. The gameplay is very simple, you just have to make it to the end of the stages without falling off, blowing up, or running out of fuel, but it is extremely difficult. Even clearing the first 10 stages as in the video here is no walk in the park.

SNES Pocky and Rocky

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Continuing my foray into shmups, here's Pocky and Rocky. This is a game that's frequently called a "cute-em-up" for its visuals, but it's quite difficult just the same. I was originally going to do this playthrough on hard, but the cutscenes were driving me nuts so I eventually went back to normal and got this great run.

NES SCAT

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We now return to more NES videos, but at least it's in a genre I don't record often. SCAT is a really technically impressive NES shmup, it looks great, has a ton of stuff on the screen, and virtually never has slowdown or flicker (in one player mode, at least).

It's not an especially hard game, but I definitely think it's underappreciated, so I wanted to do a video of it to let people see what kind of action the NES was really capable of.

GEN Puggsy

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I thought you would probably be getting tired of all the NES videos by now, so here's a break for some Genesis. Puggsy is an innovative puzzle/platformer with a neat physics engine and some clever level design. Unlike most puzzle/platformers, many of the levels have multiple solutions, too, which should make this a bit more interesting to watch then some of them might be.

This is a pretty long game, so I do everything I can to keep deaths to a minimum.