THE ONLY PODCAST PLAYING EVERY NES GAME IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
You are Kuros, a powerful knight who enter the woods of Elrond. Legend says that a powerful wizard named Malkil has has gone completely mad during his years and turned his powerful magic to the dark side.
It's MEGA MAN versus the powerful leaders and fighting forces of Monsteropolis - that strange multi-layered land of robot-like Humanoids created by the wrongly-performed experiments with human beings by Dr. Wily.
Chalk up your favorite cue stick and challenge your friends to the ultimate game of skill... pool! It takes a pretty cool dude to sink the tough shots on this pool table.
The F-14 jet engines roar as you launch off the carrier deck into the wild blue yonder on a mission to save us all from World War III.
Pitfall Harry returns to adventuring! Harry’s mission: to recover the famed Raj Diamond, and also to rescue his niece Rhonda and loyal lion sidekick, Quickclaw.
Hope you know the greek alphabet! And like SHMUPS! And like US! Because it's time to hear us talk about the latest game in our never ending library, STAR FORCE.
Kid Niki must rescue his beloved Princess Margo who has been kidnapped by the Stone Wizard. You are equipped with a Spinning Sword to clear any minions that stand in your way.
You are Daniel-San, student of the martial arts. Your options are to fight one-on-one against Chozen or play an exciting game progressing through four different stages and three bonus stages.
This can't be! There has never been a Great White in these warm tropical waters before. NEVER! This is more than a coincidence... this shark appears to be possessed... as if it's hunting you down... like it's personal.
It's just you now... you're alone... no one to turn to for help. Sure the odds are against you, but this is when you can really show your stuff. You've got your Nintendo® Zapper® in your hand and a pretty good supply of paint pellets.
The Legend of Zelda for NES and the Legend of Zelda II: Link's Adventure are two classic video games that have been enjoyed by millions of players around the world.
Is it cheating to use Game Genie, Gameshark, or Action Replay? Is it cheating to use the codes programmed into the game ala the Konami code? Is it cheating to use a turbo controller officially sold by Nintendo? Is it cheating to use a quarter on an arcade cabinet to be able to push two buttons at the same time?
We’re here to tell you that it doesn’t matter if it’s “cheating” or not.
SHMUPs are not difficult to understand. You control an object, usually a spacecraft, that moves across an automatic scrolling screen and must shoot and dodge all enemies on screen to make progress. The actual tough part of the genre comes from that simple game play loop. Depending on the controls, amount of enemies, patterns of those enemies, power ups available to you, a SHMUP can be as easy or difficult as the designer wishes.
We’ve played over 200 NES games at this point in the podcast. During that time we’ve played games from over 50 different developers and it’s time to ask the question. Outside of Nintendo who is producing the best games for the NES?
A detailed recap of the top 5 NES games of 1985 from our very first special episode, BEST OF 1985!
An in depth look at how the NES launch games helped Miyamoto develop a skill set that would give him the tools to make Super Mario Bros.
Today we're going to talk about a very specific obscure topic: Romhacks of the 1985 launch games for the Nintendo Entertainment System that shouldn't exist.
THE NES LAUNCH TITLES
Let's tear it up for the 17th and final episode of the NES launch games! A ray of sun after the video game crash of 1983.
Oh hey, it’s that game from Back to the Future! In this episode, we take another whirl with the Zapper for Wild Gunman.
In this episode of NEStalgia, get ready for a game that's a lot like Pong but with better graphics! It's TENNIS on the NES. For more NEStalgia and the show notes, visit NEStalgiacast.com
In this episode of NEStalgia, we take our longest jump into an NES game yet with the genre and system defining game that saved a medium: Super Mario Bros.
In this episode of NEStalgia, don't STACK-UP your expectations for ROB's second and last game.
In this episode of NEStalgia, we're moving to a different section of the Arcade. Get ready to flip out for Pinball!
In this episode of NEStalgia, we're earning our stripes through 5 floors of really random action. Can we save Sylvia and defeat DR. X?
In this episode of NEStalgia, we're climbing our way to the top…that is if we can time the jump correctly. It's the NES Launch Title, Ice Climber!
In this episode we reloaded the NES Zapper for our second foray into light gun games: Hogans Alley
In this episode, we take a look at Gyromite, a game meant to be played with the NES launch curio, R.O.B.
In this episode we take a look at Baseball, a 1983 arcade game based on... you guessed it: baseball. The game was developed and published by Nintendo, in both Japan and North America.
In this episode, we're breaking out the Ol' CRT in order to play some NES Zapper Goodness. Does it still hold up in 2018?
In this episode we take a look at Baseball, a 1983 arcade game based on... you guessed it: baseball. The game was developed and published by Nintendo, in both Japan and North America.
In the very first episode of NESTALGIA we take a look at 10-Yard fight. The 1983 American football arcade game that was developed and published in Japan by Irem and published in the United States by Taito.
Let’s look at how Tetris has evolved since the classic NES version and see if others have what it takes to stand out.