Tag Archives: Famicom
Rock Out With Your Cart Out Dream Event 32
CLICK HERE FOR THE LINK TO THE EPISODE! Twice a month, I find the games that came out that half of the month in five year increments and pick out music from those games for a really long episode. For this episode, we’re looking at the games that came out in the first half of […]
GAJ Game Club – The Legend of Zelda (with Jim Cahill)
John Lucero, Vanessa Cahill, and Jason Arriola are joined by Jim Cahill to talk about the original The Legend of Zelda. It’s the 35th anniversary of this momentous game and we dig in deep to celebrate one of the most important games in the history of the industry! Here’s the comparison video that Clyde Mandelin made about the […]
Rock Out With Your Cart Out 55 – The Legend of Zelda (Famicom Disk System and Remixes)
Since today is the 35th anniversary of The Hyrule Fantasy: Zeruda no Densetsu (known to most of the Western world as The Legend of Zelda) releasing on the Famicom Disk System, I thought I’d go over the soundtrack for it. Now, considering how sparse the actual soundtrack is, I included some of my favorite remixes. […]
ROWYCO 4 – Shatterhand (NES) and Shadow of the Ninja (NES)
Jason Arriola and Dominic Chavez dig into the soundtracks for a couple of NES games. We go over Shatterhand, developed by Natsume and composed by Iku Mizutani and Hiroyuki Iwatsuki, and Shadow of the Ninja, which was developed by Natsume and composed by Iku Mizutani (notice the common item that got us here?). Both Iku […]
Dragon Quest III at 30
Today is the 30th anniversary of Dragon Quest III’s Japanese release. DQIII cemented the series as a cultural touchstone and something more than a fad. Lines snaked around blocks, kids played truant and the game became a national talking point. On the whole, the Dragon Quest series is very iterative. Each successive game builds on the […]
FuriousWang Plays Sweet Home – Complete Playthrough
Greetings and salutations! When October rolled around I felt it was time to do something a little more in spirit of the upcoming Halloween and so I began to play Sweet Home! Which was pretty much the precursor to the Resident Evil series. The experience was pretty memorable and I highly recommend any fan of […]
FuriousWang Plays Sweet Home Part One: Worms and Blue Boards
Greetings and salutations! Welcome to October, my favorite month out of the year! To celebrate my favorite month, I decided to play a classic horror game, SWEET HOME! Obviously it’s the fan translated version of the game as my Japanese is a bit rusty. So relax, turn down the lights and lets get ready to […]
FuriousWang’s Complete Earthbound Zero Playthrough
Greetings and salutations! Welcome to my first playthrough and recording of Earthbound Zero (Mother)! I’m a huge fan of the Earthbound series, so it was great to play the game that started it all. So join me for the strange and unusual that has become a staple of the series. As we fight through faux […]
I Wish I Was Mega Man – Magical Doropie/The Krion Conquest
If you couldn’t tell from the name, I’m going to be playing a few games, likely not to completion, that play similarly, sometimes almost way too much so, to Mega Man. Now before you go running off and decide “NOPE!”, I’m adding one new thing to this that should be a good place to experiment […]
Summer Carnival ’92 – Recca Review
Platforms: Famicom and 3DS Virtual Console On the very rare occasion, we get a nice treat on Nintendo’s Virtual Console. We saw some games that never saw a release in North America come to the Wii through the service, giving people a chance to play them without spending a good chunk of change on importing […]