Jeremy Parish

May bonus #3: Gametech Video Issue 3 VHS Rip

Another bonus video upload, continuing the GTV series—which means, yeah, another set of surreal framing sequences surrounding preview and commentary segments on games both familiar and foreign. You really get a sense of how different GTV was from Famimaga Video here....

NES Works 135: Nobunaga's Ambition

Another massive monstrosity of a game! NES, please, I am begging for you to go easy on me just this once.

Honestly, I don't really have Manager Brain, so games like Nobunaga's Ambition sorta slide off my grey matter like someone opened up my skull and applied a healthy coating...

May bonus #2: Capcom Game Music Vol. 3 vinyl rip (side 1)

Hello! If you happen to be a cool Retronauts patreon subscriber, you know that I've been hunting down interesting game related vinyl and cassette releases from the 1980s over the past few years to include in Retronauts Radio episodes. I'm jumping the gun a bit here, since I managed to hunt down o...

May bonus #1: Gametech Video Vol. 2

It looks like the most recent bonus upload (Gametech Video Vol. 1) wasn't watched by a lot of people, which is a shame! Gametech Video is not your typical game magazine material. It features game previews from 1988, sure, but the entire thing is framed by a one-sided conversation/broadc...

NES Works 134: Strider

Hello and welcome to May ’24. Here is an episode about Strider. Well, partially. It's also about some legislative and cultural shifts in America and Japan during the first half of the 1980s that had knock-on effects on all media, including video games, and which explain (at least to so...

April Bonus #3: Gametech Video Issue 1 VHS rip

This past month has been a bit challenging for me, and I've been remiss in posting bonus materials for patrons. I'm going to make it up for you in May by posting far more frequently, beginning here with the first of about 12 volumes of another Japanese Famicom-era VHS-based games ma...

Game Boy Works V2 #04: Alleyway & Tennis

And with this, the Game Boy launch lineup comes to an end—and there's only one more game for the platform due in 1989, so don't expect much more Game Boy material until, uh... looks like 2026? Sorry. That's going to be a bit of a wait. But, on the plus side, that long-delayed Strider&n...

April bonus #2: NES Works Gaiden Casio (episode 65): Turpin and Fighting Bug

Whew! I managed to pull this episode together with time to spare in the month, despite how disruptive the past six weeks have been. And I had an excuse to play Lady Bug, which will probably never happen again for the remainder of this video project. So that's nice. Sadly, I have at least...

Game Boy Works Vol. 2-03: Super Mario Land and Baseball

Two things about this episode, which continues our Month of Game Boy Reprises For The American Launch (a title that truly just dances off the tongue):

The opening section is material I held over from the Game Boy overview because I didn't want that video to inflate to more than half an hou...

Mulligan time: Game Boy Works Vol. II Episode 1 do-over

It did not sit well with me that my attempt to revisit the Game Boy was wrecked by technical failings. That video should have been a milestone video for this documentary project! So—now that I have a replacement audio mixer in hand, I re-recorded the voiceover track and remastered the video fro...

Game Boy Works Vol. 2 Episode 02: Tetris

The revisited Game Boy Works (U.S.A. Remix) series won't include many single-game episodes, since I've already discussed these early games in the context of their Japanese launch. HOWEVER, the U.S. launch context for Tetris is wholly different from the way it landed in Japan, so it gets ...

March bonus #1: 10 Years

Well, I guess this isn't really a bonus video in the usual sense, but... two weeks from today will be the 10th anniversary of my first Game Boy Works (World) upload. Seemed worth marking the occasion.

Game Boy Works Vol. 2 001: The Game Boy

Good morning. First, a couple of apologies are in order. I'm sorry that I did not post a bonus video this past weekend, for those who subscribe to such things; I've been dealing with an ongoing family health concern for the past few weeks, and that situation has absolutely wrecked my schedule and...

NES Works 133: Dragon Warrior

Piping hot from the NES Works oven, it's a freshly rendered mega-sized episode on a game that totally deserves it. I've pooled all of my resources here: Personal experience, tons of reading and research, conversations with some of the dev staff over the years, magazine material, and lots of archi...

Running a little late today

Hey all, just wanted to let you know that the weekly Wednesday morning (U.S. time) post won't happen until Wednesday evening or Thursday morning. I'm waiting on one last component to arrive, which then needs to be photographed and placed in the video. I actually ordered it a couple of weeks ago, ...

March bonus #4: NES Works Gaiden Casio - Dig Dug - Warp & Warp

The most notable thing about this video is that I accidentally hit the "cinematic" frame rate feature on my camera and made the hosting segments look about 90% classier than before. Otherwise... it's a video about mediocre versions of games that you know better (and which played better) on Famico...

NES Works 132: Thundercade and Guerrilla War

I hope you don't mind that this episode goes off the rails a little bit toward the end. It's been a long and difficult few months, and this episode is the equivalent of my falling into a fugue state and coming to naked in the middle of a New Mexico convenience store. Wait, no, that would imply I'...

March bonus #3: Metroidvania Works book preview

Well... I finished text and layouts on the Metroidvania Works book this weekend. "Metroidvania Works" ended up being a working title only; the book will be called The History Metroidvania: The First Decade. Probably.

Anyway! The book needs to be copy-edited and proofed and revised,...

NES Works 131: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

I keep telling myself that I need to get my scripts under control. These videos get longer and longer with each passing year. Remember when I was publishing five-minute weekly videos on Game Boy games that no one wanted to hear about? I do! And now, here we are: Despite my reworking my production...

March Bonus #2: V-Jump V-Fest ’96 Video [4K Rip]

I've been sitting on this one a while, and the recent passing of Akira Toriyama reminded me that it needs to go live. It's another in the V-Jump video series; this time a document of the 1996 V-Jump Fest live event, in which the magazine showcased a bunch of upcoming releases from a very exciting...

NES Works 130: Desert Commander & California Games

This week we have some absolutely mismatched games: Desert Commander and California Games. One is a very serious war game in which you fight against (or even command) the Nazi's Afrika Korps; the other lets you bop seagulls by bouncing a beanbag off your head. Truly, the NES con...

March Bonus #1: Famicom Wars Promo Tape [4K VHS Rip]

This video is what they did to promote games back before Mega64 existed.

NES Works 129: The Adventures of Bayou Billy

Hope you like sweet-ass game music and hard-ass difficulty, because The Adventures of Bayou Billy offers both in spades. It's the game so hard it killed my VHS camcorder. 

Feb. Bonus #4: NES Works Gaiden (Casio) #63 - Tutankham & Amidar

Well, here we go. I've had to bid farewell to my trusted VHS camcorder, which recently passed a sort of functional point of no return. Maybe it was just sad about all the mooks in the comments section complaining about my "VHS filter." Well, so it goes. I'm afraid you have to look at my mug in cr...

NES Works 128: Super Dodge Ball

After last week's utterly enormous Mega Man 2 retrospective, I wanted to dial things down to a more manageable length for this episode and decided to hold on to the backup title (California Games) for another time. But wouldn't you know it, this still ended up being a pretty lon...

February Bonus #3: Mario Paint Official Video [4K VHS Rip]

Hello, friends—your Sunday treat has arrived. This time, it's a high-quality video rip of a Mario Paint tutorial video, which appears have been produced by APE. There's some really interesting stuff in here—extremely high-quality Mario Paint images and music, of course, and ...

NES Works 127: Mega Man 2

If you subscribe to this channel, you probably don't need me to tell you that I love Mega Man 2. And if you somehow didn't know that, this 25-minute video should drive the point home. You don't need me to belabor the point. Enjoy.

February Bonus #2: Miho Nakayama no Tokimeki High School Prize Tape [VHS Rip]

I've covered the short-lived "idol game" phenomenon here with Teddy Boy for Master System. Now here's further evidence! It's the prize tape that fans received for uploading their completed game stats via Disk Writer Kiosk... 15 minutes of candid B-roll of pop singer Miho Nakayama doing.....

NES Works 126: Hoops & Shooting Range

Welcome to the bulk filler aisle of the NES. These games flesh out the library. They were products that probably made their respective publishers more money than they cost to develop and manufacture. They exist so that NES collectors will have to find them to complete their full sets. And they al...

February bonus #1: NES Works Gaiden Casio

Hello! I barely managed to squeeze this in before weekend's end, but here it is. The first of a few episodes of NES Works Gaiden Casio. This episode took quite a bit longer to create than the usual, since it involved creating new assets for a new series, digging into materials for a new console a...