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Balloon Fight / Ice Climber / Exerion / Galaga / Bungeling Bay retrospective

1985 starts the Famicom on some familiar footing with a couple of future Black Box releases (one great, one meh); two shooters previously seen on SG-1000; and a Commodore 64 conversion from Hudson that would show up on NES under the aegis of its original publisher. No big surprises here (including the apparent Nintendo debut of TOSE, and the fact that the games previously seen on SG-1000 fare a lot better on Famicom), but that won't be the case for long. By the midpoint of 1985, the Famicom library will look wildly different from the NES's as more third parties (and, specifically, more third parties of wildly variable quality) stake their claim on NES.

English
  • Originally Aired September 29, 2021
  • Runtime 16 minutes
  • Created October 26, 2022 by
    Paul Pinegar
  • Modified October 26, 2022 by
    Paul Pinegar