Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross get cracking on Castlevania, live at PRGE!
No show notes, except to thank Brayton Cameron, Nick Glauber, and the staff of the Portland Retro Games Expo. Also, thanks so much to everyone who came out to the show!
Episode 112: Blaster Master
Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross blow through Blaster Master.
We've covered several NES platformers on the show, but mostly from bigger publishers. Capcom and Konami are mainstays, and of course we've talked a lot about Nintendo itself, but SunSoft has racked up more Abject Suffering entries than WOFF! entries. Blaster Master is a varied and eclectic game with some neat ideas and inconsistent execution. Those neat ideas count for a lot, though, and ambition gets points.
LINKS OF NOTE:
Episode 82: Contra / Little Nemo: The Dream Master
Episode 50: Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse
Episode 28: Maniac Mansion (Featuring Ron Gilbert)
Episode 22: Bionic Commando
Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross latch onto the finer points of Bionic Commando.
Pro-tip: There is no jump button. Instead, you must use your rad bionic arm to swing into the hidden bases of the Badds (NOT THE NAZIS) and rescue your mentor and life-mate Super Joe. In the process, you’ll blow up lightning Hitler and escape a nuclear island by grappling to a helicopter.
Links of Note
- Bionic Commando
- Commando
- Top Secret!
- Pop Secret
- American History X
- Heavy D and the Boyz
- "Ziggy Startdust" - David Bowie
- Junko Tamiya
- Cuckoo Attack
- Dark Souls
- Ikari Warriors
- Rygar (NES)
- Rygar (PS2)
- Bionic Commando (2009)
- Hammer Bros.
- Umbrella Corporation
- Little Shop of Horrors
- Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome
- GaGaGaGaGa - Spoon
- Doom 3
- Duct Tape Mod
- "Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee" - WOFF!
- Bionic Commando Script FAQ
- Zen Koan
- The Floor is Lava
- Donkey Kong Jr.
- "Mega Man X" - WOFF!
- Funeral Monologue from Synecdoche, New York
- "Starman" - David Bowie
- The Boys of Brazil
- Brazil (Film)
- Shadow of the Colossus
- Strong Bad Email - "Videogame"
- Bionic Commando Ending (Exploding Hitler)
- Kilgore Trout
- Breakfast of Champions
- Ice-nine
- Project Paperclip
- Bubsy
- Little Nemo: Dream Master
- Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job! - "Pork"
- Triumph of the Will
- Ninjas vs. Podcast
Episode 20: Deja Vu, Uninvited, and Shadowgate
Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross die repeatedly in their attempt to talk about the MacVenture games (Deja Vu, Uninvited, and Shadowgate).
Hi! Can I ask you a question? Do you like pointing? Do you like clicking? Then you’ll sure love these three games. Before LucasArts, there was the MacVenture series… a group of games that pioneered the graphical point-and-click adventure genre as we know it. This episode is a rapid-fire revue of three of the four games in the series: Deja Vu, Uninvited, and most famously, Shadowgate.
Episode 13: Duck Tales
Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross capitalize on the nostalgic popularity of Duck Tales.
Duck Tales is regarded as one of the best NES games, and for good reason. Scrooge’s journey from the Himalayas to Transylvania to the Moon and back to Transylvania a few more times is one of the most novel and fun platformers around. Plus, that Moon music.
Links of Note
- Duck Tales
- Duck Tales Manual
- Gordon Gecko
- Knockback
- Darkwing Duck
- Olmec
- Legends of the Hidden Temple
- Duck Tales Movie
- Duck Tales Speed Run
- The Snow Leopard
- Edge Spawning
- Duck Tales Moon/Final Fantasy 6
- Duck Tales/ Sonic
- Moon / Advantage
- Moon / Mario Paint
- Frostillicus "Moon Pie"
- Super Mario 3D Land
- The Gift of the Magi
- Super secret ending
- Duckman
- The Adventures of Rad Gravity (I was wrong about which game it was! This is unrelated and hideous)
- McKids
- NES Flicker