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December Bonus #1: NES Works Gaiden Epoch-12
🕑 Added 2023-12-02 14:44:44 +0000 UTCAnother bonus video, a week after the last? Yes, well, this is my last chance to get Epoch-related content out ahead of RndStranger's daily video series. That rascal, undercutting my years of planning like this.
But also, I felt pretty inspired by the quality of the games in question. Well, the game. Comic Circus turned out to be way better than I expected! I genuinely enjoyed it. I can't say the same about the second game this episode, but it does at least have the benefit of being a very strange landmark in video game history. For whatever that's worth.
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Jeremy Parish
Yep, I wrestled with whether or not to mention YMO, but I didn't want to get too far into the weeds...
Vinushika
I wish people knew about this on the eve of Y2K. This throwaway Japanese cartridge from 1985 has better compliance than the massive enterprise systems of multinational conglomerates.
Vinushika
Having played Exidy's Circus at Galloping Ghost, this is a much more merciful and charming work. Everything is so lively, well-animated, and shockingly fair for the era. What a lovely little gem of a game. Circus may be an also-ran compared to Space Invaders, but it was apparently big enough to end up a centerpiece in YMO's first album both in the cover art and in the samples used to represent "video games" inside it, coming in at equal importance as Invaders, so I wonder just how much that game really penetrated the Japanese market. The era between the original Invader Boom and the ramp-up of other arcade games in Japan has always been fascinating and under-documented to me.
Rhys
I'm amazed Milky Princess lets you input dates starting with 20. Epoch wanted you use this for DECADES
