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NES Works Gaiden #021: 4 Nin Uchi Mahjong / F1 Race / Pac-Man / Xevious
🕑 Added 2021-04-28 13:00:00 +0000 UTCThis week we have the third of four overviews of Famicom's 1984 release lineup, all of which should seem fairly familiar at this point. I've talked about some version of all of these games before, except 4 Nin Uchi Mahjong, but... you know. It's video mahjong. (This nevertheless didn't stop this video from running 15 minutes in length.)
- 4 Nin Uchi Mahjong: Four-player mahjong for Nintendo at last! If you don't mind three players being robots.
- F1 Race: In contrast to SG-1000, it's taken this long for Nintendo to offer a single racing game. Performance-wise, though, it blows away anything seen on Sega's system to this point in time.
- Pac-Man: You know this guy. Another excellent home conversion from Namco(t), rather more impressive in 1984 than its 1988 timing in the U.S. (or 1993 arrival in Europe).
- Xevious: Less visually faithful than Namco's early Famicom ports, this is nevertheless a convincing take on a spicy-hot arcade hit. (In Japan)
Comments
Zachary Adams
Understood. I don't follow YouTube closely enough and am very used to seeing Instagram censor baffling things, so I wanted to be sure. :)
Jeremy Parish
No worries, that was deliberate. I'm not ACTUALLY going to get a content strike, and people who are not familiar with that infamous title screen will get the joke better if they can see what was actually being censored.
Zachary Adams
You missed blurring the very phallic "nin" the second time. If that's the joke well played, but if you're genuinely worried about a content strike you may want to cover it up
