Jeremy Parish
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NES Works Gaiden: The Datach Joint ROM System
🕑 Added 2021-06-16 12:00:05 +0000 UTCAs a patron request, here's a companion episode to last year's Aladdin Deck Enhancer retrospective. This one was trickier to put together, because (1) the games are unbelievably expensive and (2) all the games appear to be focused on two-player play; the pack-in Dragon Ball title, so far as I can tell, doesn't even offer solo play! Still, the Datach Joint ROM System is a pretty rad slice of Famicom history, both despite and because of all the weird choices Bandai made here.
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Kris Randazzo
I had no idea this thing existed. Fascinating watch!
Kyle Olson
The Bar Code feature is a failure to understand what was interesting about the Bar Code Battler. It's not just the process of scanning, it's the feeling of discoverability with real world things. This feature is like if in the 2000s somebody realized that Text Messaging was popular so you had to send a text to one of a series of fixed numbers to select a fighter on your video game.
