Video Games 101 with Professor Brigands

rodneylives — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 14:00:00 +0000

I’ll admit, I’ve sat on this one for months. After posting about U Can Beat Video Games, I started to worry that this blog might get a bit repetitive if I kept posting about video game walkthrough series, and they take a long time to construct because there’s so many links, but it’s been a while since then, and VG101 has been around for years now.

Video Games 101, a side channel of a Let’s Play channel, covers much the same ground as U Can Beat Video Games. Some of the specific games are different. VG101 is a bit more about entertainment than the specifics of beating games and the strategy involved. Professor Brigands has three “TA” characters that assist him: Scary Gary (covering bosses), Blaze (a surfer who goes over the available items in each game) and Fluff the cat puppet, the most fun of the group, who explains game trivia and history.

I’m just putting it off still further at this point. Here is the intro video to the channel, followed by the list of every walkthrough VG101 has posted to date.

NES

RPGs and Related

Faxanadu(1h36m)
Legacy of the Wizard (Dragon Slayer IV NES)(1h16m)
Dragon Warrior (Dragon Quest NES)(1h51m)
Final Fantasy(4h)
Crystalis(2h2m)

Brawlers

Double Dragon(24m)
Double Dragon II(23m)
Double Dragon III(29m)
River City Ransom(47m)

The Guardian Legend(1h54m)
Adventures of Lolo(42m)
Adventures of Lolo 2(47m)
A Boy and His Blob(21m)
The Battle of Olympus(1h9m)
Adventure Island(1h7m)
Bubble Bobble(1h2m)
Maniac Mansion(1h1m)
Low-G-Man(41m)
Robocop(25m)
Battletoads(57m)
8 Eyes(49m)
Paperboy(18m)
Jackie Chan’s Action Kung Fu(37m)
Gremlins 2(25m)
Shatterhand(54m)
Beetlejuice(31m)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde(56m)
Rockin’ Kats(50m)
Magician(1h19m)
Vice: Project Doom(43m)
The Three Stooges(26m)
Super Dodge Ball(21m)
King’s Quest V(1h10m)
Kick Master(39m)
Puss ‘n Boots(15m)
Home Alone 2(25m)
Burgertime (Strategy Guide)(11m)
Dr. Chaos(1h7m)
Werewolf: The Last Warrior(1h39m)
Star Trek: 25th Anniversary(1h15m)
Bart vs The Space Mutants(48m)
Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout(50m)
Bad Dudes(24m)
The Flintstones(36m)
Total Recall(25m)
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves(1h7m)
Ghostbusters(24m)
Back to the Future(23m)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?(56m)
M.U.S.C.L.E.(15m)
Ninja Kid(19m)
The Legend of Dino Riki(24m)
Narc(25m)

GENESIS/MEGA DRIVE

Home Alone(56m)

SNES

Super Mario World
Part 1(44m)
Part 2(41m)
Part 3(45m)
Part 4(52m)
Ghoul School(34m)
Illusion of Gaia(7h4m)
Super Metroid(2h46m)

Super Mario RPG
Part 1(3h2m)
Part 2(3h2m)
Part 3(2h42m)
Part 4(2h41m)

Secret of Mana
Part 1(2h29m)
Part 2(1h59m)
Part 3(1h59m)
Part 4(1h48m)

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past(3h57m)
Super Punch-Out!! SNES(34m)
Mega Man X(1h25m)
Mega Man X2(1h29m)
Final Fight(43m)
Sunset Riders(34m)

NINTENDO 64

Star Fox 64
Easy Route(47m)
Medium Route(43m)
Hard Route(51m)

Super Mario 64
Part 1(1h13m)
Part 2(59m)
Part 3(1h7m)
Part 4(51m)

Goldeneye 007(1h52m)

MISCELLANEOUS

Oregon Trail(26m)
Quest for Glory(1h4m)
Myst(1h29m)
Alley Cat(17m)

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Video Games 101

rodneylives — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 14:00:00 +0000

We’ve linked the Youtube channel U Can Beat Video Games a number of times here previously. Their posting rate has fallen off a bit lately, likely because they’ve been tackling longer fare. It isn’t a simple matter to construct comprehensive video strategy guides and walkthroughs to lengthy JRPGs like Final Fantasy IV or Dragon Quest II.

While we wait for their next effort-intensive guide, we can watch episodes off Video Games 101, courtesy of Brigands and his other channel Let’s Play With Brigands. It’s been going for a couple of years now, and has tackled some formidable games, including The Adventures of Bayou Billy, Castlevania III and the infamous Battletoads. A particular one to check out is the bizarre Dr. Chaos (1h,7m), a game that’s half janky platforming, half haunted house exploration.

VG101 has a very different vibe from UCBVG. It doesn’t try to be nearly as comprehensive, mostly showing a typical playthough. It doesn’t provide maps or many secrets. But it does have some strategy callouts, mostly provided by their whimsical “TAs,” three side characters who wear silly costumes. The best of these is undoubtedly Fluff, a fairly realistic cat puppet, who lives in a lavish study and smokes a bubble pipe, and who provides interesting trivia about the games being played. It’s worth checking into if you have the time and inclination!

Fluff could hold down a channel all by themself!

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Brigands – Set Side B

Video Games 101 with Professor Brigands

NES

Nintendo

Capcom

Konami

ICOM

Tecmo