The Amiga has hardware sprites, but they’re fairly limited. Most programmers prefer to use its powerful blitter hardware to simulate sprites, drawing them to screen memory much more rapidly than non-blitter hardware can. For more information, I refer you to the video.

That’s it for today, but there be something more substantial tomorrow….

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While it has a recreation of the original Q*bert, the main attraction to Mega Q*bert is Mega Mode, which adds a lot of new elements to the game. It takes inspiration, not just from arcade Q*bert, but from Konami’s Q*bert for NES and the underrated Q*bert 3 for SNES. It even borrows bits of Q*bert creator Jeff Davis’ own unreleased arcade sequel, Faster Harder More Challenging Q*bert: Q*bertha returns from that game, a chaser character that can change cube colors herself. Later on, as in FHMCQ, that are levels where Slick and Sam change cubes to an unsolvable color, and only Q*bertha can return them to play.

Some other new elements, joining the balls and baddies of the arcade games:

• The Red Balls have tiny fast and huge slow versions, they behave the same but the difference in timing makes them tricky. Along with them are “Stop and Go” balls, which change speed.
• There’s new purple octopus enemies that generally fall down the pyramid, but can meander unpredictably, including up and sideways.
• A relative of Slick and Sam shows up later on, who in addition to wrecking your work can skip cubes on the way down, including jumping right over your head.

There’s also static disks that can be reused (a borrowing from Q*bert 3), disassociated playfields that disks must be used to travel between, cubes that can only be left in certain directions, one-hop cubes that disappear when landed on (and provide an alternate way of tricking Coily to its doom), and more. And there’s a two-player co-op mode too!

I won’t say it always has the best design. I’ve found at least one situation where the one-hop cubes can make a level unsolvable unless you lose a life, which resets them. And the way the balls move make some routes very difficult to ascend, due to their frequent tumbling down and blocking narrow paths. But these challenges, once you’re aware of them, can be overcome, and the game has passwords for every level anyway. If you like the original game, you’re sure to have a good time with Mega Q*bert.

Here is a full playthrough by its creator Jaklub. It’s pretty long (2 hours, 9 minutes)!

Mega Q*bert (rom for Genesis/Mega Drive by Jaklub, free download)

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As the article reminds us, it wasn’t the first Treasure game released, that would be the game that in many ways announced to the world that they meant business: Gunstar Heroes, as brimming with ideas as it was.

Treasure seems largely to be in preservation mode these days, and their last title was released 11 years ago. Not all of their games have been as critically acclaimed as Gunstar Heroes, but they all have something interesting about them, and McDonald’s Treasure (heh) Island has it too.

Kid Fenris on McDonald’s Treasure Island

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The games and effects covered this time:

• Art of Fighting on the PC Engine, zooming in and out from the fighters as they approach and draw away from each other
• Road Rash on the SMS, which created a startling effect of a road undulating and going over hills for 8-bit hardware
• Ranger-X on Genesis/Mega Drive, artillery shots firing into the distance in the background and multi-plane parallax scrolling
• The Lawnmower Man on Genesis, SNES and Gameboy, fast 3D virtual reality scenes (well, slower on Gameboy)
• Donkey Kong Country 3 on SNES: vertical stretching of a boss
• Contra 3 on SNES: rotating both a large boss, the background and the player on the screen at once when the SNES only had one hardware scroll background layer
• Super Metroid: the Power Bomb explosion effect

If you enjoyed this you’re in luck, for they’ve done many other videos like this one. They’re all in this 21-item playlist.

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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

Nintendo

Donkey Kong(10m)
Donkey Kong Jr.(11m)
Super Mario Bros.(39m)
Super Mario 3 (Full Walkthrough)(2h58m)
Super Mario Bros 3 (with warps)(21m)

The Legend of Zelda
First Quest(1h28m)
Second Quest(2h2m)

Zelda II(2h13m)
Kirby’s Adventure(2h2m)
Metroid(1h32m)
Kid Icarus(1h27m)
Punch-Out!! NES(47m)
StarTropics(2h8m)
Tetris (Strategy Guide)(23m)
Yoshi’s Cookie (Strategy Guide)(18m)
Dr. Mario (Strategy Guide)(20m)
Yoshi(14m)
Baseball(26m)
Tennis(29m)
Golf(14m)
Pro Wrestling(34m)
Ice Hockey(14m)
Volleyball(23m)
Excitebike(12m)
Pinball(26m)
RC Pro-Am(28m)
Rad Racer(31m)

Capcom

Ghosts ‘n Goblins(39m)
Mega Man(43m)
Mega Man II(1h2m)
Mega Man III(1h4m)
Mega Man IV(1h10m)
Ducktales(30m)
Duck Tales 2(34m)
Darkwing Duck(43m)
Chip ‘n’ Dale Rescue Rangers 2(44m)
Legendary Wings(38m)

Konami

Gradius(21m)
Castlevania(26m)
Castlevania II(1h3m)
Castlevania III(1h39m)
Contra(21m)
Super C(26m)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles NES(47m)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game( 1h4m)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III(1h3m)
Metal Gear(1h29m)
Track and Field (all World Records)(15m)
The Goonies II(43m)
Top Gun(38m)
Tiny Toon Adventures(30m)
The Adventures of Bayou Billy(42m)
Blades of Steel(25m)
Sid Meier’s Pirates! NES(1h22m)

ICOM

Shadowgate(42m)
Deja Vu(47m)
Uninvited(35m)

Tecmo

Ninja Gaiden II(52m)
Ninja Gaiden III(51m)
Rygar(43m)

Sunsoft

Batman NES(30m)
Batman: Return of the Joker(25m)
Blaster Master(1h45m)

LJN

Friday the 13th(24m)
A Nightmare on Elm Street(42m)
Jaws(22m)
T&C Suft Design (18m)

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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The explanation: Did you ever play around with a 32X? Evidently not a lot of people did. It was straaaange. Unexpectedly powerful! A bit misjudged! Hosted a port of DOOM! Had a port of Virtua Racing that compares favorably with the Saturn version! Had that crazy hard-to-play Knuckles game that gave us Vector the Crocodile!

Have you ever hooked one up though? Its hardware is odd. It’s like a completely separate console to itself. The Mega Drive wasn’t made to support add-on processors and chips like that, so Sega used a clever solution: the 32X has its own video output, and also a video input. You plug the Genesis’ output into the 32X, and then the 32X into your TV. The 32X mixes the Genesis’ signal into its own, as if it were chromakeyed. Since the 32X cartridge supplies the program running on the Genesis as well as itself and they can talk to each other, the two processors and graphics chips should be able to sync perfectly, if awkwardly.

But: because the Genesis’ video signal emerges from that console through this external wire before reentering the 32X, it’s possible to do things to it while in transit. The Genesis supplies video timing information that the 32X relies on, so you can’t get a signal from the add-on without the Genesis’ AV plugged into it, but the Genesis does produce a viewable video signal that you can see on its own.

All the details are in the video, which has been embedded below for your convenience and amusement.

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A good old-fashioned website! It’s hope to information on the construction of a wide variety of console platforms! Docs on the NES, the Sega Master System, the PC Engine (a.k.a. Turbografx 16), the Mega Drive (a.k.a. Genesis), Gameboy, SNES, Saturn, Playstation, Virtual Boy (yes), Nintendo 64, Dreamcast, Playstation 2, GBA, Gamecube, Xbox, DS, PSP, Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Wii and Wii U.

The Copetti site: Architecture of Consoles

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Truthfully, there are lots of games that are perceived as bad that aren’t really so terrible, often due to the audience-chasing bile emitted by folk like Seanbaby and Something Awful. Games intended to be played for challenge, especially those from arcades and the earlier years of consoles, are kind of a pastime for masochists. When you lose, it often feels like it’s not your fault, but was it really? Was that hit telegraphed and avoidable? Was there some clever technique to be discovered, like jumping and slicing through an Ironknuckle’s helmet in Zelda II, that makes seemingly impossible enemies a simple matter to defeat? And when a game is intended to be played many times, not shattered in a single session but returned to many times, getting a bit further each time, isn’t it supposed to be a good thing that you may lose your first time out?

There are lots of armchair game designers, maybe even more than armchair movie directors, since players spend more time with games generally before they put them down, and it’s easier, theoretically at least, to make games yourself without the capital expenditure and outside labor that movies require. (I can tell you though, it’s still plenty hard.) And yet, they are the players, and if they’re not having fun, then the game is doing it wrong. Even if it’s because of some information or training the player hasn’t, in their life, gained, you can’t blame them. Maturity can help a player enjoy games they wouldn’t otherwise. But this is also true of any art form, and the opposite could also be said to be true, there are games where, I’d say, maturity is an outright barrier to enjoyment. It’s complicated. Maybe I’ll talk about this later.

In the article that Bad Game Hall Of Fame talks about that I find interesting today, the game in question is Sword of Sodan, the creation of Finnish demo coder Søren Grønbech, an infamous game with a much longer story behind it than your typical bad game, indeed extremely long. Out of curosity, I pasted BGHoF’s discussion of it into Microsoft Word, and it came up to 67 pages! It’s got two large sets of footnotes, goes back to the Amiga demo scene and gives insight into the difficulties of developing computer games, at the time, in the state of Denmark.

Sword of Sodan for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, as it turns out, is a port of an Amiga game. Both games are extremely hard, but the Genesis version actually has more interesting design decisions behind it, in the form of its potion mixing subgame. You can hold up to four potions, each of one of four different colors, and can choose to drink any number of them at once. Drinking different combinations of potions has different effects, most good, some useless, a couple actually bad. (Hilariously, if you drink one of each color at a time your character immediately dies, and the game flashes a message on screen: “WINNERS DON’T DO DRUGS.” Gee thanks, William S. Sessions.)

67 pages is a lot to read about a game that few people might want to play, but it’s okay to skip around. I won’t tell anyone.

Bad Game Hall of Fame: Sword of Sodan

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Crusader of Centy’s generic name caused me to pass on it back then, but it has a lot of interesting elements, including a surprisingly dark story, a system where you can collect up to 16 animal companions and use them two at a time, an animation style for its main character where it was composed of several individual pieces that were animated separately (while avoiding the problems that system had in Ernest Evans) and generally Zelda-like gameplay.

Of particular interest in the article is that the game was at one point pitched to be an entry in the Shining series, with the working title Shining Rogue. That turns out to also have been a WIP title for Landstalker.

Soleil/Crusader of Centy, Sega’s Answer To Zelda (timeextension.com)

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You want to know what game doesn’t have a great sound track? Crazy Bus.

Crazy Bus is a homebrew Sega Genesis/Mega Drive game that was created as a test for the programmer’s BASIC compiler. It wasn’t meant to be a real game. As a result, its soundtrack is almost a masterpiece in cacaphony. Listen for yourself… but you’re going to want to turn the volume down for this one.

It’s awe-ful-some. I encourage you to play it for for friends, family, co-workers, prospective employers, random strangers and household pets. I’m certain nothing bad will come of it!

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“We scour the Earth web for indie, retro, and niche gaming news so you don’t have to, drebnar!” – your faithful reporter

Computer issues kept me from filing last week’s report. That is the reason. It is not true that I got so drunk at a Globmas Party that my chemical composition was 50% alcohol. Don’t listen to those rumors! Let us begin.

Dwarf Fortress’ Steam Edition is still the toast of the gaming blogoglobe! A recent update lets you use the original version’s ASCII graphics instead of the high-falutin’ new pixel art skin. So proclaimeth Ian Boudreau at PCGamesN!

It’s funny. Corbin Davenport writes an article at How-To Geek titled Atari’s New Gaming Console Isn’t Dead Yet. But it’s URL is: https://www.howtogeek.com/855757/ataris-new-gaming-console-is-dead/ Don’t you love how URL slugs can reveal a piece’s working title? The article itself is more about how it’s mostly dead, so someone call Miracle Max.

Gavin Lane at NintendoLife discusses the upcoming shutdown of the 3DS and WiiU eShops. You haven’t been able to add funds for a while through the stores, although you could still add them using the Switch’s shop then use that money to buy there. The piece mentions that Nintendo has been almost anxious to close the shops, due to poor sales of the WiiU. You’ll still be able to download purchased software… for a while.

Also at NintendoLife, Liam Doolan interviews a couple of people at Wayforward about River City Girls 2! It turns out that planning began almost immediately after RCG1 wrapped up.

Tom Ivan. Video Games Chronicle. Microsoft and Activision have filed responses to the FTC complaint about their merger being anti-competitive. Creatures of my species are capable of merging together into one blobby whole, which is admittedly quite fun on a boring Saturday night, but none of us are corporations that control massive segments of the console gaming market!

Related, Jezz Corden of Windows Central reports that Microsoft is claiming that Sony’s influence will prevent four specific games from ever reaching the Xbox console platform: Final Fantasy VII Remake, Final Fantasy 16 (shouldn’t that be XVI?), Silent Hill 2 Remake, and Bloodborne.

And finally, at The Ringer, M.D. Rodrigues writes a long piece about the legacy of the Sega Genesis Ecco the Dolphin games.

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This is the boss’s only attack. If you’re standing on the middle platform and just duck when he’s attacking, you’re completely safe.

Original tweet.

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“We scour the Earth web for indie, retro, and niche gaming news so you don’t have to, drebnar!” – your faithful reporter

Aaron Greenbaum at Den of Geek investigates, what was the last NES game released? Covers multiple territories, and both licensed and unlicensed titles, although in that later case recent releases stretch the premise considerably.

This might be our first link to comingsoon.net, reporting that Nintendo has purchased the studio that animated those charming Pikmin shorts from back in the Wii-U era. [Reminders: first, second, third] Maybe we should save those links for Sunday? Maybe we’ll just slip them in again some week.

We have a bit of animosity towards Cracked for how they treated several of their prior writers, although that did eventually result in the creation of both Behind The Bastards and Some More News, which are creator-owned. Still, bad scene Cracked. Currently working for them (for how long?) is Eli Yudin, and they wrote a list of 15 Gloriously Weird Genesis games. It contains ToeJam & Earl, Wiz & Liz, Rocket Knight Adventures, The Ooze, and Mutant League Football, among others.

At Stone Age Gamer they have a series about Game Boy sequels to NES games, and in that Chris Randazzo writes about Blaster Master Boy, which is really a Game Boy port of Robowarrior, which was originally known as Bomber King in Japan, where it was a spinoff of Bomberman! The source for that information: the dusty back corners of my beleaguered brain.

Callum Bains at TechRadar brings us news that a number of Bethesda and id Software games are playable for free, for a limited time, to people in the Xbox Insiders program.

Jody Macgregor at PC Gamer tells us that that fan remake of Ocarina of Time will get new features, including unlocked frame rate and adjustable difficulty.

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“We scour the Earth web for indie, retro, and niche gaming news so you don’t have to, drebnar!” – your faithful reporter

Matthew Byrd of Den of Geek lists 20 Genesis/Mega Drive games that were ahead of their time. Some interesting choices, like Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday, and they did notice Naughty Dog’s Rings of Power unlike that previous list. They also mention ToeJam & Earl, although they diss it a bit, boo. They also give nods to King’s Bounty, Starflight and Herzog Zwei, which are all fine games. No mention of Might & Magic II though!

Ollie Reynolds at Nintendo Life writes of modders adding color to B&W Gameboy titles.

At first, Sorrel Kerr-Jung’s article at CBR about Invader Zim’s voice being recast, and series creator Jhonan Vasquez being upset about it, doesn’t seem like it fits in with our theme. Even hearing about it being in SMITE, which is one of those MOBAs a particular breed of older kid might be enthused with… well, I’ve never heard of SMITE. But when I found out it was because they wanted to avoid voice actor Richard Horvitz’s union, and yeah, that’s the kind of terrible behavior we can get behind telling people about. The developers responsible are Hi-Rez Studios and Titan Forge Games. Also, whose idea was it to put Invader Zim in a MOBA?

At Nintendo Everything, Brian notes about upcoming asymmetric multiplayer game Dragon Ball: The Breakers, where some players play as DB side characters, and others of villains like Cell, Frieza and Kid Buu. The developers were unsure anyone would want to play weak characters like Oolong and Bulma. Geez, those are some of my favorite characters! Vegeta is cool and all but he’s kind of one-note, and let’s face it, Goku is probably insane.

Sad news that’s been going around: popular niche puzzle makers Zachtronics is closing up shop. They’re making one last game though, Last Call BBS, which Vice’s Renana Price calls “a beautiful vision of the 90s internet.” It’s basically a collection of smaller puzzles with a framing story about maintaining a friend’s website. Like all of Zachtronics’ products, it looks very interesting. It’s available on Steam.

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“We scour the Earth web for indie, retro, and niche gaming news so you don’t have to, drebnar!” – your faithful reporter

Not a lot of news today, drebnar! Let’s see what there is to see with our respective light-based optical sensors.

We usually have tons of things to link, so we’ve started leaning away from listicles, but it’s a short broadcast today, so here’s Chris Freiberg’s list of the best 15 Genesis RPGs on Den of Geek. It’s a provocative list, in order from last to first: Gauntlet IV, Ys III: Wanderers From Ys, Syndicate, Sword of Vermillion, Light Crusader, Crusader of Centy, Landstalker, Pirates! Gold, Dungeons & Dragons: Warriors of the Eternal Sun, Shining Force II, Phantasy Star III, Wonder Boy in Monster World, Beyond Oasis, Shadowrun, and, of course, Phantasy Star IV. Now, Gauntlet IV is an amazing port, and no one can fault Wonder Boy in Monster World, Landstalker or Pirates! Gold on general terms, but they’re hardly traditional RPGs. And then there are the games left out: the original Shining Force didn’t make it even through SF2 did, there’s no Phantasy Star II or Shining in the Darkness, and most egregious of all IMO, nowhere to be seen are New World Computing’s terrific ports of King’s Bounty or Might & Magic II, which are fully the equal of their computer versions drebnar! And if you’re going to include Pirates! Gold, you gotta include Starflight! And while it’s a bit clunky in interface, there’s the oft-overlooked early Naughty Dog production Rings of Power!

Victoria Kennedy at Eurogamer casually drops that a documentary is approaching on the making of Nintendo 64 system seller Goldeneye 007.

Lots of places are raving about the excellence of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge, proclaiming it a return to the greatness of the classic Konami arcade games. WCCFtech’s Ule Lopez chimes in, in their review, and uses it to explain about the wonders of rollback netcode. Okay by us!

Thom Dunn at Boing Boing reports that the newsletter 50 Years of Text Games is being published in book form!

Finally, back at Nintendo Life again, Alana Hagues points us to a YouTube video explain a trick allowing you to explore underwater areas in Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

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U Can Beat Video Games (their YouTube channel) has only been around for a bit over a year, but they’ve already covered a lot of challenging games. It serves as a complete video playthrough, often revealing all the game’s secrets, and has remarkably restrained and helpful audio commentary by YouTube standards.

UCBVG videos cover the entire game, and can be long. The most recent, the covering A Link to the Past with a second part, is nearly two hours but it uses YouTube’s timeline annotations to mark any potential trouble spots you may have. Even if you’ve mastered the games he covers, I find it relaxing to watch anyway to refresh my memory on these decades-old amusements.

To date, UCBVG has covered 70 titles across the NES, SNES, Game Boy, and Mega Drive/Genesis. Some highlights include their videos on the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for NES (the first game on the channel), Mega Man I, II, and III, The Legend of Zelda, its second quest, and it’s sequel, Ghosts ‘n Goblins, Legacy of the Wizard (a.k.a. Dragon Slayer IV), Castlevania and Simon’s Quest, Blaster Master, Punch-Out!!, Ninja Gaiden and its first sequel, Clash at Demonhead, Metal Gear, Crystalis, Wizards & Warriors and its sequel Ironsword, Dragon Warrior and Final Fantasy (in two parts), Actraiser, The Guardian Legend, Kirby’s Dream Land (including Extra Mode!), the weird and unique The Magic of Scheherazade, Sonic the Hedgehog, and even the notorious Battletoads, among many other games.

They update weekly, so why not take a look!

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The third and last of the chronological platform cataloguing efforts is the longest-lived and most complete, Dr. Sparkle’s wonderful Chrontendo, going through the entire library of the Famicom and NES, along with sister projects Chronsega (Mark III/Master System and Mega Drive/Genesis) and Chronturbo (PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16).

Each of the projects I’ve presented have had a different style. Atari Archive does one game at a time, devoting from 8 to 20 minutes to it. Video Works tends to cover two or three times per video. Well, the various Chrons go for the omnibus approach: each entry shows from a dozen to 20 or more games. It also emphasizes gameplay footage, and also sometimes some side bits amidst the many games.

Chrontendo has been going since a while before 2010, and so there is a whole lot of material to catch up on. It also has the slowest rate of updating, with sometimes whole years between episodes. But each episode is its own little wonder, containing a solid mass of retro gaming information, including many games you probably won’t ever hear about anywhere else.

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