beat me to it, but it's true

Yes, SkyKid is great! The only place it really lacks is the arcade has rather better music.

Ah I was just about to note that as well.

I hear you about Sopwith. I played an awful lot of it on my dad’s IBM-PC when I was seven or eight years old.

Not sure if you ever got around to playing it, but the Aliens game was canceled, and it's prototype revealed around the time this episode aired. It was also an FDS title, adding to its obscurity. What's surprising is the prototype looks to be just about complete. Maybe some tweaks to balance difficulty and some of the weird jump physics, but it's a complete game you can win, and it'll run you about half an hour from start to finish. Very weird it didn't get released.

Your passion for 3D World Runner brings me joy. n.n

I remember “3D WorldRunner”. This was the first game I played for the NES as a kid, and it was the first game for Acclaim, one of the most decent gaming publishers to come out from the heals of Capcom and Konami. Acclaim did put out a series of good and bad ones for the NES during that time. “Tiger-Heli” was the first NES game that sucked and that was Acclaim, and then “Winter Games” was a no-brainer, and it was an Olympic style game which was horrible. They also made other bad titles like “WWF Wrestlemania”, and that one was bad, “Total Recall” which was also bad that has a “Terminator” reference after you lose a life saying “I’ll be back” which was not in the movie, plus others. By the early 1990’s, Acclaim joined forces with LJN as one of the worst gaming publishers to put out more titles for both NES, SNES and Sega Genesis. The only good LJN game was “Spider-Man in Maximum Carnage” and the Sega Genesis version was by Acclaim.

It was one of Nobuo Uematsu's first soundtracks.

I agree with you. It was fun and enjoyable. I don't know if it's worth finishing, but a few worlds now and then would be refreshing.

And it's one of Nobuo Uematsu's first game soundtracks.

I thought he missed that feature.

I did not get passed World 3-2 which has full of long pits and jumping platforms. When I grew up, I finally got passed World 3. And then World 4 came, I got passed there and avoid the moving hands. And then World 5, sort off, and then World 6 it’s just a series of pits and fire poles to avoid, and then World 7 gets even worse. It starts at turbo speed, and it has too many fire poles, and I have to get pass them to avoid them, and 7-1 has no power ups except for 7-2 where you can fight them at hyper speed and avoid dog faced characters but you can’t shoot them, and that cloud looking object at a microsecond. The final stage was World 8 and 8-1 has to be the most difficult stage in the game where you can jump or jump on top of the fire poles to get passed. World 8-2 is to watch out with the moving hands and pits and random enemies. 8-4 was a quick one before it goes into the final boss and I defeated 7 of them. After I beat the whole game, it has an ending where it gives you a code from all of the bosses. I can’t get able to get a code while “The End” screen appeared, but it never happened. I reset the game, it would replay the same ending again. That’s odd.

Jack was unlockable in chocobo racing on the Ps1. While not quite the same, it does give us a glimpse of what a modern version could look like. finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Jack_(Chocobo_Racing)

Thanks! I've decided to power through the rest of 1987 ASAP. My ideal is to get three books out by the end of next year... we'll see how that goes.

At least Jeremy will have Punch Out and Mega Man to look forward to. And of course more bad ports by Micronics.

you can easily purchase replacement blue and red 3d glasses lol. or even make your own! cardboard and a sheet of red and blue theater light gels. just search up 3d anaglyph glasses. 10 bucks for a solid plastic pair

Larry Bundy Jr Other commenters has said it was in the NES version.

Now I'm imagining an alternate timeline where this plays out to its logical conclusion, where a publisher calls itself "AAAASoft" to get ahead of "Aardvark Entertainment."

That’s how HAL labs came upon that name as each letter is one letter above IBM

Absolute Entertainment did this too for the exact same reason, and they, too, were a bunch of former Activision employees (including David Crane!)

Sure. They were both programmed by Nasir, and I don't see why he wouldn't have just reused his (impressive) code.

Sell it to the Russians

Ehhhhh.

Other Activison guys did the same thing when they founded Absolute.

Acclaim started in 1987 with “3D Worldrunner” before a toy manufacturer turned game publisher LJN bought it in 1990.

I can only assume you mean the arcade version, because every experience I've had with the console versions of it have all been quite consistently awful.

@@KuraIthys That and the Saturn version. The 32X one isn't too bad, either. Just takes some getting used to. If the 3DS version counts, then I'll throw that in, too. I will agree that the ports that came out near the arcade's launch were awful though...at least the ones I played.