Always loved Power Blade.

Driver…driv3n…drived. First “the crew” was a 3rd person mechanic away from being a driver game if you think about it.

Dudes with Attitude seems like a game originally made for the PC shareware market (the color palette looks like straight up EGA). Get the feeling they noticed shareware wasn't a goldmine if you weren't already an established name, and had some contact that could produce NES carts for them instead. Also, if the game had been released in those four months people cared about the OUYA, owners of that system would have talked non-stop about it.

Hi past Jeff, im from the future wearing my pajamas winding down for the night. Just played a lil Samus Returns on my hacked 3ds.

You ever plain to do this with genesis games?

Weird bit of trivia: there's a "Blaster Master" novel. Officially licensed and everything. It's more mediocre than anything else, but it's weird that they used to just take weird swings like that.

The sounds in Blaster Master were some of the most tolerable so far. some of the NES games can get pretty grating but that one was pretty nice.

So I started my daughter on Firehouse Rescue at late 2/early 3, which was onky s few years ago. It was perfect for her to kearn how to use a controller. However, the second she was able to play anything else, we left it in the dust.

using notion feels like trying to type on a marshmallow keyboard with hands made of jello

Happy to see Power Blade. I've been asking for that for a while now. Power Blade 2 is better IMO.

You do the best Duke Nukem, Jeff <3

say what you will about dizzy but that front flip is rad

I've thought about getting the NES Klax for a while, but I never knew it was a sound or music deal. I. . .won't be getting NES Klax now.

Killer 7 is one of the worst games I've ever played. Like Deadly Premonition and No More Heroes it's a lot more fun to watch than actually play.

VV relies too much on the slow-mo mechanic so the entire game just feels sluggish.

Dizzy sure is on the spectrum alright.

Mario Sunshine - 'Fuck this game'

2:15:32 SETA's Tom Sawyer, he gets high on mushrooms...literally.

Shout out to Power Blade saving the day.

Phantasy Star Online has one of my favorite video game soundtracks of all time. I have so many soundtracks from the different games downloaded. Every track on the episode 1 and 2 soundtrack is fantastic

Dudes With Attitudes feels like a game where they had an interesting concept, but never really got further than that.

i never want to wish bad games on people necessarily, but it is way too funny watching Jeff play bad games. holy shit

Look, I know I'm always coming into the comments on Jeff's NES videos to bang on about the C64 versions of things, but I can't believe the C64 version of 720° seems way more engaging than this one. Like, that's not a top notch conversion either, but it still seems to have a little more style and personality than the NES one. EDIT: I've just learned 720° was another title that had two versions, the European and US; I'm referring to the European version here. But as a side note, I'd love a video of Jeff just comparing the European and US versions of C64 games. It's a weird side of the machine that never fails to fascinate me, as the two versions are usually quite different (see the two versions of C64 Bionic Commando).

I conclude that "Heavy B and the Doys" is: a good one. That's all, didn't have anything else to add. Enjoy the rest of your day.

The first 2 Driver games were awesome!

1:58:55 I remember being bewildered by this magical water at a very young age. I was visiting my aunt and uncle and would always look for games wherever there was a computer, and I found the DOS version of Shinobi on theirs. It's an even worse version than this one, but I had fun with it, at least for the two levels that I was able to get through. But I specifically remember falling into the water at this point and being shocked to learn that it didn't kill or harm you at all. It felt so contrary to everything that video games had been trying to teach me up to that point.

Jeff, I hope you were ranking game cube games

Fandom psychosis has definitely come to a head, with Xbox fanatics. It's reached a point where Uncle Phil has many millions of people hypnotized, into saying "it's free on game pass!" When in fact they are paying to rent those games, they don't even own them.

Ninja Gaiden is a great game that is straight up unfair at times. I didn't think "Is it better or worse than Castlevania 1?" would be a tough question, but I spent a couple of minutes sitting back thinking about that myself. They are similar games as they are different if that makes any sense. As for the rest, Bugs deserved a better birthday, Casino Kid has potential but requires a more time and patience to dig into, and it's a shame that Treasure Master isn't as cool as your character's walk is, but Wario's Woods seems very interesting and Jurassic Park should have been ranked higher, in my opinion. I never got past the first level as a kid, but I always remembered the music and it makes me want to play the rest of it now that I've seen what happens after you open the gate. Good stuff, Gerstmann. Onto Episode 30! Hopefully the GameScent smell cleared out by then, LOL.

I don't know if its a bit amongst all video game podcasters, but why is it hard to remember some UK based shops, once you visited the country? Tesco, Sainsburys, Greggs, House of Fraser, etc are so in your face that, its impossible to not to be familiar with them. My friends from Netherlands, Japan, Sweden, etc all treat these shops like their own, so why is it such a struggle for Americans?

Something about Jeff's hatred for British games of this era just fills me with joy

Ever since analog sticks became a thing, I've had to change the sensitivity settings in every game I can think of, usually to near max and fine tune down from there

Did you know they actually tortured a guy to get that falling scream voice clip in American Gladiators? Like just right there in the office. Super fucked up. I wasn't allowed to rent this game as a child because of this.

to be fair to Golf for not having music. IRL golf doesn't have music. They have people holding signs telling people to be quiet.

Fascinating how NES Dizzy is similiar yet different from ZX version or even Amiga one. I love them but I don't think I rver finished one without map/guide.

I've been thinking a lot about Die Hard too

I kind of respect Dizzy for being about finding interesting ways to get to what seem like unreachable places. I don't doubt it's miserable to play, but the platform puzzle design feels very modern, in a way. It also feels like there is a lot of thought in the level design to let you go and look at what would otherwise be a blind jump. Like, if you put check points in there, and made the screen transition instantaneous, this might be kinda cool.

I cant believe he played that much dizzy oh my god

I am one of those British children. Going into Dizzy games blind as a child was wild. Not a nice experience but ANY progress felt very rewarding. Dizzy is the original Fromsoft progenitor

Dizzy is very much a pocket money game. Its closer to buying a thing on iOS for a couple of bucks. And I remember thinking people who bought games on console (ie Americans) for $60 were insane. They must seem like people who spent $250 on a neo geo game would seem to an NES owner.

PN03 is actually really great, it's just one of the most under the radar and misunderstood games probably ever. I'm guessing you didn't put hardly any time into it, so you don't actually get how the game mechanics work.

Every time I think of Mappy, I think about what a guy said in a podcast. Around 2019 I believe. "Mappy, the only good cop." 😏

Shinobi gave me a very inflated sense of the lethality of ninja stars

I just want to say that the strength you had to continue playing Diszy after, say, the thirty minute mark, is both admirable and worrying.

God dam dramatic music with nothing happening ! LOL

Dizzy! My childhood mascot,Played a ton of these on my specy.... Cheers for the unexpected nostalgia trip mate. And if you can't guess I'm loving your Nes scientific series all the way from the UK. Awsome work Jeff. Long time viewer and champion of yourself!

Feeling a lot of nostalgia remember Armake21 losing his mind to this game, screaming like he had fully lost his mind.

Jeff’s Duke Nukem is getting a little too Macho Man in spots, particular on “balls of steel.”

I'm gonna need dialysis to get the British out of my system after Dizzy.