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A playthrough of Khan Games' unlicensed 2014 adventure game for the NES, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.
If you're American and old enough to remember playing video games in the 80s, there's a pretty good chance that you crossed paths with an Atari ET cartridge at some point. It was everywhere. And since this is YouTube, even if you haven't held an ET cart with your own hands, you're probably still quite aware of its existence. It's not every day that a piece of media gets credited with the collapse of a multi-billion dollar industry, after all.
This NES port of the original 1982 Atari game was created by Kevin Hanley and was initially only sold via order forms that were included with new copies Larry and the Long Look for a Luscious Lover (youtu.be/QuKbkl9X4kk), Hanley's NES adaptation of the first Leisure Suit Larry game.
In most ways, it's very similar to the original game. The graphics have been improved slightly (ET is now brown!), a few glitches were fixed, the difficulty options were removed, and a "How to Play" screen can now be accessed from the title screen.
The structure and flow of the game are exactly the same as they were on the Atari. The world is made up of six screens (the forest, Washington, and four areas dotted with pitfalls) that wrap around in a way that suggests that each screen is one face of a cube-shaped planet.
To win, ET has to find the three pieces of the phone, phone home, and meet the mothership at the landing zone. The action button is used to make him run, to fly out of pits, and to activate the icons that are revealed as he wanders around the world. The ? icon will tell you if there is a phone piece hidden in a pit on the current screen, the III icon will scare away FBI agents and scientists, and the talking head icon will summon Elliot who'll give ET extra health in exchange for the Reese's Pieces he's collected.
It's as simple in concept as it is inscrutable without an instruction manual (I played this a ton as a kid and never figured any of it out!), but it's not a bad little game, and it's impressive just how much was packed into an eight kilobyte Atari 2600 cart. The complexity of its design was perhaps a bit too ambitious for the target audience and the hardware, but once you wrap your head around how to play it, ET is a fun way to blow five or ten minutes. The same can be said for this solid NES port. It's not going to make you forget about The Legend of Zelda anytime soon, but it's a neat way to experience one of the most reviled video games of all time.
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No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
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A playthrough of Khan Games' unlicensed 2014 adventure game for the NES, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.
If you're American and old enough to remember playing video games in the 80s, there's a pretty good chance that you crossed paths with an Atari ET cartridge at some point. It was everywhere. And since this is YouTube, even if you haven't held an ET cart with your own hands, you're probably still quite aware of its existence. It's not every day that a piece of media gets credited with the collapse of a multi-billion dollar industry, after all.
This NES port of the original 1982 Atari game was created by Kevin Hanley and was initially only sold via order forms that were included with new copies Larry and the Long Look for a Luscious Lover (youtu.be/QuKbkl9X4kk), Hanley's NES adaptation of the first Leisure Suit Larry game.
In most ways, it's very similar to the original game. The graphics have been improved slightly (ET is now brown!), a few glitches were fixed, the difficulty options were removed, and a "How to Play" screen can now be accessed from the title screen.
The structure and flow of the game are exactly the same as they were on the Atari. The world is made up of six screens (the forest, Washington, and four areas dotted with pitfalls) that wrap around in a way that suggests that each screen is one face of a cube-shaped planet.
To win, ET has to find the three pieces of the phone, phone home, and meet the mothership at the landing zone. The action button is used to make him run, to fly out of pits, and to activate the icons that are revealed as he wanders around the world. The ? icon will tell you if there is a phone piece hidden in a pit on the current screen, the III icon will scare away FBI agents and scientists, and the talking head icon will summon Elliot who'll give ET extra health in exchange for the Reese's Pieces he's collected.
It's as simple in concept as it is inscrutable without an instruction manual (I played this a ton as a kid and never figured any of it out!), but it's not a bad little game, and it's impressive just how much was packed into an eight kilobyte Atari 2600 cart. The complexity of its design was perhaps a bit too ambitious for the target audience and the hardware, but once you wrap your head around how to play it, ET is a fun way to blow five or ten minutes. The same can be said for this solid NES port. It's not going to make you forget about The Legend of Zelda anytime soon, but it's a neat way to experience one of the most reviled video games of all time.
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No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
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![Super Adventure Rockman, Ep. 1 (PlayStation) Playthrough [English]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AAjNCG51Hy0/hqdefault.jpg "Super Adventure Rockman, Ep. 1 (PlayStation) Playthrough [English]
A playthrough of Capcoms 1998 interactive movie for the Sony PlayStation, Super Adventure Rockman.
Each disc functions as its own independent game, so this video covers the first episode, The Moon Temple.
Episode 2: A Fight to the Death! Wily Numbers (https://youtu.be/JEW0TSRWvPk)
Episode 3: The Final Battle (https://youtu.be/AeLn3PGTVfY)
Since the game never saw an international release, Ive subtitled the video with my own English translation of the games dialog and text.
Following in the footsteps of Street Fighter II Movie (https://youtu.be/LrZPAXBs4N0) and Fox Hunt (https://youtu.be/Ffo_aADreQs), this FMV-based Mega Man game was the third interactive movie that Capcom released on 32-bit consoles.
Super Adventure Rockman is based on the characters of Mega Man 1-3, and its built on the back of a three episode OVA series that Capcom commissioned specifically for the game. The story was also later adapted for Archies Mega Man comic series.
Taking place in 20XX, the story begins as an earthquake deep in the Amazon reveals the mysterious ruins of a 20,000 year old civilization. The ruins start emitting dangerous waves of electromagnetic radiation, and Dr. Wily seizes the chance to claim the power as his own in yet another misguided attempt at world domination. Roll has already been affected, and if Mega Man doesn’t stop the evil doctor, all humans and robots will be wiped out within two weeks.
The gameplay follows the choose your own adventure template. As the FMV clips play, youll be presented with quicktime events and your choice of paths to take whenever you hit branch points, and your inputs at these moments determine which clip youll see next. You also encounter enemies at certain points, and youll fight them in gallery shooting minigames (think Lethal Enforcers) that encourage you to make use of the weapons youve scavenged from the battered bodies of your fallen foes.
Its a neat relic from a time when multi-disc games came packed full of heavily compressed video clips, and though the gameplay is nothing special and theres little in the way of replayability, Super Adventure Rockman is a fun way to experience Mega Man from a new angle.
The quality of the animation is fairly cheesy but servicable - its in keeping with what youd expect from a typical VHS OVA release - but I loved how closely the style adheres to the look of Keiji Inafunes character art from Mega Mans NES era of games.
Super Adventure Rockman also bears the dubious distinction of being the only game that Inafune has ever officially struck from the series canon: he apparently hated how far it strayed from the tone of the games with its fixation on death and its generally bleak tone. I suppose thats his prerogative, but I still enjoyed it quite a bit.
I hope you guys enjoy the show and the translation!
(Please note that I had to cut the intro theme, Electrical Communication by Ganasia, for copyright reasons. I replaced it with the intro music from Mega Man X4.)
No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
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![Super Adventure Rockman, Ep. 3 (PlayStation) Playthrough [English]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AeLn3PGTVfY/hqdefault.jpg "Super Adventure Rockman, Ep. 3 (PlayStation) Playthrough [English]
A translated playthrough of Capcoms 1998 interactive movie for the Sony PlayStation, Super Adventure Rockman.
Each disc functions as its own independent game, so this video covers the third and final episode, The Final Battle!!
Episode 1: The Moon Temple (https://youtu.be/AAjNCG51Hy0)
Episode 2: A Fight to the Death! Wily Numbers (https://youtu.be/JEW0TSRWvPk)
No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
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