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A playthrough of CSG Imagesoft's 1989 action game for the NES, Super Dodge Ball.
In this video I play through both of game modes, both on the normal difficulty level. World Cup Play begins at 0:19, and Bean Ball at 18:46.
Super Dodge Ball is the NES port of Technos' 1987 arcade game, and as the direct follow-up to Renegade (youtu.be/5NWByyxT9ak), it was the second game in the Kunio-kun series. It's also notable for being the first game published by Sony Imagesoft (under the name CBS/Sony Group Imagesoft), the company that later came to be known as 989 Studios.
Instead of throwing down in the streets, this sequel tosses the hot-blooded crew of street toughs into an international competitive dodge ball league. Led by their captain Sam (originally Kunio), Team USA has to climb the ladder by defeating seven other teams in order to face the ultimate challenge, a throwdown against a team of shadow doppelgangers in the USSR.
The team has six players who can be assigned positions individually before the start of each match. Each has his own stats and moves, so there's a fair bit of strategy involved in setting them up to play to their strengths. Some have better throwing arms, some are better at catching and dodging, and everyone has a unique selection of special throws that can make short work of an opponent's life gauge when used in the right situation. There's a fair bit of nuance to it all, and the gameplay is much deeper than it first appears.
A double tap of the d-pad makes you run, the A button dodges, the B button catches and throws, and A+B is for jumping. The setup is simple to learn - timing is the key to everything - and the controls work well in spite of the game's choppy performance. It all makes for some excellent, fast-paced fun, especially against a friend.
The Kunio series' signature sprite work lends the game a huge helping of charm, too. The exaggerated facial expressions, like when someone gets nailed in the back of the head or is left standing slackjawed after a beating, are hilarious. Severe sprite flicker is a constant annoyance, however, but though it can be distracting, it doesn’t have much of an impact on the game's overall playability.
In the end, it's not hard to see why Super Dodge Ball is such a fan favorite. It's full of personality, it's stupidly fun to play, and it has enough substance to keep anyone coming back time and time again.
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No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
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A playthrough of CSG Imagesoft's 1989 action game for the NES, Super Dodge Ball.
In this video I play through both of game modes, both on the normal difficulty level. World Cup Play begins at 0:19, and Bean Ball at 18:46.
Super Dodge Ball is the NES port of Technos' 1987 arcade game, and as the direct follow-up to Renegade (youtu.be/5NWByyxT9ak), it was the second game in the Kunio-kun series. It's also notable for being the first game published by Sony Imagesoft (under the name CBS/Sony Group Imagesoft), the company that later came to be known as 989 Studios.
Instead of throwing down in the streets, this sequel tosses the hot-blooded crew of street toughs into an international competitive dodge ball league. Led by their captain Sam (originally Kunio), Team USA has to climb the ladder by defeating seven other teams in order to face the ultimate challenge, a throwdown against a team of shadow doppelgangers in the USSR.
The team has six players who can be assigned positions individually before the start of each match. Each has his own stats and moves, so there's a fair bit of strategy involved in setting them up to play to their strengths. Some have better throwing arms, some are better at catching and dodging, and everyone has a unique selection of special throws that can make short work of an opponent's life gauge when used in the right situation. There's a fair bit of nuance to it all, and the gameplay is much deeper than it first appears.
A double tap of the d-pad makes you run, the A button dodges, the B button catches and throws, and A+B is for jumping. The setup is simple to learn - timing is the key to everything - and the controls work well in spite of the game's choppy performance. It all makes for some excellent, fast-paced fun, especially against a friend.
The Kunio series' signature sprite work lends the game a huge helping of charm, too. The exaggerated facial expressions, like when someone gets nailed in the back of the head or is left standing slackjawed after a beating, are hilarious. Severe sprite flicker is a constant annoyance, however, but though it can be distracting, it doesn’t have much of an impact on the game's overall playability.
In the end, it's not hard to see why Super Dodge Ball is such a fan favorite. It's full of personality, it's stupidly fun to play, and it has enough substance to keep anyone coming back time and time again.
_____________
No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
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A playthrough of Squares 1993 action-RPG for the Super Nintendo, Secret of Mana.
This is the second part of a two-part video, showing from the sunken continent through the end.
You can find the first part here: https://youtu.be/dSwf9DJz_dA
No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
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A playthrough of Victor Musical Industries 1991 action-RPG for the Nintendo Famicom, Ys III: Wanderers from Ys.
This was recorded using an English fan translation patch. You can find the patch at https://www.romhacking.net/translations/7229/
Wanderers from Ys was the last Ys game that the series creators worked on before leaving Falcom to form Quintet, it was the last Ys game to be created specifically for the NEC PC-8801, and it was the last one to appear on the Nintendo Famicom.
Ys III, like the previous games, was adapted for the Famicom by Advance Communication, and it was released three months after the SNES version (https://youtu.be/I8Tcdm2foE0) hit Japanese retail shelves. The Famicom game was the only console port of Ys III to not see an international release.
Of the three Famicom Ys games, the third one comes the closest to matching the experience of the game its based on. The intro text crawl, a few bits of dialog, and the parallax scrolling of the background layers are gone, there are fewer enemies milling about the action stages, and the layout of Galabans Island is different, but everything else is very familiar.
It looks and sounds fine for an NES game, and the controls are responsive, though Adols movement take a bit of getting used to coming off the TurboGrafx-CD (https://youtu.be/f-ZEdTDWslQ), Genesis (https://youtu.be/Q5J-IjYz8MA), and SNES versions.
Otherwise, its still the same fun (and regrettably brief) platform action game that it was on every other platform.
No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
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