Dudley of Yesterzine | Yesterzine 14 - "Lots of Legs on a Tube" - Go Issue 9 @Yesterzine | Uploaded April 2020 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Yesterzine is the literal magazine show where we play the highest and lowest rated games from an old magazine to see how they stand up today and look at what that magazine teaches us about pre-internet video gaming.
This week, Go Issue 9.
Go was not a magazine you could buy but was still very popular. As the only really successful handheld only magazine it was there as the portable gaming device came of age and there were 4 formats covered in this issue.
Our reviews though come from the original Nintendo Game Boy. With a licenced platformer whose pedigree is incredibly promising and an arcade classic that somehow contrived to be the gaming hell...
Also, did you know the Nintendo Game Boy only exists because of an American board game manufacturer? You will.
Raph Koster - raphkoster.com/2017/05/07/microvision-emulator-release
Paul Robson - mbmicrovision.blogspot.com
Huge thanks to Paul Heyward @MetalSlugSV001 for the game and watch shots.
Music : Retro Video Game 12th Warrior
Composer, all tracks: Bjorn Lynne (PRS)
Publisher, all tracks: Lynne Publishing (PRS)
Licenced by Shockwave Sound
Bonus Fact for Scrolling : The Game and Watch was the first machine to have the Direction Pad we now take for granted on controllers, Nintendo perfecting the design there before using it on the Famicom. They patented the cross design which is why for some time no-one could quite do them the same way.
Yesterzine is the literal magazine show where we play the highest and lowest rated games from an old magazine to see how they stand up today and look at what that magazine teaches us about pre-internet video gaming.
This week, Go Issue 9.
Go was not a magazine you could buy but was still very popular. As the only really successful handheld only magazine it was there as the portable gaming device came of age and there were 4 formats covered in this issue.
Our reviews though come from the original Nintendo Game Boy. With a licenced platformer whose pedigree is incredibly promising and an arcade classic that somehow contrived to be the gaming hell...
Also, did you know the Nintendo Game Boy only exists because of an American board game manufacturer? You will.
Raph Koster - raphkoster.com/2017/05/07/microvision-emulator-release
Paul Robson - mbmicrovision.blogspot.com
Huge thanks to Paul Heyward @MetalSlugSV001 for the game and watch shots.
Music : Retro Video Game 12th Warrior
Composer, all tracks: Bjorn Lynne (PRS)
Publisher, all tracks: Lynne Publishing (PRS)
Licenced by Shockwave Sound
Bonus Fact for Scrolling : The Game and Watch was the first machine to have the Direction Pad we now take for granted on controllers, Nintendo perfecting the design there before using it on the Famicom. They patented the cross design which is why for some time no-one could quite do them the same way.
