Jeremy Parish

March bonus #1: Misplaced Childhood [airplay banded vinyl rip, Side A]

Although this little Patreon endeavor primarily concerns itself with video games, I do occasionally stumble across little bits and pieces of lost media worth sharing. Here's one of them: a record that I've owned for more than 30 years and which does indeed constitute "lost media."

"But Jeremy," you say, "I can buy Marillion's Misplaced Childhood at any convenient shop near me that sells music! Well, OK, no physical shops sell music anymore. But the CD and record are still...

Segaiden 77: Final Bubble Bobble & Bomber Raid

We have reached 1989, friends. The gap between Master System coverage and NES Works grows ever slimmer. I'm still torn between whether I should just plow straight ahead and get Master System up to August 1989 and the Genesis launch, or if I should take things more slowly by layering in Atari and Intellivision material so that I've presented the entire 8-bit gaming landscape that existed at the time before embarking on the 16-bit era. I would take a poll, but I've gone back and forth on this a...

Tensai Bakabon & Nekkyu Koushien: Segaiden 76

This episode seemed as good a time as any to mark Japan's transition from the Showa era to the Heisei, a significant cultural shift that happened during the period of time that I've been exploring in the majority of my videos over the past few years. Not only do these games fall right along that dividing line, along with the console that powered them, but they also feel Showa in a way that things like Megumi Rescue or Super Racing didn't. It's hard to...

February Bonus #4: Virtua Racing [Genesis] VHS promo

Whoa, gosh. I almost let February slip past without sharing a fourth bonus item. Well, here it is: a promo tape for the Genesis/Mega Drive version of Virtua Racing. It's short and a little disappointing, much like February! Actually, no, it's hard to be disappointed by this video when the announcer suddenly belts out a perfect, cheesy, English rendition of the course names amidst all the Japanese-language hype dubbing.

Segaiden 75: Hoshi o Sagashite...

"Another Japan-exclusive Mark III game?" you muse to yourself. "Boring. No thanks!" Ah, but what if I told you that this was a Phantasy Star spinoff? What then, wiseguy?

I mean, it's not, really. But it kind of is? I guess you'll just have to watch the video and see for yourself, huh.

Megumi Rescue & Super Racing: Segaiden 74

Friends, my survey of Japan-exclusive Sega Mark III games continues apace this week with a couple of games that surprised me with their sheer goodness. Megumi Rescue in particular is a load of fun, and I have to imagine that people with the patience to get good at F-1 racing games would love Super Racing. It's nice that these import releases no one knows or cares about are at least interesting!

February bonus #3: The King of Fighters R-1 [Game Boy Works Gaiden/NGP]

This has been one of the most taxing and time-intensive "side" videos I've put together to date. But, you know, it had to be. Not only did I need to do justice to The King of Fighters R-1 and its place in portable gaming history, I also needed to put its place in fighting game history into perspective as well. Which meant a big ol' sidebar on The King of Fighters as a whole. But, here it is... a video years in the making.

Segaiden 73: Solomon's Key and Galactic Protector

Wow, up to episode 73 of Segaiden already. I would never have believed it five years ago. Life is a miracle sometimes. This episode concerns two more Japan-exclusive Mark III releases, although Galactic Protector feels a lot more exclusive than Solomon's Key...

February bonus #2: Street Fighter Game Simulation Video VHS rip

I had hoped to have the latest monthly bonus original up this past weekend, but the next Neo Geo Pocket piece is a bit of a doozy and is taking longer than anticipated. So please look forward to that next weekend. In the meantime, here's another VHS rip that will in fact be deployed as part of that next NGP video. It's all part of the great circle of life, and by life I mean Takashi Nishiyama.

Segaiden 72: Miracle Warriors & Argos no Juujiken (Rygar)

Wow, gosh. This episode brings 1988 to an end for Master System. Well... mostly. I do want to cover the handful of Japan-exclusive titles that showed up between March and September 1988. Hardly anything to speak of, really, but I'm gonna do it anyway.

I'm sure I will hear from people who really loved Miracle Warriors after this episode goes live. Cut their teeth on it, in fact. I know they've got to exist, somewhere, but man... it's a tough game to love now, and I have to ...

February bonus #1: Game Tech Video vol. 14

So. How's it going today? (Feel free not to answer that.)

For this weekend's bonus video, I just remembered that I had never posted the last two VHS rips of Game Tech Video. This one lacks the manic charm of the early volumes, but it does include a lengthy design interview with Bubble Bobble designer Fukio Mitsuji overlaid atop a Taito studio clip retrospective. That's pretty nice. So this tape isn't a total loss. Just one more GTV to go and we can move along to other things.

January bonus #4: Baseball Stars (Neo Geo Pocket / Game Boy Works Gaiden)

I dunno, maybe I should have branded this NGP Works or something. Oh well!

ANYWAY. Here is the first proper episode of my Neo Geo Pocket/Color series—that is, the first episode about a game rather than the system or market conditions into which it was birthed. I had originally planned to make this series a quick, condensed thing that covers several games per episode in compact form, but you know what? No. I'm going to take my time with NGP/C and luxuriate in its greatness. Revel in i...

Segaiden 71: Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?

I always thought San Diego was in SoCal, just an hour or two north of Mexico. But here's Sega trying to gaslight (or maybe Gaslamp?) me into second-guessing myself. Rude.

Oh, wait, that's not Sega's doing. It's Parker Brothers. The audacity of these chumps! Daring to break the seal on third-party publishing for Master System all for the sake of leaving me wondering if I know the first thing about geography. Or currency. What the heck is a "franc" and a "lira," anyway?

January bonus #3: Seta Game Works Scene One 4K VHS rip

Sorry, it's a spicy one this time. Atypically so. Hence the age-gating—you'll have to click through to YouTube if you want to see this tremendously naughty video.

The thing is, though, I didn't realize it would be quite so naughty. You never know with these old import game VHS tapes. They usually are totally safe to watch with your kids and parents (assuming your kids and parents are really into gameplay footage of old games narrated in Japanese), but then suddenly and w...

Segaiden 70: Rambo III & R-Type

"R" you ready for this episode? Looking back at this one, I think I was feeling a little punchy when I scripted it. But, really, there's only so much you can say about a mediocre light gun game based on a mediocre movie from the "transitioning into a regular Alex Jones guest" era of Stallone's career. On the other hand, R-Type—that's a pretty good one. Especially since this port comes to us courtesy of those mad lads at Compile, allowing this conversion of the bio-creepy shooter to...

January bonus #2: Contra BGV VHS rip

Here's a fun one—an official Konami-published video tape of the Contra arcade game. If you couldn't afford to own an arcade cabinet back in the day (and whomst amongst us could, really?), you could have the next best thing in the form of a video tape that shows you the whole game. I love things like this. It's absolutely wild to me to think that people were spending real cash money on this kind of thing. The bubble era, man.

Segaiden 69: Power Strike

Segaiden is back! Provided you subscribe to the Sega Challenge newsletter, that is. The rest of you are out of luck, because this episode is not available at retail in the U.S. That's right, this episode tackles the stunning Compile shooter Power Strike, which some weirdos (read: everyone but the Sega of America marketing people who named it Power Strike and made it available only through mail order) call Aleste. Whatever your chosen nomenclature,...

January bonus 1: Taito History Vol. II VHS rip

Good evening (somewhere in the world). Here is the second and to my knowledge final volume of the Taito history VHS series from 1990. As with so many of these tapes, I sure wish I had known about these VHS tapes back when I was covering the Famicom ports of these games! But it's still a cool thing to have ripped and uploaded all the same.

The NES Era Vol. III promo trailer

I should have posted this weeks ago, I know. But I didn't! And now here it is. What a world, what a world.

This is the final volume of the NES Era trilogy of photo/text coffee books. But I can tell you that sales have already been good enough that I'm thinking about putting together a 16-bit era trilogy. In the meantime, there's this set, which of course book-tier patrons will be receiving as a matter of course and everyone else can preorder now. Or you can order once they...

NES Works Gaiden 76: Solaris / Tax Avoiders / Cubicolor

First: avoid this episode if you have a sensitivity to strobing effects. Solaris goes way overboard with them.

Second: you're watching the forbidden version of this video. The final public release will have a different media context clip at the beginning. Yes, I finally got a copyright notice (not a warning) on one of those opening context clips that makes this video ineligible for monetization after years of splicing them in. I don't think YouTube cares that I dropped in ...

NES Works Gaiden 75: Jr. Pac-Man / Track & Field / Midnight Magic

Hello to you, now that you've slept off your New Year's Eve hangover and groggily logged on for the year 2025. We're entering January 2025 by looking back to... 1986? Games for a console that debuted in 1977?! Yes, I'm afraid so. But no, wait... it's not really true to say "afraid." I'd been holding off on coverage of post-crash Atari for the past few years for fear I wouldn't have anything to say or might come off too negative, but these games are in fact pretty damn good. Yeah, the 2600 loo...

Final 2024 bonus: Neo Geo Pocket intro

One last video to close out the old year—one I've been wanting to create for a decade now and finally decided to pull the trigger on. I was hoping to be able to record this as an analog RGB signal from Analogue Pocket, but Analogue still hasn't made analog output possible from the Pocket's Dock... so I decided to just go ahead and pull the trigger anyway.

Welcome to the Neo Geo Pocket retrospective series, a division of Game Boy Works Gaiden, Inc. This episode simply lays the groundw...

NES Works Gaiden 74: Atari 2600 beyond the crash

I've been mulling the prospect of tackling the latter-day Atari 2600 library for years now. Given all the other material I've set up recently as a supplement to NES Works, I realized I'd be abrogating my obligations as an elder nerd with noisy opinions about old video games not to cover the 2600. Like the Intellivision and XE Game System sidebars, there's not a lot here to deal with—10 episodes max. Maybe even fewer than that if I come across some unreasonably slight games that don't suppor...

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Thanks for everything, and... late episode post this week

I figured if I started this post with a lot of positive vibes, the fact that this week's episode is running behind wouldn't feel like such a bummer. It's not the season for bummering!

Anyway, the delay is all for a good cause... sure, family holiday commitments have slowed me down, but mostly this episode is running late because I decided to get ahead on my production cycle and wrote and recorded the next three episodes all at once. That slowed down the first one but will expedite the ...

Segaiden Episode 67: Phantasy Star

Whew. It's here.

My one regret with this Phantasy Star episode is that I didn't have more time to play for my recording sessions. Not just because I would have liked to have recorded material further into the game, but also because Phantasy Star is just really good and I want to play more of it? As mentioned in this episode, I made use of the SMS Power! retranslation to minimize the friction of playing a pretty unforgiving RPG on a short deadline, which is wh...

And the actual video...

Sorry, folk, it's been A Week. And the progressive enshittification of the Patreon interface doesn't help! Here's Golvellius.

Segaiden 68: Golvellius

Yeah, I skipped over Segaiden 67. You want to fight about it?

Nah, I'm just running these out of sequence here on Patreon because I had to completely rearrange my office over the past week and haven't had my capture system hooked up to record Master System footage. I'm working on it! Expect Phantasy Star next week, I hope. In the meantime, here's the immediate follow-up to that grand role-playing adventure: a slightly less grand, slightly less role-playing action-adventure...

December bonus #2: The History of Video Games (Taito Vol. I) VHS rip

Hey kids, you like the video game history, huh? Well, here's a look at video game history that is, in itself, historic. This VHS tape from 1990 helped pioneer the art of talking about how old video games brought new ideas to the table and influenced subsequent works, through the lens of Taito arcade releases from the late ’70s. Pretty rad, if you ask me.

I recommend setting subtitles to auto-translate for maximum effect. Also, you can see an index of entries (with hyperlinked timesta...

NES Works Gaiden 73: INTV feat. Thunder Castle

I won't be spending a HUGE amount of time at once on any of the sidebar also-rans of the late ’80s, so even if you have no interest in latter-day Intellivision, you need only wait until next week to get back to the juicy Sega and Nintendo stuff for a while. But you should be interested in Intellivision! It's an interesting little sidebar to the Nintendo and Sega history everyone already knows. Don't take my word for it, check out this video... which contains about 2500 of my words. So I gue...

December bonus #1: Square Soft 1996 Marketing Reel (feat. Super Mario RPG)

A new month, a new count on the bonus material. Numbers, am I right?

This one is a lot less obscure than the other videos I've posted this weekend, but I figure it never hurts to go with a crowd-pleaser from time to time. This tape shows off a bunch of Square's impressive late 16-bit era titles and was positioned as a visual showstopper to wow shoppers at Japanese retail who might otherwise stray into buying a Saturn or PlayStation. What better way to seduce those with a yen for cool gr...