Jeremy Parish

Super Mario World: The Manual: The Movie: The Game

I was hoping to get into a one-manual-per-day posting schedule but these things take a bit more time to clean and straighten than you might expect. Anyway! Here's Super Mario World's manual in PDF form.

Incidentally, I don't suppose anyone out there has the manual to Bionic Battler for Game Boy? I divested myself of the game before confirming the scans I made, and one of the pages didn't come out cleanly so I need to recan. Any help with that would be lovely!

Good Nintentions Episode 000: THE FINAL

I'm a man of my word! Here's the final entry in the overlong episode 000 of Good Nintentions. This brings Good Nintentions to a true and complete end, hoorah.

Upcoming: I have a couple of requests to knock out (Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa and a feature on Mario/Wario Land evolution), and then I hope to buckle down on Game Boy World again. Too many projects, not enough time...

Hong Kong, the manual

Note that this is strictly a manual for a game called Hong Kong; it is in no way intended to provide advice or guidance for traveling to the actual territory called Hong Kong. 

Good Nintentions episode 0 continues!

Here's the shortest video I think I've put together here, but you won't have to wait long for the conclusion to this one. It kind of made sense to separate the Famicom, AVS, and NES out into individual pieces, even if the AVS episode is 2 minutes long and mostly consists of still footage of an image from Wikipedia. What can ya do?

How to slay your dragon (Dragon Slayer I manual)

As promised, I'm now working my way backward through the Game Boy library that I've covered to date to upload high-resolution manual scan PDFs. They're not 100% perfect, but someone who takes offense to signs of wear is welcome to dismantle the PDFs and fuss around with image enhancement. I wish I could do it myself, but we're talking thousands of pages scanned so far. I, alas, am but one man... and already a distressingly busy one at that. I would prefer not to take on a commitment that would p...

The next step in this mad effort: Manual PDFs

Something I've always meant to do with these chrono-gaming projects of mine is properly reproduce the game manuals. I've uploaded scans, but I'm talking next level, here. And this is the first effort on that front: A full high-resolution scan of the F-Zero manual, saved as a PDF. I'd like to offer this on the Mode Seven site, but the file is 187 MB compressed, and just one of those would get my hosting account shut down muy pronto. 

I'll upload them here for now as patron bonuses...

The final Super Mario World video (really!)

OK, here we go: The third in the three-part Super Mario World series. I'll try not to do many multi-parters — but with this game I really needed to spend some time digging into it, and as you might expect, I don't exactly have the bandwidth to make a 42-minute video in my free time in a single week. 

Anyway, I hope you enjoy. I literally haven't even been able to watch this video yet because life has been so topsy-turvy the past few days. Besides certain high-visibility world e...

Mode Seven #002 Part 2

I somehow managed to get this episode together while on the road! And in fact I would have had it for you yesterday but let me tell ya, free airport wi-fi is not much good for uploading 11-minute HD video. Anyway, enjoy!

Yo!

This week's video will probably run a bit late – I'm traveling and, if you can believe it, producing high-quality video is really difficult on the road. I'll see about making it up to you by putting together a mid-week bonus. This month's going to be a little rocky as a whole. In a few days, I'm turning my home office inside-out so we can get proper shelving and desks installed. That'll take two weeks, during which time I'll have family visiting... and once they leave, MORE family comes to v...

Thanks for the feedback!

I'm grateful to everyone who responded to my last post. It sounds like a large majority of you have no interest in a DVD collection of Game Boy World (et al.) videos, which is... about what I expected. There had been some requests, so I wanted to see if there was larger interest. And, there's not. Which is fine. 

Honestly, I'm not crazy about the idea myself — DVDs, being standard definition and keyed to cinematic 24fps framerates, would really lose the technical appeal of my videos (72...

A very important question!

Hello and happy, um, November!? 

I have a question for you fine people and I hope to get lots of responses so as to base my decision on an accurately sampling demographic. Please chime in if you have about 30 seconds free! Here it goes:

If I were to add new pledge tiers that allowed you to pay, say, an extra $5/mo. to receive a physical DVD compilation of Game Boy World videos (or of other projects) twice a year, would you be interested?

Lemme know! There has been some ...

Game Boy World #079: Dragon Slayer I

I think I said the next GBW episode would be in a couple weeks. But you know me: A filthy, filthy liar. This game is not really all that great, but there's a certain something about it that keeps me from hating it. With a few tweaks to its design — like, say, a save feature — it could actually be pretty decent. Ah well!

Another Super Mario World script... and another!?

Well, it looks like the two-part Super Mario World episode for Mode Seven is going to be a THREE-part Super Mario World episode, because the second part of the script turned out to be nearly twice the length of the first. And I'm really trying to avoid producing episodes that run much longer than 10 minutes, because stats prove that very few people watch videos for longer than 10 minutes. This one will probably run about 25 minutes, so... yeah.

If I do break this script into two ...

Game Boy World #078: Hong Kong

Begin the day with a friendly voice, a companion unobtrusive. Or maybe that should be "a nerdy voice"? Anyway, here's next week's GBW release very early, since I'll be out of town for Portland Retro Gaming Expo this coming weekend. Enjoy!

Game Boy World #077: Bionic Battler

Your first of two videos I put together this weekend! This one is the video about a game that's not very much fun. The other is less agonizing, I promise. Look for that one tomorrow. See, Mondays aren't all bad.

Good Nintentions Episode 0, Part 1

Well, thanks to the freaking hurricane, I spent much of my weekend without electricity... which means I didn't have time to put together the video I had planned. Instead, I only had time to create the first half of the Good Nintentions hardware retrospective. Not really what I had in mind, but I feel like I have a pretty good excuse! Anyway, hope this passes muster regardless.

Script: Game Boy World #077

I guess the price I pay for the unexpected delight of Amazing Penguin is the tragedy of Bionic Battler. If you squint, you can almost imagine how kids 25 years ago might have thought this game was kind of cool, but it really doesn't hold up. Oh well! It did remind me that eventually I'll get to review Faceball 2000, which is pretty cool.

It's... Game Boy World #076!

Here's a great example of what Game Boy World is all about. I'd never have even given this game a second glance if I weren't producing a video about it, and that would have been a shame! It's really good. Definitely dig up a copy of this one if you can swing it.

Game Boy World script 76: Amazing Penguin

Hello! Happy... October!? Sheesh. Well, anyway, here's the next GBW script. It's one of those rare pleasures: A game that I expected nothing from, and which turned out to be great. So much better than when I expect a game to be great and it turns out to be nothing...

Super Mario World, part one

The second Mode Seven episode — or rather, the first half of the second episode — has arrived. Part two next weekend. Please look forward to it!

And yeah, some of the game footage came from outside sources; I ran out of time for capture of the advanced stages (Star Road, etc.) and ended up being forced to source what I needed externally. Hopefully it doesn't detract from the video too much!

Super Mario World (or at least half of it)

Hi there! My next video will be the second Mode Seven, a look at Super Mario World. The one after that will be a look at Super Mario World also, because I have far more to say about Super Mario World than I can realistically cram into a video and still maintain my weekly production schedule. So please enjoy the script for the first of two Mario World videos....

It's Game Boy World Episode 075!

I'm so terribly sorry.

Good Nintentions 1985: The PDF

Hello everyone, here it is! The final PDF of Good Nintentions 1985. It's an external link because Patreon's site barfs on files larger than 100 MB; hopefully you won't encounter any Dropbox data limits. Please enjoy the book.

And once again, thank you for your support. This game history project is one of the few bright spots in my life these days, and I truly am grateful so many of you are willing to help make it happen. 

2016-09-17 20:07:34 +0000 UTC View Post

Game Boy World is back! In script form

I teased a new episode of GBW for Sept. 27, but that was back when I thought I'd be going to Tokyo Game Show. Since I didn't, the new GBW will go up to the public on the 20th instead. That's tomorrow in PST (Patreon Standard Time). 

The next game is really awful, and I spent a lot of time researching the source material to see if I was missing something. Nope. It's just straight up not a good game.

Anyway, here's the script in advance of the video, per usual.

Here come da books

Hey everyone, just posting a general announcement that if you are someone who should be receiving a physical copy of Good Nintentions 1985... that copy is in production now and will be shipping directly to you soon. If you are someone who should be receiving a PDF version, that will be up and ready for you no later than this weekend. (I'd post it right now, but the PDF version requires some changes to pagination notations within the text and I'm currently grinding through a Shin M...