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Ben Heck's Nintendo-Playstation Prototype

Famous retro console modder Benjamin Heckendorn got his hands on the priceless Sony SNES-CD prototype. After examining its components, Ben Heck makes some repairs to get it running better than we’ve ever seen it before.

Source: YouTube via recommended videos for a Beefy Smash Doods video?

Lovely Planet

Quicktequila’s Lovely Planet is the anti-modern FPS. Instead of being multiplayer, gritty, and easy, Lovely Planet is single player, cutesy, and incredibly difficult. Calum Bowen’s happy, catchy soundtrack only really fits the first couple worlds. After that, the game introduces cruel new mechanics that demand precision trick shots on the run. I couldn’t beat a single stage in world 5 except the ending. If your keyboard-and-mouse skills are awesome, give this game a shot. It’s different.

Source: http://www.quicktequila.com/lovelyplanet.html via their booth at PAX East 2015, also YouTube and Bandcamp

Fumio Ito – Rush a Difficulty 2006 Arrange Ver.

30-Day Video Game Music Challenge (Super Hard Mode) Day 20: Music from a racing game From OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast (Xbox, 2006)

OutRun 2 with Turbo OutRun music is a lot more fun than actually playing Turbo OutRun.

Source: YouTube, challenge by OverClocked ReMix I think?, via NintendoCapriSun

Minigolf Exam

Finally, I get to post a game I made! Minigolf Exam is an 8-hole miniature golf game where you only get one round to prove your skills! If you do badly on your first run, you are a minigolf failure forever. I made this game in 48 hours as my Ludum Dare #28 compo submission, and I wrote a few status updates about it here.

Play Minigolf Exam now!

Source: Minigolf Exam by Dr. Mo and Minigolf Exam Sources

Kazumi Totaka and Minako Hamano – Song of Awakening

30-Day Video Game Music Challenge (Super Hard Mode) Day 12: Music that makes you sad From The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening (GB, 1993)

The moment lasts just long enough to tear your heart out.

Source: YouTube, challenge by OverClocked ReMix I think?, via NintendoCapriSun

Tenacious D – Time Warp

Hi, y’all; I’m back! Between rounds of THPS 1+2, Tenacious D rallied the troops and recorded a cover of a classic Rocky Horror Picture Show song to get people to vote. I’ve already voted, and if you’re in the US, the whole world really needs you to vote, too. Don’t let anything stop you. This country needs a jump to the left and not a step to the right.

Source: Tenacious D via Metal Hammer via looking up an Alestorm song via Alestorm’s cover of Dizzee Rascal

UberNES - Nintendo Screen Saver

If you still use screen savers, Columbus-based developer M \ K Productions has a good one for you. Nintendo Saver 2015 fills your monitors with several NES games. Each one is actually a fully-functioning NES emulator playing a replay that was recorded in UberNES, and if you like, you can pick up a gamepad and take over control of one of the games on the spot. The recorded replays include my Super Mario Bros 3 playaround and a couple shorter videos showing glitches in Super Mario Bros 1 and Mega Man 2. If you like it, maybe I’ll record some more.

Source: http://www.ubernes.com/nesscreensaver.html via the UberNES – NES Screen Saver Facebook page

Mega Man 1 - Glitchfest

Scykoh‘s Glitchfest series is all about breaking popular games in as many ways as possible. TASVideos’s resources for NES Mega Man games covers several methods for moving through the game quickly, but even that doesn’t explain what Scykoh does in Ice Man’s stage. When I planned the “bugs” in Skeleton Hunter, the first place I looked for inspiration was Mega Man 1’s zipping, pause tricks, and tileset corruption, and they’re shown off very well here.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdqJgCLVR2Q via YouTube subscription via recommendations probably generated from Did You Know Gaming?

Yoshino Aoki – Battle Field

30-Day Video Game Music Challenge (Super Hard Mode) Day 10: RPG battle music From Mega Man Battle Network 6 (GBA, 2005)

I’m actually playing Battle Network 1 right now. I passed up Battle Network when it was new because it wasn’t the new Mega Man platformer I wanted. Today, its unique battle system really stands out.

Source: YouTube, challenge by OverClocked ReMix I think?, via NintendoCapriSun

Susumu Hirasawa – Sign

Susumu Hirasawa is a master of massive thundering sound. He wrote this pounding opening theme for the Berserk game on PS2. I have no idea what’s going on in Berserk but this makes me want to watch some Satoshi Kon movies.

Source: Berserk: Millennium Falcon Hen Seima Senki no Shō – Opening – YouTube via I dare you find a more awesome opening. – Anime, Art, Arcade Sticks and Vidya Gaems via [K]ayinworks via Trynant