Pocket Bowling retrospective: Picking up a Virtual spare | Game Boy Works Color
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Virtual Boy Works ended on a slightly downbeat note with Virtual Bowling, a fine take on the 10-pin pastime by Athena that remains inaccessible to normal humans thanks to its alarming rarity and terrifyingly high price. Well, here's the happy twist coda: Pocket Bowling is a direct sequel to Virtual Bowling that carries forward many of the other game's core mechanics and design elements, but costs a LOT less and doesn't require a piece of fragile, hard-to-come-by equipment to enjoy. Sure, Game Boy Color can't support the immersive viewpoint and design of Virtual Bowling, but this captures the enjoyable core of the other game quite neatly. Let's hear it for small victories, eh?
PLUS:
Japan-only release for this episode: Warashi's Honkaku Shougi: Shougi Ou.
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I have a lot of respect for you, Jeremy, because you're so holistic in your approach.
@JeremyParish
5 жыл бұрын
Like the song says, there's a holistic in my heart that can only be filled by video retrospectives
@Atomhaz
4 жыл бұрын
Jeremy Parish that was so cheesy. I loved it. I’m now a permanent subscriber
I love the Gameboy and I love this channel.
This is one of those games that seems to have inspired the style of Wario Ware's microgames, with its jaunty music, simple but offbeat mechanics, and really unnecessarily intricate animated "Congratulations!" screens when you succeed. ...Or maybe I'm just reading too much into these things.
@timmydirtyrat6015
5 жыл бұрын
Definitly reading in. I actually recently beat the original Warioware and I have to say it really doesn't remind me of Pocket Bowling.
You keep on pumping these out! Dude, your work ethic is INSANE
@JeremyParish
5 жыл бұрын
It's one a week! It's a schedule!
@THE_GIN_MASTER_
5 жыл бұрын
@@JeremyParish As always, much respect, my dude! Love it.
Appreciate all the work you put into your videos, thank you.
I'm a little bit surprised there wasn't even a passing mention that Warashi was started by former Athena staff, just to connect the two reviews together that little bit :)
@JeremyParish
5 жыл бұрын
Sorry. I didn't dig up that in my research.
@djsquarewave
5 жыл бұрын
Great video otherwise, you always keep things to a high standard. I actually put together Warashi's GDRI entry, so I might be a bit too entrenched in this stuff, honestly. ^^;
@JeremyParish
5 жыл бұрын
Well, that's what I get for not checking GDRI this time around.
I think I've found my new favorite channel. You make even the most trivial games so compelling to learn about!
A really fun, generally under-the-radar game.
Turn it into pocket boweling and it suddenly becomes a VERY different experience.
@beipiaosaurus
4 күн бұрын
I don't think I want to experience pocket boweling.
Did you know hell is just a never ending stream of portable bowling games?
@JeremyParish
5 жыл бұрын
But this one is fine? I'd much rather play this than a whole lot of other games I've covered here.
@BenCol
5 жыл бұрын
‘Did you know Hell?’ Sounds like a KZread channel.
My, this review went *_all_* over the place! Awesome episode as always Looking forward to the next one as well! 😉
Excellent as always. Pleasure rambling drunkenly at you again this year at the LI retro expo sir.
That pun about the split didn’t strike my fancy
Had no idea you did Color games too. This is great I just started doing the Color library about a year ago!
As far as I know, there's still more Bowling games to come in these "Works" series. I'm sure there was another Game Boy Colour one.
Nothing can compete with Pocket Pool
@bredmond812
2 жыл бұрын
I was looking for this comment. I knew somebody got it. Only one other like? Hmm. Something is sus.
Thank you for showing a strike in Pocket Bowling
Huh. Talking about virtual boy being gameboy's intended successor, I wonder how well it would have done as a handheld system? And by that I mean if it had mostly the same core specs as the virtual boy, but without the 3d 'virtual reality' part. (which, let's face it even the n64 would've choked on trying to pull off, much less the virtual boy's hardware.) monochrome system, but with a 32 bit processor and much higher resolution screen... Could've been interesting at the time. The screen is higher resolution than the GBA ended up having... But... Might have beens are just one of those things I suppose...
I love your videos I wish you did more NES works videos tho
I swear I'm being bowled over by these videos.
I’ve never played before, so can someone more knowledgable enlighten me: are Shogi boards really such a peculiar shade of lime green?
@BenCol
5 жыл бұрын
K19 The other man’s Shogi board is always greener.
@CobaltZeroni
5 жыл бұрын
Serious answer: the traditional shogi board is just made of wood, without any paint. No idea why this game went for GB-esque green, of all colors.
Weird that we're going to have a G&W Gallery 2 retrospective long before you get to G&WG1.
@JeremyParish
5 жыл бұрын
Life comes at ya fast
Love me some Shogi. As silly as this sounds, it's actually easier for me to wrap my mind around than traditional western chess due to the layout. It's easier for me to scope where everything on the board is since the pieces are flat, not to mention you don't have that pesky queen to deal with and the rook and bishop are limited to one each.
I hoped you would lament that there’s no Polly Pocket Sports series. Because I do lament that.
Ooh, looking forward to Game & Watch Gallery 2! Good luck unlocking all characters in Ball. (I assume, actually, you'll gather footage from elsewhere to cover it.)
Now I'm intrigued enough to consider buying a Virtual Bowling Repro cart, which would set me more than the price of a modern AAA game. Is it worth it?
@JeremyParish
5 жыл бұрын
Instead of giving a large amount of money to someone for a pirated game, I'd recommend picking up a FlashBoy+, which will let you sample homebrew games in addition to playing the expensive import rarities.
Watching the virtual boy clips, was it more powerful than the gba? I don't remember seeing such detailed pixel art on the advance. Great video as always.
@JeremyParish
5 жыл бұрын
Well, GBA used an ARM processor, so it's hard to make a direct comparison as ARM chips are optimized for specific functions. But VB had much higher resolution than any portable system prior to the PSP, so you definitely saw more detailed sprites in the best VB games than were possible on GBA.
Have you given an opinion on Bloodstained yet Jermey? Curious what you think of it.
@JeremyParish
5 жыл бұрын
I think I'm going to continue waiting to play it until the Switch version is up to snuff.
InB4 pocket pool jokes...
I will play pocket bowling. 😀👍🎮
Did anyone else see King DeDeDe?
How is the Gameplay recorded, emulator? Or a Gameboy Player mod?
@cashnelson2306
5 жыл бұрын
He uses a wide boy 64
@JeremyParish
5 жыл бұрын
Been dieting tho
@cashnelson2306
5 жыл бұрын
He's doing great, sweetie.
How do you capture GBC games?
@JeremyParish
5 жыл бұрын
Vewwy vewwy quietwy
After a while I couldn't hear "Shougi Ou" as anything else but a weird Yu-Gi-Oh! knockoff.
@cashnelson2306
5 жыл бұрын
Well, the Ou is the same kanji as that in "Yuugiou," as you might recognize in the latter's logo. So you're not totally off! It means king - Game King or King of Games in yuugiou's case, Shougi King in shougiou's
Honkaku shougi: shougi ou should have been released in the USA in the first place. 😀👍🎮