I think shadowgate is amazing when it comes to the adventure aspect and discovering all the secrets I think deja Vu is amazing when it comes to the storyline

An excellent game on the NES. It had more atmosphere than most others on the console. Your channel brings me back down memory lane. Remember every nes game I ever played and where I was when I did. Thanks.

Always loved the music on this one. Tough without a mouse but still great.

Always love to see this game get... well... love

As a fan of dying instantly a multitude of times I must say... this jar is extremely slimy.

Wow! I like burning carpet. I’ll need to check this one out, great video!

"Beyond Shadowgate" is also a new game and official sequel to the NES version of Shadowgate, with no connection to the TG16 game. It was a 2023 Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign, that meet its goal, and hopefully will be released soon.

I love you for showing the brief gameplay of The Black Cauldron. I played that game so much as a child and feel like it’s a forgotten Sierra game.

I really like this game. I played it a ton as a young teen and it was the first game I ever called the Nintendo hot line for, lol. Always loved the music and atmosphere. Great video.

One of my all time favorite games.

I love Shadowgate. So many reviewers comment on the tons-of-dying thing like it's surprising or a annoying or they just hype up up the "OMG you die SO MUCH!!" I think this is the first review I've seen that gives an honest, sensible explanation of it and emphasizes, yes, you're SUPPOSED to die a lot. It's okay, and NOT a major setback. Thanks for the review!

@NESFriend

10 ай бұрын

"You live, you learn. You lose, you learn." ~Alanis Morrisette

Music slaps in this game! This and Uninvited was interesting NES ports for sure. Underrated channel btw! gg man

Early bird special

First time I beat shadowgate I stared at the ending screen for a looong time waiting for something to happen

@FridayNightArcade

Жыл бұрын

Glad to know I wasn't the only one.

I think I remember playing this on the Mac in black and white. Thanks for the video, dropped it right at the perfect time, give me something to watch instead of freaking out and having an even bigger panic attack.

@davidlynn5272

Ай бұрын

Loved this game and took me years to find it. I’m 41 and played maybe 8-10 at a babysitters lol. Been binging it this week. And all the Fan Music from it!? Also, Just dropping in to say hello, and truly wishing you a wellspring of joy ❤️ The big picture is your own happiness and I hope you have a lot reading a random line here just for youuuu..

Lol while others were playing Mario i was laughing at setting my hair on 🔥!!!

Used to play this on a regular basis. We played this so much, we would continually finish it in around 20 minutes...

That music is so iconic

This was the first NES game translated to Swedish. Not everything in the game was translated though. For instance the puzzle"EPOR".

Great video! I enjoyed the macventure games on the nes over their original format because they were more forgiving. The timer removal from uninvited is one example that comes to mind.

So nostalgic for this game, having rented it as a kid. Been wanting to try to play it through, but holding off on it because that feels like it'd take forever.

@NESFriend

Жыл бұрын

Yeah takes a while, maybe 4-6 hours if you make a lot of bad decisions like me

@HypnoGenX

Жыл бұрын

@@NESFriend That's nowhere near as bad as I expected. Guess I'll give it a go one of these days. :-P

@TrevinAdams

Жыл бұрын

​@@HypnoGenX and the best part is that you don't have to call the Nintendo Power Hotline if you get lost/stuck anymore thanks to the internet, lol!

i had this game when I was a kid. in the back of the instruction manual there's a form to fill out and pay a little bit of money and send off to the publisher for a complete walkthrough guide

@NESFriend

Жыл бұрын

I should track one of those down

I absolutely love this combination of harsh punishment with forgiving recovery. It's honestly impressive how this game turned out. I know it never got an NES version, but I'd love to see you tackle Last Half of Darkness lol I get very similar vibes.

I love Shadowgate, I have this one on Gameboy Color still CIB. I always wanted to play Shadowgate 64, never got it sadly

Rusel DeMaria has a great guide to this game in a guide-book for NES games. I recommend it.

this is obscure but if you don't have any command selected, pressing A will still open doors and move into new rooms, even on the minimap (the minimap doesn't work this way in the other two NES ports, requiring you to select a command first). if it can't do either, it will examine whatever you're pointing at instead. might make the game feel a little less tedious. great review!

Your Alanis song reference got me laughing here

@NESFriend

Жыл бұрын

Got'm!

I use Magic Missile on the Darkness!

Best point and click game on the system and my favorite point and click game in general. The Gameboy Color version is basically the same just on a smaller screen.

Had both this and Deja Vu for NES. I was terrified of them both. Interestingly, they were released here in Sweden translated into Swedish. That was otherwise very rare.

Uninvited is more in line with Halloween. Shadowgate is mostly a fantasy adventure. There's also Tombs & Treasure, but the password system is unreasonably cruel, and softlocks are frustratingly common.

Something I find really interesting about the Kemco NES Macventure ports is that the experience they had making those seems to have been carried over to the Game Boy Sword of Hope RPGs, which are completely original titles, but use a similar interface for navigation and exploration

You get into a dark room and ask yourself... Perhaps this game was this way (glorious crypticness) because Nintendo was pushing its Nintendo Power Hotline? Suddenly you are engulfed by the flames of the nostalgia dragon and you died laughing.

Loved shadowgate 😁

Hey, the Black Cauldron by Sierra. I loved that game as a kid! As way more of a PC gamer than a console gamer, Ill say the NES macventures are pretty good ports compared to most PC ports to NES back in the day. That being said, the definitive (retro, theyve been redone on modern PCs) version Id say is the Apple GS version. Got the great graphics of the NES version, with the easy UI of the originals. But these 3 are great. I dont like Deja Vu as much as the other 2, but its strictly setting based. Creepy mansion and castle is just cooler to me than amnesiac detective.

"The fall is quite fatal!" If it were only a little fatal, we may have survived. Excellent.

I've played all of the NES MacVenture games, but never finished Shadowgate. I didn't care for De ja vu, but am a fan of Uninvited (great theme for a Halloween playthrough). I'll revisit Shadowgate again some time; I am almost finished with the second loop of the Japanese Ghosts 'n Goblins (魔界村 Maikamura, or 'Demon Realm Village') -btw, I learned the hard way that it is VERY easy to screw up the continue code for that version, so I compromised and now allow myself to use save states on the game over/title screen

Lovely review.

The 9th Shadowgate

I played the 2014 remake of this! I played on the hardest mode though and burned myself out before finishing.

1:25 funny jokes

@NESFriend

Жыл бұрын

I'm onto your sarcasm Harry!

I play on the Retroad 5 Plus with the GB/GBC Extension Converter from Ali-Express. I have Shadowgate for Gameboy Color. I am getting Deja Vu I&II soon. I was very disappointed that The Uninvited never came to the system. ☹ Gameboy Color that is. Maniac Mansion would have been nice too.

So the one thing I noticed is that every time you die, while technically you restart in the previous room, your torch always almost instantly goes dim within a few turns.... Even if it was freshly lit (#freshlylit). I've never tested this or looked at the game's code to confirm, but always suspected the mechanic to be there. So if you don't mind a few extra clicks, better to just save often and reload a previous save rather than relying on the Continue mechanic too many times. .... But I could be totally wrong. 10-yr-me was an idiot

@NESFriend

Жыл бұрын

Woah I never picked up on that but that's interesting. I could probably go back through my footage and see. This insight from you... is #freshlylit

Nintendo players could get Deja Vu II on Gameboy Color, with both games sharing one cart.

I've been playing this game pretty much since it came out and have beaten it numerous times and had no idea about the Start & Select trick. I assume that is in the manual but I've never owned it to read it

There are infinite continues but the torches are used as timer for the game. So don't go slow gamers.

Do you feel like the puzzles are more often obtuse or logical?

I think this game is very cool but I always got lost when I tried it without a guide or walkthrough

Happy Wednesday everyone! Stay out of the shadows

It's worth noting that the Famicom version of the game is notorious for having a terrible translation, to the point where the mood is changed and it causes the game to be terrible.

This game would be a lot more tolerable to me without the need to use torches. This is so annoying

@maverick_loneshark

Жыл бұрын

I think this is why it is the one MacVenture NES port I didn't finish. Yet...