"Sometimes a man needs a break from black&white puzzlers" *Next on Game Boy Works Color: A **_color_** puzzler*

@JeremyParish

5 жыл бұрын

The best laid plans, man

I love the color you chose for the GBC thumbnails. That's the color I selected for my GBC when I got one in 1998 with a copy of Pokemon Blue, and it's how I learned people care a really weird amount about boys having pink things. Anyway, needless to say it's an inherently "GBC" color to me.

@NickDyers

Жыл бұрын

pink was always "boys color", until the cancerous mattel butchered and swapped the "gender image" then imposed their new godly constitution all over the world.

Music aside, this is my favorite version of Tetris. And honestly, even though the music isn’t as iconic as the Game Boy version, it’s still pretty good.

@richardcastro-parker3704

4 жыл бұрын

Totally agree. I'd say the music is excellent. It's just that the music of the original has become iconic.

@redpup112

6 ай бұрын

I have the inverse opinion! I think that this version of tetris is exceedingly OK except for the music. I just wish it didn't speed up.

Gameboy color works!? Uhh yeah, I sure hope it does!

@cashnelson2306

5 жыл бұрын

you'd think the drew gooden/Jeremy parish fan overlap would be fairly small yet here we are

@TroyBlackford

3 жыл бұрын

But... It's called "Gameboy Works Color..." Reminds me of ancient "Microsoft Works.... No, it doesn't!" jokes.

@BenWard29

3 жыл бұрын

@@cashnelson2306 You mean Danny Gonzalez/Jeremy Parish overlap, cause Danny was totally the one who said that. Geeze- people are always getting those two confused.

Tetris DX aged really well for 2023 and it looks really good in HD in retroarch and I grew up playing this game with the Gameboy color

The only colors I want to see in a Jeremy Parish portable-gaming video are red, black, and several shades of pea green. This vibrant color palette may appeal to the sponsors, but it’s a slap in the face to longtime fans of the series. It’s like when Dylan “went electric” or Rod Stewart started recording disco music.

The colour was a lot more muted on the actual GB Colour screen though. I have a huge amount of affection for this rendition of Tetris tbh - persistent leaderboards made a huge difference.

@Boopadee

4 жыл бұрын

I picked up Tetris Dx recently and can attest for the muted colors. Sometimes it's difficult to tell between an empty space and individual squares depending on the background color

You guys should also check out the Gaming Historian's movie-length (almost) "The Story of Tetris" documentary. It's super interesting!

@bfish89ryuhayabusa

5 жыл бұрын

It really is. Though I'd be somewhat surprised if he hasn't.

@MikeChimeri

5 жыл бұрын

It's one of Norm's excellent long-form episodes, like The Life of Satoru Iwata before it and The Story of Punch-Out!! after it.

@doctorhandsome

5 жыл бұрын

People joke about stupid licensed properties that are made into lazy movies, and you'll hear "Tetris: The Movie" as a ridiculous theoretical joke example, but a movie *about* Tetris could be awesome. It's a very fascinating story. Steven Soderbergh would knock it out of the park, I bet.

I was massively into Game Boy until about 1991, but left it behind at that point. Tetris DX was all it took for me to buy a GBC and jump back in with both feet.

I will admit, I was disappointed when I got Tetris DX, and it did not have the original's music.

@angelriverasantana7755

2 жыл бұрын

Not that it wasn't in the game. It was unused

OK these pun titles are outta control

@JeremyParish

5 жыл бұрын

Not gonna lie, this one was some of my finest work.

I don't know how you work on multiple of these series for multiple consoles at the same time and not feel completely overwhelmed

@JeremyParish

5 жыл бұрын

That's my secret, Cap. I'm always overwhelmed.

Awwww yeah it's color time baby

The gameboy color was the first handheld I've ever owned, but I always found it a touch odd in how it dealt with colour... I mean, I'm not sure I really understand how so many games ended up looking the way they do. On paper, it's a 56 simultaneous colour system from a 15 bit palette. This gives it roughly the same range of available colours as a SNES, but with active colour choices more in line with an NES. Regardless, since colour was hardly an unfamiliar novelty outside of the handheld space, it's bizarre how poorly many GBC games used their colour choices. That's not to say it's all bad, but plenty of it is quite poor even compared to NES. Obviously the hybrid games typically don't make use of the full capabilities of the system, and are more often than not using 10-15 colours or the like. So, perhaps you're wondering where these weird numbers actually come from? Also, how come a GBC can display original gameboy games in more than 4 colours anyway? Sure, any arbitrary 4 colours should be possible, but plenty of games go further than that, and even some of the 'standard' choices for games that don't recognise the GBC also do more than that. Well, let's start at the beginning. The Gameboy obviously was a 4 colour monochrome system. Technically, as with most systems, sprites sacrifice one of their colours to gain transparent pixels, which helps them look better against a background. The gameboy color had to extend this without breaking anything. So, what they did is simple enough; They provided 16 four colour hardware palettes, and GBC native games can pick from those. But, you'll note 4x16 = 64 So how do we get 56? Well, much like the SNES, this isn't 16 palettes you can use for anything (Sega used that kind of logic, but Nintendo mostly didn't), but instead, it's 8 for backgrounds, and 8 for sprites. And as already noted, sprites only get 3 colours, since one value is reserved for transparent. (On SNES backgrounds also have a transparent pixel value, due to the multilayer parallax, but the GB and GBC only have a single background layer, so transparency is redundant.) So, 4x8 + 3x8 = 56 OK, fine. But what does that mean for the hybrid games or for those without GBC support? Well, the hybrid games can do a bunch of things, but generally they're just coded such that an older gameboy just ignores the palette specification data. Thus, everything uses a single palette. What about the more than 4 colours possible when playing games with no GBC support? Well, that's simply because it's possible for the system to distinguish several things that all gameboy games can distinguish anyway. Well, as it turns out, an original gameboy internally distinguishes 4 different things; General background data, 'window' data, and two different groups of sprites. As such, the GBC can set the colours for each of these 4 things independently. Again, the background and 'window' data are 4 colour, while the sprites have transparency. Leading to at most, 14 colours. (plus a general 'background' colour for what's behind everything else, most likely.) Many of the palette sets don't specify 14 unique colours, but it's theoretically possible. And of course, hybrid games can pull other tricks here even if they don't use a full 56 colour palette set. A game that demonstrates this really well being Pokemon Yellow. Which typically only distinguishes sprites and backgrounds, for about 7 colours per scene. But, which changes the palettes for each region. Leading for instance to Lavender town being largely purple shades, while pewter city is shades of grey. The GBC really did use colour in very strange ways all things considered. Especially the more half-hearted 'hybrid' games... But even when the full capabilities were in use, it never seemed to result in the kind of images you would expect from the supposed specifications...

@JeffyLB

5 жыл бұрын

The GBC had a screen with no backlight. As a result developers would often use an exaggerated color palette in order to make their games appear brighter. One notable example of this is Bionic Commando. An otherwise good game that has a very bizarre color palette when viewed out of context.

@Dwedit

5 жыл бұрын

Color support was pretty much tacked onto Pokemon Yellow at the last second, the Japanese version was monochrome only. It wasn't even labeled as a Game Boy Color hybrid game, merely as an original Game Boy Game. Pokemon Yellow's restriction of one palette only for sprites and backgrounds is not common for hybrid games. Keep in mind that Zelda Link's Awakening DX was a hybrid game, and did not follow such restrictions.

The first GBC game is actually Dragon Warrior Monsters. It is released BEFORE the GBC itself.

@JeremyParish

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, I'm doing an episode 0 about it at some point, but DWM is a massive beast of a game that would have gummed up production at the moment. It also would have been kind of weird to kick off a series focused mostly on U.S. releases with a game that didn't ship in the U.S. until two years later....

Anyone else constantly screaming at at the screen whenever someone else playing Tetris? MAN NO NOT THERE! GOD DAMN IT TO THE LEFT! LEEEFT!!! Btw awesome video.

You can't run away from Game Boy Works forever, Jeremy.

@JeremyParish

5 жыл бұрын

This is Game Boy Works. In Color.

Been waiting so long for this one! I remember taking Tetris DX on a high school field trip and it was my main companion on the bus for many hours.

Hoh hoh hoh! Game Boy Works is back! I've been wistfully gazing out the window at the rain, praying for its return for months!

This was such a nice surprise to see. This is by far my favorite, or at least most played version of Tetris ever.

Looks like somebody will eventually get to games that were made with young children in mind (i.e. games based off children shows.)

Awesome! Very excited to see this series unfold - the GBC was the first ever game console that I owned just to myself without sharing with siblings. So many great memories.

Great video! This is my all-time favourite Tetris game. I've been playing it daily for probably more than 10 years now.

Super excited for this new series!

Ugh I only just now realized DX meant deluxe.

When are you going to start Pokemon Mini Works?

@Fattydeposit

5 жыл бұрын

Probably when somebody develops a video-out for it

@PizzaDinosaur

5 жыл бұрын

@@Fattydeposit GoPro or GoHome

I await the inevitable Game Boy Works Advance series.

@JeremyParish

5 жыл бұрын

As do I, but I need to get the recording process ironed out: twitter.com/gamespite/status/1151258493539835904?s=20

Man I love this new series! Keep it up!

Yaaaay, Jeremy is back with GB goodness! Thanks man, following closely. 👍

What makes Tetris DX so much better in my opinion is that they did away with the stereotypical Russian music. I like the late 90s ambient style way better. The graphics are also really good and not aggressive as it's been said in the video. I like the different modes that let me run the game in single player for hours.And I enjoy the specific ambient mode when the game is left running alone without player interaction. Tetris DX is my favorite version of Tetris in general. This is first place, followed by original GB Tetris and on third place NES Tetris. There will never be a forth or fifth place needed. It has remained this top three list since Tetris DX hit home with me.

I really love how laid back and well written your videos are; everything's all concise and informative just like in the creamy spinach Game Boy Works. Tetris DX was probably the first game I ever played back in 1999 at the earliest, and I still have the same cartridge and Game Boy Color to go with it. I enjoyed the original Tetris, too.

I just finished catching up on GBW and holy moly, yeah mix it up. Game Boy models are the spice of life.

I wonder if the stealth Game Boy + Color hybrid game, Pokemon Yellow, will be covered. The versions outside of Japan actually have GBC colors, even though it's in a gray cartridge. It very likely wasn't marketed to be GBC compatible because the colorization is very limited. (For example, all Pokemon are colored one color, the overworld is one solid, but changing color, etc.) But either way, great work! I continue to watch the new videos every Wednesday.

@JeremyParish

5 жыл бұрын

I'm really torn on Pokémon Yellow. It doesn't follow the black/clear cart guidelines I'm using and was branded as a standard Game Boy cart... but it's enhanced for GBC. I guess the question is, would I consider Zelda Oracles to be GBA games because of the extra rings available on GBA? Pokémon Yellow will fall on the same side of the knife edge.

@Dwedit

5 жыл бұрын

The GBA doesn't give any features to GBC games beyond "Hey I'm a GBA". Much unlike the GBC which has additional features in the system. Since a game needs to identify itself as a Game Boy Color compatible game to be able to use the features of the GBC hardware, I'd call Pokemon Yellow a GBC game, albeit a stealth hybrid GBC game.

@devmas

5 жыл бұрын

Oh hey, famed emulator and homebrew author Dwedit. But yeah, he's right. The only different thing a GBA does with Game Boy / Color games is change one number so that the game can optionally see if it's running on a GBA. It was used in the Oracle games for the bonus rings, but also in Shantae so that the game would choose brighter colors to compensate for the GBA's super dark screen. That's completely different from Pokemon Yellow, where it needed a whole bunch of color logic specifically for the GBC (exactly like black cartridge and even clear cartridge games). (I don't mean to imply that you NEED to cover the game or anything... Honestly I would love to see your take on Pokemon, but I'd totally understand if you decide not to do that.)

@JeremyParish

5 жыл бұрын

No, I'm totally on the fence about Yellow, because it's such a strange outlier. This is all great feedback!

Superb video Jeremy!

Been a game for 35years+ and always been a big shooter/SHMUP fan, love playing in TATE mode the Flip-Grip is fantastic such a brilliant idea and cost me like £15ish, summit like that and when it arrived I was really shocked with how high quality a piece of plastic could feel, absolutely love it! And the GameBoyWorks Vol1 and 2 plus the NESWorks Vol1 and 2 are bloody fantastic, was about £90 for all 4 and there absolutely must haves for fans, the high quality photos are brilliant! M

@JeremyParish

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you like 'em!

@supermattymaker

4 жыл бұрын

@@JeremyParish Really don't wanna sound like I'm blowing smoke up arses but yeah there both excellent, especially the FlipGrip, as I said just a piece of plastic works a charm, bloody genius!

Observations after viewing: 1) I didn't realize "DX" meant deluxe. 2) The changes in music depending on how close you are to the kill line gets on my nerves, too. 3) Curiously, I didn't know about Tetris DX until a few years ago. But I have fond memories of playing it on my GBA SP shortly after buying it on eBay. 4) The debut of Game Boy Works Color was a pleasant surprise. I'm glad you started this series. I remember getting a turquoise Game Boy Color in the summer of 1999, playing games during my two-week diagnostic vocational evaluation's lunch periods. I still have it, along with my transparent purple Game Boy Advance, but I prefer to play GB, GBC, and GBA games on my GBA SP.

This was the first gameboy game i've ever played

Plenty more fan service next episode? XD Love that ending music

I loved this version of Tetris. It did strike me as odd to have be backwards compatible since there was already a well-owned GB version.

@JeremyParish

5 жыл бұрын

The first Color-only game didn't ship for another six months or so. For whatever reason, they weaned players off the B&W model rather than jumping straight into it.

@bfish89ryuhayabusa

5 жыл бұрын

It would be interesting if putting it into an original Game Boy made it boot the older version of the game, unchanged. This obviously would never happen for a host of reasons, from possible rights issues to probable "being a blatantly bad idea on multiple levels" issues, but I would really get a kick out of it.

@Dwedit

5 жыл бұрын

Conker's Pocket Tales is a hybrid cartridge with a twist, the GB and GBC versions are completely separate, and can not even share the same save file. So having a separate game for GB and GBC mode wasn't completely out of the question.

"garish color" on a non-backlit hardware such as the gbc? you jest. youd be lucky if you could see the screen.

...All this time I thought DX stood for Director's Cut. I never knew it actually meant Deluxe until this video.

@cashnelson2306

5 жыл бұрын

Might have gotten that from Sonic Adventure DX, which does mean Director's Cut. The GBC line was Deluxe though, if for no other reason than the original director not actually being present.

Amazing review thanks

I still own this game and play it usually a couple times a day on my GameBoy Pocket. Nice how it saves your scores and you can pause the game turn off the Gameboy and pick up right were you left off next time.

WHOOOO GAMEBOY WORKS IS BACK!!!

Still play this exact one til this day.

I was right there at the launch of the GameBoy Color, but being a kid with a limited pool of money, Tetris DX _did not_ interest me. The built in pallets of the GameBoy Color made the original '89 Tetris look quite colorful to begin with, and having a near decade experience with the original GameBoy at that point, I felt puzzlers in general don't need color, certainly not Tetris. Nintendo would have been better off making a colorized version of Dr. Mario than Tetris. Anyway, I just recently installed a new backlit LCD into my teal GameBoy Color and man, it's amazing to play GBC game son the original hardware with a fully lit display. No more having to opt for the GBA SP or emulation. It's glorious.

@JeremyParish

5 жыл бұрын

I need to get me one of those.

For me it's all about the Type A music. If you ask anyone to sing the Tetris theme song, they're going to give you the original Gameboy (USA) Type A song. To that end, Gameboy and SNES are the best versions. Music is super important to gaming.

Man am I glad to see this. Sorry, I watched your Virtual Boy works and it was fine but this is more like it. On another note it will be interesting to see who actually finishes one these chronological series. For instance the guy you emulated with Chontendo series I don’t think has released much in years at this point.

@JeremyParish

5 жыл бұрын

...The Virtual Boy series IS finished. There you go. It's me. I'm the one who finished a chronological series first.

That darn mainframe Tetris speaker beep! I thought my PC was going into meltdown.

Man, you had me worried that I missed the rest of Game Boy Works.

The colors are definitely quite garish on a modern backlit display, but remember that the game was designed for a system with no backlight, which would have been much harder to see had they chose less vibrant colors

@JeremyParish

5 жыл бұрын

Comments like these overlook the fact that the colors look grody on the GBC's screen, too.

Tetris DX colors are nice!

I like Tetris DX a lot better than original Game Boy Tetris because in Tetris DX, the game saves your high scores and your name entries. The original version of original Game Boy Tetris never had a save feature, which sucked.

For me, the only Tetris soundtrack that competes with OG GameBoy would be Tetris DS.

Jeremy, I love your videos and books! But I wanted to mention, remember when talking about the "eye searing colors" that while that may be true on emulators on bright monitors, Game Boys were not lit until the front-lit SP in 2003 and backlit upgrade in 2005, so it looks much more subtle in the original format. Unrelated conjecture: I'm not 100% sure if the same applied to GB sprites, but I know that on the NES, sprite coordinates were offset one pixel lower vertically than the background coordinate. This could be compensated for in sprite positioning, but most games used it to indicate depth for a character standing on the ground tiles on the background. That may account for the extra pixel the piece travels downward before converting them to background tiles once the blocks are placed.

@ApenBaard

5 жыл бұрын

Id hope he bases everything he says in these videos on playing the games on actual hardware and the use of emulator is solely a means to convey the games to us when actual capture isnt possible.

@JeremyParish

5 жыл бұрын

Game Boy Color color palettes are gross even on original hardware. No-ESPECIALLY on original hardware, where they become even muddier. I'm not talking about brightness/intensity here, I'm about how the hues and tones in GBC games often look awful next to each other. I'm amused about being scolded about how games looked on a handheld I played exhaustively for years, though. My first games site was mostly focused on contemporary GBC releases. Come on, kids.

Sweet! I thought we were going to have to wait until at least the 2030s for some GBC content.

It’d be cool to see you talk about Tetris Plus!

I find it interesting the you mention Nintendo's practice of keeping development in-house while showing the original Donkey Kong where they had to bring in Ikegami Tsushinki Co., Ltd. to help with the programming and Nintendo was successfully sued over altering that code to make Donkey Kng Jr, hence why the only version available for the last several decades have been the NES ports.

@JeremyParish

5 жыл бұрын

The NES version, which is what I showed here, was developed in-house at Nintendo and was the baseline project for the NES's tech targets. I'm well aware of the history behind Donkey Kong's arcade code and have created multiple articles, podcasts, and videos about it

The definitive version. The one I excel at.

One of the best "Tetris" releases and a sigificant upgrade control wise! THIS is the true Gameboy Classic and definitive Version=)

The first game I ever played.

I don't think you get to complain about Nintendo's color choices being garish while you've got *that* background for your logo. :-P

@jasongarrett768

5 жыл бұрын

It’s authentic to the time!

@JeremyParish

5 жыл бұрын

But that's literally my point. I based the color scheme of these cards on the Berry and Kiwi models of Game Boy Color.

ah shit, here we go again :)

I like the term "Ted Turner-ized". I'm going to start using that.

@JeremyParish

5 жыл бұрын

That was a common term for colorized B&W films in the ’80s! I still use it because I am Very Old.

@wheeledjustice7381

5 жыл бұрын

@@JeremyParish I'm at least old enough that I know about the Ted Turner Colorizations, I just had no idea they were called Ted Turner-ized films. We can be Very Old Together if that makes you feel better.

@lazybacon7520

5 жыл бұрын

@@JeremyParish To everyone's disdain. After they announced a colorization of Citizen Kane, Orson Welles publicly stated "Don't let Ted Turner deface my movie with his crayons."

I love the Nintendo portable systems. I wonder if you will consider something like Shadowgate Classic, which I always revisit every fifteen years or so after I forget how to finish it.

You're not going to review every single gameboy color game...right?

@FloatingSunfish

5 жыл бұрын

Oh, my! Two of my favorite KZreadrs all in one comment section!

@JeremyParish

5 жыл бұрын

No, I'll die long before that happens.

@JomasterTheSecond

5 жыл бұрын

Fingers crossed he reviews classics such as *_N SYNC GET TO THE SHOW_* and *_MARY KATE AND ASHLEY GET A CLUE._*

Wide Boy 64? What’s your hardware setup for this series?

@cashnelson2306

5 жыл бұрын

The overlay appearing throughout the episode is from the Super Game Boy. My guess would be any no-overlay footage is just chopped off that. GameCube Game Boy Player would be the next most likely, assuming Jeremy doesn't use emulators which I'm not actually certain of. The Super Game Boy only supports the black cartridges, not the GBC-exclusive ones, so my money would be on the GC GBP for those future episodes. Wouldn't put it past him to own a Wide Boy 64 though....

@JeremyParish

5 жыл бұрын

Wide Boy 64 on RGB-modded N64, yep. For SGB stuff, it's a Super Game Boy 2 on Super NES model 2.

@cashnelson2306

5 жыл бұрын

@@JeremyParish I should have known to have faith.

I disagree about sound, the tracks are solid, and the critical indicators in tone change keep you on track

You can't just commit to one console, can you? XD

@cashnelson2306

5 жыл бұрын

I deeply relate to Jeremy's ADD it's one of the endearing things about this channel

Personally, my favorite tetris version

Best tetris Version. Batterie Save is so fantastic. All good but music. The original Sound can be activate via cheat Code Devise

"Next time we'll look at a puzzler that doesn't hold up quite so well." And you show Hexcite? :( I just tried that for the first time last year and got really addicted to it. It did take me watching a couple of videos and reading some reviews online to properly understand how to play the game, though (of course I didn't have the manual to go with it).

@JeremyParish

5 жыл бұрын

Hexcite is an interesting idea that's limited by its fidelity to a tabletop game. It doesn't take full advantage of the medium.

"The Game Boy Color was a half step forward until its 32-bit ambitions could be realized. In other words, the system that suffers from 'middle-child' syndrome between the original and Advanced Game Boys." Just like the Wii U, I suppose.

@KuraIthys

5 жыл бұрын

You could say that. But you could also say that about the gamecube. I mean, the Wii sold amazingly and is basically a modified gamecube... But the gamecube itself is only marginally more successful than the Wii U...

@cashnelson2306

5 жыл бұрын

Eh, not really. Frankly the Wii would be the better analogy, as it's literally a souped up GameCube just as the GBC is a souped up Game Boy.

I've often wondered if I should pick this up as I love Tetris but that music really does ruin it for me. I guess maybe the Devs thought they best do more than just add colour to the game? So decided to change the music.

I was wondering if the GBC would be included in Game Boy Works or not. Having a separate series is a good idea so we don't have to wait for the entire Game Boy Works to be completed to see these games. Though it might be weird for B&W Game Boy games that got a GBC version if the GBC video comes out first. Link's Awakening DX is probably going to show up before the original and it will be odd to see a video about a remake without the context of a video for the original version. Jeremy, what are you playing these games on? That doesn't look like a GB Player border and I can't imagine you using emulation for these videos.

WHAT??!! How is it possible that I missed the classic theme for tetris 99!

I'm not saying I like the color palette choices GBC games chose... but, considering the low-rez, non-backlit screen the hardware came with, I get why it was done. Developers were trying to make their games actually visible on such a low-tech screen.

How are you capturing the footage of Game Boy Color software? It's not the Super Game Boy and I don't remember the Game Boy Advance Player on Game Cube having a GBC skin either.

@discountchocolate4577

5 жыл бұрын

Game Boy Player was fully capable of playing GBC games.

@alexkbaker

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, I realize that, but I don't believe it had a nice GBC border like we're seeing in the video.

@discountchocolate4577

5 жыл бұрын

@@alexkbaker My best guess is the actual game footage is captured on GBP and the Super Game Boy background is added in editing.

Hey after the torture of Virtual Boy works which came to an end(and also the end of simple red and black colours) GBC is a welcome change and fyi I spell it colours as I do not live in America. Woe Nintendo for naming the system Gameboy Color, even if lots of places spell it properly. So hey my instinct of spelling it the alternate way kicks in. :P

@KuraIthys

5 жыл бұрын

Much as it might annoy people, you'll see in a comment I made elsewhere on this video that I have a habit talking about the Colour capabilities of the Gameboy Color using both spellings combined. I refer to colour because that's my native spelling. But I still call it a Gameboy Color, because that's it's name. Product names don't have to obey the logic of spelling of any given language or dialect. The gameboy Color is still the 'Gameboy Color' in countries where English isn't the native language. Even japan - although they do write it using Katakana, they still call it the 'gameboy color' there. But my real point is even if for some bizarre reason they had named it the 'gameboi kolor', which is wrong no matter who you ask, that would still be it's name. Because it IS after all, a proper name for a product, NOT a descriptive term.

What is the song you use for the "Next time on" or is it an original piece made for your show?

@robertboxall4838

4 жыл бұрын

NVM, it is from NGE. I thought it reminded me of an anime.

Where can I find the ending song?

I will play tetris DX.😀👍🎮

😁

Are NES and SNES works going to continue at a regular pace as well and, if you don't mind me asking, will Nintendo 64 Works ever be revived?

@JeremyParish

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, not immediately, and ehhh....

@CobaltZeroni

5 жыл бұрын

Seconding curiosity about N64 Works - it may be another plate to juggle, but the games there are pretty unique from everything else being covered in the Works.

@JeremyParish

5 жыл бұрын

They're so much larger in terms of content volume than Game Boy or NES games. I literally do not have the capacity to create effective videos on games of that generation.

@PepsiGolem

5 жыл бұрын

@@JeremyParish I dunno, I thought you did a great job on the videos of Super Mario 64.

@JeremyParish

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I worked hard on those. If I did that weekly I would die.

Always thought "tetronimo" was pronounced like "domino." Kind of tough to realign my world view after this revelation.

Hue Kids On The Block Had a bunch of hits Chinese food makes me sick And I think it's fly When girls stop by For the summer For the summer I like girls that Wear Abercrombie and Fitch I'd take her if I had one wish But she's been gone Since that summer Since that summer

Should we expect a Super Game Boy Works as well?

@JeremyParish

5 жыл бұрын

No.

@bfish89ryuhayabusa

5 жыл бұрын

I feel like that would be about as fruitful as a Game Boy Pocket Works.

@RoboP

5 жыл бұрын

@@JeremyParish I feel it could just be a little side episode on like; the Game Boy Pocket, the Gameboy Light, Super Gameboy could all be lumped in as like a trivia kinda thing for the hell of it.

@Osterergerbanta

5 жыл бұрын

@@bfish89ryuhayabusa Or GB Light Works, or SGB 2 Works I kid, of course. I really agree that the Game Boy Color is enough of a different model that deserves a separate series, a breath of fresh air

Who do you say it? Game Boy Works color? Or Game Boy Color Works?

NES WORKS Vol. III: 1987 (this year?)

@JeremyParish

5 жыл бұрын

As in, the book? Definitely not.

@Spacedoggs

5 жыл бұрын

@@JeremyParish Noooooo..... I bought your 1st two and want the next! At least tell me it's "in the works," ya?

@JeremyParish

5 жыл бұрын

That's what the NES Works videos I've been publishing for the past year have been leading up to.

Hey who're you callin' a blockhead?!

Ah, back when teenagers with enlarged heads screamed Play It Loud into a warped perspective lens. Out of all the 90’s marketing aesthetics, those were undoubtedly the most 90’s. Thanks, Gameboy Color. Seeing the Metal Gear Solid logo on a GBC cart is still a bit jarring. The Gameboy certainly had longevity on its side.

@KuraIthys

5 жыл бұрын

from what I remember those weren't the GBC ads, but the ones for the gameboy editions that came in coloured shells. I still get a chuckle out of the other major gameboy ad campaign. Which had such stuff like 'more fun than a hole in the head' with someone having a shaved head painted green with a golf hole flag stuck in their head. Or the equally bizarre 'more fun than a ferret down your pants'. Those were some truly strange times... XD

@jasongarrett768

5 жыл бұрын

You may be right. God there were a lot of Gameboy variants.

I think Tetris DX is one of the best versions of Tetris. It looks good. It has no silly backgrounds consisting of photos or pixel art e.g. Tetris 2 on the SNES. It's clean and while it doesn't have the original's music it has iconic tunes. Also it plays well too. Plus I like the look of the blocks themselves. Personally Nintendo make the best versions of Tetris when they are left to develop alone.

also gba has no version of tetris that can stand up to this one as far as im aware, theyre plagued with gimmicks that get in the way. you wouldnt see a decent nintendo tetris again until ds.

The only two color games I ever bought for my GBC were Heroes of Might & Magic and Lufia. Pretty bad picks...

I wish you would have elaborated more about what the differences in the actual mechanics were, and what is no longer considered official Tetris.

@JeremyParish

5 жыл бұрын

That would have amounted to me regurgitating someone else's technical explanation from a Tetris wiki, which would (1) not make for an interesting or authoritative video and (2) be a lot less efficient for all parties involved than simply reading said wiki.

@ZipplyZane

5 жыл бұрын

I think you misunderstand. I'm not asking for a detailed breakdown. Just that, if you're going to spend so much time talking about the ruleset is different, then it would be nice to have some examples. It would have aided my understanding of what you were talking about. I will now follow my own advice, and give an example of what you could have said: "For example, the rules have changed over how fast tetrominos fall, and how they rotate. Good Tetris DX players can even exploit this to make the blocks move up while rotating against a wall." That's not regurgitating anything. Just giving an interesting tidbit that gives the watcher an idea of the sort of thing you're talking about when you mention ruleset changes. It's just a couple extra sentences, and I would have liked the video a lot more. As is, I left dissatisfied, feeling like I needed to go look things up to understand one of the points of the video (which I obviously did). I don't expect a lot of technical detail in an overview video. But, since you made the ruleset changes seem so important, I kinda expected a bit more. And apologies if that post was too long, or made me seem overly critical. I do enjoy your content, or I wouldn't have bothered mentioning my one gripe, let alone taking the time to clarify.

If mine says DMG-ATEA-USA and has the Nintendo logo on the right, is it a fake or a first print? I saw one with DMG-ATEA-USA 1 that had the gold Nintendo seal on the right and the Nintendo logo on the left just under the rating. Anyone know if Tetris Dx first release was the exception to the Nintendo seal being absent (meaning if it’s missing it’s a fake)?

It's stingy with the "I" block. 🥺

So why are taking a break from game boy works?

@JeremyParish

5 жыл бұрын

This IS Game Boy Works.

@jodaniel69

5 жыл бұрын

@@JeremyParish so now you're just skipping around? What happened to the other regular game boy games?

@JeremyParish

5 жыл бұрын

Amazingly, this very question is addressed in the video you're replying to.

@jodaniel69

5 жыл бұрын

@@JeremyParish ok you got me.

The worst thing of tetris dx: Panic Themes, glad there is a patch to remove them

Hate infinite spin.