A playthrough of Ubisoft's 1993 license-based action game for the NES, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Ubisoft's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade was the second game for the NES based on the movie, the first being Taito's 1991 game of the same name (https://youtu.be/QeYhoNH7Coc). This version was created by NMS, and if you're familiar with their take on Aladdin or The Lion King for the NES, you're already well aware that they're not known for quality games. The Last Crusade, like the Disney games, is best summed up as an extraordinary waste of resources. Instead of porting over the Dos v ..read more

A playthrough of Taito's 1991 license-based action game for the NES, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Based on the final installment of the original Indiana Jones movie trilogy, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade offers up an eclectic mishmash of gameplay experiences based on the film's action set pieces. In your search for the holy grail, you'll solve puzzles, reclaim a crucifix from thieves aboard a ship, rescue Marcus from a Nazi military convoy, save Indy's dad from an Austrian castle, and dodge fire as you race through a forest on a motorcycle. As the plot's events unfold, new stages b ..read more

A playthough of Konami's 1993 license-based platformer for the Super Nintendo, Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts Loose. Played through on the "challenge" difficulty setting. Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts Loose was one of several games Konami created based on the popular cartoon franchise, and it was very well received - so well, in fact, that Nintendo Power magazine awarded it the cover their of the March 1993 issue. The game is a fairly standard action-platformer with a few neat wrinkles to keep things interesting. Buster can blaze around stages, sometimes at near-Sonic speeds, as long ..read more

A playthrough of Hudson Soft's 1992 role-playing game for the TurboGrafx-CD, Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes. Chapter 1: The Uprising 4:31 Chapter 2: The Chase 1:28:48 Chapter 3: Lost King 4:44:35 Chapter 4: Mystic Myths 7:01:44 Chapter 5: Outlaws 8:45:28 Finale: Dragonfire 10:32:46 Nihon Falcom's Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes, originally released in 1989 for the PC-88, never achieved a level of recognition or commercial success to rival the company's biggest hits of the 8-bit era. In hindsight, however, its significance is hard to ignore. Falcom found themselves at a crossroads in 1 ..read more

A playthrough of Taito's 1991 platformer for the NES, Toki. One day, Toki, a meathead in a loincloth, and his girlfriend Miho are taking a leisurely stroll through the jungle when an evil wizard suddenly appears before them. The wizard casts a spell that changes Toki into a monkey, summons an invisible giant to kidnap Miho, and promptly makes his escape. A jungle spirit takes pity on Toki and decides to help him out by granting him the ability to spit fireballs, and thus armed, Toki sets off toward the wizard's golden palace on a quest to save his woman. The Tarzan setup is as hokey and as sil ..read more

A playthrough of Capcom's 1991 action game for the NES, Snow Bros. This video shows two playthroughs of the game in order to show all the hidden stuff, in addition to all three rounds of the Time Mode. Here are some timestamps: 0:00 First game (shows all the secret items and the best ending) 36:05 Second game (takes the warp zones and shows the regular ending) Time Mode 1:02:40 Two-minute game 1:05:32 Three-minute game 1:09:26 Five-minute game Snow Bros. is a conversion of the 1990 arcade game from Toaplan. The NES game was the first of two home versions of the game to see a North American rel ..read more

A playthrough of Time Warner Interactive's 1994 license-based interactive movie for the Sega CD, The Lawnmower Man. The Lawnmower Man, a special effects-laden film starring Pierce Brosnan and tangentially based on a story by Stephen King, was one of cinema's biggest hits of 1992. It only made sense, then, that a video game adaptation would soon follow. Sales Curve Interactive released two games in 1993 to capitalize on its success. One was a platformer for the Super Nintendo (https://youtu.be/PKZxhsZjI20) and Game Boy, later ported to the Sega Genesis. The other, an FMV game for Dos PCs, saw r ..read more

A playthrough of Natsume's 1991 shooter for the NES, S.C.A.T: Special Cybernetic Attack Team. Sometime in the near future, an alien armada has invaded Earth, and an "astrotube" (a space elevator, basically) now directly connects New York City to the bad guys' space station. The outlook is bleak, but the US president has an ace up his sleeve. Before the aliens arrived, he had ordered a team of scientists to create a weapon that would enable Earth to fight back. That weapon was S.C.A.T., the Special Cybernetic Attack Team, comprised of a pair of cyborg warriors capable of wielding the aliens' te ..read more

A playthrough of Milton Bradley's 1990 shooter for the NES, Cabal. D.R.A.T., the Dreaded Republic of Allied Terrorists, is preparing to stage a worldwide attack. Major I.M. Havok of IWAC ("International World Affairs Council") has handpicked to you to be the commando to infiltrate the enemy's compound, destroy it, and put a stop to their nefarious plans. The 80s sure loved their acronyms, didn't they? Cabal for the NES is an adaptation of Tad's 1988 arcade game, a single-screen military shooter that was influential enough to spawn a short-lived subgenre fashioned in its image, serving as direc ..read more

A playthrough of Acclaim's 1990 run-and-gun shooter for the NES, Narc. When it came out in 1988, Williams' Narc was famous for pushing boundaries. It was on the cutting edge of arcade tech, being the first coin-op to run on a 32-bit CPU and to feature "photo-realistic" high-resolution graphics with thousands of colors displayed simultaneously. It was also perhaps the most adult-oriented game yet to see a wide release in terms of both presentation and content, neatly packaged in a format that could be easily accessed by kids. As far as landmark moments in gaming go, Narc was to 1988 what Mortal ..read more