A total load of Bulls: Jordan Vs. Bird: One-on-One & The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | NES Works 142
1,013This week's episode features two games with absolutely nothing in common besides, perhaps, their focus on Americana. But even that takes two very different forms! Jordan Vs. Bird comes at the idea from the perspective of licensing the likeness of the hottest player in sports and whose branded shoes were the number-one sports apparel on kids' wish lists; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer adapts a 100-year-old novel that its target audience knew as homework. The latter is also loaded with a lot of, shall we say, problematic issues—not just in its social perspective, but also in its game design. That is to say, one of these games had its finger on the pulse of youth culture, while one was shambling toward the grave... a destination that it wholly deserved.
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NES footage captured from Analogue Nt Mini. Video upscaled to 4K with RetroTink 4X and 720p with xRGB Mini Framemeister.