Lunar Ball & Karateka retrospective: Castle crasher | NES Works Gaiden #049

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Published on November 2, 2022 12:42:45 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsoXlEmoUtk

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Karateka (1984)

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Duration: 10:23

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This week, a pair of games that have both been covered before on this channel... twice! So, rather than belabor the point, this episode works more as a treatise on the rapid rise and shakeout of the Japanese games industry around this point—the brief Nintendo-led gold rush of 1985 and the harsh reality that followed.

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NES/Famicom footage captured from @analogueinc Nt Mini; arcade footage captured from MiSTer with thanks to @MiSTerAddons. Video upscaled to 720 with @atemsoft xRGB Mini Framemeister.