Nuts & Milk (Famicom) Playthrough - NintendoComplete
234A playthrough of Hudson Soft's 1984 action-puzzle game for the Nintendo Famicom, Nuts & Milk.
In this video I play through all fifty stages of the 1P A mode.
Nuts & Milk was originally released as a computer game in 1983, and when this console conversion launched the following year, it became the first Famicom game to not be published by Nintendo themselves.
It's a bit surprising that this one wasn't part of the American black box line-up. It looks and feels like one of Nintendo's own games, and I can't help but think that it would've sold well. As long as they renamed it. I'd love to know what was going through the mind of the person that decided on "Nuts & Milk."
But anyways, it's a puzzle-platformer that feels like it came straight out of an arcade circa 1983. You play as Milk, a pastel pink... thing. A nikuman that looks like proto-Kirby, trying to save his girlfriend Yoghurt, another pink thing but with a bow. Proto-Lala, perhaps?
She is being pursued by the blue Nuts that chase after Milk, attempting to prevent the happy couple from, uh... curdling together, I guess? For such an innocent and cute game, this sure is awkward to discuss. (I guess an eggplant emoji would be appropriate somewhere?)
There are fifty single-screen stages to adventure through, and in each one Milk has to collect all of the fruit before he makes his way to the house at the upper-left. He can only jump short distances, and he can't jump at all when he's on a ladder, which makes many of the later stages pretty tricky to navigate. It's not a hard game, but it is a fun one that will hold your attention through the end. And, just in case the fifty included stages aren't enough for you, it also includes a level editor similar to what we saw in Excitebike.
Even though this version of Nuts & Milk wasn't officially released outside of Japan, I remember playing it on one of those bootleg 500-in-1 carts - you guys remember those? I guess it makes sense, though. Nuts & Milk uses a super tiny 24K ROM, so it was the perfect sort of game to be carved up into tiny individual "games."
Terrible and hilarious name aside, Nuts & Milk is a great game that sits on par with many of Nintendo's own early NES releases. I'm sure I'm not the only one to have fond memories of it.
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No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
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