Game:

Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon (1997)

Category:

Let's Play

Duration: 5:11:04

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Originally Recorded/Aired On January 7th, 2023

Happy New Year from #SuperOldGameSaturday! To start off 2023, the third full year of the program, I'm taking care of a New Year's resolution, which is finally getting back to Konami's Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon for Nintendo 64, which I started back on November 7th, 2020 (which was 2 1/6 years ago), but given just how long it's been and how far this show has come thanks to all of you, I'm restarting this deeply underrated action/platformer from the beginning, though the original Part 1 will remain uploaded to contrast between #SuperOldGameSaturday's early years of doing things and its current methods. Namely, we're going deep into this game with an 100% run with discussion on the people who made this 5th entry in the Ganbare Goemon series (and one of only 5 the US got, compared to the over 30 that Japan saw). I have strong memories of this one helping inform my interest in Japanese history, traditional culture, pop-culture and anime, which I'm continuing to share here, but this time, with even more of a chat presence to add to when Proterova was in chat for the original Part 1 we did so long ago. For this return, we went deeper into this series, this game, its great music, the heavy-hitters in its voice cast, others like us who also remember this buried treasure of a game (and its series) and aspects of its story and time period (whatever that might be), as well as went into multiple other topics, including console modding, a particularly bizarre comic arc for the Joker of Batman fame (fitting, as this was directed by a programmer on Batman Returns for Super Nintendo), Japanese culture and language and even learning new things about this game that I was not aware of, while also setting us up nicely for next month's conclusion. I had a great time returning to this game and I thank ElecVerse, Cazim22, and DollyFinn in chat for adding so much to it, as well as all of you for your support and interest in what this show does. Hope you enjoy our first show of 2023 and part 1 again of this underrated N64 gem (and if you like what you see here, stop by https://www.twitch.tv/captainditrag each Saturday at 7 PM EST to see these streams live and join the conversations on what we play each week)!

Also, here is the Link List, with all the links and/or chat brought up on this show:

A link to the original Part 1 of Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon, which shows how far this show has come in the last 3 years, which is part of a new playlist that will include every part of this game:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrOxkvwdJ2y-Yy2uItvr6KA18uOvTYO6f

A link talking about the new story arc in DC's Joker: The Man Who Stopped Laughing #4 comic, which sees Joker become pregnant (we discussed it here and chat had some choice thoughts about it), provided for discussion by ElecVerse and courtesy of TMZ.com:

https://amp.tmz.com/2023/01/07/new-joker-comic-sees-clown-prince-getting-pregnant-sparks-outrage/

A link to the playlist of ClementJ64's channel's plays of both this game and The Legend of the Mystical Ninja on Super Nintendo, which was one of the last let's plays by this great channel, provided by ElecVerse and courtesy of ClementJ64 on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL01B9AEBF4D1EFDC0

Links of both parts of The Lonely Goomba and Gaijin Goomba's look at Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon for the Game Boy, provided by ElecVerse and courtesy of The Lonely Goomba on YouTube (the first link is Part 1, followed by Part 2):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v34uVEgjHvg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBFl5GhuA7s

A link to the 2014 Awesome Games Done Quick speed run of the Japanese version of this game, run by Pykn, courtesy of Games Done Quick on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5JdxUAsMQc

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