Weekend Rental Season 1 - Makopowered Gaming
11Chapters
0:00 Dick Tracy (Nintendo Entertainment System)
17:57 Godzilla Monster of Monsters (Nintendo Entertainment System)
34:52 Star Trek: The Next Generation (Nintendo Entertainment System)
55:13 Resident Evil : Survivor (Sony PlayStation)
1:11:46 Snake's Revenge (Nintendo Entertainment System)
1:29:40 Rygar: The Legendary Adventure (Sony PlayStation 2)
1:47:07 James Bond 007 (Game Boy)
This is it! The first season of Weekend Rental, and my first year on YouTube in all its... Ummm... Glory? This is the unedited first season, warts and all, both for people to get a sense of what we're all about and to show how far we've come in the three years I've been doing this!
This first year really shows my love for the ol' Nintendo Entertainment System, with four of the seven videos featuring NES games! From Dick Tracy and Godzilla, to Star Trek: The Next Generation and Snake's Revenge, we covered some of the fun, quirky NES games that are either unfairly disparaged or just aren't talked about enough.
It's not just NES games, though! We also looked at the most hated classic Resident Evil game that isn't Resident Evil Gaiden, Resident Evil: Survivor for the PS1! Then there's the game that both resurrected a dormant Tecmo franchise and was ripped off wholesa... I mean... "paid homage" in depth by God of War - Rygar: The Legendary Adventure for the PS2! Finally, to cap everything off, the holiday tradition started here - James Bond 007 for the Game Boy!
This first year was an interesting one for me, personally. After the Dick tracy video, there was a three month gap in uploads because I was just finishing my PhD (I defended my dissertation literally two weeks after Dick Tracy was uploaded), but also I got hit with Bells Palsy right after it was uploaded, which made it very difficult to talk without slurring my words for months. This is why there are so many guest narrators during these initial videos - they are friends who stepped up to help while I was recovering, and I cannot express my gratitude enough. Huge thank you to, in order, Matt Kondracki, @TheVelvetDuke , Ashley VS, Matt's Retro Room, and Sarah Stang!
Please make sure you support them all where possible:
Matt Kondracki's website:
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Velvet's channel: https://www.youtube.com/@UC0i_ChFhYOAfa49Li0Twp5Q
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Find Matt's Retro Room at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCikZ2d5m4eodVrcF7BoNPfw
I wanted to keep this video honest, so all of the hiccups, issues, and... Let's be nice and call them 'learning experiences' from this period are left in here. From the first video, whose narration I recorded on an old Rock Band mic (and you can tell!), to a weird rendering hiccup with the Godzilla video which made the narration mono, but the bg music stayed stereo, to all of the odd little editing quirks that came from making these first videos on a 4-year-old laptop with not enough RAM.
Thank you for everyone who has stuck with the channel over the years, and welcome for anyone discovering it for the first time!
Weekend Rental is a show where we look at games that, while not widely considered classics or sometimes even good, are still worth examining and maybe even playing despite themselves.
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