As a fellow person with messed up teeth. your self confidence & courage in being able to put yourself out here on video is inspiring. As well as all the hard work you all are doing at VGHF! Merry Christmas
That list of sushi terms is kind of fascinating. Some of them are pretty different from the words I'm familiar with in Japanese for the same things. Like, the usual word for soy sauce in Japanese is /shōyu/, while /murasaki/ means the color purple. Maybe this is some sort of sushi bar jargon? /Zuke/ (or /tsuke/) generally means pickle, but apparently /zuke maguro/ is tuna specifically soaked in soy sauce (originally to make it keep longer) and is used as a sushi topping. Not one you find in the States too often! I had to look up "agari", because the usual word for tea is /o-cha/. Apparently agari is a particular type of green tea traditionally served at the end of a meal of sushi as a palate cleanser. Again, not a part of sushi culture that really made it across the Pacific (though the article I read said that a lot of places will serve it free of charge if you ask). Hikarimono (literally, "sparkly thing") turns out to be a category of fish that includes mackerel and herring. The definition of "gari" looks like a mistake. Gari is the sweet pickled ginger (not radish), sometimes colored pink, that is frequently served alongside sushi. There are radish pickles in Japanese cuisine but none of them are called gari AFAICT. I thought "gyoku" might also be a mistake. The usual word for egg in Japanese is /tamago/, however, the kanji for /tama/ can also be read as /gyoku/ (kanji is weird like that) and so maybe whoever transcribed the text goofed. But I've found a list of sushi terminology that says that "gyoku" means egg omelette. Still, I've only ever seen that called tamago, both in the US and Japan, so maybe/maybe not. The same article also listed /murasaki/ as sushi bar slang for soy sauce. The funky numbering (pin, ryan, geta, dari) is also apparently a thing. The article I found confirming this also says that menoji means five, and ends with "and so on" which is pretty helpful since this is completely different from either of the normal numbering systems in Japanese and has no pattern that I can discern. So I guess they succeeded. I learned some things about sushi!
Unreleased games and prototypes are so fascinating to me! For the past year, I've been doing some digging and documentation of Sweet Home's prototype rom! I've discovered A LOT of awesome stuff and differences from the final release of the game!
Thank you for all the work you do to preserve gaming history. There are so many prototypes that would be forgotten and fascinating stories that would never be told without your efforts and all the help from supporters. ❤
I followed your articles in Lost Levels for years, still occasionally go back and reread some of them. This is my first time watching one of your videos, and it's very nice to finally put a face to the name. Warm greetings from Argentina, and kudos to you for your amazing work, Mr. Cifaldi!
Hi frank Im' been lurking around since the early days on lost Levels website. Thanks you & the team, for the involvement on making all these thing possible. Merry christmas!
I really appreciate what you and this organization does and stands for. I'm tight on money right now but when I'm sitting more comfortably I'll be sure to contribute.
As always, I find your work to be astoundingly refreshing and IMPORTANT. Thank you for all you do. I love this video, everything about it; the pace, the important documentation of lost video game history, and the way it goes through all sorts of aspects of the ways games were made(or often not).
I remember CGQ+ Chris talk about how this sounded interesting when he came upon a small ad for it in a gaming magazine, but never saw the light of day.
Excellent story & find. But watching this video I noticed another game in that lot check paper: Zeta Gundam from Bandai. Now the VGHF has to find the prototype of Zeta Gundam: Hot Scramble's unreleased English localization!
Had never heard of this one! Pretty sure I started reading EGM too late to see any ads for it. Major props for doing what y'all are for game preservation, definitely going to fire this one up when I get a minute.
You'd have thought they'd save that text crawl for the manual of the final product, or at least make it skippable lmao. I can't imagine having to sit through all that every time I wanted to play.
Speaking of Imagesoft, it's funny how one of their releases can serve as an almost direct bridge between Pre and post-PlayStation Sony, and let's not forget. It was Sony who made the Super Nintendo sound chip so in a way, this game being found is more monumental than it might seem, another point in the bridge Oh yeah, before I forget. Game in question was Jelly Boy 2, western release for it was dropped
Love the story behind this! I know for certain if this game released, there would have been so many more sushi-literate kids growing up who all learned how to use chopsticks from the ending. We missed out 😔 Always happy to support the foundation and I’m glad to see every neat lost discovery y’all dig up! Cheers and happy holidays!
I dunno, I can imagine NoA refusing to make this game despite passing their tests. given how some games had their Japaneseness completely localized out they probably weren't super keen about reminding consumers that they were buying a foreign product from a foreign company.
Was sushi even popular in the 80s? Sure, it's mega-popular now, and re-theming a game to make it sushi-themed would probably work today. But in the 80s? I dunno, it seems like that would make things worse.
the 80's is when sushi started becoming popular in America, kids here may not have eaten sushi but they would have at least known about it and knew it was something very Japanese.
Looks like Ninja Baseball Batman finally has a worthy opponent when it comes to strange video games titles. : P Also... music has been already ripped, it makes you sleepy.
That's a good idea, but probably not the reason. I somehow remember seeing a list in a Nintendo Power magazine about 30 years ago, of all the games starting with "Super" that weren't for the SNES. There were more than I expected!
We are waiting for an early version of A Nightmare Elm of Street, Hellraiser or Ultimate Journey to be found, and we could play the games that are currently in Lost Media
I'm a little over 50 years old so let me explain the Japanese version ending: In the 1980s men were allowed to be men without shame (some like me still are like this) and to an extent Japan is still like this today. Men LIKE pretty and sexy women and we LIKE sports cars (they're kinda sexy in their own right with all those curves). So It wasn't that rare to see girls in bikinis at the end of a racing games or other games too (Metroid, Double Dragon, and many more). I do admit it's a bit out of place here beyond.. the guy that's a winner "gets the girl". Very simple and base but it works when you want your ending to barely use any memory storage.
Is it? They aren't the only company to have transitioned from software-only to also making hardware. Heck, not even the only one to do it successfully(Hi, Microsoft). If you limit it to console hardware, even Sega and Nintendo made games before they made consoles.
This information was in magazines, media, etc. This charity is essentially supporting one person's hobby that other collectors could pursue with their own time. Very self serving.
How dare you make this unreleased NES game available to the public! You have no right to dump this game at all and I want you to delete the rom forever for this game and give it to a Japanese hoarder or I WILL contact Sony to sue you into oblivion and put you in jail to rot for a VERY long time.
A bikini isn't undressed. I asked Bing AI and it agrees: "In general, a **bikini** is not considered as being **undressed**. It is a type of two-piece swimsuit that is designed to be worn by women while swimming or sunbathing. However, the level of exposure of the body parts covered by the bikini can vary depending on the design of the bikini. Some bikinis may cover more skin than others, and some may be more revealing than others²³⁴."
Holy crap i can't believe you guys tracked this down, I'm losing my mind here. That photo of Ed's stash is like looking at the lost treasures of El Dorado
Incredibile find. I find it fascinating that the localisation people (person?) Decided to add more foreign character to the game instead of renoving it like it was customary at the time for US releases.
Reminds me of how much marketing and branding for Tetris' earliest releases at this same time focused super hard on its Russian origin (when there was almost no evidence thereof in the source material), but at least in that case, Russian video games weren't and aren't a common thing.
Yes, that's what I was thinking. So many localized games at that time ruthlessly scrubbed any Japanese culture. Even to extremes, like redrawing a ton of art in River City Ransom to make it look more like a US city. (And heaven forbid the name Kunio-Kun sully the eyes of sensitive American kids! 😝) It's nice to see someone tried to do the opposite.
This is so cool! I remember reading about Super Sushi Pinball in Console Wars, and it has always been in the back of my mind ever since. I never thought I would ever be able to play it myself online. Kind of disappointing that the boards aren’t themed around sushi like I imagined though…
Imagine how much of the early history of this medium is straight up gone, lost to time. How much more would we know if this good work was being done 10, 20, even 30 years ago.... We'll never know, but we also won't have to ask that exact same question, with a 40 or 50 on it in the decades to come. Thanks to the VGHF.
What you said about "someone" made this, is so true. You can feel that they put personal effort into this and it wasn't just some quick gimmick. Glad that at least now due to your efforts, their work can be seen and appreciated!
Having orthodontic work done, be nice please.
Was too busy staring into your beautiful eyes to notice
As a fellow person with messed up teeth. your self confidence & courage in being able to put yourself out here on video is inspiring. As well as all the hard work you all are doing at VGHF! Merry Christmas
It's ok bb we still heart u
I think it's the first time I have seen you (insert credit listener), and I don't see any issues. Really enjoying your videos 😄
Didn't even notice my dude
That list of sushi terms is kind of fascinating. Some of them are pretty different from the words I'm familiar with in Japanese for the same things. Like, the usual word for soy sauce in Japanese is /shōyu/, while /murasaki/ means the color purple. Maybe this is some sort of sushi bar jargon?
/Zuke/ (or /tsuke/) generally means pickle, but apparently /zuke maguro/ is tuna specifically soaked in soy sauce (originally to make it keep longer) and is used as a sushi topping. Not one you find in the States too often!
I had to look up "agari", because the usual word for tea is /o-cha/. Apparently agari is a particular type of green tea traditionally served at the end of a meal of sushi as a palate cleanser. Again, not a part of sushi culture that really made it across the Pacific (though the article I read said that a lot of places will serve it free of charge if you ask).
Hikarimono (literally, "sparkly thing") turns out to be a category of fish that includes mackerel and herring.
The definition of "gari" looks like a mistake. Gari is the sweet pickled ginger (not radish), sometimes colored pink, that is frequently served alongside sushi. There are radish pickles in Japanese cuisine but none of them are called gari AFAICT.
I thought "gyoku" might also be a mistake. The usual word for egg in Japanese is /tamago/, however, the kanji for /tama/ can also be read as /gyoku/ (kanji is weird like that) and so maybe whoever transcribed the text goofed. But I've found a list of sushi terminology that says that "gyoku" means egg omelette. Still, I've only ever seen that called tamago, both in the US and Japan, so maybe/maybe not. The same article also listed /murasaki/ as sushi bar slang for soy sauce.
The funky numbering (pin, ryan, geta, dari) is also apparently a thing. The article I found confirming this also says that menoji means five, and ends with "and so on" which is pretty helpful since this is completely different from either of the normal numbering systems in Japanese and has no pattern that I can discern.
So I guess they succeeded. I learned some things about sushi!
Great job Frank, from all of us old Lost Levels members! We're behind you all the way!
Incredible work, thank you for preserving these materials. I had no idea the archive was so interesting and had such one-of-a-kind materials in it.
Unreleased games and prototypes are so fascinating to me!
For the past year, I've been doing some digging and documentation of Sweet Home's prototype rom! I've discovered A LOT of awesome stuff and differences from the final release of the game!
i love how its just "here's some sushi history, we dont know why but here it is"
Thank you for all the work you do to preserve gaming history. There are so many prototypes that would be forgotten and fascinating stories that would never be told without your efforts and all the help from supporters. ❤
I followed your articles in Lost Levels for years, still occasionally go back and reread some of them. This is my first time watching one of your videos, and it's very nice to finally put a face to the name. Warm greetings from Argentina, and kudos to you for your amazing work, Mr. Cifaldi!
Oh my god you found it, you actually found it!! I played the heck out of the Japanese version
Hi frank Im' been lurking around since the early days on lost Levels website. Thanks you & the team, for the involvement on making all these thing possible. Merry christmas!
Extremely cool that you found this one. But yeesh, I'd have loved to look through that basement myself.
That's fucking awesome, they even included the instruction how to use chopstick, what a mood!
Thanks for that, Boss.
I really appreciate what you and this organization does and stands for. I'm tight on money right now but when I'm sitting more comfortably I'll be sure to contribute.
As always, I find your work to be astoundingly refreshing and IMPORTANT. Thank you for all you do. I love this video, everything about it; the pace, the important documentation of lost video game history, and the way it goes through all sorts of aspects of the ways games were made(or often not).
I remember CGQ+ Chris talk about how this sounded interesting when he came upon a small ad for it in a gaming magazine, but never saw the light of day.
Releasing the ROM to us as well is true gigachad behavior
Agreed 100%
We did! Check the description.
Oh yup I saw, I'm saying you are gigachads for having done so 💪 @@GameHistoryOrg
Whoops, misread your comment, sorry! (A bunch of folks missed that we did!)
Excellent story & find. But watching this video I noticed another game in that lot check paper: Zeta Gundam from Bandai. Now the VGHF has to find the prototype of Zeta Gundam: Hot Scramble's unreleased English localization!
I really appreciate the end section, explaining how you found or were given the sources. Very informative all on it's own.
When we were kids in the early 90s we were happy to get any game no matter how cheap. Even those Tiger handhelds.
Didn’t know Frank Cifaldi was to be found here. What a Christmas treat. ❤
Had never heard of this one! Pretty sure I started reading EGM too late to see any ads for it. Major props for doing what y'all are for game preservation, definitely going to fire this one up when I get a minute.
Amazing work. I am an instant fan. Just wish i had realized you were doing productions sooner. I'll be watching from now on! BRAVO!!
I wish more people cared for the history of videogames like you do lol
Insane level of detail on this one frank ty
He didn't like California Raisins. I'll gather the torches.
Why do I feel like the guy who made this and the guy who made Ninja Baseball Batman met up and talked in a bar?
Great work, all involved!
Thanks bud, another video pinball game for the collection.
Great video, will have to dig into your channel more!
Thank you for preserving such an interesting title. Merry Christmas
It's not so hard to believe Nintendo would reject game that has intro and ending that are totally unrelated to the actual gameplay...
Thank you Ed.
Anyone else remember TheRedEye? Great video!
You'd have thought they'd save that text crawl for the manual of the final product, or at least make it skippable lmao. I can't imagine having to sit through all that every time I wanted to play.
Speaking of Imagesoft, it's funny how one of their releases can serve as an almost direct bridge between
Pre and post-PlayStation Sony, and let's not forget. It was Sony who made the Super Nintendo sound chip
so in a way, this game being found is more monumental than it might seem, another point in the bridge
Oh yeah, before I forget. Game in question was Jelly Boy 2, western release for it was dropped
Amazing as always!
Super awesome you found this game!
Were you not able to contact Blake Harris? It used to be that you only had to mention Console Wars on Twitter and he’d reply.
God, I'm going to have nightmares of ballsack Sonic.
He looks AI generated but he is real and can hurt you
Love the story behind this! I know for certain if this game released, there would have been so many more sushi-literate kids growing up who all learned how to use chopsticks from the ending. We missed out 😔
Always happy to support the foundation and I’m glad to see every neat lost discovery y’all dig up! Cheers and happy holidays!
not really. pinball games are rarely huge sellers
Every time I think I'm done looking out for NES roms I'm proved wrong lol
I dunno, I can imagine NoA refusing to make this game despite passing their tests. given how some games had their Japaneseness completely localized out they probably weren't super keen about reminding consumers that they were buying a foreign product from a foreign company.
1:28 This Sonic is going to haunt my dreams for the rest of my life
Goddamn, Frank, what you do is sofa king awesome. Love all the videos and the vghf podcast.
Great video! Thanks for all you do!
Did you upload those prototype ROMs to the Internet Archive? I think you should.
Was sushi even popular in the 80s? Sure, it's mega-popular now, and re-theming a game to make it sushi-themed would probably work today. But in the 80s? I dunno, it seems like that would make things worse.
the 80's is when sushi started becoming popular in America, kids here may not have eaten sushi but they would have at least known about it and knew it was something very Japanese.
I remember CGQ talking about this game. Sushi is such a stupid food
I legit think the teaching of Japanese culture to American kids in the late 1980s is amazing. I wish this would have come out.
i swear nintendo has more games than all the retro consoles back then
I remember hearing about this game in the console wars book, I didn’t know it actually existed!
have not watched video yet but That issue of Black Enterprise Magazine leapt out at me immediately!
fascinating
Yos! New full-fledged Pinball game for NES!
Merry Christmas!
Put the prototypes on Internet Archive
So they removed the woman on a sportscar and replaced it with a proto-wikihow instructional piece on how to use chopsticks LMFAO
That was the shit we Americans had to deal with.
@@ChristopherSobieniakI would have rather had the bikini clad woman.
I would’ve rented this sucker
Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year Godspeed
An intro rivaled only by Mister Mosquito.
Please tell me you found Pit Fighter 2 in the basement
I hate video games almost as much as I hate history foundations, but the man in this video is so handsome....
Nicely done
Please try and hunt down Electronic Arts' Shredfest from Monkey Do Productions aka the Road Rash team!
This was amazing
Wow this is awesome
Looks like Ninja Baseball Batman finally has a worthy opponent when it comes to strange video games titles. : P
Also... music has been already ripped, it makes you sleepy.
Have AVGN review these please. He's the best..no one compares.
The link to the rom is broken :)
❤
dont let jerard get his hands on them donations
From the bottom of my heart, Thank you for existing.
Could it have been that the game had the work "Super" at the first word in the title SNES had just about to come out?
That's a good idea, but probably not the reason. I somehow remember seeing a list in a Nintendo Power magazine about 30 years ago, of all the games starting with "Super" that weren't for the SNES. There were more than I expected!
Man, Sony did it well before the PlayStation...
Enviromental detective please
Yyyyyyes let’s gooooo
The video of the gameplay doesn't look very exciting. Nevertheless, I would like to try it.
a foundation? a charity? COMPLETIONIST....... no thank you
1:32 is that supposed to be sonic!?
I have 14 sealed copies of Super sushi pinball this is nonsense
DUMP. THAT. ROM.
We are waiting for an early version of A Nightmare Elm of Street, Hellraiser or Ultimate Journey to be found, and we could play the games that are currently in Lost Media
You're gonna be waiting a long time because Hellraiser never left planning iirc
I'm a little over 50 years old so let me explain the Japanese version ending:
In the 1980s men were allowed to be men without shame (some like me still are like this) and to an extent Japan is still like this today.
Men LIKE pretty and sexy women and we LIKE sports cars (they're kinda sexy in their own right with all those curves).
So It wasn't that rare to see girls in bikinis at the end of a racing games or other games too (Metroid, Double Dragon, and many more).
I do admit it's a bit out of place here beyond.. the guy that's a winner "gets the girl". Very simple and base but it works when you want your ending to barely use any memory storage.
There is NOTHING out of place about a woman in a swimsuit. Some people need to grow a pair.
Funny Sony was making games before making a console 😅
Is it? They aren't the only company to have transitioned from software-only to also making hardware. Heck, not even the only one to do it successfully(Hi, Microsoft).
If you limit it to console hardware, even Sega and Nintendo made games before they made consoles.
@@CptJistuce I guess so
Sony's first game (as far as I know) is Striz B.H. in 1984, which was actually made for their own SMC 777 computer.
@@UltimateRandomGamer cool
DONATE
This information was in magazines, media, etc.
This charity is essentially supporting one person's hobby that other collectors could pursue with their own time. Very self serving.
Now Rom Dump it
We did, see the video description.
@@GameHistoryOrg sweet thank you
Keep your pants on for just a moment buddy
@@PointZoneTelephone no way
How dare you make this unreleased NES game available to the public! You have no right to dump this game at all and I want you to delete the rom forever for this game and give it to a Japanese hoarder or I WILL contact Sony to sue you into oblivion and put you in jail to rot for a VERY long time.
Seriously, Frank? Calling a screen of a woman in a bikini "An undressed woman"? How soy could you get?
A bikini isn't undressed. I asked Bing AI and it agrees:
"In general, a **bikini** is not considered as being **undressed**. It is a type of two-piece swimsuit that is designed to be worn by women while swimming or sunbathing. However, the level of exposure of the body parts covered by the bikini can vary depending on the design of the bikini. Some bikinis may cover more skin than others, and some may be more revealing than others²³⁴."
why are you telling us what an AI said?
Super Sushi Pinball is hands-down the BEST sushi-themed pinball game ever developed for the NES.
That's a bold claim. The competition was grueling in that era.
@@nickwest932 IKR, there had been a grand total of one sushi themed game vying for NES release.
Hands down !
What about Nigiri Knockers?
@@quiet451 Nigiri Knockers is trash and everyone knows that.
Holy crap i can't believe you guys tracked this down, I'm losing my mind here. That photo of Ed's stash is like looking at the lost treasures of El Dorado
It blows my mind how after all these years we're still finding new NES games. Cheers!
Incredibile find. I find it fascinating that the localisation people (person?) Decided to add more foreign character to the game instead of renoving it like it was customary at the time for US releases.
Reminds me of how much marketing and branding for Tetris' earliest releases at this same time focused super hard on its Russian origin (when there was almost no evidence thereof in the source material), but at least in that case, Russian video games weren't and aren't a common thing.
Yes, that's what I was thinking. So many localized games at that time ruthlessly scrubbed any Japanese culture. Even to extremes, like redrawing a ton of art in River City Ransom to make it look more like a US city. (And heaven forbid the name Kunio-Kun sully the eyes of sensitive American kids! 😝) It's nice to see someone tried to do the opposite.
This is so cool! I remember reading about Super Sushi Pinball in Console Wars, and it has always been in the back of my mind ever since. I never thought I would ever be able to play it myself online. Kind of disappointing that the boards aren’t themed around sushi like I imagined though…
it's much cooler that they are not!
1:34 That Sonic's packin' a straight up dumptruck
Lol sonic the dumphog 🤣
Imagine how much of the early history of this medium is straight up gone, lost to time.
How much more would we know if this good work was being done 10, 20, even 30 years ago....
We'll never know, but we also won't have to ask that exact same question, with a 40 or 50 on it in the decades to come.
Thanks to the VGHF.
So sad Super Sushi Pinball wasn't officially released, but at least it is now preserved!
My teeth r shot from years of throwing up. Its cool ur not alone by far.
What you said about "someone" made this, is so true. You can feel that they put personal effort into this and it wasn't just some quick gimmick. Glad that at least now due to your efforts, their work can be seen and appreciated!