Boyographic - Tail 'Gator Review
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- Опубліковано 1 кві 2018
- On this week's Boyographic, we take a look at a game that I was first introduced to via a Multicart! It's Tail'Gator to us in the West and Shippo De Bun in it's native Japan. Time to take off my rose tinted classes and put on my critical eyes, it's reviewin' time!
This is the 101st episode of Boyographic, the series looking to highlight the highs and lows of the Gameboy library, playing the hits and the misses so you don't have to! Thank you all for sticking with me so long and to everyone who's supported this channel. It really means a lot!
All footage is used in fair use to give a cultural perspective of the character and context for this game's release. All footage is owned by it's respective copyright holders, and was not created by myself.
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If you are going to read the Japanese title, しっぽでブン, then you should probably learn to pronounce it correctly. 😉
Shippo de Bun is spoken as "she-poe day boon".
Edit: I just watched your Tobu Tobu Girl video and it is clear that you study Japanese. Hope your pronunciations have become more polished over the years! Keep at it! Also, love your channel!
Yeah, at this point I don't think I'd actually started studying Japanese, I probably just read it off of the Wikipedia page haha! I'm still at N5 level, but I'm getting there!
I picked this title up over Christmas. It was on a top list from UK's Retro Gamer Magazine. I'd been after it for sometime. Excellent play and whimsical music.Cheers Matthew!
I've never heard of this nor have I ever seen it at a store. It looks like a fun one to pick up. Great video as always!
If you just want to play it Kyle, check Multicarts! It turns up more than you'd think under various guises because of it being a good early GB game that's relatively small! Thanks for watching dude, hope you're doing well!
In the U.S., piracy wasn't big for much of the country with regards to the GB in its heyday. Perhaps in bigger cities, but in many of the places in the U.S., it was almost all or all legal carts.
Looks like Europe might have had a different story there. I say this because you made a hell of a wide ranging statement saying it was at the heart of most peoples' love.
That's very interesting! In Europe, Multicarts were huge! Most Game Boy lots I've picked up in the various countries I've lived in, all came with at least one. I've even got some boxed unlicensed Sachen games that were sold in the Danish equivalent of Walmart! Same with Asia it seems also. I guess NOA had a tighter crack down on piracy than their European counterparts!
In Eastern Europe (where some of my relatives live) there were pretty much no property/copyright laws in place until the mid '90s more or less. In other words, pirated console knock-offs were literally advertized on TV, and games were dirt cheap - you could buy, say, about 100 NES carts for the equivalent of about 50 pounds. Until mid '90s it was literally a free-for-all, and nobody cared - interestingly, the same pertained to game censorship, of which there was absolutely none. Still, the downsides to that are that, to this day, Sony is largely the only console brand that is big there - it's much more of a PC territory, consoles were never nearly as important. Nintendo doesn't even have official base of operations in many of these countries, they just sell stuff through different business partners. So, Sony really won big there, as far as the console market goes they pretty much have no competition whatsoever, as Nintendo/Sega games were overpriced. Imagine going from games costing 2-3 pounds a piece for Famiclone carts to individual games costing 40-50 pounds for SNES/Genesis - no wonder the 16-bit generation passed them by pretty much completely. I wonder what the market must've been like in South America and all the other Asian countries besides Japan at that time!
Ah,multicarts, home of some of the most strange creations
Grana Banana my banana friend! What a pleasure!
Yup, also fun to pop them open an marvel at the craziness of some of those boards haha! Thanks for watching dude :)
Nice review. If you can I'd recommend increasing the contrast a little bit for the gameplay footage.
That's a fair shout dude, video quality is a work in progress, I'll hopefully have a SCART cable for my Framemiester within the week and that'll do half the work for me! Thanks for the feedback and for watching!
Great video!
Cheers buddy, thanks for the constant support!
Great review, Matt! I must admit, I have never been able to find this one in the wild, so it has eluded me thus far. It does look charming, however, so I know I will at least appreciate it once I get a chance to play through it.
Same here Matt, it was one of the last games I got actually thanks to a Facebook sales post (along with R-Type 2). I'd say I'd keep my eyes open but somehow I doubt I'd be lucky enough to find a EUR labeled one >.< Cheers for watching dude, let me know if you ever snag it!
If you're still interested, Limited Run Games has this game for pre-order.
@@saysoun752 Thanks, I saw the announcement! I might end up grabbing that, since the original is getting a bit expensive.
I had this game in my collection and liked it a lot!
One of the ones you wished you'd not let go of? I have a ton of those in regards to my SNES collection >.< Cheers for watching dude!
Yes but yeah I'm not a collector, more a player...No probs like your vids as always
Great video my friend!
Thanks for the kind words and for watching :)
First notification since I subscribed, hooray! ❤
Haha hope it was worth the wait Arne! Thanks for watching :)
It sure was! Every new Video brings me one step closer to becoming a GameBoy-Expert! 😁
Actually had never heard of this one before. Nice stuff! Keep them coming! :-)
(Since you already said you're also gonna cover the GBC-Library - do you think that, eventually, you'll also talk about GBA-Games?)
Eventually perhaps, let's see... I mean logically there's another 'boy' console between the Color and the Advance! Let's see what the future holds ;)
Omg this game looks adorable!!
Speaking of bootlegs and those 250 in 1 cartridges, would you believe, that my first exposure to Sonic the Hedgehog, was via one of those bootlegged GameBoy games, in a black/white version of Sonic 2 for Game Gear xD yes, in an age where Nintendo and SEGA were at each others throats, I first experiences Sonic on a GameBoy xD
I love that kinda stuff man, that's why I started doing the 'Boy Curious' episodes! Sites like Handheld Underground are great resources if you want to find some of the ROMS to weird, Chinese 'unlicensed-licensed' games like that! Thanks for watching and the support as always :)
P.s. the quality of the videos is probably not the best, but I did cover two of the sonic 'game boy' games in early Boy Curious episodes. Take a second to skim through them and let me know if either of them is the Sonic title you remember! If not, it's time for me to go hunting!
Love this game the croc's sprite is pretty sweet too! great review dude!
Yo! Ed I watch this awesome channel too.
Cheers Ed, thanks for watching :)!
You're too kind dude, thanks for watching!
I love the GAMEBOY so it's right up my street, not only that unlike my crap channel it is good quality, I'll blame it on my mic and camera, but I just do it for fun, interaction and meeting new mates.
Just keep at it, the more you do it, the better you'll get :)
Enjoyed that Mat
Cheers Tooty! Hope you had a great Easter mate!
Now limited run games is about to re-release it
Yup! Did you get a copy?
Never played this one even though I own it, looks pretty cool
Get on it Stew! You'll breeze through it :) Hope you're doing well mate, long time no speak!
Natsume did well with this and Amazing Penguin! Also, while I don't think this game is on the level of expensiveness as other games like Avenging Spirit and Mega Man 5, it's admittedly definitely not one of the most cheap games. Haha.
It's definitely up there with the likes of Kid Dracula when it comes to CIB titles though! I'd say it's on the third tier of high GB price, even loose!
Yeah, I wasn't referring to complete in box. I just focused on the game and not the cardboard that comes with it. lol
Likewise man, though I will say the odd box is nice :) But even so, Tail Gator is starting to push the same silly BIN prices I saw Trip World at about two years ago...
This channel is amazing, any plans to do GBA games as well?
Who knows! I guess I need to actually start covering GBC games first haha! Thanks for watching :)
That'd be cool to, I play all 3 systems on my modified GBA original, I put an SP 101 screen in it so it's pretty much perfect, for me anyway.
I have my 101 since I began collection and it's how I play everything when I'm not recording the footage :D
Can you do a review for Adventures of Lolo?
It's high on the list :) The only reason I haven't is the game has an incredibly lengthy tutorial haha! Don't worry though, it'll be a sooner rather than later review! Thanks for the suggestion and for watching!
Looks delightful. I heard good things about this from an EscapeRouteBritish video - it just seems to be one of those games that people get pretty enthusiastic, and for good reason from the looks of it. I'm a pretty big fan of this sort of arcade puzzle platformers, so I've played it already, but I'm always happy to see it get more attention :)
Wish Natsume would look into their damn back catalog and re-release/re-make/make sequels to so many other games in their classic library today instead of _just focusing_ on ruining Harvest Moon with an endless wave of cheap productions that don't make anyone happy. I mean, damn - they've got Tail Gator here, Shadow of the Ninja/Ninja Gaiden Shadow, Power Blade/Blazer, Shatterhand, Amazin' Penguin, Spanky's Quest, Pocky & Rocky/Kiki Kaikai, Lufia... like, what are they doing just sitting on all these? Ugh - they're so frustrating...
It's how it goes I'm afraid dude... I'd love to see a new Power Blade >.< That game is my Childhood haha! They did try with Pocky and Rocky at least, check out 'Legend of Sayuki/Heavenly Guardian', it was originally meant to be a sequel, but ended up having the character's changed due to legal reasons! Thanks for watching sir!
I thought that was the pinball-ish game... man I would had gotten this long ago
cyrus649 that one was 'revenge of the gator'. Classic!
bensbg79 lol, two gator games
Funny story Cyrus, that's how I ended up with my childhood copy of Revenge of the Gator haha! It was the only game with a crocodile on the cover, so my parents bought it! It's HAL Labs though, so it's all good ;) Thanks for watching!