Nobunaga's Ambition retrospective: Downsizing Japan | Game Boy Works
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- Опубліковано 6 бер 2018
- Strategy and simulation powerhouse Koei makes its debut on Game Boy with… a strategic simulation game. Nobunaga's Ambition does a pretty respectable job of bringing a huge PC war simulation into a tiny, monochrome format. As the world's first proper handheld simulation game, it's pretty respectable, if not precisely something you'd want to spent a lot of time with today.
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They sure got ambitious for their first handheld title...
Oh nobu didn't!
Just got this at a yard sale for $0.25. Looks interesting! I think I'll hold onto it! Great video
"Was it flame? I will show you how!" Appreciated that reference. Strangely one of the most memorable lines in that game.
This is an amazing achievement on gameboy. I should have owned this when I had a gameboy. This and Harvest Moon are the deepest gameboy games.
I had this on my OG GB and put in many many of hours on it. Ironically, never did quite get into the SNES version which felt very slow and overly stuffed in comparison.The simplicity of the GB version meant it's possible to play through a scenario or campaign in a few hours and it's actually very streamlined and fast once you know what all the menus are and know the general stats of your retainers. Picking the right retainers to command regiments in battle is key!
Yes, and when you know the proper role of Ninja -- to spy out neighboring fiefs and figure out who to attack in the Summer campaign season, when everyone (but you, if you're smart) is low on food and you can conquer huge fiefdoms by sitting on your butt in the battlemap refusing to give battle for 2 days because Uesugi was an idiot who sold all his rice in the spring.
Then in the autumn after completing the conquest you get all the rice from Uesugi's previous conquests and are sitting pretty for the rest of the campaign.
Honestly, I really enjoyed the game. It was all about marshalling your resources carefully and striking at the right time. I actually managed to conquer Japan as the weakest faction in the game (the tiny Rokkaku). It's still a fond memory.
Really cool retrospective! I remember asking for and receiving this version of the game back in the early 90s for Christmas (1991 I think?), and I absolutely loved it. Played it nonstop. Every now and again ever since, I think about it and wonder if it would be worth giving another shot. Perhaps just for a kick for an hour or two...
Oh man, my dad gave me this game when I was in middle school! Cartridge only, though, so I was never able to figure it out
My dad did the same, but I did figure it out. Took a few tries tho
I remember seeing an ad for this in a GamePro issue. Always wondered how the game was. Thanks for the review!
I knew an upperclassman in school who was super into the NES version of Nobunaga’s Ambition. I didn’t understand the appeal at the time, as action games were more my speed, but he was pretty hardcore about it. It’s still impressive that complex games like that could translate reasonably well to the diminutive Game Boy.
Always thought the SNES ambition was a cut down compared to ambition 2 on NES. Owned both got a lot of hours on them. Have lords of darkness but man the SNES CPU doesn't do well with it.
The nes game was really fun, if you mute the darn music.
This is impressive and looks incredible. It probably was an eyes-killer on the handheld screen though.
Call me crazy but I can actually see myself playing this one. Looks awesome for a handheld game.
What's so civil about war, anyway? - Axl Rose
This video has more views than copies of the game ever sold.
Naw, there was a second one for Game Boy (in Japan), so SOMEONE musta bought this one.
Yep I own it :-(
I laugh-cried
@@littlemissnintendofan6558 It's a good game yo
This is also known as Game Boy Ban 1, and all of the versions of the first Nobunaga's Ambition (including this) are based on either Zenkokuban or Sengoku Gunyuuden. The sequel to this was released only in Japan but also on Game Boy Color.
I was Totally intruiged by the box art for years! and even more when I read about it in mags! wanted this one from the Pharmacy in Greenport Long Island. It cost $75 bucks back in the day!
I would love to hear a modern rendition the opening track.
I'd love to see an in-depth playthrough of this or the NES version that explains things clearly. I love the more modern Koei strategy games, but these versions from early on have this impenetrable mystery to them on how the choices actually affect things.
At a time when companies like Square, Enix and Falcom desperately wanted to get titles like Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest and Y's brought over to the west, Koei managed to sneak this one under the radar!
@@ChristopherSobieniak Not only that they manged to push out Rot3k as well as Nobunga's ambition 2, one of my favorite nes games.
I remember the NES game being advertised in kid's comic books, which always confused me, was Romance of the Three Kingdoms a big hit or something?
It was very successful for Koei on personal computers in Japan, and one way to make something successful in new markets is to advertise it heavily...
Missed opportunity to have "Fly Me to the Moon" as the song for the preview of the next Game Boy Works.
This game reminds me of Shingen The Ruler, for NES. I liked that game.
Oh good! I was waiting for this one, which, for reasons I can’t figure out, I owned as a kid. (I found it completely impenetrable.)
It's a nice series of games, if you like strategy and the subject matter, but I can't imagine playing this version these days.
I had this game on nes. I think I got it at the flea market
Truly one of those which might not be considered a fit, but they pulled it off. I think it's the kind of title which really ain't going to be popular, but I wonder if the less complex gameplay (relatively speaking) compared to the modern installments, would offer a better introduction curve?
(Or if that's an outsider pondering which ends up in quite the dead end!)
The more recent games ale also good because you can play officers rather than just rulers, therefore there's a lot less you need to mircomanage
The fact Nobunaga's Ambition didn't stay in Japan for long is rather an accomplishment for such a complex title.
this version of Nobunaga is what made me realize it's a Hamurabi descendant
Ahh the Gameboy version of Nobunaga's Ambition. After two weeks of owning no Gameboy game other then the abomination known as Turn and Burn: F-14 Dogfight Simulator picking this up from a $5 bargin bin was pretty much the only thing that saved my sanity until my parents and I had the money to begin rebuilding my Gameboy collection.
I forgot to mention this here but I'm pretty sure the first time I beat this I formed an alliance by marriage with the largest of the remaining Daimyo's then we divided up the map between us. In the end it came down to hoping the other clan would be wiped out by natural causes and old age before mine was.
One of the best strategy games on the GB, I wish there were more games like it.
Maybe I’m amazed this came to the US in 1991
Poever I'm sure a lot of us did (let alone the NES, this seems like the sort of title you wouldn't expect to get licensed/released/localized here at all.
The Koei games had a surprisingly large following on DOS-PCs.
Poever true, though there were Japan history fans back then and back then, there were strategy games on console games. History fans were the majority of Japan fans in late 80's early 90's and it was usually 1700 and before.
Nobunaga, dude!
Wow, I can't believe they tried to port something that complex on the GB! I applaud their - ehm - ambition!
And now I feel like going back to Fire Emblem on my 3DS.
Tried..?
I was wondering if you own every game you show? I like those photos at the start of each video with the box and manual, you must have a really nice CIB collection.
Some games he shows off are donated through Patreon, notably the harder to find games.
That's awesome! Thanks for the reply.
He buys them, photographs them, and sells them.
Ah, I wish that were true. Sometimes I've been able to borrow games (though not through Patreon that I can recall), but I usually have to track them down and buy them. I've only kept about half a dozen of these CIB games for myself, though. I'm not interested in being a collector.
Ah you should have asked :-) I own around 600 Pal/Ntsc games for the original Game Boy
I tried playing this without a manual.. I cried..
I always get wrecked by typhoon/flood. freakin always!
Is it going to be the Japan exlusive port of Moon Lander?
Lunar Lander was episode 90!
I wonder if it Astro Rabby maybe?
Just got the manual, so time to get into it!
I’m surprised you didn’t mention Pokemon Conquest at some point, which is a crossover with the ambition games.
Yeah, I'll admit Pokemon Conquest was a pretty fun introduction to the very concept of Nobunaga's Ambition.
Nobunaga's ambition look impressive for me to play. 😀👍🎮
I would love to hear about your take on the Super Robot Wars series.
A game like this is interesting because I think you can consider this a good Gameboy game, but out of the context of its release there really is no point to playing it. Any Gameboy conversion of a console or PC title is going to be scaled back and inferior to its source material. The selling point was its portability, but today nobody lugs around a Gameboy to play games on the go. So a game like this is now strictly a historical curiosity.
You try to give the video more brightness it will be great if you do
man, it looks painful to play. definitively not a game i would dust off and play again