8-Bit Adventure Anthology - The 8-Bit Duke
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- Опубліковано 19 жов 2024
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You've heard me talk about the MacVenture games on the NES before, ever since this channel started. Originally released on the Apple Macintosh and later ported by Kemco to the NES, Shadowgate, Deja Vu, and Uninvited are important games that helped foster a love of adventure games for me - and now they've been re-released on modern consoles with 8-Bit Adventure Anthology Volume 1!
How does this compilation hold up, and what modern additions were added? How do they compare to the NES originals? Will Duke keep brining up the MacVenture games?
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Download the excellent MacVenture inspired INFESTED:
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Thanks to Coury from My Life In Gaming for helping me capture some RGB NES goodness, as well as a little Beyond Shadowgate:
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And thanks to Peter a.k.a. Soundole for letting me use his amazing medley collab with Steven Morris on tunes from Deja Vu! Check it out here:
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Wanna hop in the really way back machine....? Check out Duke's my first reviews. Yeah - Show has come a long way..... but the second video on this channel, and the first review, was on Uninvited! Check out the MacVenture playlist here: • Uninvited - The 8-Bit ...
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It’s like Deja Vu all over again!
This is a genre I haven't ever looked much at, but I feel like I'd enjoy in the right mood. Should look into it more.
Thanks for the shoutout! Great video as always mate, it's interesting to hear your thoughts on these releases, coming as they do from such a point of experience.
Man, I was thrilled when I learned of Infested. I remember dropping what I was doing immediately and played it all the way through in one sitting.
the music in these games is surprising amazing
That Infested game at the end looks really cool! Glad you mentioned it
Loved Uninvited. Hard as hell.
Definitely more interested in Volume 2 totally out of curiosity. Great video. Gunna check out Infested, too.
Not only is it great, it’s also FREE!
Great video, informative and professional. I bought this collection as a physical PS4 disc via Limited Run and am truly excited to dive into these for the first time. I used to see the NES boxart for these titles at video rental stores as a kid, but never played them at that time. They are strange fits for the NES but very intriguing as genre-adventure games!
Awesome video. That Infested game looks pretty rad, I'm not gonna lie ;)
That was super informative! I'd only heard of Deja Vu thanks to Soundole, but your review really shed some light on these games :)
Shadowgate was amazing back in the day
And now I’m the 10000th sub, yay. Keep up the good work.
These adventure games were always such a weird genre for me ...but with a certain fascination nonetheless.
Would like to see a detailed review of 'Infested'.
I'm more of a Lucasarts guy, but this looks pretty interesting.
The colour contrast issues is rather baffling with the wide frame options. Do you think that they've intentionally done so, assuming that maybe those that prefer the wide-screen variation would also want a more vibrant hue to compliment it? I was curious about picking this up and I am glad you gave it some coverage Duke. Great stuff
I’m honestly not sure, if you emulate the games they certainly can have a pretty garish color, but that depends on settings - you can easily feed an emulator a more composite-cable-color-like color. Certainly an interesting choice, and some may prefer it! The difference in the Uninvited title screen is really the biggest difference I think, since the blood splatter and brick icons are still more red on the NES than the violet title screen, but both are red on the collection and I think most emulators.
Loved your video Duke! Any chance of you covering the Hugo adventures series in future video?
I’m unfamiliar with that series, I think!? Where can one Duke learn more?
The 8-Bit Duke it was one of the earlier Mac-DOS point and click adventure games in the mid 90's. I used to play that along with King's Quest. They were three titles. Hugo's House of Horror, Hugo 2: Whodunit?, and my favorite Hugo 3: Jungle of Doom!.
That sounds pretty awesome! I’ll have to check it out sometime soon! I’m not sure what I’m doing next, but I got a couple projects in various stages. We will see!
The 8-Bit Duke It's certainly is up your alley. Anyways, keep up the excellent work sir. Look forward to your next video!
Well, I guess the question is: does this system use roms (original or otherwise)? If it doesn't actually emulate the NES hardware and use rom files, then it can't really be called an "emulation" regardless of how faithful. It would just be a port. If it does use roms, even if they edited them (even heavily), then this would be an "emulation" rather than a port. As for "port" vs "remake" (and this part is subjective), I would probably say it's an "enhanced port", because remake has certain implications as to the amount it changes/improves, whereas the goal of this project seems to be faithfulness to the original. Also, if VOL 2 has Nightshade, I'm going to flip out! I LOVE that game!
That’s part of my confusion, and something I didn’t want to drag too many details down with - you could theoretically run an emulator of sorts within a certain environment in another game, and have another layer of code on top of it - like the cursor itself. That may be way the cursor didn’t full select the Open command I showed in the video, and instead was operating as the Examine command. The game over screens and such also still have the cursor, when they’re a simple up and down menu item, and it’s a bit awkward if you’re not using the Dpad. And since the dpad functions almost the same way as it originally did, it all makes for an interesting question.
I tried to get a more affirmative answer on that, but I was unable to do so - so the speculation is all I can muster!
Great video!
The physical PS4 version is available tomorrow on Limited Runs Games' website.
Never clicked a video link faster.
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Also, slightly off topic,
Have you heard of the PC-Engine games called Dead of the Brain 1+2?
They look awesome, and I can't wait for them to be translated.
What mic and editing program do you use ? also a FANTASTIC video !
I use a variety of equipment but my primary tool is Adobe Premiere Pro and the creative cloud programs, but I also can use most NLEs.
I am a television editor and producer full time which sadly prevents as much production of this channel as I would like!
Thanks for all your recent comments, sorry I cannot put things out as frequently as would be nice but I have 2 projects hopefully coming in the next few weeks.
@@The8BitDuke looking forward to them! and i use adobie prem as well, learning the steps and such, your videos are highly inspiring!
A new video, WOO!
They should really do some of the regionally locked games next, if there are any... I wouldn't know.
EDIT ::: Outside of the Japanese ones only.
Music is iconic, games haven't aged great in my opinion but still, nostalgia is always good
Im here from the MLIG wii shop episode. Let see how this channel goes ...
Hopefully I won’t disappoint you.
Hey cool 10000th sub
Not sure why, but I can't stand first person adventure games. Here's the weird thing; I fucking love adventure games though! I have no idea why the perspective matters, but for some reason it does.
If I’m being totally honest, I only like a handful of First Person adventure games. And it very well be because these were the first I had played. But if I’m player a computer game lately, first person adventure games seem reserved to those “hidden object” games, which is such a mound of average it stinks. That’s why I wanna get a modern port of Beyond Shadowgate cuz I don’t got 400 bucks to spend on a game that’s more “Sierra/Lucasarts” style!
I spent 5 minutes wondering why you're saying mechventure repeatedly and then I realize you're not even talking about the game 8-Bit Adventures.
Ok.
“Mac”ventures i believe is how I’m saying, because they were originally on the Macintosh computer, then ported to the NES, which this game was a compilation of. Sorry for the confusion.