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Really informative video... Thank You! The Falcom guys really loved their occultism! Very interesting how many great Japanese devs/publishers based their games and even company names on occult themes. IREM for example, seems to come from 'Iram: The Lost City of Giants' in the Middle East. Bydo = Body. Nice 'black magician' comment from that Falcom dev + their massive pentagram for that demon game they started out, with 🤔
I am really curious about your past. Such as how you learnt japanenese, moved to Japan, where you are actually from, as you sound American or Canadia, and what your career is. That would be so interesting to watch.
It's fascinating to see this is part of where Falcom got started as a game company. Hobbyists running a computer store, making simple but entertaining short games in their downtime, where the ideas got cobbled together over years, and the game itself took almost a year to make. As far as indie and hobby devs go with their process, some things don't change since 1985. It's kinda reassuring, as someone who'd made a couple VNs for game jams before. I am so totally stoked to see Asteka 2 in action, when you guys get the chance. Let alone Sorcerian, because the OST was a great choice for Asteka 1. :)
Wow, I didn't expect you to cover this one! Great coverage as always. I agree with your end assessment, this game isn't the worst ever, but it isn't particularly good either. Some of the puzzle solutions, like haggling with the guy over the price of the gun, seem needlessly obtuse, even by the standards of the era (who would even think to try that?). Ironically, I felt the game got a lot easier AFTER entering the ruins. As far as parser-based ADVs go, contemporaries like Zarth, Princess Tomato, or The Death Trap are far better examples of the genre, imo. Heck, even El Dorado Denki is a much more.... unique take on a similar setting/plot :P At least the sequel was much better, and Asteka II even gets a few shoutouts in the first Ys game, since both were directed by Masaya Hashimoto!
This was cool to see; I've always been curious about the original. I have Tombs & Treasures and the remake on Falcom Classics 2 on Saturn that I've had since the '90s, but I never had a PC as a kid at all, nonetheless a Japanese one. It's awesome to have a clearer picture of the series!
Ah yes, the famous Mexican Porn Shortage of 1985. When you'd even be willing to trade the bullets out of your gun to a complete stranger for just a torn scrap of softcore.
I LOVE FTB’s videos and recognized his voice right away! I watch the crap out of his stuff especially his Soft Studio Wing video! I look forward to your videos on Sunday nights🎉
This also reminds me of 'Cleopatra no Mahō' (クレオパトラの魔宝), which gets translated to "Cursed Treasure of Cleopatra". It was developed and published by Square for the Famicom Disk System in 1987. There's a really good fan-translation for it, which you can find on romhacking. Not a '5-star, hidden gem, OMG what a discovery game!', but I did rather enjoy it. it has light RPG elements, light dungeon crawling, and a good helping of graph. adventure puzzles (and no adult content).
I honestly find reading older Japanese games that have text exclusively in hiragana or katakana to be extremely frustrating, since it's really hard to parse out where words begin and end (this one, at least, seems to put spaces between words, which is extremely helpful). Even if I don't know all the kanji in a sentence, usually the ones I do know are enough to get context, even if I don't know how to pronounce the exact reading.
Aztecs wiped out many neighboring tribes and cultures during their reign and they stole alot of cultural beliefs from them. Much of Aztec religion is just rebranded, Mayan beliefs... Kukulkan = Quetzalcoatl (The White, Feathered Serpent), for example. The 'Lid of Palenque' is prominently featured in this game and is Mayan in origin. The Aztecs were wholesale, genociders that at the height of their civilization's power, slaughtered around 25,000 people A MONTH! Mel Gibson did a pretty good job showing this in his 2006 masterpiece, Apocalypto 👍
I was GOING to say I wasn't super familiar with this series, then I discovered the twist at the end about the localized sequel on NES.... yeah that one I do remember! had to figure it started as a Japanese PC game. may need to find a copy and revisit it see if I can figure it out! but man... that first game seems to be so wildly cryptic I don't know how *anyone* figured out half the stuff in it, like buying the idol that's not listed on the shop menu, or that thing with the mexican and the gun.... suppose there was always word of mouth IDK how popular a game like that was back then, though.
Ah ah, just as i talked about this game the other day, i saw two weeks ago during holidays that new video. Well... I kinda don't want to spoil myself too much but... It's something to see for sure and all those interviews bit are really interesting ! It's crazy because between Azteka, Ys, ActRaiser or Terranigma and even somehow Planet Laika, the tandem Miyazaki / Hahsimoto always had that kinda "flair" with them. That idea of exploring the origins of humanity... It made me nostalgic of that period of time i actually didn't really lived into.
Very cool to see the original in action! I owned Tombs & Treasure as a kid, and actually really loved it -- and didn't know until MANY, MANY years later that it was a Falcom game in disguise! It's funny, too, because the title screen for Tombs & Treasure still clearly has "ASTEKA II" printed along the center of its bottom border, it just blends in with the background so well that I think Infocom didn't notice it (or they just didn't care!). So the English version of the game still holds a clue as to its roots, but again -- I never noticed it as a kid at all. May have even gotten caught in my parents' TV's overscan, for all I know! The original... does indeed look pretty disappointing by comparison. To say the sequel improved things (especially in the greatly expanded Famicom/NES version) would be quite an understatement! Still very cool to see how this duology got its start, as this first game is indeed a genuine rarity. I've never seen it in the wild a single time, nor have I ever known anyone else who's played it. Regarding the overlapping windows thing, Falcom did carry this forward into Ys III (and IV) with its text windows, at least... for some reason. But yeah, as innovations go, I'm not sure that... really amounts to much of anything at all. At least they were trying new things, though, I guess? ;) Also, super cool to hear F_T_B's voice in this! I'm glad you and he know one another, as I just discovered his channel recently and became an instant fan, and I kind of found myself thinking, he and Basement Brothers should really team up! And lo and behold... you have! ;)
I knew already beginings of Falcom thanks to Bowl of Lentils documentary, but still it was neat to see very early game of Falcom, before they go full into RPG genre. Asteka is really looks archaic nowadays and thank you for detailed showing of this title. Despite i recently started to playing Falcom games (and among others your channel convince me to do this) i wouldn't go back so much into past, even if i'd know japanese.
Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it. Yes, this game is before my time and is a little bit too "old" for me as well. I never thought I would play it. But since I managed to find a copy for my collection I figured I had might as well try it out. And with a walkthrough I found the game was actually not difficult to clear at all. So I just had to make a video! Hope this game is no longer a mystery.
Just finished rewatching all your PC Paradise videos-- really looking forward to the inevitable SORCERIAN coverage, but also-- my favcorite Falcom game is BRANDISH!! I've beaten the SNES versions and played a fair amount of the PC, PC Enging, and PSP ones too.
Dude even dug up this game just so he wouldn't have to deal with sorcerian Nah just kidding. Great video as always! Fun fact: sequel's title, "templo del sol" is also the name of a certain unused song in Ys I by Takahito Abe.
@@BasementBrothers yeah I bet a sorcerian video featuring all scenarios + all additional stuff like selected and sengoku + forever - would be like 5 hour long lmao, and I haven't even got to the ports like pc engine and genesis.
I hope to do it someday, but it would definitely focus on just the original game and the included scenarios. The other scenarios would get just a mention at most. Ideally they could become separate videos but I doubt I could hold many people's interest with Sorcerian for more than a couple videos at most.
I got a hold of the instruction manual for Norton Commander back in my school days, to someone that's grown up with modern computers it feels really amusing that "you can have TWO WINDOWS OPEN AT THE SAME TIME" was a selling point back in the day - judging from screenshots it was graphical enough to have a Windows 9x-style visual representation of files and folders so you'd think Windows would've figured out the whole "window" thing by then... The same batch of obsolete books also had a TurboCAD instruction manual, half of it was just a list of all the clipart that came with the program. As in, HUNDREDS OF PAGES just showing images and listing their filename. It feels so bizarre it somehow was worth printing all of that stuff on dead wood instead of letting the user just browse the folder and preview the images, but I guess this was so long ago having an image previewer/editor wasn't even a thing yet and chonky GIF clipart was the cutting edge graphics technology... paper was simply the only thing that could contain its power....
Yeah, I want to! Interestingly, Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom was originally for PC-98, and was then ported to the PC-88 and other PCs. (In the 80's, it was usually the opposite: PC-88 first.) Thus, I kind of want to cover the game on PC-98 Paradise, not 88. Unfortunately, I'm finding the 98 version to be a little harder to find than 88. :(
Haha. Weird. If you look at the English wikipedia page for the game it starts with the PC-88 version, but the Japanese wikipedia page very definitely says it was originally for PC-98, and the PC-88 version is a port. It's also not difficult to find images of the PC-98 disk and case online so it most certainly does exist. :)
2:46 Spelling error it's existence, but maybe that was in the source material? I think you're the kind of guy that might actually use spellcheck if I suggest it, the world can only take so much "alternate" spelling before language collapses.😉 Asteka but Mayan, I guess there's no sound alike word in Japanese.🤨 That is true about character legibility, I don't read kanji but I've been looking into the challenges of rendering them on old computers. Really for best clarity 2x2 tiles is better than the 1x1 Anglo characters favor, but as said character space limits and extended ROMs. I kind of like these graphics in how sharp they are, taking what the west had with AGI engine 160x200 and bringing it into higher resolutions. I wonder if this also uses 2D vector graphics partially as it shares that coloring book aesthetic of mostly lines and color fill? Probably looks crude to most eyes but largely the tools were limited and the techniques never got a chance to refine more with newer engines with larger storage formats taking over quite quickly. Lol yeah I didn't know this game had so much nudity in it, some might call that needlessly lewd but I'm sure they were just trying to spice up the archeology Ie. Indiana Jones is not an accurate depiction of that job.😄
I only tried the remade version for the Saturn which is a part of Falcom Classics vol.2 that also had Ys2. Unlike both Ys games, I had absolutely no idea as to what the heck I'm supposed to do in Asteka. 😩 Thankfully today we got those cell/smart phones capable of translating Japanese on the fly. I wish I had such a device back in the day.....
Thanks for this cool history lesson! Back on Sega Saturn, there was compilation of game called Falcom Classics, and volume 2 had Asteka II (along Ys II), which I had no idea how to play. It was great to see the root of this series in this video.
The only this type of adventure game I've played was the SteinsGate one. It's only in Japanese ofc but its a modern game that emulates retro pc graphics. I thinks there's a PC88/98 filter as well.
Before Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy. Long before Phantasy Star was localized into the West. That is how far we are talking about with this early Falcom game.
It sure made the game easier for me! But to be fair, I'm pretty sure this isn't the only game from 1985 or earlier that had romaji input as an option. It may have been unusual, but not unheard of.
The original Falcom President Masayuki Kato was known to love beer - especially imported ones. He used to keep a mini fridge packed with beer that the devs were apparently free to drink at any time.
The whole "multiple commands" thing reminds me of something Infocom did with their text adventures, where you could type "south then south then west" or "south then open mailbox" or whatever and it would happen. Zork I somehow got ported to the PS1 and I always wondered how that worked. Incidentally, I clicked on this video specifically because I did in fact recognize the title--I've played Tombs and Treasure, which at least kinda-sorta realizes the "become an RPG" part of that dude's mission statement. I'm now kinda interested in that Mask of the Sun game for Apple II.
Was this an inspiration for La Mulana? I wouldn't mind seeing you discuss La Mulana in some way. It's very in the wheelhouse of Japanese PC games. The second game is chock full of references to them.
It's pointless. You still have to wait for the transition animation as you watch all the commands get carried out, so it isn't any faster. It makes much more sense to just wait for each screen to load and enter one command at a time. I basically never used the multiple command feature.
Huge thanks to F_T_B for lending his voice as Tsuneyuki Miyamoto in this video! Please check out his videos and subscribe to his channel! ( @f_t_b2238 )
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F_T_B channel made YT lead me to your channel
You're welcome and it was a pleasure :)
@@f_t_b2238love your videos
Really informative video... Thank You! The Falcom guys really loved their occultism! Very interesting how many great Japanese devs/publishers based their games and even company names on occult themes. IREM for example, seems to come from 'Iram: The Lost City of Giants' in the Middle East. Bydo = Body. Nice 'black magician' comment from that Falcom dev + their massive pentagram for that demon game they started out, with 🤔
I am really curious about your past. Such as how you learnt japanenese, moved to Japan, where you are actually from, as you sound American or Canadia, and what your career is. That would be so interesting to watch.
Man, I'm so in love with this channel... Great job Basement Brothers!!!
I would call it 'important'
@@fmsyntheses I call it love.
Great video as always. Methinks it’s not that easy making a 20min video on Asteka entertaining haha.
It's fascinating to see this is part of where Falcom got started as a game company. Hobbyists running a computer store, making simple but entertaining short games in their downtime, where the ideas got cobbled together over years, and the game itself took almost a year to make. As far as indie and hobby devs go with their process, some things don't change since 1985. It's kinda reassuring, as someone who'd made a couple VNs for game jams before.
I am so totally stoked to see Asteka 2 in action, when you guys get the chance. Let alone Sorcerian, because the OST was a great choice for Asteka 1. :)
12:23 you would be amazed of some of the things you could find in "news" magazines here in mexico, is not that far off tbh
Sounds like Mexican Newsweek is far superior to the American publication of the same name! Haha. Thanks for watching.
Yeah our local paper was like that. I mean no nudes but sometimes very close.
The Sorcerian series has excellent music; great choice.
I met this series because Asteka II on the sega saturn collection
Honestly, that was the first time I ever heard of Asteka as well... way back in the nineties.
Great job on the video! Was happy to help with the research.
I'm so glad I found this channel recently. It's become one of my favorites.
I'm amazed that you got F_T_B in this, an unexpected yet complimented collab!
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Wow, I didn't expect you to cover this one! Great coverage as always. I agree with your end assessment, this game isn't the worst ever, but it isn't particularly good either. Some of the puzzle solutions, like haggling with the guy over the price of the gun, seem needlessly obtuse, even by the standards of the era (who would even think to try that?). Ironically, I felt the game got a lot easier AFTER entering the ruins. As far as parser-based ADVs go, contemporaries like Zarth, Princess Tomato, or The Death Trap are far better examples of the genre, imo. Heck, even El Dorado Denki is a much more.... unique take on a similar setting/plot :P
At least the sequel was much better, and Asteka II even gets a few shoutouts in the first Ys game, since both were directed by Masaya Hashimoto!
That's exactly what I wanted to watch on a Sunday night, thank you guys and great work as always
This was cool to see; I've always been curious about the original. I have Tombs & Treasures and the remake on Falcom Classics 2 on Saturn that I've had since the '90s, but I never had a PC as a kid at all, nonetheless a Japanese one. It's awesome to have a clearer picture of the series!
You collabing with F_T_B and bowl of lentils just feels so correct.
They should form their own Super Software Team.
When I heard FTB's voice I knew immediately who it was. Awesome you guys did a collab.
17:45 ok but I NEED that Dragon Slayer jacket
I was always curious about this game, but never got around to playing it. Glad you did a video on it!
Ah yes, the famous Mexican Porn Shortage of 1985. When you'd even be willing to trade the bullets out of your gun to a complete stranger for just a torn scrap of softcore.
I LOVE FTB’s videos and recognized his voice right away! I watch the crap out of his stuff especially his Soft Studio Wing video! I look forward to your videos on Sunday nights🎉
Wow! this was a great video, its really interesting hearing about more obscure and unknown games
TH-cam recommended FTB's 'From Ports to Novels: A Look at Ultima in Japan' recently. Algorithm seems to be working.
Another great episode and a fantastic lesson on early Japanese gaming history. I never knew Falcom was a computer shop before anything!!!!
This also reminds me of 'Cleopatra no Mahō' (クレオパトラの魔宝), which gets translated to "Cursed Treasure of Cleopatra". It was developed and published by Square for the Famicom Disk System in 1987. There's a really good fan-translation for it, which you can find on romhacking. Not a '5-star, hidden gem, OMG what a discovery game!', but I did rather enjoy it. it has light RPG elements, light dungeon crawling, and a good helping of graph. adventure puzzles (and no adult content).
Glad to see another video. Love this series! 👍
I honestly find reading older Japanese games that have text exclusively in hiragana or katakana to be extremely frustrating, since it's really hard to parse out where words begin and end (this one, at least, seems to put spaces between words, which is extremely helpful). Even if I don't know all the kanji in a sentence, usually the ones I do know are enough to get context, even if I don't know how to pronounce the exact reading.
Aztecs wiped out many neighboring tribes and cultures during their reign and they stole alot of cultural beliefs from them. Much of Aztec religion is just rebranded, Mayan beliefs... Kukulkan = Quetzalcoatl (The White, Feathered Serpent), for example. The 'Lid of Palenque' is prominently featured in this game and is Mayan in origin. The Aztecs were wholesale, genociders that at the height of their civilization's power, slaughtered around 25,000 people A MONTH! Mel Gibson did a pretty good job showing this in his 2006 masterpiece, Apocalypto 👍
I was GOING to say I wasn't super familiar with this series, then I discovered the twist at the end about the localized sequel on NES.... yeah that one I do remember! had to figure it started as a Japanese PC game. may need to find a copy and revisit it see if I can figure it out! but man... that first game seems to be so wildly cryptic I don't know how *anyone* figured out half the stuff in it, like buying the idol that's not listed on the shop menu, or that thing with the mexican and the gun.... suppose there was always word of mouth IDK how popular a game like that was back then, though.
Ah ah, just as i talked about this game the other day, i saw two weeks ago during holidays that new video. Well... I kinda don't want to spoil myself too much but... It's something to see for sure and all those interviews bit are really interesting ! It's crazy because between Azteka, Ys, ActRaiser or Terranigma and even somehow Planet Laika, the tandem Miyazaki / Hahsimoto always had that kinda "flair" with them. That idea of exploring the origins of humanity...
It made me nostalgic of that period of time i actually didn't really lived into.
you always upload at the perfect time.
9:45 5000 pesos during the 80´s????!! i know there was reccesion at the time but cmon.
F_T_B’s channel is great
Great vid, man! [Ass-tecka copy disk FTW]
Very cool to see the original in action! I owned Tombs & Treasure as a kid, and actually really loved it -- and didn't know until MANY, MANY years later that it was a Falcom game in disguise! It's funny, too, because the title screen for Tombs & Treasure still clearly has "ASTEKA II" printed along the center of its bottom border, it just blends in with the background so well that I think Infocom didn't notice it (or they just didn't care!). So the English version of the game still holds a clue as to its roots, but again -- I never noticed it as a kid at all. May have even gotten caught in my parents' TV's overscan, for all I know!
The original... does indeed look pretty disappointing by comparison. To say the sequel improved things (especially in the greatly expanded Famicom/NES version) would be quite an understatement! Still very cool to see how this duology got its start, as this first game is indeed a genuine rarity. I've never seen it in the wild a single time, nor have I ever known anyone else who's played it.
Regarding the overlapping windows thing, Falcom did carry this forward into Ys III (and IV) with its text windows, at least... for some reason. But yeah, as innovations go, I'm not sure that... really amounts to much of anything at all. At least they were trying new things, though, I guess? ;)
Also, super cool to hear F_T_B's voice in this! I'm glad you and he know one another, as I just discovered his channel recently and became an instant fan, and I kind of found myself thinking, he and Basement Brothers should really team up! And lo and behold... you have! ;)
Oh good, a new video. Pouring myself some Hibiki now!
I really want that red Dragon Slayer Falcom jacket. 7:44
How many pesos for the "Ass-Techa" disk? lmao
I've watched FTB's channel too and really like his content.
I knew already beginings of Falcom thanks to Bowl of Lentils documentary, but still it was neat to see very early game of Falcom, before they go full into RPG genre. Asteka is really looks archaic nowadays and thank you for detailed showing of this title. Despite i recently started to playing Falcom games (and among others your channel convince me to do this) i wouldn't go back so much into past, even if i'd know japanese.
Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it. Yes, this game is before my time and is a little bit too "old" for me as well. I never thought I would play it. But since I managed to find a copy for my collection I figured I had might as well try it out. And with a walkthrough I found the game was actually not difficult to clear at all. So I just had to make a video! Hope this game is no longer a mystery.
Farewell Asteka! Farewell random nudity!
Nice vid once again
"They call me the Black Magician"
_Whoooooaaaaaa_
Just finished rewatching all your PC Paradise videos-- really looking forward to the inevitable SORCERIAN coverage, but also-- my favcorite Falcom game is BRANDISH!! I've beaten the SNES versions and played a fair amount of the PC, PC Enging, and PSP ones too.
Yeah, gotta get to Brandish someday. That would be one that I've played through already and would have to replay in order to make a video.
He gave Annie a rock and then got his off
Tombs & Treasures is one of my favorite NES games.
11:40 Love the Three Amigos reference.
11:40 WOW!🤘🏻
THE THREE AMIGOS!
I love Falcom, their games and history tend to be very interesting. Thanks for another awesome video.
Great stuff, thank you
What an awesome channel.
Annie looks like Lupe Velez
Dude even dug up this game just so he wouldn't have to deal with sorcerian
Nah just kidding. Great video as always! Fun fact: sequel's title, "templo del sol" is also the name of a certain unused song in Ys I by Takahito Abe.
Yeah. That's too true. Don't want to deal with Sorcerian or Xanadu...
@@BasementBrothers yeah I bet a sorcerian video featuring all scenarios + all additional stuff like selected and sengoku + forever - would be like 5 hour long lmao, and I haven't even got to the ports like pc engine and genesis.
I hope to do it someday, but it would definitely focus on just the original game and the included scenarios. The other scenarios would get just a mention at most. Ideally they could become separate videos but I doubt I could hold many people's interest with Sorcerian for more than a couple videos at most.
assteka
Aztec?
I got a hold of the instruction manual for Norton Commander back in my school days, to someone that's grown up with modern computers it feels really amusing that "you can have TWO WINDOWS OPEN AT THE SAME TIME" was a selling point back in the day - judging from screenshots it was graphical enough to have a Windows 9x-style visual representation of files and folders so you'd think Windows would've figured out the whole "window" thing by then...
The same batch of obsolete books also had a TurboCAD instruction manual, half of it was just a list of all the clipart that came with the program. As in, HUNDREDS OF PAGES just showing images and listing their filename. It feels so bizarre it somehow was worth printing all of that stuff on dead wood instead of letting the user just browse the folder and preview the images, but I guess this was so long ago having an image previewer/editor wasn't even a thing yet and chonky GIF clipart was the cutting edge graphics technology... paper was simply the only thing that could contain its power....
Always cool looking at these very old text parser graphic adventure games. Maybe you could take a look at Princess Tomato in the future.
Yeah, I want to! Interestingly, Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom was originally for PC-98, and was then ported to the PC-88 and other PCs. (In the 80's, it was usually the opposite: PC-88 first.) Thus, I kind of want to cover the game on PC-98 Paradise, not 88. Unfortunately, I'm finding the 98 version to be a little harder to find than 88. :(
Well that's news to me. Most sites I've seen only list a PC-88 version, so I'm guessing this PC-98 version is quite rare.
Haha. Weird. If you look at the English wikipedia page for the game it starts with the PC-88 version, but the Japanese wikipedia page very definitely says it was originally for PC-98, and the PC-88 version is a port. It's also not difficult to find images of the PC-98 disk and case online so it most certainly does exist. :)
@@BasementBrothers I would love to see that game covered too.
thank you ♥
Demon's ring sounds like a fusion between demon's souls and elden ring.
I'm listening to this going "This is cool, it sounds like an early Tombs and Treasures.....then BAM that ending lol
2:46 Spelling error it's existence, but maybe that was in the source material? I think you're the kind of guy that might actually use spellcheck if I suggest it, the world can only take so much "alternate" spelling before language collapses.😉
Asteka but Mayan, I guess there's no sound alike word in Japanese.🤨 That is true about character legibility, I don't read kanji but I've been looking into the challenges of rendering them on old computers. Really for best clarity 2x2 tiles is better than the 1x1 Anglo characters favor, but as said character space limits and extended ROMs.
I kind of like these graphics in how sharp they are, taking what the west had with AGI engine 160x200 and bringing it into higher resolutions. I wonder if this also uses 2D vector graphics partially as it shares that coloring book aesthetic of mostly lines and color fill? Probably looks crude to most eyes but largely the tools were limited and the techniques never got a chance to refine more with newer engines with larger storage formats taking over quite quickly.
Lol yeah I didn't know this game had so much nudity in it, some might call that needlessly lewd but I'm sure they were just trying to spice up the archeology Ie. Indiana Jones is not an accurate depiction of that job.😄
I only tried the remade version for the Saturn which is a part of Falcom Classics vol.2 that also had Ys2. Unlike both Ys games, I had absolutely no idea as to what the heck I'm supposed to do in Asteka. 😩 Thankfully today we got those cell/smart phones capable of translating Japanese on the fly. I wish I had such a device back in the day.....
Those hidden gems buried in Japan are my favorites, specially from Falcom.
Being a security guard gets lonely.
As someone who barely had any inkling the PC-88 even existed when I was a kid, these videos are fascinating, funny, and a useful historical record.
Asteka is closer to Nahuatl own "Aztēcah" meaning "those who live in Aztlan".
What's this about the NES, ah right, I could see how those two might get mixed up being from the same company.🙂
ASS-TEKA!
Get Anny her rock so she could go back to the hotel with and get his rock..s off.
Good bight everybody!
I'm glad the puzzle-solving ruin puma lives to go on more adventures in the future
Thanks for this cool history lesson! Back on Sega Saturn, there was compilation of game called Falcom Classics, and volume 2 had Asteka II (along Ys II), which I had no idea how to play. It was great to see the root of this series in this video.
The only this type of adventure game I've played was the SteinsGate one. It's only in Japanese ofc but its a modern game that emulates retro pc graphics. I thinks there's a PC88/98 filter as well.
Before Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy. Long before Phantasy Star was localized into the West.
That is how far we are talking about with this early Falcom game.
The protagonist definitely gave Annie a Rock.... huehuehuehue.
Really good video - big fan of FTB as well, thought the voice sounded familiar!
"Ass-Techa"
Stay classy, Basement Brothers 🍷
Sorry. I couldn't resist. :)
@@BasementBrothers You could've gone next-level with "Ass-Toucha" :P
awesome video! i really treasure these kinds of youtube videos. i would never in a million years have come across this game on my own.
You make really high quality programming. I'm a fan..!
I’m loving digging into this channel, great stuff!
I really want that Dragon Slayer Falcom jacket. 7:47
No Maggie, not Aztec. Asteka. Aaasteka.
I was actually considering using that quote in the video.
I love the thought that the puma solved the statue in the wall puzzle itself.
Good coverage as usual, thank you for sharing :)
It is a good day when Basement Bros uploads! My favorite retro game content creator
big fan of crApple? yuck!
This channel is amazing!!!!
Nice, I always love to see a new BB upload 🎉
That is a cool keyboard!
I love stuff like this
That is incredible that you can just type in the romanji to run commands. Wow, nearly 40 years ago and WAYYY ahead of it's time!
It sure made the game easier for me! But to be fair, I'm pretty sure this isn't the only game from 1985 or earlier that had romaji input as an option. It may have been unusual, but not unheard of.
i like that the developers are all drinkin beer in their photos. lol. theyre so laid back
The original Falcom President Masayuki Kato was known to love beer - especially imported ones. He used to keep a mini fridge packed with beer that the devs were apparently free to drink at any time.
The whole "multiple commands" thing reminds me of something Infocom did with their text adventures, where you could type "south then south then west" or "south then open mailbox" or whatever and it would happen. Zork I somehow got ported to the PS1 and I always wondered how that worked.
Incidentally, I clicked on this video specifically because I did in fact recognize the title--I've played Tombs and Treasure, which at least kinda-sorta realizes the "become an RPG" part of that dude's mission statement.
I'm now kinda interested in that Mask of the Sun game for Apple II.
Still waiting for the next NeoGeo episode 😢
It's next.
Was this an inspiration for La Mulana?
I wouldn't mind seeing you discuss La Mulana in some way. It's very in the wheelhouse of Japanese PC games. The second game is chock full of references to them.
Seeing as this is a adult game I can just guess what was the "ardent love" is in the shop. 😂
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Текстовые квесты для старых Японских компьютеров имеют свой шарм в графическом исполнении.
Вторая часть тоже очень интересная.
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Multiple commands is really good. I wonder if other adventure games does the same
It's pointless. You still have to wait for the transition animation as you watch all the commands get carried out, so it isn't any faster. It makes much more sense to just wait for each screen to load and enter one command at a time. I basically never used the multiple command feature.
@@BasementBrothers I guess it has to show the transitions because it would feel like a text adventure otherwise. Who knows
Yeah. If it skipped the transitions it could actually be useful.
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Great video, and I love to see some love for F_T_B as well - my other favorite Japanese PC focused youtuber.