The Sad, Pathetic Port of King's Quest V for the NES - Now in the 90s
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- Welcome to Now in the 90s, where we look at the game release of today 30 years ago!
Today it's King's Quest V, Garry Kitchen's Super Battletank, and the obscure Mystical Fighter!
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Kings Quest was just so brutal. It came out before internet guides were a thing, so if you didn't have an official strategy guide, you were often screwed.
The first appearance of the since-legendary editor Dylan!
*VERY* noteworthy episode.
Actually... he did a voiceover several episodes ago, so not the first appearance
King's Quest V for NES allowed for more than two save slots, it just didn't visualize more than two banks until you created two save games. I don't know how many it save slots it allows but I played through this recently and made 3 save games.
The sequel to War in the Gulf has you navigating a first-person maze down at the VA
I had Super Battletank. As a child I could not figure out how to play that game to save my life.
Garry Kitchen was a legend in the Atari 2600 era. He didn't have as many games to his name as some of his peers at Activision like David Crane, but they were pretty consistently absolute bangers. Pressure Cooker and Keystone Kapers are personal favourites. Today he's back working with Crane on brand new Atari 2600 games -- they put out one a while back called Circus Convoy which has been well received.
I'm loving this series for bringing me into the days I never lived, but here's hoping we make it to the N64 days too!
I loved your King's Quest 6 playthrough. Maybe I'll go watch it again.
Well, maybe you should.
Peed my pants & spit wine over my MacBook at 4:40. Never seen the NES version though!
I've wanted King's Quest V for NES ever since I rented it as a kid! I STILL don't have it in 2023, sadly.
This is a very soothing and calming show to me
King's Quest V was AMAZING on Ms-Dos PC.... Loved Sierra point n click adventures!
Never heard of Garry Kitchen outside this video.
I so knew the Poooooooooisonous snake line was gonna find its way into this video.
I remember Mystical Fighter had some funky music.
I genuinely love King's Quest for NES!! AND Kings Quest for SMS
Yep same! The SMS version was unique and I love the gfx style. I thought the NES game looked amazing at the time.
Oh hey Dylan's first voiced episode 😃
always love hearing about beat'em ups!
Games of the Week
King’s Quest
Mystical Fighter
Sega master system ported Kings Quest 1. As far as the graphics go I have only seen still images. It looks better than the Kings Quest 5 port to NES.
Kings quest was Fun :D
8:18 - How soon until we see the other faces??
let's go! June 24th! 1992
You talked about King's Quest but all I saw was Peasent's Quest.
Who thought that releasing King's Quest 5 for NES was a good idea, when SNES was literally right there. Doubt SNES would've matched the DOS version, but it would've been a more convincing attempt.
It was Konami they licensed it from Sierra..
NES at the time had biggest share on the market at the time of the games release. SNES just was a couple years in but still competing with both NES and Sega Genesis.
Sierra had plans for in-house developed for both sega cd and an SNES CD port, and a few other consoles like CDI.
But sega cd had memory limitations with the sci engine. So was cancelled. Nintendo CD never materialized so that port never began….
And CDI was a flop so no ports ever materialized for it…. Assuming memory issue wasn’t a problem on it too….
I grew up playing Kings Quest games. Kings Quest V was mind blowing when it came out. Such a beautiful game. In later years I picked up the NES port. It's definitely an ugly game but I still had a lot of fun playing through it for what it is.
Your shirt is from the 80s
Neon is of the 80s that stopped around 92 when the grunge craze took over and moot colored vomit plaid / flannel dominated until around 2002, neon only slowly started coming back into fashion around 2003.. crawling back into my brazilian jiu jitsu years when I found more neon shirts at Kohls and the guys I rolled with called me 80s Dude. For some reason kids that were kids in the 90s want the 80s so bad they pull 80s style into their memories. Want to see what a majority of the 90s looked like? Go watch a Pearl Jam video. All the lemmings of that decade followed whatever Veddar was wearing. And I hated it as much as Bill Burr hated it.
KQ5 NES pathetic? No technically impressive for NES as a demake. It had decent ratings in magazines at the time.
It was targeted at audience who didn’t have pc.
It was part of an attempt to port the game to a number of consoles including snes cd, sega cd, cdi and a few others. The others didn’t make it out due to system cancellations, or technical/memory limitations.
Plus based on some of things Ken wrote back in Interaction probavly some influence for its release at the time NES was biggest selling console.
Fun fact Sierra marketed Kq5 as an an RPG in their own Magazine and catalogues! And most recently by the Strong’s Musuem of Play of play giving it an RPG award in recent years!
Has anyone accused you of mirroring ProJared's channel yet? Because that'd be funny :)
Donkey Kong was a very good Atari 2600 port but was not accurate.
Never played uh.. Any of these games. Most of them I've never even heard of. Oops.
Looking back, King's Quest V NES was a terrible port, but it introduced me to the series, as I didn't own a PC at the time. I also had a subscription to Nintendo Power, which helped me complete the game as the more cryptic puzzles were frequently featured in the "Classified" and "Counselor's Corner" sections.
Still watching these waiting for the return……
I want to meet those that thumbed this down. They need a lesson...
Just get over it. Don't waste your time on those heathens.
@@LorenHelgeson Good point. They are likely beyond help.... lost souls....
You missed a good opportunity with Super Battletank’s value. You should have said it has TANKED. Get it? 😂
Will you be only reviewing games from 92? or will you look at the entire 90's game releases? cuz that would be awesome