Thanks for mentioning these MacVenture games. I loved those, and wasn't aware of any of these new spiritual successors. I'm going to check them all out !
Terrific point here. I am totally against some current companies producing hardware peripherals that enhance older systems for more sprites, colors, sounds, etc. Such products are scams, and are only crappy 3rd party unknown mini-consoles that suck off the old systems' legacy and power supplies. I can hook up my toaster to my NES'es power supply then and call my breakfast "Mario Toast". Really... Why solve a problem nobody has? If you want more power then play PS5 or PC games then. Keep the integrity of the old systems intact.
Very cool subject. I'm usually a retro only gamer, but I've recently gotten into rom hacks, homebrew/indie games, and retro inspired modern games or spiritual sequels. I like everything that I've seen so far and there are some stunning games available.
I never realized how many MacVenture games were released for the NES. Given their market at the time, I thought that there might've been one or two. I would love to see Dungeons & Doomknights included in this collection....well, once it gets released. Cheers, Aaron!
Amazing job as usual Aaron. I love homebrew games. Retro will never die! Thanks for your hard work. I hope you and family are healthy and safe good sir. Have a great rest of your week and weekend!
Oh my, that Creepy Brawlers looks totally amazing. The Punch-Out franchise has always been one of my favorites! I want it! Great job for showing it and great job to the Dev(s)!
Love seeing those Grafmetal clips in the intro. Those pseudo text-adventure games on the NES were some of the best adventure games of all time. Really wish that style took off. Gonna have to check out From Beyond, despite the issues you outlined I love this genre too much to pass it up
Battle Kid and Battle Kid 2 are amazing home brew games. Tough as hell but amazing games that keep you coming back. Watch some of the speed run videos on TH-cam. They’re unreal.
Great to see you back! And from all the games shown today, Micro Mages looks phenomenal--I'll definitely need to add the dev videos to my "watch later" playlist. And to answer the question at the end, I wonder what the Genesis/Mega Drive homebrew scene is like.
Lots of point and click adventures, mega man/metroidvania games, and a punch out game. A lot of them had some kind of horror theme, be it cosmic lovecraftian, dark fantasy, or universal monsters. A good selection for Halloween.
Yep, the adventures of panzer is coming to nes on cartridge next year, I would know, I’m the musican :3, also most of the games are not using nes limitations. Micro mages has already released or the nes to btw
Hey, I'm sure you received my Tweets before right? Please let me know what the heck that so-called 16-bit song was, as well as those 2 PC games, hopefully...
Actually scratch that, 1 of them was Overlord/Supremacy: Your Will Be Done. The other I still can't figure out. There's also a NES platformer in which you take control of some purple creature who can glide a little, has black birds in each level, and it never scrolls; got a couple catchy tunes for the bonus levels and you succeeding one.
are there any homebrew nes war games similar to Rush n' Attack, Commando, Operation Wolf, Cabal, Fire Hawk ? I love NES war games and I've just gotten back into gaming this year for nostalgia reasons... I didn't play video games in 25 years. This year I bought like 40 NES games since July.
I absolutely LOVED Shadowgate. I was sick when I lost my copy of the remake that came out a few years ago because it appears you just can't get it anymore!! 😪 Anyway, I loved all three of those games on the NES. I will absolutely play any homebrew games made in this style.
I love this and that people are making nes style games today as love letters to the past 😎👌👏🔥♥️ I grew up with nes and still today having a ps5 and loving playstaion as well, nes still has a solid place in my heart. I was just playing mega man 1 a couple weeks back on playstaion and loving it(finally beat it for the first time, felt so good after 30+ years 🙂👍) graphics cannot replace gameplay and although I love current gen gaming(ratchet n clank was a masterpiece)I would be just as happy today playing on nes all day long. Funny you mention those 3 kemco games cuz I also just got all 3 in a pack on the playstaion network and was Jamin deja vu the other day 😎👌 thanks so much for what you do 👏
I play a lot more hacks than homebrews, but you might want to take a look at STREEMERZ (you have to spell it like that because it's an acronym). The plot is completely ridiculous in that badly translated old NES game kind of way, it's loosely based on that game from Action 52, and the gameplay is pretty similar to a faster-paced Bionic Commando; good stuff.
As a fan of Macventure games on NES I really enjoyed Infested and From Beyond: Prologue. My only complaint about Infested is it needed to be a bit longer and have 2 or 3 more music tracks for areas.
What's the name of that newer NES/8bit game that's kinda horror based? Almost like a cross between castlevania/ninja gaiden/Dantes inferno? I can't remember it for the life of me.
4:54 Hard to read from a distance as I've seen worse, or you don't like the font, it sure doesn't look dyslexia friendly? The easiest explanation with Micro Mages for it's scrolling performance is that the NES doesn't scroll vertically as a native hardware function, takes mapper chips and or special engine coding usually Ie. harder to do jsyk.
Wait a minute....you're still with us?! I haven't gotten an alert for one of your videos in almost a year. How are you doing brother and how is your family? At any rate, you are still killing it man with fantastic reviews. I don't know why I'm not getting any of your videos but I am going to try and remedy this as I need my Friday Night Arcade fix. ;)
I'm still around lol... although my schedule has been totally intermittent since my twins were born last August. Everyone is healthy and doing well so that's about all we can ask for in these crazy days. Thank you so much for the kind words and hope you and yours are also doing well. :)
@@FridayNightArcade Brother I am doing absolutely fantastic. My career has finally taken off and so has my fiancee's. We are absolutely rocking it hard core now and I'm so grateful to finally see daylight. We paid off our house, cars, and only have just basic bills (electric, water, internet, Hulu, Xbox GamePass, and PSN). We have stayed healthy (knock on wood) and so has my parents. I don't know if you remember but my fiancee and I love all gaming from retro to brand new...we love it. We (fiancee and I) were able to secure an Xbox Series X and PS5 *physical at launch from GameStop. Enough about me... I am so elated to hear that your twins and wife are doing great. You are still slaying it here on TH-cam and I'm about to share your channel with my fellow colleagues at work (all retro gamers). What's funny is me and my partner at work are the only ones that play the new stuff...everyone else here is a retro gamer. I don't know if I can snag you some new viewers but I'm damn sure gonna try. Talk to you later brother I gotta start work. ;)
Hey that's great news! I'm glad to hear things are going so well -- there's not much better than getting everything paid off and living the debt free life. Glad everybody is healthy and well too! At least we've got video games to keep us sane in an insane world.
@@FridayNightArcade Yes sir, we have our games to keep us going and the world is definitely out of whack. I believe things will turn around and brother if you know where to look you can see it happening. We'll be alright my friend as long as we have good family, friends, and community...I believe we both have that in spades.
Sorry for the double post, but I just tried a new homebrew today that I really want to dig more into: Böbl. You're a bubble, exploring a big, interconnected world; the mechanics are pretty unique and the world is absolutely fascinating. I think you can grab it free at itch.
@@FridayNightArcade Really? I skimmed the first 20-30 comments and didn't see it mentioned. So where does this group meet and why didn't I get an invite? :)
Are these "Nintendo hard"? NES games were usually really tough since they were often times short in length (if you beat a game in 20 minutes, you'd have felt cheated).
@@FridayNightArcade Are we on the same planet? If it's a homebrew NES game I assume it would run on an actual NES. The adventure games are just windows games using NES style graphics.
@@cmr2079 From Beyond: Prologue was designed within 8-bit NES limitations with the intention of selling a physical NES cartridge in the event that the Steam version sold well enough - although unfortunately I don't believe that it did. Adventures of Panzer is getting a physical NES release next year. Infested and Spectacle are PC only with NES graphics, that is correct. But when the hell else am I gonna have a chance to mention them?
Infested is super short, but incredibly satisfying. Has that uninvited feel to it. Ashame he didn't put it on steam so he could monetize it. I'd like the creator to get some money and make more.
But I get that life, wife, kids and job can get in the way. Not trying to be an a hole, just really enjoy your other channel. If you're gonna play a game, just stream it is all.
Not impressed! Ok so the Deja Vu/Shadowgate type adventure games look better than the platformers which just don't look good at all. I really enjoyed Odallus: The Dark Call, Shovel Knight, Axiom Verge, and River City Ransom Underground. These look more like those crappy Halloween games on Steam that are much cheaper but have horrible gameplay and visuals.
@Angry_Calvin that’s because they aren’t running on a nes the only games he showed running on an nes where the platformers which have amazing graphic for the nes
Thanks for checking out my game! I’m so glad you had some fun with it!
It looks pretty cool
How did you go about making it?
@@goodknight4132 I used a program called NESmaker to get me started :)
It's really nice how much better Homebrew games look on average compared to the actual NES games that came out when the system was new.
Thanks for mentioning these MacVenture games. I loved those, and wasn't aware of any of these new spiritual successors. I'm going to check them all out !
I am so glad to be seeing some love for the MacVenture 'genre' :-)
Nice to see fellow fans of these games. I really wish the genre took off.
Pretty awesome that in 2021 we got people who are making games for the classic consoles and keeping them true to their limitations.
Terrific point here.
I am totally against some current companies producing hardware peripherals that enhance older systems for more sprites, colors, sounds, etc. Such products are scams, and are only crappy 3rd party unknown mini-consoles that suck off the old systems' legacy and power supplies.
I can hook up my toaster to my NES'es power supply then and call my breakfast "Mario Toast". Really...
Why solve a problem nobody has? If you want more power then play PS5 or PC games then. Keep the integrity of the old systems intact.
I love people who put their heart into works like this. It breathes new life into it all.
i like good things that are good.
8:38 I love the nod to “Creepy Crawlers” there too 😄
Very cool subject. I'm usually a retro only gamer, but I've recently gotten into rom hacks, homebrew/indie games, and retro inspired modern games or spiritual sequels.
I like everything that I've seen so far and there are some stunning games available.
Really liked the video, thanks for taking the time to do it.
YES! HE RETURNS!
That boxing game looks so cool I would have loved that back in the day
I never realized how many MacVenture games were released for the NES. Given their market at the time, I thought that there might've been one or two. I would love to see Dungeons & Doomknights included in this collection....well, once it gets released. Cheers, Aaron!
Amazing job as usual Aaron. I love homebrew games. Retro will never die! Thanks for your hard work. I hope you and family are healthy and safe good sir. Have a great rest of your week and weekend!
Woohoo thanks for the suggestions of the macventure games!
He’s back, baby!! Been too long!
Can't wait to meet weird bug creatures and stuff.
Oh my, that Creepy Brawlers looks totally amazing. The Punch-Out franchise has always been one of my favorites!
I want it! Great job for showing it and great job to the Dev(s)!
Love seeing those Grafmetal clips in the intro. Those pseudo text-adventure games on the NES were some of the best adventure games of all time. Really wish that style took off.
Gonna have to check out From Beyond, despite the issues you outlined I love this genre too much to pass it up
Battle Kid and Battle Kid 2 are amazing home brew games. Tough as hell but amazing games that keep you coming back. Watch some of the speed run videos on TH-cam. They’re unreal.
I loved the micro mages video, I have watched it multiple times. I also have the game on steam but still haven't played it.
THE ADVENTURES OF PANZER ► www.kickstarter.com/projects/panzer/the-adventures-of-panzer
INFESTED ► grahfmetal.itch.io/infested
FROM BEYOND: PROLOGUE ► store.steampowered.com/app/971430/From_Beyond_Prologue/
SPECTACLE ► grahfmetal.itch.io/spectacle
MICRO MAGES ► morphcat.de/micromages/
CREEPY BRAWLERS ► megacatstudios.com/products/creepy-brawlers-for-the-nintendo-entertainment-system
MicroMages rocks!! If you hadn't reviewed it I would never have known. Thank You good sir!! (EDIT: And welcome back!)
Great to see you back! And from all the games shown today, Micro Mages looks phenomenal--I'll definitely need to add the dev videos to my "watch later" playlist.
And to answer the question at the end, I wonder what the Genesis/Mega Drive homebrew scene is like.
Micro Mages is awesome! It's so well made that I forget it's a homebrew
Dearth means lack or scarcity. Exact opposite of what you were trying to express 😆
"Dearth" does not mean what you think it means...
Lol yeah... Asleep at the wheel there
Would you say we have a ple-thor-a? 😁
@@FridayNightArcade indeed, a profusion and a surfeit! About which I'm not complaining.
I just kept thinking of this scene lol ... th-cam.com/video/zWld721Wk-Q/w-d-xo.html
@@FridayNightArcade 🤣🤣
came hear too say this.
Infested and From Beyond look like they go beyond the NES color limits!
Mega Cat Studio is also publishing their collections for the Blaze Evercade now too. Creepy Brawlers is on their Mega Cats Collection 1 cart!
Lots of point and click adventures, mega man/metroidvania games, and a punch out game. A lot of them had some kind of horror theme, be it cosmic lovecraftian, dark fantasy, or universal monsters. A good selection for Halloween.
another awesome episode. I love my mac venture series games and wasn’t aware of Spectacle , I will be checking out asap. thank you
Good to see you back Aaron!! 👍👍👍
Any of these coming out as physical copies
Yep, the adventures of panzer is coming to nes on cartridge next year, I would know, I’m the musican :3, also most of the games are not using nes limitations. Micro mages has already released or the nes to btw
I'm sure a lot of adventure games use randomisation, but I think mostly for object location. Winnie the Pooh in the Hundred Acre Woods comes to mind.
DUDE! Creepy Brawlers looks AWESOME! I've always needed more Punch-Out action in my life!
+1
My fave in this video.
Hey, I'm sure you received my Tweets before right? Please let me know what the heck that so-called 16-bit song was, as well as those 2 PC games, hopefully...
Actually scratch that, 1 of them was Overlord/Supremacy: Your Will Be Done. The other I still can't figure out. There's also a NES platformer in which you take control of some purple creature who can glide a little, has black birds in each level, and it never scrolls; got a couple catchy tunes for the bonus levels and you succeeding one.
Micro Mages is insane. I played it some time ago on PC
are there any homebrew nes war games similar to Rush n' Attack, Commando, Operation Wolf, Cabal, Fire Hawk ? I love NES war games and I've just gotten back into gaming this year for nostalgia reasons... I didn't play video games in 25 years. This year I bought like 40 NES games since July.
Creepy brawlers...not bad af all!
I absolutely LOVED Shadowgate.
I was sick when I lost my copy of the remake that came out a few years ago because it appears you just can't get it anymore!! 😪
Anyway, I loved all three of those games on the NES. I will absolutely play any homebrew games made in this style.
I love this and that people are making nes style games today as love letters to the past 😎👌👏🔥♥️ I grew up with nes and still today having a ps5 and loving playstaion as well, nes still has a solid place in my heart. I was just playing mega man 1 a couple weeks back on playstaion and loving it(finally beat it for the first time, felt so good after 30+ years 🙂👍) graphics cannot replace gameplay and although I love current gen gaming(ratchet n clank was a masterpiece)I would be just as happy today playing on nes all day long. Funny you mention those 3 kemco games cuz I also just got all 3 in a pack on the playstaion network and was Jamin deja vu the other day 😎👌 thanks so much for what you do 👏
Glad you're back
Nice! Happy to see this in my feed. Been too long. Hope everything is fine and more are to come.
PS Micro Mages looks amazing
I play a lot more hacks than homebrews, but you might want to take a look at STREEMERZ (you have to spell it like that because it's an acronym). The plot is completely ridiculous in that badly translated old NES game kind of way, it's loosely based on that game from Action 52, and the gameplay is pretty similar to a faster-paced Bionic Commando; good stuff.
Do not touch máster P's balls!
As a fan of Macventure games on NES I really enjoyed Infested and From Beyond: Prologue. My only complaint about Infested is it needed to be a bit longer and have 2 or 3 more music tracks for areas.
Micro mage looks awesome
Micro Mages is fantastic!
Ultima iv for nes had a few tracks that were very Kemco-esque.
Creepy Brawlers is like Punch-Out meets the Mutant League sports games.
Does the From Beyond Prologue game on Steam come with an NES ROM?
What's the name of that newer NES/8bit game that's kinda horror based? Almost like a cross between castlevania/ninja gaiden/Dantes inferno? I can't remember it for the life of me.
4:54 Hard to read from a distance as I've seen worse, or you don't like the font, it sure doesn't look dyslexia friendly?
The easiest explanation with Micro Mages for it's scrolling performance is that the NES doesn't scroll vertically as a native hardware function, takes mapper chips and or special engine coding usually Ie. harder to do jsyk.
I love how saying your acronym sounds like EFFIN A
th-cam.com/video/OUJRJAXolk4/w-d-xo.html
Pretty nice list
Does Spectacle have an NES version? If not its in the style yes, but all I'm seeing is a windows game. Same with From beyond and Infested.
Video should be titled NES Style Homebrew games...
and we're baaaaaaack!!!
It's been a long month without FNA
Thank you so much for this vid I needed this badly ... 😊...
Great video! I'll be checking all of these out.
Btw, "dearth" means the opposite of what I think you think it means 😉
Great list, but no love for Slow Mole?
Thank you great work
I have Micro mages it was fun from what I played.
Has anybody made any homebrew sports games, ice hockey, soccer, etc
You sir need to take a look at Infernax. I will say no more so I don't spoil it.
Anybody know of any Homebrew games like M.U.L.E. or Aerobiz, Aerobiz Supersonic?
As always, great video!
Wait a minute....you're still with us?! I haven't gotten an alert for one of your videos in almost a year. How are you doing brother and how is your family? At any rate, you are still killing it man with fantastic reviews. I don't know why I'm not getting any of your videos but I am going to try and remedy this as I need my Friday Night Arcade fix. ;)
I'm still around lol... although my schedule has been totally intermittent since my twins were born last August. Everyone is healthy and doing well so that's about all we can ask for in these crazy days. Thank you so much for the kind words and hope you and yours are also doing well. :)
@@FridayNightArcade
Brother I am doing absolutely fantastic. My career has finally taken off and so has my fiancee's. We are absolutely rocking it hard core now and I'm so grateful to finally see daylight. We paid off our house, cars, and only have just basic bills (electric, water, internet, Hulu, Xbox GamePass, and PSN). We have stayed healthy (knock on wood) and so has my parents. I don't know if you remember but my fiancee and I love all gaming from retro to brand new...we love it. We (fiancee and I) were able to secure an Xbox Series X and PS5 *physical at launch from GameStop. Enough about me...
I am so elated to hear that your twins and wife are doing great. You are still slaying it here on TH-cam and I'm about to share your channel with my fellow colleagues at work (all retro gamers). What's funny is me and my partner at work are the only ones that play the new stuff...everyone else here is a retro gamer. I don't know if I can snag you some new viewers but I'm damn sure gonna try. Talk to you later brother I gotta start work. ;)
Hey that's great news! I'm glad to hear things are going so well -- there's not much better than getting everything paid off and living the debt free life. Glad everybody is healthy and well too! At least we've got video games to keep us sane in an insane world.
@@FridayNightArcade
Yes sir, we have our games to keep us going and the world is definitely out of whack. I believe things will turn around and brother if you know where to look you can see it happening. We'll be alright my friend as long as we have good family, friends, and community...I believe we both have that in spades.
Awesome video!
That's a great video 👍
Pretty excellent games
The point and click games look awesome but I’ve tried getting into that genre and it’s not for me
I should love point-and-clicks but no, I just can't finish them.
How about the snes next?
9:30 Sweet Tooth
"Dearth" means a scarcity or lack of something.
More content please
Where ya been man? We miss ya!
I miss you too! Stay tuned!
Awesome 10/10
I guess that NES Maker program is legit. I was skeptical of it.
Video title is "NES games", but half of those are "NES Style games" for PC.
Dearth means scarcity, shortage, or lack of something. Glut? Excess? Plethora?
Would you say, I have a ple-thor-a?
lol yeah I goofed on that one.
Pantsers... tee hee.
Pantsers!
🤣
GREETINGS from MÉXICO !!
Hola, Hector!!
Hell. Yes.
I subscribed to your channel
Sorry for the double post, but I just tried a new homebrew today that I really want to dig more into: Böbl. You're a bubble, exploring a big, interconnected world; the mechanics are pretty unique and the world is absolutely fascinating. I think you can grab it free at itch.
For the record, I have a really hard time thinking of the Macventure games as NES-style rather than Mac-style.
Totally fair although my experience with them in my youth was only on NES.
Gargoyle's Quest 2
Hey hiya doing 👋
where are your new videos man? Also, 100th comment!
Workin' on it! :)
0:24 - The word "dearth" means a lack of something. Your use of it in this context doesn't make sense.
Yep. I goofed. There are 8-9 other people in this thread who pointed this out as well. They have a meeting on Thursdays at 6. Refreshments are served.
@@FridayNightArcade Really? I skimmed the first 20-30 comments and didn't see it mentioned. So where does this group meet and why didn't I get an invite? :)
Are these "Nintendo hard"? NES games were usually really tough since they were often times short in length (if you beat a game in 20 minutes, you'd have felt cheated).
Yeah thats the reason i didn't get into gaming until the 16 bit era...i hated the nes and its fabricated difficulty.
I smell bot comment
An upload on a Sunday? C'mon, man.
From what I can, tell none of the adventure games on this list are real NES games.
aaaaaaand that's why the name of the video is "Awesome Homebrew NES Games"
LINK: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homebrew_(video_games)
@@FridayNightArcade Are we on the same planet? If it's a homebrew NES game I assume it would run on an actual NES. The adventure games are just windows games using NES style graphics.
@@cmr2079 From Beyond: Prologue was designed within 8-bit NES limitations with the intention of selling a physical NES cartridge in the event that the Steam version sold well enough - although unfortunately I don't believe that it did.
Adventures of Panzer is getting a physical NES release next year.
Infested and Spectacle are PC only with NES graphics, that is correct. But when the hell else am I gonna have a chance to mention them?
Infested is super short, but incredibly satisfying. Has that uninvited feel to it. Ashame he didn't put it on steam so he could monetize it. I'd like the creator to get some money and make more.
Bro, you gotta start posting on your let's play channel. It's been like 6 months. Come on man, if you're gonna promote it, you could at least use it
But I get that life, wife, kids and job can get in the way. Not trying to be an a hole, just really enjoy your other channel. If you're gonna play a game, just stream it is all.
👍👍
Not impressed! Ok so the Deja Vu/Shadowgate type adventure games look better than the platformers which just don't look good at all.
I really enjoyed Odallus: The Dark Call, Shovel Knight, Axiom Verge, and River City Ransom Underground.
These look more like those crappy Halloween games on Steam that are much cheaper but have horrible gameplay and visuals.
@Angry_Calvin that’s because they aren’t running on a nes the only games he showed running on an nes where the platformers which have amazing graphic for the nes
Wow... Been like a month since the last video. Guess only working like 10 months a year and begging for Patreon support is the way to go lol
Spoiler Alert: I have 1-year old twins.
Double spoiler alert: I've never begged for anything.
i think homebrews and romhacks are not the same. that one game is a punchout romhack.