Jeremy Parish

NES Works #072: Karnov

Good evening! Or morning. Wherever you are in the world, I hope it's good. Maybe this video will make it a little better? It's a look back at Karnov, the NES game. Strangely enough, the first four NES games we'll be looking at fo...

Game Boy Works Gaiden #08: Game Gear 1990, Pt. 1 of 4

Atari Lynx isn't the only handheld getting Gaiden love! Game Gear coverage has been in the cards since the beginning, and now we're near the end of 1990 for Game Boy, it's time to look at Game Gear and see how it fared. As with the Lynx episodes, ...

Game Boy Works #120: Bubble Bobble & Chibi Maruko-chan

I know people are excited for coverage of Bubble Bobble, but this is not the one to be excited about, sadly. The Game Boy release was not a direct adaptation of the NES or arcade game but instead went off in its own direction. So...

Game Boy Works Gaiden: Atari Lynx 1990, Pt. 1 of 3

This brings us halfway to bringing Lynx's release chronology up to date where we are with Game Boy—a little sad, innit? The system just didn't have all that much software support; going by the title screen credits, these four releases were progr...

August/September Preview

Good afternoon! As I work to refocus and generally improve this project, I realize it couldn't hurt to give everyone a sense of what's in the works right now and in the coming weeks. I've tentatively scheduled content through summer 2021... ironic...

Video Works book PDFs - repost

Hi all, it seems like the links to old book files have become muddled. Unfortunately, these PDFs are far too large to post directly to Patreon (for some reason... that reason being "Patreon is very stingy with bandwidth"). I've put together the fo...

A note on the direction of Video Works

Hi all, 

I don't post non-video updates here too often, because there's not really all that much to say beyond "thank you for helping me create these videos." Lately, though, I've been thinking a lot about the purpose and direction of t...

Game Boy Works #119: Double Dragon II & Scotland Yard

When is a Double Dragon game not a Double Dragon game? When it's actually a Kunio-kun game. Now you see why I needed to cover Renegade first.

Unfortunately, next episode also features a Game Boy adaptation...

Game Boy Works Gaiden #06: Atari Lynx 1989

This episode has been a very long time coming—as in, since 2014. I've struggled for a long with the capture technology and the overall methodology of how to approach Atari Lynx, and I think this approach (rather than a game-by-game sing...

Metroidvania Works #12: The all-singing, all-Falcom episode

This chapter of Metroidvania Works goes a bit out of chronological order to bundle together four games by Nihon Falcom, who did a lot of heavy lifting for the action-RPG genre in the mid ’80s. We'll see a couple of these games down the road on N...

Metroidvania Works #11: Zelda II / Rygar / The Goonies II

This week's Metroidvania Works brings us to the end of the small bubble in which several of the titles concerned have already been explored in NES Works. From here on out, it's pretty much going to be new and different material thanks to the surve...

Game Boy Works Gaiden #5 (sort of): Mr. Driller DrillLand & The History of Mr. Driller

I'm honestly not sure how this episode will go over—it's the longest video I've produced to date, and it's kind of off-topic (grouped under Game Boy Works Gaiden because Mr. Driller 2 will be showing up on Game Boy Works Advance eventua...

NES Works #071: Renegade

I wasn't planning to put together a new NES Works episode for quite a while, but the next Game Boy Works covers a Double Dragon game that is actually a Kunio game. And given that Renegade—the Kunio game that i...

Virtual Boy Works preview

Hello, all! As we're right at the midpoint of the year, which has somehow passed with agonizing lethargy yet also alarming speed, I wanted to share a teaser of the Virtual Boy Works book. It's currently somewhere between 80-85% complete—I was ho...

Game Boy Works #118: In Your Face / Koro Dice

This week's episode is a little messy, though in a way that might not be immediately obvious: It lacks any photography of In Your Face's physical release. Somehow the images I shot a few years (!) ago have gone completely missing, and while I was ...

N64 Works #005: Wonder Project J2

I found a great deal of satisfaction in putting together this week's video! Wonder Project J2 received extensive coverage in gaming publications back in 1996 (both print and online, notably in the form of the wee tiny baby version of IGN ...

Metroidvania Works #010: The Wing of Madoola / Relics / Zillion

I think this is the last Metroidvania Works episode that'll be focused entirely on obscurities; from here on out, I'm pretty sure you'll have heard of most if not all the games to show up. Anyway, I think this series is becoming my personal favori...

Game Boy Works #117: RoboCop & Play Action Football

I'm posting this week's piece a little early to make up for last week's delay. This is another one of those difficult episodes I had to power through the best I could, although I couldn't seem to get past stage two of RoboCop to save my life thank...

N64 Works #004: Mortal Kombat Trilogy

Well, I'm a liar twice over. After all the frustration I had hunting for my copy of MK Trilogy, I stumbled across photos I took of the packaging several years ago. I could have sworn I took them, but they didn't show up... becaus...

A quick note on this week's video...

...namely, that it won't be going up at the usual time tomorrow. My copy of the game covered in the video (Mortal Kombat Trilogy) has gone missing, so I had to order a replacement.  That was 10 days ago, and it still hasn't arrived; ...

Metroidvania Works #009: At last, Metroid AND ’Vania

We did it! We finally got to a Metroid game in Metroidvania Works... and a Castlevania game, too, though technically this one has never been officially issued under the name Castlevania. We're still a ways away from the ...

Metroidvania Works #08: Knight Lore / Xanadu / The Legend of Zelda

Hey! Remember Metroidvania Works? I do. I'd been waiting to produce this episode until I could record Xanadu footage, but... after buying a very expensive copy of the game that didn't work AND an MSX flash device that wouldn't boot beyond the titl...

Game Boy Works 116: Battle Bull & Navy Blue 90

This one has been sitting in my to-do queue for something like half a year, so I finally decided to just brace up and do the danged thing. Now I can move forward with Game Boy Works, hooray. 

I guess I need to do the same and power thro...

N64 Works Gaiden: Final Fantasy VII

This game does not really fall within the Video Works remit, and I will get back to the regularly programmed content soon—but you have to admit that I'm pretty good at coming up with flimsy excuses for covering games outside the standard NES/Gam...

NES Works Gaiden #10: NES Fandom

This one is another patron request, though as sometimes happens when I set out to tackle a topic, it mutated a bit along the way. This began as a survey of NES collecting, but soon grew to encompass a much broader overview of how the NES has evolv...

NES Works Gaiden #11: Mega Man Legends

Hey everyone! Thank you for your words of support after last week's post. That was meant as a simple statement of gratitude (not a request or anything), but everyone seemed totally supportive, and several of you went a step beyond to help out. I'm...

A thank-you, some news, and Game Boy Works Gaiden: Trip World

This week, we have a patron-requested Game Boy episode, and (I hope) the last time we'll see a significant break in the planned sequence of coverage for the platforms I'm chronicling. Not much of a chronicle if it doesn't go in order, right? So, a...

NES Works #070: Mega Man

Ah, that's more like it. It's been a long road, getting from there to here, but... Mega Man! A fine finale to 1987. Come to think of it, all three volumes of NES Works have ended on a strong note with Super Mario Bros., Gradi...