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Retronauts Pocket 19 - Capcom's NES Games

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Technology, Leisure, Games, Video Games

4.52.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2014

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

By our powers combined! (With the backing of Larry Froncek.) We delve into Capcom's NES years, also known as the point at which a fledgling arcade developer became a world-class console powerhouse.

Transcript

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0:00.0

With BT Broadband and TV, you can say goodbye to boredom and hello to...

0:04.6

Huh?

0:30.0

As we can return on, it's brought to you by Captain Commando!

0:55.8

And by Captain Commando, I mean, you know,

0:57.5

the original dude who is on the Capcom NES manuals,

1:00.4

not the video game character who is some poser.

1:03.4

Hi everyone, this is Jerry Parrish and welcome to RetroNuts episode 19 Pocket.

1:08.2

Brought to you by Larry Francek, who has requested many things

1:12.2

and the one we decided on was let's talk about Capcom's NES games

1:16.7

because we've played a lot of them and what the heck.

1:19.4

It goes kind of nicely with last episode when we talked about Nintendo Power.

1:23.3

Let's just get all Nintendo up in here, yeah.

1:27.3

Um, so with me this week in the studio, Bob Mackie.

1:30.9

Ray By Holt, hi.

1:32.4

The usual, the usual, Ravel, yes indeed.

1:35.0

We're gonna talk about some NES games, some of them good, some of them bad.

1:39.4

But all of them interesting within a historical context.

1:42.8

Just the way I like it, yeah.

1:57.1

So, um, we're gonna roll right into Capcom, talking about their NES era.

2:16.1

So, um, the NES era is actually kind of, um, synonymous with Capcom itself.

2:23.4

The company was established, I want to say in 1983,

2:26.9

their first games were Volgas, Exit Exes, Sonson, all from 1983.

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