Jeremy Parish

Game Boy Works #115: The Tower of Druaga (Patreon)

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2019-12-04 21:30:59

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Huh, somehow the post I had scheduled for today... disappeared? Anyway, here is the unintentionally belated video for this week. It's a little out of chronological sequence, but it seemed like it needed to be done, given recent coverage.

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The Tower of Druaga retrospective: Green around the Gils | Game Boy Works #115

We're briefly jumping one month out of chronological order here in 1990, from Nov. 30 to Dec. 31, to look at a game that keeps showing up in Video Works: Namco's The Tower of Druaga. While admittedly it's the arcade game from 1984 and the Famicom port from 1985 that keep getting mention for their formative impact on Japanese games design, rather than this port from five or six hours later, this is a more or less direct conversion of the original... plus a few quality-of-life tweaks. Anyway, with this episode in the can, I don't have to explain The Tower of Druaga every time I reference it. Video Works is funded through Patreon (http://www.patreon.com/gamespite)—support the show and get access to every episode up to two weeks in advance of its YouTube debut! And be sure to check out the Retronauts podcast (http://www.retronauts.com), where I (and many others!) tackle a much wider array of classic gaming topics each week.