Dr. Morbis

@T-Pac: There's an easier mode if you die intentionally on the first level of the NES game.  You get the bad ending once you've beat it, but you get to play as the gold dragon for the whole game...

The NES version is also one of my favourite shooters.  I actually like it better than the TG version, although the Turbo's rendition is still a solid game...

Who leads all these guys?  Is it Bowser or somebody else?  You list Prince Bowser Koopa Jr as the sub-boss leader, so does that mean his father is the ultimate opressor of the League of Darkness?

Also, you forgot to list Birdo in front of Mouser and Tryclide with all the Super Mario 2 bosses.  He should be #9, so you'll need to renumber all of the other guys below him... 

Defender #1371 is now Thrilla Gorilla!  And Kool Kat and Tiki Man are in too!!!!  2022 is off to an awesome start!

Thrilla's Surfari RULEZ!!!!

1 minute ago, Mario_Friend1982 said:

If you check my list of North American NES games, the ones in red are part of the nintendoverse while the ones in blue are not.

Oh man, I never thought of that.  Good thing you are in charge of this list and I'm not... I just don't have the skills to keep track of all this stuff...

3 minutes ago, Mario_Friend1982 said:

They are not Video Game Masters because their games are not part of the Nintendoverse.

How do you tell which games are part of the Nintendoverse and which ones are not?

On 3/26/2021 at 2:44 PM, G-type said:

Kool Kat from T&C Surf

Thrilla Gorilla is missing as well, and he's the one who got the sequel, so he's a defender of the Nintendoverse twice over!

Wow, I'll be getting this for sure.  Great episode!

Great list Mario friend 1982!  I didn't realize the Nintendoverse had so many oppressors!

I just noticed it's your birthday today.... Happy birthday!!!  How old are you now?

I never would have guessed!!!!  Will you tell me more about this Defender of the Nintendo Universe?

Can you tell me more about character #1335?  He is my favourite.  What's he like?  How old is he?  What weapons and/or powers does he use to defend the Nintendo Universe?

Thanks for the info.  It's definitely a game I need to pick up, then.  I've always avoided it because I thought it was a hack and I avoid them like the plague.  I've got losts of homebrew carts in my collection, but not one hack purchased in 20+ years...

Can anyone tell me if Streemerz is based on the code of Bionic Commando (ie: a hack) or was it designed from the ground up with heavy influences from BC and the original Streemers?

Great article, man!  I actually just beat Thundercade earlier this year and so I could totally relate to everything you wrote as I was reading it (except having to switch to a CRT - I'm already a CRT NES gamer for life!).

It's funny: there are only four levels and more often than not I could get to the final boss on my first game before continuing, and yet it took me like a week and a half to beat it.  That final boss is sooooo hard, and the same thing with the choppers coming in when you're down to one dude left to kill happened to me multiple times too.  But when you finally beat it.... oh man, what a feeling!  I don't get that feeling beating games on any other system, but when I take down a really tough NES game, the satisfaction is indescribable.

Thundercade was completion #367 for me, but I started recording NES completions in 2001.  Keep up the good work!

On 8/17/2020 at 7:29 PM, Link said:

The Zelda pinball was Gottlieb, also it never happened 

Yeah it did - you just need to know which game to re-skin...

Where are the PlayChoice games?