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The Kong scramble: Monster Mansion & Astro Command

While Nintendo and Sega were in the process of entering the programmable console market, Epoch kept churning out Cassette Vision games... slowly. As per usual, these games should look fairly familiar to fans of classic arcade games, being slightly tilted renditions of popular hits. Business as usual, really. To Epoch's credit, their Donkey Kong knockoff beat the release of Nintendo's actual Donkey Kong conversion by several months. To their detriment, it wasn't nearly as good as the real thing. But, all things considered, while neither of these unofficial adaptations will go down in history as all-time classics, they do pretty impressive things with Epoch's very humble and dated hardware. That's something, right?

English
  • Originally Aired October 18, 2023
  • Runtime 12 minutes
  • Network YouTube
  • Created May 11, 2025 by
    akerasi
  • Modified May 11, 2025 by
    akerasi