This Week on YouTube: Bye-Bye to Bydo, Hello N64

Do not adjust your set. If this week’s videos looked especially blurry it’s because half of them were of Nintendo 64 games. There’s no mistaking the patented anti-aliasing Vaseline of that fine cartridge-based console even in 2D games. There’s just something about the look of an N64 game that says Nintendo 64.

One of those largely 2D games is The New Tetris, a fantastic iteration on the classic game with sights and sounds from the world’s past. Just watch it, you’ll see. It is, by far, my favorite Tetris game of them all and one I’ve been meaning to go back to for a while. With the N64 ready to go I also went back to DMA Designs’ proto-GTA, Body Harvest. I was a foolish teenager when I first played it and despite loving the open world design and atmospheric soundtrack, I was terrible at it. Things are going much better 15 years on and I hope to make this a complete playthrough series.

At the very beginning of the week I posted a new City of Gold or Bust! run in Spelunky and it was the most exciting yet. Shopkeepers were killed, jetpacks were poorly handled, and a gold monkey briefly joined us until that damn frog broke my Ankh.

Tuesday saw the usual installment of R-Type Command but this week was a special one. After 14 months we’ve finally reached the end of the game. The final mission — Homecoming with its bittersweet ending — is up along with a post-game video showing off some of the new units and stuff I missed the first time through.

Katy’s been on a real recording kick and posted a ton of stuff to her channel this week. She went back to her favorite spot in Crackdown to cause some inadvertent vehicular manslaughter, she dabbled with The Bard’s Tale on Steam, re-re-re-started Beautiful Katamari on Xbox 360 and continues today with another installment of Infinite Undiscovery.

Worth Watching? Benedict Cumberbatch doing a Sesame Street skit. That is all.