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*36th 😉

36th?

26th birthday? Now that's a late release for the NES 😁 Little typo aside, thanks for sharing the tape, that's a precious document to preserve

This tape is one of just 5000 made, and was distributed for free to customers who purchased the game via mail-order from Solstice magazine ads like this one in Game Player's Magazine Vol 2 No 10. Images courtesy of the @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social library: archive.gamehistory.org/item/b5d0316...

Sony Imagesoft was savvy though, they also provided an option for customers to have an additional copy of the Player's Pak mailed to a friend for just the cost of shipping! Clever marketing idea, but how many people do you think got the Player's Pak that way? $3.50 in 1990 spent like $10 does today!

Here's another cool peek behind the scenes for all the chiptune enthusiasts and digital music/sound designers out there: a peek into the process of composing the soundtrack for an NES game!

That's one buff wizard.

Amazing. I love this game because a) it's one of the 10 games I actually owned for my NES growing up, and b) it's a fantastic game.

Be sure to check out the full video in our archive if you haven't already! We might also try to clean up the audio and put a copy on our YouTube channel down the line!