Tuesday, August 23, 2011  The Evil Desires of Dr. Sparkle  My
sinister plans for world domination have reached a new phase
today, with the release of Chrontendo Episode 40.  Finally we
have finished with the year 1988 and are poised to begin 1989. 
You know the drill by know.   Fancy-ass 60 fps h.264 versions
may be found on Archive.  A reasonable streaming version may be
found on Youtube.  As always, I recommend the 60 fps videos.  In
order to squeeze in the very last few games of '88, I tacked on
two additional games, leaving Episode 40 with a total of 17
games.  Five of those are releases for the US market, from
Konami, Sunsoft and Tengen. One of the Tengen games, Super
Sprint did eventually get aJapanese release a few years later,
by Altron, the same guys who published the Japanese version of
Paperboy.  Skate or Die! marks the beginning of a new era of
console gaming in the US.  It is the first Electronics Arts game
released for a console; though in this case it was published by
Konami under their Ultra G