S4E12: Ninja Gaiden II and Super Ninja Boy -or- Widest Kicks U' Throw
About this episode
Timmy Williams joins Mike and Jaymo to discuss Ninja Gaiden II and Super Ninja Boy while sharing insights from his work on the animated movie Mars.
Timmy Williams, part of Whitest Kids U’ Know and co-host of the Urn Fulla Popcorn podcast, is ready to enter the ninja games as he makes his return to The Old SwitchAroo to explore the ninja sequels Ninja Gaiden II (NES, 1990) and Super Ninja Boy (SNES, 1993) with Mike and Jaymo as part of The Old SwitchAroo’s epic quest to research and review every retro game in Nintendo Switch Online’s Nintendo Classics catalog. In this episode, Timmy shares some of the experiences involved in making Mars, the Whitest Kids U’ Know animated movie that was released to the masses earlier this year with both a limited theatrical run and a Blu-Ray release. Then we get down to business to defeat the games, covering along the way a weird Pepto-Bismol reference, the risque sprites that didn’t make it to the final version of Super Ninja Boy, how Europe had three different non-compatible versions of the NES including one from Mattel, and if anyone working on Ninja Gaiden II was a fan of Lucio Fulci’s The Beyond. Find out if Super Ninja Boy is the game that finally breaks Jaymo! Thanks for listening, and a very special thanks to Kristal Fields of The Lazy Circles for our catchy theme song! Subscribe to…
People in this episode
Hosts: Mike, Jaymo
Guest: Timmy Williams
Topics covered
- Ninja Gaiden II
- Super Ninja Boy
- retro gaming
- video game history
- animated movies
- Whitest Kids U' Know
Keywords
- Ninja Gaiden II
- Super Ninja Boy
- retro games
- Whitest Kids U' Know
- Timmy Williams
- Nintendo Classics
- video game sequels
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Whitest Kids U’ Know, Urn Fulla Popcorn, Nintendo, The Lazy Circles
Products: Ninja Gaiden II, Super Ninja Boy
Books & works: Mars, The Beyond
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