Sporting my Music Band T-shirt: Water Ski & Super Skateboardin' [7800] | NES Works Gaiden 69

Two more 7800 oddities from the tail end of 1988 with Water Ski, the second and final release from the benighted Froggo Games, and Super Skateboardin', the first 7800 title from Absolute Entertainment, the system's second third-party. That's a lot of numbers. Neither of these games is great by any definition, but at least both are very strange and interesting. And very much about appealing to late ’80s kids! Another strange thing about the 7800: It's proven very difficult to capture high-quality video for the system while also getting accurate sound. Older 7800 videos used FPGA solutions (Analogue Nt Mini and MiSTer) for source footage, and the audio sounded slightly out-of-tune; now that I've moved to real hardware with a GameDrive for RGB output, Super Skateboardin' lacks music but still plays its other sound effects correctly. Apologies for the flaws there—all of this is an inexact science. You can learn more about the 7800's history by preordering The NES Era Vol. II: NES and the Console Revolution, a comprehensive photographic atlas of every console game released for NES and its competitors—including the 7800—from October 1985 through December 1987. Take a deep dive into the prehistory of NES with this limited-edition oversized (12x12"!) photo book: https://limitedrungames.com/products/the-nes-era-vol-2-hardcover Production notes: Video Works is funded via Patreon (http://www.patreon.com/gamespite) — support the show and get access to every episode up to two weeks in advance of its YouTube debut! Plus, exclusive podcasts, eBooks, and more! 7800 footage captured from original hardware in RGB via 7800 GameDrive (thanks to @stoneagegamer!). NES footage captured from Analogue Nt Mini. Video upscaled to 4K with RetroTink 4X.