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Nostalgia Nerd | March 3, 2026



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  3. @jamesbona3283

    March 3, 2026 at 8:15 pm

    I thought it was simply the princesses blue dress (from the end) as the monsterā€™s pants. Then I thought maybe the pants had fallen down because isnā€™t that ā€œNoseā€ supposed to be inside of the pants lol?!?!

  4. @PicklesTheOtt

    March 3, 2026 at 8:15 pm

    Wow, that second fairy tale just kinda veered off into oncoming traffic, didn't it?
    Also, the way you keep saying, "The writer of this script…" makes it sound like it's less "Nostalgia Nerd" and more "Nostalgia Nerd Enterprises Inc."

  7. @Dinkydonknonk

    March 3, 2026 at 8:15 pm

    My cousin had the game, I played it once, and never forgot it… ever. It stays with me at all time, when I wake I see the dance of the pink monstor dancing round my house in its never ending dance!

  15. @olcsohigany

    March 3, 2026 at 8:15 pm

    What an investigation.. The makers of the game are not that hard to search, since they are written in the title screen. The video was fun though, but the title is misleading.

  16. @InfiniteLoop

    March 3, 2026 at 8:15 pm

    ive never understood why Communists hate Jeans, they are the clothing of the workers, especially, and honestly everyone, truly a true clothing of the people, more Socialist than any other clothes.

  18. @DanElgaard9

    March 3, 2026 at 8:15 pm

    I gave up – when were you ever gonna get to the game?!?
    And, scrolling forward in the video didn't help – almost nothing about the game except a lot of crap talk!
    Worst game review EVER !

  19. @dani_cori

    March 3, 2026 at 8:15 pm

    Haha love the jeans tangent… Indeed, jeans were 'a thing' in Hungary in the 80s, with the domestic brand Trapper being a symbol both of western glamour and of inability to attain it, having to settle for the local knockoff… as exemplified by the following folk rhyme:

    "Trapper farmer, drƔga kincs
    JĆ³ ha van, de jobb ha nincs."

    ("Trapper jeans, a great treasure
    Having it is good, but not having it is better.")

  23. @_The_Jim

    March 3, 2026 at 8:15 pm

    that was nuts.
    i expect the trunk etc came from the developers thinking "what can be moving parts to shoot off our monster."
    what im most surprised about is the "ending" where the monster actually turns back into a princess. I assumed up until that point that the whole "transformed princess" thing was something tacked on by the publisher to explain the nonsense in the game.
    Great video guys .

  26. @Sol-Cutta

    March 3, 2026 at 8:15 pm

    I have a beaut commodore but both datacassettes i have wont load a thing…anyone know how to rememdy? As they have no vokume ..i dont want pull apart to turn tbay screw???

  28. @bjornskivids

    March 3, 2026 at 8:15 pm

    This is the type of weird stuff I'd pick up during the old HAM radio conventions my dad was always going to. You never knew what kind of nerdy thing you were going to find at them.

  39. @dhanke2777

    March 3, 2026 at 8:15 pm

    I had the C64 and a few games. My ex-wife didn't appreciate the fact I could cheat games by altering the codes and giving myself immortality. I'm not sure why, but that kinda ruined it all for me and thus ended my gaming career.

  42. @markfrench9004

    March 3, 2026 at 8:15 pm

    That Hungarian king sounds like a f@%cking idiot. One DAY! All you had to do was go one day. He'd already gone 5,109 days without seeing her. I think he wanted his daughter dead.

  44. @thewizardmountain

    March 3, 2026 at 8:15 pm

    This might be one of my favourite episodes of NN ever! It's got mystery, intrigue, evil magical music, exotic folk tales, and an epic game! Not sure how you'll ever top this.

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