The History Of Picross (Nonograms)

long video about squares games. absolutely not called griddlers.

chapters:
0:00 intro
2:13 origins
4:36 nintendo
25:41 third party
30:15 outro

#Nintendo #Picross

[nuclear_pigeons]

Came for deep rock, stayed for griddlers hate.

[DesperateDirt]

I feel like this proves you can talk about anything and make it entertaining.

[pinksheep]

update, the ORIGINAL Mario’s Picross for the Game Boy is now ALSO on NSO!

[teze]

Bro did you just reduce this puzzle's whole history to a bunch of nintendo games? I cant be mad tho cause you are clearly passionate about this puzzle (which I totally agree on) and this is by far the most love this game got on youtube

[bobbymiller]

Its hard to explain, but the design of mario piccross is so unbelievably satisfying. No other piccross game i have played has been more so.

[nopeishope]

I blame you sniss, my addiction to picross is all your fault.

[sonynicolson]

How this channel doesn't have all the Youtube users as subscribers by now.
Discovering you on this site was one of the coolest things that happened to me this year

[TripledYou]

My friend posted this video in a discord server we share and I immediately started ranting about picross. Thank you for this.

[daizbid]

Came for the Deep Rock, stayed for the picross

[artvandelay]

I had never heard of Picross until we got Mario's Super Picross on Switch Online last year. Now I'm obsessed with these puzzles. I've played through all of the SFC game and Picross S on Switch, and I'm working on Picross DS now.

[Memtheturtle]

Just a note about Pokémon Picross on 3DS. The game caps you out after you spend $30 and lets you have infinite of the currency, or you can use a modded 3ds to get the currency, so it is still playable despite the awful free to play model

[lit]

this is just an excuse to get mathematicians to make pixel art

[lerdodetejada]

Picross DS’s music is so underrated. The results screen music after the daily challenges still lives in my head rent-free.

[zulianfr]

I've discover Picross with Pokemon Picross and while I understand the criticism it is still a fabulous game with multiples modes and a fun pokemon abilities gimmick
Thanks for your video I've always wonder where the heck does Picross comes from I love theses puzzles and it seems like litteraly nobody know about it
This, with that editing and all, sould definitively have more than a thousand views

[MediaMunkee]

I'm not sure why the algorithm brought me here today, but this video reminded me that the Picross NP puzzle sets and Logic Pro arcade games exist, and introduced me to the Dark Souls of Color Picross (which _can_ be figured out, it's just a bastard), and the Final Fantasy one (which it turns out has a translation patch; which I would heartily recommend were it not for the process of patching it). Solid stuff.

FWIW, Pokemon Picross at least had the saving grace of being subject to Nintendo's usual purchase cap on their freemium titles; if you spend about the full sticker price of a retail 3DS game, you're locked out of spending any more, and you can just refill your energy for free, "buy" any remaining items for free, etc. Between that and getting to unlock Pokemon and use special moves to help solve the puzzles, it was actually kinda novel, and the puzzles were solid. And it was also the easiest vector with which to jailbreak a 3DS!

Logic Pro (arcade) and Logic Pro Adventure (PSX) are also pretty solid and have the unique concept of an adaptive timer; solving tiles refills it, so long pauses are your biggest threat. Logic Pro 2, though, my GOD I've never seen a more infuriating approach to these games. Enemies spawn on the field at an utterly merciless pace and will run around randomly sweeping up your X'd tiles or detonating and clearing your marked tiles. You can't spare the time to chase after them, but you also can't _not_ spare the time because they erase your progress faster than you can undo the damage! This could possibly have worked as a DS adaptation because of the efficiency of using the stylus, but when you're having to maneuver the cursor around to chase after stuff it's an absolute nightmare.

edit: Nevermind, the original Logic Pro is also some advanced garbage for having completely unsolvable puzzles that force you to guess starting with level 5. I guess that's their version of Arcade Difficulty.

[clowntainment]

This video got me addicted to picross and i've been happily addicted for 2 years now. Thank you.

[thantus]

Just found this video, nearly 3 years after upload, yet i still find myself disappointed that Nonograms Katana was not mentioned at any point in the video. That game is pretty insane

[johnesco]

Thank you for making this. I somehow started with Picross 3D on the DS then later got into the apps and eventually getting a copy of Mario's Picross on Game boy. It's hard to convey how much I enjoy nonograms and the Picross series.

[pandalionful]

This was so interesting! If you haven’t seen it, I also recommend Piczle Cross Adventure on the Switch, it’s kinda like open world exploration with picross! It’s very cute.

[cultist]

Fun fact: In Russia this puzzle just called "japan crossword" :D