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Master Higgins, a glass of milk and a fly: NintendoCapriSun clears Hudson's Adventure Island

Five parts in five days took Tim from a rented cartridge joke to the finale, with Wind Waker music on the rocky ridges along the way.

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IT'S JOEVER - Hudson's Adventure Island FinaleIT'S JOEVER - Hudson's Adventure Island Finale

"IT'S JOEVER - Hudson's Adventure Island Finale" is the last stop of a five-part run on NintendoCapriSun, the channel of Tim, a self-described almost-50-year-old who still plays video games and, in his own words, regrets nothing. The series began on October 2 and ended four days later, one episode a day, with the description of the finale promising that the game does get finished, "so thank our lucky stars."

Hudson's Adventure Island is Hudson Soft's 1988 NES platformer, starring Master Higgins, the skateboarding island hero whose energy bar drains unless he keeps eating fruit. Tim bills himself as not super great at it, and the titles keep score: "LET THE PAIN CONTINUE" covers World 6-1, which he calls the second-hardest level in the game, while part two includes a fight with a real fly in the room. Part three brings back a recurring glass of milk and a piece of music he says he always plays on Wind Waker's rocky ridges, which explains why viewers keep mentioning Zelda.

The first episode drew the warmest comment section. Viewers remember losing to this game as kids without knowing the continue trick, laugh at Tim dying right after calling a stage easy, and one reader of the old manual reports that the spinning pigs are officially called Pooters.

The finale is the episode moving fastest now, as late viewers catch up on the ending. The channel itself held to its usual steady pace, close to 80,000 views over the week, with the subscriber count unchanged. Among the let's-play channels nearest its size, RetroGamingDays and Cam2r Gaming had the busy weeks, each passing a million and a half views, and NintendoCapriSun stays the quiet, steady one of the group.

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What viewers say

The comments under "See I'm Gonna Rent Hunsonsa Huns HUDSON'S Adventure Island"

  • The comedy of dying immediately after saying "this stage is easy" two times in a row, man! 😂
  • 6:40 Actually, it was also in the game's manual. But for some reason, it's on the very last page, separate from all the other items, after the "FCC Regulations" and "Limited Warranty" pages. Also, the manual says those spinning pig enemies are called Pooters, which made me laugh. And the little fairies that come out of the eggs are called "honey girls" for some reason?
  • This is definitely one of the game I played a lot as a kid and never really got anywhere because I never knew about the continue trick. I managed to get to 2-4 decent amount of time and that was it.
    @goldmemberpbSee it on YouTube
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  • I was just going down the Hudson's Adventure Island rabbit hole, and whaddaya know, the legend himself uploads an Adventure Island video! Stay awesome, Tim!

    It was a blast seeing you at SEGE this year!
  • Having Wind Waker flashbacks.
  • I always loved this game when I was little! Horrible at it, but it's fun!
  • this is so much fun to watch 😁 absolute banger of an episode, Tim!
  • Finally! Been curious about this one.
    @PrinceLeviathanSee it on YouTube
  • In cave levels the moving platforms aren't colored differently, but they are vertically offset slightly from the background tiles - the stationary ones are perfectly aligned, so that's how you tell which ones will move or fall when you land on them.

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The facts
Subscribers
397,000
Channel views, last 7 days
77,812
Videos published this week
5
Video published
October 6, 2026
Video views so far
3,577
Views on its first day
2,788

The numbers

Here is how Tim's week on the island looked in numbers.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels
Cam2r Gaming
1,735,111
eddygar
433,192
npesta
144,466
Pedguin
126,503
subscribers
397,000
no significant change in the last 7 days
total views
380,109,259
views per day
10,477
typical day: 10,512
subscribers: this channel and similar channels
npesta
392,000
Pedguin
379,000
eddygar
377,000
As of October 9, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
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