I hated it at first until a friend and I were watching an episode out of boredom and caught the one with the rapping pumpkin monster and it finally clicked with us what kind of a show it was. We were taking it seriously instead of a comedy/action show. After that we got way more enjoyment out of it and would have debates about how rich Angel Grove must be to repair their city and remove debris every week after giant monster battles and what the off screen casualty rate must be? You know there had to have been at least one janitor in one of those buildings running like Hell down the stairs to get out before MegaZord was body slammed right through it.
Ditto when they were both on the team though of the two I definitely preferred Trini. And after one event early in Zeo Kimberly was my least favorite of the original five.
I played that fighting game on the Genesis so much back in the day. I was 4 or 5 years old when I first played it. I was obsessed with the Power Rangers at the time so just playing as those characters was good enough for me.
I love MMPR on the Sega Genesis and I love MMPR The Movie on the Sega Genesis. It's one of the best movie licence games of all time. I love playing as The Green Ranger and the Dragonzord.
I owned the Game Gear games as a kid and absolutely loved them. I would play them as well as Jurassic Park and wonder why the Genesis and SNES versions sucked so bad in comparison. Add in the awesomeness that was Sonic Triple Trouble, Sonic Chaos, Vampire Master of Darkness, Crystal Warriors and Shining Force The Sword of Hajya and I was a die hard Game Gear fan. I still think the Game Gear was vastly underrated as a handheld console.
I loved the Sega CD version. If you put "ABBACABBA" at the title screen from the controller, you can sit back and watch the whole game play out as one long episode. To me, at 14 years old, who didn't own a then expensive DVD player or anything when I got this years later new at a big discount, this was AMAZING.
Glad to see the GG Power Rangers games get some love. Criminally underrated. The original got me through a boring road trip as a kid, and the time flew.
I am a huge Power Rangers fan and I still play the Game Gear games up to this very day! I love the presentation on those games! I have play through s of those and other Power Rangers games in my channel. Another great video SLX. It really took me way back as a Power Rangers and Sega fan.
@@24framedavinci39 I have actually. I really like it and have both story acts and all characters playthrougs in my channel. I love that they used a lot of the original actors and most moves are cool.
I'm glad he mentioned that whole cave thing I really did get stuck a couple years ago when I picked up a copy and just gave up. Kind of a crappy game design right there.
@@captaincommando2602 It's a shame too it really feels like it was the game that they actually put some decent effort into as opposed to the other versions. (not including the game gear ones) I wonder if they cheat out and gave it a much smaller cart size than it should have had. That usually explains lack of variety.
Facts! I occasionally play it every once in a while with old and new friends. Till this day my friends and I have only used/played the original 6 rangers. Well maybe Aisha sometimes, but never Adam and Rocky.
I think Primal Rage was best on Game Gear. It's always interesting to discover games you prefer on older portable systems when you consider how compromised everyone was used to the portable versions of games being back then.
@@aliceinmansonland448 Honestly, I prefer the Game Gear version of Primal Rage for its simplicity. No more having to remember which attack buttons to hold down for special moves and finishers, as there're only two attack buttons.
The Sega CD version is one of those games that I'll be browsing around on my Launch Box or Sega Genesis Mini, and I'll end up playing Power Rangers of all games for half hour to almost an hour before realizing I just wasted way too much time in it. The OG power rangers never get old.
I was not a fan of Power Ranger as a kid. But I really loved the Game Gear game back in the day. I grabbed it off of Ebay and it still holds up pretty well today. IMO a hidden gem on the Game Gear.
The first time I played the first Genesis one I happened to stumble into Zack's spin attack and pretty much beat the whole game from there in one shot. You can just hammer the b-button and hold forward to automatically win the on-foot stages.
I never had trouble with the cave stage in Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers the Movie for Genesis. I always found the exit pretty intuitive. 😶 But I'm known for going everywhere in a level and interacting with everything, if I can manage.
@@Windavinci Depends on who's offering. 😏 No, I'm just saying I don't think it was as hidden as SLX thought it was; I think he was experiencing tunnel vision because he was getting bored and just trying to slog through to the end of the level w/o really embracing the level. Tbf, the game begins to feel a little too repetitive by that point (a level or two earlier actually, for me at least), so it's understandable to ‘tune out’ the game a bit. Personally, that monotony typically makes me appreciate every little detail more intently, but I do agree the game sorely lacks in enemy variety and gameplay mix-up.
Those Game Gear games are legitimately great. I don't even mean in a "for Game Gear games" kind of way. They are solid, very fun games that really capture what the source material is all about.
It baffles me Sega didn't port them to the Sega Master System for the UK and Europe. My brothers would have played these games for hours if that's the case, but then again these were released so late that it probably wouldn't have been profitable.
@@ultrairrelevantnobody1862 That's the reason. The first MMPR game is a late 1994 release. There still were a handful of late 1994/early 1995 releases for the Master System in Europe, but Sega (and some surviving third parties like Infogrames or Virgin) aimed to another demographics with releases like Astérix and the Great Rescue, Chese Cat-astrophe starring Speedy Gonzalez, Daffy Duck in Hollywood, Sonic Spinball, The Lion King and The Smurfs. Maybe Sega considered a possible conversion of MMPR a little too American centered for bothering for a release of that that would have mostly served Europe (and Brazil). MMPR The Movie is out of the question because that's a late 1995 release. From that point on, it was TecToy which could have gotten that for Brazilian release, but apparently it didn't consider it.
I have fond memories of playing the Power Rangers beat 'em up on a Megadrive emulator with my oldest son back when we were both a lot younger. I will NEVER forget that day as it was the first time he legit beat me at a game without me going easy on him. He routinely hands me my arse when we go head-to-head these days, but back then, it was a rarity. Thanks for making me remember nicer times. Appreciated. 🙂👍
The Genesis MMPR fighting game actually has a few interesting bits, like a deflection move that can deflect projectiles back at your opponent. You can also play as the Evil Green Ranger , who is different from the standard Green Ranger (he has the evil sword and the moves that go with it) and can also fight against the giant enemies like the zords as a gigantic form of himself (a throwback to the TV series where the evil green ranger did just that). There's a way to unlock him in the versus mode, I can't quite remember how though. The super moves are also interesting, but the most broken is the Dragonzord's, it's basically an infinite combo, get just one hit in with that and the enemy is basically helpless, you can combo it to death simply by mashing buttons. The other super moves are powerful but not as broken. All of them can, when not blocked and used correctly, reduce the opposing life bar by half instantly.
Though it's an interesting game, it just fall flat in that it didn't polish it enough to be fun or playable. The sprites are too tiny, moves are limited, you could only punch and kick, the third button didn't get use for anything and you didn't even get to fight the Evil Green Ranger in zord size in Story Mode despite him being in the game. Also even though Scorpina appear in most of the cutscene, she was not a playable character in the game. The game also had no corners in those stages so backtracking had no limit which makes the game feel unstable at times.
Yeah, but you are talking about information that wasn't readily available until long after(outside of Japan). At that time in 1993, it most certainly seemed Voltron was the first by many, many years.
I wasn't into Power Rangers as a kid, but many of my friends were, so I ended up playing a whole lot of MMPR games anyway xD I had actually forgotten that I'd even played the original Game Gear title, but seeing it in this video brought back a latent memory
I remember these games being impossible and could never beat them. At parties we would take turns seeing how far we could get before game over and none of us could never get to the last stage.
@@preston2636 it was literally the only game i ever beat until pokemon. I was horrible at figuring out what to do next and got stuck on every game. Even pokemon i thought the bug forest exit in the beginning was just mirror image of the entrance. I didnt think i was going anywhere i didnt know to just keeo going. Thats the worst example. Sonic 2... never got passed the 2nd level where it floods.
I wasnt bad at fighting games.. just all the rest of them lol i didnt understand what i was supposed to do. Ecco tides of time.. stuck. Side scrollers kicked my ass and i needed more lives in everything else.
As a kid me and my friends used to LOVE playing the power rangers genesis game. One of the zords weren’t allowed to be picked by us, cuz spamming the a button made him super cheap😂👍
Cyclopsis wasn't cheap he had 3 moves 1)chest rockets 2) electric fist and 3) an air thunderbolt that was easy to see through because you literally had to go down forward and up plus punch to do the move. Just block it and use dragon zords drill tail or megazords power sword attack to counter it.
As I kid I loved the console versions of these games. I remember renting the Genesis version one day and playing it while eating grilled cheese. When I finished the game and the ending cutscene showed the Ultra Megazord destroying Rita's Palace I remember my mom saying "the game should let you do that".
Glad to see the GG versions get such high regard, I played the heck out of both when I was younger and going back I still really like them. Seriously probably some of my favorites on the GG as a whole.
The game gear games havealways been underrated gems. Also note, the two movie games actually have music from the official power rangers soundtrack. I had the tape for it as a kid.
The Mega Drive version of The Movie, especifically, has some fantastic renditions of those tracks. In some cases I even prefer them to the original versions.
Power rangers started when I was in kindergarten omg it was epic Never had a great game back then. Some decent ones but nothing better than slightly above average
1:32 this game is terrible, but I have really fond memories of it I remember my sister, me, my dad and my mom playing it an entire afternoon tournament style we were a dysfunctional family, but that day we were having a lot of fun with some power rangers game
Best thing on the GG Power Rangers movie game is also its secret giant vs mode where you can play rangers vs zords. Theres even more moves if do a+b button combinations! Good to see the gg games getting recognized
Of all the games I owned as a kid, I wasn't expecting the 1st GG version of Power Rangers to be mentioned today, it's the most 90s thing I can imagine. I was pleased to see it get a fair shake here. Making it a 1-on-1 helped with the GG's limited sprite capabilities, and the small viewport means they come out a good size. Sure there's a fair bit of sprite flicker but on the GG's smeary screen that's less of a sin than the footage here would make out. I don't know if the MD version had this, but the GG version's VS Mode had logic of a sort, no mirror matches, and no 'big only' (e.g. Zords) versus 'small only' (e.g. Rangers). There was an unlockable 'Dream Mode' cheat that waived this though.
Both Game Gear games are really good and in the top 5 of the best fighting games of the console. Great use of the GG color palette as well. And characters have a lot of moves, as you can combine 1+2 with directions, and have another special attack with 1+2. The Movie also adds a super attack with a meter. Great stuff. There is also VR Troopers to check, I think it is the same license.
Great video, watching MMPR are literally some of the earliest memories I have, dating back to me being a toddler. I had all the toys at that time. While I haven't watched the series at all since the end of the 90s, I still have great nostalgia for it. For fans of the series, I'd recommend picking up Power Ranges: Battle for the Grid on current gen consoles. I bought it last Black Friday and am having a blast with it, probably the best rangers game to ever come out.
I remember Power Rangers the Movie on the Genesis being everything I always wanted in a Power Rangers game back in the day. Had lots of fun with it. Never played any of the other games though, only the SNES ones.
I just gotta give you a shout out SLX, I got a copy of PR: TM at some thrift shop years ago got to that exact spot in the cave and really did think I got a defective game and just gave up. Of course it was just a badly designed game. I should probably finish it now and send it on its way.
Aww Dude! I just found out that all these games are on my Anbernic RG351V handheld! And you're absolutely right, the Game Gear version is definitely more fun to play. Better graphics don't always mean a better game!
Power Rangers was one of those franchises where the SNES was much kinder. I put the SNES titles up there with some of the best beat-em-ups of that era. But I always wondered... why has there NEVER been a Power Rangers RPG? As a huge fan of RPGs, and Power Rangers, I would have eaten that shit right up. The team oriented action of the show would have lent itself well to the genre. Instead, we got a racing game. Because when you think of Power Rangers, you think racing. Obviously.
The unique thing about the original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Sega Genesis game is that it plays very true to the show. What does that mean? It means even though in versus mode there are 12 selectable characters not all characters could be pick against one another. The rule of the show apply therefore if you pick any one of the six ranger, your opponent can't pick any one of the zord (Cyclopsis included). The same apply if you pick one of the zord then your opponent can't pick any of the ranger that is unless it's the Evil Green Ranger which he could fight both the rangers and the zords (just like the show). Also there's no mirror match so both players can't pick the same ranger, monster or zord, even the normal Green Ranger can't fight against the Evil Green Ranger. The only disappointment I had with that game though is that if any one pick one of the ranger then you always get to play in the Rangers stage which is boring as there's only one, you will only get to play in the other five stages if both players choose the monster, the zords, or the Evil Green Ranger.
As a hardcore fan I find the movie game to be excellent. Unlike the snes version it actually is on par with the movie. and it does give fans a bonus with the flashback to season 2. The only thing that would have made it better would be if they had season 1 in it too.
Your complaint about lack of enemy variety doesn't make sense if you watch the show. They fight massive hordes of putty patrol enemies in literally every episode. There's only 2 or 3 main bad guys in the series them feeding you the same enemies is just them being true to the source material. For anyone who knows the IP the movie game is great.
It makes perfect sense in the context of enjoying a video game. I don't care what the show does on TV. Playing a video game for 45 minutes fighting the same single enemy is extremely boring. The developers could have done any number of things to combat the realities of the show. There could have been color variants of the puddy patrol with different move sets, animations, and weapons. You get none of that. You get ONE FREAKING ENEMY with no changes for an entire level.
As an excited MMPR fan who was a kid back when these came out... let me assure you, we could tell a good game from a bad one. I played the (original) Game Gear one first, and it quickly became my favorite game I owned on the console. When I rented the Genesis version a bit later, I got bored with it after about 5 minutes and decided I had wasted my money for that weekend. To this day, I'd still hold up the Game Gear version as one of the very best and funnest games on the system. It's so cinematic, intense, and really highlights the dramatic moments that made the show feel so cool back then.
Growing up I caught reruns of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers on Saturday mornings. I like many other 90's/late 90's kids loved Power Rangers. I think the toys Bandai made were the coolest (at that time)! Now as for the video games, I don't remember playing any as a kid, but now being a 23 y/o video game collector I do own Power Rangers on Sega Genesis. The very first Power Rangers game you mentioned in the video. Like you said, it's an ok fighting game at best. Not great, but not horrible either. I didn't know the Power Rangers Movie game was a side scrolling beat 'em up! I also didn't know that the Game Gear ports of both games are that good. Now that I know this, I'll be on the look out for both Game Gears games, and the SNES version of Power Rangers the Movie the game. Thanks for schooling me, and I loved the video!
The Megadrive/Genesis at first wasn't going to include the Rangers and would focus in the boss battles so it had more enemy characters, however the changed their minds some months before the release and eliminated some monster characters to include the Rangers. Because they included in a very short amount of time, all the Rangers have the same sprite with the same basic moves, with their only diferences being the colors, the voices and the special attacks. The Game Gear games are among the best fighting games ever released in 8 bit consoles, only the Takara conversions from Neo Geo can compete with them, something I loved about them was that each Ranger had his/her own sprite with their own basic moves and how easy it was to play, all special attacks were done with a quarter and one or both buttons. There was also a special VS mode that you unlocked when you beat the game that allowed you to fight without limitations, so you could see the Rangers fighting the Zords. It also had 16 characters, a lot for that time, specially for a 8 bit game.
Do you have a source for the claim of the game not having the Rangers? Sorry for the skepticism, but I just can't imagine making a PR game without the Rangers and actually proceeding with that decision for so long you have to crunch in the freaking Rangers- it's just too baffling to believe on it's face.
@@Hektols Don't know if that's REALLY a meaningful distinction? The Zords are Ranger representation in my eyes as they are the vehicles they pilot and that whole game revolves around the giant fights rathet than personal battles, but a game that lacks ANY Ranger representation at all, not even Zords, that is what I find difficult to believe.
@@goranisacson2502 In that prototype I mentioned you played as the Megazord and the Dragonzord against the monsters, you couldn't play with the Ranger themselves.
I was already in high school when PR was a thing, so I was never into it then. I have come to appreciate it a bit s an adult though. I even think Power for the Grid is a good, modern game.
I think I was starting high school at the time?! but still I thought the idea was neat, (as it was a couple years after getting into anime to begin with) and yeah the giant combining zords definitely felt like what voltron did with the lions (and vehicles) even though as I understand it the whole sentai thing predates voltron by many years?!) I forget if I played any of the console games outside of emulation but there were a couple fun ones. might have to revisit some of these on an emulator. I will say I dig the GG versions of the music its actually kinda cool.
Well, I have to disagree with you on MMPR: The movie on Genesis. I LOVE that game! Played it many, many, many times! One of the best beat 'em up of its era along with TMNT: The Hyperstone heist and Street of rage III. Yes, the foot soldiers are the same in a level, but it's normal, it follow the storyline of that level (Putties in the "remember when" levels and Ooze monsters in the "now" level). Also, compared to MMPR: The movie on SNES, it stick closer to the story of the movie. The Game Gears games seems nice, but maybe not enough to have been ported to Genesis. You're also right about MMPR on Genesis, it's slow and clunky, but still fun to play.
The Game Gear games are probably the best 8-bit fighters across platforms. Every other arcade port always feels limited. With a little more variety in how each character controls, they'd be perfect.
My friend had the MMPR: The Movie game for Genesis and we had no idea what to do on that cave stage. I'm a little upset you didn't spoil how to beat it because now I'm curious lol
I've only ever been able to get into the movie tie in game. Something I'll boot up now and then (a couple of times a year) and will consider a successful run if I don't lose a life on hard difficulty. It still has my favourite rendition of the Power Rangers theme in a video game. Never tried the Game Gear version though, so may have to look into it.
Love your channel my man. I love hearing about Genesis or master system games I've never played or heard about. The Saturn and Sega CD games/episodes are the only ones that are my least favorite only because I've never owned or played either but want to but I'd have to win the lottery in order to be able to afford the games. I don't own a computer and don't know anything about emulation so that's not an option. But that's not saying those episodes were bad, it just makes me wish I could afford to play those games and systems. That's all. But I love how you're so knowledgeable about all of this! It's great man! Keep up the good work! 🤘👍👍
If i may the genesis Power Ranger was one of the MAIN reason i thought the Genesis was the inferior 16 bit version. I know some games were interesting and the Sonic games being good. But i never gave a chance to games like Street of Rage 2 because of games like Power Rangers for the Gen... I played the SoR2 like in 2015 for god sake and it was something else . :)
There was a Kamen Rider game that played exactly like the Power Rangers Sega CD game, The game was based off Kamen Rider ZO and was the first Kamen Rider released in America
Masked rider I think is what they called it here. It probably would have been a pretty decent translation have they not decided to give it a weird alien creature sidekick. (Who fun fact was actually partially portrayed by mini me himself)
8:16 good point but its not that in the original series didnt happen too as has it was a lots of puddies and then some boss in the end. So i dont agree much as a negative that part. Great video
I really enjoyed the original 1v1 fighter as a kid. Yeah, it certainly wasn't balanced well, and that was clear even then, but I had fun with it. More importantly, my dad would actually watch and sometimes even play, which he didn't ever really do otherwise, with me, so I deeply treasure those moments.
What is funny is that as a kid I thought power rangers were lame because I only ever saw the movie where the one kid had the frog mech so I assumed the whole series was that. I did have the fighting game though and pretty much called it worse street fighter even as a little kid.
i was in that target age group when mmpr came out. it wasnt until way later that i learned of the origins of the series. Watching the first episode of mmpr side by side with its japanese counter is pretty funny.
I got the Genesis version as a kid after playing the SNES version at a friends. I was very disappointed obviously because it is nothing like the SNES version. I did grow to like the game and beat it with every character. You played what you had remember
I am of a similar age, and Power Rangers was one I was a bit too old to really care about. One thing said during the first game here stuck with me, though, and that's that its simplicity makes it a good game to play with the kids. I have always had a similar mindset that simplicity=accessibility, which means more fun for young kids. What has started me re-thinking that idea is watching what is happening with my sons. My 7 year old loves games, and is careful enough that I turn him loose with one of our Switch consoles, and that's where things got interesting. When he was 5 and first had access to playing Switch on his own, I assumed he'd just be playing the Mario games I set him up with. However, when I'd go check on him, I'd sit with him and look at what he's playing, and nearly every time, he'd turned off Mario and gone into the SNES games. Here he was, 5 years old, and I see he's about 3 stages in on Demons's Crest. He looked at me and asked how to get past the boss in that area. He was doing all of the hovering, switching forms, etc. on his own. Left to his own devices, he chose Demon's Crest, not a kiddie game. Today, he's 7. He and my 3 year old recently started new characters on Dragon's Crown, and we've been playing through it together. He does his own skill upgrades, and my 3 year old, while he needs help with menus, makes real contributions, like yesterday after the pinewood derby when we beat the Wraith, he guarded the light source statues while my 7 year old and I took down the Wraith. Later on, we went downstairs to the basement to play since one of my friends was coming to visit (and my oldest usually plays a game with him before bed when one of my friends visits), and my son asks if he can play Gunstar Heroes, which he's apparently been working his way through on Switch, and wanted to compare to the Genesis original. He even requested the Japanese version. This isn't bragging; it's just me gettng hit with the realization that given the choice, kids often like better and even more complex games than we expect. They learn so fast it's surprising. If it hadn't been for Switch Online SNES games, I'd have never given him credit for being able to have taste in games on his own at a young age. Maybe something to consider for folks wondering how to introduce their kids to games.
When I played Power Rangers the movie for Megadrive I was amazed by the good playability of the rangers. They were fast and had a varied range of movements, maybe they caught and threw easily. The game started well but as the stages went by, it turned bored, only one enemy and from the cave stage and the stage with the final boss figure...the movie had many other enemies and stages, with the game base they could have done a great beat m up.
I like that movie game, it started with the newer rangers (Rocky, Adam and Aisha), and had some stages with the older rangers (Jason, Trini, and Zack) as well.
MMPR The Movie takes the music from the OST "Power Rangers A Rock Adventure", it's amazing how they made the renditions of the original tracks. BTW the lack of variety in enemies seems to follow the show: fight putty patrollers or Ivan Ooze's army and then the big monsters. (The game also goes back and forth with the story mixing the tv show with the movie) They could have used the Tenga Warriors and mix 'em with the Ooze monsters but it seems that the cartridge size or the budget made an impact on the final game. The cave level it's a maze, if you make it properly you'll fight Lord Zedd.
I remember playing the 2 Mega Drive releases as my friend and I were big fans of the series. This not only glossed over the quality issues, but compared against the SNES release I owned they were miles better. I remember Total magazine in the UK giving the SNES game a 16% and the GB release a 5%!
To each their own, but I think the movie game on Genesis is a lot better than you give it credit for. Lack of grunt enemy variety is accurate to the source material of the show, as they usually tend to focus more on the "villain of the week", or multiple tiers of important villains in terms of the movie. Personally with how fun I found the rangers to control, the repetitive grunt enemies never bothered me that much. I've never really had much of problem with the cave level. The visuals hint pretty well that you can smash one of the larger rocks in the background to reveal an exit. With all the different rangers having unique weapon attacks and special moves, I feel it really gives the game replay value, and made for interesting co-op strategies from various character combinations. Honestly the only real disappointment I have with it, is that the last phase of the final boss is a cutscene and not playable.
Any number of things could have been done to add variety to the enemies without breaking accuracy. You do not need to completely add a new designs. Like all beat'em ups, enemy variety can come with different moves, weapons, vehicles, hell anything other than repeating the same exact sprite for an entire level. Like TMNT there could be different Putty's with different weapons. A Putty that jump kicks a lot. A Putty with a sword that has greater reach. A Putty with a laser cannon that can hit you from across the screen. This instance was just poor game design.
I still play the MMPR Movie game on Genesis a lot. Enemy variety never really bothered me with this one since the show/movie never had any variety in its grunt enemies either 😅
Those Game Gear games are legitimately good. The FMV game doesn't even qualify as a game. Its literally just a video clip with button prompts that do nothing.
I know people say otherwise but I swear that's like the Sega CD in a nutshell. Sure it had a few decent games but the vast majority in the biggest perception was it just had those terrible FMV games. And that was the bulk of the games it got.
Power Ranger games were usually of much higher quality than the average licensed game. The idea really translated well to video games, and it wasn't until the N64 era where the games fell off of a cliff. Luckily by then I was over the series anyway. Actually, the new Power Rangers fighting game is awesome, oddly.
Yeah the N64 era really is one of the worst ever as far as the games go. And for that matter PlayStation as well. I think the only console that may have gotten some decent games were Gameboy. And of course that was game boy.
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I find myself booting up the Power Rangers Movie game every few years. The iconic music with the Genesis twang still hits hard.
The new movie isn't half bad either.
I had the game gear version
Looks like you wrote my comment for me! Lol so true, the music is amazing and adaptations of Wasserman’s fantastic songs from the 2nd season.
Classic
Preach. I played the hell out of it when I borrowed it from a relative and find myself coming back to it once in a while.
Forget those ratings, the game was insanely fun as a kid.
So was poking dog poo with a stick :P
Which game? I can’t imagine the Sega CD versión being fun at any time!
"I was too old to like Power Rangers"
LOL I was a teen and I still loved it!
I hated it at first until a friend and I were watching an episode out of boredom and caught the one with the rapping pumpkin monster and it finally clicked with us what kind of a show it was. We were taking it seriously instead of a comedy/action show. After that we got way more enjoyment out of it and would have debates about how rich Angel Grove must be to repair their city and remove debris every week after giant monster battles and what the off screen casualty rate must be? You know there had to have been at least one janitor in one of those buildings running like Hell down the stairs to get out before MegaZord was body slammed right through it.
🙏 RIP to actress Thuy Trang who played Trini the yellow ranger in MMPR. I had a crush on her and Kimberly growing up back then.
And now R.I.P. JDF
Ditto when they were both on the team though of the two I definitely preferred Trini. And after one event early in Zeo Kimberly was my least favorite of the original five.
I played that fighting game on the Genesis so much back in the day. I was 4 or 5 years old when I first played it. I was obsessed with the Power Rangers at the time so just playing as those characters was good enough for me.
One thing I loved about that Power Rangers Movie game was all the digitized chiptune versions of the shows music.
I love MMPR on the Sega Genesis and I love MMPR The Movie on the Sega Genesis. It's one of the best movie licence games of all time. I love playing as The Green Ranger and the Dragonzord.
I owned the Game Gear games as a kid and absolutely loved them. I would play them as well as Jurassic Park and wonder why the Genesis and SNES versions sucked so bad in comparison. Add in the awesomeness that was Sonic Triple Trouble, Sonic Chaos, Vampire Master of Darkness, Crystal Warriors and Shining Force The Sword of Hajya and I was a die hard Game Gear fan. I still think the Game Gear was vastly underrated as a handheld console.
Totally! I played the snes and genesis ones recently, and the game gear versions are so so so much better.
6:22 Holy smokes! AVGN wasn't kidding when he said there was "a turtle with a traffic light on its head"!
I loved the Sega CD version. If you put "ABBACABBA" at the title screen from the controller, you can sit back and watch the whole game play out as one long episode. To me, at 14 years old, who didn't own a then expensive DVD player or anything when I got this years later new at a big discount, this was AMAZING.
Best way to "play" that game really as there is no different scenes if you mess up hitting the button like other FMV games.
Glad to see the GG Power Rangers games get some love. Criminally underrated. The original got me through a boring road trip as a kid, and the time flew.
I am a huge Power Rangers fan and I still play the Game Gear games up to this very day! I love the presentation on those games! I have play through s of those and other Power Rangers games in my channel. Another great video SLX. It really took me way back as a Power Rangers and Sega fan.
Have you tried Battle for the Grid? The newest fighting game? I thought it was done really well.
@@24framedavinci39 I have actually. I really like it and have both story acts and all characters playthrougs in my channel. I love that they used a lot of the original actors and most moves are cool.
“Sims” developed a handful of great games for the Game Gear and Master System
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie for the Sega Genesis is one of my favourites beat em' ups of all time.
Yeah its pretty good
I'm glad he mentioned that whole cave thing I really did get stuck a couple years ago when I picked up a copy and just gave up.
Kind of a crappy game design right there.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu I agree with that. And the lack of variety of enemies kinda sucks.
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It's a shame too it really feels like it was the game that they actually put some decent effort into as opposed to the other versions. (not including the game gear ones) I wonder if they cheat out and gave it a much smaller cart size than it should have had. That usually explains lack of variety.
Facts! I occasionally play it every once in a while with old and new friends. Till this day my friends and I have only used/played the original 6 rangers. Well maybe Aisha sometimes, but never Adam and Rocky.
The Game Gear Power Rangers games are still my favorite Game Gear of all time and my favorite power rangers game so underrated !!!
I think Primal Rage was best on Game Gear. It's always interesting to discover games you prefer on older portable systems when you consider how compromised everyone was used to the portable versions of games being back then.
The Gameboy port wasn't too bad either. Still, the Atari Jaguar nerds got the better game.
@@aliceinmansonland448 Honestly, I prefer the Game Gear version of Primal Rage for its simplicity. No more having to remember which attack buttons to hold down for special moves and finishers, as there're only two attack buttons.
It’s the Same thing with me wit battle arena toshiden on game boy compared to the console games.🤷🏻♂️🤣🤟🏻💯
Sega one step ahead in pushing too fast with the hardware and two steps back with the software development.
The Sega CD version is one of those games that I'll be browsing around on my Launch Box or Sega Genesis Mini, and I'll end up playing Power Rangers of all games for half hour to almost an hour before realizing I just wasted way too much time in it. The OG power rangers never get old.
FMV games are pretty bad overall
I was not a fan of Power Ranger as a kid. But I really loved the Game Gear game back in the day. I grabbed it off of Ebay and it still holds up pretty well today. IMO a hidden gem on the Game Gear.
The first time I played the first Genesis one I happened to stumble into Zack's spin attack and pretty much beat the whole game from there in one shot. You can just hammer the b-button and hold forward to automatically win the on-foot stages.
The lack of enemy variety is actually accurate to the show though 🤣
I never had trouble with the cave stage in Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers the Movie for Genesis. I always found the exit pretty intuitive. 😶 But I'm known for going everywhere in a level and interacting with everything, if I can manage.
What do you want a pat on the back?
@@Windavinci Depends on who's offering. 😏
No, I'm just saying I don't think it was as hidden as SLX thought it was; I think he was experiencing tunnel vision because he was getting bored and just trying to slog through to the end of the level w/o really embracing the level. Tbf, the game begins to feel a little too repetitive by that point (a level or two earlier actually, for me at least), so it's understandable to ‘tune out’ the game a bit. Personally, that monotony typically makes me appreciate every little detail more intently, but I do agree the game sorely lacks in enemy variety and gameplay mix-up.
(Still waiting on that pat on the back btw.)
The songs in Power Rangers The Movie for the Genesis are an absolute eargasm and a perfect example of what the Genesis could produce
I had the first Game Gear release; definitely best game depicting the first season with the OG Megazord and Green Ranger.
Those Game Gear games are legitimately great. I don't even mean in a "for Game Gear games" kind of way. They are solid, very fun games that really capture what the source material is all about.
It baffles me Sega didn't port them to the Sega Master System for the UK and Europe. My brothers would have played these games for hours if that's the case, but then again these were released so late that it probably wouldn't have been profitable.
@@ultrairrelevantnobody1862 That's the reason. The first MMPR game is a late 1994 release. There still were a handful of late 1994/early 1995 releases for the Master System in Europe, but Sega (and some surviving third parties like Infogrames or Virgin) aimed to another demographics with releases like Astérix and the Great Rescue, Chese Cat-astrophe starring Speedy Gonzalez, Daffy Duck in Hollywood, Sonic Spinball, The Lion King and The Smurfs. Maybe Sega considered a possible conversion of MMPR a little too American centered for bothering for a release of that that would have mostly served Europe (and Brazil). MMPR The Movie is out of the question because that's a late 1995 release. From that point on, it was TecToy which could have gotten that for Brazilian release, but apparently it didn't consider it.
I have fond memories of playing the Power Rangers beat 'em up on a Megadrive emulator with my oldest son back when we were both a lot younger.
I will NEVER forget that day as it was the first time he legit beat me at a game without me going easy on him. He routinely hands me my arse when we go head-to-head these days, but back then, it was a rarity.
Thanks for making me remember nicer times.
Appreciated. 🙂👍
After playing the Genesis Power Rangers game, we bought the Sega CD version. That was a mistake.
The Genesis MMPR fighting game actually has a few interesting bits, like a deflection move that can deflect projectiles back at your opponent. You can also play as the Evil Green Ranger , who is different from the standard Green Ranger (he has the evil sword and the moves that go with it) and can also fight against the giant enemies like the zords as a gigantic form of himself (a throwback to the TV series where the evil green ranger did just that). There's a way to unlock him in the versus mode, I can't quite remember how though.
The super moves are also interesting, but the most broken is the Dragonzord's, it's basically an infinite combo, get just one hit in with that and the enemy is basically helpless, you can combo it to death simply by mashing buttons. The other super moves are powerful but not as broken. All of them can, when not blocked and used correctly, reduce the opposing life bar by half instantly.
Though it's an interesting game, it just fall flat in that it didn't polish it enough to be fun or playable. The sprites are too tiny, moves are limited, you could only punch and kick, the third button didn't get use for anything and you didn't even get to fight the Evil Green Ranger in zord size in Story Mode despite him being in the game. Also even though Scorpina appear in most of the cutscene, she was not a playable character in the game. The game also had no corners in those stages so backtracking had no limit which makes the game feel unstable at times.
@@VOAN Yeah it had those flaws and limitations no doubt about it.
Call back to Voltron? I thought most people were aware that Power Rangers is an adaptation of Super Sentai. Sentai has been around since 1975.
I was scanning the comments for this haha I was definitely shocked when I found out that Super Sentai preceded Voltron.
Yeah, but you are talking about information that wasn't readily available until long after(outside of Japan). At that time in 1993, it most certainly seemed Voltron was the first by many, many years.
Those game gear games are astounding.
I wasn't into Power Rangers as a kid, but many of my friends were, so I ended up playing a whole lot of MMPR games anyway xD
I had actually forgotten that I'd even played the original Game Gear title, but seeing it in this video brought back a latent memory
I remember these games being impossible and could never beat them. At parties we would take turns seeing how far we could get before game over and none of us could never get to the last stage.
The fighting game was easy to beat even when I was like 6
@@preston2636 it was literally the only game i ever beat until pokemon. I was horrible at figuring out what to do next and got stuck on every game. Even pokemon i thought the bug forest exit in the beginning was just mirror image of the entrance. I didnt think i was going anywhere i didnt know to just keeo going. Thats the worst example. Sonic 2... never got passed the 2nd level where it floods.
I wasnt bad at fighting games.. just all the rest of them lol i didnt understand what i was supposed to do. Ecco tides of time.. stuck. Side scrollers kicked my ass and i needed more lives in everything else.
As a kid me and my friends used to LOVE playing the power rangers genesis game. One of the zords weren’t allowed to be picked by us, cuz spamming the a button made him super cheap😂👍
That robot guy you fight on the moon? I always thought he was so cool. He was super OP lol
I loved that game. the cheap to use Zords are DragonZord and Cyclopsis.
Cyclopsis wasn't cheap he had 3 moves 1)chest rockets 2) electric fist and 3) an air thunderbolt that was easy to see through because you literally had to go down forward and up plus punch to do the move. Just block it and use dragon zords drill tail or megazords power sword attack to counter it.
Ah memories,boy I miss the 90s
As I kid I loved the console versions of these games. I remember renting the Genesis version one day and playing it while eating grilled cheese. When I finished the game and the ending cutscene showed the Ultra Megazord destroying Rita's Palace I remember my mom saying "the game should let you do that".
Lol! Awesome memory
Glad to see the GG versions get such high regard, I played the heck out of both when I was younger and going back I still really like them. Seriously probably some of my favorites on the GG as a whole.
The game gear games havealways been underrated gems. Also note, the two movie games actually have music from the official power rangers soundtrack. I had the tape for it as a kid.
The Mega Drive version of The Movie, especifically, has some fantastic renditions of those tracks. In some cases I even prefer them to the original versions.
Power rangers started when I was in kindergarten omg it was epic
Never had a great game back then. Some decent ones but nothing better than slightly above average
Always loved the game gear games, especially since they offered more character choices
Never would have known the Game Gear versions were better.
I'll check em out when the market crashes. Hopefully.
Morphenomenal video!!!
Dude, just get a RG351 machine, it probably comes with the game!
@@aliceinmansonland448 Yeah. But I'm a traditionalist bastard. Authentic or nothing.
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this game is terrible, but I have really fond memories of it
I remember my sister, me, my dad and my mom playing it an entire afternoon tournament style
we were a dysfunctional family, but that day we were having a lot of fun with some power rangers game
I had a huge childhood crush on the orginal Yellow Ranger, i was heartbtoken when I heard the actress died in a car crash :(
Best thing on the GG Power Rangers movie game is also its secret giant vs mode where you can play rangers vs zords. Theres even more moves if do a+b button combinations! Good to see the gg games getting recognized
Of all the games I owned as a kid, I wasn't expecting the 1st GG version of Power Rangers to be mentioned today, it's the most 90s thing I can imagine. I was pleased to see it get a fair shake here. Making it a 1-on-1 helped with the GG's limited sprite capabilities, and the small viewport means they come out a good size. Sure there's a fair bit of sprite flicker but on the GG's smeary screen that's less of a sin than the footage here would make out.
I don't know if the MD version had this, but the GG version's VS Mode had logic of a sort, no mirror matches, and no 'big only' (e.g. Zords) versus 'small only' (e.g. Rangers). There was an unlockable 'Dream Mode' cheat that waived this though.
3:10 Goldar's stage music is some of the best on the Genesis. I'll gladly die on that hill.
I love the Sega CD. I just do. I started playing it in 2020 and I have learned patience
Both Game Gear games are really good and in the top 5 of the best fighting games of the console. Great use of the GG color palette as well. And characters have a lot of moves, as you can combine 1+2 with directions, and have another special attack with 1+2. The Movie also adds a super attack with a meter. Great stuff. There is also VR Troopers to check, I think it is the same license.
Great video, watching MMPR are literally some of the earliest memories I have, dating back to me being a toddler. I had all the toys at that time. While I haven't watched the series at all since the end of the 90s, I still have great nostalgia for it.
For fans of the series, I'd recommend picking up Power Ranges: Battle for the Grid on current gen consoles. I bought it last Black Friday and am having a blast with it, probably the best rangers game to ever come out.
My best game when I was young... my Game Gear still works after thousands of hours with it😏
I remember Power Rangers the Movie on the Genesis being everything I always wanted in a Power Rangers game back in the day. Had lots of fun with it. Never played any of the other games though, only the SNES ones.
I just gotta give you a shout out SLX, I got a copy of PR: TM at some thrift shop years ago got to that exact spot in the cave and really did think I got a defective game and just gave up. Of course it was just a badly designed game. I should probably finish it now and send it on its way.
Dude your channel is medicine at the moment.. Thanks.
Glad you enjoy it!
Aww Dude! I just found out that all these games are on my Anbernic RG351V handheld! And you're absolutely right, the Game Gear version is definitely more fun to play. Better graphics don't always mean a better game!
Power Rangers was one of those franchises where the SNES was much kinder. I put the SNES titles up there with some of the best beat-em-ups of that era.
But I always wondered... why has there NEVER been a Power Rangers RPG? As a huge fan of RPGs, and Power Rangers, I would have eaten that shit right up.
The team oriented action of the show would have lent itself well to the genre. Instead, we got a racing game. Because when you think of Power Rangers, you think racing. Obviously.
The unique thing about the original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Sega Genesis game is that it plays very true to the show. What does that mean? It means even though in versus mode there are 12 selectable characters not all characters could be pick against one another. The rule of the show apply therefore if you pick any one of the six ranger, your opponent can't pick any one of the zord (Cyclopsis included). The same apply if you pick one of the zord then your opponent can't pick any of the ranger that is unless it's the Evil Green Ranger which he could fight both the rangers and the zords (just like the show). Also there's no mirror match so both players can't pick the same ranger, monster or zord, even the normal Green Ranger can't fight against the Evil Green Ranger. The only disappointment I had with that game though is that if any one pick one of the ranger then you always get to play in the Rangers stage which is boring as there's only one, you will only get to play in the other five stages if both players choose the monster, the zords, or the Evil Green Ranger.
As a hardcore fan I find the movie game to be excellent. Unlike the snes version it actually is on par with the movie. and it does give fans a bonus with the flashback to season 2. The only thing that would have made it better would be if they had season 1 in it too.
Your complaint about lack of enemy variety doesn't make sense if you watch the show. They fight massive hordes of putty patrol enemies in literally every episode. There's only 2 or 3 main bad guys in the series them feeding you the same enemies is just them being true to the source material. For anyone who knows the IP the movie game is great.
It makes perfect sense in the context of enjoying a video game. I don't care what the show does on TV. Playing a video game for 45 minutes fighting the same single enemy is extremely boring. The developers could have done any number of things to combat the realities of the show. There could have been color variants of the puddy patrol with different move sets, animations, and weapons. You get none of that. You get ONE FREAKING ENEMY with no changes for an entire level.
As an excited MMPR fan who was a kid back when these came out... let me assure you, we could tell a good game from a bad one. I played the (original) Game Gear one first, and it quickly became my favorite game I owned on the console. When I rented the Genesis version a bit later, I got bored with it after about 5 minutes and decided I had wasted my money for that weekend. To this day, I'd still hold up the Game Gear version as one of the very best and funnest games on the system. It's so cinematic, intense, and really highlights the dramatic moments that made the show feel so cool back then.
I enjoy all the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers games on the Sega platforms and still play them to this day.😎👍
Growing up I caught reruns of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers on Saturday mornings. I like many other 90's/late 90's kids loved Power Rangers. I think the toys Bandai made were the coolest (at that time)! Now as for the video games, I don't remember playing any as a kid, but now being a 23 y/o video game collector I do own Power Rangers on Sega Genesis. The very first Power Rangers game you mentioned in the video. Like you said, it's an ok fighting game at best. Not great, but not horrible either. I didn't know the Power Rangers Movie game was a side scrolling beat 'em up! I also didn't know that the Game Gear ports of both games are that good. Now that I know this, I'll be on the look out for both Game Gears games, and the SNES version of Power Rangers the Movie the game. Thanks for schooling me, and I loved the video!
The Megadrive/Genesis at first wasn't going to include the Rangers and would focus in the boss battles so it had more enemy characters, however the changed their minds some months before the release and eliminated some monster characters to include the Rangers. Because they included in a very short amount of time, all the Rangers have the same sprite with the same basic moves, with their only diferences being the colors, the voices and the special attacks.
The Game Gear games are among the best fighting games ever released in 8 bit consoles, only the Takara conversions from Neo Geo can compete with them, something I loved about them was that each Ranger had his/her own sprite with their own basic moves and how easy it was to play, all special attacks were done with a quarter and one or both buttons. There was also a special VS mode that you unlocked when you beat the game that allowed you to fight without limitations, so you could see the Rangers fighting the Zords. It also had 16 characters, a lot for that time, specially for a 8 bit game.
Do you have a source for the claim of the game not having the Rangers? Sorry for the skepticism, but I just can't imagine making a PR game without the Rangers and actually proceeding with that decision for so long you have to crunch in the freaking Rangers- it's just too baffling to believe on it's face.
@@goranisacson2502 The Power Rangers Fighting Edition for Super Nes doesn't have the Rangers, only Zords and monsters.
@@Hektols Don't know if that's REALLY a meaningful distinction? The Zords are Ranger representation in my eyes as they are the vehicles they pilot and that whole game revolves around the giant fights rathet than personal battles, but a game that lacks ANY Ranger representation at all, not even Zords, that is what I find difficult to believe.
@@goranisacson2502 In that prototype I mentioned you played as the Megazord and the Dragonzord against the monsters, you couldn't play with the Ranger themselves.
I was already in high school when PR was a thing, so I was never into it then. I have come to appreciate it a bit s an adult though. I even think Power for the Grid is a good, modern game.
I think I was starting high school at the time?! but still I thought the idea was neat, (as it was a couple years after getting into anime to begin with) and yeah the giant combining zords definitely felt like what voltron did with the lions (and vehicles) even though as I understand it the whole sentai thing predates voltron by many years?!) I forget if I played any of the console games outside of emulation but there were a couple fun ones. might have to revisit some of these on an emulator. I will say I dig the GG versions of the music its actually kinda cool.
😱 Power Rangers aren't 30 years old.. YOURE 30 YEARS OLD!!! :P
Time, she sure does fly by.
I loved the power rangers as a kid, and even then I thought the games were all crap.
Well, I have to disagree with you on MMPR: The movie on Genesis. I LOVE that game! Played it many, many, many times! One of the best beat 'em up of its era along with TMNT: The Hyperstone heist and Street of rage III. Yes, the foot soldiers are the same in a level, but it's normal, it follow the storyline of that level (Putties in the "remember when" levels and Ooze monsters in the "now" level). Also, compared to MMPR: The movie on SNES, it stick closer to the story of the movie.
The Game Gears games seems nice, but maybe not enough to have been ported to Genesis. You're also right about MMPR on Genesis, it's slow and clunky, but still fun to play.
The Game Gear games are probably the best 8-bit fighters across platforms. Every other arcade port always feels limited. With a little more variety in how each character controls, they'd be perfect.
Best intro riffs of all time: #1 X-Men #2 Mighty Morphin Power Rangers 🎵
My friend had the MMPR: The Movie game for Genesis and we had no idea what to do on that cave stage. I'm a little upset you didn't spoil how to beat it because now I'm curious lol
I've only ever been able to get into the movie tie in game. Something I'll boot up now and then (a couple of times a year) and will consider a successful run if I don't lose a life on hard difficulty. It still has my favourite rendition of the Power Rangers theme in a video game.
Never tried the Game Gear version though, so may have to look into it.
That warcraft review, I wasn't expecting that in a Sega Lord X video. 😎
As a kid in the late 90s, received a cousins hand me down GG with Sonic 1 and MMPR Movie. Made me a handheld gamer for life
Power rangers on game gear was awesome 👍 I found a cool trick on it
"Size is not always a determiner of quality" I keep telling the ladies that... THANKS LORDIE!
I had both power rangers games on game gear as a kid and this made me happy to watch I played the hell out of these games
Love your channel my man. I love hearing about Genesis or master system games I've never played or heard about. The Saturn and Sega CD games/episodes are the only ones that are my least favorite only because I've never owned or played either but want to but I'd have to win the lottery in order to be able to afford the games. I don't own a computer and don't know anything about emulation so that's not an option. But that's not saying those episodes were bad, it just makes me wish I could afford to play those games and systems. That's all. But I love how you're so knowledgeable about all of this! It's great man! Keep up the good work! 🤘👍👍
Lol I knew to hit the rocks in the background on the cave level. Come on Sega Lord X.
Also the SNES MMPR game was far superior.
If i may the genesis Power Ranger was one of the MAIN reason i thought the Genesis was the inferior 16 bit version. I know some games were interesting and the Sonic games being good. But i never gave a chance to games like Street of Rage 2 because of games like Power Rangers for the Gen... I played the SoR2 like in 2015 for god sake and it was something else . :)
WOW this was on in my early high school days.... good memories bro🤟great video very informative content Mr X 🤟🔥🤟
Ground Texas Zero was a lot of fun to play. These FMV games are light hearted geek fun. I know some are really bad but some of them are fun.
The Sega CD game sums up everything wrong with the Sega CD and its marketing.
There was a Kamen Rider game that played exactly like the Power Rangers Sega CD game, The game was based off Kamen Rider ZO and was the first Kamen Rider released in America
Masked rider I think is what they called it here. It probably would have been a pretty decent translation have they not decided to give it a weird alien creature sidekick. (Who fun fact was actually partially portrayed by mini me himself)
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu no the Sega CD game is different. It was a straight dub of the ZO movie, not Saban Masked Rider
@@JoeyJ0J0 Also the Sega CD game came out way before Saban adapt Black RX to Masked Rider.
A burst of nostalgia...i loved the original genesis fighting game and the beat em up based on the movie
8:16 good point but its not that in the original series didnt happen too as has it was a lots of puddies and then some boss in the end. So i dont agree much as a negative that part. Great video
I'm 34 I definitely remember 1 or 2 games back then
I really enjoyed the original 1v1 fighter as a kid. Yeah, it certainly wasn't balanced well, and that was clear even then, but I had fun with it. More importantly, my dad would actually watch and sometimes even play, which he didn't ever really do otherwise, with me, so I deeply treasure those moments.
What is funny is that as a kid I thought power rangers were lame because I only ever saw the movie where the one kid had the frog mech so I assumed the whole series was that. I did have the fighting game though and pretty much called it worse street fighter even as a little kid.
i was in that target age group when mmpr came out. it wasnt until way later that i learned of the origins of the series. Watching the first episode of mmpr side by side with its japanese counter is pretty funny.
I got the Genesis version as a kid after playing the SNES version at a friends. I was very disappointed obviously because it is nothing like the SNES version. I did grow to like the game and beat it with every character. You played what you had remember
I am of a similar age, and Power Rangers was one I was a bit too old to really care about. One thing said during the first game here stuck with me, though, and that's that its simplicity makes it a good game to play with the kids.
I have always had a similar mindset that simplicity=accessibility, which means more fun for young kids. What has started me re-thinking that idea is watching what is happening with my sons. My 7 year old loves games, and is careful enough that I turn him loose with one of our Switch consoles, and that's where things got interesting.
When he was 5 and first had access to playing Switch on his own, I assumed he'd just be playing the Mario games I set him up with. However, when I'd go check on him, I'd sit with him and look at what he's playing, and nearly every time, he'd turned off Mario and gone into the SNES games. Here he was, 5 years old, and I see he's about 3 stages in on Demons's Crest. He looked at me and asked how to get past the boss in that area. He was doing all of the hovering, switching forms, etc. on his own. Left to his own devices, he chose Demon's Crest, not a kiddie game.
Today, he's 7. He and my 3 year old recently started new characters on Dragon's Crown, and we've been playing through it together. He does his own skill upgrades, and my 3 year old, while he needs help with menus, makes real contributions, like yesterday after the pinewood derby when we beat the Wraith, he guarded the light source statues while my 7 year old and I took down the Wraith. Later on, we went downstairs to the basement to play since one of my friends was coming to visit (and my oldest usually plays a game with him before bed when one of my friends visits), and my son asks if he can play Gunstar Heroes, which he's apparently been working his way through on Switch, and wanted to compare to the Genesis original. He even requested the Japanese version.
This isn't bragging; it's just me gettng hit with the realization that given the choice, kids often like better and even more complex games than we expect. They learn so fast it's surprising. If it hadn't been for Switch Online SNES games, I'd have never given him credit for being able to have taste in games on his own at a young age. Maybe something to consider for folks wondering how to introduce their kids to games.
The snes power ranger game will always be my favorite 😍
I had no idea the Game Gear versions existed, I'd have been soooo happy to have that as a kid. I had a Game Gear and had the Genesis fighting game T_T
When I played Power Rangers the movie for Megadrive I was amazed by the good playability of the rangers. They were fast and had a varied range of movements, maybe they caught and threw easily. The game started well but as the stages went by, it turned bored, only one enemy and from the cave stage and the stage with the final boss figure...the movie had many other enemies and stages, with the game base they could have done a great beat m up.
I like that movie game, it started with the newer rangers (Rocky, Adam and Aisha), and had some stages with the older rangers (Jason, Trini, and Zack) as well.
@@VOAN that was a good point
MMPR The Movie takes the music from the OST "Power Rangers A Rock Adventure", it's amazing how they made the renditions of the original tracks. BTW the lack of variety in enemies seems to follow the show: fight putty patrollers or Ivan Ooze's army and then the big monsters. (The game also goes back and forth with the story mixing the tv show with the movie) They could have used the Tenga Warriors and mix 'em with the Ooze monsters but it seems that the cartridge size or the budget made an impact on the final game. The cave level it's a maze, if you make it properly you'll fight Lord Zedd.
I love the first Power Rangers game SNES and Ioved Mighty Morphin Power Ranges when I was a kid in 1993 was 8 years old
I remember playing the 2 Mega Drive releases as my friend and I were big fans of the series. This not only glossed over the quality issues, but compared against the SNES release I owned they were miles better. I remember Total magazine in the UK giving the SNES game a 16% and the GB release a 5%!
To each their own, but I think the movie game on Genesis is a lot better than you give it credit for.
Lack of grunt enemy variety is accurate to the source material of the show, as they usually tend to focus more on the "villain of the week", or multiple tiers of important villains in terms of the movie. Personally with how fun I found the rangers to control, the repetitive grunt enemies never bothered me that much.
I've never really had much of problem with the cave level. The visuals hint pretty well that you can smash one of the larger rocks in the background to reveal an exit.
With all the different rangers having unique weapon attacks and special moves, I feel it really gives the game replay value, and made for interesting co-op strategies from various character combinations.
Honestly the only real disappointment I have with it, is that the last phase of the final boss is a cutscene and not playable.
Any number of things could have been done to add variety to the enemies without breaking accuracy. You do not need to completely add a new designs. Like all beat'em ups, enemy variety can come with different moves, weapons, vehicles, hell anything other than repeating the same exact sprite for an entire level. Like TMNT there could be different Putty's with different weapons. A Putty that jump kicks a lot. A Putty with a sword that has greater reach. A Putty with a laser cannon that can hit you from across the screen. This instance was just poor game design.
I still play the MMPR Movie game on Genesis a lot. Enemy variety never really bothered me with this one since the show/movie never had any variety in its grunt enemies either 😅
I was gifted Power Rangers The Movie with my Game Gear in Christmas 1995 when I was 4. Love it. 🥶🥶🥶
Those Game Gear games are legitimately good. The FMV game doesn't even qualify as a game. Its literally just a video clip with button prompts that do nothing.
I know people say otherwise but I swear that's like the Sega CD in a nutshell. Sure it had a few decent games but the vast majority in the biggest perception was it just had those terrible FMV games. And that was the bulk of the games it got.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu Its a shame, because the hardware did have some real grunt under the hood!
Power Ranger games were usually of much higher quality than the average licensed game. The idea really translated well to video games, and it wasn't until the N64 era where the games fell off of a cliff. Luckily by then I was over the series anyway.
Actually, the new Power Rangers fighting game is awesome, oddly.
Yeah the N64 era really is one of the worst ever as far as the games go.
And for that matter PlayStation as well. I think the only console that may have gotten some decent games were Gameboy. And of course that was game boy.