DF Retro Play: Game Boy Classics Revisited - The Audi Sorlie Collection
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- Опубліковано 24 тра 2024
- Audi Sorlie is back and joining John Linneman once again for the second of two Nintendo Game Boy specials. Each of them picks their top three titles for the classic Nintendo handheld, with the other actually playing them! In this instalment, Audi's picks take John into uncharted waters at a stormy 30FPS or lower with Astérix, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Back from the Sewers and Balloon Kid.
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00:00 Introduction
00:27 Astérix
11:42 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Back from the Sewers
22:57 Balloon Kid - Ігри
I like how Audi keeps John real by making him play 20fps games that he's never heard of. Keep it up.
Thanks for the mentions, guys! ❤
Some things to comment - In this game you can hold the attack button (just like in Mario games) to run, and then the jumps for long distances / platforms are much easier.
The sound is kind of broken in one of the channels in the video (bad emulation?).
The parallax scroll was actually one of my ideas and the reason why the game runs at 30fps and not 60pfs. Some graphic pieces where reserved for the background. They where calculated and drawn in RAM, then transferred to the VRAM at each frame to create the illusion. I thought no game did this on the Game Boy at the time, but I've seen the effect used in later games such as Prehistorik Man or R-Type DX for the GBC.
Hugs!
Awesome work man 🙌
No plans to patch in a performance mode? 😋
John is spot on recognizing the TMNT game as 20 fps at 12:50 and Balloon kid as 15 fps at 24:10. Fells like Audi was trolling xD The DF crew should really do a "guess the framerate" competition.
John has FRAPS in his glasses. This has been common knowledge since forever
It switches over to the shinobi clip and it’s “ohhhhhh”
And nailing the quick pixel count of the character model in TMNT too lmao, he's just built different. A DF Olympics with a bunch of random challenges would be amazing
@@plazzy9911That’s how he got hired by Rich when only he was noticing something off (inconsistent frame times) with halo 3.
Fun fact. Every level in Balloon Kid can be beaten without using balloons. You can stand on the enemies, jump really high, and... don't touch the power balloon as it won't help you if you're trying to beat the level without balloons.
as a norwegian it's nice to have audi reinforce my own memories of the legend of asterix and obelisk
Was Maya the Bee as big as it was in Finland by any chance?
I remember putting some headphones and chilling at the sound test screen in the Turtles game, listening to it's music, like Game Boy was a portable music player.
Audi is always a welcome sign, love the guy
It's funny how there were 2 waves of gameboy fans. Younger Millennials would likely push for a pokemon or donkey kong land game.
Wow, I loved Asterix and Obelix when I was a kid. I need to pick that game up
I just wanted to add for John, I'm a French Canadian and Asterix et Obelisk were definitely culturally relevant in our little section of Canada. I think it was mostly a French thing?
no as he said also popular in Germany, really big here but overall it is popular in Europe. What surprised me is that I had British friends from England who also liked the movies and grew up with them but I dont think the comics were big in England, unlike France and Germany.
@@maxkopfraumpoops I was referencing when he said that it wasn't culturally relevant in North America, I have no idea in Europe, so I take your word for it. I agree with him broadly, just adding that it was relevant as far as I know in the French Canadian community.
It was more European French and not Quebecois
I still can't believe we have the human incarnation of a car in Audi.
Ikr! My best friend Porsche said she can't believe it!
Feels like Audi is a human name, or something.
Every Japanese car brand is a name.
Hear hear.
Would be hilarious If his girlfriend or wife is named Mercedes 😂
Audi: Baloon Kid is my favorite game from the GameBoy overall. It defined my childhood.
John: Man that frame rate sucks
😂😂😂
Audi: Asterix is a culturally important property and I'm going to tell you why while relating it back to my memories of this game...
John: these pits! They look like platforms! Pits! What's with these pits
DF Retro is the best. Thanks lads.
It's so good.
The best thing about asterix are the stories, the humor in the BDs was always incredible, and at the same time educational. It was big as well in the south of Europe.
Love videos with Audi and his knowledge of classics, more stuff like this please! ❤
More Audi. Always more Audi
As a Brit I LOVED Asterix when I was a kid, I had all the comics I was obsessed.
The first Sprite Slowdown EP predates my involvement with Chromelodeon, but of course I was also a fan at the time! That Baloon Kid cover is very nostalgic to me as well and I loved hearing it come up here. ❤
How about some Gargoyles Quest love? 😆 Balloon Kid is one of my favorites ❤️
I never knew about Balloon Kid (I’ll have to check it out), but I did play so much Balloon Fight which I love. It uses the same music and I agree, it’d always been one of my favorite game soundtracks. I actually first discovered Balloon Fight from the NES games you could collect in the original Animal Crossing (which was amazing.) Good memories! And great video guys!
Ballon Kid was among my first Game Boy games too. Have many fond memories of playing it. Never knew there was a Famicom version until now.
My favorite Asterix game is the first one for the Master System, its a mix between Castlevania and Super Mario Bros.
It even has something similar to the pipes and underground levels.
Agreed, Sega made two great Asterix games for 8-bit, and the second is one of the best looking games you can play on a Z80.
The European end of the franchise was... Well, not as inspiring.
This was an absolutely TERRIFIC episode. I can’t wait to try all 3 games! Thank you for sharing such personal games, Audi.
We like low frame rates in PAL Land it's why we set our TVs to 50hz.
The human eye can't see 60fps anyway, so we prefer to stick to about 7fps. GoldenEye multiplayer just seemed normal to us, and to the developers who were PALs themselves.
It's more thoughtful play when you can plan what button to press next frame.
"The Human eye can't see 60 fps"
This is a myth, and it can be observed if you compare running multiple objects at different frame rates. Really I'm not sure how you don't observe it just by looking at a screen cause its VERY obvious (I can even tell when animations in a 60 fps game are slower than 60 fps) but maybe everyones eyes different. For me around 90 hz tho you do stop seeing it, but you can still feel it in terms of delay
@@kayeplaguedoc9054 sorry, do you actually think Europeans can only see 7FPS?
@kayeplaguedoc9054 I think you missed that my whole comment is a joke 😁
@SimonBuchanNz It really is. We're doing TAS without the tools!
Great picks for some GameBoy games. Balloon Kid is also one of my favourites, the playability along with the level design is so great. Especially sections where they force you to let go of the balloons, which mix up the gameplay.
I stumbled on your last video and I've been playing Castlevania 2 since. Looking forward to what you have for us today
John absolutely annihilating those chimney balloons at 25:17
Much more of this please
DF Retro?! Audi?! Game Boy!?
Retro game content bliss.
Awesome episode!
I can't believe I've never heard of Balloon Kid. Such a surprise! I'm excited to play this myself now. I was actually just playing the Nintendoland minigame for first time the other day; the controls are a little challenging, but it's fun!
Man I still remember that awesome credits song from V-Rally on the GB! It was my first exposure to Bit Managers, good memories :D
Apparently Satoru Iwata was involved with the original programming of Balloon Kid/Fight flying movement arc, which is also about the same programming used for the Super Mario Bros 1 swimming
Love this stuff
I really liked Balloon Kid, it is one of those early Gameboy games which I felt they experimented stuff and I think is quite original. Not many people talk of it which is a bit of a shame.
Finally! Thank you
LMAO @ Audi shouting out every NUON game at the end
Glad to see Astérix getting the love the series deserves. I'm German, as you guys mentioned, here we loved Astérix and Lucky Luke. When I was in my teens I realized that Astérix was French and Lucky Luke French / Belgian but I didn't understand that those comics, films and games were almost unknown in America. Especially when it came to Lucky Luke as I grew up thinking that was as American as it gets regarding Wild West stories for younger audiences.
Big shoutout to the Lucky Luke game for the Gameboy / Gameboy Colour. By far my favourite soundtrack of any Gameboy game.
I played the game recently after not having seen it in 15-20 years and once I heard the first few notes, the entire thing immediately, very memorable and catchy.
Id like to hear from Audi how he actually finds himself talking to these big Japanese game devs.
Audi is like one of the best people I know at networking. I've learned to never be surprised if he knows someone or has talked to someone before!
Just to be clear, I'm not saying he's a liar. I just want to hear the stories.
@Pawnband Ah totally, I knew what you meant. :)
I think he works in that circle.
I had Asterix on my Game Gear as a kid and it was one of my favorite games to play on road trips.
I never knew Nintendo made a sequel to Ballon Fight. When I heard the music I immediately recognized it.
It would be great if John could hold back from interrupting just a little, especially if what he’s saying has nothing to do with what the person he’s interrupting is trying to say. No hate, just a suggestion. Great video though guys :)
That MSX Altered Beast is wild. I had to go watch a longer video just to see what all they managed to to fit in there.
I remember when i moved to Scandinavia in the 80's i used to go to the library and read them Asterix books, man i always got so hungry watching them wildboar steaks 😅
Thanks my dudes ❤
Big balloon kid fan. Great choice 😎
I imagine Asterix does the scrolling by updating the actual tile sprites as you move. That's the way I'd go about it with the limitations.
This is kind fo content which makes you feel so old and yet those games feel like yesterday lol
I am from Quebec and Aterix is huge here only in Quebec because of the french connection it have with france and belgium ,but like the rest of north america for gaming wise we did not have game until the game on ps2 in 2004 but yes the snes game would have sell super well in Quebec but we understand why we never get them !!!
I love the gameboy content
Asterix is wonderful and the sound is excellent. And yes, the parallax-scrolling was very nice back then and still is.
The Konami Asterix arcade brawler is still one of my favourite brawler from that period.
Balloon Kid was also my first gameboy game!
Love how authentic to the original gb screen their setup is, wish I could find a shader that matches it
Where is the video on STALKER LEGENDS OF THE ZONE... one of the best classic PC titles releases out of the blue on console
and DF don't have anything to say ...
I want a full fledged video on the beloved game and this should not be ignored
c'mon guys 🤞
I only had Fall of the foot clan, and only played Back to the Sewers via emulation, but discovering it was a treat. Same w/ Radical Rescue
Balloon Kid is such a good game
Asterix & Tin Tin are amazing, ill also shout out Corto Maltese, Moebius & Jodorowsky's comics.
Still Asterix and Obelix as well as Tin Tin have a golden space.
Seeing Ninja Turtles on GB brought me back, remember playing a friend's copy on my blue GB pocket in the 90's that and a borrowed Sega Game Gear and the Batman and Robin game, that thing could wreck an entire pack of AA batteries in less than a day easy😂
Totally forgot about Balloon Kid. Was also one of my first GameBoy experiences. Super Mario Land, Tetris and this, was the first games I got. Then Zelda of course. Also have fond memories of playing Fish Dude and one of the Final Fantasy games. And maybe Super Mario Land 2? I was 9 when I got the Game Boy, and I didn't have neither a NES, nor a SNES. But, what I did have was a Commodore 64, and at the really end of the Amiga 500 days, I got that one ('91 I believe).
One of my absolute favorite games on the Gameboy aside from Donkey Kong '94, Mega Man 5, and Link's Awakening was definitely Bionic Commando. VERY underrated remake of Bionic Commando on the NES with a completely different character and setting. The sound track in particular had some absolute bangers right from the word go.
Audi's balloon kid story
A wild Audi appears!
Rhyme Rider Kerorican for the Wonderswan was basically an early line scrolling rhythm based “brawler” imo
I like the GameBoy. It was my first gaming device and there was so much creativity involved in many games. Many soundfonts are really nostalgic to me. The "trick" you guys were referring to is called HDMA, and it enabled so many cool effects on consoles like the SNES all the way to the GBA, that shouldnt even be able to pull that off. A technique way more powerful than Mode7 etc.
As much as i enjoy john and i enjoy his knowledge he is thst guy who doesn't listen to anything anyone else has too say and everybody is annoyed by him.
As a swede, I love the Asterix comics and some of the old animated movies. Asterix in Britain is fricking excellent. But I have actually never played any of the games I think. But I had my eyes on the somewhat recent beat 'em 'up.
But also when we watched Asterix, we also watched allot of American cartoons like transformers, He-Man, TMNT etc, and also some anime like Silverfang, Saber Rider and the star sheriff, Guyver, (and I and some lucky other few who had satellite tv and access to Sci-fi channel, could even watch some Gundam and Robotech/Macross in the early morning hours in the early 90's)
The scrolling looks like a combination of line scrolling, but then also updating a set of tile data each frame for the overlapping elements. The game would have to shift the tile graphics for bg tiles by updating them each frame which I would guess is why it’s a bit less than 60 fps.
Where are these games running on? That Gameboy screen looks extremely realistic.
If I remember correctly, in part 1 they said they're using the Analogue Pocket.
Definitely want to see Gamegear just because outside of the few games I owned I know nothing about that library.
Hearing John mention the Virtual Boy while talking about Hip Tanaka got me curious about whether he has said anything about the news from about a month ago that near-flawless Virtual Boy emulation (including stereoscopic 3D) is now available for 3DS via homebrew. I'd really love for him to do a deep dive covering the entire VB library on 3DS now that it's relatively easy for people to play and view these games in the way that they were intended to be experienced. (Unless you consider straining your eyes and neck to be essential parts of the Virtual Boy experience.)
Balloon kid❤ my little gem.😂
Balloon Kid, Alex Kidd, Kid Dracula, Donkey Kong Jr., Jr. Pacman, Kid Icarus, Blaster Master Jr./Boy, Paperboy... I'd love to see a retrospective of all the Boy/Jr./Junior/Kid to see who was the best kid, and to see, for those that were offshoots, which was the best "gaiden."
I feel like John was trying to be nice and avoid saying that the Asterix is very mediocre
The style and music of Asterix reminds me of the TinTin Gameboy game(s) which were also developed by New Frontier / Bit Managers :)
one of the best, tightest action platofrmers on gb is ninja gaiden shadow, its kinda perfect
Nice I just brought balloon kid
Wheneve I see one of my creators having the OG Gambeoy as a topic.
PLEASE HAVE A LOOK AT DOUBLE DRAGON 2. That Soundtrack is absolutely amazing, one of the best unknown soundtracks of any game boy game
Man I gotta try balloon kid
TMNT is great on gameboy and Asterix is what i grew up with, my dad had all the comics and I watched the cartoon movies, from that period I also really loved the Asterix games on the Sega Master System
In Europe, we got all the American cartoons but also the French and Belgian (comic) originated cartoons (Asterix, Tin Tin, The Smurfs, etc.). And also European-Japanese collaboration animes, like Around the World with Willy Fog, Moomin, Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds, Sherlock Hound, Maya the Honey Bee, The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, Once Upon a Time... (Il était une fois) series, Barbapapa, etc. And weirder stuff like Dr. Snuggles, Alfred J. Kwak and Nick Knatterton.
Actually, it should be Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. In the West, they changed it to Hero, as it was deemed threatening and too violent a title for kids. 😂
Semi-related question: How does the Game Boy soundchip compare to the Commodore 64's SID?
John looks like Ciarian O’Keeffe of Most Haunted fame. Spooky.
Asterix and Obelix are a thing all the way in New Zealand where both America and Euro jank competed in the same market.
Aunque tuve pocos juegos , le guardo mucho cariño a esta consola , que es mi favorita,
We need a segment going over the Robocop GB theme
This should totally be on NSO.
It's so weird; I saw Truxton on Steam today and I was trying to remember what the bloody hell the music sounded like 😀
John shitting on Audis selections. ‘Only only 20fps’ 😅 good series guys 👍
In Asterix, pits get brighter as you go down.
1: Pokemon R/B
2: Wario Blast
3: Harry Potter and the PHILOSOPHERS STONE (NOT the GBA game)
Damn, Audi is one fine man 👌
It’s possible that they used the window layer to allow multi scrolling backgrounds on the gameboy but it is also possible that they used prerendered tile updates to create such ellusion of multi scrolling backgrounds on the gameboy,but i think it’s very unlikely that they used tile updates because that would,ve took an enormous amount of memory space on the cartride,
It is also the reason why the nes version of it does lack multi scrolling backgrounda because of the same reason,but the nes also does lack a window layer,but still, it would be cool to see a homebrew enhanced nes version of asterix using tile updates to achieve that same multi scrolling background effect as on the gameboy.
Did they just finish the episode with three first notes of “Astérix est là”?
Y'all need to play Fraiser Fantasy for the GBC
2:00 tile switch for the paralax effect?
i probably played through asterix more than 50 times back in the day or even 100. I would challenge myself by keeping high score how many lives i had gathered. If i knew about speedrunning back then i would probably try to speedrun it lol
Flippig the menu is unusual to see? Nah, bro they did on Batman for the Game Boy too
What's the best Asterix game? I was so bummed when that recent beat'em'up absolutely nailed the look, but apparently completely dropped the ball on the gameplay side. I wouldn't mind some good Asterix though. I remember playing some 16-bit game back in the day, I think on PC? Not sure if it's good.
www.hardcoregaming101.net/series/asterix/
Is balloon fight gb on gbc framerate higher? Than balloon kid.
I love Asterix back in day. When I was a kid I used to watch the cartoon on CN. My favotire game is Asterix and the Great Rescue for Master System. The Master System version improves most of the fundemental problems the Mega Drive version had like remove the awful time limit and you can change between Asterix and Obelix on fly without deciding what you want to pick before enter the zone, with is IMO make the Mega Drive version so terrible.
Please do a Master System Retro Play next. I can recommend my huge list of Master System games.