I worked at a brick and mortar video-game store at the time these games released. Unusually Sony sent their own sales rep and if my memory serves me well, we placed orders directly from Sony (it's been 30 years, the end skit is too real!). We gave them 1.5 meters of the street facing window display (of a total of about 12m). The Sony guy was very happy with us and when they eventually released the Playstation we got a lot of perks like an early Japanese machine with Ridge Racer. Store ended up using almost 70% of the shelf space for PS1 games, with the rest being PC and some N64 after most of the old stuff was phased out. Sony played a long game and it paid off.
lol different time back then. In Minnesota we had FuncoLand and Electronics Boutique, and you could see back then who's bread was getting buttered. It was usually either Sony, or Nintendo (FuncoLand tended to have the better Sony kiosks, while EB and Toys R Us had better Nintendo displays.) That mid 90s time was magical, because gaming just seemed to be getting soooo futuristic. You went from stuff like the Genesis, Super NES, TurboGrafx, and early Neo Geo, to Saturn, Nintendo 64, Playstation, 3DO, CD-I, Pippin (remember that?!?), and late Neo Geo.
@jasonvoorhees5640 and you mention this why? Joe still has to write the script, play the games, record, and then edit. That's a ton of work, even without the graphics! Dude, what is wrong with you?
i like this idea but i think just "good ports on handhelds" would be even better ✌️ unless of course that video already exists, in which case yeah your idea 😅👍
One of the reasons why I enjoy Game Sack is because the channel has a very consistent schedule. I can always expect Joe to drop a new video on Sundays every two weeks!
"No Escape" is a great sci-fi movie. I bought it on DVD in the past, and recently on Blu-ray. Now that you've read someone mentioning it, you can't say no one ever has.
@@GameSack If you have any doubts you can easily find the trailer online. I would link it here but that usually gets my comment removed. It's a film of its time, but very much underrated. It's an HBO production. Anyway, thanks for the reviews of games and a trip down memory lane. Responding to my comment is a bonus.
I rented (or rather my parents did) Equinox back when I was probably 12 and for some reason it was one of the most immersive SNES games for me. The music, graphics, weird middle eastern theme just sucked me in. I never beat it or even came close but the vibes were spectacular.
The player sprite in the Genesis & SNES versions of Last Action Hero looks less like Arnold Schwarzenegger and more like Mike Stoklasa from Red Letter Media.
Really makes you wonder how anyone could be optimistic about a Sony console in the early-mid 90s...! They don't really seem to have their fingers on the pulse of the industry from what they're publishing here. From seeing this, to me it kind of looks like their success in leveraging established Japanese developers looking for another avenue is a big part of what saved the PlayStation... Although, I think western devs did start to come into their own a bit more into the late 16bit & 32bit era in the console space. Either way, funny to see how spotty their pre-Playstation catalogue is. If this is what a Sony console looked like they may have gone the way of the 3DO and others. Also, Joe bringing back the classic, "There's X for ya" outro. Nice.
Sony's journey in gaming is fascinating. Even supporting titles for many years. I remember seeing many of these titles in magazines. A trip down memory lane
46:03 This guy you mention is Al Leong. He frequently plays a henchman in movies and is awesome. You might remember him from Last Action Hero, Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure, Die Hard, and Big Trouble in Little China.
Hey Joe, I hope you see this. I’m incredibly thankful for all of the hard work you do. Game Sack is the best combo of quality and thoroughness of any retro game show I’ve ever seen. I really hope you’re being compensated appropriately for this.
Which part was relatable: feeling old, getting grey hair in real time, or losing control of your bowels? Wait, don't answer that. I don't need to know.
Apparently Imagesoft was also going to publish the Famicom game Super Pinball in the West as Super Sushi Pinball, heavily modified to include Sushi references, but it never came out, until a prototype surfaced recently. Super Rescue, an NES localization of Flying Hero for the Famicom, was also planned by Imagesoft before it was also cancelled.
@jasonvoorhees5640 Video Game History Foundation has saved several marketing materials for the game, look it up, as well as the Super Sushi Pinball prototype.
This was a really good episode honestly! I always wondered what all games Sony made before the PS1 came out in 1994, and now I know! Makes me want to see an episode dedicated to the launch year Long Box era PS1 games from 1995-1996 someday too. Anyway great video on the topic, was a great watch.
Joe, you forgot to mention that one of the game designers for Mickey Mania was actually David Jaffe (known for directing Twisted Metal and God of War)!
I actually agree. It could pass for some Atari ST game at times imo. It's most just the size of the characters, the nice HUD, and some good use of tiles in the backgrounds, but it works.
I got to grow up on Microsoft before the Xbox before I would even start getting into console/handheld gaming myself. This was through what was known in the 90s as their Microsoft Home software line for PC computers, with The Magic School Bus and 3D Movie Maker being some of their most notable releases under that line.
It's crazy to think that Grand Theft Auto Vice City is 22 years old when 22 years before that a large box of crayons offered more colors than the best game consoles could manage.
@@kraftypk7283 yeah, it seems they really want games to work across the previous generation too, which from a business point of view makes sense, just makes this generation feel lacklustre. PC ultra settings on modern games AAA can make them look amazing, but my consoles aren't feeling special this generation.
Even more insane is that there were only 6 years between games as wildly different as Super Mario 3 and Super Mario 64, the same amount of time it now takes to get a single game released.
Smart ball! I've been trying to years figure out what this game was. I remember renting it from blockbuster a couple times and playing through the whole game. I really loved it at the time and remember the moon level being and music being impactful. I thought it was an NES game could never find it again. I almost thought I imagined the game. Thanks for unlocking a memory for me.
When it comes to old school hockey games, you just get so used to playing the heads up view, but I personally love the mode7 angle. Truly a game changer!
Ohh, Flashback! My first 16bit love! I still remember the day my brother brought home the Amiga 500 he just bought, fired up the system and showed off what games it can play. I didn't understand where the disks went, as I was sitting on the left side of the Amiga and it had the built-in drive on the right side. It was jaw dropping, beautiful game, looked, sounded and played like anything I've seen before that. This was around 30 years ago and I still love this game and because of that I have multiple copies of it on multiple system (yes, also on the SNES).
47:52 I've had a nasty cough the last few weeks; I thought I was over it until this fresh take on Microcosm sent me into a convulsive laughing/coughing/choking fit. Thanks Joe!
We went apeshit over Sensible Soccer and even more over Sensible World of Soccer, because on the systems we played it, it was freaking awesome. This game is made to be played with a joystick and a joypad simply won't do. D-pad takes away so much of your control of the aftertouch on the ball, that it's not even funny. The World of soccer sequel had a player, player manager, or just manager option for career mode and contained an absurd number of real teams with their respective rosters, like I could play my home town team (a town of only 30k people) in Greek league. It is one of the top 10 most influencial games of all time according to a list compiled by Stanford University Science and technologies curator and a team of game designers, journalists and researchers, and has its own spot in a museum in Zurich. All in all there were more than 1500 real teams and 27000 players in the 2-disc Amiga floppy version
Sensible Software made some real gems. People are still creating updated versions of SWOS today to reflect team changes. Easily a top 5 Amiga game for me.
@@Jayce_Alexander as much as I like Sensible soccer, my all time favorite sensible software game and easily top 3 Amiga game and top 10 of all time, is the original Cannon Fodder, a game which (again) console users didn't appreciate, just because like Sensible soccer, it won't be fun without a mouse, certainly not with a dpad...
@@jimkrom oh yeah Cannon Fodder might be my all-time favorite Amiga game, period. First time I ever played an RTS, even though it was a very different kind of game from Dune II and the likes. Really opened my eyes when it came to what games could do beyond arcadey/console stuff, point and click adventure games, and driving/flight sims. It was the first time I saw a strategy game that had elements of action in it, that didn't feel slow-paced or like it required a giant manual like the military sims and turn-based games my brother played. Yeah it was brilliant. One of the best games of that era. Certainly Sensible Software's best, and one of the Amiga's best. And you really needed a mouse to really get the proper experience.
I can't believe I never noticed how similar Skyblazer is to Hook until you pointed it out! It definitely feels like a spiritual sequel---the protagonist looks and moves almost exactly like Peter in that game, just with differently coloured clothes. Overall, before the PlayStation Sony was a B-tier publisher at best, releasing mostly licensed trash, FMV games and euro jank that should have stayed on the Amiga. Back in the '80s, before Imagesoft, Sony did publish a couple dozen titles for MSX computers in Japan (they also had their own line of MSX computers). It was mostly ports, so while less "forward-looking" than the Imagesoft output (they were really pushing for cinematic games,) it's generally of a bit higher quality.
I hope you keep making videos forever! jokes aside, I’ve beena long time subscriber and I get a lot of joy from watching your videos. It almost feels like you’re a best friend I’ve never met 😂
Did some searches on the site and noticed some missing games that I think would make for a great episode! That weird transition from Dreamcast to PS2 and Gamecube and how a lot of them got DC ports that had improvements/extras added to them like Fur Fighters (which has 4 different versiosn: DC, PS2, PC, and iOS), Rayman 2/Revolutions (PS2), MDK2, Phantasy Star Online/Episode I&II, Ecco the Dolphin, the Sonic Adventure games, and the many ports of Crazy Taxi are the immediate ones that come to mind, but I was always fascinated by those differences. Love the show!
Back in the day, people were pretty down on PlayStation pre-release due to the questionable quality of those Imagesoft games, but all it took was one Namco alliance to undo that damage.
I had no idea Sony was such a prolific game maker back in the day. After the flops of Panasonic's 3DO and Philips' CD-i, I figured the PlayStation was just going to be another consumer electronics manufacturer squirting out a crap console. It's safe to say I was wrong :P
There were two movies titled "No Escape". One with Owen Wislon (2015) and one with Ray Liotta (1994). The one starring Ray Liotta is awesome. He plays a bad ass survivor that gets put on prisoner-island where there are two opposing tribes. It is definitely worth watching.
There’s an interview with the CEO from Atari from early 1995. He totally buffs off Sonys chances in the console business. Hilarious to read today considering how it went for ps1 and Jaguar.
Yeah I remember that interview. He doesn't come off well. He was accusing Sony of "dumping" which is to say that they are releasing the console for a lower price than it costs to make and they hope to make up for it in software sales. He wanted to go after them legally if they did that.
I can only hear "Damivan Breadberry/I'm Ethan Breadberry" when I listen to the N. E. S. Dracula soundtrack, and that's because of a YTPMV called "Trapped in a Social Experiment".
Yeah, I still own my Genesis copy. I always liked the rotoscope technique in it and Another World/Out of This World. You can actually play them both on newer consoles.
I love how I can always find a game I've never heard of that looks interesting from these videos. I love puzzle platformers, so Super Morph looks like something I'd enjoy.
The feeling when you realize that PlayStation 2 is a retro console. It's older now than the early 00s when the NES was first considered a retro console.
A 50 minute episode with a completely new topic? We are blessed today my Sacks!! Bless you Joe
Got me soo excited lol. I just grabbed some cookies and milk, cranked the heat up, and I'm about to lay back and enjoy 😉
Sony BEFORE the Playstation is actually an old topic ;)
Let's have Sacks
My sack runnith over with excitement!! ..OH GOD!!
Yes. May god bless Joe....and his mighty sack!
I worked at a brick and mortar video-game store at the time these games released. Unusually Sony sent their own sales rep and if my memory serves me well, we placed orders directly from Sony (it's been 30 years, the end skit is too real!). We gave them 1.5 meters of the street facing window display (of a total of about 12m). The Sony guy was very happy with us and when they eventually released the Playstation we got a lot of perks like an early Japanese machine with Ridge Racer.
Store ended up using almost 70% of the shelf space for PS1 games, with the rest being PC and some N64 after most of the old stuff was phased out. Sony played a long game and it paid off.
Riiiiiiiiiiidge Racer!
Giant enemy crab !
@@Boogie_the_catAll historically correct for sure... after all, why would they lie to you? 😅
Very interesting. Thank you for sharing
lol different time back then. In Minnesota we had FuncoLand and Electronics Boutique, and you could see back then who's bread was getting buttered. It was usually either Sony, or Nintendo (FuncoLand tended to have the better Sony kiosks, while EB and Toys R Us had better Nintendo displays.) That mid 90s time was magical, because gaming just seemed to be getting soooo futuristic. You went from stuff like the Genesis, Super NES, TurboGrafx, and early Neo Geo, to Saturn, Nintendo 64, Playstation, 3DO, CD-I, Pippin (remember that?!?), and late Neo Geo.
Thanks Joe for making these videos, they bring me joy. Keep on keepin on
Thank you very much! :)
Joe, you put in so much work for these videos. I have no idea how you do it. Thank you
I agree! Most underrated channel on UA-cam! Keep up the great work, Joe! Know that many of us appreciate you!
@jasonvoorhees5640 So, Joe has acquired a team of Chinese slaves to do his bidding? Wow - such dedication.
@jasonvoorhees5640 and you mention this why? Joe still has to write the script, play the games, record, and then edit. That's a ton of work, even without the graphics! Dude, what is wrong with you?
No one else like Joe. :p
The Hudson Hawk portion in the beginning makes me think that a "Handheld Ports That Are Better Than the Console Version" would be a fun video topic
That's a good idea, Sack Bro ! 👍✨🎮
Fantastic idea!
If you could find enough games to make a show... yeah. I'd like to see that.
That would be a legit good one
i like this idea but i think just "good ports on handhelds" would be even better ✌️ unless of course that video already exists, in which case yeah your idea 😅👍
One of the reasons why I enjoy Game Sack is because the channel has a very consistent schedule. I can always expect Joe to drop a new video on Sundays every two weeks!
*I had no idea Sony had such history in gaming.*
*Thanks for another great episode. We love your show!* 💙
GAMESACK ROCKS!! ❤
Sky Blazer feels like they wanted to make a Hook 2 but couldn't, so they made a spiritual successor.
It's an awesome game.
"No Escape" is a great sci-fi movie.
I bought it on DVD in the past, and recently on Blu-ray.
Now that you've read someone mentioning it, you can't say no one ever has.
Very true! I mean it has Ray Liotta, Lance Henrickson, Ernie Hudson and probably some other people I'd recognize so I should definitely check it out.
@@GameSack If you have any doubts you can easily find the trailer online. I would link it here but that usually gets my comment removed. It's a film of its time, but very much underrated. It's an HBO production.
Anyway, thanks for the reviews of games and a trip down memory lane. Responding to my comment is a bonus.
I just commented about this movie. It is awesome and probably one of my top 10 favorite movies.
No Escape sucks.
@@lothargrimm9853 Why?
"It satiates the curiosity I would have had if nobody had made something like this" might be the most amazing back-handed compliment ever. Well done.
I rented (or rather my parents did) Equinox back when I was probably 12 and for some reason it was one of the most immersive SNES games for me. The music, graphics, weird middle eastern theme just sucked me in. I never beat it or even came close but the vibes were spectacular.
Solstice is the NES game, are you talking about Equinox?
@@jendorei Yes I corrected it thank you. :)
@@nazgulsenpaiI revisited it about 10 years ago to see if it was as good as I remember and it's now one of my favorite games on the console.
The end skit was awesome 😂
A long Game Sack video before bed was all I needed.
Game Sack always puts me to sleep too!
AMEN, the console crunches play before bed, while i sleep and wake me up
this sounds erotic
Game Sack before you hit the sack.
Always great to see some Game Sack to end my night off!
Very interesting stuff. I love how you look at all the versions of the games. Thanks so much!
The player sprite in the Genesis & SNES versions of Last Action Hero looks less like Arnold Schwarzenegger and more like Mike Stoklasa from Red Letter Media.
LOL That's exactly what I thought when I saw it.
I came here to say this. It looks exactly like him.
Really makes you wonder how anyone could be optimistic about a Sony console in the early-mid 90s...! They don't really seem to have their fingers on the pulse of the industry from what they're publishing here. From seeing this, to me it kind of looks like their success in leveraging established Japanese developers looking for another avenue is a big part of what saved the PlayStation... Although, I think western devs did start to come into their own a bit more into the late 16bit & 32bit era in the console space. Either way, funny to see how spotty their pre-Playstation catalogue is. If this is what a Sony console looked like they may have gone the way of the 3DO and others.
Also, Joe bringing back the classic, "There's X for ya" outro. Nice.
💯👏
Thanks Joe - as always, stellar video! Keep ‘em coming!
Sony's journey in gaming is fascinating. Even supporting titles for many years. I remember seeing many of these titles in magazines. A trip down memory lane
46:03 This guy you mention is Al Leong. He frequently plays a henchman in movies and is awesome. You might remember him from Last Action Hero, Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure, Die Hard, and Big Trouble in Little China.
Hey Joe, I hope you see this. I’m incredibly thankful for all of the hard work you do. Game Sack is the best combo of quality and thoroughness of any retro game show I’ve ever seen. I really hope you’re being compensated appropriately for this.
Thank you Joe!!! You bless us with 50 min video what a god
No, you've DEFINITELY had stupider end skits lol. This one was painfully relatable and I loved it!
@@annoyeduk @annoyeduk I know. I put stupider because it's a Joe thing to say
Which part was relatable: feeling old, getting grey hair in real time, or losing control of your bowels?
Wait, don't answer that. I don't need to know.
These are my favorite types of Game Sack episodes. 40 or 50 games reviewed in rapid fire with a simple theme.
Apparently Imagesoft was also going to publish the Famicom game Super Pinball in the West as Super Sushi Pinball, heavily modified to include Sushi references, but it never came out, until a prototype surfaced recently.
Super Rescue, an NES localization of Flying Hero for the Famicom, was also planned by Imagesoft before it was also cancelled.
@jasonvoorhees5640 Video Game History Foundation has saved several marketing materials for the game, look it up, as well as the Super Sushi Pinball prototype.
Literally look it up @jasonvoorhees5640
This was a really good episode honestly! I always wondered what all games Sony made before the PS1 came out in 1994, and now I know! Makes me want to see an episode dedicated to the launch year Long Box era PS1 games from 1995-1996 someday too. Anyway great video on the topic, was a great watch.
Joe, you forgot to mention that one of the game designers for Mickey Mania was actually David Jaffe (known for directing Twisted Metal and God of War)!
Man Dragon's Lair graphically is VERY impressive for the NES IMO.
@jasonvoorhees5640you can 'LuL nO' all you want but it genuinely is a looker for the system. Doesn't mean it's a good game though.
I actually agree. It could pass for some Atari ST game at times imo. It's most just the size of the characters, the nice HUD, and some good use of tiles in the backgrounds, but it works.
It looks like it used rotoscoped animation, which definitely helps.
If only it was as fun to play as it is graphically impressive. 😅
@Jayce_Alexander I feel like the same could be said for the arcade version of dragons lair lmao
I got to grow up on Microsoft before the Xbox before I would even start getting into console/handheld gaming myself. This was through what was known in the 90s as their Microsoft Home software line for PC computers, with The Magic School Bus and 3D Movie Maker being some of their most notable releases under that line.
No escape is a very fun movie. Worth watching. It used be to shown on tv multiple times here in italy as "fuga da absolom"
It's crazy to think that Grand Theft Auto Vice City is 22 years old when 22 years before that a large box of crayons offered more colors than the best game consoles could manage.
Yup and we're plateauing hard right now
@@kraftypk7283Concord anyone?
@@kraftypk7283 yeah, it seems they really want games to work across the previous generation too, which from a business point of view makes sense, just makes this generation feel lacklustre. PC ultra settings on modern games AAA can make them look amazing, but my consoles aren't feeling special this generation.
Even more insane is that there were only 6 years between games as wildly different as Super Mario 3 and Super Mario 64, the same amount of time it now takes to get a single game released.
Smaller games made by just a handful of people are still where it's at, just like back then. Makes you think!
Smart ball! I've been trying to years figure out what this game was. I remember renting it from blockbuster a couple times and playing through the whole game. I really loved it at the time and remember the moon level being and music being impactful. I thought it was an NES game could never find it again. I almost thought I imagined the game. Thanks for unlocking a memory for me.
3AM in Brazil.
“Well, it’s sunday tomorrow”, said me while picking up my glasses.
I'm in Los Angeles. 11pm here but I'm right there with you.
@@hwhack 9am in Germany.
wouldnt it be friday since you are in the soithern hemisphere
@@elucidatedvoyyd how on Earth do you think hemispheres work
@@elucidatedvoyyd the timezones go from east to west, not from north to south
We love you, Joe! Keep going strong! You're the best and most important reason I use UA-cam!
When it comes to old school hockey games, you just get so used to playing the heads up view, but I personally love the mode7 angle. Truly a game changer!
Ohh, Flashback! My first 16bit love! I still remember the day my brother brought home the Amiga 500 he just bought, fired up the system and showed off what games it can play. I didn't understand where the disks went, as I was sitting on the left side of the Amiga and it had the built-in drive on the right side. It was jaw dropping, beautiful game, looked, sounded and played like anything I've seen before that. This was around 30 years ago and I still love this game and because of that I have multiple copies of it on multiple system (yes, also on the SNES).
Joe: I like the mode 7 version.
Nintendo: Ladies and gentlemen......we got him.
47:52 I've had a nasty cough the last few weeks; I thought I was over it until this fresh take on Microcosm sent me into a convulsive laughing/coughing/choking fit. Thanks Joe!
I don't know what it is. But when I fall asleep watching YT, I always wake up to a GameSack video and frankly I love it.
Thanks, Joe, once again for all your efforts in making this, as it's greatly appreciated by myself and many others.
We went apeshit over Sensible Soccer and even more over Sensible World of Soccer, because on the systems we played it, it was freaking awesome. This game is made to be played with a joystick and a joypad simply won't do. D-pad takes away so much of your control of the aftertouch on the ball, that it's not even funny. The World of soccer sequel had a player, player manager, or just manager option for career mode and contained an absurd number of real teams with their respective rosters, like I could play my home town team (a town of only 30k people) in Greek league. It is one of the top 10 most influencial games of all time according to a list compiled by Stanford University Science and technologies curator and a team of game designers, journalists and researchers, and has its own spot in a museum in Zurich. All in all there were more than 1500 real teams and 27000 players in the 2-disc Amiga floppy version
Sensible Software made some real gems. People are still creating updated versions of SWOS today to reflect team changes.
Easily a top 5 Amiga game for me.
@@Jayce_Alexander as much as I like Sensible soccer, my all time favorite sensible software game and easily top 3 Amiga game and top 10 of all time, is the original Cannon Fodder, a game which (again) console users didn't appreciate, just because like Sensible soccer, it won't be fun without a mouse, certainly not with a dpad...
@@jimkrom oh yeah Cannon Fodder might be my all-time favorite Amiga game, period. First time I ever played an RTS, even though it was a very different kind of game from Dune II and the likes. Really opened my eyes when it came to what games could do beyond arcadey/console stuff, point and click adventure games, and driving/flight sims. It was the first time I saw a strategy game that had elements of action in it, that didn't feel slow-paced or like it required a giant manual like the military sims and turn-based games my brother played. Yeah it was brilliant. One of the best games of that era. Certainly Sensible Software's best, and one of the Amiga's best. And you really needed a mouse to really get the proper experience.
I can't believe I never noticed how similar Skyblazer is to Hook until you pointed it out! It definitely feels like a spiritual sequel---the protagonist looks and moves almost exactly like Peter in that game, just with differently coloured clothes.
Overall, before the PlayStation Sony was a B-tier publisher at best, releasing mostly licensed trash, FMV games and euro jank that should have stayed on the Amiga.
Back in the '80s, before Imagesoft, Sony did publish a couple dozen titles for MSX computers in Japan (they also had their own line of MSX computers). It was mostly ports, so while less "forward-looking" than the Imagesoft output (they were really pushing for cinematic games,) it's generally of a bit higher quality.
Waking up on Sunday morning , with a new Game Sack episode is peak living!
Wow, they were all over the Sega CD! That’s an interesting bit of video game evolution history. Love Mickey Mania on the CD too.
6:09 that's not just 'someone', that's the fantastic Mr. Phil LaMarr!
I've talked about him in that game before. He's a legend!
Love the new topic. This was actually super interesting.
A nice fresh Sack lets go
MINT. SEEAALEEDD.
A 50 min video of the history of Sony pre console.. Nice!
No mention of Super Dogball being part of the Kunio-Kun series?
On a sunday morning!? Thanks Joe, you're the man.
I used to love renting SNES Hook, back in the day.
I always impressed Joe at seeing how well you do your investigations.
This video pleases me greatly as a Playstation 1 fan. Thank you Joe, my sack is ready
The intro music to Solstice goes hard, it’s a legit full length prog rock tune.
New game sack episode is what the doctor ordered! Thanks for the awesome content Joe!
Great video my man! I know I can always count on GAME SACK to deliver the good UA-cam goods! CHEERS!
You know it is a good morning when you wake up to a new episode of game sack ❤❤
Good topic, i knew of imagesoft before but didnt think there was that much to cover!
The end skit is the most realistic one youve ever done 😂
I love this subject. I love that it's almost an hour long. I. Love. Gamesack.
I’m so grateful for this Sunday tradition! Happy thanksgiving weekend 🇨🇦❤
Joe Redifer FTW! All the best from your biggest italian fan!
Joe, it needs to be said: I love your sack.
I hope you keep making videos forever! jokes aside, I’ve beena long time subscriber and I get a lot of joy from watching your videos. It almost feels like you’re a best friend I’ve never met 😂
GAMESACK!!! My favorite entertainment channel!
Can't believe I never realized "Jerry Boy" was actually "Jelly Boy."
Ha! Love the shout-out to the old marketing campaign on the thumbnail (URNOTE (with the red E)
Did some searches on the site and noticed some missing games that I think would make for a great episode! That weird transition from Dreamcast to PS2 and Gamecube and how a lot of them got DC ports that had improvements/extras added to them like Fur Fighters (which has 4 different versiosn: DC, PS2, PC, and iOS), Rayman 2/Revolutions (PS2), MDK2, Phantasy Star Online/Episode I&II, Ecco the Dolphin, the Sonic Adventure games, and the many ports of Crazy Taxi are the immediate ones that come to mind, but I was always fascinated by those differences. Love the show!
9:14 That power strut tho
😂
Sony before the PS1.
looks at the Betamax and Walkman under my TV
ah yes the good ol days
Very interesting topic, I would love to see more episodes in similar type.
That Hamlet dream sequence is probably the best part of the Last Action Hero movie.
Back in the day, people were pretty down on PlayStation pre-release due to the questionable quality of those Imagesoft games, but all it took was one Namco alliance to undo that damage.
NAMCO software was the main reason PS1 made it big in the west, well up until GranTurismos release.
Same with PS2 until Gran Theft 3...
Namco completely carried the PS1 through its early years.
I remember Hook on Nes. My grandmother used to play it a lot.
29:58 Joe casually hitting a 500 ft home run cracked me up. Must be the altitude at Coors Field 😂
One of the first episodes of GS where I grew up with almost all these games, and still have them to boot! I should give Power Factory another try…
i dont know that many publishers that had this many multiplat release from this game generation interesting to see
God, I love a good Sack in the morning. Thanks Joe 🙏
I had no idea Sony was such a prolific game maker back in the day. After the flops of Panasonic's 3DO and Philips' CD-i, I figured the PlayStation was just going to be another consumer electronics manufacturer squirting out a crap console. It's safe to say I was wrong :P
Publisher. They didn't develop.
Slick haircut Joe, and stupid or not I still LOL'd at the post-video sketch
There were two movies titled "No Escape". One with Owen Wislon (2015) and one with Ray Liotta (1994). The one starring Ray Liotta is awesome. He plays a bad ass survivor that gets put on prisoner-island where there are two opposing tribes. It is definitely worth watching.
sounds abit like the escape from New York and the escape from LA movie plots...
Wow I see why there’s ‘only’ a game sack video every 2 weeks…this must of taken weeks to create. Great video.
Didn’t believe an hour flew by and I didn’t fall asleep . 👏🤝
thanks for another great one GameSack. Cheers from Straya!
There’s an interview with the CEO from Atari from early 1995. He totally buffs off Sonys chances in the console business. Hilarious to read today considering how it went for ps1 and Jaguar.
Yeah I remember that interview. He doesn't come off well. He was accusing Sony of "dumping" which is to say that they are releasing the console for a lower price than it costs to make and they hope to make up for it in software sales. He wanted to go after them legally if they did that.
Long live Jack Tramiel! USA! USA! USA!
Thanks for all your awesome videos! I loved super dodgeball on nes. That and there was a beach volleyball game i used to play a ton as well.
I didn't see this one coming and that's why I always love Game Sack. Something new and interesting.
I hope you never run out of content from your Sac
17:35 look at Gabe's huge dump truck !
Gabe-y got back !
You're looking great Joe! A little tired but that's called life lol.
I just learned that some of these NES games were code ported from the Gameboy versions. Hook and Dracula are perfect examples.
I can only hear "Damivan Breadberry/I'm Ethan Breadberry" when I listen to the N. E. S. Dracula soundtrack, and that's because of a YTPMV called "Trapped in a Social Experiment".
@@ilikecurry2345😂 Papa Bless you! 🍕
(H3H3 UA-cam channel reference)
Their video on the Bradberry bros is hilarious.
_"It's just a prank, Bro!"_ 👊💥😳
I had some fond memories of enduring Flash Back in the early 90s.
Yeah, I still own my Genesis copy. I always liked the rotoscope technique in it and Another World/Out of This World. You can actually play them both on newer consoles.
I love how I can always find a game I've never heard of that looks interesting from these videos. I love puzzle platformers, so Super Morph looks like something I'd enjoy.
The feeling when you realize that PlayStation 2 is a retro console. It's older now than the early 00s when the NES was first considered a retro console.
Do you have any plans for a PS1 30-year anniversary video?
I don't, no. I actually rarely pay attention to dates. I'm usually reminded about them on Twitter or something as they happen.
Right on time when I lay down for bed the new video drops and now I gotta stay up thank you 😂😂😂
Hahaha the end skit is amazing. Dudeeee 😭😂
Chuck Rock is one of the few games I ever played that made me think "you know I really could be doing anything more fun than this."
Jerry Boy is engrish for Jelly Boy. Seriously. SNEStalgia made a very in depth video about Smartball/Jerry Boy not too long ago.
Wow those voice samples on Genesis version of that ESPN race game were way better than i could have expected
blunt is lighting as we speak. Happy Sunday Sack Crew!