A Super Rare NES Puzzle Game that was Actually a Prequel

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  • @Invidente7
    @Invidente7 Рік тому +79

    I'm glad that someone pointed out that Milon's secret castle on the GB HAS a proper ending. The GB also saw unique ports of Lock'n'Chase and Tumble Pop.

    • @oaf-77
      @oaf-77 Рік тому +4

      Bionic Commando and Elevator Action are both significantly better on the GB than the NES

    • @thecunninlynguist
      @thecunninlynguist Рік тому +4

      ​@richsmith9638I love dk 94...and by extension the first m v dk. I was disappointed they pivoted to the minis in the sequels

    • @TeddyBelcher4kultrawide
      @TeddyBelcher4kultrawide Рік тому

      So basically Argonaut stoped to making football and killed the satarn by not sporting it or the snes after techmo Super Bowl released. What Jared forgot is that the nfl was better on Nintendo then sega and this was the end of tecmo as we know it

    • @TeddyBelcher4kultrawide
      @TeddyBelcher4kultrawide Рік тому

      Then he talks about koei but..tecmo and koei are the same company now

    • @TeddyBelcher4kultrawide
      @TeddyBelcher4kultrawide Рік тому

      I still play tecmo attack on titan I can talk

  • @AtlasBlizzard
    @AtlasBlizzard Рік тому +4

    That Fifth Element reference caught me off-guard, lol. Way to go Dylan!

  • @jayden6538
    @jayden6538 Рік тому +14

    Risky Woods was actually created by Spanish company Zeus Software. They also created "Biomechanical Toy" arcade game for Gaelco, which was originally going to be called "Bioplaything Cop"

  • @renatocorvaro6924
    @renatocorvaro6924 Рік тому +23

    Now In The 90s is some frequent Friday fun.

  • @mikeberg6407
    @mikeberg6407 Рік тому +25

    I love that this channel finally catching on, but always so disappointed that it ends so fast 😥

  • @sergelevesque2718
    @sergelevesque2718 Рік тому +3

    "Leeloo Dallas... and her multi-pass"
    Oh, God, that had me HOWLING! Well done!

  • @thecunninlynguist
    @thecunninlynguist Рік тому +19

    I was delighted when NSO added fire and ice. I kinda liked Solomon's key...but really got into FnI more. Playing it on switch was my first real deep dive. Those later stages are head scratchers.

  • @Pravaification
    @Pravaification Рік тому +6

    I remember seeing Fire 'N Ice at the video store as a kid. My parents saw the "warning sticker" and didn't realize it was a joke, so they forbid me from playing it. Looks fun, though!

  • @SuperIchi
    @SuperIchi Рік тому +2

    1:44 How appropriate that King Arthur's World can use the Mario Paint mouse because that big bug boss flying around totally looks like it was re-skinned from one of the Mario Paint Fly Swatter bosses xD

  • @InAnimateGamer
    @InAnimateGamer Рік тому +10

    Inindo is one of the games I own and was waiting for you to eventually cover and/or play it. The point of playing as a general in the Koei strategy battles is to help the other daimyos take over Nobunaga's territory so you can access the final Castle of the game (Azuchi Castle). There's technically a time limit in this game where you lose if you don't defeat Nobunaga within 20 in-game years.

  • @LunDruid
    @LunDruid Рік тому +22

    Not gonna lie, Inindo sounds really freaking interesting. Definitely gonna give that one a try.

  • @Imnotsure0987
    @Imnotsure0987 Рік тому +5

    Now we in da 90's

  • @InitialDL84
    @InitialDL84 Рік тому +6

    Elemental Master is such an underrated game, love it! I remember renting it from the video section in a grocery store back in the mid-90s and just had a blast with it. I'm big on shump type games and it was a breath of fresh air at the time, especially with the cool cut scenes!

  • @linedterror2
    @linedterror2 Рік тому +4

    Most of my memories of King Arthur's World are of the soundtrack and the first several levels because as a kid I could never get very far.

  • @justavivi3386
    @justavivi3386 Рік тому +1

    Fun fact about King Arthur's World. There is multiplayer game inspired by this game named King Arthur's Gold which is totally free and can be found on steam these days.

  • @Yide29
    @Yide29 Рік тому +2

    Inindo is legitimately one of my favorite SNES games. Such an under-rated gem of an RPG!

  • @MacNava
    @MacNava Рік тому +3

    Hey, no sports game this week. Finally, a breath of fresh air.

  • @Garrth415
    @Garrth415 Рік тому +5

    I remember renting King Arthur's world as a kid and never being able to make it past the first level

    • @CDRiley
      @CDRiley Рік тому +1

      Lucky…. I never being able to make past the title screen . I misplaced my SNES controller. 😢

  • @actuallogic6411
    @actuallogic6411 Рік тому +2

    The bit about returning King Arther's World hits home with memories of guilt and disappointment anytime you returned a rental before it was due.

  • @LudwigRamirez
    @LudwigRamirez Рік тому +2

    Great work, Now In The 90s Team... you bring joy to so many! Also, Dylan is so consistently funny, if you guys started a series with him hosting / providing voiceovers, I'd watch it too. 🤣

  • @medusesti
    @medusesti Рік тому +7

    Man, I LOVE Fire n Ice... and that label is there for a reason. It has very short levels that make you say, "ok, just one more" but there are over 100 levels so you end up spending hours in it.

  • @mjdf122
    @mjdf122 Рік тому +2

    Now In The 90s What A Series I’ve Been Here Since The Start Thanks Pro Jared And Dylan For Your Dedicated Work

  • @sporedoutofmymind
    @sporedoutofmymind Рік тому +26

    Inindo actually has a surprisingly complex AI system for follower and daimyo behavior, especially while having an RPG built on top of it. There's a lot going under the hood that's accessible with some community-created tools.

    • @jasonblalock4429
      @jasonblalock4429 Рік тому +2

      Yeah, Koei's games at the time packed a surprising amount of depth into 8- and 16-bit carts.

    • @Mr._Sandman
      @Mr._Sandman Рік тому

      I remember renting the crap out of that game... It was really awesome to play back in the day, but I never got anywhere far back then...

  • @23Scadu
    @23Scadu Рік тому +7

    I rented King Arthur's World multiple times as a kid, and even made it to the second world. The first world is pretty easy when you've learned how your units work, but when you get to the underworld the difficulty ramps up drastically. I loved the little men moving around in their little world, it almost felt more like a toy set than a game to me.

  • @gurvmlk
    @gurvmlk Рік тому +1

    I also owned Milon's Secret Castle as a kid, so I feel Dylan's pain. Never got past a single stage, because I had no idea what I was doing, nor what the game expected of me. It wasn't even until the AVGN episode that I learned you're supposed to use your bubbles to find hidden doors.

  • @borrellipatrick
    @borrellipatrick Рік тому +2

    "an snes rpg you never played"
    *me holding my childhood copy of earthbound waiting to defend it, realizes he's gotta wait 2 more years for that game to hit now in the 90s

    • @LeoMidori
      @LeoMidori Рік тому

      Geeze, we'll be seeing PlayStation games by that point, won't we?

  • @evillecaston
    @evillecaston Рік тому +1

    "Life on Earth can't flourish when I'm sad!" -Earth, SimEarth
    I suffered like G did.

  • @TeamB4UEnterprises
    @TeamB4UEnterprises Рік тому

    Ooh I love Fire 'n Ice! Fun fact about that game: that's one of my Dad's favorite games. I remember when I got in to retro game collecting, I unearthed my family's video game hand-me-downs and found that game piled with a lot of other NES games they had. Out of curiosity I played it, and like clockwork, my dad started watching and said "Hey can I play this? I remember it like it was yesterday." I was like, "Sure, Dad!" thinking that he wasn't gonna remember how to play it--he got all the way to like World 6 or 7 *in one night*.
    Respect your elders, kids.

  • @ReaverPrime
    @ReaverPrime Рік тому +1

    Standard episode until that Fifth Element crack. Bravo, my boy. 😂

  • @Sly88Frye
    @Sly88Frye Рік тому

    I'd say that it's pretty advanced that there's an RPG back then where you actually had to be careful what you say to different NPCs. That seemed like more of a concept that was bigger during the 2000s with Fable and knights of the Old Republic. Cool they actually pulled it off in the early '90s on the SNES

  • @danielpatrickstover1988
    @danielpatrickstover1988 Рік тому +2

    I just played through Fire 'N Ice! It really does hold up!

  • @Mankey619
    @Mankey619 Рік тому +3

    What a wonderful day to celebrate a Friday night is watch this amazing content,and I gotta say I always going to enjoy this a lot.

  • @endymallorn
    @endymallorn Рік тому +1

    Inindo is one of my favorite games, honestly. I always wanted to learn Japanese just to play Koei games properly on PC

  • @dacypher22
    @dacypher22 9 місяців тому

    Y'all Fire'n'Ice is so good. I rented it probably a dozen times (probably paying more than the game cost total) when I was a kid. It blew my mind to see a map creator in an NES game and the puzzle gameplay just feels so good

  • @woolybear
    @woolybear Рік тому +1

    We rented Inindo a whole bunch back in the days, it was such an amazing game!

  • @curseyoujordanshow
    @curseyoujordanshow Рік тому +1

    Reading the comments at the end from last week's episode made me think of something else about X-Men on Genesis -- the fact that you need to reset the console means you're literally not able to complete the game if you were playing it on the Sega Nomad, because it didn't have a reset button. I suppose that also applies to other forms of emulation if you have no reset command.

    • @gurvmlk
      @gurvmlk Рік тому

      Nor would you be able to beat it if your reset button is broken. Which I can say as somebody whose Genesis has had a nonfunctional reset button for over a decade by this point.

  • @PaladinArndt
    @PaladinArndt Рік тому

    Inindo is one of those games I randomly found at my local game rental store, rented once, and got really invested into it. Never got to beat it, though; it's ludicrously hard. But the different systems that it mixed in held my interest really well.

  • @Kirkklan
    @Kirkklan Рік тому

    Well, this explains a lot to me.
    Found "Fire'n'Ice" on an NES emulator site that seems to have been taken down at some point, and for the longest time wondered what "Solomon's Key 2" was, until the rerelease of the game on NSO and seeing it titled "Fire'n'Ice"

  • @ejdouglass
    @ejdouglass Рік тому

    Wow, I haven't seen or thought about King Arthur's World in decades. That was a Blockbuster rental for us sometimes, but "slow-paced Lemmings-style puzzle game with KNIGHTS" was my whole vibe back then. My first time seeing my little armor-Lemmings could MURDUUUUR was fantastic. How wild, I don't think I ever otherwise would have lit up those old neurons ever again... but way to go, brain! Somehow and for some reason kept a whole lil' cache of memories of a 30-year-old game in there for me.

  • @msguysmiley
    @msguysmiley Рік тому

    Loved Inindo and King Arthur's world as a kid. I was the only kid I knew that loved KOEI games.

  • @WAtheAnum
    @WAtheAnum Рік тому

    King Arthurs World *did* spawn an actual spiritual successor named King Arthur's Gold. Its an online game and took away the slow paste elements and turned it in an actual real time Strat game - and best of all, since some years its also free on steam. You might should give it a try, they even gave the whole game a close pixelstyled look like the original.

  • @GaminRage
    @GaminRage Рік тому +1

    4:35 hey oh, it's my favourite SNES game. I like how it was an RPG and strategy. I've never beaten though because I had too much fun sabotaging place just to help the Daimyo Masamune rule Japan, like half the map was green, lol.😁
    🤜🏻🤛🏻

  • @MrCalverino
    @MrCalverino Рік тому +6

    I love this series so much!

  • @starblaze27
    @starblaze27 Рік тому

    While I never saw that ad, I own and play Inindo and loved the game the moment I first rented it as a kid(in which I bought it later after saving up money). A interesting thing about the game was that when it gets to the cut scene around the start of the game to where Oda was taking out the Iga clan you can get two different outcomes(though one of them I can't 100% confirm) which also changes the game flow a bit. Either he comes out unscratched but with his army greatly diminished(which seems to make him not take over provinces as quickly and often is easier to take one of his), or he comes out badly wounded but his army still huge (which I am told is supposed to mean that he is easier to beat in the end. This though I can't confirm). Also in the game it counts a day when you go out of a dungeon so if you want to get strong and not want to worry about the timer you can stay in there and grind a bit before getting out. It can come at the price of encountering some tougher people outside or get ambushed by a rather well geared assassin so you had to be careful.

  • @dary0097
    @dary0097 Рік тому

    4:40 Inindo way of the Ninja I LOVED This Game !! As a Kid used to play this for hours just grinding to get more powerful oh the memories

  • @rajamicitrenti1374
    @rajamicitrenti1374 Рік тому

    My dad and I were big fans of Solomon's Quest, the Game Boy entry in the Solomon's Key franchise.

  • @sergeib1233
    @sergeib1233 Рік тому

    Inindo is one of my favourite games of all time. I revisit it every few years and give myself challenges like uniting Japan under one Daimyo.
    Its a great hybrid game combining historical strategy sim and RPG.
    hybrid games are some of the best games, like ActRaiser!

  • @Bloopbliepbloop
    @Bloopbliepbloop Рік тому +1

    I love this. Every Friday night I go drinking with the boys and when I come back I know this is waiting for me. Again, love it!

  • @lotterwinner6474
    @lotterwinner6474 Рік тому

    Man I played so much King Arthur's World as a kid. It was so unique and quite challenging.

  • @Real1Gaming
    @Real1Gaming Рік тому

    I'd never even looked at a game called King Arthurs World if not for this show... And it actually looks pretty neat!

  • @luisguillermogarcia3724
    @luisguillermogarcia3724 Рік тому

    I have to agree with the warning on the Ice ‘n Fire box: my dad doesn’t really like videogames. One day, while i was playing around the online switch NES and trying this game, my dad pass by and saw the puzzle and got intrigued. After that, each weekend my dad asked me to play one full level together until we finished the game.

  • @jdpc9391
    @jdpc9391 Рік тому

    I played so much of King Arthur's world. Never thought i would hear about this game!

  • @ivySaurusRex
    @ivySaurusRex Рік тому

    Thank you so much for this amazing series! It makes me so nostalgic. Every Friday after work, I can’t wait to jump on the couch and watch what came out this week 30 years ago.

  • @DaveVoyles
    @DaveVoyles Рік тому

    I can’t believe they didn’t spend more time on Elemental Master. That soundtrack is BANGING

  • @Arlenthasala
    @Arlenthasala Рік тому

    I played King Arthur's World so freakin' much as a kid, I had so much fun with it, think I still have the cartridge lying around home somewhere too. Was yet another one of the games I ended up with after lending off of a brother's friend and then never seeing them again.

  • @LanEXHikari
    @LanEXHikari Рік тому +3

    Niche game and all, it was surprisingly a fun puzzle game. Great episode as always 👍🏼

  • @TheGamersState
    @TheGamersState Рік тому

    "There's also a ton of strategy elements such as being careful with how you talk to NPC's as some can join your party when you've built enough trust or others will attack you for interupting their conversations"
    So basically it's a video game version of Twitter.

  • @LordSephleon
    @LordSephleon Рік тому

    Man, I really should have bought a copy of King Arthur's World in my youth. I used to rent that game pretty regularly when there wasn't anything else new to check out at Blockbuster. Not only is the game itself a fun (if somewhat slow) puzzle-action game, it has a pretty good soundtrack, and it introduced me to Pachelbel's Canon in D.
    Fire 'n Ice is another game that I would occasionally rent. I loved Solomon's Key, so this game was a natural choice for me.

  • @tigerwarrior1787
    @tigerwarrior1787 Рік тому

    I remember King Arthur's World, and spent hours in it, but never beat the game. Still was fun, and due to it, I developed my Archer Defense strategy for any overworld strategy game. Like those developed by Koei.

  • @lorddalek
    @lorddalek Рік тому

    1:50 -- Just a correction: King Arthur's World was one of the first official SNES games to feature Dolby Surround support.

  • @37thgungrunts
    @37thgungrunts Рік тому

    King Arthur's world is one of those formative games I played throughout my childhood, I have memories of being 4 and struggling to do anything other than walk and sometimes spam buttons to make THE GUY! walk out. And then I'd put it away for awhile and come back, and each time I'd bring it back out I'd have a little better idea of WTF I was doing.

  • @JoeyJ0J0
    @JoeyJ0J0 Рік тому

    Elemental Masters is a fantastic game , so is Fire N Ice an underrated puzzle game with amazing character animation

  • @LeoMidori
    @LeoMidori Рік тому +2

    Some interesting releases this time! Koei games really are things that you feel like you can play for the rest of your life with how much hidden information and content is in them.

  • @MINI_91
    @MINI_91 Рік тому

    Perfect way to kick off the weekend. Glad I got this channel recommended by the algorithm.

  • @Dayeadens
    @Dayeadens Рік тому +2

    I dunno. I think a title change is in order for Dylan. Editing Co-Star Dylan? You two make a great team! Either way, if you two don't do the Ultimate Handshake from Predator if/when he makes an on-screen appearance in a future video, you dropped the ball :P

    • @LeoMidori
      @LeoMidori Рік тому +1

      Yeah honestly, I like Dylan's content just as much as Jared and his contributions are great to this show! :3

  • @garou119
    @garou119 Рік тому +2

    HOLY SHIT! Rondo of Blood next week!

  • @retrojoe85
    @retrojoe85 Рік тому

    Risky Woods has such graphics who look incredibly beautiful even today! It's a unique looking style who can be only recognizable into some of the Electronic Arts games of that era, and those graphics were also the reason why we europeans loved EA games so much back on the day, especially on the Mega Drive (sorry guys from USA, that's how we call the 16-bit Sega's powerhouse).

  • @everyonelovesmajima
    @everyonelovesmajima Рік тому

    My grandfather had an NES collection that I took and still have. One Christmas both of my aunts got this game for him and they bitched at each other for it. This is the most valuable game I own. It’s such a shame that people threw the boxes out.

  • @Cazra-VaporwaveWitch
    @Cazra-VaporwaveWitch Рік тому +1

    I can definitely attest that the GB port of Milon's Secret Castle is by far the superior version. I had a ton of fun playing that as a kid! The NES version version, not so much...

  • @MercenaryTau
    @MercenaryTau Рік тому

    I always thought that it was clever that the Pause button for King Arthur's World was an imprint of a few Paws.

  • @Mepholar
    @Mepholar Рік тому

    Inindo was fun. Didn’t even mention the war games aspect when talking about taking over territories.
    The grind to level up is real though.

  • @gwgux
    @gwgux Рік тому

    I remember King Arthur's World! Rented it once...and that was the only time I ever played it. It was one of those "ok" games but didn't hold my interest back then.
    I actually have played Inindo before too. I never got that far into it though. It gave me the impress of one of those games that starts off really slow, but picks up in what you can do later, but I never went back to it.

  • @floodred2904
    @floodred2904 Рік тому

    I’ve been getting bored with all the video game channels on UA-cam I’m 44 came across this now in the 90s right up my alley feel like back there again.

  • @samuelallen2831
    @samuelallen2831 Рік тому +2

    I LOVE FIRE N ICE SO GOD DAMN MUCH!

  • @pixelgoat7317
    @pixelgoat7317 Рік тому

    Risky Woods sounds like that one non-basic Golgari land you play on the first or second turn of a Commander game XD

  • @chaosmiles07
    @chaosmiles07 Рік тому

    "... because, in the corner, it reminds you that Aerobiz exists!" :D
    Also ProJared. He does that, too.

  • @marscaleb
    @marscaleb Рік тому

    Elemental Master has, in my opinion, the second-best FM Synth soundtrack ever, narrowly beating out Alisia Dragoon, but still not toppling Rusty.

  • @CronosVids
    @CronosVids Рік тому

    Each week this show is a little treat.

  • @Leron...
    @Leron... Рік тому +1

    Jared, that sticker is well warranted. Those puzzles are addictive...they started impacting my dreams at night...
    Dylan, As a fellow 5th Element fan, I just want to tell you that you're super green!

  • @BQuanchi
    @BQuanchi Рік тому

    King's Arthur's World was a game the somehow got into our collective library (shared with siblings) when growing up. Don't believe I got far in it, but had no idea it supported the SNES mouse. Wish I would have known that

  • @Sergito800
    @Sergito800 Рік тому +2

    King Arthur's World...i finnaly found the game! I loved this one when i was a child but completely forgot the name! The image of the soldiers patroling in the tower and building the units was always in my mind but no name! Thx for remind me of it! Its emulation time :D

  • @heezdeadjim
    @heezdeadjim Рік тому

    How is King Arthur's World considered the first stereo game on the NES? I was already rocking a stereo system during the Nintendo (mono) so I was excited to hear stuff happening on either channel. While Mario World didn't have a lot 9f stereo sound (mostly the music), it was there. If they mean first game to use stereo for location, then Zelda was doing that. Again, I was showing my friends and family how a game could shoot the sword beam from the left to right and could hear giant rolling bars on the left or right in Dungeons. Maybe they mean US company? They were the first to make surround sound (pro logic) on the SNES and even had the surround logo on the back of Starfox and Vortex another game they made. I always loved games for their sound and each system got better with each game system.

  • @grungecloud
    @grungecloud Рік тому

    I loved Risky Woods back in the day! I still have my copy around, somewhere!

  • @akuji330
    @akuji330 Рік тому

    I feel that you guys unlocked a memory about King Arthur's World and I now I want to play that and Inindo because it sounds really cool. Also, Fire and ice is a fantastic game and probably one of my favorites for the console.

  • @pharmcat8484
    @pharmcat8484 Рік тому

    An RPG that is obscure even for Jared? Inconceivable!

  • @Prodawg
    @Prodawg Рік тому

    I've been "buying" every game that appears on this series, glad to see a game I already had!

  • @avereynakama9854
    @avereynakama9854 Рік тому

    ...Actually, my partner could've used that warning label. He started playing Fire n Ice one day and was ULTRA hooked until he beat all the stages. I mean, that game had, what, hundreds of puzzles? He'd be up for hours playing that on the Switch Online. Looked pretty fun, though. He loved the soundtrack on it (he wanted me to add that bit).

  • @chaseman94
    @chaseman94 Рік тому +2

    Call me crazy but I was just waiting for that talking planet on Sim Earth to say "I'm Mr. Grundles!" like on that one Episode of Rick and Morty.

  • @KhaosElement
    @KhaosElement Рік тому

    Holy crap, I legitimately played Inindo. I was absolutely too young, had no idea what I was doing, and hated every moment of it.

  • @oneanaovoste9719
    @oneanaovoste9719 Рік тому

    I had a similar experience with King Arthur's World. Young me never got very far legitimately, since I was too impatient/inexperienced in this genre.

  • @EpicLebaneseNerd
    @EpicLebaneseNerd Рік тому

    kudos about RISKY WOODS, i grew up playing it but on the IBM-PC and even today people are still discovering it and loving it and the megadrive version was a recent discovery also, good game.

  • @P4RZ_1V4L
    @P4RZ_1V4L Рік тому +5

    Awesome show Jared and Dylan, hope one day to see "Now in the 00s"

  • @steeziee5235
    @steeziee5235 Рік тому +2

    you have our support!

  • @riemaennchen
    @riemaennchen Рік тому +1

    The Fire&ICe Boxart could only happen in the 90s.^^

  • @popculturehero
    @popculturehero Рік тому

    A lot of interesting obscure titles in this one. Inido, Risky Woods, and King Arthur's world I'll try and hunt down. That's a pretty wacky RTS game going for a cartoony sword and sorcery theme.

  • @prairiete
    @prairiete Рік тому +1

    Fire n' Ice reminded me of Marvel Land, produced by Namco... I don't know if it was "recent" enough you would cover it. Though there may not but much to talk about.
    The Milon game ? Somehow, even after discovering (with Jared's videos btw) Bonks and Master Higgins had a game of their own, it didn't click until today's Milon game, that the characters in Saturn Bomberman were from other video games... (for the commen...tors... (?) who had either games, is the girl showed with Milon in this video Kinu ?)

  • @I0NE007
    @I0NE007 Рік тому

    I thought the "Fire n Ice game" was the Amiga Platformer "Fire & Ice." You can imagine my surprise when the visuals did not match up at all.

  • @mcneleon
    @mcneleon Рік тому

    I rented King Arthur's World all the time back in the day! I really loved it!

  • @Jim_from_Centerville
    @Jim_from_Centerville Рік тому +5

    These videos are the perfect nostalgia blast to kick off the weekend! Thanks for posting!!

  • @hondragrid
    @hondragrid Рік тому

    King Arthur's World. I actually own this game and LOVE its style! I dislike RTS games of all kind but something about this puzzle game disguised as a RTS is really fun to play! I strongly suggest looking into it as its just a fun game. SOmething completely different that hasn't really been done since its release.