St1ka, I read your posts all the time on Twitter questioning why your videos aren't doing better. When you do videos as "Premiere" it alerts your subscribers at the point its uploaded. Say, it doesn't start for a few hours or a day; when it is available to watch, youtube doesn't re-remind subscribers. Ultimately, your video gets buried under newer videos. This happens a lot with your videos. I don't remember you had a new video coming out and out of sight, out of mind. I am subscribed but I'm also subscribed to hundreds of other channels. And for me, your video gets buried.
Great point! I do premieres an hour before it goes live so it's floating around the top of subscriptions still, and just make a post about it the day beforehand
Idk how anyone, himself included, could think his videos aren't doing well. Just a cursory glance at his views, epic for a channel with "only" 58k subscribers. Most retro gaming channels would drool over his success.
premieres suck, i often even just dont bother with going back to it later.... if video has premiere: my interest goes down by like 70% this might be for many people i dont know
I recently found your channel and subscribed immediately. I very rarely subscribe to channels, because they often aren't consistent in quality and content. You cover underrated hidden gems in the retro gaming category consistently and I found quite a few hidden gems now. It is important to highlight them, for history and cultural purposes. Some of these hidden gems are timeless and feature mechanics that are far ahead of its time. Good work my friend, keep it up!
What's insane about the Jurassic Park FPS section is the SPAS 12 is offset to the right when pretty much all FPS titles had the gun sticking out the center of the screen. I can't think of any fps from that era that did that until Duke Nukem 3D
I just take the opportunity to say that your recommendations are the best on the internet, even better and more interesting than the typical recommendations for "hidden gems" that you see on reddit. now your channel is only one of the few I feel anticipation to watch it 😅 I wish you nothing but the best bro, and I hope you manage to keep making your videos, as I haven't had a single miss from one of your recommended games 😮
17:40 - Blades of Vengeace (Sega Mega Drive) This game also has a cool feature: After completing half the game, you can buy a very expensive “armor set” (from the merchant between levels) - Equipment that greatly changes your character! At the beginning of the game there is a choice of 3 characters, and so, the weakest Grandfather-Bum, having bought equipment, he turns into fucking Gandalf! and casts deadly spells! The woman gets a crossbow, and the man with an ax... I can't remember what... the player begins to save a lot of money in order to buy this improvement as soon as it is available. This is a really cool game.
I think this is the first time I have ever heard someone talk about Blades of Vengeance, it's great to see that at least one other person knows this game exists!
I was one of the people who pre-ordered Super Fighter Team's planned release of Vixen 357 in English, so I can tell you what happened. Simply put, SFT head Brandon Cobb prided himself on being able to always stick to his original scheduled release dates for everything he & his team ever put out. For whatever reason, though, Vixen 357 took longer than planned to get ready, but instead of simply announcing a delay Brandon decided to simply cancel the entire thing, since he felt that he has broken the trust he had earned after so many years. Yeah, this was seriously what SFT said in the e-mail sent out to people who pre-ordered Vixen. I can respect the code of honor from Brandon Cobb in a sense, but I don't think anyone would have complained if he had simply delayed the release, if there were problems. Considering the fact that Super Fighter Team has literally only released an enhanced version of Sango Fighter & the promotional manhua for Super Fighter since Vixen's cancellation, both of which are 100% free to download on SFT's website, I do wonder if there was something else behind Vixen's cancellation & Brandon decided to keep the reason simple.
Just in case others haven't pointed it out, Gun Force was the spiritual predecessor of Metal Slug. When IREM went bankrupt, its former staff would establish Nazca and create a game with similar combat vehicle concept.
Dark Wizard still has a cult following. If someone made a modern remake of that one, using the same structure but with a smarter AI and modern graphics that game would be a massive success among SRPG fans. In fact, the AI is the one thing keeping it back from being a near perfect masterpiece for its time (It charges straight at your ruler and ignores the towns and cities unless in the path to your ruler). Everything else in that game is excellent.
@@st1ka Yeah, as it was in its time a real gem. I actually remember pre-ordering it at an Electronics Boutique when it released....Wow I'm getting long in the tooth.... With the success of recent games like Triangle Strategy, Unicorn Overlord, and the SRPG masterpiece Fire Emblem 3 houses (which is the highest selling game of its genre ever) hopefully developers will see there is a market for this genre of games more than ever before. Dark Wizard did more right than it got wrong. The review you did was spot-on. A modern remake of this title would be a GotY contender....Heres hoping some talented developer somewhere realizes this and gives it a modern remake. Hell, its probably public domain by now. I forget how many years before a license is public domain, but even still if it isnt it would be worth the investment to get the rights and do it again.
One of my favorite series is Variable Geo. It was made by the same developers that made Briganty and Steam Hearts, TGL/Giga. It's a pretty decent fighting game for the PC-98, but I'd recommend playing the PS1/Saturn/TG16-CD remake called Advanced V.G. And I've heard that there's an English fan translation in the works for the first game on PC-98
Big Fight is a game from my childhood that I played at a bowling alley arcade. I've been trying to rediscover it for decades! Finally feel confident that this mystery is solved, thanks to your video.
@@st1ka You can still use the Neko Project core in RA. That is what I use. If you want to use the standalone, I'm sure there is another place in the system files for the standalone to put the language pack BIOS files
Anytime St1ka does a video on forgotten or obscure games, I always have to make sure I've already heard of and loved at least one of them to help maintain my contrarian hipster cred, and I'm happy to say that's still been the case with every new release! :P
@@st1ka I had absolutely no clue that an Amiga version of Jaki Crush also existed but the fact is...Jaki Crush was also a Super Famicom game, which of course never left Japan, unfortunately (the only reason I wrote "of course" here is because Jaki Crush theme is...quite Japanese to say the least, making it way more difficult to export than Devil Crash/Crush I guess)...
Great show, St1ka, I think my favourite one from your list is Hyper Iria. I know and have seen OVA of it before and the game looks quite good. Night Salve also looks nice because it is relevant to my interests
I played Dark Wizard as a kid and I loved it. I had forgotten what it was called and I looked for it for a while recently and couldn’t find it. Thank you for showcasing it! I’m excited to find it and play it again!
Never heard of these games but got nostalgic for them all the same. Well, nostalgic for the era. That sense of experimentation we all took for granted as kids before big money homogenised everything.
I grew up owning Dark Wizard since I picked it up at the bargain bin at a Blockbuster. I loved it, especially for the art, but it's such a hard game I never got far lol. Was surreal seeing it on this list
Yep, the anime series is great. But there are also two non-animated japanese movies called "Zeiram" and "Zeiram 2" - I only saw the first one which is quite entertaining.
@@st1ka did a little research and found out that what I actually had was the game Saiyuuki World, which was mislabeled SonSon II on a bootlegged cartridge. And quite a lot of people had the same problem, as I gathered from the comments
Oh, blades of vengeance. Played this game on my bootleg sega in childhood. You forgot say that characters have upgrades. If you find three white "stars" (something like that) for the first time the strength will be increased. For the second time girl character get an arbalest instead of a sword. Thanks for cool video :)
I must have sank who known how much hours into 'Dark Wizard' on the SEGA CD. One of my favourite games at the time. Defenetly a real hidden gem if you like party-based tactical gams.
Nice list. I did play Hyper Iria, SonSon 2 (the character in Marvel vs Capcom 2 is _supposedly_ the protagonist's daughter/granddaughter) and Blades of Vengeance. I knew Night Slavs existed due to being a fan of the Assault Suits series, but I didn't know it was a spicy game... although, yeah, it's a PC-98 game. I should have seen that coming...
Your videos are amazing! I admire how consistent and good they are love that you always include a relevant background on the sides making amazing use of the space from the aspect ratio! Cheers from Texas!
Retroarch or Neko. Be wary that it is not as simple as loading the ROM, there are some extra steps which I don't remember now. Search in the emulation wiki about PC98 emu
Neko project. Be warned that there's several different neko project emulators. I have like 4 installed and just switch between them lol Also, not all PC98 dumps are created equal. I had to download night slave from 3 different sources before one of them worked. Seems every pc98 game has like 7 different dumps lol
For Legendary Axe 2, one of the main things people get divisive about in regards to the game is the fact that apparently it's not a sequel to the first game at all in Japan, the two games have different names & are not linked to each other. Personally, I prefer Legendary Axe 2(or Ankoku Densetsu as that game is known in Jp), but both are great games. And the second game uses the same sound engine as Dungeon Explorer and the first two Bonk games among various other games. It's honestly one of my favorite sound engines on the PCE. Very powerful and atmospheric. For Gunforce, correct me if I'm wrong but I believe both Gunforce games are ultimately spiritual prequels to Metal Slug. If I'm remembering right, some of the guys that made those games went on to make the Metal Slug series, so the focus on vehicles is definitely no surprise.
I have played Run Sabre and it's cool and fun game. I also played Wings of Wor. A lot of these games I heard of but never played and others I haven't seen before. Good video as always!
Wow, that Jurassic Park game looks awesome. I wish Limited Run had included it in the Jurassic Park Collection. I love your other other selections as well with some featuring beautiful anime art. :)
Limited run actually left quite a few games out of their collection, I believe it doesn't include the third mega drive game or the Sega CD game for example
Nice. I had Gynoug(Japanese import I bought in Durham u.k, With an adapter the cart worked on the mega drive still) in the early nineties it was immense.
Iria Zeiram is one of my first and dear Anime shows. Its only six episodes. Her bounty hunting brother persued an unstoppable weapon, and she is off to find him. The flying parasol vehicle has cool animation, too. This anime is also 2 or 3 live action movies
I remember my brother and I watched Iria during Christmas break last year. Had thoughts about revisiting the Super Nintendo game after watching this video.
@@st1ka Haha. I was just joking but what the hell xD I enjoyed the Mega Man 2 one for all it's flaws, and I still maintain that Tiger Handheld had the best Pit Fighter port. It could actually be figured out and played, rather than just button mashing.
Loved this video had a mix of games I love like Run Saber, games I forgot like Gunforce and Blades of Vengeance, and games I never heard of like Asterix, want to make a list out of this one
Fantastic video, St1ka. Along with your commentary, there's a great variety of 16-bit games here. I was happy to see some games that I've played myself and hearing about some games that I didn't know about but want to check out and play now. 👍
Been way too busy this Summer to catch your past few videos. Welp, now that I have a moment where I don't have tons of stuff to do, time to marathon them. There always end up being a few games in your videos that flew under my radar and are worth checking out. Night Salve looks pretty neat. Definitely adding that to the mile long list of games to get around to.
Jokes on you I've played Asterix but didn't know it was a comic lol... maybe my dad did, because growing up that was on his Sega Genesis. Joking aside I didn't get very far, I didn't understand it and got bored, but maybe I should give it another chance as an adult, haven't thought about in years.
Altrough it's clearly heavily influenced by Strider (certainly, it's a Strider clone), it's the better game. Better level design, more fluid gameplay, a nice soundtrack, and much variety in graphical effects - it's simply the better Strider imo!
I love and hate notifications. Love that I can see content I want to see. Hate that every time I see it, I have to wait, and by the time it happens, I've been distracted and miss it.
Thanks for the video. I started playing Legendary Axe based on your suggestion. I liked it in the first 2 min, so I went back to the first one, and I like that too!
I have the snes cartridge of Jaki Crush. Played it since I was a kid (twenty years ago, at least). It is a really cool game with sick soundtrack too. It's easily on my top 10/20 snes games.
I definitely need to try the MS-DOS version of Jurassic Park again. My dad got it for me back in late 1993 or early 1994. I absolutely sucked at playing it, given I was six years old, so I never did reach the 3D stages. There were a bunch of DOS games I never completed but had fun playing. The DOS version of Batman Returns is a particular recommendation of mine as a hidden gem of the 16-bit era. It has great style and atmosphere to it, even if it can be clunky. Great video, mate!
Be sure to skip the 2D sections. They're not bad, but could be better. The 3D sections is where it's at. Also, I've actually covered Batman Returns in a christmas video :D
@@st1ka Haha, I'd be losing out on too much of the nostalgia to skip them, at least a first! Looking forward to trying the 3D sections; very impressive for the time. Ah, looking forward to watching how you cover the various Batman Returns games in the Christmas hidden gems, and games that stole Christmas videos!
Never played the Iria game. Watched the anime back in the 90's. I remember it being a little tense and gritty; without really being dark. It's a spinoff of the Zeiram movies.
Wow, awesome list! I only knew Jaki Crush and Hyper Iria from this list. The strange animations you mentioned about Lionheart remembers me a lot of He-Man, specially the running animation. Fluid, but kinda... Odd I guess
Hey Sitka, The Iria anime is pretty good, I watched it back in the day. It’s kind of a Cyberpunk bounty hunter thing, highly recommend. Man, you are coming in hot with that thumbnail image (it’s awesome).
Good stuff. I have Wings of Wor and beat it and own Blades Of Vengeance in my To Do pile. Might wanna do Son Son 2 and The Legendary Axe II. Good recommends. And thanks for mentioning Daemon Claw. I had the kickstarter backed and it looks good from the info they showed. I think i heard it from you're community posts. Its like months ago so I cant recall.
Hyper Iria: it's a nice game, but the slowdown sometimes really sucks. It's not because the system can't handle it (it's technically a low tier game), it's because of wrong/bad coding. Remember games like Rendering Ranger or the DK trilogy f.e., they run perfect without any slowdown.
A detail I'm surprised isn't mentioned in the video is that Gunforce was made by the same devs as Metal Slug before they joined SNK. It has a sequel, Gunforce 2/Geostorm which is much better and the similarities with Metal Slug are even more apparent in it.
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at 37:10 you forgot Big Fight in the chapters
@@raafmaat whoops! Fixed
Can you stick to one thumbnail?
Eventually yes
Do you have any steam games that are similar to games in this video?
St1ka, I read your posts all the time on Twitter questioning why your videos aren't doing better. When you do videos as "Premiere" it alerts your subscribers at the point its uploaded. Say, it doesn't start for a few hours or a day; when it is available to watch, youtube doesn't re-remind subscribers. Ultimately, your video gets buried under newer videos. This happens a lot with your videos. I don't remember you had a new video coming out and out of sight, out of mind. I am subscribed but I'm also subscribed to hundreds of other channels. And for me, your video gets buried.
Great point! I do premieres an hour before it goes live so it's floating around the top of subscriptions still, and just make a post about it the day beforehand
Idk how anyone, himself included, could think his videos aren't doing well. Just a cursory glance at his views, epic for a channel with "only" 58k subscribers.
Most retro gaming channels would drool over his success.
That's a pretty good idea. I'll try that next time ^^
Exactly. Every time I see a premiere video that I want to watch, I open it in a new tab so a don't forget about it, otherwise I might miss it.
premieres suck, i often even just dont bother with going back to it later.... if video has premiere: my interest goes down by like 70%
this might be for many people i dont know
I recently found your channel and subscribed immediately. I very rarely subscribe to channels, because they often aren't consistent in quality and content. You cover underrated hidden gems in the retro gaming category consistently and I found quite a few hidden gems now. It is important to highlight them, for history and cultural purposes. Some of these hidden gems are timeless and feature mechanics that are far ahead of its time. Good work my friend, keep it up!
Thank you so much! :D
This channel is slowly becoming one of my favorites on UA-cam. Good stuff, dude
Thank you! I try!
What's insane about the Jurassic Park FPS section is the SPAS 12 is offset to the right when pretty much all FPS titles had the gun sticking out the center of the screen. I can't think of any fps from that era that did that until Duke Nukem 3D
Wow I didn't even think of that!
I just take the opportunity to say that your recommendations are the best on the internet, even better and more interesting than the typical recommendations for "hidden gems" that you see on reddit. now your channel is only one of the few I feel anticipation to watch it 😅
I wish you nothing but the best bro, and I hope you manage to keep making your videos, as I haven't had a single miss from one of your recommended games 😮
Thank you! I'm glad you like them ^^
17:40 - Blades of Vengeace (Sega Mega Drive)
This game also has a cool feature:
After completing half the game, you can buy a very expensive “armor set” (from the merchant between levels) - Equipment that greatly changes your character!
At the beginning of the game there is a choice of 3 characters, and so, the weakest Grandfather-Bum, having bought equipment, he turns into fucking Gandalf! and casts deadly spells! The woman gets a crossbow, and the man with an ax... I can't remember what...
the player begins to save a lot of money in order to buy this improvement as soon as it is available.
This is a really cool game.
yep very true, I should have mentioned that
It also should be worth mentioning that the game also has a two player mode, the experience is even funnier with a friend.
Hidden gems indeed, the only one I heard before was Run Saber and 16 bit it's my favorite and most played era of videogames. Well done, St1ka! 👏
Mine too, by far. Nothing beats the golden aera of gaming!
Yeah, I love the 16-bit era of gaming and deeply miss it
I think this is the first time I have ever heard someone talk about Blades of Vengeance, it's great to see that at least one other person knows this game exists!
I aim to please ^^
I know it exists, it is just too rich for my blood.
"But it nails that audience!"
*Phrasing*
Sorry, Archer
I was one of the people who pre-ordered Super Fighter Team's planned release of Vixen 357 in English, so I can tell you what happened. Simply put, SFT head Brandon Cobb prided himself on being able to always stick to his original scheduled release dates for everything he & his team ever put out. For whatever reason, though, Vixen 357 took longer than planned to get ready, but instead of simply announcing a delay Brandon decided to simply cancel the entire thing, since he felt that he has broken the trust he had earned after so many years.
Yeah, this was seriously what SFT said in the e-mail sent out to people who pre-ordered Vixen. I can respect the code of honor from Brandon Cobb in a sense, but I don't think anyone would have complained if he had simply delayed the release, if there were problems. Considering the fact that Super Fighter Team has literally only released an enhanced version of Sango Fighter & the promotional manhua for Super Fighter since Vixen's cancellation, both of which are 100% free to download on SFT's website, I do wonder if there was something else behind Vixen's cancellation & Brandon decided to keep the reason simple.
Oh that's a shame :(
THE WAIT! THE WAIT IS TOO LOOOOONG! Can't wait to see this video.
Sorry xD
Just in case others haven't pointed it out, Gun Force was the spiritual predecessor of Metal Slug. When IREM went bankrupt, its former staff would establish Nazca and create a game with similar combat vehicle concept.
I reall should play Gun Force 2
Dark Wizard still has a cult following. If someone made a modern remake of that one, using the same structure but with a smarter AI and modern graphics that game would be a massive success among SRPG fans. In fact, the AI is the one thing keeping it back from being a near perfect masterpiece for its time (It charges straight at your ruler and ignores the towns and cities unless in the path to your ruler). Everything else in that game is excellent.
I was sad that Dark Wizard wasn't included in the Mega Drive Mini 2. It really should have been there.
@@st1ka Yeah, as it was in its time a real gem. I actually remember pre-ordering it at an Electronics Boutique when it released....Wow I'm getting long in the tooth....
With the success of recent games like Triangle Strategy, Unicorn Overlord, and the SRPG masterpiece Fire Emblem 3 houses (which is the highest selling game of its genre ever) hopefully developers will see there is a market for this genre of games more than ever before.
Dark Wizard did more right than it got wrong. The review you did was spot-on. A modern remake of this title would be a GotY contender....Heres hoping some talented developer somewhere realizes this and gives it a modern remake. Hell, its probably public domain by now. I forget how many years before a license is public domain, but even still if it isnt it would be worth the investment to get the rights and do it again.
This man. Every time with the clickbait thumbnails.
He's a national treasure. We will protect him with our lives.
I try! :D
@@st1ka Isn't your head swelled enough?😜
@@Enigma2K99never!!!
@@st1ka YOU NEVER SAW IRIA?!
Bro, get ready to have your mind blown: The ANIME is a hidden gem you've never seen XD
@@mukiex4413 Plan to watch it over the weekend
Trunks: "so, you must be Son Wukong" *Damnit!*
Goku: "I am Son Goku, yes."
Trunks: *roll with it*
- TFS DBZA
6:50
Haha
One of my favorite series is Variable Geo. It was made by the same developers that made Briganty and Steam Hearts, TGL/Giga. It's a pretty decent fighting game for the PC-98, but I'd recommend playing the PS1/Saturn/TG16-CD remake called Advanced V.G. And I've heard that there's an English fan translation in the works for the first game on PC-98
oooh thank you for the recomendation
Big Fight is a game from my childhood that I played at a bowling alley arcade. I've been trying to rediscover it for decades! Finally feel confident that this mystery is solved, thanks to your video.
Haha glad I could help
Thanks for talking about Legendary Axe II, Turbo games, expect SHUMPS are usually ignored. Good for you for not spoining the surprise ending.
Yeah I wanted to mention something outside shmups for the TG 16
St1ka you have to install the language core BIOS in the retroarch system files for the PC-98 to see the english language patches
Oh I was using Neko Project. I'll try looking into retroarch
@@st1ka You can still use the Neko Project core in RA. That is what I use. If you want to use the standalone, I'm sure there is another place in the system files for the standalone to put the language pack BIOS files
Anytime St1ka does a video on forgotten or obscure games, I always have to make sure I've already heard of and loved at least one of them to help maintain my contrarian hipster cred, and I'm happy to say that's still been the case with every new release! :P
Haha
Night Salve has a fantastic soundtrack, featuring some funky FM tunes. I listen to it at work sometimes.
agreed! :D
Did not expect to see an Amiga game on here.
@@foreignuser_ you got two ;D
@@st1ka I had absolutely no clue that an Amiga version of Jaki Crush also existed but the fact is...Jaki Crush was also a Super Famicom game, which of course never left Japan, unfortunately (the only reason I wrote "of course" here is because Jaki Crush theme is...quite Japanese to say the least, making it way more difficult to export than Devil Crash/Crush I guess)...
Great show, St1ka, I think my favourite one from your list is Hyper Iria. I know and have seen OVA of it before and the game looks quite good. Night Salve also looks nice because it is relevant to my interests
hehe :P
Legendary Axe 2 is a personal fave. Some of the best music in games from that era also.
It's such a cool game! :D
I played Dark Wizard as a kid and I loved it. I had forgotten what it was called and I looked for it for a while recently and couldn’t find it. Thank you for showcasing it! I’m excited to find it and play it again!
Hope you enjoy it :D
Never heard of these games but got nostalgic for them all the same. Well, nostalgic for the era. That sense of experimentation we all took for granted as kids before big money homogenised everything.
right? I love the 16-bit era :D
Hyper Iria within the first 5 seconds. Already a banger video. Also, you should absolutely watch Iria.
Haha thanks man! Looking forward to your next video
Big flight looks freaking awesome. I can't believe id never heard of it before. Great stuff as usual.
right?!
I grew up owning Dark Wizard since I picked it up at the bargain bin at a Blockbuster. I loved it, especially for the art, but it's such a hard game I never got far lol. Was surreal seeing it on this list
Oh man I wish I had the game
OMG, I loved Dark Wizard when I was a kid! It's fantastic
Such a great game
iria zeiram is great, very solid classic anime
I never saw the anime, but the game is really innovative. It can be seen as 2D action RPG, a quite rare genre, at least when it comes to 16bit titles.
I'll have to watch it :D
Yep, the anime series is great. But there are also two non-animated japanese movies called "Zeiram" and "Zeiram 2" - I only saw the first one which is quite entertaining.
@@st1ka It's on Tubi for anyone interested in watching it. Oh yeah, even the live action ones too.
I think I used to have a bootlegged NES port of SonSon II back in the day. Good game, good times.
oh interesting, didn't even know such a thing existed.
@@st1ka did a little research and found out that what I actually had was the game Saiyuuki World, which was mislabeled SonSon II on a bootlegged cartridge. And quite a lot of people had the same problem, as I gathered from the comments
Love seeing a video reference not only Run Saber but Vixen 357 also these are games no one I know has heard of but stuck with me.
Glad I could deliver :)
Just booted up Gynoug on my Everdrive for the first time after watching your video and it’s awesome! Thanks for all the recommendations.
Enjoy! :D
Good selection, you genuinely know your 16-bit games.
Thank you! ^^
I've literally been waiting to find this game, and I started looking the day you posted this. Thanks so much!!
Glad I could help!
Oh, blades of vengeance. Played this game on my bootleg sega in childhood. You forgot say that characters have upgrades. If you find three white "stars" (something like that) for the first time the strength will be increased. For the second time girl character get an arbalest instead of a sword.
Thanks for cool video :)
Yep I should have mentioned that lol
I must have sank who known how much hours into 'Dark Wizard' on the SEGA CD. One of my favourite games at the time.
Defenetly a real hidden gem if you like party-based tactical gams.
Nice list. I did play Hyper Iria, SonSon 2 (the character in Marvel vs Capcom 2 is _supposedly_ the protagonist's daughter/granddaughter) and Blades of Vengeance. I knew Night Slavs existed due to being a fan of the Assault Suits series, but I didn't know it was a spicy game... although, yeah, it's a PC-98 game. I should have seen that coming...
Hah! I didn't know that
There was a mech game for SNES, made by Lucas Arts, that looked EXACTLY like "Night Salve", but minus all the anime.
Hah that's metal warriors. Great game, but plays a bit differently imo ^^
Love you reviews. Came to your channel via your Dungeons & Dragons review for the ps3 (shaodws over mystara) japanese version.
Oh wow, that's an old video :D
Your videos are amazing! I admire how consistent and good they are love that you always include a relevant background on the sides making amazing use of the space from the aspect ratio! Cheers from Texas!
Thank you so much! :D
I remember playing Dark Wizards as a child. The first map took hours to get though and I always felt like I was playing it wrong.
Yeah the game is a huge timesink, but it's very enjoyable
Dark Wizard was amazing! I love the Sega CD and got all the SRPG's on it. Shining Force CD is also a must.
I've finished shining force CD a few months ago on my Mega Drive mini 2
what did you use for pc-98 emulation?? ive been trying to get policenaughts to work for over a year
Retroarch or Neko. Be wary that it is not as simple as loading the ROM, there are some extra steps which I don't remember now. Search in the emulation wiki about PC98 emu
Neko project. Be warned that there's several different neko project emulators. I have like 4 installed and just switch between them lol
Also, not all PC98 dumps are created equal. I had to download night slave from 3 different sources before one of them worked.
Seems every pc98 game has like 7 different dumps lol
Iria is my favorite anime of all time! I never knew there was a game of it!
I need to watch it :D
Man. i always LOVE your Thumbnails! lol
hehe :D
“…the only thing standing between you and greatness is your willingness to chew through the impossible.” So deep! Today is the day, I can feel it.
lol
I've played son son 2, but I'm psyched theres an Asterix beat em up! Im going to play that!
Enjoy! :D
For Legendary Axe 2, one of the main things people get divisive about in regards to the game is the fact that apparently it's not a sequel to the first game at all in Japan, the two games have different names & are not linked to each other. Personally, I prefer Legendary Axe 2(or Ankoku Densetsu as that game is known in Jp), but both are great games. And the second game uses the same sound engine as Dungeon Explorer and the first two Bonk games among various other games. It's honestly one of my favorite sound engines on the PCE. Very powerful and atmospheric.
For Gunforce, correct me if I'm wrong but I believe both Gunforce games are ultimately spiritual prequels to Metal Slug. If I'm remembering right, some of the guys that made those games went on to make the Metal Slug series, so the focus on vehicles is definitely no surprise.
It's a shame it gets so much hate though. It's such a fun game
Man what a banger list 🔥hyper iria,son son 2,blades of vengeance,gun force ,legendary axe will check these👍
Glad you liked it :D
I have to admit the only reason I'm familiar with SonSon is because of his Granddaughter's appearance as a playable character in MVC2. 😅
haha
Great video! I'm putting it in my Favorites as a "To Download" ROMs list for me!
enjoy! :D
You are the first channel that i follow that used this trailer function, i didnt even that this existed. 46h HYPE.
hehe thank you
I have played Run Sabre and it's cool and fun game. I also played Wings of Wor. A lot of these games I heard of but never played and others I haven't seen before.
Good video as always!
Thank you ^^
Wow, that Jurassic Park game looks awesome. I wish Limited Run had included it in the Jurassic Park Collection. I love your other other selections as well with some featuring beautiful anime art. :)
Limited run actually left quite a few games out of their collection, I believe it doesn't include the third mega drive game or the Sega CD game for example
Blades of Vengeance was developed by Beam Software
Nice. I had Gynoug(Japanese import I bought in Durham u.k, With an adapter the cart worked on the mega drive still) in the early nineties it was immense.
Gynoug is such a cool game:D
Thanks for sharing all these cool games. I probably would never have found any of them on my own.
Thank you! I try ^^
Iria Zeiram is one of my first and dear Anime shows. Its only six episodes. Her bounty hunting brother persued an unstoppable weapon, and she is off to find him. The flying parasol vehicle has cool animation, too.
This anime is also 2 or 3 live action movies
Yeah I've been watching some Iria stuff and I'm enjoying it :D
The Iria anime, both short movie and series are good. Total 90s action anime at its best
heck yeah
Thanks for this video. I really recommend to play those games with retroarch and load shaders to get a real 16bits era experience!
Hope you enjoyed it
I love indie movies and forgotten movies as much as I love indie games and forgotten big releases. Bring it on.
Hope you enjoyed the video then ^^
For more PC98 and 88 games, I recommend the channel Basement Brothers. They also speak Japanese fluently so they can talk about yet untranslated games
Oh I know that channel well
Nice collection of hidden gems... We might try a few! :) 🙇
Hope you'll enjoy them ^^
I remember my brother and I watched Iria during Christmas break last year. Had thoughts about revisiting the Super Nintendo game after watching this video.
But hey, after watching the video, there are definitely some games I want to play! Gotta go play Briganty on my laptop after this!
@@rockhyde7775hope you enjoy them :D
@@st1ka Which we did.
What did you use to emulate Magical Vacation with? It's notorious for being difficult to run on most mainstream emulators due to sound driver issues.
I just used Visual Boy Advance 2.1.9 and it worked fine for me? o.O
St1ka should do an INCREDIBLE TIGER HANDHELD Gems You Never Played video. It'll be short, but so so sweet.
I've actually been meaning to do that. I was really impressed by Gauntlet and Snake's revenge.
Got any recommendations?
@@st1kaSpace Harrier 2.
The Nintendo Game & Watch Super Mario Bros.
Most Pac-Man LCDs.
There was a cool little LCD keychain Pinball game.
It might be one of those Internet Archive to the rescue things. MAME plays a pretty wide range of them.
@@st1ka Haha. I was just joking but what the hell xD I enjoyed the Mega Man 2 one for all it's flaws, and I still maintain that Tiger Handheld had the best Pit Fighter port. It could actually be figured out and played, rather than just button mashing.
@@sambojinbojin-sam6550 Thank you I'll check them out ^^
I like that you got Borat to narrate your video...well played sir!
Actually, it's Dr. Nick
Only games I heard of was Blade of Vengeance and Dark Wizard. Only because I own them lol. Cool video
Thank you ^^
Loved this video had a mix of games I love like Run Saber, games I forgot like Gunforce and Blades of Vengeance, and games I never heard of like Asterix, want to make a list out of this one
Glad I could help! :D
Fantastic video, St1ka. Along with your commentary, there's a great variety of 16-bit games here. I was happy to see some games that I've played myself and hearing about some games that I didn't know about but want to check out and play now. 👍
I try ^^
Been way too busy this Summer to catch your past few videos. Welp, now that I have a moment where I don't have tons of stuff to do, time to marathon them. There always end up being a few games in your videos that flew under my radar and are worth checking out. Night Salve looks pretty neat. Definitely adding that to the mile long list of games to get around to.
Hope you enjoy them! :D
Jokes on you I've played Asterix but didn't know it was a comic lol... maybe my dad did, because growing up that was on his Sega Genesis. Joking aside I didn't get very far, I didn't understand it and got bored, but maybe I should give it another chance as an adult, haven't thought about in years.
hahIf you do, I hope you'll enjoy it :D
Love your videos St1ka! Keep these coming!
Thank you!
been binging your videos and loving it, great style thanks for your hard work
Thank you! I try ^^
Run Saber was awesome!
Altrough it's clearly heavily influenced by Strider (certainly, it's a Strider clone), it's the better game. Better level design, more fluid gameplay, a nice soundtrack, and much variety in graphical effects - it's simply the better Strider imo!
Such of a fun game
@@greensun1334 Totally agree. Strider was good too, but Run Saber felt better to me in just about every way.
"Night Salve" reminds me of "Metal Warriors" ... it's a must play if you like 16b mecha games
Oh that's a great game too
I love and hate notifications.
Love that I can see content I want to see.
Hate that every time I see it, I have to wait, and by the time it happens, I've been distracted and miss it.
sorry :P
Huge list I've never heard of.
Good work!
Thank you! :D
Gynoug is ABSOLUTELY AWESOME and STUNNINGLY AMAZING
hell yeah!
40:04 As a huge Jaki Crush fan I literally screamed hell yeah as soon as I saw the title screen's background appear
Glad I could be of service
Thanks for the video. I started playing Legendary Axe based on your suggestion. I liked it in the first 2 min, so I went back to the first one, and I like that too!
The Legendary Axe games are genuinely great.
I have the snes cartridge of Jaki Crush. Played it since I was a kid (twenty years ago, at least). It is a really cool game with sick soundtrack too. It's easily on my top 10/20 snes games.
Damn that's so cool! I wish I owned it
Vixen 357 kind of reminds me of Ring of Red on the PS2. That was a game very few people knew about, which is a shame because I loved it.
Hah I own that PS2 game. I enjoy it quite a bit despite the terrible English localization
I had Gynoug back in the day. The only game I recognised on this list.
It's such a great game
The biggest hidden gem here is your channel, you deserve more viewers.
Thank you! I try ^^
I definitely need to try the MS-DOS version of Jurassic Park again. My dad got it for me back in late 1993 or early 1994. I absolutely sucked at playing it, given I was six years old, so I never did reach the 3D stages. There were a bunch of DOS games I never completed but had fun playing. The DOS version of Batman Returns is a particular recommendation of mine as a hidden gem of the 16-bit era. It has great style and atmosphere to it, even if it can be clunky. Great video, mate!
Be sure to skip the 2D sections. They're not bad, but could be better. The 3D sections is where it's at. Also, I've actually covered Batman Returns in a christmas video :D
@@st1ka Haha, I'd be losing out on too much of the nostalgia to skip them, at least a first! Looking forward to trying the 3D sections; very impressive for the time. Ah, looking forward to watching how you cover the various Batman Returns games in the Christmas hidden gems, and games that stole Christmas videos!
@stevenwarner9156 oh I've actually already done that. Can't remember which Christmas video it was, but I've covered every batman returns game
Never played the Iria game. Watched the anime back in the 90's. I remember it being a little tense and gritty; without really being dark. It's a spinoff of the Zeiram movies.
The game isn't what I'd call gritty, but it's quite fun ^^
Wow, awesome list! I only knew Jaki Crush and Hyper Iria from this list.
The strange animations you mentioned about Lionheart remembers me a lot of He-Man, specially the running animation. Fluid, but kinda... Odd I guess
Yeah the in-game sprite looks clearly inspired by He-man which is funny because he looks very different in the cutscenes.
Run saber was my childhood strider lol
I only heard about strider in the capcom vs games years later
Honestly, you got the best Strider then imo
Lots of great games that I remember playing.
Also nice thumbnail 👍
Haha thank you
I haven't played any of these, but now I really want to.
enjoy! :D
I like how the song that plays on the level where you save Panacea sounds very Rocket Knight like.
Oh wow that's a good point. I never noticed that.
Hey Sitka,
The Iria anime is pretty good, I watched it back in the day. It’s kind of a Cyberpunk bounty hunter thing, highly recommend.
Man, you are coming in hot with that thumbnail image (it’s awesome).
Haha yeah I gotta game the algo any way I can
Good stuff. I have Wings of Wor and beat it and own Blades Of Vengeance in my To Do pile. Might wanna do Son Son 2 and The Legendary Axe II. Good recommends. And thanks for mentioning Daemon Claw. I had the kickstarter backed and it looks good from the info they showed. I think i heard it from you're community posts. Its like months ago so I cant recall.
I can't wait until Daemon claw is out
I remember I was enthusiastically describing the Asterix game to my sister. I was imitating Obelix's throw, and smashed her light bulb
haha that's adorable
Hyper Iria: it's a nice game, but the slowdown sometimes really sucks. It's not because the system can't handle it (it's technically a low tier game), it's because of wrong/bad coding. Remember games like Rendering Ranger or the DK trilogy f.e., they run perfect without any slowdown.
Understandable ^^
A detail I'm surprised isn't mentioned in the video is that Gunforce was made by the same devs as Metal Slug before they joined SNK. It has a sequel, Gunforce 2/Geostorm which is much better and the similarities with Metal Slug are even more apparent in it.
I actually had no idea there even was a gunforce 2 until an hour ago. Guess I got something to play
Did something get edited out of the Asterix section? Because the timestamps for everything after it are out of sync.
Yeah sorry about that. I had to remove 17 seconds due to a copyright notification. Fixed the timestamps