Btw you're right. It _IS_ called Baseball Simulator one thousand. Not baseball simulator one point 000 More countries in the world use a comma as a decimal point than countries that use a period/full stop as a decimal point. And the countries that use a comma for the decimal point use a period/full stop to indicate breaks in a number, instead of using a comma like we do in the UK and US and so on. So for them, what we'd call for example 1,000,000.23 they'd write as 1.000.000,23 So a Japanese company made this game, and though Japan uses a period/full stop as a decimal separator just like we do in the UK and US, they must have thought it was better to accommodate most of the world, e.g. the vast majority of europe uses a comma as a decimal separator (the UK and Ireland are pretty much the only European countries that use a period/full stop), and all but one country in south America uses a comma as a decimal separator too. Even parts of Canada use a comma as a decimal separator. The Quebec parts, unsurprisingly, because they was be french so bad, and France uses the comma. So yeah, if you're selling your game globally, you might as well accommodate the system most countries use
@ I had a friend who had it when we were kids. I have so many fond memories of him walking me through how to play it. The kid was like a Nintendo encyclopedia.
I never owned it but rented it a few times as a kid (similar to John, only got a new game once or twice a year at most). Loved it though! Same with Little Ninja Bros!
Got some big nostalgic love for Flying Dragon. It was coincidentally for me one of the first NES games I bought with my own money. My brother got Galaxy 5000 on that same outing as well. I didn't know anything about Flying Dragon when I chose it. The box art looked cool and the screenshots made it seem like a game I would enjoy and I did. I've beaten it multiple times and thanks to this video I was today's days old when I learned that Flying Warrior is a sequel so thank you John for that. Will also mention that Flying Dragon was also one of the last Nintendo games I ever got complete in box too. Wish I didn't toss the box back in the day but I did at least keep the instruction manual. Despite probably reading it over 100 times, it's still in pretty good shape too.
I requested this vid just for your take on Baseball Sim. To this day it was the only baseball game I played extensively. Loved just goofing around with building a team and giving a few players max stat. One guy could pitch like 140. Another ran so it took 1 second to get to a base.
Yeah I'm with this guy one of my few fond memories of my father was playing baseball SIM 1000. Loved the hell out of that game. Earl for the Montreal team was beast!
Flying Warriors was a grand experience for me as a kid which led to my love of Ultimate Fighter on SNES. I still play that every now and then. Kung Fu Heroes was also one that my mom would rent for me on a lark at the local Turtles video store and I became quite fond of it.
"Flying Dragon" was one of those few games we got as a kid. Nostalgic for me. *Note: Scheherazade told the 1,001 Nights. The Kind or Emperor kept marrying and killing women, and the way she stopped him from doing it was to marry the Emperor, start a tale to her younger sister and not finish it. The Emperor wanted to hear the rest of it, so he did not kill her, and she would finish the tale and start another without finishing it, and again, he wanted to hear the rest, so he spared her. This went on for year and several children later. Aladdin, the 40 thieves (forgot the name), Sinbad, and more came out of it.
There's a really great progressive rock song about Scheherazade, by Renaissance. It's thirty minutes long and pretty much covers the whole story, with tons of Middle Eastern ambiance.
Love Baseball Simulator 1.000. When I was a kid, my baseball nerd self would edit six teams with real players and stats and play a full 165 game season. And then the game would keep track of player stats as you progressed throughout the season. I played the SNES version more, but this is definitely a nostalgia hit for me.
I just wrote basically the same post as I did this with a baseball almanac. The thing was tweaking the home run power. If you had Gary Carter hit 20 home runs in 1991 and you type in 20 home runs he would hit like 33. So it was trial and error. I had Astros, Pirates,Dodgers, Twins, Rangers, and A’s.
'Scheherazade' is a Rimsky-Korsakov showpiece. It shows off the virtuosity of the orchestra. It is in four movements and lasts about 45 minutes. It is based on "1001 nights' which is a compilation of mid-eastern folk tales. Sinbad is probably the most famous one there. I don't know whether the game was inspired by the folk tales themselves or the RK piece, or maybe a bit of both,. One of my favorites...
Thank you! For my 13th birthday, my folks surprised me by letting me pick out a game at the mall. I was not prepared and had to rush my decision. I went with Flying Dragon: The Secret Scroll. I got it home and 30 minutes later, I had the buyer's remorse. I thought my Birthday pick was clunky and dull and my failure to choose a good game filled me with angst. However, my younger sister started to play it on and off over the next week and figured out what to do, and she later showed me some stuff, and I was like, "HOW?" and it became one of the better memories I have of us playing together as siblings. Anyhoo, I'm a huge fan of this game and your videos and a fan of younger sisters showing older brothers how to be patient.
Wonderful video as always! I love your enthusiasm and appreciate your thoughts man! I barely touched Culture Brain's library and it sounds like their games were quite underrated!
I have a copy of Flying Warriors that I’ve had since I was a kid when it came out. Still have all of my old stuff because I never traded anything in. Got a prefect condition Genesis that I got for Christmas in ‘94
This was the best video I've seen by this guy. This is very interesting to me. I'm familiar with some of these games but this is a useful niche in terms of a UA-cam context. Diamonds in the rough are harder to find and know what to do with than the stuff that jumps right out at you even if you don't know about it. I appreciate the discussion and context as well as what is on display.
Rimsky-Korsakov wrote the symphonic suite, which was based on 1001 Arabian Nights, which in turn is where we get the stories of Aladdin, Sinbad, and Ali Baba.
I discovered your channel over the last week or so....love it man. So much nostalgia...I hope you decide to rank the SNES games,but if not,still appreciate ya man!
One of the things I remember culture brain for is kind of mixing things together that normally didn't go together like the Kung fu heroes and kid ninja with an RPG element of random encounters. And there was turn base fighting in the magic of the name I dare not pronounce cuz I screwed up. That's my fondness for this company what are the reasons why I wanted you to do the video for so long because I think it's showcases some unique NES games. The magic of the really complicated name is one of my favorite NES soundtracks and it always takes me back to being a kid again. Because I think I rented and played that game a ton as a kid never beat it
Ah, so we learned some of your backstory today! The musical piece you're thinking of is the Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov composed symphonic suite _Scheherazade_ from 1888, which was based on One Thousand and One Nights (Scheherazade is the central character, telling these fantastic stories to stave off her impending execution, which is eventually called off.) Oh, and that Kung-Fu Heroes and Little Ninja Brothers, it's similar to what Jaleco's NA division did with the Rushing Beat series. It's all from the Super Chinese series, which ran for 12 mainline entries (five of which were released overseas.)
@@BB-te8tc *waves back* I've played all the officially translated Super Chinese games (Kung-Fu Heroes, Little Ninja Brothers, Ninja Boy, Ninja Boy 2, Super Ninja Boy) and got a ways into Super Chinese World 2 before I even heard of the fan translation late last year. With that and the fan translations for SCW3 and Super Chinese Fighter, that's eight of the twelve mainline titles accounted for; kudos to whomever at DDSTranslation for making that possible.
Flying Warriors is super nostalgic to me, because we played it when I spent one week at my grammas with my brother and rented a bunch of games to play. Since none of us knew english we called a friend who did, who kept translating the game to us. Ninja Brothers has the same nostalgic feel to me because I used to rent it to play with my little sister even though we couldnt understand a word there but we liked to play the battles in coop mode.
I remember sitting at home with my Sports Illustrated baseball Almanac and programming real players in the editor so I could have real teams in Baseball Simulator 1.00. I also remember there was an ad in the manual for a Flying Warriors NES game called Fighting Simulator. It was never released, just a gameboy version.
8:38 It seems you never heard about One Thousand and One Nights. :p And don't know the lyrics from the Disney Alladin movie: "Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales." Scheherazade was the princess who kept telling incomplete stories each night to his husband to avoid death. Aladdin, Sinbad, Ali Baba, etc. are known from those stories. Korsakov composed a symphony about her. That's why you relate her name to some classical music.
You tickled my nostalgia bone mentioning KB Toys alone. Scheherazade is the female lead from One Thousand and One Nights. Always liked the premise of those stories.
I saved up pennies when I was a kid and went to KB Toys to buy Streets of Rage 2. I put the game and bag of pennies on the counter and said “it’s all there.” The clerk just rolled his eyes and said ok kid. He didn’t even make me wait to count it
Aww...good old KB Toys! I miss that store. Maybe it's nostalgia talking but I just loved the atmosphere of the store and the layout too! It was always a great time to see what games they had behind the counter and then check out their amazing action figures collection!
@JohnRiggs this was such a great video. Flying Warriors was one of y first NES games I owned as a kid. Never got around to beating it(could never jump high enough haha). Great video
Baseball Simulator 1.000 has become one of my favorite NES games... like 30 years after it was made LOL. I never even knew of it back then, nor would have cared - some baseball game, whatever. Now? I keep going to it... and GOLF GAMES. I don't even golf! Those games are just so relaxing! Kind of like a puzzle!
In baseball, if someone has a perfect 1.000 batting average you'd say they were batting one thousand. The baseball simulator games were the best thing Culture Brain ever did, it deserved to be as big as RBI Baseball or Bases Loaded.
Culture Brain was a such a neat company that made a lot of weird, ambitious games, and Magic of Scheherazade - a personal favorite on the system - felt like they finally landed exactly where they wanted to. Baseball Simulator was neat, too; I usually don't have the patience to sit through a whole baseball game, but this was about as close as I'd get. There were actually 2 on the SNES, though the second one never left Japan, so it's under the Super Ultra Baseball name.
I have never played little ninja brothers, cant believe I missed this game especially since it is sort of an rpg. I loved magic of scheherazade...played it so much.
Oh man. Kung Fu Heroes was one of my FAVORITES growing up. It's janky as all get out, but I still go back and play it every now and again. I know you alluded to it, but Little Ninja brothers is actually the chronological sequel to Kung Fu Heroes, AND there's even a third one that we never got in the West. I absolutely love the series. Anyway great video as always John!
I don't know that I have ever heard of Culture Brain before. I want to say that I have heard of the baseball game that you mentioned first, but aside from that, it looks like I have a new developer to take a look at! Thanks!
Flying Warriors gets an S in my books, the graphics, characters, dark story, and fighting scenes and RPG fight scenes made this excellent, never had a problem with the controls once I mastered them. This game and the music just bring back good memories of better times.
Thank you John for solving a 30 year old mystery for me! I rented Flying Warriors and loved it but I never found it again. Ever since then I randomly think about that game and just accepted that I'll never know what it was called....until now! KB toys was also my go to store and Flame of Recca was one of the few anime that I was into back in the day. Nostalgia galore here thanks so much!
Awesome! I ordered some games about a week ago and got a nice magic of schchchedehch lol...looks really good! Might need the rest of these culture brain games!
OMG Flying Dragon. Been trying to figure out the name of that game for forever! I haven’t played that game in almost 30 years but I still vividly remember the 1 on 1 fights
Good job John!!! Always enjoy your ranking games always look forward to them......you could try Atari paddle games rank would be nice.....always good job always telling people about your channel 👍👍👍👍
I did start collecting NES stuff to give to my wife, she never got a chance to play any of the classic stuff so I was assigned the task to find her fun games so this reminded me of a few I need to get! Baseball Sim 1.000 - was never super into sports games, but stuff like this was the exception! Flying Warriors - There was apparently a prototype that had 'warriors' spelled incorrectly on the logo... i can only imagine showing that to the higher-ups prior to its release, yikes! :P but may look for this one. Kung-Fu Heroes: loved this one! I was so stoked when it arrived on Switch Online's NES library, and i did eventually get the actual cart of it.
I grew up playing Kung Fu Heroes. I guess my family got it for Christmas because it was cheap but still it was a great game and two players can play together. Thanks for the video John.
Dude, thanks for the video!! Great memories with this games, in particular I love Little Ninja Brothers!! I neighbor and I retented it until we finished it. And Flying Warriors is still a guilty pleasure, it aged badly but anyway I got for the WiiU VC
I got the famicom version of Flying Dragon here in Japan. The dude that sold it to me got all excited and he told me how he loved that game when he was a kid. So I popped it in and dang, I was enamored with it. Really addicting and tough, but good. There's something special about a game that is flawed, but you keep playing it because you forget about the flaws on the merit of its creativity and fun factor.
Great video. I loved Little Ninja Brothers growing up. Used to rent it from the grocery store on Friday after school when spending the night with my best friend. Great to see it get some attention 🙂
Thanks Riggs! And I don’t think kids passed up on Scheherazade bc of the title but rather it was a bit much for a 9 year old. At least for this 9 year old it was but I also rode a bus that was reduced in size as a child. Tiger Electronics handhelds were more my speed.
Another great video that took me back in the days that we had to get on the bus, go to the video store, pick your game, get back home and if you where lucky you had one of these 6 good games for 2 days. If not you had to try to like a game that sucks like (the uncanny X-MEN) and you had to wait next week to get another chance to pick a hidden gem like (willow or whoomp em).
Have you reviewed Fujisankei communications international, or Pony canyon for publisher's yet. Not sure how many games they published but I know they did Phantom Fighter, one of the games I rented a few times when I was a kid
You are much more generous to Little Ninja Brothers than I would've been. It's the perfect example of a game that does so many interesting things and has so many interesting ideas but the actual execution is absolutely horrendous (from my experiences anyway). If it did what it was trying to do well, I'd definitely say a B or even an A. But there's so much fuckery in this game, I could not in good conscience give it higher than a D. Great vid though and I'm looking forward to the FCI video.
Great series 👍I forgot about culture brain they don’t get enough love. I have very distinct memories of being super impressed by Flying Warriors but forgot what it was called.
A 1.000 in baseball is a perfect batting average. This means you get on base every plate appearance. Really good baseball players carry an average at or above .300.
There is one company that made games for NES that I would be shocked to see a video like this of (yes, a regular developer for NES, not a knockoff company). Can you guess who it is? These culture brain videos seem really fun and you pronounce "Sheherazade" the exact same as me. Well done!
John, what about culture brain on the super Famicom? There was an sd fighter I once played... also a hiryu no Ken I think?? wish you'd cover one day.. btw, um subbed.. and I'd also wish you'd do Japanese exclusive stuff you may discover and want to share ?? You're the man, Mr Riggs
Kung Fu Heroes is one of the games I had in my childhood collection too; I played it many, many times and enjoyed it though I know I never got very far
I never got to play Little Ninja Brother for the NES, but I did play the SNES game. I definitely loved the concept of this game. Its much easier with 2 players. If you've never played this franchise it is a must!
Baseball Simulator. Play in space. Lightning strikes the pitcher, which gives him special powers. "Simulator." Someone at Culture Brain didn't get the memo.
One of the few companies I had a chance to play all of their games while I was a kid. I complete forgot about Little Ninja Brothers, wouldn’t mind trying it out again. I really liked Flying Warriors. Had good graphics and music
Jack and Ryu were my childhood heroes and were my gateway to RPGS, with Little Ninja Brothers being my first. Growing up with 2 brothers and a sister doesn't leave you a lot of time for solo play for games like Final Fantasy, but a 2 player action RPG? Sure, why not?
@@tomwaters5090 Yes! The SNES sequel Super Ninja Boy was released here in the early 90s. Chronologically its actually about the 8th or 9th game in the series if you count the 3 incarnations of Kung Fu Heroes (Chinese Hero in arcades, Kung Fu Heroes/Super Chinese on NES/Famicom, and Ninja Boy/Super Chinese Land on the Game Boy)
John, I didn't know Flying Dragon The Secret Scroll and Flying Warriors are both Fist of the North Star (Hotoku no Ken) games! I actually own Flying Dragon, and Kung-Fu Heroes! That's awesome that Culture Brain brought both of those Fist of the North Star NES games to the US!
Fun fact: 1-sherazade is persian name and it means princess. 2-king faisal in the game is taken inspiration from real character king faisal of saudi arabia.
OH GOSH! I MUST DEFEAT YOU! I remember Culture Brain more for its silly GamePro comics than its games. There were some companies that demonstrated technical mastery of the NES hardware, like Konami... and then there were companies like Culture Brain. At least their games are as ambitious as they are janky.
Let's rank LJN NES Games - ua-cam.com/video/yols92IkR3E/v-deo.html
Let's rank KONAMI NES Games - ua-cam.com/video/agmyps5NIdY/v-deo.html
Codemasters would be a cool list to rank.
Btw you're right. It _IS_ called Baseball Simulator one thousand. Not baseball simulator one point 000
More countries in the world use a comma as a decimal point than countries that use a period/full stop as a decimal point. And the countries that use a comma for the decimal point use a period/full stop to indicate breaks in a number, instead of using a comma like we do in the UK and US and so on. So for them, what we'd call for example 1,000,000.23 they'd write as 1.000.000,23
So a Japanese company made this game, and though Japan uses a period/full stop as a decimal separator just like we do in the UK and US, they must have thought it was better to accommodate most of the world, e.g. the vast majority of europe uses a comma as a decimal separator (the UK and Ireland are pretty much the only European countries that use a period/full stop), and all but one country in south America uses a comma as a decimal separator too.
Even parts of Canada use a comma as a decimal separator. The Quebec parts, unsurprisingly, because they was be french so bad, and France uses the comma.
So yeah, if you're selling your game globally, you might as well accommodate the system most countries use
Scheherazade is the name of the princess/story-teller in One Thousand and One Nights.
There you go. Thanks!
@@JohnRiggs You're welcome! Keep up the great work!
I've been waiting for this video just so Magic of Scheherazade could get some much deserved attention. It's such a hidden gem of the NES.
It really is a fun game and has tons of charm!
@ I had a friend who had it when we were kids. I have so many fond memories of him walking me through how to play it. The kid was like a Nintendo encyclopedia.
So good, yet so many pass over it.
I never owned it but rented it a few times as a kid (similar to John, only got a new game once or twice a year at most). Loved it though!
Same with Little Ninja Bros!
From now on I am calling this game Magic of Bubble Bobble.
Got some big nostalgic love for Flying Dragon. It was coincidentally for me one of the first NES games I bought with my own money. My brother got Galaxy 5000 on that same outing as well. I didn't know anything about Flying Dragon when I chose it. The box art looked cool and the screenshots made it seem like a game I would enjoy and I did. I've beaten it multiple times and thanks to this video I was today's days old when I learned that Flying Warrior is a sequel so thank you John for that.
Will also mention that Flying Dragon was also one of the last Nintendo games I ever got complete in box too. Wish I didn't toss the box back in the day but I did at least keep the instruction manual. Despite probably reading it over 100 times, it's still in pretty good shape too.
I requested this vid just for your take on Baseball Sim. To this day it was the only baseball game I played extensively. Loved just goofing around with building a team and giving a few players max stat. One guy could pitch like 140. Another ran so it took 1 second to get to a base.
Yeah I'm with this guy one of my few fond memories of my father was playing baseball SIM 1000. Loved the hell out of that game. Earl for the Montreal team was beast!
Flying Warriors was a grand experience for me as a kid which led to my love of Ultimate Fighter on SNES. I still play that every now and then. Kung Fu Heroes was also one that my mom would rent for me on a lark at the local Turtles video store and I became quite fond of it.
Same here. Though I didn't care for Ultimate Fighter as much.
"Flying Dragon" was one of those few games we got as a kid. Nostalgic for me.
*Note: Scheherazade told the 1,001 Nights. The Kind or Emperor kept marrying and killing women, and the way she stopped him from doing it was to marry the Emperor, start a tale to her younger sister and not finish it. The Emperor wanted to hear the rest of it, so he did not kill her, and she would finish the tale and start another without finishing it, and again, he wanted to hear the rest, so he spared her. This went on for year and several children later.
Aladdin, the 40 thieves (forgot the name), Sinbad, and more came out of it.
Ali Baba. Ali baba and the 40 thieves. My favorite story from that collection was the diamond girls one
There's a really great progressive rock song about Scheherazade, by Renaissance. It's thirty minutes long and pretty much covers the whole story, with tons of Middle Eastern ambiance.
Love Baseball Simulator 1.000. When I was a kid, my baseball nerd self would edit six teams with real players and stats and play a full 165 game season. And then the game would keep track of player stats as you progressed throughout the season. I played the SNES version more, but this is definitely a nostalgia hit for me.
I did something similar with Base Wars.
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@@lungcancer69 165 in baseball simulator. 33 games each vs 5 opponents. It was more baseball simulator and less mlb simulator.
@@jefferyhyatt outstanding. So much for my memory.
I just wrote basically the same post as I did this with a baseball almanac. The thing was tweaking the home run power. If you had Gary Carter hit 20 home runs in 1991 and you type in 20 home runs he would hit like 33. So it was trial and error. I had Astros, Pirates,Dodgers, Twins, Rangers, and A’s.
'Scheherazade' is a Rimsky-Korsakov showpiece. It shows off the virtuosity of the orchestra.
It is in four movements and lasts about 45 minutes. It is based on "1001 nights' which is a compilation of mid-eastern folk tales. Sinbad is probably the most famous one there. I don't know whether the game was inspired by the folk tales themselves or the RK piece, or maybe a bit of both,. One of my favorites...
Thank you! For my 13th birthday, my folks surprised me by letting me pick out a game at the mall. I was not prepared and had to rush my decision. I went with Flying Dragon: The Secret Scroll. I got it home and 30 minutes later, I had the buyer's remorse. I thought my Birthday pick was clunky and dull and my failure to choose a good game filled me with angst.
However, my younger sister started to play it on and off over the next week and figured out what to do, and she later showed me some stuff, and I was like, "HOW?" and it became one of the better memories I have of us playing together as siblings.
Anyhoo, I'm a huge fan of this game and your videos and a fan of younger sisters showing older brothers how to be patient.
What a great story! I had a couple games I didn't care for at first but got into later.
I had forgotten most of these. Thanks for reigniting my long lost memory. Great stuff! Thanks for continuing this series!! Have a good day.
Wonderful video as always! I love your enthusiasm and appreciate your thoughts man! I barely touched Culture Brain's library and it sounds like their games were quite underrated!
I have a copy of Flying Warriors that I’ve had since I was a kid when it came out. Still have all of my old stuff because I never traded anything in. Got a prefect condition Genesis that I got for Christmas in ‘94
I came here for the Baseball Simulator, love that game
This was the best video I've seen by this guy. This is very interesting to me. I'm familiar with some of these games but this is a useful niche in terms of a UA-cam context. Diamonds in the rough are harder to find and know what to do with than the stuff that jumps right out at you even if you don't know about it. I appreciate the discussion and context as well as what is on display.
Rimsky-Korsakov wrote the symphonic suite, which was based on 1001 Arabian Nights, which in turn is where we get the stories of Aladdin, Sinbad, and Ali Baba.
My new default expression when I get flustered will be a rapid, “Uh, I don’t know, Bubble Bobble.”
And then you sneak away as they gaze upward wistfully while humming the Bubble Bobble music.
A friend in college gave me his copy of little ninja bro and i loved it, played it for weeks, one of my fav in my collection
Can’t wait for that fci. I’m curious where he will place ultima exodus on.
One of my favorite channels. Good work!
I like watching your rankings, John. Great videos!
Yes! Been waiting for your review of Baseball Sim!
Link could defeat Ganon once and for all if he learned some karate.
What?😂😂😂😂
I discovered your channel over the last week or so....love it man. So much nostalgia...I hope you decide to rank the SNES games,but if not,still appreciate ya man!
One of the things I remember culture brain for is kind of mixing things together that normally didn't go together like the Kung fu heroes and kid ninja with an RPG element of random encounters. And there was turn base fighting in the magic of the name I dare not pronounce cuz I screwed up. That's my fondness for this company what are the reasons why I wanted you to do the video for so long because I think it's showcases some unique NES games.
The magic of the really complicated name is one of my favorite NES soundtracks and it always takes me back to being a kid again. Because I think I rented and played that game a ton as a kid never beat it
Ah, so we learned some of your backstory today! The musical piece you're thinking of is the Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov composed symphonic suite _Scheherazade_ from 1888, which was based on One Thousand and One Nights (Scheherazade is the central character, telling these fantastic stories to stave off her impending execution, which is eventually called off.)
Oh, and that Kung-Fu Heroes and Little Ninja Brothers, it's similar to what Jaleco's NA division did with the Rushing Beat series. It's all from the Super Chinese series, which ran for 12 mainline entries (five of which were released overseas.)
That sounds right.
Hello, fellow Super Chinese fan! *waves*
@@BB-te8tc *waves back*
I've played all the officially translated Super Chinese games (Kung-Fu Heroes, Little Ninja Brothers, Ninja Boy, Ninja Boy 2, Super Ninja Boy) and got a ways into Super Chinese World 2 before I even heard of the fan translation late last year. With that and the fan translations for SCW3 and Super Chinese Fighter, that's eight of the twelve mainline titles accounted for; kudos to whomever at DDSTranslation for making that possible.
Flying Warriors is super nostalgic to me, because we played it when I spent one week at my grammas with my brother and rented a bunch of games to play. Since none of us knew english we called a friend who did, who kept translating the game to us.
Ninja Brothers has the same nostalgic feel to me because I used to rent it to play with my little sister even though we couldnt understand a word there but we liked to play the battles in coop mode.
I remember sitting at home with my Sports Illustrated baseball Almanac and programming real players in the editor so I could have real teams in Baseball Simulator 1.00. I also remember there was an ad in the manual for a Flying Warriors NES game called Fighting Simulator. It was never released, just a gameboy version.
Thanks for the content Mister Riggs.
8:38 It seems you never heard about One Thousand and One Nights. :p
And don't know the lyrics from the Disney Alladin movie: "Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales."
Scheherazade was the princess who kept telling incomplete stories each night to his husband to avoid death. Aladdin, Sinbad, Ali Baba, etc. are known from those stories.
Korsakov composed a symphony about her. That's why you relate her name to some classical music.
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The characters above the building entrance read “Shaolin Temple.”
I remember playing kung fu heroes on the arcade at a 7-11, it was such a fun game.
Another superb video sir. Also, I heard your appearance on the Cartridge Club Podcast about TMNT. Great appearance!
Thanks! Yeah, talking TMNT stuff, I'm down anytime.
You tickled my nostalgia bone mentioning KB Toys alone.
Scheherazade is the female lead from One Thousand and One Nights. Always liked the premise of those stories.
I saved up pennies when I was a kid and went to KB Toys to buy Streets of Rage 2. I put the game and bag of pennies on the counter and said “it’s all there.” The clerk just rolled his eyes and said ok kid. He didn’t even make me wait to count it
@@magdabrownis265 that game was literally worth every penny. 👍
@@magdabrownis265cool story bro. They didn't have the games behind the counter at your Kay Bee?
Aww...good old KB Toys! I miss that store. Maybe it's nostalgia talking but I just loved the atmosphere of the store and the layout too! It was always a great time to see what games they had behind the counter and then check out their amazing action figures collection!
@JohnRiggs this was such a great video. Flying Warriors was one of y first NES games I owned as a kid. Never got around to beating it(could never jump high enough haha). Great video
Baseball Simulator 1.000 has become one of my favorite NES games... like 30 years after it was made LOL. I never even knew of it back then, nor would have cared - some baseball game, whatever. Now? I keep going to it... and GOLF GAMES. I don't even golf! Those games are just so relaxing! Kind of like a puzzle!
Feeling so good John! You?
Chillin'
I love these videos John. Keep 'em coming.
Good stuff Riggs
In baseball, if someone has a perfect 1.000 batting average you'd say they were batting one thousand. The baseball simulator games were the best thing Culture Brain ever did, it deserved to be as big as RBI Baseball or Bases Loaded.
Great rundown, J.R.!
As a kid I would pronounce the game as Magic of Schwarzenegger
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As an adult my eyes just glaze over when I look at the title
Even better.
In the Tom Hanks movie “The Man with One Red Shoe”, the piece of music that the orchestra plays is Rimsky Korsakov’s Scheherazade.
Culture Brain was a such a neat company that made a lot of weird, ambitious games, and Magic of Scheherazade - a personal favorite on the system - felt like they finally landed exactly where they wanted to. Baseball Simulator was neat, too; I usually don't have the patience to sit through a whole baseball game, but this was about as close as I'd get. There were actually 2 on the SNES, though the second one never left Japan, so it's under the Super Ultra Baseball name.
I have never played little ninja brothers, cant believe I missed this game especially since it is sort of an rpg. I loved magic of scheherazade...played it so much.
Oh man. Kung Fu Heroes was one of my FAVORITES growing up. It's janky as all get out, but I still go back and play it every now and again. I know you alluded to it, but Little Ninja brothers is actually the chronological sequel to Kung Fu Heroes, AND there's even a third one that we never got in the West. I absolutely love the series.
Anyway great video as always John!
This is the earliest I’ve gotten in for one of these!
Finally reviewing my favorite game ever Little Ninja Bros ty John :)
I don't know that I have ever heard of Culture Brain before. I want to say that I have heard of the baseball game that you mentioned first, but aside from that, it looks like I have a new developer to take a look at! Thanks!
Flying Warriors gets an S in my books, the graphics, characters, dark story, and fighting scenes and RPG fight scenes made this excellent, never had a problem with the controls once I mastered them. This game and the music just bring back good memories of better times.
Thank you John for solving a 30 year old mystery for me! I rented Flying Warriors and loved it but I never found it again. Ever since then I randomly think about that game and just accepted that I'll never know what it was called....until now! KB toys was also my go to store and Flame of Recca was one of the few anime that I was into back in the day. Nostalgia galore here thanks so much!
I had the same moment with the kemco video and the game wrath of the black manta
Totally forgot about that baseball game. Good find John. Ninja bros i couldnt even walk two steps without getting into a fight.
Awesome! I ordered some games about a week ago and got a nice magic of schchchedehch lol...looks really good! Might need the rest of these culture brain games!
I have flying dragon and I love that game. I still go back and play it from time to time.
OMG Flying Dragon. Been trying to figure out the name of that game for forever! I haven’t played that game in almost 30 years but I still vividly remember the 1 on 1 fights
Baseball simulator 1000 also saved statistics which was an excellent feature and relatively rare on the console.
Love your nes ranking videos.
Flame of Recca! No way, you are probably second fan I know besides me. :D
I love these videos
Had to abandon another video to come here. Always enjoy.
Good job John!!! Always enjoy your ranking games always look forward to them......you could try Atari paddle games rank would be nice.....always good job always telling people about your channel 👍👍👍👍
Scheherazeherazeacehazherazeade was the character from One Thousand and One Nights who would go around punishing people with dyslexia.
I did start collecting NES stuff to give to my wife, she never got a chance to play any of the classic stuff so I was assigned the task to find her fun games so this reminded me of a few I need to get!
Baseball Sim 1.000 - was never super into sports games, but stuff like this was the exception!
Flying Warriors - There was apparently a prototype that had 'warriors' spelled incorrectly on the logo... i can only imagine showing that to the higher-ups prior to its release, yikes! :P but may look for this one.
Kung-Fu Heroes: loved this one! I was so stoked when it arrived on Switch Online's NES library, and i did eventually get the actual cart of it.
Loved the space stadium in Baseball Sim 1.000. The ball seemed to carry and if you had some power hitters there would be a lot of home runs
I grew up playing Kung Fu Heroes. I guess my family got it for Christmas because it was cheap but still it was a great game and two players can play together. Thanks for the video John.
Man that Kay-Bee Toys reference sure brought back a lot of memories
The Magic of Charizard.
Is that some kind of new Pokemon?
Dude, thanks for the video!! Great memories with this games, in particular I love Little Ninja Brothers!! I neighbor and I retented it until we finished it. And Flying Warriors is still a guilty pleasure, it aged badly but anyway I got for the WiiU VC
Baseball Simulator 1000 holds up well today! One of my favorite NES sports games next to Bad News Baseball!
I got the famicom version of Flying Dragon here in Japan. The dude that sold it to me got all excited and he told me how he loved that game when he was a kid. So I popped it in and dang, I was enamored with it. Really addicting and tough, but good. There's something special about a game that is flawed, but you keep playing it because you forget about the flaws on the merit of its creativity and fun factor.
I'll have to check those out. I've never heard of Culture Brain before now so I never knew of these games. Don't think I ever saw them growing up.
Love this video series thanks John. Although I do miss open cart surgery. Anyway, take care.
I have one coming soon.
@@JohnRiggs That's great to hear. I still do look forward and enjoy these ranking videos. Happy to be subscribed to you.
Great video. I loved Little Ninja Brothers growing up. Used to rent it from the grocery store on Friday after school when spending the night with my best friend. Great to see it get some attention 🙂
IT was a later release but super fun.
Thanks Riggs! And I don’t think kids passed up on Scheherazade bc of the title but rather it was a bit much for a 9 year old. At least for this 9 year old it was but I also rode a bus that was reduced in size as a child. Tiger Electronics handhelds were more my speed.
Another great video that took me back in the days that we had to get on the bus, go to the video store, pick your game, get back home and if you where lucky you had one of these 6 good games for 2 days. If not you had to try to like a game that sucks like (the uncanny X-MEN) and you had to wait next week to get another chance to pick a hidden gem like (willow or whoomp em).
Have you reviewed Fujisankei communications international, or Pony canyon for publisher's yet. Not sure how many games they published but I know they did Phantom Fighter, one of the games I rented a few times when I was a kid
The fighting system in Flying Dragon and Flying Warriors kind of reminds me of Urban Champion for some reason.
Urban Champion is perfect the way it is ;)
You are much more generous to Little Ninja Brothers than I would've been. It's the perfect example of a game that does so many interesting things and has so many interesting ideas but the actual execution is absolutely horrendous (from my experiences anyway).
If it did what it was trying to do well, I'd definitely say a B or even an A. But there's so much fuckery in this game, I could not in good conscience give it higher than a D.
Great vid though and I'm looking forward to the FCI video.
Great series 👍I forgot about culture brain they don’t get enough love. I have very distinct memories of being super impressed by Flying Warriors but forgot what it was called.
" I DON'T KNOW....... BUBBLE BOBBLE" lol : )
CLASSIC
A 1.000 in baseball is a perfect batting average. This means you get on base every plate appearance. Really good baseball players carry an average at or above .300.
There is one company that made games for NES that I would be shocked to see a video like this of (yes, a regular developer for NES, not a knockoff company). Can you guess who it is? These culture brain videos seem really fun and you pronounce "Sheherazade" the exact same as me. Well done!
Bravo!!! Thank you John!
Simply one of the nicest youtubers
John, what about culture brain on the super Famicom? There was an sd fighter I once played... also a hiryu no Ken I think?? wish you'd cover one day.. btw, um subbed.. and I'd also wish you'd do Japanese exclusive stuff you may discover and want to share ?? You're the man, Mr Riggs
Wow, Culture Brain had a great line-up!
They did! Just wish they had more.
Kung Fu Heroes is one of the games I had in my childhood collection too; I played it many, many times and enjoyed it though I know I never got very far
Flying dragon, never beat it but played the hell out of it. Bought a sealed copy for 50 dollars years back.
I never got to play Little Ninja Brother for the NES, but I did play the SNES game. I definitely loved the concept of this game. Its much easier with 2 players.
If you've never played this franchise it is a must!
I played all these titles!
Flying warriors,little ninja brothers and magic of scherezzade,are my favorites
Hearing you saying great music made me think of Kabuki Quantum Fighter.
Baseball Simulator.
Play in space. Lightning strikes the pitcher, which gives him special powers.
"Simulator."
Someone at Culture Brain didn't get the memo.
One of the few companies I had a chance to play all of their games while I was a kid. I complete forgot about Little Ninja Brothers, wouldn’t mind trying it out again. I really liked Flying Warriors. Had good graphics and music
Thanks for the video and please keep the skullett forever
Baseball Simulator has similar qualities to Cyber Tiger on the Gameboy color
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Mildly interesting...
Jack and Ryu were my childhood heroes and were my gateway to RPGS, with Little Ninja Brothers being my first. Growing up with 2 brothers and a sister doesn't leave you a lot of time for solo play for games like Final Fantasy, but a 2 player action RPG? Sure, why not?
I believe they also have a sequel on the snes
@@tomwaters5090 Yes! The SNES sequel Super Ninja Boy was released here in the early 90s.
Chronologically its actually about the 8th or 9th game in the series if you count the 3 incarnations of Kung Fu Heroes (Chinese Hero in arcades, Kung Fu Heroes/Super Chinese on NES/Famicom, and Ninja Boy/Super Chinese Land on the Game Boy)
@@BB-te8tc did Colter brand end up releasing more in Japan than they did here in the states? I still have a fondness for this company.
Baseball simulator was my childhood... other than Marion games that is the game I played the most on the snes...
John, I didn't know Flying Dragon The Secret Scroll and Flying Warriors are both Fist of the North Star (Hotoku no Ken) games! I actually own Flying Dragon, and Kung-Fu Heroes! That's awesome that Culture Brain brought both of those Fist of the North Star NES games to the US!
Hiryu No Ken
@@JohnRiggs Oh crap. I misheard you then. My bad! That's not Hotoku no Ken. Was that an anime series in Japan?
Fun fact:
1-sherazade is persian name and it means princess.
2-king faisal in the game is taken inspiration from real character king faisal of saudi arabia.
Loved Lil ninja brothers rented it so many times from Block Buster.
OH GOSH! I MUST DEFEAT YOU!
I remember Culture Brain more for its silly GamePro comics than its games. There were some companies that demonstrated technical mastery of the NES hardware, like Konami... and then there were companies like Culture Brain. At least their games are as ambitious as they are janky.