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  • @DarkKnightTrinity
    @DarkKnightTrinity Рік тому +70

    We need a compilation of Dylan's hidden gems at the end of the year.

  • @23Scadu
    @23Scadu Рік тому +54

    One thing that stood out to me about 7th Saga, besides its ridiculous difficulty, was that it had weird double-wide tiles compared to like every other 16 bit RPG ever. Gives the maps an uncanny, claustrophobic feel.

    • @vxicepickxv
      @vxicepickxv Рік тому +1

      There's a bug that jacked the difficulty up in the US version.

    • @witecatj6007
      @witecatj6007 Рік тому +2

      @@vxicepickxv it wasn't a bug. It was put there on purpose to make people want to buy it instead of renting it. Didn't work the way they thought it would.

  • @braddrcrushalot3785
    @braddrcrushalot3785 Рік тому +36

    Any game containing Piccolo with a monocle truly is a 10/10.

  • @apollolux
    @apollolux Рік тому +9

    One of the best decisions Jared and crew made for this channel was make room in the budget for the "Hidden Gem Alert" button. XD

  • @jaketaller8567
    @jaketaller8567 Рік тому +6

    9:11 Dorothy got killed by a lemon. A freaking lemon!

    • @HylianFox3
      @HylianFox3 Рік тому

      The entire game is a lemon, so it's fitting.

  • @bbarrett726
    @bbarrett726 Рік тому +7

    One of my greatest RPG accomplishments was beating 7th Saga. Back when I had more time and patience.

  • @wadewilson5712
    @wadewilson5712 Рік тому +13

    Pro tip for 7th Saga
    -Always buy gems because they trade at cost value and monster will loot you for gold if killed.
    -when in battle defend first then attack , for some reason your attacks will hit more often and harder when you do this.
    -also the first boss Romus the ghost let him beat you the first time to have your character learn the secret about a whistle in his former owners grave which will one shot him.
    -when you get a rune use it during battle and also be careful not to fight one of the other characters looking for them because if they beat you and most likely they will ( they will always be 5 levels higher than your chosen character but not your partner) they will steal the rune and you have to track them down.

    • @ReikuYin
      @ReikuYin Рік тому +1

      Another tip, *DON'T* grind super hard early game. Wait till you get a good partner, and after a certain point, then grind.
      Otherwise the other apprentices will stone wall you.

  • @marshinz5696
    @marshinz5696 Рік тому +3

    Rolling Thunder 3 deserved to be highlighted. The Music alone makes it a classic! A Hidden Gem indeed.

    • @Gatorade69
      @Gatorade69 Рік тому

      Rolling Thunder really is an underrated series.

  • @thelaughingrouge
    @thelaughingrouge Рік тому +45

    Rolling Thunder 3 was in fact pretty epic, and Zombies ate my neighbors was so weird and fun I definitely recommend both.

    • @zerocool5395
      @zerocool5395 Рік тому

      LucasArts made so many weird/quirky games. The type of stuff we only get from indie developers now.

  • @bottlenecked
    @bottlenecked Рік тому +1

    Piccolo with a monocle is my spirit animal

  • @Arlenthasala
    @Arlenthasala Рік тому +6

    I remember playing Rolling Thunder in the Arcade, most notably because we found the machine with over 50 credits on it one time next to a pool table, so while 2 of us were playing pool the third was playing Rolling Thunder. Ahh, good times.

    • @ncsupi
      @ncsupi Рік тому +1

      That would be such an epic experience back then. I’d ride that story for childhood fame for a while 😂

  • @Shinpi
    @Shinpi Рік тому +43

    Man... Zombies Ate My Neighbors is the only game that I came close to putting as many hours into as Sonic 3+knuckles. Was so so so good no matter how many times I beat it.

    • @phychmasher
      @phychmasher Рік тому +2

      This one was so good. I remember having the Sega Channel back in the day and I'd get super stoked when this was available for the month.

    • @CiaphasKirby
      @CiaphasKirby Рік тому +2

      I never even came close to beating it. I'd run out of lives/people to save around the second giant baby fight.

    • @danseth5775
      @danseth5775 Рік тому

      I agree

    • @rommyremus9650
      @rommyremus9650 Рік тому

      Great game, omg never came close either but fun fun fun!!!

    • @zerocool5395
      @zerocool5395 Рік тому

      ​@phychmasher Sega Channel? Dang, were you rich growing up lol.

  • @SaturmornCarvilli
    @SaturmornCarvilli Рік тому +17

    Editor Dylan is correct. Namco needs to put out an arcade collection that covers the breadth of their non-Pac Man, Galaga and Dig Dug arcade stuff. I mean, they can include those games too, just put in the less popular, but just as fun, games too. And no, those NES ROM collections on Steam don't count.

  • @motherplayer
    @motherplayer Рік тому +24

    Man, the stories of how so many difficult games of the era were done that way for changes from original difficulties in the Japan release or the sake of extending playtime for those who would use a weekend rental to try and beat it is still wild for me to know.

    • @jasonblalock4429
      @jasonblalock4429 Рік тому +3

      @KingC89 The Ninja Gaiden Trilogy SNES collection was pretty halfassed, but at least it gave us unlimited continues in NG3 again. I never even came close to beating it until the rerelease.

    • @Gatorade69
      @Gatorade69 Рік тому +2

      Which is funny because then there's the weird cases like Super Mario Bros 2 which was left in Japan because it was too hard.

    • @denverarnold6210
      @denverarnold6210 Рік тому

      ​@@Gatorade69then there's also time they go the opposite way, and make something exclusively for the west, like FF: Mystic Quest, that's basically press button to win.

    • @Dargonhuman
      @Dargonhuman Рік тому

      That's just two reasons, another one is the devs working on home console games were often pulled from arcade dev teams, so their entire design philosophy was "make it as hard as possible to get more coins into the machine", which actually tied in well with the idea of extending playtime as the abysmally tiny storage and processing power of the home consoles meant they couldn't make huge, sprawling games so they had to make it as difficult as possible to finish. There's a reason why removing the difficulty barriers like giving infinite lives, infinite health, etc. shortens most platformer games to about 10-25 minutes and why so many older RPGs relied so heavily on grinding levels for hours - there just wasn't enough cart space to provide hours of content otherwise.

    • @jasonblalock4429
      @jasonblalock4429 Рік тому

      @@Gatorade69 The difficulty was only half of the problem with SMB2J, the other issue was how old and outdated it would have been in 1988. Releasing it into the same market as NInja Gaiden, Bionic Commando, Blaster Master, etc, would have gone poorly.

  • @linedterror2
    @linedterror2 Рік тому +16

    Zombies Ate My Neighbors is one of my fondest SNES memories with my brother, even though I've never come anywhere near beating it. Hell of a soundtrack too.

    • @Aevilbeast
      @Aevilbeast Рік тому +1

      Yeah, it's definitely not game you can just breeze through...it's something you have to be prepared for, and you really have to have a partner who's ready to go the long haul with ya and can handle their own and won't drag you down. I was never able to beat it co-op with anyone as a kid, they either gave up, or we just didn't have to time to do it. But we definitely had some serious fun trying though!

  • @Santoryu90
    @Santoryu90 Рік тому +2

    Piccolo with a monocle? Sold.

  • @obotprime339
    @obotprime339 Рік тому +1

    Ooo Rolling Thunder 3 is such a slick game, so glad it got mentioned!

  • @buzzy-ears
    @buzzy-ears Рік тому +1

    Some kids grew up with the NES and Mario, others with Sega and Sonic, I had a Commodore 64 and my main man, the legend, Dizzy

  • @espio33
    @espio33 Рік тому +24

    Huge ZAMN fan, glad you covered it and was also aware they were in talks for a movie. No way it would happen, but is cool that there was even talk of it really.

    • @toddcarroll5747
      @toddcarroll5747 Рік тому

      My friend had the internet download of this in the 90s I forgot what it was for but God i loved it

    • @trident042
      @trident042 Рік тому +1

      Having never seen anyone make an acronym of the game's title, I'm now tempted to try and make saying "ZAAAAAMN" a thing with my friends.

    • @chrisrj9871
      @chrisrj9871 Рік тому

      @@trident042 - That should only be for Zombies fans :)
      But can you imagine how unfortunate it would have been if it was "DOGS Ate My Neighbors" or dragons or something?!

    • @LordPichuPal
      @LordPichuPal Рік тому

      @@chrisrj9871 There was an attempt from some indie devs to do a "Demons Ate My Neighbors" spiritual successor that was using the DAMN acronym as well. But it seems to have gone into development hell and hasn't seen an update in over a year for what's going on, so I think it's never coming.

  • @LuriTV
    @LuriTV Рік тому +2

    there's a Oliver Twins collection on the Evercade with 11 games. 7 of them are Dizzy games.

  • @Hanokaze
    @Hanokaze Рік тому +1

    I was not prepared for the reveal of the composers of Rolling Thunder 3; sometimes the jokes just write themselves.

  • @MixMasterLar
    @MixMasterLar Рік тому +2

    100% behind Dylan's cry for more divisity in Namco Collections. Did you know there's like 4 Valkyrie Games and like twice as many Drauga titles, culminating in a 4 Player Gauntlet-like crossover game? Where's the collection for THAT one, Namco?

  • @tytruelove
    @tytruelove Рік тому +1

    Jared, I recently read up on your past, even being a fan of so many years I had no idea. I've been through similar and my heart goes out to you. I'm glad to see you thriving again. Hope to see you at the top!

  • @IZEAS_null
    @IZEAS_null Рік тому +2

    the standalone version of namco museum (so _not_ the nm archives with two volumes of nes games) on switch has the arcade versions of rolling thunder 1 and 2 if anyone wants an easy way to play the first two. i don't think there was ever an arcade version of rt3 but im pretty sure it has been rereleased-just on those terrible atgames consoles

  • @breathstealer5486
    @breathstealer5486 Рік тому +12

    7th saga was a grindfest. I beat it a few times but man the healer was so damn hard.
    Also not knowing if weapons were stronger until you bought them in that one weapon town. Also the hidden items were hard to find

    • @Chef_Alpo
      @Chef_Alpo Рік тому

      Yeah, I was a bit puzzled to hear it's such a ridiculously hard game or impossible, calling it a grindfest is more appropriate, at least to anyone who has played a wide range of rpgs. You had to put a lot of work into your characters and the story progression is slow, if anything it's tedious with little pay off along the way, not everyone's cup of tea.
      I would call Ogre Battle March of the Black Queen hard, as the battle system is quite complex if you want to stay within good alignment. Traditional grinding will throw you out of good alignment, especially if you're fighting weaker enemies. As much as I've played the game years ago, I never mastered the balance.

  • @dndbasement2370
    @dndbasement2370 Рік тому +1

    Rolling thunder 3 is literally the same engine as codename viper on the NES. Dang i need to go play that game now.

  • @toferg.8264
    @toferg.8264 Рік тому +2

    Can we get a compilation of the Hidden Gem Alerts, after every 5 or 10?

  • @1-eye-willy
    @1-eye-willy Рік тому +1

    dizzy is a European platformer, he is a national treasure in England

  • @LJW1912
    @LJW1912 Рік тому +5

    I appreciate that you recognise the European fame Dizzy has. I was about to type a comment about how we knew, but you next-levelled me!

  • @witecatj6007
    @witecatj6007 Рік тому +1

    From what I heard, the reason 7th Saga was so hard was because Enix of America wanted to combat the rental market. They figured that if they made the game harder, people would rather buy it than rent it. All it did was take a rather bog standard JRPG from Japan and transform it into the RPG equivalent of Kryptonite. If you got a Game Genie or a ProAction Replay, you could tweak the game to the Japanese difficulty level, which was way easier.

  • @gameman250
    @gameman250 Рік тому +2

    FWIW, the arcade version of the first Rolling Thunder is in one of those Arcade1UP machines alongside other Namco games (a Pac-Man or two guaranteed to be thrown in there).
    Supposedly, Rolling Thunder is considered a precursor to Time Crisis. I can... sorta see how but also... really?

  • @ryuhoshu3303
    @ryuhoshu3303 Рік тому +3

    You guys make Friday’s even better, Dylan is great 😂

  • @LordSephleon
    @LordSephleon Рік тому +1

    7th Saga and ZAMN are two of my biggest guilty pleasures on the SNES. I used to borrow 7th Saga from my father's then-girlfriend for long periods of time in trying to complete it, and I rented ZAMN from Blockbuster every once in a while when I couldn't find anything else to play. I considered 7th Saga to be such a unique RPG at the time since it allowed the choice of playable character from a wide selection (and of course, I went with Lejes the demon, who is considered one of the harder characters to play as). I still favor Lejes and Esuna to this day.
    As for 7th Saga's difficulty: I remember hearing/reading that it was an accidental coding error or something when porting it over. The devs did want to increase the difficulty for the NA port, but they made a slight error in the coding which exponentially strengthened the other player characters instead of just giving them a slight bump. Didn't matter to me back then, though, since it was Red Pison who softlocked me on my first playthrough.

  • @justavivi3386
    @justavivi3386 Рік тому +16

    As a child/teenager I had Zombies Ate My Neughbors and its was challenging to play this game. You often either miss one or two "neighbors" or get randomly hurt by opening cupboards/trashcans but at least you have a chance to get random good weapons and items from them. Two player coop adds extra difficulty due to fact that there is no splitscreen which forced proper cooperation between players and you have to share items. Passwords were useless (you start from any passwords with only water gun and ONE health kit) so I often played from the first level trying to binge it from start to the end. I don't perceive Ghoul Patrol as the sequel to ZAMN. Controls are jank (shooting and running set on ONE button), gameplay is worse by my taste. Graphics are too big and often you don't see what lies ahead of you. Music and sound effects is just plain bland. There is no sequel to ZAMN. Period.
    Had played Fantastic Adventures of Dizzy as a child on my famiclone. Always had hard time to remember where to go or where I left that damn item. Rolling Thunder 3 was one of the last games I played on my Sega. Soundtrack is jamming and many names of the tracks have word BAD in it.

    • @Dargonhuman
      @Dargonhuman Рік тому

      ZAMN has to be played from the start, for sure, because you absolutely _need_ that cache of weapons and items for the brutal later levels. The only password that's worth putting in is BCDF - it starts you on a secret bonus level "Day of the Tentacle" where you can pick up several high powered weapons like a bazooka, weedwhacker and a couple extra health kits before going to Level 1. If you keep one of the bazooka rounds, there's a hidden bonus level icon behind a blastable shrub at the very top of Level 1 that takes you back to "Day of the Tentacle" so you can grab even more of those sweet weapons to start Level 2 with. I don't ever start a new run of ZAMN without that code.

    • @Aevilbeast
      @Aevilbeast Рік тому +1

      !00% feel the same about Ghoul Patrol...It just feels clunky, boring , and just soulless compared to ZAMN. A lot of the suspicions that I had about the game not really being a "true" sequel were revealed to be well-founded after I later found out that it wasn't actually meant to be a sequel to ZAMN originally...While it did use the same engine ("Big Sky Troopers" also used this engine, which is an ok game with a unique premise but IMO really nothing too special) it was actually originally going to be completely different game and was made by a different studio than original (LucasArts), and only turned into one at the last second because of growing popularity of first game. So it makes sense that it never really felt like a "true" sequel.
      ZAMN was one of those rare games that you could feel the love and passion that went into making it, with the cool details and little easter eggs. I mean, it was a LucasArts game after all and they were known for putting their all into there games. As big a horror fan as a kid, it was just awesome trying to spot and figure all the references.
      Plus, despite being almost impossibly tough, it always felt fun and left you wanting to keep going. It was one my go-to multiplayer games (for Genesis) when I had friend over, right next to Toe-jam and Earl. Even my friends who weren't gamers could get into the game have fun with it.

  • @Yide29
    @Yide29 Рік тому +16

    I remember being ten and begging my parents for 7th Saga. I played it a ton because I felt so guilty for making such a big deal out of it. 100s of hours played, and I only made it past the first cave once.

  • @BladeBlur
    @BladeBlur Рік тому +1

    Rolling Thunder 3 was a Sega Genesis exclusive, which is crazy since its prequel came out also in Japan and Europe. It wasn't even originally an Arcade game!

  • @franknova987
    @franknova987 Рік тому +1

    I remember playing Zombies ate my Neighbors on the Genesis when I was a kid, never managed to get passed the Chainsaw guys level though...

  • @ReplayStation
    @ReplayStation Рік тому +1

    Rolling Thunder rules! Glad you got to play it. No one talks about those games anymore

  • @deathwish8339
    @deathwish8339 Рік тому +1

    I never got very far in the seventh saga. It always seemed so difficult when I was young.

  • @SpeedyNoriega
    @SpeedyNoriega Рік тому

    Piccolo with a monocle. That's all I needed to hear. I'm sold.

  • @DarkGerson
    @DarkGerson Рік тому +3

    Man.. 7th saga.. my younger brother really loved it and got reaally far. He didnt speak English so he got lost a lost but still managed to get far and get a high level. The music kept him hooked

  • @Nirakolov
    @Nirakolov Рік тому +1

    Can't wait for Paladin's Quest in a couple weeks

  • @WilliamTheWatchful
    @WilliamTheWatchful Рік тому +1

    425 days until Donkey Kong Country...
    ... Piccolo with a monocle.

  • @justinthomas7222
    @justinthomas7222 Рік тому +4

    I zombies would have eaten some of my former neighbors...

  • @LoppinLazy
    @LoppinLazy Рік тому +8

    7th Saga's harsh difficulty wasn't intentional, by the way. A code error in the localization borked the player's stat growth for each level gained past certain thresholds, resulting in enemies that out-scaled you at essentially all phases of the game; the kicker there was that over-leveling yourself in the early game was a very bad idea, since the partner characters would gain spells that made them borderline impossible to beat for most players. It's the cruel, nasty beginner traps like that which earned 7th Saga its infamy, but luckily there are patched roms that fix the English version's bad code, and the result is a neat little RPG with some interesting concepts and progression. The game world has this lonely, almost desolate feel propped up by an understated score and enemy designs that were quite gritty and grotesque-looking for fantasy RPGS of the time. It's great.

  • @jeffreyrumery6768
    @jeffreyrumery6768 Рік тому +2

    We love you Jared, but Dylan is always the highlight of the show!

  • @Howlingcargo
    @Howlingcargo Рік тому +1

    To explain a bit more why 7th Saga is harder in the localization, the player's characters basically have halved stat growths, but nothing else was scaled down. You are pretty much always weaker than you are supposed to be, and the further in the game you are, the worse it gets. Further, this did NOT affect the other playable characters, until they joined your party. They all scaled to your level and would join way stronger than you, but the big issue was if you had to fight them. If you level too much, it could be nearly impossible to win, and depending on the order you find the Runes in, you may be *required* to fight one late in the game.

  • @Masamatt90
    @Masamatt90 Рік тому +1

    Rolling Thunder 3 is like a better Codename Viper from the NES

  • @Sly88Frye
    @Sly88Frye Рік тому

    8:01 Oh yes I love that ad from back in the day. 7-Up ads were really funny back in the 90s.
    Zombies ate my neighbors was such a fun game back in the day and it still is fun to this day as well. Cool to know that there's some kind of new port that you can buy today that includes its far lesser known successor.

  • @TheGamersState
    @TheGamersState Рік тому +9

    I can still remember the day a video game genuinely frightened me. It was those large worm-like things in ZAMN and the noise they made seriously had me scared for my life as a kid. I even remember getting so terrified that I had to hit the reset button on my SNES just to make it stop. Even their designs just terrified me!
    Later on I did try to face my fear and try again but once the stage loaded and I saw those things moving underground, all that bravery vanished and I hit the reset button. Eventually I gave it away and hoped whoever played it didn't get scared like I did.

    • @LordPichuPal
      @LordPichuPal Рік тому +1

      That is fair, the Snakeoids can be pretty terrifying with how they pop up and how difficult it can be learning how to fight them. I used to just use monster potions as a kid to deal with them, but eventually found that if you get the angle right, you can shoot your bazooka at them and hit multiple times to kill them faster, or throw plates. The fact you can't even beat level 20 without killing all of them can definitely make it more stressful.

    • @TheGamersState
      @TheGamersState Рік тому

      @@LordPichuPalAh! Snakeoids! I was trying to remember what their official name was, thanks!

    • @Aevilbeast
      @Aevilbeast Рік тому

      @@TheGamersState They were partly based off the monsters from the movie "Tremors"

  • @stax6092
    @stax6092 Рік тому +2

    "The Sprite of the 90's" Awesome Dylan. XD

  • @maverickhuntermeta4954
    @maverickhuntermeta4954 Рік тому

    7:50 I'm happy you pronounce ZX Spectrum the correct way while almost everybody else just mistakenly say Spectrum ZedX.
    Another game with a giant baby boss would be in CarnEvil.

  • @WillKeaton
    @WillKeaton Рік тому +8

    I can't wrap my head around difficulty changes made when localizing a game from Japan to North America. _Final Fantasy IV_ was made significantly easier, but _7th Saga_ was made considerably harder. Did they think that we would find the games too easy, or too hard? Because they seemed to keep changing their minds!

    • @Sniperbear13
      @Sniperbear13 Рік тому +3

      yeah its kinda weird like that. like we got Mystic quest in the west because the Devs thought Western markets would not buy a Hard game. at the same time though we eventually had games like Badurs Gate which at the time, was really really hard.
      it was certainly quite a time in gaming.

    • @HylianFox3
      @HylianFox3 Рік тому +4

      It was essentially on a by developer and by publisher basis, so it was pretty scattershot.

    • @vxicepickxv
      @vxicepickxv Рік тому

      The 7th Saga change was a bug. The changes in FFIV were intentional.

  • @orthinian3261
    @orthinian3261 Рік тому +2

    I actually had the Wizard of Oz super Nintendo game growing up and my household played it a lot. It's really difficult, but it was kind of a type 2 fun figuring it out and seeing how far we could get. My big sister used to think there was an impossible jump you had to make in one of the later stages.

  • @jd_knight90
    @jd_knight90 Рік тому

    7th Saga is still one of my favorites. My grampa played it all the time when I was a kid. He won't be with me longer now, but I will always have that game with me and on my shelf.

  • @Nandru85
    @Nandru85 Рік тому +1

    I love Dylan's rants!

  • @asiriusworm
    @asiriusworm Рік тому +1

    Piccolo... with a monocle???? Piccolowithamonocle 😂

  • @mancavegamingandgardening9901
    @mancavegamingandgardening9901 Рік тому +4

    Why Dizzy wasn't more popular in the US I don't know; great game with great music. Very hard to beat from what I remember.

    • @Gatorade69
      @Gatorade69 Рік тому

      I'm an American who randomly picked up Dizzy at a used game store. I enjoyed it for what it was.

    • @realmarkinator
      @realmarkinator Рік тому

      American gamers were in the middle of the gotta go fast era. It's not a surprise a slow and methodical game would be way too different for a lot of people.
      UK had the gotta go fast era too. But Sonic ran at like 83% the speed of the us games so did they really?

    • @realmarkinator
      @realmarkinator Рік тому

      Dizzy was one of the first games I picked up for my zx back when I was collecting for it in 2017. UA-camrs like Top Hat Gaming Man and Nostalgia Nerd made me appreciate the uk gaming scene more.
      Personally the Dizzy games were one of my favorites for the ZX spectrum. Finding solutions for the puzzles in the games was fun.

  • @TubbyJ420
    @TubbyJ420 Рік тому +2

    i remember seeing that spiral box art for Zombies ate my neighbors at the rental store so many times as a kid. i always wondered what it was about, but never rented it, because for some reason i though the silly name meant it would be a bad game.

    • @Gatorade69
      @Gatorade69 Рік тому

      Similar here. The game was always in the discount bin at a local KB Toys. I passed it up for worse games for whatever reason.

    • @AllenMS828
      @AllenMS828 Рік тому

      @@Gatorade69 That's where I got my copy! For like $8! 😆

  • @pablohorst
    @pablohorst Рік тому +3

    I love zombies ate my neighbors! This show is great, Jared!

  • @timothymckane6362
    @timothymckane6362 Рік тому +2

    Someone should draw art, or cosplay as Piccolo with a monocle on Halloween Day thanks to Dylan's idea.

  • @jarekwrzosek2048
    @jarekwrzosek2048 Рік тому +2

    Man, Dizzy really awakened some of my earliest PC gaming memories!

    • @clintbrew
      @clintbrew Рік тому

      Me too had some of the dizzy games on amstrad cpc 464 also played fantastic dizzy on the megadrive

  • @ezmer2dragon
    @ezmer2dragon Рік тому

    7th Saga was THE game where we would call our Nintendo master neighbor for help and advice. Never beat it but it was so freakishly difficult.

  • @sjorspolling8275
    @sjorspolling8275 Рік тому

    I rented "Zombies" with my best mate back then. One of the best rainy Sunday I've ever had.

  • @garou119
    @garou119 Рік тому +1

    How could l have ever lived in a world with monocle-less Piccolo?
    👽🧐

  • @ikonoklast7
    @ikonoklast7 Рік тому +1

    For those who want to play 7th Saga and don't want to cry, is there a particularly good ROM hack that rebalances the difficulty?

    • @jamesevensen863
      @jamesevensen863 Рік тому +1

      Check out Easier 7th Saga. It reverts the difficulty back to the Japanese version.

  • @db_524
    @db_524 Рік тому

    2:04 - 2:09 Aww 🫂😭 3:25 - 3:55 I remember this commercial, it was aired constantly in the 90’s, classic. Never had the game though.

  • @Feralwolf444
    @Feralwolf444 Рік тому

    One thing Jared didn't mention about Zombies is that is has one of the largest active modding communities on the SNES (behind only Super Mario World and Link to the Past) thanks to an incredible level editor. There are some excellent romhacks out there that make MUCH better sequels then Ghoul Patrol, such as "Ultimate Zombies Ate my Neighbors", "Oh no, MORE Zombies Ate my Neighbors!", and "Sky's Zombies Ate my Neighbors" (Shout out to my good friend, and expert Zombies modder, Skylar Brock).

  • @Turbo_Waitress
    @Turbo_Waitress Рік тому +1

    DIZZY! I grew up playing the NES game with my dad! ;-;
    I’m glad to see you featuring 7th Saga as well. That game was so hard and the whole losing your runes mechanic was frustrating, but I have fond memories of it. I wish Square Enix would tap that back catalog of games they published and release more stuff like Soul Blazer or 7th Saga.
    And Zombies Ate My Neighbors is just nostalgic.

  • @GRG772
    @GRG772 Рік тому

    7th saga really humbles you, doesn't matter how strong you think you are, or how well you grasped the system, it will take you down a peg. But it is a lot more fun than I expected it to be, and I feel like most dungeon crawler rpg fans will have a blast with it

  • @brianmarsh3021
    @brianmarsh3021 Рік тому

    Zombies Ate My Neighbors was epic multiplayer. I also remember playing it as a demo at a mall KB Toys. Such nostalgia

  • @reeyees50
    @reeyees50 Рік тому

    6:00 Jared, the movie was called Fido

  • @LordPichuPal
    @LordPichuPal Рік тому

    I absolutely love Zombies Ate My Neighbors, it's been a huge favourite of mine since I was a kid. My cousin and I used to play it together a lot and never could figure out the hedge maze until one day I found the solution and couldn't wait to tell him. For years all the kids I knew could never beat it either, and no one ever knew what came after level 20, until I finally made it all the way to the end at a LAN party when I was 13. All my friends who were there watching couldn't believe it, and it felt like such a proud accomplishment after years of practice. I'm always hyped to keep showing it to new people who never saw it and finding others who loved it, too. I'd been looking forward to this episode for a long time, ZAMN deserves the attention and fanfare.

  • @danieldowney7621
    @danieldowney7621 Рік тому

    Zombies Ate My Neighbours is just so good I can never get over it.

  • @paulhiggins6433
    @paulhiggins6433 Рік тому +6

    I was interrupted by the notification that this came out. I was rewatching Jared's old Final Fantasy reviews. Jared interrupted himself. Hahaha.

    • @mexiwolf009
      @mexiwolf009 Рік тому +1

      When is the Final Fantasy 13 review at? That’s my question, I still have no answer. 🥹

    • @paulhiggins6433
      @paulhiggins6433 Рік тому

      @@mexiwolf009 no offense, but I don't care if that question gets answered. Hahaha. I do want to see his opinion on Tactics though.

    • @mexiwolf009
      @mexiwolf009 Рік тому

      @@paulhiggins6433 Homeboy, your missing out. Di you know how much of a roasting he will give to that game. Or how much revisionist history that game has now. Its going to be smooth. Tactics would be cool tho.

    • @paulhiggins6433
      @paulhiggins6433 Рік тому

      @@mexiwolf009 You're not wrong. The roasting would be brutal. But do we really want him to torture himself like that? I don't.

    • @TigerNightmare
      @TigerNightmare Рік тому +1

      @@mexiwolf009 Jared is actively working on a XIV review. We might get reviews of that, XV and XVI first. Since XIII hasn't been ported to PS4 or PS5, and the PC version has performance issues, there are issues recording it on PS3 because of HDCP. I read that an HDMI splitter can get around that, but there's also an issue of time, with Jared committed to streaming four days a week and a lot of new games, some of which he won't have time for.
      The review will come, but not for a while. It'll be something, though. I hate those characters and there hasn't really been a decent video that truly articulates how unlikable, one dimensional, boring, and annoying they are.

  • @CloudDany
    @CloudDany Рік тому +1

    Agree, the baby boss is indeed the most terrifying enemy in all the game

  • @youralaskalinkphotog
    @youralaskalinkphotog Рік тому +1

    7th Saga is difficult, but I enjoyed using a gamefaq to beat it as an adult. Also...Dylan was fun as usual.

  • @ExileOfBrokenSky
    @ExileOfBrokenSky Рік тому

    Zombies ate my neighbors was an afterschool GOTO for so many of my friends

  • @magitek09
    @magitek09 Рік тому

    I've said this before, but Zombies ate my neighbors, is perfect remake material!
    It's fun, it's nostalgic and has enough rough edges that a modern take could ironout

  • @alanbalan3539
    @alanbalan3539 Рік тому

    6:08 Editor putting in work and pre-empting a flood of ACTUALLY from the UK. Dizzy was the first game I played and while I was too young to progress in any meaningful fashion, the graphics and music wowed my low single digit aged brain. I really should go back and try playing one of those games properly...

  • @CronosVids
    @CronosVids Рік тому +2

    I understand they pick the most popular or interesting games for the main feature, but often times I look forward to the rapid fire more than the first part.

  • @krono5el
    @krono5el Рік тому

    Rolling thunder and Zombies ate my neighbors were a totally rad time on Genesis, lucky to have been there : )

  • @Mankey619
    @Mankey619 Рік тому

    2035 dollars for a definitive SNES cover box, is indeed a highest crazy value I’ve ever seen.

  • @chaospoet
    @chaospoet Рік тому

    I love Zombies Ate My Neighbors. One of my favorite games ever. And that is the correct reaction to Piccolo with a Monocle.

  • @jlev1028
    @jlev1028 Рік тому +1

    I remember playing the first Rolling Thunder on one of those arcade compilation cabinets that you just need to flick a switch to turn on. It was cheapnas hell. How was I expect to beat the first level in less than a minute.

    • @Gatorade69
      @Gatorade69 Рік тому

      Are you thinking of the right game ?
      It has a time limit but it's almost 2 minutes long and is well enough time to beat the first stage. Never had any time problems in the game but it gets frustratingly impossible hard by level 4.

  • @Marc_Araujo
    @Marc_Araujo Рік тому +2

    All three Rolling Thunder games are great, especially the Genesis versions of the second and third games.

  • @mjdf122
    @mjdf122 Рік тому

    Now in the 90s another great week going back in time

  • @brandonespinoza9279
    @brandonespinoza9279 Рік тому

    The player characters Zeke and Julia, from Zombies Ate My Neighbors, always reminded me of Johnny, from Johnny Test, and Christy, from Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation, respectively.

  • @oneanaovoste9719
    @oneanaovoste9719 Рік тому

    I was introduced to play Zombies Ate My Neighbors about 3 years after it released. I remember it being frustratingly difficult.
    As for 7th Saga, picking from one of 7 characters as your main in an RPG reminds me of Ultima: Quest of the Avatar, where you pick your class, and then that class is the one you cannot recruit for your party. The game looks interesting.

  • @MrTableDesk
    @MrTableDesk Рік тому

    I absolutely love 7th Saga. We used to rent that a ton back in the day. I finally beat it last year, and I can say, the regular enemies are absolutely brutal, but the bosses aren't so bad.

  • @fifo85
    @fifo85 Рік тому +4

    I'm loving that Dylan is getting a little more time each new ep.

  • @jasonblalock4429
    @jasonblalock4429 Рік тому +4

    For what it's worth, if someone's interested in trying 7th Saga, CDRomance has multiple fan rebalancing patches that make the English version more reasonable.

  • @GameDrunkard
    @GameDrunkard Рік тому +4

    Make 7...

  • @crimsonharvest
    @crimsonharvest Рік тому

    locally the only way to buy 7th Saga at the time was to order it out of the (heavily marked up) mail order pages on EGM or similar. This made it about 50% more expensive than something off the shelf, so despite my enthusiasm to see it, there really wasn't any chance at the time.

  • @teknomax7883
    @teknomax7883 Рік тому

    Zombies Ate my Neighbors is one of my all time favorite Genesis games. I'm lucky to have a full boxed cartridge that I've got a while ago

  • @lesdiesel
    @lesdiesel Рік тому

    I had no clue that Zombies Ate My Neighbors had a Switch release! It was one of my favorite SNES games. I picked up my Switch as soon as I saw this and purchased it.

  • @TheGamersShade
    @TheGamersShade Рік тому +1

    this is my favourite time of the week.

  • @jpop4lf
    @jpop4lf Рік тому

    One thing about the 7th Saga that I haven't seen as a mechanic since, is that the turn after you defend... your next attack (if it's physical) is stronger (Feels like 80%-95% plus stronger). But everything else you say of the game is true... and I still love it.

    • @gurvmlk
      @gurvmlk Рік тому +1

      I always liked the defend system, because it added a neat little layer of strategy to battles. Needing to decide when it was best to defend then attack, as opposed to just attacking, for example. Not to mention that RPGs with useful defend commands were pretty much nonexistent back then, so the idea of having defending be so integral made for a fun novelty.

  • @bes03c
    @bes03c Рік тому

    I loved Zombies Ate My Neighbors as a kid. There is also a Day if the Tentacle level you can only access with a special password.

  • @slickrj3
    @slickrj3 Рік тому

    Wow, ZAMN is a blast from the past. I remember that being of the few video games that everyone in my family, even my mom, loved to play. That big baby level was my 1st wall as a kid. I still remember the cheers we had when we finally beat that level!