I can't take how insane this is. A man surfs a landslide, then suddenly a sword appears, but he doesn't even need it. He rides an eagle and punches a shirless man so hard he literally explodes. Video games are done, we did it. Exhume Ebert and tell him we've made art.
This comment is forever ago and possibly a joke, but the World of LongPlays UA-cam account discloses in the description of all their LPs that most of them are made with the use of savestates.
Honestly, how can a game be this awesome and not be famous. Throwing cars, exploding dudes, hardcoreclothlining(a word that should be invented for that boss) guys I just can't sum up all the awesomeness going on.
I haven't played this so I don't know how the gameplay feels, but I've heard that it really sucks. On the other hand, we've got Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, which not only has everything this game has (except the throwing cars bit, but it makes up for it with having dinosaurs and an entire stage where you run over everyone in a Cadillac) but is also a great game itself, and yet it's almost as forgotten as Growl...
There's a ton of variables but just consider how many of the best games in the genre had to be "rediscovered" like they were brand new once arcade emulation became widespread. Violent Storm, Undercover Cops, Vendetta, Metamorphic Force etc. Their obscurity has absolutely no correlation to their quality. The ones people actually remembered were either licensed (TMNT, Xmen, Simpsons, AVP) or had really popular home ports (Double Dragon, Final Fight.) Growl *did* get a decent Genesis port but it just doesn't look impressive at all next to say, Streets of Rage 2 or TMNT:Hyperstone Heist. I think if the conversion was a bit better and also came out when brawlers weren't so dime-a-dozen, more people would've remembered it. I'm just glad they thought to include it in some of the Taito collections. (..and Growl *is* great IMO, I'd take it over a dozen FF/SOR clones any day.)
We need more modern video games that say "you know what, fuck having a coherent story, or being realistic. Let's focus on explosions and guys throwing tanks."
The enemies for this game include: -"Business women" -Men from XIX century London -Moors -Shitty Shredder cosplayers -Dom DeLuise's faulty clones in formal wear -Borderline Jason Voorhees -Moors with whips -Clown Car Tank -Bats, somehow -Borderline Jason Voorhees with a tan -Cyborg clown? -Alien spiny turd?!
So the hero was called Jack. He gets assistance from animals. The gameplay is a mixture of gunplay and beat 'em up. All the people who want a remake of this game can go and buy it already. Dead To Rights.
Later they should play/watch Vendetta, which stars Hulk Hogan, Mr. T, Jean Claude Van Damme, and Mike Tyson. It's like the Expendables if it were a beat-em-up from '91. We should probably chill out with all the arcade game name-drops. ... Not!
So, this game's final boss is a dude in a Dracula costume who throws a tank at you, has a rocket launcher for a head and Wolverine gloves that shoot Sheik needles, and is controlled by a giant robot alien worm.
+stringanime In the original Doom and Doom 2, getting enemies to fight each other is a required tactic when ammo is scarce. Clearly, John Carmack played _Growl_.
+stringanime In the original Doom and Doom 2, getting enemies to fight each other is a required tactic when ammo is scarce. Clearly, John Carmack played _Growl_.
It's about this dude saving animals from poachers, but it still has the standard fuck-yeah-America, bloody, sweaty machismo of old school beat-em-ups. I don't think I have to play another video game ever again.
It IS a challenge, the player is just very good at it. Trust me, your characters don't have much stamina and if you get yourself into trouble you can find yourself out of life quite quickly.
EXCITE ACTION FIGHT SHBROOM! When I was a kid, a local arcade had this game for sale for, I don't recall exactly, but let's say about $400. I was ten and my Dad actually offered to buy it for me, he thought a cabinet in the garage would be cool. I said "no."
From whipping women in business coats, to abusing fat men, to riding eagles to your worst enemy's front door, you can do it in Growl! A nonstop thrill ride with incredibly realistic graphics, an advanced physics engine, and terrific voice acting. The plot is so coherent and realistic, it almost makes you feel like a... uh... women whipping, fat abusing, eagle riding Hulk Hogan. 10/10
Wow, so a perfect run of Growl. Wish I knew it was that easy. The most deaths I get are on that whole platforming over lava nonsense cause the character this player uses is the same I use. He's the strongest in attack but his jump is the worst of the 4. The whip is most often the best weapon in this game because the snap-back can hit enemies behind you as you can see.
As funny as the name Yack (Yasuhisa) is for a composer, he's made really great music for Taito under the Zuntata team. My favorite track is "Born to be Free" from Metal Black.
See now, _this_ is the game PeTA should use to promote justice for animals! It proves that animals are totally awesome at kicking ass and should be respected!
This game had me on the floor with the sheer volume of enemies that just appear on screen at the same time. 6:53 ELEVEN enemies appear on screen simultaneously, just walking in through the sides. I have never seen a game that introduces enemies in such volume.
Unfortunately, the one thing Jack didn't notice was that he was actually in the town of Poach. Though that did explain how it was possible for him to have killed a city's worth of people.
Now, if you guys wanna see the manliest, raddest arcade game Taito has ever made, check The First Funky Fighter. It has been described as "Whack-a-Mole meets Fist of the North Star". It will make you want to punch a shark in real life.
Do you know what this is? This is two kids playing pretend: the video game. Think about it. When the Tank shows up, you say "OH NO! HE GOT ME!" Only a kid who's playing around says that. Ever.
Someone should take the gif of the Metroid Prime 3 Ridley opening Christmas presents and add one of the bosses from this game running across with its swinging arm animation and steal Ridley's presents.
I like how much of this is using your giant gun as a melee weapon and that's somehow a great idea, not to mention the use of explosions to the point of self-parody. It's like this game predicted the modern FPS.
The animals have been kidnapped by 80's businesswomen! Are you a bad enough dude to defeat their army of color-coded Bedouins, Newsies, and Shriners? Also, anyone else getting a "Ball Fondlers" vibe from this or is it just me?
This looks so much like a ripoff of Cadillacs and Dinosaurs. It has the Final Fight-style engine, the character select with stats, weapons with ammo, a very similar storyline (minus, well, the Cadillacs and dinosaurs), even friggin' bazookas with the ability to gib enemies... Yet somehow this game came first. I think Capcom just said to Taito, "Nonononono, THIS is how you make a beat-'em-up with an environmentalist theme." Edit: I posted this while watching the video, and I just saw the final boss. This even had the god damn bait-and-switch final boss that turns into a mutant monstrosity! How the hell is this possible!? The Cadillacs & Dinosaurs comics (as far as I know) also had the mad scientist making mutant dinosaur-men, so it's not like Capcom decided rip off this game with the surprise mutants. Maybe someone at Taito had a time machine and tried to take the arcade market by storm by releasing their own C&D before Capcom did.
This game is basically a PETA member's "Gary Stu" fanfiction. The main character and his weapons are so overpowered that he almost can't die while his absolutely perfect, invincible, character mows down thousands of animal abusers with his animal friends.
There's one game that comes very close to this and that's called Noah's Ark on the NES. In that game you play as Noah and travel around the world rescuing a few animals, while killing other animal, indigenous people and giant plug monsters. All that while the water levels are rising.
That elephant sound effect sounds very similar to one used in Super Street Fighter II on Dhalsim's stage as you fight. I just spent 10 minutes trying to confirm this. :-/
It's been a while since I pressed a like button on a RP video. This was actually good-good. The game's wackiness and the old-style commentary mix perfectly. Don't settle for less, don't look further!
I can't take how insane this is. A man surfs a landslide, then suddenly a sword appears, but he doesn't even need it. He rides an eagle and punches a shirless man so hard he literally explodes.
Video games are done, we did it. Exhume Ebert and tell him we've made art.
"Well anyway, here's the giraffe train." Spoken with blase indifference, as though a giraffe train is an integral part of every video game.
You mean it's not?
It certainly is an integral part of _Last Crusade_ for SNES...
It's nice to know the 60's Batman sound effects found work after the show was cancelled.
This guy is the greatest longplayer ever, he beat an arcade game without getting hit.
To be fair, he did blow himself up with a grenade
@@Ceireavne that's takes a lot of skill.
This comment is forever ago and possibly a joke, but the World of LongPlays UA-cam account discloses in the description of all their LPs that most of them are made with the use of savestates.
Honestly, how can a game be this awesome and not be famous. Throwing cars, exploding dudes, hardcoreclothlining(a word that should be invented for that boss) guys I just can't sum up all the awesomeness going on.
I haven't played this so I don't know how the gameplay feels, but I've heard that it really sucks. On the other hand, we've got Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, which not only has everything this game has (except the throwing cars bit, but it makes up for it with having dinosaurs and an entire stage where you run over everyone in a Cadillac) but is also a great game itself, and yet it's almost as forgotten as Growl...
There's a ton of variables but just consider how many of the best games in the genre had to be "rediscovered" like they were brand new once arcade emulation became widespread. Violent Storm, Undercover Cops, Vendetta, Metamorphic Force etc. Their obscurity has absolutely no correlation to their quality.
The ones people actually remembered were either licensed (TMNT, Xmen, Simpsons, AVP) or had really popular home ports (Double Dragon, Final Fight.)
Growl *did* get a decent Genesis port but it just doesn't look impressive at all next to say, Streets of Rage 2 or TMNT:Hyperstone Heist. I think if the conversion was a bit better and also came out when brawlers weren't so dime-a-dozen, more people would've remembered it.
I'm just glad they thought to include it in some of the Taito collections. (..and Growl *is* great IMO, I'd take it over a dozen FF/SOR clones any day.)
"Can we talk about the elephant in the room"
I lost it.
This game does for Eco-terrorism what NARC did for Drug Enforcement.
PROPAGANDA...DOESN'T...WORK THAT WAY!
Nice to see you here. Good taste.
We need more modern video games that say "you know what, fuck having a coherent story, or being realistic. Let's focus on explosions and guys throwing tanks."
The enemies for this game include:
-"Business women"
-Men from XIX century London
-Moors
-Shitty Shredder cosplayers
-Dom DeLuise's faulty clones in formal wear
-Borderline Jason Voorhees
-Moors with whips
-Clown Car Tank
-Bats, somehow
-Borderline Jason Voorhees with a tan
-Cyborg clown?
-Alien spiny turd?!
So the hero was called Jack. He gets assistance from animals. The gameplay is a mixture of gunplay and beat 'em up. All the people who want a remake of this game can go and buy it already. Dead To Rights.
I want Platinum to make the sequel to this.
The song "Rules of Nature" would actually make sense.
Looking through the comments, I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks the player character looks like Hulk Hogan.
Later they should play/watch Vendetta, which stars Hulk Hogan, Mr. T, Jean Claude Van Damme, and Mike Tyson. It's like the Expendables if it were a beat-em-up from '91.
We should probably chill out with all the arcade game name-drops. ... Not!
So, this game's final boss is a dude in a Dracula costume who throws a tank at you, has a rocket launcher for a head and Wolverine gloves that shoot Sheik needles, and is controlled by a giant robot alien worm.
What do you mean by "that's not awesome"?
best villain of the millennium
I don't see a problem here.
Typical
How very conventional. Just once I’d like an original concept for a final boss.
16:30 Greatest 20 seconds of video game history.
+stringanime In the original Doom and Doom 2, getting enemies to fight each other is a required tactic when ammo is scarce.
Clearly, John Carmack played _Growl_.
+stringanime In the original Doom and Doom 2, getting enemies to fight each other is a required tactic when ammo is scarce.
Clearly, John Carmack played _Growl_.
Absolutely perfect!
This is probably the only game out there where you nuke office ladies to rescue mountain lions. I'm in love with this game already.
It's about this dude saving animals from poachers, but it still has the standard fuck-yeah-America, bloody, sweaty machismo of old school beat-em-ups. I don't think I have to play another video game ever again.
This game looks fucking awesome. It's not a challenge, it's just pure madness and silly fun. I have to play shbroom.exe soon
It IS a challenge, the player is just very good at it. Trust me, your characters don't have much stamina and if you get yourself into trouble you can find yourself out of life quite quickly.
Damnit why did PETA never think to make a game this awesome?
Because PETA is full of retards.
"Save animals by murdering humans" PETA!
MrFallout3man More like "Save animals by murdering animals!" -PETA
Jake Stene More like.
Save animals by murdering evil aliens controlling humans.
+NatsumeHack Animorphs?
EXCITE ACTION FIGHT SHBROOM!
When I was a kid, a local arcade had this game for sale for, I don't recall exactly, but let's say about $400. I was ten and my Dad actually offered to buy it for me, he thought a cabinet in the garage would be cool. I said "no."
Man, you missed out.
From whipping women in business coats, to abusing fat men, to riding eagles to your worst enemy's front door, you can do it in Growl! A nonstop thrill ride with incredibly realistic graphics, an advanced physics engine, and terrific voice acting. The plot is so coherent and realistic, it almost makes you feel like a... uh... women whipping, fat abusing, eagle riding Hulk Hogan.
10/10
I love how all the birds are flying out of the pen at the end when they could have done so at any point really
Taito proudly presents
Equal-Opportunity Violence 3: The Return of the Thing
Starring Hulk Hogan
Wow, so a perfect run of Growl. Wish I knew it was that easy.
The most deaths I get are on that whole platforming over lava nonsense cause the character this player uses is the same I use. He's the strongest in attack but his jump is the worst of the 4.
The whip is most often the best weapon in this game because the snap-back can hit enemies behind you as you can see.
A male broom is called a HBROOM, and the female is called a SHBROOM
I want to see you guys play this game legitimately. You, Diabetus, Chip, and Ironicus should 4P Co-Op it.
As funny as the name Yack (Yasuhisa) is for a composer, he's made really great music for Taito under the Zuntata team. My favorite track is "Born to be Free" from Metal Black.
Me too. I'm a fan of Yasuhisa Watanabe as well. Hoping for him to appear at Indonesia Comic Con 2017. I knew him from Metal Black too
Why did I never see this in an arcade because goddamn this looks awesome in the dumbest way.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of SHBROOM
And then the Final Boss moved to Earnest Evans
I played this once and it glitched out and reset during the lava cave area. It can barely even handle its own insanity.
Anytime I'm having a shity day I Can just watch this video and it'll INSTANTLY put a smile on my face...thank you taito
either you insert your wallet, or the game kills you
16:40
"Now, now. Perfectly symmetrical violence never solved anything."
And then 10,000 families starved.
THE END.
Nonsense, they can feed upon the flesh of the dead poachers. There's enough meat there to feed all of Africa for a century.
I just realized, did the player ever get hit in this game?
Fujiwaran X is a distant relative of Longshoreman X.
Yellow half-ripped shirt, bandana and sunglasses? I think this character is actually Hulk Hogan.
The appearance of a tank, the capacity of an APC. Or a bus maybe.
Back here again because Growl has been put on the Nintendo Switch eShop as an Arcade Archives title!
Ted Turner Presents: Vengeance of the Planeteers
"Bats aren't animals" Best line ever.
It makes sense, have you ever heard of Batman?
Boltscrap But humans are animals too!
See now, _this_ is the game PeTA should use to promote justice for animals! It proves that animals are totally awesome at kicking ass and should be respected!
Man, Dr. Salvadore and the giant centipedes from _Dark Souls_ had really weird early careers.
FUN FACT: The poachers are apparently supposed to be a front for the Belser from the Darius games. this sort of explains the final boss... sort of.
That's even more nonsensical than the final boss just making no goddamn sense whatsoever.
Yeah, the whole thing really raises more questions than it answers.
TheStrongBadMan At least I know that the people who made DArius made this game.
TheStrongBadMan At least there are a few people who know what Darius is!
How do you end up credited for 'trifling work'? Who did he piss off?
This game had me on the floor with the sheer volume of enemies that just appear on screen at the same time. 6:53 ELEVEN enemies appear on screen simultaneously, just walking in through the sides. I have never seen a game that introduces enemies in such volume.
This may be the greatest game ever made in the history of ever and nobody can ever dispute that
After saving the world from terrorism and mad scientists, Guy Kazama founded a conservation agency.
Unfortunately, the one thing Jack didn't notice was that he was actually in the town of Poach. Though that did explain how it was possible for him to have killed a city's worth of people.
I don't believe it...
Michael Bay made a video game.
Not many people know it, but this game is a 100% accurate depiction of Jack Hanna's life story.
Hulk Hogan + Castlevania + Explosions
Metal Slugfest?
Final Flop?
Altered Beef?
Street Far- No, not even going to finish that one.
*Finish it.*
Raiden The Jack
... Street Farmer.
What? You thought I was gonna make a quick fart joke?
For a game about saving animals a lot of Jessica Rabbits died in it.
The Engrish in this game makes it so much better. "You won't get away this." Everything going on in this game makes it the best thing ever!
Now, if you guys wanna see the manliest, raddest arcade game Taito has ever made, check The First Funky Fighter. It has been described as "Whack-a-Mole meets Fist of the North Star". It will make you want to punch a shark in real life.
If anyone else is not sold on this game yet, then allow me to inform you that you can rip a shark in half with your bare hands in this game.
Vulcan64 And that there are alligators with tits.
Vulcan64
Dude, spoilers. >:[
***** I think that the alligators with tits are more of a spoiler.
"Whack-a-Mole meets _Fist of the North Star_"
Moru wa mou shindeiru.
10:45 Jason's back, and he wants to get you in shape.
I miss the batshit craziness of 90s arcade
Also apparently this is canon to the Darius universe, no joke
*Sees people playing Growl*
"What do you jerks think you're doing?"
HOLY SHIT THIS IS AWESOME
SHBROOM SHBROOM life could be a dream sweetheart
Directed by Michael Bay
I'M HITTING MY KEYBOARD AS HARD AS I CAN BUT I'M NOT PLAYING GROWL YET
Do you know what this is? This is two kids playing pretend: the video game. Think about it. When the Tank shows up, you say "OH NO! HE GOT ME!" Only a kid who's playing around says that. Ever.
starring Hulk Hogan as The Ghost Who Walks
Someone should take the gif of the Metroid Prime 3 Ridley opening Christmas presents and add one of the bosses from this game running across with its swinging arm animation and steal Ridley's presents.
they call him _the bazookeeper_
"SHBROOM" is good, and all. But it's no "BAGOOM".
Wow, this first draft of Ace Ventura was a little bonkers.
This is possibly the best game.
+Terumi Yūki I know, lol. I actually kind of want to play this game.
SpanishFly120 It's a crazy arcade Beat 'em Up. You can't go wrong with those.
This game is fucking wonderful.
I like how much of this is using your giant gun as a melee weapon and that's somehow a great idea, not to mention the use of explosions to the point of self-parody. It's like this game predicted the modern FPS.
12:26
Betus, having seen an elephant, can no longer control his Alabama instinct
This game should of been called "The Plot of the Palette Swap Platoon"
; or, "Hulk Hogan Murders Literally the Entire World."
Goofy whip animations, short skirts, bosses whose only move is to flail around spastically...
This is an Earnest Evans prequel, right?
Shbreets of Rage.
*snickers*
I wonder how that would works...
"Can we talk about the elephant in the room?" XD
Move over GreenPeace
It's time for *GreenWar*
The animals have been kidnapped by 80's businesswomen! Are you a bad enough dude to defeat their army of color-coded Bedouins, Newsies, and Shriners?
Also, anyone else getting a "Ball Fondlers" vibe from this or is it just me?
PETA game of the year.
NEW RETSUPURAE. ACTION. EXCITE.
"SBROOM!" "EXCITE!"
Missing: "ZUFF!" "PAN!" "SNUH!" "BORT!" "POOO!" "NEWT!" "MINT!" "ZAK!"
4:39 Play catch with me, or I'll blow us all to hell!
Expert in Tainting Man, Raoh really let himself go after being beat by Kenshiro in Hokuto no Ken.
This looks so much like a ripoff of Cadillacs and Dinosaurs. It has the Final Fight-style engine, the character select with stats, weapons with ammo, a very similar storyline (minus, well, the Cadillacs and dinosaurs), even friggin' bazookas with the ability to gib enemies... Yet somehow this game came first. I think Capcom just said to Taito, "Nonononono, THIS is how you make a beat-'em-up with an environmentalist theme."
Edit: I posted this while watching the video, and I just saw the final boss. This even had the god damn bait-and-switch final boss that turns into a mutant monstrosity! How the hell is this possible!? The Cadillacs & Dinosaurs comics (as far as I know) also had the mad scientist making mutant dinosaur-men, so it's not like Capcom decided rip off this game with the surprise mutants. Maybe someone at Taito had a time machine and tried to take the arcade market by storm by releasing their own C&D before Capcom did.
YOU WON'T GET AWAY THIS
I loved this game as a kid
This game is basically a PETA member's "Gary Stu" fanfiction. The main character and his weapons are so overpowered that he almost can't die while his absolutely perfect, invincible, character mows down thousands of animal abusers with his animal friends.
There's one game that comes very close to this and that's called Noah's Ark on the NES. In that game you play as Noah and travel around the world rescuing a few animals, while killing other animal, indigenous people and giant plug monsters. All that while the water levels are rising.
SHBROOM, the highly anticipated spin-off of SPRUNG.
Growl is one of the most ridiculous beat-'em-up games I've ever played, but you guys just made it look funnier.
♪ SHBROOM SHBROOM
ya da da da da da da da da da da
SHBROOM SHBROOM
ya da da da da da da da da da da ♪
That elephant sound effect sounds very similar to one used in Super Street Fighter II on Dhalsim's stage as you fight. I just spent 10 minutes trying to confirm this. :-/
Coming to your PowerPC in beautiful, beautiful 240p.
I suddenly feel the need to put on my Walkman, get a roll full of quarters, and sit back while drinking some Surge. This is just too EXTREME!!
if only animal activists were this cool! excite!
It's been a while since I pressed a like button on a RP video. This was actually good-good. The game's wackiness and the old-style commentary mix perfectly. Don't settle for less, don't look further!
did this game ever get like, any follow-ups? it looks rad as heck
honestly who needs streets of rage
Oh shit, women in mini skirts! I'd better use my rocket launcher.
Not since Final Fight has there been such violence against stylishly dressed women.
Louis Vuitton is cracking down hard on the counterfeit designer clothing racket.
***** I wouldn't really consider dominatrices and amazons to be stylish.
At least the evil poachers offer equal opportunity.
But isn't Poison transgender because of that? And also, this is the EARLY 20th century, so mini-skirts shouldn't have existed back then.
RocMegamanX
No, Poison was transgender since her initial design.
I wish I played this when I was a child
I'm still laughing at "Trifling Work". I can't even type it out without laughing holy shit how do you even do that ahhahaahahahah!