I'd just like to point out that when Larry and Stuart played the Donkey Kong board game 10 years ago, they made the exact same joke that the third brother of Mario and Luigi is named Alfredo.
_Well you see, Ashens, when I developed this game I intended it to be played in a zero gravitational environment as part of a grand inter-galactic tournament on the far side of the planet Xena instead of a traditional table top board game. The extra Mario and Luigi pieces are actually Aliens that are impersonating the Mario Bros as body duplicates and that is why it's imperative that you, the real Mario and Luigi rescue her first. It is a co-op game._ _Any problems encountered with the board game are either fictitious or a result of the board game being ahead of its time_
He’s lost SO MUCH WEIGHT! Go Larry! You look great, mate! Stuart’s haircut is great too! And your mate… a handsome man indeed. I’d feel bad leaving anyone out. Great job, all!
Ah yes, one of the most legendary phrases in all of gaming: "THE PRINCESS IS NOT HERE" On par with the equally legendary "IT'S DANGEROUS TO TRAVEL ON YOUR OWN. I SUGGEST THAT YOU TAKE SOMETHING WITH YOU. PERHAPS THIS?"
*Luigi:* "'ey Mario, you ever wonder where Ashens videos come from?" *Mario:* "Well y'see, Luigi; when a British paisano finds a loada old toys an' weird food, a little presentation of 'em comes out about a few weeks, months or years later." *Luigi:* "What's that got to do with makin' videos?! Mario, I don't understand!" *Mario:* "That's because you're a chef puppet, Luigi." *Chef Luigi:* *_[an excellent parody]_*
I wasn't prepared for the drama of the teleporting princess, however was prepared for the fact that a nearly thirty minute video of three men playing a silly boardgame would fly by like a summer breeze. Ashens collaborations and indeed solo material tends to be consistantly amusing and paced well, thus can be watched in a single sitting irregardless of length without pausing the video. Cheers and have a great day.
@@SexyVortigaunt Maybe...nah it was a typo and definitely not the first nor worst example of my shite writing skill committed to paper or in the electronic form. I really do try to improve my written English to properly impart my intended meaning though and appreciate your critique of my poorly written sentence and/or sentences. Take care and have a great day.
Last time I saw Larry was about 20 years ago on Sky's game network channel. Before everyone had the Internet, people would ring up to ask for cheats which Larry would post onto the TV screen.🤔😍
By allowing the zap brick to zap already removed brick(itself) you maintain the status quo and keeping the "1 brick per turn" flow, without giving +1 or -1 to the brick/turn ratio, allowing you to maintain pressure on your opponents. The inclusion of this rule changes the game completely, as it enables you to... ugh, I run out of bullshit.
1:00 I'm 43, this is not weird. Mario mania pretty much extended from Super Mario Bros all the way to Super Mario World so the character was still on everything in that period. I used to have an awesome glass Mario 2 mug that came from Wal-Mart or something back in the day....good times...
One minor adjustment would be you don't need to land on the short cut but can chose to take it when passing over it. Would add the tinest of strategy to it
13:17 cheat alert :P Not only swapped pieces but moved 3 and not 4 places - 20:39 didn't claim extra life As for the brick turnover mechanic, i suppose you can pick to land on that when you're on a shortcut. On those tiles you get a pick of 2 options ~
I could see this being an interesting game with a bit of a twist: instead of rolling to move, you have a hand of cards with different effects similar to the bricks (move X spaces, zap X bricks, shuffle the princesses) along with some more interesting effects (swap places with a player, curse a player to move backwards, and so on).
I think this game could be massive improved by letting players move in either direction around the board. It's not very Mario Bros but it would add some element of strategy.
That has got to be the only place you'll ever see "Shuffle the Princesses". ^_^ Interesting but not quite what I was expecting, thought it would like pipe paths on the other side of the cards for like a dynamic path system rather than general powerups. Probably what inspired most childhood examples of board game design, bland licensed ones heh.
By christ am glad you played this so I didn't have to. Belated thanks for the numbered blurays (20's good ty). Kudos n many thanks to Mr Stuart n the extended Ashens family n whatnot. Superbo nee tremendi.
I think the idea behind the "zap any brick, including the zap brick" is if you were trying to hinder other players who might be close to getting to the castle.
Reading a photo of the rules on Boardgame Geek, if you land on the same square, you're supposed to go onto the next square. ZAP bricks are the only ones that don't auto discard... so you could leave it there to hit it again. If someone's heading to a castle, they also get reset if someone fails to find a princess. For the round spaces it says "and move your way onto the castle", so I believe they are supposed to be counted spaces...
I think the "Turn over a brick" square is to help with the "Zap x bricks" brick so you can Zap the ones you know are bad? Although you don't get the brick zapper as often as the brick revealer, which seems like the wrong way around?
The Robot Wars game episode was AWESOME I really really hope they get into board games more! I'm pretty sure Ashens' audience are older and more into longer chill videos like this.
James Rolfe did a video about a Ninja Turtles game that was very similar to this one, with the same disc-flipping identity reveal gameplay mechanic. I'm guessing they must be by the same company?
This game could have been greatly improved and a million times more popular as a Mario board game if all they added were four more pieces, for bad guys, goombas and koopas, and a second dice that you rolled so you would move them around the board and if they landed on the space you were on you lose a life and get bounced back to start, and vice versa so if you're moving forward and you land on one of the enemies, they would get bounced back to their start position.
its been a long time since I watched ashens and larry again and Im impressed that larry turned into luigi and ashens into a bald mario, good episode though
I feel like the lads are getting slower as they age. The reveal brick space wasn't useless either because shot cuts mean you can choose which side of the board to avoid/pursue. Plus missing figuring out "we've swapped Luigi's at some point!" literally as it happened. 10 years from now they'll start telling us about the good ol days when they went over to their mates place to play Mario on his Sega Master System and how he became Super Mario when he collected all 8 Chaos Emeralds which made it all to easy to defeat Mother Brain.
Somebody may have already proposed this idea, but I am far too lazy to look and see... I think what the instructions at 9:49 are (poorly) trying to say with "Even the zap brick" is that you can either remove a brick of your choice OR elect not to. In which case by zapping the zap brick you just flipped you will not have to zap a different brick because zapped bricks do not have an effect. Reason to do that, I would imagine is strategic, to prevent a nearby opponent from getting in too quickly if you are starting to run low on bricks. That's the best I can come up with.
Ludo actually has more strategic depth than you might think. As for this one...well, there seems to be a bit to it, even though much is random. Your choices are basically: using the shortcuts or not, going up towards the castles or not, and which bricks to zap. There's a little bit to these decisions, as you may want to consider the placement of your opponents' pieces and which options they have available to them.
It's pretty common for young children's board games to have "choices" that either matter very little or are extremely obvious just to add some further engagement to the game without requiring any complex thought. Anything more involving than "toss dice, move given amount of spaces, do what the space you land on says" is creative and complex-without-being-TOO-complex for a kid.
When going up to the castle, you actually were suppose to walk till you reach the princess space. Not just the middle row. And when they said "replace" the princess token. I asume there are more then 4 tokens. And you were suppose to swap them out. Making it possible that there is no princess on the board at the start.
c'mon lads, where'd the production value go at the end there? i was about to marry that poor finished board after staring at it for so long. should've teleported back out after the winner got the princess prize and got all your reactions and post game analysis. also, where the bloody hell is the 1-UP sound effect?!! i hope my expectations for the next board game play through won't be double dashed!
Am I crazy, or did Stuart say that the instructions tell you to "continue clockwise around the board", when the board is in fact oriented counter-clockwise?
Err well actually Stuart :Adjusts thick glasses on face: I think you’ll find the castle is not one big space, the arrows clearly indicate four spaces up to the castle itself. Of course Stuart has read the instructions and I haven’t so maybe he’s right and the yellow arrows mean nothing. In which case the board is very misleading.
Between thin Larry and bald Ashens it feels slightly like watching an alternate universe episode.
That or they're just cheap knockoffs from Poundland.
Welcome to the multiverse
It's Ashens ripping off Marvel, they'll be a quest for a knock off Game Gear in the works too i reckon
@@squirrelguy2195 Deepfakes created by Paul & Eli from Cheapshow?
We need meat eating, cockney Dan for the next episode.
I'd just like to point out that when Larry and Stuart played the Donkey Kong board game 10 years ago, they made the exact same joke that the third brother of Mario and Luigi is named Alfredo.
what do you mean "joke", that's just a known fact
They are recycling jokes now! I don’t pay for You Tube Premium for this, unsubcribe! 😉
Edit: please stop asking me why I pay for it.
That's good continuity!
That’s just lore, baybeeeeeee.
10 years?! I hope we don’t wait as long for another of these videos
_Well you see, Ashens, when I developed this game I intended it to be played in a zero gravitational environment as part of a grand inter-galactic tournament on the far side of the planet Xena instead of a traditional table top board game. The extra Mario and Luigi pieces are actually Aliens that are impersonating the Mario Bros as body duplicates and that is why it's imperative that you, the real Mario and Luigi rescue her first. It is a co-op game._
_Any problems encountered with the board game are either fictitious or a result of the board game being ahead of its time_
Proto Wario and Proto Waluigi?
Kinda love this comment.
He’s lost SO MUCH WEIGHT! Go Larry! You look great, mate! Stuart’s haircut is great too! And your mate… a handsome man indeed. I’d feel bad leaving anyone out. Great job, all!
You left out Ming the Merciless
@@tentringer4065 my apologies!
Stuart looks like a more handsome less angry and less ginger Sean Dyche!
Oliver's had the most dramatic change of all, previously he was just a pair of hands on the office sofa.
I was gonna at the same thing, way to go Larry!
Ah yes, one of the most legendary phrases in all of gaming:
"THE PRINCESS IS NOT HERE"
On par with the equally legendary
"IT'S DANGEROUS TO TRAVEL ON YOUR OWN. I SUGGEST THAT YOU TAKE SOMETHING WITH YOU. PERHAPS THIS?"
And the always classic "GAME IS OVER, INDEEEEEEEEEEEED"
@@Mateus_Carvalho Fantastic!
Dobrý
Don’t forget the memetic “YOUR ENTIRE BASE BELONGS TO US NOW”
All that was required was to pursue the locomotive, Carl Johnson!
Just gotta say again that Larry is looking fantastic, it's inspiring to see and I'm really happy for him. =)
Except for his hair. Makes him look like he just wandered out of an alley with an army of rats ready to overtake the commune.
Great that he lost the weight. but looking fantastic may be over stating things. he could do with a decent haircut.
aye , he only needs a good haircut and he will look alright ...
the fucked up hair makes him look like he's 50, should just go bald tbh
@@Senor_Gago to be honest? Who asked you to lie?
*Luigi:* "'ey Mario, you ever wonder where Ashens videos come from?"
*Mario:* "Well y'see, Luigi; when a British paisano finds a loada old toys an' weird food, a little presentation of 'em comes out about a few weeks, months or years later."
*Luigi:* "What's that got to do with makin' videos?! Mario, I don't understand!"
*Mario:* "That's because you're a chef puppet, Luigi."
*Chef Luigi:* *_[an excellent parody]_*
It's 1am and I'm watching 2 grown men and Larry play a board game.
2:09 It's one of those ramblin' evil mushrooms from Earthbound 😅🍄
I wasn't prepared for the drama of the teleporting princess, however was prepared for the fact that a nearly thirty minute video of three men playing a silly boardgame would fly by like a summer breeze. Ashens collaborations and indeed solo material tends to be consistantly amusing and paced well, thus can be watched in a single sitting irregardless of length without pausing the video. Cheers and have a great day.
Yeah he's got a soothing voice and I think I might be gay because of it. Damn and blast!
I think you mean the trauma of the teleporting princesses.
I really hope you used "Irregardless" ironically.
@@SexyVortigaunt Maybe...nah it was a typo and definitely not the first nor worst example of my shite writing skill committed to paper or in the electronic form. I really do try to improve my written English to properly impart my intended meaning though and appreciate your critique of my poorly written sentence and/or sentences. Take care and have a great day.
Around the 20 minuteor so mark olivershould have gotten an extra life when he drew those 4 coins!
So great to still see Larry popping up in Ashens videos after all these years!
and is gettin healthier which is encouraging. i love larry and stu. they were my first youtubers I subscribed to :-)
15:55 Ah yes, the most famous Super Mario phrase... "The Princess is not here."
Last time I saw Larry was about 20 years ago on Sky's game network channel. Before everyone had the Internet, people would ring up to ask for cheats which Larry would post onto the TV screen.🤔😍
By allowing the zap brick to zap already removed brick(itself) you maintain the status quo and keeping the "1 brick per turn" flow, without giving +1 or -1 to the brick/turn ratio, allowing you to maintain pressure on your opponents. The inclusion of this rule changes the game completely, as it enables you to... ugh, I run out of bullshit.
Surely those circles with arrows in the princess boxes are supposed to be spaces? So there's more or less depending which column you enter through.
I think the arrows are meant to signify that if you land on that space you keep moving to the Princess. Like the arrow spaces in Sorry!
You're definitely right....i don't know why it annoyed me so much that they did this 😂
4:10 Wow that's cheap looking. I was expecting monopoly cheap but this is just a cereal box and dice.
The fire ball arena and the wobbly castle are me fave super Mario board games
1:00 I'm 43, this is not weird. Mario mania pretty much extended from Super Mario Bros all the way to Super Mario World so the character was still on everything in that period. I used to have an awesome glass Mario 2 mug that came from Wal-Mart or something back in the day....good times...
Except this was released in the UK, where Mario was less popular (the NES was basically a flop over here)?
Yeah, the NES did abysmally over here as it was ludicrously expensive, and we got it in 1987 instead of 1985!
I've "shuffled the princesses" once or twice in my day. Good times.
Nice. I love the board game videos with Larry.
Hopefully this one will also hit 17+ mil views like the Pac-Man one
And have a copyright claim so no one gets money besides predatory 'music rights management' lawyers :D
One minor adjustment would be you don't need to land on the short cut but can chose to take it when passing over it.
Would add the tinest of strategy to it
3:12 impressive upside-down reading skills, Stuart!
Looks like a Ramblin' Evil Mushroom wandered in from Twoson to photobomb the box art for this
Oliver Harper is one of my favourite UA-camrs. I bought the Super Mario Bros. board game by Waddingtons at a charity shop in 2015.
20 minutes in he's like 'you could memorize the rips'. The whole time I'm thinking 'I bet it's the one with the biggest rip'.
13:17 cheat alert :P Not only swapped pieces but moved 3 and not 4 places - 20:39 didn't claim extra life
As for the brick turnover mechanic, i suppose you can pick to land on that when you're on a shortcut. On those tiles you get a pick of 2 options ~
Could have used an ice field.
Hearing Ashens say "It's like an NFT" is very surreal. The old Web coexisting with the new Web is strange
My thoughts exactly.
I could see this being an interesting game with a bit of a twist: instead of rolling to move, you have a hand of cards with different effects similar to the bricks (move X spaces, zap X bricks, shuffle the princesses) along with some more interesting effects (swap places with a player, curse a player to move backwards, and so on).
I think this game could be massive improved by letting players move in either direction around the board. It's not very Mario Bros but it would add some element of strategy.
I love you Ashens, thank you for making my days great
That has got to be the only place you'll ever see "Shuffle the Princesses". ^_^ Interesting but not quite what I was expecting, thought it would like pipe paths on the other side of the cards for like a dynamic path system rather than general powerups. Probably what inspired most childhood examples of board game design, bland licensed ones heh.
Absolutely insane how much weight Larry has lost! Super impressive.
I had to look it up, he's lost 210 pounds (15 stone in British)! He lost a second man in weight.
I know right? Really gives me inspiration to help myself lose the 30 odd kilos of lockdown weight I gained.
His show is called Think Hunt now
@@keir117 this comment killed me
Is the gent on the left actively trying to look like Rik Mayal?
No insult intended, he was a decent looking guy, but its uncanny.
By christ am glad you played this so I didn't have to. Belated thanks for the numbered blurays (20's good ty). Kudos n many thanks to Mr Stuart n the extended Ashens family n whatnot. Superbo nee tremendi.
5:49 based larry turning the lives relative to the camera for absolute presentation
I legitimately thought you had josh homme as a guest for a hot minute there
This is a certified hood classic
Dang.. Watching this as I'm taking the train home and almost missed my stop...
I think the idea behind the "zap any brick, including the zap brick" is if you were trying to hinder other players who might be close to getting to the castle.
Reading a photo of the rules on Boardgame Geek, if you land on the same square, you're supposed to go onto the next square. ZAP bricks are the only ones that don't auto discard... so you could leave it there to hit it again. If someone's heading to a castle, they also get reset if someone fails to find a princess. For the round spaces it says "and move your way onto the castle", so I believe they are supposed to be counted spaces...
Ah, the classic, trademarked quote from Mario, "The Princess is not here".
This is like "Super Mario Party", but for the 80s.
All of you look so great. What a fun watch this was, lmao.
I think the "Turn over a brick" square is to help with the "Zap x bricks" brick so you can Zap the ones you know are bad? Although you don't get the brick zapper as often as the brick revealer, which seems like the wrong way around?
These episodes always remind me of the Norman Lovett sketches about board game design from the series Big Train :)
It said "you may continue clockwise along the board" but they're going anticlockwise
Thank you for the video! Love this. I love finding things I never even knew existed!
Gosh, the boys are looking well! Bout to watch this cosy video now!
The Robot Wars game episode was AWESOME I really really hope they get into board games more! I'm pretty sure Ashens' audience are older and more into longer chill videos like this.
I love videos on UA-cam that can keep you around for over at least 20 minutes.
we'd rather see him eat food that's 25-30 years out of date.
He should have gotten another life at 20:36
I think the mushrooms without a face are supposed to be goombas.
James Rolfe did a video about a Ninja Turtles game that was very similar to this one, with the same disc-flipping identity reveal gameplay mechanic. I'm guessing they must be by the same company?
This game could have been greatly improved and a million times more popular as a Mario board game if all they added were four more pieces, for bad guys, goombas and koopas, and a second dice that you rolled so you would move them around the board and if they landed on the space you were on you lose a life and get bounced back to start, and vice versa so if you're moving forward and you land on one of the enemies, they would get bounced back to their start position.
It was sold in Canada for a brief time in a store called K-mart (If you remember that you're ancient).
its been a long time since I watched ashens and larry again and Im impressed that larry turned into luigi and ashens into a bald mario, good episode though
Do you reckon the six coins rule were because of the Game Boy game Mario Land 2: the Six Golden Coins? It was also released in 1992.
I feel like the lads are getting slower as they age. The reveal brick space wasn't useless either because shot cuts mean you can choose which side of the board to avoid/pursue. Plus missing figuring out "we've swapped Luigi's at some point!" literally as it happened. 10 years from now they'll start telling us about the good ol days when they went over to their mates place to play Mario on his Sega Master System and how he became Super Mario when he collected all 8 Chaos Emeralds which made it all to easy to defeat Mother Brain.
@@astrobia94 You say that like things like this didn't happen in every episode of Barshens.
ashens, get some powder, your egghead is breaking the whole lighting of the video.
Took me a few times to realise that shuffle music is also used in one of my other favourite youtubers SnakeDiscovery, in their music.
100% love this❤❤❤ it's a joy to see yalls.
Ashens with the self portrait on the right wall. Nice one Ming!
I had no idea Larry even knew Josh Homme.
Somebody may have already proposed this idea, but I am far too lazy to look and see...
I think what the instructions at 9:49 are (poorly) trying to say with "Even the zap brick" is that you can either remove a brick of your choice OR elect not to. In which case by zapping the zap brick you just flipped you will not have to zap a different brick because zapped bricks do not have an effect.
Reason to do that, I would imagine is strategic, to prevent a nearby opponent from getting in too quickly if you are starting to run low on bricks.
That's the best I can come up with.
Good to see a ashens Larry video
Who the, what the? Half the Larry he used to be! AWESOME!
Ludo actually has more strategic depth than you might think. As for this one...well, there seems to be a bit to it, even though much is random. Your choices are basically: using the shortcuts or not, going up towards the castles or not, and which bricks to zap. There's a little bit to these decisions, as you may want to consider the placement of your opponents' pieces and which options they have available to them.
It's pretty common for young children's board games to have "choices" that either matter very little or are extremely obvious just to add some further engagement to the game without requiring any complex thought. Anything more involving than "toss dice, move given amount of spaces, do what the space you land on says" is creative and complex-without-being-TOO-complex for a kid.
Stuart freaking shuffling the same princess token back to where it was so Larry couldn't just win right there 🤣
When going up to the castle, you actually were suppose to walk till you reach the princess space. Not just the middle row.
And when they said "replace" the princess token.
I asume there are more then 4 tokens. And you were suppose to swap them out.
Making it possible that there is no princess on the board at the start.
I took "replace" to mean "turn the token face down again in the same spot".
So glad to see Larry and Ashens playing board games.
Massive missed opportunity to have the princess tokens read "your princess is in another castle."
5:10 "all princesses are laid"
No, Stuart, you're thinking of the R18 version of this game.
Kinda funny watching Larry try the same castle over and over again.
An old board game? I hope Larry's in this one!
OH BOY!
Just got my new phone love to see the videos Been with u from the beginning to the end
Infuriating that when Oliver and Ashens got mixed up they could've just swapped the pieces and carried on with no issues
Mutant Proto-Toad would make for a great band name.
That Mutant Proto Toad looks like if a rambling Evil Mushroom grew arms.
Watching three grown men play terrible old boardgames truly is the best content
Three?
"We've got a back up Luigi" is exactly what I think when I'm playing Italian tanks in War Thunder and my gunner or driver gets knocked out.
I used to own this game. I seem to remember similar levels of frustration. We also had Makeyourownopoly and the Really Nasty Horse Racing Game.
Was the horse racign game Totopoloy? One of my great uncles invented that coincidentally.
Larry lost weight, Ashens lost hair!
Nice one! I loved the board game vids with Larry.
c'mon lads, where'd the production value go at the end there? i was about to marry that poor finished board after staring at it for so long. should've teleported back out after the winner got the princess prize and got all your reactions and post game analysis. also, where the bloody hell is the 1-UP sound effect?!! i hope my expectations for the next board game play through won't be double dashed!
Oooo shit son!!! LMAO 😂 sounds like the game was fun after all
This is a great series... more guru and ashens please
Well that was certainly something. ) Great video.
Am I crazy, or did Stuart say that the instructions tell you to "continue clockwise around the board", when the board is in fact oriented counter-clockwise?
Holy shit your right
i think it means player order
Now for a rousing game of R.I.S.K.!
Anyone else know the "Top 5 things I'd put on me bum" bit about Larry from an Oneyplays video?
Err well actually Stuart :Adjusts thick glasses on face: I think you’ll find the castle is not one big space, the arrows clearly indicate four spaces up to the castle itself.
Of course Stuart has read the instructions and I haven’t so maybe he’s right and the yellow arrows mean nothing. In which case the board is very misleading.
Glad y'all noticed you swapped pieces :P
I like this, and would love to see more of these. It had the same fun energy as I always enjoyed in Barshens.
Hurbleflurb McGinty is slowly escaping
So this is wholesome entertainment. Thanks lads!!
did thin larry get cancer? and stuart done the chemo for him? i love them both, but i dont't know what im watching right now...
..wow.
I would pay money to watch ashens play a full game of monopoly. Like .10 pence
I owned this! Played it with my dad and brother. This is Super Mario Bros. board games to me.
'Someone might want to take a risk and go up there', as the actress said to the Bishop.
the princess is shuffling as in the dance move, lol.
Larry looks great!