Games that Push Hardware Limits 6 - Game Sack
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- Episode 280 - Let's check out more impressive feats that some games pull off on the hardware they run on!
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“More of a rental than a purchase in my opinion”
Thanks Gamesack, I’ll be sure to pick it up at my local Blockbuster. I’ll rent Critters 3 on VHS while I’m at it too.
@NOT 8 BIT I think he's just joking around about how rentals aren't really a thing anymore, mate.
Thanks for the laugh.
Absolute king comment.
Yeah dood just rent it from your local rom site.... oops I mean pawn shop. Oops
Make sure to rent that Snatcher game on Sega CD as well. It's pretty cool, but once you've beat once or twice there's no reason to buy it.
Greetings from Italy! Do you know why pizza is so good here? We don't use electricity or wood for our ovens but lava. Lava is the secret magical ingredient! And it's common around here!
How do you carry it around. I heard only diamond 💎 containers can hold it. Do all Italians have diamond canisters with their pizza ovens?
You can safely carry lava in iron buckets. It’s possible to have 36 buckets on you at once!
I’m sorry but I have to say something about Italy. It was the most over rated food destination in the world. 😐
The game is right! There are 10 active volcanos in Italy!
And corona
2020 is pushing my hardware limits.
Same
Makes the cpu take a huge beating at displaying this mess
Best time for a nofap challenge boys.
@@123doomdoom yeah and your profile pic reminds me I need steak and veggies not more pizza lol
F.. Yeah
The GBA was an scaling monster. It wasn't only backgrounds that it rotated and scaled, it did for sprites too. Outrun was an impressive port.
That was probably the weirdest end skit you came up with...
Spot on David Lynch. Makes no sense at all.
It's ART!
Loved it
It's weird and I love it
Well he definitely nailed the David Lynch nod.
A lot has changed in my life over the years apart from Sunday mornings (I'm in the UK). Sunday mornings are Gamesack mornings, then I go for my long run and ruminate the video content. It's like my church! Thank you for all you do Joe!
Late Tuesday nights is GameSack for me being I’m off.. Then usually go in work early Wednesday
Over the last few weeks i've been watching your videos from the beginning, i've been watching for years now but i hadn't got round to watching the earlier ones before. Why are you not more popular? You're one of the best retro gaming channels on here and incredibly informative. You should be getting 5x the viewership that you are.
Love these Hardware Limit pushing videos, it's always interesting to see what cool tricks developers could pull off on old hardware
I'm from italy and I can confirm that's exactly how the country is.
But how the wooden gondolas in Venetia do not burn if those are floating in lava?
I remember one flight simulator game from 1990's where my country (Finland) was filled with mountains and skyscrapers. So it was a very bizarre experience. :D
Did that track somehow take place in Pompei during the cataclysm?
I'm also from Italy and it's really like that, the ground Is lava.
Can confirm. If you look closely, between the first 2 volcanos you see, there's my house. I remember when they took pictures of the landscape to digitize them.
Thank you for all you effort as ever, Joe. I am I the UK and have appreciated your honest writing and crisp editing for years.
Still one of my favorite gaming channels. Just nice, long, wholesome videos about a wide variety of videogames!
So glad to see a new Game Sack right now. It's been a rough week and this episode will help me wind down before bed.
I kinda like these later "sequels" of topics because you get into games that I've never heard of, or if I have, aspects of them I never realized or thought about.
When I got my Genesis, my sister and I marveled at the amazing resolution, colors and parallax scrolling of Altered Beast and Space Harrier II. My dad said he didn't think a CRT TV could even handle graphics much better than that. It's pretty funny to think back on how little we knew back then.
David lynch presents: SackHead.
16:29 “Hi Mitty, let’s get this sh*t put together”
Well that made more sense than Inland Empire.
I think it was about a guy called jay
It makes sense if you want it to
AkumasWrath 666 that doesn't make any sense
I have always enjoyed watching Game Sack videos especially those that break down the technology of game hardware and software. Now I have a better idea of what Parallax scrolling is, and what mode 7 is, Game Sack has always done a great job of explaining the technology behind some of our favorite games.
Joe, you fill my brain with all types of nerdy stuff, with that talk about pixels. Thanks.
I love the research you put in for these videos man, that segment on 16:9 games was super interesting to learn about.
Coffee, snack, and a new Game Sack. Perfect!
Always a great day when I see a new Game Sack episode is out, thanks for all your work!
Your sense of humor in this is nuts. I love it!
Late night Sunday, new Game Sack. Joe’s on point as usual. 👍
Boy is it like Christmas in here.Thank you, Santa Joe.
Can never get enough of this series.
I love how at 4:02 the subtitles say (crappy, unimpressive music). XD
That Italy joke was hilarious 🤣👍🏻
You do great work Joe. Long time fan. Thanks for taking the time to make these gems. Keep working that sack!
You said it joe, here in Italy we cannot walk normally because the streets are full of lava.
Fun fact: this is where "the floor is lava" game was invented
Art of Fighting was also the first game to introduce "desperate moves" (or whatever you wanna call it) at low health (with full spirit, fireball + C, A), which was always amazing to pull off at the arcade as it was a secret move and not a lot of people knew about it.
Joe always comes thru when I got nothing to watch every freakin’ time! Love it!
Bro it's really like that 😂
Hell yes he does! He's my favorite youtuber!!
Yeah they're released really unpredictably.
Our Lord and Savior comes shining through on Sunday once again 🙏
3:02 - THANK YOU! I love Super Off Road The Baja! It blew me away the first time I saw it, like I was looking at a bad PS1 game rather than a SNES game. It's actually a lot of fun once you get a feel for the weird driving physics!
Anyone else ever rewatch a video and not realize you've already seen it until you're reading your own comments from before? 🤣
@@RichardCraig oh yeah
Haven't seen the video yet but I gotta say, I love this "Games that Push Hardware Limits" series. I'm so happy everytime I see a new episode, so thanks for the ultra high quality content Joe :D
Seeing those old games that had a wide-screen mode was so cool!! I love this series!
Woof... that sprite scaling for Art of Fighting for the TurboGrafx-16 was anything but impressive. That amount of jank is when the developers should say, "you know what - maybe it's not worth it."
Everybody lack to mention how beaten up the players look in yhe face according to the energy level
Another great episode, we (follower collective) want more content! @Game Sack
Wow. I was binge watching all the other related episodes this week and Joe updates a new one!
I love that episode of Twin Peaks!
I have to say that, GameSack is one of the few things I truly look forward to. I love your humour joe and your general banter. It’s just fantastic! Please never stop 🛑 (unless you need the toilet or food) love you joe! (Like a brother)
Thanks for the dedication Joe!
My favorite series along the old console overviews. Good stuff, Joe.
Awesome, thanks for the upload Joe. It's early morning Sunday morning here in South Africa, and I have been awaiting your upload eagerly all morning. And it is an new "Games that Push Hardware Limit"!. Great, made my day, thanks again Joe.
Greetings from London,I love that you’re keeping the show going
Thank you so much
The David Lynch bit was awesome
Solatorobo is also another technical pusher. With high poly models and 60 fps along with a nice art style. All running on a stock DS.
Mode 7 and parallax scrolling was two of the key selling points for the SNES back in the day
Just when you thought you know everything about your favourite generation of games a new episode Game Sack arrives and shows you impressive games you've heard of or never looked close enough!
trying to remember if you've ever done Quake on the Saturn for any of these segments, since it was quoted as impossible for the system, and yet works well and even has unique lighting effects exclusive to the saturn.
All “ports” by that dev were essentially remade in their own engine with reduced and changed geometry detail.
Of course it has these *unique* lighting effect because it is a totally different engine that can’t support *the original* lighting effects.
You can just as well praise Quake 2 for the Playstation.
It was in the previous episode on this topic back in November 2019. The Game Sack official site now has a search feature that's really helpful in finding out if they've covered games or when you know they did cover a game but can't remember when or under what topic.
@@noop9k Of course it was remade to suit the hardware, that's what a good dev does when porting the game. That doesn't mean the game was bad or even inferior to other ports of the game. Nor does it mean it wasn't a great use of the hardware. And your use of quotes makes me think that you don't understand how ports worked back when hardware was vastly different.
Yes, it has its flaws, but IMO the Saturn port of Quake was quite awesome. Is it better than the PC game? Nah, no way, but an extremely impressive port nonetheless. Also, I'll take Saturn's Powerslave over the PSX version. Lobotomy deserves massive credit for those games.
@@ravagingwolverine "The Game Sack official site now has a search feature that's really helpful in finding out if they've covered games or when you know they did cover a game but can't remember when or under what topic."
Thanks for pointing this out, I had no idea. I'm a typical pleb who just sorts through a UA-cam channel to try to find which video covered what, so this is a great benefit to have.
Edit: gosh darn I wish UA-cam's formatting wouldn't require extensive hoops to jump through to sort paragraphs out properly.
@@rars0n I'm glad that was helpful. I thought it might be which is why I mentioned it. I only noticed the feature pretty recently, myself. I either missed it before or they added it at some point after the redesign.
I've gotta say Joe I listened to this episode at work on my Hi-Fi set, and damn bud your videos have the best audio of any UA-cam videos I can think of. Keep it up!
Thank you! :)
@@GameSack You're very welcome.
The draw distance in Motorcross Advance was almost unbelievable! Holy shit! Somebody call Metal Jesus, that's a hidden gem!
Finally a new game sack episode. Thx Joe.
This was my favourite post-credits scene so far. Well done!! I loved it.
It's always a day when a new gamesack´s episode come up
that busytown game was so adorable i couldnt help saying "awwww" at every voice
Ninja spirit arcade is pure ART! the colors, the atmosphere, the music and how they all tie together beautifully
3:25 - Hey honey, let's stand in the middle of an active Off-Road course, that should be a fun afternoon. Lol.
Great video, the production value is top notch. I appreciate the amount of time you put into this.
*transition* -- "You doing ok? Good." Thanks for checking on me Joe. I think everyone needs that this year
Dan D when he said that, I felt it
@@greentilde4751 Yes! And much needed, too. Thanks, Joe!
Good spot
These consoles: "YOU UNDERESTIMATE MY POWER"
@Sandman Slim The only cringe is that you felt the need to say that.
@@Lost_n_Found_1 It's cringier that you felt the need to say what you said to Sandman Slim.
Don't try it, NEC
@MultiTarded I feel the same way about dryer lint.
I’m in the uk and wake up every other Sunday to
make a full monty breakfast and chill with Dave for 20 mins or so. It’s the best!
Just watched the live stream from a few weeks ago, about to sleep... buuut not when there's a new gamesack episode!
Stay safe out there, Joe!
Thank you for that musical break at 15:38 😅
Ninja Spirit is definitely a successor to Legend of the Kage on NES. I didn't know they made one on SNES.
All these many years and l never knew about Ninja Spirit on the Gameboy! That's really neat. Hmmm, now I'm thirsty for another Left In Japan episode! Hyaaa!!
Just marked the video as ¨watch later¨. Too drunk to see it right now. Never stop. Kind regards from Argentina :)
Cuidado con el asadito che
I love seeing some of these games I’ve never heard of. Thanks Joe!
The most David Lynch episode ever.
:)
Thought I heard "I can hear the fucking video games you stupid shit" in the background.
When I first saw parallax scrolling on a Mega Drive in a store demo it was like a whole new world opened up to me. Still love me some good parallax to this day
@Sum Dum Phuc
Appropriate username.
the first parallax scroll that really impressed me was Legend of Kage arcade
@Simone Bernacchia It was the Lion King for me, with the first stage on those rocks you can see through into the dusk lit horizon
I was impressed by Thunder Force 3 and Musha when I got around to exploring 16-bit games myself.
It was the Amiga for me, fantastic machine.
Excellent list of games that pushed systems back then. I remember seeing those games in stores, didn't play all of them. But most were fun, and challenging.
And that tribute to David Lynch, genius. Not everyone will understand, but you nailed it.
I love the joking references to music in the closed captions. Nice touch.
Yeah, as i recall in 1994 there were a couple of brands selling widescreen crt tv like JVC and even NOKIA.
I think there should be an entire Lynch/Sack episode.
I was about to sleep but then I see Game Sack. Who needs sleep anyw....
Especially the ending segment. No sleep happening anytime soon.
@Sandman Slim Thank you I was working on this for a long time :)
You make me play the video games. Thank you for good games. I mostly think about playing video games and watching game play through. You are so talented.
They push it to the next level. 😀👍🎮
I grew up playing Super Off Road The Baja with my Uncle, but he always lost the races because he couldn't resist trying to run over as many pedestrians and tractor guys as possible.
Great episode, Joe! Games that push the hardware are always one of my favorite topics. I honestly can't recall everything you've covered, but I'd like more stuff about the Saturn/N64 era and subsequent generation (namely PS2 and Gamecube). I know you've covered some of that already, but more is always good.
Game Sack is my favorite video game channel! Every new video brings a smile to my face! Keep up the great work!
What a good episode!! Enjoyed it till the end.
Omg I've been waiting for this chapter for a long time, one of my favorite subjects in this channel!!!! Great one Game Sack, you made my weekend!!!! 😍❤️
Lets all agree. Nothing beats late night gaming more than getting and winding down with a new Game Sack episode that is awaiting you. ❤❤❤
Top Notch Joe video ^_^ 👍
Spot on with that David Lynch fan film...Loved it!
Never got to play almost all the games here, as was the case way back then. Still brings nostalgia of those times flipping through gaming magazines and reading about games I knew I'll never get my hands on, until emulation made it possible.
I need to watch this series because before it didn't interest me too much but seeing this really makes me appreciate it.
That Spy Hunter music at 13:33 sounds like it was ripped almost directly from their Batman game. So good!
Here's a cool story for you, since you showed Strider 2 as an example for great voice samples: I rented this game once and I was blown away not only by the quality but also the number of samples. Every cut scene is spoken! But then, a few years later, rented the same cartridge and played on a different console and the voices were horrible! I couldn't understand how could that be! It was the same damm cartridge!!! Only years later I found out that there are several revisions of the Genesis sound hardware. That was when it occurred to me: I bought a Strider 2 copy and started using it to hunt down the "best" sound revision for my personal Genesis. This was much earlier in the existence of the internet so I didn't know you could do the same with the serial number, but there you have it: Strider 2 works as a sound standard for locating good sounding Genesis consoles.
Which version of the Genesis you had?
Lots of cool, Juicy info- thank you.
Can't wait for "If Lynch Directed Gamesack Vol. 3".
"not the best idea for a fighting game to have a spirit energy bar for powers"
That is an extremely debatable point as in street fighter 2 it was common to see players spamming hadokens or shoryukens and the like. This definitely forced players to use powers more carefully and plan their fights with more strategy. I'm sure that SNK's developers did this to differentiate themselves from street fighter and the other popular fighting games of the time.
How you don't have more subscribers is a head scratcher Joe your vids are informative and entertaining
So glad AoF for PCE made it on the list. It blew me away the first time I saw it. Honestly all the Neo Geo ports on the system are impressive.
Man oh man, the Sack comes through again!
The David Lynch clip was something else! Spot on! ;D
Well, thank you once again for a great episode! Really enjoyed this one.
Damn, I would watch a full episode of game sack by David Lynch, such hypnotic weirdness😂
Sony: launches PS5
Joe: can it do parallax scrolling?
Great feature and loved the Eraserhead/Twin Peaks style of skit!
probably the most impressive parallax scrolling and multiple layers ive seen on the NES was the game Totally Rad.
These are some of my absolutely favorite episodes. I’ve been playing Dragon View lately and I have to say that the polygonal 1st person sections still impress me, even if it is pretty quaint and simple