Fun fact, the original Saturn version of Super Adventure Rockman (product ID T-1225G) cannot be completed due to a cutscene bug and had to be recalled.
@@chazmaru9583 Isn't that the bug that's dodged by taking the obscure path that involves never encountering Quickman and avoiding the cutscene, or am I remembering a path that avoids a different problem?
@@neoqwerty Ah, possibly! I don’t recall ever hearing of a workaround but I frankly had never revisited the topic since the recall, which I am unfortunately old enough to have known in real time. I guess this potential workaround would not be found until much later.
Fun fact: the opening theme of Super Adventure RockMan is Eletrical Commication and its the same music opening used in the Japanese version Opening of Megaman 8 aka Rockman 8.
Super Adventure Rockman's game over sequence bodied me. Matt's bewildered laughter, the dramatic Darkseed 2 style showcase of how your failure doomed all of Earth, the matter of fact game over screen itself, the abrupt cut to the opening logo and the best part, how Bubble Man of all Robot Masters was the one to make this happen with an instadeath projectile that Rock survived anyway Roll spilled the orange Crush and died a short time later because of all this lmfao, poor thing
By the time of Megaman Legends, humans have gone extinct and the characters you meet are synthetic people called carbons, but we do see actual dogs and cats. You can even get the dark armor by acting like a Jojo villain and kicking the dogs and you can have your home overrun by adopted cats. Nothing indicates they are anything but regular cats and dogs, so it seems our furry companions actually outlasted humanity in Megaman's universe.
@@ssantos88 There are 4 ways I know of to get it. Kicking dogs or destroying vending machines will gradually darken your armor, while shooting down the news ship when the city is under attack or stealing the briefcase of money in the optional police side quest will instantly get you the full on dark armor. Seems the vending machine is the "canon" one though as dark armor Volnutt is playable in Megaman X Dive, with his character select animation being him kicking a vending machine to get free stuff out of it lol
@@zeroattentiongaming820 The vending is canon but so is the briefcase. I just went to see dark armor MegaMan in Mega Man X Dive and it is hilarious. His art is him in the dark armor holding the briefcase and wearing sunglasses. His animation is him walking on the vending machine and kicking it until it breaks and the briefcase comes out of the machine. He runs of with the case and then puts on his sunglasses.
According to a translation of the cutscenes via subtitles, Megaman and the other bots arent 100% imune woth the treatement! Its temporsry and it lasts only 7 days... 3 of which are burnt out during the passage of time throughout the story. but the weird part is that it never factors into anything because it only expires if you press "GIVE UP" or if you die to needle man and snakeman... whoch arr the midbosses of disc 2
I would say that another forgotten Capcom game that would great to take a look at would be Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogies’s Revenge. It’s actually a really fun Devil May Cry style game that doesn’t talked as much as it should.
I completely forgot Fox Hunt existed, if only because I was not aware of its existence until Game Informer did an episode of their Replay series on this roughly 10-11 years ago! Still as cheesy good as I remember.....
Wow, and when I thought that Under the Skin was an underrated and kind obscure Capcom game on PS2, now I heard even more obscure games that I have never, ever heard of. Have to admit the Megaman one was hilarious, lol!. Anyway thanks Matt!, it was a fun to watch video.
I like Super Adventure Rockman solely for the fact that Quick Man is practically a anti-hero in it. You may have guessed that I like that based on my username.
Another one odd one was Street Fighter II MOVIE for the Playstation, where you play as the monitor cyborg watching FMV sequences from the movie, taking snapshots of the character's moves then after all that jazz, fighting Ryu in the end.
For clarification, this is referencing the ANIME movie, not the JCVD one. I know YOU know that, but there might be people reading this that don't. Desk did a video on it.
Translations: 6:44: Turn Around/Don't Turn around 7:11: A Month Ago 8:32: Worry/Don't Worry (About Roll) 11:35: Go Right/Go left (matt was right bout that one) 12:23: "Saving game to Memorycard"
There's one thing you missed out about Super Adventure Rockman. Beat the bird is in this game, so making the story take place between MM 2 and 3 makes this invalid. Many fans intepretated it to take place after Mega Man 5, since Beat was a gift made by Dr. Cossack for the Blue Bomber after redeeming himself back in MM4.
@flophouse plays, you need to check out the band Protomen, they legit made a 2 disc rock opera about the origin of megaman and protoman. it's a dystopian tale in which doctor wiley has enslaved humanity and megaman is like an antihero obsessed with vengance. and they made a 20 min long music video of the last track.
@Oren Black its awesome, checkout their album "The Cover-up" also.They cover a lot of really good songs by bands like Iron Maiden, Styx, Queen, etc etc. you can find it on youtube.
Ah, sweet. Love these little deep dives into stuff like this. So many obscure little pieces of wonderful nonsense back when games were basically just startin' to figure themselves out.
Heavy Metal Geomatrix looks like if you combine both Spawn and Power stone,and turn it into a bad fighting game. No wonder this game is on the obscure list of Capcom’s forgotten shelves.
I actually saw a Let's Play on SomethingAwful years ago of Super Adventure Rockman. It's a very unique game but hard to play unless you know Japanese or have a translated script available. There is actually a hidden fight late in the game against a single Met and when it loses it gets carted off on a stretcher by two nurse Mets.
You can use Google Lens to translate this with your phone. The first choice in Mega Man was "TURN AROUND" or "DON"T TURN AROUND", the second was "WORRY" or "DON'T WORRY" and the third was "GO RIGHT" or "GO LEFT"
@@beebomcgroober9316 if you pick dont turn arround you go on a differrnt path where you are attacked by differrnt enemies... Disc one is actually the most diverse with choices! Theres entire sections, encounters and scenes in disc one that you will never get to see if you actually go the right way... it always ends in a fight between Megaman, Quickman and Shadowman but HOW you get there actually changes! And then Disc 2 likes to damage megaman for making bad choices and Disc 3 has almost 0 choices.
I like to think that there is an extra scene after the part when megaman is looking down at Roll in the capsule, the Doc says to him "you better not pull an Shinji when I leave to make coffee" then gives him the old "i got my eyes on you" hand motions as he leaves XD
Before I even watch the video I see Heavy Metal Geomatrix. I know that Simon Bisley artwork anywhere... So are you sure that nobody has ever played these? Just kidding, I have loved watching your videos ever since those Two Best Sisters Plays parodies came out from Two Snacks. Keep up the good work!
Is it bad that I instantly recognized the actor from Foxhunt(Andrew Bowen from Mad TV and current VA in a lot of games)? Its always funny seeing actors early gigs in cheesy FMV games.
I was like "wait a minute, that song was released in 2016, this game didn't release after 2016" until i realized it was edited in and that i'm dumb as hell.
I just saw them in early September at Blue Ridge Rock Fest. They had to do a shortened set because it was a festival but they were amazing live. Loved them ever since I first heard stuff off of Opus Eponymous when it was about to be released on Metal Blade.
I played Super Adventure Rockman as a kid back in the day(the rental store had plenty of Japanese games so I got to play all kinds of obscure games),obviously not understanding a thing.
Without watching the video and only seeing the thumbnail I can tell you I remember Foxhunt. I rented it multiple times and never finished it. The concept of using real life filmed segments to make a video game enthralled me as a child. But it was super hard and the only copy in my town for rent was pretty banged up so sometimes it just wouldn’t work.
You make fun of Roll, but little did you know that she was the savior of mankind. Also I used to bust people's asses with her in MVC2. Just so people could walk away knowing they got beat by Roll.
Some fun facts about Super Adventure Rockman (That I found on the internet): Keiji Inafune claimed that Super Adventure Rockman was developed during a time when Capcom was attempting to branch out the series by "selling [it] to the lowest bidder". Although he had little involvement in the game, he was assigned to finish it after the project leader suddenly quit towards its completion. It was seemingly disowned by Keiji Inafune. Inafune exclaimed, "The ultimate unspoken rule about making a game that is geared towards children is that you simply cannot kill anyone, but here you have military helicopters falling out of the sky and people dying in droves. ... Then as if that wasn't bad enough, Roll dies... and to top it all off, the whole world is destroyed! I was like, 'Did they really need to go that far?!'" In the story, Doctor Wily, now working together with Doctor Light, went to investigate the ruins because the electromagnetic field started increasing, this being a good chance to clear his name. Wily uncovered an ancient alien super computer inside the temple, Ra Moon, which revived his various Robot Masters from Rockman 2 and Rockman 3 by analyzing the information about them in Dr. Wily's laptop. Wily thought it would be a great chance to conquer the world. One of Mega Man 3 bosses, Shadow Man, who in his game of origin was originally an unidentified alien robot, is in the comics revealed to be a creation of Ra Moon who served as its escort when it traveled to Earth. If you get a standard Game Over Roll does die, and if you lose to the final boss, everyone (even Wily) dies and Ra Moon kills all life on Earth, both organic and synthetic. By the end, all of the Robot Masters (including Quick Man and Gemini Man, who got poignant death scenes, and excluding Shadow Man, who was destroyed beyond repair) get brought back. The game came out after 8, but the lack of any appearance by Auto or Bass, suggests this takes before that, likely between 5 and 6, since Beat is present. The game is also notable for being one of the very few times that Dr. Wily isn't the final boss. In addition, this is probably the only classic Mega Man game where Dr. Wily appears, yet is never fought at all. If you can’t understand Japanese, you’ll generally be fine choosing the top option all of the time. You won’t see a lot of the more humorous scenes, but you also won’t die as often either. Once you have save files where you want them, go back and choose the second option everywhere and see where they take you. Warning: a lot of them spell “Game Over” so make sure you save. Translations of the game's cutscene portions are also available online
I would love you to be a guest on the Super Beard Bros' channel as y'all would mess me up more than RockMan messing up all those lil guys with hard hats on...
i definitely remember seeing the character designs for snowboard heaven floating around the internet in the early 2000s, i likely had some interest in it since snowboard kids 2 was one of my obsessions at the time
I love you for including Fox Hunt. It's straight up my favorite FMV game of all time. I have yet to see it this video (streaming first) but I saw Jack Freemont in the thumbnail. Hope you dont trash it too hard!
4:59 if i remember correctly Ra Moon disables electricity based machinery that go anywhere near the area it's located, i think that's the explanation from the Archie adaptation tho, i don't know if it's the same for the games and i think that's why Wily uses a regular truck and an analog compass instead of his more advanced tech
HOW- Just HOW do I know the Super Adventure Rockman theme song?? I have no memory of this game's existence. Is it from all my time on the Winamp radio gaming music channels? It's gotta be, this is too weird
It's so funny that you made a reference to Spoony in the Fox Hunt segment, because literally the only other person I've ever heard even mention that game is Spoony. Back when he was doing his FMV Hell series, he name-dropped Fox Hunt and showed a little clip of it (it was the stupid "superhero" fight) when summarizing the sordid history of FMV games. He never did an actual video on it, but that was the only time I'd ever heard of it prior to this. That's right, Fox Hunt is so obscure and bad that a guy who spent years doing video reviews of obscure, bad FMV games didn't bother to do a full video on it. I think that lends credibility to the Capcom USA exec who said it was the worst game ever...
Breath of Fire is only 'obscure' to people who grew up after the PS1 and N64 came into the forefront of console gaming. They were a relatively big name in JRPGs before that!
I get Snowboard Heaven didn't release in the West, but Trick N Snowboarder certainly did. The only thing I really remember about it is Leon and Claire are playable boarders in it, not sure if I even rented it though.
Would you do Heavy Metal F.A.K.K. sometime? I played the demo as a kid, too hard for me. By the way, what is the music during the Geomatrix segment? Since you can't play the actual music
These are so obscure I have literally never heard of them, like usually when you frequent forums and look up niche games you get namedropped these here and there even if you will never play them, but I have never seen these names ever.
"There should be more weapons in snowboard games." Yeah... Incidentally Matt, ever heard of Snowboard Kids 2? Might make a good episode, eh? Could be fun.
Konami has rereleased its lesser Castlevania and TMNT games. It's time for Capcom to stop burying Mega Man's weirder history. Rerelease RockBoard, Super Adventure Rockman, and Rockman Strategy, you cowards!
The Google Translate camera app can be useful if the game text resolution is high enough it can work. Itll at least give you the jist of the question and possible answers lol. For future reference. Ive used it to play PS1 and newer games, used it for the NTSC-J version of Auto Modelista recently. Also a Capcom game! Worked great.
Honorable mentions for you Mr. Matt: Chaos Legion, Glass Rose, Gregory Horror Show - Soul Collector, E.X. Troopers, Under the Skin and Mega Man X - Command Mission.
... I should know better than to drink some water while watching Matt. Managed not to choke or spew water over electronics at that Rock/Pillar Man art. 👍
As a diehard Fox Hunt fan let me just say this: the end of the game gets pretty wild. Also, while Matt made a joke about finding this game in the bargin bin it's currently selling for $250-450 on average and is not worth that amount at all. SAVE YOUR MONEY. If you want to give it a try I STRONGLY suggest using Duckstation as it's currently the only emulator that can play this game from start to finish without any game ending bugs which come up pretty quickly on Disk 2 when you have to ski to the correct lodge to get the disk. If played on a different emulator it will always lead to a game over and the same for when you're playing blackjack with the bad guy of the game (it will instantly skip to Frank killing you in the Showgirls section). Give this game a try, it's pretty out there, and maybe someday I will make my own full length video on how it turned out and what could have been (There was a LOT of cut content, and some of it filmed).
Other Capcom games most people don't remember: Codename: Viper (NES) Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie the Game (PlayStation) Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure (Wii) P.N. 03 (GameCube) The Little Mermaid (NES) Mega Man (Sega Game Gear) Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter (PS2)
I legitimately DO remember Fox Hunt. My friend had it back when the Playstation was still very new. Oh my god... It's astonishing to see that bizarre old game again. Kinda wish they still had it, considering nowadays a copy goes for like... 200-300 USD *easy*.
Wanna more HORROR? Then check out games that were TOO SCARY to release outside Japan! - ua-cam.com/video/Abjmja6yy1M/v-deo.html
S.L.A.I.?
Fox Hunt's protagonist is just Gex if he was human, and that is terrifying.
Fox Hunt looks like Capcom's answer to "Plumbers don't wear ties"
Plumbers Don't Wear Ties. The question no one asked, but Capcom answered it anyway.
@@Boonehams Honestly "Super Adventure Rockman" is sort of like a Plumbers Don't Wear Ties interactive movie game as well lol.
Fun fact, the original Saturn version of Super Adventure Rockman (product ID T-1225G) cannot be completed due to a cutscene bug and had to be recalled.
whats the bug in question
@@alex_-yz9to If I remember correctly, one cutscene would just not load properly, and it is impossible to skip cutscenes in the game.
@@chazmaru9583 Isn't that the bug that's dodged by taking the obscure path that involves never encountering Quickman and avoiding the cutscene, or am I remembering a path that avoids a different problem?
@@neoqwerty Ah, possibly! I don’t recall ever hearing of a workaround but I frankly had never revisited the topic since the recall, which I am unfortunately old enough to have known in real time. I guess this potential workaround would not be found until much later.
Fox Hunt's lead is the current voice of Johnny Cage, someone needs to interview him about this game.
I remember Andrew Bowen from Mad TV.
Wow, so he works on simply the worst game projects
A random fact but the lead actor in Fox Hunt would still work in video games, most prominently as the voice of Johnny Cage in MKX and MK11
Fun fact: the opening theme of Super Adventure RockMan is Eletrical Commication and its the same music opening used in the Japanese version Opening of Megaman 8 aka Rockman 8.
Super Adventure Rockman's game over sequence bodied me. Matt's bewildered laughter, the dramatic Darkseed 2 style showcase of how your failure doomed all of Earth, the matter of fact game over screen itself, the abrupt cut to the opening logo and the best part, how Bubble Man of all Robot Masters was the one to make this happen with an instadeath projectile that Rock survived anyway
Roll spilled the orange Crush and died a short time later because of all this lmfao, poor thing
By the time of Megaman Legends, humans have gone extinct and the characters you meet are synthetic people called carbons, but we do see actual dogs and cats. You can even get the dark armor by acting like a Jojo villain and kicking the dogs and you can have your home overrun by adopted cats.
Nothing indicates they are anything but regular cats and dogs, so it seems our furry companions actually outlasted humanity in Megaman's universe.
I’m pretty sure you get the dark armor by destroying the soda machines.
@@ssantos88 It's both. Kicking dogs and vandalizing public property (soda machines and mailboxes) is *_EVIIIIL_* after all.
@@ssantos88 There are 4 ways I know of to get it. Kicking dogs or destroying vending machines will gradually darken your armor, while shooting down the news ship when the city is under attack or stealing the briefcase of money in the optional police side quest will instantly get you the full on dark armor.
Seems the vending machine is the "canon" one though as dark armor Volnutt is playable in Megaman X Dive, with his character select animation being him kicking a vending machine to get free stuff out of it lol
@@zeroattentiongaming820 The vending is canon but so is the briefcase. I just went to see dark armor MegaMan in Mega Man X Dive and it is hilarious. His art is him in the dark armor holding the briefcase and wearing sunglasses. His animation is him walking on the vending machine and kicking it until it breaks and the briefcase comes out of the machine. He runs of with the case and then puts on his sunglasses.
well you can't kick innocent animals in the US versions, you CAN however kick the can into the bakery to make money and get dark armor.
According to a translation of the cutscenes via subtitles, Megaman and the other bots arent 100% imune woth the treatement! Its temporsry and it lasts only 7 days... 3 of which are burnt out during the passage of time throughout the story.
but the weird part is that it never factors into anything because it only expires if you press "GIVE UP" or if you die to needle man and snakeman... whoch arr the midbosses of disc 2
I would say that another forgotten Capcom game that would great to take a look at would be Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogies’s Revenge. It’s actually a really fun Devil May Cry style game that doesn’t talked as much as it should.
Hadn't even heard about it until you mentioned it. Looks fun but seems to sadly be Kinda rare here in Europe so goes for quite a lot.
I completely forgot Fox Hunt existed, if only because I was not aware of its existence until Game Informer did an episode of their Replay series on this roughly 10-11 years ago! Still as cheesy good as I remember.....
Wow, and when I thought that Under the Skin was an underrated and kind obscure Capcom game on PS2, now I heard even more obscure games that I have never, ever heard of.
Have to admit the Megaman one was hilarious, lol!.
Anyway thanks Matt!, it was a fun to watch video.
I like Super Adventure Rockman solely for the fact that Quick Man is practically a anti-hero in it. You may have guessed that I like that based on my username.
I'm glad Super Adventure Rockman exists at least. The Archie comic arc they based on it is good stuff.
Another one odd one was Street Fighter II MOVIE for the Playstation, where you play as the monitor cyborg watching FMV sequences from the movie, taking snapshots of the character's moves then after all that jazz, fighting Ryu in the end.
For clarification, this is referencing the ANIME movie, not the JCVD one.
I know YOU know that, but there might be people reading this that don't.
Desk did a video on it.
Translations:
6:44: Turn Around/Don't Turn around
7:11: A Month Ago
8:32: Worry/Don't Worry (About Roll)
11:35: Go Right/Go left (matt was right bout that one)
12:23: "Saving game to Memorycard"
There's one thing you missed out about Super Adventure Rockman. Beat the bird is in this game, so making the story take place between MM 2 and 3 makes this invalid. Many fans intepretated it to take place after Mega Man 5, since Beat was a gift made by Dr. Cossack for the Blue Bomber after redeeming himself back in MM4.
theres also enemies from megaman 5 and 6 roaming the ruins for some reason
@flophouse plays, you need to check out the band Protomen, they legit made a 2 disc rock opera about the origin of megaman and protoman. it's a dystopian tale in which doctor wiley has enslaved humanity and megaman is like an antihero obsessed with vengance. and they made a 20 min long music video of the last track.
@Oren Black its awesome, checkout their album "The Cover-up" also.They cover a lot of really good songs by bands like Iron Maiden, Styx, Queen, etc etc. you can find it on youtube.
Honestly shocked to learn that Cave have worked in game genres other than 'bullet hell shoot-em-ups starring scantily dressed women.'
Ah, sweet. Love these little deep dives into stuff like this. So many obscure little pieces of wonderful nonsense back when games were basically just startin' to figure themselves out.
Here's another Capcom game that nobody played: Pnickles, like the earliest version of Puzzle Fighter.
Heavy Metal Geomatrix looks like if you combine both Spawn and Power stone,and turn it into a bad fighting game. No wonder this game is on the obscure list of Capcom’s forgotten shelves.
I actually saw a Let's Play on SomethingAwful years ago of Super Adventure Rockman. It's a very unique game but hard to play unless you know Japanese or have a translated script available.
There is actually a hidden fight late in the game against a single Met and when it loses it gets carted off on a stretcher by two nurse Mets.
I still have "Fox Hunt." The furthest that I could ever make it would either be to the skydiving section or the snowboarding section.
The Heavy Metal game looks like about 20 minutes of fun.
AWE man, I want more of the Mega man. That was so funny as hell.
I swear, one time that Matt shouts "Let's go!!" he needs to morph it into Max's intro just to further elevate the moment in the video XD
You can use Google Lens to translate this with your phone. The first choice in Mega Man was "TURN AROUND" or "DON"T TURN AROUND", the second was "WORRY" or "DON'T WORRY" and the third was "GO RIGHT" or "GO LEFT"
whats funny is that you can beat the game by always picking the first choice in the list, im not kidding!
@@alex_-yz9to I'd be curious to see what happens if you pick "Don't turn around". Instant game over? Mega Man doesn't care, the end?
@@beebomcgroober9316 if you pick dont turn arround you go on a differrnt path where you are attacked by differrnt enemies... Disc one is actually the most diverse with choices!
Theres entire sections, encounters and scenes in disc one that you will never get to see if you actually go the right way... it always ends in a fight between Megaman, Quickman and Shadowman but HOW you get there actually changes!
And then Disc 2 likes to damage megaman for making bad choices and Disc 3 has almost 0 choices.
Actually no i thought it was a different choice, dont turn arround in the intro just means you skip the plot dump
I like to think that there is an extra scene after the part when megaman is looking down at Roll in the capsule, the Doc says to him "you better not pull an Shinji when I leave to make coffee" then gives him the old "i got my eyes on you" hand motions as he leaves XD
I swear the main character of that Fox Hunt game is Johnny Cage's VA from MK11
He is.
Before I even watch the video I see Heavy Metal Geomatrix. I know that Simon Bisley artwork anywhere... So are you sure that nobody has ever played these? Just kidding, I have loved watching your videos ever since those Two Best Sisters Plays parodies came out from Two Snacks. Keep up the good work!
I always thought Gregory Horror Show & Under the Skin are the most obscure capcom games but those are more obscure.
Gregory Horror Show has gotten more fans since Joel streamed it at least.
1:03:55 It's ironic you should mention Spoony considering he's how I originally heard of Fox Hunt back in the day
I'm still suggesting Chiki Chiki Boys / Mega Twins as one of the most obscure Capcom games ever.
The snowboarding character designs are actually pretty sick.
15:40 planet Earth, one week after Roll stops doing everyone´s chores.
Is it bad that I instantly recognized the actor from Foxhunt(Andrew Bowen from Mad TV and current VA in a lot of games)? Its always funny seeing actors early gigs in cheesy FMV games.
I was wondering where I recognized him from. He's so handsome I remember having such a crush Lord.
Matt's commentary makes this hilarious Mega Man game even funnier. It feels like Mystery Science Theater.
As a Ghost fan I appreciate the inclusion of Square Hammer 🔨 👻
Yessss i immediately tuned back in once I heard it
Glad I'm not the only one to notice.
Same! It completely took me by surprise!
I was like "wait a minute, that song was released in 2016, this game didn't release after 2016" until i realized it was edited in and that i'm dumb as hell.
I just saw them in early September at Blue Ridge Rock Fest. They had to do a shortened set because it was a festival but they were amazing live. Loved them ever since I first heard stuff off of Opus Eponymous when it was about to be released on Metal Blade.
No one ever brings up Capcom's Under The Skin, a great ps2 game.
28:48 The St Anger references are everything, Matt. 🤘🏽💕 Love that they're a recurring thing like Limp Bizkit.
I played Super Adventure Rockman as a kid back in the day(the rental store had plenty of Japanese games so I got to play all kinds of obscure games),obviously not understanding a thing.
FOXHUNT FUN FACT: Andrew Bowen would go on to be the voice of Johnny Cage in MKX, MK11 and WWE Immortals
Without watching the video and only seeing the thumbnail I can tell you I remember Foxhunt. I rented it multiple times and never finished it. The concept of using real life filmed segments to make a video game enthralled me as a child. But it was super hard and the only copy in my town for rent was pretty banged up so sometimes it just wouldn’t work.
i love the MIDI metal songs in the background during the Heavy Metal section
6:16 BEAT! I haven't played a Megaman game in some 10+ years but I sure as hell remember Beat! For shame upon you Matt, for shame!
You make fun of Roll, but little did you know that she was the savior of mankind.
Also I used to bust people's asses with her in MVC2. Just so people could walk away knowing they got beat by Roll.
She is also a boss botch in TvC
Megaman pulled a Links Crossbow training before Links Crossbow training
Some fun facts about Super Adventure Rockman (That I found on the internet):
Keiji Inafune claimed that Super Adventure Rockman was developed during a time when Capcom was attempting to branch out the series by "selling [it] to the lowest bidder". Although he had little involvement in the game, he was assigned to finish it after the project leader suddenly quit towards its completion.
It was seemingly disowned by Keiji Inafune. Inafune exclaimed, "The ultimate unspoken rule about making a game that is geared towards children is that you simply cannot kill anyone, but here you have military helicopters falling out of the sky and people dying in droves. ... Then as if that wasn't bad enough, Roll dies... and to top it all off, the whole world is destroyed! I was like, 'Did they really need to go that far?!'"
In the story, Doctor Wily, now working together with Doctor Light, went to investigate the ruins because the electromagnetic field started increasing, this being a good chance to clear his name. Wily uncovered an ancient alien super computer inside the temple, Ra Moon, which revived his various Robot Masters from Rockman 2 and Rockman 3 by analyzing the information about them in Dr. Wily's laptop. Wily thought it would be a great chance to conquer the world.
One of Mega Man 3 bosses, Shadow Man, who in his game of origin was originally an unidentified alien robot, is in the comics revealed to be a creation of Ra Moon who served as its escort when it traveled to Earth.
If you get a standard Game Over Roll does die, and if you lose to the final boss, everyone (even Wily) dies and Ra Moon kills all life on Earth, both organic and synthetic.
By the end, all of the Robot Masters (including Quick Man and Gemini Man, who got poignant death scenes, and excluding Shadow Man, who was destroyed beyond repair) get brought back.
The game came out after 8, but the lack of any appearance by Auto or Bass, suggests this takes before that, likely between 5 and 6, since Beat is present.
The game is also notable for being one of the very few times that Dr. Wily isn't the final boss. In addition, this is probably the only classic Mega Man game where Dr. Wily appears, yet is never fought at all.
If you can’t understand Japanese, you’ll generally be fine choosing the top option all of the time. You won’t see a lot of the more humorous scenes, but you also won’t die as often either. Once you have save files where you want them, go back and choose the second option everywhere and see where they take you. Warning: a lot of them spell “Game Over” so make sure you save.
Translations of the game's cutscene portions are also available online
35:10 Oh hey look, it's Claire.
spawn in an arcade with like 8 machines connected was so much fun
I would love you to be a guest on the Super Beard Bros' channel as y'all would mess me up more than RockMan messing up all those lil guys with hard hats on...
Roll in a coma: She dreams in digital, because it's better than nothing!
The volume on your narration jumps up suddenly after the words "bags of zenny"
That 90s Capcom boot jingle... right in the nostalgia. Yas.
i definitely remember seeing the character designs for snowboard heaven floating around the internet in the early 2000s, i likely had some interest in it since snowboard kids 2 was one of my obsessions at the time
Heavy Metal Geomatrix looks like something that would've been featured on a Simpsons episode
Matt, That Cutsman impression was 🔥
I love you for including Fox Hunt. It's straight up my favorite FMV game of all time. I have yet to see it this video (streaming first) but I saw Jack Freemont in the thumbnail. Hope you dont trash it too hard!
I kinda do. I get how it has a goofy charm, but FMV games always play so terribly.
I just screamed “FOX HUNT”!!!!😂😂😂
Super adventure Rockman, strikes me as "our anime pilot episode didnt work out! Quick make a videogame to make back some money!"
I had this Rockman FMV game on my PS1. Man, I had completely forgot about that game.
4:59 if i remember correctly Ra Moon disables electricity based machinery that go anywhere near the area it's located, i think that's the explanation from the Archie adaptation tho, i don't know if it's the same for the games and i think that's why Wily uses a regular truck and an analog compass instead of his more advanced tech
HOW- Just HOW do I know the Super Adventure Rockman theme song?? I have no memory of this game's existence. Is it from all my time on the Winamp radio gaming music channels? It's gotta be, this is too weird
It's reused from Rockman 8.
I just love Di's posh British accent. It reminds me of Lady Godiva from the 1980s GLOW female wrestling variety show.
Kinda surprised you didnt mention Shadow of Rome, i feel its pretty obscure but fun cult classic
Its really not obscure at all. Plus I already played it on the main channel.
It's so funny that you made a reference to Spoony in the Fox Hunt segment, because literally the only other person I've ever heard even mention that game is Spoony. Back when he was doing his FMV Hell series, he name-dropped Fox Hunt and showed a little clip of it (it was the stupid "superhero" fight) when summarizing the sordid history of FMV games. He never did an actual video on it, but that was the only time I'd ever heard of it prior to this.
That's right, Fox Hunt is so obscure and bad that a guy who spent years doing video reviews of obscure, bad FMV games didn't bother to do a full video on it. I think that lends credibility to the Capcom USA exec who said it was the worst game ever...
Grab your bags of zenny.
Please dont say breath of fire is obscure, its wonderful, 4 is one of my favourites.
Breath of Fire is only 'obscure' to people who grew up after the PS1 and N64 came into the forefront of console gaming. They were a relatively big name in JRPGs before that!
I remember seeing the advertisements for all these games in various issues of EGM as a kid.
I get Snowboard Heaven didn't release in the West, but Trick N Snowboarder certainly did. The only thing I really remember about it is Leon and Claire are playable boarders in it, not sure if I even rented it though.
The girl that Matt played as in Geomatrix just had Vergil's sword moves.
Yeah I had never heard of the snowboarding game ether and you weren’t kidding it was hard to find. Finally found it though
Nice selection of music during the Heavy Metal segment!
Would you do Heavy Metal F.A.K.K. sometime? I played the demo as a kid, too hard for me. By the way, what is the music during the Geomatrix segment? Since you can't play the actual music
Oh man, Fox Hunt, that sales quote makes sense why the PS1 version is $$$$ online.
These are so obscure I have literally never heard of them, like usually when you frequent forums and look up niche games you get namedropped these here and there even if you will never play them, but I have never seen these names ever.
"There should be more weapons in snowboard games."
Yeah... Incidentally Matt, ever heard of Snowboard Kids 2? Might make a good episode, eh? Could be fun.
Smarmy '90s Guy Mugs at Camera: The Game
When Whu Happen, Flophouse Files, and Flophouse Plays all make sweet Y Tu Mama Tambien love, we get a video like this
41:47 Matt, we may need your expertise here. Are those royalty free pot smashing sounds?
The intro song to Super Adventure Rockman is fire
I think I remember seeing clips of that Fox Hunt game in an old SpoonyOne Review
1:03:56 Never thought I'd find someone on the internet who still remembers Spoony in 2022, lol
Konami has rereleased its lesser Castlevania and TMNT games. It's time for Capcom to stop burying Mega Man's weirder history. Rerelease RockBoard, Super Adventure Rockman, and Rockman Strategy, you cowards!
Is that a midi version of a Ghost song during Heavy Metal Geomatrix? Or did they cover a song from it?
The Google Translate camera app can be useful if the game text resolution is high enough it can work. Itll at least give you the jist of the question and possible answers lol. For future reference. Ive used it to play PS1 and newer games, used it for the NTSC-J version of Auto Modelista recently. Also a Capcom game! Worked great.
Honorable mentions for you Mr. Matt: Chaos Legion, Glass Rose, Gregory Horror Show - Soul Collector, E.X. Troopers, Under the Skin and Mega Man X - Command Mission.
Is the song at 33 minutes playing during the Heavy Metal GeoMatrix game Ghost's Squarehammer with no lyrics?
Part of that intro track to fox hunt almost sounded like the parasite eve theme
If you make another video similar to this, I recommend Gaia Master, got some really cool character designs
... I should know better than to drink some water while watching Matt. Managed not to choke or spew water over electronics at that Rock/Pillar Man art. 👍
is that ghost square hammer on the floppotron in the background ?
As a diehard Fox Hunt fan let me just say this: the end of the game gets pretty wild. Also, while Matt made a joke about finding this game in the bargin bin it's currently selling for $250-450 on average and is not worth that amount at all. SAVE YOUR MONEY.
If you want to give it a try I STRONGLY suggest using Duckstation as it's currently the only emulator that can play this game from start to finish without any game ending bugs which come up pretty quickly on Disk 2 when you have to ski to the correct lodge to get the disk. If played on a different emulator it will always lead to a game over and the same for when you're playing blackjack with the bad guy of the game (it will instantly skip to Frank killing you in the Showgirls section). Give this game a try, it's pretty out there, and maybe someday I will make my own full length video on how it turned out and what could have been (There was a LOT of cut content, and some of it filmed).
Heavy metal geomatrix is a bad ass game. Just needed to add more players that can play. And stages
When Alan hit that gong, I was so done. 🤣
The star of Fox Hunt is the current voice of JOHNNY CAGE!!!
Heavy Metal isn’t from the UK, it started as an American translation of a French comic
Other Capcom games most people don't remember:
Codename: Viper (NES)
Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie the Game (PlayStation)
Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure (Wii)
P.N. 03 (GameCube)
The Little Mermaid (NES)
Mega Man (Sega Game Gear)
Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter (PS2)
I legitimately DO remember Fox Hunt. My friend had it back when the Playstation was still very new. Oh my god... It's astonishing to see that bizarre old game again.
Kinda wish they still had it, considering nowadays a copy goes for like... 200-300 USD *easy*.