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When you know the history of the Metal Gear series, Snake's Revenge isn't as much of a surprise. Metal Gear was originally made for the MSX2. Konami decided to port the game to the Famicom/NES without the consent of the original development team, handing the source code to a new team and giving them three months to do so, allegedly with an additional order to deliberately make their port different. After the NES port was successful in the West, Konami decided to make a NES sequel for Western release (Snake's Revenge), without Hideo Kojima's knowledge. One of the devs told Kojima about the project, supposedly asking Kojima to make a "real" Metal Gear sequel. The next day, Kojima got approval to make Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake for the MSX2.
Thrilla's Surfari is honestly one of the most underrated games on the entire NES library and it's the best LJN game on the NES as well, and probably really just Maximum Carnage can claim to be a better overall game. The cut scenes are incredible, the game moves very fast and the music is really quite great. Eventually there are surfing, cliff diving and underwater stages that I don't want to spoil.
I would agree it’s really impressive. I have played it all the way through and while it’s extremely frustrating, it’s 100 times better than I was expecting
Couple of things I could also mention: 1. Flying Dragon is actually the second in the whole Hiryu no Ken series, with the first one being an arcade game localized as Shanghai Kid, which was purely the tournament fighting section. 2. While Renegade had a few sequels, the first game is officially the start of the River City series, which included Super Dodge Ball, River City Ransom, Nintendo World Cup, and Crash 'n' The Boys Street Challenge. Nintendo World Cup is sort of a spinoff of Super Dodge Ball, whereas Street Challenge is a sequel, itself, though its prequel was Japan-only before the remakes. (Heck, the whole Renegade 'family tree' branches out quite far, since it also includes Double Dragon as well as Kunio.)
Little Ninja Brothers, yes! I have such strong nostalgia for that game. Legitimately one of my favorite NES titles. I don't know why 2 player co-op features in RPG type games aren't more common. Also Flying Dragon even has an N64 entry of the same name which is a fighting game with 2 modes. One is a mode where you can buy weapons and armor in a chunky Chibi style, while also having a more realistic fighting game mode also, which also happens to be produced by Culture Brain
Really cool video. I thought I knew the entire NES library, but you surprised me with a few of these games. Looks like a couple of these are possibly hidden gems
I think many of us agree that if some NES games would have been a little easier and more forgiving, they would have been infinitely more fun. It was so disappointing to rent a game on a Friday afternoon after school, play it for 30 minutes, and then not pick it up again for the rest of the weekend. 😂
Some are difficult and it's part of the appeal. Some are difficult to hide how poorly designed they are. And yeah for sure, some are so intentionally difficult that they prevented a lot of us from playing them for more than a few minutes despite their obvious potential. It's a fine balance that only a few developers could do consistently.
A lot of the difficulty being tough is because they wanted you to keep renting it. I had a game genie just so I could see the ending of those nes games.. unfortunately a lot of nes games had terrible anticlimactic endings
There are actually quite a few water levels in Thrilla's Surfari, most are functionally the same as the skateboarding ones just on rivers instead, but there are some underwater levels. The bosses are also pretty ridiculous. Looking forward to a full vid on it if you decide to.
Good to see you back on track doing more good and interesting videos! I just found Zoda’s Revenge (and two other CIB games) at a very good deal today. Now I’m looking forward to play it even more! I finished the first one during Covid. Great game! Cheers!
No....if you take out to play the value will drop SIGNIFICANTLY!!!!@! HAHAHHAA, I say who cares. Games are meant to be playes and not to sit on a shelf collecting dust to how much they may be worth!!!!!
I loved the first person mazes of Lone Ranger. Hated the ones of Fester's Quest. Lone Ranger had few mazes, very simple in design, with plenty of hardcore light gun action. You use one hand on the controller dpad to move, and the light gun in the other hand to shoot. Frankly, it was awesome. Festers had complex mazes, if I remember correctly even including fake walls (bleh), with no action. I think that's why they sat so differently in my brain.
Yeah I’m definitely thinking of Festers Quest specifically here. I don’t think I realized Lone Ranger had these kinds of levels! It’s on my list of games to cover so I’ll know soon enough ;)
I remember renting "Flying Dragon" and being like, "Wow, this game sucks." And then I proceeded to play the game to death the entire weekend and ended up buying it. 🤷♀ I also got "Kung Fu Heroes" for Christmas one year (I assume because it was cheap). I had no idea there was a sequel.
The side scrolling portions of the game are mediocre and it's a slog to get through each section in order to get to the far better tournament fighting parts. You even have to go through a training section before getting into the first tournament which I find unnecessary, that should've been a side option at the start screen. I'm sure many people turned the game off before getting to the first tournament.
I feel like the days where sequels had completely different names are gone. Not sure if it's because developers are afraid it will hurts sales or if they just want to keep the series uniform.
I remember going through my NES collection and I didn't realize I had Top Gun and Top Gun 2 the second mission I thought I just had a double of Top Gun LOL!
I love the Faria mention. The Guardian Legend could be seen as a Zanac spinoff from Compile complete with Blue and Red Randar! I'll never call them Lander again after playing Zanac.
Nice list. It got me thinking of Faxanadu and Legacy of the Wizard and how they're part of the same branching ur-series. Now that's a rabbit hole of sequels you'd never guess in a million years.
@@BigOleWords Same here. If not for the internet, I wouldn't have put that together. For me, it was seeing the later Legend of Heroes games - the Trails stuff - and remembering the older PSP Legend of Heroes games that got me to look into it in the first place. Found out that there's a whole Xanadu line, including Faxanadu and Tokyo Xanadu. But the big surprise to me was Legacy of the Wizard. I have no idea why I got that particular game, but it's one of the games I actually owned as a kid. Played a lot of it, but never managed to beat it on my own(I did get a couple of the crowns on my own, which since I was just a little kid at the time I'll take as a good enough victory for me). I didn't know it was related to *anything.* But it's somewhere in the middle of its branch. Since you could only carry 2 items at a time, it made puzzling your way through some of the sections tough. It's one of those games with some very good memories, but also some frustrating ones.
You got to draw your own map with first person dungeon crawlers. I did this for the first time a couple months back with Shining in the Darkness. I enjoyed it.
I did the same with Shining in the Darkness a few years back. Drawing the maps can really add to the experience. I had tinkered with Eye of the Beholder back in the day, but Shining in the Darkness was my first real dungeon crawler experience. And a great one at that.
A bit of Trivia: Flying Warriors, known as Hiryuu no Ken 2 in Japan, is vastly different from the Japanese original. The original has weaker graphics akin to the first game and notable differences in the gameplay, levels, and sound. The characters were also changed. The US version's new graphics are lastly akin to what's seen in Hiryuu no Ken 3, which never made it to the West.
6:20 Zanac was one of the first NES games my dad bought when we first got the system back in the 80's. Never beat it until I was an adult in my 30's and good God did my thumbs hurt for two days afterwards!
@@BigOleWords small advice. Use the more complex control scheme lets you avoid punching the enemies heads. If you punch for the head then you can get thrown when they block.. Or just use the spinning kick which is cooler anyway. And you only get the real ending on hard
Gun-Nac was such an amazing game! I played it forever and the first time I actually beat it was an absolutely epic moment as it took so much effort and focus!
I remember for YEARS every store in America had Zodas revenge in a bin for a dollar, they still didn't sell. I think it's because people (myself included) didn't know it was a star tropics sequel.
I’m surprised this game is even on this list. The box indicates the game is Star Tropics II under Zodas Revenge. The commercial I remember also called the game “zodas revenge star tropics 2” plus the last boss of the first one is Zoda. I think it didn’t sell well because it came out a year after SNES.
Those first-person mazes you complain about from Mafat Conspiracy - they work great in the Eye of the Beholder series, Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos, and Phantasy Star. Having an automap helps a *lot*, though...
I had Snake's Revenge growing up, it is a bit challenging to get used to, but with practice you can get to the point where you can handle the enemies fairly smoothly. The issue I always had was that it was possible to end up in a walking dead situation by exiting an area without one of the key cards, and I never managed to beat the title.
I remember that the game was glitchy and difficult. I never could get very far in the game. One of my cousins was really good at NES games. During summer break we would play games on my NES. I watched him for several hours once as he tried to beat my copy of Snake’s Revenge. He got way further in the game than I ever did. He made it all the way to a stage where you are fighting enemies on an aerial tram or 🚠 cable car when the game crashed on him. He gave up after that. I thought I could beat the game using my game genie, but it would freeze and crash very quickly once you started playing. I’d be lucky to get a few screens or one whole minute into the first level before the game froze with the music stuck playing a single unending sound.
I remember that there was some advertising that linked Snake's Revenge and Metal Gear, though the best Snake's Revenge ads were the ones that promoted both it and one of the Contra sequels. Something like "If the world ends tomorrow, it's your fault" with newspapers that had headlines like "Terrorists Go Nuke" and "Aliens Invade Manhattan" or something like that
@8:49 My sentiments exactly. I was really having fun until this point. ~_~ Every time I try to play it I'm like....yup..I can do it this time...I can get through it....nope. ~_~
I remember my cousin had Thrillas Safari. I’d go to my Grandmothers house after school and sit and play that for HOURS! I absolutely loved it! Pretty difficult but a very cool game imo when I was a kid! This, Darkwing Duck, and Little Nemo were my absolute favorites! When I was a young kid!
Lots of love for Little Ninja Bros. It has one of the best fourth wall breaking jokes I've ever seen in a video game near the end. I don't want to ruin it for anyone who may be curious. But my brother and I were PISSED.
I enjoyed the originals games to Flying Warriors, and The Little Ninja Brothers, but I fell in love even more with the SNES third in the series releases. The crossover appearance each have in Super Ninja Boy is great.
@@BigOleWords I shouldn't have said crossover as in a huge part. But atleast two or 3 characters from other Culture Brain games. They do use a song from flying warriors when you are speaking or around the part where get first introduced.
I never played Flying Dragon/Flying Warriors, but I do remember them publishing a comic over the course of several months in Nintendo Power magazine that helped hype the game and flesh out the story
@@BigOleWords - I double checked my memory, it wasn't Nintendo Power, they did other comics but not Flying Dragon. It was actually Game Pro and a few other smaller gaming magazines that hosted the multi-part monthly comic. I found an archive of all the chapters, but of course UA-cam will not let me link directly to the URL.
Pretty big! I've maybe added a few PAL and unlicensed games since I made this video, but this goes over the whole thing: ua-cam.com/video/AAwUFkHM1cc/v-deo.html
@Big Ole Words Awesome! Im selling half my pool business so maybe I'll get a lot of hard-to-find games I'm lacking soon. I got about 150 or so really good titles like metal storm, bucky o'hare, and darkwing duck. I have spiritual warfare too oddly enough. It's taking a lot longer because I collect for a lot of other systems too. Thanks and keep the content coming!
I remember going to toys r us. We took the paper tag for a game. They ended up not having it up front. But then my sister and I saw a physical copy of Super Mario 3, which had looked sold out. No tickets left on the wall. But we said, "What about that?" Later we played Super Mario 3 all afternoon and night.
Another one people don't realize is, "Galaga" is a sequel to "Galaxian." Though, the NES version of Galaxian wasn't released in America, much like the Famicom adaptations of Mappy, and Dig-Dug. (Though, they were later released in officially licensed mini toy arcades, and plug-and-play systems.) Like Galaga their sequels were released instead. (Dig-Dig 2, and Mappy-Land.)
Actually, and I only found this out through Wikipedia, is that The Black Bass is a sequel. The original was exclusive to Japan, so the one the US got is The Black Bass 2, thus the USA in the name.
Flying Dragon and Flying Warrior might have had a 16-bit follow up. The fighting system and other elements look similar to Culture Brain’s Golden Fighter.
I knew any Nintendo games had sequels. The ones I know are: Adventure Island II Adventure Island 3 Baseball Stars 2 Bases Loaded II Bases Loaded 3 Bases Loaded 4 Battletoads/Double Dragon: The Ultimate Team Bionic Commando Bubble Bobble Part 2 Castlevania II: Simon's Quest Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers 2 Contra Force Double Dragon II: The Revenge Double Dragon III: The Sacred Stones DuckTales 2 Fire 'N Ice The Flintstones: The Surprise at Dinosaur Peak! Flying Warriors Goal! Two The Guardian Legend Gun Nac Ikari Warriors II: Victory Road Ikari III: The Rescue IronSword: Wizards & Warriors II Kirby's Adventure Little Ninja Brothers The Mafat Conspiracy Mega Man 2 Mega Man 3 Mega Man 4 Mega Man 5 Mega Man 6 1943: The Battle of Midway Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos Ninja Gaiden III: The Ancient Ship of Doom Power Blade 2 Rainbow Islands: The Story of Bubble Bobble 2 RoboCop 2 RoboCop 3 Skate or Die 2: The Search for Double Trouble Ski or Die Snake's Revenge Super Mario Bros. 2 Super Mario Bros. 3 Super Spy Hunter T2: Terminator 2: Judgment Day Target: Renegade Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 II: The Arcade Game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3 III: The Manhattan Project Top Gun: The Secret Mission Town & Country Surf Designs II: Thrilla's Safari Track and Field II Wizards & Warriors III: Korus - Visions of Power Zelda II: The Adventure of Link Zoda's Revenge: StarTropics II and lots more...
Golgo 13 is based on an anime of the same name, if you weren't aware. The first person maze section sucks a lot, but if games like Dungeon Master, or even Phantasy Star have taught me anything, it's that they were popular enough to spawn sequels.
I came around to first person mazes when I delved into Wizardry on NES. Really you have to love making your own maps, which I do find surprisingly fun and engrossing. Though playing a dungeon crawler it comes with the territory and its part of the genre. It's kind of annoying in games with multiple genres, when you just want to get back to the action.
Yeah I think you're right. Someone mentioned Shining in the Darkness and I did like playing that game where that was the only gameplay style, but games like Fester's Quest and Mafat Conspiracy where you need to beat them in order to progress just rub me the wrong way.
I fell in love with first-person dungeon crawls playing 4-player Swords and Serpents with some friends using the FourScore and no guide over the course of a summer.
Is Flying Dragon a spiritual successor to Karate Kid? That game has 1v1's and side scrolling stages too. It's immediately what I thought of when I saw it and also thought he was going to say it was a sequel lol
When I was a kid I got Mafat Conspiracy and thought it was great, 3D mazes included. I loved anything "3D" in gaming at that time and those mazes and the ones in Fester's Quest didn't become complete garbage until Wolfenstein 3D and Doom perfected the 3D maze. I discovered Top Secret Episode later and didn't get into it as much because it didn't look as good graphically. It still had the sweet first-person sniper action, though! In fact, that bit was probably better in Top Secret Episode from a gameplay perspective.
@@BigOleWords you know something, fella, I wasn't expecting a response as this was the first of your videos that I've watched. I think you just earned a subscription! I'll check more of your channel now.
I'm not sure if it was released in North America or if it was a PAL exclusive title but in Australia I found a rare rental called Uforia. It was a metroidvania style game and I know nothing of its origins but I've seen on several retrogame related channels a tetris style game with those specific characters. This could be an entry for your next video on this exact same topic but it feels like Uforia was made as a sequel to the tetris style game but it had an actual story for them rather than just be blocks.
Love Ufouria! Hmmm I do not know about any prequel or sequel to Ufouria, but I did review it for my PAL games series: ua-cam.com/video/uX4o0AtCRwo/v-deo.html
It's called Hebereke in Japan, and there are a bunch of games for a variety of systems. Ufouria is the first one, but the rest of them aren't "Metroidvanias" unfortunately. A shame since it's a great game.
Never heard of Gun Nac! Zanac was my favorite on the NES due to its music, deep power up system (I'm waiting for another 6 to come around!) and lots of secrets (shoot the first enemy with your secondary weapon diagnal and it turns into a one-of-a-kind rapid fire power-up). If I'd known they'd made a cute-em-up sequel I would've been all over it! Guess I need to dust off the ol' emulator now...
They wanted people to not feel like they had to play Metal Gear 1 and 2 first since there was nearly a decade separating Metal Gear 2 and Metal Gear Solid, not to mention the only versions of Metal Gear 1 the US got were butchered ports (owing to the fact that MSX had near-zero market share in the US) and neither the US nor Europe got the proper Metal Gear 2 (not Snake's Revenge) at all.
@@BigOleWords Culture Brain have chosen a strange naming policy. The first game was terrible, so renaming the second was a wise decision. But they advertised the second one very actively, held tournaments, even ordered a series of comics advertisements in GamePro magazine. And why they renamed the third and fourth, with the more or less successful second one, is a mystery to me. In Japan, these games are part of the Hiryu no Ken series. And the very first game in the USA was released on arcades under the name Shangai Kid.
I remember "Ninja Brothers" as "Kung Fu Heroes" which I always thought was a sort of spiritual successor to Kung Fu. It has all the same sounds, at least. I was no good at it, because I couldn't figure out the hit boxes!
As a kid, my step-brother had Metal Gear (and Wizards & Warriors) and I enjoyed playing it (them) and beating it (them). Since I liked the first game(s) so much, I bought the sequel(s) Snake's Revenge (and Ironsword: Wizards & Warriors II). Never did beat it (them) though. I knew Snake's Revenge was a sequel to Metal Gear, so it being a sequel must have been mentioned in the advertising. I guess I might have read a review mentioning the sequel fact, but I would put money on seeing it on an advertisement.
Yeah I would guess in ads or Nintendo Power or something? Like I knew they were related because of the internet but I was surprised to see Metal Gear wasn’t mentioned at all in the packaging.
Spent hundreds of hours playing goonies 2 and I always thought "where is the first one I never heard of" I later played the original goonies game and realized it was crap and that's why it never was seen. Damn tho, goonies 2 is incredible
5 points for me actually knowing about Kung Fu Heroes and Little Ninja Bros. LNB was a lot of fun, but the final boss was NOT balanced with the rest of the game. Those were both games in the "Super Chinese" series from Japan, which also had an entry on the SNES that was localized, Super Ninja Boy. I still have my copy of that, and it's still fun to play through (I just did a while ago), but the random encounter rate can seem really annoying at times. Zoda's Revenge is also a solid game, even though it now has nothing to do with the Tropics, and they made several quality of life improvements over the original. It's also up there among the last handful of titles to be released for the NES, coming in 1994.
@@BigOleWords I just always treated them as such. I can't really think of another case of using the same engine but vastly different stories. Maybe that deserves a video of it's own?
I love Snake's Revenge, it was always one of the hardest games in my collection but the soundtrack is so bad ass. And once you get the hang of it you can really feel like you're a one man 8 bit army
I'm surprised anybody can love this shitty game. Not only is it not a Metal Gear game but done by another team, it's just broken in many ways, barely functioning at times.
@@carlrygwelski586 Nah. Snake's Revenge is poorly made and that's not exactly a secret. Lots of passages are simply broken, like spawning inside of a light in those sneak sections and combat often does not work well, since your attacks just miss. Rerez just made a video about this game. Maybe nostalgia has you blinded, but it really wasn't a good game.
@@xPandamon "Nostalgia has you blinded" typical self-validating response. Maybe you ignored BigOleWords reply to my comment that he got into it too? I saw Rerez' video, it was great- but all he does is whine and cry about stuff, that's his bit. It's okay that you're no good at this game, there are plenty of other games for you to enjoy
Little ninja brothers also got a sequel on the super nintendo called Super Ninja Boy, which was basically Little Ninja Brothers but with better graphics and a slightly different combat phase. I had both Kung Fu Heroes and Super ninja Boy as a kid and didnt realize they were in the same franchise but it makes a lot of sense.
I consider The Mysterious Murasame Castle to be a sequel to the original The Legend of Zelda. Sort of. You probably don't have it, but we've talked about it during your streams before.
your voice sounds different when you are doing voice over a video clip compared to when you are filming yourself. Try finding finding a position towards the microphone that let your audio recordings sound more seamless when editing. I think it would really spruce up your whole clips. Beyond that I have nothing to complain about. Great video!
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When you know the history of the Metal Gear series, Snake's Revenge isn't as much of a surprise. Metal Gear was originally made for the MSX2. Konami decided to port the game to the Famicom/NES without the consent of the original development team, handing the source code to a new team and giving them three months to do so, allegedly with an additional order to deliberately make their port different. After the NES port was successful in the West, Konami decided to make a NES sequel for Western release (Snake's Revenge), without Hideo Kojima's knowledge. One of the devs told Kojima about the project, supposedly asking Kojima to make a "real" Metal Gear sequel. The next day, Kojima got approval to make Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake for the MSX2.
The Golgo 13 sequel is little less obscure if you're familiar with the late 1960s manga it's based on (or any of its subsequent anime adaptations).
Dude , I haven't thought of flying dragon in like 30 years.....core memory unlocked. Amazing video as always. You rock, man.
You rock too bud!
Thrilla's Surfari is honestly one of the most underrated games on the entire NES library and it's the best LJN game on the NES as well, and probably really just Maximum Carnage can claim to be a better overall game. The cut scenes are incredible, the game moves very fast and the music is really quite great. Eventually there are surfing, cliff diving and underwater stages that I don't want to spoil.
I would agree it’s really impressive. I have played it all the way through and while it’s extremely frustrating, it’s 100 times better than I was expecting
Couple of things I could also mention:
1. Flying Dragon is actually the second in the whole Hiryu no Ken series, with the first one being an arcade game localized as Shanghai Kid, which was purely the tournament fighting section.
2. While Renegade had a few sequels, the first game is officially the start of the River City series, which included Super Dodge Ball, River City Ransom, Nintendo World Cup, and Crash 'n' The Boys Street Challenge. Nintendo World Cup is sort of a spinoff of Super Dodge Ball, whereas Street Challenge is a sequel, itself, though its prequel was Japan-only before the remakes. (Heck, the whole Renegade 'family tree' branches out quite far, since it also includes Double Dragon as well as Kunio.)
Very cool. I love the whole Kunio Kin series including the Famicom exclusives. So much fun gameplay and unique charm :)
Arc System Works still makes really good games in the Kunio series that play much like the original games.
Little Ninja Brothers, yes! I have such strong nostalgia for that game. Legitimately one of my favorite NES titles. I don't know why 2 player co-op features in RPG type games aren't more common. Also Flying Dragon even has an N64 entry of the same name which is a fighting game with 2 modes. One is a mode where you can buy weapons and armor in a chunky Chibi style, while also having a more realistic fighting game mode also, which also happens to be produced by Culture Brain
Nice! I’d heard there was an N64 version out there but have never tried it :)
One of my favourites too and you almost never hear about it! Some serious nostalgia for Lil’ Ninja Bros!
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@@CeeJayThe13th Fancy meeting you here!
@@MegaHarv I was thinking the the same thing!
Really cool video. I thought I knew the entire NES library, but you surprised me with a few of these games. Looks like a couple of these are possibly hidden gems
Hey thanks! Yeah I’ll get around to many of these at some point but Little Ninja Brothers feels most likely to fit the hidden gem criteria.
I think many of us agree that if some NES games would have been a little easier and more forgiving, they would have been infinitely more fun. It was so disappointing to rent a game on a Friday afternoon after school, play it for 30 minutes, and then not pick it up again for the rest of the weekend. 😂
Some are difficult and it's part of the appeal. Some are difficult to hide how poorly designed they are. And yeah for sure, some are so intentionally difficult that they prevented a lot of us from playing them for more than a few minutes despite their obvious potential. It's a fine balance that only a few developers could do consistently.
A lot of the difficulty being tough is because they wanted you to keep renting it. I had a game genie just so I could see the ending of those nes games.. unfortunately a lot of nes games had terrible anticlimactic endings
I think many would not agree
A lot of the difficulty was because the games sucked and were basically shovelware with bad controls and poor hit detection.
There are actually quite a few water levels in Thrilla's Surfari, most are functionally the same as the skateboarding ones just on rivers instead, but there are some underwater levels. The bosses are also pretty ridiculous. Looking forward to a full vid on it if you decide to.
Yessir! I played through it after I made this video and quickly realized my mistake :) working on a full review now though!
Good to see you back on track doing more good and interesting videos!
I just found Zoda’s Revenge (and two other CIB games) at a very good deal today. Now I’m looking forward to play it even more! I finished the first one during Covid. Great game!
Cheers!
I’m tryin! And that’s a nice pickup, Zoda is one of the best titles that folks don’t discuss to often :)
No....if you take out to play the value will drop SIGNIFICANTLY!!!!@!
HAHAHHAA, I say who cares. Games are meant to be playes and not to sit on a shelf collecting dust to how much they may be worth!!!!!
I loved the first person mazes of Lone Ranger.
Hated the ones of Fester's Quest.
Lone Ranger had few mazes, very simple in design, with plenty of hardcore light gun action. You use one hand on the controller dpad to move, and the light gun in the other hand to shoot. Frankly, it was awesome.
Festers had complex mazes, if I remember correctly even including fake walls (bleh), with no action.
I think that's why they sat so differently in my brain.
Yeah I’m definitely thinking of Festers Quest specifically here. I don’t think I realized Lone Ranger had these kinds of levels! It’s on my list of games to cover so I’ll know soon enough ;)
I remember renting "Flying Dragon" and being like, "Wow, this game sucks." And then I proceeded to play the game to death the entire weekend and ended up buying it. 🤷♀
I also got "Kung Fu Heroes" for Christmas one year (I assume because it was cheap). I had no idea there was a sequel.
The beauty of playing NES games back in the day was having limited options and thus sticking it out with harder/crappier titles,
Did u beat it??
The side scrolling portions of the game are mediocre and it's a slog to get through each section in order to get to the far better tournament fighting parts. You even have to go through a training section before getting into the first tournament which I find unnecessary, that should've been a side option at the start screen. I'm sure many people turned the game off before getting to the first tournament.
I remember having flashbacks to the NES Metal Gear when a friend said I should try Metal Gear Solid. 20 years later still haven't played it
Solid was my first MG experience and while way better than the NES game , that has it's charms as well :)
This has been on my mind since I can remember like grade 3 and I'm 46 now... Africa looks like Australia but on its side... anyone 🙏🏽compare them 👍🏾
I feel like the days where sequels had completely different names are gone. Not sure if it's because developers are afraid it will hurts sales or if they just want to keep the series uniform.
Yeah I agree and I think it’s entirely about sales.
Surprised not to see "Commando" / "Bionic Commando", or "Gradius" / "Life Force" on this list!
Wait Bionic Commando is a sequel?!? And you’re absolutely right about Gradius/Lifeforce, can’t believe I forgot those!
@@BigOleWords Yup! Your mission in Bionic Commando is to rescue Super Joe, the hero of the first game.
@@suddenlysarablog haha no way! I had no idea!
I figured Mercs was the sequel
I remember going through my NES collection and I didn't realize I had Top Gun and Top Gun 2 the second mission
I thought I just had a double of Top Gun LOL!
They have incredibly similar covers!
@@BigOleWords Right? LOL
It’s so refreshing to watch an intelligent, Nes-focussed channel without the try-hard, cringey skits. Only Game Sack manages to get skits right.
Hey thanks so much! BUT look out, I’m about to go full zany sketches! BOING!
There were maps for Mafat Conspiracy's mazes inside the instruction manual. They gave you the layouts, but not the locations of enemies or items.
Oh yeah? That’s pretty cool!
I love the Faria mention. The Guardian Legend could be seen as a Zanac spinoff from Compile complete with Blue and Red Randar! I'll never call them Lander again after playing Zanac.
Love all the Compile games!
Nice list. It got me thinking of Faxanadu and Legacy of the Wizard and how they're part of the same branching ur-series. Now that's a rabbit hole of sequels you'd never guess in a million years.
That is a really weird one for sure. I played both as a kid and didn't realize they were connected for another 20 years or so!
@@BigOleWords Same here. If not for the internet, I wouldn't have put that together. For me, it was seeing the later Legend of Heroes games - the Trails stuff - and remembering the older PSP Legend of Heroes games that got me to look into it in the first place. Found out that there's a whole Xanadu line, including Faxanadu and Tokyo Xanadu.
But the big surprise to me was Legacy of the Wizard. I have no idea why I got that particular game, but it's one of the games I actually owned as a kid. Played a lot of it, but never managed to beat it on my own(I did get a couple of the crowns on my own, which since I was just a little kid at the time I'll take as a good enough victory for me). I didn't know it was related to *anything.* But it's somewhere in the middle of its branch. Since you could only carry 2 items at a time, it made puzzling your way through some of the sections tough. It's one of those games with some very good memories, but also some frustrating ones.
You got to draw your own map with first person dungeon crawlers. I did this for the first time a couple months back with Shining in the Darkness. I enjoyed it.
I do actually really like Shining in the Darkness and did draw maps for that game. They got it right there
I did the same with Shining in the Darkness a few years back. Drawing the maps can really add to the experience. I had tinkered with Eye of the Beholder back in the day, but Shining in the Darkness was my first real dungeon crawler experience. And a great one at that.
Ok I thought flying dragon was a fever dream! I remember that game and it was way too hard!
Haha nope it’s real!
@@BigOleWords awesome video dude!
A bit of Trivia: Flying Warriors, known as Hiryuu no Ken 2 in Japan, is vastly different from the Japanese original. The original has weaker graphics akin to the first game and notable differences in the gameplay, levels, and sound. The characters were also changed. The US version's new graphics are lastly akin to what's seen in Hiryuu no Ken 3, which never made it to the West.
Huh! Did not know that!
Thanks for another new video.
I definitely didn't know Flying Warriors was a sequel to another game.
Hey thanks for watching!
6:20 Zanac was one of the first NES games my dad bought when we first got the system back in the 80's. Never beat it until I was an adult in my 30's and good God did my thumbs hurt for two days afterwards!
Props to you, I can’t get anywhere in that game!
I had no idea Flying Warrior was a sequel. I did know it was super cool and I couldn't beat it as a kid, though.
I have not made it too far…yet. It’s on my list of games to dive into soon.
@@BigOleWords small advice. Use the more complex control scheme lets you avoid punching the enemies heads. If you punch for the head then you can get thrown when they block.. Or just use the spinning kick which is cooler anyway.
And you only get the real ending on hard
I had never heard of Flying Warriors- I'm going to have to check it out. Always nice to find new NES games! Thanks!
That game is pretty interesting for sure.
As a kid, I always wished that Faxanadu would get a sequel only to find out that it technically was one (just not to any game released on the NES).
That whole thing is so convoluted! I played Legacy as a kid but had no clue it was related to one of my favorite games.
9:45 - 'I Feel Asleep' was hilarious. They obviously didn't have a good translators.
That’s the truth!
Gun-Nac was such an amazing game! I played it forever and the first time I actually beat it was an absolutely epic moment as it took so much effort and focus!
Props to you then!
Hahaha that David Cross/Mr. Show voice sample brings back so many memories.
Yayer! Love when people catch the Mr Show reference :)
T&C Surf Designs skateboard mode has a top ten music track. I could listen to it while I work out or drive fast in my car.
Hell yeah it does!
Just found this channel and I just wanna say I love the Mr. Show opening.
I remember for YEARS every store in America had Zodas revenge in a bin for a dollar, they still didn't sell. I think it's because people (myself included) didn't know it was a star tropics sequel.
I’m surprised this game is even on this list. The box indicates the game is Star Tropics II under Zodas Revenge. The commercial I remember also called the game “zodas revenge star tropics 2” plus the last boss of the first one is Zoda. I think it didn’t sell well because it came out a year after SNES.
Also it was one if the last NES games released. It’s a shame as that game rules!
Those first-person mazes you complain about from Mafat Conspiracy - they work great in the Eye of the Beholder series, Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos, and Phantasy Star.
Having an automap helps a *lot*, though...
For some reason it didn’t bother me in Shining in the Darkness. Something about the NES limits that make them so awkward and frustrating
Man, the wall of games at Toys 'R Us is such a specific memory.
Right? Surprised there was footage of it
I had Snake's Revenge growing up, it is a bit challenging to get used to, but with practice you can get to the point where you can handle the enemies fairly smoothly. The issue I always had was that it was possible to end up in a walking dead situation by exiting an area without one of the key cards, and I never managed to beat the title.
Ooof I would've never played it again if that happened to me.
I remember that the game was glitchy and difficult. I never could get very far in the game. One of my cousins was really good at NES games. During summer break we would play games on my NES. I watched him for several hours once as he tried to beat my copy of Snake’s Revenge. He got way further in the game than I ever did. He made it all the way to a stage where you are fighting enemies on an aerial tram or 🚠 cable car when the game crashed on him. He gave up after that.
I thought I could beat the game using my game genie, but it would freeze and crash very quickly once you started playing. I’d be lucky to get a few screens or one whole minute into the first level before the game froze with the music stuck playing a single unending sound.
I had no idea Zanac and Gun Nac were connected. Very interesting!
Me either til recently!
I remember that there was some advertising that linked Snake's Revenge and Metal Gear, though the best Snake's Revenge ads were the ones that promoted both it and one of the Contra sequels. Something like "If the world ends tomorrow, it's your fault" with newspapers that had headlines like "Terrorists Go Nuke" and "Aliens Invade Manhattan" or something like that
Nice. I didnt know Mafat was a sequel. Cant wait for part 6!
the flying dragon games are combination of multiple hokaro no ken famicom games
@8:49 My sentiments exactly. I was really having fun until this point. ~_~ Every time I try to play it I'm like....yup..I can do it this time...I can get through it....nope. ~_~
Many people pointed out that the manual has maps for these parts. That would’ve been super helpful!
I remember my cousin had Thrillas Safari. I’d go to my Grandmothers house after school and sit and play that for HOURS! I absolutely loved it! Pretty difficult but a very cool game imo when I was a kid! This, Darkwing Duck, and Little Nemo were my absolute favorites! When I was a young kid!
That’s awesome. I’d say it’s pretty interesting, but maybe one of the hardest NES games out there!
Always thought it was weird that "Mafat Conspiracy" said "Golgo 13 II" on the title screen, but nowhere else.
Yeah it seems like an odd choice
I swear, Gun Nac looks just like Dragon Spirit. Is that just me? Cutscene animation, gameplay, and backgrounds are hitting a deep memory of mine.
Dragon Spirit? Hmmm I don’t know about that one. Both awesome games though!
does anybody know what's that game at second 0:23???
Ikari III: The Rescue
@@BigOleWords Thanks a lot !!!
Lots of love for Little Ninja Bros. It has one of the best fourth wall breaking jokes I've ever seen in a video game near the end. I don't want to ruin it for anyone who may be curious. But my brother and I were PISSED.
I haven’t made it that far but I’ll be on the look out for it!
"...you and a friend 'fist' your way through..."
Ahahahaha 😅
you forgot the granddaddy of them all! Super Mario Bros! ;)
Heyo!
@@BigOleWords or cheetah men 2 🤣
I love these videos, UA-cam for once recommended me some good shit and fell in love with this channel inmediatly
Hey thanks so much! :)
The subplot of The Mafat Conspiracy is a really interesting meta analysis of nutrition dealing with both curds and whey.
Hahaha
I had no idea that Flying Dragon was more than just an N64 game that I played 20 years ago. Turns out I could have also played this 30 years ago lol
Right? I had no idea!
You just need some grid paper and a pencil 😉
Some very interesting titles in here. Gogol and the Mafat Conspiracy pair caught my interest the most 😎👍
That definitely is a must, i just got so much lazier in my old age!
I enjoyed the originals games to Flying Warriors, and The Little Ninja Brothers, but I fell in love even more with the SNES third in the series releases. The crossover appearance each have in Super Ninja Boy is great.
What?! Crossover!?! That's amazing!
@@BigOleWords I shouldn't have said crossover as in a huge part. But atleast two or 3 characters from other Culture Brain games. They do use a song from flying warriors when you are speaking or around the part where get first introduced.
I never played Flying Dragon/Flying Warriors, but I do remember them publishing a comic over the course of several months in Nintendo Power magazine that helped hype the game and flesh out the story
Really?! That’s cool, I never knew about that!
@@BigOleWords - I double checked my memory, it wasn't Nintendo Power, they did other comics but not Flying Dragon.
It was actually Game Pro and a few other smaller gaming magazines that hosted the multi-part monthly comic.
I found an archive of all the chapters, but of course UA-cam will not let me link directly to the URL.
@@Starhawke_Gaming Ok cool, I'll search around :)
How big is your nes collection? It looks amazing
Pretty big! I've maybe added a few PAL and unlicensed games since I made this video, but this goes over the whole thing: ua-cam.com/video/AAwUFkHM1cc/v-deo.html
@Big Ole Words Awesome! Im selling half my pool business so maybe I'll get a lot of hard-to-find games I'm lacking soon. I got about 150 or so really good titles like metal storm, bucky o'hare, and darkwing duck. I have spiritual warfare too oddly enough. It's taking a lot longer because I collect for a lot of other systems too. Thanks and keep the content coming!
@@damondelgado4603 Best of luck! It's definitely more challenging (and expensive) these days unfortunately.
Great list with many games I hadn't heard about
Hey thanks!
I remember going to toys r us. We took the paper tag for a game. They ended up not having it up front.
But then my sister and I saw a physical copy of Super Mario 3, which had looked sold out. No tickets left on the wall.
But we said, "What about that?"
Later we played Super Mario 3 all afternoon and night.
Another one people don't realize is, "Galaga" is a sequel to "Galaxian." Though, the NES version of Galaxian wasn't released in America, much like the Famicom adaptations of Mappy, and Dig-Dug. (Though, they were later released in officially licensed mini toy arcades, and plug-and-play systems.)
Like Galaga their sequels were released instead. (Dig-Dig 2, and Mappy-Land.)
Nice! The NES Galaga had that rad subtitle “Demons of Death”!
I guess I just didn’t know better back then but Golgo 13 was one of favorite NES games. A classic.
It’s got a lot of great things going for it for sure :)
@@BigOleWords it really does. sad Nintendo didt bring it over to the SNES/GBA era
Actually, and I only found this out through Wikipedia, is that The Black Bass is a sequel. The original was exclusive to Japan, so the one the US got is The Black Bass 2, thus the USA in the name.
Neat! Not a sequel to Blue Marlin?!
Flying Dragon and Flying Warrior might have had a 16-bit follow up. The fighting system and other elements look similar to Culture Brain’s Golden Fighter.
Yep I believe you are right!
Awesome video. Thanks for sharing
You got it!
Very cool video, loved Flying Dragon as a kid, going to play Flying Warriors
Nice! It's like a Metroid version of Flying Dragon!
I knew any Nintendo games had sequels. The ones I know are:
Adventure Island II
Adventure Island 3
Baseball Stars 2
Bases Loaded II
Bases Loaded 3
Bases Loaded 4
Battletoads/Double Dragon: The Ultimate Team
Bionic Commando
Bubble Bobble Part 2
Castlevania II: Simon's Quest
Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse
Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers 2
Contra Force
Double Dragon II: The Revenge
Double Dragon III: The Sacred Stones
DuckTales 2
Fire 'N Ice
The Flintstones: The Surprise at Dinosaur Peak!
Flying Warriors
Goal! Two
The Guardian Legend
Gun Nac
Ikari Warriors II: Victory Road
Ikari III: The Rescue
IronSword: Wizards & Warriors II
Kirby's Adventure
Little Ninja Brothers
The Mafat Conspiracy
Mega Man 2
Mega Man 3
Mega Man 4
Mega Man 5
Mega Man 6
1943: The Battle of Midway
Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos
Ninja Gaiden III: The Ancient Ship of Doom
Power Blade 2
Rainbow Islands: The Story of Bubble Bobble 2
RoboCop 2
RoboCop 3
Skate or Die 2: The Search for Double Trouble
Ski or Die
Snake's Revenge
Super Mario Bros. 2
Super Mario Bros. 3
Super Spy Hunter
T2: Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Target: Renegade
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 II: The Arcade Game
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3 III: The Manhattan Project
Top Gun: The Secret Mission
Town & Country Surf Designs II: Thrilla's Safari
Track and Field II
Wizards & Warriors III: Korus - Visions of Power
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
Zoda's Revenge: StarTropics II
and lots more...
Cool I only remembered the name "Solomon's Key" but now that I saw Solomon's Key 2 I remember playing that a lot!
Nice!
Nice math rock mention. Love me some math rock.
Golgo 13 is based on an anime of the same name, if you weren't aware.
The first person maze section sucks a lot, but if games like Dungeon Master, or even Phantasy Star have taught me anything, it's that they were popular enough to spawn sequels.
There's a sequel to Dungeon Master?!
@@BigOleWords Dungeon Master II: The Legend of Skull Keep
Was ported to many PC, PC-like platforms, and the Sega Genesis
@@maesdejardin8648 Now that's a subtitle!
I loved Golgo 13. It was one of my favorite games for the NES.
I made the mistake of trying to solve the fp mazes. Life was so much Hader before the internet
Even with a walkthrough they’re still hard to navigate!
I came around to first person mazes when I delved into Wizardry on NES. Really you have to love making your own maps, which I do find surprisingly fun and engrossing. Though playing a dungeon crawler it comes with the territory and its part of the genre. It's kind of annoying in games with multiple genres, when you just want to get back to the action.
Yeah I think you're right. Someone mentioned Shining in the Darkness and I did like playing that game where that was the only gameplay style, but games like Fester's Quest and Mafat Conspiracy where you need to beat them in order to progress just rub me the wrong way.
I fell in love with first-person dungeon crawls playing 4-player Swords and Serpents with some friends using the FourScore and no guide over the course of a summer.
When you started describing little ninja brothers Legend of Zelda 2 was the first thing I thought of🎮💙🔥
Right?! It’s definitely got that look to it.
Is Flying Dragon a spiritual successor to Karate Kid? That game has 1v1's and side scrolling stages too. It's immediately what I thought of when I saw it and also thought he was going to say it was a sequel lol
Yeah kinda! Just weirder and a little more complex.
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Hey thanks!
Here's a couple Faxanadu and Legacy of the Wizard. Ya, little knew they were part of a series of games called the Xanadu games in Japan.
Yeah that whole series is super confusing!
Zanac is one of my favourites NES Games, love the music and sounds :)
It is amazing, and insanely hard
When I was a kid I got Mafat Conspiracy and thought it was great, 3D mazes included. I loved anything "3D" in gaming at that time and those mazes and the ones in Fester's Quest didn't become complete garbage until Wolfenstein 3D and Doom perfected the 3D maze.
I discovered Top Secret Episode later and didn't get into it as much because it didn't look as good graphically. It still had the sweet first-person sniper action, though! In fact, that bit was probably better in Top Secret Episode from a gameplay perspective.
That's a great point, I didn't mind them as a kid until better first person games came out. Now going back to them I find these mazes unbearable.
@@BigOleWords you know something, fella, I wasn't expecting a response as this was the first of your videos that I've watched. I think you just earned a subscription! I'll check more of your channel now.
@@danbauer3669 Awesome, hope you dig em' :)
I'm not sure if it was released in North America or if it was a PAL exclusive title but in Australia I found a rare rental called Uforia. It was a metroidvania style game and I know nothing of its origins but I've seen on several retrogame related channels a tetris style game with those specific characters.
This could be an entry for your next video on this exact same topic but it feels like Uforia was made as a sequel to the tetris style game but it had an actual story for them rather than just be blocks.
Love Ufouria! Hmmm I do not know about any prequel or sequel to Ufouria, but I did review it for my PAL games series: ua-cam.com/video/uX4o0AtCRwo/v-deo.html
It's called Hebereke in Japan, and there are a bunch of games for a variety of systems. Ufouria is the first one, but the rest of them aren't "Metroidvanias" unfortunately. A shame since it's a great game.
Never heard of Gun Nac! Zanac was my favorite on the NES due to its music, deep power up system (I'm waiting for another 6 to come around!) and lots of secrets (shoot the first enemy with your secondary weapon diagnal and it turns into a one-of-a-kind rapid fire power-up).
If I'd known they'd made a cute-em-up sequel I would've been all over it! Guess I need to dust off the ol' emulator now...
Nice! Yeah Gun-Nac rules, one of best games period on the system:)
Had a lot of fun with T&C Surf Design.
I've never understood why the devs changed from Metal Gear to Metal Gear Solid as the franchise.
T & C has a lot of charm for sure
They wanted people to not feel like they had to play Metal Gear 1 and 2 first since there was nearly a decade separating Metal Gear 2 and Metal Gear Solid, not to mention the only versions of Metal Gear 1 the US got were butchered ports (owing to the fact that MSX had near-zero market share in the US) and neither the US nor Europe got the proper Metal Gear 2 (not Snake's Revenge) at all.
Nice! I used to love Thrillas Surfari! Looks like your copy is in decent shape. That label is usually trashed.
The contents are too gnarly to stay intact for long!
To me, _Zoda's Revenge_ looks more like the portion of _Blaster Master_ when you enter doors where Sophia 3 Can't go.
I can see it!
Flying Warriors have their own spin off for the Game Boy, called Fighting Simulator 2in1, aaaand the sequel on SNES, called... Ultimate Fighter...
Ok word, did not know that!
@@BigOleWords Culture Brain have chosen a strange naming policy. The first game was terrible, so renaming the second was a wise decision. But they advertised the second one very actively, held tournaments, even ordered a series of comics advertisements in GamePro magazine. And why they renamed the third and fourth, with the more or less successful second one, is a mystery to me. In Japan, these games are part of the Hiryu no Ken series. And the very first game in the USA was released on arcades under the name Shangai Kid.
My brother and I sunk so many hours into Little Ninja Brothers.
That's a good one!
I remember "Ninja Brothers" as "Kung Fu Heroes" which I always thought was a sort of spiritual successor to Kung Fu. It has all the same sounds, at least. I was no good at it, because I couldn't figure out the hit boxes!
Yeah Kung-Fu and Heroes are not related but Little Ninja Brothers and Kung Fu Heroes are ;)
As a kid, my step-brother had Metal Gear (and Wizards & Warriors) and I enjoyed playing it (them) and beating it (them). Since I liked the first game(s) so much, I bought the sequel(s) Snake's Revenge (and Ironsword: Wizards & Warriors II). Never did beat it (them) though. I knew Snake's Revenge was a sequel to Metal Gear, so it being a sequel must have been mentioned in the advertising. I guess I might have read a review mentioning the sequel fact, but I would put money on seeing it on an advertisement.
Yeah I would guess in ads or Nintendo Power or something? Like I knew they were related because of the internet but I was surprised to see Metal Gear wasn’t mentioned at all in the packaging.
Spent hundreds of hours playing goonies 2 and I always thought "where is the first one I never heard of"
I later played the original goonies game and realized it was crap and that's why it never was seen. Damn tho, goonies 2 is incredible
Yeah I always wondered the same thing in the pre-internet days. And agreed, Goonies II rules!
Oh man, Zoda's Revenge was great!
Agreed!
If I remember correctly, which is no guarantee, I think Nintendo Power called Snakes Revenge a Metal Gear sequel
Not sure but I wouldn’t be surprised!
5 points for me actually knowing about Kung Fu Heroes and Little Ninja Bros.
LNB was a lot of fun, but the final boss was NOT balanced with the rest of the game.
Those were both games in the "Super Chinese" series from Japan, which also had an entry on the SNES that was localized, Super Ninja Boy. I still have my copy of that, and it's still fun to play through (I just did a while ago), but the random encounter rate can seem really annoying at times.
Zoda's Revenge is also a solid game, even though it now has nothing to do with the Tropics, and they made several quality of life improvements over the original. It's also up there among the last handful of titles to be released for the NES, coming in 1994.
No Shadowgate/Deja Vu/Uninvited? Or did I miss that in a previous episode?
I know they’re similar in gameplay but are they sequels?
@@BigOleWords I just always treated them as such. I can't really think of another case of using the same engine but vastly different stories. Maybe that deserves a video of it's own?
I love Snake's Revenge, it was always one of the hardest games in my collection but the soundtrack is so bad ass. And once you get the hang of it you can really feel like you're a one man 8 bit army
I agree, the longer I played it the more I really got into it.
I'm surprised anybody can love this shitty game. Not only is it not a Metal Gear game but done by another team, it's just broken in many ways, barely functioning at times.
@@xPandamon I think you're just bad at video games, you should work on your skills a little bit.
@@carlrygwelski586 Nah. Snake's Revenge is poorly made and that's not exactly a secret. Lots of passages are simply broken, like spawning inside of a light in those sneak sections and combat often does not work well, since your attacks just miss. Rerez just made a video about this game. Maybe nostalgia has you blinded, but it really wasn't a good game.
@@xPandamon "Nostalgia has you blinded" typical self-validating response. Maybe you ignored BigOleWords reply to my comment that he got into it too?
I saw Rerez' video, it was great- but all he does is whine and cry about stuff, that's his bit. It's okay that you're no good at this game, there are plenty of other games for you to enjoy
5:12, excuse me, what am I doing with my friend?
You know, friend stuff ;)
Didn't know Gun Nac was a thing. Zanac was a pain.
It rules, plus it’s way more forgiving than Zanac!
Little ninja brothers also got a sequel on the super nintendo called Super Ninja Boy, which was basically Little Ninja Brothers but with better graphics and a slightly different combat phase. I had both Kung Fu Heroes and Super ninja Boy as a kid and didnt realize they were in the same franchise but it makes a lot of sense.
Nice! I’ve never played the SNES one but it looks rad.
I consider The Mysterious Murasame Castle to be a sequel to the original The Legend of Zelda. Sort of. You probably don't have it, but we've talked about it during your streams before.
Certainly in terms of gameplay design!
your voice sounds different when you are doing voice over a video clip compared to when you are filming yourself. Try finding finding a position towards the microphone that let your audio recordings sound more seamless when editing. I think it would really spruce up your whole clips. Beyond that I have nothing to complain about. Great video!
Guardian Legend. It's a sequel, or "gaiden" at least, to Guardic.
Maybe I should've been more explicit and said NES games that were sequels of other NES games ;)