If you liked Gauntlet IV's music, look up Hitoshi Sakimoto's other Genesis OSTs! Master of Monsters and Devilish share a similar score, and Devilish does things literally NO other genesis game does with it, like choral vocals!
from what i remember, senna actually had a gigantic hand in monaco gp 2. he supposedly didn't want his name on a game that he didn't think was fantastic,
I remember flicky, I played that game a little bit during the forgotten age of the arcades. I think out of all the games mentioned, I think I'm interested in playing battletech the most just simply because it looks a lot and plays a lot like the desert strike and jungle strike series and I absolutely adore those games.
I'm glad there's someone else who likes Busytown as much as I did. For the exact same reasons, no less. I used to play this when I babysat my nephews. I'm sure, over all the times I've played, I've kept that guy's hat away from him for at least a few hours. "Oh, my hat... I need my hat." "That's right. Chase it. Chase it like the pig you are."
Tochir0 It actually was the first game they did as M2, it's the earliest game listed on their site. What's interesting about it is that they ported it just to see how faithful of a conversion they could make (apparently it was all a "copy by eye"), which they then took to Tengen, and that's when they finished it up some more once they got the money from them. All that was mentioned on the 3D Space Harrier interview on Sega's blog, which also features a small anecdote about how the Gunstar Heroes Game Gear port came to be after M2 proposed a port of Data East's Edward Randy: The Cliffhanger.
You can make Battletech more playable in an emulator by playing it in dual mode and setting up the controls so that the bottom and top parts are mapped to separate d-pads/analog sticks on the same controller. Not to mention you can overclock it a bit in Regen for faster gameplay.
Great video. Would love to see more like this. Got really curious about Yui and Battletech. Could never get into Columns myself. To me it always fell somewhere in between Tetris and Puyo Puyo/Mean Bean Machine without enough personality of it's own.
Nice collection of games, might have to check some of these out. Also, it looks like your MD's video caps are going. You probably want to replace those.
Gauntlet IV definitely has some of the best music for the MD.Tengen,had a japanese staff make the game which explains why it's music is so good.Though when tengen released the game in north america it had a defective run.It's tricky finding a working copy,it took me a couple of try's to find one that did.
Oh Christ Flicky was a nightmare from my childhood some little turd swapped me that for streets of rage 2 and the next day the bugger moved house lol never to be seen again until I see him in a pub 15 years later. And yes he did buy me a round to say sorry.
Speaking of lesser known Mega Drive games which don't call for a full review, I absolutely adore Japanese-only Shikinjoh (or Shi Kin Joh). I don't know why, maybe it's the simplicity and catchy music. It's kind of a bastard child of Sokoban and Mahjong - push tiles, go to the exit, repeat. I can't seem to stop playing it though.
Snap! My mum loved a clone of Columns called Squigs (the same game but with small gremlin like creatures as the blocks). She would tie up my Amiga for ages...!
Battle Golfer Yui was great. Additional to the goofy magic shots, the course designs are comically trolly. Plus there's an English patch now and the dialogue in anime story mode is just as campy and absurd as you might imagine.
Great stuff as always Kimble :) Completely with you on Columns, I was frustrated at the bum rap it gets too. It was a regular for me on the Mega 6 cart!
No-one ever seems to mention that 'Flicky' was just a rip off off Namco's 'Mappy' released a year earlier in the arcades in 1983! the mouse is just replaces with a bird but the layout is the same and also the enemies which are cats! I dunno which I prefer tbh!
The golf game footage taken from Game Center CX was... interesting. Although the narrator's mispronunciation of Arino almost made me throw my fucking monitor across the room.
The only golf game I ever played was Mario Golf on the N64 and I actually really liked it. Maybe this is a genre I should explore more. Has anyone done a fan translation of the first game?
Please do yourself a favor and check out the Japanese Exclusive Mega drive game, Twinkle Tale! Run it on a flash cart or emulate if you must! I know you will love it, totally amazing why it never came out here who knows!
International Rugby has a very unfair criticism, and I agree it is a great game bought it couple of years ago and was hugely impressed, although it is a bit easy, but a great laugh with a mate!
You can get Gauntlet and Gauntlet 2, full games at that, with the Retro Midway Level Pack for Lego Dimensions along with eighteen other full retro games like Rampage and others. Lego Dimensions is pretty expensive though
Growing up with the Genesis myself, I'm always pumped when I see you do a video about the system / games. Great video as always Kim. Speaking of...unless you're gonna do a video about them, what's your opinion on Shining Force 1&2, Kid Chameleon, Beyond Oasis, and Dynamite Headdy? Those games were some of my personal favorites and I would love to hear your thoughts on them. Also, if you love the music in Gauntlet IV, check out the soundtrack to "Master of Monsters". ua-cam.com/play/PL1F835557411B05B0.html Both have similar sound and style going on (epic), but the latter is much better. In my opinion, MoM has the best music of all Genesis/Megadrive games. Or you can play the game and listen to it. It's one of the few tactical/strategy games on the system as well
F*ck Gauntlet. The levels and monster design are from a previous generation of gameplay from the Atari era when animation was a practical impossibility. No movement animation, no attack animation, no death animation. Spells and attacks are simple grey blobs. Everything is simple grey blobs. All these games have all the creativity and visual charm of a colour by numbers spreadsheet which makes no sense but neither does remaking a game hundreds of times for years on every platform and never aspiring to anything more than the original arcade game from 1984. The gameplay is decent but that is all this game ever was. Solid coding and tight controls and nothing else. Still addictive I admit but a depressing desert of creativity, originality or invention. It just annoys me that the basic original game was just never improved upon. Even the 1994 N64 Gauntlet Legends in 3d is basically the same game. If Atari weren't so lazy or scared to update a fantastic original arcade concept this series could have been a serious contender and spiritual grandaddy of Diablo but thats Atari for you. Make one great thing once then just dupe and minutely improve it in nano-increments till its so outdated as to be comical compared to the competition. You can tell I'm enjoying your series because I'm writing angry essays on all your comment sections. Cheers, Kim!
Senna is one of the greatest and most inspiring documentaries I’ve ever seen. Even the trailer brings a lump to my throat
If you liked Gauntlet IV's music, look up Hitoshi Sakimoto's other Genesis OSTs! Master of Monsters and Devilish share a similar score, and Devilish does things literally NO other genesis game does with it, like choral vocals!
Monaco GP 2 is actually one of my favourite Mega Drive games ever, I played it soooo much.
from what i remember, senna actually had a gigantic hand in monaco gp 2. he supposedly didn't want his name on a game that he didn't think was fantastic,
Aah, the days when you used to speak highly of Stuart Campbell :D
I remember flicky, I played that game a little bit during the forgotten age of the arcades. I think out of all the games mentioned, I think I'm interested in playing battletech the most just simply because it looks a lot and plays a lot like the desert strike and jungle strike series and I absolutely adore those games.
This was great, not sure how I missed its original upload, but what the hell it was something nice to watch tonight.
Wardner is a mega drive game I've always wanted to talk about, but never had an opportunity. (
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ive never used that item :S
I'm glad there's someone else who likes Busytown as much as I did. For the exact same reasons, no less.
I used to play this when I babysat my nephews. I'm sure, over all the times I've played, I've kept that guy's hat away from him for at least a few hours.
"Oh, my hat... I need my hat."
"That's right. Chase it. Chase it like the pig you are."
That's some hardcore rainbow banding!
I remember playing Flicky and Battletech at my grandma's house with my cousins
World Class Rugby on the Amiga was glorious.
Good call on the Gauntlet IV. Word 'round the internets is that it was programmed by a team that would go on to form M2 (aka retro porting gods)
Tochir0 It actually was the first game they did as M2, it's the earliest game listed on their site. What's interesting about it is that they ported it just to see how faithful of a conversion they could make (apparently it was all a "copy by eye"), which they then took to Tengen, and that's when they finished it up some more once they got the money from them. All that was mentioned on the 3D Space Harrier interview on Sega's blog, which also features a small anecdote about how the Gunstar Heroes Game Gear port came to be after M2 proposed a port of Data East's Edward Randy: The Cliffhanger.
Ha! My mum only played Columns too! Later on she discovered bejeweled, but for years, this was her only time as a gamer. :)
Ohh, that intro music! I need to dig Alisia Dragoon out of the basement. :)
great to see someone else enjoys flicky such a fun game
It seems like stories in sports games are more normal to old Japanese game-makers than to American ones.
i definitely remember a lot of these games from the sega channel. my mum was also a big columns/klax fan
You can make Battletech more playable in an emulator by playing it in dual mode and setting up the controls so that the bottom and top parts are mapped to separate d-pads/analog sticks on the same controller. Not to mention you can overclock it a bit in Regen for faster gameplay.
Dude at the title of BattleTech sounds like he delivered the title right as he finished rubbing one out.
Great video. Would love to see more like this. Got really curious about Yui and Battletech. Could never get into Columns myself. To me it always fell somewhere in between Tetris and Puyo Puyo/Mean Bean Machine without enough personality of it's own.
Flicky's class! When I heard the Alisha Dragoon music I thought that was gonna be one of these games:/
Nice collection of games, might have to check some of these out. Also, it looks like your MD's video caps are going. You probably want to replace those.
Thanks for the constant uploads, Kim. Keep the great content coming!
Gauntlet IV definitely has some of the best music for the MD.Tengen,had a japanese staff make the game which explains why it's music is so good.Though when tengen released the game in north america it had a defective run.It's tricky finding a working copy,it took me a couple of try's to find one that did.
Oh Christ Flicky was a nightmare from my childhood some little turd swapped me that for streets of rage 2 and the next day the bugger moved house lol never to be seen again until I see him in a pub 15 years later. And yes he did buy me a round to say sorry.
Minnesota Fats pool legend is a good pool game for the Genesis.
love columns.
Speaking of lesser known Mega Drive games which don't call for a full review, I absolutely adore Japanese-only Shikinjoh (or Shi Kin Joh). I don't know why, maybe it's the simplicity and catchy music. It's kind of a bastard child of Sokoban and Mahjong - push tiles, go to the exit, repeat. I can't seem to stop playing it though.
Snap! My mum loved a clone of Columns called Squigs (the same game but with small gremlin like creatures as the blocks). She would tie up my Amiga for ages...!
*High Five* for Neo Turf Masters call out!
Alisia Dragoon, my frist Megadrive game
Battle Golfer Yui was great. Additional to the goofy magic shots, the course designs are comically trolly. Plus there's an English patch now and the dialogue in anime story mode is just as campy and absurd as you might imagine.
You mentioned Flicky and the SG-1000. Not only is that the port that I have, it very well might have been the very first SG-1000 game I ever bought.
Great stuff as always Kimble :) Completely with you on Columns, I was frustrated at the bum rap it gets too. It was a regular for me on the Mega 6 cart!
No-one ever seems to mention that 'Flicky' was just a rip off off Namco's 'Mappy' released a year earlier in the arcades in 1983! the mouse is just replaces with a bird but the layout is the same and also the enemies which are cats! I dunno which I prefer tbh!
The golf game footage taken from Game Center CX was... interesting.
Although the narrator's mispronunciation of Arino almost made me throw my fucking monitor across the room.
You seem to have forgotten about Side Pocket too!
Lee K Nope, most certainly didn't!
Dude, with all this awesome content, you're spoiling us, not that I'm complaining ^_^ Keep the awesome videos coming man :)
Wow, that Richard Scary game looks like a version of GTA for kids
Kimble, ur a funny dude. I love the line "most of the time I couldn't wait to get home to play video games and yes I was a little sh*t"
Top down golf game - SENSIBLE GOLF on Amiga !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love flicky, but the version on the Japan wondermega collection on the mega cd.
Dude, I can't believe you had Alisia Dragoon's music & not talk it!
Kim, give arcade pool on the amiga a go. My brother and i used to play that game all the time. He'd beat me constantly though 😞
The only golf game I ever played was Mario Golf on the N64 and I actually really liked it. Maybe this is a genre I should explore more. Has anyone done a fan translation of the first game?
Great vid Kimble. Keep it up
What a great video! Regards from Spain.
Please do yourself a favor and check out the Japanese Exclusive Mega drive game, Twinkle Tale! Run it on a flash cart or emulate if you must! I know you will love it, totally amazing why it never came out here who knows!
International Rugby has a very unfair criticism, and I agree it is a great game bought it couple of years ago and was hugely impressed, although it is a bit easy, but a great laugh with a mate!
[4:59] What was that 'hyuh-hyuh“ noise?
Some great gems here thanks Kim :-)
It's Richard Scarry, Sk-Arry, not Scary.
Great video!!! How did you capture the video? Quality looks bad and those jail bars.
Cool vid
Wanted Gauntlet for a while, £20 average on Ebay. Bit rich for me.
You can get Gauntlet and Gauntlet 2, full games at that, with the Retro Midway Level Pack for Lego Dimensions along with eighteen other full retro games like Rampage and others. Lego Dimensions is pretty expensive though
Growing up with the Genesis myself, I'm always pumped when I see you do a video about the system / games. Great video as always Kim.
Speaking of...unless you're gonna do a video about them, what's your opinion on Shining Force 1&2, Kid Chameleon, Beyond Oasis, and Dynamite Headdy? Those games were some of my personal favorites and I would love to hear your thoughts on them.
Also, if you love the music in Gauntlet IV, check out the soundtrack to "Master of Monsters". ua-cam.com/play/PL1F835557411B05B0.html
Both have similar sound and style going on (epic), but the latter is much better. In my opinion, MoM has the best music of all Genesis/Megadrive games. Or you can play the game and listen to it. It's one of the few tactical/strategy games on the system as well
Have u ever tried rings of power? Would love to see you do a vid on that!
Always a good video
Do an Amiga one kimble :)
SNES version of the fishing game is better. :P
F*ck Gauntlet.
The levels and monster design are from a previous generation of gameplay from the Atari era when animation was a practical impossibility. No movement animation, no attack animation, no death animation. Spells and attacks are simple grey blobs. Everything is simple grey blobs. All these games have all the creativity and visual charm of a colour by numbers spreadsheet which makes no sense but neither does remaking a game hundreds of times for years on every platform and never aspiring to anything more than the original arcade game from 1984.
The gameplay is decent but that is all this game ever was. Solid coding and tight controls and nothing else. Still addictive I admit but a depressing desert of creativity, originality or invention. It just annoys me that the basic original game was just never improved upon.
Even the 1994 N64 Gauntlet Legends in 3d is basically the same game. If Atari weren't so lazy or scared to update a fantastic original arcade concept this series could have been a serious contender and spiritual grandaddy of Diablo but thats Atari for you. Make one great thing once then just dupe and minutely improve it in nano-increments till its so outdated as to be comical compared to the competition.
You can tell I'm enjoying your series because I'm writing angry essays on all your comment sections. Cheers, Kim!