Dark Castle (Sega Genesis) - Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN)
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2012
- Today the Angry Video Game Nerd reviews Dark Castle for the Sega Genesis. This game was released in 1991 by Electronic Arts and swiftly panned by critics and gamers alike. It stars a Peter Pan-like character that appears in the entrance of a castle without any prior explanation or storyline. There are multiple doors to enter, but they're each as much of a mystery as the first. Upon entering a door, the game switches abruptly to a side-scroller which features even worse graphics than the introduction. In addition to the horrid graphics, the game plays a repetitive loop of ominous piano music which can only be deactivated with careful timing at the dawn of the game. These issues are considered petty when compared to the gameplay and controls that turn out to be a complete mess. The Nerd struggles with awkward button combinations and unresponsiveness to complete the simplest of tasks like ducking and throwing items. Watch as the Nerd plays, in his opinion, the worst Sega Genesis game he ever has.
This is Angry Videogame Nerd episode 105
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"You have more control over the weather than this character." is probably the greatest nerd joke.
Nice name and pfp
@@Panzer_Runner Halts Maul, Kevin
“majora’s mask? more like major ass!”
"You'd have better luck playing Silver Surfer... WITH THE POWER GLOVE"
@@ahabduennschitz7670 Haha, agree!! 👍🏻
"You have better luck playing Silver Surfer on the power glove!"
This is one of the most brutal comparisons he has ever declared in an AVGN episode.
Holy shit.
Nice profile pic ! Melee 4 ever
How about sonic 06 with the power glove
GTA V with an Atari 2600 joystick.
I have sonic 06 and its god awful
The character must be an ancestor of Lester the Unlikely.
Lol🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Prince Duncan and Lester Duncan
He looks like Shaggy from Scooby Doo
That absolutely explains everything
Fuuuuuuuck......🤣🤣🤣
The sustained note when you turn off the music is a hilarious unexcusable mess
It sounds like taking a turd in audio form.
It sounds like a high pitched foghorn on steroids.
It literally sounds like a hockey goal horn!
The soundchip needs to be told both when to start, and when to stop a note. The game developers straight-up forgot to add a note stop when pressing pause.
It sounds like a cruise ship horn
This episode never gets old. That "Nananananananan" in the background while he's getting increasingly pissed just make this so hilarious!
It's like the game was trolling him
+TooMany Gamez I love the ending.
+TooMany Gamez Just found my new ringtone. lol
+TooMany Gamez YES MAN! That NANANANANANA...
GOD DAMN! Who programed this thing like that?
the most devilish dev ever
UGH
NYANYANYANYNYA
Every. Fucking. Time.
Wade Wilson Geez, I've never played this game and already hate those fuckin' things that keep doing this fuckin' noise.
My new message sound,oh,and my ringtone will be Hong Kong 97 XD
+Wade Wilson You know it Deadpool.
+Wade Wilson You know it Deadpool.
+Vojin gamer you fucking ugly red.
So I did some research and discovered that this was actually a port of a game for Macintosh. Apparently in the original Mac version not only did the main character not get dizzy as easily and as often, but throwing the rock was done with the mouse, which explains why it’s so clunky on console.
It's actually a Mac classic.
That explains a lot. I’ve never owned a Mac myself so I never really heard about it.
Saddam: “Gamers rise up”.
Greetings comrade
GamersRiseUp machine broke, we Gangweed now
@CorathTheHung Wat. Oh wow, people who want to semi-reform capiatlism are the same as two types of ideology, one that aims to get rid of states, classes and money, and the other where the state owns everything. Ooh, I hope it isn't socialism, which has social ownership which can mean anything from government ownership and central planning, to direct workers control through councils or syndicates and decentral planning, to an economy made up of direct democratic worker cooperatives, organised ina interconnected system of councils in a market economy.
Saddam was a badass
Kz
The "DARK CASTLE ON CD-I" part is probably one of AVGNs greatest moments, up there with when he punches Bugs Bunny out of nowhere, or the search for "ass" in the King James Bible on Gameboy.
What ep is the King James Bible?
I agree. The last bit was classic, too.
@@JibzCastor bible games 3
I rewatched about 6 times , laughing .
This review is one of my faves it’s up there with crazy bus and Alf sooooo funny
I've lost count of how many times I've watched this episode. AVGN never gets old but there is something extra special about this one for some reason.
It is the funniest outta all of ‘em XD
I think he was sincerely pissed off lol like really? Fuck this game
I think its the "Dark Castle, ON C. D. *IIIII!* " part. Never gets old.
That's because this game is extra shitty
Coz the game was trollin' him lol. "nananana"
"Even that vulture looks f*cking depressed".
The Quest of Shaggy for Burger King : The Game
FuNny
SHIT, I lost The Game
Harold And Kumar Go To Dark Castle
& Knuckles
Watch him SWOOCE right in!
"You can't even jump without getting dizzy." Sounds like a medical condition.
Dizzyitosis.
blobskin *Anemia intensifies*
@White Lives Matter sounds like a fun game mechanic
It's almost like the Surf Ninjas episode where he gets hurt when he jumps.
Orthostatic Hypotension
Of course Saddam was a hardcore gamer. He didn't want those PS2s to launch missiles, he just wanted a taste of the new console generation.
This is actually a shitty PORT of a pretty good PC game. The rock throwing controls were never designed for anything other than a mouse.
Weren't Mac version the original one?
Pretty good you say?
I had it on Commodore64
Just tell me the guy you play as isn't a complete klutz who gets dizzy at his own whims.
Tucker Johnson it's just as bad.
0:55 guitar guy is dead again, Please hit ABBA.
At least he's not stuck in the couch this time (that I can see, anyway.)
So how can I ever refuse?
I feel like I win when I loooooooose.
Waterloo! I was defeated, you won the war!
Waterloo! Promise to love you forevermore!
*A-B-B-A*
and he'll return to the tune of Gimmie Gimmie
You can dance, you can try having the time of your life. Oh, see that girl walking straight digging in the dancing queen.
This has got to be one of the best AVGN videos. The editing, writing, pacing...everything is perfect. I always come back to this episode.
PotatoMcFry This and the terminator ones I love the most
This is AVGN gold standard. I also love the Tiger Electronics one, the Action 52, and the most recent of the bunch, The Town with no Name (or Town with no Name). No overacting and the writing seems perfect.
I was just gonna say this. This is quintessential avgn.
Me too...This and Action 52 are my favorites. Ninja Gaiden is up there too...
The ending is perfect too, simple yet perfect
You're actually not too far off about the whole "Saddam Hussein was a Hardcore Gamer" thing.
In the early 2000s, he had reportedly ordered over 4,000 PS2 Consoles to be shipped to Iraq.
yes, he ordered over 4,000 ps2...for an entirely different reason
matt johnson : I know PS3s were used in server farms but did the PS2 also have value beyond playing PS2 games and DVDs?
Bart Pullitzer I can’t remember the details but it had something to do with launching missiles or something
@@danielhamby9448 I always thought that was Sony doing some false advertising to try to make people think the system was super powerful. Remember "Toy Story graphics"? No way a ps2 is powerful enough for nuke testing stuff
Supposedly it was to repurpose the processors to use for guiding missiles
The hellish roar when pulling out the CDi Dark Castle is some classic Nerd rage. Great episode.
I've got... Dark Castle... on C... D... *IIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥😡😡😡😡😡😡😡🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
"Isn't that the fuckest thing you've ever heard?"
Yes it is Nerd. Yes it is.
What a legend
Dark Castle on C...D...I!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOL
+Ben Zarrella Notice that jame's voice was on the left speaker
+Ben Zarrella my fave part xD
+Ben Zarrella That fucking kills me every time hahahahaah
That was super funny 😂
*****
Primary channel, i have other secondary channels wich i do the english videos
I absolutely loved this game!!!
Saddam Hussein let me guess,because it has your name on it
ObsoleteSonicRules Then he must also love the Hot Shots movies, because he's in them.
SpeedyEric1
Of course.
Saddam Hussein 69 likes
You are hard-core Saddam.
"It's a curse to the soul, and it must suffer the tortures of the damned!" *whips* maybe the best scene in AVGN, shits hilarious. Love this episode!
I won't ask where he got a whip from
Lmao I love the sound effect of the guy missing the rope. "Uhh..whoa!"
nänänänänänänä
Love the sound effects "Nyahnyahnyahnyah"
Sarcasm I gather?
Kostantinos Kanelopoulos no, I actually laugh evefytime I hear it
+Natalie Ovsak Lol k
It's like those egg thief in Spyro.
Christian Nugraha me too, nah nah nah nah hehehe
This game makes Lester feels like He man.
Whoa let's not get too crazy now
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLXD
Or Hercules.
You think dark soul was hard? Try dark castle to have a new revelation on perspective.
Lester's a lot manlier by the end, AVGN didn't go that far.
9:45 One of my favorite moments every in AVGN history.
Diarrhoea dial never fails
@@kenshin6553 At 9:53 THIS JUMPSCARES ME.
I really do not understand the Sadam joke, even as an inside joke, what were they thinking?
Nice, Proto's rewatching the AVGN series!
Maybe there was an Iraqi programmer.
Topical humor? Gulf war? Programmers are not the best joke writers.
Well Osama Bin Laden was an avid gamer so who knows what Saddam was up to
But Proto Saddam was a gamer
I love over 20 years passed and he is still mad about that 'Ninten-dont' ad xD
Shows how effective it was. ;-)
Paul Davis gotta give credit to Sega’s marketing department ( at least at the beginning) but sega genesis and master system sucks
XD
@Dann Rajeeh fuck off, that's cruel XD
Your pfp (nightsnova) gives me nostalgia
lester the unlikely can beat the shit.out of this guy
Matija T Gaming
I dont know man. Dark Castle Guy has an omni directional rock throw
Holy shet i never got so much likes
At least Lester runs like a normal person and later gets a boomerang and a cutlass towards the end. Oh yeah, if you want to jump down without taking damage, you have to crouch before landing. That's right, you have to do a superhero landing to avoid hurting yourself.
"It's the most heinously anus thing ever conceived by humankind, it's a curse to the soul and it must suffer the tortures of the damned!!" is one of the funniest and most memorable AVGN quotes ever.
I've lost count of how many times I've watched this episode xD
I played that game a lot... on the Macintosh.
You really need a Mouse & Keyboard.
I don't think they ever made a console friendly version of the game.
With a mouse, rotating the arm around to throw rocks actually would make more sense
100
I still can't get over how hilarious clumsy they make the main characters. It's like the game is TRYING to troll you by giving you the least graceful character in video game history.
This had some of the funniest commentary out of any AVGN.
@6:54- "Your character...is a total buffoon." ... "You'd think his fuckin' shoe laces are tied together."
@11:10- "The stairs? Good lord, I just keep slipping all over the place!"
Lester the Unlikely could beat the shit out of that guy.
@@gengarzilla1685 At the end of the game, Lester probably could
@@solarflare9078 I'm not even sure that Shaggy-at-home over there could even take Lester from the BEGINNING of Lester the Unlikely tbh
I give it to Lester, 60-40
the ending was fucking awesome
Gerardo Montalvo love the profile pic!
thanks, fellow michael fan
+Gerardo Montalvo It was the fuckest thing I've even seen!
It's a curse to the soul and it must suffer the tortures of the Damned!
9:48
Doom: I'm though!
Dark Souls: I'm cruel!
Dark Castle: Hah... amateurs!
"What's Saddam doing here?" Well where was he gonna go, Detroit?
South Park reference! Nice!
The castle traps were all Saddam's master plan lol
South park lol
You saw the one where the devil trying to out do puff daddy for his hollween party lol
“Take him to Detroit!”
It was originally a game for the old black & white Macintosh computer. That explains the weird graphics and the messed-up controls, because the original game used the mouse to aim and shoot.
This character makes Lester the Unlikely look badass.
It makes the tiger games look fluent with control
“Ooo, scary. Look at those 16 bit graphics. Even that vulture looks depressed.”
This is one of my favorite episodes of yours. At certain points you can feel how frustrated you are. "WHY CAN'T I DO ANYTHING?!" I love it.
The CDI version may be the funniest game he's played.
he's played?
8:16 NYANYANYANYANYA
NYANNYANNYANNYANNYANCATCATCAT.
NYA NYA NYA NYA NYA
NYA NYA NYA NYA NYA
i dont know why but everytime i hear that sound i feel amused...
+Dennzyl Vania nya nya nta nya nya
“I got Dark Castle on C...D... *IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII* ”
He turned into hades that moment lol
Played the hell out of this game on the family Mac when I was a kid, and loved it. It had quirks in its movement mechanics, but I got pretty good at it. Don't know how it plays on a console given how it's designed for the mouse to control where you aim, but I liked it on the computer. The console port seems to be pretty broken by comparison.
He didn't even have to comment on the cdi version. I laughed just watching the gameplay
GiantBomb once played CD-i games, and the look on Jeff Gerstmann as he began playing Dark Castle was PRICELESS
This has got to be one of Nerd's absolute best reviews. I watch it almost every month and laugh my ass off every time. One of the greatest reviews ever.
9:35 Dark Souls, Bloodborne & Elden Ring in a nutshell
"Who ever came up with this is nuttier than squirrel poop" LMFAO!
And nuttier than that sugar addict from HTF, Nutty.
"Heinously anus"
lol Im getting that put on my tombstone.
The nerd conceived the best cursing in the history of mankind.
Oh, so Saddam is now a graffiti artist who wants to go to Burger King. Okay...
+EmotionGamer Sadam was here is a war propaganda for dumb kids by The Pantegon Command..lol
+Master Xehanort That was like 15 years later, you should know better.
+EmotionGamer You mean he ISN'T?
+EmotionGamer and a gamer
+EmotionGamer He also appeared on an Action 52 game lol
10:26 I have never laughed so hard in my entire god damned life than when that little thing said nya nya nya after being dizzy twice.
This is one of my favorite episodes. Also, I took that sound clip of the thing going 'nehnehnehnehneh' at 8:17 and put it on my phone as a new text notification - you should see people's reactions! =)
Well, it's an EA game.
to be fair, it's also a port of a 1986 PC game.
+brandon wenzel No that's no excuse.
Well, actually it kinda is. Granted, they could've not ported it, but it was a popular title on the PC and SEGA obviously wanted to bring on as many popular properties to their system to compete with Nintendo. The game isn't fundamentally broken or anything, it was just designed for an entirely different system and was outdated at that point... EA probably could've done more to update the game to match the Genesis' strengths and capabilities, but it's not like it was uncommon in those days for system to PC ports to not always be optimized. Hell, that's an issue we still have today and Dark Castle was ported in the early 90s lol.
My point is, saying "well, it IS an EA game" doesn't really ring true as an intended insulting accusation. EA actually made some really great Genesis games and didn't have the reputation then that they do now. And again, it comes down to the fact that EA didn't even make this game, they just ported it, and fundamentally what you were getting was a VERY similar rendition of a popular, if outdated, PC port for your genesis.
brandon wenzel yeah, EA made a few good genesis games, just look at road rash
Exactly. People forget that EA, like Activision and Ubisoft, didn't start out as the glutinous trash producing monsters they are now.
Of course Saddam was a hardcore gamer. Remember when he bought all those Playstation 2s?
Tried to buy a lot in order to make a super computer, and become a true Overwatch gamer...
Wait.
He wanted to have Socom LAN parties.
@@bruhxston1 My mans gets it.
the old icbm military curcuit boards that made up the ps2. the only console thats near bullet proof ?? weird !
lol
2:34 What makes his reaction so funny is the lighting. That expression is lit perfectly.
I just realized there is a skeleton of the guy who plays the theme in the background.
8:45 Fades in the "MUSIC OFF" note. That's hilarious.
Pressing up to duck is pretty fucked up
Tibby II literally was reading this as he said it
1:11 Look closely at the cartridge.
It says "Electronic Arts" on it.
Do I need to say more?
Road rash was pretty good though on genesis
you have to buy the dlc to make the game work properly
More like Electronic Farts.
- AVGN 2019
11:20-The ending is so funny and so relatable!
2:50 Hey, I found Kotaku's next headline!
"Saddam Was Here"...LOL!
***** Lil bitch boy has to chant his anti-American slogan while he wets his pants.
***** Oh,....ok then.
***** I wasn't being prejudice (I don't have any idea who you are, nor care), you just weren't being descriptive enough.
SUPERMEGAHAMs UA-cam Dang you made him show his butthurt side. Kudos to you.
Great Googly Moogly My "Butthurt Side"? I just don't have patience for America haters.
I'm guessing "BK" means "Black Knight." No idea, though.
ChickenPika The final boss is literally called "Black Knight".
You get five internet points.
Mark Juneburg Ooooh scary and sooo original!!!! XDFASDDAGFASDCVDFGAFD
ChickenPika Totally ripped off Dark Souls.
DarkSoul712 Mix them together, you get the Dark Knight.
I thought it meant black king
For some reason this is my favourite episode . I always come back to it once in a while .
It soothes me .
[Guitar riff] [Drum buildup] HEEHEE! "He's gonna take you-" HAH HAHA! "Back to the past." AAAAAAAAAAAAH!
Gotta love the classic AVGN Halloween remix.
This was published by fucking EA!!!!
Even on 1991, they trully had never gave a shit about their costumers
well, to be fair it was a port of an 86 PC game; and one of the head developers wasn't even out of college yet. That doesn't excuse the pointless ports to non PC systems though.
nice info
Nice display picture.
Antonio Oyarzun Dark Castle was originally a pretty good Mac game with awesome sound for 1986, these ports were FUCKING HORRIBLE. The mac keyboard was meant for this game
the same company who made Sims games
This protagonist makes Lester the Unlikely , look like Clint Eastwood !
3:24
"Isnt that the Fuckest thing you've ever heard?"
As if this game wasn't bad enough,guess who published it
EA
Actually, it was developed by Artech and published by EA.
At least it isn't LJN.
@@Jeansowaty Doesn't anyone know that LJN didn't develop a single title!?
@@blackwolf249 I didn't say they would have developed it. Just the sole fact that their name would be printed on the cardboard would be enough. I know they're publishers only.
@@blackwolf249 well I guess it's like LJN where it's just bad luck whether they develop or just publish it
C. D. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!
*Gamer intensifies*
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
"COULD THEY HAVE MADE THE DRAGON ANY MORE CUTE?!" I lost it.
"What does BK stand for? Burger King?" I laughed too hard at that haha.
I Hope if I go in there and Served 🍔 Hamburgers That would be the Friggin TITS
'
It's that time of the year to watch this over and over again. Damn I love this episode.
Sega had to have everything Nintendo was making, so this is sega's version of Lester the Unlikely
***** so the bad controls are gone at the end of the game？
***** ikr, I was trying to understand the game, not criticising it.
***** so what? its still one of the worst games I have ever played
***** its a terrible game... you must be insane to think THIS is good compare this to Sonic, Mario
***** I ment how SUCSESFULL
"If I go in there and I'm getting served hamburgers, that... would be... the tits!"
Best line.
11:35 Berserk: Tower of Conviction Arc
RIP Miura
My parkour partner: *Holding his hand out for me on a 2 feet gap*
Me after jumping:
*"uH.. wOaH"*
Dark Castle: Spiritual Predecessor to Dark Souls
the main character reminds me of Lester the Unlikely
But done absolutely worse
@@zackywarner9705 at least Lester became less wimpy as the game went on.
@@ZER0O9 true that
3:56 "The controls are fucked up beoynd belief..." Best descritpion ever. XD
9:54 gotta love how animated his face is. Perhaps not the right word to describe that scowl at the end. I just find it funny.
Dark Castle on CD-I
worst of the worst
9:49 Best Part!
8:30 I feel his pain.
Is it weird that I would want to see Lester the Unlikely and the Dark Castle guy duking it out in a duel to the death?
1:23 Did anyone else notice that this was made by EA?
Now adays you’d need a lootcrate to unlock the option not to trip everywhere.
EA?!Even LJN can beat the shit out of it!
Well... EA also made the Sims... and Rock Band
No, Maxis did The Sims.
Now that explains why that this is a piece of shit
"AAAH! nyanyanyanya!" GOD FUCKING DAMMIT, THOSE SOUND EFFECTS AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH
8:48
The music froze again😂
“It must suffer the tortures of the damned!”
Fun Fact: Toccata and Fugue is also the same music that plays in the Street Fighter cartoon during the infamous "YES! YES!" scene.
Such an amazing composition.
3:29 Dark Castle: Vuvuzela Edition
Leisten Entertainment Audrey from Huniepop
yes
"Isn't that the fuckest thing you ever heard?"
Lol soccer championships in Africa. The vuvuzela mania... BZZZOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I wonder what it sounded like at the stadium. Must have been, uh, memorable.
3:41 - Most hilarious death cry ever.
11:22 Reminds me of when he let the fans decide and spoke German:
"Dieses Spiel ist Scheiße. Es fickt dich härter als das Leben" 🤣🤣
Lol
I'm pretty sure that's what it translates to in English, if I'm not mistaken.
@@DragonHeartHisMajestyX it does :)
@@GrooveScorpion Yep, I knew it!
"You have more control over the weather than you do in the character of this game"
I lost it
That castle's really not that dark. Just sayin'.
TOO BRIGHT!!!
No, but the controls are dark.
I laugh so hard every time at the “Dark Castle on C D IIIIIIIIIIIII!!!”
6:54 "Your character is a total buffoon"
V in Cyberpunk: "AM I A JOKE TO YOU"
Anvils falling on you?
Oops!
Sorry, James! I dropped that one in the wrong place!
Were you the one doing the NYEHNYEHNYEHNYEHNYEH sound effect too?
TOASTEngineer I dunno.
TOASTEngineer LOL..LOL..LOL
Yakko Warner
When are you ever coming back?! ;(
Jeremy Er I dunno.
These new cartoons look like trash to me though, I don't understand how one can watch them without heavy drinking.
Of course Saddam was a hardcore gamer! He didn't buy 4000 PS2s for diddle fuck!
Yeah!he loves to blow shit up!
so he made a nuclear bomb out of PS2s? that's badass
If only he used his powers for good and not evil, then we could've gotten a whole new series of Let's Play videos.
Saddam's Spicy Let's Play!
Ett Gammalt Bergtroll You white person get in my van for a new PS2!
Me: Hell yeah!
So it's like if instead of Simon Belmont, its like if Castlevania got Shaggy from scooby doo?
If this was Shaggy, it would be a lot easier.
@@LadyJuse IT'S TIME TO STOP.
I'd be all over a Castlevania-type game with Scooby-Doo characters if the controls and music and maybe the graphics were better than this one.
But it got Saddam Hussein
AVGN Nerd always provides a laugh and sense of relief. James is my go to guy for months now when I'm craving a UA-cam video. I go straight to Cinnemasacre and find AVGN Nerd videos.