Whoa, that's incredibly cool that 7up actually sent you a prize for completing this game according to their 30-year old rules. Sure, they could've shrugged it off, but, nah, they hooked it the fuck up!
Thank you for the review! 7-UP has always been my favorite non cola soda and it's underrated. Same with the game. I have such fond memories of it growing up because I didn't have many games.
Jirard 100% it TWICE, on megadrive and snes. I actually got to play this game and it's insanely fun. The 4th level is brutal, specially on snes though.
sadly 7-up is here in germany since a few year half sugar and half aspartam(or something similiar) this video reminded me that i likes 7-up back in the days :(
This video brought back a lot of memories. Mostly the music since as a kid we used to make up lyrics to them. Was weird to remember these dormant lyrics come back into my mind after all this time. Guess they were catchy.
As a 90's kid I take issue with your statement that you only needed to add "cool" to a mascot name to make it so. That's not what made something cool, sunglasses did.
I was in a Taco Bell once and they had a poster for whatever their new burrito-nacho-taco-wood-hybrid was, and one of its ingredients was listed as "Cool Sour Cream." I asked the cashier what made it cool, thinking that it probably wore sunglasses or could play the electric guitar or something, but she responded with, "It's refrigerated."
7up comes to your door, many years after the contest for the game has ended, and sends a literal truckload of 7up to you. “Hey, thanks for playing our game… 3 decades later. Let’s reward you with dehydration and possible tooth decay.”
I thought it'd be more of a hangover cure, like Irn Bru. ...I miss the original formula. Modern Irn Bru got violated by the sugar tax in the UK, though they are still selling the 1901 "Classic" formula in 750ml (25 fl oz) bottles, and I hear it's pretty good. While I'm not normally a fan of paying a high price for fizzy pop, I am not opposed to paying a premium for quality, especially when the bar has been set so low by Tory hog-roasts-to-be approaching the problem from the wrong angle. I should just bite the bullet and buy a few bottles of 1901, but they are kinda pricey, and I've got other nice sodas to polish off in my new mini-fridge before filling it up again. It's mostly San Pellegrino fruit pop in there, but also some 750ml bottles of Fentiman's Curiosity Cola, one of my favourite colas, and a few 330ml bottles of Virgil's Black Cherry, which is one of the best sodas I've ever had. And of course a few East Asian beers and Stella Artois, 'cause I do like a nice smooth beer every now and then.
Australian here and flat 7 up or lemonade was considered a cure for a lot of things with my grandparents. Vomiting everything you swallow. Have a cold. Make me feel better when I had chickenpox. Drink flat 7 up. There must have been some sort of advertisement long ago saying it was a cure all just like cocaine.
Just the fact that 7-Up still went ahead and gave you that prize when they didn't have to give you the satisfaction of even spitting in your direction... ...makes them pretty *COOL* in my book. 😎
We better get this video some 7up because it's pretty dang sick! ...in a good way, just to clarify. I know the algorithm doesn't really allow it anymore, but these were always some of my favorite episodes of classic Completionist. Just like "Hey, here's a weird and wacky and fairly unexpected old game that only took me a few hours." You work so hard, Jirard, and while it's immensely appreciated and you make incredible content...I do worry, and sometimes it is just really nice to see you sit back and complete something in an afternoon rather than several stressful months.
I played the Sega Megadrive version. I had _no_ idea that Cool Spot was supposed to be the spot from the 7UP logo! Being from the UK, I'd never seen it outside of this game and we never had the box/manual. I remember me, my brother and cousins trying to figure out what the hell he was supposed to be. Some kind of sentient hockey puck or something. XD
I remember playing this as a little kid and getting SO frustrated. Going from the easy first level to the blind jumps in the second level was too much. Sadly, I was not cool enough...
@@owenrussell8505 yeah, Cool Spot is a super slick mascot dude. I just resonate with Fido Dido a bit better in terms of his personality and vibes. But don't worry, both of them and Pepsiman are on my Top 5, alongside Mac Tonight and maybe the Noid.
I had, and remember playing, the Gameboy version. Hidden dots were impossible to find on a screen that could barely resolve yellow pixels rather than red.
Ah Cool Spot. I played this endlessly on the Sega Genesis. So much fun was had. And I can honestly admit even as a super Nintendo fan that the super Nintendo version just wasn't good enough
The Genesis version was always my Mom's favorite game we had, beating out Aladdin. In fact, even though they still have a fully functional Genesis and an unopened one, I got her and Dad a Mega Retron HD to play their Genesis games. She occasionally plays Cool Spot and Aladdin, especially when she's sick and in bed. It might be nostalgia, but I view this game fondly, and always have fun whenever I play it with her. I think that, back then, even mediocre games are great when experienced the right way, and I think that has made me into a man of variety who can see the good in most games to enjoy them for those rather than gripe about the bad. (Now fighting games are another matter entirely. I love them, but don't get me started...Lol) Maybe I'll do a let's play of Cool Spot sometime, perhaps with Mom. That is, if my channel grows enough for people to care to watch that kind of content from me.
What I remember from my time with Cool Spot for the SNES: 1. Rented from Blockbuster several times. 2. I never beat it. 3. The 16-bit version of Wipe Out by The Ventures. That's it.
I used to play this game and clearly remember the continue letters spelling "VIRGIN" instead of "UNCOLA". And I also have bad memories of the Locomotive level with its constantly scrolling background.
I loved playing my dad’s Sega copy when I was little. We only got video games on the weekend but when my brother and I got good grades he'd move all the tvs out to the dining room (my family never threw away anything so we had a bunch that half worked), buy a bunch of frozen pizzas and fries, we'd call our friends and we'd hook up every console we owned and have what amounted to a personal arcade. We never beat the game because inevitably we'd switch to either an epic Smash bros tournament or sonic or a two player run of gauntlet with two other elementary schoolers shouting directions, but trying and failing to play Cool Spot was always part of it.
This was one of few games my mother played with me when I was a kid, and one of few as a kid i could beat on a hard difficulty. I'm grateful that this game was blessed by your hands.
I absolutely loved Cool Spot as a child! Loved the noise it made when you collected those bubble things! And I loved games where you were tiny in a big world.
This game is like a fever dream for me. One I barely remember playing as a child. I get vague memories of it ever 3 or so years and google it to make sure it actually exists.
I've been watching your channel for about four years now and I can always be impressed by the intro. Your intros always are better than most people's entire 20-minute videos
I have extremely fond memories of going to a flea market often on weekends with my parents as a kid. One of the booths there had electronics and it had this game in it for years. I always wanted to get it and try it as a kid.
Literally just rewatched his Pepsiman episode (following that recent hour long documentary on YT) and now he’s revisiting Cool Spot. Nice! Food mascot games are so fascinating...
DNL! Or upside down 7Up was my FAVORITE soda when I was a kid. Let’s get them to bring it back so all throws who never got to try it can. It’s like a way better Surge!
I remember 100%'ing it back when i was 7 or 8. I had fun figuring out all the spot locations. The hardest one to get them all for me was the Wacky Rails level.
One of my neighbours had this game, so I sometimes borrowed it. Found it pretty fun when I was smaller. It was colourful, a bit challenging and the exploration thing was more commonplace in games back then. It may have felt more like a NES platformer than your typical SNES game, but I personally played those two systems interchangeably. I wouldn't spend 70 bucks on it though, or whatever it would have been sold for.
I played this game a lot when I was young and I even had my parents buy it for me on the sega genesis. I remember reading in the manual (or a magazine?) that if you finished the game after collecting all the 6 letters in UNCOLA you would view a secret bonus screen. There was a contest that required you to takea picture of this screen then send it in to be eligible for some prize. I never saw this screen. Until now... Just think that i've been waiting to see that screen for all my life.
I remember this game. It was suggested by my Dad because he said it’s the red spot on 7Up logos. It was more of a visually cool game than a fun one as I look back when I rented it from BlockBuster.
Weird, Good Vibes Gaming was just talking about this game in their last show. I had never heard about this until then, and now Jirard makes a video about it. It's like when you learn a new word and hear it multiple times in a day.
I actually had this game back then and as a kid it wasn't even obvious to me this had something to do with 7 up. Kinda fun but also pretty hard. Levels had a lot of verticality with hidden stuff everywhere. Death effects of enemies reminded me of the mega drive aladdin game
Little child me loved playing it back in the day though I never, on any difficulty, managed to beat the last few levels. I remember once I managed to reach the last level (second beach one) but never made it through. Up until I stopped playing I think the train level was the last one I finished on the regular level, maybe little more (since I also remember having reached the sunset boat more than once) before my last Game Over happened and I had to start from 0.
I freaking laughed so hard at this video!!! So years ago I bought a Sega Genesis (model 1 I think?) with cords, controllers, and games. Cool Spot was one of games included. I cleaned the cartridge, then tested it after it was dry. After playing Cool Spot for 5 or 10 mins. I immediately thought it was boring, and had no interest in playing. That meant if I wasn't going to keep it, it was going to be sold. That's what I did with it. Had the same experience with Bubsy: Claws Encounters of the furred Kind (also for Genesis). I may have gotten both games in the same lot too. I can't remember.
Good review. Yada yada. Dude, I watched the FF7R review over the weekend and coming in today to watch this one all I have to say is congratulation on your weight loss. You look so much thinner in a year. I know you’ve talked about your struggle with work/life/health balance before, but you are looking so fine. Like a god damn three course meal. Not even a snack. Great job man.
I actually really enjoyed the OST for both the SNES and Genesis versions of this game. Never really enjoyed the games themselves but would sometimes play just for the music.
I played this a ton when I was really young, but I couldn't remember that it was a 7up game, so it all felt like some fever dream. When I rediscovered it online the stage music hit me like a ton of nostalgia bricks.
As someone who lives in the UK - you know where we had that FidoDido wanker - all references to 7-up were removed from our MegaDrive (being what us and the rest of the world calls the Genesis) version of Cool Spot. He surfed on a generic green bottle and all the soft drink (what we call soda) references were of course there. But with no internet to find the answers it too a while for me to realise that it was a tie- in game at all. My point? Well all I saw was a very cool well made game by Dave Perry which I very much enjoyed. I didn't have a hope in hell of ever completing it. I was never remotely good enough. I simply loved playing what I found to be a delightful joyful experience that was funny, charming and very well made. I have no idea whether the 'UNCOLA' letters were changed outside of the US because I was never good enough to see even one; I didn't even know that was thing until today happening upon your video. I may check out a MegaDrive lets play to find out. What I shame though that all you can see is frustration, which I understand the reasons for don't get me wrong, but not see the charm and sheer fun that Cool Spot is to play. It is an all time favourite of mine to this day and I consider it (as do many others) to be one of the best titles available for the MegaDrive/Genesis.
I have a ton of nostalgia for this game, but it's more about the time of my life in which I was playing it and my best friend who has since passed away. I have strong memories of really enjoyed this game that just don't hold up on a current replay.
I had a dumbest smile on my face cause of all the flashbacks to the old Completionist episode. WHAT IN THE BLUE HELL IS A COOL SPOT? the game was really eh, but I don't regret having it back in the day because the bonus level music was an absolute bop
Whoa, that's incredibly cool that 7up actually sent you a prize for completing this game according to their 30-year old rules. Sure, they could've shrugged it off, but, nah, they hooked it the fuck up!
Guess that makes them cool in my book. :3
Only because he had so many retweets and likes. Let's be real, if I tweeted that nothing would have happened.
@@ChargeQM Did you beat, no, did you ever _complete_ Cool Spot, or are you just fishing for attention? 🤨
They're just that cool, aren't they? They even sent girls, there's nothing cooler.
@@esotericmissionary I'm sure he's joking.
Thank you for the review! 7-UP has always been my favorite non cola soda and it's underrated. Same with the game. I have such fond memories of it growing up because I didn't have many games.
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Jirard 100% it TWICE, on megadrive and snes. I actually got to play this game and it's insanely fun. The 4th level is brutal, specially on snes though.
sadly 7-up is here in germany since a few year half sugar and half aspartam(or something similiar)
this video reminded me that i likes 7-up back in the days :(
this explains why there was always 7UP in the background when they did skits. they just always had so much
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This video brought back a lot of memories. Mostly the music since as a kid we used to make up lyrics to them. Was weird to remember these dormant lyrics come back into my mind after all this time. Guess they were catchy.
I know nothing about cool spot but the music is catchy, all SNES music is :)
P.S, I remember watching a bit of your videos as a kid
is it sad that i read that in your voice.... lol
This is Tommy tallarico's best soundtrack IMO
As a 90's kid I take issue with your statement that you only needed to add "cool" to a mascot name to make it so. That's not what made something cool, sunglasses did.
Mega Lolz!
I was in a Taco Bell once and they had a poster for whatever their new burrito-nacho-taco-wood-hybrid was, and one of its ingredients was listed as "Cool Sour Cream." I asked the cashier what made it cool, thinking that it probably wore sunglasses or could play the electric guitar or something, but she responded with, "It's refrigerated."
lol
Attitude was pretty much more important than sunglasses though. See example: Sonic.
@@sinteleon knowing karate worked as well.
"If only I was just 7% more cool!" -Arin Hanson
Actually... Part way into this, Jirard's rant sounded like something Arin would scream playing this...
Damn, 13 more percent and it could of been a brony reference
7up comes to your door, many years after the contest for the game has ended, and sends a literal truckload of 7up to you.
“Hey, thanks for playing our game… 3 decades later. Let’s reward you with dehydration and possible tooth decay.”
We need to see that pic tho!
Sponsorship!
And diabetus
it's literally given as hydration ya dingus.
Now I wanna see 7up's Twitter get flooded with photos of completion lol
Fun fact Jirard: Flat 7 Up is deemed as an old fashioned cure for a cold in Ireland
Old fashioned cure for anything lol … in my house it was for an upset stomach
Old fashioned cure drink in the Midwest too. Get sick? Drink 7up
I thought it'd be more of a hangover cure, like Irn Bru. ...I miss the original formula. Modern Irn Bru got violated by the sugar tax in the UK, though they are still selling the 1901 "Classic" formula in 750ml (25 fl oz) bottles, and I hear it's pretty good. While I'm not normally a fan of paying a high price for fizzy pop, I am not opposed to paying a premium for quality, especially when the bar has been set so low by Tory hog-roasts-to-be approaching the problem from the wrong angle. I should just bite the bullet and buy a few bottles of 1901, but they are kinda pricey, and I've got other nice sodas to polish off in my new mini-fridge before filling it up again.
It's mostly San Pellegrino fruit pop in there, but also some 750ml bottles of Fentiman's Curiosity Cola, one of my favourite colas, and a few 330ml bottles of Virgil's Black Cherry, which is one of the best sodas I've ever had. And of course a few East Asian beers and Stella Artois, 'cause I do like a nice smooth beer every now and then.
Australian here and flat 7 up or lemonade was considered a cure for a lot of things with my grandparents.
Vomiting everything you swallow.
Have a cold.
Make me feel better when I had chickenpox.
Drink flat 7 up.
There must have been some sort of advertisement long ago saying it was a cure all just like cocaine.
Here in south asia.
If you are having digestion problems. You are given 7up to drink.
12:36 Fun Fact. In Ireland flat 7up is a sort of "Mammy remedy" for when you have a flu or cold. So, in Ireland at least we drink flat 7up.
Same in Argentina.
My mom used to give me flat ginger ale. I'm Canadian, though I don't know if it's an actual thing here, or just my mom who did it.
Same in quebec
Flat ginger ale is definitely a canadian mom remedy
Its american too, in the south park episode where they get taken over by an Indian Casino they use it to cure Smallpox.
Ya I’m old enough to remember Cool Spot and the Californian Raisins.
Those god damn raisins... my grandmother had those in a collectors cabinet. Haha.
What about The Noid? I remember all 3 of these things
@@randystasi I remember going to people's house and they had those raisins figures on display. Such a weird time. Lol
Now those California raisins were cool. I think I got one in a cereal box.
@@shyguy1630 Also I think it was Burger King that had something with them.
Just the fact that 7-Up still went ahead and gave you that prize when they didn't have to give you the satisfaction of even spitting in your direction...
...makes them pretty *COOL* in my book. 😎
Makes me wonder if anyone actually completed the game in 1993 to claim the original.
We better get this video some 7up because it's pretty dang sick! ...in a good way, just to clarify.
I know the algorithm doesn't really allow it anymore, but these were always some of my favorite episodes of classic Completionist. Just like "Hey, here's a weird and wacky and fairly unexpected old game that only took me a few hours."
You work so hard, Jirard, and while it's immensely appreciated and you make incredible content...I do worry, and sometimes it is just really nice to see you sit back and complete something in an afternoon rather than several stressful months.
Canada also had Fido Dido. He was on tons of merch. I only know Cool Spot from coverage of this game.
I played the Sega Megadrive version. I had _no_ idea that Cool Spot was supposed to be the spot from the 7UP logo! Being from the UK, I'd never seen it outside of this game and we never had the box/manual. I remember me, my brother and cousins trying to figure out what the hell he was supposed to be. Some kind of sentient hockey puck or something. XD
The animations are pretty dope. For the era/console, gameplay aside.
I remember playing this as a little kid and getting SO frustrated. Going from the easy first level to the blind jumps in the second level was too much. Sadly, I was not cool enough...
"What in yhe blue hell is a Cool Spot?!"
"Red."
"What?"
"It's 'What in the *Red* hell...' "
"Okaaay. What in the *Red* hell is Cool Spot."
I saw Cool Spot, and I needed to watch this. Best soda mascot of all time, hands down. Close 2nd is Pepsiman.
I'd say Fido Dido is the best one, but that's just an opinion.
@@Mike14264 He was a great mascot, I just loved the simplicity behind Cool Spot
@@owenrussell8505 yeah, Cool Spot is a super slick mascot dude. I just resonate with Fido Dido a bit better in terms of his personality and vibes. But don't worry, both of them and Pepsiman are on my Top 5, alongside Mac Tonight and maybe the Noid.
Pepsiman is superior.
Cool Spot was my favorite as well until I turned 13 and saw my first commercial starring The Fantanas.
I had, and remember playing, the Gameboy version. Hidden dots were impossible to find on a screen that could barely resolve yellow pixels rather than red.
Ah Cool Spot. I played this endlessly on the Sega Genesis. So much fun was had. And I can honestly admit even as a super Nintendo fan that the super Nintendo version just wasn't good enough
The Genesis version has one of the best soundtracks on the system in my opinion.
There are a some games that were better on Genesis. This game and Earthworm Jim come to mind.
Loved it on Genesis also! 🙌🏼
@@FamishedJoe Yeah...the music in this game kicked ass...I played it just to listen to the tunes...!!!
And I Played Cool Spot On Super Nintendo Too
1:04...That Megaman Legends poster made me so sad :(...he´s still on the moon...
"even the people i pay call me crazy"
The Genesis version was always my Mom's favorite game we had, beating out Aladdin.
In fact, even though they still have a fully functional Genesis and an unopened one, I got her and Dad a Mega Retron HD to play their Genesis games. She occasionally plays Cool Spot and Aladdin, especially when she's sick and in bed.
It might be nostalgia, but I view this game fondly, and always have fun whenever I play it with her.
I think that, back then, even mediocre games are great when experienced the right way, and I think that has made me into a man of variety who can see the good in most games to enjoy them for those rather than gripe about the bad.
(Now fighting games are another matter entirely. I love them, but don't get me started...Lol)
Maybe I'll do a let's play of Cool Spot sometime, perhaps with Mom. That is, if my channel grows enough for people to care to watch that kind of content from me.
Haha, Canada had BOTH Fido Dido and the Cool Spot. :D
What I remember from my time with Cool Spot for the SNES:
1. Rented from Blockbuster several times.
2. I never beat it.
3. The 16-bit version of Wipe Out by The Ventures.
That's it.
"The UK got this fido dido wanker instead" This absolute killed me.
I used to play this game and clearly remember the continue letters spelling "VIRGIN" instead of "UNCOLA".
And I also have bad memories of the Locomotive level with its constantly scrolling background.
You're not remembering wrong, some versions of the game had the collected letters changed.
I remember liking the game as a kid but I just played it on easy and even then, the water level sucked
Yeah I liked it too. It was a decent platformer but it was really hard.
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Thank you so much for sharing that crazy story about the 7Up girls lmao, what a treat
You know, I actually enjoyed playing Cool Spot back in the day.
I loved playing my dad’s Sega copy when I was little. We only got video games on the weekend but when my brother and I got good grades he'd move all the tvs out to the dining room (my family never threw away anything so we had a bunch that half worked), buy a bunch of frozen pizzas and fries, we'd call our friends and we'd hook up every console we owned and have what amounted to a personal arcade. We never beat the game because inevitably we'd switch to either an epic Smash bros tournament or sonic or a two player run of gauntlet with two other elementary schoolers shouting directions, but trying and failing to play Cool Spot was always part of it.
This was one of few games my mother played with me when I was a kid, and one of few as a kid i could beat on a hard difficulty. I'm grateful that this game was blessed by your hands.
I still have this game from when I was a kid! I love that you made this video! I really liked this game!
I absolutely loved Cool Spot as a child! Loved the noise it made when you collected those bubble things! And I loved games where you were tiny in a big world.
This game is like a fever dream for me. One I barely remember playing as a child. I get vague memories of it ever 3 or so years and google it to make sure it actually exists.
I remember playing Spot Goes to Hollywood in the Genesis,
The isometric view was really cool!
Cool Spot (Genesis) was my first Collection Platformer game, long before Super Mario 64.
Flat 7up is actually good for a sore throat and cold
It’s actually pretty cool that 7up company were good sports and played along.
He should try completing the Henry stickman collection.
Right click everyone, get every fail, find the collectibles. You could do it in a day or 2
@@goreman7160 he still should do it.
@@goreman7160
Probably all more the reason he should Complete it.
Take it easy for a change.
I'm close to that, but the damn thing keeps crashing ffs
I agree
I've been watching your channel for about four years now and I can always be impressed by the intro. Your intros always are better than most people's entire 20-minute videos
Jirard: "Donate It"
7UP Corp. "So after all we have done for you, you have chosen death"
I wonder if playing this game can soothe your stomach after getting sick?
I have extremely fond memories of going to a flea market often on weekends with my parents as a kid. One of the booths there had electronics and it had this game in it for years. I always wanted to get it and try it as a kid.
Literally just rewatched his Pepsiman episode (following that recent hour long documentary on YT) and now he’s revisiting Cool Spot. Nice! Food mascot games are so fascinating...
That's pretty rad though that they did something for you, like, 20 years after the contest ended.
DNL! Or upside down 7Up was my FAVORITE soda when I was a kid. Let’s get them to bring it back so all throws who never got to try it can. It’s like a way better Surge!
_So hype that he actually got all that cooldrink and merch, what a laugh_
Bruh I got an unskippable 20 second 7up ad after this video ended LOL
I always liked Cool Spot. It’s fun. As a kid, those Fido Dido adverts were brilliant, too. I even had one of his T-shirts. :)
Loved this game.... onnnnn the sega genesis .... are we doing thiiiiiiis... yup
I can’t believe they actually hooked you up with SPEAKERS for completing cool spot. Absolutely insane
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Okay, I REALLY did not need that picture reminding me that Megaman Volnutt is still on the moon after Legends 2, thanks Jirard 😭
I remember 100%'ing it back when i was 7 or 8. I had fun figuring out all the spot locations. The hardest one to get them all for me was the Wacky Rails level.
One of my neighbours had this game, so I sometimes borrowed it. Found it pretty fun when I was smaller. It was colourful, a bit challenging and the exploration thing was more commonplace in games back then. It may have felt more like a NES platformer than your typical SNES game, but I personally played those two systems interchangeably. I wouldn't spend 70 bucks on it though, or whatever it would have been sold for.
Another one of those weird corporation/company video games. I'm glad I missed pretty much all of them as a kid.
This game holds a special place in my heart
I irl pogged when I saw this thumbnail. This game was one of like 6 games that made my childhood
I played this game a lot when I was young and I even had my parents buy it for me on the sega genesis. I remember reading in the manual (or a magazine?) that if you finished the game after collecting all the 6 letters in UNCOLA you would view a secret bonus screen. There was a contest that required you to takea picture of this screen then send it in to be eligible for some prize. I never saw this screen. Until now... Just think that i've been waiting to see that screen for all my life.
I remember this game. It was suggested by my Dad because he said it’s the red spot on 7Up logos. It was more of a visually cool game than a fun one as I look back when I rented it from BlockBuster.
Weird, Good Vibes Gaming was just talking about this game in their last show. I had never heard about this until then, and now Jirard makes a video about it. It's like when you learn a new word and hear it multiple times in a day.
That’s called the Baader-Mienhof phenomenon. Learning something new and then suddenly seeing it more often.
@@forreal4937 Thanks, always wondered what that was called. Now let's see if I see it again like 2 more times 😂
Fan: If you had a Super Saiyan, what would it be?
Jirard: Heh... Don't you see? *I've already achieved it.*
7:51 tfw jirard says “with that in mind” and you panic that the video is already over
I actually had this game back then and as a kid it wasn't even obvious to me this had something to do with 7 up. Kinda fun but also pretty hard.
Levels had a lot of verticality with hidden stuff everywhere. Death effects of enemies reminded me of the mega drive aladdin game
Jirard: "Who drinks flat 7-Up?"
Me: "Who drinks 7-Up? Cola beverages are the best."
Little child me loved playing it back in the day though I never, on any difficulty, managed to beat the last few levels. I remember once I managed to reach the last level (second beach one) but never made it through. Up until I stopped playing I think the train level was the last one I finished on the regular level, maybe little more (since I also remember having reached the sunset boat more than once) before my last Game Over happened and I had to start from 0.
Love Cool Spot. Not just the character but the games as well. Cool Spot goes to Hollywood was pretty fun also.
I think them sending you all that stuff was pretty cool.
Jerard: Cool Spot, Bad.
Also Jerard: Quest 64, good.
I loved Cool Spot as a kid and never knew he was a 7-Up mascot. I only played the Othello version.
I never had this one, but I did have Spot Goes To Hollywood.
Not a great game, but the pseudo 3d perspective was cool at the time.
I freaking laughed so hard at this video!!! So years ago I bought a Sega Genesis (model 1 I think?) with cords, controllers, and games. Cool Spot was one of games included. I cleaned the cartridge, then tested it after it was dry. After playing Cool Spot for 5 or 10 mins. I immediately thought it was boring, and had no interest in playing. That meant if I wasn't going to keep it, it was going to be sold. That's what I did with it. Had the same experience with Bubsy: Claws Encounters of the furred Kind (also for Genesis). I may have gotten both games in the same lot too. I can't remember.
Good review. Yada yada. Dude, I watched the FF7R review over the weekend and coming in today to watch this one all I have to say is congratulation on your weight loss. You look so much thinner in a year. I know you’ve talked about your struggle with work/life/health balance before, but you are looking so fine. Like a god damn three course meal. Not even a snack. Great job man.
Gosh, Jirard has been looking super young! He looks great!! Awesome video!
so.. weirdly enough, in South America we also got Fido
also, shoutouts to the corporate intern who actually hooked you up with all that 7up loot
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GET READY FOR YOUR TAINTED FRANCHISE’S NEW GAME: RAID SHADOW RIZERS
We may not have asked for it, but it's a damn good game for a licensed property, regardless.
4:05 "Expert tip: All corporate mascots can be improved this way." - Papyrus
I actually really enjoyed the OST for both the SNES and Genesis versions of this game. Never really enjoyed the games themselves but would sometimes play just for the music.
You Know I Love Spot And His Friends Spot is a Mascot Of The UnCola 7Up And He Was Really Cool
I played this a ton when I was really young, but I couldn't remember that it was a 7up game, so it all felt like some fever dream. When I rediscovered it online the stage music hit me like a ton of nostalgia bricks.
My family has a Cool Spot cartridge for the Sega Genesis somewhere…
I still have my Cool Spot cartridge for the Sega Genesis and my Sega still works!
Oh man I remember playing the SNES version. Even when I was younger I played it as a time killer not really a complete it. 😆
Ah yes, Spot rescues his friends Spot, Spot, Spot, Spot, Spot, Eggs, Bacon, and Spot
As an Irish man, we most certainly drink Flat 7-Up!, nothing cures an ailment better!
I can't wait to see Cool Completionist™ moving forward.
I do believe that I have been insulted! As someone who has had a Gastric Bypass, the *ONLY* kind of 7UP I can drink is flat 7UP. 👿
Jirads looks really good, I love to see it man, keep making awesome content!
But then it came Spot Goes to Hollywood and it was *cheff's kiss*
As someone who lives in the UK - you know where we had that FidoDido wanker - all references to 7-up were removed from our MegaDrive (being what us and the rest of the world calls the Genesis) version of Cool Spot. He surfed on a generic green bottle and all the soft drink (what we call soda) references were of course there. But with no internet to find the answers it too a while for me to realise that it was a tie- in game at all.
My point? Well all I saw was a very cool well made game by Dave Perry which I very much enjoyed. I didn't have a hope in hell of ever completing it. I was never remotely good enough. I simply loved playing what I found to be a delightful joyful experience that was funny, charming and very well made. I have no idea whether the 'UNCOLA' letters were changed outside of the US because I was never good enough to see even one; I didn't even know that was thing until today happening upon your video. I may check out a MegaDrive lets play to find out.
What I shame though that all you can see is frustration, which I understand the reasons for don't get me wrong, but not see the charm and sheer fun that Cool Spot is to play. It is an all time favourite of mine to this day and I consider it (as do many others) to be one of the best titles available for the MegaDrive/Genesis.
I'm always a big video game music fan, and the cool spot bonus stage music was one of my favorite video game songs. (on the genesis)
I have a ton of nostalgia for this game, but it's more about the time of my life in which I was playing it and my best friend who has since passed away. I have strong memories of really enjoyed this game that just don't hold up on a current replay.
Finally an ad that i'm excited about
This game is a core memory for me and I DONT KNOW WHY
I used to love this game on the Genesis. A collectathon before collectathons were cool, many evenings were spent 100%ing those levels.
Nice to see another NG+! You're also looking well-rested and healthy lately, my dude. Good to see the Dragonrider feeling good!
I still love this new intro!
I knew I didn't dream up this game when I was younger.
I had a dumbest smile on my face cause of all the flashbacks to the old Completionist episode.
WHAT IN THE BLUE HELL IS A COOL SPOT?
the game was really eh, but I don't regret having it back in the day because the bonus level music was an absolute bop
Cool Spot looks like a Rayman ally. Now I want a Cool Spot, Rayman game!