One of those unknown characters you asked about was named "Leslie Swan," who is a real person who worked (works?) at Nintendo Power and Nintendo for years and did the voice for Princess Peach and others.
Funny thing is that in the german version he does speak in one episode. They just added a line or two when his back is turned to the camera so you don't see his face. Really weird.
@@tardisrider25 Sometimes they just add weird stuff. Like changing the titles of many Godzilla to Frankenstein because one Frankenstein Kaiju movie did really well back then.
I’m working my way through the series (the whole franchise really) just for that one speech. We’ve all heard it, but apparently it’s even more mind blowing in context.
As a HUGE trek fan, I'm so glad you covered these. For me, the GOAT Star Trek game is Star Trek The next generation: a final Unity for PC. The whole cast provides their voices and it's just a great, classic 90s point and click game. It's like playing a ten hour TNG episode. I played the heck out of Future's Past as a teenager. Like you said, if you're a fan of TNG you'll enjoy it. Otherwise, you probably won't. The combat is really clunky. If you ever do a drunk friend star trek episode please bring me back. I'm obsessed with all Trek and will talk your head off 😅 Sisko's run cycle always killed me. Like, I get that he plays baseball but maybe he should've gone into track and field instead lol. Great video and really spot on reviews imo
I had that "Final Unity" game. There was a certain part I got to where I couldn't figure out what to do and then I just stopped playing it. There was also a TOS game in production at one point that had the voices of the original cast, but it never came out: "The Secret of Vulcan Fury". All that's left is a trailer. What I heard is that the company went bankrupt and then destroyed all their computers, so the game will probably never be found. 😟
I had a final unity. We beat it by accident on the final screen when uou have the tablet we wanted to save before we made our choice and put the tablet down and well game ending hahaha
Wow, over 20 years and all this time I thought that segment was called 'If they made it' for some damn reason. Mind is blown, and I feel like an idiot. XD I even see now that Conan himself put out a book for "If they mated". Oops.
As a Bill's fan for life, I appreciate the Thurman Thomas reference. As a fan of Wrestling when I was growing up, I appreciate the Scotty Too Hotty reference.
As a huge DS9 fan, the Morn joke was perfection 😂. I have the first two games, I could never figure them out. I want that DS9 one though! I don't care if it's bad haha.
If I remember correctly, many of the no-name random ensigns were reviewers or staff from a gaming magazine called “Game Players” I had a subscription when I was younger and thought that was really neat when I read that detail in the game’s review
I loved Game Players, I remember Bill Donahue vividly. I miss gaming magazine personalities like Scary Larry from GamePro and Sushi X from EGM. Although, Game Players gave Earthbound a 55-65 percent score, and even back then, that's crazy. The magazine had a great sense of humor though.
@@JScribe I don’t remember the details of the review, just that out of all the magazines I could’ve had a subscription to, this one gained some points for me after reading that. Helped take the sting out of not being subscribed to Nintendo Power lol Of course as an adult now, the first thing I thought of as I was typing my comment was wow, what a blatant conflict of interest haha.
8:31 The thing about Morn's removed dialoge is that the programmers really had no other choice but to cut it, but do not worry, it is not lost, since all the dialogue of Morn was sold to other video companies at the time and 12 extensive role playing games have been developed that had been filled with it easily.
I was just thinking the other day, “Has SNES Drunk done Starfleet Academy?”. I remember liking that one as a kid, and really loving the chiptune rendition of the theme from Wrath of Khan.
Your assessment of Starfleet Academy is spot on, and I was 100% the target audience for it. Great concepts and ambition, but the PC version was light years better. Better still was the PC sequel, Klingon Academy, which they somehow got Christopher Plummer and David Warner (General Chang and Chancellor Gorkon from Star Trek 6) to record some FMV cutscenes for. Klingon Academy boasted improvements in every aspect, it's kind of a forgotten gem at this point. But while Starfleet Academy for SNES was deeply flawed, I still consider it the best of the SNES Star Trek games.
When I played the TNG game as a kid I always laughed so hard when I found out you could phaser the scientist you're supposed to rescue at the beginning of the game. I also destroyed the Romulan ship even though they were hailing to cease fire. Always loved seeing the Enterprise going to warp too. I'd reset the game over and over just for that intro.
"You'd have to be a massive Star Trek fan with a lot of patience to sink any meaningful time into this one." So... this was 100% me and my friend back in 1996ish. We used to rent Starfleet Academy almost every weekend from the local video store, and once you get used to the combat it's actually a ton of fun. Plus there are a ton of easter eggs accessible with codes, you can play as extra ships, and select extra names from secret menus. If you enter the name James T. Kirk, the Kobayashi Maru mission is winnable.
I even remember reading the Kobayashi Maru book where each of the main Enterprise crew had recounted their take on the infamous scenario and had hoped that each of their ideas from that book would have been in there, sadly the only one I remember from that book working was Sulu's refusal to enter the Neutral Zone, which was the standard one available to all players. You specifically had to play as Kirk and have a password with him already at 100% to get the best score by beating the Kobayashi Maru to get the best ending.
It might look like "dollar tree Star Fox", but ST:SFA - SBS was one of the few SNES games that pulled off actual polygons without the use of the SuperFX chip, so it's technically pretty impressive.
We must be around the same age. My parents also watched the OG Star Trek from the 60's, and we watched TNG and DS9 religiously as they aired too. Also, my best friend through elementary and high school was an absolute Trekkie, so some of his passion rubbed off on me. Also, you got me to laugh at "C's get degrees" and "Resistance isn't futile, it's encouraged" LOL.
I loved Starfleet academy as a kid and played through most of futures past but couldn't finish it. I tried going back not too long ago but those games really didn't age well. Back then we were so hungry for any Star Trek and video game form that we just accepted pretty much everything.
Yall crazy..I loved that show and tried to rewatch it..take a drink everytime Quark says "solid gold latinum " and you won't make it thru the first season
Yeah the first two seasons can be rough. If you're having trouble getting through it just skip right to season 3. You can always come back if you end up liking it a lot.
That screenshot from the PC version of Starfleet Academy brought back some memories. I loved that game as a kid. I never played the SNES one, seems like I'm not missing much but I played a lot of the PC version. I loved the combat in that game and I remember spending a lot of time just playing the battle mode or whatever it was and pitting different groups of random ships against each other and just messing around with the different ships.
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Loved Future's Past. It was a annual rental when i went to the beach. The beach video store had games my local Ma and Pop store didn't have. I always rented the Star Trek game - loved the overhead battles between the enterprise and other ships. Zombies Ate My Neighbors was another I always rented at the beach.
My dad taped every episode of Star Trek after he bought a VCR in the 80s. It was a library of treasure until DVD and streaming. My Dad still has them, but they have probably degraded significantly. We haven't check any of them in about 20 years now. He was missing a few episodes of TOS, since in those days syndicated shows were not played in release order. When DVD finally came out it was like getting brand new episodes. Playing as Scotty 2 Hotty in a Star Trek game? I'm sold. lol
I still have my Starfleet Academy cartridge, I was about 10 or 11 when it came out so I loved it. I mostly remember ignoring the missions and just playing simulation battles, haha. Hard to believe there were only three ST games for the SNES, I would have guessed more. Great video as always, thanks for the nostalgia hit!
Future's Past is a great setup for a Star Trek game. You're on the bridge, you're on the planets, you're in space battles. A modern version could be the new Mass Effect.
Fantastic episode. Never played any of these games but always wondered about them. I actually just started watching DS9 for the first time ever and it's rather embarrassing because I know I'm over 30 years late.
I watched it for the first time last year when the "He was a union man" clip got pushed a bunch during the Hollywood strikes. Still holds up really well!
if you wanna have fun w/ it...listen to the Delta Flyers podcast, they're going through DS9 for the first time too...the hosts are Voyager alum Garret/Robbie (Harry/Tom Paris) and has Terry (Dax) and Armin (Quark) like every other episode, as they go through the series.
3:25 “Ensign” Ed Semrad was the editor in chief of Electronic Gaming Monthly magazine. It also explains why the SNES port of ST:TNG Future’s Past got a better rating over the superior Sega Genesis version in EGM.
Great channel. Really interesting content while being short and to the point. 4 mins to review a game instead of 45 like most channels is brilliant. Reminds me of NES Friend. Very much a sub!
The manual for SNES DS9 Crossroads of Time game had a mail-away offer for a limited edition Sisko action figure. It was Sisko wearing the TNG uniform from the pilot episode. I managed to get a hold of one, and 3D printed a little bat'leth for him. =)
Can't say I am a trekkie or even played the games longer than "Huh, what is this?" but I am here for all SNESDrunk. The games are on my flash cart so maybe one day I will give them a try. Maybe after a Super Star Wars play through lol. Thanks for all the retro action!
I can only imagine the cost it would've taken to add more memory to the DS9 cartridge to fit all of Morn's dialogue. It might even go up to a single bar of gold-pressed latinum!
Future's Past was definitely good from a fan standpoint. There's a couple reasons why there are extra crewmen that are selectable for the Away Team. First, if one of the "main cast" is injured on an Away mission, you can switch to another crew member to fill out a needed role, as the "main cast" officer will not be available until the next mission. While not as skilled (or durable) as a "main cast" officer, they will at least allow you to complete a mission if a particular skill is needed. Second, you actually have a life counter in the game that revolves around the "main cast" (which you showed at the end of the segment). While they will be revived after a mission is complete, if any of the "main cast" are injured a total of three times (this is shared for all seven of them) during Away missions, the game is over. The random crewmembers do not add to the counter, but they do not get revived. They are just red shirts, and if they go down before the first commercial break, they are never talked of again.
I've been watching TNG and I watched this before going back to it. I'm watching "Ensign Ro," and the Admiral tells Picard to stop the terrorists "any way he can" and I thought of you
Spectrum Holobyte continued making flight sims throughout the 90s, eventually rebranding to Microprose, releasing even more flight sims, including the iconic Mighty 8th and Falcon 4.0. Those folks are legends.
I still have all three of them. I loved them because they were Star Trek, but I remember thinking at the time they came out that I wouldn't be playing them if they weren't Star Trek.
My mom was a HUGE Star Trek fan, to the point where she was RUNNING Star Trek Conventions for a while before I was born. I mostly bring this up because I too lived in a house full of VHS tapes with Star Trek on them!
legend tells that one ed semrad was once lord editor in chief of electronic gaming monthly, but the runestones detailing the history were lost to time long ago, and the elder gaming druids only speak of it in hushed tones amongst themselves
I had the TNG game as a very young kid, and I remember thinking "hey I finally got something to happen" when I finally landed on a planet, only for it to be filled with poison and I was sent back to the ship. That game was not easy to get into, especially for someone with weak reading skills. I still played it a good amount despite that. I'm glad to see someone review it and confirm that I had likely seen all the game had to offer with the poor experience I had with it lol
3:20 this commentary hit me so hard in the childhood, im pretty sure i turned 10 years old for a second. i still have to give these developers credit for the art on this game. they really tried to make it look good on an SNES
For what it's worth _Starfleet Academy Bridge Simulator_ actually _does_ have characters from the show. Namely, original series characters such as Kirk and Spock make cameo appearances as guest lecturers giving lessons to the cadets between simulator missions.
The TNG is only one I've played. And yes probably go with PC Starfleet Academy over this one. One day I need to finish that game. On a related note, I keep waiting for Klingon Academy to get re-released. I don’t think it's limited to just the SNES where the vast majority of Star Trek games released on consoles came from companies more known for PC gaming.
If I remember right, Picard is special in Future's Past because he's the only one aside from Worf who has a phaser that shoots on 'kill', but you instantly lose if he gets downed (unlike other characters where I think you get three).
I absolutely loved Star Trek when i was a kid. It would show at midnight after Jay Leno's monologue that I also loved as a kid. Deep Space 9 was my jam. Loved Whoppi on it. I wonder how it holds up today as I've never watched it as an adult. ❤❤
My brother and I got TNG along with our SNES for Christmas 1994, and for 9 year old me, TNG was a fun idea, but the amount of information available was overwhelming. This is also one of those games where you need the instruction manual to know how to play. Then there was the Derelict Ship. We got stuck there because we had no idea what to do.
That was the one you absolutely needed LaForge and Data, to be able to see anything. Which always impressed me that they took Geordi's VISOR into account as a game design mechanic. There was another mission later on in a mine, that you had to beam down with only Data at first, because the ventilation systems weren't functioning. Any other crewman than goes down, will asphyxiate in a short amount of time. I believe there's enough time that, if you can move quick enough through the absolute maze of tunnels, you can start the vents in time before they are completely injured. Still easier just to beam down, start the vents, beam back up, then bring down the full Away Team.
What I remember most about the TNG game is randomly getting attacked by 1 to 3(!!!) Romulan Warbirds and having to then put the password in to restart. Really killed the game for me. There should be a fan patch that smooths those encounters out.
I used to own the DS9 game. It was very difficult to figure out what to do in the first level. I remember it took me hours at the time. But somehow I still enjoyed the game.
I hast Starfleet academy growing up. I think the coolest thing about controlling the ship is it exists in a true 3d space. Was kinda mind-blowing back then
For some reason, I though there was a second DS9 SNES game. Must have been thinking of a PC game. Should also review the even less substantial Gameboy games, since you could play them on the Super Gameboy, so they were basically SNES games.
Oh man, I spent SO MUCH TIME ignoring that first distress signal in Future's Past, instead browsing the ship's computer, nerding out on the lore, and visiting different planets. The amount of detail they managed to cram into the game was wild (and helped offset the shallow combat a bit) Edit to add: Totally agree though. If you have no nostalgia for these games, check out the more modern titles for sure. I'd even recommend Star Trek Online for any era of Trekkie to at least check out :)
Fun fact regarding Star Trek Starfleet Academy. The SNES version doesn't have a specific helper chip to assist in the polygon rendering. That is why the view screen is so small as so it would be easier for the SNES to display everything in a somewhat reasonable frame rate.
I have all these games but on the Sega consoles. If I remember correctly, for Starfleet Academy on 32X, there was a way to do the Kobayashi Maru mission at the end. I forgot how, but you could either save your game as James T. Kirk or whatever, and if you did that and played the last level you could cheat like Kirk did.
I was exposed to Voyager for the first time in 2020, only Star Trek I’ve watched. Absolutely love it, I’m still finishing the final season (I don’t binge watch)
Star Trek was also a franchise my family bonded over (especially my dad and I). Next Generation and Voyager in particular. Oddly I've never played a Star Trek game...
Just a clarification: While the 1997 PC version of Starfleet Academy came after the SNES & 32X versions, it IS based on those games - all of the characters in the PC version are from the SNES/32X version - Rotherot, Vanda M'Giia, Ken Elliot, Geoff Colond (Geoff Corin in the PC version), Sturek, and Robin Brady. The PC version allowed for a more cinematic experience though, as the game guest stars William Shatner, Walter Koenig, and George Takei, and the live-action cutscenes establish the cadet crew as a sort of "TV series cast," with the game's plot going beyond just their classwork. Also, to my knowledge, the missions in the PC version are the same as the SNES/32X versions.
I played a lot of the Sega version of the TNG game, but usually gave up in frustration when I got to the cave part where you have to rescue the miners and deactivate the bombs. But I always wanted so much to like it, I really agree that it captures the feel of the show
At the time I loved Starfleet Academy it was probably the first time I played a Star Trek game that actually felt like I was in command of a Starship. Yes it was slow and clunky and the controls took a bit of getting used to but I loved it. Going back it's very difficult to enjoy though and is one of those games that could do with a rom hack to add support for an extra chip to help speed up the ship sections. One thing i felt it could have used was more missions though as it was so short.
My sister used to tape episodes and watch them too. One of the last VHS' I let go of was the episode with the Gorn. I rented the TNG game on the Genesis and my 6-year old brain couldn't quite grapple with it. I do recommend Star Trek: 25th Anniversary on the PC though. It's excellent and very in line with the OT.
I got into Star trek much later in life (late teens/early 20s.) Before that, I had only seen First Contact and played the PC "Star trek Borg" interactive movie, which was fun. During quarantine, I pulled in a bunch of SNES games I never played: Shadowrun, Chrono Trigger, Front Mission: GH, Shin Migami Tensei, etc. One of them was "Starfleet Academy." It's like... I just kinda knew that once I figured out HOW to play the game, and gave it some patience, it still wasn't really gonna be worth it in the end. Think I made the right choice to quit and move on.
According to Memory Alpha (basically the Star Trek wiki), the non-senior staff from "Future's Past" are all OCs. It also states that Ed Semrad is both named after and modeled to look like the editor of Electronic Gaming Monthly. As for the others, I couldn't even hazard a guess as to who Vince Matthews is meant to be, but Leslie Swan was the senior editor of Nintendo Power at the time of the game's release. And Leanne McDermott *might* be based on the author of "Super NES Power Players Guide," although that feels like a stretch.
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"THERE. ARE. FOUR. GAMES!"
-Picard
No, there are five.
Say 5 or else........
amazing
"No running on the Promenade." ~ Odo
"Hmph"
-CMDR Benjamin Lafayette "The" Sisko
One of those unknown characters you asked about was named "Leslie Swan," who is a real person who worked (works?) at Nintendo Power and Nintendo for years and did the voice for Princess Peach and others.
Ed Semrad was the Electronic Gaming Monthly magazine editor…odds are, the others are family, friends, or industry people as he surmised
Wow she did the "mariooooooo!" voice or the voice from the cartoons or media pre 64? That's awesome:D
That Wrath of Khan score on Starfleet Academy is everything.
The two player combat mode is a ton of fun, too!
It's like Mario Kart Battle Mode, but in Trek ships. =)
My God my heart skipped a beat hearing the theme in 8bit form. Never knew about it before drunk's video!
@@HELPMYCAPSLOCKISSTUCK 16 bit
@@HELPMYCAPSLOCKISSTUCKyou mean 16 bit?
Everything everywhere all at once
A morn joke for the DS9 fans. I love it.
Funny thing is that in the german version he does speak in one episode. They just added a line or two when his back is turned to the camera so you don't see his face. Really weird.
Of course!! Morn is the greatest man in the Star Trek universe during DS9’s era! 🙃🤷🏾♂️🤣
@@blackenedwritings Wow, I wonder why they felt like doing that.
@@tardisrider25 Sometimes they just add weird stuff. Like changing the titles of many Godzilla to Frankenstein because one Frankenstein Kaiju movie did really well back then.
There's nothing here but worthless gold.
I’ll never forget Morn’s rousing speech in the final episode, it really tied everything together.
I get goosebumps every time I hear that speech; still inspirational 🥲🥲🥲
Morn is a freak
I’m working my way through the series (the whole franchise really) just for that one speech. We’ve all heard it, but apparently it’s even more mind blowing in context.
@@SECONDQUEST he has a pool of mud as a bed, and frequently entertains ladies from a variety of species there. So I think you’re probably right!
"It's a FAKE!!!"
- Morn
As a HUGE trek fan, I'm so glad you covered these.
For me, the GOAT Star Trek game is Star Trek The next generation: a final Unity for PC. The whole cast provides their voices and it's just a great, classic 90s point and click game. It's like playing a ten hour TNG episode.
I played the heck out of Future's Past as a teenager. Like you said, if you're a fan of TNG you'll enjoy it. Otherwise, you probably won't. The combat is really clunky. If you ever do a drunk friend star trek episode please bring me back. I'm obsessed with all Trek and will talk your head off 😅
Sisko's run cycle always killed me. Like, I get that he plays baseball but maybe he should've gone into track and field instead lol. Great video and really spot on reviews imo
I had that "Final Unity" game. There was a certain part I got to where I couldn't figure out what to do and then I just stopped playing it.
There was also a TOS game in production at one point that had the voices of the original cast, but it never came out: "The Secret of Vulcan Fury". All that's left is a trailer. What I heard is that the company went bankrupt and then destroyed all their computers, so the game will probably never be found. 😟
I had a final unity. We beat it by accident on the final screen when uou have the tablet we wanted to save before we made our choice and put the tablet down and well game ending hahaha
Borg was dope
@@theandrogynousmisogynist oh yeah, that's another great one
For what it’s worth, I enjoyed Vogager: Elite Force. Very schlocky shooter, and the PS2 version is fun too.
I like to think that somewhere in our attics, snesdrunk and I have the same If They Mated segment from Conan on an old VHS tape.
"Chelsea Clinton recently got married, and OH NO WHYYYY. WHY."
@@SNESdrunk"KRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNK!"
Wow, over 20 years and all this time I thought that segment was called 'If they made it' for some damn reason.
Mind is blown, and I feel like an idiot. XD
I even see now that Conan himself put out a book for "If they mated". Oops.
@@SNESdrunk lol the reveals and the “WHY????” So good! Miss those bits.
Ironically my favorite Star Trek game on the SNES/SFC is Star Ocean.
Damn, I never noticed the parallels.
Yo, that IS the best one. Glad to see someone else likes the good Star Trek game on SNES.
As a Bill's fan for life, I appreciate the Thurman Thomas reference.
As a fan of Wrestling when I was growing up, I appreciate the Scotty Too Hotty reference.
Glad he didn't go with OJ
"Looks like Dollar Tree Star Fox," had me literally spit up coffee
SNES drunk be having the funniest comparisons ever🤣
That was hiliarous
Tiger Electronics anyone?
Was it Dollar Tree coffee?
As a huge DS9 fan, the Morn joke was perfection 😂. I have the first two games, I could never figure them out. I want that DS9 one though! I don't care if it's bad haha.
Scrolled to post something similar, first thing I see was this. I have truly found my people.
It's a faaaaaaaaake
@@superamario6464it’s so real. It’s reeeeeeeeeal.
*crumples in a Sisko ball
If I remember correctly, many of the no-name random ensigns were reviewers or staff from a gaming magazine called “Game Players”
I had a subscription when I was younger and thought that was really neat when I read that detail in the game’s review
do you remember why/how they got featured?
I loved Game Players, I remember Bill Donahue vividly. I miss gaming magazine personalities like Scary Larry from GamePro and Sushi X from EGM.
Although, Game Players gave Earthbound a 55-65 percent score, and even back then, that's crazy. The magazine had a great sense of humor though.
Did they give the game a great review? If so, no conflict of interest there 😅
@@JScribe I don’t remember the details of the review, just that out of all the magazines I could’ve had a subscription to, this one gained some points for me after reading that. Helped take the sting out of not being subscribed to Nintendo Power lol
Of course as an adult now, the first thing I thought of as I was typing my comment was wow, what a blatant conflict of interest haha.
I knew the name "Ed Semrad" sounded familiar.
8:31 The thing about Morn's removed dialoge is that the programmers really had no other choice but to cut it, but do not worry, it is not lost, since all the dialogue of Morn was sold to other video companies at the time and 12 extensive role playing games have been developed that had been filled with it easily.
Hard to believe both Mallow from Super Mario RPG and Magus from Chrono Trigger were based on this guy...unless you've read it.
Total length of video: 680 secs.
Total length of "SNES Drunk": 2 secs.
.29% of the video was spent listening to "SNES Drunk".
You're doin God's work 🤘
It's not a SNESDrunk video without your comments on it.
I was just thinking the other day, “Has SNES Drunk done Starfleet Academy?”. I remember liking that one as a kid, and really loving the chiptune rendition of the theme from Wrath of Khan.
By far my favorite TH-cam channel. Please don't ever stop making videos 🙏
Bridge Simulator contains some fantastic renditions of the TOS movie-era soundtracks. Great mood setters.
Apparently The SNES TNG game got a Japanese Super Famicom release, based on the Japanese dub of the show.
Your assessment of Starfleet Academy is spot on, and I was 100% the target audience for it. Great concepts and ambition, but the PC version was light years better. Better still was the PC sequel, Klingon Academy, which they somehow got Christopher Plummer and David Warner (General Chang and Chancellor Gorkon from Star Trek 6) to record some FMV cutscenes for. Klingon Academy boasted improvements in every aspect, it's kind of a forgotten gem at this point.
But while Starfleet Academy for SNES was deeply flawed, I still consider it the best of the SNES Star Trek games.
It would be nice for KA to get on GOG. I've been waiting since before they added SA.
When I played the TNG game as a kid I always laughed so hard when I found out you could phaser the scientist you're supposed to rescue at the beginning of the game. I also destroyed the Romulan ship even though they were hailing to cease fire. Always loved seeing the Enterprise going to warp too. I'd reset the game over and over just for that intro.
"You'd have to be a massive Star Trek fan with a lot of patience to sink any meaningful time into this one." So... this was 100% me and my friend back in 1996ish. We used to rent Starfleet Academy almost every weekend from the local video store, and once you get used to the combat it's actually a ton of fun. Plus there are a ton of easter eggs accessible with codes, you can play as extra ships, and select extra names from secret menus. If you enter the name James T. Kirk, the Kobayashi Maru mission is winnable.
THIS!!!
I even remember reading the Kobayashi Maru book where each of the main Enterprise crew had recounted their take on the infamous scenario and had hoped that each of their ideas from that book would have been in there, sadly the only one I remember from that book working was Sulu's refusal to enter the Neutral Zone, which was the standard one available to all players. You specifically had to play as Kirk and have a password with him already at 100% to get the best score by beating the Kobayashi Maru to get the best ending.
It might look like "dollar tree Star Fox", but ST:SFA - SBS was one of the few SNES games that pulled off actual polygons without the use of the SuperFX chip, so it's technically pretty impressive.
We must be around the same age. My parents also watched the OG Star Trek from the 60's, and we watched TNG and DS9 religiously as they aired too. Also, my best friend through elementary and high school was an absolute Trekkie, so some of his passion rubbed off on me.
Also, you got me to laugh at "C's get degrees" and "Resistance isn't futile, it's encouraged" LOL.
I loved Starfleet academy as a kid and played through most of futures past but couldn't finish it. I tried going back not too long ago but those games really didn't age well. Back then we were so hungry for any Star Trek and video game form that we just accepted pretty much everything.
This video boldly went where no one had gone before.
"Here's to the finest crew in Starfleet."
Captain! Jean-Luc Picard of the USS....Enterprise!
Ma ma-ma-ma-ma make it so. Make it so.
The first duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth
Scientific truth, or historical truth, or personal truth.
Moving from topic to topic, quite hypnotic...
Deep space 9 had some of the best acting ever... Garak.
Garak: "It's all true"
Bashir: "Even the lies?"
Garak: "ESPECALLIY the lies!"
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ODO: You'd shoot a man in the back?
GARAK: Well, it's the safest way, isn't it?
This coming from a simple tailor
Yall crazy..I loved that show and tried to rewatch it..take a drink everytime Quark says "solid gold latinum " and you won't make it thru the first season
The thing I remember most about the TNG game is that the thing always insta-game overed me every time I tried to go anywhere.
Perfect timing, I just started watching TNG for the first time!
Wow - I’d love to wipe my mind so I could rewatch for the first time. But good luck getting through season 1… some episodes are… questionable!
Yeah the first two seasons can be rough. If you're having trouble getting through it just skip right to season 3. You can always come back if you end up liking it a lot.
@@GoodGuyJim the second season started to show potential - moments where you could see where they were going. But yeah… not the best… and Dr Polaski…
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I just started season 5 again. I don't know how many times I've seen it, but I hope you're enjoying it! TNG is the best one (with TOS right behind it)
That screenshot from the PC version of Starfleet Academy brought back some memories. I loved that game as a kid. I never played the SNES one, seems like I'm not missing much but I played a lot of the PC version. I loved the combat in that game and I remember spending a lot of time just playing the battle mode or whatever it was and pitting different groups of random ships against each other and just messing around with the different ships.
Video count starting with following intros:
SNES drunk: 856
Segadrunk: 69
Steamdrunk: 42
Without any kind of Intro: 41
Switchdrunk: 4
Turbodrunk: 2
Previously on SNES drunk IS drunk: 2
SNES drunk IS drunk: 1
Previously on SNES drunk plays StarFox: 1
Previously on SNES drunk plays Final Fight: 1
3 Hours of the SNES drunk Intro: 1
A four minute and 30 second long SNES drunk Intro: 1
Videos completely about Clyde T. Dog (No Intro as well): 3
Loved Future's Past. It was a annual rental when i went to the beach. The beach video store had games my local Ma and Pop store didn't have. I always rented the Star Trek game - loved the overhead battles between the enterprise and other ships. Zombies Ate My Neighbors was another I always rented at the beach.
My dad taped every episode of Star Trek after he bought a VCR in the 80s. It was a library of treasure until DVD and streaming. My Dad still has them, but they have probably degraded significantly. We haven't check any of them in about 20 years now.
He was missing a few episodes of TOS, since in those days syndicated shows were not played in release order. When DVD finally came out it was like getting brand new episodes.
Playing as Scotty 2 Hotty in a Star Trek game? I'm sold. lol
Never watched much Star Trek but I always liked Sci FI games. Was a huge fan of the first two games but never played the third.
Come for the SNES. Stay for the Drunk.
Indeed!
Amen 🙏
Snyesssss drunk
Stop your lies!
I am so confused
I did not expect a Thurman Thomas reference in this video, but it makes me happy to hear someone remembers him! 😅
Its awesome reading 90s comics and coming back for a reminder on games i am seeing adverts for ❤
That Morn joke was tip top.
I still have my Starfleet Academy cartridge, I was about 10 or 11 when it came out so I loved it. I mostly remember ignoring the missions and just playing simulation battles, haha. Hard to believe there were only three ST games for the SNES, I would have guessed more. Great video as always, thanks for the nostalgia hit!
Very surprising, consider the mid-90's was Trek's Golden years with TNG, DS9, and VOY all happening.
@@Kaylee_the_Space_Mechanic That was my thought exactly, it was a dilithium mines worth of potential content for Trek games!
Same. I never got very far in Academy story mode. I was all about blasting Romulans and Klingons with the Constitution class.
For me the deal breaker was no Klingon Bird of Prey to play as. I wanted to do 'hit-and-run' tactics with a cloaking device, but such is life.
Future's Past is a great setup for a Star Trek game. You're on the bridge, you're on the planets, you're in space battles. A modern version could be the new Mass Effect.
Fantastic episode. Never played any of these games but always wondered about them.
I actually just started watching DS9 for the first time ever and it's rather embarrassing because I know I'm over 30 years late.
never to late to watch startrek
I watched it for the first time last year when the "He was a union man" clip got pushed a bunch during the Hollywood strikes. Still holds up really well!
Great Show
if you wanna have fun w/ it...listen to the Delta Flyers podcast, they're going through DS9 for the first time too...the hosts are Voyager alum Garret/Robbie (Harry/Tom Paris) and has Terry (Dax) and Armin (Quark) like every other episode, as they go through the series.
Have fun with this amazing series!
Thank you SNES Drunk. I hope you have a great rest of your day.
3:25 “Ensign” Ed Semrad was the editor in chief of Electronic Gaming Monthly magazine. It also explains why the SNES port of ST:TNG Future’s Past got a better rating over the superior Sega Genesis version in EGM.
Great channel. Really interesting content while being short and to the point. 4 mins to review a game instead of 45 like most channels is brilliant. Reminds me of NES Friend. Very much a sub!
Like a SNES version of Rose Tinted Spectrum - a channel everyone should check out, it's brilliant.
Man’s out here doing the Lord’s work. Nothing better than a new SNES DRUNK video to start the day!
The manual for SNES DS9 Crossroads of Time game had a mail-away offer for a limited edition Sisko action figure. It was Sisko wearing the TNG uniform from the pilot episode. I managed to get a hold of one, and 3D printed a little bat'leth for him. =)
I like how in the table scene of Future's Past it looks like Picard and Riker are holding hands.
Still my favourite TH-cam channel after all the years. Thank you very much!
Can't say I am a trekkie or even played the games longer than "Huh, what is this?" but I am here for all SNESDrunk. The games are on my flash cart so maybe one day I will give them a try. Maybe after a Super Star Wars play through lol. Thanks for all the retro action!
I can only imagine the cost it would've taken to add more memory to the DS9 cartridge to fit all of Morn's dialogue. It might even go up to a single bar of gold-pressed latinum!
Future's Past was definitely good from a fan standpoint. There's a couple reasons why there are extra crewmen that are selectable for the Away Team. First, if one of the "main cast" is injured on an Away mission, you can switch to another crew member to fill out a needed role, as the "main cast" officer will not be available until the next mission. While not as skilled (or durable) as a "main cast" officer, they will at least allow you to complete a mission if a particular skill is needed. Second, you actually have a life counter in the game that revolves around the "main cast" (which you showed at the end of the segment). While they will be revived after a mission is complete, if any of the "main cast" are injured a total of three times (this is shared for all seven of them) during Away missions, the game is over. The random crewmembers do not add to the counter, but they do not get revived. They are just red shirts, and if they go down before the first commercial break, they are never talked of again.
I've been watching TNG and I watched this before going back to it. I'm watching "Ensign Ro," and the Admiral tells Picard to stop the terrorists "any way he can" and I thought of you
I’m not a Star Trek fan, but I always enjoy your videos. Keep up the good work!
Spectrum Holobyte continued making flight sims throughout the 90s, eventually rebranding to Microprose, releasing even more flight sims, including the iconic Mighty 8th and Falcon 4.0.
Those folks are legends.
I played that first one but on Sega Genesis, it was a lot of fun.
I like Star Trek too! This is nice to see these games.
“Sisko runs like Thurman Thomas”
What a reference!!!!!
I still have all three of them. I loved them because they were Star Trek, but I remember thinking at the time they came out that I wouldn't be playing them if they weren't Star Trek.
And then Now in the 90s did the TNG one (and technically the Genesis one too.)
LOL at "create-a-player characters"
My mom was a HUGE Star Trek fan, to the point where she was RUNNING Star Trek Conventions for a while before I was born. I mostly bring this up because I too lived in a house full of VHS tapes with Star Trek on them!
legend tells that one ed semrad was once lord editor in chief of electronic gaming monthly, but the runestones detailing the history were lost to time long ago, and the elder gaming druids only speak of it in hushed tones amongst themselves
I had the TNG game as a very young kid, and I remember thinking "hey I finally got something to happen" when I finally landed on a planet, only for it to be filled with poison and I was sent back to the ship. That game was not easy to get into, especially for someone with weak reading skills. I still played it a good amount despite that. I'm glad to see someone review it and confirm that I had likely seen all the game had to offer with the poor experience I had with it lol
3:20 this commentary hit me so hard in the childhood, im pretty sure i turned 10 years old for a second.
i still have to give these developers credit for the art on this game. they really tried to make it look good on an SNES
For what it's worth _Starfleet Academy Bridge Simulator_ actually _does_ have characters from the show. Namely, original series characters such as Kirk and Spock make cameo appearances as guest lecturers giving lessons to the cadets between simulator missions.
The TNG is only one I've played. And yes probably go with PC Starfleet Academy over this one. One day I need to finish that game. On a related note, I keep waiting for Klingon Academy to get re-released. I don’t think it's limited to just the SNES where the vast majority of Star Trek games released on consoles came from companies more known for PC gaming.
I saw one of the names was Leslie Swan, she was part of NOA and I believe she may have done the first Princess Peach voice ✌️
0:23 Wise parents.
Bonus points for the Blockbuster reference 😄
beam me up scotty for I am... hammered!!!!
I've been a fan of SNES Drunk as long as I can remember
Me too! I can’t remember anything that happened before this morning though, being my own kind of drunk, hey-yooooo!
The ds9 game was my introduction to what ultimately became ny all time favourite franchise. Live long and prosper, folks
If I remember right, Picard is special in Future's Past because he's the only one aside from Worf who has a phaser that shoots on 'kill', but you instantly lose if he gets downed (unlike other characters where I think you get three).
I absolutely loved Star Trek when i was a kid. It would show at midnight after Jay Leno's monologue that I also loved as a kid. Deep Space 9 was my jam. Loved Whoppi on it. I wonder how it holds up today as I've never watched it as an adult. ❤❤
My brother and I got TNG along with our SNES for Christmas 1994, and for 9 year old me, TNG was a fun idea, but the amount of information available was overwhelming. This is also one of those games where you need the instruction manual to know how to play. Then there was the Derelict Ship. We got stuck there because we had no idea what to do.
That was the one you absolutely needed LaForge and Data, to be able to see anything. Which always impressed me that they took Geordi's VISOR into account as a game design mechanic. There was another mission later on in a mine, that you had to beam down with only Data at first, because the ventilation systems weren't functioning. Any other crewman than goes down, will asphyxiate in a short amount of time. I believe there's enough time that, if you can move quick enough through the absolute maze of tunnels, you can start the vents in time before they are completely injured. Still easier just to beam down, start the vents, beam back up, then bring down the full Away Team.
What I remember most about the TNG game is randomly getting attacked by 1 to 3(!!!) Romulan Warbirds and having to then put the password in to restart. Really killed the game for me. There should be a fan patch that smooths those encounters out.
I used to own the DS9 game. It was very difficult to figure out what to do in the first level. I remember it took me hours at the time. But somehow I still enjoyed the game.
I made a map of all the bomb locations for that first level. Really helped! =)
I hast Starfleet academy growing up. I think the coolest thing about controlling the ship is it exists in a true 3d space. Was kinda mind-blowing back then
For some reason, I though there was a second DS9 SNES game. Must have been thinking of a PC game.
Should also review the even less substantial Gameboy games, since you could play them on the Super Gameboy, so they were basically SNES games.
Oh man, I spent SO MUCH TIME ignoring that first distress signal in Future's Past, instead browsing the ship's computer, nerding out on the lore, and visiting different planets. The amount of detail they managed to cram into the game was wild (and helped offset the shallow combat a bit)
Edit to add: Totally agree though. If you have no nostalgia for these games, check out the more modern titles for sure. I'd even recommend Star Trek Online for any era of Trekkie to at least check out :)
I have been waiting for this video for some time. Many thanks
I thought it was cool that Starfleet Academy used some pretty complex 3D polygon models without a FX chip. Unfortunately the window is small
Now I'm intrigued about those better Star Trek games from that era ✌🏼 keep up the fine job, SDrunk
Fun fact regarding Star Trek Starfleet Academy. The SNES version doesn't have a specific helper chip to assist in the polygon rendering. That is why the view screen is so small as so it would be easier for the SNES to display everything in a somewhat reasonable frame rate.
You know you're well rounded when you like Star Trek and know how Thurmond Thomas runs. Ran all over my damn Dolphins 😢.
I sure loved the academy game on snes, dozens and dozens hours played in the 2 player battle mode, really fun
I can't say for sure, but judging from the character portraits, I feel like the random crew members in Future's Past are the devs, lol.
That first few sentences you talk about your Parents after the intro is so wholesome. You are a very lucky man..
I have all these games but on the Sega consoles. If I remember correctly, for Starfleet Academy on 32X, there was a way to do the Kobayashi Maru mission at the end. I forgot how, but you could either save your game as James T. Kirk or whatever, and if you did that and played the last level you could cheat like Kirk did.
Love these sorts of videos which cover multiple games, keep em coming.
I was exposed to Voyager for the first time in 2020, only Star Trek I’ve watched. Absolutely love it, I’m still finishing the final season (I don’t binge watch)
Star Trek was also a franchise my family bonded over (especially my dad and I). Next Generation and Voyager in particular. Oddly I've never played a Star Trek game...
Just a clarification: While the 1997 PC version of Starfleet Academy came after the SNES & 32X versions, it IS based on those games - all of the characters in the PC version are from the SNES/32X version - Rotherot, Vanda M'Giia, Ken Elliot, Geoff Colond (Geoff Corin in the PC version), Sturek, and Robin Brady. The PC version allowed for a more cinematic experience though, as the game guest stars William Shatner, Walter Koenig, and George Takei, and the live-action cutscenes establish the cadet crew as a sort of "TV series cast," with the game's plot going beyond just their classwork.
Also, to my knowledge, the missions in the PC version are the same as the SNES/32X versions.
I played a lot of the Sega version of the TNG game, but usually gave up in frustration when I got to the cave part where you have to rescue the miners and deactivate the bombs. But I always wanted so much to like it, I really agree that it captures the feel of the show
It's funny that the space combat in the TV shows up until DS9 is basically turn based but the games have you zipping around like Wing Commander.
At the time I loved Starfleet Academy it was probably the first time I played a Star Trek game that actually felt like I was in command of a Starship. Yes it was slow and clunky and the controls took a bit of getting used to but I loved it. Going back it's very difficult to enjoy though and is one of those games that could do with a rom hack to add support for an extra chip to help speed up the ship sections. One thing i felt it could have used was more missions though as it was so short.
My sister used to tape episodes and watch them too. One of the last VHS' I let go of was the episode with the Gorn.
I rented the TNG game on the Genesis and my 6-year old brain couldn't quite grapple with it. I do recommend Star Trek: 25th Anniversary on the PC though. It's excellent and very in line with the OT.
I got into Star trek much later in life (late teens/early 20s.) Before that, I had only seen First Contact and played the PC "Star trek Borg" interactive movie, which was fun.
During quarantine, I pulled in a bunch of SNES games I never played: Shadowrun, Chrono Trigger, Front Mission: GH, Shin Migami Tensei, etc. One of them was "Starfleet Academy." It's like... I just kinda knew that once I figured out HOW to play the game, and gave it some patience, it still wasn't really gonna be worth it in the end. Think I made the right choice to quit and move on.
According to Memory Alpha (basically the Star Trek wiki), the non-senior staff from "Future's Past" are all OCs. It also states that Ed Semrad is both named after and modeled to look like the editor of Electronic Gaming Monthly.
As for the others, I couldn't even hazard a guess as to who Vince Matthews is meant to be, but Leslie Swan was the senior editor of Nintendo Power at the time of the game's release. And Leanne McDermott *might* be based on the author of "Super NES Power Players Guide," although that feels like a stretch.