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Today is December 22nd, 1993! New episode every single Friday!
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►► We are still completely demonetized.
For those who didn't see it, TH-cam has completely demonetized this channel due to "Reused Content", with no warning and no strikes. Our appeal has been submitted, and we believe we can win that appeal, but it's taking longer than we thought. We are supposed to hear within 14 Days. If for *some* reason we lose the appeal, we don't believe the channel can continue forward.
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This is outrageous. TH-cam has a horrible history of loving you one day and going against you the next with no good reasons or intentions a lot of the time. I pray you guys will win this appeal as I’ll be devastated if you guys are forced to delete this channel after a lot of hard work put into it last year and the blood, sweat, and tears into it making it. Please know me and others will still be there to support you all in anyway we can. Much love. 🙏🤞🫂♥️
This is h31 all over again. Basically they think old content is reused content. H31 had to go to court to win that one. So i really hope it doesnt get to that point.
Don't you just love it? We're about to go into one of the biggest years for gaming in the 1990s news and the channel gets completely demonetized. And if they don't win the appeal, and then they can't move forward with this channel and will become, ultimately, dead in the water. Thanks a lot TH-cam, ya jerks!
I'm sorry to hear this so close to the holidays. In spite of TH-cam's best attempts at being a Grinch, I still thank you both for all your efforts in delivering amazing content and allowing us to recapture the magic of our pasts. Love you both!!!
What is wrong with TH-cam?! They're willing to monetize trash but yet good channels like this get punished for nothing? that is totally unfair I hope you guys win your appeal.
I fucking refuse to believe there has ever been two Sega Activators in the same room outside of a department store.
I'm with you bro... That's almost like having 2 NES Power Pads to play Track and Field
OMG, Eternal Champions is a major blast from the past! I remember me and my old man playing this game back when I was a kid. Out of nowhere, my dad triggered an overkill out of nowhere at the Atlantis(?) stage and saw my character (Xiaver, IIRC) getting eaten alive by piranhas. The looks on our faces that day was priceless! I even remember resetting the game to see each character destroy the sega logo.
I found the game to be too difficult, mostly because the computer blatantly cheats. They can use their specials as much as they want, even if their special meter is empty.
There's also how getting defeated sends you back a fight or two instead of having a continue system.
The training modes are cool, but it's weird how you can set the difficulty in the training mode but not chose a difficulty for the main game.
I remember dragging my dad to buy me this game when it came out. I went home played and felt guilty of making my dad buy it...cause it sucked balls!
For all the joy you guys brought us, it sucks that the channel is demonitized during the holidays no less.
It's expected. TH-cam's paying too much ad revenue to the top dogs *and* pushing shorts along with adblock blockades, much to the user's chagrin.
The only joy Jared has ever brought me was knowing his father had to see him dressed like a little girl and grooming them too
Hope the monitization issue gets sorted out soon if it hasn't yet already.
Absolutely. Thats a disgrace-this channel certainly is earning its right to monetization every week.
Me too
@@biggsweaty 💯
Using other people's footage for the channel is why he got demonitzed? OH, they confused SSSniperwolf for Jared. I get it, they both have great teeth.
Ugh, hope the sycophant issue gets sorted out soon, if it hasn't already 🙄
Can we all take a moment to appreciate how funny editor Dylan is? His sections never fail to give me a good chuckle, every. single. time. Merry Christmas!
His bit about nostalgia damn near brought a tear to the eye. Great job guys hope everything works out!
Nup. Tries too hard.
Does anyone know the name of the song that switches when he introduces Editor Dylan? I love the transition music because editor Dylan section is always my favorite. Always gets a small laugh from me.
@@longtallshorty5791 finally someone who agrees with me. Dylan is insufferably unfunny and reaches for laughs so hard you'd think he might pull a few muscles
@@jonbourgoin182lol what a crap opinion I bet you love the worst shit imaginable with that trash taste
As a former 90's kid, I look forward to every Now in the 90's episode. Seeing all of these games and their accompanying advertisements is such a blast from the past that hits me right in the nostalgia. I hope very much that your appeal to TH-cam goes in your favor so we can get back to what really matters: driving Dylan nuts with more sports games.
What a time to be alive man
Eternal Champions was fun, but the difficulty curve is insane.
Eternal Champions had a cool concept of characters from different eras of history including different parts of the future, it didn’t have the polish of SFII or Mortal Kombat but was still a pretty good time.
Even at the time I felt like Sega over-hyped it. Yeah, it was pretty good, but it wasn't mind-blowing. Although it did have, if not the best, some of the MOST Genesis graphics ever on the Genesis.
It was okay but tough
Even a number of the Overkills were pretty gruesome. To this day, some of them make me quiver.
I liked it. The Mega CD version absolutely blows it out of the water though. For one thing, Trident doesn't blow every single other character out of the water. (Yeah, the Megadrive / Genesis version had some serious imbalances in terms of its roster.)
Yea I loved Eternal Champions the fatalities were so cool back then and finding them randomly
I’m so pissed off about the demonetization BS. This is my favorite TH-cam series.
Me too
I am too. But literally last week Dylan made a comment about how he doesn’t have enough time to play many of the games which made me think, “then where does he get the footage from?” Then I brushed it away thinking it must come from somewhere they archive.
But then this happened and it made me ask questions.
@@JazGalaxy Ahh, very good point.
Olha só os Br Safado.
@@JazGalaxy That is an interesting point.
The violence in the Genesis Eternal Champions paled in comparison to the Sega CD version. I had it back then, and to this day, the overkills and stage kills are still some of the goriest sprite art I have ever seen.
Yeah the CD version was more gory
the Sega CD version was BRUTAL and I loved it as a kid 😅
Look up the ink released game thrill kill on ps1
Eternal Champions is one of those covers that is burned into my memory. Loved the weird atmosphere in the game too.
yeah EC really was a “mood” back then lol
Could you argue that this is a form of video game presentation for archival purposes? Because there are so many games listed throughout it's lifespan so far that I've never heard or seen before. Which makes me absolutely love this channel.
No. There’s nothing saying that they can’t make the videos. The only thing in question is their ability to make money on it. (For whatever reason)
I wouldn't imagine that someone used the Sega Activator to play Eternal Champions with. Now that Sega are remaking their classics. I'd really love to see a remake of Eternal Champions.
Pretty sure the name was datamined from the recent leak as one of the IPs Sega is re-upping.
It would be such a risk because no current fighting games are even ATTEMPTING “charismatic fun” as a selling point. It’s all about hardcore fighting game nerds and multiplayer. I don’t think ET is ripe for that.
@@JazGalaxylet's hope for the best that Sega do something good for a change.
@@JazGalaxy - 90s youth... the last generations to know fun.
@@chrisrj9871OK Boomer
I want to say a huge thank you to all you guys for making such an amazing show. Love you all and have a wonderful holiday time.
Is the monetization thing due to sports games?
If that's the case, I say we just forget they ever happened!
Thank you guys for keeping this going!
Probably for the commercials they would sometimes show, but knowing TH-cam they were probably vague and cryptic about what actually caused the problem
@@tagi_vt And to think that TH-cam's only this vague because they don't want creatives to know where the edge is...
Probably due to Jared being a kiddie diddler...
Legitimately can't wait for when you guys cover Final Fantasy VI's release. I remember Jared's longform video on the game and how much it means to him, which is a sentiment I wholeheartedly share. It's one of the greatest games made for the SNES and one of the most important JRPGs of all time.
It's so nice to see so many people feel the same way I have since that game came out. Same with Illusion of Gaia. SNES was a great gen for RPGs
Final Fantasy VI is Overrated
@@kingslayer2999 Such incredible insight! My God... I need to re-evaluate my entire life as a gamer based on that. Thank you, random Internet person! If I could impose upon you for a bit more wisdom, though? Could you do me the favor of performing a Google search to see if we can figure out who asked?
@@kingslayer2999 That's it, you're getting Vanish-Doomed!
@@kingslayer2999overrated, in my mind, means a game got credit for something it did not do.
For instance FF7 is overrated because many people are of the mistaken idea that it’s “the fist videogame where a main character died”.
FF6 is in no way overrated.
TMNT Tournament Fighters for SNES is really good. The graphics and music were fantastic, the gameplay was amazing. One of the best fighting games for the SNES
No it isn't ChatGPT
I really enjoyed TMNT Tournament Fighters on the SNES. Never got to play the Genesis version.
@@8bpianoplayer Dude, just get the whole Genesis rom set and try it out if you are curious. That is the best thing with all these retrogames, so much good games easily available to play.
You do know that you can just download them all and that all of these games can be played on emulators, right?
Just to be clear I wrote this, because you said "got to play" and that made it sound like you maybe did not know how easy it is to play these games now.
@@cajampa I was referring to when they were originally released. I could get the Cowabunga collection and play it now, once I clear my backlog of games.
The SNES version of TMNT Tournament fighters was always a favourite of mine. A fun little fact about it is the game actually still has a bit of a competitive scene to this day, as there's sometimes side tournaments of it at fighting game events such as EVO or Combo Breaker.
I believe my uncle still has his copy
Thank you to everyone at Nit90s for another stellar year, and here's hoping TH-cam gets its head out of its own a...lgorithm long enough to make sure it doesn't lose one of its best new channels!
Thank God I was afraid the show would be cancelled I just hate that I'm so broke and cant donate to your Patreon but I'll support you guys to the finish
Trust me, just watching supports them more than you know.
@@Halloweenowl True
Don't you just hate it when your channel is doing so well and all of a sudden, TH-cam is like, "Now, hold on one second there, son! Are you reusing content? That's a paddlin'."
I really hope the monetization issue gets sorted out, this channel has been fantastic 💙
I never thought that an ending would excite me that much but seeing Megaman really put a smile in my face. Merry Christmas and a happy new year to the Now in the 90s team and all the community!
After when this channel got recommended to me back in September, I've been watching these episodes non-stop during my lunch break and now I'm finally all caught up before the new year arrives.
Happy New Year.
Eternal Champions, also sampled by Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
I love Bone Thugs-N-Harmony.
I love what you guys are doing. I get to see games I never heard of, or forgot about. I hope YT fixes this, and for the channel to gain tremendous momentum. Happy New Year.
I'm going to say a prayer tonight for excellent blessings to this channel.
It has really been an incredible source of happiness during a year that was tough at times.
I can't thank the entire crew enough, I need to see this channel live on to great success, because y'all truly deserve it.
Much love to you guys and your families this Christmas. We're here for you.
Let's be honest... Dylan, is the saving Grace of this channel. Jared, you're great, but... Dylan is the most crucial and powerful part of this channel. Amazing. Thank you... love you both. 🙏❤️
A very Happy Holidays and Happy New Year to Jared, Dylan and all the Now In The 90s fans. Looking forward to new videos and know the monetization issue will be resolved in no time.
Sucks about the monetization, I hope it gets resolved quickly. I've become a big fan of this channel and I try to spread the word about it as much as I can. For 1994 releases, the first one to come to mind is Shadowrun for the Genesis
Fingers crossed for the return of monetization. This channel is hands down my favorite thing. I absolutely love reliving when games came out. Have a wonderful holiday off and I will hope to see a community post update for monetization soon!
Man for the 20 mins of watching this video I been smiling ear to ear listening about Eternal Champions. It wasn't Mortal Kombat, but it brought so many new mechanics to the table... Overkills that in so many ways beat the first two Mortal Kombat Stage Fatailities. Some of the roster like with Xavier is still one of my favorite originals of any fighting video game. and then the overall mechanics still feel good to play at 30 years at almost 40 years old now.
Good Work ProJared
I’m 45 years old and I absolutely love this channel! I love reliving game releases and the funny Sega commercials lol. And you guys nailed it with the channel music.
Hoping the channel will continue in 2024!
Merry christmas and a Happy New Year for all of you, Jared, Dylan and David!
This is by far my favorite youtube show/channel EVER.
Happy Holidays!
Really hope your monitization gets sorted, this show is honestly a highlight of my weeks!
Thank you for another year of awesome fun, and I hope we’ll see you next year as well!
That montage of stuff to look forward to next year put a huge smile on my face. It reminded me of how much of a banger year 1994 was in the 16 bit era. The boys at Continue Show always cheer when they get a game from 1994 because more often that not it's a good game! Thanks for what, two years of Now in the 90s?? This has been something to look forward to every Friday and getting to learn history for games I already love and learn about games I don't is the best.
Merry Christmas Jared and Dylan, and I hope you guys get the monetization stuff sorted out. This time of year is lucrative for TH-camrs bc of the excessive ads before the drought in January and the monetization hitting now is like Scrooge docking wages! Maybe if we're lucky the TH-cam people will get visited by 3 ghosts. Anyways, you guys rule and thanks for the joy you bring. :)
To ProJared and Editor Dylan, even if the channel is going to rough times, i still love it and i'm pretty sure and i'm not the only one, so hang in there guys, we all know (or at least think) that you guys will come on top at the end of the day, nevertheless, i wish you both a very Merry Christmas full of blessings and a very successful and Happy New Year 2024, see you around next year but NOW IN THE 90s, happy holidays guys.
do hope that your able to continue the series as it makes my fridays all the more better, some big titles coming out for 94 and getting ever closer to when the 32/64 era changes how the landscape of the games for quite a while til we get the want for our 16 bit games once again
So excited for the next year of this show. While I got my SNES in 1992 & I bought my Genesis in 1993, it was 1994 the year I truly started getting into games in the same way that I am now.
Thanks for making this, it's both inspired myself for future creations & helps me end each week on a high note.
this is the best thing on youtube right now. no click baits, no BEGGING for money, straight to the point TOTTALY NOSTALGIC for us 90's gamers, projared is the best gaming youtuber personality right now and you can see how he loves the games he talks about as much as we do, thank you for your service and NEXT YEAR i hope to see everyone here in the comments going NUTS everytime a personal favorite game is featured in now in the 90's. i hope everyone have an AWESOME christmas and happy new year full of video games and peace of mind. i love you guys, thanks for everything
Just that short montage reminded me just how many classic games I remember from 1994! So many there even if some were not my type of game. Yes I was an SNES kid so some are obvious. Oh man this next year is going to be nostalgic 😊
I wish you all a happy new year and to keep doing your amazing work!
I'm really looking forward to seeing you guys cover Sonic 3&K, Mega Man X, and Final Fantasy VI! Have a happy holidays!
Same here
Calling it now, the Super Metroid video is going to be the most viewed episode you'll probably ever do.
Sucks about the demonetisation but thanks a lot for Now in the 90's, one of my favourite shows to see on friday. AND unfortunately mario's time machine is 20 minutes im never getting back
I dunno if they’ll ever see this, but I thought that goodbye 93 -> hello 94 transition was super clever
Stars above I love this show. I look forward to it every Friday. Happy holidays, boys. Have a helluva good time.
Eternal Champions is tied with Primal Rage for "most hype fighting game series that never got a comeback"
Merry Christmas to all, I love this channel, I hope it can continue, I look forward for a new episode every Friday. I started watching on my birthday March 11th and cought on 1993 quickly then I would watch the 93 episode on Friday and the 92 episode on Thursday on Saturday.
I had no idea there was an Eternal Champions sequel.
I thought I would see Metal Combat: Falcon's Revenge for this week, so I'm hoping it'll be covered in a later episode. It is the single best reason to own the Super Scope. It's a sequel to Battleclash that adds new mechanics, a second playable mech, multiple endings, and a versus mode where someone can play as the on screen robots that's unbelievably fun. It is easily the most underappreciated Nintendo game of all time.
Keep it up, guys! This channel is a real labor of love and it shows in every single video. Don't give up!
That activator commercial was so 90s I instantaneously grew an AC Slater curl mullet. Actually using that POS for more than 30 seconds would be unprecedented, much less 2 player head to head
Tony Meola's Sidekicks unlocked a hidden memory. I used to have that game as a kid, but I didn't play much of it. But my dad did. He's a huge football fan, and there were times I wanted to play Mario World, but he was playing Tony's Meola's Sidekicks, but I wouldn't complain, I'd just watch him play and react as if it were a real football game. Fun times. Sad to see it relegated to a Dylan autopilot montage, but nice to see it mentioned at all, unlocking that small nostalgic memory.
Best part of my Fridays!
Same.
Sonic 3, Demon's Crest, Sparkster, Final Fantasy 6! LETS GO!
8:41 That's actually a really dope commercial, ngl.
Since the start, I have loved this series/channel. What is "reused" about a channel that cover old video games? This is literally a history-based channel! Come on TH-cam, get your act together for a change.
Eternal Champions was my farvorite fighting game when I was a kid. Must have been one of yours as well. I've seen it on your shelf for almost every video you have.
Hopefully you guys can keep the channel going. Appreciate all of the amazing content you've put out.
Stay Happy and Healthy. Have a Merry Christmas
Mai Shiranui truly is something special.
Must have awakened...many things in kids back then.
I'm not gonna lie, I thought Editor Dylan's speech was building up to a jokey fake-out, but it being completely sincere was a surprisingly lovely moment.
Having the benefit of commenting from the future, I'm so glad the demonization thing was cleared up. Jared, Dylan, and everyone else involved with this show deserve it, as it's become one of my favorites.
Super fun way to end the 1993 year of now in the 90s! Thanks for all your hard work.
This episode breaks my heart. Thank you for all your hard work guize. Merry Christmas to you and our community of retro getting-old people.
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays to all the Now In The 90s staff!
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Thank you for enlightening our Fridays. Thank you for buttering my 90s video game knowledge further. And thank you for adding my name in the "Oh, what the heck..." section. :)
1994 is looking bright with some major historical pillars of video games. Speaking of which...
334 days until Donkey Kong Country... and Happy Holidays.
Merry Christmas to you guys. I enjoy these videos a lot. I look forward to see what the new year will be like with your videos. Happy new year as well. ❤
Holy crap 1994 had so many great games. Can't wait for Jared's reaction to them. Especially FF3
But FF3 came out way before 1994.
These videos bring a wonderful effort and quality to the platform. Thank you for the work you do.
Really hopin YT realizes it screwed up and the channel continues, cuz this channel ROCKS! Thanks for all the videos!
Have a great new years, love this channel
Got to love the 90's commercials more interested in being edgy than in showing what the heck are they actually selling. That Eternal Champion's one could barely force itself to show like 10 seconds of the game.
Hope you all have a happy holidays.
EDIT: 13:33 Not being a fighting game connoisseur, I was kinda amused (yet not surprised) when seeing that Mai Shiranui has an aerial attack in which she dives boobs first into the enemy's face.
Awesome Segment as always Dylan. Happy Holidays dude.
Thank you Jared, Dylan and staff. I love the show, happy holidays and '94 BABY LET'S GOOOOO
Merry Christmas and a happy New Year, and thank you for a great show!
A good week for fighting games back in the day.
I am really looking forward to the '94 games you'll be covering next year, especially Sonic 3 & Knuckles. 😁
Eternal Champions is one of the hardest fighting games I've ever played. Doing simple combos is a nightmare. Special moves even more so.
Good stuff. Happy Holidays gang!
Thanks for the fun and well made content. Shoutout to Eternal Champions. I really loved that game for a spell back in the day during sleepovers because I didn’t have a Sega CD lol
Props for saying yin yang, and not YING yang like EVERYONE else.
The memories I have of playing Eternal Champions as a kid are mainly of my twin brother and I figuring out a fair system to divvy up the one third-party six-button controller and one first-party three-button controller we had when playing two-player mode. Playing Eternal Champions with only three buttons was...not fun.
Meanwhile, it was a blast playing TMNT Tournament Fighters in the Blockbuster tournament in 1994. Neither of us got far in that tournament, but it was still fun nonetheless.
“Reused content?” I wish they had to tell you exactly what they mean by that. The commercials? The gameplay?
Yeah. I hate when TH-cam doesn’t specify what the “Reused content” is. If they did, it would’ve been fixed by now, but nope, TH-cam has to make it complicated. 🤦♀️
My favourite thing about Eternal Champions is how it has various fighting locations from throughout history and one of them is literally just a McDonald's parking lot. I mean, they changed the logo but you still can easily tell it's a McDonald's just from the architecture, back before they started turning McDonald's restaurants into bland boxes roughly a decade and a half later.
My biggest gaming memory of 1994 was passing by an arcade in Montreal somewhere on Rue Ste-Catherine near Complexe Desjardins and Place des Arts sometime in the later part of the spring or early summer and seeing a little bit of a crowd. They had a brand new Daytona USA machine with a large screen facing out towards the street and, at the time, it was like seeing a game from the future. Ironically, I don't think I ever actually got around to playing Daytona USA, I didn't have a lot of change with which to be able to play arcade games in 1994 and I think Daytona USA was a full "Loonie" (Canadian dollar coin) to play, I never got a Sega Saturn, and, once we had a Dreamcast, there were more sophisticated racing games like Metropolis Street Racer, Ferrari F355 Challenge, and Test Drive: Le Mans.
My top Sega Genesis game of 1994 was mentioned in this episode, but it wasn't really shown in the sequence of 1994 games at the end but rather it was mentioned in passing earlier in the video: Dune II: The Battle for Arrakis. I also like Shining Force II.
Thank you guys for an amazing year! Hope you both have wonderful and fantastic holiday!
94 was def an awesome year for games
Looking forward to hearing how you all explain Metroid 3, MKII, Spider-Man Venom maximum carnage, Doom II, wish you guys would bring up arcade games like x-men children of the atom, super street fighter 2 turbo, aliens vs predator, crusin’ USA, Daytona USA, tekken since that gave gamers a preview of the next gen consoles
95 was a game changing year switching to 32 bit consoles
Merry Christmas, Jared and Dylan.
Nice '94 montage! I saw Snatcher in there! My all-time favorite game! The fact that this game has been all but lost to time is an absolute crime against humanity.
I hope you guys get things sorted with TH-cam this is a great channel. Thanks for your videos!
Merry christmas and happy hollidays!
Thank you Jared and Dylan for such a great show!
Can't wait for the "94" episodes!
Thanks for such a great show to look forward to each Friday. You guys do a phenomenal job.
Merry Christmas to yourself, and everyone in the Now In The 90's team.
Sucks about the demonetisation, but you've got yourself a loyal viewership now that'll hopefully grow next year.
I love these videos. I could binge watch your channel all day. Sadly I am caught up. Can't wait for the new year, and new old games!
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays guys, thanks for another great year. We hope your TH-cam stuff gets figured out. I am looking forward to seeing the Snes port of Saturday Night Slammasters. It was a treasured game of my childhood that doesn't seem to get the recognition it deserves.
Thanks for Everything guys! This channel gives me so much joy. Hope your appeal is successful. Merry Christmas
Too bad like F-Zero & Nintendo...Sega forgot Eternal Champions exists.
Hopefully the monetization issue gets worked out. I'm really looking forward to you guys going into 94 it was kind of a big year for me.
I grew up with my Dad in the airforce and we lived on an airbase in Germany from 1990 to 1994 (I was four to eight years old) everything we had from TV to video games and movies could be hard to come by and lagged behind the US releases anywhere from a few months to a few years behind the US. My family got back into the states in 94 and it was like a completely different world I had just got Sonic 2 but Sonic 3 was a thing, Mega Man had become Mega Man X, and Power Rangers and the X-Men where eveywhere. So 94 was when my memory of games became current and I was experiencing things as they where new and I'm looking forward to reliving some of that.
I had Eternal Champions it was not great but I loved the box
Did Eternal Champions eat "Granny Fighter" in that Commercial? LOL it sure looks like it!
Thanks for this weekly trip to the past.
Enjoy the holidays and can't wait to see what you will bring in the new year 1994!
TH-cam better re-monitize y'all you're the best part of fridays
God, Eternal Champions is a master class of wasted potential. The ideas that were implemented in this game like having characters that were morally grey and not inherently good or evil really could have gone over well today if it ever gets rebooted--but considering that Virtua Fighter was the fighting game that Sega wanted to keep making, Eternal Champions just fizzled out into obscurity. I will forever be a defender of this game's legacy, despite the fact that the controls were...shoddy at best.
It’s more complicated than that. VF and Eternal Champions were never in competition. (Sega went on to make MANY other fighting games aside from VF, like Fighting Vipers).
FV was specifically a western developed answer to Mortal Kombat, which was big in the west and non existent in Japan. As a result, Sega Of America was given free rein to do what they needed to do. But the power struggles inside Sega meant that SOA lost their power after the 32x, which was the same time we heard the last out of Fighting Vipers. (Via The spinoff game Xperts)
Thanks for another great year of 90s games reviews!