Save 50% on Keeper Security Plans with code AUSTIN50 over at Keeper! www.keeper.io/austin What's some forgotten or obscure Super Nintendo titles you remember? Or uh, you know spent hours digging through weird roms for? I didn't talk about it here cause this thing went on for 40 minutes but Secret of Evermore HAS to be the weirdest Squaresoft title from this era. Lemme know what you got!
E.V.O is Spore before Spore. I would love to see a full (or at least main-feature) review of it. The story is actually baller AF, and some of the best writing in early gaming. I got my copy of it from childhood and almost NO ONE has ever heard of this game.
Secret of Evermore was the Western replacement for the true Secret of Mana sequel: Seiken Densetsu 3. There were a half-dozen potential main characters and the plot would be altered depending on which main and side characters you picked. A couple of other Square RPGs I went through weird ROMs for were Front Mission, an isometric tactical RPG with each character having an upgradeable mech, and Bahamut Lagoon, a tactical RPG with each character having an AI-controlled dragon that could be transformed through being fed various kinds of items. There was also Terranigma, an Enix action RPG at least on par with Actraiser or Illusion of Gaia, that had the inventory-screen-as-a-physical-building gimmick way before Fable. Aside from SD3 being remade as Trials of Mana, none of these games made it to the US. I would by no means consider them to be truly obscure, though.
3 Ninjas was created by a Korean director who along with his actress wife were kidnapped by North Korea, because the leader of North Korea wanted to build his own movie studio to spread his ideology. They had to live there for years until they finally escaped. Once they got back, they found they were eyed with suspicion by people who thought they defected to North Korea rather than being kidnapped. As a result of this, they ended up moving to the US to get away from the hatred and he had to try to rebuild his career from scratch in a second language. So, I think it's a deecent attempt, given the circumstances.
Holy deeplore EDIT: I looked into this real quick, and apparently Shin Sang-ok was not involved with the original movie at all and only joined in as a writer/director for the later entries in the franchise. Still, what a wild ride of a career.
@@NucleaRaptor I appreciate the correction. A classic instance of the "telephone game:" I watched a video about this at some point and accidentally altered the details through slightly foggy memory.
Holy crap dude... I always had a soft spot for the movies tbh... Still am a bit of a fan of the underdogs so to speak... This needs more attention though... I think every kid around my age sat through at least one or two of those movies in class before summer break. They're friggin ubiquitous.
My parents got me a completely legal copy of 3 ninjas with the last few minutes cut out. I’ve watched that movie dozens of times but have never seen the end.
I find it crazy SkyBlazer was made by Sony, and released the same year they would release the PS1, a direct competitor to Nintendo, in Japan. It's kind of weird.
I always felt that games such as Bart’s Nightmare are in this specific pile games that I like to call “Its jank but it has this strange nostalgic charm to it” since nearly everyone played it at one point.
That game is a guilty pleasure of mine,as back in the day, the Only cool Simpsons game was the arcade game, when I first rented Bart's Nightmare, with all its not completely awful mini games, I was extremely pleased with the effort and think it's one of the best Simpsons games still,top 5 at least.peace
I grew up in the DS/Wii era, so the "oddly nostalgic but still terrible" games in my age were stuff like the MySims games, Drawn to Life (though those games do have actual fans), and World of Zoo. And for the non DS/Wii games you have bizzare stuff like the JumpStart games, Time Travel Typing 2, Animal Jam, Math Blaster 2010, Reader Rabbit, and everything having to do with the Leapster that everyone I knew as a kid played but no one talks about anymore.
I love barts nightmare but it may have something to do with renting it a lot from blockbuster. As an adult I finally got the A+. I still play it when I can however.
I remember seeing pics of the mystical ninja 2 in a old gaming magazine. I think EGM? I remember being so excited….wow how heartbroken I was when it never came out.
Yoshi's Safari! I just played that earlier this year! Fun Fact: this game is the first time Peach was called Princess Peach in the West rather than being called Princess Toadstool.
@@iwanttocomplain It's good. It's not on the level of something like Time Crisis, it's a good effort for the Mario series. I would like to see Nintendo do something like this again for the Switch or other future consoles!
Speaking of SNES deep cuts, I recall that the majority of Sailor Moon games have been released on the Super Famicom and are almost all Japan only (though some fan translations were made since). Austin even talked about the RPG a while ago. SM games is a topic worthy of its own video imo.
Those beat-em-ups were really solid, especially the first one. I loved how Sailor Jupiter basically played like a clone of Mike Haggar from Final Fight!
"Eek! the Cat" is an obscure SNES release I'll never forget. It's based on the now forgotten Saturday morning cartoon of the same name. You play as the titular Eek and your mission is to protect your NPC companion from dying as they mindlessly walk into danger. It's not very good and it's brutally difficult but the soundtrack slaps. Turns out it was just a reskinned version of a game called Sleepwalker that was released on the Commodore Amiga in which you played as a dog protecting their owner who was sleepwalking.
The game itself is one of my least favourite SNES games (it's nothing but escort missions!), but that soundtrack was on a whole other level. Barry Leitch (San Francisco Rush 2049) and Dean Evans (Waterworld) worked on it, and they continued the trend set by the Follin brothers: that is, British game composers making unfittingly great music for not-so-great games.
I was just talking about the cartoon a while back and recently got one of the an Eric emulators and found the game on there.... I hadn't tried it yet cuz I know how hit or miss games like that are and if you like the character the game may tarnish that for ya... (Don't play the tick for Sega Genesis for instance lol) I'll give eek! A shot... I'm curious about aaaagh real monsters as well. Hell if you've read this much and are watching this video you might be interested in an emulator. I've been lovingi e for the nostalgia factor. Listen to stuff like this and play virtual pinball or earthworm Jim.
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Man, you mention ninjas, licensed games AND Capcom and but Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow? That game was legit awesome and the SNES version was the best one.
How often a game is better than the movie? Well... Peter Jackson's King Kong (2005) - except maybe the NDS/PSP versions, lol. But the PC/X360 version and its PS2/OGXbox ports were... awesome. Like, really, really good. The movie is boring af, the game is lots of fun, especially the FPP levels with lots of dinos. That T-Rex roar when it's introduced for the first time - tell me you didn't get chills back in 2005 seeing that shaking screen blur..! Alien: Resurrection (2000) - very underappreciated, inventive game. It introduced the modern dual analog control scheme for console FPS games, and was totally bashed for it back in the day because "hurr durr what a weird way to play a shooter, gimme back the L1/R1 strafing and shooting with X button!". Movie is trash, so bad it's good trash but still trash - the game is really good, though. Hard, but good. Better then the movie objectively speaking. James Cameron's Avatar The Game (2009) - let's face it, the movie is meh. Yeah, it introduced a lot of new tech, but it's just Pocahontas in space and it's very, VERY boring if you are not of of these crazies that thought they are Naavi in real life. I heard the newest game is good too - didn't play it yet, but the movie is even more boring than the first one so I assume it's the same thing. Avatar The Game was very cool though, and looked really nice on X360/PS3. Not Crysis levels of jungle environments but still nice. I really think the game is better than the movie. Battleship (2012) - anyone even remember this one? Yeah, the movie is garbage, the game is mediocre. So by definition it's better than the movie, heh. X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) - movie was meh, the game is an awesome God of War clone. Like, really, really good. The 7th gen version, of course. The PS2/Wii game was lame. The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay (2004) - both Riddick movies are overrated, but the game is awesome. Does it count, though..? It's kinda a prequel or something... All Friday the 13th movies are technically low budget trash cinems while the game from few years ago was a really good mid-budget title with interesting gameplay. It was way more original than the movies themselves. They have a cult status but technically none of the movies is... good. So... a curious case. Mad Max (2015) - edge case scenario where the game is... equally great as the movie is ;) And it can be argued that it's better than Beyond Thunderdome, lol. Plan 9 From Outer Space (1992) - I bet you didn't even know it existed, but yeah, it's technically... better than the movie :D The Punisher (2005) - the 2004 movie was mediocre, the game is good. Nuff said. Star Trek (2009) - the JJ Abrams movie is a travesty and it killed true Star Trek; the game based off it is... acceptable as a Gears of War clone. Math says it's then better than the movie, and we all like math! Terminator Salvation (2009) - wow, lots of 2009 games incidentally... Another one that is a mediocre game, but compared to a movie that was lame and awful, it technically wins. Wanted: Weapons of Fate (2009) - I could basically copypaste what I wrote about Terminator Salvation :D So, there aren't MANY, but there are enough that you couldn't "count them on your fingers" ;)
So if a lot of those movies you listed are overrated or not that good. What would you consider a good movie? I mean at the end of the day does it entertain me then? It's a decent movie. I don't know why people are so critical over movies
Came to the comments to just to see if anyone would mention x-men origins since that movie was trash but from what I understand the game was pretty good lol. Totally forgot about butcher bay though.
@@monkeykidd420 What do I consider a good movie, you ask. Let me say first that I do distinguish between "good" movies and "entertaining" movies. And movies can be either one of these or they can be both, too. Like, Alien Resurrection is very entertaining. It has this crazy performance by Brad Dourif playing a doctor-Frankenstein-like mad scientist, and a cheesy performance by Sigourney Weaver doing a female impression of Arnold-Schwarzenegger-like action hero. There are a bunch of character actors like Ron Pearlman supplying their amazing unusual faces and there's Winona Ryder playing a sexy robot. But it's technically not a very good movie. - There's an overusage of CGI that didn't age well. - There are lots of "cool", "MTV-style" shots that are a result of then-current trends in cinematography that went out of style and date the movie, devoiding it of the universal style of its predecessors: you can watch 1979's Alien or 1986's Aliens today and except for that one shot of the xeno startling Dallas you would have trouble saying it's 45 / 35 years old if you wouldn't know that, while watching Alien Resurrection you instantly feel that it was made around the year 2000. - The plot is a paint-by-the-numbers action movie, not much subtext here unlike the previous ones. - There's lots of comedy in this one, and most of it is really cheap, making it deviate from the series' overall tone. - The acting is over the top, there's lots of scenery chewing, which is again a deviation from previous ones that had realistic and sometimes even subtle performances. A "good" movie in my opinion is something that: - has a solid plot preferably with some subtext that makes it "about something" (like Aliens being largely about motherhood, or The Fly being about dealing with illnes of a loved one, or The Thing being about impact of isolation on psychology) - has a well-written script (no wooden or unrealistic dialogue, no forced exposition, no overusage of tired tropes) - is well made (solid cinematography, blocking, shot composition, editing that allows you to follow the footage with ease, no issues with light or sound, no overusage of CGI where the same effect could be achieved using real sets or props, no audible ADR, etc) - has good acting (characters emote realistically, react accordingly to the events in the plot) - has top-notch special and visual effects (again no overusage of CGI when not necessary, quality costumes, matte paintings, clever usage of various techniques in adjacent shots) It feels weird describing it because I think most people know what a "good" movie is, it's just that lots of people have trouble admitting that a movie that they find entertaining is not technically good. It's like they're ashamed of liking something that is not perfect or even straight bad. Which always amazes me, because I feel no shame in admitting that I enjoy many parts of Friday The 13th at the same time agreeing that they're trash cinema! "Being entertained" by a movie is a huge factor for me, though it doesn't solely determine if a movie is good. I mean, "2001 Space Odyssey" is a masterpiece, but I wouldn't say it's an "entertaining" movie. It's a movie that you "admire" rather than "enjoy". And not enjoying it in the same way like enjoying Die Hard doesn't make 2001 a bad movie, oh no. I am also aware that my taste in movies does not agree with most audiences, so i'd never argue with someone that says, for example, that Avatar is a good movie. It isn't to me, but it might be to someone else. It's all subjective, after all. The most important thing is to not work yourself up when you judge a movie or when you read someone else's judgement - in the end it's just someone's opinion about a movie, right? And, finally - why some people are so critical about movies? Well, because it's entertaining :D Analyzing things involve your knowledge about it, in this case: my knowledge about movie-making. I am somewhat knowledgeable about the subject, so I enjoy utilizing what I learned about, for example, light setups and editing in my opinions about movies. I suspect you are also knowledgeable about some things, for example: cars or sports, and thus your critique of a specific model of an SUV is much more detailed than some Karen's that just says "what a cool looking car, I don't know why some people criticize it so much instead of enjoying being driven in one!", am I right? :)
I remember renting Bart's Nightmare. I just wandered down the street for a couple hours trying to figure what I'm supposed to do and then never played it again.
The instructions to BN were probably absolutely critical to even moderately enjoy it. …Gotta use bubble gum to border your own a big Z health-bar and then catch ‘em, and then survive and chase down and jump on the pages, and THEN beat the minigames and try to get a high score… and use the L/R buttons to help survive the Temple of Maggie’s pacifiers… pretty crazy.
I've never been more happy than to learn the passage from Wikipedia stating the judge was a moron for agreeing with Pixar that the unicycle was stolen from their ad campaign for Uniracers.. IS ACTUALLY ON WIKIPEDIA. Like that isn't even a joke, that's literally on their page for Uniracers! Apparently it was said by former DMA Design developer Robbie Graham. The best part is, it's 100% correct.
I actually ruled with Pixar. In my 5 second court in my head. It's just too similar and Pixar are so famous. They use pre-rendered digitised sprites. So it's too close as Pixar and Nintendo are both famous consumer brands for kids.
@@iwanttocomplainDude, it is quite literally a common object. The audacity of Pixar to say they own the concept of a unicycle come to life is absurd. Imagine if the creator of Herbie the Love Bug sued Pixar for the movie Cars because the cars in the movie had their own personalities and could drive on their own like Herbie. It has no distinguishing characteristics separating it from an actual goddamn unicycle. It is a wholly unoriginal concept that only a smooth brain would claim Uniracers "stole".
@@MuttMondo No. It's a legal issue and I happened to agree with the judge. No disrespect. It's just the same market and too close and happens to be their heavily used mascot.
You just rebooted my brain with legend of the mystical ninja. Pretty sure i rented that at least 20 times as a kid (along with the rental SNES because we didn't have one)!
EVO is basically just the 90's (admittedly cuter) pre-cursor to Spore, from what I've gathered from watching your segment on it here, and I absolutely love Spore. I'm surprised I've never heard of EVO before such, in that case.
You not alone. Batman Returns came out. They had a photo op set up at a local grocery store here (which is WEIRD for Arkansas in any decade.) And my ass was too scared to take a pic with Batman and Catwoman. 💎🤣 EDIT: 90's Arkansas cosplay Batman and Catwoman had to be a sight.
I just got my super Nintendo system a month ago. It took me back to my mid teens when I first played super mario world, and super street fighter 2. I love those games ,and it was awesome. I haven't played those games in awhile.
You definitely touched on some really cool classics that would be my favorite forgotten games. Literally working on an in-depth retrospective on Illusion of Gaia as we speak as my first video! Also was a trip to see someone else discuss Uniracers in any context. Some very hilarious other ones are King of the Monsters 2, the movie games of Dennis the Menace and We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story, and a really cult-classic-y one is Zombies Ate My Neighbors, which I'm realizing the new generation has probably never seen.
It's a good game, but it also doesn't really have any meat on it's bones.. or a reason to exist. The original is still perfectly serviceable, more popular, officially translated for all regions, and just more common and easier to port. As much as Super Star Stacker looks better, it's the exact same game but on harder hardware to emulate, and for Nintendo to go all-out and translate the game themselves would never happen. There are great fan translations though. This game and Wrecking Crew '98 always perplexed me as they both were Japan exclusives on the Super Famicom in 1998, though I've heard the reason is because the Super Famicom was still more popular than the N64 in Japan.
I remember liking it, at least as a rental (& that had good enough instructions!). Wasn’t good, either, especially at Maggie’s Temple stages, but eventually finished all the games, got the pages and got an A, at least. It was a quirky, fun time.
You want forgotten, how about the STILL UNLOCALIZED Fire Emblems 3, 4, & 5. The series is more visible than ever, so why not let fans experience more of its history? I thought Echoes was the start of remaking the unlocalized games but they only did Gaiden. Mystery & Thracia at least have fan translations, but Genealogy still isn't finished so tough shit on that front.
I'm almost positive genealogy has a fan translation tho? Thracia was the game to not have a PASSABLE English translation for the longest time, not genealogy, due to Thracia being the most obscure mainline FE game. It did have a fan translation since the early 2000s, but that original translation was so awful that many of its "liberties" have become memes in the hardcore FE community. (Pugi Pugi, in America, etc) Thracia got an ACTUALLY FAITHFUL and fully finished English re-translation back in the late 2010s, so all three unlocalized SNES fire emblem games have good fan translations now.
I did not know my copy of uniracers was a game removed from stores because of a lawsuit lol Wow, and you talked about Super Alfred Chicken, did you go through my closet to make this video? Lol P.s. the reason i owned so many random wierd games is because my mom went to a rental store that was closing and bought me a ton of random games that she would give me for doing chores or well in school and stuff.
That lawsuit though is kinda hilariously dumb. Your Unicicle looks like a Unicicle? HOW DARE YOU!! Wonder on how many zeroes that judge was at the time.
Quick note about playing superscope and other light gun games: it's way way easier to get your hands on Wii equipment, including any number of gun accessories. Not only can you use them with wiimotes in emulators for other consoles on it (recently was playing duck hunt with my roomate), but you can do it on a non-CRT television.
Claymates was such an awesome game as a kid. The visuals are still amazingly stylized to this day. Really glad it got put on the Nintendo Switch Online service. Oh, and the music for the game is a bop too!
Spanky’s Quest, Super Buster Bros, and Speedy Gonzalez come to mind and I own those games on cartridges. There’s also Super Famicom Wars with classic Nintendo characters named Hetler and Billy Gates lol
@@johnsmith-rp5bg Amazon version is really good too! The original live action version really seems to be aiming for meta humor that not all will catch and I really love it for that and just because Putty plays the character so well, Bat -Manuel is frequently hilarious as well.
The NInja Warriors, a game about three different robot Ninjas, has lived in my head for decades even though I played it one time when I rented it from King Soopers.
It's a gem to be sure. It got a downloadable rerelease a few years back with extra content, plus the original arcade version is a completely different game.
@@alexvdl The name for the re-release is The Ninja Saviours: Return of the Warriors. Enhances the graphics for modern displays, adds two new charactres- a MASSIVE robot that looks like an industrial machine, and a humanoid girl-robot with extending cable-arms. Available for pretty much all modern platforms. And as the other person said, the arcade original game is NOT the SNES game, they made a new version of the arcade game ground up for the SNES, really adapted it for the console. Arcade original is also available for modern formats that I know: Arcade Archives The Ninja Warriors is its name.
The Mighty Morphin Power Ranger beat em up is one of my favorite games of all time. It's still so fun with that Rangers aesthetic that just hits the spot.
There are two licensed games I would humbly submit to the list. Widget, and Star Trek Deep Space 9. Widget is a fun platformer with an interesting (for the time) power-up mechanic, some really catchy songs, and I really like how they pulled off most of the theming. Nobody remembers Widget in 2024 😂 OH yeah, the game was an Atlus title. DS9 is a puzzle platformer. I remember it being a little hard but very satisfying once I figured out what I needed to do. Bonus rounds for Scooby Doo SNES and Speed Racer SNES. Games that were better than they had any right to be. Final edit I promise: Harley's Humongous Adventure
Robotrek is easily the best game on SNES that no one talks about. The best Enix game ever. Getting to build your own robots and collecting megabytes for experience points along with an insanely fun invention system. Man, it just got so much right while also being very unique. Bart's Nightmare was awesome randomness. But the Itchy and Scratchy game was far better.
Bart's Nightmare is such an interesting game for me because it seems like everybody has their own story with it. It's just one of those like universally played games of the era. A buddy of mine had to choose whether to buy Bart's Nightmare or Earthbound when his local rental store was going out of business when he was a kid, and to this day...Yeah, he naturally believes he chose poorly.
The SNES, affectionately known (in my haus) as Supernintendo Chalmers AKA Snoopy-Tendo. Also, I'm pretty sure Satan invented the unicycle the day after he invented cheese. The cheese was designed to block up the colons of humans and the unicycle was originally designed without a seat, as a method of holding the cheese in place.
What. I get the Super Nintendo Chalmers joke, it's a line from the Simpsons where Ralph calls Superintendent Chalmers that, and I suppose Snoopy-Tendo makes some sense, but what does the last line have to do with the SNES?
One of the lesser known game on the system is Battle Mobile. It was only released in Japan and it's a top down shmup where you control a car and use a mechanic called Dashing to slam enemies off the road. At the same time, you also have to dodge enemy bullets and projectiles to protect your health bar that constantly depletes. Fun fact, Battle Mobile is from the same people that made Jerry Boy/Smart Ball
Demon’s Crest, Actraiser 2, Evo, Super Mario RPG, Robotrek, and Secret of Evermore filled my childhood happiness. I also managed to buy Paladin’s Quest as the rental store went out of business!
Gaia and Actraiser for sure but for Gaia, you really need to play Soul Blazer and Terranigma too, they are part of an unofficial trio with similar themes. Terranigma was the first game I played that made me really emotional.
i was absolutely hooked on Uniracers as a kid. It was hands-down one of my favorite SNES games. Another hidden gem I loved was called PUSHOVER and it was a domino puzzle game that had way more content than it had any right to have. Also the PUSHOVER soundtrack is bangin
Never thought I'd see a game that had the same concept as Seventh Cross Evolution, but released way back on the SNES. E.V.O Search for Eden was definitely a surprise there
When I was little, my grandma bought me and my brother 3 Ninjas Kick Back because she thought "It's that movie about the karate kids that you wanted." XD We actually ended up liking it a lot though.
Mutant Apocalypse was one of the few games I had as a kid and it was honestly great. Every character and level felt very different. Large sprites. It was definitely the best superhero game I had played at the time.
you could argue that Kirby's dream buffet is the spiritual successor of kirby's dream course with the whole ball aspect of it hell, even the names are similar, so it was probably the main inspiration
holy crap Alfred Chicken! I remember playing the gameboy game for hours on end (especially because I didn´t have many other games then) I´m actually kinda shocked seeing the levels in color in hearing the chicken talk.
So I have thought of Cool World recently. Watched the movie for the first time and played a whole five minutes of the game before rage quitting when I couldn't figure out what to do. I played it so you wouldn't have to
A little to harsh on simpsons barts nightmare. It is hard but once you get the mechanics down I find it fun. Did take me into my adult hood to get an A+. Maybe I like it a lot cause I used to rent it all the time from blockbuster. Later I finally bought it of course.
The SNES... is my nostalgia, alongside the PS1. This system had the best controller design, and a wild grab bag of games both good and bad! Legends were made on that thing!
Claymates! that is a memory you just unlocked for me. I loved the art style of that game, it was different than most of the ones I had, and also hard enough to give me hours and hours of gameplay!
Also, one more for licensed games: The Blues Brothers! made by Titus France. I remember the soundtrack, and that it was too difficult for me as a youngling that couldn't beat it. But it had a co-op mode and everything, it was fun.
The timing on this drop, Austin! Did you see the announce trailer for Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers: Rita’s Rewind yet? Literally within the past week it was announced a new game in the style of the SNES beat ‘em ups is being made.
That’s a good game, for sure. I don’t think I ever finished it, either. I got far but ran out of EVERY item, including squirt-gun ammo and couldn’t beat the Dr. Tongue or giant Tarantula boss I was stuck on. I really needed to play from farther back, (maybe even the beginning?) amd just save up my weapons & items. Probably with save-states it’d be much more manageable. I hope you beat it if ya ever decide to play it again!😊
And don't forget those weird games like Ballz, Captain Novadin, Lester Unlikely (really boring), Home Improvement, Noah Arch 3D (basically a copy of Wolfenstein) One good thing in SNES is the Super Game Boy to play game boy games in that console 🎉
Cool World was a Ralph Bakshi movie, and when it comes to animation he's kind of a legendary/cult figure. Anybody who does a deep dive into his career eventually winds up thinking about Cool World. So that's gotta be at least a couple people I guess?
If I didn't know any better, I would think that the kid with the rat tail you were talking about was me. It wasn't me for sure, but boy, you gave me some flashbacks to when I was a kid.
The SNES was the console that made me love video games back in 2006 when I played Final Fantasy IV for the first time in one of those SNESstation discs for the PS2. One of my favorite consoles of all time! Man I love retro games so much
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What's some forgotten or obscure Super Nintendo titles you remember? Or uh, you know spent hours digging through weird roms for? I didn't talk about it here cause this thing went on for 40 minutes but Secret of Evermore HAS to be the weirdest Squaresoft title from this era. Lemme know what you got!
Macross Scrambled Valkyrie Plus! It's a solid shmup by Winky Soft and published by Zamuse.
E.V.O is Spore before Spore. I would love to see a full (or at least main-feature) review of it. The story is actually baller AF, and some of the best writing in early gaming. I got my copy of it from childhood and almost NO ONE has ever heard of this game.
No idea why, but TH-cam unsubscribed me from this channel. Hope I was the only one hit with this bug.
Secret of Evermore was the Western replacement for the true Secret of Mana sequel: Seiken Densetsu 3. There were a half-dozen potential main characters and the plot would be altered depending on which main and side characters you picked.
A couple of other Square RPGs I went through weird ROMs for were Front Mission, an isometric tactical RPG with each character having an upgradeable mech, and Bahamut Lagoon, a tactical RPG with each character having an AI-controlled dragon that could be transformed through being fed various kinds of items.
There was also Terranigma, an Enix action RPG at least on par with Actraiser or Illusion of Gaia, that had the inventory-screen-as-a-physical-building gimmick way before Fable.
Aside from SD3 being remade as Trials of Mana, none of these games made it to the US. I would by no means consider them to be truly obscure, though.
Admit it, you guys post these obscure games cause you want them to be rereleased
Man Austin just constantly uploads great quality videos over 30 min long. Truly an awesome content creator.
Feel like he doesn’t sleep
Agreed, actual content, not tik tok trash
True ,I also agree
I have followed him from the beginning 👍
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Fun fact about Yoshi's Safari: The first time Princess Toadstool was referred to as "Peach" in NA.
Also, Mario has a bazooka. 😂
3 Ninjas was created by a Korean director who along with his actress wife were kidnapped by North Korea, because the leader of North Korea wanted to build his own movie studio to spread his ideology. They had to live there for years until they finally escaped. Once they got back, they found they were eyed with suspicion by people who thought they defected to North Korea rather than being kidnapped. As a result of this, they ended up moving to the US to get away from the hatred and he had to try to rebuild his career from scratch in a second language. So, I think it's a deecent attempt, given the circumstances.
Holy deeplore
EDIT: I looked into this real quick, and apparently Shin Sang-ok was not involved with the original movie at all and only joined in as a writer/director for the later entries in the franchise. Still, what a wild ride of a career.
@@NucleaRaptor I appreciate the correction. A classic instance of the "telephone game:" I watched a video about this at some point and accidentally altered the details through slightly foggy memory.
The Pulgasari guy!?
@@brochebug yeah!
Holy crap dude... I always had a soft spot for the movies tbh... Still am a bit of a fan of the underdogs so to speak... This needs more attention though... I think every kid around my age sat through at least one or two of those movies in class before summer break. They're friggin ubiquitous.
As a child of the '90s, three ninjas and three ninjas kick back were peak rental movies
And, Surf Ninjas
My parents got me a completely legal copy of 3 ninjas with the last few minutes cut out. I’ve watched that movie dozens of times but have never seen the end.
@@CmotDribbler You can't leave gestalts unclosed like that, dude.
Rocky loves Emily. Everybody knows that
And 3 Ninjas Knuckle up
Fun fact about SkyBlazer... it's built off the same Engine that they used for Hook.
I can believe that. The jump is almost identical
I find it crazy SkyBlazer was made by Sony, and released the same year they would release the PS1, a direct competitor to Nintendo, in Japan. It's kind of weird.
I played Skyblazer up until the end. Even with save states, I found it impossible to win against the final bosses final form.
I thought it looked similar to the hook gameplay especially the flying mechanics
I thought I’d heard, and sort of noticed that before! The jump/fly animation, graphical stylings…
I always felt that games such as Bart’s Nightmare are in this specific pile games that I like to call “Its jank but it has this strange nostalgic charm to it” since nearly everyone played it at one point.
That game is a guilty pleasure of mine,as back in the day, the Only cool Simpsons game was the arcade game, when I first rented Bart's Nightmare, with all its not completely awful mini games, I was extremely pleased with the effort and think it's one of the best Simpsons games still,top 5 at least.peace
I grew up in the DS/Wii era, so the "oddly nostalgic but still terrible" games in my age were stuff like the MySims games, Drawn to Life (though those games do have actual fans), and World of Zoo. And for the non DS/Wii games you have bizzare stuff like the JumpStart games, Time Travel Typing 2, Animal Jam, Math Blaster 2010, Reader Rabbit, and everything having to do with the Leapster that everyone I knew as a kid played but no one talks about anymore.
I feel like the game that goes in that category for me is the second "Toejam & Earl" game for the Genesis
I played it recently and didn’t know you’d to walk into his homework “now I do”
I love barts nightmare but it may have something to do with renting it a lot from blockbuster. As an adult I finally got the A+. I still play it when I can however.
35:14 I agree that a Goemon Collection should be next on Konami's "to-do" list.
I would buy 40000 copies of this by myself.
I remember seeing pics of the mystical ninja 2 in a old gaming magazine. I think EGM? I remember being so excited….wow how heartbroken I was when it never came out.
And a Rocket Knight, Tiny Toons and Twinbee Collection
@@brandonwilliams6119 The RKA: Re-Sparked collection literally just came out the other day.
@@NucleaRaptor but it's from Limited Run Games and they are scummy
Yoshi's Safari! I just played that earlier this year! Fun Fact: this game is the first time Peach was called Princess Peach in the West rather than being called Princess Toadstool.
Whoa, that is a fun fact. Thanks
The game also had a Prince in it named Pine, other than Prince Haru from the 1986 Mario Movie and Prince Peasley from Superstar Saga.
That can't be true. Growing up I always thought her name was Peach.
Was it a fun game?
@@iwanttocomplain It's good. It's not on the level of something like Time Crisis, it's a good effort for the Mario series. I would like to see Nintendo do something like this again for the Switch or other future consoles!
15:58 "Drive off into the sunset???" What the hell happened to Zacks FACE LMAO!!! The Sambo'd the shit outta him.
5 days later literally Capcom announced Marvel vs Capcom Fighting Collection for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Steam.
Nice to see Austin predicted the Marvel Capcom collection of games literally 5 days before the direct 😂
Speaking of SNES deep cuts, I recall that the majority of Sailor Moon games have been released on the Super Famicom and are almost all Japan only (though some fan translations were made since). Austin even talked about the RPG a while ago. SM games is a topic worthy of its own video imo.
some of the sailor moon games for the snes have gotten french versions
A Sailor Moon Fighter Z would be sick! I played the games and love them!
Those beat-em-ups were really solid, especially the first one.
I loved how Sailor Jupiter basically played like a clone of Mike Haggar from Final Fight!
No, not at all. SM games are NOT a topic worthy of anything.
"Eek! the Cat" is an obscure SNES release I'll never forget. It's based on the now forgotten Saturday morning cartoon of the same name. You play as the titular Eek and your mission is to protect your NPC companion from dying as they mindlessly walk into danger. It's not very good and it's brutally difficult but the soundtrack slaps. Turns out it was just a reskinned version of a game called Sleepwalker that was released on the Commodore Amiga in which you played as a dog protecting their owner who was sleepwalking.
EEK!
Wow! I watched the show because I thought it was based on the game I rented once and never finished LMAO
The game itself is one of my least favourite SNES games (it's nothing but escort missions!), but that soundtrack was on a whole other level.
Barry Leitch (San Francisco Rush 2049) and Dean Evans (Waterworld) worked on it, and they continued the trend set by the Follin brothers: that is, British game composers making unfittingly great music for not-so-great games.
Bobby’s works for snes
I was just talking about the cartoon a while back and recently got one of the an Eric emulators and found the game on there.... I hadn't tried it yet cuz I know how hit or miss games like that are and if you like the character the game may tarnish that for ya... (Don't play the tick for Sega Genesis for instance lol) I'll give eek! A shot... I'm curious about aaaagh real monsters as well. Hell if you've read this much and are watching this video you might be interested in an emulator. I've been lovingi e for the nostalgia factor. Listen to stuff like this and play virtual pinball or earthworm Jim.
Square: Hey, we're remaking Actraiser!
Me: cool, you gonna remake your other Action Enix RPGs
Square: ... We had others?
They remade star ocean second story. Though that's more on the RPG side.
That power rangers scene at 14:50 when the bad guy said teenagers awoke some deep nostalgia within me I had forgotten I had.
Barts Nightmare might be one of my best memory’s. The level where you egg the students before picture day. Curse the pig , butcher level!
No one ever talks about Tales of Phantasia for the Snes. It's by far the best most overlooked game on the console. :(
I'd give it to Star Ocean. Phantasia was at least popular in Japan.
No matter what life throws at me even when it’s frustrating, depressing, anxiety inducing, etc I can always rely on Austin Eruption making an amazing video. I can’t thank you enough for the content
A game called "out to lunch" where you are a chef who has to chase down his sentient ingredients after they escape
Run Saber is one of my favorite SNES games that nobody really talks about. It's short, but it's very dynamic and lots of fun with 2 players!
Run Saber is great!
Man, you mention ninjas, licensed games AND Capcom and but Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow? That game was legit awesome and the SNES version was the best one.
Nah man, Genesis version for life.
How often a game is better than the movie? Well...
Peter Jackson's King Kong (2005) - except maybe the NDS/PSP versions, lol. But the PC/X360 version and its PS2/OGXbox ports were... awesome. Like, really, really good. The movie is boring af, the game is lots of fun, especially the FPP levels with lots of dinos. That T-Rex roar when it's introduced for the first time - tell me you didn't get chills back in 2005 seeing that shaking screen blur..!
Alien: Resurrection (2000) - very underappreciated, inventive game. It introduced the modern dual analog control scheme for console FPS games, and was totally bashed for it back in the day because "hurr durr what a weird way to play a shooter, gimme back the L1/R1 strafing and shooting with X button!". Movie is trash, so bad it's good trash but still trash - the game is really good, though. Hard, but good. Better then the movie objectively speaking.
James Cameron's Avatar The Game (2009) - let's face it, the movie is meh. Yeah, it introduced a lot of new tech, but it's just Pocahontas in space and it's very, VERY boring if you are not of of these crazies that thought they are Naavi in real life. I heard the newest game is good too - didn't play it yet, but the movie is even more boring than the first one so I assume it's the same thing. Avatar The Game was very cool though, and looked really nice on X360/PS3. Not Crysis levels of jungle environments but still nice. I really think the game is better than the movie.
Battleship (2012) - anyone even remember this one? Yeah, the movie is garbage, the game is mediocre. So by definition it's better than the movie, heh.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) - movie was meh, the game is an awesome God of War clone. Like, really, really good. The 7th gen version, of course. The PS2/Wii game was lame.
The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay (2004) - both Riddick movies are overrated, but the game is awesome. Does it count, though..? It's kinda a prequel or something...
All Friday the 13th movies are technically low budget trash cinems while the game from few years ago was a really good mid-budget title with interesting gameplay. It was way more original than the movies themselves. They have a cult status but technically none of the movies is... good. So... a curious case.
Mad Max (2015) - edge case scenario where the game is... equally great as the movie is ;) And it can be argued that it's better than Beyond Thunderdome, lol.
Plan 9 From Outer Space (1992) - I bet you didn't even know it existed, but yeah, it's technically... better than the movie :D
The Punisher (2005) - the 2004 movie was mediocre, the game is good. Nuff said.
Star Trek (2009) - the JJ Abrams movie is a travesty and it killed true Star Trek; the game based off it is... acceptable as a Gears of War clone. Math says it's then better than the movie, and we all like math!
Terminator Salvation (2009) - wow, lots of 2009 games incidentally... Another one that is a mediocre game, but compared to a movie that was lame and awful, it technically wins.
Wanted: Weapons of Fate (2009) - I could basically copypaste what I wrote about Terminator Salvation :D
So, there aren't MANY, but there are enough that you couldn't "count them on your fingers" ;)
So if a lot of those movies you listed are overrated or not that good. What would you consider a good movie? I mean at the end of the day does it entertain me then? It's a decent movie. I don't know why people are so critical over movies
Came to the comments to just to see if anyone would mention x-men origins since that movie was trash but from what I understand the game was pretty good lol. Totally forgot about butcher bay though.
@@monkeykidd420 What do I consider a good movie, you ask. Let me say first that I do distinguish between "good" movies and "entertaining" movies. And movies can be either one of these or they can be both, too.
Like, Alien Resurrection is very entertaining. It has this crazy performance by Brad Dourif playing a doctor-Frankenstein-like mad scientist, and a cheesy performance by Sigourney Weaver doing a female impression of Arnold-Schwarzenegger-like action hero. There are a bunch of character actors like Ron Pearlman supplying their amazing unusual faces and there's Winona Ryder playing a sexy robot. But it's technically not a very good movie.
- There's an overusage of CGI that didn't age well.
- There are lots of "cool", "MTV-style" shots that are a result of then-current trends in cinematography that went out of style and date the movie, devoiding it of the universal style of its predecessors: you can watch 1979's Alien or 1986's Aliens today and except for that one shot of the xeno startling Dallas you would have trouble saying it's 45 / 35 years old if you wouldn't know that, while watching Alien Resurrection you instantly feel that it was made around the year 2000.
- The plot is a paint-by-the-numbers action movie, not much subtext here unlike the previous ones.
- There's lots of comedy in this one, and most of it is really cheap, making it deviate from the series' overall tone.
- The acting is over the top, there's lots of scenery chewing, which is again a deviation from previous ones that had realistic and sometimes even subtle performances.
A "good" movie in my opinion is something that:
- has a solid plot preferably with some subtext that makes it "about something" (like Aliens being largely about motherhood, or The Fly being about dealing with illnes of a loved one, or The Thing being about impact of isolation on psychology)
- has a well-written script (no wooden or unrealistic dialogue, no forced exposition, no overusage of tired tropes)
- is well made (solid cinematography, blocking, shot composition, editing that allows you to follow the footage with ease, no issues with light or sound, no overusage of CGI where the same effect could be achieved using real sets or props, no audible ADR, etc)
- has good acting (characters emote realistically, react accordingly to the events in the plot)
- has top-notch special and visual effects (again no overusage of CGI when not necessary, quality costumes, matte paintings, clever usage of various techniques in adjacent shots)
It feels weird describing it because I think most people know what a "good" movie is, it's just that lots of people have trouble admitting that a movie that they find entertaining is not technically good. It's like they're ashamed of liking something that is not perfect or even straight bad. Which always amazes me, because I feel no shame in admitting that I enjoy many parts of Friday The 13th at the same time agreeing that they're trash cinema!
"Being entertained" by a movie is a huge factor for me, though it doesn't solely determine if a movie is good. I mean, "2001 Space Odyssey" is a masterpiece, but I wouldn't say it's an "entertaining" movie. It's a movie that you "admire" rather than "enjoy". And not enjoying it in the same way like enjoying Die Hard doesn't make 2001 a bad movie, oh no.
I am also aware that my taste in movies does not agree with most audiences, so i'd never argue with someone that says, for example, that Avatar is a good movie. It isn't to me, but it might be to someone else. It's all subjective, after all. The most important thing is to not work yourself up when you judge a movie or when you read someone else's judgement - in the end it's just someone's opinion about a movie, right?
And, finally - why some people are so critical about movies? Well, because it's entertaining :D Analyzing things involve your knowledge about it, in this case: my knowledge about movie-making. I am somewhat knowledgeable about the subject, so I enjoy utilizing what I learned about, for example, light setups and editing in my opinions about movies. I suspect you are also knowledgeable about some things, for example: cars or sports, and thus your critique of a specific model of an SUV is much more detailed than some Karen's that just says "what a cool looking car, I don't know why some people criticize it so much instead of enjoying being driven in one!", am I right? :)
Now Austin has the power….SUPER POWER!!!
May not be Mutant Apocalyspe but hey, got the Marvel vs Capcom (+ Punisher) arcade collection announced today lol
I remember renting Bart's Nightmare. I just wandered down the street for a couple hours trying to figure what I'm supposed to do and then never played it again.
The instructions to BN were probably absolutely critical to even moderately enjoy it. …Gotta use bubble gum to border your own a big Z health-bar and then catch ‘em, and then survive and chase down and jump on the pages, and THEN beat the minigames and try to get a high score… and use the L/R buttons to help survive the Temple of Maggie’s pacifiers… pretty crazy.
I've never been more happy than to learn the passage from Wikipedia stating the judge was a moron for agreeing with Pixar that the unicycle was stolen from their ad campaign for Uniracers.. IS ACTUALLY ON WIKIPEDIA. Like that isn't even a joke, that's literally on their page for Uniracers! Apparently it was said by former DMA Design developer Robbie Graham. The best part is, it's 100% correct.
as long as you quote it, you can put anything you want in there heh
I actually ruled with Pixar. In my 5 second court in my head. It's just too similar and Pixar are so famous. They use pre-rendered digitised sprites. So it's too close as Pixar and Nintendo are both famous consumer brands for kids.
That's bias from Wikipedia.
@@iwanttocomplainDude, it is quite literally a common object. The audacity of Pixar to say they own the concept of a unicycle come to life is absurd. Imagine if the creator of Herbie the Love Bug sued Pixar for the movie Cars because the cars in the movie had their own personalities and could drive on their own like Herbie. It has no distinguishing characteristics separating it from an actual goddamn unicycle. It is a wholly unoriginal concept that only a smooth brain would claim Uniracers "stole".
@@MuttMondo No. It's a legal issue and I happened to agree with the judge. No disrespect. It's just the same market and too close and happens to be their heavily used mascot.
You just rebooted my brain with legend of the mystical ninja. Pretty sure i rented that at least 20 times as a kid (along with the rental SNES because we didn't have one)!
EVO is basically just the 90's (admittedly cuter) pre-cursor to Spore, from what I've gathered from watching your segment on it here, and I absolutely love Spore. I'm surprised I've never heard of EVO before such, in that case.
15:58 welp Zack is really something in that scene
You not alone. Batman Returns came out. They had a photo op set up at a local grocery store here (which is WEIRD for Arkansas in any decade.) And my ass was too scared to take a pic with Batman and Catwoman. 💎🤣
EDIT: 90's Arkansas cosplay Batman and Catwoman had to be a sight.
I just got my super Nintendo system a month ago. It took me back to my mid teens when I first played super mario world, and super street fighter 2. I love those games ,and it was awesome. I haven't played those games in awhile.
Porky Pig's Haunted Holiday is a forgotten but fun game
Man, JellyBoy just REEKS of originating on the Amiga for the UK market.
You definitely touched on some really cool classics that would be my favorite forgotten games. Literally working on an in-depth retrospective on Illusion of Gaia as we speak as my first video! Also was a trip to see someone else discuss Uniracers in any context. Some very hilarious other ones are King of the Monsters 2, the movie games of Dennis the Menace and We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story, and a really cult-classic-y one is Zombies Ate My Neighbors, which I'm realizing the new generation has probably never seen.
> kirby's super star stacker being forgotten from vc
I distinctly remember that game literally being put on SNES NSO albeit not translated
Yep, it sure is. I love that game.
It's a good game, but it also doesn't really have any meat on it's bones.. or a reason to exist. The original is still perfectly serviceable, more popular, officially translated for all regions, and just more common and easier to port. As much as Super Star Stacker looks better, it's the exact same game but on harder hardware to emulate, and for Nintendo to go all-out and translate the game themselves would never happen. There are great fan translations though. This game and Wrecking Crew '98 always perplexed me as they both were Japan exclusives on the Super Famicom in 1998, though I've heard the reason is because the Super Famicom was still more popular than the N64 in Japan.
Bart's Nightmare is one I have a ton of nostalgia for. I was never good at it but still have fun with it.
I remember liking it, at least as a rental (& that had good enough instructions!). Wasn’t good, either, especially at Maggie’s Temple stages, but eventually finished all the games, got the pages and got an A, at least. It was a quirky, fun time.
Bart's nightmare was one of the best games ever for the SNES and I win it without any use of the game genie
You want forgotten, how about the STILL UNLOCALIZED Fire Emblems 3, 4, & 5. The series is more visible than ever, so why not let fans experience more of its history? I thought Echoes was the start of remaking the unlocalized games but they only did Gaiden. Mystery & Thracia at least have fan translations, but Genealogy still isn't finished so tough shit on that front.
God bless the fan translation comunity. The true goats
I'm almost positive genealogy has a fan translation tho? Thracia was the game to not have a PASSABLE English translation for the longest time, not genealogy, due to Thracia being the most obscure mainline FE game. It did have a fan translation since the early 2000s, but that original translation was so awful that many of its "liberties" have become memes in the hardcore FE community. (Pugi Pugi, in America, etc) Thracia got an ACTUALLY FAITHFUL and fully finished English re-translation back in the late 2010s, so all three unlocalized SNES fire emblem games have good fan translations now.
Melee came out before Roy's debut game, and yet they STILL haven't brought it stateside! What sense does that make?!
Genealogys translation has been finished for years? Sure some weird translations like Raquesis but its basically finished
I did not know my copy of uniracers was a game removed from stores because of a lawsuit lol
Wow, and you talked about Super Alfred Chicken, did you go through my closet to make this video? Lol
P.s. the reason i owned so many random wierd games is because my mom went to a rental store that was closing and bought me a ton of random games that she would give me for doing chores or well in school and stuff.
I didn't either! Big surprise that one.
That lawsuit though is kinda hilariously dumb.
Your Unicicle looks like a Unicicle? HOW DARE YOU!!
Wonder on how many zeroes that judge was at the time.
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I think you could technically air dash in ESWAT (1989) when you got the rocketpack. Not quite the same, tho.
Quick note about playing superscope and other light gun games: it's way way easier to get your hands on Wii equipment, including any number of gun accessories. Not only can you use them with wiimotes in emulators for other consoles on it (recently was playing duck hunt with my roomate), but you can do it on a non-CRT television.
Claymates was such an awesome game as a kid. The visuals are still amazingly stylized to this day. Really glad it got put on the Nintendo Switch Online service.
Oh, and the music for the game is a bop too!
I am a huge Claymates fan as well. Many hours of fun and i loved the overworld puzzles.
Man, nobody *ever* talks about Spike McFang. It's not the best game by any means, but it's definitely still worth checking out
3 ninjas reminds me of the Surf Ninjas game where you ripped people's hearts out.
I love that you mentioned the MMPR SNES game. That game is such a gem. So much fun to play. A great beat em up platformer.
Spanky’s Quest, Super Buster Bros, and Speedy Gonzalez come to mind and I own those games on cartridges.
There’s also Super Famicom Wars with classic Nintendo characters named Hetler and Billy Gates lol
Bart's Nightmare is actually kinda fun if you know what you're doing.
The Tick and Bobby's World belong in the AAAAAAAAH section...
AAAHHHHHHH
If you haven't seen it look for the live action tick. Not a lot of episodes but funny
@@johnsmith-rp5bg Amazon version is really good too! The original live action version really seems to be aiming for meta humor that not all will catch and I really love it for that and just because Putty plays the character so well, Bat -Manuel is frequently hilarious as well.
The NInja Warriors, a game about three different robot Ninjas, has lived in my head for decades even though I played it one time when I rented it from King Soopers.
It's a gem to be sure. It got a downloadable rerelease a few years back with extra content, plus the original arcade version is a completely different game.
@@brochebug wait what?! Do you have more info? I haven't played in decades and I'd love to.
@@alexvdl The name for the re-release is The Ninja Saviours: Return of the Warriors. Enhances the graphics for modern displays, adds two new charactres- a MASSIVE robot that looks like an industrial machine, and a humanoid girl-robot with extending cable-arms. Available for pretty much all modern platforms.
And as the other person said, the arcade original game is NOT the SNES game, they made a new version of the arcade game ground up for the SNES, really adapted it for the console. Arcade original is also available for modern formats that I know: Arcade Archives The Ninja Warriors is its name.
The Mighty Morphin Power Ranger beat em up is one of my favorite games of all time. It's still so fun with that Rangers aesthetic that just hits the spot.
Same, it's probably my favorite beat-em-up.
30 years of reaching the same level to building the character at the right way in the game
bro just willed a whole ass collection into existence
We need him to talk some more into existence..
There are two licensed games I would humbly submit to the list.
Widget, and Star Trek Deep Space 9.
Widget is a fun platformer with an interesting (for the time) power-up mechanic, some really catchy songs, and I really like how they pulled off most of the theming. Nobody remembers Widget in 2024 😂 OH yeah, the game was an Atlus title.
DS9 is a puzzle platformer. I remember it being a little hard but very satisfying once I figured out what I needed to do.
Bonus rounds for Scooby Doo SNES and Speed Racer SNES. Games that were better than they had any right to be.
Final edit I promise: Harley's Humongous Adventure
Barts nightmare was awesome.
I love Barts nightmare lol
"The Magical Quest starring Mickey Mouse" is also a hidden gem imo. I never see anyone talk about it but it's a nice little game
Sunk a ton of hours into Vic Tokai's Super Conflict. Picture Advance Wars with no plot or story and much more predictable enemy AI. It was a blast.
I remember asking for Super Off Road for my birthday. I got Uncle Fester instead. I was beyond disappointed.
We rented Uniracers all the time from our convenience store in our little town of 2500. That simple game was a ton of fun co-op
Robotrek is easily the best game on SNES that no one talks about. The best Enix game ever. Getting to build your own robots and collecting megabytes for experience points along with an insanely fun invention system. Man, it just got so much right while also being very unique.
Bart's Nightmare was awesome randomness. But the Itchy and Scratchy game was far better.
Skyblazer looks dope! What a find!
Bart's Nightmare is such an interesting game for me because it seems like everybody has their own story with it. It's just one of those like universally played games of the era.
A buddy of mine had to choose whether to buy Bart's Nightmare or Earthbound when his local rental store was going out of business when he was a kid, and to this day...Yeah, he naturally believes he chose poorly.
The SNES, affectionately known (in my haus) as Supernintendo Chalmers AKA Snoopy-Tendo.
Also, I'm pretty sure Satan invented the unicycle the day after he invented cheese. The cheese was designed to block up the colons of humans and the unicycle was originally designed without a seat, as a method of holding the cheese in place.
What. I get the Super Nintendo Chalmers joke, it's a line from the Simpsons where Ralph calls Superintendent Chalmers that, and I suppose Snoopy-Tendo makes some sense, but what does the last line have to do with the SNES?
Lmao, I will never ever forget Bart's Nightmare. It was so fu*** difficult
every time i hear the hidden gem talk, i always remember Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow
the only game i have a copy on SNES, one on Genesis and one on PC
I remember renting uniracers 3x in a row from Hollywood Videos that game was a blast
One of the lesser known game on the system is Battle Mobile. It was only released in Japan and it's a top down shmup where you control a car and use a mechanic called Dashing to slam enemies off the road.
At the same time, you also have to dodge enemy bullets and projectiles to protect your health bar that constantly depletes.
Fun fact, Battle Mobile is from the same people that made Jerry Boy/Smart Ball
The super Alfred chicken hotline is too amazing to fade into obscurity 😂😂
Bart's Nightmare bad??? Skill issue!
Oh if anyone watching this also loves early years Game Grumps, you definitely know Sky Blazer lol
yoooo alfred chicken is legitness , i would recommend canon fodder or firemen.
I was looking for someone else that agreed 😂 Dude I had the game and enjoyed it back in the day.
Thank you for highlighting Uniracer and Pop’n Twinbee Rainbow Bell Adventure! Loved those games growing up.
Demon’s Crest, Actraiser 2, Evo, Super Mario RPG, Robotrek, and Secret of Evermore filled my childhood happiness. I also managed to buy Paladin’s Quest as the rental store went out of business!
Gaia and Actraiser for sure but for Gaia, you really need to play Soul Blazer and Terranigma too, they are part of an unofficial trio with similar themes. Terranigma was the first game I played that made me really emotional.
Power Rangers game had one of the most bangin soundtracks on the SNES.
Hiroyuki Iwatsuki never misses.
i was absolutely hooked on Uniracers as a kid. It was hands-down one of my favorite SNES games. Another hidden gem I loved was called PUSHOVER and it was a domino puzzle game that had way more content than it had any right to have. Also the PUSHOVER soundtrack is bangin
Never thought I'd see a game that had the same concept as Seventh Cross Evolution, but released way back on the SNES. E.V.O Search for Eden was definitely a surprise there
When I was little, my grandma bought me and my brother 3 Ninjas Kick Back because she thought "It's that movie about the karate kids that you wanted." XD We actually ended up liking it a lot though.
I still remember borrowing sky blazer from a friend when I was kid. Definitely one of the most underrated and forgotten gems of all time
I literally have never played an SNES, I almost had a chance New Years 2000, but the older kid wanted to play Goldeneye more.
Mutant Apocalypse was one of the few games I had as a kid and it was honestly great. Every character and level felt very different. Large sprites. It was definitely the best superhero game I had played at the time.
you could argue that Kirby's dream buffet is the spiritual successor of kirby's dream course with the whole ball aspect of it
hell, even the names are similar, so it was probably the main inspiration
holy crap Alfred Chicken! I remember playing the gameboy game for hours on end (especially because I didn´t have many other games then) I´m actually kinda shocked seeing the levels in color in hearing the chicken talk.
Skyblazer! So much fun secrwetz to discover in this game ! Easily a 8.5! Got it for 20$ new in 1998-99 at Zellers of all places
Nice score! 😊👍 … and Zellers! I haven’t heard that name in while.
The "Three Ninjas" movie was my life in elementary school. Rocky was my boy. Tum-Tum was great at Mario 3 in the movie so he's cool with me
So I have thought of Cool World recently. Watched the movie for the first time and played a whole five minutes of the game before rage quitting when I couldn't figure out what to do. I played it so you wouldn't have to
Body harvest for the 64 was so boss.
Agreed! I loved Body Harvest. 😊
A little to harsh on simpsons barts nightmare. It is hard but once you get the mechanics down I find it fun. Did take me into my adult hood to get an A+. Maybe I like it a lot cause I used to rent it all the time from blockbuster. Later I finally bought it of course.
The SNES... is my nostalgia, alongside the PS1. This system had the best controller design, and a wild grab bag of games both good and bad! Legends were made on that thing!
Damn nostalgia overload with the 3 ninjas mention, Rocky loves Emily lives rent free in my head 😂
Been going thru a lot lately. I always appreciate when you upload. Thanks for the new video Austin!
I hope things get better for you!
Claymates! that is a memory you just unlocked for me. I loved the art style of that game, it was different than most of the ones I had, and also hard enough to give me hours and hours of gameplay!
Also, one more for licensed games: The Blues Brothers! made by Titus France. I remember the soundtrack, and that it was too difficult for me as a youngling that couldn't beat it. But it had a co-op mode and everything, it was fun.
The timing on this drop, Austin! Did you see the announce trailer for Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers: Rita’s Rewind yet? Literally within the past week it was announced a new game in the style of the SNES beat ‘em ups is being made.
I had this video done about a week ago and screamed in the call when it popped up.
Zombies ate my neighbor's, still pissed i never finished that
That’s a good game, for sure. I don’t think I ever finished it, either. I got far but ran out of EVERY item, including squirt-gun ammo and couldn’t beat the Dr. Tongue or giant Tarantula boss I was stuck on. I really needed to play from farther back, (maybe even the beginning?) amd just save up my weapons & items. Probably with save-states it’d be much more manageable.
I hope you beat it if ya ever decide to play it again!😊
And don't forget those weird games like Ballz, Captain Novadin, Lester Unlikely (really boring), Home Improvement, Noah Arch 3D (basically a copy of Wolfenstein)
One good thing in SNES is the Super Game Boy to play game boy games in that console 🎉
My brother had Captain Novolin, very horrible game lol. He loved it but he was 4 years old
Super Noah's Arc 3D is really fascinating
Cool World was a Ralph Bakshi movie, and when it comes to animation he's kind of a legendary/cult figure. Anybody who does a deep dive into his career eventually winds up thinking about Cool World. So that's gotta be at least a couple people I guess?
If I didn't know any better, I would think that the kid with the rat tail you were talking about was me. It wasn't me for sure, but boy, you gave me some flashbacks to when I was a kid.
The SNES was the console that made me love video games back in 2006 when I played Final Fantasy IV for the first time in one of those SNESstation discs for the PS2. One of my favorite consoles of all time! Man I love retro games so much
For a video with this title there were a surprisingly high number of games that I have not only played, but played often.