Battle of the Ports - Parodius - パロディウス (Show #48) 60fps
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ย. 2024
- The last BOTP for 2014 and quite a colourful one for the Christmas season. This is Parodius. The next BOTP will be released on January 10th 2015 as I'll be on holiday until then. So a Merry Christmas to all and thanks for supporting the show this year. Loads more still to come next year.
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Time Code
00:24 - Arcade
04:24 - PC Engine
08:20 - Super Famicom / SNES
11:40 - PlayStation
15:01 - Famicom / NES
17:46 - Sharp X68000
20:14 - Game Boy
22:59 - Sega Saturn
Info from Wikipedia
The Parodius (パロディウス Parodiusu?) series is a series of horizontally scrolling shooters developed by Konami. The games are tongue-in-cheek parodies of Gradius, hence the name (Parodius is a portmanteau of Parody and Gradius). It also parodies many other Konami franchises, including Antarctic Adventure, Castlevania, Xexex, Thunder Cross, Taisen Puzzle-Dama, Space Manbow, Ganbare Goemon, Lethal Enforcers, Tokimeki Memorial and TwinBee.
Enjoy!
I kind of knew the Saturn version would be the one, but I'm most impressed with the NES port. Wow, I've hardly seen a game look so good on the machine!
Indeed. The NES version is impressive.
Mate, a few small corrections. The game you are reviewing here is Parodius Da! .. which, ok, was named just "Parodius" in some countries. Fantastic Journey was actually its sequel, "Gokujyou Parodius" (Imo the best game in the series).
The Octopus was a character introduced in the original MSX Parodius game, as he is central to the storyline of that game :D
Expected the Saturn to come out on top but cannot believe the quality of the NES port. Amazing piece of programming.
Agreed. The NES version is pretty impressive for the hardware.
Nice :-)
Never played/seen the 8bit Famicom version. Yes, I never realised the had changed the dancing-girl boss outfit to a more respectable 'child-friendly' version for that port.
Funny as I always see the Mega Drive hardware as a stripped down version of the X68000 as they shared same processor and a similar sound chip. That said... the X68000 did have extra sprite grunt/colour pallete/and Background layers - along with its astronomical price-tag - lol.
As always- thanks for sharing, and Happy Holidays to you too :-)
There's secret bosses in the Nec version depending on your score not featured in any other game while the Snes have a special boss at the end of the special stage. There's missing animations on the PS1 and Saturn version apparently too (is it mean or the palm trees aren't moving when the cat ship pass nearby ?).
Interesting about the missing animation on the Saturn and PSX versions. I've never really noticed that.
Retro Core I just noticed that with the palm tree maybe it's just an ommission?
No, I saw on Saturn also the water animation when the chicken falls. It misses the big wave, also absent on Super Famicom, but present on PC Engine !
Ok, overall the Saturn version remains the best for a living room. But she's darker than the others, right ?
The SFC / SNES version has a stage not in arcade. The Saturn / PS Parodius pack version has an exclusive secret stage after Round 1 if you do a bunch of conditions which I've tried but never been able to access. The Game Boy version got a Game Boy Color makeover included on Konami Collection Vol 2 which is a bit better to look at.
Only the PS1 version of Parodius Da has the hidden stage in stage 2, shoot all the stage starting enemies, then shoot only the first one in the second formation. Avoid all enemies for a few seconds, then the start of the stage will start over. From there you go to a stage that is inspired, and a parody of the Battleship level from Thunder Cross.
Love the Parodius series! Ah the Psp Parodius Collection is awesome! Excellent, love your videos! Even I miss this on 2014!
The game that could only be created in Japan. And what's more amazing that it's a good game in its own right it seems.
Ah, the days when Konami was an awesome developer and delivered both arcade goodies and wonderful ports...
Sadly those great Konami days are long gone. The guys at the top are old farts with no interest in anything but money. Finger up to the fans and to their employees.
Retro Core Well, corporations exist to make money. Though, it doesn't justify bad treatment of people and properties.
I hear that Parodius will be one of the games for the Japanese version of the PC Engine Mini Classic.
*Super Famicom and PC Engine are my favorite s and played to death and almost arcade perfect!* ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Even after that immense acid trip, I can safely say, "How the mighty have fallen."
Also, Octopus is best Paro boi.
Sorry, but I have to add some corrections to your video: 1) The Sharp 68000 version doesn't sound as good as the SNES version, and while it has fewer moments of slowdown, it is missing some sprite animations that the SNES features. By the way: The SNES version has less slowdown than the arcade game... 2) The PlayStation version was missing some parallax scrolling layers in some stages (which even the SNES port featured in all glory). The Sega Saturn port, on the other hand, was a pixel-perfect port of the arcade game and the best port available. 3) The 8-Bit NES / Famicom version was abysmal! talking about slowdown...
Damn what I would give to own that Saturn version as it did get released here in the West, however with the ridiculous prices for it now days I guess that ship has sailed :( Guess I'll just stick to playing it the way I enjoy on Playstation with the Konami Hyperstick on a CRT, hey it does the job quite adequately! Great video as always Mark. :)
A great show to end 2014. You have to love a bit of Parodius.
Thank you for making great videos of different ports. My first CD based import for my PlayStation back in 96. I lov this Great game! Merry Xmas!
Cheers and Happy Christmas, Parodius is one of those feel-good games that's great to play around this time of year.
Will you be having KFC again for Christmas dinner? :-)
Merry Christmast to you too.
I'm having KFC and Pizza in about 30 minutes because we are having our Chrismas party with friends tonight. I'm leaving for the UK on Tuesday morning so this year I can have a real Chrismas dinner :)
Retro Core Nice, have a good one.
bombjack Jollibee is better than KFC
Merry Christmas and thanks for providing yet another year of unique material. Safe journey, too.
Thank you very much. Well now in the UK and yes it's raining :)
Not sure why, but every time you're in that circus level, I find myself wanting to play City Connection...
Esta serie tiene los mejores soundtrack de música clásica remix junto con pump it up, no entiendo como Konami hizo un dance dance revolution con todo el ost de estos juegos hubiera sido una genialidad
I have been playing parodius for years, in an ever ending quest to 1Cc it at 'hard' difficullty level and I have to disagree with your rating of the PSX vs Saturn versions. The orginal arcade has slow downs in certain sections of the game that the PSx reproduces sucessfully w
hereas the Saturn version never slow down, making it near to impossible to co plete. This isuue is not noticeable on normal, but definitely makes a difference on harder difficulty levels.
Ooh, I see !
Gotta love parodius
this has to be one of the most bizarre games I've ever seen. I want some of whatever the creators were drinking.
_something strange in Parodius_, you said Mark ? =D
i only played the SFC version & i can't disagree with the damn annoying slow down,
i should play more on X68K :).
thanks, nice video, as usual.
SebasHCG May’be the PAL version has slowdown?
*it was amazing programming there was no slow-down and loads of sprites!* ⭐️
Thanks for doing all these great videos, Happy Christmas.
Happy Christmas to you too and all of the BOTP fans. thanks for watching the show this year and here's looking forward to another year of BOTP. I have a list of over 80 games to cover so the show has got many more episodes to come :)
Do like a bit of Parodius me, nicely done vid.
Another great port battle vid, thank you. :) Merry Christmas. :) Have you played Sexy Parodius? I've not played it yet but I've heard it's very good.
Yes, I own all the Parodius games for the Saturn. Sexy Parodius is very good. Much better than the first game.
I first played this on the PS1 and had a great time with it. The famicom version is really impressive.
I have the SFC and PCE versions at home, and I have the euro version on Saturn in another city.
I can say that the PCE version is smoother in the menus than the SFC version. The latter is graphically closer to the arcade version, but it lacks animations on the bosses, whereas we have them on PCE. The HuCard version is truly impressive for a 1987 design machine, and is more comfortable to chain games than on SFC. This typing the TOP 15 scores at the end of the game is tiring.
Corrections, I meant Sexy Parodius. I had this for Super Nintendo using a convertor. Sorry for the confusion.
Oh my, Europeans got so lucky to get this game and it was, and possibly still is, too much for the Americans. Sadly, this is the only Parodius game that got wide release in Europe.
NES/FC and GB ports are truly impressive indeed. Konami really wanted to bring Parodius to 8-bit Nintendo systems and they did it. Modern Konami would never do anything like that. It's weird how Vegas girl's outfit is changed in NES/FC port but not in SNES/SFC and GB ports. Must be due to graphical limitations rather than the Nintendo censorship.
SNES/SFC port is just as great as other SNES/SFC games by Konami. I definitely should get it and give it a try.
Konami did neat job with X68000 ports of their games. Konami also included option to have midis, like Roland SC-55, playback the music. If I remember well, the X68000 port of Parodius even allows to combine the FM synthesis of X68000 and midi for the music. That might be the best way to solve "the drum sound channel drop issue".
I don't get why many PC Engine ports of arcade shoot 'em ups have the screen to be scrolled up and down, considering the fact PC Engine has slightly higher resolution than SNES/SFC.
Even though Konami ported Parodius to as many systems as possible, why they didn't port Parodius to Mega Drive? If Parodius was ported to Mega Drive, it would be quite similar to the X68000 port but would look worse than the PC Engine port.
Saturn port is inevitably arcade perfect. Just like usually, both the Saturn and Playstation ports are just like the Arcade version but Playstation port has slowdowns.
Konami on the SFC were awesome. Sadly for the longest time they just had no interest in making games for Sega platforms. Thankfully that did eventually change.
@@RetroCore Konami must have regretted their decision of ignoring and not releasing Gunstar Heroes as Gunstar Heroes was originally supposed to be Konami game.
Hey at 3:00 is the ARCADE game City Connection SONG !!!!
finally, a game with no bad ports!
Merry xmas to all.
I miss the MSX version but anyways great job.
Wow PC Engine is a excellent ports very close to the Arcade
Snes very good unbelievable
PS1 & Saturn!!!
Yep, all the console ports are great but if I had to had one it would be the Saturn version. Before that was released I loved playing the SNES version.
i agree with you i remember sega saturn on street fighter alpha 2 very close to the arcade , saturn can make every thing better for fighting game & shooting games
Yakumo, you should do a Battle of the Ports involving Gokujou Parodius/Fantastic Journey some day. It had arcade, SNES, PlayStation and Sega Saturn versions (not counting the PSP version, since you didn't count it here). Sexy Parodius would also be great although that one only had arcade, PlayStation and Sega Saturn versions (again, not counting the PSP version), so maybe you are a little more reluctant with that.
Are the PSP games emulated Arcade roms or emulated PlayStation games or actual ports. If they're actual ports I'd be happy to include them.
@@RetroCore I can't tell you for sure since I don't have the Parodius Collection for PSP. I have all the Gradius, Salamander, Twinbee and Parodius games/deluxe packs for the Sega Saturn, but in the case of the PSP, I only have the Gradius Collection which was the only one that came out in Europe for the PSP, while the Salamander, Twinbee and Parodius Collections for PSP were Japan only and are now a bit rare and expensive (yeah, I know in the case of the Sega Saturn installments only the Parodius Deluxe Pack came out in Europe, in that case I got the Japanese versions of all the rest because I'm a Sega Saturn enthusiast/collector). Anyway, based on what I noticed from the Gradius Collection for PSP, for Gradius 1 and Gradius II that one includes the Gradius Deluxe Pack in either emulated or ported form from the PlayStation, while for Gradius III and Gradius IV it includes the Gradius III & IV in what I assume it's ported form from the PlayStation 2, and then Gradius Graiden in emulated/ported form. But they are the PlayStation and PlayStation 2 versions for sure. So it probably is the same for the other collections, which means that in the case of the Parodius Collection, probably Parodius Da!, Gokujou Parodius, Jikkyou Oshaberri Parodius and Sexy Parodius are straight PlayStation emulations or ports or whatever. Sorry I can't help you more with that, I suppose you would have to do some research to check it out in deep.
Ah, as I though. Since the PSP csn run PSX games it makes sense that they'd just use the PSX versions. No work needed then apart from making a front end.
@@RetroCore No, they also changed some of the music tracks. And now they play in widescreen
@@cristianmastrocicco4552 I believe the music changes are because of copyright issues. Something similar already happened back in 1996 with the English language arcade release of Sexy Parodius.
The game Americans missed out big time on!
The later games are even better too. I think Europe only got the first Parodius but they also got a messed up version of Twinbee Rainbow Bell Adventure.
I hear you, brother! I was lucky to have played the Euro version on an SNES emulator on my brother's computer. For shame, Konami!
TimelordR Missed out at the right place and time.
@@RetroCore Europe got Parodius Da!/Parodius Non-Sense Fantasy (Arcade, NES, Game Boy, SNES, Sega Saturn, PlayStation, Game Boy Color), Gokujou Parodius/Fantastic Journey (Arcade, Sega Saturn, PlayStation) and it seems that Sexy Parodius (Arcade) was also released but in very limited quantities.
Imagine if these games were also released in America? Also, just give the Eagle Boss a top hat and a tuxedo in order to not to make the USA people mad.
This one did get an EU release which is surprising.
@@RetroCore I know that.
As an Anerican who has the entire series on Saturn and PSP, plus all the SFC ones, the Game Boy one, and the first 3 on PS1, when I see the Eagle Boss, I just laugh, doesn't even offend me, I enjoy the games too damned much to be mad.
It's funny, for all the talk of how easy the Playstation was to develop for compared to the Saturn, quite a few developers seemed to struggle with it early on, especially with 2D games. Wasn't Darkstalkers ported by Psygnosis because Capcom were having trouble?
Anyway, the Saturn versions of Parodius Da and Gokujou Parodius are clearly better than the Playstation ports, but AFAIK things were much, much closer with Sexy Parodius. I assume they'd got to grips more with the Playstation hardware by then.
How true it is that Psygnosis developed Darkstalkers is unknown. I knew many people that worked for Sony Liverpool and other Liverpool dev houses such as Bizzare Creations, Travelers Tails and Psygnosis but none ever confirmed Darkstalkers.
One thing we do know is that whoever ported it still didn't even get close to the Saturn port.
I request 10 videos of you driving in Japan, thank you very much :)
I love you're old driving videos :)
Maybe sometime in the future :) I don't have a car right now as some idiot crashed in to my Impreza. My wife's car isn't very nice (1300cc engine) so I don't want to drive that anywhere.
Pentarou isn't from Penguin Adventure, or Antarctic Adventure, he is from Yume Penguin Monogatari though. Poor bastard slimmed down in that game to get his picky and shallow girlfriend back, only for her to wind up overweight after the end credits of the game. His dad Penta is from the early Konami games with the penguin.
the Octopus is original to the series.
What did I just watch LOL
(On a serious note, we hy does the Famicom/NES version have a different giant woman than the other versions?)
I really don't know. Maybe they thought the Arcade version was a bit too much for Famicom players?
@@RetroCore like the NES was a younger demographic? It's funny that, because the NES woman winks in a flirty way whereas the more revealing arcade woman doesn't
I think another reason this game never got released in N.A is probably due to the Octopus 🐙 wearing panties on his head, and the dancing girl
Americans are way too sensitive about sexuality stuff yet fine with blowing peoples heads off in games. I find that odd.
The Uncle Sam Eagle may have played the biggest part, that and the off the wall humor and jokes that would fall flat on us Americans.
question: what it is say on that power up? 09:01 einstein related? XD
retrovideogamejunkie 09:01 is about a queen but yes, there is the Einstein E=MC2 in there too :)
The home releases are a lot easier than the Arcade, included the PS1 and Saturn ports. Also, having slowdowns is accurate to the arcade, since the arcade had lots of slowdowns.
Pump up that difficulty level :)
Retro Core
Even then the difficulty isn't as brutal as the arcade. The conversions are similar to Gradius III on the SFC, very different because the arcade was relentless.
similar to Gradius III SFC, talking about perfect ports of Parodius on PSX / Saturn, eh?
That's bullshit to the max, both 32bits conversion are near perfect without any tweak "à la Gradius III SFC", plus the fact they've pretty much removed any slowdown from Arcade, making them most difficult versions to deal with.
Jean-Poutre, A year later, but the arcade Parodius Da is known for it's relentless difficulty rank, much like the arcade version of Gradius III. No home port quite replicates the difficulty of the arcade version, because the arcade version gets amazingly harder, the longer you survived, and by how powered up you are. None, and I repeat, NONE, of the home ports of Parodius Da are as hard as the arcade due to the arcade using the same difficulty system as Gradius III arcade.
I know most retro gamers swear by shooters like Gradius, Twinbee and Parodius, but I have never liked their slow pace. Still though, I love this series of port comparisons.
I'm not really a fan of Gradius myself but I do like Parodius. Out of all Konami shooters though my top games would be Xexexe, Axlay and Salamana Delux.
I'm more of a Danmaku fan. Love anything with a ridiculous amount of bullets on screen!
What Gradius stage was each stage a parody of?
I can't say without playing the game again but I can tell you throughout the Pariodius series they've had stages that parody Lethal Enforcers, Tokimeki Memorial, Gradius, Ganbare Goemon (mystical Ninja) and many more.
Retro Core Just thought I could know.
Also, are you aware that Konami ruined the series with their f%$king Pachislot bullsh*t?
Yep. You may be surprised to know that most Japanese game franchises get ruined by Pachinko. It's terrible because those playing Pachinko have no idea where the IP originated from.
Konami is no more. it's sad to see this pillar of arcade gaming finishing like this, KONAMI COME BACK TO THE 2D ! 3D bullshit.
hopefully we have the emulator to keep the games alive, sharing the gaming culture, arcade or not.
Konami have plenty of sleeping licenses that deserve to be revived (in a good way, not with a crap labeled "licensed game that sux".
like the others Japanese companies, Taito, Capcom, Namco or Sega (does SEGA wake up ? Sonic Mania looks awesome) don't surf more on the Retro-gaming phenomenon :(
also they should release all on PC ! i like the Gradius Rebirth, but really, i am very lazy to connect this shit of Wii just to enjoy it.
SebasHCG Namco is still alive and awake, mah boi.
Wonder why the Mega Drive / Genesis never got a port of this 🤷🏻♂️ 👎🏼
Because Konami didn't make Sega console games at all until Sunset Riders. This was due to an agreement with Nintendo.
@@RetroCore … that makes me very sad 😢 … pesky ol’ Nintendo with their agreements (middle age man pointlessly shakes fist angrily in the air vaguely towards Japan) 😂
Man, what an excellent game this is! I just noticed the video will turn 8 in ten days lol
Ah, a classic video of a classic game.