My favorite Bio FREAKS trivia is that Yasuhiro Nightow, the creator of Trigun, thinks this game is awesome. He talks about it a little in the Gungrave artbook
Some creators do have some of their creations as their pets even if they weren't well received. Like some company developed some rail shooter they were proud of but reception was very mid. So with a much lower budget they scrapped a little game to make some funds... A little shmup called _Raiden._ Now a respectable franchise by itself but the devs still swear by their urban commando shooter as an underappreciated classic.
this game absolutely deserves to get ripped on but at the same time it had so many cool ideas and was a novel concept at the time that i would never say it's complete garbage. maybe with a sequel they could have turned it into something amazing
Right? I do remember playing this one back in the day (my grandma rented this one for my cousin and I...she was mortified! 🤣). ...but yeah, as he was going through the game here, I kept thinking, "Well that seems kinda cool." "That's pretty unique and creative". Like, there were some interesting ideas here...but it seems like they just didn't stick the landing. Maybe if it would've gotten some more care, development time, balancing, and polish...
Oh God. I have a older brother who owns the ps2 version, and it was just wild. His favorite was Carrot-Top because of the thing where he uses the opponent's ribcage to play the La Cucaracha.
I wish a similar concept like this was explored today. The art direction and character designs are top notch and the idea of duking it out as mutant cyborgs with blade arms, missiles and machine guns in a grungy techno dystopian future sounds rad as hell. One could dream though . . .
Arena fighters just cant get any love. Pit-Fighter (which i personally enjoy, though the genesis version), Power Stone, Bio FREAKS, Ehrgeiz. all lost to time...
That stream was so legendary that, when I saw this thumbnail, Kitty N's theme immediately popped into my head. Matter fact, I barely ever remember anything about Bio F.R.E.A.K.S. besides Ssapo dancing to that.
WB has done plenty more with the Midway properties since the acquisition! They had that Gauntlet game made by Arrowhead, and...uh...okay, so the TWO things they did with the Midway IP was Mortal Kombat and that one Gauntlet game that people weren't thrilled with.
@@zenbear9952 Some modder just did what WB refuses to do and made an unofficial HD remaster of Rush The Rock: Alcatraz Edition. th-cam.com/video/qgzrJ_BhubM/w-d-xo.htmlsi=hRk68rIWyUN-foNL
As a busty woman who regularly wears crop tops without bras.... i can't imagine fighting that way without ' boob flash' being one of my special moves... cause it already restricts my important combo move "reach slightly above head to get thing off grocery store shelf."
I don't remember what I had meant to rent, but I remember coming home from Blockbuster one Friday after school and finding Bio FREAKS in the case in place of whatever I had expected to spend the weekend with.
You know what? Just because the narrator can do a great Tony Jay impression, I'm calling it: this game has something almost no other fighting game has ever matched: that smooth, badass bass.
It can be REALLY difficult to learn to accept that one's favourite childhood games were crap. Coming from a guy who just started playing a LEGO Video Game Remake with his little brother for nostalgic reasons, just to realize that it's broken and dysfunctional [soft locks, bugs and crashes everywhere] as well as cheeseable af, I still haven't fully accepted that reality myself yet though It's difficult to accept that reality without ruining the good memories you have
Most of the moves are projectiles from extremely long distances and some people can fly; the finishers are all close range..... Yeah that definitely makes sense
@@claytonrios1 It's okay, I think I spent like ten times as many hours listening to the OST as I did playing the game (and I played a bunch of it online).
This was a really cool game with great characters, special moves and limb cutting. The only minor problem was the fighting system was too easy to cheese and ended up with two players just flying around spamming the projectile attacks.
You should do an episode on KISS: Psycho Circus. The story of the studio behind it is interesting enough that it involves John Romero and I would love to see your highly talented research skills tell the story of how Third Law's first game of the only two they made came to be. Personally I think it's tragic. There's a lot of passion and soul put into their work despite how it performed financially and critically. Aliens Vs. Predator was the only other license they worked with, then they closed forever after that.
I had a theory from long ago here that I kind of shared online about how Hunger Games was sort of a ripoff of BIo Freaks; both involve the country fragmenting into sectors and having a tournament to the death to resolve things. Some people think Suzanne Collins ripped off Stephen King or Battle Royale here but I think we know what the *real* source material was that she aped.
I hope that when Matt and his buddies talk about Capcom Fighting Evolution on the next episode of Triple KO, it will be part of a chapter called "Somehow, Capcom Fighting Evolution Returned!"
My grandma bought me this and the PS Casper movie tie-in game when I was like 12. This one is definitely not gonna be a winner on this list, but it gives me nostalgia.
Would love to see a BoomBots (PlayStation) video. Watching The Neverhood go from their debut to Skullmonkeys to… whatever BoomBots was delivered a new level of pain.
Dude ive been looking fthis one!!!!! I was absolutely obsessed with this game in middle school, too many sleepover blockbuster memories with this one!!!! ❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉thank you so much!
I've been curious about it too, so I googled it and apparently it's been used since at least the Konami game Parodius in 1990. If you look up "parodius wow" on google, you should see a few links to it. As for how it became a meme, i have yet to find out.
Part of me sooooo wants to see Evil Zone/Eretzvaiju covered, but then the problem with that is…Evil Zone doesn’t actually suck, once you realize what it’s doing.
Cyber Gladiators deserves to be put in the ring. It's an early 3d fighting game for Windows. It was made by Sierra Online, the folks behind Adventure Games like King's Quest, Space Quest, and Police Quest. Even though the booklet that comes with the game lists the combo moves, they are identical for every character. That is, if the keyboard input actually reads. Just jumping out the way to dodge incoming attacks might make you fall out of the tiny arenas. If that wasn't bad enough, every arena throws things at you, like flaming spears, rocks, and lava blobs. So you're going to get wrecked by the computer, whose inputs never miss and are always faster than you, and if you try to keep a distance the arena will get you. It's awful and deserves to be placed in the pantheon of awful.
Matt mentioned how horrible the camera was, but I was surprised he didn't mention the biggest issue with it. The jetpack, which was one of the big gimmicks actually making this a pretty interesting game to play back in the late 90s, had a control scheme that was _entirely relative to the camera's angle._ So literally every time you flew up and the camera spun around like a bad Matrix ripoff, the same direction you were holding down on the stick has, in the past 4 tenths of a second, become six different directions. This almost always resulted in you rocketing directly into a buzz saw or a mulcher or some other environmental hazard that would **immediately amputate one of your arms.** And as he mentioned, with the majority of every character's moveset being GUN or some form of projectile, losing a limb actually nullified every attack that required it, including using said firearms. Other than that, this game really did have a lot of charm which did help make it entertaining. The motion capture was surprisingly advanced for the time, and the characters' animations had a lot of personality to them, very fitting for that mid-90s Acclaim style of humor.
That text crawl makes me imagine the camera panning over an American nightmare wasteland, then across the border into a nice Canadian suburb with kids on bikes and a guy mowing the lawn, and someone says "Things have really gone downhill in the States, eh?"
Kinda funny about the ranged stuff in this. I had this as a kid and I'd play it with my siblings on and off and we enjoyed it. And then one friend plays it with us and discovers you can just pick someone with a rifle and just spam shoot from a distance and nobody can do anything about it. And I was finally able to counter them by taking the minotaur and spamming a ranged special that strafed and fired rockets at the same time, and then it was just a ranged game and nobody was enjoying it. So basically we just didn't play that game with that particular person anymore.
I have carefully evaluated the MAME library... Here are my humble suggestions of games capable of dethroning Pit Fighter: - Survival Arts (top contender) - Blood Warrior - Best of Best - Solitary Fighters - Ring Rage - Heavens Gate - Dark Edge - Shogun Warriors - Dragon Master - Superior Soldiers - Tao Taido - Fighting Fantasy Hopefully we have years of episodes to come! 😅
Honestly the game could have been fun if it went all in on being a head-to-head ranged combat game like Virtual On. It'd be barely a fighting game but it would have had a much more coherent design.
The game Expect No Mercy, another hilariously bad fighting game. Matt has a Worst Fighting Game video on it and it has one of the best claims to the title lol.
I imagine Matt's going to save Capcom Fighting Jam/Evolution for when Capcom Fighting Collection 2 comes out next year, because if there's a "proper" Capcom fighting game that deserves to get an episode here, it's CFJ/E.
Played it on PC. To answer your question, Matt - no. It did not boot. And when I managed to get it running two months after the fact, it ran like tepid sludge. But from what I'm gathering, "tepid sludge" is the default. Played it for a day, got fed up, went back to playing Colony Wars.
Picked this up unboxed and without instructions for five pounds back in the day. It's weird, janky and overall not too great... but me and my mates still had hours of fun with this game. It was so crazy and over-the-top we couldn't help but love it.
This looks like one of those games I would have rented back in the 90s and suddenly remembered it 20 years later but wouldn’t have been able to remember the name of it. Like Silent Bomber and Jersey Devil lol
Holy shit, I *had* Barbarian as a kid! I had no idea it had Freak DNA, I just remember the skull in the loading screen giving me nightmares. It was fun to move around with the joysticks, though, nice little time waster while waiting for the match to start.
One memory that stands out is the article from Nintendo Power about this game. Sabotage was called soldier of fortune and zipperhead was a dozer. Also there was world building that never made it to the game.
I have played it on PC. Back when Pentium II was the pinnacle of power. In fact, that's the only version of Bio Freaks I've ever played. And it worked very well. It ran at smooth 60fps at full resolution of 1024×768. It controlled okay on the keyboard and graphically looked pretty impressive at the time. This was before I knew the joys of Tekken 3 and Soulcalibur, so back then i actually genuinely liked Bio Freaks.
HOW WAS THIS NOT ALREADY AN EPISODE
Forreal! Ive been scouring his vids for one and now i know why i coyldnt find it. My favorite game from thos time period
There is too many of them lol
It's not that bad tbh. It just aged like an egg
I know right? When I first knew this channel I immediately started searching for this game lol. It's finally here
Wait, Guilewinquote? 🤨
My favorite Bio FREAKS trivia is that Yasuhiro Nightow, the creator of Trigun, thinks this game is awesome. He talks about it a little in the Gungrave artbook
Well, both have very "Wild West, world gone to shit" feels and guns, so I can see it.
Neat. I never knew that.
@@VolatileViolet A bit random but nice Klonoa's profile picture!
Some creators do have some of their creations as their pets even if they weren't well received. Like some company developed some rail shooter they were proud of but reception was very mid. So with a much lower budget they scrapped a little game to make some funds...
A little shmup called _Raiden._
Now a respectable franchise by itself but the devs still swear by their urban commando shooter as an underappreciated classic.
He's right. This game ruled.
This honestly makes a lot of sense!
Whenever Ssapo isn't on screen, all the other characters should be asking "Where's Ssapo?"
Ssapo should be louder, angrier, and have access to a time machine.
And you should win things by playing!
So you want a totally realistic, down to earth dystopian game about corporate overlords, but also want giant lizard monsters and robotic minotaurs?
Probably misses his old apartment
They should have put him in a hip-hop context, maybe rastafied him by say, 10% or so.
this game absolutely deserves to get ripped on but at the same time it had so many cool ideas and was a novel concept at the time that i would never say it's complete garbage. maybe with a sequel they could have turned it into something amazing
Yeah that opening narration is enough to keep this one afloat from the river of doodoo
Right? I do remember playing this one back in the day (my grandma rented this one for my cousin and I...she was mortified! 🤣).
...but yeah, as he was going through the game here, I kept thinking, "Well that seems kinda cool." "That's pretty unique and creative". Like, there were some interesting ideas here...but it seems like they just didn't stick the landing. Maybe if it would've gotten some more care, development time, balancing, and polish...
Did you guys try first person mode in this game?
"I have seen the amateur, and it is you!" -- "Combination!"
Another contender for the show: "Celebrity Deathmatch"!
PS1 or PS2 Celebrity Deathmatch?
@@Penguindude1 Oh god, the PS1 version could actually rank as The Worst Fighting Game.
Oh God. I have a older brother who owns the ps2 version, and it was just wild. His favorite was Carrot-Top because of the thing where he uses the opponent's ribcage to play the La Cucaracha.
Fun fact: Sapo is a literal translation of Toad in spanish, so... I guess it's original enough with that extra S, lol.
"Strangely attractive skeleton?" S-shut up! I only watch for the articles.
Sure Jan. And I only watch porn to see if her sink ever gets fixed.
The “Techno-Industrial Civil Wars” sounds like a nightclub
It's the sister club of Tech-Noir from Terminator 1.
sounds like tomorrow
Laser tag complex
In Alabama.
Or a Technopunk band
I wish a similar concept like this was explored today. The art direction and character designs are top notch and the idea of duking it out as mutant cyborgs with blade arms, missiles and machine guns in a grungy techno dystopian future sounds rad as hell. One could dream though . . .
Arena fighters just cant get any love. Pit-Fighter (which i personally enjoy, though the genesis version), Power Stone, Bio FREAKS, Ehrgeiz. all lost to time...
@@johngrey444 except Power Stone is back next year and there's a chance so many people will play 1 and 2 Capcom could make another
Yeah games in the 90's were just way out there with their premise and visual design.
Kind of miss those days.
@@johngrey444we still have wrestling games I guess but yeah, really miss that type of game as well...
Anarchy Reigns is underrated
SSAPO! SSAPO! SSAPO! SSAPO!
I WILL NEVER EVER RUN AWAYYYYY
PRAISE SSAPO!
That stream was so legendary that, when I saw this thumbnail, Kitty N's theme immediately popped into my head. Matter fact, I barely ever remember anything about Bio F.R.E.A.K.S. besides Ssapo dancing to that.
SSAPO SUPREMACY
PRAISE LORD SSAPO!
Matt continues to spam MadWorld/Anarchy Reigns soundtracks for edgelord stuff, I love it
WB has done plenty more with the Midway properties since the acquisition! They had that Gauntlet game made by Arrowhead, and...uh...okay, so the TWO things they did with the Midway IP was Mortal Kombat and that one Gauntlet game that people weren't thrilled with.
And that Gauntlet game is 10 years old.
There's a Rampage arcade game at Dave & Buster's. It's based on the film adaptation with The Rock and it's the only good thing to come from it.
@@gamelord12 They do know they have the San Francisco Rush IP right? Actually, don’t tell them, they might make it a microtransactioned mess.
@@ferrarimanf355 I remember the arcade version of that being extremely popular
@@zenbear9952 Some modder just did what WB refuses to do and made an unofficial HD remaster of Rush The Rock: Alcatraz Edition. th-cam.com/video/qgzrJ_BhubM/w-d-xo.htmlsi=hRk68rIWyUN-foNL
The intro volume this episode is noticeably more quiet. Thought something was up with my speakers for a moment.
Thank you! For a moment I thought it's a bye bye for my headset.
Same! I was so confused and then I got majorly startled once he started talking
Same here lol, doesn't bother me but I did check my volume
Might be due to TH-cam's "stable volume" setting, you can turn it off where you change the resolution
legit thought my hearing was going bad.
As a busty woman who regularly wears crop tops without bras.... i can't imagine fighting that way without ' boob flash' being one of my special moves... cause it already restricts my important combo move "reach slightly above head to get thing off grocery store shelf."
Big ups to Ssapo, the heart of Bio F.R.E.A.K.S. ☝
8:50
Rip doodssapo emote
You will always be remembered as the part of Max emote
Wait, when did Max get rid of it?
@@victortalons6873 actually no but sometimes he remove to give a slot to another emote. I rarely see doodSsapo emote circa 2019-2020
We were spamming the hell outta it at Evo.
@@bazzfromthebackground3696 well that's good to hear
That Max cameo though. LOL
I don't remember what I had meant to rent, but I remember coming home from Blockbuster one Friday after school and finding Bio FREAKS in the case in place of whatever I had expected to spend the weekend with.
Oof. Weekend ruined
_"His right arm will put you in a hospital. His left arm will put you in a dustbin."_
...why the heck do I still remember that ad from EGM-squared??
PRAISE SSAPO
You know what? Just because the narrator can do a great Tony Jay impression, I'm calling it: this game has something almost no other fighting game has ever matched: that smooth, badass bass.
Ah yes, this… classic? It’s something alright.
Shout out to Ssapo.
Dinorex needs an episode. It plays so bad that it makes tiger handheld fighters look like Marvel 2
@@nekohoney5162 It’s like Primal Rage, but without the fun or gore.
I love the characters so much, I made an entire series of fanarts + short videos. But yeah, the actual gameplay isn't very good, sadly.
Man that Max clip made me hungry.
Me too, I'm getting really hungry on some delicious taco's just like Maximilian Doom. 🌮🌯
Strangely attractive skeleton indeed.
I had some fun with this game as weekend rental. I had no idea there was a windows version? What the heck?!
You leave my B.I.O.F.R.E.A.K.S alone 😭 This is the second fighting game I ever played, first being MK4 ❤
It can be REALLY difficult to learn to accept that one's favourite childhood games were crap.
Coming from a guy who just started playing a LEGO Video Game Remake with his little brother for nostalgic reasons, just to realize that it's broken and dysfunctional [soft locks, bugs and crashes everywhere] as well as cheeseable af,
I still haven't fully accepted that reality myself yet though
It's difficult to accept that reality without ruining the good memories you have
both garbage. no disrespect
Most of the moves are projectiles from extremely long distances and some people can fly; the finishers are all close range..... Yeah that definitely makes sense
Still vouching for Twin Goddesses for Worst Fighting Game
Anytime Ssapo is mentioned I hear Bust a Groove playing in my head.
Every new episode we get closer to the inevitable episode on Tongue of the Fatman
Oh wow, just googled it. That thing has a chance of being the worst off look alone
@@SuperSwordman1 How it looks is actually the best part of it.
It's the glorious return of "I have seen the amateur..."...I have missed it so much!
I love how you use the Anarchy Reigns soundtrack by the way. "They Come From Underground" works particularly well for this game.
OH MAN
I'M SO GLAD I WORE MY QUARANTINE SUIT TODAY
@@SingerOfW That song really only played for one side mission unfortunately.
@@claytonrios1 It's okay, I think I spent like ten times as many hours listening to the OST as I did playing the game (and I played a bunch of it online).
@@SingerOfW The soundtrack is probably the best part of the game.
Max's message got me rolling
Me too.
Every episode:
"Oh hey, I rented that!"
🤣
For all of its qualities, the characters in this look like they'd make a fun line of figures, even if you just 3D Printed the models.
I could totally see these being sold as model kits with swappable weapons and armor!
McFarlene Figures Presents: BioFreaks!
@@dantehchad2227 These guys do absolutely have a McFarlane feel to them.
1:41 "What's the opposite of shine?" Rust.
I think it’s better for dulling
5:24 FATAL DEVIATION
Subtle, yet effective reference 😂
The perfect reference for any old Tully Arsed Bastard
You're making the game look bad and that's not good
Or "fetal deviation" as the characters in that movie say it.
“ What the Fuck is This?!”
I swear Delta looked a lot like a more cybernetic version of Black Orchid.
Also a bit of Tanya to, this WAS Midway after all.
@@theblocksays Yeah before Tanya became a warrior priestess for the new timeline.
Delta looking a little like Black Orchid is part of why I kept playing this game. Well, that and her laser swords
I saw Delta in this video and thought, "Ah, yes, a 90's female fighting game character. Reminds me of other 90's female fighting game characters."
I remember Maximilian Dood play this game.
Almost 10 years ago. Crazy to think it was that long ago.
Praise Ssapo
I remember Danny Devito playing it too
9:44 "psyclown battles exclusively for the state of illinois" that's one hell of a sentence
Really wish WB games would tap into that library and use them as other realms in MK
This was a really cool game with great characters, special moves and limb cutting. The only minor problem was the fighting system was too easy to cheese and ended up with two players just flying around spamming the projectile attacks.
You should do an episode on KISS: Psycho Circus.
The story of the studio behind it is interesting enough that it involves John Romero and I would love to see your highly talented research skills tell the story of how Third Law's first game of the only two they made came to be.
Personally I think it's tragic. There's a lot of passion and soul put into their work despite how it performed financially and critically. Aliens Vs. Predator was the only other license they worked with, then they closed forever after that.
SSAPO!!! THE KING RETURNS!
I wasn't actually aware it came out on platforms besides PC. From what I remember it ran/worked fine on pc.
I have fond memories of visiting the Midway offices in High School and playing the arcade version of this and Carn Evil
@@Corplos Was the arcade version complete and not buggy?
@@ferrarimanf355 seemed to be fairly complete by my recollection
Yknow.... Omikron DOES have a big focus on the fighting game mechanic...
I had a theory from long ago here that I kind of shared online about how Hunger Games was sort of a ripoff of BIo Freaks; both involve the country fragmenting into sectors and having a tournament to the death to resolve things. Some people think Suzanne Collins ripped off Stephen King or Battle Royale here but I think we know what the *real* source material was that she aped.
Dear Matthew McMusclington,
The public requires your statement on the re-release of Capcom Fighting Evolution. This is important. Please advise
Gonna have to wait until the next episode of the Triple KO podcast, I fear.
@@MattMcMuscles Understandable, have a nice day!
I wouldn't put CFE anywhere close the games in this series.
I hope that when Matt and his buddies talk about Capcom Fighting Evolution on the next episode of Triple KO, it will be part of a chapter called "Somehow, Capcom Fighting Evolution Returned!"
@@MagmaMKIII don’t know about that. While it wouldn’t beat the worse ones, it may be messy enough for an episode.
I actually love this game on N64, it's smooth😮
My grandma bought me this and the PS Casper movie tie-in game when I was like 12. This one is definitely not gonna be a winner on this list, but it gives me nostalgia.
I still own my N64 copy. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
I remember playing this on the N64 as a kid lmao, I loved it personally, but I'm so down to see this.
My first fighting game on the N64, oh how was I sweet summer child back then with this game and Superman 64 making up part of my childhood.
Oof
Happy Ssapo Ssaturday!
Another Blockbuster rental memory unlocked.
I was JUST watching your entire Worst Fighting Game playlist, so this is excellent timing!
Me tooooo! And looking desperately for this one,lol
I rented it once. I was amazed I could crash my n64 by throwing too many javelins because it was cool that they just stayed in my opponent.
This can't be the worst because I own it. I would never own the worst fighting game. It's a fine game.
...I SAID IT'S FINE.
Could be worse. I have Criticom.
Would love to see a BoomBots (PlayStation) video. Watching The Neverhood go from their debut to Skullmonkeys to… whatever BoomBots was delivered a new level of pain.
Dude ive been looking fthis one!!!!! I was absolutely obsessed with this game in middle school, too many sleepover blockbuster memories with this one!!!! ❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉thank you so much!
I rented this a few times and like it.
I remember the games difficulty being frustrating at times. I remember little else.
3:38 where is that "woah" sound bit from? I've heard it in a lot of content lately
I've been curious about it too, so I googled it and apparently it's been used since at least the Konami game Parodius in 1990.
If you look up "parodius wow" on google, you should see a few links to it. As for how it became a meme, i have yet to find out.
Dino Rex is one you should definitely cover Matt
Edited due to typo
Part of me sooooo wants to see Evil Zone/Eretzvaiju covered, but then the problem with that is…Evil Zone doesn’t actually suck, once you realize what it’s doing.
Evil Zone was pretty good.
The PC version worked/ran just fine as far as I can recall, though it was a bit awkward to play on a keyboard.
As a five year old with a hand me down ps1, this game was the shit
This game is probably not appropriate for a five year old.
Blind ideals you have there. You are not welcome@@11bg00
Cyber Gladiators deserves to be put in the ring. It's an early 3d fighting game for Windows. It was made by Sierra Online, the folks behind Adventure Games like King's Quest, Space Quest, and Police Quest. Even though the booklet that comes with the game lists the combo moves, they are identical for every character. That is, if the keyboard input actually reads. Just jumping out the way to dodge incoming attacks might make you fall out of the tiny arenas. If that wasn't bad enough, every arena throws things at you, like flaming spears, rocks, and lava blobs. So you're going to get wrecked by the computer, whose inputs never miss and are always faster than you, and if you try to keep a distance the arena will get you. It's awful and deserves to be placed in the pantheon of awful.
we really need someone to buy Midway and revive their properties
Matt mentioned how horrible the camera was, but I was surprised he didn't mention the biggest issue with it. The jetpack, which was one of the big gimmicks actually making this a pretty interesting game to play back in the late 90s, had a control scheme that was _entirely relative to the camera's angle._ So literally every time you flew up and the camera spun around like a bad Matrix ripoff, the same direction you were holding down on the stick has, in the past 4 tenths of a second, become six different directions. This almost always resulted in you rocketing directly into a buzz saw or a mulcher or some other environmental hazard that would **immediately amputate one of your arms.** And as he mentioned, with the majority of every character's moveset being GUN or some form of projectile, losing a limb actually nullified every attack that required it, including using said firearms.
Other than that, this game really did have a lot of charm which did help make it entertaining. The motion capture was surprisingly advanced for the time, and the characters' animations had a lot of personality to them, very fitting for that mid-90s Acclaim style of humor.
Delta and Zipper head were my go to fighters lol
That text crawl makes me imagine the camera panning over an American nightmare wasteland, then across the border into a nice Canadian suburb with kids on bikes and a guy mowing the lawn, and someone says "Things have really gone downhill in the States, eh?"
BIO F R.E.A.K.S was awesome and so was MACE👍👍🤘🤘😎😎
Glad to see MACE get a shout out in this episode. It was my N64 fighting game of choice and it was..... alright.
Kinda funny about the ranged stuff in this. I had this as a kid and I'd play it with my siblings on and off and we enjoyed it. And then one friend plays it with us and discovers you can just pick someone with a rifle and just spam shoot from a distance and nobody can do anything about it. And I was finally able to counter them by taking the minotaur and spamming a ranged special that strafed and fired rockets at the same time, and then it was just a ranged game and nobody was enjoying it. So basically we just didn't play that game with that particular person anymore.
Ah, I remember this game. I played it on N64. I didn't know it was on Playstation and computer.
I have carefully evaluated the MAME library... Here are my humble suggestions of games capable of dethroning Pit Fighter:
- Survival Arts (top contender)
- Blood Warrior
- Best of Best
- Solitary Fighters
- Ring Rage
- Heavens Gate
- Dark Edge
- Shogun Warriors
- Dragon Master
- Superior Soldiers
- Tao Taido
- Fighting Fantasy
Hopefully we have years of episodes to come! 😅
Im a biofreak 😈😈
Bio-freaky 👅👅👅
Honestly the game could have been fun if it went all in on being a head-to-head ranged combat game like Virtual On. It'd be barely a fighting game but it would have had a much more coherent design.
Where is that "I HAVE SEEN THE AMATEUR at around 0:23 from?
It’s from the video game “Expect No Mercy”, which was also reviewed on this show
It comes from Expect No Mercy, one of the previous winners (or is that losers?) of the title of Worst Fighting Game!
The game Expect No Mercy, another hilariously bad fighting game. Matt has a Worst Fighting Game video on it and it has one of the best claims to the title lol.
I imagine Matt's going to save Capcom Fighting Jam/Evolution for when Capcom Fighting Collection 2 comes out next year, because if there's a "proper" Capcom fighting game that deserves to get an episode here, it's CFJ/E.
this was the first game i ever played on n64 with Blast Corps, cant remember anything about it besides thinking the box art was cool
I've been waiting so long for this episode.
This was at the checkout lines of Zeller’s for YEARS.
That was exactly where I bought my copy. I think it was only $19.99 at the time. 👌
Played it on PC.
To answer your question, Matt - no. It did not boot. And when I managed to get it running two months after the fact, it ran like tepid sludge. But from what I'm gathering, "tepid sludge" is the default. Played it for a day, got fed up, went back to playing Colony Wars.
I played it on PC. It worked fine if you had 3Dfx.
Picked this up unboxed and without instructions for five pounds back in the day. It's weird, janky and overall not too great... but me and my mates still had hours of fun with this game. It was so crazy and over-the-top we couldn't help but love it.
ALL HAIL LORD SSAPO!!!!!!!
This looks like one of those games I would have rented back in the 90s and suddenly remembered it 20 years later but wouldn’t have been able to remember the name of it. Like Silent Bomber and Jersey Devil lol
Praise the Ssapo and the random cali burrito.
Sabotage for Multiversus!~
(As an April Fool's update, suprise, it's actually Sub-Zero and/or Scorpion)
(BTW TH-cam warns you about posting inappropriate comments if you say the name of the character on the cover.)
Cover Celebrity Deathmatch here, you scallywag.
Does anyone know what Purge says during his "Lawn Mower" special? I could never make it out, except it ends with "cut the grass". Always loved Purge.
yes I play this game on PC I own it
Holy shit, I *had* Barbarian as a kid! I had no idea it had Freak DNA, I just remember the skull in the loading screen giving me nightmares. It was fun to move around with the joysticks, though, nice little time waster while waiting for the match to start.
I appreciate how dumb this game is.
One memory that stands out is the article from Nintendo Power about this game. Sabotage was called soldier of fortune and zipperhead was a dozer. Also there was world building that never made it to the game.
So it's a fighting game that thinks its a shooter?
I didn't know Injustice was working off of a cheat sheet this entire time!
I have played it on PC. Back when Pentium II was the pinnacle of power. In fact, that's the only version of Bio Freaks I've ever played. And it worked very well. It ran at smooth 60fps at full resolution of 1024×768. It controlled okay on the keyboard and graphically looked pretty impressive at the time. This was before I knew the joys of Tekken 3 and Soulcalibur, so back then i actually genuinely liked Bio Freaks.
FIRST! And where's my sequel, Bio F.R.E.A.K.Y.?!