All you needed to say was that cute anime girls were in the game and I was sold! :P But great job on this episode Jimmy, I haven't dabbled in a lot of Beat'em Up games besides the standards of the genre (Double Dragon, River City Ransom, TMNT games and Final Fight), but this looks like a good game that delivers a different type of beat'em up game, especially considering it's single player, one day this will be in my hands, because anime girls can sell me on anything XD
***** Thanks Niko--you're making an effort to actually watch/comment on my videos now. I see peer pressure has gotten the better of you! XPAnd speaking of peer pressure, I can just imagine a white van marked only with the spray-painted words "aNime GurlZ" on the side abducting you and taking you to Albuquerque someday....I'll pray for your safety.
Thank you very much for watching/subscribing, and especially for your comment alluding to Nekketsu Oyako's story being one and the same as something you'd find in a generic hentail. XD
Nana Thanks a lot! Any talk on Xbox games is probably going to have to wait for a while...probably into the next year. Hope you start working on your channel sometime soon.
My favorite arcade style beatem up happens to also be my all time fav game Advance Guardian Heroes. Not only can you unlock every enemy you encounter to use in Training or vs mode, but you can play as any of the enemies in the Story mode. Shame a lot of folks thought AGH was gonna be a rehash of the Saturn game, but it is completely original and I like it very much.
stringanime Advance Guardian Heroes is your all-time favorite game, eh? Surprising, you might be the only one since it's a game that is off most people's radars these days, even those who are big fans of the Saturn original or HD remaster. I spent hours and hours when I was in high school playing the original Guardian Heroes, but only played a bit of the GBA sequel, maybe about an hour or so.
As weird as it may seem, I have even spent a good amount of time in training mode with 4 MPCs all fighting each other set to random character select and random stage with all stats maxed out. That mode will endlessly play. After every fight it just shows off the winner and starts another random round. loops forever automatically...Don't know how many games can boast to have an endless all mpc fight that requires no human interaction except to set up the first fight. I've let it run for several hours when I just want noise in the background. Little things like that are interesting to me.
Another top notch episode! Thoroughly enjoy your show my favourite alongside Gamesack....And also a snes game I actually don't own an d was not aware of!?? Going to have to pick this up looks fun. Finally got round to grabbing a copy of Purikura Daisakusen btw - had a brief play and liked it a lot :)
wrena79 Thanks a lot, that means quite a bit to me! I'm happy to hear you picked up Purikura Daisakusen! If you have a chance, try it with a friend, it doubles the fun. And go for the Valkyrie familiar...makes the final boss a joke! XD
Another great vid! Will have to keep a look out for this when I hit up ebay on a retro binge. Special thanks for showing the cartridge. Sometime dudes have SFC multi cart lots with no names listed so that helps alot :p
PhantomExdeath Thanks--and I try to include shots of the actual game in all my videos, so I'm glad it ended up being helpful. I know those kinds of lots you're talking about, and they're great--good luck snagging a copy of this game!
This is something that I could see myself playing, so I may have to look for it next time I'm on a SuFami kick. Seems like it'd be fun, the lack of co-op is a bit of a let down, but this is the kind of game that I'd probably end up playing by myself anyway, so it's not a deal breaker for me. Good episode, Jimmy. I'll keep my eyes out for this, also nice job with the new logo. It looks a lot nicer than the old one.
Thanks! If you can find the cart for ten or fifteen bucks, I'd say go for it! Lack of coop is disappointing, but I suppose that in the end, BZD is not all that much more "boring" than playing any other beat 'em up solo... I appreciate the input on the logo. It was about time I did something about it, since that was originally just a placeholder. I figured that I spent so much time editing images to use in my videos, it's embarrassing having a plain text logo on the thumbnail! XP
Great Video as always man. This game looks amazing. Kinda reminds me a little bit of Ninja Warriors for the SNES. They share a very similar Beat em up-style. Could you please tell me, from which game the song is, that is playing at Minute 1:00 in the Backround? This sounds amazing! Greetz
schweinefeigel Thank you, as usual! I've only played a little bit of a Ninja Warriors game (that would be Ninja Warriors Again for SFC), and from what I remember, it was a really fun game...maybe a little better than Battle Zeque Den. ;)That song is from a boss battle from this game...the second one, I believe. I always use music directly from the games I cover for the entirety of my videos, unless stated otherwise in the description. ;)This game has awesome music, and looking back on it, I wish I would have explained that in the video.
Jimmy Hapa (Import Gaming FTW!) Ninja Warriors is my favorite single-plane brawler. This game does remind me of it somewhat, though there seems to be more topography/environmental hazards. NWs is also single player only. I'm putting this game on my list.
CAPMAX Gaming Thanks for watching man, and I'm glad you bought the game. I'd say $15 is a fair price for the game. It's by no means a classic, and combat can be repetitive in some parts, but I think it's a fun romp...just wish it was two player. Let me know how you feel about the game when you get a chance to play it!
CAPMAX Gaming I used to be active on Twitter, but deleted the account months ago. I actually just set it back up again the other day, so I will be using it sometime soon, most likely. Thanks for the follow!
Okay so the girls that pop up in that brief clip are Shampoo, Deedlit, the trio from Rayearth, and who's the girl with the long purple hair and the sword? A few names are floating the surface but as I haven't seen Elf Princess Rane or Leda....I'm drawing a complete blank. Help?
That's the Pretty Cure game for DS--I can't remember the exact name, but it's something with Splash Star in it. Surprisingly decent beat 'em up (for little girls). I wanted to talk about Melfand Stories, but I missed the boat on finding a decent complete copy of the game a few years back--plus, Retro Drew on TH-cam did a fine job talking about it already.
Retro-Inactive Gamer Thanks! And YES, I could have put money on it that an Arnold fan like yourself would enjoy the reference. Total Recall for president! Yes, and early 90s movie would do a better job than Obama...but it's not like he stood a chance!
Ram Vox It's OK, you don't have to make things up around me...we both know that you couldn't stop watching Spice Girls videos long before I uploaded this! ;)And I imagine you'd be able to find the game for under 2000 yen CIB...but if I was you, I'd be on the look out for Sentai Gourmet Bara Yarou, Undercover Cops, and Ghost Chaser Densei, three SFC beat 'em ups that are supposed to be really good, and are really rare...ebay prices are crazy for the first two.
DubiousGamingOnline I think the only Power Rangers game I played on the SNES was a fighting game...maybe that was the movie one? I just remember I didn't like it...maybe I need to watch Matt's Power Rangers vids again.And yeah, the graphics are nice in this game, but they're oddly "washed out" compared to a lot of other SNES games, if that makes sense. I had to play around with the contrast and color balance of the original captures to get them to look as nice as they do here.
The SNES MMPR was a beat em up except for the last 3 levels which were in the same fighting engine as ultraman for the SNES. The same week that matt did his first big MMPR review i did one on the SNES but i quickly go over all the versions in the intro of that video.
Nice review! I live in Japan, so I was able to find this game fairly easily. However, I have owned it for over a year now and have yet to get around to playing it. You also piqued my interest in the Futari Wa Precure DS game. The first series of Precure characters is the only decent one IMHO.
+stevethefishdotnet Nice, hope you've played it since making this comment! That Pretty Cure game is sweet--I sold my copy years ago, but found another a couple of months ago for 950 yen at a Book-Off. I've seen it at Tsutaya as well for under 1000 yen. Hope you find a copy soon.
Jimmy Hapa (Import Gaming FTW!) I did find the Precure Final Fight clone game at Kanteidan, which is one of those types of huge, used media nerd paradise shops. I definitely paid under 1,000 yen for it.
im gonna have to add this to my "borrow from internet list". if this is just as fun as do re mi fantasy, i bet its mad cheddar. kinda reminds me oddly of ElHazard...
Oh I already saw this one a while back, and yes, this is probably the most bizarre looking video game I've ever seen. Well, one of the most. Also I just accidentally clicked on an add about binge-eating disorders that I thought was for Domino's Pizza...
***** Hey--yes I have, actually, and I enjoy the V.G. series! Speaking of which, waaaaaay back when I was planning this IGFTW show, one of the episodes I wanted to do was "All Girls Fighting Games," including a couple of the Variable Geo games, Pretty Fighter games, and the Asuka Burning Fest games. :)I think if I covered Advanced Variable Geo 1, I'd go with the Saturn version, since I believe the PS1 has cut content (though I like the PS1 better for most games, actually).
From what I played the Saturn version had some more…risqué content in it over the PS1 version the series did start out as a hentai fighting series but it had way more polish then say garbage like strip fighter 2. I would go so far as to say AVG 2 stacks up pretty well compared to what capcom and SNK had out at the time, Also Asuka Burning Fest games where created by the same team from what I heard.
***** Yeah, there's the infamous "yellow label" for Advance V.G. on Saturn. Won't have to worry about cut content with the sequel, however, since it's PS1 only. ;)I don't know if it's the same team that worked on the Asuka Burning Fest games, but I'll do some research into it. And I never played Strip Fighter 2, but its awfulness is legendary at this point. XD
MAXX1up If you do, let me know of course! If you're going cart-only, I think you should be able to find the game for about 10 to 15 dollars on ebay, which is just the right price point for the game, IMO.
KidShoryuken Thanks man--there are better Japan-only beat 'em ups for sure, but I figure this one stands out enough to warrant talking about. Looking forward to when you start up reviews and such again!
KidShoryuken Did you send it on a palette? It took me about a month to get all of my stuff, and it was a pain having to deal with the warehouse it was stored in.
Jimmy Hapa (Import Gaming FTW!) Yep, 1400 lbs of stuff, it's in California at the moment going through customs. I'm gonna try to get my shipment delivered the day it gets here so I don't have to pay a storage fee.
***** We need to find a way to blackmail Ram Vox into getting you a visa and providing a place to stay at his house. I'm pretty sure at this point that the man is top brass in some kind of international crime syndicate, so that's a start.
This looks amazing! And you know damn well I'm always wondering where's the cute anime girls.
Avalanche Reviews Spoken like a true weaboo...the one true weaboo, king of fan service anime and Touhou games. ;)
This was a fantastic review. I bought this game on a whim at a retro game shop. I'm glad to see someone else also enjoys this game. Good times.
RetroGameQuest Thanks! I'm also glad to see someone else who enjoys this game. Out of curiosity, how much did you end up paying for the game?
All you needed to say was that cute anime girls were in the game and I was sold! :P
But great job on this episode Jimmy, I haven't dabbled in a lot of Beat'em Up games besides the standards of the genre (Double Dragon, River City Ransom, TMNT games and Final Fight), but this looks like a good game that delivers a different type of beat'em up game, especially considering it's single player, one day this will be in my hands, because anime girls can sell me on anything XD
***** Thanks Niko--you're making an effort to actually watch/comment on my videos now. I see peer pressure has gotten the better of you! XPAnd speaking of peer pressure, I can just imagine a white van marked only with the spray-painted words "aNime GurlZ" on the side abducting you and taking you to Albuquerque someday....I'll pray for your safety.
Love your retro gaming channel it has the obscure and rarely found games that I played as a kid subscribed
Thank you very much for watching/subscribing, and especially for your comment alluding to Nekketsu Oyako's story being one and the same as something you'd find in a generic hentail. XD
Jimmy Hapa (Import Gaming FTW!) ikr :D I've watched too many hentai to see where that was going. Terry Bogard with a light saber though. awesome!
6:05 Know the moment where you're smiling without even knowing it, and then you hear something that makes you stop smiling. This is one such moment
Great video as always! This is another one I haven't heard of, so I really appreciate it. I'm curious about those other xbox games you teased though!
Nana Thanks a lot! Any talk on Xbox games is probably going to have to wait for a while...probably into the next year. Hope you start working on your channel sometime soon.
My favorite arcade style beatem up happens to also be my all time fav game Advance Guardian Heroes. Not only can you unlock every enemy you encounter to use in Training or vs mode, but you can play as any of the enemies in the Story mode. Shame a lot of folks thought AGH was gonna be a rehash of the Saturn game, but it is completely original and I like it very much.
stringanime Advance Guardian Heroes is your all-time favorite game, eh? Surprising, you might be the only one since it's a game that is off most people's radars these days, even those who are big fans of the Saturn original or HD remaster. I spent hours and hours when I was in high school playing the original Guardian Heroes, but only played a bit of the GBA sequel, maybe about an hour or so.
As weird as it may seem, I have even spent a good amount of time in training mode with 4 MPCs all fighting each other set to random character select and random stage with all stats maxed out. That mode will endlessly play. After every fight it just shows off the winner and starts another random round. loops forever automatically...Don't know how many games can boast to have an endless all mpc fight that requires no human interaction except to set up the first fight. I've let it run for several hours when I just want noise in the background. Little things like that are interesting to me.
stringanime It might be interesting setting that up on the Wii U gamepad if AGH ever gets a Virtual Console release.
Another top notch episode! Thoroughly enjoy your show my favourite alongside Gamesack....And also a snes game I actually don't own an d was not aware of!?? Going to have to pick this up looks fun. Finally got round to grabbing a copy of Purikura Daisakusen btw - had a brief play and liked it a lot :)
wrena79 Thanks a lot, that means quite a bit to me! I'm happy to hear you picked up Purikura Daisakusen! If you have a chance, try it with a friend, it doubles the fun. And go for the Valkyrie familiar...makes the final boss a joke! XD
Another great vid! Will have to keep a look out for this when I hit up ebay on a retro binge. Special thanks for showing the cartridge. Sometime dudes have SFC multi cart lots with no names listed so that helps alot :p
PhantomExdeath Thanks--and I try to include shots of the actual game in all my videos, so I'm glad it ended up being helpful. I know those kinds of lots you're talking about, and they're great--good luck snagging a copy of this game!
Good video, you've covered all your import gaming bases!
The Dali Popka Thanks Xbro--but I don't know what that even means! XP
This is something that I could see myself playing, so I may have to look for it next time I'm on a SuFami kick. Seems like it'd be fun, the lack of co-op is a bit of a let down, but this is the kind of game that I'd probably end up playing by myself anyway, so it's not a deal breaker for me.
Good episode, Jimmy. I'll keep my eyes out for this, also nice job with the new logo. It looks a lot nicer than the old one.
Thanks! If you can find the cart for ten or fifteen bucks, I'd say go for it! Lack of coop is disappointing, but I suppose that in the end, BZD is not all that much more "boring" than playing any other beat 'em up solo...
I appreciate the input on the logo. It was about time I did something about it, since that was originally just a placeholder. I figured that I spent so much time editing images to use in my videos, it's embarrassing having a plain text logo on the thumbnail! XP
I'm having a great time watching all your vids Jimmy !!
I know this is an old comment, but I missed it the first time around, so just wanted to reply and say thanks!
Your show is informative and funny at the same time. keep it up. :)
Aura Blackquill Thank you very much.
Great Video as always man. This game looks amazing. Kinda reminds me a little bit of Ninja Warriors for the SNES. They share a very similar Beat em up-style. Could you please tell me, from which game the song is, that is playing at Minute 1:00 in the Backround? This sounds amazing!
Greetz
schweinefeigel Thank you, as usual! I've only played a little bit of a Ninja Warriors game (that would be Ninja Warriors Again for SFC), and from what I remember, it was a really fun game...maybe a little better than Battle Zeque Den. ;)That song is from a boss battle from this game...the second one, I believe. I always use music directly from the games I cover for the entirety of my videos, unless stated otherwise in the description. ;)This game has awesome music, and looking back on it, I wish I would have explained that in the video.
Jimmy Hapa (Import Gaming FTW!) Ninja Warriors is my favorite single-plane brawler. This game does remind me of it somewhat, though there seems to be more topography/environmental hazards. NWs is also single player only. I'm putting this game on my list.
Joshua Tiberius Excellent...Just remember who made you into an import gamer (FTW). ;)
Sold! I found the game on eBay for $15 USD. Thanks again for another informative video! :-)
CAPMAX Gaming Thanks for watching man, and I'm glad you bought the game. I'd say $15 is a fair price for the game. It's by no means a classic, and combat can be repetitive in some parts, but I think it's a fun romp...just wish it was two player. Let me know how you feel about the game when you get a chance to play it!
For sure. I recently followed you on Twitter. You still using that account?
CAPMAX Gaming I used to be active on Twitter, but deleted the account months ago. I actually just set it back up again the other day, so I will be using it sometime soon, most likely. Thanks for the follow!
Okay so the girls that pop up in that brief clip are Shampoo, Deedlit, the trio from Rayearth, and who's the girl with the long purple hair and the sword? A few names are floating the surface but as I haven't seen Elf Princess Rane or Leda....I'm drawing a complete blank. Help?
What was that DS game shown along with SNES Sailor Moon?
Also, have you covered Melfand Stories, or plan to?
That's the Pretty Cure game for DS--I can't remember the exact name, but it's something with Splash Star in it. Surprisingly decent beat 'em up (for little girls). I wanted to talk about Melfand Stories, but I missed the boat on finding a decent complete copy of the game a few years back--plus, Retro Drew on TH-cam did a fine job talking about it already.
I love your channel thanks man:)
feedmedonuts :D Glad you're enjoying the videos--I appreciate the kind words!
this game looks lovely. thanks for the review!
Thanks for watching, and hope you get a chance to play this lovely game sometime.
See you at the party Richter. LOL! Great video Jimmy.
Retro-Inactive Gamer Thanks! And YES, I could have put money on it that an Arnold fan like yourself would enjoy the reference. Total Recall for president! Yes, and early 90s movie would do a better job than Obama...but it's not like he stood a chance!
i remember playing this game on the nintendo super famicom
Dang it, Jimmy! Another game I have to go buy and I can't stop watching Spice Girls videos.
Ram Vox It's OK, you don't have to make things up around me...we both know that you couldn't stop watching Spice Girls videos long before I uploaded this! ;)And I imagine you'd be able to find the game for under 2000 yen CIB...but if I was you, I'd be on the look out for Sentai Gourmet Bara Yarou, Undercover Cops, and Ghost Chaser Densei, three SFC beat 'em ups that are supposed to be really good, and are really rare...ebay prices are crazy for the first two.
Cute anime girls? Compelling gameplay? Gonna play it ASAP.
This looks rad, kinda reminds me of the power rangers game for the SNES since it's a beat em up on a single plane. Looks nice graphically too.
DubiousGamingOnline I think the only Power Rangers game I played on the SNES was a fighting game...maybe that was the movie one? I just remember I didn't like it...maybe I need to watch Matt's Power Rangers vids again.And yeah, the graphics are nice in this game, but they're oddly "washed out" compared to a lot of other SNES games, if that makes sense. I had to play around with the contrast and color balance of the original captures to get them to look as nice as they do here.
The SNES MMPR was a beat em up except for the last 3 levels which were in the same fighting engine as ultraman for the SNES. The same week that matt did his first big MMPR review i did one on the SNES but i quickly go over all the versions in the intro of that video.
way better than the wikipedia page.
Thanks. I went and checked the Wikipedia just now, and yeah, it's too bad about the lack of info.
I know right.
Nice review! I live in Japan, so I was able to find this game fairly easily. However, I have owned it for over a year now and have yet to get around to playing it. You also piqued my interest in the Futari Wa Precure DS game. The first series of Precure characters is the only decent one IMHO.
+stevethefishdotnet Nice, hope you've played it since making this comment! That Pretty Cure game is sweet--I sold my copy years ago, but found another a couple of months ago for 950 yen at a Book-Off. I've seen it at Tsutaya as well for under 1000 yen. Hope you find a copy soon.
Jimmy Hapa (Import Gaming FTW!)
I did find the Precure Final Fight clone game at Kanteidan, which is one of those types of huge, used media nerd paradise shops. I definitely paid under 1,000 yen for it.
im gonna have to add this to my "borrow from internet list". if this is just as fun as do re mi fantasy, i bet its mad cheddar. kinda reminds me oddly of ElHazard...
Misterdude206 Oh, El Hazard...memories right there! Anyway, I think Battle Zeque Den is fun, but admittedly, it's no Do Re Mi Fantasy.
Oh I already saw this one a while back, and yes, this is probably the most bizarre looking video game I've ever seen. Well, one of the most.
Also I just accidentally clicked on an add about binge-eating disorders that I thought was for Domino's Pizza...
Super Derek Regarding clicking on that ad...either way, Derek, it shows you have a serious problem and need to seek help.
When you fight the boss Edi E in Final Fight, you can actually kick ass AND chew bubble gum.
By chance have you played or heard of Advanced Variable Geo for the PS1? Very Underrated 2D fighter in my opinion
***** Hey--yes I have, actually, and I enjoy the V.G. series! Speaking of which, waaaaaay back when I was planning this IGFTW show, one of the episodes I wanted to do was "All Girls Fighting Games," including a couple of the Variable Geo games, Pretty Fighter games, and the Asuka Burning Fest games. :)I think if I covered Advanced Variable Geo 1, I'd go with the Saturn version, since I believe the PS1 has cut content (though I like the PS1 better for most games, actually).
From what I played the Saturn version had some more…risqué content in it over the PS1 version the series did start out as a hentai fighting series but it had way more polish then say garbage like strip fighter 2. I would go so far as to say AVG 2 stacks up pretty well compared to what capcom and SNK had out at the time, Also Asuka Burning Fest games where created by the same team from what I heard.
***** Yeah, there's the infamous "yellow label" for Advance V.G. on Saturn. Won't have to worry about cut content with the sequel, however, since it's PS1 only. ;)I don't know if it's the same team that worked on the Asuka Burning Fest games, but I'll do some research into it. And I never played Strip Fighter 2, but its awfulness is legendary at this point. XD
It's ether the creator of VG went on to make the burning fest series with a different team or it's the same team but I know one of those is true.
the music feels very Pocky&Rocky like :-)
RengaBeats Ah...Pocky & Rocky...now that's a game I regret selling!
I played this game on a super Nintendo entertainment system emulator I think battle ZEQUE den is a fun game
Damn, I might have to get this
MAXX1up If you do, let me know of course! If you're going cart-only, I think you should be able to find the game for about 10 to 15 dollars on ebay, which is just the right price point for the game, IMO.
This is an excellent game beginning to end
Excellent episode, and a decent looking game as well.
KidShoryuken Thanks man--there are better Japan-only beat 'em ups for sure, but I figure this one stands out enough to warrant talking about. Looking forward to when you start up reviews and such again!
Jimmy Hapa (Import Gaming FTW!) All in due time, still waiting on all my stuff to get here, damn customs.
KidShoryuken Did you send it on a palette? It took me about a month to get all of my stuff, and it was a pain having to deal with the warehouse it was stored in.
Jimmy Hapa (Import Gaming FTW!) Yep, 1400 lbs of stuff, it's in California at the moment going through customs. I'm gonna try to get my shipment delivered the day it gets here so I don't have to pay a storage fee.
Misterdude206 Indeed I do. ;)
It's difficult to find friends to play co-op with now when you're an adult.
+Junomaster2006 One of the unfortunate side effects of "adulthood." :/
Jimmy you make me wish I lived in Japan... Even more so than my desire to be in the mecca of all things Nintendo >
***** We need to find a way to blackmail Ram Vox into getting you a visa and providing a place to stay at his house. I'm pretty sure at this point that the man is top brass in some kind of international crime syndicate, so that's a start.
Visas? No problem. Let me get my Crayolas. Got two nice bundles of hay in the goat shack.
Yeah I can see why this didn't get a Western release at the time. However, good game.
*insert positive comment here for the private critiques I'm going to give you later*
Joshua Tiberius Ohhhhhh snap. Better load my guns so I can fire back!
Did you know that the co-founder of Arsys was actually the first trans game developer ever and was the lead programmer for the original Thunder Force?
nice! thx
TheChiefRockah You're very welcome!
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