Giving a kid under the age of 10 a COVID test is literally pointless. It does not affect children like it does adults... at all. How has no one learned this over the past several years? Are we still that stupid? Are we going to see Jeff masked up on stream soon?
Understandably most of these comments are about Jeff's child, but the Uncle Steve story and the origin of guard bike is the highlight for me. As well as being introduced to Little Samson, which seems pretty rad.
Jeff talking about his uncle caught me off guard, specially the fake VG reviews he gave him. We're in strange times, where old video games bring us memories back just like old songs did to our previous generation.
I think Batman is a fantastic game, 9/10. The different weapons are strategic for different situations, you just need to know how and when to use them.
This series is why Jeff is a singular talent and voice in video games. Very few guys right now that have the contemporaneous knowledge he does to cover NES games (early PC games, Amiga, C64, arcade, also the stuff from before 2600, 400/800, etc.) BUT what has made me a supporter and fan since the Gamespot days is the sincerity. This isn't some unneeded historical look at the NES. Jeff's always been Jeff but now in the era of social media there is a stark contrast between him and all these people that are amping up their reactions for views, that are pretending they like everything for the views, or complete opposite. Then you get these personal snippets like Uncle Steve that give a context that no one can. He's a real MFer. Keep on hustlin' brother.
I would like to add… I felt bad all day but only when Jeff started to play Super Pitfall did I become actually literally sick. Make of that what you will
This is my favorite series on youtube. Love watching these every week. Brings back a lot of great (and terrible) memories of some games I played as a kid.
You and I are the same age and I have a 4 year old girl as well. Watching your interactions with your daughter reminded me that mine is exactly the same haha. The need for juice, snacks, random hugs, having the need to talk haha good times.
Like Deadly Towers, Super Pitfall took an insane amount of time and patience for me to finish back in the day. I remember the day my cousin came home all excited to tell me she bought a new NES game. She said the guy at the store told her Super Pitfall was a good one, so that's what she bought. I was not happy she didn't consult with me first and I hope she learned her lesson.
According to the commercial hyping it up, which is available right here on youtube because of course it is, it's apparently "uh-STYE-uh-nix" -- maybe that last syllable is -nax instead but the audio is uh... crunchy, let's say.
My grandmother would always buy me games. I definitely remember picking Astyanax from Toys R Us on the BIG WALL OF GAMESSSSSSSSSS (well they were the little cards you would bring to the desk by the door that in my mind hid every game ever.) But i thought the game looked neat. Had big cool sprites, especially the boss fights. the music was really good, but i remember it being pretty hard. I definitely beat it with the game genie cause i was a bad gamer. But theres a soft spot in my heart for this game. Glad to see you play it and i hope your daughter feels better!
Good stuff man. Household stress. Lady of the house not in the vicinity (at times). Work to do. ...We're all in this together. I'm glad you still pulled off the stream. And the 'gate' on your mic held down the fort. I was using Sony MDR-7506's and I could barely hear your girl. Additionally, she had some pretty excellent contributions! ... Keep on rocking in the free world. "-Doot"
This is fun! I'm the same age as you, I have two daughters but they're in their twenties and moved out. So I'm an empty nester sadly. But we have had many many many fantastic video gaming experiences together. I'm proud to say they are both very much gamers, although my older one much more than my younger one.
Little Samson! Great game and by the late 90s it was already hard to get a physical copy. Edit: wow surprised it never crossed your radar before. That along with Zoda’s revenge and Rockin Kats were some of the best for the NES released in that 91-94 range. Little Samson being the best of the bunch of those overlooked titles.
Wooo, finally made it to Episode 6! From one father to another, mad props to your patience with the kiddo. I hope everyone is feeling better and doing well! I remember finishing Astyanax (pronounced "Uh-stee-an-ax" and apparently means "Lord of the City" in Greek mythology) on an emulator years ago. Batman is great though; one of my all-time favorite NES games. I wish you spent more time with that and Dr. Chaos (which has levels called "warp zones" where you find upgrades and fight bosses), but it is what it is. Still loving the series. Can't wait to watch the rest of them.
I missed it live, but was impressed by Astyanax and Little Samson. As you said by '92 developers were very familiar with the 8-bit systems. The talk of upward falling shots reminds me of CREATURES by Apex Productions whom did cool 'colour mixing tricks' on C64, which of course look bad on modern screens.
We need Mach Rider! That was one of the very first games I owned for the NES. Horribly frustrating experience, but really unique post-apocalyptic setting. With a really great soundtrack
...there's a Klaus in every mid-sized city, all over the world. Also, the music in Super Pitfall is maybe the shortest loop I've ever heard in any game. It's an insane decision.
Since you like Zanac so much, I'm curious what your take on 'The Guardian Legend' is, since it's basically a sequel by the same developer with some innovative ideas (for its time).
I remember I had some pocket money and at the time a drug store near my house sold NES games and the only one I could afford was Wall Street Kid. I remember seeing the cover art and it looked like a super hero game of some sort and it was only like $15 bucks.... My dad later went back and yelled at them for selling me a game about stocks :P I think he was more mad then me because he wanted to play something too :P lol
I had the C64 version of Qix and I loved it. It had those ominous sound effects Jeff was talking about. Also, I think Jeff's strategy in Qix was, as he likes to put it, weird 😂
I remember the music and character art for the villain cutscenes in Astyanax freaking me out when I was a kid. It doesn't look like much now and the actual story is super basic, but for the time on the NES the cutscene presentation was kind of stand out. It's that and Ninja Gaiden that come to my mind when I think of attempts at cinematic presentation on NES.
I had the opportunity to own a copy of Little Samson when my local video store was closing. I could have bought it for $15, but instead I decided to buy 6 other games for the same price. One of my biggest regrets.
Same here. Walmart was closing out all their NES games. I bought Kabuki Quantum Fighter Instead. I got about as far as Jeff did when he played it. Little Samson is 100x more fun.
Viewers who are impressed by Little Samson should take a look at the developer Takeru's other Famicom game which did not make it to the states: Cocoron. While it also plays like Mega Man, this time you get to create your own characters with different abilities!
Totally feel for Jeff with his kid messing about in the background. So many Teams meetings where my kid wants to get involved and logic doesn't seem to be a thing in their tiny brains. I am training said kid on NES games though!
The sad part about Super Pitfall on the NES is that it's a less glitchy looking, yet nearly identical version than the Tandy version, which was made by the same person that made Pitfall 2, so unfortunately, this wasn't Activision's best work.
Funny, I had it as a kid too, and I never got nearly as far as Jeff does here in his first time playing. I always *wanted* to like it because of the graphics, but every time I would get knocked back into a pit, get frustrated, and quickly turn it off. I was not a patient 6 year old.
I never played Astyanax growing up either, but I remember it was constantly having ads in GamePro and EGM for what felt like at least 2 years. I'd bet if you got one of those mags from 89 to like 91 it'd have an Astyanax ad in it. Also if you liked Little Samson you'll most likely like the other late Taito games: Power Blade 1&2, Panic Restaurant, Kiwi Craze.
I am here for the Batman discourse. I will say, it's hard to say just how difficult these games are, as I beat this one and the sequels on nintendo and genesis as rentals over the course of a few days each, but it's challenging to go back to now. You really gotta punch more and use the batarang for almost all the regular enemies, that spread weapon is only kind of good for that dude you died to at the end and other dudes that switch height in relation to Batman. The game is a lot of the jumping and the precise control. The pistol and spread weapon are really only useful for the bosses here and there. I'd rank it a lot higher but maybe it's just because I was better at games then lol.
You oughta make a weekly (monthly?) summary video of these rankings with like a minute of condensed gameplay footage and you deciding where it goes on the list.
not related to any of these games, but i tried bloodstained: curse of the moon out the other day, which is supposed to control pretty much exactly like the nes castlevanias. so, no air control at all, and no jump height control, so it's very possible to jump right over the platform you meant to jump to if you time it wrong, or just jump straight up if you weren't holding down a direction before jumping :o . i'm not old enough to have played those games, but i wonder about how did people felt about that back then
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You've gotta love dads exposing their children to real science like this
13:52 Jeff's new Producer is nailing it. Give her a raise!
I can't believe she got Jerry Rice and his dog, Leonitus, on the show.
i'm glad your daughter understands the importance of the service you provide
As a stay at home dad of a five year old , I actually love the first two and a half minutes in so far. Your baby girl sounds so sweet lol.
My wife's currently away overseas for a week, leaving me to solo dad my 18mo; this video is exactly my speed right now.
Living the same life. I work from home and prior to kindergarten, this was me 2 days a week for 3 hours. Like a flashback... crazy
Giving a kid under the age of 10 a COVID test is literally pointless. It does not affect children like it does adults... at all. How has no one learned this over the past several years? Are we still that stupid? Are we going to see Jeff masked up on stream soon?
"I thought we agreed you'd sit on the bed." "hello, dad."
"I'll tell you what a Dragon Punch is when you're older", the classic dad talk!
Patient Dad Jeff™️ is the best Jeff.
Incorrect. Hoodlum Jeff is best Jeff
Inside you are two Jeffs: Dad Jeff and Hoodrat Jeff
They are both named Jeff
Jeff - I just wanna say as a mother of a 4 year old and an 11 month old - I 100% feel your pain while trying to work. God bless you.
One dad to another, the struggle is real! Super cute!
Not since Brad was in possession of a tea bag has there been this much chaos at the expense of Jeff 😬
Understandably most of these comments are about Jeff's child, but the Uncle Steve story and the origin of guard bike is the highlight for me. As well as being introduced to Little Samson, which seems pretty rad.
Jeff talking about his uncle caught me off guard, specially the fake VG reviews he gave him. We're in strange times, where old video games bring us memories back just like old songs did to our previous generation.
I think Batman is a fantastic game, 9/10. The different weapons are strategic for different situations, you just need to know how and when to use them.
Yep. Overall, the Batarang works best of the three, the other two are very situational. It's very much a game that takes time to learn.
Real perseverance on display here with streaming, child rearing, and playing frustrating games. Well done.
This series is why Jeff is a singular talent and voice in video games. Very few guys right now that have the contemporaneous knowledge he does to cover NES games (early PC games, Amiga, C64, arcade, also the stuff from before 2600, 400/800, etc.)
BUT what has made me a supporter and fan since the Gamespot days is the sincerity. This isn't some unneeded historical look at the NES. Jeff's always been Jeff but now in the era of social media there is a stark contrast between him and all these people that are amping up their reactions for views, that are pretending they like everything for the views, or complete opposite. Then you get these personal snippets like Uncle Steve that give a context that no one can. He's a real MFer. Keep on hustlin' brother.
It's a genuinely good fun time
"I'll tell you what a dragon punch is when you're older."
I would like to add… I felt bad all day but only when Jeff started to play Super Pitfall did I become actually literally sick.
Make of that what you will
This is my favorite series on youtube. Love watching these every week. Brings back a lot of great (and terrible) memories of some games I played as a kid.
"I'll tell you what a dragon punch is later" cracked me up.
I mean the kid has gotta learn about Astyanax sometime
13:50 - HA! I love this chaos.
Love dad Jeff ❤️
the voice we trust
the face we lust
wholesome af
My son just turned 4, have totally experienced this while working in the office
Thanks for this Jeff!
Legendary Axe did tha-cheeeeeessssseeee 😂 This was just lovely, Jeff.
I’d watch these come out every Friday and say I didn’t have time to watch them.
Turns out I do have time to watch them, and it’s time well spent.
You and I are the same age and I have a 4 year old girl as well. Watching your interactions with your daughter reminded me that mine is exactly the same haha. The need for juice, snacks, random hugs, having the need to talk haha good times.
My new Friday night ritual! Thanks Jeff!
Please stop hugging that child - it is interrupting my stream enjoyment.
this rules jeff thank you
Like Deadly Towers, Super Pitfall took an insane amount of time and patience for me to finish back in the day. I remember the day my cousin came home all excited to tell me she bought a new NES game. She said the guy at the store told her Super Pitfall was a good one, so that's what she bought. I was not happy she didn't consult with me first and I hope she learned her lesson.
so very adorable 🥰 your daughter is absolutely precious man
According to the commercial hyping it up, which is available right here on youtube because of course it is, it's apparently "uh-STYE-uh-nix" -- maybe that last syllable is -nax instead but the audio is uh... crunchy, let's say.
Seeing you parent is heartwarming. That is all dude.
astyanax was one of my favorites when i was a kid. i still boot it up every once in a while.
Little Samson is pretty f-ing crazy for it's time. super smooth animation, fluid controls, incredibly impressive. defo a top tier nes game
"I'll tell you what a dragon punch is when you're older" LOL you're gonna have to have "the talk" with her eventually
My grandmother would always buy me games. I definitely remember picking Astyanax from Toys R Us on the BIG WALL OF GAMESSSSSSSSSS (well they were the little cards you would bring to the desk by the door that in my mind hid every game ever.) But i thought the game looked neat. Had big cool sprites, especially the boss fights. the music was really good, but i remember it being pretty hard. I definitely beat it with the game genie cause i was a bad gamer. But theres a soft spot in my heart for this game. Glad to see you play it and i hope your daughter feels better!
Good stuff man. Household stress. Lady of the house not in the vicinity (at times). Work to do. ...We're all in this together. I'm glad you still pulled off the stream. And the 'gate' on your mic held down the fort. I was using Sony MDR-7506's and I could barely hear your girl. Additionally, she had some pretty excellent contributions! ... Keep on rocking in the free world. "-Doot"
Wait, is Jeff having a 3rd child?
Yes, it's crazy
He just won't stop
He's still a threat
yeah, he needed enough people for Mario Party
Seeing Pitfall here, can't wait for Spelunker; that game taught one friend and myself so much about life.
I never played Zanac but I played a ton of The Guardian Legend so it was cool to realize how much of TGL came directly from Zanac
Best retro series on TH-cam!
This is fun! I'm the same age as you, I have two daughters but they're in their twenties and moved out. So I'm an empty nester sadly. But we have had many many many fantastic video gaming experiences together. I'm proud to say they are both very much gamers, although my older one much more than my younger one.
I assume we're saving The Adventures of Bayou Billy for the last episode? Nowhere to go but down if you play that masterpiece too early.
that and Bad Dudes have to be the closers
im a dad to four little kids. i understand this well. fight the good fight! fun episode!
Some of the sprite work on Little Samson reminds me a lot of Little Nemo.
Little Samson! Great game and by the late 90s it was already hard to get a physical copy.
Edit: wow surprised it never crossed your radar before. That along with Zoda’s revenge and Rockin Kats were some of the best for the NES released in that 91-94 range. Little Samson being the best of the bunch of those overlooked titles.
I love the batman game, i think its great, one of my favorite nes games
Wooo, finally made it to Episode 6! From one father to another, mad props to your patience with the kiddo. I hope everyone is feeling better and doing well!
I remember finishing Astyanax (pronounced "Uh-stee-an-ax" and apparently means "Lord of the City" in Greek mythology) on an emulator years ago. Batman is great though; one of my all-time favorite NES games. I wish you spent more time with that and Dr. Chaos (which has levels called "warp zones" where you find upgrades and fight bosses), but it is what it is. Still loving the series. Can't wait to watch the rest of them.
Honestly most adorable episode of this so far
I missed it live, but was impressed by Astyanax and Little Samson. As you said by '92 developers were very familiar with the 8-bit systems. The talk of upward falling shots reminds me of CREATURES by Apex Productions whom did cool 'colour mixing tricks' on C64, which of course look bad on modern screens.
Jeff's daughter is my new favorite guest. Can we get her on the podcast?
We need Mach Rider! That was one of the very first games I owned for the NES. Horribly frustrating experience, but really unique post-apocalyptic setting. With a really great soundtrack
This is a profound act of public service. Jeff is doing this so that *we* don’t have to.
I salute you always, sir.
Thanks for playing Qix! Agree about the port. My best to you and your family as y’all continue to grow.
36:04 oh man I busted out laughing
Bless you, Jeff. Playing frustrating NES games, on stream, while trying to wrangle a young ‘un… I admire your patience.
That's a strong top 5, except I personally think Rygar belongs somewhere near the middle.
Quick hug
This is the real Ultra Nightmare difficulty. 😂
Very glad we got another piece of guard bike lore
Sir Jeffrey… you are an officer & a gentleman. Well done, you big ol’ teddy bear.
Man, I am so glad I heard the Guard Bike story.
...there's a Klaus in every mid-sized city, all over the world. Also, the music in Super Pitfall is maybe the shortest loop I've ever heard in any game. It's an insane decision.
Since you like Zanac so much, I'm curious what your take on 'The Guardian Legend' is, since it's basically a sequel by the same developer with some innovative ideas (for its time).
I remember I had some pocket money and at the time a drug store near my house sold NES games and the only one I could afford was Wall Street Kid. I remember seeing the cover art and it looked like a super hero game of some sort and it was only like $15 bucks....
My dad later went back and yelled at them for selling me a game about stocks :P I think he was more mad then me because he wanted to play something too :P lol
I've played so much of the NES Qix, I loved it and it was my first encounter with the game.
If Tim and Eric's "Celery Man" starring Paul Rudd got greenlit by Netflix and went through production hell but was released during the pandemic:
aw shoot! chill friday saved.
I had the C64 version of Qix and I loved it. It had those ominous sound effects Jeff was talking about. Also, I think Jeff's strategy in Qix was, as he likes to put it, weird 😂
Jeff giving his daughter a really important education
Yeah I'm the same age as you, and I still to this day remember what a colossal event Batman was before release. It was all over magazines, etc
'Little Samson' seems really cool!
I remember the music and character art for the villain cutscenes in Astyanax freaking me out when I was a kid. It doesn't look like much now and the actual story is super basic, but for the time on the NES the cutscene presentation was kind of stand out. It's that and Ninja Gaiden that come to my mind when I think of attempts at cinematic presentation on NES.
I had the opportunity to own a copy of Little Samson when my local video store was closing. I could have bought it for $15, but instead I decided to buy 6 other games for the same price. One of my biggest regrets.
Same here. Walmart was closing out all their NES games. I bought Kabuki Quantum Fighter Instead. I got about as far as Jeff did when he played it. Little Samson is 100x more fun.
Viewers who are impressed by Little Samson should take a look at the developer Takeru's other Famicom game which did not make it to the states: Cocoron. While it also plays like Mega Man, this time you get to create your own characters with different abilities!
I have never heard of this! Scrambling to Google.
Totally feel for Jeff with his kid messing about in the background. So many Teams meetings where my kid wants to get involved and logic doesn't seem to be a thing in their tiny brains. I am training said kid on NES games though!
"Little Sampson" sounds like a 1970's sitcom we're not allowed to broadcast anymore.
The sad part about Super Pitfall on the NES is that it's a less glitchy looking, yet nearly identical version than the Tandy version, which was made by the same person that made Pitfall 2, so unfortunately, this wasn't Activision's best work.
Astynax was one of the few NES games I had patience enough to beat as a kid. I think the dope ass music was half of the reason I stuck with it
Funny, I had it as a kid too, and I never got nearly as far as Jeff does here in his first time playing. I always *wanted* to like it because of the graphics, but every time I would get knocked back into a pit, get frustrated, and quickly turn it off. I was not a patient 6 year old.
They could put "Super" on damn near anything in those days.
big thanks for the chapters
I would want all those, I have enjoyed the nes ranking videos also, watched them all
I never played Astyanax growing up either, but I remember it was constantly having ads in GamePro and EGM for what felt like at least 2 years. I'd bet if you got one of those mags from 89 to like 91 it'd have an Astyanax ad in it.
Also if you liked Little Samson you'll most likely like the other late Taito games: Power Blade 1&2, Panic Restaurant, Kiwi Craze.
Hugs rule
Man, I gotta look into playing Little Samson. That looked awesome!
its greate i love to play it on my steam deck! try it u will see...
ZANZIBAR!!!
I am here for the Batman discourse. I will say, it's hard to say just how difficult these games are, as I beat this one and the sequels on nintendo and genesis as rentals over the course of a few days each, but it's challenging to go back to now.
You really gotta punch more and use the batarang for almost all the regular enemies, that spread weapon is only kind of good for that dude you died to at the end and other dudes that switch height in relation to Batman. The game is a lot of the jumping and the precise control. The pistol and spread weapon are really only useful for the bosses here and there. I'd rank it a lot higher but maybe it's just because I was better at games then lol.
Anyone ever think the intro screen of Batman was glitching out and kept resetting the game?
Big fan of these videos! The kid sounds cute too.
Now jeff is that open mic xbox gamer with the screaming baby in the background. but wholesome and funny.
i owned Batman on NES as a kid and it was punishing lmao
You oughta make a weekly (monthly?) summary video of these rankings with like a minute of condensed gameplay footage and you deciding where it goes on the list.
Way to hang in there, dad. My only complaint was that your daughter shoulda been better mic'd! 😄
not related to any of these games, but i tried bloodstained: curse of the moon out the other day, which is supposed to control pretty much exactly like the nes castlevanias. so, no air control at all, and no jump height control, so it's very possible to jump right over the platform you meant to jump to if you time it wrong, or just jump straight up if you weren't holding down a direction before jumping :o . i'm not old enough to have played those games, but i wonder about how did people felt about that back then
Little Samson should be #1. Batman should be after River City Ransom.
since Joy Mech Fight came out on Switch online, got to thinking maybe the odd themed episode is in order, like one time just fighting games…
i've never played any of these games so far. but little samson should be number one, i bet rygar doesn't have sudden dragon betrayal