Last Battle is indeed the western localized version of a Japanese Hokuto no Ken game. They basically removed the blood, changed a few names and swapped a few colors.
It’s pretty strange that they’ve westernised Fist Of The Northstar, and turn it into Last Battle. Maybe because on the Japanese version we can see the enemies explode every time Kenshiro punches and kicks them. While here they fly off screen.
I love how you die and theres a huge Prolouge about how fucked up everything is because you died, and it shames you for dying and being a coward If only all games had this level of detail
Red Zone isn't a helicopter game, it's actually a multi genre game that changes with missions. you have overhead shoot em up type levels, fps levels, etc. it's a crazy display of what the Genesis could do . you should give it another go, at the very least it's an interesting game overall to check out.
Yeah… I was disappointed he didn’t at least get to the part where you use one of those 3 soldiers, although the whole game is punishingly difficult and the controls sometimes feel like you’re playing in slow motion.
No Escape is in fact a movie license game for the Ray Liotta movie from the 90's by the same name ( in Europe it was released as ''Escape from Absolom''). It's a dystopian Sci-Fi/Actionfilm, about a Marine who gets sentenced to life and exiled to an tropical island that serves as a prison. The prisoners on the island have formed various groups and fight each other, Mad Max style, while Liotta's character tries to escape from the island.
I totally came into the comments section to talk about Escape from Absalom. It also had that actor From Lethal Weapon 3, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3, and Zorro with Antonio Banderas.
I knew it! the game was based from a movie! the story on the intro reminded me of a movie i once watched. It was a GREAT movie, never knew they made a game based on it.
Here in the UK it released theatrically as No Escape but when it came out on VHS it was slightly altered to 'No Escape From The Penal Colony' (it was based on a 1987 book called The Penal Colony, which may have something to do with it) but has since gone back to just being No Escape again. It was also known as Absolom 2022 in a couple of places as well, like Belgium. Cool movie, anyways.
Oh Snap Mazin Saga! For those curious that's actually made by Go Nagai (Devilman) and is a Spin-Off of his Series 'Mazinger Z' which many consider as "The First Super Robot" and invented many Japanese Mecha Staples such as 'The Rocket Punch'! 👊💥 Definitely would be cool to see Matt play more of that Game in the future for sure! 👍
@@bearerofbadnews1375 ?? SRW30 was the top selling game in the series due to the global release. And the previous three games all got English releases in SEA that you could import.
Oh man, Atomic Runner right off the bat? That game is excellent, but you have to treat it like a shooter. It's rock hard and you need to get good. If you're not into shmups, it's not going to be for you, but for those into that genre, it's an incredibly well made game with tight controls and excellent level design.
Earnest Evans is...an acquired taste. Wild weird levels and enemies, and I've always enjoyed Wolfteam / Telenet soundtracks from this era. 'El Viento' (also on Genesis) is considered part of the same franchise and is much better (easier to play, no puppet physics).
Holy crackers. Arcus Odyssey. I played this game on the SEGA Channel back in the early 90s, before I could fucking read, and I've been losing my mind every couple years trying to remember this game. You have unsealed a memory for me. Thank you.
So Wolf Team is super interesting. They started as wolf team and eventually split into two studios in 1994. Tri-Ace, makers of Valkyrie Profile and the Star Ocean series, and Tales Studios, under Namco, when they released Tales of Phantasia, and are still releasing major RPGS to this day. Basically, 3 people left wolf team (hence Tri-Ace) and formed their own studio. It's also why the series had so many elements shared between them. Clearly moving off the Genesis/Mega Drive was a successful move as Pahntasia and Star Ocean are fonsidered all-time classics, whereas Ernest Evans was not.
@@Hardworlder I've never seen them but I wouldn't rule it out. They worked on things like the FM Towns in the 1980s and early 90s. Things like Time Gal and a few of their other games brushed against that style for sure. I am certainly not an expert on obscure 1980s Japanese PC games, I mostly know them due to tri-Ace and Tales team. Looking up stuff to answer you I did find out that apparently Ernst Evans is a trilogy which is mind-blowing
@@Hardworlder No, it's far sadder. They made a couple of storyline heavy magical girl themed action platformers called the Valis series. When Telenet Japan ran into financial trouble and began selling off assets, Valis ended up in the hands of a really gross hentai company who made Valis X. It turns out that fans of the original games didn't want a visual novel retelling of the original story only with scenes of their favorite characters being raped every 5 minutes.
Blades of vengeance is underrated. Later in the game your character changes costume and plays entirely differently. It does get brutally difficult towards the end though. Alisia dragoon is awesome albeit short, no cap. Cybercop is probably one of the best wolfenstein style shooters ever. You definitely should aim to beat some of these.
i m disagree with "it does get brutally difficult", it has "just enough" power-ups to keep up with new enemies, if you skip most of exploration, you would be nude and dead - and that's a problem, because it isn't difficult but tideous
I remember there being code books that claimed there was a 'nude code' for the game, but I could never get it to work. What is weird is I owned multiple Genesis code books that mentioned it.
Ah, you mentioned you aren't as familiar with the Genesis library. Out of that batch, Atomic Runner and Alisia Dragoon are arguably the best of that batch. Even though you got waxed on Atomic Runner pretty quick, it is actually a solid run-and-gun among the more hardcore old Mega Drive arcade game heads. My only issue with Mazin Saga is that it isn't Mazinger Z proper, but that's just me. Still neat though. Wolf Team (who made Arcus Odyssey) eventually became the developers of Namco's Tales series of RPGs. If you'd like a recommendation for another Wolf Team game to try on the Genesis, I'd highly recommend Granada, a top-down free-form shoot-em-up. It was originally a Sharp X86000 game and the Mega Drive port is a good conversion. Sword of Sodan is legendary among Beep! Mega Drive magazine readers as the ultimate Mega Drive kusoge. It was originally an Amiga game that was famous for looking really cool on the Amiga and that's about it. But yeah, I'm a big fan of the Genesis/Mega Drive, and out of that batch you pulled for this video, most of those were mostly forgotten for one reason or another. The two big ones just coincidentally ended up being the first two, with Atomic Runner being For True Doom Head Mega Drivers and Alisia Dragoon being just a great game all around. Wouldn't mind seeing more random Genesis games. I feel like, even though the platform was popular back in the 16-bit era, retrospectives on the platform just aren't as common as they are for the SNES, which is a real shame. As for music, not everyone can be a Yuzo Koshiro, but there's some games out there that would surprise you with what they could pull off with that FM synth (maybe not most western games using the GEMS sound driver though...)
As I state here and there throughout the video, I didn't own a Genesis growing up. So there's certainly a few spots of it's library I'm not familiar with.
@flophouseplays It's originally a 1988 arcade game, the whole weird scientists and ancient aliens plot is completely new to the MD port. In the OG, he's a coal miner caught in a nuclear meltdown and a shadowy organization wants to use his atomic super powers for evil so he ... runs a lot. It's weird on arcade, too.
@@flophouseplaysIf it's any consolation, I had a Genesis in my youth and had never heard or seen Chelnov until a year ago. Might not had been popular here in Canada...
@@flophouseplays I get that. But back in the naughties, Chelnov was one of the cult trashes, like his Data East brother Karnov or Abobo. Or maybe even Pepsiman. Kinda like good old Zubaz. So I was always under the assumption, he was right in your wheelhouse 😁😁😁
MazinSaga is based on Mazinger Z (which was indeed made by Go Nagai), but it's a weird reboot of it that focuses solely on the mecha itself (which isn't a bad idea for a video game, admittedly, just weird compared to 75% of the other Mazinger stuff).
I've played Alisia Dragoon on the Switch via the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack, and it is a legitimate banger...one of the hidden gems of the Genesis. I'm happy to see that you got some enjoyment out of it!
Nice to hear that you enjoyed Alisia Dragoon Ms. song. It's a really awesome game. This was one of my most wanted Sega Genesis games to come to the NSO Expansion Pack service for a while and I'm so happy that it's available there now : ).
Yeah the original Japanese game is based upon the Chernobyl disaster and it's why it makes absolutely no sense coming over west since they obviously couldn't use the originals story
Not-so-fun fact about Atomic Runner: It was originally released in arcades as "Atomic Runner Chelnov" with a very different plot and set-up where the titular main character was a Soviet coal miner who was caught in a nuclear blast that gave him super powers. This, combined with the character's name being very close to "Chernobyl" got Data East a lot of criticism from their perceived insensitivity and attempt to profit off the Chernobyl disaster. The company officially denied any intentional connection (though later accounts from Data East employees would partially contradict this), but the character's origins were changed, along with some graphical elements, for the Mega Drive/Genesis port, and the name "Chelnov" was dropped from the title for the North American and European release.
More ALisia, please. Really hard, but the graphics and music get even better the further it goes. The companions also get stronger the more you level up. One of the best playing Genesis games.
Fun fact about that Normy game. In a sense, the character HAD already made it, because this was a spin-off game of a comic strip called Making It by Keith Robinson. They had it in my paper as a kid. From what I can tell, though, the artist still was making cartoons as recently as 2016. There's probably a story in there to be told. Imagine if that was just a thing back in the day, and you pop a For Better or For Worse game into your Super Nintendo or something.
Atomic Runner is worth playing to get to the stage with every kind of giant statue from around the world in it. The music has that Joe and Mac style "ooh ooh!" voice in it.
Spanish guy here. I was a SNES owner but I played most of this games as a child. Some of them were pretty well known such as X-Mutants, Last Battle or Alisia Dragoon. You always knew someone who had them and you played them at their homes. It's funny to see someone connected to the world of videogames who has never seen them. Nice video. The Earnest Evans reaction, I can tell you, was exactly the same back in the day🤣
No Escape is based off of the 1994 movie of the same name. It stars Kevin Dillon and some other lesser known actors like Ray Liota, Lance Henriksen, and Ernie Hudson.
Dude, In Mazin Wars, you totally missed the best bit, which is the 1-on-1 boss battle! There is a cheat where you go into options, and change the music and FX numbers to the highest they will go, then you only fight the bosses! It really cool and worth retrying 🙂
I can not express the amount of joy you have brought to me. I have been searching for an old genesis game i had. I never knew the name cause the sticker was removed. All i could remember was a blue hero and a dino mecha. After all these years when i saw Mazin Saga it clicked. This game was one of the best games i had beack then even though i never got very far in it.
This is my favorite kind of content. As someone who gets most of my gaming pleasure out of excavating the depths of what is playable on the Mister, this kind of video is catnip to me.
The arcade Street Smart is SNK's original King of Fighters / Fatal Fury. and Mr. Karate from Fatal Fury is a reference to Street Smart. It was their 1st stab at a fighting game, and one of the last non NeoGeo SNK games. Also, theres a sign in the background (of the arcade version) that says King of Fighters, and the theme music is also the VS music in Fatal Fury 1. This port was obviously not done by SNK. Seems like FF's multi plane fighting system came from Street Smart as well.
I have played the genesis port of street smart. You can do a special move by pressing 2 buttons at the same time. Player 1 does a rapid fist attack. Player 2 is a wrestler and he does a spinning kick. Depending on how much $$$$ of have there's 3 endings. Rich ending, poor ending and average ending. I've beaten this version many times. It has the SNK name at the end. The Prototype genesis rom is harder but you start your own harem in the game.
Red Zone is most notable for having been one of the first games Jesper Kyd composed for, and it is where the beat for Hitman Blood Money's Apocalypse was born.
Chelnov and Karnov are 2 Data East classics that show up as characters in Fighter's History Mizoguchi Kiki Ippatsu!! (along the Ox from Karate Champ, tho it's not playable in this particular game).
Worth mentioning that the MD port of Chelnov is really weird, as Matt discovered. I mean, it's a weird game anyway, but the original plot has Chelnov caught in a nuclear meltdown which gives him super powers, so completely normal by radioactive super power logic.
Alisia Dragoon was one of those games I wanted to play, but none of the rental places had it. I did get to play Valis 1, Valis Syd, and Landstalker, though. Good memories!
Seeing Alisia Dragoon on a blind play is fun, but it's the result of a collaborative effort between Gainax (hence their name being attached to it) and Game Arts ( The Lunar and Grandia people ) and Alisia Dragoon was the only action-oriented game of that collab. Why Dinos for Hire was weird was you managed to die on the intro stage, you were invincible to everything but instant-death there and was just a blast processing joke. And Mazin Saga is a weird version of Mazinger Z, one of the Big Go Nagai series, hence his name and DynaPro on the title screen, it's a weirder AU where Mazinger Z is instead a power suit that Koji wears. Absolutely wild we got that game released in the US. Red Zone's also just the developer just flexing everything they could do on the Genesis, since it's a glorified tech demo made into a full game. My absolute fucking condolences for some of these titles being the worst the Genesis has to offer like Sword of Sodan ( a bad port of a bad amiga game ), Outlander, and X-Perts.
5:26 Alisia Freaking Dragoon, let's gooooo. I only knew of this game back than through one of my cousins who use to live in New Jersey who also had a Sega Genesis like I do. That's also how I got introduced to things like the Street Fighter series with SF 2 Championship Edition and NBA Jam. As for Alisia Dragoon, it's supposedly made by the same developers that would eventually make the Grandia and Lunar series of RPG games. Pretty hard Genesis game but definitely a good one with really awesome music at the time. For anyone who has the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack membership, Alisia Dragoon (and SF 2 Championship Edition) is available for the Sega Genesis part of the service.
In regards to Alisia Dragoon, many earlier Black Box Genesis games had a much broader sound palette, later red box games sega pushed that aweful GEMs driver, which was basically a mario paint level audio maker for developers to easily make "audio" for games. Anything by Renovations, Wolfteam, Sega, Capcom, and Konami had great music.
I appreciate that Metal Warriors shoutout! That game doesn’t get the love and recognition it deserves. To be honest, I never really devoted time to the 1 player story mode, but my brother and I played the sh!t out of 2 player battle mode. Bro, we had sooo many good times playing that game! It’s really a shame that it didn’t receive the praise that it deserved.
Oh man... Alisia Dragoon was such a good game. I loved playing this as a kid. The art was done by Gainax which was the studio behind Evangeleon. I also got Ex-Mutants as a kid hoping for more X-men like characters since it was Malibu comics, Ex-Mutants is so not that good! For Alisia Dragoon, there are power ups that extend your health meter, as well as powerups that extend the health meter of one of your dragons (you have 4 Dragons to switch from) There's also attack powerups that boost your attack (like you saw with red lightning). Your dragons will bank an attack once their attack meter is full, and they each have a different attack: Dragon Frye: the base dragon can fire from 1 - 3 fireballs based on it's level Thunder Raven: it uses a screen clearing flash that charges faster with levels Ball O' Fire: It charges enemies, and does more damage the higher it's gauge is, but if it's gauge is at 0 when it collides, it takes damage Boomerang Lizard: Fires 1 - 3 boomerangs in an arc, fastest attack of all the Dragons
I love this, please make more similar videos for other systems and more blast processed goodness. Sampling a bunch of different stuff keeps it interesting.
Fun fact, for some reason certain copies of atomic runner have the cheat codes active by default... said cheat codes give you the maximum ammount of lives per credit which i believe is 7 and ... 30 credits!
Wow, a lot of games I knew of and many more that I didn't XD Always love to see someone discover Alisia Dragoon. As far as I know, it's only been ported ones, for the genesis mini... yes, I bought it just for it
I'd be down for some more Arcus Odyssey, Matt! Also, a few fun facts: Earnest Evans, its predecesor El Viento, and its sequel Anett Futabi are heavily influenced by Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, with all of the games featuring creatures that appear in many of the stories. Additionally, Wolf Team would go on to become Namco Tales Studios, the primary developer of the "Tales of" series.
It's me, one of the half-dozen or so people who actually read Ex-Mutants as a kid! Spoilers: The totally not-sinister-at-all looking Doctor absolutely heel-turns on the gang like, midway through the series IIRC. Also, throwing my hat in for more Alisia Dragoon. Love that game.
Mazin Saga is insane. Spent so much of my childhood with that game but as an adult I could never remember what it was called. Thanks for solving a decades long mystery for me 😁
I believe wolf team, the developers of Arcus Odyssey, is now known as Tales of Studios, developers of the Tales of series. Also Arcus Odyssey is a personal favorite of mine, and the 2 player coop elevates it even more.
You just know the devs of Death Duel wanted to throw in an F-bomb or two in that Game Over screen for good measure, but they weren't allowed to. 35:50 This caught my attention, for some reason. Something tells me I shouldn't google that. Ragdoll Belmont is cool. I'd love to see more of that.
Last Battle is indeed a reskinned Hokuto no Ken game. It's based on the post-timeskip part of the series (the parts after Raoh that nobody talks about).
That was one of two games a friend of mine had for the Genesis initially. The other was some old-school strategy game about conquering barbarians and whatnot. I remember that elephants were one of the units you could have.
@@residentfan1521cle from Another World. It’s a manga & anime. About a teenager who gets isekai’d in 2000 and returns to Earth in the present day after years there and moves in with his now adult nephew
22 minutes in is my childhood displaying my parents' poor purchasing power. Cyber-Cop, I remember being so fascinated by the story but the game itself was too difficult for me. It collected dust for a couple years before I forced myself to conquer it one day.
Hell no, some of those are really good games!! And done additional info: - Alisia Dragoon was designed by GAINAX, that maybe you know them for a little unknown anime called NEON GENESIS EVANGELION. - as other people said, No Escape is a movie licenced game. If you keep playing you will see a digitized version of Lance Henrikksen among others. - Red Zone is a fantastic, yet hard as balls game. If you would have landed the chopper in any of the bases you have to attack (or let the demo play) you would have seen that indeed, you pick any of the three characters on also a top view, to play.
Ernest Evans has voiced cutcenes on Sega CD, but is a japanese exclusive. It's the first game on a trilogy followed by El Viento, a pretty good action platformer, and Anett Futatabi, a mediocre beat 'em up on Sega CD that is Japan exclusive too.
I like how the sprites move in Mazin Saga. These all seem to have a theme of being too ambitious or complex that they just fell under the radar for people I guess. That last one had an interesting sprite with the 3D and all.
1:02:11 This is a LICENSED GAME of the same name called NO ESCAPE. It's about a guy sent to a future prison on an island where, that's it the prisoners run the island.
I swear “easy like Sunday morning” plays in my head when your videos pop up on Sunday after I get home from church. Especially the long videos cuz I just chill and watch then nap an hour after haha
Mazin Saga... is based on a long series of anime. Definitely worth watching the whole thing. I won't spoil the whole series, but it concerns Koji Kabuto and Dr. Hell.
Without looking it up, I'm pretty sure Outlander is a renamed Mad Max due to licensing. I remember this game when I was young and I'm almost sure it was called Mad Max. This is based on the first movie. mind you. The scene where he one-handed shot a guy off his bike through the window was iconic back then.
Eventually you leave the helicopter in red zone and go into an enemy compound as one of those three cool comandos. It's pretty good if you give it a chance.
Atomic Runner is actually a really cool game, but it has one hell of a threshold to get over. Just check the options screen and you can see 9 different ways to map your controls. I personally tend to map it so A shoots left, B jumps and C shoots right.
I was gonna head to bed, but Matt playing Genesis games sounds like the perfect brain stimulant to give me some wild dreams. Collab with Sega Lord X? One can hope.
X-O Manowar is a Valiant Comics property, not Malibu. Also, I think the world was saved when Marvel bought Malibu and gutted them. Though, we did get MiB from them
Interesting 😊 I found out I had the European version of Rayman 2 (had voice acting) for the PS1. When I saw gameplay without voice acting, I thought I was insane lol
Have you ever played Haunting on the Genesis? I've never heard anyone talk about it save for one episode of J&M Mondays. It was awesome as a kid--tons of spooky/scary custom animations.
I'm beyond hyped that you played Arcus Odyssey! The intro and song that plays is so goddamn iconic to me that it's on a bunch of my playlists...and also the 90s as fuck anime vibe is real! (Castomira was also my first crush as a wee lad UwU)
Arcus Odyssey is one of my favorite Genesis titles. Solid game, and good CoOp. Red Zone btw will allow you to play facility and ground missions outside the helicopter, it's top view. Similar to the later levels in the Strike games you mentioned.
Technoclash is a bit of a favourite of mine even though I’ve never finished it. The variety of spells you can use is cool, especially the lightning, and you can send out your falcon to scout ahead in real time as you control it. But in later levels it gets pretty difficult!
Atomic Runner is far more playable if you change button layout in options to A=shoot left, B=Shoot Right, and C= Jump the default settings where you have a jump button, a shoot button and a Change Direction Button is way too difficult, this game is actually enjoyable f given a chance.
I wouldn't call Storm Lord a "classic", but on some other consoles it was a gem - namely, things like the Amstrad CPC and Spectrum, which were not 16 bit systems. It had a number of ports, and while the older consoles didn't do so well in the graphics department, they were fairly playable and compared well against other things on those older systems. IIRC, the Mega Drive / Genesis version was actually produced on their own cartridges, without Sega's permission, due to a disagreement over licensing.
_No Escape_ is based on a 1994 movie of the same name. Normy: "Aliens have kidnapped some women from the beach! Obviously the logical thing to do is drink suntan lotion in order to go back to cavemen times!"
Anyone else gutted he didn't reach the 1st boss in Mazin Wars? The Power Rangers-esk morphin in to a giant player to fight each boss. The huge sprites, how cool the bosses look, finally getting to see them in full after seeing glimpses of a giant hand or foot through out the level. I think he would have been impressed
This is my first time finding your channel and this is the first video of yours I've watched and the second you said in the intro, "I feel like this game is being developed as we play it," I subscribed.
What is the scaling in Death Duel? Are you a tiny person piloting a regular size robot? Or is that woman who starts the match happen to be giant with you and the Death Dual contestants? Arcus looks like a pretty neat Gauntlet-like!
Mazin Saga is based on a short manga based on Mazinger, a mecha franchise that Hideaki Anno likes and was a big influence on Evangelion alongside Getter Robo, Devilman and Ultraman.
You’re exactly right about Cyber-Cop (or Corporation, as it was known outside North America) being right at home on PC - what you’re playing is a port of an Amiga game. I think there was a DOS version but I refuse to check
…OK I checked. Simultaneous releases on Amiga and Atari ST, later ported to DOS and the Mega Drive. Actually predates Wolf3D in the FPS canon, though I always mentally associate it more with early 3D adventures like Castle Master
I be down to see you play through Alisia Dragoon Matt but it does have a high difficulty curve to deal with just so you know. If you ever do decide to give it another extended go, good luck to you sir.
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Last Battle is indeed the western localized version of a Japanese Hokuto no Ken game. They basically removed the blood, changed a few names and swapped a few colors.
You can cut the tension with a spork
Aka Fist of the North Star?
@@thegamesninja3119 Yes.
Lol yup. This is based on Ken’s travels through the land of Shura.
It’s pretty strange that they’ve westernised Fist Of The Northstar, and turn it into Last Battle.
Maybe because on the Japanese version we can see the enemies explode every time Kenshiro punches and kicks them. While here they fly off screen.
That 'Death Duel' game over screen is the most brutal game over screen I've seen in my life. It straight up just insults you and down to your family 😂
Your family? Your entire bloodline xD
This is a very early Mega Drive game, I saw it in rare occasions.
I love how you die and theres a huge Prolouge about how fucked up everything is because you died, and it shames you for dying and being a coward
If only all games had this level of detail
That was fu€king great 😆
Red Zone isn't a helicopter game, it's actually a multi genre game that changes with missions. you have overhead shoot em up type levels, fps levels, etc. it's a crazy display of what the Genesis could do . you should give it another go, at the very least it's an interesting game overall to check out.
Yeah… I was disappointed he didn’t at least get to the part where you use one of those 3 soldiers, although the whole game is punishingly difficult and the controls sometimes feel like you’re playing in slow motion.
I love that Matt immediately recognized Last Battle as a reskinned Hokuto no Ken game. 😆
No Escape is in fact a movie license game for the Ray Liotta movie from the 90's by the same name ( in Europe it was released as ''Escape from Absolom'').
It's a dystopian Sci-Fi/Actionfilm, about a Marine who gets sentenced to life and exiled to an tropical island that serves as a prison.
The prisoners on the island have formed various groups and fight each other, Mad Max style, while Liotta's character tries to escape from the island.
RIP Ray Liotta
I totally came into the comments section to talk about Escape from Absalom. It also had that actor From Lethal Weapon 3, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3, and Zorro with Antonio Banderas.
I knew it! the game was based from a movie! the story on the intro reminded me of a movie i once watched. It was a GREAT movie, never knew they made a game based on it.
Here in the UK it released theatrically as No Escape but when it came out on VHS it was slightly altered to 'No Escape From The Penal Colony' (it was based on a 1987 book called The Penal Colony, which may have something to do with it) but has since gone back to just being No Escape again. It was also known as Absolom 2022 in a couple of places as well, like Belgium. Cool movie, anyways.
I was like "Survivor" if everyone were convicted murderers. Or "Lord of the Flies" if everyone were an adult.
Oh Snap Mazin Saga! For those curious that's actually made by Go Nagai (Devilman) and is a Spin-Off of his Series 'Mazinger Z' which many consider as "The First Super Robot" and invented many Japanese Mecha Staples such as 'The Rocket Punch'! 👊💥
Definitely would be cool to see Matt play more of that Game in the future for sure! 👍
I know of Mazinger from the super robot wars games. Wished we get more those in the west.
@@bearerofbadnews1375 I'm pretty sure the most recent game sold well enough on steam for them to release future titles on there.
@@bearerofbadnews1375 ??
SRW30 was the top selling game in the series due to the global release. And the previous three games all got English releases in SEA that you could import.
I immediately thought of Mazinger when I saw the name.
You were a little young but Ex-Mutants was a classic, who could forget such heros like Disgruntled Goat, Uncle Ant, KIu Klux Clam...
Disgruntled Goat had his moments.
Arcus Odyssey is a true hidden gem for the Genesis. Plus the replayability trying to beat the game with the different characters.
@@UltimateGamerCCdidn’t they all have different attacks and magic?
Yeah it looks like a game i'd WANT to play
Oh man, Atomic Runner right off the bat? That game is excellent, but you have to treat it like a shooter. It's rock hard and you need to get good. If you're not into shmups, it's not going to be for you, but for those into that genre, it's an incredibly well made game with tight controls and excellent level design.
Earnest Evans is...an acquired taste. Wild weird levels and enemies, and I've always enjoyed Wolfteam / Telenet soundtracks from this era.
'El Viento' (also on Genesis) is considered part of the same franchise and is much better (easier to play, no puppet physics).
1:20:28 "Bet on the enemy and lose"
I'm not joking when I say that's the strategy for reaching the maximum amount of money.
Holy crackers. Arcus Odyssey. I played this game on the SEGA Channel back in the early 90s, before I could fucking read, and I've been losing my mind every couple years trying to remember this game.
You have unsealed a memory for me. Thank you.
32:15 God, that "FUCK OFF!" is so genuine. Great video and thanks for taking us on this crazy Genesis ride!
So Wolf Team is super interesting. They started as wolf team and eventually split into two studios in 1994. Tri-Ace, makers of Valkyrie Profile and the Star Ocean series, and Tales Studios, under Namco, when they released Tales of Phantasia, and are still releasing major RPGS to this day.
Basically, 3 people left wolf team (hence Tri-Ace) and formed their own studio. It's also why the series had so many elements shared between them. Clearly moving off the Genesis/Mega Drive was a successful move as Pahntasia and Star Ocean are fonsidered all-time classics, whereas Ernest Evans was not.
Didn't they make hentai games at some point?
@@Hardworlder I've never seen them but I wouldn't rule it out. They worked on things like the FM Towns in the 1980s and early 90s. Things like Time Gal and a few of their other games brushed against that style for sure.
I am certainly not an expert on obscure 1980s Japanese PC games, I mostly know them due to tri-Ace and Tales team.
Looking up stuff to answer you I did find out that apparently Ernst Evans is a trilogy which is mind-blowing
@@Hardworlder No, it's far sadder. They made a couple of storyline heavy magical girl themed action platformers called the Valis series. When Telenet Japan ran into financial trouble and began selling off assets, Valis ended up in the hands of a really gross hentai company who made Valis X. It turns out that fans of the original games didn't want a visual novel retelling of the original story only with scenes of their favorite characters being raped every 5 minutes.
@@7cNickel That's a different studio
@@nextgencowboy Nope, Wolfteam never made any hentai games.
Blades of vengeance is underrated. Later in the game your character changes costume and plays entirely differently. It does get brutally difficult towards the end though.
Alisia dragoon is awesome albeit short, no cap. Cybercop is probably one of the best wolfenstein style shooters ever.
You definitely should aim to beat some of these.
i m disagree with "it does get brutally difficult", it has "just enough" power-ups to keep up with new enemies, if you skip most of exploration, you would be nude and dead - and that's a problem, because it isn't difficult but tideous
@@Gatorade69 I typed it all wrong, sorry. I meant to say wolfenstein.
That first Outfit is all you need (. ) Y ( .)
I remember there being code books that claimed there was a 'nude code' for the game, but I could never get it to work. What is weird is I owned multiple Genesis code books that mentioned it.
Ah, you mentioned you aren't as familiar with the Genesis library. Out of that batch, Atomic Runner and Alisia Dragoon are arguably the best of that batch. Even though you got waxed on Atomic Runner pretty quick, it is actually a solid run-and-gun among the more hardcore old Mega Drive arcade game heads.
My only issue with Mazin Saga is that it isn't Mazinger Z proper, but that's just me. Still neat though.
Wolf Team (who made Arcus Odyssey) eventually became the developers of Namco's Tales series of RPGs. If you'd like a recommendation for another Wolf Team game to try on the Genesis, I'd highly recommend Granada, a top-down free-form shoot-em-up. It was originally a Sharp X86000 game and the Mega Drive port is a good conversion.
Sword of Sodan is legendary among Beep! Mega Drive magazine readers as the ultimate Mega Drive kusoge. It was originally an Amiga game that was famous for looking really cool on the Amiga and that's about it.
But yeah, I'm a big fan of the Genesis/Mega Drive, and out of that batch you pulled for this video, most of those were mostly forgotten for one reason or another. The two big ones just coincidentally ended up being the first two, with Atomic Runner being For True Doom Head Mega Drivers and Alisia Dragoon being just a great game all around. Wouldn't mind seeing more random Genesis games. I feel like, even though the platform was popular back in the 16-bit era, retrospectives on the platform just aren't as common as they are for the SNES, which is a real shame.
As for music, not everyone can be a Yuzo Koshiro, but there's some games out there that would surprise you with what they could pull off with that FM synth (maybe not most western games using the GEMS sound driver though...)
Matt not having heard of Chelnov is surprising to tell the very, very least
As I state here and there throughout the video, I didn't own a Genesis growing up. So there's certainly a few spots of it's library I'm not familiar with.
@flophouseplays It's originally a 1988 arcade game, the whole weird scientists and ancient aliens plot is completely new to the MD port. In the OG, he's a coal miner caught in a nuclear meltdown and a shadowy organization wants to use his atomic super powers for evil so he ... runs a lot. It's weird on arcade, too.
@@flophouseplaysIf it's any consolation, I had a Genesis in my youth and had never heard or seen Chelnov until a year ago. Might not had been popular here in Canada...
@@flophouseplays I get that. But back in the naughties, Chelnov was one of the cult trashes, like his Data East brother Karnov or Abobo. Or maybe even Pepsiman. Kinda like good old Zubaz. So I was always under the assumption, he was right in your wheelhouse 😁😁😁
MazinSaga is based on Mazinger Z (which was indeed made by Go Nagai), but it's a weird reboot of it that focuses solely on the mecha itself (which isn't a bad idea for a video game, admittedly, just weird compared to 75% of the other Mazinger stuff).
In mazin saga Mazinger Z is magic power armor Koji wears
And it's cool af
@@NeoZ45 yeah i wish it finished
But doss it have anything to do with mazin wars
@@bobbylasers same game its just called Mazin Wars in europe.
I've played Alisia Dragoon on the Switch via the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack, and it is a legitimate banger...one of the hidden gems of the Genesis. I'm happy to see that you got some enjoyment out of it!
Nice to hear that you enjoyed Alisia Dragoon Ms. song. It's a really awesome game. This was one of my most wanted Sega Genesis games to come to the NSO Expansion Pack service for a while and I'm so happy that it's available there now : ).
Same! It was honestly pretty fun
Alicia Dragoon and Ranger X are hidden gems that look and sound gorgeous.
Atomic Runner was one of the few Genesis games I owned as a kid. The enemies and bosses get weirder the further you progress.
Yeah the original Japanese game is based upon the Chernobyl disaster and it's why it makes absolutely no sense coming over west since they obviously couldn't use the originals story
Not-so-fun fact about Atomic Runner: It was originally released in arcades as "Atomic Runner Chelnov" with a very different plot and set-up where the titular main character was a Soviet coal miner who was caught in a nuclear blast that gave him super powers. This, combined with the character's name being very close to "Chernobyl" got Data East a lot of criticism from their perceived insensitivity and attempt to profit off the Chernobyl disaster. The company officially denied any intentional connection (though later accounts from Data East employees would partially contradict this), but the character's origins were changed, along with some graphical elements, for the Mega Drive/Genesis port, and the name "Chelnov" was dropped from the title for the North American and European release.
More ALisia, please. Really hard, but the graphics and music get even better the further it goes. The companions also get stronger the more you level up. One of the best playing Genesis games.
Fun fact about that Normy game. In a sense, the character HAD already made it, because this was a spin-off game of a comic strip called Making It by Keith Robinson. They had it in my paper as a kid. From what I can tell, though, the artist still was making cartoons as recently as 2016. There's probably a story in there to be told.
Imagine if that was just a thing back in the day, and you pop a For Better or For Worse game into your Super Nintendo or something.
Fun fact, there is indeed quite some tales to be told about that Normy's game. Maybe one day I'll spill the beans. LOL
@@tonybarnes2920 oh please tell us!!!!
Atomic Runner is worth playing to get to the stage with every kind of giant statue from around the world in it. The music has that Joe and Mac style "ooh ooh!" voice in it.
That Outlander was supposed to be MadMax but something happened with the license and the no escape was that Ray Liotta movie
Spanish guy here. I was a SNES owner but I played most of this games as a child. Some of them were pretty well known such as X-Mutants, Last Battle or Alisia Dragoon. You always knew someone who had them and you played them at their homes. It's funny to see someone connected to the world of videogames who has never seen them. Nice video. The Earnest Evans reaction, I can tell you, was exactly the same back in the day🤣
No Escape is based off of the 1994 movie of the same name. It stars Kevin Dillon and some other lesser known actors like Ray Liota, Lance Henriksen, and Ernie Hudson.
Lol you are definitely joking with this one
@@uptown710 Mos Def joking. Maybe.
It's not a good movie, but I actually kind of like it.
I’m intrigued by Arcus Odyssey. I definitely want to see more of that!
Alisia Dragoon is one of the first games we owned on our Genesis back in the day and I love that game. You should definitely play more.
Dude, In Mazin Wars, you totally missed the best bit, which is the 1-on-1 boss battle! There is a cheat where you go into options, and change the music and FX numbers to the highest they will go, then you only fight the bosses! It really cool and worth retrying 🙂
Some of my all-time Genesis favs in here! Alisia Dragoon and Death Duel particularly strike some deep nostalgic childhood memories.
I can not express the amount of joy you have brought to me. I have been searching for an old genesis game i had. I never knew the name cause the sticker was removed. All i could remember was a blue hero and a dino mecha. After all these years when i saw Mazin Saga it clicked. This game was one of the best games i had beack then even though i never got very far in it.
This is my favorite kind of content. As someone who gets most of my gaming pleasure out of excavating the depths of what is playable on the Mister, this kind of video is catnip to me.
The arcade Street Smart is SNK's original King of Fighters / Fatal Fury. and Mr. Karate from Fatal Fury is a reference to Street Smart. It was their 1st stab at a fighting game, and one of the last non NeoGeo SNK games. Also, theres a sign in the background (of the arcade version) that says King of Fighters, and the theme music is also the VS music in Fatal Fury 1. This port was obviously not done by SNK. Seems like FF's multi plane fighting system came from Street Smart as well.
I have played the genesis port of street smart. You can do a special move by pressing 2 buttons at the same time. Player 1 does a rapid fist attack. Player 2 is a wrestler and he does a spinning kick. Depending on how much $$$$ of have there's 3 endings. Rich ending, poor ending and average ending. I've beaten this version many times. It has the SNK name at the end. The Prototype genesis rom is harder but you start your own harem in the game.
Red Zone is most notable for having been one of the first games Jesper Kyd composed for, and it is where the beat for Hitman Blood Money's Apocalypse was born.
Chelnov and Karnov are 2 Data East classics that show up as characters in Fighter's History Mizoguchi Kiki Ippatsu!! (along the Ox from Karate Champ, tho it's not playable in this particular game).
Worth mentioning that the MD port of Chelnov is really weird, as Matt discovered. I mean, it's a weird game anyway, but the original plot has Chelnov caught in a nuclear meltdown which gives him super powers, so completely normal by radioactive super power logic.
I still own Chelnov its a good game once you get use too the controls.
Sega had too change the game from the original as it was based on the Cold War.
Alisia Dragoon was one of those games I wanted to play, but none of the rental places had it. I did get to play Valis 1, Valis Syd, and Landstalker, though. Good memories!
To me, X Mutants existed as a comic that only existed in the pages of Wizard Magazine. I never saw a single issue for sale in the wild.
34:19 A rare sighting of 90s-era Triceracop? Game is officially a Kung Fury prequel.
Seeing Alisia Dragoon on a blind play is fun, but it's the result of a collaborative effort between Gainax (hence their name being attached to it) and Game Arts ( The Lunar and Grandia people ) and Alisia Dragoon was the only action-oriented game of that collab.
Why Dinos for Hire was weird was you managed to die on the intro stage, you were invincible to everything but instant-death there and was just a blast processing joke.
And Mazin Saga is a weird version of Mazinger Z, one of the Big Go Nagai series, hence his name and DynaPro on the title screen, it's a weirder AU where Mazinger Z is instead a power suit that Koji wears. Absolutely wild we got that game released in the US.
Red Zone's also just the developer just flexing everything they could do on the Genesis, since it's a glorified tech demo made into a full game.
My absolute fucking condolences for some of these titles being the worst the Genesis has to offer like Sword of Sodan ( a bad port of a bad amiga game ), Outlander, and X-Perts.
I think in Mazin Saga, the bosses turn into a 1 v 1 fighting game
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Alisia Freaking Dragoon, let's gooooo. I only knew of this game back than through one of my cousins who use to live in New Jersey who also had a Sega Genesis like I do. That's also how I got introduced to things like the Street Fighter series with SF 2 Championship Edition and NBA Jam.
As for Alisia Dragoon, it's supposedly made by the same developers that would eventually make the Grandia and Lunar series of RPG games. Pretty hard Genesis game but definitely a good one with really awesome music at the time. For anyone who has the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack membership, Alisia Dragoon (and SF 2 Championship Edition) is available for the Sega Genesis part of the service.
In regards to Alisia Dragoon, many earlier Black Box Genesis games had a much broader sound palette, later red box games sega pushed that aweful GEMs driver, which was basically a mario paint level audio maker for developers to easily make "audio" for games. Anything by Renovations, Wolfteam, Sega, Capcom, and Konami had great music.
I appreciate that Metal Warriors shoutout! That game doesn’t get the love and recognition it deserves. To be honest, I never really devoted time to the 1 player story mode, but my brother and I played the sh!t out of 2 player battle mode. Bro, we had sooo many good times playing that game! It’s really a shame that it didn’t receive the praise that it deserved.
Oh man... Alisia Dragoon was such a good game. I loved playing this as a kid. The art was done by Gainax which was the studio behind Evangeleon. I also got Ex-Mutants as a kid hoping for more X-men like characters since it was Malibu comics, Ex-Mutants is so not that good!
For Alisia Dragoon, there are power ups that extend your health meter, as well as powerups that extend the health meter of one of your dragons (you have 4 Dragons to switch from) There's also attack powerups that boost your attack (like you saw with red lightning).
Your dragons will bank an attack once their attack meter is full, and they each have a different attack:
Dragon Frye: the base dragon can fire from 1 - 3 fireballs based on it's level
Thunder Raven: it uses a screen clearing flash that charges faster with levels
Ball O' Fire: It charges enemies, and does more damage the higher it's gauge is, but if it's gauge is at 0 when it collides, it takes damage
Boomerang Lizard: Fires 1 - 3 boomerangs in an arc, fastest attack of all the Dragons
I love this, please make more similar videos for other systems and more blast processed goodness. Sampling a bunch of different stuff keeps it interesting.
Fun fact, for some reason certain copies of atomic runner have the cheat codes active by default... said cheat codes give you the maximum ammount of lives per credit which i believe is 7 and ... 30 credits!
Wow, a lot of games I knew of and many more that I didn't XD
Always love to see someone discover Alisia Dragoon. As far as I know, it's only been ported ones, for the genesis mini... yes, I bought it just for it
I'd be down for some more Arcus Odyssey, Matt!
Also, a few fun facts: Earnest Evans, its predecesor El Viento, and its sequel Anett Futabi are heavily influenced by Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, with all of the games featuring creatures that appear in many of the stories.
Additionally, Wolf Team would go on to become Namco Tales Studios, the primary developer of the "Tales of" series.
It's me, one of the half-dozen or so people who actually read Ex-Mutants as a kid!
Spoilers: The totally not-sinister-at-all looking Doctor absolutely heel-turns on the gang like, midway through the series IIRC.
Also, throwing my hat in for more Alisia Dragoon. Love that game.
Mazin Saga is insane. Spent so much of my childhood with that game but as an adult I could never remember what it was called. Thanks for solving a decades long mystery for me 😁
IDK if this comes up later but fun fact: Wolf Team is the guys who will become Namco Tales Studio and made the Tales series of RPGs!
I believe wolf team, the developers of Arcus Odyssey, is now known as Tales of Studios, developers of the Tales of series. Also Arcus Odyssey is a personal favorite of mine, and the 2 player coop elevates it even more.
You just know the devs of Death Duel wanted to throw in an F-bomb or two in that Game Over screen for good measure, but they weren't allowed to.
35:50 This caught my attention, for some reason. Something tells me I shouldn't google that.
Ragdoll Belmont is cool. I'd love to see more of that.
Last Battle is indeed a reskinned Hokuto no Ken game. It's based on the post-timeskip part of the series (the parts after Raoh that nobody talks about).
Like kujaku or any ip that isn't big in the West, sega would make changes in the Sprites
like the hokuto no ken for master system and mega drive!
People talk about the timeskip, only the ones who are new to HnK don't talk about the other parts since most of it is kinda a repeat.
I really wish Jewel Master was here. That game rules and I don’t think many people played or remember it.
That was one of two games a friend of mine had for the Genesis initially. The other was some old-school strategy game about conquering barbarians and whatnot. I remember that elephants were one of the units you could have.
@@EmperorSethWas it 'Warrior of Rome'?
@@deejhopskotch5241 I got in touch with the friend who had the Genesis. It was Centurion: Defender of Rome. That was bugging me for decades.
So Mazin Saga is suppose to be a Mazinger(Mazinkaiser?) game... But human sized? Almost like they combined Mazinger and Jeeg.
I’m sure an Uncle that returned from another world would like this.
Is this a Gravity Falls reference?
Ha! Just started reading it.
@@residentfan1521 it’s an anime.
@@residentfan1521cle from Another World. It’s a manga & anime. About a teenager who gets isekai’d in 2000 and returns to Earth in the present day after years there and moves in with his now adult nephew
@@ColtComancheoh ok. Gravity Falls also has an uncle from another world
22 minutes in is my childhood displaying my parents' poor purchasing power. Cyber-Cop, I remember being so fascinated by the story but the game itself was too difficult for me. It collected dust for a couple years before I forced myself to conquer it one day.
Hell no, some of those are really good games!!
And done additional info:
- Alisia Dragoon was designed by GAINAX, that maybe you know them for a little unknown anime called NEON GENESIS EVANGELION.
- as other people said, No Escape is a movie licenced game. If you keep playing you will see a digitized version of Lance Henrikksen among others.
- Red Zone is a fantastic, yet hard as balls game. If you would have landed the chopper in any of the bases you have to attack (or let the demo play) you would have seen that indeed, you pick any of the three characters on also a top view, to play.
Ernest Evans has voiced cutcenes on Sega CD, but is a japanese exclusive. It's the first game on a trilogy followed by El Viento, a pretty good action platformer, and Anett Futatabi, a mediocre beat 'em up on Sega CD that is Japan exclusive too.
I like how the sprites move in Mazin Saga.
These all seem to have a theme of being too ambitious or complex that they just fell under the radar for people I guess. That last one had an interesting sprite with the 3D and all.
1:02:11 This is a LICENSED GAME of the same name called NO ESCAPE. It's about a guy sent to a future prison on an island where, that's it the prisoners run the island.
I swear “easy like Sunday morning” plays in my head when your videos pop up on Sunday after I get home from church. Especially the long videos cuz I just chill and watch then nap an hour after haha
Mazin Saga... is based on a long series of anime. Definitely worth watching the whole thing. I won't spoil the whole series, but it concerns Koji Kabuto and Dr. Hell.
Without looking it up, I'm pretty sure Outlander is a renamed Mad Max due to licensing. I remember this game when I was young and I'm almost sure it was called Mad Max. This is based on the first movie. mind you. The scene where he one-handed shot a guy off his bike through the window was iconic back then.
Not only did they remove Fist of the North star from the game, they also removed all the epic finishers and gore
I love Alisia Dragoon, good to see you playing it.
The fist of the northstar game from arc systems is pretty good. And I did have fun with beat em-up on ps1.
Eventually you leave the helicopter in red zone and go into an enemy compound as one of those three cool comandos. It's pretty good if you give it a chance.
Atomic Runner is actually a really cool game, but it has one hell of a threshold to get over. Just check the options screen and you can see 9 different ways to map your controls. I personally tend to map it so A shoots left, B jumps and C shoots right.
MazinSaga is a lowkey banger.
Edit: That 24 Hour To Live reference was based af
So far I'd say atomic runner looked the funniest 2 me but I'm only halfway done the vid. I love games like that reminds me of castlevania
I was gonna head to bed, but Matt playing Genesis games sounds like the perfect brain stimulant to give me some wild dreams.
Collab with Sega Lord X? One can hope.
X-O Manowar is a Valiant Comics property, not Malibu.
Also, I think the world was saved when Marvel bought Malibu and gutted them.
Though, we did get MiB from them
That mad 2D ragdolling in Earnest Evans is just masterful
Mazin Saga Mutant Fighter is one of my favorite genesis games of all time! You seriously need to play it more, it's awesome and the music is bangin!
CyberCop was a port of an Amiga game, and was called “Corporation” outside the USA
Interesting 😊 I found out I had the European version of Rayman 2 (had voice acting) for the PS1. When I saw gameplay without voice acting, I thought I was insane lol
Have you ever played Haunting on the Genesis? I've never heard anyone talk about it save for one episode of J&M Mondays. It was awesome as a kid--tons of spooky/scary custom animations.
I would highly recommend 'Ranger X' for the sega/megadrive. One of my favourite games on the console
I'm beyond hyped that you played Arcus Odyssey! The intro and song that plays is so goddamn iconic to me that it's on a bunch of my playlists...and also the 90s as fuck anime vibe is real! (Castomira was also my first crush as a wee lad UwU)
Arcus Odyssey is one of my favorite Genesis titles. Solid game, and good CoOp. Red Zone btw will allow you to play facility and ground missions outside the helicopter, it's top view. Similar to the later levels in the Strike games you mentioned.
Technoclash is a bit of a favourite of mine even though I’ve never finished it. The variety of spells you can use is cool, especially the lightning, and you can send out your falcon to scout ahead in real time as you control it. But in later levels it gets pretty difficult!
Atomic Runner is far more playable if you change button layout in options to A=shoot left, B=Shoot Right, and C= Jump the default settings where you have a jump button, a shoot button and a Change Direction Button is way too difficult, this game is actually enjoyable f given a chance.
I wouldn't call Storm Lord a "classic", but on some other consoles it was a gem - namely, things like the Amstrad CPC and Spectrum, which were not 16 bit systems. It had a number of ports, and while the older consoles didn't do so well in the graphics department, they were fairly playable and compared well against other things on those older systems. IIRC, the Mega Drive / Genesis version was actually produced on their own cartridges, without Sega's permission, due to a disagreement over licensing.
_No Escape_ is based on a 1994 movie of the same name.
Normy: "Aliens have kidnapped some women from the beach! Obviously the logical thing to do is drink suntan lotion in order to go back to cavemen times!"
ARCUS ODYSSEY!!!! First thing I did when I opened the video was look to see if that was one. Hopefully you enjoyed that one, great game.
All of those games are 'unheard of' except Alisia Dragoon. That game is quite well known.
Anyone else gutted he didn't reach the 1st boss in Mazin Wars? The Power Rangers-esk morphin in to a giant player to fight each boss. The huge sprites, how cool the bosses look, finally getting to see them in full after seeing glimpses of a giant hand or foot through out the level. I think he would have been impressed
Alisia Dragon was one of the early release on Mega Drive here in Europe
This is why Flophouse Plays is one of the best video game channels out there. Love it!
You've said MazinSaga is a mix of a beat'em up and an action game, wait until you beat the first boss (Garada K7)
Alisia Dragoon was made by Game Arts, who would go on to develop the Lunar and Grandia games.
This is my first time finding your channel and this is the first video of yours I've watched and the second you said in the intro, "I feel like this game is being developed as we play it," I subscribed.
What is the scaling in Death Duel? Are you a tiny person piloting a regular size robot? Or is that woman who starts the match happen to be giant with you and the Death Dual contestants? Arcus looks like a pretty neat Gauntlet-like!
no escape - theres a sci fi movie called no escape 1994 that this game must be based off. the bad guy on the intro screen is an exact copy
Mazin Saga is based on a short manga based on Mazinger, a mecha franchise that Hideaki Anno likes and was a big influence on Evangelion alongside Getter Robo, Devilman and Ultraman.
You’re exactly right about Cyber-Cop (or Corporation, as it was known outside North America) being right at home on PC - what you’re playing is a port of an Amiga game. I think there was a DOS version but I refuse to check
…OK I checked. Simultaneous releases on Amiga and Atari ST, later ported to DOS and the Mega Drive. Actually predates Wolf3D in the FPS canon, though I always mentally associate it more with early 3D adventures like Castle Master
I be down to see you play through Alisia Dragoon Matt but it does have a high difficulty curve to deal with just so you know. If you ever do decide to give it another extended go, good luck to you sir.
Alisia Dragoon is an amazing game and one of my favourites