For those of you wondering why game X wasn’t covered, this is part 3. The links to parts 1 and 2 are in the description where I cover many other games for the Genesis.
Man, that motorola 68000 was just a marvelous powerhouse back in the day. No wonder it powered so many things, from Arcade hardware like cps1-2, system 16 and neo geo to home consoles and computers like the mega drive, sharp x68k, amiga, atari-ST, etc. The things you could do with it visually without the need of additional hardware was just mind blowing.
@@Guernicaman Americans usually pronounce it Rih-star while Europeans say it Rye-star. I don't know why it would be pronounced Rye-star in the US anyway.
I SEE RISTAR I CLICK bro Ristar is hands down one of the most gorgeous games on the genesis it my favorite gane of all time and i wasn't even alive when it came out like no where near but its just such a fun and grand game with amazing animations and gorgeous visuals, interesting characters,worlds and just oozing with pure potential i hope on day they bring it back
I never heard of it when it came out originally. I was a huge sonic fan, had all the sonics. Plus some of the spin off sonic games. So you'd think I would have heard of a sonic team game like Ristar I'm just glad I know it now, it's such a brilliant game. One of the best 16 bit games, period
With the right hands the genesis can software graphics effects that grabs the eye. I wish sega developed a sequel of ristar and more sequels from majority of Genesis titles to the Saturn
They should make a modern Ristar sequel. I thought streets of rage 4 was brilliant, one of the best beat em ups I've ever played, so they can do the same with Ristar, hand it over to a great indie developer who knows what they're doing
I miss the console wars in the early days. I was a diehard Sega fan. I bought all the Sega consoles (I bought others too, but Sega came first), loved the games for the systems. I started moving slightly to the PC platform pretty early, but was still mainly a console gamer. Then came the demise of the Dreamcast. After this, I switched my focus 100% to the PC platform. It's safe to say, had the Dreamcast survived, and Sega continued to bring out competing consoles, I would have stuck with consoles as my main platform. Now there is no real console battle or war. The systems seem to just share the space. Hats of to Nintendo for staying very true to their roots, and being just as quirky now, as they ever were.
I keep saying all the time that if Sega were to make another console and port over all their previous console and arcade titles along with new exclusives, they could totally pull it off.
@@rainehappy7097 exactly, it's almost 100% sure that it'd be successful. they could also bring lost games such as after burner climax. sega has sooo much potential yet half of it is still untapped...
Snooker is very popular in the UK. During the 80s and 90s Jimmy White was a household name over here. He also has a game on the Dreamcast which is worth looking at.
What I find the most impressive about F1 is the draw distance. Having the track go up and down and being able to see it in the distance was very uncommon back then.
Gotta thank you man. For like 25 years I’ve had this action figure that I loved as a kid but had no idea what it was from. Exo-Squad! You’ve solved that life riddle for me👍
@@gaylordfocker7990 I doubt that. There’s a big market lately for revivals of classic franchises. Ristar may have only had one game, but it’s well known enough in the SEGA fanbase to make a comeback.
Having played my fair share of Road Rash and Hard Drivin, I'm very impressed with that Formula One game. Is it just me, or is it even smoother than Virtua Racing? Remember when that game cost about $100 brand new because of the extra chips they had to put on the cartridge?
very basic guide to snooker (just enough to get you started): at beginning of every turn, you aim to pot a red ball. if you pot one, you then aim for a (non-red) coloured ball (which are worth different points. From the yellow worth 2 points, to the black worth 7 points) if you succeed in potting a (non-red) coloured ball, you then have to pot a red again. then rinse and repeat. red, colour, red, colour etc
Street Racer is impressive as hell! I'm going to add that game to my Mega Everdrive X7 cart, hopefully it will play on my Wondermega. Some PAL games have weird compatibility issues if it detects a CD Drive, like Shadow Of the Beast will not run at all.
Great video! I love this series. I really like that you're highlighting visually interesting games good or bad rather than games that are both good and look graphically impressive.
I love the monologue at the end. I think a lot of people take for granted the amount of power that consoles have today, but there was some real innovation that had to go into making these older consoles do their thing. And I'm with you, so much respect for those developers who put the time in and made these things work on consoles and never should have been able to run on.
Street Racer was a game i played as a kid with friends. I had completely forgotten about it up-until this video! Its such a strange feeling when a 25 year old memory comes out of nowhere.
YOU FOOL!!! You dare invoke "Dick Vitale's Awesome Baby! College Hoops" are you insane? Have you learned what Scott The Woz had to do to save us from that Orwellian alternate timeline?
Had Outlander on the snes back in the day. Was a little rough but as kids, we only gotten a few games per year. So i played it enough that i beaten it 👀🤣
That snooker game reminded me of 3D cool pool by Serria. I was blown away back in the day playing pool online with crazy tables and balls in 3D. I always put that game onto PC's I build instead of the generic windows solitaire ect~
Dude! I really enjoy your videos, having a MegaDrive myself circa 1994. Your videos are entertaining and really bring back memories! Why don't you have more subscribers??? - Keep up the good work man!
That Outlander game looks pretty cool 🖒 Might have to fire-up my Everdrive and give it a jam 😎 That's why i love these types of video's where you cover multiple games as there's always 1 or 2 gems that I've never seen or heard of. Great video! 🖒🖒
Great video Sega Lord X. Snooker is a really big game here in the United Kingdom where I am from. I remember playing Jimmy White Whirlwind Snooker when I was a kid and was blown away with the graphics for the era it was released in. You would love Snooker if you try it one day.
Jimmy white was excellent on the Amiga! I love you man, snooker is some sort of billiards.. never has a comment sounded so American lol thanks for the content dude!
Great video as usual! Fast polygonal graphics on that hardware is always impressive, and parallax effects in Ristar is something not many retro-inspired games today can show. Also, Outlander is a very cool game and unique at that, but it lacks the variety in later stages IIRC. Reminds me of Mad Max 2014 title.
I don't remember if Flash Back was already covered in part 1 or 2 but I remember being blown away by the graphics and effects of that game and because of these reasons, I think it deserves to be on this list imho.
Love your „Great Visual Effects on the Sega Genesis“ series! Suggestions for Part 4: Skitchin‘ (amazing sprite scaling), Chuck Rock 2 (burning tree & dinosaur climb), Dynamite Headdy, F-22 Interceptor, Star Cruiser (dogfights, Intro, mazes & towns), Greatest Heavyweights (ring & audience „rotation“), The Lawnmower Man („polygonal“ stages & Space Harrier-style stages), Out Run 2019 (overhead highways & racing through forest sections), Battle Mania 2 (stage 6), Shinobi III, Sub-Terrania (dive into water, last boss), Earthworm Jim 1 (stage 3) & EJ 2, Ecco The Tides of Time (Tube of Medusa), Virtua Figter 2 (3d-ish floors), Pier Solar (over-world map on dragon), ResQ 3d bonus stage, G-zero, Starfox 3d tech demos, TiTAN Overdrive 1&2!
That F1 game with 2D racing mixed with some 3D polygon models is really clever. I would never have thought of that, and the effect is impressive. I would like to see one of the Need For Speed games from the late '90s remade in that style as a fan port.
Hey man - great video as always. Snooker rules.... Taking turns, each player tries to: Sink all 7 red balls (gaining 1 point for each). When all 7 are sunk - either player can move onto potting the coloured balls in this exact order: Yellow (2 points) Green (3 points) Brown (4 points) Blue (5 points) Pink (6 points) Black (7 points) Balls potted in the wrong order (or the cue ball) are placed back on the table with no points awarded and the further punishment of the opposing player granted 2 shots on their next turn. The winner is the player with the highest score when all balls are sunk. Watch a video of Jimmy White during the 70's and 80's. The man was legendary.
I loved Snooker, the visuals and gameplay really come together nicely. I too had no idea how to play initially but once I learned the rules it was great fun.
Having recently researched worldwide race tracks, I can tell what those tracks are. 3:10-3:23 Silverstone Circuit 3:24-4:01 Hockenheimring 4:01-4:21 Circuit Paul Ricard
I had Jimmy White's whirlwind snooker for my mega drive. I played that & PGA golf 2 loads, both sports that I wouldn't think would work as a console game.
Color and color palette is one of the most misunderstood aspects of the 16-bit era. Both the SNES and Genesis (and PCEngine and even arcade hardware of this time) is pallette limited but more importantly, color per sprite/tile limited. All sprites and tiles regardless of whether it’s on an SNES or Genesis are limited to 4-bit color for the graphics (15 colors +1 transparent for a total of 16). Then there are limits to selectable pallette per graphics layer, so it’s actually even worse than that and again this applies to both (all 3) consoles. SNES has more selectable pallettes at a time (2 per layer) than Genesis (1 per layer) but the art assets themselves can not be any more detailed than 16 color. So in other words. You couldn’t make Ristars sprite or ANY of the art assets in this or any game any more colorful or detailed on SNES. This is why Genesis and SNES (and PCE) graphics are so comparable in terms of color despite what it looks like on paper. You could always rip assets or sprites from one system to the other, if not for these limitations that would be impossible 1 and 2 the systems would look like completely different generations. Also the 256 color mode is misunderstood, that’s applies to specific SNES outputs NOT the typical, 99% of the time Mode 5 we see in game. Mode 5 gives you 2 pallettes per layer, for a max of 160 color, but since the 5th layer is a transparency layer 1 and 2 not used that often it’s actually
Outlander was originally planned to be a Mad Max game, but they lost the license before the release... I really enjoyed this game back then, even though it was a little bit difficult for a 10 year old...
Formula One started life as an Amiga game named Vroom. Then they released a data disk the following year, and then upgraded it into Formula One, which was released on a variety of systems. I always thought it was visually impressive, but hard to control. It was extremely easy to swerve off the track and crash. There was a sequel to Whirlwind Snooker that played regular pool, but it was only released for computers.
I remember renting "Virtual Bart" on the snes back in the mid 90s. Even though the game was considered "terrible", I enjoyed the hell out of it. This was back when the simpsons was watchable unlike today. The sliding level always comes to my mind every once in a while.
Snooker, Soccer and F1 games are a dime a dozen on older consoles over here in the UK. Almost every single person selling these consoles/games together will have one or more of them. If you ever come here, always worth checking out car boot sales and bigger outdoor markets. One of the things I'm most looking forward to when Covid restrictions are lifted.
It absolutely kills me how bad Exo Squad was. I freakin LOVED the show and the toyline as a kid. The game looked gorgeous, but played like ass, and that hurts my soul.
@@rainehappy7097 Mech games aren't my concern. It was specifically the source material that drew me too it. Like I said, I loved the show. It was a Sci Fi drama that had a story with real teeth.
The Bart tomato throwing section was just a reskin of Acclaim's NFL QB Club/Challenge. I loved that game despite the QB Challenge being the only fun part.
Jimmy White's Whirlwind Snooker was such a great game and really unexpected to be highlighted in a list like this - the physics in the game were really great too Also, just in case you want to go back to it, the way you play snooker is you have to go red - colour, red - colour, etc when you're potting the balls. The red is worth 1 point, the colours are worth between 2-7 - Yellow is 2, Green 3, brown 4, Blue 5, Pink 6, Black 7, so the idea way to go is red/black/red/black, etc to get the highest score possible. Once all the reds are gone, you have to pot the colours in order from lowest value to highest. There are other rules with certain fouls and stuff, but you'll know most of them if you play pool. If you scratch, pot the wrong ball, etc, your opponent gets 4 points, unless you foul on a ball worth more than 4, where your opponent gets that value instead Enjoy!
Jimmy White's was made by the very talented Archer MacLean, who worked mainly on home micros, hence the mouse pointer in screenshots. He did make a pool game bearing his game with the same engine the next year, but that only came out on various computers. Snooker's not _too_ complicated, basically you need to pot a red (which gets you one point), then a non-red (which gets you 2-7 depending on colour), the non-red gets put back on its starting spot afterwards. This repeats until there's no reds left, then you need to pot the non-reds in sequence finishing with the black. There's a turnover if you fail to pot or make a foul (which also gives the other player some points). Most points at the end wins. The one time I played snooker for real the biggest change from pool is the table is way bigger, (nearly 12' long), so if you're the sort of guy who wins more games of bar pool than he loses you'll find yourself making a lot of near-misses. The term 'snooker' is intentionally putting the ball somewhere it can't make the pot the other player needs to, say next up is blue and you've got no easy way to pot it, well screw the other guy by putting the cue ball somewhere he'll be damn-near forced to make a foul. This has become slang, albeit dated, if someone's 'snookered' they're in a really difficult position with regards to their choices.
For those of you wondering why game X wasn’t covered, this is part 3. The links to parts 1 and 2 are in the description where I cover many other games for the Genesis.
Snooker you have to sink a red ball then nominate the colour you wish to sink.
Colours are scored differently and thats about all i know haha
@Chris Also worth pointing out the game works with Sega mouse too
your compilation videos are the BEST!
What's the song at the end of the video? Which game is that song from?
Are there any good looking voxel based games on the genesis?
Man, that motorola 68000 was just a marvelous powerhouse back in the day. No wonder it powered so many things, from Arcade hardware like cps1-2, system 16 and neo geo to home consoles and computers like the mega drive, sharp x68k, amiga, atari-ST, etc. The things you could do with it visually without the need of additional hardware was just mind blowing.
It powered the first Macintosh
As an Englishman, your "I'm not sure what a snooker is" made me chuckle 😆
When I see “Awesome, Baby!” I have war flashbacks of Scott the Woz...
Ristar is such an underrated gem.
Is it actually that good?
I've been playing it a bit on Genesis Ultimate Collection - it's Def fun and unique.
@@PH96Official is amazing
Is it really pronounced "Riss-star"? I've always pronounced it "Rye-Star".
@@Guernicaman Americans usually pronounce it Rih-star while Europeans say it Rye-star. I don't know why it would be pronounced Rye-star in the US anyway.
I love how Ristar has a different waiting animation depending of the stage.
I SEE RISTAR I CLICK
bro Ristar is hands down one of the most gorgeous games on the genesis it my favorite gane of all time and i wasn't even alive when it came out like no where near but its just such a fun and grand game with amazing animations and gorgeous visuals, interesting characters,worlds and just oozing with pure potential i hope on day they bring it back
🤘😃👍
I never heard of it when it came out originally. I was a huge sonic fan, had all the sonics. Plus some of the spin off sonic games. So you'd think I would have heard of a sonic team game like Ristar
I'm just glad I know it now, it's such a brilliant game. One of the best 16 bit games, period
Rocket League Adventure is a great Game too.
I keep seeing Ristar around and I’m starting to want to play it. I love the way it looks
With the right hands the genesis can software graphics effects that grabs the eye. I wish sega developed a sequel of ristar and more sequels from majority of Genesis titles to the Saturn
They should make a modern Ristar sequel. I thought streets of rage 4 was brilliant, one of the best beat em ups I've ever played, so they can do the same with Ristar, hand it over to a great indie developer who knows what they're doing
@@duffman18 Yes, along other IP sega titles for the genesis, Saturn and dreamcast era.
I miss the console wars in the early days. I was a diehard Sega fan. I bought all the Sega consoles (I bought others too, but Sega came first), loved the games for the systems. I started moving slightly to the PC platform pretty early, but was still mainly a console gamer. Then came the demise of the Dreamcast. After this, I switched my focus 100% to the PC platform. It's safe to say, had the Dreamcast survived, and Sega continued to bring out competing consoles, I would have stuck with consoles as my main platform. Now there is no real console battle or war. The systems seem to just share the space. Hats of to Nintendo for staying very true to their roots, and being just as quirky now, as they ever were.
I keep saying all the time that if Sega were to make another console and port over all their previous console and arcade titles along with new exclusives, they could totally pull it off.
@@rainehappy7097 I agree 100%. I would buy that right up, as soon as it arrived.
@@rainehappy7097 exactly, it's almost 100% sure that it'd be successful. they could also bring lost games such as after burner climax. sega has sooo much potential yet half of it is still untapped...
I ended up loving Nintendo first and accepted Sega later because it was all fun stuff. Good times as a kid.
Snooker is very popular in the UK. During the 80s and 90s Jimmy White was a household name over here. He also has a game on the Dreamcast which is worth looking at.
What I find the most impressive about F1 is the draw distance. Having the track go up and down and being able to see it in the distance was very uncommon back then.
Some of these graphics look amazing, hadn't seen them before!
Gotta thank you man. For like 25 years I’ve had this action figure that I loved as a kid but had no idea what it was from. Exo-Squad! You’ve solved that life riddle for me👍
Oh man...the worldlines have shifted again. I've woken up in a timeline where the Genesis could do polygons.
How did I miss parts 1 & 2 of this? Really enjoy these technical deep dives.
I asked myself the exact same thing! 🤔
The links to parts 1 and 2 are in the description.
@@SegaLordX Thanks!
🤣🤣🤣 I already had them "liked" 👍
@Franky Padilla Are you also a survivor of the 16-bit wars? 😆
I think Flink deserves a spot in a future video, visually that game absolutely blew my mind back in the day.
Good Lord, that Street Racer runs buttersmooth!
F1 is my favourite MegaDrive game. Great to see that it's cool 3D effects are on this list
I would like to see a Saturn and/or Dreamcast series like this too.
Lost World always looked great to me!!
I agree. It doesn't seem to get the attention it deserves.
I'm pretty sure TLW was the last new release Genesis game I got.
I've never played it, but man did this video make me check it out on my emulator...cough* I mean, the cartridge I got from my local flea market *cough
Man thanks for showing street racer! I’m going to have to import it. I’m a big fan X keep doing what you do.
I see a 15 minute episode of Sega Lord X. I click instantly! YES!!! Thanks for taking the time to make it!
Saw Ristar on the thumbnail and had to check this out! and wow, there's some very cool titles here I've never seen.
Ristar is truly underrated. 25 years later, and he doesn't even get ONE SEQUEL. 😑
@@gaylordfocker7990 I doubt that. There’s a big market lately for revivals of classic franchises. Ristar may have only had one game, but it’s well known enough in the SEGA fanbase to make a comeback.
Maybe it's time for a fan made game. All my favorite games are Indies pretty much nowadays.
Having played my fair share of Road Rash and Hard Drivin, I'm very impressed with that Formula One game. Is it just me, or is it even smoother than Virtua Racing?
Remember when that game cost about $100 brand new because of the extra chips they had to put on the cartridge?
Virtua racing looked much better lol....but yeah F1 did look good (I had both)
I would not mind having Virtua racing made with the same engine as F1 $50 cheaper!
you should check 1993's "Greatest Heavyweights" had some impressive sprite size, animation color use and digitalised voices
Agreed! The intro alone was impressive
Nice selection of video games! RISTAR has so beautiful colors and great effects.
Exo Squad is fantastic. Loved this game back in the day
If they had Ristar 2 on Saturn, I would have gotten that system no questions asked.
very basic guide to snooker (just enough to get you started): at beginning of every turn, you aim to pot a red ball. if you pot one, you then aim for a (non-red) coloured ball (which are worth different points. From the yellow worth 2 points, to the black worth 7 points) if you succeed in potting a (non-red) coloured ball, you then have to pot a red again. then rinse and repeat. red, colour, red, colour etc
Awesome video! Ristar is so good, It should be more popular.
For a console made in the 80’s to compete with the 8 Bit Nintendo it still stood toe to toe with the Snes and more often than not, beat it every time
Street Racer is impressive as hell! I'm going to add that game to my Mega Everdrive X7 cart, hopefully it will play on my Wondermega. Some PAL games have weird compatibility issues if it detects a CD Drive, like Shadow Of the Beast will not run at all.
I remember I used to love playing the tomato toss and dinosaur segments in Virtual Bart, I just can’t bring myself to play that game anymore XD
Great video! I love this series. I really like that you're highlighting visually interesting games good or bad rather than games that are both good and look graphically impressive.
I love the monologue at the end. I think a lot of people take for granted the amount of power that consoles have today, but there was some real innovation that had to go into making these older consoles do their thing. And I'm with you, so much respect for those developers who put the time in and made these things work on consoles and never should have been able to run on.
Street Racer was a game i played as a kid with friends. I had completely forgotten about it up-until this video! Its such a strange feeling when a 25 year old memory comes out of nowhere.
YOU FOOL!!! You dare invoke "Dick Vitale's Awesome Baby! College Hoops" are you insane? Have you learned what Scott The Woz had to do to save us from that Orwellian alternate timeline?
Had Outlander on the snes back in the day. Was a little rough but as kids, we only gotten a few games per year. So i played it enough that i beaten it 👀🤣
It looks like that game could have been pitched as a Mad Max/Road Warrior game.
@@lazarushernandez5827 I think it was originally going to be a mad max game but lost the license to it.
That snooker game reminded me of 3D cool pool by Serria. I was blown away back in the day playing pool online with crazy tables and balls in 3D.
I always put that game onto PC's I build instead of the generic windows solitaire ect~
Dude! I really enjoy your videos, having a MegaDrive myself circa 1994. Your videos are entertaining and really bring back memories! Why don't you have more subscribers??? - Keep up the good work man!
I love your content as a long time SEGA fanboy! Best reviews I've come across for these games!
Great video! Going to watch parts 1 and 2 now!
The nostalgia in this video,old great memories ,great content as always
Dear Mister X
I want to thank your for all your hard work.
Because of you i have a wonderful playlist on my Everdrive ^^
Awesome baby
SLX turned a crappy night at the smoke shop into a good time on TH-cam.
Thanks 😊
Great video, as usual from segalordx. When i played pier solar it was sooo much for the genesis i thought it might catch on fire, lol.
Every video you put out is a banger.
I agree with those:
Virtual Bart
Ristar
Outlander
Street Racer
This episode brought back good memories.
9:03 Hey look! It's that game that sits in Scott the Woz's Genesis every single episode!
Lmao I thought the same instantly
i bought Gargoyles the other day CIB for 90 bucks. Also i love my genesis!
Congrats
I only have the loose cartridge haha
The game is a gem though
That Outlander game looks pretty cool 🖒
Might have to fire-up my Everdrive and give it a jam 😎
That's why i love these types of video's where you cover multiple games as there's always 1 or 2 gems that I've never seen or heard of.
Great video! 🖒🖒
Something off topic you have a geeky voice but the other day I saw you in a video and you look like a biker! That was unexpectedly mindblowing!
Great video Sega Lord X. Snooker is a really big game here in the United Kingdom where I am from. I remember playing Jimmy White Whirlwind Snooker when I was a kid and was blown away with the graphics for the era it was released in. You would love Snooker if you try it one day.
I am missing Flashback here. Always thought it looked really good on Genesis.
Street Racer was Rocket leagues great grand father
I'm amazed it didn't get a US release.
It was also available on the SNES
Great series. Can’t wait for episode 4
Jimmy white was excellent on the Amiga!
I love you man, snooker is some sort of billiards..
never has a comment sounded so American lol thanks for the content dude!
6:15 that mecha has some serious swag
I remember Sega trying to cast Sonic aside and make Ristar its mascot, something that always stroke me as extremely weird.
That’s interesting. Why would they do that?
Great video as usual! Fast polygonal graphics on that hardware is always impressive, and parallax effects in Ristar is something not many retro-inspired games today can show. Also, Outlander is a very cool game and unique at that, but it lacks the variety in later stages IIRC. Reminds me of Mad Max 2014 title.
Street Racer on the Genesis is so awesome, this what could've been a great version of Sonic Drift over their original Game Gear versions we have.
Wow, this episode showed me a few new ones... Really impressive!
I don't remember if Flash Back was already covered in part 1 or 2 but I remember being blown away by the graphics and effects of that game and because of these reasons, I think it deserves to be on this list imho.
Aladdin and it's fluid animation and how it accurately captures the look and feel off the film.
Love your „Great Visual Effects on the Sega Genesis“ series! Suggestions for Part 4: Skitchin‘ (amazing sprite scaling), Chuck Rock 2 (burning tree & dinosaur climb), Dynamite Headdy, F-22 Interceptor, Star Cruiser (dogfights, Intro, mazes & towns), Greatest Heavyweights (ring & audience „rotation“), The Lawnmower Man („polygonal“ stages & Space Harrier-style stages), Out Run 2019 (overhead highways & racing through forest sections), Battle Mania 2 (stage 6), Shinobi III, Sub-Terrania (dive into water, last boss), Earthworm Jim 1 (stage 3) & EJ 2, Ecco The Tides of Time (Tube of Medusa), Virtua Figter 2 (3d-ish floors), Pier Solar (over-world map on dragon), ResQ 3d bonus stage, G-zero, Starfox 3d tech demos, TiTAN Overdrive 1&2!
That F1 game with 2D racing mixed with some 3D polygon models is really clever. I would never have thought of that, and the effect is impressive. I would like to see one of the Need For Speed games from the late '90s remade in that style as a fan port.
Hey man - great video as always.
Snooker rules....
Taking turns, each player tries to:
Sink all 7 red balls (gaining 1 point for each). When all 7 are sunk - either player can move onto potting the coloured balls in this exact order:
Yellow (2 points)
Green (3 points)
Brown (4 points)
Blue (5 points)
Pink (6 points)
Black (7 points)
Balls potted in the wrong order (or the cue ball) are placed back on the table with no points awarded and the further punishment of the opposing player granted 2 shots on their next turn.
The winner is the player with the highest score when all balls are sunk.
Watch a video of Jimmy White during the 70's and 80's. The man was legendary.
I loved Snooker, the visuals and gameplay really come together nicely. I too had no idea how to play initially but once I learned the rules it was great fun.
I think Formula One is the best looking racing game on the Genesis. I've been playing that game since I was six and I still find it impressive
I miss Exo Squad so much. There really should have been a movie series for this show.
You're Sega Lord X. And I will catch you next time.
Having recently researched worldwide race tracks, I can tell what those tracks are.
3:10-3:23 Silverstone Circuit
3:24-4:01 Hockenheimring
4:01-4:21 Circuit Paul Ricard
I've never heard of these games. Thank you!
Thank you for your videos
My favorite youtuber right now
One of the best examples is Mike Tyson's Punch Out! The part where little mac is running, the water looks incredible.
I had Jimmy White's whirlwind snooker for my mega drive. I played that & PGA golf 2 loads, both sports that I wouldn't think would work as a console game.
Roster almost looked like a 32 bit game. Also, when considering the Genesis colour palette, this is amazing !
64 colours on screen...turned out to be enough!
Roster?
@@Fungiarts Ristar.
Roster is a good game too
Color and color palette is one of the most misunderstood aspects of the 16-bit era. Both the SNES and Genesis (and PCEngine and even arcade hardware of this time) is pallette limited but more importantly, color per sprite/tile limited. All sprites and tiles regardless of whether it’s on an SNES or Genesis are limited to 4-bit color for the graphics (15 colors +1 transparent for a total of 16).
Then there are limits to selectable pallette per graphics layer, so it’s actually even worse than that and again this applies to both (all 3) consoles.
SNES has more selectable pallettes at a time (2 per layer) than Genesis (1 per layer) but the art assets themselves can not be any more detailed than 16 color. So in other words. You couldn’t make Ristars sprite or ANY of the art assets in this or any game any more colorful or detailed on SNES. This is why Genesis and SNES (and PCE) graphics are so comparable in terms of color despite what it looks like on paper. You could always rip assets or sprites from one system to the other, if not for these limitations that would be impossible 1 and 2 the systems would look like completely different generations.
Also the 256 color mode is misunderstood, that’s applies to specific SNES outputs NOT the typical, 99% of the time Mode 5 we see in game. Mode 5 gives you 2 pallettes per layer, for a max of 160 color, but since the 5th layer is a transparency layer 1 and 2 not used that often it’s actually
Outlander was originally planned to be a Mad Max game, but they lost the license before the release... I really enjoyed this game back then, even though it was a little bit difficult for a 10 year old...
That snooker game looks neat. Hadn't heard of that one after all these years.
This was a great series to watch. though you did miss one title i kinda wanted to see covered known as Star Cruiser
Early 90's 3D was like the talking dog... People liked the dog, not because it spoke well, but because it said anything at all.
congratulations! great subject !
Sorry for my bad English!
It’s amazing that the Genesis released in 1989 but didn’t hit its stride until around 1994.
Formula One started life as an Amiga game named Vroom. Then they released a data disk the following year, and then upgraded it into Formula One, which was released on a variety of systems. I always thought it was visually impressive, but hard to control. It was extremely easy to swerve off the track and crash.
There was a sequel to Whirlwind Snooker that played regular pool, but it was only released for computers.
God I love this fucking channel! Best retro channel by far
I remember renting "Virtual Bart" on the snes back in the mid 90s. Even though the game was considered "terrible", I enjoyed the hell out of it. This was back when the simpsons was watchable unlike today. The sliding level always comes to my mind every once in a while.
Great vid
I remember renting Virtual Bart a few times, it was fun for the simplicity.
IT’S AWESOME BABY
Snooker, Soccer and F1 games are a dime a dozen on older consoles over here in the UK. Almost every single person selling these consoles/games together will have one or more of them.
If you ever come here, always worth checking out car boot sales and bigger outdoor markets.
One of the things I'm most looking forward to when Covid restrictions are lifted.
Ah, you're gonna LOVE Snooker once you first tried it in real life. The rules aren't too hard either.
Formula One from Domark was actually a port of Wroom, already released on Amiga and Atari ST.
Because of Ranger X I got my name. Great video!
It absolutely kills me how bad Exo Squad was. I freakin LOVED the show and the toyline as a kid. The game looked gorgeous, but played like ass, and that hurts my soul.
Cybernator on SNES is a good mech game.
@@rainehappy7097 Mech games aren't my concern. It was specifically the source material that drew me too it. Like I said, I loved the show. It was a Sci Fi drama that had a story with real teeth.
@@rainehappy7097 and so is ex-ranza on mega drive but that wasn't the OP point ;)
The Bart tomato throwing section was just a reskin of Acclaim's NFL QB Club/Challenge. I loved that game despite the QB Challenge being the only fun part.
Jimmy White's Whirlwind Snooker was such a great game and really unexpected to be highlighted in a list like this - the physics in the game were really great too
Also, just in case you want to go back to it, the way you play snooker is you have to go red - colour, red - colour, etc when you're potting the balls. The red is worth 1 point, the colours are worth between 2-7 - Yellow is 2, Green 3, brown 4, Blue 5, Pink 6, Black 7, so the idea way to go is red/black/red/black, etc to get the highest score possible. Once all the reds are gone, you have to pot the colours in order from lowest value to highest. There are other rules with certain fouls and stuff, but you'll know most of them if you play pool. If you scratch, pot the wrong ball, etc, your opponent gets 4 points, unless you foul on a ball worth more than 4, where your opponent gets that value instead
Enjoy!
Jimmy White's was made by the very talented Archer MacLean, who worked mainly on home micros, hence the mouse pointer in screenshots. He did make a pool game bearing his game with the same engine the next year, but that only came out on various computers.
Snooker's not _too_ complicated, basically you need to pot a red (which gets you one point), then a non-red (which gets you 2-7 depending on colour), the non-red gets put back on its starting spot afterwards. This repeats until there's no reds left, then you need to pot the non-reds in sequence finishing with the black. There's a turnover if you fail to pot or make a foul (which also gives the other player some points). Most points at the end wins.
The one time I played snooker for real the biggest change from pool is the table is way bigger, (nearly 12' long), so if you're the sort of guy who wins more games of bar pool than he loses you'll find yourself making a lot of near-misses.
The term 'snooker' is intentionally putting the ball somewhere it can't make the pot the other player needs to, say next up is blue and you've got no easy way to pot it, well screw the other guy by putting the cue ball somewhere he'll be damn-near forced to make a foul. This has become slang, albeit dated, if someone's 'snookered' they're in a really difficult position with regards to their choices.