@ChicCanyon Yep the show was created by David and Jared and not just Jared and Dylan is an editor. So they gave Dylan a segment on games that Jared didn't want to play on covered. They do make a great team, all of them.
So fun fact about Surf Ninjas; Ernie Reyes Jr said in interviews that Leslie Nielson remained in-character the ENTIRE time during filming in order to intimidate the rest of the cast, likely because this was one of his very few villainous roles and didn't want his comedic past to throw his fellow cast members for a loop.
Even in stinkers, Leslie Nielsen was a treasure. Imagine if he had a role to play in Red Alert 3. He would have fit right in, even as Tim Curry goes into *_SPAYCE_*
people dunk on everything until they realise years later that they were wrong, but then its too late ! history is full of TV shows or movies that were great yet nobody liked it... exemples of Firefly, Mortal Kombat (second really sucks, but first was awesome) by today those series or movies are now considered pretty good, great even. but its way too late and we will never get the sequels we should of had because people are too quick to judge something good or bad without having any kind of middle. surf ninjas is like that... yes the story wasn't all that great, but the movie itself had good stunts, good fights and it gave the ninja treatment what it deserved... a good laugh for being something silly to begin with. rewatched it a couple years back... still hasn't lost its touch. unlike say the TMNT of the 80ies which i just can't seem to watch anynmore thinking, what the hell was i smoking to even watch this and saying it was good ?
Dylan's excitement for the Genesis Mini 2 gives me life. That mini is so underrated because of its limited production, but it ROCKS SO HARD!!! I'm glad Dylan is getting so much joy out of using it like I have been!
I don’t typically defend Rob Schneider but he was great in Surf Ninjas. He plays a guy that thinks he’s psychic because every time he asks “what if _______ happens” it would happen. The actual stars of the movie tell him, it’s not a real power it’s just a coincidence. Halfway in the movie, after falling off a cliff after asking “what if someone falls off a cliff” his character asks “what if I lose this power?” His character doesn’t get his power again the rest of the movie.
General Chaos's favourite feature of mine was going "Commando" (har). Instead of using the cursor to position your troops, you could control them directly with the d-pad. The downside was having to control only 2 characters instead of 5. It was truly SKILL MODE.
So happy to hear about Surf Ninjas - I couldn’t remember it for the longest time and kept thinking it was one of the 3 Ninjas movies. But I distinctly remembered that one of them played a game to control real life!
So Surf Ninjas was basically Sega's The Wizard. Oh Nintendo, you got a kids movie? Ours got *ninjas.* Your little brother wins a tournament? Our little brother literally wins *reality.* Your bad guy is a bounty hunter? Ours is *Shredder/Leslie Nielsen.* Dang bro they really *did* do what Nintendon't.
Worst of all, he now has a FOX News sponsored comedy special about... You guessed it... Cancel culture. His bit parts in Adam Sandler movies were funny, but he's gone down the right wing nutjob pipeline hard recently.
Lemme tell you all my General Chaos story. My best friend, in middle school, and I rented this game so much weekend after weekend at The Wherehouse that im sure we couldve bought the game 2 times over. We would always have his mom take us on Fridays to rent movies and games and one day we grabbed General Chaos because we couldnt find anything and we just could not stop playing it. The best part was that we would eventually move on and rent other stuff but when there was nothing available we could always get GC because it felt like no one knew about it so it was always available to rent. Good times! His mom was a gem of a woman. She would not say no to us when we asked her to take us.
My oh my, Dylan is becoming a power house in this show. His excitement often trumps Jared. They are both great hosts by now. Keep this show rolling guys. You’re doing a fantastic job!
I have been trying to figure out what General Chaos was for like 25 years lol, randomly saw it at a friends house & was fascinated by it. Banger episode as always!
Looks like next week is going to be pretty awesome. My guesses: Samurai Shodown for the Neo Geo, Rocket Knight Adventures for the Genesis, Link's Awakening for the Game Boy. Have a great weekend, y'all. Hope you enjoyed the episode.
I actually worked on a card game with GameRefuge. We never got past testing phase, but it was going to be a lampoon on Harry Potter with similar art seen from the Rampage and General Chaos games, featuring a base of card-based combat and card-based dungeoneering. Brian Colin is a great man.
Man, I literally, right hand to God, made a reference to "Moto Surf!" last night to a friend and then this video comes out. The universe is weird. Great video! I loved this movie as a kid.
Fun fact tangential to Silpheed CD: Sega actually made the first arcade Laserdisc game. (No, it was NOT Dragon's Lair.) It was an overhead shmup called Astron Belt, which used the LD for video backgrounds. The neat thing is the background objects had hitboxes and you had to dodge them, integrating the video into gameplay. Which is pretty much what Silpheed did, a decade later on console.
Astron Belt was not the first laserdisc game. The first laserdisc game was a horse betting game called Quarter Horse, which was released by a company called Electro-Sport.
Likability goes a long way when overlooking flubs, and this show has plenty of it. Also, I remember a commercial for that movie as a kid specifically mentioning how the one uses a game gear, like it wanted me to buy one.
You can't deny that it's appearance in a Movie totally got a TON kids who saw the movie to beg, plead, promised and generally drove thejr parents mad, like kid are apt to do...just get there hands on! Even back then as a diehard Sega fan when I was younger, the game gear never really appealed to em. . The GG as it was just way too big too carry around, and most of the games were disappointing watered down of games from the Genesis. Instead actual original games or new takes on old ones, that made specifically take advantage of the hardware . But, of course, there where some exceptions to this rule where they were very similar original game but offered different to make it unique enough for gamer to want to buy/rent to check it out. (The GG Shinobi, with all it's different playable characters and being able to choose the next stage ala Mega-man comes to mind!_ I remember thinking as a kid that it reminded me of what SEGA did with their master system, take a uper popular game on the Genesis/MD and try to find way of getting to work on the master system, In kinda of tactic to make a maximum amount profit for the one game, banking on it's name and notoriety than actual good gample and word-of-mouth a much as possible or banking of people like parents/grandparents who might know the difference aand instead bringing home a new Genesis a copy Sonic, you get a Master-system with a copy "Sonic"... Now the SEGA Nomad, on the other hands...Now that's my cup of tea! I wanted one SO bad back in the day... IMO, even though it basically suffers most of the same cons as a the GG did (some even worse), but the fact it could play full on genesis games was more than outweighed those cons big time...But that's neither here nor there! LOL!
I rented Surf Ninjas so many times from my local video store, that the owner gave me a free copy. His store enentually became one of the major chain video stores and that type of interactions just went out the window. My dad and the owner are still friends to this day .
Man, General Chaos was an underappreciated gem. Absolute crime (along with Haunting Starring Polterguy) that it hasn't seen a rerelease, especially on the Sega Mini 2. One of many golden opportunities that microconsole missed. Yes, Robo Aleste was good, but man...no Snatcher/Working Designs (all)/Dark Wizard made me sad. (BTW, I had the same response for Shining Force CD, so it's not all bad.)
General Chaos was a must-rent game for me and my buddy back then. We got Gen. Chaos for 8 weekends in a row, and he ended up buying that exact copy when the store stopped renting 16-bit games and sold their inventory.
Man I've seen every episode of this series so far and I fuckin love it. I'd have a hard time deciding my favorite parts between the main show and the Rapid Fire Releases. I hope you guys keep this going for a long time.
Glad it sounds like editor Dylan got some sleep this week! Btw, love my Genesis 1 & 2 mini...both are great! Just had to order that second 6 button controller
6:24 Yes! General Chaos! I wish they would port the game on new platforms or make sequels. It's a fun game. I also love the music. Love the music that plays for General Chaos and also the music that plays when the evil General Havoc wins as well.
I actually played the Genesis version of that Thomas the Tank Engine game recently, it's completely different from the SNES version. It's got this pretty big map where you can explore the island of sodor freely along the train tracks, and depending upon the different modes you play, it gives you different missions to complete. It's also got a free play mode where you can just screw around and do whatever you want. For a game that's clearly made for babies, it's one of the best I've ever seen.
This show is what makes a Friday, well, a Friday! Also I'm slowly starting to feel through Dylan's segment that the Sega set of machines had a fair share of good shmups!
Next week’s Game Boy release should keep everybody well fed until September drops Plok!. I will continue to harp about Plok! until that day, Jared and Dylan!
I recently met Ernie Reyes Jr at a convention and had him sign my copy of Surf Ninjas for the Game Gear. He told me that the picture on the cover was actually his dad, but then they just photoshopped his head onto his dad's body. I thought that was super funny.
I LOVED sorcerer's kingdom. For the longest time it was one of the rare games that couldn't be ran on emulator. When getting to the second boss it would crash no matter what. It's super grindy and difficult but fun as heck.
This week's 90's movie release: The Fugitive (or Robin Hood: Men in Tights) Last week's 90's movie release: So I Married an Axe Murderer Next week's 90's movie release: Robin Hood: Men in Tights (or The Fugitive)
Had the Thomas the Tank Engine game for the Genesis, but I don't recognize that footage at all. All I recall was riding around tracks and hitching up cars to bring to the station and.... a painting side game, where your only tool was the paint bucket. Always enjoyed the vwoooop sound it made as it filled in the spaces, and spent more time in that minigame than the rest. Unless this game is different from the one I had?
OMG, when you mention Chaos last week, I was sure you were going to talk about General Chaos. For some reason, it was a game I always came back to, even if I didn't understand all about it. It was such a great game and it has so much more depth than what you might think looking at the cartrige. Freaking love it.
Most games at the time came in flimsy cardboard boxes that were easily damaged, if not thrown away shortly after purchase. So the boxes and inserts are typically rare. Although one exception to this (mostly) are early Genesis releases, which came in hard plastic clamshell cases that were far less squishy.
Formula One on the Genesis was really impressive! It uses 3D polygons without an enhancement chip, and the framerate and control is really good! Please show more of it if you can.
If I'm not mistaken, I think part of the crew that made General Chaos went on to make NBA Jam. Currently, the franchise is owned by EA. Talk about degrees of separation.
I just remember trying so hard to beat Surf Ninjas, getting super excited to finally find a weapon (sword), only to not be able to use it. Spoilers - Arbitrarily, you need to find and pick up the sword or else the last boss will just kill you with a mini-gun as soon as you see him. If you do have the sword, you automatically use the sword to deflect all the bullets and then fight him normally (without a sword).
It is worth mentioning that Sorcerer's Kingdom is only crushingly hard right at the start. Its one of those games where you start and you have to save before every single battle otherwise you will get an unlucky wipe at any second. After you get your third party member it really lightens up a bunch. Still not a great game though, however I've been thinking I really need to go back and give it another try now that my palate for these games is a bit more refined.
I remember Sorcerer's Kingdom. Playing it at least, I never would have remembered a name that generic but the green haired main character somehow stuck with me. Also I Remember loving the fact that every attack both your character and the enemy wouldn't just hit the other with their sword, they hit them like two or three times. A little thing but I never saw that done back then in an RPG. I don't remember it being that hard but I was so young at that time that I had patience for a lot of video game BS that I definitely would not now, so I likely just powered my way through it.
I've got a 10 year old son and a 12 year old daughter. We watch movies every Saturday night. When my daughter isn't around, me and my boy watch 90s movies just like Surf Ninjas. We just finished TMNT and 3 Ninjas and I was thinking about this one next. It's really fun to relive this old stuff!
Ernie Reyes Jr was awesome! I was born in the 80s so i was a kid when all this was going on. Ernie Reyes Jr is from san jose California and when i was a kid he would come to my elementary school in san jose and do karate demonstrations in assemblies. Damn, the 90s were so fun
I will forever be glad they gave Dylan his own segment on this show. He's great.
It's my favorite part haha. He's so entertaining.
Agreed. He’s got some great zingers and his voice is unique
**looks around and wonders if he’s the only one that realizes Sauron is in our midst**
I didnt realize Jared was a they. Good for them.
@ChicCanyon Yep the show was created by David and Jared and not just Jared and Dylan is an editor. So they gave Dylan a segment on games that Jared didn't want to play on covered. They do make a great team, all of them.
So fun fact about Surf Ninjas; Ernie Reyes Jr said in interviews that Leslie Nielson remained in-character the ENTIRE time during filming in order to intimidate the rest of the cast, likely because this was one of his very few villainous roles and didn't want his comedic past to throw his fellow cast members for a loop.
Even in stinkers, Leslie Nielsen was a treasure.
Imagine if he had a role to play in Red Alert 3. He would have fit right in, even as Tim Curry goes into *_SPAYCE_*
I have to admit that the joke from Rob schneider with the dynamite made me chuckle
I remember that bit was used in the commercial for the movie. I gotta admit; that is a good gag.
I did too no worries XD
Rob Schneider is hilarious
I had my Rob Schneider phase. It ended with The Animal. Don't watch that movie. It's just bad.
Same :) . Good joke.
People dunk on Surf Ninjas all the time but it's honestly a great cheesy 90's martial arts flick.
I love it!
"Bend your knees, move your arms!"
I remember enjoying *Surf Ninjas* a great deal
people dunk on everything until they realise years later that they were wrong, but then its too late ! history is full of TV shows or movies that were great yet nobody liked it... exemples of Firefly, Mortal Kombat (second really sucks, but first was awesome) by today those series or movies are now considered pretty good, great even. but its way too late and we will never get the sequels we should of had because people are too quick to judge something good or bad without having any kind of middle.
surf ninjas is like that... yes the story wasn't all that great, but the movie itself had good stunts, good fights and it gave the ninja treatment what it deserved... a good laugh for being something silly to begin with. rewatched it a couple years back... still hasn't lost its touch. unlike say the TMNT of the 80ies which i just can't seem to watch anynmore thinking, what the hell was i smoking to even watch this and saying it was good ?
@@dndbasement2370 i do feel the need to argue that something can be both bad and enjoyable to watch. Like the Street Fighter movie.
I loved it as a kid too.
Dylan's excitement for the Genesis Mini 2 gives me life. That mini is so underrated because of its limited production, but it ROCKS SO HARD!!! I'm glad Dylan is getting so much joy out of using it like I have been!
I don’t typically defend Rob Schneider but he was great in Surf Ninjas. He plays a guy that thinks he’s psychic because every time he asks “what if _______ happens” it would happen. The actual stars of the movie tell him, it’s not a real power it’s just a coincidence. Halfway in the movie, after falling off a cliff after asking “what if someone falls off a cliff” his character asks “what if I lose this power?” His character doesn’t get his power again the rest of the movie.
You got me thinking about "what if the house blows up?" 🤣🤣. But I could have sworn that there was something else he said before the end of the film.
No Editor Dillon, YOU'RE awesome. Keep up the amazing work guys. Also, Shining Force and Phantasy Star are both going to make you very happy. Enjoy!
Jared remember to bend your knees and move your arms. That’s how you’ll become an expert surf ninja, when playing this game.
This show is quite literally the reason I look forward to Fridays. Great stuff as always!
General Chaos's favourite feature of mine was going "Commando" (har). Instead of using the cursor to position your troops, you could control them directly with the d-pad. The downside was having to control only 2 characters instead of 5. It was truly SKILL MODE.
Duuuudeee I have been trying to remember General Chaos for YEARS. It was one of my favorite games to play with my dad growing up
I had the PC version of Surf Ninjas on my old IBM PC. I always enjoyed it, and I loved the artwork of the backgrounds of each level.
So happy to hear about Surf Ninjas - I couldn’t remember it for the longest time and kept thinking it was one of the 3 Ninjas movies. But I distinctly remembered that one of them played a game to control real life!
So Surf Ninjas was basically Sega's The Wizard.
Oh Nintendo, you got a kids movie? Ours got *ninjas.*
Your little brother wins a tournament? Our little brother literally wins *reality.*
Your bad guy is a bounty hunter? Ours is *Shredder/Leslie Nielsen.*
Dang bro they really *did* do what Nintendon't.
I think this is the happiest I've ever heard Dylan sound.
Jared basically summing the entirety of Rob Schneiders existence in one sentence
I thought his whole existence was "Making Copies....YOU CAN DEW EET!"
this guy gets it.
@@pharmcat8484 Nah, he's pretty terrible.
@@pharmcat8484No. He isn't funny. He was never funny.
Worst of all, he now has a FOX News sponsored comedy special about... You guessed it... Cancel culture. His bit parts in Adam Sandler movies were funny, but he's gone down the right wing nutjob pipeline hard recently.
Lemme tell you all my General Chaos story. My best friend, in middle school, and I rented this game so much weekend after weekend at The Wherehouse that im sure we couldve bought the game 2 times over. We would always have his mom take us on Fridays to rent movies and games and one day we grabbed General Chaos because we couldnt find anything and we just could not stop playing it. The best part was that we would eventually move on and rent other stuff but when there was nothing available we could always get GC because it felt like no one knew about it so it was always available to rent. Good times! His mom was a gem of a woman. She would not say no to us when we asked her to take us.
You're also awesome Editor Dylan.
Glad you're having fun. XD
My oh my, Dylan is becoming a power house in this show. His excitement often trumps Jared. They are both great hosts by now. Keep this show rolling guys. You’re doing a fantastic job!
Editor Dylan is amazing. And I feel like the main reason why I watch this show.
I have been trying to figure out what General Chaos was for like 25 years lol, randomly saw it at a friends house & was fascinated by it. Banger episode as always!
Looks like next week is going to be pretty awesome.
My guesses: Samurai Shodown for the Neo Geo, Rocket Knight Adventures for the Genesis, Link's Awakening for the Game Boy.
Have a great weekend, y'all. Hope you enjoyed the episode.
Links Awakening is hands down my favorite game ever.
I actually worked on a card game with GameRefuge. We never got past testing phase, but it was going to be a lampoon on Harry Potter with similar art seen from the Rampage and General Chaos games, featuring a base of card-based combat and card-based dungeoneering. Brian Colin is a great man.
God I love this show so much, it’s hard to explain, but it’s just so damn good. Very nice touch putting the 87% into perspective, btw.
Man, I literally, right hand to God, made a reference to "Moto Surf!" last night to a friend and then this video comes out. The universe is weird. Great video! I loved this movie as a kid.
Dylan is awesome. Jared is awesome. EVERYTHING IS AWESOME!!!
I Dylan....Jared too....the show in general...never stop it!
Got my like over the "awesome" moment. Breathtaking
Fun fact tangential to Silpheed CD: Sega actually made the first arcade Laserdisc game. (No, it was NOT Dragon's Lair.) It was an overhead shmup called Astron Belt, which used the LD for video backgrounds. The neat thing is the background objects had hitboxes and you had to dodge them, integrating the video into gameplay. Which is pretty much what Silpheed did, a decade later on console.
Astron Belt was not the first laserdisc game. The first laserdisc game was a horse betting game called Quarter Horse, which was released by a company called Electro-Sport.
I AM awesome, thank you Editor Dylan for that moment of validation! You ain't so bad yourself, you majestic nerd!
11:24 No, Dylan. You, Jared and everyone here are awesome! 😊
Thank you as always.
Ernie Reyes Sr. was also in the movie but as Jr's uncle. Sr. was Akuma in Street Fighter The Movie The Game😅
Likability goes a long way when overlooking flubs, and this show has plenty of it. Also, I remember a commercial for that movie as a kid specifically mentioning how the one uses a game gear, like it wanted me to buy one.
You can't deny that it's appearance in a Movie totally got a TON kids who saw the movie to beg, plead, promised and generally drove thejr parents mad, like kid are apt to do...just get there hands on!
Even back then as a diehard Sega fan when I was younger, the game gear never really appealed to em. . The GG as it was just way too big too carry around, and most of the games were disappointing watered down of games from the Genesis. Instead actual original games or new takes on old ones, that made specifically take advantage of the hardware .
But, of course, there where some exceptions to this rule where they were very similar original game but offered different to make it unique enough for gamer to want to buy/rent to check it out. (The GG Shinobi, with all it's different playable characters and being able to choose the next stage ala Mega-man comes to mind!_
I remember thinking as a kid that it reminded me of what SEGA did with their master system, take a uper popular game on the Genesis/MD and try to find way of getting to work on the master system, In kinda of tactic to make a maximum amount profit for the one game, banking on it's name and notoriety than actual good gample and word-of-mouth a much as possible or banking of people like parents/grandparents who might know the difference aand instead bringing home a new Genesis a copy Sonic, you get a Master-system with a copy "Sonic"...
Now the SEGA Nomad, on the other hands...Now that's my cup of tea! I wanted one SO bad back in the day... IMO, even though it basically suffers most of the same cons as a the GG did (some even worse), but the fact it could play full on genesis games was more than outweighed those cons big time...But that's neither here nor there! LOL!
This is probably the happiest I've heard Dylan so far and I've been watching for a while now! 😂
I rented Surf Ninjas so many times from my local video store, that the owner gave me a free copy. His store enentually became one of the major chain video stores and that type of interactions just went out the window.
My dad and the owner are still friends to this day .
Man, General Chaos was an underappreciated gem. Absolute crime (along with Haunting Starring Polterguy) that it hasn't seen a rerelease, especially on the Sega Mini 2. One of many golden opportunities that microconsole missed. Yes, Robo Aleste was good, but man...no Snatcher/Working Designs (all)/Dark Wizard made me sad. (BTW, I had the same response for Shining Force CD, so it's not all bad.)
Loved General Chaos as a kid. Such a dope game at the time
General Chaos was a must-rent game for me and my buddy back then. We got Gen. Chaos for 8 weekends in a row, and he ended up buying that exact copy when the store stopped renting 16-bit games and sold their inventory.
Same thing I did but I had left town and missed the rental store shutting down so never got to own it.
Man I've seen every episode of this series so far and I fuckin love it. I'd have a hard time deciding my favorite parts between the main show and the Rapid Fire Releases. I hope you guys keep this going for a long time.
Glad it sounds like editor Dylan got some sleep this week! Btw, love my Genesis 1 & 2 mini...both are great! Just had to order that second 6 button controller
6:24 Yes! General Chaos! I wish they would port the game on new platforms or make sequels. It's a fun game. I also love the music. Love the music that plays for General Chaos and also the music that plays when the evil General Havoc wins as well.
Robo Aleste looks like the sequel to MUSHA that we didn’t deserve but got anyway and it looks INCREDIBLE.
Dylan! You are breathtaking!
I actually played the Genesis version of that Thomas the Tank Engine game recently, it's completely different from the SNES version. It's got this pretty big map where you can explore the island of sodor freely along the train tracks, and depending upon the different modes you play, it gives you different missions to complete. It's also got a free play mode where you can just screw around and do whatever you want. For a game that's clearly made for babies, it's one of the best I've ever seen.
This show is what makes a Friday, well, a Friday! Also I'm slowly starting to feel through Dylan's segment that the Sega set of machines had a fair share of good shmups!
"Baby's first button push make noisy pictures move on the big square" is the best description I've ever heard.
I’ve been waiting for next week for a while now. Link’s Awakening is my favorite 2D Zelda.
My two boys Jerbear and Dylan are back. I always look forward to this show every friday.
what a great way to begin the Weekend!
Next week’s Game Boy release should keep everybody well fed until September drops Plok!.
I will continue to harp about Plok! until that day, Jared and Dylan!
Love all the affirmations, Dylan!
Played the hell out of Sorceror's Kingdom back in the day; its definitely underrated and an old favorite for MegaDrive.
Formula One on the Sega Genesis was what got me into watching the Formula One races on premium television channels.
My high school debate team would always watch Surf Ninjas before a competition for good luck.
You can see the true color of jerd eyes with that tshirt, nice ep btw.
I recently met Ernie Reyes Jr at a convention and had him sign my copy of Surf Ninjas for the Game Gear. He told me that the picture on the cover was actually his dad, but then they just photoshopped his head onto his dad's body. I thought that was super funny.
Oh wow that's crazy. Yeah i felt something was off about that cover.
I LOVED sorcerer's kingdom. For the longest time it was one of the rare games that couldn't be ran on emulator. When getting to the second boss it would crash no matter what.
It's super grindy and difficult but fun as heck.
Dylan's description of Train Game was so spot on that I had to listen to it thrice. As always, GREAT WORK, YOU'RE AWESOME!!
This week's 90's movie release: The Fugitive (or Robin Hood: Men in Tights)
Last week's 90's movie release: So I Married an Axe Murderer
Next week's 90's movie release: Robin Hood: Men in Tights (or The Fugitive)
Had the Thomas the Tank Engine game for the Genesis, but I don't recognize that footage at all. All I recall was riding around tracks and hitching up cars to bring to the station and....
a painting side game, where your only tool was the paint bucket. Always enjoyed the vwoooop sound it made as it filled in the spaces, and spent more time in that minigame than the rest.
Unless this game is different from the one I had?
Gotta love all those hidden code in each video. Lotta love for Dylan!!
I loved General Chaos and it might have been my most played Genesis game.
Wow, now that's some Sega love!
"Surf Ninjas" has got to be the most aggressively 1993 thing I've ever heard.
NO, YOU'RE AWESOME, EDITOR DYLAN! Dylon? Dilan? Delun? Gonna be honest, I am bad with names, and I am to imaptient too read the credits
Glad I've come across this weekly gold. 90s stuff has been overlooked for long enough now. Well for 21-30 years.
OMG, when you mention Chaos last week, I was sure you were going to talk about General Chaos. For some reason, it was a game I always came back to, even if I didn't understand all about it. It was such a great game and it has so much more depth than what you might think looking at the cartrige. Freaking love it.
Surf Ninjas is amazing. Definitely one of my favorite movies as a kid.
Watched surf ninjas thousands of time on a tv-recorded VHS !
There are gonna be a lot Silpheed downloads this weekend. Looks fun.
Something interesting I’ve learned watching these is that for most games the Box and Manual is worth far more than the game itself.
Most games at the time came in flimsy cardboard boxes that were easily damaged, if not thrown away shortly after purchase. So the boxes and inserts are typically rare. Although one exception to this (mostly) are early Genesis releases, which came in hard plastic clamshell cases that were far less squishy.
This is true of all collectables since the original packaging tends not to survive
I literally said "Oh...!" like Editor Dylan when I realized what big Game Boy game is coming next week...
Formula One on the Genesis was really impressive! It uses 3D polygons without an enhancement chip, and the framerate and control is really good! Please show more of it if you can.
If I'm not mistaken, I think part of the crew that made General Chaos went on to make NBA Jam. Currently, the franchise is owned by EA. Talk about degrees of separation.
WOW! I've seen Surf Ninjas but I had no idea that they actually made a game out of it.
I loved the Surf Ninjas movie! I didn’t realize they actually had a tie-in game
Surf Ninjas was one of my favorite movies as a kid. Back then I had no idea this movie had such a bad reputation. I just loved it, still do.
Yo Dylan, I also picked a Sega Mini 2 and tried out Shining Force CD as well. I’ve never played these games before but this game is awesome!
Super awesome episode as always! Thank you all so much for working on this every week.
I just remember trying so hard to beat Surf Ninjas, getting super excited to finally find a weapon (sword), only to not be able to use it.
Spoilers - Arbitrarily, you need to find and pick up the sword or else the last boss will just kill you with a mini-gun as soon as you see him. If you do have the sword, you automatically use the sword to deflect all the bullets and then fight him normally (without a sword).
It is worth mentioning that Sorcerer's Kingdom is only crushingly hard right at the start. Its one of those games where you start and you have to save before every single battle otherwise you will get an unlucky wipe at any second. After you get your third party member it really lightens up a bunch. Still not a great game though, however I've been thinking I really need to go back and give it another try now that my palate for these games is a bit more refined.
I recently traded my game gear collection for a modded GameGear. SurfNinjas was the only game I kept.
"A jet pack marsupial"
Ooh, one of my favorite games of all time is coming up soon! 😁
"A jetpack marsupial" Oh, didn't know Rocket Knight Adventures was around this time. Neat.
These weekly videos are great. Eager to play and learn more! I haven't been this excited about a new city builder since SimCity on the SNES. 😁
Right there with you Jared, I loved 3ninjas and Surf Ninjas. What a great time to be a kid.
I remember Sorcerer's Kingdom. Playing it at least, I never would have remembered a name that generic but the green haired main character somehow stuck with me. Also I Remember loving the fact that every attack both your character and the enemy wouldn't just hit the other with their sword, they hit them like two or three times. A little thing but I never saw that done back then in an RPG. I don't remember it being that hard but I was so young at that time that I had patience for a lot of video game BS that I definitely would not now, so I likely just powered my way through it.
No, Dylan.
You and Jared are awesome.
So does this mean Surf Ninjas counts as...a video game movie?
yes.......
no
Yes and No
Dylan is awesome!
YOU'RE AWESOME!
I've got a 10 year old son and a 12 year old daughter. We watch movies every Saturday night. When my daughter isn't around, me and my boy watch 90s movies just like Surf Ninjas. We just finished TMNT and 3 Ninjas and I was thinking about this one next. It's really fun to relive this old stuff!
There were actually 2 90s movies with magic Game Gears, the other one is American Ninja 5.
Me and friend played the absolute hell out of General Chaos. I'm glad that got covered here. That will always be a game i'll never forget growing up.
I've never heard of half those games. Honestly it's cool learning about a lot of games I missed out on in this era of gaming.
Ernie Reyes Jr was awesome!
I was born in the 80s so i was a kid when all this was going on. Ernie Reyes Jr is from san jose California and when i was a kid he would come to my elementary school in san jose and do karate demonstrations in assemblies. Damn, the 90s were so fun
Can't wait for Link's Awakening.
General Chaos unlocked core memories for me lol
I loved all the 3 Ninjas movies!! They were some of my favorites!!