In 1987, US PC owners were fumbling around with 16 on-screen colors and horrible PC speaker beeps (or AdLib sound if you were lucky). In Japan, you could have gotten a computer that could play Neo Geo quality shooters, near-perfect arcade ports, and 3D polygon mech games with amazing sound and music for the price of a mid-range PC compatible at the time. Man, IBM owners got ripped off.
The Sharpx68000 is practicaly the "Commodore Amiga of Japan". The Amiga had the same main Prozessor but other co processors and it was way cheeper then the x68000 (around 600$).It had way better GFX from the end of the 80s into the early 90s then any dos based PC back then.
PC also had support for MIDI (especially the Roland MT-32). A lot of games (especially those from Sierra and Origin Systems) supported it.Also, 1987 was when VGA hit the PC market, and the initial specification supported 256 colors at 320x240 (mode 13h). Of course, the biggest downfall of systems like the Sharp x68000 is that they weren't even remotely modular, so any changes to the way the system worked would break things. PCs tended to be weaker in the games department, but the architecture was abstract enough to support things being upgraded easily. Plus, once the 386 hit, it was pretty much over for all competing systems.
@YTCensorsMe Poop Apple IIs weren't a thing in 1987, except the Apple IIGS (which was a 16-bit machine). Everyone was migrating to Amigas, Atari STs, IBM compatibles, or Macs.
@YTCensorsMe Poop The Amiga has a massive assortment of specialized chips and is capable of some things that x68k simply can't do. You can't just compare the clock speeds of the main CPUs and conclude that the Sharp x68000 is more powerful.
You also have to take into account that the Sharp x68000, baseline, was more than twice the price of an Amiga. It wasn't a machine that the common Japanese person owned - it was more akin to owning a NeXT cube or an SGI workstation.
Great episode! A couple bits of trivia you might not know: - Akazukin Chachacha is actually based on the popular manga and anime franchise, Akazukin Chacha, with "Akazukin" being the Japanese name for Red Riding Hood. - Star Trader's music is awesome because Star Trader was developed by Falcom, the makers of the Ys games. It is, in fact, the ONLY shmup Falcom has ever made in their entire history as a company -- and they've been around since 1981! You can hear an '80s glam rock-style vocal version of the title theme on their album "Falcom JDK Band 1," under the name "Go Fight," and this same track was also used as the theme song to the recent Falcom Gakuen anime series.
Absolutely. MANY Japanese game developers used the X68000 as a development tool, and watered down the specs a bit. Capcom often watered down the graphics (12 bit from 16 bit colour), Konami would water down the processor (and use a customized Motorola 6809 derivative). Sega itself watered down the specs in order to create the Mega Drive/Genesis hardware to the point where the masses could afford their arcade games on a console, but one could tell the sound and graphics quality werent the same as their arcade counterparts.
Game Sack Where's Vagrant Fighter FX, Goddess' Blazon, Tatakae! Konyanko Comike 47, Tatakae! Konyanko Comike 46, Tatakae! Konyanko Comike EX, Jotei Senki 1: Queen Edition, Jotei Senki 2: Legend of Heroines, Jotei Senki 3: Queen of Fighters, Jotei Senki 4: Heroines Forever, Megami De Pon and more games for obscure fighting games?
I was gonna buy one just for Castlevania, then I saw Thunder Force II! Undead Line and many of the other shooters look great too! Thanks for showing all that gameplay!
I think there was a port or a sequel for Aqualez on Turbo called Veges Tactical Gladiator. I don't know much about it, all I remember is the main character was red and it was reviewed by Gamepro.
I don’t know if you mentioned this already, but Japanese fans’s nickname for the X68K was “The God Computer”, due to specs being ahead of its time compared to the other Japanese computers at the time; the Mega Drive wouldn’t be released until the following year. Capcom used the X68K as its development platform for their CPS 1 and 2 games; former Capcom composer Hiroaki Kondo’s nickname was “Hiroaki ‘X68K’ Kondo”.
Yeah, but it set you back $2500-3000, it was insanely expensive. while the Amiga 500 released the same year cost $699 and also had amazing looking games. $3000 in 1987 is equal to $8000 today. That is some seriously expensive hardware. What i find very interesting however, is how many quality games was made for the platform, the x68000 sold less tan 200.000 units, tiny numbers compared to the likes of Amiga 500, which sold 6 million. But yet, gaming companies kept making great looking games with awesome gameplay, it's almost unbelievable. Yet, here we are.
@@FabledGentleman A big chunk of the cost went into the build quality and featureset of the machine. Perhaps Sharp should have considered a cheap entry-level cost reduced version without all the extra fluff; MIDI, video-in genlock, motor-driven soft eject disk drives and so on.
My inner tech support nerd had to muffle a "NOoooo!!" Though I bet the solution at the time was to simply "Copy that floppy". Gotta love the era when it was recommended to make multiple backup copies of your software to keep them from getting damaged.
TheThatEthanGuy It could've just been a prop, or an already ruined disc.. or maybe Joe took out the magnetic disc thing that spins inside the square enclosure so it would fold easier. But it looked like a "5'n a Half".
Back to those days, I had Sharp X68000XVI Compact, 6MB RAM and MC68881 math co-processor module. Memorable games were, Gradius 2 Paradius Etoile Princess Street Fighter 2 Hiryu Stryder Geograph Seal Star Cruiser Overtake : The intro music is AWESOME. Sim Ants Marble Madness Final Fight Twin Bee series. There were several open source games, which I ported to X6800, such as Gnu Chess Nethack : Yes, all time favorite. :) Tips: 1) Since it had 6MB of RAM, I allocated several MB as disk cache, so, it reduced [floppy] disc access and smoother gaming experiences. 2) I installed a 'program; to NVRAM, which wil SLOOOW down the CPU clock, by pressing Interrupt button. Very useful during fighting with the "Boss" characters Sorry, I forgot the 'progam's name :) X68000 was a very versatile Personal Workstation, and I learnt alot about computing. Thank you, and Good bye... X68000.
Ok, I had the X68000XVI Compact for couple of years, 1992-1994, and I had a limited games title. So, it was 20 years ago's experiences :), but it still in my memory. Mostly I used to learn MC68000 assembly language, porting GNU and open source programs. I was using it as a 'workstation' more than as an arcade game's computer. Yes, there are Internet, those days, but not widely used as today. The most comman way to sharing was by newsgroup and email. There was also dialup BBS, conntected at blazing 4800baud. :) yes, 4800 baud. Games were sold using floopy discs media. either 5" or 3.5". For certain programs, you stil lcan download precompiled binary with the source code from newsgroup or FTP. We are lucky to have high speed bradband, and much powerful computer. I still able tou use the X68000's games/programs on emualtor, whith IMHO runs FAYSTER than the original hardware. :) Thanks for the comments and questions.
***** The internet wasn't even really a thing that it is now until the late 90s early 2000s. It was invented in the 60s-70s, but only connected like... 5 ivyleague colleges and that's it.
***** I have no clue why you don't think a perfectly reasonably answer is the truth. I hate to imagine your thoughts on the more eccentric happenings in reality.
Wow, seems like the X68000 is a great gaming set up. This video really highlights how amazing older video game soundtracks are especially compared to the shitty soulless and unmemorable soundtracks of most modern games.
I agree. The X68000 had a lot of great music. These days games want to be scored like movies and they're no longer games but instead interactive adventures. That's fine but I like games more.
Well put. That's probably a much better description. I feel like I spend more time watching than playing, which is fine but not exactly what constitutes as a "game" to me.
The last year I have been playing emulators on my Wii more than anything else! So you are right, to me old games were the best. The only thing I wish I could have is a Roland M32 Midi player!
Game Sack is the best retrogaming show and this is one of the best episodes. Wouldn't be surprised if this episode creates and uptick with X68000 collecting and emulation.
This is one my favorite systems. It's just a step below Fujitsu's FM Towns I feel, but that's not a strike against it.. i'd have been more than happy to have one back in the days I was lusting over the Super Gun system i'd never have. Excellent system synopsis here, hits almost everything.
thanks guys for another great episode!! you guys are the best. The most consistent and high quality retro game review channel out there.very high production value and interesting. if you guys can't fit everything in 1 episode, maybe you could break it into parts? won't mind watching more of you guys!!
I thought I'd heard of every system out there and you guys pull this one out! Admit it guys you just made this up to fool smart asses like me who think we've seen it all! Awesome system and great video keep it up guys!
Yes it's a big fabrication and we thought we would do our April fools joke super early this year. APRIL FOOLS! Ha! The X68000 is real and it's awesome. I just wish I had the money to own one. Oh and Thanks for watching.
Just found you guys and I'm already enthralled. You guys are an awesome duo! You remind me of Mark from Classic Game Room and that's the highest compliment I can pay somebody.
Game Sack has quickly become my favorite gaming show on the Internet. It's introduced me to a ton of great games I otherwise would have never known about.
pfft then u know nothing watch poushing up roses and lgr there about classic pc gaming and console gaming not just nintendo and sega gaming see this is whyganesack fails in compairson to lgr and pushing up roses and ADG aka ancient dos games also check out metal jesus rocks and john hancock
Oh! Okay that makes sense now! Yeah I remember those old replica motorcycle arcade games now. Thanks for the post. I had literally completely forgot what it was like to play in those things.
Dave is such a genuine and, if you will excuse my "feminine" statement, very sweet individual who always makes me happy to listen to, I just love his positivity and humor. Without him the show is still great and I admire Joe for taking on the entire job himself (and doing awesome) but at least we have a couple hundred or so Dave episodes to go back and enjoy when I start missing him too much. Thank you both so much for everything you guys have done for the gaming community!
I'm sure it's unintentional social blindness but there are some pretty funny moments where it seems like Joe is just a complete dick to Dave for no reason as though they don't like eachother. We're all weird nerds here I'm sure but it's especially prominent in these older vids.
to bad gamesack dont know shit about computers or back story of video games and videogame industry if they did they would be pc gamers and not consolefan boys that constantly bash on pc gaming
we do idiot all console games are made and devolped on pcs n macs dipshit and pc gaming was before consolegaming pc gaming dates back to 1950s that goes before copnsoles were even around dipshit
''The X68000 leaves almost no table space available therefore you know this system is serious about the games it plays [...] The power consumption alone is probably more than any other appliance in the home what a great system''
Jere Aho That was actually fairly reasonable for a fully functioning high-end PC around that time. I remember the first computer we got so my dad could work from home was an IBM that cost $3300. It was before 3D accelerator cards were common too, that would've been several hundred more dollars back when those things first became popular.
+Jere Aho My family's first computer ran for a little less than that. Things were crazy back in the day. And that computer is weaker than my cell phone today. Crazy when you think about it.
+Jere Aho that's what high end computers cost even today. at the time this was the ultimate console, which is also true of any 3k P.C. today face it 3k worth of P.C. will blow the doors clean off of any current gen console ever since then you know.
I was just thinking about this system the other day...and of course Game Sack covers it, with their impeccable timing and tastes in gaming. Nice coverage of so many games here...I envy you guys. I'd like to pick up some games just for the sake of collecting...the actual hardware, however, will have to wait...$$$ Nice skit at the end, as usual. I found myself chuckling even more than all your other episodes, probably because of the intentionally bad voice over(with Dave, though, you have to wonder if it was intentional...XD).
This ep was definitely one of my favs. I've always been curious about these older computer systems and I learned a lot today. Thanks! Also, I love that the keyboard LEDs were in sync to the music in Cotton! Fantastic!
Seriously game sack needs it own show on Netflix or hulu. They have AVGN on there and that is nowhere near as detailed and descriptive as GAMESACK GAMESACK IS THE BOB ROSS OF VIDEO GAME REVIEW'S GET DAVE BACK!!!! LOL LOL
Just when you thought Gamesack couldn't get any better you talk about and review the Sharp X68000. An awesome console/computer especially for ports of various Falcom and Konami games . A really rare system indeed and not cheap by any means but I would still love to own one thanks for the great episode guy's.
I swear... it's episodes like this that make this THE best Video Game channel on TH-cam bar none! There really isn't anywhere else where you can get this quality of content for stuff this niche. It scratches my nerd itch in a way that no other channel can! That being said, Dave, we miss you! Come back to the show! It just isn't the same without you!
Speaking of Jumping Flash, I'd like to see an "updated" version of it. Same polygon style, but with strafing or more modern fps controls(being able to see farther would be cool, too.) Is it just me, or were there very few games like Jumping Flash? And guys, I must say that the consideration y'all put in for the music is almost awe inspiring. You guys generally weigh in on the music on every game, and include clips in the reviews and even whole songs in the background! That's something that just strikes me every time I watch a Game Sack episode. "Late 80s/Early 90s upbeat video game music" should be a Genre.
As usual great episode. I just had to watch it again. Im drawn to the X68000 for some strange reason, maybe its my love for old school Capcom and Konami games and they seem to show the X68000 a lot of love.Also I love the different midi devices . Thx again for a great episode, quality as always !!!
this was a great video, I've seen these and other similar japanese only PCs mentioned in other videos and reviews but nothing really indepth that gives me a good feel as to what the system was like before this. Also both the "review" of The Cockpit and that final bonus like scene had me laughing so hard I was crying.
Awesome review about the most impressive PC of the late 80s. You're explanations are really good and the video is pretty cool edited. You gained a new sub, congratulations! I'll gonna check your other videos.
Awesome, nothing better than pouring a cup of coffee, sitting down and seeing a new Game Sack on my TH-cam feed. You guys are great, thanks for all the cool and informative content. This is one of the coolest channels out there for sure.
I'm French and your pronunciation of "Étoile Princesse" was OK, except that you shouldn't say the final "e" of "Étoile". Anyway, this title is strange, it seems like it has been translated from the English "Star Princess", but that shouldn't exactly translate in "Étoile Princesse" in French...
i've seen every episode of game sack and i found this one to be the most interesting of all. more retrospectives on hidden gem systems would be a great idea
This is the best presentation of X68000 i've seen on TH-cam.Well done guys! The system was expensive back then because it was quite advanced for its time and it's expensive now because it's relatively rare and many of its extra components and modules are really hard to find. So, you better off finding a good emulator and some disk 'images' if you want to experience the software first-hand.Yeah, i know "it's not the real thing", but you have to wonder if it's really worth it to pay good money for vintage hardware.
You guys are cool. I recommend you redo your intro to include all the consoles you guys have. It'd be so much more awesome if you did. You guys have such Clean editing though. It's very impressive. Awesome job, Game Sack.
Love this episode and would love an x68000. Anyway I just found out that cha cha cha was ported to windows 95 and supports modern versions of windows as well. It's available for a digital download here for less than $1.50! Also the developers of that game also have others titles available that look interesting. Some of them are available for less than 50 cents. www.dlsite.com/eng/work/=/product_id/RE066641.html
The X6800 is one of the many reasons the Mister FPGA is such an amazing device... with how expensive X6800 units are now I would probably never have played it and its awesome library without the Mister.
I'd love to see a MSX episode, as it was the home of the first games of the Metal Gear Solid franchise. Also I've heard the MSX was used as guiding system for the missiles of the Brazilian army. That's a very warring computer right there.
Great episode, I've heard of the X68000 but never really looked into it so this was a great overview for me, a lot of these games have really great soundtracks. Was funny seeing the little touches the developers did like the musical keyboard lights.
Have you guys ever thought of making a video about the TRS-80 Color Computer 1/2/3? I found a lot of websites with information about them including games, but I can't find good videos and I'm sure that you guys can make a very cool video :)
Great video, but the sexual tension between these two makes me a bit uncomfortable. Great video. But again, a tad uncomfortable to watch. Great though!
Konami especially made good use of the X68000 sound capabilities. As much as I liked you revisiting this computer and its games, I missed seeing Detana!! Twinbee there (I saw its box though) instead of other minor shooters, it's a personal favorite, especially its music, which I think is just up there with Gradius. The MIDI use in that game is just insanely good IMHO... speaking of which, the name Joe Redifer definitely rang a bell... OCRemix? I downloaded a Sonic CD remix by you more than 10 years ago, same Joe Redifer I presume ;) (probably not the first one saying this but I love this kind of connections :)). Very good and entertaining guys, you got another sub!
In 1987, US PC owners were fumbling around with 16 on-screen colors and horrible PC speaker beeps (or AdLib sound if you were lucky). In Japan, you could have gotten a computer that could play Neo Geo quality shooters, near-perfect arcade ports, and 3D polygon mech games with amazing sound and music for the price of a mid-range PC compatible at the time. Man, IBM owners got ripped off.
The Sharpx68000 is practicaly the "Commodore Amiga of Japan". The Amiga had the same main Prozessor but other co processors and it was way cheeper then the x68000 (around 600$).It had way better GFX from the end of the 80s into the early 90s then any dos based PC back then.
PC also had support for MIDI (especially the Roland MT-32). A lot of games (especially those from Sierra and Origin Systems) supported it.Also, 1987 was when VGA hit the PC market, and the initial specification supported 256 colors at 320x240 (mode 13h). Of course, the biggest downfall of systems like the Sharp x68000 is that they weren't even remotely modular, so any changes to the way the system worked would break things. PCs tended to be weaker in the games department, but the architecture was abstract enough to support things being upgraded easily. Plus, once the 386 hit, it was pretty much over for all competing systems.
@YTCensorsMe Poop Apple IIs weren't a thing in 1987, except the Apple IIGS (which was a 16-bit machine). Everyone was migrating to Amigas, Atari STs, IBM compatibles, or Macs.
@YTCensorsMe Poop The Amiga has a massive assortment of specialized chips and is capable of some things that x68k simply can't do. You can't just compare the clock speeds of the main CPUs and conclude that the Sharp x68000 is more powerful.
You also have to take into account that the Sharp x68000, baseline, was more than twice the price of an Amiga. It wasn't a machine that the common Japanese person owned - it was more akin to owning a NeXT cube or an SGI workstation.
Great episode! A couple bits of trivia you might not know:
- Akazukin Chachacha is actually based on the popular manga and anime franchise, Akazukin Chacha, with "Akazukin" being the Japanese name for Red Riding Hood.
- Star Trader's music is awesome because Star Trader was developed by Falcom, the makers of the Ys games. It is, in fact, the ONLY shmup Falcom has ever made in their entire history as a company -- and they've been around since 1981! You can hear an '80s glam rock-style vocal version of the title theme on their album "Falcom JDK Band 1," under the name "Go Fight," and this same track was also used as the theme song to the recent Falcom Gakuen anime series.
This thing cost four Amiga 500s. Way too much for a gaming system, but you do get arcade quality games.
Absolutely.
MANY Japanese game developers used the X68000 as a development tool, and watered down the specs a bit. Capcom often watered down the graphics (12 bit from 16 bit colour), Konami would water down the processor (and use a customized Motorola 6809 derivative). Sega itself watered down the specs in order to create the Mega Drive/Genesis hardware to the point where the masses could afford their arcade games on a console, but one could tell the sound and graphics quality werent the same as their arcade counterparts.
I love you guys. These videos are what I always wanted to see on youtube. I hope the copyright police never touch you.
So far so good! :)
Game Sack Where's Vagrant Fighter FX, Goddess' Blazon, Tatakae! Konyanko Comike 47, Tatakae! Konyanko Comike 46, Tatakae! Konyanko Comike EX, Jotei Senki 1: Queen Edition, Jotei Senki 2: Legend of Heroines, Jotei Senki 3: Queen of Fighters, Jotei Senki 4: Heroines Forever, Megami De Pon and more games for obscure fighting games?
Hey, Joe, I really liked the Game Chasers episode you edited. Great work.
Not only does it have great games, but it also has amazing music.
I love to watch your show. It's high quality stuff.
You guys should do another video of this system and show off some more of the games, like Dragon Spirit. :)
The problem with this system is that like 80% of the games are shooters. We had a hard enough time in this episode finding games that weren't.
Game Sack
Ahh I see. Haha and here I am suggesting another vertical shooter. Whoops!
theres tons of rpg and adventure games ur just not lookin hard enough
Would you list a good number of them here then?
I was gonna buy one just for Castlevania, then I saw Thunder Force II! Undead Line and many of the other shooters look great too! Thanks for showing all that gameplay!
I think there was a port or a sequel for Aqualez on Turbo called Veges Tactical Gladiator. I don't know much about it, all I remember is the main character was red and it was reviewed by Gamepro.
Good ep. Very informative!
Mad Stalker is not only on the PC Engine and FM Towns Marty, but it got a very cool looking sequel
emake on the PSX, you should check that one out!
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Your Mario shirt is soooo cute !! Great Episode guys !!
I really enjoyed this episode. Thanks guys!
This is a very well edited video. Thank you.
I used to play Gradais to death!
GREAT episode! Keep it up!
ty for reviewing. I never heard of this system but i am interested in investing in it
This may be a dumb question, but if this is Japan-exclusive why are most of the games in English?
I don’t know if you mentioned this already, but Japanese fans’s nickname for the X68K was “The God Computer”, due to specs being ahead of its time compared to the other Japanese computers at the time; the Mega Drive wouldn’t be released until the following year.
Capcom used the X68K as its development platform for their CPS 1 and 2 games; former Capcom composer Hiroaki Kondo’s nickname was “Hiroaki ‘X68K’ Kondo”.
It's hard to believe graphics like this were available at home so early. These are arcade quality. Amazing.
Yeah, but it set you back $2500-3000, it was insanely expensive. while the Amiga 500 released the same year cost $699 and also had amazing looking games. $3000 in 1987 is equal to $8000 today. That is some seriously expensive hardware. What i find very interesting however, is how many quality games was made for the platform, the x68000 sold less tan 200.000 units, tiny numbers compared to the likes of Amiga 500, which sold 6 million. But yet, gaming companies kept making great looking games with awesome gameplay, it's almost unbelievable. Yet, here we are.
@@FabledGentleman A big chunk of the cost went into the build quality and featureset of the machine. Perhaps Sharp should have considered a cheap entry-level cost reduced version without all the extra fluff; MIDI, video-in genlock, motor-driven soft eject disk drives and so on.
Can you do an episode about games that bankrupted developers or nearly did ?
That'd be AMAZING!!!
Good idea
Cracked me up when he folded that floppy disk. lol
My inner tech support nerd had to muffle a "NOoooo!!" Though I bet the solution at the time was to simply "Copy that floppy". Gotta love the era when it was recommended to make multiple backup copies of your software to keep them from getting damaged.
DEFkon001 ...So that was an actual floppy disk that he folded? I thought it was rubber! XD
TheThatEthanGuy It could've just been a prop, or an already ruined disc.. or maybe Joe took out the magnetic disc thing that spins inside the square enclosure so it would fold easier. But it looked like a "5'n a Half".
It looks like he simply took a floppy cardboard sleeve.
I cringed so hard
Back to those days, I had Sharp X68000XVI Compact, 6MB RAM and MC68881 math co-processor module.
Memorable games were,
Gradius 2
Paradius
Etoile Princess
Street Fighter 2
Hiryu Stryder
Geograph Seal
Star Cruiser
Overtake : The intro music is AWESOME.
Sim Ants
Marble Madness
Final Fight
Twin Bee series.
There were several open source games, which I ported to X6800, such as
Gnu Chess
Nethack : Yes, all time favorite. :)
Tips:
1) Since it had 6MB of RAM, I allocated several MB as disk cache, so, it reduced [floppy] disc access and smoother gaming experiences.
2) I installed a 'program; to NVRAM, which wil SLOOOW down the CPU clock, by pressing Interrupt button. Very useful during fighting with the "Boss" characters Sorry, I forgot the 'progam's name :)
X68000 was a very versatile Personal Workstation, and I learnt alot about computing.
Thank you, and Good bye... X68000.
*****
1 question:
how hard are you trolling right now?
Ok, I had the X68000XVI Compact for couple of years, 1992-1994, and I had a limited games title.
So, it was 20 years ago's experiences :), but it still in my memory. Mostly I used to learn MC68000 assembly language, porting GNU and open source programs. I was using it as a 'workstation' more than as an arcade game's computer.
Yes, there are Internet, those days, but not widely used as today. The most comman way to sharing was by newsgroup and email. There was also dialup BBS, conntected at blazing 4800baud. :) yes, 4800 baud.
Games were sold using floopy discs media. either 5" or 3.5". For certain programs, you stil lcan download precompiled binary with the source code from newsgroup or FTP.
We are lucky to have high speed bradband, and much powerful computer. I still able tou use the X68000's games/programs on emualtor, whith IMHO runs FAYSTER than the original hardware. :)
Thanks for the comments and questions.
Are there any English resources for programming for it?
***** The internet wasn't even really a thing that it is now until the late 90s early 2000s. It was invented in the 60s-70s, but only connected like... 5 ivyleague colleges and that's it.
***** I have no clue why you don't think a perfectly reasonably answer is the truth. I hate to imagine your thoughts on the more eccentric happenings in reality.
Wow, more power consumption than ANY other electronic in my house! Where can I buy this expensive thing?!??
Your dryer and your space heater are whining that you completely forgot about them.
oh man, going back to a video with Dave sure gets you in the feels..... miss you man!!!!!
Wow, seems like the X68000 is a great gaming set up. This video really highlights how amazing older video game soundtracks are especially compared to the shitty soulless and unmemorable soundtracks of most modern games.
I agree. The X68000 had a lot of great music. These days games want to be scored like movies and they're no longer games but instead interactive adventures. That's fine but I like games more.
Well put. That's probably a much better description. I feel like I spend more time watching than playing, which is fine but not exactly what constitutes as a "game" to me.
Game Sack
Not enough likes in the world for this comment. That's been my problem with games for years.
The last year I have been playing emulators on my Wii more than anything else! So you are right, to me old games were the best. The only thing I wish I could have is a Roland M32 Midi player!
Well there is an emulator call Munt which emulates the MT-32, but you will need to download the rom files.
Screw modern konami, we need old konami!
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#FuckTodayKonami
Old Konami was the best Konami.
Castlevania sequels chronical the deterioration of Konami ... there is still hope, but it is slim.
Wow. What a hot take. "Everyone" loves pachinko machines and hates actual games.
Your opinion is so unorthodox and radical.
Game Sack is the best retrogaming show and this is one of the best episodes. Wouldn't be surprised if this episode creates and uptick with X68000 collecting and emulation.
This is one my favorite systems. It's just a step below Fujitsu's FM Towns I feel, but that's not a strike against it.. i'd have been more than happy to have one back in the days I was lusting over the Super Gun system i'd never have.
Excellent system synopsis here, hits almost everything.
excellent video!
I always had an interest in the x68000 thanks to the great konami arcade ports.
Here in 2020. One of favorite episodes still
thanks guys for another great episode!! you guys are the best. The most consistent and high quality retro game review channel out there.very high production value and interesting. if you guys can't fit everything in 1 episode, maybe you could break it into parts? won't mind watching more of you guys!!
X68000 (echo included) is The Neo Geo of computers !
Remember kids,
"Losers don't play the cockpit!"
I thought I'd heard of every system out there and you guys pull this one out! Admit it guys you just made this up to fool smart asses like me who think we've seen it all! Awesome system and great video keep it up guys!
Yes it's a big fabrication and we thought we would do our April fools joke super early this year. APRIL FOOLS! Ha! The X68000 is real and it's awesome. I just wish I had the money to own one. Oh and Thanks for watching.
@@tetrisdave 😀
I see systems like this and am really thankful for emulation. Japan exclusive and floppy based? Wallet am cry!
I'm a collector but some things are just worth emulating to both save money and especially the space.
Just found you guys and I'm already enthralled.
You guys are an awesome duo! You remind me of Mark from Classic Game Room and that's the highest compliment I can pay somebody.
yea, Joe reminds me of Mark because they are both huge Sega fanboys. but really, who isnt?
Game Sack has quickly become my favorite gaming show on the Internet. It's introduced me to a ton of great games I otherwise would have never known about.
***** Same here. I'm sad that I binge-watched just about every episode, so I'm re watching them! Love this channel!
pfft then u know nothing watch poushing up roses and lgr there about classic pc gaming and console gaming not just nintendo and sega gaming see this is whyganesack fails in compairson to lgr and pushing up roses and ADG aka ancient dos games also check out metal jesus rocks and john hancock
butthurt because someone doesnt enjoy the same channel as you do?
The Super Hang-On name entry screen is like that because it's based on the arcade machine, which was a replica motorbike and had no d-pad.
Oh! Okay that makes sense now!
Yeah I remember those old replica motorcycle arcade games now. Thanks for the post. I had literally completely forgot what it was like to play in those things.
Dave is such a genuine and, if you will excuse my "feminine" statement, very sweet individual who always makes me happy to listen to, I just love his positivity and humor. Without him the show is still great and I admire Joe for taking on the entire job himself (and doing awesome) but at least we have a couple hundred or so Dave episodes to go back and enjoy when I start missing him too much. Thank you both so much for everything you guys have done for the gaming community!
I'm sure it's unintentional social blindness but there are some pretty funny moments where it seems like Joe is just a complete dick to Dave for no reason as though they don't like eachother. We're all weird nerds here I'm sure but it's especially prominent in these older vids.
Lol in the previous episode he said joe had nutz on his chin
I miss the days of giant computer game boxes with all sorts of goodies inside.
Now you have to pay extra...
+JLConawayII Now game cases just seem sooo... empty...
to bad gamesack dont know shit about computers or back story of video games and videogame industry if they did they would be pc gamers and not consolefan boys that constantly bash on pc gaming
Retrogaming Insanity Yeah cos PC gamers know more about the history of gaming...have you been drinking?! lol
we do idiot all console games are made and devolped on pcs n macs dipshit and pc gaming was before consolegaming pc gaming dates back to 1950s that goes before copnsoles were even around dipshit
Really like the way you spell étoile princesse!! VERY good vidéo as usual, Many thanks!! Greetings from France, Stéphan
I hope you guys do a PC-98 episode soon
Who needs a Xbox One when you could have a Sharp X68000?!?!
''The X68000 leaves almost no table space available therefore you know this system is serious about the games it plays [...] The power consumption alone is probably more than any other appliance in the home what a great system''
Change x68000 to xbox one and it's about the same
X68000 Consumer about the same power as the air conditioner
Originally $3000US! Holy shit, I hope it gave you a happy ending at least
Jere Aho That was actually fairly reasonable for a fully functioning high-end PC around that time. I remember the first computer we got so my dad could work from home was an IBM that cost $3300. It was before 3D accelerator cards were common too, that would've been several hundred more dollars back when those things first became popular.
Jere Aho This system was your father's PC Master Race. I kinda want one now. :P
+Jere Aho My family's first computer ran for a little less than that. Things were crazy back in the day. And that computer is weaker than my cell phone today. Crazy when you think about it.
+Jason Quinn weaker than a cubic centimetre of your phone
+Jere Aho that's what high end computers cost even today. at the time this was the ultimate console, which is also true of any 3k P.C. today face it 3k worth of P.C. will blow the doors clean off of any current gen console ever since then you know.
Thank Satan for emulators...
I was just thinking about this system the other day...and of course Game Sack covers it, with their impeccable timing and tastes in gaming. Nice coverage of so many games here...I envy you guys. I'd like to pick up some games just for the sake of collecting...the actual hardware, however, will have to wait...$$$
Nice skit at the end, as usual. I found myself chuckling even more than all your other episodes, probably because of the intentionally bad voice over(with Dave, though, you have to wonder if it was intentional...XD).
Hey! I was trying my hardest.............to be bad.
David White
For the sake of your fans, I can only hope that you try even HARDER next episode. ;)
The Sega CD32x, the Sharp x68000, the neo geo cd, doesn't matter what variation of this skit i see, i will still laugh a lot.
It's an awesome system, the games look pretty amazing and fun, the graphics are top notch for its time
FM Towns Marty or MSX episodes in the pipeline then boys?
You got your wish
This ep was definitely one of my favs. I've always been curious about these older computer systems and I learned a lot today. Thanks!
Also, I love that the keyboard LEDs were in sync to the music in Cotton! Fantastic!
22:40
This is one of the coolest things I've seen.
yeah that’s super neat lol
We need more game systems that light up in sync to the music!
Seriously game sack needs it own show on Netflix or hulu. They have AVGN on there and that is nowhere near as detailed and descriptive as GAMESACK
GAMESACK IS THE BOB ROSS OF VIDEO GAME REVIEW'S
GET DAVE BACK!!!! LOL LOL
Just when you thought Gamesack couldn't get any better you talk about and review the Sharp X68000. An awesome console/computer especially for ports of various Falcom and Konami games . A really rare system indeed and not cheap by any means but I would still love to own one thanks for the great episode guy's.
Awww~ I really want to play Etoile Princesse >-
I swear... it's episodes like this that make this THE best Video Game channel on TH-cam bar none! There really isn't anywhere else where you can get this quality of content for stuff this niche. It scratches my nerd itch in a way that no other channel can! That being said, Dave, we miss you! Come back to the show! It just isn't the same without you!
Excellent Video Guys :) Got yourselves a new subscriber.
Speaking of Jumping Flash, I'd like to see an "updated" version of it. Same polygon style, but with strafing or more modern fps controls(being able to see farther would be cool, too.) Is it just me, or were there very few games like Jumping Flash?
And guys, I must say that the consideration y'all put in for the music is almost awe inspiring. You guys generally weigh in on the music on every game, and include clips in the reviews and even whole songs in the background! That's something that just strikes me every time I watch a Game Sack episode. "Late 80s/Early 90s upbeat video game music" should be a Genre.
SharpX68000 master race
Fuck off.
Hellwyck no, PC Master Race is awful, X68000 Master Race FTW!!!
How about the Amiga 500? Or an episode devoted to the Turrican series!
Justin Reynolds yeah or Amiga in general. When it comes to the later life span during the 90s it becomes just insane.
love that they always have long videos these guys
Great video! You guys are great fun together, the ending is hilarious too. Keep it up!
As usual great episode. I just had to watch it again. Im drawn to the X68000 for some strange reason, maybe its my love for old school Capcom and Konami games and they seem to show the X68000 a lot of love.Also I love the different midi devices . Thx again for a great episode, quality as always !!!
A lot of those games like “Etoile Princesse”, “Mad Stalker”, and “Aqua Lez” look gorgeous! Especially for the time period!
My heart sank a little when that large floppy disk was folded to fit in the X68030, is that a bad thing?
We need a gif of Dave playing Marble Madness.
you should do more 80s Computers, like the Atari 800, Atari ST, Amiga, and Commadore 64
Make a DVD please, I will ask in every video lol
I cringed and screamed when he folded up that 5.25 floppy. Screamed! Please don't show such imagery without a proper warning to tech supporters.
this was a great video, I've seen these and other similar japanese only PCs mentioned in other videos and reviews but nothing really indepth that gives me a good feel as to what the system was like before this. Also both the "review" of The Cockpit and that final bonus like scene had me laughing so hard I was crying.
Awesome review about the most impressive PC of the late 80s. You're explanations are really good and the video is pretty cool edited.
You gained a new sub, congratulations! I'll gonna check your other videos.
Awesome, nothing better than pouring a cup of coffee, sitting down and seeing a new Game Sack on my TH-cam feed. You guys are great, thanks for all the cool and informative content. This is one of the coolest channels out there for sure.
An over abundance of shooters? Blasphemy! There is no such thing as too many shmups!
I'm French and your pronunciation of "Étoile Princesse" was OK, except that you shouldn't say the final "e" of "Étoile". Anyway, this title is strange, it seems like it has been translated from the English "Star Princess", but that shouldn't exactly translate in "Étoile Princesse" in French...
Cool and Thanks. I figured that I really messed it up but had to show how bad my pronunciation was anyway.
Great episode- appreciate all the work that went into it. Didn't know about this system before watching, that's why I like Game Sack.
i've seen every episode of game sack and i found this one to be the most interesting of all. more retrospectives on hidden gem systems would be a great idea
This is the best presentation of X68000 i've seen on TH-cam.Well done guys!
The system was expensive back then because it was quite advanced for its time and it's expensive now because it's relatively rare and many of its extra components and modules are really hard to find.
So, you better off finding a good emulator and some disk 'images' if you want to experience the software first-hand.Yeah, i know "it's not the real thing", but you have to wonder if it's really worth it to pay good money for vintage hardware.
You guys are cool. I recommend you redo your intro to include all the consoles you guys have. It'd be so much more awesome if you did.
You guys have such Clean editing though. It's very impressive. Awesome job, Game Sack.
Love this episode and would love an x68000. Anyway I just found out that cha cha cha was ported to windows 95 and supports modern versions of windows as well. It's available for a digital download here for less than $1.50! Also the developers of that game also have others titles available that look interesting. Some of them are available for less than 50 cents.
www.dlsite.com/eng/work/=/product_id/RE066641.html
Jeez....this was more advanced than the damn PC I bought in 1992.
That's why your peasant ass grew up on 8-bit nintendo and shitty Dos.
@@ajsingh4545hahahaha Sir you are a moron
The X6800 is one of the many reasons the Mister FPGA is such an amazing device... with how expensive X6800 units are now I would probably never have played it and its awesome library without the Mister.
I'd love to see a MSX episode, as it was the home of the first games of the Metal Gear Solid franchise. Also I've heard the MSX was used as guiding system for the missiles of the Brazilian army. That's a very warring computer right there.
Great episode, I've heard of the X68000 but never really looked into it so this was a great overview for me, a lot of these games have really great soundtracks. Was funny seeing the little touches the developers did like the musical keyboard lights.
Am I the only one who thought those bouncing turtles from Ghouls N' Ghosts looked like Brotherhood of Steel power helmets?
For what's it's worth, Mad Stalker on PC Engine is same game (with minor changes to stage design), but with better graphics.
Nice work guys! Subscribed.
I freaking love these guys!
Have you guys ever thought of making a video about the TRS-80 Color Computer 1/2/3? I found a lot of websites with information about them including games, but I can't find good videos and I'm sure that you guys can make a very cool video :)
22:38 _Cotton_ "The keyboard lights blink in-sync to the game music."
Coooooool stuff... do that with your PS4
;P
The PS4 controller has a programmable light on it so technically they could kinda do it. 😋
Great video, but the sexual tension between these two makes me a bit uncomfortable. Great video. But again, a tad uncomfortable to watch. Great though!
Game Sack, you continue to amaze me! You've become an awesome part of my Sunday mornings. Can't wait to see what's next.
I spend a lot of money on video games but I could never throw down three grand on a console! That's seriously hardcore.
this is one of those PCs I'd love to get. It seems like an amazing system for its day
A chill went down my spine when you folded up that floppy disk :-(.
very cool video. game sack is my favourite channel only in english :D its not a problem. im understand all :D greeting from germany :)
Thanks for this great look at a computer I knew nothing about.
SHIT!
absolutely died laughing when I heard that.
Me too
Konami especially made good use of the X68000 sound capabilities. As much as I liked you revisiting this computer and its games, I missed seeing Detana!! Twinbee there (I saw its box though) instead of other minor shooters, it's a personal favorite, especially its music, which I think is just up there with Gradius. The MIDI use in that game is just insanely good IMHO... speaking of which, the name Joe Redifer definitely rang a bell... OCRemix? I downloaded a Sonic CD remix by you more than 10 years ago, same Joe Redifer I presume ;) (probably not the first one saying this but I love this kind of connections :)). Very good and entertaining guys, you got another sub!
Instructions unclear, several rare floppies folded and lodged in obscure Japanese PC
Just like that red haired chick with the magic, I'm always finding old treasure chests on the roof of local churches.
Ikr, they're everywhere