Gaming's First Ever HD Remaster Collection
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Today is August 18th, 1993! New episode every single Friday!
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Welcome to Now in the 90s, where we rewind the clock exactly 30 years ago to see what new video games had just released! This week we had Super Mario All-Stars for the SNES, LandStalker and Journey from Darkness: Strider Returns for the Sega Genesis
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I remember playing Super Mario All Stars a lot when I was a kid I was glad that you can save your progress. 😀👍🎮
Ditto
@@ArmadisRock cool 😎. 😀👍🎮
Yeah it’s truly an excellent feature. Super Mario all stars was the first time I beat most of the Mario games contained within it, simply by being able to retry and come back later.
Super Mario all stars is STILL, to this day, one of the very best next gen remasters.
You get improved graphics, identical gameplay, new features, and a compilation of everything from the last gen in one box, with unreleased extras.
And it’s not emulated or anything, no added latency or bugs.
Truly a gold standard on remasters.
@@joemamr710 that's true. 😀👍🎮
I think he is specifically talking about Lost Levels, All Stars is what the compilation itself is called.
No lie, I was really looking forward to today's episode because I am a huge huge fan of Super Mario All-Stars. It's one of my favorite games for the SNES. I always come back to play it whenever I can. When the truth of the matter of being that it was the very first HD remaster collection, it did actually take me by surprise. Probably why I had no problem purchasing not just Kirby Superstar but Ninja gaiden trilogy for the SNES: I guess I have always been a fan of the collection games thanks to Super Mario all-stars.
Great episode
It wasn't originally in hd nor was it the first remaster, sierra games remastered their kings quest games on pc way before this, some of their other titles too.
@sorensonjake They probably meant as far as consoles go since PCs *always* used to get stuff like that first.
I was amazed when I found out the NES (256x240) had a higher resolution than the SNES (256x224), probably because there were more colors, no flickering when too many sprites were on screen etc on the SNES.
Were you considering a lie?
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Fun fact there is a ROM patch you can put on Super Mario All Stars that fixes the brick physics in Super Mario Bros 1. Happy playing!
Yeah, there are a couple of small differences
You can raley get on an cart an Comic Cons and My Little Pony events that not only has fixes but the fixes makes the rom hack look like how the real game it sonud have been.
Last I had it the super mario all stars on the switch service has that rom patch in place.
What do you mean by, “fixes the brick physics?”
@@jaythomas468 so one of the main (and most annoying) changes in super Mario bros 1 in the all stars pack is that if you jump and break a brick as big Mario it takes your momentum away (unless you duck for some reason...) and you lose your speed. Original did not do this nor do any of the other games so it can be very jarring. The patch puts it back to the way it was so you keep your speed and momentum and keep moving forward.
And only 12 years before HD existed...impressive.
Talk about being ahead of the curve
Not really belive it or not, Japan had the first HD cameras around this time.
My wife and I have beaten Super Mario All Stars! One of our favorite games to play together. Love the videos Jared and Dylan, thank you so much for your hard work 🤗
So you beat it together? 😏
It definitely wasn't HD, but it was indeed Nintendo's first major remaster.
Super Mario All Stars is probably how I will always play the original Mario Games. The art style and SNES versions of the soundtrack just do it for me!! I’m glad you covered this Jared!!
I remember going to my friend's house after he got Super Mario All-Stars to play the Lost Levels all night during a sleep over. We got pizza. It was awesome.
A simple time that you'll probably remember forever.
I don't know how I found this channel but I love your content dude. I watched you on a 5-hour flight last week and it definitely made it much better. Props to the awesome content!
Yes I did finish the whole collection as a kid! My parents bought the SNES with the All-Stars version that had Super Mario World. We had recently emigrated at the time (with no wealth) to Australia. I was 7-8 years old, and under some fortunate circumstances my parents were able to afford a SNES (they always thought the Mario games were wholesome). I distinctly remember playing through Super Mario World at the time when I had chicken pox with a whole heap of time off school!!! Good ol' days :).
Editor Dylan is obviously a man of culture.
Nice
HuniePop is honestly quite fun. I completed that game with all its achievements. I'm... a straight lady, although nobody asked. Anyway, Water Park level's OST slaps.
The only culture you need to look up is seppuku and then go through with it.
"Mario negotiating an arms deal"
That commercial always cracks me up XD
I LOVE the collection with Mario All-Stars & World. So much game, such value.
Agreed. I got it for £5 back in the day
Landstalker is one of my all-time favorite games. It's SO underappreciated. It's got great music, graphics, and fun (but admittedly difficult) platforming. I have so many happy memories playing this game for hours as a kid, and is a cartridge I still own to this day. I can't recommend this enough! It also has some interesting scenarios. One of my favorite scenes involves a composer playing a beautiful piano piece. PLAY THIS GAME
I''m only happy for you, but I myself couldn't stand it. I beat it because so many people said it was great. But it has horrible controls, lame combat, bad music, confusing and punishing dungeon design... I'm so confused!
Landstalker and Rocket Knight are peak SEGA, even if Landstalker's platforming can be absolutely infuriating in some of the dungeons. Does have some fantastic writing too!
In case anyone's interested, there's a romhack that changes the controls and makes them less awkward.
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Sorry, bot.
Regarding The Lost Levels, I had almost the same reaction. Poison mushrooms got me at first too, but what really made me rage quit was finding a warp pipe that sends you *backward*. In hindsight it probably wasn't a big deal thanks to the save functionality but I remember being so angry about that 😆
Mario All-Stars didn't keep the animation the same because they were trying to "keep everything exactly the same." they used most of the exact same code for the gameplay. It was the easy path, and anything else would have been hard. The SNES CPU architecture and graphics chip were designed to make porting from the NES easy. There were some bug fixes between the versions and changes to account for the new graphics and hardware, and some bugs like world -1 wouldn't have worked if they did keep the code the same.
I have gone *decades* living with a half forgotten memory of sprinting along a field as an orange..frog..fish thing, always debating with myself if it was a real game that literally no one remembered, or a fever dream.
Thank you, so much, for FINALLY putting it to bed. Now I know I was remembering the Aquatic Games.
I can sympathize with Jared's first time trying to play Lost Levels, a mushroom in Mario that kills you has to be one of the harshest forms of betrayal a kid can comprehend.
Back when I was a teenager in the mid 90s, my bowling league held a fundraiser selling candy bars. I signed up. There were various prizes for selling certain amounts of candy,and the top prize was your choice of either a Sega Genesis or Super Nintendo. I basically threw a box of candy into my locker at school and sold them to my classmates during lunch, and at the end of the two or three months or however long the fundraiser lasted, I got my Super Nintendo, which came with Super Mario World, as well as a mail in form for a free copy of Super Mario All-Stars. I still have that SNES hooked up to my TV, and I still play the copy of All-Stars I got with it from time to time.
Dylan killing it again. The 4 in 1 funpak part had me rollin!
Agreed 100%!
Still remember that commercial like it was yesterday! And i remember being so excited about Mario Allstars because i never got to fully play the NES versions. I didn't have an NES and a few times i played SMB at my cousin house and SMB3 at my aunt's apartment. She had a roommate whos don let me play his NES when he wasn't there. And i never played SMB2 til then. This was actually the one game i begged someone to get for me. LOL
Alundra on PS1 is basically a Landstalker spiritual successor.
Love the show! Takes me back to my childhood. The 6 Pak is a game I forgot about but loved as a kid. And love editor Dylan. His way of pronouncing the card games was hilarious.
I recall one version of Mairo all stalls had bundled with Super Mario World and that would make 5
That aquatic olypics game is actually a spinoff of the James Pond series. I still remember it being on the UK TV show "games master" where a contestant was caught cheating
Ah! I thought that fish character looked a bit James Pond :P
The story I heard about Mario 2 was that one of the warehousemen in Redmond liked to play the games, test them and all that. One of the higher ups asked him about Mario 2 and he said it was no good. Hard to the point of not being any fun.
I love all the old commercials for these games, thanks for including them
Fun fact: Landstalker, before Sega and Climax split, was originally going to be called Shining Rogue. It was supposed to star Max, from Shining Force, after his adventures in, well, Shining Force.
I will never pronounce cribbage the same way again😂
You had me laughing even more maniacally than usual Dylan
"The Legend of Soltarr!"
Don't think you can sneak an Aqua Teen Hunger Force joke past me Dylan. I approve ;)
11:44 So are we not going to talk about how the guy on the Goal! box art looks like ProJared? Further evidence to support my theory that ProJared is a time travelling model…
OK, Editor Dylan knowing of the existence of Hunie Pop kinda scares me.
11:58 “But is there anything different about Goal?”
*Fails to notice the exclamation point literally on the title*
I'm glad I was right when I made a comment last week that this week looks like it's going to be "Super Mario All Stars" based on what you said at the end of last week's episode.
If you play on a flash cartridge or emulator, you can install the unofficial "brick fix" ROM patch to correct All Stars SMB1's physics.
Super Mario All Stars is still one of the gold standards on how remakes and compilations should be done.
Gotta say, the Super Mario All-Stars commercial was really, really good. They knew what they were doing for TV ads for games back in the day.
I actually used to work at GameStop around the time Mario all stars for Wii came out! I got it bundled with the Mario anniversary red Wii when that launched!
Seeing as Landstalker is my favorite Genesis game, I'm delighted to learn that a sequel was planned, but heartbroken that it never happened. I'll have to track down a translation of that interview.
Excellent show Jared, is something I would have liked to watch back in the 90's.
"Mario negotiating an arms deal"
Wat
I played SMB and SMB3 on my uncle’s NES, so I was bummed when he sold it. And then I heard about All-Stars for the Super Nintendo. So I was really happy to play Mario 3 again, which is one of my all-time favorites. And of course I got to play Mario 2 and Lost Levels for the first time as a kid.
I loved the 2D Mario commercials of this era, it was the world of the manuals come to life. It's awesome.
I was already an expert on all three US-released Super Mario Bros games, so when we got All-Stars with our SNES in 1994 I beat the first three with ease. Beating The Lost Levels took some time, but I eventually got it.
I figured out that Life Stock location on my own when I was a kid, It's in the first town and you have to get something on top of the dog statue. Only reason I even really looked for it is because there is a late game item you get that basically makes a dinging sound when there is a secret in that location and my 9 year old self was dedicated to find it and I did. One of my greatest gaming accomplishments. Landstalker definetly in my top 5 Genesis/Mega Drive games. Best random video game purchase in my childhood.
There was also a brief little period where they shipped All-Stars and World together as two separate carts with new systems, which is what my cousin got. And I have beaten Lost Levels way back in 1993, and eventually was able to grind out seeing every level, but I have less than zero desire to ever do that again.
One of the greatest games ever. We played the hell out of all stars
This is the first episode that hits me with a date. My dad bought me Super Mario All-Stars when it launched, meaning this distant and date-less memory I have happened in August 1993. I was 8. Incredible.
Laughed out loud at the HuniePop joke. Was NOT expecting that from Dylan.
Creebageh was said with with such Strong Bad flair. I love it.
I had to
Watch the collectors corner bit like 5 times as i have a boxed all stars and thought Jared said it never had a box thought I was going crazy - it was all
Stars and world that never had a box - awesome episode as always loved it
As someone who never had the original NES, I jumped at the chance to buy this when I was a kid. I was not disappointed and appreciated the chance to play the original Mario games with a fresh coat of paint. Still kept the original cart, box and manual. Somewhere.
I was a bit too young for the Nes generation and my parents got me a Master System. So I pretty much missed out on the first Mario games and all I got to experience of them was my next door neighbour had a Nintendo and Mario 1 and 3.
But damn when Mario All Stars came out on SNES, I was obsessed with it. I think its probably the first game i was genuinely hyped and excited for. The updated graphics and the ability to save was enough to seal the deal for me.
Crazy to think it was really the first Remaster the gaming industry got.
All this talk about Landstalker, I'm surprised there was no mention of Time Stalkers for the Sega Dreamcast. It's not exactly a sequel, but Nigel and Friday were included (and I think the former was one of the playable characters). It's another one of those games that seems to have been largely forgotten by everyone, though given how different it is to Landstalker (isometric action platformer vs. turn-based RPG with randomly-generated dungeons and monsters you capture for your party), it's not too surprising.
I wanted to love Timestalker but couldnt get into it's weird mechanics, starting every randomized dungeon at level 1 and such. The weird world and atmosphere definitely have always stuck with me though. Got pretty far in it as a kid but never beat it and haven't gone back to it since.
WWF Royal Rumble and Super Wrestlemania is basically how I discovered pro wrestling. Today it's the thing I love most!
That US cover art of Landstalker, lol, it's like Link got Americanized
It worked for the Mega Man cartoon.
While Super Mario All-Stars was mostly "Accurate to the originals", there were a few bugs accidentally introduced. In SMB1 and Lost Levels, they apply the wrong direction to Mario's vertical velocity when you break a brick. You can see the bricks pull you upwards rather than eject you out after you break them as big Mario.
Landstalker is one of my favorite Genesis games. I tried to find a fan-translation of Ladystalker for ages before giving up.
I loved Landstalker, I remember a few of the things about it, like you could buy a Shortcake item. If you offered it to Friday the fairy that flies with you, she'd either be happy you gave her a gift and heal you to full, or she'd get insulted because she doesn't like to be called short and bring you down to one hp. There was also a single tree you needed to make a bridge in the massive last area of the game, but you had to do things in a specific order. Do it wrong and it won't let you cut the tree, resulting in a soft lock and you'd be stuck.
In the original Japanese version I believe that the shortcake was actually a bunnygirl costume? I can't remember if I ever used it or what Friday's dialogue was for it.
I appreciate that ATHF reference, Dylan.
While Landstalker wasn't something I played a lot as a kid, I _did_ play A LOT of Dark Savior on the Saturn. It was pretty cool to have a villain hyped up with "can kill people with one hit", and see the result of that throughout the game (examining some corpses would give text along the lines of "One punch killed him").
It remains one of my favorite Saturn games, alongside the likes of Dragon Force and Guardian Heroes.
When my parents bought me this, I could not believe this collection was real!!
4 remastered classics on 1 cartridge!
The only thing they screwed up where the kings as monsters in Mario Bros 3 before they got turned back into humans. Those were definitely not the same monsters as in the original, but recycled monsters from Mario World etc.
Back in 2013, I saw a boxed copy of Strider Returns at a Goodwill. I hadn’t played a Strider game yet at that time but heard good things about the series and remembered Strider Hiryu from the Marvel vs. Capcom games so I was very happy that I would finally be able to experience a Strider game for myself. Then I looked up reviews for the game on my phone and immediately put that game back on the shelf. “Brutal” isn’t even the word for what I read about Strider Returns.
Oh and, as far as Super Mario All-Stars is concerned, The Lost Levels can eat corn the long way and choke on it.
Loved this episode! It's funny because, just when you were about to mention the second game, I thought about Landstalker. And then, BAM, you started to talk about it! I LOVE that game! I ALSO got to get 98% completion. Now I wonder, could it be that heart container that you mentioned that was so difficult to find the one I need to fully complete the game?
3:08 One of the smartest decisions in game history. Very overlooked. People dont understand that this was millions of kids introduction to mario
Oh, man, Landstalker! I remember really enjoying that game despite the isometric platforming in some spots being hair pulling hard to deal with. It really did feel like a Zelda game it some ways and given the main character sort of resembles Link and the nymph Friday is basically a fairy... Shame that the sequel never happened, or that Sega would ever even revive the franchise given all they do now is Sonic stuff.
Tremendous King of Queens reference by Editor Dylan
I loved Super Mario All-Stars as a kid, rented it all the time. I don’t think I ever got past World 2 in The Lost Levels and I never learned about it being the original Mario 2 until I finally had AOL.
1995: 13-year old me is exposed to the WWW for the first time. My destination of choice: the official Nintendo page on AOL. DKC2 was still new and shiny, so Diddy and Dixie were on the main page and made you feel like you were somehow sneaking into the Nintendo Treehouse. There were actual Nintendo staff moderating the chat rooms back then, offering help in the chat rooms for everyone's favorite games. But they were also chat rooms... we all know how that's turned out...
@@OtakuMan26Man I wish I had AOL in the 90s. My dad got it in the 2000s, when AOL’s reputation started to crumble.
A friend of mine (from ATX), told me how to change a single line of hex code, in order to fix the brick momentum stopping bug in Super Mario All*Stars in 1993. It bugged me from the start, since I play SMB1 while running and breaking blocks. The bug caused you to come to a complete stop. The 3 byte hex fix totally fixes that. The IPS SNES/SFC patch was floating around on IRC in 1993 a week after the game his BBS's, but I don't think it ever got an official "scene release". I saw someone else ended up repackaging it a few years ago. I really haven't thought about it since I've always just been playing the fixed rom. It's certain worth watching though.
Surprised there was no mention of Time Stalkers for the Dreamcast when you brought up Landstalker. Not only was Nigel a playable character in it, but also had the greatest main protagonist name ever, Sword. Seriously the main characters name is Sword.
Also Super Mario All Stars is Amazing!! Would say it's one of my all time favorite SNES games, but that's kind of cheating since Super Mario Bros 3 is one of my favorite games of all time.
That Brick Physics bug REALLY bothered me about Super Mario Bros. It's like you were being vacuumed up.
I watched a source code analysis one time, and it's actually a one-line fix to get the old physics back.
I did, at some point, beat The Lost Levels. I distinctly remember making it to the "lettered" worlds. It made me feel like I was somehow breaking the game.
Basically, the change in Y velocity (after hitting a brick) was negative of what it was supposed to be. So you got pulled upwards instead of knocked downwards. Hence why it's such an easy fix.
My dad bought the Super Nintendo in the fall of '93, our second game was Super Mario All-Stars because of the mail in rebate offer from Nintendo Power. My first grade year was pretty fun, and of course the following year was my all time favorite, DKC
I got home yesterday (thursday) went to youtube and couldn't figure out where this new episode was??? then i come home today ( friday ) and realize yesterday was only thursday... D'oh!
Great episode!
Thank you for all of the Honey Pop!
LANDSTALKER!!!! Holy crap, I used to play this all the time at a family friends home, but never knew the name.
Latest closest to Landstalker game was Steal Princess for Nintendo DS. It's 2.5D puzzle platformer where you play as a thief girl and helped by fairy too.
I love Super Mario All-Stars, i had a Super Nintendo when i was a kid so i knew that there were older Mario games, but i couldn't play them, so i got this game for my birthday and i loved seeing the box art and the year the games were released, seeing how the controls were mostly the same considering that Mario 1 and Lost Levels's controls were way stiffer than Mario World, but the graphics, the remade soundtrack, the save feature and being able to select which world you wanted to play made them feel brand new, not to mention that this game's version of Mario 3 is just pure gaming bliss.
Super Mario All-Stars was my brother's first video game! And I still have it today!
In the mid 1990s, Kellog's of Australia teamed up with Nintendo and their top prizes included an all-new Gameboy, Super NES or NES 'Top Loader'.
When i was younger i never understood why there was barely any Super Mario All Stars + Super Mario world and when i told people i saw it they thought i was lying and could never find one to prove them wrong 😞
That SMB All-Stars advertisement was a great look into the 90's style of exciting commercial with the most monotone announcer ever.
This show is now my favorite on TH-cam.
King of Queens reference 🤣🤣... RIP Jerry Stiller
I was not expecting a King of Queens reference 😂
Blood, guts and a hokey mask? I hear demonic whispers...
_She doesn't have to die~_
I own Davis Cup and it was one of my childhood games. My uncle would occasionally gift us random NES or Genesis games outside of the holidays. When he would show up with a sports game I would always get super disappointed because... sports games. We played the sports games anyways and Davis Cup ended up being really fun. Especially with the 6 button controller. I never understood Tennis as a kid and still don't. Also... why don't I remember ANY of these video game commercials AT ALL?
Hunie Pop, I see Dylan is a man of culture as well.
I was born 30 years ago today, was waiting for this episode :D
Super Mario All Stars got so well received that Nintendo released it again on the Wii at full price!
Yeah... I remember being a bit mad that it was just a straight up port of the SNES original, and not even the later release that had SMW on the cart 🙄
@@3800scgp that's Nintendo for ya!
I really love and look forward to these videos each week ☺ It's like getting a Nintendo Power in the mail again as an adult
The Aquatic Games had a Mega Drive release as well which I remember playing when I was young - definitely one of the finger-breaking button-masher type of sports game (although you could run over water if you were fast enough in the 100m Splash, which did give you some sense of achievement), and I remember, trying over and over to get to that upper level on the trampoline event. The game was a spin-off of the James Pond series of platformers (the red fish-dude is James Pond), although as that was a British game it looks like they removed the branding for the US version.
>And an old classic... BOAT!
LMFAO That was legit a good one. Thanks for the chuckle!
That's John Michael Higgins winking with the cup of coffee in the commercial. From Pitch Perfect and the Christopher Guest ensemble comedies :)
Sierra did a VGA remake of the first Leisure Suit Larry in 91. Not sure if it was the first but it was certainly earlier than this.
The Genesis 6-Pak is very important to me, tbh. One Christmas many years ago(I forget which one), my uncle got me a Sega Genesis with the 6-Pak cartridge. I was so freaking pumped. I remember playing 2 player on Streets of Rage with my brother to try and get the bad ending(spoilers: it didn't feel good to see at ALL), and I think I even came close to beating Death Adder in Golden Axe.
I've since lost it, but thanks to how cheap it was to find online, I got the cartridge with box & manual tucked away somewhere. I'm so glad it ended up being pretty cheap, cause it's very important to me.
I really enjoy how informative and well written this is. I really hope you continue to make more content like this. Could even branch off into cartoons too
I didn't have an SNES growing up, so my first experience with The Lost Levels was with Super Mario Bros. Deluxe for the Game Boy Color. I don't recall ever making it too far in it. That said, at some point while I was in college, I did beat The Lost Levels on the SNES without using any warps. Had to retry a lot though; made me glad All-Stars didn't have limited continues.
Yeah, Jared's probably right about Super Mario All-Stars being the first game collection with updated graphics. I can think of "HD" (as in graphically-enhcanced) re-masters that predate Super Mario All-Stars, most notably remakes of several Sierra Online games like King's Quest and Leisure Suit Larry, but I suppose the stickling point here is that they weren't in a collection (maybe there was a bundle, I'm not sure). Another contender that I could think of off the top of my head was Zork Anthology, a collection of the early PC roleplaying game series where I think at least the first Zork game got graphical enhancements not in the original release (which originally didn't have any graphics at all, just text), but I Googled it and that one came out in 1994, a year later.
Landstalker is a game I never played until I got the Sega Genesis Mini. It's one of those isometric games where I like the perspective from a graphical standpoint (Gamepro really ought to have given it a full red manic smiley face for graphics) but I find it very awkward to play with the default controller, and, unlike my actual Sega Genesis, I don't currently have a third-party Genesis Mini controller that handles diagonals better than the default controller. (Same goes for Light Crusader, also on the Genesis Mini.)
I'm fine with most sports games only getting a brief mention but we're coming up on the 30th anniversary of the mighty NHL '94 in a few weeks. Some people claim NHLPA Hockey '93 is the best of the series but I go for '94 since it was the first game with both the NHL and the Player's Association licenses. SegaRetro lists it as being released in September 1993 while Wikipedia says October 1993. I can pretty much confirm it would have to have been September because I got it for my birthday on October 2nd and I'm 99% certain that I rented it before I got my own copy.
I need to get the Sega Genesis 6-pak, I don't have my own cartridge copy of either Revenge of Shinobi or Streets of Rage, just the CD collection that came with the Sega CD, and neither of them are on the first Genesis Mini. I know they're on the Genesis Mini II but I don't have that one because the shipping to Canada from Japan would've been too much and also, I think the Revenge of Shinobi on the Mini II is the de-Spiderman-ed version.
We never got Landstalker 2 but we did get the far superior spiritual successor Alundra.
best retro show! always manage to get a laugh from me.
This was the year I got a SNES. Mine came with two controllers and a mail in deal to get the all stars cartridge. My grind for a SNES the next year, but his came with one controller and smw+all stars and a mail in deal for a second controller.