The Secret Arcade Origins of Yoshi's Cookie
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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!
Released this week 30 years ago was Yoshi's Cookie for NES and Game Boy, Time Gal for the Sega CD, and Kid Klown in Night Mayor World!
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It's always fun when Editor Dylan discovers another hidden gem on this channel. He just can't contain his enthusiasm. Great Greed sounds like an interesting game.
Great Greed has been on my list to play for a WHILE. Game Boy had shockingly good RPGs.
Great Greed. Weird name, but aight.
Looks like it uses assets from the SaGa series, which was awesome.
It's a pretty good game. I've beaten it a few times.
Great Greed is a true hidden gem. That game actually led to my friend and I starting a jRPG review podcast, so it will always have a special place in my heart. If you want to listen to a more in depth review of the game, check out Home on the RNG.
'Overly 90's, sword-wielding Jared' is a whole aesthetic I didn't know I needed in my life
Crazy Castle really is something else.
First it was Roger Rabbit, who became Bugs Bunny, who became Mickey Mouse, until Kemco was finally 'enough with this licensing BS' and made Kid Klown their own creation.
It also took me way too long to realize "Night Mayor" = nightmare.
I had the opposite reaction, it took me seeing the title spelled out on the screen at the end of the segment to stop wondering why Jared was pronouncing "Nightmare" so oddly.
it’s even more convoluted over in Europe where other license properties were used!
Here's hoping Great Greed comes to NSO, it's an amazing hidden gem, and is pretty snappy to play nowadays. Fun fact about the Japanese version, there's one point in the game where you find an empty cabin and can rest there. Problem is, you're with a princess and there's only 1 bed. You then have a battle with your perverted desires (I'm not joking) and if you win, you get healed. If not, you don't get healed and the princess comments on how tired you look. It was censored in the US release by a regular inn for obvious reasons (especially since the sprite used was the backside of a naked long-haired woman)
Lmaooooo
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The US do be loving that censorship tho.
I absolutely have to check out Great Greed now. This show helps bring some pretty obscure titles to my attention now and then which I love.
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That would be Jared channeling the old screw attack days when bringing up obscure games
In Batman Returns, the clown enemies are actually representative of Penguin's thugs from the movie; the Joker had typical mobster goons in the first Tim Burton Batman film. The inspiration was that Penguin was very much like a side show freak, and thus his gang were other bizarre, twisted carnies, such as the poodle lady, the fire-breathing devil, etc. As a kid, I thought it weird that Penguin had clowns as henchmen, and not the Joker, but I actually think now it's quite fitting (at least for that version of the infamous gangster).
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Thanks for giving these details. I was essentially going to comment the same. Had Jared even seen Batman Returns?
@@Casanuda Haha I'm sure he has, it's just that if you havent seen it in nearly 30 years it can be easy to confuse details between the two movies. I would have expected a little research to have corrected this mistake, though. For me, I would have wondered "why" the game included the clowns from the first movie, gone to look it up, and then realized I was wrong. But oh well, mistakes happen :)
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I suppose. I watch Batman Returns every Christmas so the story is always fresh in my mind.
The wacky premise and humor of Great Greed sounds right up my alley! How have I never heard of this game before?
Yoshis Cookie was one of the first NES games I got as a kid. I distinctly remember it because I learned what the word “pause” was at six from it.
My first game boy game, along with Tetris.
So whenever TV or your teacher said, "Let's pause for a sec", you instantly thought of video games?
@@chrisrj9871 nah, VHS tapes.
@@chrisrj9871 I'd look at the teacher and say "Are you stupid ? We don't have paws we have hands."
Jared, about those clown enemies: They are characters from Batman Returns, not the first movie. The Penguin had taken over some sort of evil circus, which is why Batman has to fight clowns, weird skull motorcycle dudes, a girl with a trained dog, a fire eater, and a strong man just to name a few. In the first movie, the Joker is the only clown there. Strangely, with the exception of a very brief mime scene, there are no other clowns in the original Batman besides Joker. All of Joker's goons were just thugs. Weird, I know...Penguin should have had the thugs and Joker should have had the evil circus, but that's just how it worked out.
Was just going to say the same thing. They were called "The Red Triangle Gang". There was literally no explanation given, but I guess comic book villains just somehow always have a horde of nameless henchmen at their disposal.
@@curseyoujordanshow There was an explanation given. When penguin was a boy he joined the freak show from the Red Triangle Circus. They either were or became criminals and thus his gang. It's explained through newspaper clippings when Bruce is researching him.
@@y2bogus Ah okay that makes sense. I've seen the movie a hundred times; not sure how I missed that.
I came to say the same thing. From what I remember of the game, all the enemies and bosses are directly taken from the movie.
and Joker was a regular mobster before his transformation, he went back to his gang thus the thugs
they were cartoonish, but not clowns
Yoshi’s Cookie was a childhood favorite of mine to play along with Kirby’s Avalanche, Tetris 2, and Tetris Attack. Action puzzle games were addicting, especially with a second player like my brother as an opponent.
Dude, this series is freaking great for introducing me to hidden gems I might otherwise have never heard of. I'm definitely gonna check out Great Greed!
This show gets better and better as it continues to grow. Great work guys love this series
I'm still loving Dylan's Mai Shiranui jokes.
Great Greed was awesome. I definitely hope it gets re-released someday. I think my replacement copy (My first copy got thrown away by mistake during a move in 99) was the last original Gameboy game I ever bought. This was back before I started shopping online so I spent years browsing used game stores hoping to find a copy.
If you're curious what the codes on the screen were, they were Steam codes for Batman: Arkham Asylum, Arkham City, and Arkham Knight.
That's how I know you got to them first. Damn the internet!
Great Greed is fantastic. It's not a hard game, which makes it a great time waster RPG, very amusing. The plot is also interesting. It's basically... Interdimensional environmentalism? If you liked that try Sword of Hope 1 & 2. You have to draw your own map oldschool style, but those are probably my favorite Game Boy games, I had a blast beating them, still have my hand drawn grid maps. Also Rolan's Curse II is wildly underappreciated, I have zero idea why it isn't in everyone's list of top Game Boy games.
Never even heard of Rolan's Curse II until you mentioned it. Some great games just slip through the cracks at times, especially back before the internet was a predominant fixture in everybody's life.
@@Chaos89P Rolan's Curse I is basically bargain bin Zelda. Worth playing, but it's not amazing. Rolan's Curse II is hugely fleshed out with a ton more going on.
Love this series. I like editor Dylan. He should have his own show
I love all the 2D-animated Mario commercials, and this episode features two of them that I haven't seen! Thank you, guys!
This series should never end. In 7 or so years, we'll get "now in aughties".
As silly as it is, "Night Mayor" is absolutely some top notch grade A 90s wordplay.
That Yoshi's Cookie commercial unlocked a hidden memory in my cranium, holy crap dude.
Same here. That and the old Hi-C commercial where they introduce the bendy straw.
Never ceases to amaze me how much a little cardboard and paper can jack the price up of plastic
Especially weird because both the images on the paper and cardboard can easily be found online.
Man, I've been watching your content for so long that I consider your Kid Clown-video a recent one. Don't make me feel old, Jared😂
I remember borrowing Great Greed from a classmate, never got to finish it, but it was great. Bizarre, but great.
I love this channel, I never would've learned about a game like Great Greed if not for this video. Now I got something I can play on bgb.
Batman Returns was the game I played every time I was at my cousin’s house back in the day. The music and sounds of the game take me back every time.
I was under the impression that Yoshi's cookie was more popular. I had it on the Game Boy back in the day. I also rented the SNES version from Hollywood Video. I love how they added a puzzle mode on the SNES version and I want Nintendo to for once put that version of the game on the switch online. What the hell is taking them so long with that?
Yo! I actually got one of the Steam codes the editor put in the video! Thank you for giving away game codes all of the time, editor Dylan.
What game was it?
What game was it?
What game was it?
Dylan's excitement about that last game makes me actually want to play it. XD
yeah I really slept on the gameboy. I never mobile gamed, so I always saw it as lesser than, but I think I was wrong.
Sorceror's Kingdom is an all-time classic over here; great memories renting that game back in the day.
I feel like I had to scroll way to far to find somebody mention Sorcerer's Kingdom. I still sometimes hum the final boss theme to myself, and I never even owned it. I just rented it a few times.
Here I've thought that I played every rpg on the Gameboy yet somehow I missed that masterpiece of a gem...
I had to pause it on those lists in Nintendo Power. I just had to get a glimpse of what's to come in this awesome series. Surprisingly enough, for me at least, it's a bit challenging to look up games that came out in 1993, specifically for the weeks mentioned. But, oh well. Keep up the awesome work
Never change, Dylan. Great Greed sounds rad as fuck!
Oh, gotta check out Great Greed. Good RPGs on the Gameboy are as rare as diamonds and this one sounds like a wild ride.
"Three or more get matched up"? Jared! How dare you! It's if they're all lined up from end to end, no matter if it's *2* or across the entire play area.
Only a few days ago, I went through a local shop that sells collectables and games, then saw this nearly $1000.00 cartridge sitting on the shelf (CAD for the record) called Kid Klown.
I had never seen it before and had no clue what it was, so it is a rather funny coincidence that Kid Klown for NES showed up here this week!
Thanks for sating my curiousity about it!
I have never heard of Sorcerer's Kingdom or Great Greed, and I was super big into JRPGs at this time period...I'm guessing the video game magazines didn't really cover either of them being why as usually I would see a lot of stuff especially in EGM or GameFan about JRPGs coming soon. Those were the magazines that got me hyped for stuff like Phantasy Star IV, Lunar, Vay, and Popful Mail among other JRPGs.
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I play the snes version of Yoshi's Cookies 🍪 when I was a kid and it's still excellent today to play. 😀👍🎮
They need that on the Switch Online Service
The SNES version was best, as it had the actual "puzzle mode" in it.
I remember playing Batman Returns with my best friend in a dark room. When the levels advance, the Bat logo (in white) zooms out, encompassing the screen in white, which blinded us.
Dylan lives by the rule; No Mai? No buy.
Jared must confront his old nemesis Kid Klown in today's episode. Will he survive? Yeah, probably.
Not only is Yoshi's Cookie one of my favorite puzzle games, but that was my very first issue of Gamepro. Ah, the nostalgia. :)
I actually really loved the Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle game when I was a kid. So much fun!
Yoshi’s Cookie was the NES game I played most as a kid.
If you didn't say "cookie" while playing it, then I'm calling the cops.
Nothing like sitting down with a couple big ass burritos every Friday and watching some NIT90s
The clown enemies in Batman Returns aren't from the '89 Batman movie. They're the Red Triangle Circus Gang from Batman Returns, Penguin's henchmen.
Batman Returns clown enemies are indeed from the movie. Joker used mobster thugs in 89, Penguin used the circus gang.
Batman Returns is one of my all time favorite SNES games! When I first played it I did not want to stop!
I didn't know that Jared was a cool video game sword dude from a video game. That is super cool!
I love that you can audibly hear Jared's disdain for Kid Klown in Crazy Chase. I guess time doesn't heal all wounds.
Also, Great Greed is definitely on my "to play" list now. Thanks, Dylan.
Can you really blame him, that's one of those games that I feel broke something within Jared.
I always look forward to the “reviews used to make no sense at the time” catch phrase. I remember thinking that even at the time
For future reference, Tose is pronounced toe-seh.
Never correct him again, jk
This is one of my favorite TH-cam channel to watch.
Yoshi's Cookie started as an arcade game named Hermetica (later renamed Archimedes) developed by the company Home Data. This incarnation of the game featured alchemy-themed graphics. The game received a very poor reception when it was location-tested at arcades in Kansai and Tarumi, causing Home Data to abandon further development and sell the Hermetica rights to the game to Bullet-Proof Software. Bullet-Proof Software then produced an SNES version, designed by David Nolte. This version was shown at the 1992 Consumer Electronics Show. Nintendo obtained the licenses for the 8-bit (NES and Game Boy) versions of Hermetica, and developed the game into Yoshi's Cookie. Outside of answering design questions from designer Alexey Pajitnov, the creator of Hermetica had no involvement in the game's reworking as Yoshi's Cookie, which now featured Mario characters. While Bullet-Proof Software retained the rights to the original Super NES game, Nintendo licensed the Mario characters and allowed the developer to use the Yoshi's Cookie branding.
Oh wow, I was actually able to redeem the steam code! I've been meaning to play some Batman Arkham Asylum! Thank you!
Thanks for spending some time highlighting Great Greed! I was impressed by the option for same-sex romance at such an early year
I love that the Yoshi Cookie commercial was voiced by Squidward
4:56 Aww, missed opportunity for a throwback joke.
I'll never forget Batman Returns. It was my birthday and at the time, money was really tight, so gifts weren't an option.
My mom still wanted to do something special for me, so she rented Batman Returns and I loved it. Her sweetness amidst the struggle and sadness melts my heart to this day.
Hey I was right! When you mentioned a new Yoshi game at the end of last week's episode I don't remember if I put that in the comment section but I had guessed that it would be Yoshi's cookie
Thank you for including my comment in the video.
I love the addition of editor Dylan. He's turned me on to so many games I can't wait to try!
It always interesting to see games which never came out in Germany. We got almost no RPG translated here. The first two Seiken Densetsu games if you count them as RPGs. The first one had the name Mystic Quest here, whose name + Legends was also used for the only turn based SNES RPG here.
Why is it that RPGs don't usually get translated there? Even my rusty grasp on German suggests that it isn't too difficult a language to translate.
@@Chaos89P It still costs a lot for an RPG as it is text heavy. Most RPGs weren't even released in the UK. Maybe PAL conversion was also costly
The best way to describe the "leveling system" in Sorcerer's Kingdom is that it's similar to the SaGa games or Final Fantasy 2 (NOT THE SNES VERSION!!!!!) So if you want to have the magician use physical attacks, have him attack constantly, and he will level that stat up. It's a good RPG for Genesis if you get sick of the other ones that are getting rereleases all the time.
Sorcerer's Kingdom has a very neat mechanic in that if you grind for money early on, you can buy more expensive weapons, but your strength determines how many attacks you have. Thus your weapons somewhat "grow with you"; don't replace your 70 attack sword that lets you attack 10 times for that 150 attack mace, until you get strong enough to attack 5 times with it. Deeper than Squaresoft RPGs in that department hehe
It is a decent game, not a bad time for a Genesis RPG aficionado.
I have to agree with Dylan that the beginning is kinda rough, but once you get one or two party members it really gets its groove. A tip for anyone why might want to try it out: to start off you'll want to fight the goblins one-on-one by opening the menu and picking "Battle" when there's only one on screen.
I've played through Sorcerer's Kingdom and it definitely does its own thing. It gets much better once you get more party members but is overall a very short game.
LOVE Batman Returns. It was one of the first games I got to rebuild a physical SNES collection of games you just can’t get on Switch. This show helps keep me aware of what I’m looking at for prices!
Actually Jared the enemies in the Batman Return game being clowns was in the movie. All of Penguins henchmen were ex-circus performers. You find out he used to be a part of em as a sideshow attraction briefly in the film.
Oddly enough the Joker in the first film had zero clown henchmen.
We're so close to my favorite game, Few more months now!.
I played a lot of Sorcerer's Kingdom growing up. What can I say, I like RPGs, and at the time I took what I could get.
Let's see. It has a really weird feature where, when it's your turn, you can command ONE of your four party members to do something. And then the enemies go. So you can and should basically ignore everyone else in the party except for the main character. Really not sure why that feature exists, but it makes the decision of managing your party pretty simple.
The soundtrack to the game is pretty cool though. Listen to it sometime!
Having grown up with a Genesis instead of an SNES (although I did have friends with the Super Nintendo, so I was able to play that console's RPGs sometimes through them), I can agree with the "took what I could get" part. Sorcerer's Kingdom, Phantasy Star 2, and Shining Force were definitely favored rentals as a result.
"hopefully someone in the comments played this more"
oh oh! that's me!
the first area is BRUTAL, you have to grind away at the orcs one at a time, stopping to heal at your house each time. but after that the game eases up...or you are finally balanced enough to take on the other foes
and not longer after you get a second party member, a mage type who does long range AOE damage
surprised you didn't mention the ROCKING battle music! whenever i talk to friends about genesis music i always send the battle theme from Sorcerer's kingdom over
if anyone reads this comment do give the OST a look at least!
in fact the battle theme was all that stuck with me for a looooong time after renting this as a kid. i always wanted to try it again because i loved how the battles played out. Where instead of transporting to a disconnected static screen, the area you are in already serves as the grid. i havn't played the game in a minute but i do believe you can initiate combat if an enemy is on screen.
also: the random damage that was being experienced was the multi-hit system, yeah sometimes your green haired li'l dude would just go ham on enemies. i'm certain one of the stats dictated multi-hits
dang i love this li'l gem.
I rented Yoshi's cookie exactly one time, played for like 3 minutes and went back to my old games lawl
Batman Returns for the SNES was one of those games where Wikipedia lists the month it came out in North America but not the exact date so I wasn't sure it would be mentioned and, as such, I'm relieved that you guys didn't overlook it.
I rented Batman Returns within a week or two of the release and, yeah, it's pretty much my favourite SNES game* since I also really liked the Dark Christmas vibe of the movie and the game captured it perfectly, and, unlike the Genesis Batman movie-based games, the SNES Batman Returns game went the extra mile and licensed the Danny Elfman Batman theme. (The Sunsoft game for the Genesis based on the first Tim Burton Batman movie was otherwise near-perfect, and the original music composed for the game was great, but I'd be lying if I said that the absence of the Elfman Batman theme for whatever obscure music-licensing reason that probably can be summed up as "Warner wanted to charge Sunsoft an extra licensing fee just for the music" wasn't a glaring omission.)
Batman Returns on SNES looked like a top-tier Konami arcade beat 'em up with graphics that were a notch above even Turtles in Time and it played beautifully and I'm having trouble thinking of any other movie-based game on any console that I like nearly as much. (Maybe Dune: the Battle for Arrakis on Genesis, but that was based more on the world from the Frank Herbert books than anything specific to the 1984 David Lynch Dune film.)
*That's with the caveat that I had a SNES but never got that many games for it since I generally preferred how games played and "felt" on Genesis. I didn't even have Super Mario World since I got the cheapest, most base SNES package without any pack-in games.
7:34 Batman Returns was featured on the cover of Nintendo Power that month because, they were waiting to put Link’s Awakening on the cover of issue # 50.
Minor Disney Villains? The Night Mayor in Kid Klown in Night Mayor World is a reskinned Horned King from "The Black Cauldron"; one of the most underrated, underappreciated films Disney made in their canon! He was rather relevant and used as a villain quite a few times in Japan through many of their Mickey and Donald games in the 1990s, basically being their "big baddie" before they became way too over-obsessed with Maleficent. (also Eilonwy is a Disney Princess who is brutally ignored by the studio)
That Yoshi's Cookie advertiser sounds like one of the Walker brothers doing a mock commercial.
like dylan's enthusiasm with great greed(have a similar reaction with 80-90's games with anime fmv's.) & his love of mai shiranui is strong.(me too as i love that bubbly,friendly thick flirty ninja queen & her teams especially king/yuri sakazaki/hinoka and blue mary though like fatal fury being street fighter/final fight more story.:3)
find interesting kidd clown crazy castle switched from roger rabbit to similar cartoon wabbit bugs bunny to mickey mouse then mickey again(minnie in a coma....that's something i didn't expect to hear.) when bugs went stateside.
Heh. While you were showing that Yoshi's Cookie commercial, I got an ad for cookies. Chips Ahoy even.
Great Greed sounds awesome. It's really cool to hear about some interesting hidden gems. That price though sounds like it will inspire some great greed, ya know? :/
Two videos in one week! Thank you👍
That Yoshi's Cokkie story of origin reminded me of Angry Birds being a reskin of Crush the Castle, becoming more successful when you add cute details to an otherwise average looking game.
The worst part is how often that crap gets done to Yoshi and, to a lesser extent, Kirby. Nintendo's favorite thing is to take an experimental game concept and slap one of those two on 'em.
The clown enemies from Batman Returns are actually from its namesake source. If you recall, Penguin's henchmen are from the Red Triangle gang and they're all former circus performers ^^ Coming to think of it, there are a lot of clowns on the Tim Burton Batman movies O_o
Really great concept, I enjoy every Friday episode! Awesome job with research, hosting and editing! 4.8 out of 5
Same, great concept for a show.
I have such a strong core memory of playing Batman Returns at my next door neighbors house. It seemed like really high-end for graphics at the time being!
Edit: Also, I can't help but hear Squidward in that Yoshi's Cookie commercial.
Lovely as always! I hope this series goes on long enough to turn into now in the 2000s!
Also, video suggestion: talk about weird stuff from those old magazines, like some reviews.
Wow, great video! I never heard of Great Greed! I will now be on the lookout for it!
I have played so many rpgs and never heard of great greed till this video ... i have to play it.
Great job as always. Yoshi’s Cookie was a perfectly fine game. I know nothing about the others.
It’s finally Friday
Anyone else notice Rodger Bumpass (Squidward) narrating that Yoshi's Cookie ad?
Ok, that RPG for the game boy sounds amazing.
I think it would be cool to have a side series reviewing each Nintendo power issue as it comes out too
Great Greed sounds badass! Can't believe I've never heard of it! We need to raise awareness! I need to play it!
nice to learn about yoshi's cookie
The Joker actually didn’t have clown goons in the first Batman movie. The Red Triangle Gang are circus performers who work for The Penguin in Batman Returns. That’s why you’re fighting clowns.
I remember renting Kid Clown on NES when I was 10. All I remember is that it was surprisingly easy. I beat it in like one sitting.
Ahh so yoshis cookie was released this week, fancy, I thought it was earlier
I still love great greed. I still play this.
I remember picking up Yoshi's Cookie from Toys r us and being disappointed when realizing Yoshi's Cookie was a puzzle game. I did not see the commercial. Wasted a hard earned "you can buy a game" great report card bonus from my parents.
at least you got yoshi's cookie and not yoshi
It’s like you lived my life. Same thing, but I still played the crap out of the game.
I was clever enough to "read" my brother's gaming magazine which at that age mostly meant looking at pictures and taking note of games with a high review score. If I liked the pictures and it had a good number, I pestered my brother to read it for me. That's how I got Kirby's adventure and Mario All Stars. Then I learnedvto read lol. Video games were a great motivator for me
Man I loved good report card video game day! I got Mario All-Stars one year!
Oh, that sucks. I feel that way with xenophobe.
By the time Yoshi's Cookie was out the NES was pretty old. Luckily a video rental store near my grandma's house was liquidating their NES collection and I could get like 3-4 games for the price of one new. Kind of loved that, cause if I got a stinker I usually also got a good game out of it too.
The Yoshi's cookie ad sounded like Squidward's voice actor.
Every time I hear Jared say "Reviews use to make no sense" I think back to 2016 when Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire released. IGN gave it a 7 because "It has too much water".