The OTHER Game That Upset U.S. Politicians
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ค. 2023
- Today is July 28th, 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 Exile: Wicked Phenomenon, Lethal Enforcers, and Mighty Final Fight!
Writers: Jared Knabenbauer, David Rota, & Dylan Lawrence
Editor: Dylan Lawrence
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the albuquerque tangent made my day. i have always loved that bugs bunny gag. thank you mr. editor!
😊
I tuned in for 90's historical game overviews, but instead got an entire Game Theory episode!
For sure!! Also shout-out for Wilmington NC!
that entire bit was a riot. holy crackers
@@valdenv Needs more FNAF references and obviously wrong information being yelled at us, though.
Dylan's tirades are getting more unhinged every week.. and I'm here for it.
The effect on the politician shooting the gun was awesome.
You gotta love the albuquerque segment. This show has so much soul and heart into it. I love it.
Playing Lethal Enforcers in a theater lobby before i'd go watch the movie is a really fond memory I have. My dad liked it so much that he bought it for me for my Bday and we'd duo it from time to time.
Loved the stealthy Weird Al joke in the Speedy Gonzales segment.
"Well, what DO you have?"
"A box of starving, half-crazed weasels!"
"I'll take it!"
Man, the ESRB hearings were insane. I can't believe they were so worked up over Lethal Enforcers. Funny how there was a SNES version, despite Howard Lincoln's insistence that Nintendo would never allow such violence in their "kids' toys". At least it all worked out in the end, by some miracle.
What's super wild is how LONG they stayed worked up over video games. Rock music had already shown them the door, and we had from 1993 to whenever the heck Hot Coffee happened for people like Jack Thompson, Hillary Clinton, and that old guy who runs the country currently (go away Secret Service I'm not talking about him shhh) to start trying to absolutely crucify the whole entertainment medium.
@trident042 hell, just four years back Trump tried to blame a mass shooting on games.
It’s one of so many examples of these geriatric, out of touch politicians who completely ignore the actual context and content of the media they condemn. “Helps train kids to shoot cops” - are you joking? You play AS THE COP! Also love how Night Trap was framed as a game about murdering women when the literal point of the game is to prevent them from being murdered.
I hate politicians.
@@brev653 Yeah but no one with sense actually believes his ass.
@@trident042 it was an election year so they had to scream about something for votes i guess
XZR is meant to be read as "exile," that's what the katakana laid over it says. "e-gu-za-i-lu"
more like "eh-gu-zai-ru" but I'm sure that's what they meant
@@HylianFox3 that's a better breakdown of the pronunciation, I was more going for "what each character is."
@@brev653 it would have made more sense if the Japanese name was "XZL" but even then an English speaker would say "Exzeel" instead of "Exile"
Languages are weird
@HylianFox3 the reason for that is that Japanese doesn't actually have an "L" or an "R" sound.
Instead, it has a sound not present in English that's sort of halfway between the two. In my previous comment, I wrote "lu," for the sake of keeping it simple, but standard practice would actually be to transliterate that character as "ru."
In retrospect, I should've gone with "ru."
Man, watching Dylan slowly losing his mind whilst over-analyzing Speedy Gonzales was the highlight of this week's episode, the modified version of 'Yakko's World' was brilliant.
Working Designs also made one of the most underrated RPGs on the PS1 “Lunar: Silver Star Story” which was ported from the Sega CD. It’s actually over Jared’s shoulder in the older ProJared videos and I’ve been patiently waiting for him to do a video on it for years 😂
I own the PS1 versions but always forgot to play them. Seems they are quite expensive now
Underrated? That game is awesome!
They "LICENSED" underrated Japanese RPGs. Lunar was made by Game Arts.
i had it growing up. but i lent it to a friend and they never gave back the first disk
still have Eternal Blue(but my Second disk might be borked).
Was it underrated? I always saw it as a cult classic, those who knew about it seemed to love it (myself included)
I tried dual wielding Wiimotes for House of the Dead Overkill and my single core brain couldn't handle multitargeting. I either went center mass with both, or did proper head pops with right and stragglers with left.
Props to Editor Dylan for the geography lesson
I wanted Lethal Enforcers so bad when I was a teen. My parents refused to buy it for my birthday and I had to settle for Final Fantasy 3 on SNES. In the end, I'm honestly happy I got FF3 because I got WAY more playtime out of that game and, let's be honest, it has a far more involved story.
Editor Dylan, you are a GEM
Okay, no idea if it was intentional, but loved the the last minute description of what the Speedy Gonzales game actually was!
Missed you guys last week. Another excellent episode! The entire government panic over violent video games was a surprisingly depressing piece of nostalgia.
Loved the Speedy Gonzales tangent.
IT crowd reference = new favourite episode
I remember the ep really funny with really long phone number and moss turning the fire into a screensaver😂
@@clintbrew "Hello, is that the emergency services?... Then which country am I speaking to?"
"Oh, four! I mean five! I mean fire!" 😂
Dylan's section always gets better and better. I'm so down to take a geography coarse with Professor Dylan. 😂
I've been playing Pistol Whip in VR and it struck me at how much it reminded me of Lethal Enforcers from when I was a kid.
The Jared, Dylan grouping is perfect. Couldn’t be happier with the show.
Kudos for the "IT Crowd" meme, love that show
Hey Dylan. Great to see your getting more ambitious with your editing.
Your Albuquerque section was great!
Keep it up!
This week's 90's movie release: So I Married an Axe Murderer
Last week's 90's movie release: Coneheads
Next week's 90's movie release: The Fugitive
Great, I haven't had my now in the 90s fix for two weeks and I need it bad.
Another quality Editor Dylan segment 😂 Keep it up, Jared and Dylan! The show just keeps getting better 🏆
"Alberkoikee." Thank you, Editor Dylan. Lol, for bringing back good Bugs Bunny memories
Editors corner is becoming more fun than the main show! I'm dying here 😂
We need more unhinged Editor Dylan game rants! I haven't laughed that hard in a hot minute!!! Wonderful episode as always ^_^
XZR I and II are actually available on Project EGG aka Amusement Center, sort of a Japanese equivalent to GOG. Unfortunately it's only in Japanese. But technically speaking they said the truth. They just never specified on what kind of virtual console service and in which countries they would release it.
Wait, he said Sunsoft owns the rights ? Is Sunsoft still a thing ? I know the Blaster Master series still exists...
Those IT Crowd clips made me so happy. A fantastic British show!
Welcome back, I can’t get over how addicted I am to getting a new episode weekly. Please do a Now in the 80s (I’m sure the research and production on this channel alone is a time suck, but I’m just being greedy here).
I'm glad they didn't do a now in the 80s. I personally feel like gaming was getting really good in the 90s, plus Jared and Dylan actually have actual experience and nostalgia from the 90s. Feel like there would just be less to talk about for the 80s.
To this day, I can’t say “Lethal Enforcers” without trying to say it like it’s said on the game’s title screen.
If I may plug another channel, a channel called Basement Brothers did videos on the original XZR games for PC-88, where he also gives rundowns of the plots and the version differences between XZR II and Exile 1. Its worth checking out.
Man, this channel is so goddamn good! Thanks for another awesome video!
And I thought I knew everything about the Looney Tunes. Dylan continues to surprise me.
Love that Albuquerque reference from Looney Tunes there when talking about the Speedy Gonzales game.😂
The "IT Crowd" clip with Working Designs logo had me in stitches.
That UK magazine "Mega" was actually called Mean Machines Segs. That was my favorite Sega magazine as a kid, and it had a distinct style.
The Konami Justifier is arguably the coolest Sega controller. If you have a player two controller it's worth its weight in gold - it was mail order only. It was also REQUIRED for 2-player - the pink gun plugged into the first controller via an RJ cable.
The lightgun shot effect was a amazing touch, also the Albuquerque bit just golden editor Dylan doing wonderful work
Dylan with the Directions for Mexico.
Amazing. XD
None of us:
Nobody:
Not a single human being:
Dylan: *wheels in a murderboard about the geography of North America*
God I rented a Sega CD from my local video place just for Lethal Enforcers, memories of being terrified that i'd damage the disc somehow.
I loved Lethal Enforcers back in the day. I still say RELOAD in that voice any time I see or hear the word reload anywhere 😊
Lethal Enforcers, one of my all time favorite arcade games along side T2. The Justifier is great, at the time, you really felt like Dirty Harry blowin holes in bad guys. Good times!
The geometry bit had me dying 😂
Can we have a separate "Strange Video Game Things" series for Dylan's amazing and unhinged tirades? They're absolutely hilarious! 🤣
Another fantastic episode you guys! Keep up the great work! ❤
Lethal Enforcers is a fantastic game. From a "Gun Guy" perspective, it represented one of the last years on the calendar that a police officer character would be justified in being given a revolver as their main weapon. A scant three years later, and Resident Evil gives your character, a police specialist in S.T.A.R.S. (Special Tactics And Rescue Service), a Beretta as your main weapon. This represented a transitional period in policing arms, and the attitudes of firearms owners as a group - the die-hard "wheelgunners" were on the way out, or converting to semi-automatic pistols, a trend that had started as far back as the issuance of the Smith & Wesson Model 39 to the Illinois State Police in 1968, but only began to pick up speed in the mid-1980's, around the time the U.S. military adopted the Beretta M9 pistol. By 1995, most police agencies had discontinued issuance of revolvers to front line officers, with some agencies purging them entirely.
From a Gamer perspective, this shift eliminated a sort of "bottom tier" on a ladder of weapon progression, and a shift in any expected difficulty curve in any games thereafter. While no real concrete examples of this really manifested, the change over to semi-automatic pistols with double stack magazines and capacities of 12 or more rounds does alter the parameters of difficulty for anyone designing a game based around such situations, with weapons of that capability being the "lowest tier" weapon available, rather than a simple 6-shot revolver.
Lethal Enforcers, both on Arcade and Genesis, are great, but I grew up playing its sequel, the old west themed Lethal Enforcers 2. To this day, I still can hear the baddies popping out and going "YOU AIN'TA GONNA TAKE ME, SHERIFF!" and that buzz sound when you accidentally hit the dumb civilians that stand up in the middle of a gun fight (a sound sadly missing from the PS1 remake) Love that game. One of the classics of my childhood.
That last bit was high-effort and I am here for it, goddamn
“He bought up all the donuts before Al got there”
Oh my god. I’ve never heard anyone reference that song in my life. Dylan, let’s get married.
Speedy Gonzales as a Sonic clone makes so much sense. I want to see that made again.
He was always one of the most charming Looney Tunes characters.
Ok, sometimes Dylan doesn't sleep enough and it's pretty rough. But THIS is GOLDEN!!
Fun fact, Exile Wicked Phenomenon also had an extremely rare slipcover (I own it luckily). I don’t know how it was acquired sadly. That slip cover is worth around $200-250 alone.
Thanks for the shout out Jared and nice try with the pronunciation. I say it "Yee-thoose" but nobody gets it right anyway. This show makes Friday the best day of the week, BTW
Haha, I TOTALLY did that dual pistol thing at the arcades a couple of times more than I care to admit as a kid. My accuracy went into the toilet, but I certainly felt like a little badass.
Lethal Enforcers and Virtua Cop were one of my favorite arcade games to play in the 90s
Big Pepe Silvia engery with the Albuquerque rant.
Now that’s how you do a loony toons reference!
Lethal Enforcer was an entire vibe in arcades back in the day! I remember dodging and ducking and twerking around wildly as if my real-life position had any impact on whether my life bar went down, and I had a blast. Dylan's increasingly manic divergences (and accompanying gags, like what yielded Yakko's countries song) are a delight to see and really helps set apart the Jared and Dylan portions of the episodes. Mag-NIFICENT.
By any chance, did you ever play Police 911? That's the one where you _had_ to physically move to avoid shots. It was tough to aim while moving!
Love the IT Crowd, that clip is hilarious and memed to death, also thx for the ABQ shout out.
Oh, you finally mentioned XGR/Exile! As a wee lil lad I played Exile for the Genesis because I found it in a bargain bin at Babbages and as an artist I thought the painting cover art was super cool. Without the context of the weird time travel hijinks in the original, Exile was interesting because of it's theological plot and weirdly philosophic themes. I was of course a little confused as a middle schooler but grew to appreciate it over the years. The ending is super depressing and thought provoking, however. I thought it really stood out on it's own!
...Then I learned about Wicked Phenomenon and it pretty much undid all of the impact of the predecessor game. Awww.
There's another version of Final Fight where Guy was playable. There's a version called Final Fight: Guy on the SNES and it was a Blockbuster exclusive game.
"The Justifier" has to be the best name ever for the extra cost on a gun peripheral.
I wish I had kept a copy or two of Mighty Final Fight. They were everywhere and extremely cheap in my country, around 1994-1995.
Politicians angry at : Anything, even if that is not exist
My _Mighty Final Fight_ story is that I saw it at the local friendly video rental store, but I had my weekend plan set around renting some other, _Super_ Nintendo game, so I said to myself, "I'll cut back a little so I can rent it next week."
Next Week: Not There
Week After: Not There
3rd Weekend: Nope
Broke down on 4 weeks of no sighting and asked Store Owner Lady(who was working the register at the time) "What happened to _Might Final Fight_ ?"
Her Reply, to My Horror: First person to rent it never returned it. She called authorities to intervene based on the address they had on file.
Address was deserted; dude straight up rented the game & skipped town w/ it.
The cherry on top of the story is Owner Lady confided that she was done buying new NES games for the store, as apparently someone soaked her $75 for that copy.
Sad Times....
Nice job making the screen flash when lieberman had the justified in his hand...epic move
Best best best show! Thank you and shout out from Wis!
It's wild hearing about the hissy fits some politicians threw over video games back then. I wonder if any of them are still alive to see games today. They must be having an absolute conniption fit if they are.
I bet developers and publishers just got wise and started hiring lobbyists. That’s why we don’t hear anything approaching the karen stoked fever pitch of the ‘90s.
@@leonardticsay8046I can't help but think that's why videogames were being so heavily, continuously targeted in such _obviously_ unfair ways. It's probably just the tax for doing big business in the US.
@@yuin3320 makes sense. Because video games are way more graphic now, and there are no concerned parents groups getting major headlines.
They didn't care. They were doing a song and dance to drum up evangelical outrage and attract votes, same way as they do now with other "issues".
Oh my god that Yakko’s World Mexico edit got me good.
Dylan sounding like he's looking for Pepe Silva
That Exile ad with the creepy wall face will never leave my memory.
An episode of one of my favorite TH-cam shows on my birthday. What could be better?
Actually, a lot of things are probably better but, I still enjoyed it.
Editor Dylan killing it. Love this series. Keep 'em coming Jared
My husband had no ideya there was a sequel to Exile on the Genesis! Good ol' Working Designs! (Also my husband, no joke, wore Jared's exact shirt today - gave us a jolt when we loaded up the video! XD Excellent taste in vaporwave threads!)
I still have Lethal Enforcers on Sega Genisis and it still works to this day.
Hot dang, Dylan! If that's your idea of "poorly hidden", I'd hate to see you actually trying. That scavenger hunt (for 5 codes to games I already own) took me over twice as long as the original watching of the video. (That one split across multiple, non-consecutive stills was especially brutal, bravo!) If you ever put out one of those hidden object games, I'll be preordering that for sure! (Though may never play it, like the thousand or so already on Steam 🤣 I'll definitely buy it to support your ambition.)
That deep dive rabbitholin' into the Looney Toons map gives me life!
I absolutely loved that Looney Tunes bit! 🤣
July 28th 1993...my 10th birthday. In my gaming prime back then rocking my SNES. Link to the Past was blowing my mind. Mortal Kombat was the rental my dad would get me that I had to hide from my mother. Man, those definitely seemed like the good ol days. Man i love this show.
I loved Lethal Enforcers. I mailed in to buy my 2nd (hot pink) gun, and then split the video output to two different TVs, so that my brother I could play together but we each had our own screen, like co-op Time Crisis.
Holy crap, that bit with editor Dylan and Speedy Gonzalez was fire!
I did always wonder why there were no donuts and only weasels in that donut shop. Thanks for clarifying that for me Dylan.
Great episode, as always.
I had to rewatch the episode to make sure I heard correctly: Lethal Enforcers allows the player to play as a cop shooting down bad guys, yet this game was used to claim that it was teaching children to shoot cops? What? Wouldn't it have been easier to just say they didn't want as many games with firearms aimed at kids (even though the rating on the box was MA-17)? Starting to wonder if these people even played the games that they were complaining about.
Dylan went hard on the Speedy Gonzales game. Loved the tangent there. I thought I saw the boxing game somewhere before, but I'm not sure where. Those are some impressive graphics considering.
I've got this playing in the background while I draw. Then Dylan starts in on Albekoykie and my head just... slowly... turns... to the second monitor
You wouldn't believe how many times I rewound the mighty final fight part where the characters are doing the combos, holy crap that looks so cool
Dylan needs his own show
I didn't expect an IT Crowd ref on here! :D
Light gun games in the arcade are cool. If they have a "shoot off screen to reload" function, just put the tip of your finger near the end of the gun and quickly cover it and fire to reload fast without having to move the gun off screen. It saves a lot of time. The gun I guess looks for darkness to register a reload. I don't know how it works I just know I can cheese it to maybe get a few more levels in.
That Exile Wicked Phenomenon box art! It looks so frigging sick, I love it!
I worked at an arcade for a couple years, and I went Two Player Akimbo on every single light gun game I could. ...Time Crisis 2 and 3 were difficult since each player also has a foot pedal that you release in order to take cover and reload. We had the "Deluxe Cabinet" for 2, so they were too far apart for me to Akimbo, but I did try with 3 a couple times. "Target: Terror" was one that actually included an "akimbo" mode specifically, but it costs the same as two players, and you only had one health bar instead of two. So the only positive was that both guns contributed to your score, if you cared about that kind of thing. But the absolute best one to do that with was "L.A. Machine Guns" (which weren't light guns but joysticks as vehicle-mounted weaponry) because both the guns and the platform had force-feedback rumbling. Dual-wielding giant machine guns kicking back with every shot while the platform you're standing on is shaking with every explosion was such an awesome feeling!
The blue Justifier came packaged with the game. The pink Justifier was something that had to be ordered through the game manual.
I had the pink and the blue Justifiers. The pink one plugs into the blue one with a phone-jack type plug.
I didn't have to mail away for it though. It came in a bundle with the game and blue gun from Wal Mart in 1995
I love this channel so much. Best one I've stumbled upon in years
I had the Genesis version of lethal enforcers with both light guns as a kid, probably still do somewhere
That pink gun is probably worth money if you can find it. I've got the blue one in storage.
I think I remember seeing Mighty Final Fight on the 3Ds eShop when that was still online.
I really missed this last week.^^
Going Akimbo on the Area 51 arcade machine was such a BLAST. It was easy to reload with a quick off screen shot and you felt like Neo for a bit for fifty cents.
Thanks for refreshing that memory, Jared!
Where's Mexico part was awesome! Prime material for Game Theorists.