@@slopesgameroom hey slope I heard a song playing in the background while you were explaining the year of Comix Zone's development. Can you tell me the name of that song?
I loved this game when I was younger. It was my favorite game to play on genesis. I never knew how popular it was back then cause the internet wasn’t big but that’s awesome it’s still remembered and loved to this day.
Still the most satisfying beat em up game i've played. I can always go back to Comix Zone and mess around with the insane move list and level design. How this game never had a sequel or a remaster is just criminal.
An absolutely brutal classic of the 16-bit era! Cool to know that the creator grew-up on classic French European comics like I did. Best way to learn french at a young age is with french bande dessine. Fantastic vid as always, Dan.
I said it in every other comment that I've made in Comix Zone related videos and retrospectives and I'll say it again. Someone should make a spiritual sequel or even a direct one. This is my pitch for it: - Cel shaded graphics in the line of the Jojo's bizarre adventure games. - Implementation of 3D for the transitions from page to page, for Mortus's hand drawing and for Sketch Turner when jumping from panel to panel. Those things could include 3D that contrasts with a very 2D feel of what happens inside the comic. - A story set decades after the original game in which we learn about the different changes that have happened in Sketch's comics that merges the crazy fantasy aspects of the original with the real world. The story could be Sketch revisiting his old comic backlog, recounting what happened since: Did Sketch really get into a romantic relationship with the fictional Alissa Cyan? Did he ever lose creative control of his work to an editorial? Was it given to other artists? Did it go through a Rob Liefeld like Heroes Reborn stage or an Ultimate version or trippy Alan Moore or Grant Morrison period...?)
Viewtiful Joe is pretty much this game's spiritual successor. A fan gets pulled into his favorite medium and brawls through it using what makes that medium special, joe using movie/film effects like slow mo, zoom in, fast forward, etc. The basic brawling in VJ (ie when you don't have any powers) feels a lot like CZ if slightly faster, more of a deliberate, slower, more calculated use of attacks rather than just mashing the attack button and split second timing and with dodges instead of blocking.
This gem wasn’t too difficult tbh. Then again it was one of my very first ever video games. Played it literally for days, side by side along with my uncles. But omg, such a gem with a bit of an unfortunate story, and that soundtrack tho, still such an achievement in the gaming universe. #nostalgia 😍😍😍
I love how many little touches these old games have! I've been playing Comix Zone for years but I never knew you could use Roadkill to find hidden health items like you did at 8:20!
Actually, unlike most games of the time, this game was short enough not to need save states. Though, it was very difficult until you got the hang of it.
It looks so cool. Love how you actually interact with the borders around the different panels, ripping them up when you punch enemies through them and stuff. Don't think I've ever heard of a game that does anything quite like that.
Thanks Dan for covering one of my favourite all time Mega Drive games. What an achievement this game is. This is one of the few MD games I bought new on release and I still have the Roadkill soundtrack CD that came with it. As for all those people complaining about the difficulty, I'm terrible at video games and I can finish Comix Zone in just under an hour.
This and Alyssia Dragoon did for the Sega what Mayhem in Monsterland did for the C64, and later on, Shadow of the Colossus on PS2. You just look at it and think, jeez, it was capable of doing this the whole time? SotC was the last time video game graphics genuinely impressed me, but Comix Zone and Mayhem were the two that did it first.
I just beat this game a second ago, took me a few hours of dying and re-starting from level one but, I finally nailed it. Could never beat it when I was a kid. Man, this has to be my favorite game, even more so than any Sonic game on the Genesis. Really cool video dude, it really helped satiate my want for more Comix Zone. Who knows, maybe it'll get a sequel before I grow old and die, haha. Or maybe it'll just remain an awesome-as-hell old-school classic (I think I'd be fine with that.). Anyway, super cool video dude, loved it, cheers~
I love this game. And I hate it. I love it because its one of my favorite beat em ups ever. And I hate it because I cant beat Level 2. WHY do you only have one fucking life?!!
Charziken909 I know that. But holy shit, Streets Of Rage 2, my so far favorite 2d beat em up, had lives. Even if the game started you at the beginning of the level, (which can happen, randomly) I still cant even get close to level 3. I got there, once, died on the first enemy.
If you want to see the game completed you'll have to cheat which is very doable even on emulators. I would warn you though. You'll still have to get gud to get the good ending.
+Oda Swifteye You don't need to cheat to beat the game. Not by a long shot. The game's difficulty is often over stated. It's not a cake walk but the game boils down to: 1.) Knowing the optimal route to take in each level 2.) Managing items (The game honestly gives you exactly what you need to progress, it's just a matter of knowing when to use said items) and 3.) Knowing how to optimally deal with certain enemies (Like the female assassins can be insta-killed by Roadkill, Creeps are easy to bait into jumping kicks, etc). The game takes only 20-30 minutes tops to beat. You also get up to 2 continues. You earn one for beating level 1 and another for beating level 3 I believe.
***** I am very familiar with the game. I was speaking to a person who has played the game. Presumably a lot but hasn't gotten to the end. That would be an easy way to the end after getting a lot of failures. Besides. I even said that if you have to cheat the way to the end you probably won't be good enough to get the good ending so you have to get good at it eventually.
Loved this game has a kid, I remember being a little bummed that the power up in it only turns you into a super hero for 1 screen clearing move and not walk around and fly and stuff but being able to rip the comic page at any time and do a super powerful paper airplane attack made up for it
funny occurence i had as a kid: in germany (at least in former east germany) we hadn't any arcades. we in the 90's were going to a local toy store, where they had some mega drives and super nintendos for you to play. so i was there all afternoon long. :) we had the rule: if you die once, the next in line can play the game and you had to go to the end of the line. and while you had to wait until the person in front of you died, you could have some talks from "gamer to gamer". so it happened that a guy that looked just like sketch (he was younger than him, but looked a lot like him!) was talking to me about the last boss from yoshi's island. he wanted to know how to beat this guy. i told him how he had to do it an he told me to win against the final boss from wario land. i remem ber this so fondly because all of the other older (like 10 to 16 year old guys) were always looking at me like "this girl just happens to be here and doesn't know ho to play". so i thought this was extremely nice from him (maybe just he saw how i played and thought i had some skill :D). such great memories! i wished i knew how this guy was called, but i decided to call him sketch after i knew this game.
In the credits there's a special thanks to 'The House' for the best lamb in town. Apparently the development team was pretty close and ate there all the time. Definitely want to try it for myself if I'm ever in San Fran.
I loved this game as a kid. There was so much to unpack. I always wondered about The House, so I emailed Howard Drossin. It was his agent that emailed me back, but apparently he told the story fondly. Question: Was it just the Megadrive version that had voice acting in the intro? I'm from the US and my version didn't have that.
Great video Slope's Game Room! All of your videos are of excellent quality with interesting content. You deserve a subscriber base well into the six figure region and beyond, may that happen in the not too distant future :)
I can easily remember this being THE game when it came out. (Most of the SEGA games I played were rentals, and I could also (sadly) remember that this game being sold out every weekend for YEARS straight.)
Man, talk about a nostalgia trip. This is hands down one of my favorite Genesis games. I played the SHIT out of it. Worked so hard to get that "true" ending. This game was indeed truly something special and pushed the hardware hard while still playing like a dream.
I missed out on this as a kid, and only discovered it as an unlockable on a PS2 sonic collection. Ended up just playing that more than the Sonic games.
Dan, I wish you went more in depth on the music of the game, especially when mentioning Roadkill. Roadkill's music was essentially parts of Comix Zone's OST with vocals such as Into The Zone which was the title screen/main theme of Comix Zone. Also that Drossin himself pretty much voiced all of the male characters including Sketch Turner. Finally, I'm glad you mentioned overall, him working on Sonic 3 & Knuckles as the guy had nothing to do with Sonic 3's soundtrack as he was apparently too busy working on Spinball, which itself had a problem with the title screen music. Great video, nonetheless.
Comix zone 2 would have to be a game that revolves around the movie adaptation of the first game. I don't know how you could do it but given the 8th that we live in a really well done comix zone 2 would be absolutely insane.
I bought this game in a bargain way on back for about $5 and could never get passed the second level. Eventually my family sold all the old megadrive stuff as we grew up but looking back (im 28 now) this is one I always knew I shoulda held on to.
+Tyrant Alisia Dragoon is a true true gem. Good luck with this game tho. The difficulty cuts down the fun quite a bit. It's not like a Contra hard, more like a Dark Castle hard.
i played it as a kid on the genesis, it was my favorite solo game, then i played it on some weird 256 sega game cd for PC or something like that... and now i got it on my tablet, ready to be emulated whenever i feel like making paper airplanes
Comix Zone was always one of my most nostalgic games on the Genesis. My only Genesis was a Nomad, which came a year after this game, so I got a lot of late Genesis releases including Comix Zone. I've never beaten it yet, but I'm still going back and trying to this very day. I also have the Sega Tunes version of the Roadkill soundtrack and it is rad. I lit up the minute I heard some of it in this video.
I want to comment that in this game (for those of you commenting about its difficulty) there's actually a hard limit on speed runs on this game...if you beat the game too fast, (I don't remember the exact time) it will lock up during the ending sequence, even with emulation and ports. My roommate will regularly hop on this game even today to speedrun it...it's crazy watching him go at it.
The Howard Drossin CD that came with Comix Zone was the first CD I ever owned (at least that wasn't a compilation album). I still listen to it today. Would've been amazing if they made a Mega CD version with all of those tracks implemented into the game.
Good review but I really would of mentioned all the puzzle elements. The game is brutally tough but using tricks to destroy barricades/enemies instead of brute force which damages you, using Roadkill to hunt down items for you and so on makes this game MUCH easier. Every other panel feels like a puzzle which when you figure out, makes your next run in that room a breeze so you get that bit further. Lots more stuff to enjoy about the game, multiple routes, good/bad endings, packed with secrets/secret moves like holding the attack button to rip a wad of paper from the background and throw it as a plane. The game is short and tough but packed with creativity and well thought out content in every panel. I actually felt Viewtiful Joe was a spiritual successor to this game, as in a fan gets pulled into his favorite medium and toys/plays with the things that make that medium special, like Sketch jumping between panels/turning into a superhero and Joe using special movie effects like slow down, zoom in, etc. Good review it could of been probably 5 times longer if you listed all of the game's positives :P
in the late 90s I really wanted to play Quake and convinced my parents to upgrade to a pentium, they came home with a 'gaming' pc that came with a stack of Sega PC games (it did run Quake btw, with all fx turned off lol), Comix Zone was one of the games I had. Back then all pc game controllers sucked balls but luckily, my pc came with a card that let you plug in a genesis/mega drive controller.
one of my favourite games of all time, absolutely gorgeous for the time and harder than a bare knuckle boxer, I urge everyone to try it! fantastic video as always bud!
Its funny growing up in Europe around that area we loved Italian comic books which went from mistery, western, adventure. My fave was Tex Willer and Zagor haha
You know what I remember about this game? Never being able to win. The best I ever did was the...third stage? The snowy mountain place. So much falling...
Man, if there was ever a game worthy of an updated rerelease, it's Comix Zone. That music CD would even justify selling physical copies, and it could use some more levels.
This is definitely in my top 10 games of all time. People whining about how hard it is irks me. It really isn't that hard if you pay attention and actually put some effort into it. I got this game and Gargoyles for my Genesis at the same time. Comix Zone I had beaten within a few days, and I don't think I've ever beaten Gargoyles. I also don't continually go back and play Gargoyles. This game is enjoyable in every aspect, INCLUDING the difficulty. Everything you need to complete the game is given to you. It's a game that has respect for the player, and if there were unlimited lives or continues it wouldn't be as fun to go back and revisit it. Once I mastered the game it gave me more appreciation for it in that I could take in the scenery and realize what a masterpiece it is. I'm definitely not a hardcore gamer, but I've been gaming since I had a 2600 in the 80s and this is one of the most well crafted and tight games I've ever played. No room for anything that isn't absolutely necessary for completion and not for pansy ass weekend warriors who would rather play Pokemon Go or some shit.
If I remember correctly it takes 11 minutes to beat this game... It was my usual "speed run" of one of my favorite game. Of course it was looooong time ago when I still had my first old trusty Mega Drive.
I bloody love Comix Zone. Like you it was one of my last MD games before moving onto PS1. The soundtrack cd is great too even if the lyrics are 90% nonsense. You're right about the difficulty. I think last time I played it I only got to the second stage. it was really difficult to get an extra life too. I guess they figured it was fairly short so they'd ramp up the difficulty to compensate. Nicely done stuff man.
I remember feeling like such a badass for being able to beat this game. Then I played the re-release in front of my friends a few years back because one of them was frustrated that he couldn't beat it. For some reason, no matter what I did, Mortus would not let me bait him to the bottom of the screen like I always did on the Genesis. Why do you have to make a fool out of me, XBL Arcade?
I remembered seeing a blurb about this game in entertainment news back in the day and wanted to get it so badly. Unfortunately I never got the chance until a Shipmate(former Navy) gave me a fuckton of roms for a Sega Genesis emulator and Comix Zone was in there. It's certainly Nintendo hard but it's fun when I want a challenge.
A bona-fide classic I still play periodically. Great visuals and sound, great controls. But Bludgecore hard! A port with a Save function recommended! Cheers for this feature...
What amazes me especially in this era of remakes remasters reboots etc that they won’t give games like comix zone a sequel or at the least comix zone remastered in modern graphics and the same for restarting and other games that never got into the spotlight
Back in the 90's when the game came out I was out shopping with my parents and we walked past a 'Bargain Store' type place and I went in to find a $10 ' PC Game Demo Collection' in a set of 3 CD's, all up it had 30-40 game demos all up, I bought it and it was the best 'game' I ever purchased, amoungst the titles was Comix Zone, god I loved it. Those were the days. Anybody else ever buy those demo discs?
When I was a kid I got to the last level and the game crashed and I had to start over. It was definitely ahead of its time.
I always remember it actually being exciting when u found.a bug in an old game as they almost never happened
@@slopesgameroom hey slope I heard a song playing in the background while you were explaining the year of Comix Zone's development. Can you tell me the name of that song?
@@ClassicSonic2024 I recognize most of the music playing in this video. Give me a timestamp, I can prob make out the song for you.
@H. Firestone the song i heard playing in the background lasted this long: 1:42-2:29.
Sketch Turner needs to return sooner than later
There's a good chance Sega would mess it up.
@@Richard-uz1zx This isn't the same Sega.
@@Richard-uz1zx I mean the EA of the 90s isn't the EA of today.
It needs a modern remake.
@@pferreira1983 true
true story. my first pet rat I named Roadkill out of sheer love for this game
Film adaptation
In August 2022, Sega announced that they partnered with Picturestart, to develop a film adaptation of the game.
this game alone *OBLITERATES* SNES. there's simply nothing like it on that platform
+Cheappy V i agree lol
Genesis does..
Hell there's hardly anything like it now
LightBlue2222 what nintendont
Agreed the game was just unique fun and challenging I remember playing this in high school and it got passed around to all my friends who loved it
As an SNES owner I was so jealous of this game!
I loved this game when I was younger. It was my favorite game to play on genesis. I never knew how popular it was back then cause the internet wasn’t big but that’s awesome it’s still remembered and loved to this day.
Still the most satisfying beat em up game i've played. I can always go back to Comix Zone and mess around with the insane move list and level design. How this game never had a sequel or a remaster is just criminal.
Howard Drossin did an excellent job on this game's soundtrack, I must say. Even more impressive considering he used the GEMS sound engine.
Some of those sound effects were reused for The Ooze.
GEMS wasn't bad. The composers of other GEMS games were bad.
He also did the music for Splatterhouse (2010)
An absolutely brutal classic of the 16-bit era! Cool to know that the creator grew-up on classic French European comics like I did. Best way to learn french at a young age is with french bande dessine. Fantastic vid as always, Dan.
+DatRyanTho ahhhhhh seems like me and u likely enjoyed the same old school comics :D
This is, and always will be, my favorite game of all time.
best part, learning that you guys grew up on the same comics as us in South Africa, Tin Tin and Asterix!
Did you know that Sega actually patented a "game design based on comic book panels?". They actually succeed in doing so because of Comix Zone
That's probably the reason why we haven't seen similar games like this.
What!?
I said it in every other comment that I've made in Comix Zone related videos and retrospectives and I'll say it again. Someone should make a spiritual sequel or even a direct one. This is my pitch for it:
- Cel shaded graphics in the line of the Jojo's bizarre adventure games.
- Implementation of 3D for the transitions from page to page, for Mortus's hand drawing and for Sketch Turner when jumping from panel to panel. Those things could include 3D that contrasts with a very 2D feel of what happens inside the comic.
- A story set decades after the original game in which we learn about the different changes that have happened in Sketch's comics that merges the crazy fantasy aspects of the original with the real world. The story could be Sketch revisiting his old comic backlog, recounting what happened since: Did Sketch really get into a romantic relationship with the fictional Alissa Cyan? Did he ever lose creative control of his work to an editorial? Was it given to other artists? Did it go through a Rob Liefeld like Heroes Reborn stage or an Ultimate version or trippy Alan Moore or Grant Morrison period...?)
Viewtiful Joe is pretty much this game's spiritual successor. A fan gets pulled into his favorite medium and brawls through it using what makes that medium special, joe using movie/film effects like slow mo, zoom in, fast forward, etc. The basic brawling in VJ (ie when you don't have any powers) feels a lot like CZ if slightly faster, more of a deliberate, slower, more calculated use of attacks rather than just mashing the attack button and split second timing and with dodges instead of blocking.
I second the motion for a remake as long as the difficulty is more balanced out.
Sega would probably mess it up. The reason it works so well is because it's in 2D.
There's gonna be a movie in the works!! I can't wait to see it personally!
Sega needs to have LizardCube make a sequel to this gem. They did the great job on Streets of Rage 4 and WonderBoy
Wow, I never knew about Peter Morawiec, cool that someone originally from my country was working on Sega Games back then.
Loved this video. Just one thing: At 3:46 you say that he created a concept on the CBM Amiga, but you show a picture of a C64!
I noticed that too. Lol
Yeah it was confusing. I was wondering why the hell it would be written on a C64 then realised he'd said Amiga... jarring.
This gem wasn’t too difficult tbh. Then again it was one of my very first ever video games. Played it literally for days, side by side along with my uncles. But omg, such a gem with a bit of an unfortunate story, and that soundtrack tho, still such an achievement in the gaming universe. #nostalgia 😍😍😍
I love how many little touches these old games have! I've been playing Comix Zone for years but I never knew you could use Roadkill to find hidden health items like you did at 8:20!
Are you kidding? Why does the game allow you to carry him around in every level?
a game made for save states :)
There's actually an in game invincibility cheat, so a Game Genie is unnecessary.
Sure if you're rubbish at playing games.
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Actually, unlike most games of the time, this game was short enough not to need save states. Though, it was very difficult until you got the hang of it.
I'm a huge fan of Asterix and Tintin. I love so series so much!
Same, I even have their latest one I think! Asterix and the Missing Scroll!
It's ironic that the creator grew up on these comics, not the American ones.
It looks so cool. Love how you actually interact with the borders around the different panels, ripping them up when you punch enemies through them and stuff. Don't think I've ever heard of a game that does anything quite like that.
+Vicious Servant i thiught you would get a kick out of the animation :)
I'm always a sucker for beautiful sprite animation in games hahaha. stuff that goes outside the box.
Nice video, as always. Guess I'll be cracking open my copy of Sega Mega Drive Collection and firing this old gem up tonight, then! :D
+Zoë Kirk-Robinson hahaha i am the giver of wasted time 4 u :D
Daniel Ibbertson a gaming weekend is never a wasted weekend!
You're right! He should sit and stare at the wall instead!
James Russell ?
Just joking. Saying something is wasted time is kind of silly, because what else are you gonna do? Sit and stare at the wall?
This game awesome..!!
The concept, the atk combo, storyline, music, difficulties..
Damn..what a great childhood memories..
Thanks Dan for covering one of my favourite all time Mega Drive games. What an achievement this game is. This is one of the few MD games I bought new on release and I still have the Roadkill soundtrack CD that came with it. As for all those people complaining about the difficulty, I'm terrible at video games and I can finish Comix Zone in just under an hour.
This and Alyssia Dragoon did for the Sega what Mayhem in Monsterland did for the C64, and later on, Shadow of the Colossus on PS2. You just look at it and think, jeez, it was capable of doing this the whole time? SotC was the last time video game graphics genuinely impressed me, but Comix Zone and Mayhem were the two that did it first.
Came back to this video after talking about the game for a while today, and your audio setup has become such more crisp over the years :D
Hahaha yeah, I agree :P
I just beat this game a second ago, took me a few hours of dying and re-starting from level one but, I finally nailed it. Could never beat it when I was a kid. Man, this has to be my favorite game, even more so than any Sonic game on the Genesis. Really cool video dude, it really helped satiate my want for more Comix Zone. Who knows, maybe it'll get a sequel before I grow old and die, haha. Or maybe it'll just remain an awesome-as-hell old-school classic (I think I'd be fine with that.). Anyway, super cool video dude, loved it, cheers~
I love this game. And I hate it. I love it because its one of my favorite beat em ups ever. And I hate it because I cant beat Level 2. WHY do you only have one fucking life?!!
UnbornDecay back then games were really short so they raised up the difficulty so youre forced to take longer to beat the game
Charziken909 I know that. But holy shit, Streets Of Rage 2, my so far favorite 2d beat em up, had lives. Even if the game started you at the beginning of the level, (which can happen, randomly) I still cant even get close to level 3. I got there, once, died on the first enemy.
If you want to see the game completed you'll have to cheat which is very doable even on emulators.
I would warn you though. You'll still have to get gud to get the good ending.
+Oda Swifteye
You don't need to cheat to beat the game. Not by a long shot. The game's difficulty is often over stated. It's not a cake walk but the game boils down to: 1.) Knowing the optimal route to take in each level 2.) Managing items (The game honestly gives you exactly what you need to progress, it's just a matter of knowing when to use said items) and 3.) Knowing how to optimally deal with certain enemies (Like the female assassins can be insta-killed by Roadkill, Creeps are easy to bait into jumping kicks, etc).
The game takes only 20-30 minutes tops to beat.
You also get up to 2 continues. You earn one for beating level 1 and another for beating level 3 I believe.
***** I am very familiar with the game. I was speaking to a person who has played the game. Presumably a lot but hasn't gotten to the end. That would be an easy way to the end after getting a lot of failures.
Besides. I even said that if you have to cheat the way to the end you probably won't be good enough to get the good ending so you have to get good at it eventually.
I love this game!!
I didn't have a lot of games on my Genesis, but Comix Zone was thankfully one of them. The music will always be stuck in my head.
Loved this game has a kid, I remember being a little bummed that the power up in it only turns you into a super hero for 1 screen clearing move and not walk around and fly and stuff but being able to rip the comic page at any time and do a super powerful paper airplane attack made up for it
funny occurence i had as a kid: in germany (at least in former east germany) we hadn't any arcades. we in the 90's were going to a local toy store, where they had some mega drives and super nintendos for you to play. so i was there all afternoon long. :) we had the rule: if you die once, the next in line can play the game and you had to go to the end of the line.
and while you had to wait until the person in front of you died, you could have some talks from "gamer to gamer". so it happened that a guy that looked just like sketch (he was younger than him, but looked a lot like him!) was talking to me about the last boss from yoshi's island. he wanted to know how to beat this guy. i told him how he had to do it an he told me to win against the final boss from wario land. i remem ber this so fondly because all of the other older (like 10 to 16 year old guys) were always looking at me like "this girl just happens to be here and doesn't know ho to play". so i thought this was extremely nice from him (maybe just he saw how i played and thought i had some skill :D).
such great memories! i wished i knew how this guy was called, but i decided to call him sketch after i knew this game.
The music on this was amazing and still sticks with me today
Yes! Comix Zone is an utter classic and one of my all time favourites! Nicely done, Dan!
+SJ Webster ur welcome bud
Comix Zone is on those Sega emulators from Dollar General if anyone wants to play it.
dollores but it also runs slower so it's not as challenging.. To me it's kinda a let down as well as some compatibility glitches
It's also ported on PS3.
Of course it’s on one of those compilation systems, it’s one of the most important and best genesis games
Another great review! Always like how you present the games in these reviews.
+RenTin ahhhhhh glad you like my work
Really great channel, Dan! Thanks for all the great work!
+GammaCatch more than welcome bud
Love that you're using the bonus CD for background tracks, really enjoyed that CD when I was a kid.
+goodall18 yeah it was cheesy as all hell but it was still hreat fun
I owned like 5 games and a Sega nomad as a kid. This was one of the games I owned, and I absolutely loved it. Glad it's available on modern consoles.
Yeah, it's a quality little system
...is it ironic that I've started speedrunning this game two days ago, then you release this.
You rock. :D
+Fury283 hahaha we are one!
Daniel Ibbertson Even with all the tricks in the run.. still super hard.
I just looked for this game, and all the sudden you make a video about it. THAT'S IT ! Subscribed !
one of my fave game of genesis, been playing only this game for months and never got bored of it! thnx for making video of it.
+lutfi hilmy abdullah u are more than welcome matey
Another great video! I am still surprised that there was never a sequel to it.
I remember seeing this game a long time ago, so unique and the art is amazing. I do agree it's very difficult!
In the credits there's a special thanks to 'The House' for the best lamb in town. Apparently the development team was pretty close and ate there all the time. Definitely want to try it for myself if I'm ever in San Fran.
+Jack Kearney thats so cool hahaha
I loved this game as a kid. There was so much to unpack. I always wondered about The House, so I emailed Howard Drossin. It was his agent that emailed me back, but apparently he told the story fondly. Question: Was it just the Megadrive version that had voice acting in the intro? I'm from the US and my version didn't have that.
There's no voice acting. I do believe what you hear is Top Gaming Man doing that intro.
A Sega Saturn sequel with even more detailed graphics, bigger sprites and more animation frames would be a dream.
Great video Slope's Game Room! All of your videos are of excellent quality with interesting content. You deserve a subscriber base well into the six figure region and beyond, may that happen in the not too distant future :)
+Gavin Ryan hopefully i will make it 1 day :D
jesus, one thing ive gotten from this series is the incredible amount of sega games that have a port for the gba
WELL DONE TURNER !
I can easily remember this being THE game when it came out. (Most of the SEGA games I played were rentals, and I could also (sadly) remember that this game being sold out every weekend for YEARS straight.)
Man, talk about a nostalgia trip. This is hands down one of my favorite Genesis games. I played the SHIT out of it. Worked so hard to get that "true" ending. This game was indeed truly something special and pushed the hardware hard while still playing like a dream.
+Xeo7 glad you enjoyed it bud
I missed out on this as a kid, and only discovered it as an unlockable on a PS2 sonic collection. Ended up just playing that more than the Sonic games.
Dude that was one of my faves on Sega! Loved playing it over and over searching for hidden rooms and easter eggs. Also loved making the dude fart XD
Always a treat viewing this series. Keep up the amazing work!
+kutulukutu glad u like it mate :D
Dan, I wish you went more in depth on the music of the game, especially when mentioning Roadkill. Roadkill's music was essentially parts of Comix Zone's OST with vocals such as Into The Zone which was the title screen/main theme of Comix Zone. Also that Drossin himself pretty much voiced all of the male characters including Sketch Turner. Finally, I'm glad you mentioned overall, him working on Sonic 3 & Knuckles as the guy had nothing to do with Sonic 3's soundtrack as he was apparently too busy working on Spinball, which itself had a problem with the title screen music. Great video, nonetheless.
2:41 LOL! by the way, where did you find that sonic spinball box art?
Danzig says Sega on the boot up. Check that band out mate.
YTSEJAMYLOHNU I didn't know that!! Glenn is the Evil Elvis s'pose. Is that a Dream Theater reference I see in your handle too? ☺
divinefallfromgrace it’s a band name, backwards. But I like your way of thinking!
xdugganx Ahhh, I see it now. Cheers laddie!
3, 12, 17, 2, 2, 10, 2, 7, 7, 11 still remember)))
Comix zone 2 would have to be a game that revolves around the movie adaptation of the first game. I don't know how you could do it but given the 8th that we live in a really well done comix zone 2 would be absolutely insane.
The most 90’s thing ever, love it!
I first played this game on the PC Sega Smash Pack 2, it, along with Shining Force, were my favorite games on the compilation!
I bought this game in a bargain way on back for about $5 and could never get passed the second level. Eventually my family sold all the old megadrive stuff as we grew up but looking back (im 28 now) this is one I always knew I shoulda held on to.
Thanks for reminding me to replay this gem. And Alisia Dragoon after that!
+Tyrant Alisia Dragoon is a true true gem. Good luck with this game tho. The difficulty cuts down the fun quite a bit. It's not like a Contra hard, more like a Dark Castle hard.
i played it as a kid on the genesis, it was my favorite solo game, then i played it on some weird 256 sega game cd for PC or something like that... and now i got it on my tablet, ready to be emulated whenever i feel like making paper airplanes
Comix Zone was always one of my most nostalgic games on the Genesis. My only Genesis was a Nomad, which came a year after this game, so I got a lot of late Genesis releases including Comix Zone. I've never beaten it yet, but I'm still going back and trying to this very day. I also have the Sega Tunes version of the Roadkill soundtrack and it is rad. I lit up the minute I heard some of it in this video.
+Elkplaysandpaints always love to try and add what i can when it comes to soundtracks
I want to comment that in this game (for those of you commenting about its difficulty) there's actually a hard limit on speed runs on this game...if you beat the game too fast, (I don't remember the exact time) it will lock up during the ending sequence, even with emulation and ports. My roommate will regularly hop on this game even today to speedrun it...it's crazy watching him go at it.
I use to play this game with my older brother when it first came out. We put in so many hours playing this game.
AHHH This game is great! I love it....though I do remember it kicking my ass when I first played it :P
Glad i complete the whole game on the Sega Genesis Classics for the Xbox One!
The Howard Drossin CD that came with Comix Zone was the first CD I ever owned (at least that wasn't a compilation album). I still listen to it today. Would've been amazing if they made a Mega CD version with all of those tracks implemented into the game.
Comix Zone is a c l a s s i x! I first played it on a department store demo thing. Instantly in love with it.
Comix Zone in my opinion was so hard
I had no idea about the Joe Pencil concept! Amazing as always!
+BrothaKyo i only recently found out about it myself. Amazing how close they made it
Sega eventually made Wild Woody though didn't they?
6:40 okay was that vo added in or is the PAL version just that awesome?
Good review but I really would of mentioned all the puzzle elements. The game is brutally tough but using tricks to destroy barricades/enemies instead of brute force which damages you, using Roadkill to hunt down items for you and so on makes this game MUCH easier. Every other panel feels like a puzzle which when you figure out, makes your next run in that room a breeze so you get that bit further.
Lots more stuff to enjoy about the game, multiple routes, good/bad endings, packed with secrets/secret moves like holding the attack button to rip a wad of paper from the background and throw it as a plane. The game is short and tough but packed with creativity and well thought out content in every panel.
I actually felt Viewtiful Joe was a spiritual successor to this game, as in a fan gets pulled into his favorite medium and toys/plays with the things that make that medium special, like Sketch jumping between panels/turning into a superhero and Joe using special movie effects like slow down, zoom in, etc.
Good review it could of been probably 5 times longer if you listed all of the game's positives :P
Ever thought about doing a complete history on the Vectorman games?
in the late 90s I really wanted to play Quake and convinced my parents to upgrade to a pentium, they came home with a 'gaming' pc that came with a stack of Sega PC games (it did run Quake btw, with all fx turned off lol), Comix Zone was one of the games I had. Back then all pc game controllers sucked balls but luckily, my pc came with a card that let you plug in a genesis/mega drive controller.
this game is so,underrated
i played it recently on my sega classic collection for ps3 and i really enjoyed it
You deserve more subs for the great video editing and series
+Derrick Wierzbicki thanks mate :)
one of my favourite games of all time, absolutely gorgeous for the time and harder than a bare knuckle boxer, I urge everyone to try it! fantastic video as always bud!
+TheLittleSpanishFlea u r more than welcome mate. And thanks 4 commenting
Daniel Ibbertson anytime buddy, can't wait to see what you've got planned next. these are always so interesting
Its funny growing up in Europe around that area we loved Italian comic books which went from mistery, western, adventure. My fave was Tex Willer and Zagor haha
You know what I remember about this game? Never being able to win.
The best I ever did was the...third stage? The snowy mountain place. So much falling...
Man, if there was ever a game worthy of an updated rerelease, it's Comix Zone. That music CD would even justify selling physical copies, and it could use some more levels.
Very good video.
One of my all time favorites by sega.
I do have a complete mega Drive copy with the CD ,)
Good stuff.
Awesome. Luv these history vids. Subscribed.
+KennethMichaels why, Thanks you :D
I really, really want to see Sketch Turner showing up as a cameo in more Sega games. That design is way too good to go to waste!
+Blast Processing couldnt agree more mate :D
This is definitely in my top 10 games of all time. People whining about how hard it is irks me. It really isn't that hard if you pay attention and actually put some effort into it. I got this game and Gargoyles for my Genesis at the same time. Comix Zone I had beaten within a few days, and I don't think I've ever beaten Gargoyles. I also don't continually go back and play Gargoyles. This game is enjoyable in every aspect, INCLUDING the difficulty. Everything you need to complete the game is given to you. It's a game that has respect for the player, and if there were unlimited lives or continues it wouldn't be as fun to go back and revisit it. Once I mastered the game it gave me more appreciation for it in that I could take in the scenery and realize what a masterpiece it is. I'm definitely not a hardcore gamer, but I've been gaming since I had a 2600 in the 80s and this is one of the most well crafted and tight games I've ever played. No room for anything that isn't absolutely necessary for completion and not for pansy ass weekend warriors who would rather play Pokemon Go or some shit.
There's an immediate plot hole. No cartoonist is that buff or skilled in martial arts.
I was just thinking about when you were going to upload another vid!
That bonus CD was pretty great from what I remember.
The OST is banging and one of my favorites of all time.
If I remember correctly it takes 11 minutes to beat this game...
It was my usual "speed run" of one of my favorite game.
Of course it was looooong time ago when I still had my first old trusty Mega Drive.
I bloody love Comix Zone. Like you it was one of my last MD games before moving onto PS1. The soundtrack cd is great too even if the lyrics are 90% nonsense. You're right about the difficulty. I think last time I played it I only got to the second stage. it was really difficult to get an extra life too. I guess they figured it was fairly short so they'd ramp up the difficulty to compensate. Nicely done stuff man.
I remember feeling like such a badass for being able to beat this game. Then I played the re-release in front of my friends a few years back because one of them was frustrated that he couldn't beat it. For some reason, no matter what I did, Mortus would not let me bait him to the bottom of the screen like I always did on the Genesis. Why do you have to make a fool out of me, XBL Arcade?
I remembered seeing a blurb about this game in entertainment news back in the day and wanted to get it so badly. Unfortunately I never got the chance until a Shipmate(former Navy) gave me a fuckton of roms for a Sega Genesis emulator and Comix Zone was in there. It's certainly Nintendo hard but it's fun when I want a challenge.
A bona-fide classic I still play periodically. Great visuals and sound, great controls. But Bludgecore hard! A port with a Save function recommended! Cheers for this feature...
What amazes me especially in this era of remakes remasters reboots etc that they won’t give games like comix zone a sequel or at the least comix zone remastered in modern graphics and the same for restarting and other games that never got into the spotlight
after I watched this video I played this game, I love it, it's also the first sega game that I've played that isn't part of the sonic series
Back in the 90's when the game came out I was out shopping with my parents and we walked past a 'Bargain Store' type place and I went in to find a $10 ' PC Game Demo Collection' in a set of 3 CD's, all up it had 30-40 game demos all up, I bought it and it was the best 'game' I ever purchased, amoungst the titles was Comix Zone, god I loved it. Those were the days. Anybody else ever buy those demo discs?