Ultra Vortek - The Worst Fighting Game
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There was one part that Matt didn't get into regarding Beyond Games. After it shut down in 2002, the company's founder chose to form a new one in its wake: Smart Bomb Interactive, best known for licensed titles like Snoopy vs the Red Baron, Pac-Man World Rally and my favorite piece of trivia, the Wii version of the Bee Movie Game. A far cry from the post-apocalyptic roots of the former studio huh?
Unfortunately it really wouldn't last that long, as they rebranded themselves into a purely edutainment company called Wildworks in 2010, working on an educational kids MMO called Animal Jam. And then got into NFTs in 2021, before getting bought out by this Indian conglomerate the following year.
*reads kind of odd, but fascinating little history*
Me: So far so good.
*Wildworks. Animal Jam*
Me: Ex-fucking-cuse me?!
I don't have a reply to your comment other than how weird it is that
1. My first & middle name are Joshua Mark
2. My birthday is April 25th, or 4/25
3. I also know a ton of "useless information" (not an insult)
This game having a connection to Animal Jam of all things was not something I expected to learn today
Edit: the whole thing with Fer.al and Cinder (the beta to the NFT game and the NFT game, respectively) is a bunch of nonsense too. Izzzyzzz did a video on it
Snoopy Flying Ace is definitely among the best games based on a comic strip, which I realize sounds like damnation with faint praise, but the game is legitimately great by any standard.
Pac-Man World Rally is one of my favorite kart racers. Going from that to 2021's output is one hell of a downgrade.
Redline was great. Especially the multiplayer. You could use your melee weapon as a helicopter to fly to try to escape the cars, lol. Stealing eachother's cars only to find an antitheft explosive....
Sounds like a great time.
Please tell me it's on GOG or something.
Replying to myself it actually is!!!!!!! It's on gog, and it's small xD 260mb
And it also knew what it was and didn't take itself too seriously and it had some dark humor in it. Bot the single player and multiplayer were really great. I think its something Matt would really enjoy playing.
Somebody call Nightdive Studios and ask for them to work their magic on it.
"The subtlety of Mortal Kombat" is a phrase I never thought I'd hear.
I LOVE Buzzsaw already. Totally got that "but honey, we have Cyrax at home" vibes.
Lmaooo
Cyrax but he's a car now kinda sorta
You guys think Smoke and Sektor spread rumors about Cyrax out of jealousy?
I know a fighting game was done by people with 0 knowledge about how fighting games work with just one screenshot when the lifebars deplete from center to the borders.
so, like the first four Mortal Kombat games?
@lexacutable Let's be real, Mortal Kombat wasn't actually good until 9. It just had a lot of personality that absolutely carried it.
Take away the aesthetic of the older games and nobody would still be talking about them.
That was normal back in the day...
@@jays.6843 Are you crazy?
@@jays.6843 People literally go to the comment section to spread lies
I'm convinced all these terrible developers went by the mantra "just make a game that has good screenshots on the back of the game...everything else is secondary"
For no reason in particular, "Grok is victorious" is burned in my mind.
12:28 I remember in the movie when Natalie Portman shouted ANNIHILATION TIME and turned into a woodchipper-lawnmower-piranha. Not exactly the same ending as Jeff VanderMeer's book, but honestly not that far from it either!
I got up and clapped in the theatre
14:35
Careful Matt, you’re close to giving into your Dark Syde.
2:00 This is also kind of ironic considering that Battle Wheels is probably among the BEST Lynx games made, although it came out too late to do anything to save the console.
(Also, I'm still rooting for you to cover "Tongue of the Fatman" someday.)
"Why did he flatten like a pancake?!?"
...huh. Could've sworn Matt had already done something for Tongue of the Fatman (aka Fatman aka Slaughter Sport aka Mondu's Fight Palace) but apparently my brain crossed some wires with Retro Core's video comparing the various ports.
Future episode candidate: One, for the N-Gage.
Seriously. A fighting game on the N-Gage. HOW CAN YOU RESIST?
There was a game in development at Atari known as “Black ice White noise” it was supposed to be one of the first cyberpunk games to come out. But the company folded before it was finished. See if you can dig anything up on that since it may make for a great episode.
7:35 I dunno, a shadow is pretty clever for a chameleon/shang tsng type fighter. taking he thing that's usually a part of the background and turning it into a morphing fighter. i dig it.
Volcana (the blonde in the red leotard) later made an appearance in Motor Mayhem, a PS2 car combat game from 2001 that wasn't Twisted Metal: Black.
Petition to make THIS GUY the new mascot of Worst Fighting Game.
Video #2 where I ask that you cover Heavyweight Champ, the first fighting game to ever exist.
"The first fighting game to allow combat between two player-controlled characters was Sega Corporation's Heavyweight Champ (1976), a black-and-white 8-bit arcade console simulation in which two boxers are shown in profile, or two dimensions, with the players able to throw only high (head) or low (body) punches."
14:36 Matt is channeling his inner DSP.
This has to be one of the most entertaining Worst Fighting Game episodes I've seen in a while.
What did it for ya? Aside from the Poopality?
@bbreimm Anything but that. Which even Matt didn't like.
It was a combination of Matts comments and the game we were seeing. From how abjectly ugly the graphics and animations were to the hilariously awful soundtrack.
"In an ancient Incan temple located in South America" is like "In an Ancient Egyptian pyramid located in Africa"
Shoutout to the hype man in the background of the stage at 16:53. My mans, and especially his shirt, were FEELIN IT! 😆
The lore of this game is on some *wild* shit. The SQUEEB, a group known only as the "MeatHackers", the S.M.A.C. organization.. it's 90's af
They put so much more work into the lore than the actual game.
I noticed the manual writer was the same guy that provided the Guardians voice...he must've done a lot of carrying for the team, lol
My dad owns both this and Kasumi Ninja I also grew up playing both these and a lot of the games on the Jaguar while I understand the point of this series I did actually enjoy my time with both of them so no harm done.
The BBC had their own fighting game with a tie-in TV show called FightBox on the PS2.
Well, it had fighting game elements, but goddammit just check it out, more people need to know of this disaster!
I had that as a kid!
I think it still lives rent free in my brain.
Ah yes, Fightbox (Or Shitebox as I like to call it). The poor man's Robot Wars or...whatever the hell the US equivalent was called!
I randomly clicked on a video of that game recently and was so confused. Then after learning it was a TV show and looking at some of that, I was even more confused! Shit is awesome!
At this point Matt's made more content ABOUT the Jaguar then the Jag made FOR the console! Which isn't a high bar in all honesty
I do like the look of the Guardian's stage. The giant cave with a skull mountain that has a volcano in it. Very metal.
I'm truly shocked that a mortal kombat rip-off could feature actual shit and not be included in that AVGN episode. Somebody dropped the ball.
He already had Tattoo Assassins in there, which featured at least as much poop. Maybe he figured it would be redundant.
Redline was pretty good and innovative for the time, personally i think it didnt age very well. But the single player campaign has some different scenarios, the difficulty is all over the place.
My internet wasn't the best at the time, but the few matches i played in MP was fun.
Oh and it's available on Gog, I got it there ages ago.
While I can't comment on the story, I remember playing the Redline demo forever ago and it was a lot of fun during multiplayer. FPS, driving, and stationary vehicles with 'flying' by using like a chainsaw thing. Sounds weird but was fun.
I read the whole lore and wow somebody really put effort into the backstory for this thing. It's almost a shame it didn't turn out any good since they could have mined that story in some interesting ways.
Am I the only one that thinks Buzzsaw looks like Sawborg Destructo from GWAR?
I just appreciate the Violent Storm music at the end. Absolute banger of a game all around.
Also, when's Time Slaughter gonna get a spot on the list? We've already cracked into terrible DOS games with Iron & Blood, Xenophage, and Expect No Mercy, so why not go even deeper?
Was going to mention that too... In addition to being a good game, Violent Storm soundtrack is so great
Time Slaughter had the excuse of being a hobby project done by some teenagers as opposed to games like this that were made by professionals.
because compaired to expect no mercy, Time slaughter is somewhat fun
ever since you mentioned this game in passing during the expect no mercy episode I have kinda developed a liking to it. I haven't played, oh no don't get me wrong I'm not into pain, it's just that it's so... 90s, so muddy like the artists threw the concept art on the mud and said "yeah that's the best thing ever, brown and gray", unapolagetic cheesy like how someone who never played videogames and was alive during the satanic panic would imagine Mortal Kombat. for me, watching a playthrough of this is like watching ants go bout their way. you go, weird jaquar game.
This game teaches life lessons. Everybody poops.
As always, I am here to suggest any fighting game released for the Hyperscan
What is the Hyperscan?
god...the hyperscan...
What the hell is the hyperscan?
Basically a glorified RFID reader. Buy a game, then buy trading cards that can be scanned to unlock characters. It was essentially a physical loot box made by Mattel.@@CarlosLins1
For the uninitiated, the Hyperscan is a "game console" made by Mattel in 2006. Out of it's library of 5 games, it had 2 fighters: An X-Men one and some weird wrestling one.
However the whole gimmick of the Hyperscan was that you had to buy physical card packs in order to actually play the game, which was basically what loot boxes are in modern games.
With the fighting games, the only way to play the game is to have a card of the character you want to play as. X-Men is particularly egregious with this as it has "Ultimate" characters which are just strictly better versions of existing characters making it blatantly pay to win.
There's not many reviews of the Hyperscan due to the fact that you need the cards just to play the games and with it being a failure, the cards are hard to come by. The console itself is also poorly made and prone to failure so finding a working one is even more rare.
So until this gets emulated somehow, I don't know if it will appear on this show. The most in depth review of the Hyperscan is from a youtuber named Kohdok if you want to check it out.
TL;DR: It's a really bad game console with a really bad fighting game that's almost impossible to fully review at this current time.
10:07 I wonder what Irish Thrash sounds like? *_Biddly biddly DUHDUHDEDEDUH_*
I don't know why but Matt doing a DSP imitation is always enough to put a smile on my face.
From now on, my nickname will be “Drunkicidal”
'Shadow: War of Succession' would totally be crowded as the king.
13:06-13:41 Who would've imagined that a show dedicated to some notable and obscure fighting game turds would feature a game that has some actual crap-based fatalities!
Man, you weren't kidding about that lore, Matt! That manual has, like 90s Blizzard-level lore in it. Truly insane for what's basically a MK1 clone released 3 years after MK1.
I kind of want to give Beyond Games credit for not overreaching here; unlike, say, Naughty Dog with Way of the Warrior or the devs of Expect No Mercy, they at least seemed to understand that they knew nothing about making fighting games when they were dragooned by Atari into making this thing, so it looks like they just tried to crib MK to the best of their ability. They failed, and they wound up creating something less interesting than WotW, but they at least understood their limitations and didn't try to overreach. That's commendable in a way.
Beyond Games said, "I have seen the amateur, and it is me"
I was cracking up when you went over the jukebox track list, and started breaking around “Krappin”. When you laughed, I laughed.
I wasn't prepared for "annihilation time"
This feels like they were going for an "Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side" type game and fell far short (especially when you consider EC: CFTDS came out in 1994 and UV in 1995).
It's the other way around, EC CFTDS came out in 1995 at the tail end of the Sega CD's life span.
@@GAMEPRODELTA EC: CFTDS Initial release date was September 12, 1994, while UV finally released (after multiple delays) September 5, 1995.
I love the Jaguar, 3do and 32x. So much lost potential.
Is that the cybernetic ghost of Christmas past?!
You'll have to be more specific, do you mean the one from the future?
You know...watching this episode made me realize how hard that MK3 soundtrack goes. ❤🔥❤🔥🎶
One thing I'll give this game, the idea that the Volcana fighter leaves a scorch mark when she falls down is kinda neat.
I really appreciate the robust and meaningful DSP-style nuggets. He did nothing wrong! *Snort*
*Jacking off sounds intensify*
Honestly? I kinda dig the art style. It looks cool! :D At least there's SOME artistic vision going into this thing, and it's not just soulless corporate copy-pasta garbage.
That soundtrack is amazing, it is like the composer tried to make Grindcore on the Atari soundchip. Also Rave Me is a straight up rip off of 2 Unlimited's "Get Ready for This"
The ost titles sound like a grunge metal amateur band who imagined their songs before composing them.
I know that he warned me, but my ears were NOT prepared for that soundtrack, sweet merciful Jesus fuck.
This episode was an absolutely excellent time from start to finish, easily top five
why do i feel like theres been more episodes of this lately? im loving it! ba da ba ba ba
Neat! A new episode!
(Here is still hope to see "Battling Butlers" one day)
I had Redline when I was a kid. I remember loving it but I don't know how well it still holds up.
You'd probably enjoy Redline, Matt. It's a weird one for sure with its genre blend and jankiness, but if you could get it working it'd probably be up your alley. Only thing I remember of it though was some battle where I ended up having to fight a Mad Max vehicle while being stuck on foot and having almost ammo in some arena, but I was a dumb kid at the time so odds are 50-50 if that was the 90s being the 90s or me being trash at games I was definitely not old enough to play at the time. Good episode as always by the way, keep it up.
I'd suggest Time Slaughter but you'd have to end the series, as you'd have found the objectively worst.
Shadow is probably worse
The DSP reenactment was a nice touch!
Mr. McMuscles, I swear my day immediately becomes a top-tier day whenever I see a new MattMcMuscles video uploaded. Doesn't matter if it's What Happened?, or The Worst Fighting Game, or a FlopHouse Plays, seeing that fuckin' little blue skull in my notifications is always a day-long high.
8:25 Hey I recognize that BGM, that's Pluto from Doom Troopers: The Mutant Chronicles on SNES! I have that OST etched into my brain from so many hours playing it as a kid.
That clip of Max showing off the poopallity, chefs kiss.
I recall Catfight being reviewed in an off-the-shelf Computer Gaming World (or maybe PC Gamer) so that should be quite reviewable without problem. The review didn't mention anything adult in it, just that it had two difficulties: one where the computer didn't move at all and one where they did. So that one should be no problem to review.
Also, Battle Wheels is amazing on the Lynx and I highly recommend it.
I gotta give it to them, "Poopalities" seem like a great way to humiliate an opponent.
Need to do Street Fighter 1. It's the most venerated name that is attached to an actual bad game.
I feel like that gets a pass because it was a step forward for it's time and it's the game that had to exist so that SF 2 could exist so that the whole fighting genre as we know it could exist.
Besides, it may not measure up to it's legendary sequels but compared to Karate Champ and Yie Ar Kung Fu it was a whole level above.
I was super hyped for Redline back when it cam out. You could get in and out of the vehicle anytime you wanted. That idea was so cool to me at the time, felt immersive. There was another game before it called Necrodome that had the same gimmick. Pretty cool stuff at the time
As for the game, I picked it up at launch and it was pretty buggy. I didn't get far because of that but what i played was ok!
A metal themed fighting game with Mortal Kombat-like elements doesn’t sound too bad on a piece of paper, if it only wasn’t executed horribly. It should also be noted that when this was first shown at the E3 in early 95, it was originally called “Ultra Vortex”, but they had to change it to “Ultra Vortek”, probably because there’s another game on the SNES called Vortex, and this has nothing to do with that game.
Hey Matt, I don't know how much it would help with monetization, but posting free WFG episodes of games like Catfight over on your Patreon might help you get around the the more risqué elements that TH-cam won't allow.
Kasumi Ninja was funny as hell.. Angus made me laugh every time
Redline was a bit janky but fun, its on GOG iirc.
You have tattoo assassins in the intro but haven't done a video for it yet. And I'd love to see where on the list Evil Zone would be.
What saddens me is how much material this series has. And most of it just from the 1990s.
80% of everything is crap. Pick any genre, and you'll find a huge pile of shit, especially from just after the start of a boom in that genre.
I agree. Hopefully He covers Steel Rivals and Steel Lords.
The 90s were a huge time for fighting games. It's not like now where yeah, there's a few long lasting franchises that are still great. Back then it was a newer genre and what was selling well. All the executives wanted their Mortal Kombat or Street Fighter and didn't care how it got there. Whatever genre is dominant now, whether it's FPS or open-world, probably has a ton of shitty imitators also. It's the same with movies
5:31 that scrolling text that completely unnecessarily zooms in is a perfect representation of this game; using more techniques than necessary to dazzle the player rather than impressing with actual quality.
Yes!
I played this the other day and was hoping it would show up on your segment sooner or later
Jesus Christ, this game was priced at 69.99 in 1995, based on that sales flyer. The audacity!
9.99 for each character!
This has to be with console included because aint no way! lol
That's 143 dollars in current times, it had to have been bundled
I'm surprised no metal/thrash band used the name "DRUNKICIDAL" yet
9:51 Those 4 descending notes should be the new "disappointment sound" meme.
Matt, man, I hope you got yourself some powerful lozenges and/or cough syrup, because I don't want to imagine the state your throat was in after recording the bit with the soundtrack titles. Suffer for the sake of your art if you must, but be sure to take care of those velvet pipes of yours!
you bringing up Redline unlocked some sort of dormant core memory I cant even remember clearly. I need to look into this.
For some reason this just makes me picture a CD in the 90s with 4:52 THIS GUY on the cover and this 9:54 track listing.
I had a lot of fun playing Redline at lan parties back in the day, one of the most enjoyable multiplayer experiences i've had. Not sure how it would hold up these days, and i do not know if the single player campaign is any good as i never actually tried it.
Redline should have gotten a lot more attention than it did. One of my favorites from that era. While maybe not the very best in either the FPS or vehicular combat categories, it did both very competently, and merged them very well, which very few games even attempted at the time. Also, very good graphics, sound, memorable characters, and just a lot of interesting and new ideas, polished up pretty well despite how ambitious it was
I vaguely remember playing the Redline demo back in the day, and thought it was pretty impressive from an ambition standpoint, but kind of remember the controls being a little Jank? I have no idea how the game would hold up today, but would love to see a video on it.
I like the idea of having an eye between the life bar. Looks neat
I remember playing Redline when it released on an SLI Voodoo system. It was fantastic. Still holds up and I don't understand why the concept of vehicular fps isn't more popular.
The jaguar controller: for when you’re playing educational math games and need a calculator handy
My man has been CRANKIN out WFG videos lately, love every one of em.
I've had the opportunity to watch a longplay of this game from NintendoComplete TH-cam channel, where they used Volcana to beat the game. Yeah, it's bad but the behind-the-scenes of this game is very interesting, since mostly of the actors were friends of the developers back then, and Volcana is played by a former volleyball player, I think. It's definitely a low budget project, and it shows.
And I kinda like from the music even though it's really grainy and low quality, like it was recorded from a MP3 player from 2008.
I just wish that MK1 had fighters from those MK clones and put some of them on either a DLC or make it available in the game through its Invasion mode. I'd like to see Volcana vs Scorpion someday.
Hey! An ancient Incan temple in South America. As opposed to an ancient Incan temple in Australia. Glad they cleared that up for us.
When will Pit Fighter appear in this video series, particularly the SNES version?
You wanna fight McMuscles? Huh? Why must you be so damn consistent and awesome? You are appreciated
OMG - Mercury looks like a Sharkticon (Transformers) during his 'Annihilator'.
Gonna continue lobbying for Funky Punch on PSP to be featured but this time I'm also adding in X-Men for the Mattel HyperScan
I had to go check out the ost. It sounds like someone is trying to make hardcore techno or gabber but using guitar and metal sound fonts.
I desperately need some modern indie games to recreate the look of games like this. It's so trashy, but in a cool and fun sort of way that really tickles my brain. Also the music sounds like something a kid in 1995 made for his Doom mod.
Look up Death Cargo. You won't regret it.
If Neil Breen made a fighting game, this would be it.
I played the hell out of the Redline demo that was on ye olde PC gamer demo disk from way back. I thought it was amazing being able to jump out of your car and have said car explode some punkman into gibs. It's on GOG now so I purchased it last year for some of that sweet, sweet nostalgia but it totally shows it's age.
Redline is what got me obsessed with cars, guns, and blowing up cars with guns. It was a fun time.
There was this one game I beat my older friend in when I was a toddler, and I think this may have been it. I may just be mismatching memories but this game just feels extremely familiar and honestly without this series I dont think Id have ever stumbled back upon it
Skullcrusher is both amazing and 85% the Robot Ghost Turkey from the Future from ATHD