Metal Gear: Snake's Revenge - Just Bad Games

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  • The officially fake Metal Gear NES game from Konami that folks completely forgot existed!
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  • @rerez
    @rerez  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +460

    ...I felt a great disturbance on the TH-cams, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror...

    • @kubocaskett1328
      @kubocaskett1328 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      You don't say?

    • @alexloes7567
      @alexloes7567 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Well now this is a funny situation🥶

    • @golbibulbus5183
      @golbibulbus5183 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      You saw that Nintendo Direct haven't you?

    • @robbiewalker2831
      @robbiewalker2831 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Money Ghost Plushies are Gone.

    • @jaygooese4242
      @jaygooese4242 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That's ridiculous

  • @MovieMan1710
    @MovieMan1710 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2361

    The fact that Kojima stayed at Konami as long as he did is a fucking miracle

    • @Mankey619
      @Mankey619 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +284

      I know right even his Metal Gear game they’ve screwed him with the NES ports, and an unrelated sequel he wasn’t aware of. Konami really never respect their own employees.

    • @Avalon64
      @Avalon64 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +160

      well for the most part he was able to do what he wanted for alot of the games, the huge falling out was of course around MGS5...I feel bad cause it seems Konami is only using the Metal Gear name to milk something out of it...and as cool as Delta looks, that's part of the problem its a remake not a new idea for Metal Gear...

    • @MrSkerpentine
      @MrSkerpentine 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +72

      @@Avalon64 I mean after Survive, I’d assume they wanted to ensure fans that they even knew what Metal Gear WAS anymore

    • @Avalon64
      @Avalon64 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +60

      @@MrSkerpentine sadly I have to agree...I dunno how I feel about Delta, especially since Kojima won't be working on it...and there's always that fear they might censor or cut some of the game's original content because people are so triggered these days...sigh

    • @johnpaulyoshida5690
      @johnpaulyoshida5690 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

      @@Avalon64 I have no faith in Konami, however if Delta ends up living up to what MGS3 was then I am willing to put my faith in the team. My hope is that remaking Metal Gear Solid 3 will allow the new team to learn what the old metal gear team knew and thus if they were to make a new Metal Gear Solid game after that they will have a grasp on the mechanics and story that a Metal Gear game needs to possess. Its the same philosophy I hold for the Silent Hill 2 remake, and the other new silent hill I have faith in because the writer is someone I know who can write the type of horror that silent hill is known for.

  • @geardog24
    @geardog24 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +737

    "Some stupids are best left unstupided."
    Konami's motto at it's finest

    • @frankiebecchi5307
      @frankiebecchi5307 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      Idk why but when it comes to the the summary on the box, i imagine a single person doing it and going, "I didnt have time to play the game and they didnt give me anything to work with except a tight deadline so, screw it! I'll wing it and listen to coworkers explain the plot, fill in the blanks, and see if I can get away with it!"

    • @GamerDave1974
      @GamerDave1974 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      More like"Even Stupid people have Money!"

    • @purwantiallan5089
      @purwantiallan5089 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      ​@@GamerDave1974same goes to KONAMI 2020s.

  • @jordanloux3883
    @jordanloux3883 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +903

    Okay, I love the villain names. They feel like what would happen if Metal Gear existed in the Austin Powers universe

    • @zeldagameryt4018
      @zeldagameryt4018 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +60

      We just need a throwable shoe as a weapon and we’ll be all set

    • @NGRevenant
      @NGRevenant 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      are you from SNAKE'S REVENGE?

    • @btr3k
      @btr3k 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +69

      Perhaps stating the obvious here, but Ayatollah Khomeini (Higharolla Kockamamie) and Muammar Gaddafi (Vermon(?) CaTaffy) were top of mind back in the 80s, so "funny" versions of their names were often thrown around.

    • @stylis666
      @stylis666 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      @@btr3k And they weren't even in the game XD

    • @josephwalker1853
      @josephwalker1853 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      ​@stylis666 i think the localization team were just screwing around lol.

  • @MariktheGunslinger
    @MariktheGunslinger 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +849

    A final boss in a Metal Gear game that suddenly becomes insanely tall and buff with seemingly no weaknesses? That's batsh*t insane!

    • @nguyenquyetthang1326
      @nguyenquyetthang1326 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +146

      NANOMACHINE, SON

    • @emperorfaiz
      @emperorfaiz 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +60

      STANDING HERE, I REALIZE.....

    • @alrecks619
      @alrecks619 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +58

      Part man, Part Machine, All BOSS.

    • @furrychicken448
      @furrychicken448 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      @@emperorfaiz YOUR LIKE ME

    • @tylerironside8109
      @tylerironside8109 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      ​@@furrychicken448Lyric butchered

  • @StormsparkPegasus
    @StormsparkPegasus 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +529

    The train story...the employee that approached Kojima didn't just tell him about Snake's Revenge. He told him that he didn't feel it would be a proper sequel, and said he wanted Kojima to develop a proper sequel.

    • @TeruteruBozusama
      @TeruteruBozusama 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +94

      Oof, I hope that employee is safe and happy somewhere.

    • @alex_-yz9to
      @alex_-yz9to 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

      its funny to think that a bunch of game sequels during this era didnt have the series director working on them... usually because they were working on something else or because they straight up didnt think about that!

    • @Dareon0
      @Dareon0 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      I'll be honest... the story sounds fishy. It doesn't seem like a conversation that's likely to have happened and really puts a lot of self importance on Kojima himself. It sounds like what someone would come up with who thinks really highly of themselves. I wouldn't be surprised if what actually happened was that he overheard about Snake's Revenge being made and decided that it was his project, so he should make his own sequel. Seems honestly just as likely, if not more so.

    • @alex_-yz9to
      @alex_-yz9to 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      @@Dareon0 i mean you underestimate how friendships could exist back in this era of game making, i mean when you're working on random games like Kojima was you'd be bound to interact with other staff at least once

    • @Dareon0
      @Dareon0 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      @@alex_-yz9to The fishiness comes from how he presents it. This is Japanese culture we're talking about, but there's not a hint of humility on Kojima's side. It reads massively narcissistic

  • @Last_Person
    @Last_Person 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1172

    Whenever I see a new episode of just bad games I know I’m in for the worst time in the best way

    • @tripolarmdisorder7696
      @tripolarmdisorder7696 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      If I wasn't convinced they frustrate themselves on purpose, I'd wonder if they were still mentally sound.

    • @dn22pkkdd476
      @dn22pkkdd476 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Snake's Revenge will always be canonical....in my heart

    • @Ruronini
      @Ruronini 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Why I love seeing other people suffer with the games of my youth?

    • @ReigoVassal
      @ReigoVassal 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Watching someone torture themselves to play/watch terrible game/movie is my own satisfaction

    • @Dkrule1
      @Dkrule1 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I'm a month late, but when it's over 25 minutes, I get popcorn

  • @civx343
    @civx343 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +140

    I like how in the codex conversation he goes AHHHHHHHHHHHH but then he has the decency to say “OVER” to end the call.

  • @AgentMonochrome
    @AgentMonochrome 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +252

    John's train dialogue carries the same energy as "There is no war in Ba Sing Se."

    • @QJ89
      @QJ89 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      "We are at war with Eastasia. We have always been at war with Eastasia."
      "These are not the droids you're after."
      "You did not see a UFO."
      "John Turner was never on this train."

    • @yoshifan3077
      @yoshifan3077 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      And also rest in peace to John Madden

  • @dasaiyantv8483
    @dasaiyantv8483 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +626

    It's honestly amazing how the original Metal Gear has THREE different sequel games (Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake, Metal Gear: Snake's Revenge, and Metal Gear: Ghost Babel) and all three aren't canon to one another.

    • @seymorbuns5363
      @seymorbuns5363 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      Are the acid games also continuation’s of the first game?

    • @hoad1111
      @hoad1111 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      Ghost babel is a sequel to the first metal gear, and not the second one?

    • @dasaiyantv8483
      @dasaiyantv8483 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +58

      @@seymorbuns5363 It could be. Acid and Acid 2 are in their own timeline and the Snake from Acid is said to have a millitary background, but there is zero mention of Outer Heaven at all, so we can't confirm if MG1 is canon to it. Tbh, you could even slot in either MG2 or Ghost Babel and they work pretty much fine. There's too much conflicting stuff for any of the Solid games to be canon to it and Acid 2 though.

    • @dasaiyantv8483
      @dasaiyantv8483 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

      @@hoad1111 it directly conflicts with the plot of MG2 and MGS1 and the only references made to other games are to MG1 and somehow MGS2 even though it released before MGS2 did. Most people assume Ghost Babel is a made up story in-universe to be the setting for Raiden's VR training.

    • @Dynaman21
      @Dynaman21 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      @@hoad1111 Yeah. It takes place after MG1 and revealed Snake had to retire because the Outer Heaven incident went public, which made him a celebrity, but lousy for stealth missions.

  • @ThreePointOneFou
    @ThreePointOneFou 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +414

    June 17: Rerez devotes 50 minutes to explaining how bad Snake's Revenge is.
    June 21: Nintendo announces that Snake's Revenge is coming to the Switch.
    Life is funny sometimes...

    • @errorbirdesther
      @errorbirdesther 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

      They predicted it

    • @bonnierabbit1413
      @bonnierabbit1413 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

      I would rather have the twin Snakes back on the Nintendo switch for this master collection coming out

    • @WarDragonOfTheLight
      @WarDragonOfTheLight 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Maybe they saw it in some video game news and made this in response?

    • @First-Last_name
      @First-Last_name 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      I'm glad they made this video or I might have bought that trash.

    • @ValentinesEve1996
      @ValentinesEve1996 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Did Rerez just edited the time length of this video?

  • @galaxycamerata
    @galaxycamerata 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +528

    Fun fact;
    Kojima actually appreciated Snake's Revenge, albeit under the pretense of it being as kusoge (A game that is crappy, but to a hilarious extent rather than just frustrating)
    He thought that for all its warts it was still pretty faithful, and it actually showcased at Penny Arcade Expo for the franchise's 25th anniversary, an honor MG2 didn't have despite having a full English translation available through MGS3: Subsistence at that point, and MG2 explicitly mentions that it was rumored that Big Boss had been converted into a cyborg in reference to Snake's Revenge. It could even be argued that Venom Snake is an attempt to make a "canon" version of this game, since not only is Venom the reason Big Boss was rumored to be a cyborg, but his cybernetic arm is the same pronounced red as the "Powered Armor" of this game, and the entirety of MGSV is literally about Snake getting Revenge.

    • @MentalLiberation
      @MentalLiberation 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      Oh man. He'll get a kick out of this video then. 🤣

    • @illyay1337
      @illyay1337 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      I thought that red powered armor thing looked familiar

    • @zelectrode3337
      @zelectrode3337 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

      Wait, so does that mean that MGSV is a remake of Snake's Revenge? XD

    • @randomango2789
      @randomango2789 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      It looks like I’m the only person who genuinely enjoys this game. I don’t think it’s bad at all.

    • @MentalLiberation
      @MentalLiberation 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@randomango2789 you'll be happy to know that they're rereleasing it this October along with other games

  • @johnalogue9832
    @johnalogue9832 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +120

    I feel like there was a lost bullet point in the conclusion: Not only did the two sequels release within the same year, the better one was *pitched* during the development of the other!
    This game didn't just lose the race, it had a headstart.

  • @firstnamelastnamesb
    @firstnamelastnamesb 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +45

    "Vermon CaTaffy" and "Higharolla Kockamamie" really aren't that weird when you remember that the actual canon Metal Gear games have characters with names like "Hot Coldman".

    • @IsmailofeRegime
      @IsmailofeRegime 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      On the other hand, both names sounds like they belong in some weird Reagan-era movie about an all-American hero trying to overthrow totally-not-Gaddafi and totally-not-the-Ayatollah-Khomeini.

    • @KasumiKenshirou
      @KasumiKenshirou 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      @@IsmailofeRegime The third season of The Transformers cartoon had Abdul Fakkadi, who was the ruler of Carbombya. Casey Kasem quit the show in protest.

    • @LorenHelgeson
      @LorenHelgeson 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      ​​@@IsmailofeRegimehank you. I knew about Gaddafi, but had no clue who Kockamamie was in reference to. I also remember BIG Boss was named Commander South, in reference to Colonel Oliver North of the Reagan-era Iran-Contra scandal. Ultra Games, skipping official back story to be politically topical.

  • @AluminumFusion22
    @AluminumFusion22 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +166

    It's really funny how Snake's Revenge has names like Highrolla Cockamamie and Kojima would go on to have characters named Die-Hardman, Heartman, and Deadman in Death Stranding. I really enjoy the game but those names are weird.

    • @KasumiRINA
      @KasumiRINA 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      Still got nothing on Tomino names... Quattro Bajeena?! Paptimus?.. FULL FRONTAL?!!!

    • @zeldagameryt4018
      @zeldagameryt4018 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      @@KasumiRINA Nah fam, that ain’t nothing compared to the names in Star Wars Kinect which are hilarious. Fenelle Druce and Dar Singe 😅

    • @thedarklink9000
      @thedarklink9000 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@KasumiRINA Then there is this guy with a girls name

    • @KasumiRINA
      @KasumiRINA 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      ​@@thedarklink9000KAMILLE IS A MAN'S NAME! *punches everyone in sight*
      I raise everyone Nasu and Western names in Fate, from Sola-Ui Nuada-Re Sophia-Ri to Ophelia Phamrsolone and Kirschtaria Wodime.

    • @PosthumanHeresy
      @PosthumanHeresy 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Tbh, that did not start in Death Stranding. Hot Coldman in Peace Walker started the trend.

  • @rcblazer
    @rcblazer 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +161

    So John's master plan was to get himself captured on purpose, resulting in him going missing (possibly dead) so just Snake could get into the enemy base because he somehow knew the guards were raised in a barn? That's some 4D Chess John's playing there with those tactics!

    • @QJ89
      @QJ89 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      When UrinatingTree was still reviewing games, he had a mini series called Half-Assed Theatre; this was one of those games he covered, where he played John as a very gay guy. Looking at this game again after so many years, John seems to be a gay Rambo, which I can appreciate.
      Yes, that is the first thing I think of when I think 'Snake's Revenge.' A crappy, outdated vid from 2008.

    • @Assimandeli
      @Assimandeli 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      @@QJ89 That's some old school youtube right there

    • @justanotheryoutubechannel
      @justanotheryoutubechannel หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Considering how he turned out to be a double agent, that actually makes more sense. He either knew the guards would do that from his time with the enemy, or he deliberately told them to leave the door open.

  • @UtushoReiuji
    @UtushoReiuji 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +273

    My great trick to figuring out the two NES Metal Gear games was when I accidentally tilted the cartridge in my top-loader as a kid, it make the game's graphics super blocky but basically revealed where the enemies look, all the traps, and the doors would look slightly differently to indicate what card to use. Probably the most odd way I made the games enjoyable for myself as a kid.

    • @ddjsoyenby
      @ddjsoyenby 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      you're a genius :O

    • @Gatorade69
      @Gatorade69 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      @@LittlepipMLP On the subject of game difficulty...
      For the most part the Japanese versions were *easier* than the North American releases. There's a few exceptions like the original Super Mario Bros 2 that never made it stateside until Allstars on the SNES because it was deemed too hard (and other reasons) by Howard Phillips.
      The North American releases were actually made harder to combat the rental market. If you are to rent a game and beat it in a night or two you would have no reason to buy the game so they artificially increased the difficulty. The first title that comes to mind is Bayou Billy which was so frustratingly hard but the Japanese release (I think It's called Mad City) you could actually beat and it was definitely nore balanced. There's of course lots of other titles that had their difficulty increased specifically for North America.

    • @Gatorade69
      @Gatorade69 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I had Metal Gear on NES... Except I was spared from playing it. As soon as you started the game it would freeze up. It would play the title screen and the demo mode just fine though. I don't know if I should be happy or sad about that.

    • @medes5597
      @medes5597 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      ​@@Gatorade69yeah the idea that "old games are hard because arcade" is nonsense. Games were hard because of the rental market. Game designers weren't sitting around going "I can't tell the difference between console and arcade audiences, and how we make money off them so I'll just act like they're the same" until some smart modern person went "what if you make game for console?" and blew everyone's mind. I feel like it's a great example of "were so smart today" thinking.
      The difficulty of games that weren't ports had nothing to do with the arcades.

    • @jacksonteller3973
      @jacksonteller3973 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@LittlepipMLP the ironic part is the Japanese versions of games like Battletoads and The Simpsons Arcade Game were considerably easier then the American versions.

  • @LonelySpaceDetective
    @LonelySpaceDetective 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +73

    Fun fact: If you call the codec buddy who gives you boss info while fighting Big Boss in Metal Gear 2, he goes on this wild tangent about a rumor where Big Boss (after being severely wounded in the events of MG1) supposedly became a test subject for a "Snatcher" experiment (a reference to Kojima's sci-fi adventure game of the same name); which has turned him into a cyborg.
    I mention this because it amuses me that both Snake's Revenge and MG2 make the same strangely specific stupid plot twist.

    • @PosthumanHeresy
      @PosthumanHeresy 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Meryl is also a character in Policenauts. Although that's set in 2040 and she looks maybe 10 years older than her MGS1 counterpart. Policenauts Meryl is basically the Power Girl to MGS Meryl's Kara Zor-El.

    • @lpfan4491
      @lpfan4491 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      The funny thing is that the dialogue in MG2:SS is actually not even meant to be lore, it is meant to be a reference to SR:MG2, because it is the earlier game. Just that absolutely nobody got that reference until years later because one game was not localized and the other only had its localized version released to avoid selfcompetition and overlap.

    • @LonelySpaceDetective
      @LonelySpaceDetective 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@lpfan4491 I could be wrong but I always assumed that at the time Kojima would've had little idea about what Konami was doing with Snake's Revenge beyond that it existed, considering he wasn't even aware it was happening until a co-worker told him by happenstance. He also probably couldn't have played it on his own back then, as it never had a Japanese release.
      It strikes me as more likely it was a wild coincidence, with the unknown scenario writer of SR just happening to be on the same wavelength as Kojima for that one moment.

  • @Mr.Smiley_J
    @Mr.Smiley_J 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

    My mom bought me this game on purpose...by accident. There's this game called "Snake Rattle and Roll" that I loved, and the local video game store, Funcoland, had like a menu/news letter thing that listed all the games they had. My little kid brain saw "Snakes Revenge" coming right after my Snake game in alphabetical order and figured this must be the sequel and asked my mom to get it for me as it was only like 8 bucks. Boy, was I surprised when instead of a fun game with snakes, she brings home this impossible army man game.

  • @tonybippitykaye
    @tonybippitykaye 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +224

    I feel games like Metal Gear and Snakes Revenge emphasize the importance of a key ring, or at least more descriptive keys, in modern games. Imagine going through fallout or elder scrolls and you have to shuffle through the pile of keys you collect throughout the game just to open a single door you can’t lock pick.

    • @JHenry-nz7hy
      @JHenry-nz7hy 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      You can do this in Judgment, as long as you don't buy the upgrade that tells you which key goes where

    • @chubokuway
      @chubokuway 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      And most of the keys have different models, so it's actually reasonable to remember them

    • @eduardopena5893
      @eduardopena5893 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      I guess you're no......."Master of Unlocking."

    • @tonybippitykaye
      @tonybippitykaye 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@eduardopena5893 I’m no Jill “Sandwich” Valentine, no.

    • @eduardopena5893
      @eduardopena5893 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@tonybippitykaye I've got THIS!

  • @CaptainFalcoZC
    @CaptainFalcoZC 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

    And so the prophesy has been fulfilled and Snake's Revenge was re-released into the world in the MGS collection Vol 1.

  • @alex_-yz9to
    @alex_-yz9to 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

    fun fact the grenade trio bosses on the ships have actual names... apparetnly they are named Harry, Curly and Moe

    • @KasumiKenshirou
      @KasumiKenshirou 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Is "Harry" a typo on your part, or did they really misspell "Larry"?

    • @yugoprowers
      @yugoprowers 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@KasumiKenshirou Probably because Harry is easier than Larry for Japanese.

    • @alex_-yz9to
      @alex_-yz9to 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@KasumiKenshirou i looked back at where i heard it... and yes they did spell it HARRY instead of LARRY

  • @H-dub
    @H-dub 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +203

    Since this game is called Snake’s Revenge, and Big Boss is the only character who mentions *wanting* revenge, I think that might be an incredible called-shot about Big Boss’ backstory 🤔

    • @robbiewalker2831
      @robbiewalker2831 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

      Because Big Boss’ old name was Naked Snake.

    • @polytanksan5761
      @polytanksan5761 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      They really did just take a shot in the dark and hit a bullseye

    • @PosthumanHeresy
      @PosthumanHeresy 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Well, we already had the twist that he was Solid Snake's father (cloning would only come into play in MGS1), and Solid Snake is a codename, so it wasn't the hardest shot to take.

    • @IzzuddinRafli
      @IzzuddinRafli 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@PosthumanHeresyWasn't the whole father thing from MGS1, though? His last words in MG2 didn't have that

    • @shawnfields2369
      @shawnfields2369 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@IzzuddinRafliNope; his last words about him being Snake's father were in MGS4, weren't they?

  • @KantiDono
    @KantiDono 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +47

    Nintendo just announced Snake's Revenge is coming to the Switch.
    Your timing with this video was really incredible.

  • @Geno746
    @Geno746 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

    I wasn't sold on a heavy duty tank but once I learned it can attack from all angles my dream of attacking at an obtuse angle can finally be fulfilled.

    • @UltimaDoombotMK1
      @UltimaDoombotMK1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Nah, attacking at right angles is clearly the way to go

    • @Geno746
      @Geno746 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@UltimaDoombotMK1 Please do not trample on my obtuse dreams.

    • @UltimaDoombotMK1
      @UltimaDoombotMK1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@Geno746 I shan't, for they are valid. I'm just saying, tactically, you want to be using right angles

  • @Dynaman21
    @Dynaman21 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +159

    I do give this game some credit. It inspired Kojima to make a proper Metal Gear 2, starring Mel Gibson on the MSX and that one art piece everywhere else. And that’s why we have Metal Gear as we know it. For better or worse.

    • @Invidente7
      @Invidente7 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      And Sean Connery as Big Boss.

    • @tedjomuljono3052
      @tedjomuljono3052 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      Policenauts is literally just Anime Lethal Weapon, i guess Mel was his favorite actor at that time, not anymore tho it seems

    • @AluminumFusion22
      @AluminumFusion22 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      ​@@tedjomuljono3052Snatcher is anime Blade Runner.

    • @KasumiRINA
      @KasumiRINA 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      ​@@tedjomuljono3052pretty hard to continue being a fan of Mel with how batshit insane he became. Heard he's trying to pull off Oliver Stone / Steven Seagal and star in some russian propaganda movie.

    • @Dynaman21
      @Dynaman21 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@KasumiRINA Nah, just a John Wick prequel.

  • @SheepUndefined
    @SheepUndefined 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

    It's worth noting that not only were they told to "make the game different" and all that, but the code they were given was PROTOTYPE CODE.

    • @turricanrocks1552
      @turricanrocks1552 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      WHAT.

    • @LeSarthois
      @LeSarthois 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@turricanrocks1552 To be fair, since it applies to the first game, MSX2 and NES don't even run on the same processor (Z80 and 6502) so they likely didn't got any code at all.

    • @turricanrocks1552
      @turricanrocks1552 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@LeSarthois Yeah, fair enough.

  • @coldsnap5742
    @coldsnap5742 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +60

    Watching ProJared suffer through Snake's Revenge was painful.
    So. Much. Cheapness.

  • @daranyillh6446
    @daranyillh6446 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    The secret entrance hole is especially bad considering the last boss teaches the player that holes are Instant Death

  • @corymorimacori1059
    @corymorimacori1059 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

    “Revenge is a fool’s game.” Arthur Morgan

  • @SuperJM9
    @SuperJM9 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

    At the time that Snake's Revenge was released, Konami of America would make up their own story for the manuals, which had nothing to do with the actual in-game story. This is why the backstories for Metal Gear NES and Snake's Revenge are so strange and are never mentioned in the games themselves. The MSX2 release of Metal Gear in Europe got the proper backstory for the game in the manual. Even worse, because Snake's Revenge was never released in Japan, we don't know what its real backstory was supposed to be beyond the limited information in-game.
    The title Snake's Revenge made no sense at the time either, and may also have been made up by Konami of America. By pure coincidence it does make sense now, as Big Boss was retconned in MGS3 to have once been known as Naked Snake. Another funny coincidence related to the later games is how Peace Day never came in Peace Walker but World Peace Day is declared in Snake's Revenge.
    The requirement to swap keycards for doors was implemented because Kojima wanted to simulate the feeling of frantically searching for the correct keycard to a door. He wanted to implement a similar system in MGS1 (presumably like that in MG2) but he was thankfully talked out of it.
    The MSX2 release of MG2 doesn't have a list of names you can call on the radio, you have to keep track of the radio frequencies yourself like MG1. You can however type in the frequencies to the radio using the MSX2's keyboard, which is pretty cool.

  • @SonJazrin
    @SonJazrin 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +76

    I didn't realize until years after this game's release that it was not an official metal gear game, but that being said, I loved this game as a kid.

    • @LUCKO2022
      @LUCKO2022 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      But it is an official Metal Gear game... just not a canon game.

    • @shawnfields2369
      @shawnfields2369 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@LUCKO2022Yep. While "Snake's Revenge" isn't a very good or Canon MGS game; its still an MGS game regardless. Just not one that Kojima himself is a huge fan of.

    • @Ealais76
      @Ealais76 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@shawnfields2369I think Kojima actually likes this one, but in an ironic way.

  • @NeoGames2
    @NeoGames2 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +62

    You guys know damn well you did the 52 card pick up bit as an AVGN reference considering he covered the original game years ago and I love you guys for that.

    • @andrewcruz1931
      @andrewcruz1931 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      So you love plagiarism

    • @GDRunny
      @GDRunny 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@andrewcruz1931 one writer plagiarized. James never did

  • @rickwong9049
    @rickwong9049 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +52

    Snake's Revenge was pretty much the Survive of the 'original series' back then.

  • @WhyisAlpharius69
    @WhyisAlpharius69 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

    Man, I love seeing random people in an odd position dressed up as the airforce pilots while riding wheelchairs with propellers at 16:27 instead of birds.

  • @RosesSpindle
    @RosesSpindle 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +99

    Fun fact! Ishkabibil, or rather, ishkabibble, is some old-timey slang that basically means "no big deal" or "who cares?"
    Considering the game Adam and Shane just sufferered through, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that they care. They care *a lot*.

    • @KasumiKenshirou
      @KasumiKenshirou 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      I looked up what you were talking about and found out it came from a guy with the stage name Ish Kabbible. He got the name from a faux-Yiddish word.

    • @jelhaj7769
      @jelhaj7769 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      The guy who made the Animaniacs and also Freakazoid always would use Ishkabible when making comedy bits as kind of a nonsensical word..

  • @benthorpe8699
    @benthorpe8699 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Who knows what blood curdling war machines the enemy have sniffing us out... "TH-cam premium ad plays"

  • @Propanesucka
    @Propanesucka 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

    Fun fact: Snake's Revenge was confirmed as being part of the upcoming Metal Gear: Master Collection. That's right, you'll soon be able to play this masterpiece in HD!

    • @hatad321
      @hatad321 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Gives me hope that there might be more less popular games in the rest of the collection.
      Like Ac!d 1&2.

    • @Beetlejuice_Sam
      @Beetlejuice_Sam 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@hatad321I am hoping too. Plus also Portable Ops and its Plus expansion!

    • @VOAN
      @VOAN 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      It'll at least have save-states this time so now the pain is less painful.

    • @mrfoxly6833
      @mrfoxly6833 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Right, about those replys… … …

  • @GravityRaider
    @GravityRaider 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    The plushie advertisement in the beginning felt like a fake parody of a commercial in the very best way possible.

  • @namelesslang5909
    @namelesslang5909 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    It says something when the sequel that involves poisonous hamsters, raising an owl for the purpose of tricking a guard that it's night-time when it's broad daylight, and someone ending a military call to answer the door for pizza is that much more gripping, easy to follow, and better as a sequel.

    • @FubukiTheIcyKing
      @FubukiTheIcyKing 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Which one was that?

    • @shawnfields2369
      @shawnfields2369 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@FubukiTheIcyKingEither the original Metal Gear Solid(for PS1), or if we're talking about the Metal Gear timeline itself then the next game was Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake.

    • @djangophett9710
      @djangophett9710 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@FubukiTheIcyKing Metal Gear 2 Solid Snake

  • @cyberprime9355
    @cyberprime9355 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +108

    Well, that is surprising. Who would've imagined a bad sequel would've led to the man who made the franchise retcon it out of existence with a proper stellar sequel. Hat's off to you Kojima

    • @charlesplante
      @charlesplante 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Remember when James Cameron tried that with Terminator? And when Ridley Scott tried it with Alien? Kojima who wishes he was a movie director does their job better some times.

  • @cartmann94
    @cartmann94 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +163

    We’re gonna need a lot of POT’s to go through this game.

    • @user-dm7zk3ue2v
      @user-dm7zk3ue2v 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      I think the developers were on all the POT’s

    • @gratuitouslurking8610
      @gratuitouslurking8610 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      We're also gonna need a lot more hemp to tie this story together.

    • @viscountrainbows2857
      @viscountrainbows2857 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      @@gratuitouslurking8610 This game would have been greatly improved if they substituted the key cards for fuse boxes.

    • @KasumiKenshirou
      @KasumiKenshirou 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@viscountrainbows2857 Spoony references? I wasn't expecting that in 2023.

    • @viscountrainbows2857
      @viscountrainbows2857 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@KasumiKenshirou Yeah I'm showing my age here

  • @universalperson
    @universalperson 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +97

    The people who were doing Konami's US instruction manuals and stuff rhad a tendency to just... *make things up*
    This produces things like the whole alternate US Contra continuity, which exists only because of the manuals. Then you have Gradius calling it's bosses "Mayors".
    Even when this works, like in the Legend of the Mystical Ninja where the wacky instruction manual compliments the game, the manual still talks about a nonexistent "Dragonbeast".

    • @Wolfstanus
      @Wolfstanus 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I have a hint for you, it wasn't just Konami or the US making up random stuff for manuals

    • @lpfan4491
      @lpfan4491 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Localized manuals were really a free for all. Just that it is a major issue for Snake's revenge specifically because only the localized version of the game actually released. For NES Metal Gear, the misconceptions introduced were more easily dispelled because "hey, all this nonsense isn't in the japanese manual".

  • @bigjohnsbreakfastlog5819
    @bigjohnsbreakfastlog5819 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    On the plus side, one of the creators talked to Kojima and said "Hey, we made this game, but this doesn't feel authentic, would you mind taking another crack at Metal Gear?", and thus Solid Snake was created for the MSX.
    So despite it's cruddy reputation and lack of canonity, it's probably one of the most important games in the franchise.

  • @knucklesx1705
    @knucklesx1705 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Love how a port to the switch was announced literal days after this video released

  • @Phantom.Gaming64
    @Phantom.Gaming64 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    The box art was oddly censored at Europe region for Snake's Revenge, removing all guns and even the lady on the cover got a censorship treatment. So it looks bit awkward with Snake having his fist raised as Metal Gear is at the background ready to kill him.

  • @ExeloMinish
    @ExeloMinish 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +46

    Calling the mech "Metal Gear 2" makes the entire thing hilarious. Really gives it an air of "SNAKE YOU NEED TO STOP THEM BEFORE THEY MAKE A BETTER GAME THAN THIS ONE"

    • @kronemerj
      @kronemerj 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ha

    • @MrBlueSkyof1607
      @MrBlueSkyof1607 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      My God, the revenge was Kojima!

  • @LORDOFDORKNESS42
    @LORDOFDORKNESS42 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I mean, a super soldier American football team using sports tactics on the battlefield, IS pretty on brand for Metal Gear.

    • @shawnfields2369
      @shawnfields2369 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yeah; that does actually sound like something you'd see in a Metal Gear Solid game. Could be as a reference to a sports team; or as an actual boss or boss codename. I mean; they had something as crazy as Dead Cell in MGS2; with a ballet dancing vampire like man named Vamp;
      a roller-skating former bomb disposal specialist turned terrorist named Fatman;
      I think there was one guy with ravens or something? I forget I haven't played MGS2 in a long time... And also; their leader was the former president of the United States; AND the perfect clone of Big Boss; (Solidus Snake) AND also; he also raised Raiden; to be the perfect child solider; as well. So yeah; basically; Metal Gear Solid has a lot of insane stuff; but that's part of why it's a great series overall.

  • @TheBlargMarg
    @TheBlargMarg 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    Little off topic, I feel like the Game Boy Color version of Metal Gear Solid is extremely underrated for how fantastic of a game it is. It's one of my favorite Game Boy Color games.

  • @shinyagumon7015
    @shinyagumon7015 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

    The names on the back of the box are straight up GI Joe level of corny, maybe even worse.
    Also, John being a turncoat at least makes his decision to surrender immediately on the off chance that the enemy might leave the door open less dumb. I almost expected us to find him dead in a crate somewhere.

    • @shawnfields2369
      @shawnfields2369 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Ah; so John being a traitor does make him surrendering early on less dumb; you're right. And yep, the names are GI Joe level stupidity. But remember, Metal Gear characters just HAVE dumb codenames like that throughout the series; and even though Snake's Revenge is non-canon, it's still got the dumb names. But official characters still have dumb names, like Liquid Snake, or Otacon(which is the shortened versions of both "Otaku" and "Convention", as explained by Otacon himself), or "Quiet"; or Revolver Ocelot; oh wait, that's not really a dumb name; Ocelot does a lot of cool things in the series; and is directly connected to The Boss and Big Boss, but it's never explained how. At least; not to me...

  • @storyclubyoung3602
    @storyclubyoung3602 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

    Did anyone else come back to comment on this video after it was announced that this game is coming to switch? It's going to be part of a collection

    • @crystalwings4520
      @crystalwings4520 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah, lol.
      I bet Vol. 2 will have more larger games.

    • @bluespaceman7937
      @bluespaceman7937 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      We all did.

  • @DawnOfTheOzz
    @DawnOfTheOzz 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

    Doofus Snake is kinda adorable. I hope he shows up in more videos.

    • @ryanbauer3680
      @ryanbauer3680 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I hope he has a team up with Bat "Mah-Pah-Rents-Er-Ded!" Man.

    • @shawnfields2369
      @shawnfields2369 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@ryanbauer3680"And who are you? Some kind of bat themed super solider, with a credit card?"

  • @dereknight861
    @dereknight861 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Sooooooo uh
    Nintendo just announced metal gear master collection including this game…
    YOU OPENED PANDORAS BOX AND NOW IT IS LOOSE!!!

  • @LorenHelgeson
    @LorenHelgeson 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +110

    A new Rerez? And Snake's revenge to boot? Fantastic start to my weekend.

    • @notkimpine
      @notkimpine 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      we need more rerez content like this.

    • @gracekim25
      @gracekim25 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Yeah 😊

  • @ThePickleBehindTheSlaughter
    @ThePickleBehindTheSlaughter 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    the worst part of the NES port is that enemies respawn when you open your inventory or use the binoculars lmao

  • @alessiominervini1175
    @alessiominervini1175 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    "I killed war" is the best sentence ever.

  • @DoodleThis
    @DoodleThis 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +160

    I’m SO happy you guys made another money ghost plushie! I bought the first one you made so OF COURSE I was gonna waste…. I mean… buy the new one!

    • @ddjsoyenby
      @ddjsoyenby 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      we need to give money ghost a friend.

    • @QF_Dan72
      @QF_Dan72 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      money ghost needs a companion

    • @gracekim25
      @gracekim25 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Given I missed the first one I HAD to get this one

    • @shawnfields2369
      @shawnfields2369 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@gracekim25I'm sorry to hear that; because if I had the money, I'd gladly buy you one; Ms

  • @EpicLebaneseNerd
    @EpicLebaneseNerd 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

    i played this game in 1992, it was my first MG game, and i was in love.
    It tortured me, i won't lie, almost gave up on it, but then i noticed how smart this game is.
    Having to leave on screen in a specific area to avoid being spotted was so outside the box for 1992.
    the music is great , the gadgets are great.
    it is a very unfair game.
    i think the infinite ration glitch helped me out a lot.
    While many crap on this game, i owe it a lot and i say it is a good game and i will die on that hill.

    • @kennymetz187
      @kennymetz187 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      I agree I like this game better than the first

    • @EpicLebaneseNerd
      @EpicLebaneseNerd 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @kennymentzer8076 never had the pleasure to play the first game but I am sure I would have loved it then , I was 10 years old at the time and jumping from games like operation wolf and back to the earth to this one was amazing....same story for the snes final fantasy mistiq quest, dumbed down but for a 90s kid like me, it was a good start.

    • @hekboogie1
      @hekboogie1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Cool video but I enjoyed this game back in the day

    • @TheMortalkombat2007
      @TheMortalkombat2007 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@EpicLebaneseNerd You should play the original MSX game. It is actually on GOG right now, but skip the NES version, that game was trash. While I did not like Snake's Revenge but it did fix some issues what Metal Gear on NES has, mostly where enemies patrol depending on which side of the screen Snake's enters from so enemies do not instantly find Snake, which was what the original MSX game did as well but the NES game did not. The hit detection was also a bit better in Snake's Revenge. Really, it was just the opening area before John is caught, and the 2D plane sections that crapped up the game otherwise, Snake's Revenge could have been good. You should also play Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake but that one is not so accessible these day.

    • @EpicLebaneseNerd
      @EpicLebaneseNerd 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@TheMortalkombat2007 i am honestly waiting for the new remaster of the metal gear games that includes the MSX versions so will play them there, i am pretty sure i have the MSX versions on ps3 on a MGS remaster disc.....and yesh, i should play them, will wait for the Remaster, if not, then will purchase them.

  • @SonicMania2099
    @SonicMania2099 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Also, Snake's Revenge probably couldn't be no worst than Metal Gear Survive

  • @XshadowringX
    @XshadowringX 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    The best episodes yet.
    I love this version of Snake, how you made him talk and such. Made me laugh, and also man, Konami that was awful what they did.
    Great work on this video.
    May give the games a try one day

  • @IBM_9001
    @IBM_9001 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    The John Madden bit got me good, you guys have some really creative gags 😆

  • @Brainwav
    @Brainwav 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Konami heard you like Snake's Revenge enough to re-release it on Switch.

  • @fierifipor
    @fierifipor 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I love how the Madden impression would occasionally slide into Jimmy Stewart

  • @Oytruestoryofjim
    @Oytruestoryofjim 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

    I hope you guys do more NES games. This was pretty fun.

    • @ddjsoyenby
      @ddjsoyenby 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      we need ghosts and goblins.

  • @waltercomunello121
    @waltercomunello121 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    so this is basically an in-house bootleg. pretty rare.

  • @jacobxiaolong9104
    @jacobxiaolong9104 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Unrelated but:
    I would love to see a Just Bad Games episode on Gollum someday!

  • @SWEARBRADY
    @SWEARBRADY 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    That madden part had me dying!!! Love you guys.

    • @andrewcruz1931
      @andrewcruz1931 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Make fun of a wonderful sports icon . Yeah super wholesome.

  • @ZekeAxel
    @ZekeAxel 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    The true AVGN successors.

  • @TheDorkKnight5419
    @TheDorkKnight5419 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

    This is an absolutely wonderful surprise for the day. Can we get a Just Bad Games for the Iron Man games?

    • @notkimpine
      @notkimpine 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      requested an bad ps vita games

    • @wolfdragox5563
      @wolfdragox5563 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I think the first one wasn’t that bad

  • @kimbercustompro1911
    @kimbercustompro1911 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    That box art man Channeling some classic Rob Liefeld right there, complete with ridiculously unorthodox pose and muscles. Awesome.

  • @forcedemodo
    @forcedemodo 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    25:12 I guess Snake wasn’t ready for some football

  • @AndyAKratz
    @AndyAKratz 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I remember trying to play this quite a few times - on the actual NES and emulation. I kept thinking to myself that it was supposed to be a good game because it's based on Metal Gear. I never could play for more than 10 or 15 minutes. Now I know why.

  • @Shadowfox607
    @Shadowfox607 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Now we need Rerez to do a review of Gollum.

    • @jacobxiaolong9104
      @jacobxiaolong9104 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Heck, even Forspoken deserves a Just Bad Games episode!

    • @ItsameOPTIMUSPRIME
      @ItsameOPTIMUSPRIME 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@jacobxiaolong9104 Gollum... It's just *BAD*

  • @CGB_Crash
    @CGB_Crash 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Boy, I didn't know just how much of a long time coming the Kojima/Konami split was.

  • @CrimsoniteSP
    @CrimsoniteSP 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The fact Kojima wasn't told about the Metal Gear port almost reminds me of when Sakurai wasn't told about Smash Bros Brawl's development until it was publicly announced.

  • @oldfan4049
    @oldfan4049 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Guard 1: IS THERE ANYONE?!
    Guard 2 (dead): ...
    Guard 1: OKAY! GOOD!

  • @ScrambledAndBenedict
    @ScrambledAndBenedict 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

    Even if you want to say nothing else good about this game, you gotta admit it has a killer soundtrack.

  • @PosthumanHeresy
    @PosthumanHeresy 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I gotta say, the "terrorism" thing in the absurd manual plot gives some real "Deus Ex's discussion of terrorism was meant to sound extreme and absurd but 9/11 happened a year later and reality shifted to sound like the fiction" vibes. Like, "Prisoners of Terrorism" literally just sounds like some 2000s nonsense. "They're not POWs because we refuse to call it war."

  • @scottneil1187
    @scottneil1187 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    There was a port of the original Metal Gear on old phones, the ones before smartphones hit, I had it on my Sony W810i, was a great port.

  • @mrfoxly6833
    @mrfoxly6833 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    It’s not just Robocop in there.
    Pretty sure our “let me get captured” traitor friend John is Rambo.
    I think they were trying to cover all the 80s action classics given how Snake on Metal Gear’s boxart is Kyle Reece from the Terminator.

    • @KasumiKenshirou
      @KasumiKenshirou 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      And there is a device called "Metal Gear 2", just like how RoboCop 2 literally has a cyborg named "RoboCop 2" in it. (It doesn't really work since they didn't call the GAME "Metal Gear 2", though.)

  • @realtsarbomba
    @realtsarbomba 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Snake's revenge was actually pretty good, I had it back in the 90's and played it through many, many times.

  • @thenumberquelve158
    @thenumberquelve158 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Your conversations with Snake throughout the video were incredibly entertaining, and "Princess Coolplan Is In Another Castle" was brilliant. Another awesome job as usual, guys.
    Also.... why the heck did Kojima-san put up with Konami's crap for as long as he did? Dude has saintly patience, that's for sure.

    • @redjed100
      @redjed100 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Well, Kojima didn’t have his name plastered on games until the original “Metal Gear Solid.” So he initially had to keep within Konami’s system during that game’s development. Plus, the people in Konami’s head office probably changed between “Metal Gear 2” and the original “Solid.”

    • @thenumberquelve158
      @thenumberquelve158 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@redjed100 Mmm. All fair. I forget how few ultra-retro games actually bothered to credit real names in their production; it was very systematic back in the day. And as times evolve the head of companies had to as well.

  • @yoshifan3077
    @yoshifan3077 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    25:40 rest in peace John Madden

  • @KamekSans
    @KamekSans 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    The John Madden gag is so good lmao

  • @breakdown6681
    @breakdown6681 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Reality is often stranger than fiction, as this gets ported to modern consoles in October

  • @calebtesfaye3925
    @calebtesfaye3925 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This and your Batman and robin review are my favorite ones since I absolutely love how the main characters became "guest stars" and interacted with you guys!

  • @pippin606
    @pippin606 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I died at the baby legs 😂

  • @RadicalRickEntertainment
    @RadicalRickEntertainment 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    0:24 The irony of wasting money on a ghost of wasting money on things lol.

  • @xChris_Kentx
    @xChris_Kentx 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    After the Ghost says "I hate advertisements" the LITERALLY play a Google ad behind him. 😂😂😂😂

  • @GothicDude-mu5qf
    @GothicDude-mu5qf 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    The guards in Metal Gear are a lot like Konami, they "Feel asleep".😈

  • @MercenaryX21
    @MercenaryX21 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    And this happened days before nintendo directs metal gear solid volume one collection came out with snake's revenge in it.

  • @LorenHelgeson
    @LorenHelgeson 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Thanks, Rerez. This review of Snake's Revenge was awesome. By the way, that whole Higharolla Kockamamie and Vermon Cataffey story is covered in even more "detail" in the manual of the NES version of Metal Gear. I'm completely convinced that whichever employee at Ultra Games was responsible for coming up with the fever dream of a backstory in both the manual and the blurbs for both game boxes NEVER played a single second of either game.

    • @gts560
      @gts560 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I read somewhere that the names were plays on :
      Ayatollah Khomeini
      And
      Muammar al-Gaddafi

    • @LorenHelgeson
      @LorenHelgeson 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I've seen several sources that say they were. There was also Commander South, a riff on Lt. Colonel North, associated with the Iran-Contra scandal which was very topical at the time.

    • @lpfan4491
      @lpfan4491 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yeah, it's complete bs the localization made up. Much more damaging for Snake's revenge too, because its japanese version never released(Because it would have overlapped with the other Metal Gear 2, which only got to the west years later for inverse reasoning), so people only caught on much later that it was not actually canon to the game.

  • @BBHood217
    @BBHood217 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    As it turns out, it was this Snake that got all the recessive genes.

    • @shawnfields2369
      @shawnfields2369 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      So, he's the perfect clone of Big Boss then? He's Solidus Snake? The president of the US?

  • @TheGundamDude8045
    @TheGundamDude8045 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    And with the recent Nintendo Direct of Metal Gear Collection Vol 1, Now people are gonna buy to experience this game first hand with all it's faulty glory.
    Its funny how once again, this game became the pillar for the whole series not once, but twice now. It's unfaithful yes, but we also owe a big thanks to its existance.

  • @hughmungus1501
    @hughmungus1501 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I recall that if you got Metal Gear Solid 3 Substance for the PS2, it came with 2 disks. With one of them having Metal Gear on the MSX, it's how i played it as a kid.

  • @ericquinones7043
    @ericquinones7043 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    Thank you for enduring these bad games for our entertainment! This series is amazing! And I just found this channel like 2 weeks ago! Where have I been??! Keep up the hard work!

  • @hoad1111
    @hoad1111 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Just finished metal gear solid: portable ops, amazing timing

  • @machinismus
    @machinismus 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The fact that Metal Gear development has always been this insane is hilarious and fits perfectly with the games themselves.

    • @shawnfields2369
      @shawnfields2369 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes; that's exactly what I was thinking...outside this cardboard box.

  • @judojamie379
    @judojamie379 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Good thing you made this video now 4 days before the reveal it was coming back to switch

  • @frogace55
    @frogace55 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    So. . . considering the MGS collection is dropping, who's ready to waste money on this game?