My mother in law just died, 7am today. Thanks for having this out bright and early; it helped give me a bright spot in what is sure to be a horrible day.
Last SNES drunk of 2020, Thanks for all your hard working making all these amzing videos Hope you and yours have a great New Year's Eve and an even better 2021
My favorite Data East games are Atomic Runner and Windjammers. They had a lot of other great games, though. it seemed for a short while they were going to be sorta the halfway indie/halfway big budget games production house when it came to arcade games...and then Street Fighter II happened. I feel like Street Fighter II did to arcade games what Nirvana did to the rock scene...it drastically changed the landscape and expectations so much that it killed half the mainstays in the scene overnight.
Ah yes, the 'Empire of Gaul': that well documented 4th-century European kingdom populated by magical elves and late-medieval era knights, and 100% politically independent from Rome.
There was a break away state called the Gallic Empire that existed in the third century A.D. It is a pretty interesting period of Roman history if you are into that sort of thing.
@@thealtered7 There was but it wasn't... that. The setting of this game just seems like a bad Japanese Greyhawk rip-off, or like a bargain bin Record of Lodoss War. Honestly I don't get why the game claims it's set in 4th Century Gaul given how obviously it isn't. It's like if the in-game text in Megaman X claimed it was set in the Weimar Republic.
the games from Data East and Irem will always be a guaranteed interesting time since they are the kings of well polished odd ball games like In the Hunt & Undercover Cops from Irem and Night Slashers & Boogy Wings for Data East
I find it funny most characters look like proper European medieval fantasy but somehow the Wizard looks Egyptian as hell ^^ Your videos are always a highlight of any day, thanks for your content!
This is a great final video for 2020. I remember blowing so much money on this at the Arcades. In fact all of these arcade game videos you've been doing are wonderful. It really makes me miss the arcades in their prime. Not what they are now mostly (casinos for kids)
Just as a head's up, these Data East arcade games go on sale on Switch ALL the time. Don't pay full price - they're sometimes just a couple bucks each. And this one is definitely worth a couple bucks for that amazing voice acting alone.
You aren't kidding about that amazing voice acting. I'm awful at arcade games, but I'm totally going to see how far I can get to hear how many of those I'll hear before I game over!
I really like when you review arcade games because it’ll be something I’ll have never heard of, and the games are usually look pretty great and it’ll be something to play on MAME
Happy new year to you and your dog! You reviewed some pretty wild games this year. Cheers to you and may you bless us with more videos for years to come!
Happy New Years (Eve), SNESDrunk! Thanks for a great 2020. Looking forward to what you have in store for 2021! Wizard Fire looks cool...kinda feels like if Golden Axe mixed with one of the Capcom D&D games. That cheesy voice acting is icing on the cake. The status aliments must've been quarter munchers too
I find it hilarious how old D&D would have just "Elf" as a character class. Also, is it just me or is the elf in this game basically Deedlit from Record of Lodoss War?
I appreciate that you have been uploading consistent fresh top-notch quality content I truly look forward to watching and just makes my day that much better. Thank you for reading my comment and I hope you have a great rest of your day 😉😁
As soon as you said that it was on Nintendo switch eShop. I went literally right to my Nintendo switch went on eShop and download it for $2. Apparently it's on sale for just today. Thank you.👍✌
"Poisoned Water! /I'll smash it to bits!" Another great phrase to add to videogame quotes like "I'll kill you AND the Night! " and "I am error" Also Happy New Year !!
Oh man, I 'member seeing this game in the Arcades back in the day, I couldn't remember the name and I searched for it for a long time, in the end, I gave up... And then your video happened :D Thank you (Y)
I spent years trying to figure out the name of this game, or the one before it. Played it on MAME on my dad's old computer back in 1999/00 and it ran poorly. But I always remembered when we selected the character and the sounds were all drawn out. "iiii ammmm the baaaarrrd" Finally thought to Google that line and I got my answer. Lol. Anywho this game and the one before it are fun. Good review!
Fun fact: This game contains a lot of references to the Bitmap Brothers. A British developer of game like The Chaos Engine/Soldiers of Fortune and Speedball. This game could be the Japanese medival fantasy sequel to Chaos Engine. And there is a SNES game like this, Trinea, sequel to the GB game Penta Dragon.
This is one of my favorite arcade games! I remember i'd always play this or Knights Of The Round cause i'm a HUGE King Arthur knights kinda guy. I felt this game was pretty fair as well. Once you get good at it, you didn't need to use so many quarters. I had a friend who was able to beat it for a dollar! I was never that good, but that also wasn't a very hard thing to do if you knew the game. He swore by the knight character, but I liked switching it up.
Was looking for this comment. Wasn't sure if I was the only one, but Gauntlet, specifically the one on 64, was the first thing that came to mind while watching this. Glad I'm not the only one. I can see the Arcus Odyssey comparisons that some others have made too.
Hey Snes Drunk, since you started doing Arcade games, why not look into a video for UnderCover Cops arcade? its a big step up from its Super Famicom counterpart and a sequel on the Gameboy included a comic book that gave a more fleshed out story which would make for a interesting talking point.
Gate of Doom was one of my favorite arcade games and I didn't even know there was a sequel until it became available for the Switch on the Nintendo eShop, along with Gate of Doom itself. Of course I had to get them both immediately. Also, Johnny Turbo's Arcade, who ported Gate of Doom and Wizard Fire to the Switch, apparently ported a bunch of other Data East games there, like freaking Night Slashers, for one, so might be worth just looking up Johnny Turbo's Arcade on the eShop or wherever...
Data East: the only company that Capcom ever sued for copying too much from Street Fighter 2 with their Fighters History game! (imho compared to all the other SF2 clones of the era it really wasn't that bad. The Judo girl Ryoko was actually really original and had some pretty unique moves) BIG TORNADO
This game is also on the My Arcade Data East Hits Mini Player, along with Dark Seal, which is how I played it. The problem is 1: you can only play single player since there's only one set of controls, and 2: the aspect ratio is stretched due to the screen they used on it (Nitro Ball and Burgertime seem to suffer the worse from it), with no way to fix it (unlike the Namco Arcade Collection Mini Player). But for a playable scale arcade machine (about 1/10th scale), it's fine, and at least it's the arcade rom (most of My Arcade's micro players use NES roms, with the exception of Contra, Space Invaders, Pac Man 40th, and the upcoming Street Fighter II Champion Edition).
Now that I think about it, this is similar to Gauntlet. I wonder if they use the idea for inspiration. Other than that, another great vid 👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿
Arcus Odyssey for the Genesis looks similar to this game in some ways. The isometric view, Coop, the fantasy setting and even some attacks of the characters, specially the chain attack, looks exactly like that.
For lovers of the Fantasy genre this game was a wonder, unfortunately not many arcades had it, I only saw it one time before the disappearance of the saloons.
Hey man, love the content enjoy your lps alot...I enjoy listening to ya bring up topics from the nineties music etc...your one of the content creators I feel like I could actually drink a beer with and game out. I hope you find time to add another Chrono trigger let's play..my favorite game growing up was ogre battle and romance of the three kingdoms.
ya know what... how bout YOU have a great rest of YOUR DAY! I just hit 1,000 subs! and I must say, you are a huge inspiration! thank you drunk and God bless you!
I really hope you cover Legend of Valkyrie by Namco someday. It's another fantasy overhead run-and-gun, but more simple and elegant (it's an older game from 1989), with beautiful art design and incredible scaling. Got a PC Engine port, which is also fun and has some added content, if lesser graphics.
Dude you've never smashed a river to bits before?? It's the best! Back in the day me and my buddies beat the crap out of the Rio Grande when he was talking smack to us.
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Walking into an arcade back in the day was so intoxicating for a little kid's senses. To have a surplus of quarters was to be a king.
A Golden Era...
God I miss it...
My dad was friends with the guy who owned the local arcade so everytime I went he gave me bag with $10 worth of tokens. Priceless memories.
@Orwellian Future Is Now not trying to be funny at all but china still has arcades and some the cabinets never made it to the U.S
Yes, it certainly was. I had my 10th birthday at Aladdin's Castle, one of the best memories. I've become so nostalgic lately
My mother in law just died, 7am today.
Thanks for having this out bright and early; it helped give me a bright spot in what is sure to be a horrible day.
Damn that's heavy! Sorry for your loss
I'm so sorry 2020 has been horrible but for this awful year to give one more shitty thing on the last day...:( My sincerest condolences
Thanks guys
My condolences man
Sorry to hear this.
3:16 me and the boys getting ready to smash water to bits.
Good lord I remember throwing my parents money into this game. So much fun. Drunk, you’ve been one of the bright spots of 2020. Cheers 🍻
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Wow I love arcade games I never saw back in the day. That it’s on the switch is awesome too. Thank you!
😎me too
Hey Genius keep yourself Alive 👅
Try to play Gaiapolis, you will love it.
Last SNES drunk of 2020,
Thanks for all your hard working making all these amzing videos
Hope you and yours have a great New Year's Eve and an even better 2021
You kept in my favorite line in the entire game: "I'll smash it to bits!" and for that I thank you.
Happy New Year, Mr SNESDRUNK.
My favorite Data East games are Atomic Runner and Windjammers. They had a lot of other great games, though. it seemed for a short while they were going to be sorta the halfway indie/halfway big budget games production house when it came to arcade games...and then Street Fighter II happened.
I feel like Street Fighter II did to arcade games what Nirvana did to the rock scene...it drastically changed the landscape and expectations so much that it killed half the mainstays in the scene overnight.
Pretty good comparison.
Personally my favorite Data East game is the NES port of Cobra Command.
Ah yes, the 'Empire of Gaul': that well documented 4th-century European kingdom populated by magical elves and late-medieval era knights, and 100% politically independent from Rome.
Ah ! I see you are a fellow historian.
There was a break away state called the Gallic Empire that existed in the third century A.D. It is a pretty interesting period of Roman history if you are into that sort of thing.
Those lousy French elves
@@thealtered7 There was but it wasn't... that. The setting of this game just seems like a bad Japanese Greyhawk rip-off, or like a bargain bin Record of Lodoss War. Honestly I don't get why the game claims it's set in 4th Century Gaul given how obviously it isn't. It's like if the in-game text in Megaman X claimed it was set in the Weimar Republic.
the games from Data East and Irem will always be a guaranteed interesting time since they are the kings of well polished odd ball games like In the Hunt & Undercover Cops from Irem and Night Slashers & Boogy Wings for Data East
Have a great new year man. I only found this channel during quarantine, and you made a 10 month lockdown that much more bearable. Thanks.
I find it funny most characters look like proper European medieval fantasy but somehow the Wizard looks Egyptian as hell ^^
Your videos are always a highlight of any day, thanks for your content!
This is a great final video for 2020. I remember blowing so much money on this at the Arcades. In fact all of these arcade game videos you've been doing are wonderful. It really makes me miss the arcades in their prime. Not what they are now mostly (casinos for kids)
Thank you for your hard work and videos 👌
Hey SNESdrunk, I am glad to see you uploading a new vid, makes me happy already on the start of the new year!
Ah yeah, happy new year from Argentina!
This needs an indie clone with more Diablo style RPG mechanics. I long for more arcade bombastic sound design!
Just as a head's up, these Data East arcade games go on sale on Switch ALL the time. Don't pay full price - they're sometimes just a couple bucks each. And this one is definitely worth a couple bucks for that amazing voice acting alone.
ya think they'll ever release a compilation?
@@thecunninlynguist They actually have released a couple compilations, although they appear to just be the standalone releases shoved together.
@@jasonblalock4429 nice, I don't mind that..I'll take a look into it.
You aren't kidding about that amazing voice acting. I'm awful at arcade games, but I'm totally going to see how far I can get to hear how many of those I'll hear before I game over!
Thanks for helping make 2020 slightly more bearable! Your videos have been great.
If anything ever sold me on a game, it was the voice acting in this one. Thanks for the recommendation, and I hope you have a great rest of your day!
I really like when you review arcade games because it’ll be something I’ll have never heard of, and the games are usually look pretty great and it’ll be something to play on MAME
Happy new year to you and your dog! You reviewed some pretty wild games this year. Cheers to you and may you bless us with more videos for years to come!
Happy New Years (Eve), SNESDrunk! Thanks for a great 2020. Looking forward to what you have in store for 2021! Wizard Fire looks cool...kinda feels like if Golden Axe mixed with one of the Capcom D&D games. That cheesy voice acting is icing on the cake. The status aliments must've been quarter munchers too
Thank you for all your videos in 2020.
Wish you a great new year!
Thanks for everything you do bro. It takes work and dedication and work. I've been watching you for 2yrs now and hope their more to come.
lol the sound at the end of the vid really sold your point
More arcade magic!
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Happy new year snes drunk. Thanks for the vid
When I 1sr saw the knight spinning his chain attack I thought this was Arcus Odyssey. Good review. If i ever get a switch I may wanna do this.
I've been sitting on playing this game and now you've convinced me. I love that bard's voice.
I find it hilarious how old D&D would have just "Elf" as a character class. Also, is it just me or is the elf in this game basically Deedlit from Record of Lodoss War?
I appreciate that you have been uploading consistent fresh top-notch quality content I truly look forward to watching and just makes my day that much better. Thank you for reading my comment and I hope you have a great rest of your day 😉😁
This game was great...remember playing it as a wee kid in the arcades. It almost has a beat em up vibe. Great vid!
Thanks for the review, and I hope you have a great 2021!
Happy new years amd thank you for all your content I still watch things from 5 years ago lol keep doing it
Happy new year SNES Drunk! Thanks for the magic ♥️♥️
As soon as you said that it was on Nintendo switch eShop. I went literally right to my Nintendo switch went on eShop and download it for $2. Apparently it's on sale for just today. Thank you.👍✌
This game looks amazing. Thanks for everything you do, dude. Looking forward to a good 2021 along with all your content. Super Nintendo forever.
"Poisoned Water! /I'll smash it to bits!" Another great phrase to add to videogame quotes like "I'll kill you AND the Night! " and "I am error"
Also Happy New Year !!
Oh man, I 'member seeing this game in the Arcades back in the day, I couldn't remember the name and I searched for it for a long time, in the end, I gave up... And then your video happened :D Thank you (Y)
Happy New years Drunk, your videos made this bad year bearable
Quality work, Drunk. Happy New Years.
What timing! I've just discovered this game on my Retro cade! I love it!
Great game! Love data east! Happy new year drunk!
Totally made my day, thanks for up loading this!
Isn't it time for a personalized AaaaaaarcadeDrunk opening? :D
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cool game, it's kinda like a medieval version of Michael Jackson's Moonwalker for the Arcade
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If memory serves me right i think there's a dancing red zombie that spawns at some point.
I spent years trying to figure out the name of this game, or the one before it. Played it on MAME on my dad's old computer back in 1999/00 and it ran poorly. But I always remembered when we selected the character and the sounds were all drawn out. "iiii ammmm the baaaarrrd" Finally thought to Google that line and I got my answer. Lol.
Anywho this game and the one before it are fun. Good review!
3:20 - "One token gives you a health bar...d"
I remember playing this on the Data East Arcade Classics for the Wii. Fun game.
Whoa, this looks awesome, how have I never heard of this until now? Have a good New Year bud
-Curse it! Poisoned water!
-I'll smash it to bits!
*What you're going to smash the river to bits; how does that work you genius?* 😂
Fun fact: This game contains a lot of references to the Bitmap Brothers. A British developer of game like The Chaos Engine/Soldiers of Fortune and Speedball.
This game could be the Japanese medival fantasy sequel to Chaos Engine.
And there is a SNES game like this, Trinea, sequel to the GB game Penta Dragon.
Happy new year friend. Hope you have a great rest of your 2021
This one is also on Data East Arcade Classics in the Wii. Good stuff. Always reminded me of Taito's Dungeon Magic.
What a great review of Wizard Fire. Smash the water to bits!
🎉Happy New Years Eve SNESDrunk!!🍻🎉
This is one of my favorite arcade games! I remember i'd always play this or Knights Of The Round cause i'm a HUGE King Arthur knights kinda guy. I felt this game was pretty fair as well. Once you get good at it, you didn't need to use so many quarters. I had a friend who was able to beat it for a dollar! I was never that good, but that also wasn't a very hard thing to do if you knew the game. He swore by the knight character, but I liked switching it up.
Gonna buy this when i get home. Thanks for the awesome review.😁
Where do you buy it at.
Game reminds me of gauntlet legends for N64
Was looking for this comment. Wasn't sure if I was the only one, but Gauntlet, specifically the one on 64, was the first thing that came to mind while watching this. Glad I'm not the only one.
I can see the Arcus Odyssey comparisons that some others have made too.
Hey Snes Drunk, since you started doing Arcade games, why not look into a video for UnderCover Cops arcade? its a big step up from its Super Famicom counterpart and a sequel on the Gameboy included a comic book that gave a more fleshed out story which would make for a interesting talking point.
I really wouldn't call the gameboy version a "sequel" seeing as it's a bizarre video board game.
This is a great game, definitely a slept on classic. I dont remember seeing it in arcades, and I went to a few pretty frequently back in the day
Gate of Doom was one of my favorite arcade games and I didn't even know there was a sequel until it became available for the Switch on the Nintendo eShop, along with Gate of Doom itself. Of course I had to get them both immediately.
Also, Johnny Turbo's Arcade, who ported Gate of Doom and Wizard Fire to the Switch, apparently ported a bunch of other Data East games there, like freaking Night Slashers, for one, so might be worth just looking up Johnny Turbo's Arcade on the eShop or wherever...
Happy New Year, SNES drunk.
I have some memory of this game. Oh, by the way, happy new year Drunk.
Last day of 2020 - Have a great rest of your day everybody! ♥
Likewise :)
"I'LL SMASH IT TO BITS"
My man Knight taking cues from Little Pete and Artie The Strongest Man In The World.
“I love me some Data East” definitely not something I said much in the 80’s 😆
But this game looks awesome.
Data East: the only company that Capcom ever sued for copying too much from Street Fighter 2 with their Fighters History game! (imho compared to all the other SF2 clones of the era it really wasn't that bad. The Judo girl Ryoko was actually really original and had some pretty unique moves)
BIG TORNADO
This game is also on the My Arcade Data East Hits Mini Player, along with Dark Seal, which is how I played it. The problem is 1: you can only play single player since there's only one set of controls, and 2: the aspect ratio is stretched due to the screen they used on it (Nitro Ball and Burgertime seem to suffer the worse from it), with no way to fix it (unlike the Namco Arcade Collection Mini Player). But for a playable scale arcade machine (about 1/10th scale), it's fine, and at least it's the arcade rom (most of My Arcade's micro players use NES roms, with the exception of Contra, Space Invaders, Pac Man 40th, and the upcoming Street Fighter II Champion Edition).
I hope you have a great rest of your year
It's nice that this is available on the Switch now for a reasonable price and often goes on sale (like right now for $2)...
Heh. Really liked the closing sound bytes. I would definitely play with sound options tweeked.
Whoa, this looks awesome. It's like a beefed-up version of Arcus Odyssey for Genesis (aka Arcus Spirits on Super Famicom).
Now that I think about it, this is similar to Gauntlet. I wonder if they use the idea for inspiration. Other than that, another great vid 👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿
I remember playing the first one localized as “gate of doom” in my local arcade circa 1990.
Wow, they have both Gate of Doom and this game on the eShop. At the time this video went up they were on sale. Instant purchase for me!
Arcus Odyssey for the Genesis looks similar to this game in some ways. The isometric view, Coop, the fantasy setting and even some attacks of the characters, specially the chain attack, looks exactly like that.
You can get the combo with both games on switch and it regularly goes on sale for dirt cheap.
I am definitely adding this one to my MAME collection.
Have a good rest of the year snes
For lovers of the Fantasy genre this game was a wonder, unfortunately not many arcades had it, I only saw it one time before the disappearance of the saloons.
I hope you all a great 2021!
Hey man, love the content enjoy your lps alot...I enjoy listening to ya bring up topics from the nineties music etc...your one of the content creators I feel like I could actually drink a beer with and game out. I hope you find time to add another Chrono trigger let's play..my favorite game growing up was ogre battle and romance of the three kingdoms.
Oh and happy new year Bud.
the thing with bosses is that they have weak spots - just attacking by mashing them does not work
Happy New Year!
Gate of Doom is worth checking out for the ridiculous voice clip that plays when you select the ninja.
DataEast also made one of my favorite nes games "Werewolf the last warrior" they were a pretty cool company.
happy new year, S.D.
Total length of video: 299 secs.
Total length of "SNES Drunk": 3.5 secs.
1.17% of the video was spent listening to "SNES Drunk".
ya know what... how bout YOU have a great rest of YOUR DAY!
I just hit 1,000 subs! and I must say, you are a huge inspiration! thank you drunk and God bless you!
This looks freaking awesome.I'm picking it up on my switch just wish I had played it as a kid,
It’s simple to smash the river to bits. You just keep hitting the water a lot and it will give up and go somewhere else lol
I really hope you cover Legend of Valkyrie by Namco someday. It's another fantasy overhead run-and-gun, but more simple and elegant (it's an older game from 1989), with beautiful art design and incredible scaling. Got a PC Engine port, which is also fun and has some added content, if lesser graphics.
Such a great game! It's predecessor Gate of Doom was a great one too!
Available on the PSN store.
On top of being on the e-shop, it is constantly on sale fot $1.99. So, catch it at that price wheneber it goes on sale.
Dude you've never smashed a river to bits before?? It's the best! Back in the day me and my buddies beat the crap out of the Rio Grande when he was talking smack to us.
Have a good rest of your YEAR!
I can hear all the arcade room noises in this game alone.