The sega genesis has the perfect balance of being relatively easy to program and being old and having it's own "quirks". There's this really cool SDK called SGDK for it that allows you to program for the genesis in C instead of assembler, and comes with a really powerful audio driver.
The pac man CE Demake actually has sound effects, however you need a special namco soundchip that expand the sound channels, some everdrive carts have that chip built-in :)
@Lassi Kinnunen 81 Its still not great though, I got bored of Tempest after a few plays, there really isnt much to it. Doom was pretty good as long as you hadnt seen the PC version.
@@quibquatch3975 I don't have to. Use to have a shop and mail order company in the early 90s. We bought and sold quite a few at launch. I kept mine and played Tempest 2000 A LOT. Sold mine now tho.
I've been watching old episodes non stop this week and letting as many ads play as I can stand but my point is this channel is by far the best on youtube period.
About the Pac-Man CE Demake: The sound effects were mainly generated by some custom chip Namco made for some certain Famicom games, so they would require 'external sound hardware', which US and EU systems don't support. Trust me, the effects sound EXACTLY like the original 1980 arcade Pac. ;)
I fell in love with Darius when I played it on the Genesis mini... i feel like it has just the right amount of challenge/difficulty and I love it's powerup system, which, unlike some shmups, is quite fair! It took me a while but it was really satisfying when I finally beat it. Plus it has awesome music and colorful graphics, a boss rush mode (and all of the bosses are awesome giant sea creatures with weird names), and alternate paths! Memorizing enemy locations and patterns is essential, as is snagging the powerups. Great game! In fact, one of my favorite shmups!
best way I've found to play Xenocrisis is through retroarch with an SN30 pro usb controller. with a little clever controller remapping, it was real twin-stick goodness!
The developers of _Super Russian Roulette_ held a competition in 2015 to see who could compose the best title theme for their game! I tried out for it and even made a video of me performing it on piano at my college. It didn't get accepted, which really bummed me out.
I can't get over how good the music is in that NES version of Pacman Championship. I mean, that's some actual, proper, drum and bass going on at the 21:41 mark.
Oh, for the NES demake of Pac-Man CE (and Gaplus), it's due to using a Famicom sound expansion called the Namco-168. I tried a dump of both in an emulator, and it does indeed have music and sound effects. The unused expansion port underneath the NES needs a tiny bit of modding for that to work with a flash cart.
a few games for PSP, also DS, in latter case it was like holding a pocket book. Wonderswan did it better though because it was designed with vertical mode in mind and was really comfortable to use.
@@mcilrain Joe deliberately mispronounces it to show how little he cares about Japan or its silly language, and he wants all the weebs to be furious about it.
Two things: 1) That Russian roulette game looked pretty dark. 2) Wasn't there a homebrew NES cartridge that was featured on Game Grumps where Arin kept dying over and over again while making up some kind of improvised story?
21:18 if you play this game on a modified NES with the 47k expansion audio mod then you should be able to hear all the sound effects plus the other channels in the music
every new game sack ep is a gift! i watch em a few times over. the format is just perfect. please keep releasing the combination epsiodes too. those are great bedtime watching material 👍
Appreciate you guys for covering Homebrew games. Keep doing this series, and eventually move on to original titles that never got a commercial release but were just released online for free. And start another series on Fan Homebrews where they take an existing game and remix it to create a modified or newer edition. There's tons of classic games out there that most people have never even heard of from their favorite franchises.
The acting in the ending skit is FANTABULOUS. If Game Sack does not win an Oscar for such quality acting, especially with how few things have been released because of Covid, then it is proof that the Lizard People are in charge and have rigged the Academy Awards.
That ending skit, tho. I haven't laughed that hard since that other skit with the random slap from off-screen. I wish I could remember which video that was.
On balance, despite all the BS in the industry, videogaming just keeps getting better. If you want the new hotness, it's there. If you want more from the good ol days, that's there too. I don't know if there's any major subset of gamers who don't get catered to in the modern era. Except for mmo fans I guess, the poor bastards.
@Orwellian Future Is Now Yep. Poor adventure gamers. I would argue RTS gamers have gotten the shaft too. :( Still, I never thought I'd see the day that beat em ups would return. It's also good to see strategy RPGs around.
I'm been into the new C64 games these days, the stuff coming out these days are light years better than that machines heyday. People supporting these old formats I have big respect for
XenoCrisis is amazing, one of the best games on the Genesis. You can rescue me as Dr. Wulver, I got the collectors edition and a normal edition cause it's just too damn good. Go check out Stone Protectors on Kickstarter, it needs more backers to get a physical Genesis release.
This is the second time this week I saw someone did a review of Xeno Crisis. since SNES Drunk did a video on the game (PC version) days ago, but Gamesack did the original Genesis version, as well as the Dreamcast and Vita versions. BTW Henk Nieborg did all graphics on all versions of Xeno Crisis, and I remember playing the PC version of Xeno Crisis, since the Vita, PS4 and Switch versions are similar.
That one game for the Genesis, I wanna. On to other, more important matters. That ending was great. From now on I will always hear Joe's voice every time I hear someone say: "Oh, No!"
Well you know Dave wasn't the burglar because he would've kept Snatcher. *Goes back in video to look for Snatcher's distinctive white striped spine* Wait a minute. . .
It's worth noting that both 'Xeno Crisis' and 'Xenocider' can be played with SEGA's Twin Stick controller for Dreamcast. It makes controlling both much more natural.
There's a two player ghouls and ghosts run and gun on Kickstarter right now for the nes....I think it ends within a day or so though I found it the other day and they've made there stretch goal so it's on Dreamcast as well when you get the boxed version. I can't wait to get it man
Had to pause it at 14:32 to see Hotel Dusk Room 215, and Last Window The Secret Of Cape West for the DS. The other games on another system in "Tate Mode"!
hey Joe, there is a "new" game for the Playstation 1, in this case a game made in 1998 but never released (history similar to "Ultracore" ) and now at the end of 2020 the producers finished the game and released it for free on the internet. It's called "Magic Castle", an action RPG, it's a smaller production but it's kind of fun.
You are a scholar in terms of oldschool gaming, you should have a phd for that! Your videos help me sleep at night. not that they are boring but they are familiar and soothing
As you are always very kind to thank me for watching Game Sack: I thank you for making Game Sack. Regarding your acting skills, it is a pity that it is already 2021. In 1995 it would have been good enough to appear in some Point and Click Adventure game like Phantasmagoria. ;) Keep trying. (Just kidding.)
14:28 Well, "the only one ever" might be a stretch, cuz I've seen Brain Age and just recently learned that Bandai's very own WonderSwan can also go on its side, which I learned because in Rockman and Forte 2: Challenger from the Future, sorry, should it be called "Challenger of the Dimensions", Aircon Man's stage is played sideways until you get to his boss fight. ADDENDUM: 14:33 He shows a half-second of Hotel Dusk. That was that other game that I musta been thinking about, but couldn't remember anything about it other than "it's a detective game and was special because it's sideways, like Brain Age".
Liked how you called out Robotron as the ultimate historical inspiration for xenocrisis. You could potentially do a whole series on historical inspirations along those lines.
I'm locked into such a perfect schedule: Saturday nights I get home from boardgame night with my buddies and our wives, I'm a little tipsy or even drunk, I get ready for bed and BAM, a new GameSack to wind down with. It's damn perfect. 🤍
As someone born in the 80s and grew up threw the80s,90s,and early way early2000,I love LOVED my dream cast,over all my systems...btw thanks for the video keep up the amazing work
0:00 - Intro
0:38 - XenoCrisis (Genesis)
4:18 - XenoCrisis (Dreamcast)
5:10 - XenoCrisis (Vita/PSTV)
6:16 - Nix: The Paradox Relic (NES)
8:46 - Ultracore (Genesis)
12:02 - Darius (Genesis)
13:53 - Centipede (Lynx)
14:39 - Fat Bobby (Lynx)
15:50 - Championship Rally (Lynx)
16:40 - QuadroMania: Redux (Lynx)
17:19 - Hyperdrome (Lynx)
18:10 - Raiden (Lynx)
19:29 - Pac-Man: Championship Edition (NES/NamcoMuseum Archives Vol. 1)
22:00 - XenoCider 🍾 (Dreamcast)
26:05 - Super Russian Roulette (NES)
28:33 - Outro
28:56 - Credits
29:20 - "Comedy" Skit
luv u joe :)
Xeno crisis is best on neo geo 🕹🎮😀👍🏾
Lol "comedy"
You have reached a new level with the ending sketch on this one. A new level of what, I do not know. But it's a new level nonetheless.
Its an unlockable level
It was truly epic!
It just needed some of those David Lynch steam hissing sound effects.
@@AdrianMagni Kyle MacLachlan was the robber at the door
can someone pls explain thr end skit? im from switzerland and have no idea, beside it felt kinda familiar and we laughed hard..
Man, I hate it when I rob the wrong house and have to bring everything back.
Yeah. Happened a few times for me.
I gave the last one a giftcard to Lana’s Happy Ending Massage
That ending skit was an emotional rollercoaster.
"The Vita just doesn't have the power of the mighty Sega Genesis."
This is my favorite line. 🤣
Scary to think it was unironic.
Well it proves the Vita is no match for blast processing.
I bet it wouldn't have failed if it had blast processing!
@@ericbarlow6772 vita dont have mega power ;)
@@jeanfrancoisdutremble9022 mais bien sur! I do like the Vita though and I’m sad Sony pulled it’s support.
The sega genesis has the perfect balance of being relatively easy to program and being old and having it's own "quirks".
There's this really cool SDK called SGDK for it that allows you to program for the genesis in C instead of assembler, and comes with a really powerful audio driver.
Great ending! Glad you are finally getting comfortable in front of the camera. No more wooden performances from Game Sack: Joe, you are certified tin!
The pac man CE Demake actually has sound effects, however you need a special namco soundchip that expand the sound channels, some everdrive carts have that chip built-in :)
The volume levels increasing with the genesis volume switch was a nice touch
I _love_ the fact that new games are being made for retro systems. It's really amazing.
indeed, i already have every intent to own every console worth a damn, these new games being developed is the frosting on the cake.
A Game Sack upload is second greatest moment of the month. The first greatest moment is the other Game Sack upload.
The end skit is that one guy in film class's final project but still somehow got the highest grade.
Game Sack episodes always drop on a sunday evening all the way over here in New Zealand. Another nice episode!!!
I have a Jaguar with a total play time of one hour. So, no offense or unsubscribe issues, here.
@Lassi Kinnunen 81 Its still not great though, I got bored of Tempest after a few plays, there really isnt much to it. Doom was pretty good as long as you hadnt seen the PC version.
Tempest 2000 on jaguar is not only my favourite Jaguar game but it plays beautifully with that Jag controller.
Imagine paying more than $5 for a Jaguar console tho
@@quibquatch3975 I don't have to. Use to have a shop and mail order company in the early 90s. We bought and sold quite a few at launch. I kept mine and played Tempest 2000 A LOT. Sold mine now tho.
@@olderloverxx Nice. I don't even want one for free lol
I've been watching old episodes non stop this week and letting as many ads play as I can stand but my point is this channel is by far the best on youtube period.
Why, is he having issues with views or something and he’s been thinking about stopping?
About the Pac-Man CE Demake:
The sound effects were mainly generated by some custom chip Namco made for some certain Famicom games, so they would require 'external sound hardware', which US and EU systems don't support.
Trust me, the effects sound EXACTLY like the original 1980 arcade Pac. ;)
Joe, this is probably the dumbest and best after-credits so far.
I fell in love with Darius when I played it on the Genesis mini... i feel like it has just the right amount of challenge/difficulty and I love it's powerup system, which, unlike some shmups, is quite fair! It took me a while but it was really satisfying when I finally beat it. Plus it has awesome music and colorful graphics, a boss rush mode (and all of the bosses are awesome giant sea creatures with weird names), and alternate paths! Memorizing enemy locations and patterns is essential, as is snagging the powerups. Great game! In fact, one of my favorite shmups!
Lol, the ending sketch is one of the best ever Joe - love it!
My God! Joe, your acting has really improved, during these (almost) 10 years! Impressive!
best way I've found to play Xenocrisis is through retroarch with an SN30 pro usb controller. with a little clever controller remapping, it was real twin-stick goodness!
Your sarcasm is always gold, Joe! Keep it up!
God, that ending is the best yet
Why? Please, why?
@@homejonny9326 yea I didn't get it either
Every month I wonder...what will the next ending skit be? I can’t even come close to guessing them. Love them though.
@@BigMacOrange I just thought the mask had finally slipped and we had seen into his true lunacy.
Scott the Woz jab
The developers of _Super Russian Roulette_ held a competition in 2015 to see who could compose the best title theme for their game! I tried out for it and even made a video of me performing it on piano at my college. It didn't get accepted, which really bummed me out.
There's something to be said for just taking part, though
That ending was amazing.
The Commodore 64 also seems to spit out new awesome releases like Zeta Wing, Millie & Molly, L'abbaye Des Morts, Sam's Journey, etc.
I can't get over how good the music is in that NES version of Pacman Championship. I mean, that's some actual, proper, drum and bass going on at the 21:41 mark.
Loved the sketch at the end. Was slightly hoping for dave to be the robber or the person desperate for attention at the door
Good luck with the remodel, Joe! Looks like a pretty major project!
Oh, for the NES demake of Pac-Man CE (and Gaplus), it's due to using a Famicom sound expansion called the Namco-168. I tried a dump of both in an emulator, and it does indeed have music and sound effects. The unused expansion port underneath the NES needs a tiny bit of modding for that to work with a flash cart.
This esp going to good. Nice to see some new games being made for the OG game systems.
Great video, as usual. Thank you! Namco also released Gaplus for the NES in Namco Museum Archives Volume 2
The WonderSwan is portable console that has Tate mode games, Joe. There are even fan translations for it!
a few games for PSP, also DS, in latter case it was like holding a pocket book. Wonderswan did it better though because it was designed with vertical mode in mind and was really comfortable to use.
I have a tate mode too
There's a metric ton of SHMUPs, arcade ports and pinball games on the Switch that support tate mode as well.
Also "tate" is pronounced "tah-teh", it's a Japanese word.
@@mcilrain
Joe deliberately mispronounces it to show how little he cares about Japan or its silly language,
and he wants all the weebs to be furious about it.
Your new ways to say metroidvania is truly hilarious
uhh that was a controid okay!!!1 nothing like a metroidvania! GAWD!!1
Two things:
1) That Russian roulette game looked pretty dark.
2) Wasn't there a homebrew NES cartridge that was featured on Game Grumps where Arin kept dying over and over again while making up some kind of improvised story?
Just when I was about to have coffee with some snacks, synchronicity brought me a new episode of Game Sack :)
I see you've been to the Keith Apicary school of acting
21:18 if you play this game on a modified NES with the 47k expansion audio mod then you should be able to hear all the sound effects plus the other channels in the music
This is the most underrated game channel on TH-cam... Much props to you Joe!!👊💥👍
every new game sack ep is a gift! i watch em a few times over. the format is just perfect. please keep releasing the combination epsiodes too. those are great bedtime watching material 👍
That end sketch was a new level of wood for you, err Gamesack person
Appreciate you guys for covering Homebrew games. Keep doing this series, and eventually move on to original titles that never got a commercial release but were just released online for free.
And start another series on Fan Homebrews where they take an existing game and remix it to create a modified or newer edition. There's tons of classic games out there that most people have never even heard of from their favorite franchises.
The acting in the ending skit is FANTABULOUS. If Game Sack does not win an Oscar for such quality acting, especially with how few things have been released because of Covid, then it is proof that the Lizard People are in charge and have rigged the Academy Awards.
Cheers from beautiful Boulder, Colorado! Keep up the great work, fellow CO local!
When all hope is lost... Game Sack is the salvation we will need for gaming review entertainment.
Yes....Sunday morning Sack!
That ending skit, tho.
I haven't laughed that hard since that other skit with the random slap from off-screen. I wish I could remember which video that was.
That post-credits had serious Doug Prishpreed/Scott Clam vibes. Really cracked me up!
On balance, despite all the BS in the industry, videogaming just keeps getting better. If you want the new hotness, it's there. If you want more from the good ol days, that's there too. I don't know if there's any major subset of gamers who don't get catered to in the modern era. Except for mmo fans I guess, the poor bastards.
I completely agree!
@Orwellian Future Is Now Yep. Poor adventure gamers.
I would argue RTS gamers have gotten the shaft too. :(
Still, I never thought I'd see the day that beat em ups would return. It's also good to see strategy RPGs around.
@Ed West Right! I would love to see a new Shining Force
@@cassiodalcin There is Fire Emblem. Banner Saga. Some weird re- releases of Langrisser. etc
@@edwest2263 those are both turn-based strategy games tho, right? Not real-time, like Starcraft.
Oooo someone enjoying visual novel in TATE MODE!!! 14:33
The "Furry" game looks like the devs of Action 52 reskined Cheetahmen for their own personal use and by use I of course mean...jackin it.
Yiff Yiff Yiff!
Lol furries are disgusting!
It was the one goal all along.
@@Ubersnuber Isn't it always with furries?
@@koolkool3856 I’m weirded out by them. Their fetish isn’t meant for normal brain consumption. You don’t want to know my fetish, and I won’t tell.
The end had the best editing I've ever seen!
32 years later and mega drive still does what nintendon't.
@matt fahringer congratulations you are part of the problem with society.
@matt fahringer That's just an emergency latte' for tomorrow ;)
Thanks to the Genesis's blast processing!
@@Fla5thgenTryMe no
I'm been into the new C64 games these days, the stuff coming out these days are light years better than that machines heyday. People supporting these old formats I have big respect for
XenoCrisis is amazing, one of the best games on the Genesis. You can rescue me as Dr. Wulver, I got the collectors edition and a normal edition cause it's just too damn good. Go check out Stone Protectors on Kickstarter, it needs more backers to get a physical Genesis release.
loved the Gamesack School of Acting video in the end :D
I love waking up on Sundays to your sack.
Comtroid ? We in germany would call it a Turrican Clone :-) Nice video !
Probotectroid?
*Turriclone
So cool to see consoles from the past, still receive love.
That skit at the end 😗 whoa
Wake up in the middle of the night, notification for a new gamesack episode appears. Guess who isn't going back to sleep now?
@@Gatorade69 LOL thanks for the tip ;D
Once again Joe blows us all away with his sterling acting skills in a surprising and witty end sketch. 😄😝
Make sure to wash your Tate from front to back.
Thanks for doing this Sack.
Nice, Xenocrisis is now available on the Gamepass. Thank you, I know what game I will play this morning! 🤘
That's some oscar worthy acting in the ending sketch. good stuff
This is the second time this week I saw someone did a review of Xeno Crisis. since SNES Drunk did a video on the game (PC version) days ago, but Gamesack did the original Genesis version, as well as the Dreamcast and Vita versions. BTW Henk Nieborg did all graphics on all versions of Xeno Crisis, and I remember playing the PC version of Xeno Crisis, since the Vita, PS4 and Switch versions are similar.
PC/PS4/Switch versions are the best.
I was thinking I’ve heard about this game before and that’s where.
That one game for the Genesis, I wanna. On to other, more important matters. That ending was great. From now on I will always hear Joe's voice every time I hear someone say: "Oh, No!"
I was literally searching yesterday for a part 2 of new games for old consoles lol
Never thought there would be a day when game sacks would use the term "furry"
Well you know Dave wasn't the burglar because he would've kept Snatcher. *Goes back in video to look for Snatcher's distinctive white striped spine* Wait a minute. . .
It's worth noting that both 'Xeno Crisis' and 'Xenocider' can be played with SEGA's Twin Stick controller for Dreamcast. It makes controlling both much more natural.
I bet. Wish I had one.
One of the last shows I still watch at normal speed.
There's a two player ghouls and ghosts run and gun on Kickstarter right now for the nes....I think it ends within a day or so though I found it the other day and they've made there stretch goal so it's on Dreamcast as well when you get the boxed version. I can't wait to get it man
Had to pause it at 14:32 to see Hotel Dusk Room 215, and Last Window The Secret Of Cape West for the DS. The other games on another system in "Tate Mode"!
Pretty sure the Darius port was made by M2 when they did the Mega Drive mini, that's what I heard anyway.
New homebrew stuff ALWAYS gets me excited!
hey Joe, there is a "new" game for the Playstation 1, in this case a game made in 1998 but never released (history similar to "Ultracore" ) and now at the end of 2020 the producers finished the game and released it for free on the internet. It's called "Magic Castle", an action RPG, it's a smaller production but it's kind of fun.
You are a scholar in terms of oldschool gaming, you should have a phd for that!
Your videos help me sleep at night. not that they are boring but they are familiar and soothing
Great video as always. That ending was gold!
Let it be known,,, Xeno Crisis is being ported the the mighty Neo Geo, that is all.
Whenever Joe drops a video, it's a good day! Thank you sir!
'Controid' sounds like something I'd need a cream for. Maybe a Turrican-'em-up?
Love these games for old consoles but with modern sensibilities. That Pac-man Championship Edition looks fantastic!
Thanks for your service!
Best video game channel. Period. Still miss dave
The Genesis port of Darius is actually made to look correct in widescreen! Try it in 16:9, it looks awesome! All the egg shaped things become round!
Hotel Dusk and Last Window great games. Amazing soundtracks by Satoshi Okubo as well!
I can't shake the feeling that the ending skit is going to be used as evidence in court some day
You forgot to mention the random generated (in a primitive fashion, but still) room layout of Xeno Crisis, quite possibly a first for the Genesis.
Nice job with Super Russian Roulette. Thanks for mailing it back to me. I ROCK!
Looking forward to Shenmue 3 on Dreamcast. Oscar on its way for the acting at the end BTW.
As you are always very kind to thank me for watching Game Sack:
I thank you for making Game Sack.
Regarding your acting skills, it is a pity that it is already 2021. In 1995 it would have been good enough to appear in some Point and Click Adventure game like Phantasmagoria. ;) Keep trying. (Just kidding.)
14:28
Well, "the only one ever" might be a stretch, cuz I've seen Brain Age and just recently learned that Bandai's very own WonderSwan can also go on its side, which I learned because in Rockman and Forte 2: Challenger from the Future, sorry, should it be called "Challenger of the Dimensions", Aircon Man's stage is played sideways until you get to his boss fight.
ADDENDUM: 14:33
He shows a half-second of Hotel Dusk. That was that other game that I musta been thinking about, but couldn't remember anything about it other than "it's a detective game and was special because it's sideways, like Brain Age".
Liked how you called out Robotron as the ultimate historical inspiration for xenocrisis. You could potentially do a whole series on historical inspirations along those lines.
I'm locked into such a perfect schedule: Saturday nights I get home from boardgame night with my buddies and our wives, I'm a little tipsy or even drunk, I get ready for bed and BAM, a new GameSack to wind down with. It's damn perfect. 🤍
Xeno Crisis is like Smash TV, but with an art style similar to The Chaos Engine. Cool!
That ending was quite something. Loved it
As someone born in the 80s and grew up threw the80s,90s,and early way early2000,I love LOVED my dream cast,over all my systems...btw thanks for the video keep up the amazing work
Omg, you adjusting the camera in the end segment makes it so much better.
God I love Game Sack
Instant thumbs up! Even before I watch it, because I know it’s going to be good.