The best part of Mystery Quest is that they took out half the game for the US release. I played and finished the twice as long Famicom Disk System game (with a guide to be fair)
I'd love to celebrate Father's Day, but my dad went out the door and said he was getting a pack of Dynowarz at the local mini-mart, and he never came back.
Clu Clu Land took me a very long time to figure out. There's a fun game in there, but you gotta be willing to really look for it. I can understand if that feels like work to some players.
Jeff I have been sick and taking NyQuil for like a week. Sometimes I fall asleep watching these videos at night. I just wanted you to know that I have been recently diagnosed with a spinal condition called spondylolithesis and I had a dream that I was at the doctor and you were there and you diagnosed me with dynowarz: destruction for spondylolithesis and I yelled at you lol
As a kid, my parents got me the GBA e-reader from Toys R Us one summer. I got a handful of game cards to scan and I thought it was kind of exciting. Seeing Donkey Kong 3, NES Golf, NES Tennis, and other stuff kinda blew my mind as a kid. Alas, Clu Clu Land was the one that stood out to me the most of that small bunch. I was kinda enamored with how weird and unique it is. Even now, I watch this segment with a smile.
You wanna know the *best* part of Mystery Quest? You have to play through the game four times to get the "good" ending. Not once, not twice, not three times. Four times. It's not any harder either, it's just "playthrough the entire thing again."
And Jeff doesn't seem to have ever watched any AVGN because every time a game comes up (apart from TMNT) that was made famous by AVGN he says he's never played or even seen that game.
So glad Jekyll and Hyde managed to squash the beef and quit releasing diss tracks for a bit! Hyde especially, that dude was walking his career SO far back
Had an instant flashback of memory nostalgia the second Jeff starts playing Dr Jeckyl Mr Hyde. Like a hidden long buried trauma, I suddenly remember bringing it home after renting it from the video store and my pre-teen brain not understanding ANYTHING about wtf how to play it and being stuck with it all weekend
I remember seeing Jekyll and Hyde at my local walmart on clearance for 7 dollars when I was about 10 years old. I used my 2 weeks of allowance (10 bucks) to buy it and I was so damn excited I was buying a whole game for that price. Even at 10 years old, I knew within 5 minutes that I got got. The box art still stands as one of the most ridiculous NES games out there though so I'll give it that.
did i miss it or did jeff never acknowledge that clu clu land uses zelda's rupees? I used to play this game a little bit as a kid and I have 0 recollection of the rupee sprite being used in this game.
I used to have slightly fond memories of Mystery Quest since my cousin had it when we were kids and I'd mess around with it and a few other games when I'd go over to his house. Neat concept anyways...
Love this ranking series - reminds me of the old Game Room days in a way with your ability to make truly terrible games entertaining to watch. So much fun.
Not even the worst doctor in video games this week. To quote an old poem, "If my day keeps going this way I just might, break your funkin' face tonight!" And yeah, Sonic CD's US soundtrack is way better.
Ninja Kid wasn't a launch title, but it was one of the first 3rd-party releases alongside two other Bandai titles that don't have a great reputation: M.U.S.C.L.E. and Chubby Cherub.
Nintendo made another attempt at Clu Clu Land with DK King of Swing, which controls very similarly, but uses the L and R buttons to turn. Data East were on dev duties. It's pretty fun, but is much slower and less manic than Clu Clu Land.
For all of the shit that Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde gets... it does have some really nice background and tile art. i really like the shading on the trees. The character sprite aren't bad either. It is weird that the birds drop dog coil dookies. Interesting idea, bad game. I never played this game as a kid. I remember seeing the box art for this one at the rental store, I always thought it looked amazing. Especially the 'Psycho Wave' selling point.
Jeff won't read it, but FFS, just use Markdown and number each entry with "0. " in the source file. It will render them all as sequentially increasing numbers on its own.
There's a fantastic series of videos on Displaced Gamers about the mess that makes up Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. A game so shitty they didn't even bother to check if the game worked properly when they cut two of the levels.
Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde doesn't explain itself very well. When you turn into Mr.Hyde, you're not actually walking backwards. Rather, Mr.Hyde is walking down a copied, mirrored world of Dr.Jekyll. If Mr.Hyde catches up and reaches the spot where Dr.Jekyll was when he transformed, he gets hit by lightning and immediately dies. Very strange mechanic, to be sure.
Mystery Quest was a Square joint originally which fits since the platformer sections in every one of their games with platforming since have all universally sucked.
Jeff, why did you play Clu Clu Land for 45 minutes? That has to be one of the longest sections of a single game in this series yet. But it's for Clu Clu Land
His complaints on clu clu land make no sense. You push in the direction of the peg you want to go. Simple. "it would be easier if you could control the hands" is a silly statement that makes no sense....especially when he says it while on the bottom of the screen, with no pegs anywhere except up, and says "if I push left nothing happens"
Yeah, a lot of it seemed to be his brain filling in for what was actually happening. 39:45 he's successfully finding gems on purpose, moves right acknowledging his finding more, bounces off a wall to move left & find more, continues straight into a pit and complains that he wanted to head right but instead headed left. His complaints often have no connection to reality, if you watch closely. He complains about the hands' directions being relative when they are in fact absolute. It's weird because I think he's actually quite good at it, but then he puts it below the Three Stooges. Urgh. I tried it for the first time after seeing this because it looked so fluid and interesting, and it's my favourite NES game now. The controls are quite elegant, and turn what would be a Pacman picture gimmick into something enjoyable in its own right.
My only small complaint about these streams, is some of the games you play way too long. Like the first game you played about twice as long as we needed to see. I'd rather see more games per stream, then have to fast forward for 20 minutes to the next game.
In Japan, Mystery Quest was published by Square, and still has a little page on the Square Enix website. It was originally a Famicom Disk System game and due to all the extra space it had an intro with full screen graphics, longer levels and a better soundtrack due to the extra channel on the FDS hardware. It still had the mishmash of really poor and really excellent tiles in the tileset and still has the terrible main character sprite that clashes with the style of the backgrounds and makes it look unlicensed. I can only find three published games made by the developer.
Playing Clu Clu Land feels like experiencing one of those anxiety dreams where you are walking or running and can't control yourself in some way. Gives the same feeling and just feels unpleasant. But you keep wanting to try to like it cause it has the Nintendo polish.
Only a true man of science can look at Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and conclude "There's something to this!"
50 minutes of Clu Clu Land? the Clu Clu Land fandom haven't ate this good for decades
The best part of Mystery Quest is that they took out half the game for the US release. I played and finished the twice as long Famicom Disk System game (with a guide to be fair)
I haven't seen that much consecutive Clu Clu Land play since I first played it via Animal Crossing.
When UFO 50 comes out, I would enjoy seeing a ranking of all 50 games.
Holy shit yes
I still can’t believe the Dr. Jekyll x Mr. Hyde collab happened. Nintendo is the GOAT for getting them in the studio together.
Dr. Jekyll ft. Hyde
Jekyll's flow was very sick and on point in this track
I was really disappointed by the fallout but the diss tracks were fkin legendary
Put them in Smash Bros. you cowards!
I'd love to celebrate Father's Day, but my dad went out the door and said he was getting a pack of Dynowarz at the local mini-mart, and he never came back.
Hasn't been the same since he got in the accident and destroyed his spondylus.
oh god no
NOOOOOOOOOOOO
This touched me.
My dad was a Low G man, too bad he couldn't stay on the ground long enough to stop and say he loved me 😢
Your dad asked himself ''Is my life better than Dynowarz: Destruction than Spondylus'' and did not like the answer
feel like im going nuts. that attacking cat animation in Dr Jekyll is the funniest thing ive ever seen, why is no one commenting on it.
Mystery Quest has three sentences written about it on its Wikipedia page.
Mystery Quest is the game equivalent of when characters on TV are eating generic versions of a food just labeled "Cereal", "Soda" etc.
Clu Clu Land took me a very long time to figure out. There's a fun game in there, but you gotta be willing to really look for it. I can understand if that feels like work to some players.
Jeff I have been sick and taking NyQuil for like a week. Sometimes I fall asleep watching these videos at night. I just wanted you to know that I have been recently diagnosed with a spinal condition called spondylolithesis and I had a dream that I was at the doctor and you were there and you diagnosed me with dynowarz: destruction for spondylolithesis and I yelled at you lol
Low G Man The Low Gravity Man is such a classic bar
I'm pretty sure Jeff mentions it and its full name every single show.
Dr. Tracksuit has some words for Dr. Jekyll
"I'm a doctor too!"
As a kid, my parents got me the GBA e-reader from Toys R Us one summer. I got a handful of game cards to scan and I thought it was kind of exciting. Seeing Donkey Kong 3, NES Golf, NES Tennis, and other stuff kinda blew my mind as a kid. Alas, Clu Clu Land was the one that stood out to me the most of that small bunch. I was kinda enamored with how weird and unique it is. Even now, I watch this segment with a smile.
The second level theme of Mystery Quest kind of slaps in a minimalistic kind of way
You wanna know the *best* part of Mystery Quest? You have to play through the game four times to get the "good" ending. Not once, not twice, not three times. Four times. It's not any harder either, it's just "playthrough the entire thing again."
if you want to play Clu Clu Land with dedicated hand buttons, try DK King of Swing and Jungle Climber
Jeff turning into the Angry Video Game Nerd
Little do people know that James Rofle became who he is simply by playing the NES library
But actually funny
And Jeff doesn't seem to have ever watched any AVGN because every time a game comes up (apart from TMNT) that was made famous by AVGN he says he's never played or even seen that game.
Mystery Quest's tiles look like if you took the pixel art out of the game, blew it up to double its intended size, and then just shoved it back in
So glad Jekyll and Hyde managed to squash the beef and quit releasing diss tracks for a bit!
Hyde especially, that dude was walking his career SO far back
Had an instant flashback of memory nostalgia the second Jeff starts playing Dr Jeckyl Mr Hyde. Like a hidden long buried trauma, I suddenly remember bringing it home after renting it from the video store and my pre-teen brain not understanding ANYTHING about wtf how to play it and being stuck with it all weekend
Is the sound effect of bouncing off the wall in Clu Clu Land the Super Mario Bros jump noise?
Wasn't disappointed by the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde playthrough.
I once went on a Mystery Quest with some LSD one time. It also had the Nintendo "Seal of Quality" on it.
I am always on the side of the jumping brains.
i feel like Clu Clu Land got done here
When can I order the official ”Live by the hole, die by the hole” coffee mug?
People may notice, but that precision jumping in mystery quest was unbelievable!!
I remember seeing Jekyll and Hyde at my local walmart on clearance for 7 dollars when I was about 10 years old. I used my 2 weeks of allowance (10 bucks) to buy it and I was so damn excited I was buying a whole game for that price. Even at 10 years old, I knew within 5 minutes that I got got. The box art still stands as one of the most ridiculous NES games out there though so I'll give it that.
Aside from the sick dunks, every second of Hoops took something outta me
2:19:54 I wish Jeff would proclaim that at my funerals.
The bassist on Mystery Quest was going pretty hard.
did i miss it or did jeff never acknowledge that clu clu land uses zelda's rupees? I used to play this game a little bit as a kid and I have 0 recollection of the rupee sprite being used in this game.
I used to have slightly fond memories of Mystery Quest since my cousin had it when we were kids and I'd mess around with it and a few other games when I'd go over to his house. Neat concept anyways...
I am altering the SPONDEELOOS. Pray I don't alter it any further.
I had no idea that Mighty Final Fight existed. Its amazing!
I thought that praying mantis was Ridley, but you were right, lol.
Love this ranking series - reminds me of the old Game Room days in a way with your ability to make truly terrible games entertaining to watch. So much fun.
Not even the worst doctor in video games this week. To quote an old poem, "If my day keeps going this way I just might, break your funkin' face tonight!"
And yeah, Sonic CD's US soundtrack is way better.
Wow, a black box game I've never even heard of. I'll never be able to look at myself in the mirror again
“ *angry grumbles* …HOLE!”
-Jeff Gerstmann, 2024
Fri-day is the best-day. *cough*
Oh shit, also, we are barreling towards an all-Jeopardy last episode.
"is it better than Dinowarz" is the only thinking keeping me going in this wretched world
Ninja Kid wasn't a launch title, but it was one of the first 3rd-party releases alongside two other Bandai titles that don't have a great reputation: M.U.S.C.L.E. and Chubby Cherub.
Nintendo made another attempt at Clu Clu Land with DK King of Swing, which controls very similarly, but uses the L and R buttons to turn. Data East were on dev duties. It's pretty fun, but is much slower and less manic than Clu Clu Land.
I remember Hoops being fun but I think it's mostly fun in 2 on 2 mode even when playing 1 player.
1:26:10 Whistle? You mean hair dryer. 😏
Does Ninja Kid have the same music as some other game you've played for the list?
Clu Clu make a man go coo coo
I like to think Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde started as a Falling Down licensed game, but they couldn’t finish it when the pitch fell through
A lot of classic AVGN in this installment of the show
For all of the shit that Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde gets... it does have some really nice background and tile art. i really like the shading on the trees. The character sprite aren't bad either. It is weird that the birds drop dog coil dookies. Interesting idea, bad game.
I never played this game as a kid. I remember seeing the box art for this one at the rental store, I always thought it looked amazing. Especially the 'Psycho Wave' selling point.
If only they combined that version of Final Fight with River City Ransom
I just realized. I've had a copy of Hoops for like 20+ years. Yet have never played it. 😶
So much science! What's next? The Nobel Prize?!?
Clu Clu Land, eh? There's always something unexpected from the Gerstmann Advisory Panel.
It seems to have been pretty popular in Japan, for some reason it always gets included in OST selections and nostalgic collections
Jeff won't read it, but FFS, just use Markdown and number each entry with "0. " in the source file.
It will render them all as sequentially increasing numbers on its own.
The NES generation. When you convinced yourself a bad game was good because it was the only thing your parents bought you for Christmas.
Voice back in action just in time for the important shit to be done
There's a fantastic series of videos on Displaced Gamers about the mess that makes up Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. A game so shitty they didn't even bother to check if the game worked properly when they cut two of the levels.
WHEN I GET MAD I GET PAID
Nintendo might as well leave the Clu Clu Land ROMs up, nobody's intentionally downloading them.
Ikari Warriors is the only game I keep feeling it's waaay too high on the list. It's basically as broken as RoboCop. Failed science on that one
Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde doesn't explain itself very well. When you turn into Mr.Hyde, you're not actually walking backwards. Rather, Mr.Hyde is walking down a copied, mirrored world of Dr.Jekyll. If Mr.Hyde catches up and reaches the spot where Dr.Jekyll was when he transformed, he gets hit by lightning and immediately dies. Very strange mechanic, to be sure.
Hole.
Mr. Doc & Bomber all the way
dig the shirt
Mystery Quest was a Square joint originally which fits since the platformer sections in every one of their games with platforming since have all universally sucked.
Thanks Adam =(
What is the lowest ranked game on the current list that you think will be in the top 20 when it's all said and done? I'm guessing Contra.
Did he say that we were going to call a spade a spade lol
I regret to inform everyone that Hao can not swim. Game Over.
Happy that Clu Clu Land has been Clu Clu Ban'd from the top 200
If you bought, played or enjoyed Mystery Quest I regret to inform you that your right to criticise European games has been revoked.
AVGN finally beat Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde after years of shit-talking
Jeff, why did you play Clu Clu Land for 45 minutes? That has to be one of the longest sections of a single game in this series yet. But it's for Clu Clu Land
How soon we forget the super mario bros special streams
He played Ikari Warriors for over an hour. Clu Clu Land was interesting mechanically so I think it deserved it
Not to be negative, but when I heard Jeff say Clu Clu Land feels terrible, I felt a bit of glee. I have never enjoyed that game.
His complaints on clu clu land make no sense. You push in the direction of the peg you want to go. Simple. "it would be easier if you could control the hands" is a silly statement that makes no sense....especially when he says it while on the bottom of the screen, with no pegs anywhere except up, and says "if I push left nothing happens"
It seems like a cool game with a high skill ceiling
Yeah, a lot of it seemed to be his brain filling in for what was actually happening. 39:45 he's successfully finding gems on purpose, moves right acknowledging his finding more, bounces off a wall to move left & find more, continues straight into a pit and complains that he wanted to head right but instead headed left. His complaints often have no connection to reality, if you watch closely. He complains about the hands' directions being relative when they are in fact absolute.
It's weird because I think he's actually quite good at it, but then he puts it below the Three Stooges. Urgh. I tried it for the first time after seeing this because it looked so fluid and interesting, and it's my favourite NES game now. The controls are quite elegant, and turn what would be a Pacman picture gimmick into something enjoyable in its own right.
Is it just me or is the gameplay audio just too loud?
50 minutes of clu clu land? Who wants that? Is that the banger this week? 🤮
We are not here for enjoyment, we are here for science.
My only small complaint about these streams, is some of the games you play way too long. Like the first game you played about twice as long as we needed to see. I'd rather see more games per stream, then have to fast forward for 20 minutes to the next game.
In Japan, Mystery Quest was published by Square, and still has a little page on the Square Enix website. It was originally a Famicom Disk System game and due to all the extra space it had an intro with full screen graphics, longer levels and a better soundtrack due to the extra channel on the FDS hardware. It still had the mishmash of really poor and really excellent tiles in the tileset and still has the terrible main character sprite that clashes with the style of the backgrounds and makes it look unlicensed. I can only find three published games made by the developer.
Playing Clu Clu Land feels like experiencing one of those anxiety dreams where you are walking or running and can't control yourself in some way. Gives the same feeling and just feels unpleasant. But you keep wanting to try to like it cause it has the Nintendo polish.
It's time for that time of the week where my favorite things merge, Friday, Science, Video Games, and Jeff.