Left in Europe - Game Sack
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- Episode 110. It's finally time to talk about some of the games that were never released outside of Europe and the PAL region. You might be surprised at how good some of the games are! What are some other ones that would be interesting for us to try?... That is if we can get them running.
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Hey everyone. Please keep in mind that Japan isn't in Europe. So if it was released in Japan, it can't be in a Left in Europe episode. But thanks for the suggestions!
Hahaha!
***** Well there is a Reason why people refer to NTSC as "Never the same Color" ;)
For N64 PAL games I use N64 Passport..... BUT IT DOESN'T WORK WITH SOME GAMES... Including Taz Express.... I have a Pal equipment for that game.
Oh great, they moved Japan again. I'm getting sick of trying to find that country on a map every time it moves.
***** Because owning a PAL N64 was after getting the Passport.
French territories use SECAM. System Entirely Contrary to the Accepted Method.
Since Im European I have to say that I love asterix and obelix
You should make an "left in Latin América". We have a bunch of really weird stuff, like Fido Dido, Harry Potter, Lord of the Ring, all for Sega Génesis and all super pireted and bootleggy.
+Gazulo Marquez and one Parodius version only for japan and LA
Gazulo Marquez I'm pretty sure they actually covered Fido Dido in one of their videos.
Oh, & don't forget the CLASSIC DOS game Mega Phoenix.
That moreso belongs in a Bootleg installment.
We got 50hz, you got 60hz, we got scart, you got s-video, I'd call that about even Joe.
For the SNES:
Tintin in Tibet and Tintin: prisoners of the Sun.
pretty hard games but they're also based on an belgian- franco comic series, that is very popular over here.
We keep all the good games for ourselves.
hahahahahaaamwahahaHAWUHAHAHAHAHAHA.... *ahem*. Excuse me.
True fact : A decent PAL conversion (rare!) can be better than the NTSC version, since it has more lines in the display. DOA 2 on Dreamcast is full speed, and full screen PAL on the 50Hz option. Shame more developers didn't make the effort.
Really love these guys - a very moderate and unhyped, yet professional and non-corporate reviews. Subscribed.
Asterix on Master System = The Best
And P.S. I loved the music!
Nah, the Asterix arcade game is the best
"Next time on Game Sack: Games We Can't Pronounce"
This video was too fast for my PAL brain to comprehend.
LOL!
Waiting for a "Left in Brazil" episode. A lot of Master System games like Street Fighter II, Battletoads in Battlemaniacs, Férias Frustradas do Pica-Pau (Wody WoodPeecker) and some GameGear ports to Master System.
We might be able to get a single episode out of that. It would probably be 100% Master System based I think.
Mega Drive too... Like Duke Nukem 3D, Nightmare Circus, Show do Milhão (trivia game in portuguese... so...) and Guitar Idol (a Guitar Hero rip off).
I would like to see this one.
It could include the wonder boy hacks ("Mônica no Castelo do Dragão" and "Turma da Mônica em O Resgate"). There is also the MK3 port.
QWERTYCommander That's the point, he is proposing a "Left in Brazil" episode.
Guilherme Dellagustin
Didn't read that. Sorry.
PAL is a pretty terrible standard honestly. The resolution is ok, but the refresh is absolutely awful. I can't stand to look at 50Hz, it gives me a headache. I only own one PAL game...Metroid Prime for the Gamecube (the PAL version is far superior to the US release, it has finished/completed lore, improved graphics, and a couple of the boss fights were fixed/finished). Fortunately, it runs just fine on a US Gamecube and will run in 60Hz (and you can use Swiss to force it to 480p if you have an HDMI adapter).
Another great episode! For whatever reason it never dawns on me to think of Europe when looking for good imports, my mind always goes to Japan, but I guess that's for good reason.
If you guys are ever hurting for games to feature in your left in Japan series, I'd love to be of assistance once I'm settled in back in the states.
Cool, send us a PM in the future!
That would be awesome Thank You!
Everytime I look at lists of fan translations I can feel my social life die
Taz Express accurately explains why parcels take forever to arrive between Tasmania and the rest of Australia. also did the developers ever visit Australia, because I'm pretty sure we drive on the left side of the road not the right.
So, interestingly, I'm pretty sure Gradius is supposed to be " Gladius", as in the roman sword, and it got engrished....
A few random Europe only titles that might be worth noting
Maken Shao - Demon Sword (PS2)
Ghoul Panic (PS1)
Another Code R (Wii)
Overblood 2 (PS1)
Disaster Day of Crisis (Wii)
Fighting Vipers 2 (Dreamcast)
Bodycount (Megadrive)
Terranigma (SNES)
I think some of those were also in Japan.
Terranigma is the highlight I see right there
I love sitting down with a cup of tea to watch game sack.
I am from the EU, so a left in the USA video would appeal to me.
Great work guys.
I have no no idea if they're available in the US, but if you get your hands on an Asterix-Comic, I really recommend you to read it! They're nicely drawn and very fun to read. A lot of people in Europe grew up with them. :)
I for some reason thought you guys were going to put in the Smurfs on Mega CD, unless you've covered it before...I can't recall. =) I helped getting it to Good Deal Games for production and re-release in America at one point.
Pal 50hz Booooo that's why we used to have to import usa back in the day.
Ahhhhh Ntsc 60hz :)
I just wish we had ntsc like the usa here in england but with this gen it doesn't matter anymore thank goodness.
Oh geeeeez I hope you guys cover European games in this
Sorry, no can do.
Game Sack Cringer. He-Man's Green cat thingie is named Cringer
***** and Battle-Cat when he's transformed
*****
no. ಠ_ಠ
***** Its just European, not "you're-a-peein'"
That was the sissiest "by the power of Grayskull" I've ever heard.
Try this:
He-Man: By The Power of Gayskull
Been very pleased with Game Sack lately. The quality is very high in each episode, the writing and narration has improved dramatically from the old days, and all in all, I find Game Sack is a very enjoyable, underrated series.
Thanks!
*****
Thank You and we're glad you like our show!
I was about to say that North America may be the only continent where all of its countries use NTSC, but I didn't notice that you corrected yourself. However, that's only the case if you don't count Greenland, which is considered part of Europe due to being part of the Danish Realm. South Korea, among other countries, use NTSC as well, but no one thinks about those countries. Also, France has their own standard called SECAM, which is also used in Russia and Mongolia. Also, they changed the name from Mega Drive to Genesis to signify a new beginning as well, not just because of Trademarks. Basically, they changed the name because of trademarks, and they chose Genesis to signify a new beginning.
Master System Asterix is epic, including the soundtrack.
Besides being slower PAL is higher resolution than NTSC. Most video game systems didn't utilize this but instead squashed the picture so that the pixels weren't square. Later video games are only in 60Hz even in Europe as most later PAL systems accepted lower resolution 60Hz with thicker scanlines just as well as native 50Hz.
Great video guys. Keep'em coming. As for left in Europe I was thinking WHIZ on the Saturn but that did actually get a Japanese release :( How about Formula Karts Special Edition also for the Saturn? That was a Euro only release. Here's a video of it on my site that I made before the days of HD - www.segagagadomain.com/movie-pages/formulakarts.htm
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Arrimas Arrington nope, sadly not. Game Sack did a Sharp X68000 episode. YOu should check that out.
Arrimas Arrington
Hmm, there's not much to see really. Most of the ports are pretty close to the original games. I did cover Street Fighter II on the X68000 in my Battle of the Ports video. Hey, maybe the Game Sack guys could do a X68000 arcade port special? How about it guys? Show the world how cool and powerful the X68000 really is.
Great game! Hard as nails though - absolutely brutal The awesome 90's dance soundtrack kept me chipping away at it! The Holland music track, in particular, is gorgeous. I miss the days of Redbook Audio :)
Oh dear, what happened to that website?
Hi guys, very good episode. Not only north america and japan use NTSC system, also central america and south america (except Brazill)
It's a darned shame that the He-Man game wasn't very good. It's a decent license that lends itself to a good hack & slash game or maybe even a light action RPG. But that game you showed? It puts the "cringe" in Cringer (the tiger).
Great run of episodes over these past three weeks, guys. It's no small feat to put that kind of work together-- I enjoyed them all!
maybe someone should re-skin golden ax with he-man characters...
lmao! "Cringe in Cringer" good one man! you should write for the show!
I gotta say He-Man was never a great franchise, it was a cheaply animated toy advert.
Asterix was good though
John NoNameGibbon
I was just going to mention that! It's on Netflix - or it was. I mean to go back and watch the rest of it, if it's still available. It's a shame it was cancelled after one or two seasons - the same fate of the more recent Thundercats remake, which I heard was also a vast improvement over its predecessor. Cartoon Network seems to have a way of greenlighting 80s nostalgic reboots, then dropping all support :/
I would have said Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja 5, one of my favorite fighting games, but it came out in both Japan and Europe, but never made it to America. Just like Project Zero 2 Wii Edition.
yes I'm an australian so this is relevent for me
The Asterix games are funny, because they didn't want to release them here in US, but if they did, word would have spread and people would have bought them, and some of the kids who bought them would have found their way to the comics, thus increasing the popularity of the property in general. Sigh.
There are a lot more NTSC countries but you guys are getting way better at these videos! The endings are just getting better and better. Thanks for the upload guys. It was a pleasure.
Great episode! Too bad that Taz game on the 64 isn't import friendly. It actually looks pretty fun! Was Hammerin' Harry a Europe exclusive? That would be a cool one to hear about but I can't remember if it came out elsewhere. I laughed pretty hard at the end scene with the impossible to pronounce names. That would make a cool episode like "Games with Unpronounceable Names." Great episode as always! And I look forward to more!
He-man was very big in Ireland. I was born in Ireland in '89 and I remember being obsessed with the show.
Interesting. I guess re-runs of it were being shown there a lot still in the 90's. In North America, most people born in 1989 have likely never seen He-Man, or even heard of it. Here in North America, i think it stopped getting much air-time (especially on the most widely available channels) some time in the late 80's, and well before the 90's.
@@syncmonism I missed the original run of the orginal He-Man show. But I was into the movie and its toys when it was released. I saw bits of the second He-Man show. But at that time I mostly watched Ninja Turtles.
"Everyone else uses PAL"---
Nope. In Latin America most of us use NTSC 👌🏻
Really really enjoyed this...sure there are quite a few more NES games but im sure they are pretty well known like Mr. Gimmick or New Ghostbusters 2 but both games id love to hear your opinion on...on the Master System there is Master of Darkness however it did make it to NA on the Game Gear
Thanks! We did talk about Mr. Gimmick in "Left in Japan 3". That's a fun game.
David White once you get another left in Europe episode out, I'm suggesting a game for it. The firefighters for the snes
Is that the same game as The Firemen by Human? If so then we talked about it in Left in Japan 2 and then later realized it got released in Europe.
David White yeah it was released in europe
Joe, who do I need to give money too to snag a sweet Snatcher shirt like that? Is it you? Cuz I will give you money.
I don't know if someone already said about this, but Asterix was released for the Master System here in Brazil too. It was a popular console with good sales and that's why many european exclusives were available in the country.
And there's more: the publisher from Brazil (Tec Toy) made a partnership with Sega and created many "hacked games" for the console with famous cartoon characters. They made one Asterix hack called "TV Colosso", based on a famous TV show with the same name.
HOLD IT!
IIRC, we received 4 Asterix games total in North America:
- That crappy Genesis game you mentionned (Great Rescue)
- That Asterix beat-em-up arcade game by Konami
- An Asterix SNES/PC platformer game by Infogrames
- Asterix & Obelix: Kick Buttix for PS2
The rest... yeah, pretty much land-locked in Europe. However, there's a good reason for that: comic books in Europe are different than in the US, with different art styles, stories, genres and of course characters, so if one would make a video game with a European comic book, it would be wiser to release it in Europe first, since it's the main market. If the popularity doesn't catch on in America, well... what,s the point of releasing it there?
Still have my Master System copy of Asterix from 1990. Great game.
As a North American Master System fan, you sir have my envy.
I still have it too. :D
Amazing feat considering the game was released in 1991!
I can honestly say I probably would have never played any of those games. Btw, you forgot about the Smurfs which if I remember correctly was also left in Europe. Also didn't Noah's ark supposedly have a great soundtrack?
Another awesome video that brightened my day! You guys are the best
The Smurfs for the SNES and Mega Drive is a game that was left in Europe, even when Nintendo Power made a big fuss over advertising it like it was going to come out in North America in 1996.
Always great to see a new episode of Game Sack. Ever though of doing a Left in Development episode. So many great games that could of been.
Yes! We have an Unreleased Games episode.
Always thought the "megadrive" was sexier than genesis :)
Guys you haven't heard of Asterix?!!! now tell me you don't know Tin Tin.
As far as I'm aware Asterix and Obelix are popular in the entire Europe, apart from UK.
I am Syrian and heard of al these comics, USA seems to be living in a separate universe.
Kinan Arous
I think it's something to do with English speaking countries, it's the same deal in UK and I am willing to bet it's similar in Australia for example.
Kinan Arous Americans pay little attention. Tin Tin was shown in the 90's on Nickelodeon and a CGI movie adaptation of Tin Tin was made a few years ago here in America yet it wasn't popular.
Kinan Arous I had the books as a kid. They were popular in Canada.
I had to pause the video after 10 seconds to say grey choice of background music from
The mighty chris huelsbeck! Apydia 2 on the Amiga and the track is war on the meadows if I remember rightly
You do! Good ear!
Game Sack - Left in Europe Epilogue - AKA Experimentations in Soft Focus
Actually it was due to low light at Dave's place so we had to open the aperture way big-like.
Game Sack Figured as much. Thanks for the reply and the great video! I always enjoy grabbing a beer and rocking some Game Sack.
Game Sack Excuse me, but one things, you mention Asterix, and you do not play Asterix and Obelix? I swear, it is a level completley above the original asterix, and its on the SNES. Seriously, I'm advising you to check out this game
***** True. I also quite enjoyed Lucky Luke or The Smurfs games (all on SNES. Asterix on SNES is just an average platformer IMO.
Ruudos
Don't forget about Smurfs on NES. The music is fabulous, the characters are large, and it's a pretty hard but creative platformer.
PAL system is British standard, that's why countries of former British Empire use it. And was adopted by Germans, so Europe use it too. NTSC is US standard, that's why Japan have it too, you know, WWII and stuff. But there was third system, French SECAM, used in France, former French colonies and former countries of Eastern Bloc. Funny, more people used obscure SECAM than NTSC... P.S: I am not surprised that many of these games never leave Europe. NES/SNES weren't in Europe sucessfull, Master System/Mega Drive outsold it and mainly, Europe is computer gaming oasis. Atari ST, Commodore Amiga, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, these were our gaming machines. Many console games from Europe are simply ports of computer versions. Hell, my first Mario game was on IBM PC!
You should do, left in Africa
Awesome as always guys :-) being from England it was cool to see this as we also miss out on quite a few games. Especially for certain retro consoles
The Asterix part made me nostalgic. Not just because of the franchise itself, which was a significant part of my childhood, but also because the Master System game was one of the video games I ever owned (along with Land of Illusion and Sonic the Hedgehog, which was built into my MS). It's funny how a console with a not very impressive game library had some really good licensed games.
Another plus to the Retron 5 is that it has a 50hz mode for PAL games. I'm really glad you guys did this episode. I've been curious about PAL games especially since they're usually in English.
NTSC and metric for the win!!!!
Also I'm Canadian and I call it a Genesis
Dreamcastpowa Mine says Genesis.
leadbones mine says megadrive. So?
Gambit771 Nice job getting the point. Really, really great. It's obviously both, and it doesn't matter. Well done.
Yes.
I believe the PlayStation 2 version of Wipeout Pulse only came out in Europe and the rest of the regions it was released in got the PSP version.
you seriously want to tell me you never heard of asterix before? everyone here in europe knows them. i mean, we also know your awful comic characters like spiderman, wolverine and what not.
OK.
Nothing to be upset about.
Yes, Asterix never was popular in America, as it was here in Europe. This is not, in any way, the fault of Game Sack.
Astrix is french so some English also don't know about him, for years I thought oblexis was astrix as he is portrayed as the main character
Game Sack
i wasn't upset, just really shocked. ;) sorry if it sounded like that. but you are missing out a really great comic.
Asterix is very popular here in Indonesia, strange that US people never heard about asterix.
There are a lot of bande dessinée/franco-belgian comics video games exclusive to Europa. A ton of Asterix( and Obelix) games, the only series that puts out games to this day, The Smurf, a few of them actually found their way to the US, Lucky Luke, Tintin and Spirou et Fantasio. Can't tell you if all of them are good, but the Infogrames tend to be good. And there is Papyrus for the GBC which is also pretty good.
Hard to market those games to you since you don't appreciate the bande dessinee.
Don't get fooled by the bad critics Asterix got for the Master System. I don't know why he doesn't like the game but as we all know the game-sack-reviews are quite unique in taste. Asterix for the Megadrive(EU genesis) was an ok game when it got released but it got kinda lost in all the other epic sidescrollers of that time. Asterix for the Master System though become very popular In Europe not least in Sweden, even though few had the console. I would actually want to say that Asterix, Out Run and Alex the Kid where the 3 biggest games over here on The Master System. The graphics looked really well done almost as good as the Genesis-version and the gameplay was alot of fun with alot of challenge but if you died it was because you messed up.
As you might have guessed by now this is probably my favorite sidescroller for the MasterSystem. But I love the TV-movie-series and the comics as well so the game maybe is a little bit more appealing to me then an American who have no Idea who these characters are and how they are stereotyped.
Also I can recommend you to look up Asterix Cartoon-movie-series if you want alot of laughs. They are classics to me and I still can pull out quotes from them to my friends because of its silliness and its still be able to make us laugh.
I recommend Asterix for any Master System-lover.
I imagine most of the Asterix games stayed in Europe for commercial reasons due to the comical Gauls popularity in France, Belgium and Holland. I would doubt John Madden football games would sell well in the UK though I know some were released on the Mega Drive. I think fewer games are marketed for specific regions ie Europe North America, South America , Asia and Australasia these days, particularly as Japanese role players are gaining world wide popularity and the DVD game format is more economically viable than cartridges so publishers can take a chance.
The best Europe only games were released for 8bit computers, Amiga and PC. Consoles weren't as popular here as in North America or Japan, being the PSX the first massive one. Except for some Master System Europe only (if you don't count Brazil) and some football (soccer) games, there aren't many interesting console games here for you.
Dodonpachi Resurrection Deluxe Edition
for the 360. I'm sure there is a version for Japan but the PAL version runs great on US 360s and right now Play Asia has a killer deal on it.!
Never saw bright colorful graphics on the N64? That describes nearly every game on that console, I can't believe he said that.
The N64 I think handled 3d better than the PlayStation, but PS had better games and the textures looked a lot better for the time.
Not everyone else uses PAL. Many countries use SECAM or PAL/SECAM. And the first of the Asterix games on the SMS actually did make it over here.
Anyway, there are a number of Euro titles I want to try, but modding a console and/or the different speeds turn me off. Most of the games Europe got but we didn't were also released in Japan, and most of the good ones aren't too text heavy, so I'd rather just buy those versions.
When I heard that Apidya music at the beginning, I figured that would be one of the games you covered in this vid. Had you already covered it? Did you like it so much you started using the tune? :D
I always had a problem with PAL games on my NTSC tv, the screen wouldn't stop jumping, very annoying.
Anyway, great show guys, really enjoyed the last 3 weeks.
Man... I played the SHIT out of that Astérix Master System game. It's a pity those characters never made it in the US. Here in Brazil they were always very well known.
Greetings from Europe!^^,)
Terranigma is the only PAL title that I really, REALLY want. Good thing people make reproduction cartridges tweaked for NTSC systems.
In the Salamander anime they pronounce it Grad (as in graduation) -E-us. The same way everyone I knew said it when I was growing up. Just putting that out there.
ASTERIX yeah! it should have been released in the US also. HE-MAN looks even worse than the movie (at least Dolph Lundgren looks good). Noah .. looks better than any of the Bible Games.
europe still has a big comic fan base and evreyone is serious about them so unfortunatly no half nude women at euro comic con just guys in their forties.
also no character rape so ya don't end up with the spiderman situation of evreything feeling like a verry badly written soap
Another obscure game that has been only released in Europe would be Gift for PC/PS2.
It's a platformer, that parodies both games and movies alike.
It's actually pretty playable and has a good art style!
you NEED to check out the Astrix game on the GBA! It is one of the most graphically impressive games on the system, it looks like a PS1 game
The best video game show on the net; GAME SACK!......but as far as these games go I think a lot of them were left in Europe for good reason.
The SNES Asterix game was supposed to get a US release from Electro Brain but it was cancelled because Asterix is very unpopular in the US?
If you really wan't to do episodes on european games you should have a look at the Comodore 64 and Amiga computers. They where huge in europe and alot more common than any of the consoles.
He Man's cats' name is Battle Cat. The creators must've really been burning the midnight oil to come up with such a deep and resonate name, eh?
He-Man was massive in Europe probably even more so than the US. The 2002 series was made in the US though and it isn't French Anime in any shape or form so it does indeed seem very odd indeed.
There was a great Asterix arcade game, a beat-em-up made by Konami (1992).
AFAIK it was never ported to other systems so you'd have to emulate to play it, but it's worth checking out. It's basically like other Konami beat-em-ups from that time: a bit shallow and repetitive, but really fun and well made with lots of charm.
He-man was reallllllly big in Europe in 80s.
Oh man, 2 weeks? I swear i ate lunch while watching Game Sack for the last month, am i the only one? its like saturday morning cartoons to me
You're show is pretty fuckin' radical and it's always a pleasant surprise when I see it in my inbox. Thanks, guys.
We missed out on Chrono Trigger & Final Fantasy VI, you missed out on Asterix & He-Man. Seems fair.
ntsc is also used in a big portion of south america, why dont you mention it???, its just below you and we have retail games and everything just like u in usa....
Great to see you guys highlight some of the games that we only got over here in Europe :) I didn't realize that Asterix wasn't known in the US :)
Canada is NTSC. Though I have noticed that some Americans seem to use United States to talk about North America. Kind of annoying.
Here's a tissue and a Molsen.
Just compare gdp baby
Apidya music! I know you guys aren't into PC gaming but any chance we'll ever see an Amiga episode? It has alot of games that were only released in Europe, some very influental games, cool shmups like Agony&Apiyda and it was originally way ahead of its time graphically like the Neo Geo, though due to this a lot of Amiga platformers tend to have good graphics but mediocre/substandard design. Though I guess many of the better exclusives are turn based strategy, RPG and point&click type games, not really the type of games you usually review on Game Sack. But still, Amiga feels more like console gaming than 80s/early 90s DOS gaming, most computers of that era really do since they support game pads, have more arcadey games and can be played on TV screens like consoles. C64, MSX, Atari ST and Spectrum would also be easy platforms to cover due to sheer size of their game libraries.
Could you please make a Left in North America episode? This would be interesting as well.
I always enjoyed playing Canon Fodder on the SNES. It was a shame it never came out here in the US. It was one of the very few games I would play on my Super Wild Card and not actually own.
It even had SNES mouse support.
"WAR...NEVER BEEN SO MUCH FUN!...WAR..." ;)
Hell yeah. :)
I know asterix. We watched an english dubbed version in my 7th grade history class.
I love your corny little post-credit skits. They're so funny. They always make me lol. ^_^
Isn't spirou for the megadrive on of 'em ? Oh, fuck it, it was a bad game anyway...
Jellyboy should have at least been reskinned and marketed as a spin off to clayfighter
Got a ticket yesterday for pulling over on the side of the highway to avoid distracted drivers and watch fireworks. So far the only highlight of my weekend was this video, love ya game sack!
what about a left in USA episode? Think of us, poor EU people :(
I have an idea for episode: Left in USA - games that you got but rest of the world didn't.
We'd like to try that. I'm sure there's lots. Hopefully they're interesting enough to cover if nobody thought they were interesting enough to export.
Game Sack That would be amazing as I am building up my MegaDrive collection and I am curious as to what games I would need to import from USA because I wouldn't be able to get them in PAL format ect :D
Why would Obelix need rescuing? He’s got permanent magic potion boost