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What's up everybody? Welcome to IGN Gamescoop. I'm

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your host, Damon Hadfield. Joining me this and this week

0:56

are Sam Claiborne. Hey, hey. Justin

0:59

Davis. Scoop. And he

1:01

who bags milk, CJ Gibson.

1:04

What? In a special Nintendo

1:06

carrier today. It's

1:09

milk for sure. You just drink,

1:12

you just bring a little canister of

1:14

milk around the food. David

1:17

surprises us with these guests, I just want to point out.

1:19

It's like his favorite little trick.

1:21

It's great. Well, it's good to see you guys. Yeah,

1:23

it's good to have you, CJ. It's awesome to have you back. Oh,

1:26

it's a pleasure. And obviously, I tuned

1:28

in last week. We

1:30

said goodbye to E3. I appreciate you guys did

1:32

that. And can I hijack the space here

1:35

just for about 60 seconds? Please, please.

1:37

I mean, I think this is something that,

1:39

as a visual guy, I need

1:41

to come in. And so you've got to watch the video episode. Damon usually

1:43

prefers that. Couple little E3

1:45

memorabilia here. Oh my gosh. I'll advise

1:47

you on E3 shirts. He's got the editorial one.

1:50

What are you saying? I'm not sure. So it doesn't always say, but

1:52

I think this was like 16 or 17. I

1:54

still have that shirt, it's so soft. It is

1:57

soft, I've got that one. I wear that still.

2:00

This one's solid. There's

2:02

this one here. This is another idea. Oh,

2:04

wow. I like that. Yeah. Yeah.

2:08

I think Damon, you might remember this one.

2:11

Yeah. We had a couple

2:13

of retro ones. It's like 2011. It's

2:16

a way to this one actually

2:17

was branded with the year. So I appreciate this. This

2:20

one was a 2019. That's the last one.

2:23

That's the front of it. This was the last one. This is

2:25

the front of it. Yeah. And then last

2:27

couple here, I won't go very long. This is the

2:29

Los Angeles one. So I always bought a shirt every

2:35

I don't know when this one was but that

2:37

looks like two thousands. I know it

2:39

was so retro now

2:41

Completely here's another red and that one's great

2:44

man. The e3 logo is a piece

2:46

of work

2:47

All right, last couple and then we'll be done here. This one

2:50

was another one. I thought was pretty good. I can't remember Well,

2:52

is that so interesting? Yeah.

2:57

And I mean, I attended, I think, almost 11 or 12 E3s. This

3:00

would be my 12th or 13th. You showed a picture

3:02

of like that. That was so weird. Yeah,

3:05

it's like

3:06

this or viewers logo was that long

3:08

time ago. It's just like a rough

3:10

outline of an arcade cabinet, which doesn't have

3:12

anything to do with the three. So

3:15

you did some like freelancer

3:17

contractor work at E3s with IGN way

3:19

back, right? I did. Yeah, I'll tell you a quick

3:22

story in a second. This is 2016.

3:24

And then last one, you can

3:27

get the reaction everybody ran this. This one specifically

3:29

for Damon, because my first three

3:31

was also.

3:33

Two. Oh, there

3:35

you go. So this is the 2006

3:37

OGIG. Wow.

3:40

I also like the flex that you can still

3:42

just wear that. Because I could

3:44

not think I have a sweater on.

3:46

I have a sweater on for a reason. just that

3:48

I like, I like was like, Oh, how am

3:51

I gonna do this?

3:52

But yeah, Sam, as you mentioned it, yeah,

3:54

for Fran, actually, there was a

3:57

conversation like, hey, come help out the video team

3:59

if you think you... got what it takes and I did a video

4:01

joke and you're like, I'd never show anybody now. It's like, Oh, you

4:03

guys got nothing if you don't have me, the video guy helping

4:06

you out. So yeah, he basically gave me

4:08

a show. I

4:09

booked a plane ticket about 48

4:11

hours before he three flew down, paid

4:13

my own way, pay my flight, pay my own hotel.

4:16

And basically yeah, Coddie three 2006

4:18

for my first time.

4:20

That's awesome. 2006.

4:22

That's pretty well. Cool.

4:25

We've got a great show for you this

4:27

week. We're going to talk about some big games coming out this

4:29

This month in April, I have selected seven

4:31

very cool looking games that I look forward to

4:33

checking out this month. And we will flip through

4:35

a 1994 issue of Game Players Magazine. It's

4:40

a very interesting time in video game history when

4:42

fighting games were all their age and video

4:45

game ratings were all their age. And the

4:47

hearings were happening before Congress and everyone was up in

4:49

arms about Mortal Kombat and Night

4:51

Trap.

4:52

Cool. But first,

4:54

CJ, what the hell have you

4:56

been up to? Last week we

4:58

were observing Game of the Year Watch. Yes.

5:02

You played anything this year you think is in the

5:04

running for Game of the Year? I mean, so

5:06

it's weird to listen to you guys describe what

5:08

contends is Game of the Year. And so probably

5:10

not because it's all been a lot of remakes. And so I've

5:12

been playing a little bit of Metroid

5:14

Prime, obviously. And so that's

5:16

what I'm going through right now. And I miss most of the GameCube

5:19

generation. So every time that Sam

5:22

is on 20 questions, I really appreciate that

5:24

era.

5:25

It's just not like that in the early

5:27

PlayStation one or just not in my wheelhouse. So

5:29

yeah, getting to play that over again, because I played a

5:31

little bit of at the start, but it's so good.

5:34

And you know, like Metroid. Yeah, it's

5:36

and I heard people say that the controls were actually

5:38

when they go back to games previously, they

5:40

struggled a little bit. Feels great, looks

5:43

great, having a blast. So yeah, that's what I'm

5:45

playing right now. So but again, that wouldn't be valid,

5:47

I guess for game of the year, given the fact

5:49

that it's a remake. Yeah, well,

5:52

we're remastered even master remaster.

5:54

Yeah.

5:55

You're not playing Resident

5:57

Evil 4 then? Not yet. So that

5:59

is another one. that

6:00

I'm excited to jump into. I've obviously heard

6:02

and seen some good things about it. It's really weird

6:04

because I get this dad mode window of time.

6:08

Justin, you might be able to write. Damon, you're going to get there too

6:10

soon. When it's like the kids are just around and

6:12

Resident Evil is just a little too

6:15

graphic in the tents for the young. It's like,

6:17

ah, no, go away. But yeah,

6:19

it will definitely be the next one after

6:21

I finish Metroid. Cool.

6:24

It is awesome. Sam, have you finished it yet? I still haven't finished it. I did.

6:27

Yeah, that was great ending sequence. I started

6:29

over again and then I also beat

6:31

John Wick for this weekend. Oh, nice. Nice.

6:34

Nice. Might have been longer than Resident Evil 4. So

6:37

thumbs up, thumbs down. I

6:40

think it was a thumbs mid. I

6:42

like I like some of the other ones a little bit better. I thought

6:44

this had I just watched them all for the first time.

6:47

So like for me, I was like, I just saw a lot

6:49

of the same killing. But I

6:51

will I will say that there's a stairs

6:54

fight scene at the end.

6:54

Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Which had the audience

6:57

roaring. Yeah. And this is

6:59

a crowd that was kind of laughing at spots

7:01

which weren't supposed to be funny, which

7:02

is kind of fun in that type of movie, right? Because it

7:05

takes itself really seriously. But

7:07

that part, people were just rolling.

7:09

And I thought it was a really good movie

7:12

moment. That game has a final

7:14

boss problem. You know, like you never

7:16

know what the final boss is going to be. Yeah,

7:18

I'm not sure we saw the final boss yet. And

7:21

I don't know what the heck is happening. I do agree.

7:23

Like, yeah, this says it feels

7:25

very final. But like we still haven't ever

7:27

seen the high table that everyone's talking about,

7:29

right? Yeah, well, frustrating, right? Yeah.

7:32

And when you were telling me, like, oh, they're going, I

7:34

won't spoil anything. But you said last

7:37

show, like, they go from big

7:38

city to big city to big city. It's kind

7:40

of like three things. And I was kind of thinking, like,

7:43

oh, this is going to be like a video

7:45

game. Once he beats this world, he's going to go to

7:47

this world. That's not really how it works,

7:50

but that's my video game application. There's

7:52

plenty of video game references in John

7:54

Wick, too. And it would not be out of the question to have that,

7:56

I think the hotline Miami via another

7:58

game, right?

8:00

does he talk and much because i think there was a gay

8:02

out there have been going around yeah i was

8:04

like under two hundred and eighty words or semi

8:06

that and it's also hundred percent in the family

8:08

goes yeah yeah

8:11

it's like duke nukem or something a

8:14

yeah

8:14

he giga i wonder if like he get his

8:16

that's the highest paid anyone's ever been paid

8:18

per word it can be hair don't think clint

8:20

eastwood in like to good bad and ugly

8:22

and like stuff like that where are you barely toxic

8:24

that's a solid character like and eastwood is

8:26

like so so talkie air

8:29

to yeah new have plenty of people

8:31

talking this movie and there is a big

8:33

intro which has no fighting

8:35

that takes forever to get through with people

8:37

talking it's and like to be getting a phantom menace

8:39

i'm it's

8:41

your this degree was be it's that

8:43

the lobby to get going but then once he gets going

8:46

it's shirt as and you're right about that the car key

8:48

on him and ceremony hiding in my car

8:50

a whole year saw that meme going around to

8:52

get

8:58

around the corner within

9:00

every battle and with the don't

9:02

have each new day the threat

9:04

of the unexpected the unpredictable

9:07

and the unrelenting lies

9:09

in wait for marines

9:11

will always be there we're the constant

9:14

in the chaos no matter the

9:16

battlefield marines adapt

9:18

to win defeating every shifting

9:20

from protecting our nation's

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Okay, we're in April now and there's some

10:28

big games coming out this month, some really high profile

10:31

ones like Star Wars Jedi Survivor, but there's some very

10:33

cool looking indie games coming out this month that I wanted to

10:35

highlight too. So here

10:37

we go, seven games,

10:38

I think, cool coming this month. Tomorrow,

10:41

coming tomorrow, April 4th, which tomorrow from when

10:43

this episode is being recorded, is Grim

10:46

Grimoire once more. Did anyone

10:48

play the original Grim Grimoire? We

10:51

talked about it, you know, but I didn't know how

10:53

to play it.

10:54

So a PS3 exclusive

10:56

from 2007, I think, from Vanillaware, for

10:59

the Dragon's Crown Odin Sphere developers

11:02

known for a very, very cool and iconic art

11:05

style. And this is a 2D fantasy

11:08

RTS. So looks

11:09

very awesome. And I never played the original. And

11:11

now it sounds like, sounds like a Justin

11:13

kind of game. I can't remember. Is Odin Sphere the

11:19

one that's played on these like circular, like if you

11:21

keep going to the left, you'll come around the other side. Okay,

11:23

that's the one that I played then I didn't play. Grim

11:25

I'm a grim grimoire. Yep,

11:27

it's cool. I look forward to checking that out. That's going to be out on Switch,

11:30

PS4, and PS5. Then

11:33

on April 13 is a game called Hunt

11:35

the Night. Is anyone familiar with this

11:37

one? This is Hunt the Night. So top

11:40

down fantasy pixel art action

11:43

game. Yeah,

11:44

awesome looking pixel art and music from the composer

11:47

of Secret of Mana.

11:49

Awesome. Yeah. Wow. It's

11:51

great. One of the best soundtracks ever. That's crazy.

11:53

It supposedly has a huge dark

11:56

world to explore and then you complete hunts

11:58

to get awesome rewards. down and hunt the

12:00

most powerful creatures of the night. And

12:03

it looks action, action adventure,

12:05

not, not RPG turn based or anything.

12:08

Yeah. Yeah. And the description doesn't say

12:10

anything about rogue-like. So I don't think it's that I think

12:12

it's just exploring a world combat going

12:15

on hunts for these creatures. And then

12:17

it's on going to be PC only for now, but coming

12:19

to other platforms later

12:22

now, it's out April 13th. Looks

12:24

like a good steam deck game. Yep. Yeah,

12:26

absolutely. On

12:29

April 14th, we've got Mega Man Battle

12:31

Network Legacy Collection. Yeah. That's

12:33

like a series that I just never spent too

12:36

much time with because I think it was in the

12:38

wake of Pokemon and they were trying to do

12:40

something Pokemon-ish with Mega Man.

12:42

But it's from any creates, which is like, you know,

12:44

like the blaster master zero. And I think

12:47

they did the Bloodstained Purse of the Moon

12:50

DMA games. I mean, I think I played, I

12:52

mean, I do, I'm watching the trailer now and I'm gonna

12:54

confess, I did not remember. No, there were

12:56

six of these games. Like, I would have

12:59

guessed there was maybe four, but like, I think I

13:01

played at least the first two or three and

13:03

loved them. Like, Damon, I think you would like them too. If

13:05

you're watching the video, you're watching the battle system right

13:08

now, where it's these little mini

13:10

strategy battles each time. It's like

13:12

a little mini fast-paced game of chess.

13:15

And that's how the game's battle system

13:17

plays out.

13:18

It was awesome. Like, I really, I really love those

13:20

games and had an interesting storyline about like

13:22

going inside the guitar played in like this virtual

13:24

world and you're going inside computer circuits and stuff.

13:27

Yeah,

13:28

I would totally revisit those games. Yeah,

13:30

I mean, they made six of them back in the day, someone

13:33

someone was enjoying them. And

13:35

then on April 19, this horizon forbidden

13:37

west burning shores expansion, which

13:40

I don't think we've seen or know too

13:42

much about, although apparently has very pretty clouds.

13:44

But several of us, Sam

13:46

and I included at least really enjoyed forbidden west

13:49

I'm not saying are you gonna try and carve out time to

13:51

return to this game?

13:52

I'm specifically like the

13:54

back, I don't know, 20% of

13:57

horizon like the really got this in

13:59

part when you get this thing. So it's like, Whoa,

14:01

that'd be kind of cool to, you know, explore whatever

14:03

they have to offer here, which I don't know, maybe like Santa Barbara

14:06

or something. Yeah,

14:08

well burning shores. Yeah. I don't

14:10

know. It's just gonna be a little bit. It's been over a year

14:13

since that game was out. Since I beat it. It'll

14:14

be interesting to see how easy how

14:17

easy it is to jump back in.

14:20

Pick up, you know, pick up the controls again and like,

14:22

is it Los Angeles? Is that Capitol Records building?

14:24

I haven't. Yeah, they said they You should have wrecked

14:26

Hollywood sign in the trailer. Yeah, there

14:28

it is. Yeah.

14:31

That's

14:31

fun. Maybe I can find my

14:33

house. Yeah, maybe.

14:37

What if you're in it? What if there's an audio log of Damon

14:39

Hatfield? What is second

14:42

DLC? Yeah, I will say I

14:44

like the lava levels and games

14:46

better than the ice levels. That looks pretty

14:48

fun.

14:49

Well, except for Mario 64. Yeah.

14:52

Or water levels. Wait,

14:54

which where where do you put wordy rank water

14:56

levels? The worst. Yeah. OK. Yeah.

14:58

It's the worst. Except for except for Donkey Kong Country,

15:01

Donkon Country, David

15:02

Wise, the water level music is good.

15:04

And the music is good. But also like

15:06

you get you get the fish. There's a little bit of mobility

15:09

in that. You got those clams. Those

15:11

clams are shooting shit off you from off screen.

15:13

It's baloney.

15:14

I do generally

15:16

like the fire levels in games, though, even though even

15:19

in Mario 64, where there's a lot more. Well, that one doesn't

15:21

have instant kill, which is nice. Mario just

15:23

burns his little butt and then he runs around really fast, which

15:25

is so smart. That's the smartest

15:28

thing where like it makes it basically makes your character

15:30

out of control on tiny platforms.

15:32

Like I really I've always really respected that

15:34

gameplay.

15:36

Yeah, I like I have it. I just you know, it's like

15:38

you go inside that volcano and get a star and

15:40

then they're like, hey, guess what? You can do it again. Go

15:42

back in and get another one now. You more.

15:46

I replayed Mario 64 recently for the first

15:48

time in, you know, a decade. And I'm like, a

15:51

little bit of the sheen has come off this game

15:53

a little bit over the last, you know,

15:55

like I play enough collection. The other

15:58

switch collection?

15:59

No. No, I just yeah,

16:01

no, yeah, I just

16:03

yeah. And like, I don't know. Whatever.

16:05

I'm getting a soft track, but it was an interesting

16:07

experience to go back to like a beloved game

16:10

that I frequently rank as one of my favorites

16:12

ever. And I'm like, Hmm, I don't know

16:14

about this anymore. Thanks for watching.

16:18

Well,

16:18

is it really is that a problem? I

16:20

don't I don't ever think of it as having bad controls,

16:22

even with not controls, but the tactile

16:24

nature of it. It's just like like we were saying with the love thing.

16:27

It's just way

16:28

it's just not forgiving. You're like, Oh, it fell off.

16:30

Well, back to the beginning. And that's just

16:33

on a gameplay mechanic. Yeah.

16:35

I think I quit in dire, dire docs when it was

16:37

running at like eight frames per second. I'm like, why?

16:40

Like what, what happened to this world? Like there's

16:42

something about it.

16:43

I love the long jump so much in that game.

16:45

And then, yeah, you have to kind of like, you kind of learn back

16:47

in the day, you would kind of learn the camera angles and

16:50

then kind of forget about them, which is another

16:52

testament to amazing game design. And

16:54

now you play it, you're like, why is this camera trying to push

16:56

me into this corner? Like it's kind of weird. It

16:59

usually works. And

17:02

it always, I always have my

17:04

most recent memories of Marzus before besides I played a

17:06

little bit of in that collection is that just watching

17:08

Mark Medina play in the office a couple of years ago,

17:11

I know. And he was so fun

17:13

to watch. And he'd always play the Bowser

17:15

levels. And those are the ones that were like, he was like really fine

17:18

tuning at the time. And it's like crazy what

17:20

people do in those, because it's just a bunch of floating blocks.

17:22

You're supposed to go like all the way one way, then all the way back the

17:24

other way, then all the way back the other way. But instead,

17:26

people at speedrun just bounce

17:30

off pixels and just get right to the top

17:32

immediately. I love that stuff. And I did remember

17:34

Mark playing that in the office and just getting

17:36

those pixel perfect jumps,

17:38

double grapple ledges and things like that. Watching

17:40

speedrunners play that game, yeah, it's amazing. I think

17:42

he's still in the office playing it to this day. He

17:45

just never left. No way to know.

17:48

Well,

17:48

speaking of Nintendo, on April 24th,

17:51

Advanced Wars 1 and 2 Reboot Camp finally

17:53

Yeah, you see

17:56

the 24th, that's so soon suddenly it feels

17:58

like.

18:00

20 days. It's always now in like five

18:02

weeks, y'all. It's crazy. It's crazy.

18:05

Dude, the advanced sports art style has been really

18:07

growing on me. You know, it's

18:09

sort of this diorama style. They look like

18:11

almost plastic army men toys, you know,

18:14

just running into each other. I

18:16

didn't like it when it was revealed, but you know, but

18:18

now that was a year or more ago and it's,

18:20

I've really come around. And the other

18:23

interesting thing is I was on a flight recently and

18:25

I brought, I replayed advanced wars.

18:28

it probably halfway through that campaign. And it's

18:31

awesome. Like, you know, like, yeah, it's

18:33

so good. And like,

18:35

just so satisfying. And so it's just immaculate.

18:38

And, and the other thing about the original Advance

18:40

Wars is like, that game goes so

18:42

much harder and is so much more fully featured

18:45

than it needs to be. Like, it has all

18:47

these different modes and like these different, like you're

18:49

unlocking different commanding officers and you're

18:51

buying maps with the coins you're earning after

18:53

battles and like it's got this ranking

18:56

system that really went above and beyond like they

18:59

really really went all out with the

19:00

original GBA version in a way that I didn't remember

19:02

and so you

19:03

know hopefully this remake has that similar

19:06

has a similar spirit to it. Do these children

19:08

actually go to war? That's true. Yeah

19:11

the plot the plot is insane

19:13

like they're it's these nations that

19:15

are at war presumably just killing

19:18

each other like you know there's tanks blowing

19:20

up and stuff it's horrible but like

19:22

very, very much like, Oh, darn

19:24

it. I was like, I'll get you next time. Like,

19:27

Oh, like what, what a good fight.

19:29

Like, see you next time on the battlefield. And

19:31

it's insane. Like it makes no sense. And

19:33

yeah. And I think Andy canonically is like 12

19:36

and they're like, Hey guys, I'm your new commanding officer.

19:39

It doesn't make any sense at all. All

19:42

his experience. And they also

19:44

like, don't know, like it's really unclear

19:46

who you are in the game. Like

19:48

you name, you put in your name at the beginning. So it's like, I'm

19:50

Justin. And then it's like, You know, Andy meet

19:52

Justin, he's going to be assisting in it, but it's

19:54

like, am I,

19:55

am I also commanding officer? Like general, right? Yeah.

19:58

Like who am I? It doesn't

20:00

make any sense at all, but I love it. Maybe they'll

20:03

clear that up in these remarks. I'm

20:05

unlikely. Unnecessary. Unnecessary.

20:08

CJ, are you

20:10

an advanced warsman?

20:12

I am not. Most of these things, as

20:14

you were looking at him, Astro Boy came

20:16

to mind. It was the same thing. I remember watching

20:19

Astro Boy very, very young. When I

20:21

watched it again recently, I was like, hey, let's watch it. The

20:24

other kids was like, that is very dark. It's very dark, some

20:26

of these things. his

20:28

son died. Like you just, I don't want to spoil anything, but

20:30

there's like, let me say it. For

20:32

what, this 70 year old? Exactly,

20:35

but yeah, there's all these things

20:37

that happen again, so no, I have not played it. But yeah,

20:39

it's interesting that yeah, it looks all bright

20:41

and happy, and then yeah, there's tanks and bazookas

20:44

and battles.

20:46

The gameplay is great. Couple

20:49

more games. Is anyone familiar with nuclear blaze?

20:51

Maybe Justin would be. I remember

20:53

nuclear thrown. 2D pixel art

20:56

fighting game from the creator of Dead Cells.

20:58

So it actually looks a lot like Dead Cells.

21:00

What? How do I never heard of this? Dude,

21:04

it's been out for a couple of years on PC. It has

21:06

very positive reviews. And now it's coming to console,

21:09

or at least it's coming to Switch and PS4 on

21:11

April 28.

21:12

The creator of Dead Cells made another game? Made

21:15

another game with the same art style,

21:17

but it's a firefighting game.

21:18

It looks awesome. Yeah, it's very cool. Dude, and

21:20

I looked up Grimoire when you

21:22

were on my second monitor. That

21:24

game also looks awesome. Like, I don't know how. Like,

21:27

it's such a Justin game. It was published by Nipanichi,

21:30

who obviously was publishing Disgaea and all those

21:32

games in that era. I don't know

21:34

how I missed it, this super cool 2D RTS.

21:37

I'm absolutely going to look up that remaster.

21:40

Nuclear Blaze looks great. That's 428, Switch and PS4.

21:44

And finally, of course, Star Wars Jedi Survivor,

21:46

also on April 28th. And

21:48

all signs point to this being more of

21:51

what we liked in the first game, maybe

21:54

a little bit more polished. Sam, are

21:56

you still

21:57

excited for this one? So excited.

22:00

Star Wars Celebration is this weekend

22:02

and I expect we'll

22:04

get the last kind of

22:06

looks at this game before

22:09

it's out but like I'm really excited.

22:11

Yeah I mean they haven't shown that much of this game

22:13

you know like we did at IGN first and

22:15

then they're

22:16

like you know like haven't

22:18

shown much since then even you know there's a story trailer

22:20

since then. This little alien is great. I know. Yeah

22:24

I'm super excited for this one. Love the free love the original and

22:27

I've only heard you know positive of things that is just

22:29

more of the same, bigger and better. Those

22:31

Metroid Prime style maps, love them.

22:33

Yep. They're very confusing,

22:36

though. Yeah, that's one thing

22:38

that maybe they can improve. The maps were a little

22:40

bit hard to read for me. There you have it, seven games

22:42

coming this month, and I'm looking forward to. ["The

22:44

Star-Spangled

22:46

Banner"]

22:50

Now we're going to take a look at

22:53

a March 1994 issue of Game Players

22:56

Magazine, only because I couldn't find a good issue from

22:58

April. I usually keep it try to keep it month to

23:00

month. So I found a good good

23:03

issue from us, you know, from a month

23:06

before. I'm just having

23:08

flashbacks of walking in and seeing Virtua

23:10

Fighter for the first time. And

23:11

there's like, you know, Sonic and

23:13

Super Nintendo, it's just it was such a weird couple

23:16

years there during those launches.

23:19

Look, look at this, like on the cover, Mega

23:22

Man four and rescue Rangers are NES

23:24

games. So yes, three. Well,

23:26

exactly. Super Metroid and Virtua

23:28

Fighter in the same issue. That's crazy. Super

23:31

Nintendo. Yeah, exactly. There being a little misleading.

23:33

This Mega Man 4 is the Game Boy version.

23:36

OK. And then and this Rexie Rangers is

23:38

the sequel. It's

23:40

to do with 1994. That came

23:42

out on NES because this is this 94. Is

23:44

that right? Yeah. So very late era. Final,

23:46

final era of NES games. Wario's

23:48

final game. Yeah. Wow. I

23:51

love for Super Metroid. but it says SNS magic. How

23:53

do they make games this good? And we're still asking

23:55

that question today.

23:57

That's true. That's very true. Don't

23:59

need to buy a game. you've read this don't buy

24:01

again naturally. Yeah.

24:04

So first off, we've got a two page ad

24:06

for X-Men on Game Gear. Which

24:09

is what an era of X-Men this was

24:12

animated series. It looks so

24:14

good. I'm

24:15

just surprised. It's just a game game game

24:17

game game. You're never really took off. So it's like 1994

24:20

is still pushing

24:22

two page ads. Yeah. Game your games. Pushing

24:24

that mobile color

24:27

portable though. Yeah, that's a Rob Lee field.

24:30

Right. Yeah. No,

24:33

it's not Mark. So let's review me. I can't read the

24:35

signature, but it looks so classic and great. I

24:38

can't tell from that. Okay,

24:40

so they just returned from CES. And I guess

24:42

they gave out awards at CES just like, you

24:45

know,

24:45

I guess it's it's

24:48

unclear if this is like voted on by attendees of

24:50

CES or the organizers or what. So anyway,

24:53

these are the game of the year Sega CD

24:55

game of the year is a h3 Thunderstrike

24:59

what

25:00

is that some sort of like a military

25:03

flying sim game I think I'm not whoa

25:06

game year game of the year cool spot

25:09

cool spot best sound on Sega

25:11

Genesis cool spot are

25:13

we on the right page here Damon page

25:15

six I see it's a

25:17

little yeah yeah it's very Okay. Okay. Yeah.

25:20

Best graphics on Genesis flashback.

25:23

Oh, really good. Remember it. Yeah.

25:26

Supposedly there's a sequel coming that we haven't

25:28

seen anything of. There's

25:31

a flashback like that came out or

25:33

that's coming out really soon. Did you see that? I saw

25:35

something about that on Twitter that looks very cool. Yes.

25:39

Best action game on Genesis is soldiers

25:41

of fortune, which is the tiny little screenshot here.

25:43

This is a game I'm not familiar with, familiar with, with, but

25:45

it looks cool. It's a top down

25:47

action shooting game that I want to. But

25:50

yeah, I like that. And the party warrior is like,

25:52

yeah, yeah, sure. The game I was referring to is

25:54

called Lunark. All one word. L-U-N-A-R-K.

25:57

Mm. Flashback Lake.

26:00

Oh, and so this is the

26:03

Sega third party seal of quality

26:05

awards held during the winter CES

26:07

show. So this is the award just for Sega

26:09

games. Gotcha. Best puzzle. What's

26:12

that, CJ? No, I was going to say, I just remember

26:14

thinking this is because the cool spot I think was done

26:16

by Virgin, right? And I remember there was a

26:19

very dramatic difference between because they

26:21

also made Aladdin. And so the conversation around like, oh,

26:23

why do the games look so different on Genesis than Aladdin?

26:26

Yeah.

26:26

No. Conversation

26:28

there.

26:29

Well, that game is pretty cool in Genesis,

26:32

but it's like an actual platformer

26:34

and you go around like stupid areas and climb

26:36

around everything. But the NES one is just like an Othello

26:39

knockoff or it's some board game. It's a board. Yeah.

26:41

Yeah.

26:42

Best puzzle or strategy game on Genesis is

26:45

The Lost Vikings, which have been ported from

26:47

Super Nintendo. Great, great game. Love it. Best

26:49

sports game was FIFA International Soccer

26:51

from EA. Yes. Best adventure.

26:54

Times for those. Best adventure or RPG

26:56

is flashback again. And then best flying

26:59

or driving game is Formula One Grand

27:01

Prix racing.

27:02

Oh, I bet that looks so janky now. And

27:04

a whole right up on rating rantings continue and

27:06

everything that was going on with video game censorship and Joe

27:09

Lieberman in front of Congress, more to find that

27:11

night trap, all that stuff.

27:13

Will they ever make up their minds?

27:15

The headlines says eventually. So

27:18

this is the same time. This in 1994,

27:21

we still did not have the ESRB

27:23

and we still did not have E3.

27:25

If we would arrive, that's right. Yeah,

27:27

I was going to say we got to be getting really close. Here

27:29

you go for all of our European. All

27:32

right. Not a Viking here. Just couldn't

27:34

couldn't believe that we were not familiar with Asterix.

27:37

Here's a full page ad for Asterix on

27:39

Super Nintendo. In yes. And Game Boy

27:42

Asterix the gall

27:43

never played it, but yes.

27:45

He looks he looks a lot like

27:47

a Viking. I mean, yeah, don't

27:49

say that. Well, they were born instead of

27:52

instead of feathers. Yeah, I would get it. Yeah.

27:54

OK.

27:56

Also, after this, I was talking

27:58

about like, galls. and the

28:00

Gallic history and stuff. And somebody was like,

28:03

they're not Gaelic, that's Irish. You

28:05

guys keep getting it wrong. I'm like, dude, it's

28:07

a different word. It means something different. You

28:10

just can't win with these Gall appreciators.

28:15

There's a crazy, so there's a new story in here.

28:18

So I'll just summarize some of this. Park Place

28:20

Productions, the software developer who made its name

28:22

with John Madden Football and NHL

28:24

Hockey was decimated at the beginning

28:27

of the year when its entire design team

28:29

defected to Sony ImageSoft.

28:31

What? Yeah. You can

28:33

do that. The CEO of Park Place says the day after Christmas,

28:36

there was an offsite meeting and the next day I received 27

28:39

on the spot resignations. We don't have

28:41

any designers left. I've been told

28:43

that more than 50 people from Park Place work

28:46

at the new Sony building down the street and the only person

28:48

there who's not from our company is the receptionist.

28:52

Not a successful offsite. It

28:54

must have been a hell of an offsite. So

28:56

two things, one, it's incredible that

28:59

this happened. Someone just poached an entire

29:01

company

29:01

on the same day. So many of you. If

29:04

you're the founder of that company, why

29:06

do you go talk to the press? I'd be like, guys, it's so bad.

29:10

No one works for us anymore. It's horrible.

29:13

I was such a bad boss that we had

29:15

a ropes course and an offsite. Everybody quit

29:17

the next day. Bro, keep that

29:20

to yourself. Like, don't say that. I

29:23

don't get it. Spin it in a positive way. You know what, Justin?

29:25

I think he's going to be fine because he lives at Park Place,

29:27

and that's one of the best properties. Yeah.

29:30

He's going to have to move to Market

29:31

Gardens. If he builds a hotel

29:34

there, I think it'll do just fine.

29:36

I don't get it. Sony posts

29:38

the entire development team from this. John

29:40

Madden. I

29:42

don't know what was going on at this time. The

29:44

CEO of Park Place

29:46

says, we're still going to stay in business,

29:49

but we'll change our focus. We're going to be less involved with

29:51

development and more involved with publishing. Yeah,

29:53

because you don't have any more designers. So

29:55

in there, that's pretty well. I mean,

29:57

those kind of print things, that's what's awesome. because

29:59

he's You

30:00

see that on Twitter now, and that's like a blip in the radar.

30:02

You'd be talking about that in the playground. Wow. What's

30:05

going on? All the people who made Madden always games.

30:07

No. There's

30:10

a little blurb where the editors say that the games they're

30:12

most looking forward to, and it's filled with Virtua Fighter,

30:15

Virtua Racing, Super Metroid, NBA

30:17

Jam, and then Zoo Ball. Someone's

30:19

looking forward to Zoo Ball.

30:21

Sam, you have any familiar with Zoo Ball? No,

30:25

I'm familiar with Zoo.

30:27

It's a baseball game with entire

30:30

animal teams. And unfortunately, it never came

30:32

out. Looking

30:35

forward to it. The rights

30:37

to the syndicated TV show Kung Fu, The Legend

30:39

and Continues have been picked up by Sunsoft,

30:41

which plans Genesis and NES game versions of

30:44

the series.

30:45

Don't believe that ever happened.

30:46

Yeah, that might not have been the best investment

30:48

for Sunsoft to rapidly

30:51

disappeared after this until that recent press conference. Yes,

30:54

until. Sunsoft is back, baby. Capcom

30:57

is moving in a show business and it's taking one of its

30:59

biggest stars along for the ride. The company

31:01

plans to finance and produce an animated TV series

31:04

based on its Mega Man games. That

31:06

actually came to fruition. Yep.

31:09

Yeah.

31:11

And then another ad for Spider-Man

31:13

X-Men for both Game Boy and Game

31:15

Gear.

31:17

And I just, what an awkward title. The game is called

31:19

Spider-Man X-Men.

31:21

I think they changed the

31:23

title of this to Spider-Man and

31:25

the X-Men, or maybe that's just always what it was, but

31:27

I remember that really well. Hopefully

31:29

the two versions have different

31:31

developers. It looks like are different publishers. I see

31:34

LJN on Game Boy and yeah,

31:36

but this is the villain. And this is named

31:39

arcade.

31:40

Cool, really funny. And yeah, I played

31:43

the Genesis version of it. Sam, who's this?

31:45

Oh, my. Who was that? She's an alpha

31:47

chicken. Alfred chicken himself.

31:51

Super alpha. Also memory,

31:53

Sam. Thank you. also ported to

31:56

the NES. Yep. for the

31:58

90s it says in the bottom.

32:00

the self aware yeah

32:02

this is the super nes version so it's a super alford

32:05

chicken

32:05

oh my god okay i

32:07

love this he got the letter section and we have the winner is

32:10

a from dame game ideas of the

32:12

month the

32:13

winning idea of the month comes

32:15

from our why it in rockford illinois

32:17

has about a video game spoof just like the movie

32:20

spoofs naked gun and hot shots plutonic

32:22

lab rat for instance is a school sonic

32:25

the hedgehog now

32:27

okay so many idea the month he want him self

32:29

again genie for

32:30

the platform of choice nice

32:32

game players would send them games

32:34

in his i definitely if i had to shatter

32:36

his his day but i believe bugsy

32:38

the bobcat was a parody of subsonic the has

32:41

that's your i've i

32:43

guess that's accept it was

32:45

just a very bad version

32:46

i like this idea from bobby who

32:48

who was eleven at

32:50

the time and bobby says i think a good game

32:52

would be where you're trapped inside a t v you'd

32:54

be time and if you ran out of time you be trapped forever

32:56

and the game be over between levels there's

32:58

be a bonus meme replay the viewer

33:00

and try to get to the refrigerator while avoiding

33:02

tomatoes lima beans and other growth

33:05

foods before the commercials over one

33:07

level you'd watch a game show avoiding fly balls

33:09

and annoying game show host while collecting trophies

33:12

like them in advanced the next level a cop show

33:14

we have to say do the right things to catch a crook

33:16

then move on

33:18

watch and a combination of you can't do that on television

33:21

captain and the game master whatever

33:24

else is out on saturday mornings under

33:26

the this really reminds me when

33:28

i first started i gn iran and inbox

33:30

here he was like are cheats and box cheat cheat

33:33

submission codes were like a big thing at the time

33:35

and there is always like a little fantasies

33:37

that oh kids it right enters like in

33:39

i i i was

33:42

in math and in halo and master chief

33:44

got a space ship and then i went

33:46

to another planet and on that planet massachusetts

33:48

and came off years because of

33:51

that stuff like that it is a and by

33:53

the way master chief naked was

33:55

a thousand percent the most popular

33:57

fake cheat out we got a earth

34:00

It's so weird. I

34:02

mean, for I think probably about like a

34:04

year or two after I was waiting to get sucked into

34:06

television.

34:07

I was like, there's going to be some sort of like thing hippo to

34:10

code

34:10

here. For Captain N? Yeah,

34:12

for Captain N. I'm going to go into the TV.

34:14

Mega Man and Kid Icarus are going to be my best friends. Like,

34:17

mega, just something. Mega cool.

34:19

There's just something about those moments.

34:22

And Nintendo did a great job

34:24

just in the adventure and the wonder with the system.

34:26

I think it was like nothing we'd ever seen. But yeah,

34:28

there's IPs coming together. Yeah,

34:30

honestly, I was waiting for some sort of cheat code.

34:33

This is going to happen to me at some point in time. The

34:36

game idea from Mitchell is very,

34:38

very specific. This is definitely

34:40

about what was going on in Mitchell's life at the time. It says, treasure

34:43

would be about three kids, Mike, Kenny, and

34:45

Frank. Mike

34:46

lives in California, and his cousin, Frank, is

34:48

coming for the summer. Whoa! What a summer

34:50

it's going to be since Frank's younger brother and his rubber

34:53

chickens are coming along. It messed up all his

34:55

plans. Mike's friend, Kenny, doesn't like the idea

34:57

either, either. But when they find a treasure map and find

34:59

three golden bells, it was worth it.

35:02

Oh, that's, that's

35:04

so awesome. To unpack

35:06

here in this case, Yeah, exactly. Is about

35:08

the future. When was

35:10

the tea out? Because yeah, there's so many

35:13

of these movies. Long before 94. No,

35:16

but that's what I mean. Like those things stay in your brain

35:18

for a long time. He was, he was envisioning all these movies

35:20

as well. So this game said he was playing. Yeah.

35:24

And this is the section I love so much. The pin pal

35:26

connection where readers, you

35:28

know, volunteer and put

35:30

their name out there. The word they're saying they're looking for

35:32

a pen pal to make friends with. So

35:35

Louis says I want this is very

35:37

tall, it's very small. I got to put my glasses on

35:39

for this. I want a pen pal

35:42

who likes to play games like Mortal Kombat or Street Fighter

35:44

two, we get to share tips or just be pen pals.

35:47

I'm 11 and have an SNS and Genesis.

35:50

That's so sketchy, man. I

35:52

don't like it. You don't even you have

35:54

to be like 13 to even make like an account

35:57

on Nintendo.com.

35:59

Here's where I live. This

36:02

is Chris says, I'm 15 and really like video games, especially beat your enemy

36:04

to a pulp games, RPGs and sports simulations.

36:08

I'm not one of those kids who's an everyday nerd. Anybody

36:11

can write to me. Don't be shy.

36:13

I don't like this.

36:16

Jason, I'm 15 and own a super NES size video games. I

36:20

enjoy Japanese animation.

36:24

Chris from England says, I'd like to get in touch with an American

36:26

boy about 13 to 14 boy about 13

36:29

to 14 to exchange tips on SNES

36:31

games or just be pen pals. Jared's voice.

36:35

Jared says I'm 14

36:38

and have a Sega CD. I'm really into music

36:40

too. Heck, I'm into anything you are.

36:43

Movies, books, magic, blah, blah, blah. Send

36:45

a mug of yourself if possible. No,

36:48

David. It's a span. All

36:50

of these, every single one of these is a, is a,

36:53

it's a man. They're

36:54

Amen, David.

36:58

Oh, no, it's really. Let's

37:02

move on. The future. They've

37:04

got a big, big feature on project

37:07

reality, which would become.

37:10

Yeah,

37:10

the N64 Nintendo 64, of course. Yeah.

37:15

I think they got to see all this. These upcoming

37:17

consoles. Yes, they got to win. Well,

37:20

it is all this crap. So,

37:22

yeah, it's just like a wow. Their demos,

37:24

their demos are like a train, you know,

37:27

but look at that train. Nintendo 64 games didn't

37:29

look like that. Exactly. But the CG

37:31

cut scenes did at the time, right? Yeah.

37:34

Yeah. That's it.

37:36

It says Nintendo's Dream Machine will even have true

37:39

color. That's millions of colors for programmers

37:41

to play with. True color. They

37:44

do not have an image

37:46

of the console itself. That was not finalized, I guess.

37:49

That used to be a thing. It was like our console can display 32000

37:51

colors at once. or like, you know,

37:53

VGA graphics or whatever on your old PC,

37:56

the number of colors. Yeah.

37:58

And they got the Satter. and they have an artist's rendering

38:01

of the Saturn. They're not the final

38:04

game there either. Although they do actually have screenshots of

38:06

games. A racing game and a

38:08

soccer. Yeah. Yeah.

38:11

And they got a section on the new guys on

38:13

the block. 3DO, Atari, and now Sony

38:16

threatened to steal a piece of Sega and Nintendo's pie.

38:18

And I guess I always forget that the Jaguar came

38:21

later. I would have guessed Jaguar was like a 92 release game.

38:24

I guess it was 94, 95?

38:26

Yeah, they just really wanted to beat Nintendo

38:29

to the 64 bit. Yep. I

38:32

did by a little bit. And then

38:33

it says the biggest game at CES

38:35

wasn't on any home system, not yet anyway.

38:38

And that was Virtua Fighter. Yeah.

38:39

So good.

38:41

Yeah. I mean, it's funny to

38:43

see Sony like lumped in

38:46

with 3DO and Atari back then. Yeah.

38:49

Nobody really knew. Like it was very unclear that like, you know,

38:51

they could make it in any credible way.

38:53

Yeah. They were working in the shadows as

38:55

Sony, perhaps unlikely in the

38:58

new age of video games. And this yeah,

39:00

it's funny because there was still a conversation with

39:02

them sort of assisting Nintendo for a little while

39:04

in that like, wasn't it pre 94 to 95 era. And

39:09

so yeah, it's just it's just so weird

39:11

to see Virtua Fighter. It's like it's

39:15

I remember just walking in between that Mortal

39:17

Kombat, those graphics at the time, just the arcades

39:20

feeling that that was just lifelike.

39:22

Nothing would ever beat that.

39:24

And it's so funny to see

39:26

polygons in the magazine. It's like, oh,

39:28

there you go. I think those games are also like a dollar

39:31

to play. I was like, what the heck?

39:34

Stager revealed at CES it will delay

39:36

its virtual reality headgear until

39:38

the later half of 95.

39:40

That would never come out. Nope. That's

39:43

for the best. Sam,

39:46

do you know the first and only pinball game for the Super

39:48

NES? Super pinball behind the mask?

39:50

No, I've never seen this before. Techno slowly. Yeah,

39:53

wow. Technos, yeah.

39:55

I mean, yeah, I didn't virtual

39:57

people is very bad back then I didn't play

40:00

I only started playing rail pinball eight years ago or so.

40:02

Oh, OK. OK,

40:06

action games. These are just short little

40:08

previews. They got Super Metroid in there. And then they

40:10

have Kirby's T-Shot. What

40:12

would that actually be released as? Dream Course?

40:14

Yep. Yeah. I love that game. Yeah. Yep.

40:17

It was originally going to be Kirby's T-Shot. Michael

40:19

Jordan working title. What's the Michael Jordan game? Something

40:22

about Cloud Windy City or something? Yeah,

40:24

Chaos and the Windy City. Even

40:26

EA, yeah, it wasn't

40:29

down Genesis only or something like that. It's

40:31

from EA and

40:33

I think they had an exclusivity deal with Genesis or

40:35

Sega.

40:36

They have a write-up on Donkey Kong 94,

40:39

which is well documented to be one of my favorite

40:41

games of all time. I think just an absolute

40:43

classic. And their write-up is just, they don't

40:46

really seem to get it. They say if there's just another

40:48

Donkey Kong, it's just like the old arcade

40:50

game. They don't get like, it's like they took that

40:52

very, very small idea of the original and just blew it up

40:54

into this sprawling like action puzzle

40:57

game.

40:57

Right. Yeah. Great. That write ups completely

41:00

wrong. That game has like 100 levels in it. It's

41:02

a puzzle game and it's so good. Yeah. So,

41:05

so, so good.

41:06

In the Sims,

41:08

they've got Virtua Racing, European Racers,

41:10

Operation Airstorm, Harriet, Harrier,

41:13

Ushera, Monster Truck Wars and Stun Race

41:16

FX. What?

41:18

That's not that's a Super Nintendo game, right, Sam? It's

41:21

a Nintendo game. Second average game. Yeah.

41:24

Star Fox. Yeah.

41:26

I just weird. Virtua racing was

41:28

really impressive. I played that a lot. Yeah.

41:32

I like that tech. Um,

41:34

and then in sports, I guess I never knew there was a 16 bit

41:37

double drivel. I think came

41:39

to Genesis. Yeah. Yeah. I

41:42

never. Championship edition. Do you

41:44

think that double-dribble championship edition, does that follow

41:46

NBA jam championship edition? Because

41:48

if so, that's shameless. Street fighter.

41:51

I would have been right around the

41:53

same time. Definitely. Oh, no. It'd be a

41:55

Jamis Tournament Edition. Never mind. OK,

41:57

you're right. I take it back.

41:59

And there's They've got Unreal's

42:01

shooters like Metal Combat and then the video.

42:05

How do you describe it? Like Lethal

42:07

Enforcers, the digitized video,

42:09

Light Gun shooters, and then R-Type 3, like an arcade,

42:12

like

42:12

a shooting ball, which couldn't be even more. Do

42:15

you shoot guns in it? Yes. Yes.

42:18

Yes. What do you

42:19

do? And then Friday Games, they've got Rise

42:21

of the Robots, which we've talked about before. Apparently

42:23

people thought the visuals at the time

42:26

were pretty impressive. And then Mortal Kombat. That's right.

42:29

Yeah,

42:30

what's wrong with combat CD just the Sega CD

42:32

version? Sega CD version. Yeah, they had Saturday

42:35

Night Slam Masters there. Man, that's

42:37

a blood. That's what I haven't thought about. Look, I'm world combat

42:39

CD still doesn't look anywhere better.

42:41

No, you know, Genesis or Super Nintendo and

42:44

like it doesn't look like it's on the freaking Sega

42:47

CD.

42:47

Yeah, yeah. That was always the blood versus no

42:50

blood. The Super Nintendo one looked better.

42:52

They even say in the right up here, there's not a lot of difference

42:54

from the Genesis version. Yeah.

42:56

Yeah.

42:57

Okay, reviews, they did

43:00

a percent scoring system out of it. They're

43:02

ready to games out of 100% absolutely

43:04

flawless to them. Anything 50% below

43:06

is average, apparently. So they review

43:11

flashback on the Super

43:13

Nintendo gave that an 88%.

43:15

Sure, it looks great, but you keep coming back because

43:17

it's good. If you like challenge and realism, it

43:19

doesn't get much better than this.

43:23

I like this game. Sam is not a big fan

43:25

of this game.

43:26

Now, it's the same

43:28

thing as Prince of Persia, where it locks you into

43:31

animations. And so you're kind of playing almost

43:33

like a dragon's lair type game, where it's like,

43:35

tap the button, wait for it to play out. Tap the

43:37

button, wait for it to play out. It's just confusing.

43:40

If you have a guide and play along with it,

43:42

it looks really cool. It just looks

43:44

really great. That's it. Because out of this world

43:46

was basically spiritual successor. It's the same

43:49

type of thing. But you played it almost as much

43:51

for the cut scenes. And this is a very moody

43:53

period.

43:54

I did like it but it was

43:56

very good.

43:58

Jibendale Rescue Rangers 2

44:00

on the NES and they gave that an 84%.

44:02

They liked that one a lot. Oh, and I like how they have,

44:05

I like how they have, um, in their little like info

44:07

box about the games, they have the price if they're

44:09

available. So it's really interesting with 3295. It's a very specific price. I

44:11

also liked

44:16

that for a flashback, this price, they're

44:18

just like, we don't know.

44:19

We don't know. Yeah. Flashback is unavailable. Yeah.

44:22

No way to know. You

44:24

don't have to put that in your magazine. Just sleeves up, just

44:27

don't put it in there. For Chip and Dale, it says, check

44:29

out this game, whether you like chipmunks or not.

44:31

Oh. Oh.

44:33

Dr. Robotnik's mean

44:36

machine got 86%. That would retail

44:38

for $34.99.

44:41

That's a great game. That's a Puyo-like.

44:43

Puyo-like. Sam, do you know Jim

44:45

Power, The Lost Dimension, in 3D

44:48

for Super Nintendo? Yeah, I've played

44:50

this game because you'll get

44:52

it in like a by large boxes

44:55

of like dollar games. right?

44:56

And this was a really, really funny

44:59

one to have a couple beers and try to play because it's

45:01

just like, just a mess, just

45:03

a total mess and like over the top

45:06

and just awful. Check it

45:08

out. It has a lot of seven BS in

45:10

it. It's very funny. It's mode seven. And then I

45:12

guess it worked with just regular old 3d glasses,

45:15

like the cheap glasses. Yeah. It has that.

45:17

I looked at a video on YouTube and there's just there's many,

45:20

many layers of parallax scrolling. It would actually

45:22

kind of feel sick. I think it's just a ton

45:25

of like like using the Super Nintendo

45:27

gear, but not actually making a game work. Yeah.

45:30

It's like maybe there is a limit to

45:32

how many levels of parallax scrolling we should use. I

45:35

want to point out 1994, this game costs $60. What?

45:40

Wow.

45:41

And pricey. An

45:43

ad for a puzzle game for Game 1 Game Gear, called Gearworks.

45:46

It's from Sony ImageSoft. So they post

45:48

all those John Madden employees

45:51

to make their puzzle games.

45:53

And then Rock and Roll Racing. is an app for

45:55

rock and roll racing.

45:56

Sam, is this the one that has licensed

45:58

music? Yeah.

46:00

I talked about this on the show recently. It has paranoid

46:02

in it and blue oyster cult. And it's just

46:04

kind of funny. Or to be wild.

46:07

Super Nintendo versions of it. As well. It

46:09

was really good. And the sound chip was so good.

46:11

Sounds cool. What I think is funny

46:13

is they make no mention of that in

46:15

the ads. Maybe they didn't think that would be a selling point to

46:18

90s teens.

46:19

Yeah, maybe not. Maybe they didn't have the licenses yet

46:21

by the time they had to roll out this ad, because they made the game in

46:23

like two weeks. But it also

46:26

was a cool angle of a racing game. Yeah.

46:28

It's like RC Pro-Am. It's like RC Pro-Am.

46:31

I was going to say it. And it's sort of upgrade system

46:33

and combat system. I spent

46:34

a lot of time with that game. It says interplay here, but it's

46:37

always in the Blizzard collections now.

46:39

Yeah. Maybe

46:41

they developed it. Something like that.

46:44

Yeah. OK, Obedus,

46:46

some sort of Super Nintendo first person

46:49

dungeon crawling RPG. That got a 36%. 36, oof.

46:52

So that means it's average.

46:54

And here's just an

46:57

offer in the middle of the magazine, an

46:59

offer to ignite your imagination. This

47:01

stunning Dragons, collector's edition

47:04

wall poster is yours free from TSR

47:06

Inc, creators of the world's most popular adventure

47:08

game system.

47:11

Justin, so this isn't Dungeons and Dragons, right?

47:13

Or is it? Well, TSR is Dungeons and Dragons.

47:16

OK. I don't

47:18

know. That's what I'm asking. I think, yeah, yeah, no,

47:20

it is. Like, yeah, that's the publisher of D&D.

47:23

So I don't know why they don't explicitly say

47:25

D&D. Maybe the poster is

47:28

just drag this artwork of these two generic

47:30

dragons. Yeah.

47:32

So they're trying to. They are

47:34

being weird about it. It's this creator of the world's

47:36

most popular adventure game

47:38

system. Yes. So why are they

47:41

doing that? Was

47:43

D&D still like taboo in the mid 90s?

47:46

No. I don't know. I

47:48

can't account for that. Well,

47:50

they're giving away this free poster, presumably to

47:52

get the mailing addresses

47:55

of people who might be interested in dragons

47:57

and or dungeons. And the free

47:59

poster. 75 cents by check or money

48:01

order it says. You have

48:04

to add $1.50 for orders outside the US.

48:08

I'm very tickled by writing a 75 cent

48:10

check and then they have to cash that check and then you get

48:13

your poster. So great. They

48:16

reviewed Dune on the Sega Genesis,

48:19

a strategy game, which they liked, got 87%

48:22

and isn't Dune one of the most

48:25

well regarded for buy games or

48:27

X games? Well,

48:28

it's one of the very original

48:30

RTS games ever made.

48:32

I think it kind of invented the RTS

48:35

genre. I wonder if this is a port

48:37

of that, some kind of version of that, because

48:39

they say it's still strategy.

48:41

I think it was Genesis game.

48:43

Yeah. That's cool. This

48:46

retailed for $63. I'm

48:50

just doing the Canadian conversion in my head.

48:54

It had been really high Canadian tax. Sonic

48:57

the Hedgehog 3, 92%. I

49:00

had some doubts after a disappointing

49:01

Sonic 2. I love the pace together of that level

49:03

on the previous page. That was really cool.

49:06

Yeah. Yeah.

49:08

That

49:08

was a cool spread. Yeah.

49:10

Oh, what do you mean? This one here? How

49:13

they paced to do a couple screenshots together to show like

49:15

the depth of that level. I know that level.

49:17

CJ, is it true that Sonic 2

49:20

was disappointing? I

49:22

don't think Sonic 2 was disappointing. I've never heard that. that.

49:24

That was gonna say what what what I don't

49:26

know.

49:27

Really? Oh my goodness. No, to me, it's like I'd

49:29

say Sonic two with tails and everything else like that

49:31

was probably one of the better Sonic games that holds

49:34

up. It's weird because now Sonic three when

49:36

did Sonic and Knuckles come out? Because that was after

49:38

right? But I think it's three. Yeah, it is

49:40

weird that that I have more memories

49:42

of Sonic and Knuckles than I do playing Sonic

49:45

three. And I don't know if that's a region thing or not.

49:47

Or if it was just I didn't I missed out on some three.

49:50

Lost Vikings on Genesis, got

49:53

an 84%. That's

49:53

a great game. Mega Man 4 on Game Boy got an 86%. Can't

49:57

go wrong with Mega Man 4, they say. No.

50:00

Shoplifter 3,

50:02

78%. Sam, did you know that Shoplifter 2

50:05

was a Game Boy exclusive? That's

50:07

so funny. And Shoplifter 1 was just on every

50:09

PC ever. Exactly. And

50:12

in the arcade? Yeah, I remember playing it in arcades.

50:15

I love Shoplifter. I love Shoplifter 2.

50:17

I love Shoplifter also, I mean.

50:19

So weird

50:21

that they made the sequel to this ubiquitous 80s

50:24

arcade game on Game Boy.

50:26

Yeah. And

50:28

then columns three, an ad for columns three,

50:30

which just baffles me because it's just, it's

50:32

the gyms and the game and

50:34

just this completely random kind

50:38

of dumpy middle aged dude just in the mix there. I

50:41

hold him up and he's apparently on the box. I'm

50:44

David. Yeah, that's what you do. He's on

50:46

the box art. Just ran the game sitting

50:48

on top of the columns. Should we put them

50:50

in cool pants or a cool shirt? Nope. And it's

50:53

just the most plain clothes.

50:56

Yep. Yeah. He's on the one

50:58

in the middle. The one in the middle is my favorite. He's

51:01

like, oh, come on. Waiting

51:05

to get crushed. Completely

51:07

baffling to me. You could order

51:10

the complete video game book collection, stuff like secrets

51:13

to Zelda, Link to the Past.

51:15

Sega Genesis secrets, volume

51:17

three, Super NES game secrets, that sort

51:19

of thing.

51:20

Cool. So, so these are the kind

51:22

of things, yeah, I remember either, if

51:24

not photocopying a lot of these things, yeah,

51:27

for cheat codes and then going

51:29

into the arcade for, for Street Fighter,

51:31

Mortal Kombat 2, especially like all the fatalities,

51:34

all the moves and stuff like that. So I

51:36

swear I didn't have all these magazines, but I at least

51:38

had photocopies of those sections for

51:40

the cheat codes and everything. Yeah.

51:43

Yep. There was a typo here.

51:45

Quantities are limited.

51:46

Whoa, that's funny. That was

51:48

also with that. Sorry, I was just going to point

51:50

out quickly that that was also premium games like

51:52

before they were like before they were doing

51:55

official game guides. Yeah.

51:59

and we're short on time. I just want to point out there's an

52:01

ad for Side Pocket on Super Nintendo and that is

52:03

available now on Nintendo Switch Online. It's

52:06

pretty good. Just random.

52:08

And the best-selling games

52:10

from, when was this, from December 93 from Software, etc. Top 10

52:15

were NFL football, Joe Montana, Mortal

52:17

Kombat on Genesis, Madden NFL 94. That's not

52:19

weird. There was an NFL football

52:21

Joe Montana and also Madden NFL game.

52:24

Yeah. Aladdin on Genesis. Okay, good. But

52:26

Joe Montana was like really good at the

52:28

time too. So it took a while for Madam. Yeah. And

52:30

that was the sports versus like Genesis

52:33

versus SNES. It was crazy. Like Genesis

52:35

was way into sports. And so it's like sports galore

52:37

on that system. Aladdin on Genesis,

52:40

not SNES, Sonic Spinball, Kirby's

52:42

pinball land on Game Boy, NHLPA

52:44

hockey 94 on Genesis, Secret of Mana,

52:47

Madden NFL on Super Nintendo and eternal champions,

52:50

the Genesis fighting Sports,

52:51

sports, sports. Lots

52:53

of sports, yeah. And then an

52:56

ad for Games Galore, which is, you know,

52:58

you find these in old magazines all the time, in the back of

53:00

the magazine, it was like mail order video

53:02

games, or I think in this case, you have to call

53:04

them and place your order. It's just a black

53:07

and white list of just game titles and their

53:09

prices. And it says, price is shown,

53:11

our lowest available anywhere. But what was interesting

53:13

to me is at the top,

53:14

it says, join our RPG club, $2.50 annual

53:17

dues. You get

53:19

a quarterly newsletter, membership card, et

53:21

cetera, joined today. It just sounds

53:23

so like nebulous. Like

53:26

what am I signing up for? What

53:29

am I signing up for? I think the idea here is that this

53:32

is an ad for imports. And so they're telling

53:34

people the information about the imports and

53:36

then they can order them from this. It's like people

53:39

that got into this back then, like it was really hard

53:41

to find out like what the hell these games

53:43

were that are only out in Japan, right? So I

53:45

bet the newsletter kind of explains them

53:47

maybe. Yeah, the etc

53:49

is doing a lot there. It's like you're going to get

53:52

a membership card in the newsletter. It's maybe other

53:54

things. Yeah, maybe

53:56

maybe. And

53:58

finally coming next month, they've got a. have Super

54:01

Metroid, Speedy Gonzales, Spider-Man,

54:03

Maximum Carnage, and Stunt

54:06

Race FX.

54:08

Then they advertised

54:10

Super Metroid on the cover of this magazine?

54:13

Yeah, and so they barely mentioned it within the magazine.

54:15

And they used the same image to say coming next

54:18

month. That's quite a tease.

54:20

It is a classic moment from that game, to be fair. But

54:22

yeah.

54:28

That brings us to Video Game 20 questions. Our suggestion

54:31

this week comes from Dorian of Idaho,

54:33

who says, this is one of the coolest

54:35

redacted I've ever seen in a video

54:38

game. And I hope it gets redacted.

54:42

That info, let's question

54:45

begin. Well, I want to know what the redacted things are. Yeah,

54:47

that's not much of a hint, Damon. That's

54:49

a... Unfortunately,

54:52

it's Monday when we're recording this, which

54:54

means that we don't have the week of

54:57

our volition behind us. It's

55:01

going to be a tough 20 questions. We'll do our best.

55:04

Do your best. Could

55:07

it have appeared in the March 1994 issue

55:09

of that magazine we were looking at? No.

55:13

No. I feel like in honor of the

55:15

Mario movie, we need to ask, would this

55:18

have been predominantly

55:19

associated as a Nintendo

55:21

franchise? No.

55:25

No. Now.

55:29

I assume is this a Nintendo franchise?

55:32

I assume you're asking like, does this come from Nintendo?

55:35

Yes, let's say that the answer is no. OK.

55:39

Is this a Japanese developed game? No.

55:43

Hmm. Okay,

55:49

can you play this game on the Nintendo Switch? No.

55:52

Is it from this century? Yes, that's

55:55

five. This century,

55:57

interesting. Can

56:03

you play this on a Nintendo console?

56:06

Yes. Oh, oh. Consoles

56:10

we got in cube. We you

56:13

we not switch. Or

56:15

handheld. I

56:17

was trying to specify console but maybe. Oh

56:20

yeah. Yeah, no, sure. Yeah, no, you're right.

56:23

Okay. Is this game playable

56:25

on the Nintendo GameCube?

56:27

No. Is

56:30

it on the Wii? Yes. Woo.

56:34

Does it have motion controls? Yes.

56:37

OK. I want

56:39

to hear the redacted coming again. Yeah, exactly.

56:42

Yeah, one more time. One of the coolest redacted I've ever seen

56:44

in a video game, and I hope it gets a redacted.

56:47

One of the coolest control schemes I've ever seen

56:49

in a video game, and I hope it gets remastered.

56:52

Yeah. Maybe

56:54

it's just Resi will for. Boom blocks.

56:58

I love boom blocks. Uh.

57:01

See, yeah,

57:03

genre. So wait,

57:05

but it's an Nintendo Wii game, but not made

57:08

in Japan. Was this game

57:10

was this game made by Electronic Arts? No,

57:13

made or developed or published? No, that's 10.

57:17

This is game have any sequels. This

57:21

game does not have

57:23

any sequels. Does that mean it is a sequel?

57:25

Oh, I guess. Is this a sports

57:27

game? No. OK.

57:31

Getting all the ways the way

57:33

motion games out. I really

57:36

maybe it's red steel, too. Is

57:41

this a Ubisoft game? Yes.

57:45

Oh, we get

57:48

a limit about asking this water. And

57:51

why? What does that mean? Oh, sorry. No, no, no. For

57:53

Red Steel. Wait. Why does

57:55

Red Steel? What do you mean? No, I don't get it. I was thinking

57:58

every game. Sorry. Okay. Were

58:00

you thinking of were you thinking of the submarine

58:02

submarine game? Yes. Seal

58:05

diver. Yes. When

58:08

you said you mean what else was Ubisoft

58:10

up to on that console? It's probably red steel, right?

58:12

Is this game have swords in it? Yes.

58:17

Does it also have guns in it? Yes,

58:20

that's 15. I

58:23

don't know how to have any direct sequels.

58:26

So this game itself a

58:28

sequel. Yes. Okay. Red

58:30

Steel 2. There you go. Nicely

58:33

job. It was a good game. Did we have the red accents

58:35

right? I don't know if it would hold up well. Yeah, I think you're

58:37

very close. Let me pull out. Yeah, Justin. Nicely

58:39

done, dude. Reject. Well, once we

58:41

knew it was on the Wii. Yeah. Well,

58:44

I can't find it. I like it's kind of cel shade-ish look too. Like, yeah, it still

58:46

looks good. Yeah. How different is this than

58:48

Red Steel 1? And how different is Red Steel 1? I don't know. I

58:50

don't know. I don't know. I don't

58:53

know. I don't know.

58:54

I don't know. I don't know. Steel one

58:57

and how different is red steel one from its

58:59

magazine spread which looked amazing in

59:01

EGM or whatever

59:03

Yeah, I don't really you're right when I picture red

59:05

steel and mostly picturing the first one I don't hardly

59:07

remember this one at all. Yeah Western

59:10

Wild West game Catanas.

59:11

Yeah, I think we give this

59:13

like an 8.3 or something. Yeah,

59:16

we like this one Yeah, they

59:18

fixed a lot for the sequel They're

59:20

completely different I think

59:22

set for the idea

59:25

was to make a shooter of sorts. Like that was the idea

59:27

with both these games, because like the week

59:29

and I think it required we motion

59:32

plus. Right. Well,

59:34

if you just make a gun that shoots swords

59:36

out of it. Yeah,

59:39

I can't find the original email, but your guests on the redactors

59:42

were very, very close.

59:43

Nicely done. Thank you for

59:45

the suggestion. Dorian of Idaho.

59:47

And that is all the scoops that we have for you this week. CJ,

59:49

thank you so much for joining us. It's always a pleasure. Thanks.

59:52

Great to see everybody again. Excited for Mario. Go

59:55

see Mario. And I'll wait. I know. I'm

59:57

excited, too. I won't be able to see it this week, but I will

59:59

see it as soon as I can. I'm

1:00:00

going to take my three year old or

1:00:02

to be great first or at the theater experience.

1:00:04

Oh, that was I was just going to ask if they'd been

1:00:06

to the movies yet. No, and he's just

1:00:09

crazy about Mario right now. So it's going to blow. Perfect.

1:00:12

That is fantastic. I mean, when you were talking about just

1:00:14

the experience that you have

1:00:16

and just games being nominated for a game of the year, Mario

1:00:18

is just ubiquitous. Right. Like it doesn't matter what

1:00:20

age. It doesn't matter what's

1:00:22

going on. Like the fact that you're going to take your kid

1:00:25

to see a movie for the first time, it's Mario.

1:00:27

Oh, I know. It could be more perfect. That's great. I'm

1:00:29

probably going to say I was just going to

1:00:32

say I was just going to suggest like,

1:00:34

I hope it's a magical experience for you both. But

1:00:36

Damon, you do need to be prepared to like, you

1:00:39

know, 50, 50. He's going to have a freak

1:00:41

out and then leave for sure. 100 percent.

1:00:43

Because like movies, when you're a little kid, they're overwhelming

1:00:46

and loud. And like, it's kind of it's like it's

1:00:48

freaky. He'll probably be talking and all

1:00:50

that. This is this is daddy's time.

1:00:52

This is daddy's game. Yeah, we'll see. I'll

1:00:56

provide a report whenever we don't go to Al Madras

1:00:58

house. Then you'll be. No, I'm going to take it out.

1:01:01

All right. Thank you, CJ. Thank

1:01:03

you, Sam. Thank you, Justin. Thanks again to

1:01:05

Mariah and working behind the scenes to make this episode

1:01:07

possible. My name is Damon, this is IJ and Game Soup

1:01:09

N Route.