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What's this, now? This is 'Mom, Can I Have Another Dollar?'! A Let's Play series that focuses on classic coin-op arcade games. Each week, the commentators are allotted two dollars with which to try out an arcade title. Each player that week (there may be anywhere from 1-3, depending on the game) puts in their dollar, and plays as long as they can on the credits. When they run out, they render a verdict of whether the game warrants another dollar or not. As such, some games may have multiple parts, some do not. How are the games selected? For now, it works pretty much the way it would anytime you go to an arcade and take a look around: anything that looks interesting, we try out. Besides entertainment, hopefully viewers can discover some new games they'd like to try out, as a lot of these are fairly obscure but have been made more widely available in retail classics compilations and such. Since the players in most of the videos are playing the games themselves for the first time, the commentaries are very spontaneous. (Hopefully they manage to be funny or at least informative, as well.) We also take requests, so if there's a specific game you'd like to see done, drop a line in the thread and we'll try to get to it! How often are videos uploaded? Two to three videos are uploaded to the Trouble Planet youtube channel every week. (M,W,R.) New to this garbage? Enjoy our recap of the 2015 calendar year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz2VB-nMh2A The Ongoing Ignominy of Session 4: Our Last Best of for 2016! See you in what will hopefully be a more magnanimous calendar year, hosses and hossettes. Tondemo Crisis A hapless Japanese family is not prepared for life's unrelenting sneak attacks. Got-cha Twitch-reaction minigames from South Korea. How will this impact our H2H competition?? NARC Agents of an obscenely well-financed secret police force terrorize the streets of a dystopian future city, mercilessly culling scores of drug-addicted citizens on behalf of a system that has never even heard of due process. Art of Fighting 3 An askance portrait of the occidental world serves as the backdrop of this wacky 2D fighter, seemingly designed specifically to gently caress with longtime Street Fighter fans. WWF Wrestlemania I honestly forgot which of these WWF games is which and I'll be god damned if I can think of how I'd differentiate their written descriptions even if I were to go back and check. WWF Superstar Not our usual fare but given our recent subjugation by Trump Country I feel like we'd better do what we can to bridge the culture gap. Virtua Fighter The archetypical (or is it prototypical?) martial arts-based 3D fighting game finally gets some representation on our humble cultural outlet. Spiderman: The Video Game Part 2 poo poo now all I want to do is Kickstart the first issue of Shadowpussy. Rampage Not to be confused with Primal Rage, but you can see how a body could make that mistake. Right? Joust Two lancers ride ostriches in a Stygian hell pit as part of a contest for each to collect more giant eggs than the other gentleman. Why hadn't I heard of this before and why isn't it a franchise?? Puyo Puyo Fever Every once in a while we like to unwind with a relaxing visual assailing of vibrant primary colors and non-menacing pastel-y character designs. To that end, enjoy some Puyo with us. Hatris "What if they had Tetris, but stupid?" An immortal question is at long last answered, like when they learned that formerly blind people will have NO IDEA what poo poo is when they see it for the first time. Butasan: Pigs and Bombers (aka Psycho Pigs UXB) Great, yeah, this is cute and all, but what really sells it is the encroaching nihilism on the game over screens. Guardians Part 2 A beat em up starring what appear to be hideous meat men, born of fleshless grotesqueries. Leprechaun OK I happened upon an actual Leprechaun cabinet a few months after we recorded this, the thing was about three feet tall; ergo, clearly made for children. This would explain the simple mechanics. It also makes the John Carpenter spin we sort of nonchalantly applied to it all the more satisfying. Power Stone 2 Jesus, gently caress this mess. Elevator Action Returns Part 2 Part 3 It was mildly amusing when we somehow prompted Lowtax to take to Twitter to defend himself against charges that he was advocating for elevator week. Two Tigers (Thanks, Kangra!) The planes warping to the top of the screen after CRASHING INTO THE WATER is what ruined this one for me. Mario Kart GP 2 Ugh, dude, gently caress this sorry excuse for a Mario Kart game! Seriously, I would no poo poo love to see an updated version of MK64 using hand-drawn 2D sprites on 3D tracks, but without all the glitchy poo poo that dates the N64 game so egregiously. And new battle mode arenas! Somebody write their senator or something! Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo Part 2 Oh man, the way this ended in the 11th hour just made my month, and I hope it will make yours, too. Snow Bros. 2 "Thanks," Rollersnake! Three little words: "Grotesque baby faces." I can't say any more than that. Virtua Cop We had a little technical difficulties with this one, but at least you can relive every pizza party you ever went to as a grade-schooler with this surrogate arcade experience! Elevator Action poo poo, we never did figure out what the deal was with the red doors. Sorry for wasting everyone's time! Ganbare Ginkun (Thanks, Ashkerbundy!) A collection of puzzle games from Japan dials the wackiness up to 12. I swear my Japanese has improved since this recording. I’m Sorry This may be the only game other than Sonic 06 which is explicitly predicated on the concept of defrauding Japanese taxpayers. Devil World Not the Nintendo one, a weird top-down "roguelike-like" about killing skeletons for way too long a time. Sonic: The Fighters (aka Sonic Championship) Hahahahaha oh holy poo poo this franchise has always been deeply broken, it was just better at hiding it once. Twinkle Star Sprites Bullet hell games don't usually have this many merkins, which is either a good thing or a bad thing depending on your hat I guess. Wave Runner Like all racing games, this one tends to be so mesmerizing to watch that we end up talking about musicals we've seen. Dynablasters Did they, like, have to change the Bomberman title to release it in Europe or something? Or can you really make a game this similar and not get sued? Chinese Exorcist Jesus Christ, Kyle, why did you even know what this was?? Think Clay Fighter on a third world budget. Melty Blood Wow this one was popular on Vid.me for some reason. It may be the first fighting game where I stood a fighting chance against Kyle. Exelsior (full-on Tinto Brass edition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwR0g0T6MZw) Sex Week gets finished off with an effluvial Italian game about carving away pillars of ballast to reveal the naked supermodels concealed within. Whatever, you don't need it to be any more creative than that. Sexy Parodius Part 2 Subsequent research indicates that this is a parody of another game. I guess that makes it make a tiny bit of sense at least. Sex Trivia Part 2 Man, this seemed like such a great idea at first. Let me be the first to apologize. B. Rap Boys Part 2 Part 3 The sequel to DJ Boy suffers from a bit of diminishing returns, but the speculative fate of Amanda Bynes makes it all worthwhile. Spinmaster Part 2 Cowboys thieve priceless artifacts and murder guerillas with yo-yos. Another Data East classic. Flicky Part 2 Hey remember Sonic 3D Blast? No, of course not. Well this was the original arcade game that served as a template for that and it's um. ... Let’s Attack Crazy Cross Another wacky puzzle game! I hope next season is nothing but stuff just like this! Paper Boy Riding through the neighborhood from Jack Chick's fantasy world trying to deliver papers written at slightly below the level of quality of actual newspapers nowadays, Paper Boy underwhelms young and old alike with its punishing disregard for geometry. Jambo Safari Man please tell me I'm not the only one for whom that awful “Your Wife Rides My Jambo Jet  ” video pops into mind ever time I read this title?Initial D Man I wanted to do more of this one I really feel like the D jokes were only getting warmed up. Toki Someone out there graduated from the same bootlegging death camp as the Hard Head creators. Dynamite Dux Weird, these characters were cannibalized for offshoot Sonic games, too. What is it with Sega and lame bird games? Sonic Wings Part 2 The game that dares pose the cruel quandary: is the idea of a BABY solider worse in its heartbreaking bleakness than the horrific concept of an actual army of dolphins? Ikaruga poo poo this reminds me we gotta do the other Treasure games sometime. Dragon Gun I vaguely remember being vaguely off-put by some particularly invidious thing Kyle said in this one but I can't remember and I don't feel like re-watching it right now, so lets just bask in this merrily unsubstantiated accusation of wrongdoing, shall we? Haha Mecha Fighter Stop stop the colors they hurt Pacmania (The isometric one. The controls suck though I wish the premise of our show was such that I could play the Genesis/Mega Drive version for old time's sake.) The Full List: Ninja Kids https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HILA21Y9to Bad puppets fight evil in such a way as to remind us of a certain Channel 102 classic. First Funky Fighters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_p2gcO_lDo It's like Sweet Tooth but dumber and with undertones of Warner Brothers-calibur sexism. Prompts fun speculation, though. Street Fighter IV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6DcQN9-Qgc Sure, we've all thought about it, but WE actually had the guts to DO IT: a video about playing Street Fighter on the internet! Savor it while it lasts! (Note: Apparently the anime segments had to be cut out, lest Capcom DMCA us? gently caress, man!) PART 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGadsvEpOF4 PART 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoyFFpnFMJE Blue's Journey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XwC6mhIFVg Weird how similar this is to Wonderboy III. One wonders what incestuous cross-development environment took hold of 80's incipient-console-master Sega. PART 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0B-IDoiCzQ Soccer Brawl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9PgYlgpCLw Dystopian soccer in a world of death and despair... and I don't mean the United Kingdom. King of the Monsters 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqeVd5gA1aQ Multiplayer craziness and apparently THIS is game number 100. w/e PART 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjjsmfPYrv8 PART 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUsIIzaDIvM Super Dodge Ball https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvuekXs4i2U Fucks sakes I remember this game. Infuriating. Simply infuriating. Groove on Fight (aka Power Instinct 3) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpdJY2YNNa8 Ugh. This is Atlus' icky fighting game about fetishes and screaming baby heads. Maybe the two are not mutually exclusive. Donkey Kong The famous classic. The infuriating sisyphus experience that launched 1,000 spinoffs. And a great example of victory from a series of people telling you to gently caress yourself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqxtmV__SnY Mille Miglia 2 Great 1000 Mile Rally https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYy7Q_CcJ4I Ghosts and felled remains litter the landscape as anonymous brigands vie for supremacy in a world gone mad. Tell me you see the race course shaped like a dragon? Also a nice nostalgia trip awaits anyone from the area of western West Virginia. Off-Road Challenge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmmPVsxqseA Midway got bored of gore and decided to make a ho-hum racing game. Ivan Ironman's Super Off Road https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK8qxHKDLP0 aka The Game With the Face. Kyle is super bad at it. Nick is only somewhat better. But one goes into it knowing that all of efforts are destined to end in failure, in death; such is the plight of our damned race. Magic Drop 3  PART 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed4oazNytBw PART 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLx4tbfS6yU PART 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DsmvlfwuuY Cotton Boomerang A crazy rear end ahootemup where you play as not one but THREE kawai-i animu children. Apparently tea cups from this game are valuable collector's items. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfKFl8jOXYk Snack'n Jaxson Speaking of crazy-rear end poo poo, you might have at some point heard of Snacks'n Jaxson, but did you know it was one of the weirdest, most nihilistic examinations of madness ever made? Let us hope Jaxson is never free. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERBUHOtdD_I Warlords The Atari classic, brought to you in glorious 4p competition. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih9jjtfzdWc Captain America and the Avengers PART 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBANZ2GB0D4 PART 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLKQ-vNDWLw PART 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPsfQNiSb4w Spica Adventure Taito's wonderful masterpeice- this trippy Zerust kaleidoscope of a game features a solid enough set of mechanics that it deserves to be a full console game. The "quarter eater" design requirements hold it back a bit, but it's pretty fun. Plus, agitprop symbolism abounds. PART 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWjbPpx_1bA PART 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGsGmkwEhQI PART 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1wdOzXenwA Wonder Boy III: Monster's Lair Yo why does this game look like Sonic in some oddly specific ways? Is this Yuji Naka's pre-Flicky magnum opus? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y67TPDqHRS4 Avenging Spirit You can leap from person to person as a ghost on a quest of murder-vengeance. Sort of a more ignoble version of Phoenix Wright. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUGcgfoz9yc Mario Bros. Hey guys. It's me. Mrrrrrrrrerrr. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHH3-us6nIs Boogie Wings Swing people from hooks as you fly through an anachronistic world of Santa Claus based horrors. PART 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K0pW5fTFik PART 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA1CHYqdgJw PART 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnjrtdH_fRo Galaga '88 Thank chirst we never have to refer to the year 1988 in a topical way ever again. Unless someone survives the comet for about two millennia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E13ZSLukSk Pu-Li-Ru-La It's hard to do these things justice with descriptions sometimes, man. Sometimes you just have to accept that some things are beyond your grasp. Pu-Li-Ru-La is one of those things. PART 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33nTI92dgDU PART 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvDbu0Eg7gA XMEN With a full four on deck and everything! Check out our first attempt at not totally halfassing something. An arcade longplay for the ages. PART 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VdE8Y0ATWo PART 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN93pN4hvOU PART 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSwNEANgzPw PART 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzdH9Mnh-FU Battletoads This fuckin' game. It's a merciless quarter sponge, but one must step back to appreciate how much nicer everything looks than the more famous NES port. Tune in to hear our brainstorming session for new characters in a possilbe reboot. Someone get to Kickstarter with that poo poo. PART 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk9AtshNo1s PART 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szn9Mat3Qdk Muchi Muchi Pork The original post for this LP was mistyped; it is in fact a bullet hell from the Abyss. (Not a game company.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm2vFaxPYNM Sega Sonic the Hedgehog What's up with the title, anyway? They just put the publisher's name at the start of the character's name? Even Rocky 6 wasn't THAT tacky. Christ. Anyway, here's a dumb trackball-based Sonic spinoff from the ancient mists of the series early history. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcZkWhfJr7U Gaia Crusaders A weird-rear end beatemup with graphics and characters vaguely reminiscent of Capcom, but apparently having nothing to do with Capcom. I don't know what came over us but we basically had to bleep half the things we said this session. (Oh man but we didn't. Christ.) PART 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUAoccAr4Fk PART 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hANdFc2VWQI PART 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3EnKiW6IdM Bank Panic (thanks FredMSloniker!) Probably the oldest Sega game I've ever seen. Why hasn't the faceless vigilante sheriff ever made an appearance in Sonic Allstars Racing? I think it's long overdue, gently caress those kids from Jet Set Radio. (Note: I love JSR and all that Hideki Naganuma touches; this comment is made in jest.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPbLS57-u04 Phoenix (thanks Ghostwoods!) Like Galaga's evil twin from the Arpaio Dimension. Actually the animations are kind of nice for such old tech. If we had more time to practice I'm sure we could make a less ignominious showing. But, you know, probably not. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZmXzB2gFXI Gaiaopolis (Thanks FredMSloniker!) Top down hack'nslash goodness from yesteryear. Actually features a level up system which is relatively uncommon in an arcade game. Plus: a secret room with something the Simpsons would eventually copy. PART 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0iGr6w5iRM PART 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-CxdagR8MM Pop Flamer Now there's no WAY anyone has intimate knowledge of this game. JALECO burst onto the arcade scene with a deeply strange game about a flamethrower-wielding mouse with a murderous hatred for sentient balloons. It sounds like a tongue in cheek modern indie title, but I assure you it's close to where this industry began. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOnZ-cUcHxc Trio the Punch: Never Forget Me... A most interminable adventure from the most abysmal part of the human psyche, bear witness to the fell creation that is surely Data East's magnum opus. Seriously, nothing can really prepare you for the trip through the looking glass that is TtP:NFM. That we ever began to make sense of it is a testament to human ingenuity. PART ONE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3s1JgUIQi8 PART TWO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3q7f-DREPU PART THREE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0UJrwWW38Y PART FOUR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiHdXNZ7oeU PART FIVE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvxde1F4FIc Burger Time It's loving Burger Time! Everyone seems to have played this game, and to maintain a special place for it in their hearts. Surprisingly, this is also a Data East game, perhaps the earliest major release in their catalog. Well done sirs, well done. (Food joke.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYWSB8Gpl3c Total Carnage Essentially Smash TV 2. You get swamped loving instantly by innumerable enemies and try futilely to shoot them as they pour in from all directions. Instead of a game show this one is themed around Desert Storm sort of. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WVXawp1ZqM Blasteroids (Thanks FredMSloniker!) It's an enhanced Asteroids-like with powerups, varied enemies and a more intricate scoring system. Remember back when all it took for a game sequel to register as a sequel was a few rudimentary additions? Well, I guess CoD still works like that, but not to the same degree. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIbY-8t8O2A Diet Go! Go! Get this, it's a game that unabashedly encourages anorexia under the guise of healthy living. Unforgivable. One of Data East's proudest achievements. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH6aAPnirtU PS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPrk5DgINc0 thanks Danger Pumpkin PART 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK_ubbR5BIU PART 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J912gpSbr80 Michael Jackson's Moonwalker (Thanks Choco1980!) If you want a lot of tinny, MIDI-ized "WOOOH"ing, buddy, you've come to the right place! PART 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TslCvHgomp4 PART 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHCvEAWtUaA Crossed Swords (thanks Gimbal Lock!) In this tricky-as-heck swordfighting game (presnted in quasi-first person wireframe vision) players must carefully time blocks and attacks to anticipate the moves of your many humanoid opponents. It's impossible though! F'r real. Pacman It's a classic! Sorry but it's an election year. We dabble with codifying a new sort of format with a game we all understand intrinsically, Pacman! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMUxPZvYd3k Crystal of Kings A lesser known and less-seen beat em up featuring metal music and a protagonist named COCKO. Best thing to hit arcades since Puckman. PART 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TySeJPsBgaY PART 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJgDdXiCa98 PART 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgVXmOpk9TM PART 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj_fEO-Apx8 PAPRT 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve3LBTCp7EM Thunder Zone Data East makes a desert-army-shoot-many-men game. There's probably a few others like it, but it seems like a pretty specific description to me. PART 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=civPtTXkbPA PART 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En0CsTWwSW8 Puyo Puyo (aka Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, aka Kirby's Avalanche) Trying to ride the Battle Ball wave clear over the horizon, the gang proceeds to dick around with the Sega classic Puyo Puyo. PART 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnU58J7YjJg PART 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na7V4sY9CRY Street Fighter Alpha 2 Maddox's favorite, apparently. Kyle gets a chance to show off his middling skills in hopes of getting to challenge either the host of Biggest Problem in the Universe or Matt Baher. Does he have what it takes??? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExGQ-LulZio Dragon Breed A bullet hell that's kind of like a 2d Panzer Dragoon. You can manipulate the dragon to use its body as a melee weapon, how novel! Meanwhile, nobody likes Florida. PART 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoNYaWCzP4M PART 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66HzLw43dGU Dragon Bowl What no this is not a pale imitation of another famous intellectual property I can't imagine what you are on about. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bPYr8ZQ5IY Alien vs. Predator Who knew Predators could be so articulate and amicable? Also humans are the real monsters etc. etc. This game is too hard dang it. PART 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjhKVLYGaDM PART 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3J4dV0bsAMw PART 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q7-2-4wYDw Jungle Hunt (aka Jungle King) One of Taito's elder classics, this rudimentary sidescroller sends you through swinging vines, an croc river, a landslide, and finally a gently caress FESTIVAL. If you've never seen the end screen, here's your (and our!) opportunity to finally do so. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S4wbEa3gdE Biomechanical Toy Merry Christmas you filthy animals. We have a full run of this oddball shootemup sidescroller from Spain, of all places. It's kind of like Victorian crossed with Power Pete (if you're one of the five people who recall the salad days of System 7) but the toy theme honestly starts to go off the rails pretty quick. Anyway enjoy some stories about outstaying our welcome in various nations. PART 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksTC2NLBEfM PART 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Yo1ZJeRtIk PART 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CZA-yXK21s PART 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F50QraEyVEo Zero Wing (Thanks FredMSloniker!) Remember back before the word 'meme' was a thing? Weren't those beautiful times? Can't we ever go back to the way things were before our primary cultural output was pictures of things with impact font superimposed over them? God help us, it's all over! Even the loving President is miming now! AND IT ALL STARTED WITH THIS GAME. Tbh it's actually a pretty fun bullet hell shooter that holds up nicely over the decades. The bosses are RIDICULOUS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LovKb60mTTA Hard Head 2 The only game I can think of where your health meter is depicted by vanishing clothes on your character. I mean, I'm sure there's an anime game about sexually harassing witches or something that uses the concept, but I'm pretty sure the characters here are non sexual beings. Whatever else you might say about them. CORRECTION: Further research yielded that the Hard Head games are from South Korea. Why then the Australian flag in the first game? Goooooood question. Apparently you visit Mao's China at some point, too, so maybe we need to revisit HH1. PART 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l909NM6AMgE PART 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3IXEnrnnLM Wizard Fire Come to think of it I don't think there even are any wizards in this game. But there are Hellraiser ghouls! And the most awkward canned audio clips since the last Sonic Team game you saw! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoQHm-jDqI8 Sly Spy Ed Randy he ain't. This so-called spy seems to have more in common with Minnesota dentists than James Bond. No espionage to be had here whatsoever, unless you count murdering the hybridized ghost of Stalin and Gorbachev. PART 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxEvnPPi8uI PART 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuJj_hy2mco Lucky & Wild (Thanks Hoss Corncave and Paul Thornton!) Hilarity ensues when two men who may or may not be affiliated with law enforcement chase down dangerous David-Bowie lookalikes and bring justice to a barrel-saturated dystopia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWFsGdrp5fk Spacechaser A surprisingly robust Pacman-like maze-run game from 1979. Who will get the high score? Also, will Kyle ever live down the fact that we had to play this game twice because he had his mic off the whole first time we did it? CLICK TO FIND OUT. KYLE'S RUN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNa6OOg8t5g KEITH'S RUN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIc6O3GSAMQ Battle Balls (aka SENKYU) (Thanks FredMSloniker!) Double entendres abound in our ludicrously overlong playthrough of this charming puzzle game from the early 90's. PART 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odhIQD_2LRM PART 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbbxgofuXEU PART 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CY8MuhPs_Oo PART 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SItk6JaF7w PART 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTfdFdOY6sY NFL Blitz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUOb6yoki5Q How bout that pigskin. How about the game with the pigskin. Gauntlet Legends https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v4t9KLWH7k The 64-bit rendition of the esteemed dungeon crawler series brings out the worst in us. As in, we are the worst at this game. PART 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rog4sezhEEM The Simpsons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkA-UOLzK6I Back when there was a countable number of episodes and (though you might be too young to remember) BART loving SIMPSON was the breakout character of the century, Konami got hired to make a beat-em-up in the style of TMNT and Streets of Rage, featuring the Simpsons. Watching this whole LP is still better than the average Season 57 episode, and it'd probably beat most of the couch gags at this point. Sad, isn't it? At least we have Rick and Morty to brighten our day. PART 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm8oLnjIgG0 PART 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0yiALi9C-g PART 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf4qmxvJ7Z8 Street Fighter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xed0Yc9JkqQ The original, forgotten precursor to Street Fighter 2 and also all the other numbered and lettered (and mathematically symbol-ed) Street Fighters. Fun to gawk at, interesting from a historical perspective, but not much else. PART 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LmjIJjHL_U House of the Dead 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_R5SBchRFg A sequel to a game that must have been absolutely the same thing. At least it helps keep us in the spooky theme and hey don't the horrible polygon graphics serve as a nice change of pace? Deathsmiles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4O8sC-i-k0 A sweet animu-style bullet hell game set during (as best we can gather) a Dad-based apocalypse. Pretty cool boss battles, and it's actually available on XBox. Do consider lending this game your support via hella duckets. PART2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz0ZOXm7V0E PART3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFRMO4iA0wo Wall Street https://youtu.be/2GT1avcMGFk Doomed men are the fodder of futuristic merriment makers from Europe. Jurassic Park https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOo1TxrmzpM The arcade car-ride light gun version, not the pretty neat sidescroller they had on Genesis or the terrible shooter they had elsewhere. In some respects, the graphics are pretty impressive for 1993- this was a time when the arcade was always way ahead of any console game in terms of tech. Today it looks like a fever hallucination someone had at Universal Studios. But you can make the case that it was the most coherent "sequel" to the JP movie. PART 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-uEqhWW2-0 The Outfoxies https://youtu.be/g25fOcltdUY Clowns are a murder weapon. That's one thing the precursor to Super Smash Bros. has going for itself. Berzerk (Thanks Ghostwoods!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlItzbUPm2Y No time for celebrity sex scandals. No time for the dreams left crushed by Meet Dave. There is only the black void and the robots and a happy face. In all honesty this is a pretty cool game for the Before Time. Randomly generated dungeons and increasingly tough enemies, it's pretty fun to try and spite a friend's high score in this. CarnEvil https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ9E--fL0xk A completely ludicrous late 90's light-gun game featuring unrelenting horrors and scads of terrified white women. So, basically the same thing as watching CNN. XYBots (Thanks FredMSloniker!) https://youtu.be/NiAt5kp8cNw A third person shooting game with robot-filled mazes standing between you and more mazes. Fairly cool for a relatively late-era Atari game, with both competitive and cooperative elements. DJ Boy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6BHxLMw880 WHAT EVEN IS THIS PART 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64JvLqiaYHs Sonic the Hedgehog MegaPlay 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZZSq6WfpkU Curiously unmolested compared to the first Sonic MegaPlay port, this coin-op rendition of Sonic 2 is pretty much unaltered, save for the omission of the special stages. The controls are still dumbed down a bit though. Revel in the mounting tension as those who love Sonic and those who prefer the harsh light of reality butt heads in this, one of our longest LPs yet. PART 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7VrqdBT1xY PART 3: https://youtu.be/farg3l0xtUM PART 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDMc390dYrs PART 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR16fxGORlg PART 6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUtlN4xcd7U PART 7: https://youtu.be/JSatHK2nJSo Crazy Climber 2 (Thanks Ghostwoods!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UWLC6WVUjI It's hard to summarize this game! It's even harder to convey visually just how tricky it is- you manipulate (individually) the limbs of what may be a suicidal maniac as he scales a skyscraper full of sexually aggressive windowsill-sitters and conventionally aggressive prison inmates. A Donkey Kong looking thing throws bricks at you in an attempt to murder you. There are only some 30 odd states in the union despite the fact that it is clearly the early twentieth century. Clearly we are witnessing life through a lens of madness. Thanks for the request, Ghostwoods! Lizard Wizard (Thanks Lizard Wizard!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_YJks_ApQE Our first request! In Lizard Wizard, you play as a bejet-packed sorcerer fighting to thwart a slave-driving race of dragons who try to capture people who are fired out of a volcano. Yes, it's one of the strangest things ever made; yes, we are very glad to have been made aware of its existence. Thank you Lizard Wizard! (The forums user, not the game itself.) PART 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKY9_DNldj0 Chiller http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1tvlZ6zzIc Probably the most depraved, violent game since Burger Time. High School Graffiti Mikie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBP9AV6wIAs Konami's magnum opus. Years before Metal Gear and woefully never to reach the same heights of fame as Frogger, MIKIE pits you against your math teacher (and society at large?) as you jump up out of your seat, body slam students out of their chairs, and mercilessly head-butt your teacher into submission. What nefarious endgame does Mikie have in mind? Who knows! It involves collecting hearts. Hearts! Really, it is hard to adequately describe the mind-rending experience that is MIKIE. Gunbarich https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePhvNZkckyE An anime-styled Breakout-cum-pinball puzzle-like game. In true Japanese game style, there's loads of dialogue somehow. Come for the admonishments from big-breasted witches, stay for the murder of Santa Claus. (It's a weird game.) Escape From the Planet of Robot Monsters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nuRqtT0eX4 A wacky tobaccy isometric shooter game where 2 players try to rescue sexist caricatures from robots that look like boogie boards. Listen to the commentators do lots of fun robot voices. Two Crude Dudes (Two Crewd) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_3bvXBDyT8 Bereft of a Z axis, this makes for a very simplistic beat em up. But the 90's vision of the apocalypse is so delightfully nonsensical that it doesn't matter; TCD makes for some fun let's play viewing anyway. Iron Horse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vaFKN07Wk4 Around the time Nintendo was wowing the world with Super Mario Bros., Konami was languishing in obscurity with this train robbery game where your player character is ostensibly the robber. If one reads into it a bit, it seems like there may be an even more dastardly premise at work. Burglar X Featuring nothing you could accurately describe as "burgling," this odd head to head Korean arcade game turns friends into enemies with its stark zero-sum mechanics. Great introduction to game theory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULXa4JI-B9Q The Cliffhanger: Edward Randy Clearly one of the best sidescrolling steampunk-Indiana-Jones-jewel-heist low concept games ever to never get released outside of Japan. Perhaps the BEST one, in fact. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqmeYDr0CZw PART 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgqLy2Y6Y0U MegaMan: Power Battle A Megaman arcade boss rush. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V64MzZsL3lk PART 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKrFKQM9x7s Berlin Wall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FChRHlQnTnk You could arguably characterize this as a tribute to the end of an oppressive regime, but it's somehow more logical to describe it as a puzzle platformer about brick-hating fruit. Dead Connection This gangster-themed co-op shoot 'em up quickly became one of our favorites. Featuring still screens with highly destructable backdrops and "wave" based endurance battles, it's actually a pretty interesting and lesser known relic of the mid 90's. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMMjtOUHjtU Hardhead The Mario Bros are from New South Wales, polygamy is the law of the land, the nazis have won the war. Welcome to Hardhead. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I32X-8DcUYA The New Zealand Story By the late 80's, we had but two wishes: and end to the cold war, and a cute puzzle-platformer about Kiwis with bow and arrows. Both are now true, and you can hear our thoughts on at least one of those topics here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leuDp-PQu2A PART 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsULR76I8-8 Sonic the Hedgehog MegaPlay: Did you know they hacked up the original Sonic into a coinop version? Sadly, this is not the same one that Melissa Joan Hart was really bad at on Nick Arcade. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyuRVgU-cIw PART 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_4eJZ6GC_0 PART 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-b--9WL5pg Metamoqester: A novel, if unpronouncable, spin on the fighting game formula. Guest appearance by Jerry Seinfeld. https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=wEk0rCA6WNU Ninja Baseball Batman: A strange beat-em-up featuring baseball-themed ninjas traveling across the United States: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiKZFdFaL6E Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrictSLhLpE First is Wizard of Wor, a multiplayer co-op game from 1980. It's actually pretty sophisticated for its time, we're a little surprised it's not more widely known: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB3oeRabnjA Our "early attempts" playlist: Dino Rex: Somehow, our commentators failed to make a single "tyrannosaurus WRECKED" pun this entire video. They suffered through an awful fighting game full of screeching lizards, though, so let us forgive them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIJ98Xd6N1g Die Hard Arcade https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWoPmyE8tfo Having nothing to do with the Bruce Willis movie, this Japanese beat-em-up features some surprisingly decent graphics and mechanics for a title that was doomed to adorn the Saturn's pitiful game library and little else. Growl It's a strange thing when park rangers are reduced to indiscriminate rocket launcher violence to contend with the issue of poaching. Would that all of life's problems had such straightforward solutions. PART 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UgsbSjdD1I PART 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhIrEcRzR70 Collabs and Special Entries: MCIHAD collab with Instant Replay Live (Metal Slug) Boy who woulda thought you'd come to associate with so many fellow game-commentating enthusiasts through youtube? We've started collabing with other LPers, the first is Broforce on a Steam-centric channel called Instant Replay Live. Others are forthcoming (and we guest on a few other channels as well.) PART 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CghpP352G7Q PART 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6di6IUDTrnM Misc: Since there's nothing to spoil, there's not really a restriction on conversation. If you have a specific game you'd like to see played, feel free to mention it in a post or pm. Otherwise, consider the thread open to any discussion about your favorite (or hated) arcade games and experiences. Ever been to an arcade overseas? SF tournament? Yakuza-run pachinko parlor? Share your stories, we might get ideas to use in an episode Lemma fucked around with this message at 23:11 on Jan 4, 2017 |
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Wizard of Wor was a great game, and surprisingly sophisticated at the time. It didn't seem to get much release, though -- took me ages to track one down.
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Holy poo poo! I remember visiting China and going to an arcade with my relatives when I was five and one of my favorite games there was Ninja Baseball Batman. Man, I always wondered what it was and was always curious about what the final levels where like. Five year old me was not good at arcade games to say the least
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Seeing Wizard of Wor really makes me wish there was more games where you'd fight wizards with firearms. Taking guns to fantasy monsters is such a video game idea, I love it. Speaking of, there was a lightgun game called Dragon Gun, but as you might expect there's no ports of it anywhere. Anyways, I'm curious if this is the first example of a coop videogame ever. Compared to other games in the 1980s this game was pretty nuts. Especially right at the end of the video, the game demonstrates how some of the enemies work off a simple visibility mechanic.
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Ghostwoods- a limited release helps explain its obscurity, but honestly Wizard of Wor just seems so much more involved than its contemporaries (eg Space Invaders or Donkey Kong) that it seems like it should have made a bigger wave. PBnJamo- based on what I've since read about it, it does seem to be one of the early coop pioneers.Dunno if it's the very first. Arbitrary Coin- I am honestly amazed we found somebody who has memories of NBB. There is a part 2 coming, where we get to Texas. We might revisit this one if just to get to the rest. Anyway, glad people are liking it so far! Next week we wrapup Ninja and begin a fairly mutilated coinop version of a beloved classic.
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What layer of hell did Ninja Baseball Batman climb out of... I love the concept btw. Would love to see more.
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Hey UnSmith, glad you like it. Speaking of hell, Baseball Batman fittingly ends in an undead nether-realm interpretation of Texas. (So, the only accurate depiction to be found in the game.) It's Thursday, which means a new game is up! It's Metamoqester. If you are wondering what that means or how you say it, don't worry. We are all confused. It's a weird co-op boss rush fighting game. Link here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=wEk0rCA6WNU (All links in the OP as well.) Lemma fucked around with this message at 00:45 on Jun 16, 2015 |
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Lemma posted:Links in the OP. You should probably put the link in a new post each time, too. Plenty of people just jump to the most recent posts, and are going to eyeroll (and maybe not bother) if they then have to go back to the OP. Of course, you'll get a similar reaction if it's not in the OP as well, for people just coming in. Metamoqester was... odd.
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Wow thats funny you guys mentioned Ninja Baseball Batman, Super Best Friends recently did a playthrough of it.
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Good idea, ghostwoods. There will henceforth be links aplenty. Dreadwroth, I honestly have no idea how Kyle came to know about Baseball Batman but it was a driving force behind making arcade LPs I believe. It is too odd not to share with the world.
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Possibly from the last AGDQ; that's where I first heard of it, anyway.
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Well for something a touch less esoteric, this week we open a big dumb can of fandom worms with an obscure coinop bastardization of Sonc 16 bit, called Sonic the Hedgehog Mega Play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyuRVgU-cIw Sorry, it's an election year.
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Not one of the better games we found here, but here is DinoRex, a clayfighters-like fighter featuring dinosaurs that screech hideously. I apologize for any damage to your speakers or sanity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIJ98Xd6N1g Edit: Sonic installments will continue Tuesday.
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Lemma posted:Hey UnSmith, glad you like it. Speaking of hell, Baseball Batman fittingly ends in an undead nether-realm interpretation of Texas. (So, the only accurate depiction to be found in the game.) A quick youtube search reveals that the "ending" is two still pictures of your character(s). It looks like the Japanese version (called Oni: The Ninja Master) puts a line or two of text over each screenshot, but I guess that was too much effort to translate for the English version.
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Lemma posted:Not one of the better games we found here, but here is DinoRex, a clayfighters-like fighter featuring dinosaurs that screech hideously. I apologize for any damage to your speakers or sanity. Boy, that is one phallic timer.
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Hold on to your asses, here comes more Sonic. Will Keith finally meet his match in the dastardly scrap brain zone? Will he experience remorse for his terrible jokes? Only time will tell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_4eJZ6GC_0 Nemo2342 posted:A quick youtube search reveals that the "ending" is two still pictures of your character(s). It looks like the Japanese version (called Oni: The Ninja Master) puts a line or two of text over each screenshot, but I guess that was too much effort to translate for the English version. We did end up searching for the endings, and were duly underwhelmed. I am somewhat surprised that Metamoqester was somebody's idea of a localized title. We still aren't 100% sure how to say it. Lemma fucked around with this message at 14:30 on Jun 23, 2015 |
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Stumbled into this thread and watched the Metamoqester video. I had no idea what was going on, but at least I found the inspiration to Red Earth, Capcom's first CPS3 game before SF3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pkwn-iloYNg
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Do you take requests? Because I have a lot of games I'd love to see you take on, and I suspect I'm not the only one.
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FredMSloniker posted:Do you take requests? Because I have a lot of games I'd love to see you take on, and I suspect I'm not the only one. You sure aren't.
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FredMSloniker posted:Do you take requests? Because I have a lot of gamlist I'd love to see you take on, and I suspect I'm not the only one. Heck yeah, we can certainly add recommendations to the list! We're already compiling a "to play" list for the next batch of recordings. (The LPs being uploaded now were recorded in May I think; the intent is to always have a backlog so we can update regularly.) Lizard Wizard- We'll try to add that to the list for sure, the name is too hilarious not to.
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Cool. In the interest of not slamming you with a million billion requests, I figure I'll give you one, then, when you use it, I'll give you another one. Let's see. How about Senkyu, also known as Battle Balls? It's a 'match stuff in a time limit' game in a format that I don't think I've ever seen copied.
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Artelier posted:Stumbled into this thread and watched the Metamoqester video. I had no idea what was going on, but at least I found the inspiration to Red Earth, Capcom's first CPS3 game before SF3. Interesting, I've never seen that one either. Is there really a connection to Metamoqester, or was that just a comparison? Maybe we'll try to do Red Earth sometime, too. FredMSloniker posted:Cool. In the interest of not slamming you with a million billion requests, I figure I'll give you one, then, when you use it, I'll give you another one. Sounds good. We'll try to take the highroad on jokes off the title. You can go ahead and put out more requests, actually, since we won't get to recording again for a few weeks (Keith is in Australia) and then we'll have to record a whole bunch in a week or so, since all the commentators do not live in the same state. We'll just take note and try to do as many of them as is reasonable. Thanks for the suggestion! Lemma fucked around with this message at 07:38 on Jun 24, 2015 |
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Lemma posted:Sounds good. We'll try to take the highroad on jokes off the title. That... didn't even occur to me. And I've been an SA forum member for how long?  Okay, let's see. Some I remember from back in the day (yo):
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Lemma posted:Interesting, I've never seen that one either. Is there really a connection to Metamoqester, or was that just a comparison? Maybe we'll try to do Red Earth sometime, too. It was just a comparison, I have never heard of how that game actively influenced Red Earth. Actually, I never heard anything of either game, ever, except that it was the first CPS3 game to be released (back when I read magazines). Some characters from Red Earth have appeared in other games, particularly Tessa who appeared in Gem Fighters and SNK vs Capcom (The one made by SNK). They also had a few character slots in Capcom Fighting Jam, the compilation that also included characters from Street Fighter 2, 3, and Darkstalkers (and introduced Ingrid). No idea if Red Earth is any good. Guess you could a insert coin and try it? 
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Artelier posted:No idea if Red Earth is any good. Guess you could a insert coin and try it? We may indeed have to do that, a sound suggestion. By the by, the youtube channel has been changed to Trouble Planet. Just to avoid any confusion.
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Would it be possible to play The Ocean Hunter and/or Let's Go Jungle? I know those two are longer and harder to find but I'd love to see a good quality playthrough of those.
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I thought of a few more potential games from my youth. Zero Wing was an arcade game as well as a (memetic) Genesis game, and it's a fun side-scrolling shmup; your ship has the ability to tractor small enemies and add to your firepower, then use them as bombs when you're done with them. Varth is a vertical shmup with a very handy feature: your bombs regenerate over time, and even regenerate faster if you wiggle the stick, giving you an excuse to use them regularly. And for more of an arena shooter, try Blasteroids, which has a couple of neat features, including the ability to join your ships in a two-player game and have one player be a turret.
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Chimera-gui: harder to find just makes it more interesting as a feature! We'll see what we can do. FredMSloniker- Oh yeah, Zero Wing! I played the Genesis version of that. Translations aside it's a decent game. Cool. Didn't know it was a coinop. Anyway, here's Thursday- a weird-rear end olympics-in-the-dystopian-future competitive multiplayer, like we've never seen one of those already: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6lenwjA0yI
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Huh. That sucked. My recommendations for things to try out are Crazy Climber, Phoenix, and Berzerk. All older cabinets, but all a bit clever in their own really stupid ways
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All right, as long as there's a deluge of suggestions I guess I'll add Bonanza Bros to the pile.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-b--9WL5pg Iiiiiiiiit's time for more Sonic! This is the last one in this LP. Later this week, we do something a little more "exotic".
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Since you're taking requests, you should try to find DJ Boys, that game is... unique. Cadillacs and Dinosaurs is a legit beatem up if you want something less esoteric.
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Requests are being well noted. And now it is a special day, for today MCIHAD plays The New Zealand Story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leuDp-PQu2A Anyone yearning for a puzzle platformer about kiwis, yearn no more. They had you covered before the berlin wall fell.
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The New Zealand Story is great because it has so much depth. The FAQ on GameFAQs is 127k long! You wouldn't think it was that complex by looking at it.
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Yes, and there are several versions and ports and stuff. Apparently it was released in the US under the title 'Kiwi Kraze.' Also, they recently made a version on the DS?? But yes this game seems to have quite a bit to it, including the ability to die and go to heaven, getting one chance to escape back to the game. We don't get that far in part 2, but we may come back to do longplays of games we like.
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I remember playing that on the Genesis as a kid, I do not remember ever getting past like...the part where you get eaten by a whale? It was loving annoying as hell to play but the music was cute so I kept playing
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I had Kiwi Kraze on the nes myself. It was incredibly hard, but really charming. Really wish it had all those arrows in the back like this version. Pretty neat to see the levels are pretty different though.
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I recently came across some footage of The New Zealand Story for the first time in ages and what struck me as the weirdest thing about it at first glance was the smoking kiwi in the intro cutscene. You'd think they'd have censored that out in the releases outside of Japan but apparently they didn't! I'm not saying that the idea of a smoking kiwi isn't already weird enough to begin with, of course. I played the Amiga port of this a bit back in the day and can't say I discovered much of the advanced gameplay features (such as warps) the game seems to offer. It's not that unlikely that many of them weren't included when the game was ported over to home computers, though, as this used to happen a lot. The much-lauded Amiga Port of Rainbow Islands didn't include the three final islands, for instance and I almost believe this was because the programmers who did the port didn't know they existed because the way you unlock them is somewhat obscure. fixelbrumpf fucked around with this message at 11:53 on Jul 3, 2015 |
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The DS port was the first game I got when I bought my DS years back, as it was in a cheap bin. It was a lot of fun but it came from when every title for the system had to utilize the touch screen so it got weird. I never even had heard of the game before that. Then I got the PS2 Taito arcade collection that includes the original arcade version. I've spent so much time on that drat game, it's crazy in depth. Also, I like how nearly immediately after starting you guys discover a warp zone and immediately ignore it. Finally, I think you had to take turns manually because you were continuing--player 2 couldn't continue player 1's game.
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Dang, I for one am surprised how many people have such familiarity with New Zealand Story. I liked this one a lot, it's nice to see the game got some love in its day. Anyway, we got a special half update for the weekend! Hardhead, a game ostensibly (and thematically appropriately) from Australia. It's... something. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I32X-8DcUYA Let's celebrate the fourth with all these games about the commonwealth, guys.
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