Gotta love how the letter he sent to Konami ends with "Thanks and have a good rest of your day"

@wessteinfeld3337

Жыл бұрын

Exactly! They are obviously just pretending to care!! They don't give two shits if you get struck by lightning tomorrow or get hit by a bus... because all they give a shit about is wishing you a great REST of your day.. Fuggin insane and pompous af!

"hello, Konami? Can you tell me the number of Hagane cartridges were produced? " Konami: "uhhh... How many pachinko machines you want again?"

@SevenCompleted

5 жыл бұрын

slots too, I fucking wish they would make a yugioh slot machine

@SevenCompleted

5 жыл бұрын

it could have sick bonuses too like exodia. I would spend all my money playing it lmao

@Tempora158

5 жыл бұрын

"No! It's called HA-GA-NE" "PA-CHIN-KO? I heard pachinko. How many do you need?"

@nozoto

5 жыл бұрын

"HAGANE! Let me spell you letter by letter: H-A-G-A-N-E !" Konami customer support operator:"Mhm, I see, hold on a minute, so that I check more in-depth about the entry in question. Do not hang up yet" "Sure" ........................................ Konami operator: "Thanks for waiting. I got bad news for you, mister" "So you don't have any data regarding how many units of this game were produced and distributed overseas?" Konami operator: "Mister, I fear that that our company has NOT manufactured any pachinko machine of Hagane no Renkinjutsushi (Full Metal Alchemist). Konami does not hold the rights for that IP" * facepalms and grunts *

@nozoto

5 жыл бұрын

@Christopher Light And if you push the conversation further, the call center wire you to Konami headquarters as they think you want to purchase the rights for a microtransaction mobile game's distribution 😂 That moment when you chuckle nervously but cry deep inside.

You've got me ending my emails with "have a great rest of your day"

@Turbo_Games_

5 жыл бұрын

Ed Cole lmao! I’m going to start doing this

@hemangchauhan2864

5 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU FOR THE IDEA!

@fshiruba

5 жыл бұрын

I am so copying this.

@SegaDream131

4 жыл бұрын

IT'S AS IF YOUR EMAIL HAS INTERRUPTED THEIR OTHERWISE FINE DAY FOR A MOMENT.....

@welcometoGARYVILLE

3 жыл бұрын

HAGROYD club holla

One of the main problems is that, instead of doing some serious research, most KZreadrs (not you of course) just keep copying each other, which leads to widespread myths and false assumptions. The lists of "worst games ever" are also pretty stupid. I don't know why and when Shaq Fu started appearing in such lists, because I remember it was well received by videogame reviewers at the time (at least in magazines here in Italy, it got 80% or even more). Thank you for giving us serious and well-documented content. Keep it up

@gungnirexpt3617

5 жыл бұрын

So Daniele you're saying it's like telephone? Or religion?

@josephhuffman2757

5 жыл бұрын

Shaq Fu has awesome animations and is much more playable than many other terrible games.

@icantnamebatzarro

5 жыл бұрын

i haven't got the chance to play shaq fu jet (even if i'm collecting second-hand snes games since almost 12 years ago they are pretty hard to find, specially since the collectionism boom started here 10 years ago), but i highly doubt that its that bad, compared with stuff like street combat, pit-fighter or ballz (the last one i actually have it and man, it is BAD). X'D

@PhillipCummingsUSA

5 жыл бұрын

Shaq Fu was a wasted weekend. Not being the worst doesn't make a good game.

@icantnamebatzarro

5 жыл бұрын

@@PhillipCummingsUSA of course, but it doesn't make it "the worst ever". if that's a title for a snes i think it is reserved to the pit fighter port, or personally, Ballz,

1:18 OMG $66 for Super Street Fighter 2!! I guess I forgot how expensive Super Nintendo games were back in the 1990s! $66 in year 1992 = $123 in year 2020 That’s ssooooo craazzyyyy!!!

Sought after DOES NOT MEAN rare. But don't tell the eBay sellers that.

@j4ck.

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! More people need to understand this.

@danield6740

4 жыл бұрын

That’s VERY true!!!

@valkrieknights

4 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't you want eBay sellers to know that? Maybe then the prices would get adjusted

@dtester

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, some ebayers say everything is rare and their stained water damage box and manual is "good" condition...

@Big5mokE719

3 жыл бұрын

It does! Now go to my ebay page and buy my rare loose copy of mario 64! Lol

Here's one myth that hurt me when I was younger. Even as a kid, I was a huge fan of fighting games and when I was around 10-13 years old, every very so often I would hear that in games like Tekken and Street Fighter, if you finish the entire game with all your rounds being perfect, you'd get some super-secret character. It would always be the one that you saw on the back of the game case but couldn't find when you played the game. I mean, it worked because I remember trying to unlock Dragon in Tekken as well as Sho in Battle Arena Toshineden by using the all perfect method. I know these are PlayStation games, but still.

Strangest thing about Final Fight (and Guy)... the missing level IS in the cart, there's just no graphics for it, so if you load it up, it's a glitchy mess.

@SNESdrunk

5 жыл бұрын

Interesting!

@nozoto

5 жыл бұрын

Does that mean the development was halted suddenly and they shipped the cartridge to ride the Final Fight thunder as long as it was there? Or was it just because of a sloppy conversion with no quality control? It could not have been a problem of available memory...

@YukaTakeuchiFan

5 жыл бұрын

I'm suspecting that a lot of the problem with the missing level had to do with some of the stuff that SNES Drunk mentions, specifically, the slowdown. Keep in mind that the original Final Fight came out REALLY early in the SNES life cycle, where people really hadn't figured out the system's capabilities yet, and it shows in a lot of their titles. Final Fight was a BIG offender in the slowdown department, and I imagine it was kept one player because the slowdown is nuts even when you only have one player and three enemies on screen. And I think that they couldn't get the Industrial Area to run at even a vaguely tolerable speed on the SNES. Remember a few things about that stage: The first part of the stage has a fairly lengthy part at the beginning where you've constantly got flame sprites flickering in and out of existence, and LOTS of them - I remember that even the arcade game had a little trouble with this one based on my own time playing. With the SNES version running as slowly as it was even before adding the flames, adding that many sprites at once would've almost certainly done very unkind things to the playing experience. Then, there's Round 4-2, which is an entirely vertical-scrolling level, which no other section of the game tries to do, and I'm wondering if Capcom was having trouble getting that to run in the early SNES days... not to mention the boss, Rolento, whose entire gimmicks involve moving REALLY quickly to the point of leaving afterimages that would have to be rendered, AND throwing shit-tons of grenades around during the second phase of the fight, all of which would require active sprites, see the issues with the flames in 4-1. This all said, I have no idea why they didn't try to patch some of this up with Final Fight Guy. Final Fight 2 proved that they were able to get basically everything I mention regarding 4-2 working right, and Final Fight Guy doesn't look like it came out THAT far before 2 for them to only figure it out in the interim.

@tallikx

5 жыл бұрын

Well, I'm sure the rom-hacking communities could do something about that in some fashion.

@nozoto

5 жыл бұрын

@@YukaTakeuchiFan So, basically, someone wrote the entire script for the scrapped stage, with the acquired knowledge it can't possibly run smoothly in the current state of things? There's no specific hidden sprite allocated to this stage, located by data miners? I wonder if the graphics ever existed at one point, now. I feel bad for the programmer's hard work wasted in vain.

I can't believe I once believed Hagane was a Blockbuster exclusive. I have failed my children, I have failed my family, I must seek forgiveness. Edit: I asked my kids, they said it was fine.

@derek-64

5 жыл бұрын

i forgive you, but the real question is can you forgive yourself?

@Anomaly188

4 жыл бұрын

I remember Stuttering Craig saying something about that in a Screw Attack video years ago. That was the first I heard it. So blame Lying Craig.

@LarryLopez91

Жыл бұрын

After 3 years, I MIGHT be able to forgive you. Still hurts, man...

@Frogdoddofficial

Жыл бұрын

It's been four years and I'm ready to forgive you.

"How would they know? I'm probably talking to some underpaid, overworked customer rep who wants me to go away." Actually, given that this is Konami we're talking about, I'd imagine you're dealing with people who are working in a room that's on fire while the chairman of the board lurks in the background taking potshots at them with a crossbow.

@AlexEinherjar

5 жыл бұрын

I'd do that were I a CEO.

@seanorion7106

5 жыл бұрын

While petting a cat in his lap.

I've mentioned this before in the comments of other videos but I know beyond the shadow of a doubt that Hagane was on retail shelves. I clearly remember buying it late in the SNES' life with birthday money from Walmart. I was a late adopter of the PS1/N64 and was looking for new games to play on what I already had at the time.

@briantaylorcloe7725

4 жыл бұрын

... Saturn .... 😿

"Just because I'm sharing my hobby through my KZread channel, doesn't make me any kind of authority on anything" THANK YOU! Don't get me wrong, there are KZreadrs that actually know their stuff, but people need to stop taking everything every random KZreadr says as gospel, and do a little follow-up research to confirm things.

It's been lost in the age of the internet, but there were plenty of great contemporary rumours about hidden content. The Mortal Kombat 1 blood code and playing as the bosses in SF2 were perhaps the most famous ones, but every school playground had its own. I had a friend who was adamant that you could play as Darth Vader in Super Star Wars, and there was a hidden 5th car in F-Zero, but oddly there was always an excuse as to why he couldn't show anyone to prove it

@slurmalystwormfast1985

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I knew a guy like your friend. His story was always "my game glitched one time and this awesome thing happened!" My favorite was playing as General Leo through all of FF6. There actually was a Game Genie code to play as the bosses in SF2, but it was super glitchy.

@jeffersonjjohnson

5 жыл бұрын

Skip forward a couple of generations and you've got people talking about dirty video sequences in DOA2

@steakcrust558

5 жыл бұрын

MrNegativecreep07 lol how true. i remember some kid talking about 4 player contra on the NES

@MrNegativecreep07

5 жыл бұрын

@@jeffersonjjohnson And then they made DOA Xtreme, and it came true!

@AndrewAnstrom

5 жыл бұрын

Lots of great mortal kombat myths from back in the day... My favorite one was the rumor that you could play as the guy who was on fire on the bridge in the background......... This eventually led to the character Blaze being created in real life.

Funny that I always prefer to leave it to the drunk to provide the most honest and accurate information ;). Great video man, and thanks for all the content.

Great video! I've been tearing my hair out for years saying that Hagane was available in stores and at rental stores that had no affiliation with Blockbuster. I lived nowhere near a blockbuster and didn't rent from one until the PS2 era. But I rented Hagane a lot. Who'd have guessed we would need to keep proof (rental receipt, etc?) of such an inane thing?

Those sprites and animations on 'Shaq Fu' are great

@RobbyRaccoon

5 жыл бұрын

Too bad there was about a 2 second delay on the controls. Oh and they deliberately gimped the SNES version because of some Sega deal.

@sloppynyuszi

5 жыл бұрын

BobbyBaboon Shaw fu is in no way a classic, but the animation and background detail were quite good. As for the Sega deal. It’s not true. Some developers choose to develop Mega drive first and port to SNES and sometimes the other way around. It’s depending on circumstance, but they try to deliver the best possible on both, and reality is less sinister.

@RobbyRaccoon

5 жыл бұрын

What you're saying doesn't really apply, as the SNES and Genesis versions were released at the same time, by the same publisher. The SNES version had fewer playable characters, fewer stages, and lacked the soundtrack CD that came with the Genesis version. I can't find it on the internet, but I remember reading in either GamePro or EGM back in the day that Sega had some sort of exclusive deal with the publisher to make their version bigger.

@sloppynyuszi

5 жыл бұрын

BobbyBaboon I think Shan Fu was an EA release and EA treated Sega better because they could use their cartridge instead of the proprietary one made by Sega so EA could make more money from a Sega release than a SNES one. That could explain some things. I think with earthworm Jim and and Mickey Mania, I think those games looked better on the Mega Drive because the developers just knew the machine better, so made it on that first, ported to SNES later, but both came out same time. The SNES has a bunch of games that were better on the Mega Drive. Losing out on Shaq Fu isn’t the worst thing ever

@nozoto

5 жыл бұрын

The only problem with the character sprites is that they aren't "reaching" enough due to their little size. It makes the fights full of awkward hit or miss (not as bad as in Tongue of the Fatman on the Sega Genesis, though). the playability and power scale balancing between fighters aren't exactly top notch either. If it were all fixed, it'd be an average fighter, well forgotten behind a mysterious Chinaman's counter... And Delphine Software wouldn't have bitten the dust so hard, too.

I remember there being magazine ads for Hagane back in the day. No mention of Blockbuster. As for Shaq Fu, I tend to look at it as the "E.T." of fighting games. By that, I mean a game whose got a reputation for being the "worst ever", but the reputation is far worse than the actual game itself. I won't say that Shaq Fu is some misunderstood gem of the 16-bit era, but I don't think it deserves the reputation it's gotten. Shaq Fu is just a product of its time. A perfect representation of 90's cheesiness.

@supermario2084

5 жыл бұрын

I actually have an old issue of EGM2 with a Hagane ad. You're right, there was no mention of Blockbuster.

Great video! I remember a myth on Mortal Kombat 2 that said you could free Sonya and Kano making a lot of flawless victories. I believe it was for the mega drive version and that it came from an Spanish magazine.

@gadget00

3 жыл бұрын

Yes! I remember that as well! A classic myth

The prices of old retro game carts is ridiculous. Its pretty much decided nowadays by pricecharting, which only tracks sales from ebay I believe. Its a completely unregulated market and I'm almost positive the prices increases because the same group of people are just selling the same carts back and forth on ebay, just a little more each time thus causing the price to increase. These same people have invested themselves into these games at very large quantities of said games (I'm talking hundreds if not thousands of carts of just 1 game) and since there is no regulation and nobody actually knows exactly how many of these games were produced, these people can just keep inflating the prices thus increasing their profits in their investment. I remember Pat the NES Punk a couple years ago discussed talking with someone who has been collecting for decades and he had entire cases of the "rare" Stadium Events for NES still sealed that he was just squatting on because the prices just kept increasing.

@SuperNintendoZach

5 жыл бұрын

the market regulates itself dude, in both games and all other facets. (NYSE, NASDAQ, ect)

@ScooterinAB

5 жыл бұрын

I remember a guy got mad at me over a non-priced listing of some cart only games. He listed them as "make me an offer" rather than setting a starting price. I made him a low-ball offer based on what I have seen bare carts go for and he got upset because it wasn't the speculator fortune he wanted. @Lassi The funny thing about collecting, real collecting, is that real collectors don't do that shit; only speculators do that kind of thing. Collecting is about adding value to your collection, not size. No real collector goes for completeness across the board; they look for ways to build an important but limited collection. In game collecting, that might mean collecting just one company's output or a single genre. However, quality and value (both monetary and historic) factor into collecting. If one of those poor titles does not add to a collection, a real collector would just ignore it.

@mrbuckets1106

5 жыл бұрын

@@SuperNintendoZach Does it though? Why are games priced the way they are in general? Why did everyone just arbitrarily decide that Earthbound is worth $150 about 10 or so years ago when I was able to buy it for $30 about 15 years ago? Why is the Earthbound cart still over $150 yet you can buy it on the Nintendo eShop for like $10 and its on the SNES classic? I believe these prices are being manipulated and held where they are by the people who have bought themselves into the market with these games

@mrbuckets1106

5 жыл бұрын

@Lassi Kinnunen I don't buy these overpriced games. Anyone who pays $200 for Hagane or Castlevania: Dracula X are fools. I do agree that people going for full collections do have an effect on the prices. The super "rare" stadium events that is worth thousands of dollars is just a label variant FFS

@mrbuckets1106

5 жыл бұрын

@@ScooterinAB I've had the same issues too. Especially at garage sales. No sir, your disc only copy of Call of Duty: Black Ops 1 is not worth $40, that is a coaster

Dude, you always seem to give some of the best information. Kudos for giving it your best. You are a true inspiration for all KZreadrs. Cheers, -J.O.

@xiaochicash

5 жыл бұрын

Changing titles from "TOP GAMES" to "My Favorite Games" and "Worst" to "Games I dislike" would resolve some of the issue. But that's not going to happen.

Great video as always! It's nice to see someone saying what needs to be said. While KZread videos were very influential (making retro games more popular and, to a point, "the new cool thing" for a younger generation), they also were a big source of misinformation. Most people doesn't care about what they're saying when they're making videos, and the consequence is that a huge amount of people come to the hobby with false assumptions backed by their favorite KZreadrs. There's also the ever growing problem of circles of collectors making videos and subtly spreading false information in order to profit from it. Hope you keep doing these videos from time to time.

Really should've touched upon the mystery surrounding the SNES' strange launch here in the US. Some people say it was launched in mid-August, some people say it was September 1, some people say it was September 9, some people say there were three launch titles, and some people say there were five. With how big of an event it was, there's not a whole lotta certainty around it.

Thanks for clearing this up! Always learn alot watching your channel.

WHAT? Ken Griffey Jr mentioned just ONCE? What happened to you? LOL Just kidding! Amazing video as always. Greetings from Brazil!

@CROBobo

5 жыл бұрын

He was fighting a virus at the time, I guess he'll be back to his old self soon :D

Great video man! I personally would love to watch more stuff like this from you.

Nice video. Pretty sure that some games went up in value because of the echo chamber that is KZread. But hey we have cool channels like yours that give the real information at least.

@jokerzwild00

5 жыл бұрын

There's no doubt about it. Even from the earliest days of "retro" KZread channels, if one got to the trending videos list (or whatever they called it back then I don't remember) that game shot up in price. It's not his fault, but AVGN helped to jack the price of many games. To this day there are "rare" games whose price is still inflated due to old ass KZread videos, despite there being many copies of them in the wild.

@Randhrick

5 жыл бұрын

@@jokerzwild00 Yeah exactly, it seems the factor governing prices for retro games is popularity not rarity.

@Gantann

5 жыл бұрын

@@Randhrick Oh yeah, how else do you explain multi-million sellers like the original Pokemon games and Super Smash Bros. Melee selling at the prices they do? People are so willing to let themselves be ripped off, I don't get it. At least if it's a super cult game that doesn't have many copies for sale at one time and only appeals to a hardcore niche demographic, I can understand it.

Thanks for all that you do. Great content, tight presentation/editing and narration. Long may you continue. Though I appreciate keeping things new and fresh will be a task. Have a decent weekend. God bless

I had forgotten how beautiful Hagane looked, even by today's standards !

This was really good, I'd love to see a part 2 of this.

@SNESdrunk

5 жыл бұрын

What other bullshit is floating around out there?

@briantaylorcloe7725

4 жыл бұрын

... But this is titled part 1... Has part II been released yet? Can't find it yet ...

@briantaylorcloe7725

4 жыл бұрын

- just found the rest of the trilogy ... Busting (and Confirming)

2:36 I like how he still wishes a good rest of your day on the email

I love this idea, great video. I hope you can uncover more of these misconceptions!

Oh nice, I was really impressed by your research into the Hagane exclusivity myth in your video on the game forever ago so I'm glad to see it come to the forefront in a video like this. Hopefully this gets around and everyone gets a bit more informed. Dug the rest of the content too, especially the more opinionated stuff at the end-there are so many 'facts' in gaming that people just kind of passively accept without question that they become ingrained and accepted as the wisdom of the crowd that I can't stand.

nice job, its really helpful to debunk some of these myths! great information

Great video, SD, I love when you go out of your way to talk about gaming-as-a-whole subjects like these. It would be awesome if you made a video exclusively about the rare videogames craze (story and trivia like the one that was sold for the highest). Just a thought!

I'm glad to hear someone clear up the DKC rumor. I've heard so many people use his quote as an excuse to justify their own dislike of the game. It's cool to not like DKC but use your own reasons, not a misquote.

This was a brilliant video. I hope it gets a part 2 in the future

I played *So Much* Rise of the Robots on my Saturn back in the day and beat it multiple times...now I can't even get past the first 3 robots without feeling like I'm going to get a rage induced heart attack.

@DOSRetroGamer

2 жыл бұрын

So much potential, even more suck.

I was wondering what was taking so long for the next SNES Drunk video... Turns out you were actually doing some real research to create quality content. Good job.

keep up the good work! your channel is top shelf

Great Video. More topics like this would be fun and probably do really well for your channel!

Hagane was advertised in gaming magazines. It was usually accompanied with an Ignition Factor ad.

@jensaversjo316

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, you could buy it from Nordic Games here in Sweden, so I very much doubt the assertion it's a Blockbuster Only.

@SideBurn12

5 жыл бұрын

@@jensaversjo316 Damn.. I miss good ol Nordic Games

@thejervis86

5 жыл бұрын

Aaron Wrotkowski This is true.

@jensaversjo316

5 жыл бұрын

@@SideBurn12 I do too. When I was a kid I frequented the original store quite often. Even got to try a Virtual Boy there.

@SideBurn12

5 жыл бұрын

Jens Aversjö Same here! Was also the place I first tried the Snes. I was completely sold at first glance.

"Hyperbole" is one of my biggest pet peves. "Worst game ever" "Worst movie ever" Come on...there's always something worse out there you haven't even considered.

@mutoneon

5 жыл бұрын

Worst comment yet!

@LFCGamerVlogs

5 жыл бұрын

@Will The Hatter I agree. I've heard plenty of people say that E.T on Atari 2600 is the "worst game ever", which I personally think is a bit extreme. I've played it, and sure it wasn't particularly good, but come on there's far worse games than that. What annoys me even more are those idiots who will believe any of the BS without playing the game for themselves.

@osurpless

5 жыл бұрын

Will The Hatter Yep, it’s a bothersome trait regardless of where it is used: www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/09/13

@timlarsson

5 жыл бұрын

Would you say... Hyperboles are the worst thing ever?

@Iliek

5 жыл бұрын

Taking hyperbole literally is highly idiotic.

"Ken Griffey Jr" presents MLB! So that's the name!! I've always heard it as "Kenji Inafune presents MLB". haha :D

Great video! Please do more of these!

Honestly, if Shaq didn't lend his name to Shaq-Fu, nobody would even have an issue with the game. It would have just been forgettable.

@Altorin

5 жыл бұрын

No it's pretty bad as is. The shaq tie in is the least of its problems. The biggest problem is that it was designed under the impression that more animation frames make a fighting game better. They don't even a little.

@seanfeld-

5 жыл бұрын

Shaq's name on the game is the only reason I wasted time on that clunky junk.

Now this is a cool idea for a video. I'd be into you doing more of these, even if it's just random trivial nonsense, bogus codes, goofy rumors etc. I love finding out which of those things I always heard around ended up being total crap in the end, and for whatever reason it tends to put a smile on my face when I learn the truth.

I just come always here to have a great rest of my day.

Another excellent video, more SNES drunk for 2019!

You do a great job, man! Thanks for helping to set us straight!

Good stuff. I like the sort of off topic videos like this!

Haha still have good memories of Griffey. Always laughed when a guy would strike out, turn around to the 'ump', and say "Oh, come on!"

Awesome video SNES Drunk! It's great to have some of these rumours put down and I completely agree. I never understood the hate Shaq Fu gets (it's not that bad) and finally YES! Someone said it - the SNES had some great sports titles. Keep up the good work!

I love the sound of your voice Snes Drunk. Great channel bro.

That's some nice info about Final Fight Guy I didn't know! I guess I'm gonna have to give that version a shot, although it likely won't replace the SCD, X68k and GBA versions...

man... i really love your videos!

Amazing as always, man.

Oh man I totally believed the DKC quote myth for years. you have opened my eyes!!

Another great SNES sports game; Megaman Soccer, although I never really figured out how to use the special moves for most of the robot masters.

@SeekerLancer

5 жыл бұрын

I love Mega Man and all but Mega Man Soccer was a pretty abysmal soccer game.

This is a nice video :) Keep up the great work

Man, watching this makes me miss NintendoAge so much. I spent countless hours on that site. For those of you interested, most of the users moved over to a site called Video Game Sage, so while the NA info sadly didn't make it over, most of the users with the knowledge did.

Great video! Yes, a lot of mis-information is still floating around out there. Even release dates are incorrect on sites like Gamefaqs.com for the older pre-1995 generation systems. I also agree Shaq-Fu, while a somewhat lame concept, is not THAT bad. It's average and mediocre, but it's not actually a bad game. I think you hit the nail on the head - the idea of a Shaq fighting game was just kind of bizarre and not appealing. It was a gimmick for sure at the height of the fighting game craze of the mid '90s. I think a lot of the Genesis sports games, not all, had better control than the SNES versions. But as you pointed out, the SNES had some extremely awesome sports titles! Give n Go, both NBA Jams, Tecmo Super Bowl I-III, both Griffey Jrs, Baseball Simulator, Super Punch-Out!! and Super Tennis are just a few of the awesome sports titles on the SNES! And myths snowball into pseudo-facts horribly on KZread. There's a Videogame Historian video on SMB2 and the original game it was based on and people are spreading a funny but totally inaccurate myth that the crab boss Clawgrip, was not even in the US version simply because they misunderstood the guy in the video and used a wrap to skip him! SMH

I frequented Blockbuster back in the day weekly, I saw Guy in there consistently, but never saw Hagane on the shelves.

"The always rock-solid SNES Central". For a second I confused that with SMWCentral and almost laughed myself sick.

The best myths I heard regarded Mortal Kombat. The first I really like was that your could use a stage kill to feed people to the living trees in the forest stage. The other I heard was that you could uppercut someone onto the hooks in the acid pool level. One cool trick that actually works in the floating monk stage. If you execute an uppercut stage kill and both players hold down on their dpads, the defeated player will slide off the spikes and fall onto the floor.

Dude, I used to love Rise of the Robots as a kid and totally forgot about it until this video. I played the PC port, but it's cool to remember that game.

You got me, I thought there might of been an FX chip tech demo for a Mario game. I knew that even with the FX2 chip, there was not going to be a full 3D Mario demo... I guess I hoped there was a demo using the FX2 chip using vector math in a smart way like Yoshi Island. Good video.

Yeah, Hagane was absolutely available at retail. I worked at an Electronics Boutique way back then in college and we had a copy or two on hand. It was definitely out, but in very small numbers. We got a lot more of most games, but every so often you'd get a box in with just one or two copies of a game and that's how it came in. It was pretty much ignored by customers and only noticed when we had to do inventory counts. Oh and finding an opened copy is really hard because on top of there being so few copies, stores like ours gutted shelf copies. So if you got it, it was likely a shelf copy, already opened and the box handled by who knows how many customers. Practically no stores used plastic boxes back then, maybe if you found one at Toys R Us that used those flap things.

Thank you for defending Shaq Fu. I never played it in its heyday, but when I played it in modern times I really had to question the hate. I think it was really just a lot of people's first experience with being let-down by a big name marketing tie-in.

I really like this channel.. Have learnt a lot

Great vid idea. 👍

@heyhonpuds

5 жыл бұрын

I concur.

Uni Racers was great. I had a copybox for my SNES back in the day, so many of these rare games I was/am familiar with, and Uni Racers was surprisingly smooth and looked pretty cute/good as well. Also, simply a lot of fun. Perhaps the Trials series could kinda bring something like Uni Racers back in a special mode....

Dude, rumors and myths is what made that era great. It was always you're friend had a friend told him something.

You can feel the passion in this video lol. Awesome!

Just found this channel. Been binging it since the first one I saw. Love it. maybe cause I'm drunk. And I love SNES

@SNESdrunk

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching Kenneth

Thank you for mentioning Hagane as a Blockbuster Exclusive being a myth. I remember collecting SNES games in the early 2000s and it was never talked about as such.

Appreciate your academic and seemingly endless dedication to preserving and understanding the SNES. Great work as always.

Like many of your vids this is a great service to the community !!

My number 1 SNES Myth: Contra 3 is better than Hard Corps.

@GeorgiaRidgerunner

5 жыл бұрын

My fiance and I have playe both hard corps and alien wars through to the end both of us find ourselves playing hard corps more than alien wars these days...

@dmas7749

4 жыл бұрын

after i play hard corps i'll get back to you on that lucky for you contra 3 is a pretty high bar

@gadget00

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah; Hard Corps is better

thank you for sticking up for shaq fu. the animation is amazing and super fluid due to the game being developed by the same makers as flashback. and while its not a great fighting game there is so many crappier fighters on the snes alone. double dragon v is worse as well.

Your intro cracks me up every time. SnnNNNnNNNNnnnNNNNNNNNESDRUNK

I love a lot of the work Mike Matei and James does over on Cinemassacre, but damn Mike get a lot of his information wrong on a lot of these old classic games.

@TheSonicsean

5 жыл бұрын

I think a lot of it has to do with games journalism of the time either using incorrect or out of date information or bad Japanese translations. Plus some gaming magazines just made stuff up. Kids reading it treat it like fact, and in the pre-WWW days it was almost impossible to fact check stuff like that

I spent countless hours playing Ken griffey Jr (first one, second was a bit off) and baseball Sim 1000, those power ups were amazing to me as a kid.

Great video, hope you get well soon!

Thanks for saying that about sports games. I'm always kind of puzzled when people say or imply that SNES doesn't have good sports games. Maybe that was the case in the early days, but when it was all said and done, there were plenty of quality titles to choose from.

I actually had Uniracers growing up. A friend of my dad worked for the newspaper and would get the review copies ahead of time. He usually kept them for his own kids, but obscure titles he'd pass along to us. It was a really fun game, but it has an actual skill level ceiling where you can't actually get really any faster than perfectly flip twisting all the time for more speed. Good music though.

After the first few entries were about fake playable characters, when SF2 came up my first though wasn't about Shen Long but M.Bison. I was ready to hit the comments to say nope, he actually WAS playable in SF2 via one hell of a code/bug. For years rumors of a code enabling you to play as him circulated, and finally it was revealed in Nintendo Power or EGM, I forget which now, that it was indeed possible, but with a catch. The code required you to input a ridiculously long sequence at a specific time in a specific timeframe (IIRC something like all commands within 5-6 seconds) on controller 2. At that point you could play Bison for exactly ONE ROUND. That was the catch, it was bugged. After that round the game would crash and you had to reset it. You also couldn't do any of his moves, you were limited to punches and kicks. The code was ridiculously hard to do, but I managed to pull it off ONCE. Got my one round, and the game crashed and I was never able to get it in fast enough again. I'd love to find the code again, because with today's emulation and macro'ing capabilities it would make it a snap to input.

You gotta do a Part 4 with this where you address Schala as a playable character in Chrono Trigger. I know it can't be just me because I heard the rumor at school, then it popped up in an issue of EGM. It's definitely out there.

Thank for not including Clay Fighter as one of the 3 worst fughting games on the SNES. It was my guilty pleasure back in the day.

7:03 I've never been into sports. I remember when this game came out I only knew Tommy Lasorda as the guy from the Slim-Fast commercials.

Thank you for another good video !

Awesome video!

Great content !

I remember Hagane in the cabinet at the Target I worked at. it was right next to Mr. Do, lol

Another great video.

To point out your errors and then correct them builds credit. Thank you. And Mike probably found a pallet of unsold Hagane carts before he made that video :)

Hey, have a great beginning to your tomorrow!

Great video. Thanks for the NintendoAge site recommendation.

Love the focus on sports games. Ken Griffrey Jr Baseball was the best and my favorite hidden gem was Troy Aikman football

I've never heard of this game when i was young but if i did, i would of definitely had too purchase it because it looks awesome for it's day.

Really cool to see that chips and bits ad. I used to work there.