"That is the coolest villain name ever, Baron Dante" *"UH THIS BIG GREEN GUY"*

I think the best way to describe the control scheme is that you're not controlling Croc with tank controls. Instead, you're controlling someone who's controlling Croc with tank controls. It's like they tried to create Mario 64 controls using an already existing tank-control set-up. Since Croc moves with regular analog controls during boss fights, there's probably a flag in memory somewhere that turns on regular analog controls. I bet someone could probably make a hack to force Croc to use analog controls if they could just find that address.

@FireBlast07

9 ай бұрын

I'm pretty sure Croc doesnt switch to analog controls on bossfights

Croc is one of those games that I think everyone at point saw or played, but cannot remember in great detail. Great to see you cover this title!

@HayLeesHomeMade

6 жыл бұрын

RabidRetrospectGames no, i remember specifically the river racing mini game. It was the only part i would play because i was like 6 and was bad at video games

@MiguelRPD

6 жыл бұрын

I remember the tower levels because some we're insanely difficult for my 10 year old mind to beat. This game was the hardest game I've played as a child.

@ryankeith4078

6 жыл бұрын

Croc was hardcore, what are you saying lololol

@Tuukkis

5 жыл бұрын

@@HayLeesHomeMade that was croc2

@dmas7749

5 жыл бұрын

i've never played it personally

I love the word Gobbos. It sounds like something we'd make up in grade school as a filler enemy to use in our fanfiction dream scenarios for Mario games.

@ilikecurry2345

2 жыл бұрын

Speaking of Mario, my mother would periodically call me a Goomba. So I'd retaliate by calling her a Waddle Dee.

@DIVISIONBYZEROE

Жыл бұрын

@@ilikecurry2345 I call my mom a cunt

@Dnedri

Жыл бұрын

Funny enough in „Max and the magic marker" the regular enemies's called „gobos".

KERSPLAT! Can't believe you never mentioned Croc's voice clips, can't even hear them in the video! :o

@brandongordon4019

6 жыл бұрын

Doom2Guy WAZOO! I know right??

@Dr0dd

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks, now you made me realize that they are totally burned into my memory.

@wej0w

5 жыл бұрын

Whaha I wanted to coment that and its top comment, Satisfied! Kapou!

@Draggobuttboi

5 жыл бұрын

Ka-Splat!

@Kozorvia

4 жыл бұрын

KA-POW!

This game is such a nostalgia pack. The soundtrack was so perfect. Sadly , it's a automatic 10/10 from me , it only reminds me of some great family moments 20+ years ago

I have to say , i really love how calming your voice is

@GGorsty

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, right! Nice voice - one of the reasons why i like to watch his videos so much! :)

@mariodelrio2387

4 жыл бұрын

@@GGorsty I love his voice, and his videos. Yeah hes compared to Antdude as the Inferior vers. But let me tell you, Nitro Rads jokes, Videos, and Vokce are better then antdudes. His voice sounds like hes gonna shout any moment

@kiaelinkx

4 жыл бұрын

And can we spend a minute about how stunning he looks TT

@angle1335

4 жыл бұрын

Dis man speaking straight fax hea not loud like other reviewers

@Jensaiti99

3 жыл бұрын

I've definitely fallen asleep to his videos

Well actually while Yoshi's Island was the first to have the ground pound as a neutral no power ups needed ability, it was actually Wario who invented the ground pound with the Bull cap in Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3

@r.a.g.3428

5 жыл бұрын

Bowser would be the very first if you count enemies

@suddenllybah

4 жыл бұрын

SMB3 Bowser is the first momentum changing stomp attack I can find. Obviously, the move is basically a suped up landing of the Mario style jump.

@LizardOfOz69

4 жыл бұрын

@@r.a.g.3428 I don't.

This was one of those .exe games that everyone played off a CD or thumb drive with no copy protection

16:10 You have to keep all four ringing, the combined sound kills the boss.

Grew up with this game. I was always too scared to fight the first boss as a kid. Wow, what a weenie I was.

@tomstegeman4344

2 жыл бұрын

Haha it's OK, I was a weenie too. I was terrified of the first enemy. I eventually got the stomach for some of the bosses, but I could never be brave enough for the aquatic boss (he merman with the trident), and the final bonus boss also scared the living shit out of me (the crystalline Baron Dante).

@CRANTIME

2 жыл бұрын

@@tomstegeman4344 I think it was the lack of confidence in the jank controls that added to it too

@ilikecurry2345

2 жыл бұрын

Same with the Eggman bosses in Sonic 1, 2, and 3. I was a small scaredycat baby. You just... Smack him 8 times and the thing explodes and he runs away.

@RobotScarlet

Жыл бұрын

Super late, but you're not alone. The atmosphere, the msuci and how big and intimidading he looked when you're a kid lmao Scared me too. And the game over screen made me sad 😢

@CRANTIME

Жыл бұрын

@@RobotScarlet I think the awkward controls also made me less confident in my ability to play and that adds to it

I would honestly be interested to see what could become of a 3D Yoshi game. While the 2D or 2.5D games are usually great, I would love to see what Nintendo could come up with a 3D game. I feel a lot could be done with Yoshi's flutter and tongue in a 3D space. While I still think it would need to keep a more level structure to separate itself from the sandbox Mario games, I feel they could open the games up a bit, maybe multiple paths or multiple levels to chose from at one time. Just some off the cuff random thoughts I had that I wanted to put out there. What do you think?

@krownwave

6 жыл бұрын

that one level with the huge chomp chasing you would be really cool in 3d

@DuelmasterX3

6 жыл бұрын

Executer 66 So, basically a Yoshi game that plays sorta like OG Spyro?

@LolAttackProductions

6 жыл бұрын

What about when you capture him in Mario Odyssey?

@Lulink013

6 жыл бұрын

Super Mario Galaxy 2 has you controlling the tongue with the cursor and spiting back bullet bills / spiketops is almost like throwing eggs.

@KumaSan13

6 жыл бұрын

Executer 66 wait, isn't there a 3d yoshi coming on the switch?

I have such fond memories of Croc, it was my first 3D platformer as a kid! While watching this review, I'm reminded of playing it after finding a replacement copy at a local old game store: the low points you brought up were all things a first time young player like myself enjoyed, but now that time has marched on, they are strange. Croc will always have a place in my heart, i'm really glad you covered it!

Croc roccs my socs. This is one of the games that got the biggest nostalgia for me. I played it on PC back then and it was probably my first 3D game if not even my first PC game in general. While I knew about the connection to a planned Yoshi game for some time now I had never stopped to consider what of that was left over. Even the main villain is like a weird mixture of Bowser and Kamek. I wonder what you'd have thought about the controls on a PC, if I remember correctly they were even weirder and more "tanky" there. But everyone will comment on the controls sooner or later, some even outright hate them. I used to be obsessed with this game as a kid and weirdly enough especially with the enemies. Nowadays their design reminds me of the old show 'The Trapdoor', Both are British products. Coincidene? Most likely. It kinda is a shame that this franchise never really worked out.

@MK_MitKit

6 жыл бұрын

I used to be obsessed with this game's monsters too! It was also my first PC game. I wish I could play it again, but the disc stopped working.

@literallyunfunny

6 жыл бұрын

I had it on PC. I was only in kindergarten when I got it, and I had no consoles. My dad's interests and line of work meant lots of computer stuff, including a bunch of cool PC games, so I had a couple years experience with keyboard controls. I remember the controls were hard, but I thought it was just because I was a kid. I got through it in any case. And DAMN was I ever obsessed with this game, and later Croc 2. I'd have to say this game, Half-Life, The Incredible Machine, and a sidescroller game I've never heard since of called Claw formed those magic early memories of video games. I might still have one or both of the games in a box somewhere.

@Thornskade

5 жыл бұрын

It has full controller support on PC. I actually prefer to play it on a keyboard, though.

I have a soft spot for this game.. It was hard but a real charming design.

Damn the nostalgia from the music hit me like a truck

@awkwardbirb5710

4 жыл бұрын

No kidding. The gameplay might not have aged well, but the music sure did. Was pretty surprised even my mom overheard the music without looking at the screen and remembered it was Croc, even though she stopped playing video games so many years ago.

This game doesn't get enough love! Was the first 3D platformer to come to PC and the first platformer I ever played

UH OH CROC 2 BAYBEEE HERE COMES THE MONEY

@iverson64_

6 жыл бұрын

I give Croc 2 my first ever 10/5, and that's just for the graphics alone.

@Cosmic-Bear.

5 жыл бұрын

I CAN ALREADY HEAR THE CHICKENS CLUCKING

@cardboardhawks6783

4 жыл бұрын

D O N K

@goldenhydreigon4727

4 жыл бұрын

HERE WE GO! MONEY TALKS! HERE COMES THE MONEY! *MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY*

Congrats on 100k! Well deserved

Using some mods in the PC version reveals that the cutscenes are indeed rendered in the game engine itself, but not in real time. Interesting choice by Argonaut.

Holy moly dude this weeks been rough, I haven’t slept at all bc of school and work and your videos get me back together

There we go. Two reviewers who acknowledge a game's enjoyment is independent of whether it's the best game ever made. Croc embodies that perfectly. And I'm happy both you AND Caddicarus recognise this.

I like to think that the reason why the camera is locked to the back like that is because it's a carry over from when it was still a yoshi game (probably to make it easy to use yoshi's tongue move) but since the game was already developed to a pretty significant point they didn't want to have to rework it.

Love your channel man, only recently found it. You don't try hard to be funny or have stupid skits, just down to earth video game reviews. And I love that you cover so many early 3D platformers, not a lot of people cover those.

that's what i'm talkin about

@conkconkconk

6 жыл бұрын

heckles yeahckles

@Green_Stache_Productions

6 жыл бұрын

JoeyPockett oh shoot you’re subbed to Nitro?

@sonicroachdoggjrraven3263

6 жыл бұрын

You’re literally subbed to my favorite channels

@hypnotised-clover

6 жыл бұрын

JoeyPockett Is it? Is it really?

@aname8212

6 жыл бұрын

JoeyPockett About to tweet this at you lol

Its fun finding all the things that were clearly Yoshi/Mario remnants. The Wells were clearly warp pipes. The large tubes that the bite worms are in are still designed as warp pipes. The bite worms were piranha plants. The Question boxes are a literal Mario trope. Croc's design obviously. Baron Dante clearly a Bowser stand in. The Dantinis were clearly koopas.

Looking at my notifications and realising there was a new video just made my day worth it.

It's so cool that these croc series reviews we're done recently this year. I just looked up croc in the search box and found these! Thanks for the review and what a handsome guy he is 😊

So I just got this game finally and was just looking through the manual. I'm surprised you didn't mention the credits section entry "Ph.D. In Gobbology".

This was my first computer game as a child, and I freaking loved it. Too bad I never had the chance of finishing it since the game disc got damaged.

I had a really weird birthday where I was given a copy of Croc because I had Croc 2 for the PS1 that I enjoyed a lot as a kid. Spent nearly an hour upset that my PS1 wouldn't run the disc. Turns out I had been given the PC version. Crisis averted, it became one of my favorite PC games growing up, and I actually prefer it to Croc 2 (I think the bigger level designs of Croc 2 confused a younger me).

This is my favourite platformed of all time. Thank you for playing it!

Man, this game is so nostalgic for me despite me being relatively young. In summer camp a few years ago, we had a time when we would go to the computer room and I always played this game. I only remember bits and pieces of this game but this video seriously took me back.

Yo James! Glad to hear you're fully utilizing the amazing soundtrack of Bomberman Hero. I love that game. Upon replaying it, I did find that it certainly isn't as amazing as I remembered...but its damn charming. And, if anything, has a phenomenal soundtrack. This episode was a lot of fun by the way. Thanks SO much brother!

Love your videos! Keep up the great work! :)

One of my favourite all time games mate. Didnt even realise was multi releases!!

I play this all the time on Saturdays with my kids it's always a blast! Thanks for the great review!

God this takes me back. I remember beating this as a kid.

really excited to see your reviews on these games

I remember having and playing the PC version of Croc: The Legend of the Gobbos. But I never could get past the ladybug boxer. In fact, I think I still have it.

I see a new Nitro Rad. I drop everything and watch.

@GGorsty

5 жыл бұрын

I agree with this sentiment. Very. From a fan.

THE most consistent youtuber in my subfeed. Keep it up Nitro

Seeing this pop up on my timeline punched me right in the childhood. I used to play Croc 2 before I was old enough to even understand what I was playing. The experience playing it is just a big blur in my memory, but these videos will feel so nostalgic to watch!

FINALLY. Been waiting for this my dude.

To beat the hidden final boss you had to get all four gongs to swing simultaneously. They would stop swinging after a while so it was just a matter about how fast you managed to hit them all in a row. This was the first ever video game I owned so naturally it has a very special place in my heart. And yeah, I LOVE the soundtrack!

2:47 To the best of my memory, Croc did canonically grow to be three Gobbos tall instantaneously. It's all in the manual.

I remember playing this in my school's library during break and some sort of computer studies class where they taught you to type. I had my five minutes of fame due to knowing the last stage's cheat code by heart and everyone loved playing Croc when they could.

That was my game back in the 90s I still try to play the game but it annoys me to this day but still a great game. Thank you for reviewing this.

Yay, you finally mentioned Malice! :D Croc was among the first games I ever played, and didn't realize the same people were involved.

Croc was like one of the first 3D platformers I ever played (I had the PC version) and I remember spending loads of time on it when I was much younger. I remember hating the controls cause I played it with a keyboard but thinking it was a magical experience because of the soundtrack and atmosphere. I wouldn't say that _magical feeling_ is a "lost art" these days in video games but it's certainly less common. Also, while I'm making a comment, I've always wanted to know what that song is at 1:50 It sounds like something that would be in Fur Fighters and I swear I've played the game it was in but I just can't recall what it's from.

@Dr0dd

6 жыл бұрын

I feel like that's partly because people were still testing around with a lot of new ideas back then, having to find out what works and what not. So as a kind of security they also paid special attention to the delivery and style, in case the ideas didn't work out as they thought.

@geraldgreen919

6 жыл бұрын

Id beg to differ. Plenty of games still immerse me in their atmosphere & music. You just have to play the right ones.

@WMan37

6 жыл бұрын

This is why I said "I wouldn't say it's a lost art" but I certainly haven't played a lot of them recently outside of VR.

@literallyunfunny

6 жыл бұрын

My man. This game was my everything. This, half-life, and the Incredible Machine, anyway. Because of my father's line of work and interests, I grew up with a lot of cool PC games, but no consoles. I had to play pokemon on an emulator to fit in. I think I had just started kindergarten when I got croc 1. I loved it, and later croc 2, more than anything. I remember playing worms (either armageddon or world party) and having my display name as Croc, then having some guy ask my what my ladder name was or something. To this day, I still don't know what he meant, but I insisted my name was Croc. I read up on some stuff about it a few years back, a lot of the complaints outlined in this video. I figured I was too young to know any better, and it kinda made me sad. But after seeing this, it brought back some of these fond, primordial memories.

@Chronovus

5 жыл бұрын

Suppose this is five months late, but the song you're looking for at 1:50 is the Rogueport Sewers music from Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door

Amazing review as always!

Always count on Nitro to provide quality game reviews!

Being a kid who only had a PlayStation to use, I vaguely remember wanting to play Croc, based only on trailers- Thanks for making me realize what the game truly is! (a cute mess)

This is my childhood :D awesome review, James!

When is Bomberman Hero review? (I HEAR THAT BGM.....)

@indigowendigo8165

6 жыл бұрын

Bomberman 1-3 on 64 was awesome. :3

I love how Croc has been getting recognition lately. XD First OneyPlays, now Nitro Rad! Nice. Hope to see Croc 2 review in the near future!

Oh boy Coc... I mean Croc.

@gaspardsavoureux8680

6 жыл бұрын

Cock: Legend of the Gobble Up My Ballsack

@greyzone1996

6 жыл бұрын

Of course you would be thinking about that buddy.

@YagamiZayn

6 жыл бұрын

Every time

@wariotalkingwithoutlungs

6 жыл бұрын

SuperSanicfan27 super “Sanic”

@Wrathchild1995

5 жыл бұрын

@@wariotalkingwithoutlungs Hey, long time no see 😂😂😂 The one line in pretty much every 3D sonic game

Congrats on 100k!

I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE FOREVER! :D

Now this is nostalgia, i used to play it all day as a child The game was so hard for me, i should replay it someday

@metazoxan2

4 жыл бұрын

I COULD NOT beat the first boss as a kid since there was no indication of when he was vulnerable so I just kept dying, getting angry, and going to play a game that made more sense. It wasn't until years later I just happened to attack at the right moment. Because the problem was if you didn't attack fast enough after he did then he'd recover so unless you knew to aim for that window it was easy to miss. The overall fight was easy once you knew when to attack. But as a little kid who couldn't figure it out it felt like I was fighting an immortal enemy which is also why I tended to give up and leave the game instead of sticking to it and trying to figure it out.

@kyliefitzgerald6984

4 жыл бұрын

@@metazoxan2 I used to have to have my dad fight the bosses for me. It wasn't until I was 10 that I finally was able to fight them on my own and I WAS SO EXCITED. After that I was hooked and play Croc and Croc 2 hundreds of times.

@toooydoeur

3 жыл бұрын

@@metazoxan2 he gets tired and that's your opening

Duuuuuude like seriously your foreshadowing is the best.

I really loved this game as a kid. I never could beat it because I sucked so hard as a kid, but it had so much charm that it stuck with me to this day.

Dude! I've spent my entire life trying to figure out what this game was called! Way back god knows how long ago, I spent some of the best years of my childhood playing it. However, I always got the title of games wrong, and I always called it Frogger for some reason. Ever since then, I've been trying to find this game, not knowing what it was, and now, over a decade later, you helped me do just that. Thanks, man.

i remember playing this as a kid my mom was big into ice skating so when i found a big area with ice i had to show her my ingame croc ice skating skills

I picked this up in Botswana for PC. Lol I think I was 7. I live in Canada now but this was definitely one of my first tastes of 3D goodness. Great memories.

What a nice video, as always.

I used to love this game as a kid, even though I only ever played a short ten minute demo of it (a million times) that came in one of those magazine CDs. However, it is true that the tank-ish controls were not great, and the game suffered from many flaws that wouldn't be excusable nowadays. Great review as always, James! Informative, articulate, and good.

Seeing this reminded me of how much fun I had playing this as a child. This and Spyro pretty much were my entire childhood.

I HECKING LOVE THE CROC SHIRT YOU WORE FOR THIS VIDEO I loved Croc as a kid a lot and heck I still consider it one of my fave platformers. I need to know where you got that shirt omg~

Very nice video! I agree with almost everything it was pointed out, however allow me to add some notes: I do not know how you setup the graphics in the PC version but I definitely recommend playing it with nGlide software (1.0) as the overall graphical quality improves massively. There is a fan working also on a special patch that not only adds some graphical tweaks as you can also play with the PS1 soundtrack, it is worth a peek. The controls of the game are way more easy to handle on the PC version if you are confortable enough with playing with a keyboard. When I was playing the PS1 version I took the opportunity of the capacities of DualShock controller to switch between D-Pad and Analog joysticks modes depending of the in-game situations. The D-Pad is particularly VERY helpful in the Whack and Cauldron minigames. If a player wants to give a U-turn on the level, using (and abusing) the 180° turn button is a time saver too. It is also known that they originally developed the game with the first PlayStation controller and when DualAnalog came out they had the game almost ready, just months away to launch it so they kinda had to implement analog controls in counter-clock mode. As for the Secret Sentinel level, the way to defeat the Crystal Dante isn't (really) related with the time, but the fact all the 4 gongs must be echoing at the same time. A single one not echoing is enough to make the battle go longer. With these notes said, despite of not being a perfect game, I think that for something where, accordingly to an interview for the British RetroGamer magazine to some Argonaut crew, they developed this game with zero references (it was their first attempt in going 3D so it was a real shot in the dark of how to make a good 3D platforming game) as once they started development there was no Super Mario 64 or similar, I think they did a great job with it. Once again, very nice video and I will be interested to watch a future video about Croc 2. :)

Funnily enough, not sure if anyone has mentioned it, but one of the Dracula games on NES, I believe it was Bram Stokers Dracula, actually had a ground pound mechanic in it, which debuted in 1993. So might have actually beaten out Yoshi's Island by just a little bit.

O dam new video, right on schedule Rad

hi nitro :) ive been watching a lot of videos and i love em all, ur great :)

yo is this a bitter sweet croc run

@GGorsty

5 жыл бұрын

Excuse me please, why bitter sweet?

Looking forward to your part 2!!!

Excellent choice! Actually surprised you haven't covered Croc before.

This was the first game I ever played as a kid and still one of my favorites till this day. I'm 28 now btw. Some complaints here I don't agree with (mainly the level design it was difficult af at times especially as a child) but yeah solid review and glad to see this game getting some light

I knew you would review this since it appeared in your last review!

congrats on 100k subs!

Nitro Rad, we love you dude

Nice, you're getting into Croc!

It feels like they tried to do something similar to Tomb Raider : rotate, move forward/backwards, hold L1 to look around and one button for a quick turnaround while running. This was the case for some other early PS1 games. Croc 2 changed it to more ordinary controls but honestly, the camera ruined it and I thought "myeah... maybe controls in Croc 1 weren't that bad after all". This game would deserve a sequel. It was so cute, the soundtrack was incredible and the whole game had that "feel good" vibe, like a sweet little oasis of softness.

@alchemistofsteel8099

Жыл бұрын

This games are easy to get used to. It's just annoying whenever it demands you to do kick moments. The control method just wasn't built for it

@guitarspud1723

7 ай бұрын

Sweet little oasis of softness. I like it.

Wow, out of the many games I wanted you to review, you did one ofthem you did Croc! :D I love how both this and Rayman have the best platformer victory theme ever.

Congrats on 100k subs.

For Ten years I almost forgot this game existed. I was 7-8 years old. Thanks for the Review

I had the same issue with the secret final boss when I played this back in the day. You have to get all 4 gongs ringing at the same time or you have to start over, which is why it was such a short fight when you actually beat him. You're right that the game gives you no real feedback about this, just wanted to let you know you weren't the only one with that problem.

Aw man, I wish you had played the PC version of Croc, James. Games with tank controls work FAR better on a keyboard than a controller. The fact that you can use three fingers to press up, left and right individually instead of rocking around a dpad just makes the game feel a lot better. Fairly recently, some guy was able to put together a "Definitive" version of PC Croc that runs natively on modern hardware. It runs really well and its *cough*freetodownload*cough* but I'd still hunt a physical copy down to pay respects to our forgotten green Gobbo. Croc will be the first game I try to run at 8K in the future, just for funsies.

Ive been waiting for this

Congrats on 100k

I like how in every thumnail, Nitro Rad either looks happy, confused or dead inside

Ok Nitro. Now I really want to see you cover the original Yoshi's Island

Love finding out about all these 3d platformers! I loved the genre but basically only played Mario and spyro back in the day.

Happy 100k!

I LOVED this game so much. Was one of my earliest PS1 games

King Gobbo’s name is Rufus...and that’s adorable.

I feel like you'd like Happy World, Middens, Gingiva, And Crypt World: Your Darkest Desire Come True. All are surreal, weird, and I'm pretty sure they're still all free.

croc for me is like, the game that you kind of remember that you played when you were very young. to this day i remember almost the entire ice world

it's a little detail but i like how you go over what the company's done before reviewing these types of games that are a little more obscure

Happy 100k subscribers

Oh my goodness, so THAT'S what you were supposed to do with that balloon dude! I played this game when I was little (I think about ten?) and I remember beating the whole thing while only using the cheat code to access the final world, and I was stuck on that balloon part for quite some time. Oh I loved this game back then and seeing how a number of past games are getting remade today, I'd love to see this little guy make a return, perhaps improving on the flaws and adding extra content.