I found this super cool Fantasy Zone fan server, join if you're interested! discord.com/invite/QC5Qj2B

I have never wanted to play fantasy zone more in my life. Great video 👏👏

@Amiiben

3 жыл бұрын

I've done my job right! Glad to be making new fans.

As a former Sega staff here it's great to see younger gamers appreciating the companies awesome back catalogue. Subbed for a while now matey.

I never thought I would see someone around my age that actually loves Fantasy Zone as much as me!! And you even showed me some games I never knew existed!! Instant subscription!!

I got Sega 3D Classics for Christmas last year solely for Fantasy Zone 2 W. I got into the series through Opa-Opa's appearance in All-Stars Racing (he and the Bonanza Bros. are my mains in that game), played the original at an arcade in a dentist office of all places, and really want to experience the whole series. (Mainly Super, the Maze, and Gear) When I get money I'll definitely try to get Opa-Opa Bros before the 3DS Shop inevitably goes taken offline. Fantasy Zone 2 W was tough for me but very satisfying to play. I never even knew there was a mode in the 3DS version that's basically a score attack. That's cool. Wonderful video all around.

@Amiiben

3 жыл бұрын

Wow a dentist office arcade!? Sign me up. Its really cool how Sega can get new generations into their back catalogue through rereleases and cameos. And yeah definitely pick up Opa-Opa bros when you can before its too late. When the 3ds eshop is in its final days I'll be pushing the hell out of the Sega 3d Classics and Indie games I like

Fantasy Zone is about as old as me. It's my 35th anniversary this year!

@Amiiben

3 жыл бұрын

Happy birthday to you too, whenever that day may be!

@Cyberbrickmaster1986

3 жыл бұрын

@@Amiiben It was last February, but thanks!

I want the anime lady at McDonalds to give me my hamburgers

@Amiiben

3 жыл бұрын

Rowe Moment

"black bird" has fantasy zone style gameplay. i never knew becuase i had never seen fantasy zone gameplay before. neat. and yea i recently discoverd how good crazy taxi is and gotten on a sega kick aswell. crazy taxi and typeing of the dead are my fav sega franshises.

@Amiiben

3 жыл бұрын

I'll be sure to check Black Bird out! Crazy Taxi is also great, love the sound track on that one. Haven't played typing of the dead yet.

Stellar vid. Super Fantasy Zone is one of my all-time faves for Mega Drive 🤞

Thank you for this thorough video! Played the original one on MS back in the day at a party with other kids while the adults adulted lol. The memory came back a few days ago and I had to google every bit I remembered (the first level theme, mostly).

Oh my god, this channel is too underrated! Underrated KZreadr reviewing a severely underrated series! Fantastic video here! You have achieved a new subscriber!

Just a remark about the Brazilian expression of surprise and excitement "opa". It's actually pronounced just like opa-opa, with the open O. The way you said it, "upa", is another entirely different expression, usually used with horses, the equivalent to "giddy up". ;)

I was looking for some more Fantasy Zone coverage and came across your video. Great stuff, man. The series is so underappreciated. I Remain hopeful that we'll see another game in the series (Looking at you M2!) and a Switch port of the FIIW.

Wonderful retrospective! You went into more detail than I expected, and you clearly know a lot about this underappreciated series. Did you know that the Master System port of FZ1 has cheats to let you buy about 20 lives and get infinite special weapon usage? That makes the Master System version my favorite, after Master System Tears.

Such a fun game. Love the aesthetic. Thanks for the vid!

Thanks for doing this amazing video about fantasy zone series, You see I'm a big fan of this franchise and I feel like I want to play every single of them since I owned only 3 FZ games so thank you for making this video

Yakuza 0 introduced me to some great arcade games. these games are just as addicting as they are infuriating. great video!

cant believe this only has 2k views bro u really did the series justice which more people saw this

Excellent video! Be glad you didn't grow up like me and only have memories of the NES and Game Gear versions😑 I'll definitely be revisiting the series and check out some of the other entries thanks to you.

@Amiiben

3 жыл бұрын

Game gear was pretty good but the NES.... Big yikes lol

I didn’t know much about Fantasy Zone, but I do remember maining the character from it in Sonic and Sega All-Stars Racing lol

Fantasy Zone 2 W was THE GAME that made be a fan of the series, I've been collecting all the physical goods I could find, even purchasing a Sega Mark III for Galactic Protector. It's too bad that the best version of 2 DX is not easily available anymore, especially due to the closure of the eShop, that game is just perfection and they really need to push it onto the Switch for more people to experience it. I first came for Puyo Puyo on the go with 3D Classics Collection, but stayed for Opa-Opa. Something else too, there was a music box of Fantasy Zone, I think it came with the Album you've showcased, but that thing was so rare that I only saw it once, I was forced to buy the Album a second time to not miss on it.

How many 2D shmups did SEGA make? Fantasy Zone is the only series they seemed to have made but i'm not sure if this is the only shmup they made. Also, this needs waaayyyy more views (most of your videos do).

@yousefslimani99

11 ай бұрын

😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠

Im just getting into fantasy zone and found this video pretty fucking awesome

MF Fantastic and detailed coverage of my absolute favorite cute em up of all time ! You did the series proud ! In an Ultra super big maximum great strong complete way ! Nintendo better have M2 port all the 3DS Fantasy Zones once the Switch 2 drops with the dual screen functionality (when docked in the new open face dock and/or airdock)

@worsethanhitlerpt.2539

6 ай бұрын

Never understood why your ship is always near the wrong side of the screen. If youre flying to the right, the screen shoud SCROLL RIGHT to show whats approaching. At least your ship should be centered I hate not being able to see

I started Fantasy Zone with the second one so I have a huge soft spot for that one and I prefer it to the original.

Fantasy Zone 2 is so freaking hard let alone difficult as hell!!!!!

I love fantasy zone too. But why is it underated? To an extent, I keep on imagining a Fantasy zone 3, and I do imagine the bosses in the Sega master system versions of both fantasy zone 1 and 2 that are not used in the arcade version. For example, if you play the master system version of fantasy zone 1 and get to the 4th level boss, it's not your usual blue two armed prana plant like monster, instead it's a dragon like head shooting half triangles and you have to shoot the tongue in the center of the bosses open mouth. Another example is also the fourth level in fantasy zone 2, instead of your usual robot fire ball shooting arms that creates fire walls, you get a big ol' dragon (that looks like it doesn't have wings) that shots fire at you and you gotta shoot it's head to defeat it.

Aye Ben, you should really consider splitting this apart and slightly expounding each worthwhile section into its own ~10min video: Especially the following best of the series: Fantasy Zone 2 : Tears of Opa Opa DX Fantasy Zone 2 W Fantasy Zone Link Loop Land Super Fantasy Zone (Genesis/MegaDrive/PS2) Fantasy Zone Sega Ages Vol. 3 remake

Could you PLEASE do a review on the twin bee series it my favorite arcade game series

You made a comparison between this series and Kirby, and I think that might just be pretty accurate. Another thing they seem to have in common is strangely elaborate and surprisingly depressing lore, lol (This video has made me seriously consider picking up the first game on Switch, and possibly 2W on 3DS, even though I have so many other games to play... haha, what's wrong with me?)

I honestly hope that you will explain a bit more about the lore

Opa Opa is a buddy : )

40:45 I thought Upa-Upa was from Fantasy Zone II, where he was said to be Opa-Opa's "other self". Also, I thought Fantasy Zone II DID have an arcade release?

Just bought the Sega 3d classics collection on amazon for 15 bucks cause of this video

@Amiiben

3 жыл бұрын

Aw yeah I did it. I guarantee you'll love it

Why didn't you mention the Phantasy Star Online Cameo of

@Amiiben

3 жыл бұрын

I haven't played PSO

You in 2021: Sega won’t agnowledhe poor opa opa Me in 2024: Well, boy do I have good news for you *show sonic superstars box art*

The bosses from FZII DX have the same name as the ones in FZII so instead of "The SH dragon was replaced with Bombdran", you should've said "The SH dragon was completely changed."

"Fantasy Zone is inspired by brazilian culture" Me, a brazilian: EXCUSE ME, WHAT?

Fantasy Zone 2 easy? Hahaha now that’s a good one!!! Spadarian says otherwise for Fantasy Zone 2 being easy!!!!!

lol why you didn't mention the 7th boss in fantasy zone?! In 7th boss you have to buy "Rocket Engine" just to avoid to touch you cause If you didn't kill him quickly he will become very difficult to kill cause he will move very fast and you have to dodge and attack quickly

Finally made me give a crap about this series

Eh, seeing as how it didn't _completely_ flop, the Sega CD wasn't the _worst_ piece of hardware Sega ever made - that dishonor goes to the 32X.

This channel looks cool, but a word to the wise. Even though you will hear all sorts of people say it now, "Arcades" is like saying "Vinyls." They were "Arcade Games" "Arcade Machines" "the coin operated arcade version" never "Arcades" as that would describe a place. An Arcade is a place, not a flavor of video game. It's from Rome or Greece or something but I'm not looking it up, suffice to say it was a district of Hellenistic cities. So it's like you are calling a mix drink "a bar" or "bars." It doesn't make any sense except in retrospect to say this as the "arcades," as you are calling them were the only video games at first. So, they were just "those video game things they have in the arcades" which used to have pinball and fusball etc electro mechanical devices. Would you call a pinball machine a "pool hall?" Nope. The distinction went the other way going forward through history. Records were 10" shellac 78rpm speed singles. They came in books called albums, like a photo album. A collection of single records was an album of records. Then RCA invents a new format, the 7" 45rpm single. Then Columbia competes in a format war introducing the 12" 33 1/3 long play (L.p.) which could fit an album being 22 minutes each side. Then the slow playing 10" and fast playing 12" was used for "extended play singles" which were later known as "E.P.s" then...after decades...other formats came out. But records were already records, so pointing out they were now being made of vinyl would be like calling tapes "plastics" it makes absolutely no sense. No, instead the new difference is reflected in the terminologies. Tape (reel to reel) 8tracks (an endless loop of tape with skipping track capability different than other tape formats for this reason) cassette tapes became simply "tapes" after 8tracks faded since they were the only tapes going mostly and very common. CDs, other stuff...then you guys have digital stuff and streaming and you are looking back seeing a black circle of vinyl that people told you was a *VINYL* record as by now we have had all sorts of album formats so a vinyl album is now what you see. This was impossible to see going forward in time and only makes sense in retrospect. Same with coin ops. It's now a world that has had other things, so the distinction you see is how the *real, original thing* differs from what you're used and seen. But that difference doesn't exist in reality, by nature, and is projected by the experience of the viewer. We never went to the arcades to play the arcades. We went to the arcade to play some video games. Which were on Arcade styled cabinets that we refered to as arcade cabinets. "The Arcade game(s)" or in retrospect after a port that overshadows it "the arcade version," would make better logical sense. But what do I know. I'm a stupid old man who doesn't understand the highly intellectual "Internets" on the computers. I'm going to go get in my garage and drive to the gas station to get some gas station now. Edit: 0:58 Yes, in fact many. Including the one you have pictured as you say this. These didn't disintegrate in 1970. Heh.

@gameguy-od8eq

Жыл бұрын

God dude instead of typing this essay on a 14 year old's gaming video why don't you get a hobby like playing arcades or collecting vinyls

@Mingodough

7 ай бұрын

No, arcade games have a different design philosophy than console, computer or modern games. I think there is more to it than you think