In case you’re wondering: The old man on the cover of Phalanx for SNES was Bertil Valley who sadly died in 2004.

@Marzimus

3 жыл бұрын

I went to Video Game Swappers, made a special trip asking my brother to please take me for days on end, and saw a Japanese Super Metroid with adapter ($99). Figured I'd get a bunch of cash for my games and maybe afford it. My credit ended up being about sixteen bucks. They offered one dollar for Super Mario World. I was too naive to tell them no and traded probably five games for Phalanx. #RegretThatDecision...

@skoetkonung7353

3 жыл бұрын

Uncanny Valley defined

@GHHG-qm1ks

3 жыл бұрын

F

@carlcouture1023

3 жыл бұрын

See you space banjo cowboy

After a quarter century, I finally know what Zoop is. Thank you.

@cartooningwithchris5329

3 жыл бұрын

So many copies of Zoop for Super Nintendo at Game Craze

@JohnDoe-wq5eu

3 жыл бұрын

Everybody remembers Zoop as that game that filled bargain bins for a period of time. I mean I don't know how many copies there are out there but considering it was on literally everything there must be tens of millions at least.

@DrCorndog1

3 жыл бұрын

I actually played Zoop on a PC at Office Depot back in the 90s. It was...OK?

@Davtwan

3 жыл бұрын

@@DrCorndog1 - It was fine. It gets hectic real fast at level 7 and higher at least. If you reach level 10, then you were legit.

@shadeofeternity4990

3 жыл бұрын

There's a copy in everyones' dusty snes box

Never heard of Zoop, but the Cover looks so 90s I can totally see the Fresh Prince wearing it on a Shirt.

@SullySadface

2 жыл бұрын

It was heavily featured in a lot of Sega Channel commercials

Finally caught one early enough to say: Thank you so much for your work, man. As a 41 year old, I can watch your content all day, just for the memories. As a retro gamer, I check your videos before I start seriously playing a game. I appreciate it, quite a bit.

@SNESdrunk

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for taking the time to watch Tyler

@mikesilva3868

3 жыл бұрын

Cool tyler🎯

@Azuris190

3 жыл бұрын

You are speaking for many of us :)

@nightowl8363

3 жыл бұрын

Ive gotten some good recomendations from this guy 👍

@steam1873

3 жыл бұрын

Couldn't say better

I grew up in the 90's, subscribed to GamePro and EGM, and I collect and play retro games today. I know that Zoop cover art like my mother's face. And this is the very first time I've ever seen gameplay footage of it.

@captainvimes6079

3 жыл бұрын

Hard same. I've still never played Ardy Lightfoot or Cool World either 😂

@derekabshire6691

3 жыл бұрын

@@captainvimes6079 both cool games, ardy is super fun.

@AltimaNEO

3 жыл бұрын

Early to mid 90s game pro was peak game pro!

Forsaken 64’s cover itself is the perfect representation of what 90’s marketing was like.

@ottagol1985

3 жыл бұрын

I remember Forsaken having an alternate shot with the tattoo on her thigh. It was pulled from the ads later on.

@LeoRex13

3 жыл бұрын

Even just the name... Forsaken 64

@AyeThatsHandsomePete

3 жыл бұрын

@@ottagol1985 I remember that. They definitely ran it in gamepro for a bit , or maybe it was EGM.

@danieltriplett7493

3 жыл бұрын

"The future is forsaken" is forever burned in my memory.

@PNWAffliction

3 жыл бұрын

@@ottagol1985 I can't find the thigh tattoo, but definitely found the neck tattoo.

Awesome part about Tuff Enuff was that the cover was used in the first stage of Game Tengoku back in 1995. Jaleco knew how ridiculous it looked and used it as a huge stage backdrop.

@newcorpses

3 жыл бұрын

The Japanese version is called Dead Dance and has a much better cover. It's funny that Jaleco knew they were giving us a horrible cover and horrible title.

@jessragan6714

3 жыл бұрын

Cha-DING!

@Daedric16

3 жыл бұрын

The graphics appear to highly imitate the Streets of Rage series.

I fucking LOVE zoop. I played it so much as a kid on my Sega, that I'd have dreams about the colors and shapes flying at me

@reinforcedpenisstem

3 жыл бұрын

I know what you mean

"Eastern European Looney Tunes" is the best description for brutal paws of fury I've ever heard

@Mr.G_717

3 жыл бұрын

Hi hunter

@samuraikarasu

2 жыл бұрын

"WORKER AND PARASITE!"

@Comeonfhqwhgads95

11 ай бұрын

@@samuraikarasu…what the hell was that?

Man I actually miss this. Being young and going rent games and renting them based on the cover art that stood out to me, only for the game to be complete garbage and being disappointed haha. I miss good cover art and awesome instruction booklets.

@JohnDoe-wq5eu

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah N64 games were some of the most notorious at least for me at the time. But there was something truly glorious about being able to check out a game before you buy or not even having to buy it at all. Ah memories.

Zoop is such an amazing game. I turned it into a speedrun a couple years ago and a few people battled a bit to lower the record. Also sidenote I saw a license plate in my hometown recently that just read ZOOP. Amazing stuff haha

I love this because as a gamer of the 90's, this was PRECISELY what we had to guard against on Friday nights at Blockbuster or the local video store when we were renting games. I would add U.N. Squadron, Outlander, and Sword of Vermillon for the Genesis for me.

@MagnusVonBlack

3 жыл бұрын

Dude UN Squadron is an awesome game though

@manuginobilisbaldspot424

3 жыл бұрын

@@MagnusVonBlack "for me"

@dasuberedward

3 жыл бұрын

holy shit i forgot that i ignored un squadron my entire life based on the cover art.

@dreday5880

3 жыл бұрын

Arkana

I can confirm, Zoop is what the 90s looked like.

@LeoMidori

3 жыл бұрын

I genuinely miss it. When I grew up saturated in that era of art assets and everything started changing after the Y2K era, which was its own transition, the 2000's looked SO ugly by comparison.

@LorenHelgeson

3 жыл бұрын

I was there. I lived it. In many ways, I miss it.

@emceeunderdogrising

3 жыл бұрын

@@LeoMidori The 80s were way uglier. Dirtier too.

@emceeunderdogrising

3 жыл бұрын

I watched some 90s ads the other day. What a crazy trip.

@chrisbruggers8076

3 жыл бұрын

@@emceeunderdogrising Uglier maybe, dirtier though? I'm not sure what made the 80s dirtier? I was born in the 80s so the 90s are the first decade I really remember.

Body Harvest basically laid all the groundwork for GTA3. It wasn't the best game, but it was fun and incredibly ambitious.

@rootbeer_666

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, between Body Harvest and when the first couple of GTA games first came out under the DMA label, I thought they really had sort of established an MO for themselves there. Shoot-‘em-ups with a _lot_ of cars to drive around, yep, that’s DMA.

@juststatedtheobvious9633

3 жыл бұрын

Body Harvest made it fun to steal cars and kill civilians. Grand Theft Auto made it feel like eating your vegetables. The game would sabotage you if you didn't play like a sociopath.

Whenever I used to rent games, you could see Zoop on the shelf from the door. That's how much that cover stood out. I used to turn my nose up..even as a 4th grader lol

"Tasha Yars head on a child's body" Legitimately made me lol

@israelcruz8552

3 жыл бұрын

It is golden!!

@janderson117

3 жыл бұрын

Same. Haha 😂

"Lieutenant Tasha Yar's head on a child's body" made me laugh my ass off.

@blacksunshine7485

3 жыл бұрын

I missed that lol

The PC version of Forsaken was also remastered for modern computers & XBOX ONE by Nightdive Studios. They're the same company that did the recent remastered Shadow Man port, as well as the remastered ports of Turok 1 & 2, Doom 64 & SiN. They're also working on a remake of System Shock.

@duffman18

3 жыл бұрын

Ooooooh OK now the system shock one is the most exciting of all of those. Because everyone sings its praises as being decades ahead of its time and still being a fantastic game, except for the very weird and awkward controls (which is why everyone uses a mod to play the game so that you can use regular pc FPS controls, keyboard and mouse) Also, if I'm thinking of the same company as you are, then this means there's the possibility of getting system shock on the Switch. Because the switch already has all those other games ported, like all the Dooms (including doom 64), the Turok games for n64, Duke Nukem 3D, etc. I'm fine with playing it on the pc instead but it'd be definitely great to have the option to play it on the go. And gyro controls would be very handy, they're maybe the only thing more natural feeling than a keyboard and mouse

@i.m.evilhomer5084

3 жыл бұрын

@@duffman18 Nightdive also did an Enhanced Edition of System Shock for GOG with Widescreen, as well as mouse & keyboard support. Same basic game, but slightly more manageable. As for the System Shock remake, it's been in development hell for awhile. Thankfully it's been picking up steam lately as the devs decided to stay closer to the original game, but update it with modern gameplay sensibilities. There's a recent demo that added a cyberspace level, maybe check it out. Judging from the recent footage & impressions from the recent demo, reactions have been positive so far. To draw comparisons, they might be remaking it in a style similar to Black Mesa. Rather than say the recent Final Fantasy 7 Remake, which was more of a reimagining. (Not saying it was bad, it was just a different approach)

@Skellotronix

Жыл бұрын

Also the remasters of Power Slave. Night Dive is on a roll with these remasters and they are all good from my experience.

It's references like this 3:40 that make SNES drunk the perfect retro gaming youtube channel for me.

@raggededge82

3 жыл бұрын

Nothing like a Byron Allen reference.

There were SO many Zoop ads in EGM for a few months.

@JohnDoe-wq5eu

3 жыл бұрын

Yep between the ads and the aggressive push to put it on literally everything it was clear they wanted it to be the next Tetris. It was not.

@carlcouture1023

3 жыл бұрын

In every magazine and on TV.

You do remember that popular Salt n Pepa song, right..? “You make me wanna Zoop Zoobedoo Zoobedoo bedoo...”

Never had the N64, but i remember the covers of Shadow Man and Forsaken hahaha Good times!

Once I saw the title and shitty cover for Zoop I'm clicked on this. What a great video idea. Gotta do more of these.

@SNESdrunk

3 жыл бұрын

Please beat Tampa

@pouncingpantherpucks2779

3 жыл бұрын

@@SNESdrunk OMG 😂 I hope we do. What's your team? Aren't you a Wild fan?

@AyeThatsHandsomePete

3 жыл бұрын

@@pouncingpantherpucks2779 Huberdeau carried my fantasy team.

@SNESdrunk

3 жыл бұрын

Minnesota yeah, but Barkov is great and I'm tired of Tampa

@pouncingpantherpucks2779

3 жыл бұрын

@@AyeThatsHandsomePete Yeah he was a beast this year. I think he's even better than Barkov but man they had an incredible year.

My parents bought me Zoop one day. It was an interesting puzzle game. I was never really good at it but it was entertaining enough with an okay soundtrack.

I played Zoop for the first time a month or so ago, even though I'm 40 years ago. I don't mind puzzle games, and I could have seen me playing this a lot at the time. Didn't really stand out at the time, and I definitely wouldn't have wanted £40 laid out for it.

There was alot of nostalgia in this episode for me. Thank you for creating this

I remember Zoop be of the ads for it and it was so obscure and nonsensical. It seemed to get positive reviews here in the UK but can't really say I know anyone that got it. Saying that Acclaims marketing during the N64 time was just becoming increasingly odd until they tried to get people to advertise games on their own gravestone or changing their names legally to Turok.

you answer so many question that i have from childhood x)

@rollingdice3679

3 жыл бұрын

Ça m'étonne de te voir ici XD

@voidathetos2747

3 жыл бұрын

Même sur une chaine anglophone trés spécifique... on croise le serbe le plus populaire de YT ! Cette chaine est super j'y ai découvert plein de trucs. Bon courage pour la suite 👍

@rollingdice3679

3 жыл бұрын

@@voidathetos2747 Le serbe avec les meilleurs noms de vidéo

I remember playing the PS1 and PC versions of Shadow Man, and its PS2 sequel (2econd Coming). I didn't know that, everyone knew the game from the box art. I hope Nightdive Studios could remaster that PS2 sequel one day for modern platforms.

@MasterZebulin

Жыл бұрын

My cousin and I vividly remembered 2econd Coming for the most lolzy reasoning ever: "I gotta get that bear, man! I got *shit* to do!"

To this day, I want to see a game that would actually fit the cover art of _Phalanx._

@mechanoid2k

3 жыл бұрын

Haha hillbilly Simulator. The japanese boxart for phalanx was pretty awesome though. m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BM2NkMjJjMmEtMzQ4Mi00MTI0LWJhOTItOWYwYmE3NTk0ZWY2XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMzM4MjM0Nzg@._V1_.jpg

@TBLIVIN

3 жыл бұрын

Outer Wilds feels like it fits that box art imo.

@Just.Kidding

6 ай бұрын

Tonally, Skullmonkeys fits it perfectly.

Skuljagger, for me, was the ultimate example of this.

@nozoto

3 жыл бұрын

And then, you take a look at the game and you laugh out loud: A guy making bubbles in an effort to defeat pirates? Is that based on a chewing gum ad?

@danielplatts9446

3 жыл бұрын

Idk. I remember renting skuljagger all the time. It was good fun.

@PNWAffliction

3 жыл бұрын

and damn Skuljagger was pretty solid!

@bigduke5902

3 жыл бұрын

No, Skuljagger both chewed and blew

@aelechko

3 жыл бұрын

My brother traded all of our nes stuff for a brand new skuljager when it came out. Still remember the password for as far as I ever got ‘fly home lazy sword’. It was decent enough. However that may be the ptsd of how much nes stuff he traded for that game.

I remember the neighbors spying on the kid in the commercial for zoop and saying "maybe he's double jointed"

This guys makes me go out and look for old snes games I don’t have. Thank you.

3:40 "So what does that make us?" "Absolutely nothing! Which is what Q's relevance to Street Fighter has been!"

Ah, I completely forgot about the Shadow Man Remaster!

@KryptKicker5

3 жыл бұрын

on sale at GoG

@ragingraven7915

3 жыл бұрын

@@KryptKicker5 Awesome

Yeah, growing up in the 90's was a weird trip. I recall all of these games sitting on Blockbuster shelves collecting dust. You couldn't escape the loud in-your-face marketing back then! I remember seeing Zoop _everywhere_. I love puzzle games, so I rented it along with Tetris Attack. I just couldn't get into Zoop at all as I didn't like the art style and the gameplay was just kind of tedious/dull. I'm still glad I rented Tetris Attack as well so it wasn't a complete loss of a Blockbuster visit!

Man, I really miss Funco Land. I had a great local store that was always friendly and fun to look through. Also, I knew Zoop because my local Blockbuster back in the day had it running on a display tv for public play for a long time. Not a bad game!

I was definitely not expecting a Tasha Yar reference or for it to be so accurate.

Forsaken was one of my favorite games. It was actually the game I bought with the system. There was nothing like seeing a Titan nuke fly past you and the chaotic scramble to get out of the room before it explodes. Two player was what made it so much fun for me. It was like 007 but flying spaceships.

As soon as I read the title, I was like "Phalanx has to be here for sure!" I was not disappointed.

Glad you mentioned Shadow Man’s cover art in the video! Definitely agree, you saw it almost everywhere in promo pics of numerous gaming magazines or at your local video game store at the time even if you never got the chance to play it. The N64 era of cover arts/promo pics marketing definitely were something else 😅

Oh man, do I remember that Forsaken cover art.

You are consistently one of the best old school content providers on KZread, and criminally underrated. I teach TV Production in high school, I appreciate your understanding that the video isn't about you, it's about the games you are talking about. The offscreen narration is the best approach, and you clearly are prepared for these videos with a script, unlike some others on this platform (how are you feeling, you got John Riggs here). Sorry for the rant, just wanted to give you props!

The woman on the cover of Forsaken is so you know what you're fighting for back on earth boys.

Shadow Man is based on a Comic book originally published by Valiant. (Turok, XO Manowar). Acclaim bought the publisher in the mid 90s and started publishing games based on the comics. Never knew they did a Shadowman game though.

Shadow Man was based on a comic book series that has been around for a couple of years. The version the game follows was a revamp that from when Aklaim acquired Valiant Comics (which also included Turok, X-O Manowar, and Armorines) in the mid-90s.

@snukastyle

3 жыл бұрын

Indeed. I remember when Valiant launched and Shadowman looked like/was(?) a generic edgy superhero character for the time. Then they reworked the story with that new look, with his old mask now being the design on his chest.

Funny story: I found a copy of Zoop at a pawn shop that I frequent, and decided to get it so that I could replace the back of a more expensive game. Because I’m a regular, the owner threw it in for free with another game I was purchasing. I finally decided to give it a go last week, but when I turned my SNES on, I realized very quickly that it wasn’t Zoop. It was Mario’s Time Machine, and someone had swapped the circuit boards for the two games. In retrospect, it does make a bit more sense, because one of the screws was missing when I first got the game. Still, I’m not sure if it was a mistake or an elaborate bate and switch, but it surprised me either way.

1) This list is 100% accurate. 2) Your assessment of 90s is correct. 3) Tasha Yar reference gets 100 points. Well done sir! Always a great time watching your videos. 👍

Wow man, you hit that intro aggressively

I played Zoop on a few different platforms back in the day (having worked at a game rental store), and one thing I remember is that the different ports of Zoop to various platforms _played differently_ from one another. You'd think that for such a simple game, one "Zoop" would be like any other "Zoop" - but the semi-randomness of the shape/color patterns (e.g. the distribution of runs of the same color vs. random colors, piling on shapes in one line vs. spreading them out evenly, etc.) seemed to be different in every version I tried. It's like the difference between a "Tetris" with tetrominos drawn from a finite "bag" before being reshuffled vs. a "Tetris" with _completely_ random tetrominos (allowing for long runs of the same one or two shapes). I can only guess that every platform's "Zoop" was programmed by a different team, and that Viacom/Hookstone's design documentation didn't actually specify _how_ the shapes were to be selected/distributed - kind of an important part of a puzzle game's mechanics.

Okay that rant about TUFF E NUFF was absolutely hilarious. That made my night!

Dude your jokes were on point this video. "Tasha Yar's head on a teenager" had me dying🤣🤣🤣🤣

"Don't steal anybody's kidneys." -SNES Drunk

The level of contempt I have for Zoop knows no bounds. It was in every bargain bin in 96, it was one of the last games my local rental store had before phasing out SNES games, and was the last demo game my local Sears had in the kiosk for full-on year before getting rid of it all together. And I had absolutely no idea how the game worked. Pure frustration. I still saw the game in Kmart clearance bins with arkanoid and uniracers in 98.

I'll never forget the ZOOP box. But I also remember the back had the craziest read ever. I remember it said "what are you doing reading this box?! Pick this game up and play it now. Zoop the most addicting puzzle since ever!!" I laughed at it back in the day

DinoCity was a childhood favorite of mine. I saw the film first on VHS and my Dad snagged a copy of the game on late 1990s eBay. Still have that copy.

shadow man indeed, had to turn thee brightness up just to see the action

3:44 this box art always reminded me of the matrix and later on always made me think of the game TimeSplitters 2 cover because of the glasses and bald head look

Last one kinda reminds me of Yoshi’s Island, where baby Mario was on his back. Except it was bad when Mario fell off, he hadn’t learned anything yet 😂

I love Zoop! Spent many hours playing it on my SNES as a kid in the 90's!

I loved Body Harvest back in the late 90s. Zoop was probably the epitome of 90s game ads and I didn’t know anyone who played it

Ah yes snesdrunk and a cup of coffee in the morning.

@chuckrhodes3217

3 жыл бұрын

Same here

@MazterP28

3 жыл бұрын

Me three

@GabMacedoo

3 жыл бұрын

My exact thoughts haha

@user-ow3hz8wx2k

3 жыл бұрын

For us in Japan it's SNESDrunk at night with milk and cookies.

@CassidyListon

3 жыл бұрын

Same. 😏☕

Leo from Red Earth looks like what you'd expect from the Brutal Paws of Fury ad.

Remember loving Shadow Man when it came out. It was also the first game I remember hearing actual swearing in.

I feel like Zoop is an underrated gem of a game. It's crazy as all hell at times, but I still play it every now and then.

Loved the idea. The exact same thing happened to me involving Dino City, I have only paid attention to it when I saw a friend of mine playing it at the rental store and then I asked "wow, that looks neat actually. Which game is this?" and there it was, available for everyone most of the time with a crappy cover art. Vegas Stakes was also a game no one would pick, ever - neither would I. Had a good time playing Tuff E Nuff (Dead Dance as I got to know at the time) but time hasn't done good to it. One game cover which was onipresent in gaming magazines and also retail advertising here in Brazil was Little Ninja Brothers for the NES, it certainly boosted its rental visibility back then

I was born in the early 80’s, I think I remember the Zoop ads, own the game and that Zoop wallpaper or whatever was terrifying. I do not remember the 90’s looking like that.

I loved Zoop for DOS back in the day. Innovative (though difficult) puzzle game, and great for peripheral vision training.

Huh, spot on with that Dino City bit. Until today, I’d _never_ seen any screenshots or video of actual gameplay. Looks nifty, and the art style is cute. Chalk up the box art to yet more ‘90s radi-cool chicanery.

Fuckin LOVED the bit about polo/khaki/Corolla/Miller Lite guy and the Byron Allen reference was so hilariously out of left field. Your obscure references add so much to the overall package. Great vid as always dude.

Lt. Tasha Yar's Head on a child's body gave me a DEEP belly laugh! Thank you for covering content this 37 year old can absolutely be nostalgic over time and time again. Your cadence, delivery and presentation are top notch and your passion for these games shines through!

@JeffYPbPr

3 жыл бұрын

37 club unite!!!

@morganfarlie

3 жыл бұрын

@@JeffYPbPr YYYYEEAAAHH! Congrats on making it this far :D

Love the space ball’s reference when explaining the cover of shadow man

SNES drunk I’m so glad you included Body Harvest! I loved that game so much! Great job on the channel, too. Been checking your stuff out for a while now. Hope you and yours are well. 🙂

Shadow Man on N64 blew my mind back then. The serial killers, the guts. And I had no idea what it was when I bought it with my Walmart cashier paycheck. I was 16.

Shadow Man was an awesome game. It was cemented in my brain when a neighbor friend bought a used copy. I never saw the cover, i was just really interested in this dark game when i was 8 years old.

Body harvest was one of my favorite games for n64 loved how many different vehicles there was. Took awhile sometimes to figure out where to go

Your commentary chops are really improving, man. This was solid from start to finish.

I had completely forgotten about Forsaken. This wave of nostalgia just hit me with a memory of a sleepover at my friend's house and his parents got us this at Blockbuster and we played it all night. I miss the 90's

Man thanks for giving me a lil of my childhood back in nice short bursts. Never quit. Snnnnnnneeeeeees¹⁰ drunk.

Young guy here (20) Video stores were still around here for abit in Australia when I was a kid during the Wii, Xbox360 and PS3 era before eventually all dying out. The biggest game I remember seeing but never hiring was No More Heroes. It always interested me, but I never hired it and usually stuck to safer options for me at the time like the LEGO games or Nintendo made games. Going back and playing the game now No More Heroes has become one of my favourite series.

LMFAO ‘’Lieutenant, Tasha Yar’s head on a child’s body’’ you’re funny❤😂

I remember Dino City because it was always in Tommy K's when renting games was a thing. Nobody I knew had it, played it, or knew what it was. I wish I check out the back. Looks like it was fun.

Back in the 90s, when phalanx was sitting on the shelves of the local game/video rental shop, i believed it to be some sort of "music game" something like todays guitar hero. Back then the cover art was part of what made a game sell or fail, since there were no video previews or demos for cartridge consoles.

Holy crap that "old guy" is famed Moon shiner from North Carolina. Popcorn Sutter! He's a legend!

I got body harvest from my grandma one year for Christmas. Loved this game!

I had a feeling Phalanx would get a mention here. I remember being in middle school Accelerated Reader and seeing this game being offered as a high-point prize. I didn't have a SNES (Sonic fangirl for life) but that box art intrigued the hell outta me. 25 years later I'm learning what the big deal was. Thanks!

You are a really underrated KZreadr imo, you have a distinct voice and i really look forward to your videos.

Claymates had the quintessential eye-catching SNES box art, complete with bright colors, full-box holographic effect, and no explanation of what the game is about. If you went to a Walmart electronics section in the early 90s, this box art and the Robocop vs. Terminator hard cover are seared into your brain.

Zoop is that rare puzzle game where the developers consider attacking your optic nerve directly as "late game difficulty". The music too seemed almost designed to confuse. I remember wanting to play it with the sound off but being unable to because there is a warning noise you get when the rows are one move from entering the center.

I'm sure I'm not the only person who is reminded of "The Caretaker" from Star Trek: Voyager when looking at that Phalanx cover.

Imagine walking around a store for 30+ mins staring at boxes with bizarre cover art. That was Blockbuster as kid before the 21st century.

i clicked on this and thought to myself, "If Phalanx isn't on this list, it's a bad list." good job as per usual, snesdrunk. you're doing god's work.

I didn't see the cover for Dino city. But i do remember playing at someones house. That game blew my mind back then

🤣🤣🤣 now every time I see Byron Allen I'm gonna assume he's the Shadow Man

I absolutely remember Phalanx always being there, and I never played it specifically for the reason there was nothing to draw me in. Had there been a picture of a spaceship on the front, I probably would have rented it.

As soon as I saw the title of the video my mind went right to Phalanx. Both that and Body Harvest are so much better than their covers let on

Body Harvest! Don't see that name very often. It was a bit cumbersome but one of my favourite N64 games.

Lol Zoop - the cover and name is the perfect example of knowing it exists because of that.

Your channel is unquestionably awesome man. :) Also, 8:42 LOL. Wow.

1:26 I beg to differ Mr. Drunk, I remember the 90s and the 90s ads to usually be way more X-TREEEME than that one. That one is rather tame and reserved for the 90s but I agree that kids these days would see even that and go "WTF?" I remember seeing "Zoop" at the video rental place but I never picked it up so you are right. How do you know these things? my guess is either time travel or magic booze.