Hey Joe, I just want to say thank you for the effort you put into your subtitles on your videos.

Gamesack is forty-seven times better than ANY other retro game channel -- _maybe even forty-eight times!_

@shymickey6

4 жыл бұрын

Oh I get it, now. Lol.

@nessnintendo9466

4 жыл бұрын

Forty-EIGHT MEGA POWER!

@downscale

4 жыл бұрын

46 maybe.

@sbamdq

4 жыл бұрын

I´ve come to the same conclusion...

@MzuMzu-nx1em

4 жыл бұрын

True , gamesak , as a lot of people , still live at the golden age of arcades , cartridges and cassettes consoles .

Back in the day I used to love Saturday morning cartoons. Now I look forward to a new Game Sack episode with the same enthusiasm haha

Joe I just wanted to tell you... THANK YOU. I know I've told you this many times but I'm so thankful that you have kept the GameSack brand A-Goin! And seriously, you're doing an awesome job solo and just wanted to tell you as someone from the outside looking in, Games ARE the Meat and Potatoes of the video but in all honesty, I HIGHLY ENJOY YOUR TECHNICAL ASPECTS OF SAID SYSTEMS/GAMES.... I really think your strengths lie in your artistic creativity and by gollie keep on creating..... much appreciation from Chattanooga, TN!

You know, on Choplifter you can eject the hostages from your helicopter after you've been hit. They don't have to all die. Just keep pressing the attack button after you're hit and they'll parachute out one by one. You can get about 3 or 4 of them out before you crash depending on your altitude when you take the hit.

@GameSack

4 жыл бұрын

Interesting. I'll try that!

@Ahmadu100

4 жыл бұрын

Nice trick it worked,never knew that before, in the master system version the hostages fly away in little jets and in the NES version the hostages jump out with little parachutes just like in the Arcade version except you don't use the attack button to do that you use the button that changes the chopper's direction,nice parallax scrolling in both versions though.

@SomeOrangeCat

4 жыл бұрын

Nah, if I have to die, so do they!

@SouthernMenace

4 жыл бұрын

Damn, I came here just to make this exact comment =) Love me some oldskool Choplifter. It put some grit into my gaming stomach.

@johndd9140

4 жыл бұрын

@@SomeOrangeCat You're all heart! 😂😂😂

My dad collects arcade machines because he likes playing them, but also because he likes to collect them. I'm glad for that fact because it really showed me how deep this hobby/fandom can go. Seriously. If you don't know much about arcade machines... the whole rabbit hole goes waaaaay deeper than you probably think. Good thing channels like Game Sack devote time to preserving these works of art.

Sold 90% of my games and consoles and used the cash to buy pcbs when I got an arcade cab for my 40th birthday. I'm never going back to consoles! Nice collection joe.

The TATE MODE B.S. never gets old. I rewind that part like 5 times in a row and turn my speakers up to 100.

Definitely my fave episode in the A.D.(After Dave) era of Game Sack so far. At least I learn something new about Arcade PCBs here. Thx for this episode, Joe.

@vuetoob3983

4 жыл бұрын

Lol. A.D. greatness

@echelon2k8

4 жыл бұрын

Whatever happened to Dave anyway? He "grow up" or something?

@retrogamer41_sepiamta

4 жыл бұрын

@@echelon2k8 He left the show last May to focus more on his family. I admit, I miss him on the show

@vuetoob3983

4 жыл бұрын

@@echelon2k8 Joe claims he wanted to focus on family and hinted at him getting burned out.

@TimTidmons

Жыл бұрын

Rip dave. Long live the king

That extra board on the Astyanax is a "filter board" it helps filter "noise" from the signal.

@mrburns366

4 жыл бұрын

I was about to make this comment :) I usually take them off. I think it was probably something they had to add for FCC compliance?

You are a hero, man! The shock hazards involved in this process keep me miles away from this Frankenstein's creation! But, hey! KUDOS!!!

My consciousness transcended time and space when you pulled that master system cartridge out and hooked it up to that adapter and power source to play it. The joy of technology. If you understand how things work you can really play around with stuff to work magic like that.

Thank you Joe, for the channel, and what you do.

this was a fantastic episode... great work Joe! always been interested in how to play PCBs at home... great work mate

Just an idea. Maybe make a 3d printed case to protect the PCB's. You could even have the logos printing into them. They'd look so cool

The reason for the labels on your Ghouls ‘n Ghosts pcb is that is was converted from either a SF II Champion Edition or Hyper Fighting pcb using modified roms to work on those later CPS-1 boards. It was a much more affordable solution than buying an original early CPS-1 Ghouls ‘n Ghosts pcb since the SF2 pcbs are far more common.

@overkill1473

4 жыл бұрын

I remember some guy sold these roms as conversion kits from his website. Dont remember who it was. But i remember those stickers.

"We can't all be winners" well that's because some of us use drugs

@danimadrid5454

4 жыл бұрын

''winners don't do drugs'' -some fbi guy

@arranmc182

4 жыл бұрын

okay next time you get a prescription just throw it away

@MzuMzu-nx1em

4 жыл бұрын

Winners don't use drugs.... they sell them 🤣😂😂🤣🤣😂😂🤣😂🤣😂😂🤣🤨😂😂😂🙃

@phoenixzappa7366

4 жыл бұрын

I don't know who's worse, the FIB or Merryweather Security.

@downscale

4 жыл бұрын

Proving the Arcade message WRONG was definitely a thing.

Your vids are the gold standard on youtube Joe. This was amazing as always.

@A_Man_In_His_Van

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah i dont know about all that. The gold standard? Thats the nerd.

@sgtpepper91

4 жыл бұрын

@@A_Man_In_His_Van not anymore. the nerd hasnt even been the nerd. youre just watching slightly edgier james

@bmwolgas

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, you can really tell the nerd has lost interest in what he does. Joe, however, still seems 100% passionate in every video he makes.

@supersnappahead

4 жыл бұрын

@@A_Man_In_His_Van I srtill watch and enjoy Nerd videos and they're still great, but even James would have a hard time competing with the video quality that Joe puts in. The editing, sound mixing..even the animation that Joe does...he's hard to beat.

@jong2359

4 жыл бұрын

Joe easily doubles the production values of AVGN.

Didn't even know collecting arcade machines like this was a thing. Pretty cool collection you got going

I just got a chance to finish the episode. Joe, this is the best episode you’ve done since becoming a 1-man show. I laughed many times. A+

I've watched gamesack from the beginning but this was the episode Joe really found his stride. The comedy seems genuine, no more stage fright. I miss Dave like you wouldn't believe but this is the first ep where Joe alone seems great.

Hnnng! That non emulated "Mission One" sound on Shinobi, that's exactly how I remembered! Playing it on MAME sounded so different and I didn't know why!

@centriumble4113

4 жыл бұрын

Theres an emulated arcade Shinobi on the Sonic Ultimate Genesis collection on the PS3 & Xbox 360 and it has correct sounding voices in it. The main reason I bought that game disc.

@ekuzo4

4 жыл бұрын

Well it's clearly different. But it doesn't sound bad or anything. Doesn't bother me actually. Beggars can't be choosers after all 😂😂😂

@chadzero

4 жыл бұрын

He's comparing the wrong versions of Shinobi, in MAME the one to compare to is 'shinobi5'. Looks like he's running regular 'shinobi' in MAME which is the first version of the game.

@ekuzo4

4 жыл бұрын

@@chadzero that's interesting

Joe has a big house, surely he has room in it somewhere for a real stand-up JAMMA cabinet. It would give him somewhere to put that Astyanax marquee.

@AlexKidd

4 жыл бұрын

I think you need to stop following him home

Haha, love how you put that: "You even rescue hostages but instead of dirty guys, they are sexy women! etc." 😂

@GameSack

4 жыл бұрын

@@B8GViews They don't parachute. I guess they'd rather be splattered on the ground than hanging from wires.

11:34 sometimes, masking chips is the way to prevent others from figuring out what are they and do reverse engineering.

There's the Choplifter hostages trick and there's the CPS2 Hose Trick. Connect a flexible hose and you vacuum your house with that beast!

I always wished Rastan would have been ported on the Genesis as a kid. Loved it at the arcade. Great video

This was a really cool episode, I know next to nothing about the workings of arcades so this was cool to see. X-men vs Street Fighter will never not be beautiful

What a nice daylight to start my KZread activity by watching another Game Sack video 😄 (from Indonesian)

@gruthakhul100

4 жыл бұрын

greetings from Germany to Indonesia, have a nice day! :D

@ridhorach3222

4 жыл бұрын

@@gruthakhul100 you too, mate ^^

@Azuris190

4 жыл бұрын

Have a nice day over there :D Here it is raining just now, so i will stay with my coffee infront of my Super Nintendo :)

@Sinasi08

4 жыл бұрын

Greetings from Belgium to Indonesia

@ridhorach3222

4 жыл бұрын

@@Sinasi08 thank you, mate 🙏

That soccer referee said "Pushing! You're F**KED. Direct free kick!" 10:38

@jimmypage9283

4 жыл бұрын

Def said you're fkd, 😆😆😆

@masterjayrblaster

4 жыл бұрын

LOL Wow he did

@RetroIslandGaming

4 жыл бұрын

@@masterjayrblaster I heard that too! LOL I'm dying

@jackwhite6552

4 жыл бұрын

He did indeed, red card for that fella!

Great video, dunno how I managed to miss this one seeing as I love me some arcade action. I got around 130 boards and 39 cabs now so you got a bit of catching up to do. It did help starting collecting in the mid-90s though, prices in the last few years specifically have gone crazy. I blame these bloody youtubers for showing people that they can play arcade games at home!! Funny thing is, EDGE magazine issue 3 waaaay back in 1993 did a feature on superguns and how you COULD play arcade games at home, and that was my start. Picked up a supergun and Bubble Bobble. Board still works and is a very treasured possession. It pleases me greatly to see you enjoying your favourites (Choplifter is awesome!), I hope you manage to obtain more of them!

Nice collection of PCBs. There's some great games in there I've never heard of, like Gun Force II, that I really want to play now. Thanks for sharing.

Cps2 is no a problem anymore. In April 2016, Eduardo Cruz, Artemio Urbina and Ian Court announced the successful reverse engineering of Capcom's CP System 2 security programming, enabling the clean "de-suicide" and restoration of any dead games without hardware modifications

@jasonfell4321

4 жыл бұрын

This sounds awesome. I have a dead street fighter zero 2 cab with a dead pcb. Currently I play it with a pi2jamma. But phoenixing the cps2 sounds like a much better alternative.

@jonniefast

2 жыл бұрын

🥺💖

@miltonbates6425

Жыл бұрын

CPS2 is already on the MiSTer (thanks to Jotego), with CPS3 on the way.

Now when you say "I pull it down from the shelf and play it." I picture someone casually pulling a box with a game. But this is arcade PCBs, many wires, many plugs... I want to see a video of how you pull it down from the shelf.

@bradyharr3483

4 жыл бұрын

He does pull a box with a game down... he shows in the video that they are still in there shipping boxes

@assanchop1574

4 жыл бұрын

Most Arcade pcb's don't have wires.

@arranmc182

4 жыл бұрын

WTF you talking about most PCB's use Jamma or JVS standard or ones that dont can simple be converted to them, so boards are plug and play just like a home console that uses cartridges, hell even SNK Neo Geo arcade cabs use cartridges

Fantastic episode. Little touches like the way you give the games a few seconds of gameplay with no commentary at the end of a segment, so we can appreciate the sound and visuals uninterrupted, are what separate your channel from a lot of others. You really know what you're doing. I have a Sega Astro City cab with a CPS2, Street Fighter Zero 2 Gold and Dimahoo. I'm torn between getting a Mister for it or more boards, but I'll probably end up getting Gunbird 2 or a PGM with Dodonpachi DOJ Black and Espgaluda. Of all the games and consoles I have, the arcade ones give me the most joy.

Classic arcade games will be always funny, no matter how the game technology evolves

Wow. I've just gotten into PCB collecting myself, and this channel was an inspiration. Great timing!

@MaxHarden

4 жыл бұрын

Lord-JP Be sure to get it at 75 ohms. Lmao.

@pauldobson8952

4 жыл бұрын

The 'left in the arcade ' episodes are great!

Joe: "If you don't have that..." Me: You can go straight to hell. 😁 Joe: "...well, you won't have any audio." Me: Oh ☹️ Later... Joe: "The other 12 people - they can just go straight to hell." Me: yippee 😁😁😁!

@yuncelluz8709

4 жыл бұрын

Ha! Right

@shymickey6

4 жыл бұрын

@@yuncelluz8709 😄😄😄

Very respectable PCB collection! You got some heavy hitters.

Thanks for once again making Sunday mornings more pasable for all us PAL players. As always, interesting content and amazing editing. Keep up the good work!

The return of TATE MODE!!!

@sanyr80

4 жыл бұрын

TAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE

@BlueflagAlpha

4 жыл бұрын

Ta-Tay

@KriztofferSwank

4 жыл бұрын

@Alexandros K I thought it was pronounced tit-tay

Great episode, Joe! I love arcade collecting! I started with a Neo Geo MVS 4 slot machine at 14 and the bug bit me. Now 7 years later, I have 9 machines and over 60 PCBs. Arcade gaming and racing games are my biggest passions in gaming, so naturally I love arcade racers. Apparently I'm the sole owner of a Konami Racing Jam Super Deluxe machine and it's my pride and joy. Recently the Konami Cobra hardware has been acting up, but emulation doesn't work in MAME so it's the real deal or nothing else. Electrical issues can be annoying, but that's part of the whole, raw experience of authentic arcade gaming. Cheers!

@thestripedmenace

4 жыл бұрын

Whoa, you were able to start collecting PCBs when you were 14? I envy you! That was around the same age I got seriously interested in retrogaming (I'm currently 20), and yet I haven't been able to get any PCBs yet...

@opaljk4835

4 жыл бұрын

When I was 14 I had a cheap guitar and a ps2 that had just come out. Why am I old

@omegarugal9283

4 жыл бұрын

i want an 18 wheeler deluxe cabinet so bat i would kill for one... and s silent scope one too....

Cool vid, and nice to see the collection. Got four full-sized cabs myself, ranging from good-to-great condition. Killer Instinct, Tekken Tag Tournament, Shinobi (of course), and Mortal Kombat II. Had them for years, so they didn't cost me an arm and a leg, though they weren't exactly dirt cheap either. I scooped them up back when arcades were gasping their dying breath. That's about the extent of my arcade collection though.

That was an awesome introduction of the Jamma, and and awesome introduction all around.

Ironically it was one of the better skits at the end.

31:44 damn thing sounds like a hoover! Also this line made me think of Spaceballs lol.

@pokepress

4 жыл бұрын

Joey V I was going to ask if it doubled as a vacuum cleaner.

They could release a video tomorrow and it would still feel nostalgic. This is the comfort food of KZread

Yes! Quality as always joe. Eternal appreciation for all your efforts making my favorite youtube show ever

Joe, I have only one question about gunforce 2... does it contain a “raucket lauwncher?

@AntiPseudo

4 жыл бұрын

Excuse me, it's clearly a Rock-It Lawnchair

@nintenjoe5k422

4 жыл бұрын

No, because it's a "Rocket lounger".

@pdsg365

4 жыл бұрын

Racket lancher

@Jesse__H

4 жыл бұрын

Rahwkit Lawnchur? no.

@thegenerousdegenerate9395

4 жыл бұрын

I thought it was a "raw kit launch her"?

I have the Saturn version of men vs sf. The Saturn is amazing 🤩

@leecroft7311

4 жыл бұрын

dazsly Holy shit !!! I actually bought X-Men vs Street Fighter on eBay for my VSaturn today, no joke. I agree, the Saturn is amazing.

@MzuMzu-nx1em

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah ducking cool

I've always fantasized about owning certain arcade machines, but never the PCB boards. When I was a kid, I always wanted a Double Dragon & Bad Dudes arcade machine in my bedroom. Of course, the amount of space they take up is unreal.

Great work as usual, Joe. Thanks for all that you do!

Joe, you should go and watch High Score Girl. Lots of nostalgia in that show.

@XeviousvSBlackmanta

4 жыл бұрын

A man of class i see.

I clicked on an ad for Shenmue III ... for you, Joe!

I bought a HAS supergun from a friend when he bought a candy cab. It was nice to buy a single package with a power supply and Saturn adapters all together. Think there’s a kick harness in the package as well. I got, like, 5 different games, but one of the more interesting one is the puzzle game “Dancing Eyes” by Namco. It’s marketed as one of those naughty games where you undress girls to see them in their underwear, but that’s only for the first two stages. Then it starts getting into weird stuff, like uncovering a dancing cow from a giant milk bottle and the final boss is the lead developers head inside a pineapple. Lots of fun!

I just dont have the $$$ to create a set up like this, but thanks to content like this I can live vicariously through others on KZread. Not kidding either, its awesome I can see an entire setup like this cause Id probably never see it in person. I really like and appreciate that in addition to the coolness of collecting, you are preserving history. Especially for unique stuff like neo geo, TG16, arcade games, etc.

I think of lukemorse1 whenever I see all of these arcade pcb’s because he has a huge collection of them.

@BlueflagAlpha

4 жыл бұрын

Same

@ninopapalia1461

4 жыл бұрын

It's crazy how many arcade PCB''s he owns also owns full size cabs.

@laidback93

4 жыл бұрын

Alright let's fire this up and play some of that.

Those lines in Rastan look sort of like vertical scanlines. I don't think it looks bad... Maybe you should run it in TAAAAAAAAATE MODE!! Haha.. I LOL'd at that in your video.. and I never LOL at anything. I laughed too. PS, say hi to Dave for us.

Your production quality is definitely some of the best in the Retro scene. You guys should have a Million subs!! Let's Go!!

That Astyanax PCB looks like it has a filter board attached to the end. It kept the FCC happy from "dangerous" radio waves that may have interfered with someone elses radio waves... In the end, sometimes those filter boards cause more trouble than good. Generally not needed. Welcome to the arcade world.

Impress your friends with arcade PCBs!! Do it!

22:45 Sacrilege! Everybody in their right mind knows "Ghouls" is 73x better than "Ghosts"

This video made my day 400 to 500 times better... hell maybe even 800 times better!

@mdmmason5084

Жыл бұрын

200 max

Can i just tell ya how much i love this channel!!?, man oh man, what a great episode, thank you!.

How weird I've been looking this stuff up for three days as I'm trying to get a Sega blast city arcade cabinet

Holy Crap! Thanks JOE! Did you really hear my request or did you have this planned?

My dad has a stand up Ms. Pacman that is really cool and it still boots right up. Keep going Joe!

Great video Joe! You’ve got an awesome assortment of games! I’ve got arcade cabinets in my basement. Games I own are 2 linked dedicated Cruis’n Exotica’s, dual linked Time Crisis 3, Marvel vs Capcom 2, NFL BLITZ 2000/NBA Showtime 2000, and my favorite arcade game of all time NBA Maximum Hangtime

"Die American Soccer!" -An American

Awesome Joe. Would love to own some arcades. Only one I recently got was the Arcade One Up Pac-man cocktail. Not the same as the original but anything is better than none.😆 So when is Game Sack going in Tate mode? 😂

@yellowblanka6058

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, if I were independently wealthy I'd love to build my own personal arcade. Of course then you have to worry about maintaining these old machines, and cost of powering these old machines. I think MAME/emulation cabinets are a good middle-ground, the emulation is good enough for most people and it's far less hassle.

@AltimaNEO

4 жыл бұрын

TATE MODE

@revengestory

3 жыл бұрын

Have you added any more 1ups since you posted this a year ago?

I am glad that *one person* asked you to cover arcade games again. Always find it interesting seeing arcade games played at home in different fashions.

This video was really interesting. It's amazing the amount of effort you put into this hobby. Really wild to see something new on youtube about arcade stuff.

The chips had their markings scratched off as an anti-copying measure to make it harder for people to reverse engineer and recreate bootleg copies of the board. Of course, it probably wouldn't stop someone who is very determined, but it would make it harder at least.

@omegarugal9283

4 жыл бұрын

nintendo used this trick a lot

"Can it run Choplifter?" should replace "Can it run Crisis?"

@Nersius

4 жыл бұрын

I disagree. One is a test of system performance, the other is a test of whether the system is worthy of a purchase.

Nice PCB collection! Galloping Ghost does have Astyanax, I just posted an arcade tour video on my channel last week of their current lineup. Haven't been to Denver in a couple years, didn't know Buy Back Games was gone, RIP.

I love this episode. I'm fascinated with people who collect arcade boards and have the right gear to play them. Just an idea for a future episode, Joe... you should show off your own MAME machine. or if you don't have one? build one. Just an idea.

on the CPS2 boards you can now recover the game if the battery dies and it commits suicide Modern Vintage gamer just did a video on that topic go check it out

@vasili1207

4 жыл бұрын

been available for years .... so

Yes the prices are going to be insane in another decade for a working 50-year-old JAMMA PCB.

great show. hope dave is doing well!

Awesome collection, I have a small collection and a couple of arcade machines :) it is a fun hobby but I agree maintaining the CRT's is a pain.

Holy crap. Respect to you for your efforts man, I'm going to just stick with emulation! 😁

Joe, I recently discovered that Spotify had an artist channel for Zuntata. As a fine connoisseur of video game music, are there any official game music artist/channels on Spotify that you recommend?

@XeviousvSBlackmanta

4 жыл бұрын

Zuntata... jesus Taito was on the ball having those guys in-house.

I loved the ending. Eight years old myself would have believed it was possible

Thank’s Joe! I’ve loved GameSack for years, amazing episode as always 😃👍

A lot of Arcade companies scratched off the markings on the chips so they would be harder to bootleg. In other cases (like CAVE who used IGS chips for their games), they were embarrassed about using Taiwan-based chips.

@techguyml

4 жыл бұрын

Mahoujanai no they didn’t

@Mahoujanai

4 жыл бұрын

@@techguyml No they didn't what? In the early days a lot of games had off the shelf parts, so they just scratched off the markings on the chip so it give them a little more time of having the game in the arcade without worry about it being bootlegged. Then in the late 80s and the 90s many games had their custom chip markings scratched off (in this case of ganbare gonta 2) it was a Mitchell game, but it used Data East chips. Hard to say why they did this, but it was done. There are even some instances of game companies scratching off just the production date of the chip because they didn't want people to know they used old chips.

Gamesack is so based. Metal Jesus wishes he was as retropilled as Joe.

Very informative, great video. You really know your stuff bro. Keep up the great work Joe!

I don’t have any stand alone PCBs or arcade cabinets, but I do have an extensive AES/MVS collection I like to believe is my arcade collection. Great video!

Yeah imagine a game called "Z Soccer" in the US.

@emarskineel

4 жыл бұрын

Murica

@Jesse__H

4 жыл бұрын

😂😂 Z Soccer: Freedom Fries Edition

@BlueflagAlpha

4 жыл бұрын

Zack

@yarharfiddledede

4 жыл бұрын

i prefer zed football, thank you

@kekeke8988

4 жыл бұрын

@@yarharfiddledede The term soccer comes from England historically in the first place and saying "zed" instead of "zee" doesn't make any sense. It's "ay" "bee" "see", not "ay" "bed" "sed".

7:50 - some chicks clothes come flying off! Score another point for Astynax.

@yellowblanka6058

4 жыл бұрын

Must be Kevlar fabric or something, takes several swings of the axe, lol.

So many fond memories of playing Rastan as a kid. Such a mean game but for 1987 it was a treat for the eyes. Also, I don't usually pay attention to video game music but they did a great job with it.

I knew that you would play shinobi at first, this is my favorite pcb with ghouls and ghost and never I will sell it! Great video as usual ❤️

Joe, I farted blood. Is this bad?

@GameSack

4 жыл бұрын

Not if it made you smile.

@Ralph_Sandwich

4 жыл бұрын

@@GameSack yes chef

Lol I never understand the overseas people hating on saying "Z" instead of "Zed." You don't say Yed instead of Y over there do you? You don't? Nuff zed 😏

i love everything about shinobi; graphics, gameplay, music... played a lot at the arcades back in the day and playing a lot nowadays as well.

Wow this was a well made video.Loved that you showed the gameplay man. :) Those old arcade boards put a smile on my face.Its too bad that they can be finicky and stop working but a lot of love and dedication was put in to them.I will always remember the good times I had with arcades as a kid.

33:17 I'll turn 24 this year and I'm still alive :0

@kekeke8988

4 жыл бұрын

OK zoomer.

Absolutely insane, impractical, and awesome. Keep on keeping on!

LOL, 13:46 character's feet get wet and instantly disintegrates. Gotta love that arcade quarter munching.

None of the arcades or restaurants near me growing up had Shinobi so I didn't even realize it existed until now. I really wish I had gotten to play it back in the day because I know it would have been an instant favorite. I thought ninjas were so rad