Basement Brothers are Neo-Alec, Mr. Jakes and Sturat.
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Adding my voicd to those who found the rundown of Japanese architecturr more interesting than the game... but I would be lying if I didn't say that I'd be all in for a game where you can like, run around as Mario inside the Nintendo headquarters. If only because moving as Mario is a lot of fun, so they could probably even make a regular office fun to move around in.
Your videos are super informative, interesting, well made and fun! As someone who literally grew up with MSX, I can assure you that I'm not the only MSX fan who enjoys your work.
Elm Knight looks pretty badass. I wouldn't mind seeing it covered in the show. Just saying.
I wonder if someone at Sega played this at some point. "A game about the company and it's employees in a fictional scenario where an alien invasion plays a role" sounds a bit like Segagaga....
I like the old architecture too. Iconic. I like the comments section in your videos, and I learned more games have the company offices, which makes me happy. I like it was fairly similar to real life. Thanks for showing this game, I've always been curious. I feel like the "hidden" break room is only sort of obvious, but reasonably obtuse. Love your work, and yeah, I might not get to most of these games, but it opens up a really interesting world and ecosystem. Its not your fault, and its not at all that I cant read any japanese (i own other Japanese only systems), its that its a computer, and I'm just not a fan of pc gaming, especially keyboard controls. But man, i love pc-98 graphics
2 meta 4 me
Another great video, as always. Happy to say that I could read "basement" in hiragana in this one!
I came across a old pc88 horror game on KZread called produce about a group of psychics wondering the building and you as the monster have to chase them up to the 20th floor without letting any of them escaped
Pixel art and stop motion have a uniqueness to them that you don’t see anymore nowadays it’s all about how to get 3d graphics close to realistic as much possible
Nice review but I don't see any grey. Just evil. You were working for a big evil manipulating a smaller evil to f' over the 1st cast.
You thinking a school has school clubs but no classrooms or anything sounds so stupid but at the same time makes perfect sense.
It deserves a recent remake!
A different jump in genre in the second game!
This could be perfect for a Sega Saturn release back in the day.
Considering one of the main developers seems to have been a huge Sega fan, that would've been perfect!
It's pretty interesting about its idea, if you're a fan of Xak, definitely try it out!
If you set up a Ko-Fi, I’d be more than happy to toss lunch and train fare your way to give us a taste of 90s vs now nostalgia!
Well, I just added a "Buy me a beer" level on Patreon... But yeah, it isn't a one-time service like Ko-Fi.
Yes! I too love the curved pastel-grey architecture from 80s-90s Japan and get happy whenever I spot a building with those designs. I wish I knew the name for that architectural style. (And I love the ultra-rounded pastel or black+primary colour design in Japanese products from the same era.)
This kinda reminds me of those weird multimedia CDs you used to get as promotional material from like car companies or whatever. Though this game is honestly more charming.
13:43 To be fair it was indicate by both the map and the mat.
I couldn't make sense of the map. Couldn't tell if there was another room there or if I was already on the outside wall.
@@BasementBrothers The map is pretty detailed but if the room you were in was highlighted it would have been clearer.
Such a novel concept. I haven't seen a company reference itself in a game more than a couple of lines of dialogue or the ability to visit an office with a couple of employees. I probably have mentioned it before but I used to live in Mie (Ise). I appreciate rural Japan much more than the big cities.
How come you didn't say anything about the crab?? What's it do?
It says some boring stuff.
Repeatedly calling Fray "アホ" over and over again broke me... The truth hurts, doesn't it, Fray...? 😂
12:24 Well I've met people born and raised in my country who were born to foreign parents and because of that had very thick accents.
I think that building would be an example of postmodern architecture. There's a Wikipedia article on the style/movement with lots of examples from different countries, and there's more very cool stuff also if you do an image search for Japanese postmodern architecture. :)
5800 yen in 1992? Absurd. I really want a Xak remake, something like the newer Ys games would be cool. Esp if they get to the ultraviolence in Xak 3. Though with the CERO ratings that's probably unlikely, they really cracked down on the ultraviolence.
i rented the SNES version as a kid, and had fun with it playing with my brother. it was jank but we had fun
19:53 - Why is there a crab? That's the second time I've seen it. You aren't just, not going to explain the crab, are you? 😭 'Kani' you please explain the kani?!
Yeah, I'm just not going to explain it. There is a talking crab there for some reason, and I honestly don't know why it's there either.
Go away! I don't feel like talking to you.
I got a hold of the instruction manual for Norton Commander back in my school days, to someone that's grown up with modern computers it feels really amusing that "you can have TWO WINDOWS OPEN AT THE SAME TIME" was a selling point back in the day - judging from screenshots it was graphical enough to have a Windows 9x-style visual representation of files and folders so you'd think Windows would've figured out the whole "window" thing by then... The same batch of obsolete books also had a TurboCAD instruction manual, half of it was just a list of all the clipart that came with the program. As in, HUNDREDS OF PAGES just showing images and listing their filename. It feels so bizarre it somehow was worth printing all of that stuff on dead wood instead of letting the user just browse the folder and preview the images, but I guess this was so long ago having an image previewer/editor wasn't even a thing yet and chonky GIF clipart was the cutting edge graphics technology... paper was simply the only thing that could contain its power....
No, you're not. Actually, I miss 80's and 90's Japanese EVERYTHING. See, I was born 1982, and when I received my NES in the fall of 1988, a major reason I found it so utterly captivating was due to the excess of Japanese culture imbued into almost every game. The distinctively stylized graphics in many games is what allowed me to discern Japanese animated cartoons from their western counterparts, long before the concept of anime or "Japanimation" was considered mainstream in the west. Like, at 8 years old, I could easily tell that Superbook (not part of my normal viewing habits, but it was one of the few cartoons on Sunday mornings) was animated in Japan. Anyway, in spring of 1989, the local video rental place actually had a connection in Japan how would send them bootleg famicom carts (they may have actually even been disks, from their disk system, or even straight up rom chips for all I can remember,) modified for use on a US NES via use of a ribbon cable. The owner would allow trusted customer to rent them out for a weekend. So, almost a year prior to its American release, my best friend and I were able to play SUPER MARIO BROS. 3!!! We also got to play a game called Mario 7, Baby Mario, which I would later learn was simply Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa. Anyway, exposure to these games caused me to fall HARD for Japanese culture. Long before half of the U.S. would do so through the love of anime and manga, I might add!! I loved everything Japanese for a while, which was actually possible, as my dad was a fiber optics engineer and later executive, which necessitated frequent business trips to Japan, which he would return with semily mundane, every-day Japanese Items that would blow my mind! I finally got to visit Japan in the early 2010's but by that point Japan looked little like the Japan I was exposed to circa magazines, and television recordings, and Newspapaers. Don't get me wrong, I still LOVED it, but it was certainly not the the Japan I saw images of as a kid, where Japanese video game companies were dominating the globe, Puroresu was at it's peak, giant robot toys pervaded toy store shelves, most Anime either resembled Fist of the Northstar or Mega Man robot masters, and their music resembled American popular music... except distinctively Japanese. The architecture was different, the capsule machines and other vending machines were different, it was like a bizarro version of the country and culture I was exposed to second hand decades earlier. So yes... despite not visiting it until years after those decades, I deeply miss 80's and 90's Japanese architecture, AND 80's and 90's Japan!
Definitely can relate. Luckily I first moved to Japan in 2001, so I felt like there were at least still a lot of echos of 90s Japan left over at the time. Game centers were still everywhere, used game stores were filled with SFC and Saturn games, and everyone had an MD player. Hard Off had steals on "junk" Neo Geo CD systems that still worked. Ayumi Hamasaki and Utada Hikaru were still the queens of Jpop. 2024 Japan is still cool, but... yeah. Maybe a little less unique... probably thanks to how global things are now thanks to the Internet. Guess I'm just getting too old and nostalgic for my own good though. Best to enjoy the present for what it is. Thanks for commenting!
Interesting that a game that's not even fun to play makes for a great episode for your channel. I loved the comparisons between the images from the game and the Google Maps explorations of the areas today. And the look at older Japanese architecture "with more hope for the future" is at once inspiring and heartbreaking.
Really curious how the heck a project like this would get greenlit, even if there was a fanbase that'd be interested in the behind-the-scenes look. Maybe it was a way to recoup the development costs for a bunch of failed prototypes, turning them into a minigame collection?
One of the most depressing thoughts I had recently is how the Neo-Geo Land was demolished and in its place is just a parking lot now.
This makes me think of the Quintet offices in the Tokyo part of Terranigma, except they made it into a stand-alone, full priced game and included some demos.
Brutalist architechture is always so garish, it is kinda unappealing to those who see buildings as a place for people. That said, Dubai and Singapore still has pretty interesting architechture when it comes to new buildings. Even the older ones, but not that old, like the Burj Khalifa and Marina Bay Sands looks great and are iconic buildings for their respective territories.
I found ElmKnigt some time ago while just diving into abandoneware games, before i found out about this channel! Looked cool, but i couldn't figure out how to start this game on an emulator, haha Really cool to learn all this arcane Micro Cabin lore, Xak series was so fascinating!
It was my first time playing Elm Knight for this demo, but my impression is that it has too many different weapons to choose from when really you just need one that works. Maybe the different weapons become more necessary later in the game. The gameplay also felt like a glorified version of Faceball 2000. Who knows though, maybe if I try the actual game someday it will be amazing.
All the armor in right places... ;D
Is your PC98 getting more yellowed, or is it the lighting? I'm sure it's probably made out of the same plastic as the SNES
I tried a new lighting setup for this video that I'm not going to be using again. :)
And so Basement-kun ends another adventure. See you soon, Basement-kun. More than the eighties japanese buildings style I dig that of their cars. So squared, serious, manly. You can see that something started to get wrong in the passage from the last GTR-34 version shipped to the market to the R35 or whatever that "thing" is called.
Always awesome to watch your videos.
I love 80s everything so that definitely applies to architecture too. I mean hell, the entire reason I found your channel back in the day was thanks to that love.
For some reason, I find it really charming when games of this era try to recreate real-world architecture. It's kind of got a "demake" vibe, in modern terms. Or, like, that's one thing I really enjoy about some of the early SMT dungeon crawls, with recognizable locations like Tokyo Tower in grid-based form.
Similar reason for why I still enjoy old PC FPS like Duke 3d and Blood. The attempt to recreate real-world locations in an engine that very much cannot do it leads to really fun levels.
Thank you for clarify that the game has no ending. I've been wondering that for more than 25 years, when I played the MSX2 version
I remember playing some game like tetris from my neo geo collection in my computer using emulator, I play 1vs1 with my friend but there are some attack that you can do to the other player, like you can freeze their block , you can add some random block to them, but I forgot the name of the game. I am here because I search for neo geo tetris game, someone who know this game please please
"You boys be quiet down there." Please please please. Don't ever be quiet
Seems like a early SGGG to me. Thanks for the Video!
What an amazingly curious game this one looks like... Maybe not much in the realm of playability, but I'm pretty sure I would have enjoyed it back in the day, had my japanese been up to snuff, which clearly was not the case😅
Maybe not much a game worth to play, but it seems interesting time capsule with this pixelated photos of Japan from few decades and recreation of game dev office with doesn't exist anymore. I like your channel for showing this old obscure japanese pieces of software.
So if you're trapped in the tower forever at the end of the game, and the fairy is the one that guided you to the tower in the first place... Does that mean the fairy's still evil?
Ooh! Now it all makes sense...
I think it's a rather cute idea. I can imagine being a videogames fan during a time when videogames were more obscure, and finding something like this very appealing. It's obviously something that has become obsolete with the medium having become mainstream and with so much media made surrounding the development and making of videogames, but when that was more shrouded in mystery, this must have felt very intimate and enlightening. It's sort of like those easter eggs where you find the developers of the videogame within said videogame, but expanded upon.