Beating EVERY N64 Game - International Superstar Soccer 64 & Jikkyō World Soccer 3 (169 & 217/394) 

Thab's hair changes throughout this video are wild.

How can you not even mention the absolutely AMAZING menu music?!! It does an amazing job of getting you pumped up to play. The menus/ UI was also quite well designed and easy to use, with these surprisingly expressive animated emoticons indicating current player health.

8:32 Surferboi 8:34 *PETRUS OF THOROLUND* 11:31 some kind of Furby

As someone who watches soccer it is incredibly entertaining to watch someone who doesn't, play and commentate on what's happening.

Jikkyo Soccer 3 confirmed to be the inspiration behind the Human Centipede

The ISS and PES for the SNES, N64, and PS2 library are just legendary. You said there was debate between them and FIFA. Not on N64. Konami crushed it at the time.

In reference to the title number issues: The reason I like this series is "and I mean all of them!". I want to see them all, in my eyes you FOUND a discrepancy that fixes the list to be more complete. To me that's what matters most, to be complete.

these animations are surprisingly good for an N64 game

"Damn, its 1996 and we have this crazy state of the art 3d processing engine! What sort of games should we make to fully utilize this hardware?" Wrestling Soccer Mahjong Racing games that are moving too fast

We''ll forgive you on the technicality of playing the soccer games out of order. This series is excellent. I love watching it since I did grow up with the N64 and I couldn't have played more than 50 of them so this series is very informative and entertaining. Excellent job, Thab!

5:50 maybe somebody already explained in chat at the time, but offsides in soccer happens when a pass is made to a person who is standing past the last defender at the time that the ball leaves the passer's foot (not including the goalkeeper).

Wrestlemania 2000 is just as incredible as No Mercy, you'll have fun. Well, you probably did have fun like 2 years ago when you played it for the challenge.

This was my soccer game. I spent hours and hours playing the world league. When you beat the world league you get to play against the all star's team which is basically the best players in one team.

Props to Thab for taking account of unexpected developments like missing games. A big reason I've been following this series these past years is because I'm interested in seeing all the N64 had to offer so I appreciate the commitment to showing it all, even the mistakes. Also 16:52 LMAO

HAHAHA, RONALDINHO SAUCER!!!

This game actually looks very good for the time.

The original ISS on the SNES was so great! The fluidity amazed me at the time. 98 was my life around the World Cup. 🇨🇴 on the cover❤️

Ok FYI Wrestlemania 2000 and VPW2 are sibling games with totally different rosters. VPW 2 is All Japan licensed plus features altered versions of wrestlers from other Japanese promotions and MMA groups as well. They are different game modes, WM 2000 has cage matches while VPW2 has MMA rules. Their main quest is also a bit different as well. I would probably make these separate entries, but either way both games are awesome so enjoy.

Hey, this is a 9/10 for me. I think the through pass depends on the quality of the stats of the player if I recall correctly. Also, my finest weapon was the loop/chip goal. You run to the keeper, when they come after you, you go a little to the side and the push left C.

ah yes, raging at referee's decisions... nothing beats this

I didn't think I recognized this game until I saw how powerful the sliding kicks are in this game. Then I remembered playing it as a kid. Wild how you can get basically full-power shots while sliding.

This game was actually so far ahead of its time. I spent more time than any other game playing this ISS series. The players are copies but they didn't have licences for names so would spend hours updating. you can also manually control keepers which makes it tough!

Finally a game worth waiting an entire week for!!! Please do a video over 25min!!! Wrestlemania2000 deserves it, proabably my favorite game growing up since I barely ever came across no mercy.

5:50 Thab not knowing what offsides is 😆

I remember when I was waiting on you to make it to SHADOWMAN for what felt like an eternity, nowadays it's OGRE BATTLE 64.

As a huge wrestling fan, I am so excted for the _WWF WrestleMania 2000_ video. If you've never played it before, you're in for a treat.

I always thought of ISS/Pro Evolution as the game for people who love video games and like football. Whereas FIFA is the series for people who love football and like video games.

Great video, as always, really enjoying this project! I used to play this all the time, and I think it's held up pretty well still. My personal score is probably still like an 8/10. :) The English commentator's (Tony Gubba) mood changes are epic.

lol the “offsides” rage at 5:50

I love the fake names for the athletes. This brings me back

Can we talk about how San Francisco Rush racing down that hill with those jumps at the end looked like a scene directly from San Francisco Rush?

"There are not many sports games on N64" XD this guy is a comedian....Sports is one of the few strengths ofthe N64 catalogue

With Thab discovering the new game, looks like he will just have to start over so his run isn’t tainted.

There are three referees in the game and each one is different. One is balanced, another lets all pass and the third one gives you a card for even the slightest foul. This was the only sport game I had for the N64 and I really enjoyed it.

That’s pretty awesome! Wrestlemania 2000 is honestly one of my favorites even over no mercy in my eyes! And got the other Japanese counterpart and we will have a most excellent episode next Friday!!

12:53 human centipede

"These guys are playing the wrong kind of football" love the commentary

who knew N64 soccer games would make an absolute banger of a vid. Well play beast

Wrestlemania 2000 is not a clone of Virtual Pro Wrestling 2 at all. They just share the same engine. One major difference is Virtual Pro Wrestling has a separate shoot fighting grappling system that is meant to mimic MMA.

Thab should do commentary for Starcraft Brood War. His commentary on sports games makes them entertaining, considering that almost every one looks and plays fairly the same

Yeah, I think the N64 ISS titles usually had a J-League variant. The main difference between them is that you instead get the Japanese league sides as opposed to national teams and the league on that is probably less brutal. When you get to ISS 2000, try the European one as it has a Success Mode like Puwapuro.

Loved the commentary! It really made the video a lot more enjoyable! Keep it up!

I loved this game as a kid, cant believe it has been 27 years

I played international superstar soccer 2000 a lot with my dad. It was a great sports game for its time.

This was a great game..So many different moves you can pull off.. and strategies to employ

The fact that every single time thab can he will implement a play by play sports commentary format leads me to believe he secretly wants to be a sports commentator lol

Even as a Scotsman “Polish Aggression” is just not a term…

12:56 Agghh that the *human centipede*

Never try to enter the world of naming conventions of Konami Football games. They started with International Super Star soccer, but then changed it to Winning Eleven but at the same time then changed it to Pro Evolution Soccer but at the same time it was called Winning Eleven Pro Evolution Soccer in other places.

0:04 wait, i never noticed that 😮

YES! YOU'RE FINALLY GOING TO PLAY A GOOD GAME NEXT! PLAY AS THE BLUE MEANIE!!! MEANIESAULT!!!

I remember the TASes of the SNES International Superstar Soccer where they do everything they can to confuse the game, like for example get every player ejected and force the goalie to do all the scoring himself IIRC. (Or is that from the whoisthisgit video on the game?)

I use to be able to score by corner kicks by curving it in... use to drive my brother insane.

You can actually curve the ball in ISS 64 with the joystick too. Moving it after you play a high pass for example, changes the cross on the ground where the ball will land

I am eating every donut, and I mean all of them! The twist is the next donut is randomly selected so I'm I'll have no idea what's coming next. This is the journey to getting diabetes

Heck yes I have this game but never really truly figured out the controls so now I can have you do that for me

After you mentioned the wiki page and the 40 winks game I went to take a look at the list because I was curious and I noticed that there’s another game for the n64 released a year ago called Xeno Crisis, are you gonna play that as well? There also seems to be 2 other games that are planned to be released at some point.

love the series and hey if there is one more game added to the fun then great; I know the WWF Wrestlemania 2000 was recorded probably 2 years ago but imo it and Virtual Pro Wrestling 2 don't have very much in common other than being on the same game engine, should be treated as different games but still next week should be fun. Both are great games.

12:53 Did... did this game somehow predict the existence of human centipede??

Hell yes Wrestlemania 2000 I been waiting for this

Rabanilli (Ravanelli) scores in the end!!! 😂 🇮🇹

Dang, so many clones. Also, do you think you could still include the marble race where Jikkyo World Soccer 3 won in your game 216 video, please? They’re fun to watch and that one had some fun lead changes.

WWF Wrestlemania 2000 is the game that got me into wrestling when I was little, I really can’t wait to watch that one next week!

what is that thumbnail

Love the sport narration voice 😂

During corners you can adjust the hight of the blue triangle thing to get a high cross when you push up and down on the joystick respectively.

Ayyyy finally WrestleMania 2000! WM2000 and VPW2 are both incredible wrestling games, still top tier by today's standards...but man are you in for a long one. WM2000's Road to WrestleMania mode ("Story" mode) can take ages. Then again you probably know this already.

Can’t wait for the next episode!! WWF Wrestlemania 2000 was the goat back in the day. 🔥

12:51 Konami predicted The Human Centipede.

No mercy was my jam. So much time on that as a teen at youth group gatherings

They forgot all my favorite soccer stars, like Arriaga, Arriaga 2, Barriaga, Arruglia, and Bizotsa

Oh hell yeah WrestleMania 2000 is STILL in my N64

ISS 98 was a big part of my childhood, so I'm looking forward to that on. And to ISS 2000, because that has some kind of RPG mode, that'll be fun 😄

The mario party clip in the intro makes me chuckle every time

Im not into soccer, but ISSS64 is really fun, it was one of my first games on the N64 (It came with the console). I still have it in my collection. Man, Vigilante 8 2nd Offense was this close. 😫

Surprisingly still holds up visually, the animations, UI and music are quite charming, way better than the sterile and boring realistic soccer games.

have more nostalgia for this and fifa 98 than any other sports games on the console sans blitz, in large part because of the commentary. OHHHHHH WHAT A CRACKA!!! IT'S IMPORTANT FOR....italy.... TO... SAVE, THIS!!!!

Thanks for making England world champions!

Blast Corps teaaase at the end.... Gimme BLAST CORPS!

This game does have great graphics! I’m surprised it looks so good being that early in the console’s life span.

Been loving the Marbles race for the next game

I used to love this game! Great memories

6:45 the goalie thought this was a bowling game apparently

Human centipede celebration at 13 minutes lmao

I was team ISS and scolded Fifa players at the time. Somehow it feels so good that you acknowledge my case. I'm old btw..

ISS was my 90s childhood. The video game magazines always said the ISS games were by far the greatest football games around, and I couldn't stop playing them.

Both of these games have great soundtracks!

played the absolute shit out of this game when it was new. 4 player matches non stop. It was so good.

This games soundtrack went hard

My N64 in Brazil came in a bundle with this game and a golden controller for the World Cup, I don't recall if I got it on 1998 (before/after WC) or at the end of 1997, I loved that controller and played this game ad nauseam LOL

You could play that soccer game as a bonus feature thing as a victory lap for playing all the games

Geez it looks like you turned into Elvis halfway through this video.

This is my favorite YT sports game series

Ah yes, the bootleg of Hahaha! Rrrrrrronaldinho Saucerrrrrrr!

This game is all about the through ball and the chip.

By the end of this series, TheBeast is gonna be a better announcer than Vince McMahon.

Soccer? Nah. Pro Wrestling? Give me a HELL YEAH!

I used to love this game as a kid here are some tips: you take the ball from the opposing players form any position with the A button no foul any slide from behind with C left is automatic red card yes, through passes with C up are a major thing for this game. Allejo is the best player in the game when you are in defense and the opposing team is coming at you and you are following him and you find a player with better position, send the player you are controlling in opposite direction, the game will automatically give you control of the other player. there are more advanced plays but those are the basics i know

I love all your different wigs! I support your cause!

I HAD THIS GAME AS A KID, CORE MEMORY UNLOCKED!!!