Console Wars - Samurai Shodown - Super Nintendo vs Sega Genesis 

best game goes to NEO GEO version!

My goodness. One thing I like about these episodes is that you never know who's going to win each round. When it seems like one guy has it in the bag, his partner manages to take away his victory in a split second.

oh wow.. didn't know Super Nintendo cut out that much frames of animation! You can definitely see it on Haohmaru's Tornado projectile. There's only like 2 frames on SNES, where as the Genesis looks to be a lot more.

I love how you analyze the games and make them justice, i've seen lots of people bashing the SNES version of Samurai Shodown because of the smaller sprites, and i've seen lots of people bashing Run Saber because is "just a rip off", it's like they don't even want to give those games a fair chance, gotta love how the plots are always funny, creative and blend in perfectly with the reviews.

I miss Greg so much. This episode is particularly awesome.

Dan: Bigger is better. Trust me. Every girl I ever dated told me that. Greg: So? Every girl I ever dated says "we're really good friends"... (Starts sobbing) Best joke on this channel ever.

Forgot to mention that Genesis doesn’t have the same arcade moves (High Slash), also some medium slashes

Loved the episode! Do Clayfighter in the future!

Don’t you guys realize that the arcade moves are different in the Genesis version ? Especially the strong sword

Great series. I wonder what will happen should you ever run out of SNES/Genesis comparisons? Will there be Saturn/Playstation?

The explanation they gave on that time for Genesis version missing Earthquake was to make other characters bigger. This explains the tiny chars on SNES too (because Earthquake was the biggest one as possible, others would be smaller).

I grew up with the Super Nintendo port. It's a great game. Even though you declared the snes version the winner, I'm now curious about playing the Genesis one. Great video!

I'm the only one that see some resemblance like if they were the young version of GameSack?

This one was fun since I had no idea which way it was going to go. Both versions have nice music based on the clips here. A shame about the SNES voice samples. How strange the SNES loses there since voice samples are typically a weakness for the Genesis. I also enjoyed the setup for the episode with the potions and how easily anything is illogical is brushed aside, which is good for a few laughs. Good job as always.

Love this series! You guys do such an awesome job with the review and even the little gags in the middle.

"The winter dance. For everyone who works at the toothpick factory." Im dying 😂

You guys rock! loved all your videos so far, and perfect subject matter for me as I have my SNES and Genesis always hooked up.

I am nintendo , and I am sega this console war ,I love u guys plz keep up

I don't think I've complemented on Dan's musician skills before. Now, I gotta say, he's really good. His rendition of the "Growing Pains" theme is a real showstopper.

7:07 GRAND DAD? Great episode! If i had 4 hands.. oh boy... Twister!

Love this game! Being a massive SNK fan and a die-hard fan, collector and player of the NeoGeo, I love seeing how the SNES and MegaDrive handled the Neo games. Good work guys! MJ

The Neo-Geo MVS version of Samurai Shodown kicks the snout out of both versions. :P

5:15 "So, every girl I've ever dated says we're, really good friends" (depressingly looks down). Imaooo this is one of the funniest vids I think you guys have made, cheers guys, awesome video once again!

Come on, guys, we all know who the real winner is... Greg's beard!

Looking forward to getting home and watching the episode! For the next, how about Mega Bomberman vs Super Bomberman 3? :)

I love how elaborate the plot setups are to get to the segue of ""This game was great on the Sega Genesis" "No it was better on Super Nintendo"". By this time next year I expect Super Nintendo to be living in the woods and trying to convince Sega to hang with panthers and bears in the introduction to the Jungle Book episode.

It’s interesting now the arcade version used lots of sprite scaling techniques, and it’s kinda shame that the SNES version didn’t try to use a Mode-7 layer to allow scaling. I don’t think it would’ve been easy to pull off due to not really being designed for that but it would’ve looked really cool if it could, and been closer to the arcade.

The puppets put me in tears every time. Great show guys! Keep up the good work!

didn't know Greg was German, I have a character who is German too. But yeah, it's nice to know your heritage Greg!

The 16-Bit wars had the greatest battle in history. Fighting games of that area. Really tested the loyalty of some of the most hardcore gamers.

The skits in this episode are pure GOLD! If I were Netflix, or something, I'd give you guys a full time show there, man.

Just realized today (well, with a friend's help) that some Genesis moves are totally different then arcade. Get Haohmaru and check his sword movements (weak, medium, strong) on arcade, SNES, and then check the same in Genesis (different on this). More interestingly, while the Sega CD version lacks Earthquake too, it's a new port (by JVC), and it preserves the arcade movements.

"Great could be subjective" Damn, that was so freakin' deep

Great work, guys! Keep up! Although I personally think that blood and fatalities have more to do with presentation rather than graphics.

i grew up playing the Genesis version of SamSho. the Genesis version had some attacks missing like Haohmaru's forward stab (medium slash/punch), Galford's jumping spinning kick (roundhouse kick), etc. and, of course, it lacked Earthquake, a character i was never interested in. still it was one of the better NeoGeo-to-Genesis ports at that time.

Would you guys be willing to do Fatal Fury? I love that game and it started the King of Fighters Series and is a classic !

great work guys, its to the point where you guys are in my top 5 favorite youtubers, there arent many "real" people left on youtube who does shit for fun anymore

Perhaps ironically Earthquake may have been cut from the Genesis version because his sprite would have been too large with the zoomed in view similar to how in the NES TMNT Tournament Fighters you can't have 2 players as Hothead.

These videos are always so good. Keep making them.

Always glad to watch another video. You guys are my favorite low production channel. You guys would make my top 10 underrated gaming channel list.

thank you SO MUCH for doing this series, I had forgotten how much I loved this game. So hard.

Great episode. I feel Samurai Showdown on the Mega Drive does at least have better presentation. Shame the PAL release is so expensive!

You can also hit both slash buttons and both kick buttons to do heavy attacks in the SNES version without the use of the shoulder buttons. Just so everyone knows.

"I'm going to play with myself" "ALL NIGHT" 😂

My favorite fighting game of all time! While both the SNES and Genesis/Sega Cd version are good alternatives for those who are not willing to shell out $200 on the Neo Geo port. The 3do version is the 2nd closest to being like the Arcade save for a loading time between each match. Also lol on the subtle joke at the end.

Good show, guys! May I suggest "The Pirates of Dark Water"? You all will have fun analyse both versions... Good luck...

Man, I totally love you two. Just funny as hell. Presentation and script is always awesome. I have no clue why y’all don’t have more subscribers.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Great to have frest Console Wars after a long day at work! :)

"The Samurai are great dancers, they have a potion for that!" Absolutely fantastic! The Sega Genesis is a better game even if it's missing one character. The one thing that's baffling too me is the Sega CD version. It should by all rights be equal to that of the AES. Complete with the zooming effect, but they Tokai didn't do the port justice. The Sega Genesis alone should be able to technically do Samurai Showdown if it had the storage capacity. Both consoles had the same processor setup (Motorola 68K and a Z80 Zilog Zilog co-processor). This is what gives the Genesis the ability to emulate every effect the Snes can display including Mode 7. Now, the Genesis's 68K processor is slower than the Neo Geo's; However, that is where the Sega CD comes into play. It's 68K is not....but again they just ported the Genesis version with CD sound...not cool. Addendum- Galford's stage sounds awful on the Snes. What did they do to it?

Another fun episode...thanks for making these videos! One thing I wanted to point out though...SNK games are traditionally four button games. The layout is A,B,C,D so its kind of odd that chose to make the games six buttons...typically in an SNK fighting game you would press A + B, or C + D for high level attacks, so the way they laid out the controller schemes on the SNES and Genesis kind of doesn't make any sense.

Batman returns is the next episode. Am I right? Cuze that quote was said by The Penguin :D

"What a crazy random happenstance!" I saw that reference...

Had the 3do port back in the day. Loved it, still have it, still love it!

I'd like to see you guys play the Fatal Fury games for SNES and Genesis.

Man watching old episodes. Always loved these guys. Greg was a cool cat

That 6 button controller... I wonder how different the Genesis catalog would have been with that pad from the beginning. I also wonder why Sega didn't add shoulder buttons to the 6 button pad, being it a response to Super Nintendo's gamepad.

It's 2023 miss Greg so much ❤ he was the heart of Console wars

i personally like the genesis music and sound effects better and do i agree with the graphics for the Genesis version, its really got something special about the genesis version that capture me in over the snes version!!

Batman Returns X-Man Console Wars Spectacular next?! Also, the farting Lucky Charms bit cracked me up. Well done, fellas.

LOL @ That face Dan made during the intro. xD 2:25 "I should have known better than to listen to your hair brained scheme!" - I see what you did there! Also, I wish I had Lucky Charms scented farts! These games look awesome. They look very different from the typical fighters like Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat, which I think is pretty suckaweet. I never knew that this was a pretty big series, either. Anyway, great job on the vidya, guys!

Omg, batman returns is next and in time for Christmas! That was an easy hint since that's what the penguin said. Those games are vastly different. Can't wait!

Lmfao. The lucky charms fart

Great job guys. You both should compare the SNES and Genesis version of The Jungle Book.

Its weird to me how the super Nintendo version won just because it has one extra character, while in the Fatal Fury video the Genesis version won despite the fact that it was missing 2 characters. Edit: the Super Nintendo is still good.

yo the foreshadowing and Segway in this episode was godlike

Batman Returns! Wasn't sure you guys were going to do this for December, but great choice.

Joke starting at 1:17. Had me dying.

5:14 LMFAO I COULDN'T STOP OF LAUGH

Great episode guys! While I do own the the Sega version, I'll have to keep an eye out for the Super Nintendo one. Since you did a Neo Geo ported game, why not compare King Of The Monsters 1 or 2. Keep up the good work! Cheers!

So glad your channel was recommended. Loving the content!!

Though I have both Japanese SFC(SNES) and US Genesis versions, I stick with playing Samurai Shodown games on my PS2 via the Anthology, Saturn, or PS1. Though I did recently add the Gameboy Sam Sho 1 to my collection (will pick up the other, based on SS3 at a later time), both the first and second GB titles are surprisingly fun for the portable. The 16 bit versions, while both good, just seem to lack that oomph that drew my attention in arcades back in the day while I was there to play Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter II.

tough call, both great games! Hilarous show guys.

Rock n roll racing that game would be a awesome console wars future episode.

Hey guys been a Fan since the Streets Of Rage vs. Final Fight and I got to say another job well done. I'm looking forward to the Batman Returns episode.

/SNES drinks the dwarf potion.

The "Show me that smile" Growing Pains theme song is one of the best theme songs of all-time! I miss the 80's/90's man.

I love the continuity errors in the episodes. It adds to the charm. Content is key and u guys smash it. Would love to see these up against the Neo Geo version. Would guess Neo Geo is better though

Tbh, at this point just play the Neo Geo, 3DO or anthology version

THIS IS CONSOLE WARS!!! YAAAY!!!

Regardless of anything else, I agree that the more 'zoomed-in' approach works way better with the graphics in these instances.

oooohhh I can't wait for the next game if the hint is anything to go by it definitely was one of my favourites on the SNES...heh I remember buying it when a video rental store was going out of business after watching it on Video Arcade top 10...the Canadian Video game show that spends more time then watching people play video games...lol, anyway true story I played the game ALOT and once I was messing around with the options and didn't realize I set it for the hardest difficulty setting, so I played through it wondering why everyone was so tough but I pushed onward and sure enough it gave methe ending screen indicating I beat it on the hardest difficulty...lol I was so proud of myself and from that point on when I still had it I only played it on the hardest difficulty...that game gave me so much nostalgia as a kid, so I can't wait to see what you have planned for your next episode...well take care!

Both games were ported by Takara, so keep that in mind. If something is missing, it means Takara decided it wasn't possible on the console.

finally a new episode! love it! will you guys eventually review the sega-cd version too? i heard it was substantially different from the Genesis beyond music.

Awesome episode! I'm surprised SNES has the smaller sprites this time. And Batman is back on Console Wars!

This channel is criminally underrated.

That nazi joke at the beginning...oh man, my sides! You keep getting funnier! Keep up the good work!

Great episode as always! Keep it up guys!

love the new video. thank you for sharing.

batman returns is going to be the next episode, perfect episode for holidays.

awesome episode..made me late for work watching it lmao...keep em up guys..tone.vs

What? I missed this episode! Simply epic!

Holy crap, 2:54 to get to the actual video. This is the first episode I see from you guys so I'm not sure how you do your videos but for a newcomer I would cut that fat off. The actual game information was good.

What's next? Spider-Man and Venom: maximum carnage? Tecmo Super Bowl?, Fatal Fury?, Super Street Fighter II?, The Death and Return of Superman?, NBA Jam: Tournament Edition?, Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures?, Ms. Pac-Man?, World Heroes?, What games come next for your episode?

14:37 Awww. RIP Alex Trebek..

Hey guys, I have a game suggestion for a which is worse..... It's called "Revolution X" I know this game is not great on the SNES or Genesis but I feel it would make for a good video ^^

Yaaaaaaay! I was hoping you guys did this one.

I agree with the review and even the final result, but the music. I don't like the SNES music better than Genesis.

You guys should do Fatal Fury , SNES Vs Genesis. Especially since Terry is now in Smash Bros

Great Episode. Keep it up, Dudes. 👍

great work again guys 👏