Forgotten and Weird Super Nintendo Games! (SNES) 

Macross Scrambled Valkyrie Plus! It's a solid shmup by Winky Soft and published by Zamuse.

E.V.O is Spore before Spore. I would love to see a full (or at least main-feature) review of it. The story is actually baller AF, and some of the best writing in early gaming. I got my copy of it from childhood and almost NO ONE has ever heard of this game.

No idea why, but RU-vid unsubscribed me from this channel. Hope I was the only one hit with this bug.

Secret of Evermore was the Western replacement for the true Secret of Mana sequel: Seiken Densetsu 3. There were a half-dozen potential main characters and the plot would be altered depending on which main and side characters you picked. A couple of other Square RPGs I went through weird ROMs for were Front Mission, an isometric tactical RPG with each character having an upgradeable mech, and Bahamut Lagoon, a tactical RPG with each character having an AI-controlled dragon that could be transformed through being fed various kinds of items. There was also Terranigma, an Enix action RPG at least on par with Actraiser or Illusion of Gaia, that had the inventory-screen-as-a-physical-building gimmick way before Fable. Aside from SD3 being remade as Trials of Mana, none of these games made it to the US. I would by no means consider them to be truly obscure, though.

Admit it, you guys post these obscure games cause you want them to be rereleased

Feel like he doesn’t sleep

Agreed, actual content, not tik tok trash

True ,I also agree

I have followed him from the beginning 👍

Yes

Holy deeplore EDIT: I looked into this real quick, and apparently Shin Sang-ok was not involved with the original movie at all and only joined in as a writer/director for the later entries in the franchise. Still, what a wild ride of a career.

@@NucleaRaptor I appreciate the correction. A classic instance of the "telephone game:" I watched a video about this at some point and accidentally altered the details through slightly foggy memory.

The Pulgasari guy!?

@@brochebug yeah!

EEK!

Wow! I watched the show because I thought it was based on the game I rented once and never finished LMAO

The game itself is one of my least favourite SNES games (it's nothing but escort missions!), but that soundtrack was on a whole other level. Barry Leitch (San Francisco Rush 2049) and Dean Evans (Waterworld) worked on it, and they continued the trend set by the Follin brothers: that is, British game composers making unfittingly great music for not-so-great games.

Bobby’s works for snes

And, Surf Ninjas

My parents got me a completely legal copy of 3 ninjas with the last few minutes cut out. I’ve watched that movie dozens of times but have never seen the end.

@@CmotDribbler You can't leave gestalts unclosed like that, dude.

I can believe that. The jump is almost identical

I find it crazy SkyBlazer was made by Sony, and released the same year they would release the PS1, a direct competitor to Nintendo, in Japan. It's kind of weird.

Whoa, that is a fun fact. Thanks

The game also had a Prince in it named Pine, other than Prince Haru from the 1986 Mario Movie and Prince Peasley from Superstar Saga.

I would buy 40000 copies of this by myself.

I remember seeing pics of the mystical ninja 2 in a old gaming magazine. I think EGM? I remember being so excited….wow how heartbroken I was when it never came out.

And a Rocket Knight, Tiny Toons and Twinbee Collection

@@brandonwilliams6119 The RKA: Re-Sparked collection literally just came out the other day.

​@@NucleaRaptor but it's from Limited Run Games and they are scummy

Nah man, Genesis version for life.

That game is a guilty pleasure of mine,as back in the day, the Only cool Simpsons game was the arcade game, when I first rented Bart's Nightmare, with all its not completely awful mini games, I was extremely pleased with the effort and think it's one of the best Simpsons games still,top 5 at least.peace

I grew up in the DS/Wii era, so the "oddly nostalgic but still terrible" games in my age were stuff like the MySims games, Drawn to Life (though those games do have actual fans), and World of Zoo. And for the non DS/Wii games you have bizzare stuff like the JumpStart games, Time Travel Typing 2, Animal Jam, Math Blaster 2010, Reader Rabbit, and everything having to do with the Leapster that everyone I knew as a kid played but no one talks about anymore.

I feel like the game that goes in that category for me is the second "Toejam & Earl" game for the Genesis

I didn't either! Big surprise that one.

That lawsuit though is kinda hilariously dumb. Your Unicicle looks like a Unicicle? HOW DARE YOU!! Wonder on how many zeroes that judge was at the time.

some of the sailor moon games for the snes have gotten french versions

A Sailor Moon Fighter Z would be sick! I played the games and love them!

Those beat-em-ups were really solid, especially the first one. I loved how Sailor Jupiter basically played like a clone of Mike Haggar from Final Fight!

AAAHHHHHHH

Yep, it sure is. I love that game.

It's a good game, but it also doesn't really have any meat on it's bones.. or a reason to exist. The original is still perfectly serviceable, more popular, officially translated for all regions, and just more common and easier to port. As much as Super Star Stacker looks better, it's the exact same game but on harder hardware to emulate, and for Nintendo to go all-out and translate the game themselves would never happen. There are great fan translations though. This game and Wrecking Crew '98 always perplexed me as they both were Japan exclusives on the Super Famicom in 1998, though I've heard the reason is because the Super Famicom was still more popular than the N64 in Japan.

Run Saber is great!

So if a lot of those movies you listed are overrated or not that good. What would you consider a good movie? I mean at the end of the day does it entertain me then? It's a decent movie. I don't know why people are so critical over movies

Came to the comments to just to see if anyone would mention x-men origins since that movie was trash but from what I understand the game was pretty good lol. Totally forgot about butcher bay though.

@@monkeykidd420 What do I consider a good movie, you ask. Let me say first that I do distinguish between "good" movies and "entertaining" movies. And movies can be either one of these or they can be both, too. Like, Alien Resurrection is very entertaining. It has this crazy performance by Brad Dourif playing a doctor-Frankenstein-like mad scientist, and a cheesy performance by Sigourney Weaver doing a female impression of Arnold-Schwarzenegger-like action hero. There are a bunch of character actors like Ron Pearlman supplying their amazing unusual faces and there's Winona Ryder playing a sexy robot. But it's technically not a very good movie. - There's an overusage of CGI that didn't age well. - There are lots of "cool", "MTV-style" shots that are a result of then-current trends in cinematography that went out of style and date the movie, devoiding it of the universal style of its predecessors: you can watch 1979's Alien or 1986's Aliens today and except for that one shot of the xeno startling Dallas you would have trouble saying it's 45 / 35 years old if you wouldn't know that, while watching Alien Resurrection you instantly feel that it was made around the year 2000. - The plot is a paint-by-the-numbers action movie, not much subtext here unlike the previous ones. - There's lots of comedy in this one, and most of it is really cheap, making it deviate from the series' overall tone. - The acting is over the top, there's lots of scenery chewing, which is again a deviation from previous ones that had realistic and sometimes even subtle performances. A "good" movie in my opinion is something that: - has a solid plot preferably with some subtext that makes it "about something" (like Aliens being largely about motherhood, or The Fly being about dealing with illnes of a loved one, or The Thing being about impact of isolation on psychology) - has a well-written script (no wooden or unrealistic dialogue, no forced exposition, no overusage of tired tropes) - is well made (solid cinematography, blocking, shot composition, editing that allows you to follow the footage with ease, no issues with light or sound, no overusage of CGI where the same effect could be achieved using real sets or props, no audible ADR, etc) - has good acting (characters emote realistically, react accordingly to the events in the plot) - has top-notch special and visual effects (again no overusage of CGI when not necessary, quality costumes, matte paintings, clever usage of various techniques in adjacent shots) It feels weird describing it because I think most people know what a "good" movie is, it's just that lots of people have trouble admitting that a movie that they find entertaining is not technically good. It's like they're ashamed of liking something that is not perfect or even straight bad. Which always amazes me, because I feel no shame in admitting that I enjoy many parts of Friday The 13th at the same time agreeing that they're trash cinema! "Being entertained" by a movie is a huge factor for me, though it doesn't solely determine if a movie is good. I mean, "2001 Space Odyssey" is a masterpiece, but I wouldn't say it's an "entertaining" movie. It's a movie that you "admire" rather than "enjoy". And not enjoying it in the same way like enjoying Die Hard doesn't make 2001 a bad movie, oh no. I am also aware that my taste in movies does not agree with most audiences, so i'd never argue with someone that says, for example, that Avatar is a good movie. It isn't to me, but it might be to someone else. It's all subjective, after all. The most important thing is to not work yourself up when you judge a movie or when you read someone else's judgement - in the end it's just someone's opinion about a movie, right? And, finally - why some people are so critical about movies? Well, because it's entertaining :D Analyzing things involve your knowledge about it, in this case: my knowledge about movie-making. I am somewhat knowledgeable about the subject, so I enjoy utilizing what I learned about, for example, light setups and editing in my opinions about movies. I suspect you are also knowledgeable about some things, for example: cars or sports, and thus your critique of a specific model of an SUV is much more detailed than some Karen's that just says "what a cool looking car, I don't know why some people criticize it so much instead of enjoying being driven in one!", am I right? :)

I had this video done about a week ago and screamed in the call when it popped up.

God bless the fan translation comunity. The true goats

I'm almost positive genealogy has a fan translation tho? Thracia was the game to not have a PASSABLE English translation for the longest time, not genealogy, due to Thracia being the most obscure mainline FE game. It did have a fan translation since the early 2000s, but that original translation was so awful that many of its "liberties" have become memes in the hardcore FE community. (Pugi Pugi, in America, etc) Thracia got an ACTUALLY FAITHFUL and fully finished English re-translation back in the late 2010s, so all three unlocalized SNES fire emblem games have good fan translations now.

Melee came out before Roy's debut game, and yet they STILL haven't brought it stateside! What sense does that make?!

Genealogys translation has been finished for years? Sure some weird translations like Raquesis but its basically finished

H-how did you get there *that* fast LOL

@@austineruption I skimmed through for rpg mentions, gonna go back and watch the rest later lol

It's a gem to be sure. It got a downloadable rerelease a few years back with extra content, plus the original arcade version is a completely different game.

@@brochebug wait what?! Do you have more info? I haven't played in decades and I'd love to.

@@alexvdl The name for the re-release is The Ninja Saviours: Return of the Warriors. Enhances the graphics for modern displays, adds two new charactres- a MASSIVE robot that looks like an industrial machine, and a humanoid girl-robot with extending cable-arms. Available for pretty much all modern platforms. And as the other person said, the arcade original game is NOT the SNES game, they made a new version of the arcade game ground up for the SNES, really adapted it for the console. Arcade original is also available for modern formats that I know: Arcade Archives The Ninja Warriors is its name.

I hope things get better for you!

Same, it's probably my favorite beat-em-up.

Hiroyuki Iwatsuki never misses.

WE SHREDDIN

Also, one more for licensed games: The Blues Brothers! made by Titus France. I remember the soundtrack, and that it was too difficult for me as a youngling that couldn't beat it. But it had a co-op mode and everything, it was fun.