Good Games Stuck on Old Consoles 

Go to cuts.team/ERUPTION for 15% off your order, AND ENTER PROMO CODE : ERUPTION They make great stuff that looks and feels good on ya, I recommend! GOOD OL GAMES THOUGH EH? I wish there was an all in one video game console that'd just play everything but unfortunately life don't work like that. Hopefully one day! Lemme know if there's and oldie you gotta work to play, I love finding "new" games to check out!

This is why I have zero regrets about using emulators and roms.

JSRF is one of my all time favorite games, and you're 100% right that barely anyone outside of deep corners of the internet has ever even mentioned. Most only ever bringing up JSR, like it's the only one, and despite the massive improvements to the controls, visuals, and gameplay. I have so many fond memories of JSRF, and it's a shame nobody can easily play it.

Kid Icarus Uprising is one of my favorite games ever and it pains me that the game is stuck on a device with a small low-res screen that gives you carpal tunnel. You can't even really emulate it very well because the controls are so specifically designed for the 3DS. Even Wii games, you can tie the pointer to the mouse and shakes to buttons and it can feel okay, but the flick-to-turn thing just doesn't work on anything but a touch screen.

I’d love to see you make a PSP retrospective video. I was in love with the PSP as a kid and played tons of different games and homebrew on it, but it doesn’t get nearly as much attention as other handhelds. If nothing else, it deserves recognition for bringing true 3D gaming to the portable space.

I’ve been watching your videos for 8 years now, and yet I am still consistently astounded by the depth of knowledge you have for forgotten/non-mainstream games.

Viewtiful Joe 1 and 2 really need a spotlight on a list like this.

I know Wild Arms XF was only mentioned in passing, but a spiritual successor to Wild Arms is getting made. It's called Armed Fantasia and was fully funded on Kickstarter, along with a Shadow Hearts successor called Penny Blood. It was called a "Double Kickstarter". On topic, Skies of Arcadia is stuck on the Dreamcast and Gamecube. One of my all time favorite RPGs ever! Totally agree with the need for better game preservation.

God, I miss Maximo. That was my shit back in the day. So many good games that could use a rerelease. With how big retro gaming has become with streaming, they’d be a lot bigger now than they were back in the day.

In this week's Digital Foundry Direct they mentioned that an unnamed executive (presumably at Microsoft) is a big JSRF fan and tried hard as hell to get it backward compatible but there was some serious licensing issues that just couldn't be overcome

The moment you started talking about Super Nintendo RPGs I screamed "TERRANIGMA"!!! and sure enough, there it is. I love this game so much. Still have the giant box with the walkthrough that Nintendo released in Europe at the time. Such a lost gem.

It's a shame you dragged emulation so hard. It's literally the only option left for saving old games.

Reminded of a Xenosaga Remastered Collection for modern platforms Katsuhiro Harada advocated for that was cancelled due to lack of perceived interest. All stuck on PS2 exclusively.

Really pleasantly surprised to see so much coverage of Bomberman 64: The Second Attack. I remember being very excited to play it, especially because of the co-op. We even named our Pomeranian after Pommy, though most people just thought we were very uncreative with naming our dog

Games that rightfully deserve re releases.

Older games can be easily emulated, but the worst case is with games that are old enough to be out of current generation and/or back compat, but at the same time "new" enough to be hard to emulate, such as Project Gotham Racing 4 (X360), Def Jam: Fight for NY (Xbox, PS2) and Metal Gear Solid 4 (PS3). I literally still keep my PS2 and X360 because of these games

>Golden Sun in thumbnail >Little Samson in first three minutes Sorry to everyone else in the car but I'm putting this on full blast

can you keep making more of these, because every time you make one of these, a rerelease or remaster for at least one of them gets announced

The whole “hidden gems” collecting fad was a mistake. So many fantastic games are becoming increasingly inaccessible because of random assholes trying to make a quick buck on eBay.

Golden sun is definitely an amazing game! For now, only emulation can get the job done

Thanks so much for mentioning Jet Set Radio Future. If I'm not mistaken, Phil Spencer mentioned being unable to get licenses for the game's music, leading to it being stuck on the 360's emulation.

I played Maximo Ghosts to Glory in a Target electronics department as a demo, must have been 2001-2002. I have not been able to find the game since then. Googling "old sword game where your armor falls off when damaged" gives mixed results to say the least. I can finally sleep in peace now, thank you Austin.

Liscensed games are some of my favorites titles of this type. Games like Deadpool or Adventure Time games were kind of the main reason I got an xbox one, physical copies of delisted ones.

This made me realize how thankful I should be that the SaGa games are as accessible as they currently are, sure there's an overall heavier reliance on emulation but the fact that the translations and the remasters have come out in midst of a tunnel visioned Square Enix makes these less recognized titles at least playable.

Treasure seriously need to put together a collection for all their amazing games that never get ported. Would love to see Mischief Makers come to newer platforms. Also, Sunsoft's Batman absolutely needs to be shown some appreciation. Great video.

I’ve got a recommendation: The Fatal Frame series. Most seem to just have the original release and PS3 digital rereleases. I’m keen to dive in to these games soon and would happily buy a new form of them.

18:02 SSX3 CAN be bought and played on Xbox One (and I can only assume Series consoles). Something I was really happy to find out about a little while ago so if this helps someone out, awesome.

There was something so unique about those n64 Bomberman titles especially the first and Second Attack. Not only Mitsuda, but like 2/3 of the composers that worked on Xenoblade 2 and 3! It's hard to believe that was their first collaboration.

Terranigma is still my #1 game of all time and I am compelled to comment on it in every video it's mentioned. It's a top shelf masterpiece and deserves to be played by everyone.

I would say, any classic computer games back from the 80's and 90's would be nice to see somehow available to modern system. And I do not mean DOS-based games, but rather those that were present in Japanese computers, like the famous PC-98. Some of them managed to get emulated thanks to the community, but most are not acessable outside of the system. And it is a shame, because these games really offered an unique artstyles and design

Oh, that Bomberman Second Attack game looks cool. Reminds me a little bit of the Japanese only Bomberman Kart DX on PS2 that had a dungeon crawler mode.

Legally Acquired Game - A Real Gameboy Color! Every time you do a little segment like this, it never fails to make me laugh. That is exactly why I love watching your video's Austin.

Terranigma is one of my childhood games and is still in my top 10 favourite games of all time. I've given up all hope of seeing a rerelease though. Also Skies of Arcadia being stuck on Dreamcast and Gamecube is a crime, especially with Sega loving to reference it every so often.

Mischief makers was my first N64 game, Jetset was my first Dreamcast one, and I was obsessed.

A spiritual successor to Kirby Air Ride’s city trial is an indie game called Town of Trials, which is still being worked on. I’d prefer an air ride rerelease/sequel, but it seems like right now this is the closest thing we’ll get. City trial has an unbelievable amount of replayability

I despise when people say people should just play these classic games on original hardware like that’s somehow so practical

Props for shouting out Rocket Knight. My mom bought it for me randomly because she came across it in a bargain bin and thought Sparkster was Sonic. I was initially disappointed because I had never heard of Rocket Knight and my mom got me hyped for a surprise Sonic game, but I loved that friggin game once I got to playing it. Big memories.

Konami, Capcom and Square Enix have been pretty good with their remasters/collections in recent years. Hopefully the sales are good so they see that people are still interested in these old games! What I would like to see most of all is a Goemon collection from Konami, a Breath of Fire collection from Capcom, and a lot more SNES/PS1 remasters from Square Enix.

I've recently replayed a bunch of PS1 classics with an online emulator, and games like Megaman legends 1,2 & Tron Bonne's adventure, Front Mission 3 etc hold up extremely well. It's such a shame that I couldn't play them with modern console but I'm just happy that these games are still awesome.

I'd love to see you tackle Breath of Fire. An in-depth video on the whole series would be amazing

there's a really good JSRF port in VRChat as a map under the name "JSR Festival". I haven't played the original but fell in love with playing it in VRChat. Tons of fun

blew my mind that the "unofficial/spiritual" sequel to Shadows of the Damned was hidden in a level of Travis Strikes Again. Altho pretty short, it really sucked me in when i connected the dots between that and the EA published game and how that experience must have been for Suda51 during game development.

Video Games are works of art, there needs to be a video game museum...

Thanks for mentioning Terranigma! As someone from germany, i had the joy to play it back on my snes like 25 years ago. We didn't had FFVI and Chrono Trigger, which i replayed some years later on PC, Terranigma is still my absolute favorite snes/jrpg and in my top 3 games of all time, with my favorite soundtrack and video game ending. It's sad there is no digital release or something for this or the Illusion of Gaia/Time or Soul Blazer. I think last year or 2020 there was a petition to re release the game which i signed with many supporters, too bad it went nowhere 😔

Thanks for this PSA. So many gems, RIP. It makes the journey so much more worth it if you can find an old game from your childhood or just a rom and get the emulator running. Luckily indie game devs have not forgotten. The inaccessibility is sort of creating this void where indie games that stylize and make the most of new and old design elements are the new trend and I love it. Creates a lot less dilution among modern games. It's bittersweet. Classics are fleeting but their successors are laying some great ground work for videogames in general.

With Golden Sun in the thumbnail it actually reminded me of how there’s a couple sequels that I don’t think most people know exist since the only recognition I see for Golden Sun is for the first one. Was playing through Dark Dawn earlier this year and it’s honestly probably better than the og. I’m not surprised the chances of it being ported are incredibly low even in comparison, though.

it's an absolute travesty that the last console on which we can play Skies of Arcadia is the Gamecube. That game is a masterpiece.

0:17 you unlocked so many memories for me Austin you have no idea

Thanks for mentioning Terranigma. It's one of my all-time favorite games and the fact that it has never been ported is a crime.

For a huge anniversary video, could you please do a video that covers all the Bomberman 64 games? I know you made one in the past, but I'd love to have your current day approach to the video game reviews and retrospectives tackle it once again. Otherwise, thank you again for the phenomenal video. I love your content and legitimately do light up when I see that you've uploaded.

Fun fact: Sega actually put 12 unlock-able game gear games in the GameCube version and 2004 PC port of Sonic Adventure DX! They got removed after later versions though for unknown reasons :/

My two favorites are on the SNES. Front Mission and Front Mission : Gun Hazard are amazing titles.

Saturn emulation being very poor? Could I ask what Saturn emulator you are using because Saturn emulation has been great for quite a while. Using Mednafen (and the Mednaffe frontend) or the Beetle-Saturn core in Retroarch I honestly wouldn't be able to tell the difference between emulation or my actual Saturn connected to the same TV if I wasn't the one who connected them up.

Transformers: Fall of Cybertron DID get a re-release on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in August 2016. But unlike the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions, they were DIGITAL ONLY. Which means those versions are now forever lost to the flow of time.

"Unless your name is Dragon Quest, the Enix side of Square Enix doesn't get much love" Even Dragon Quest doesn't get the love it deserves outside Japan. We're still missing Dragon Quest X, a 10 year old game, and in my opinion, the best of them all. Even the offline remake (the original was an MMORPG) that just came out in Japan is not planned for any worldwide release. Not to mention spinoffs like Dragon Quest Monsters which hasn't seen a release outside Japan for at least 7 games, and the Dragon Quest Mystery Dungeon games featuring Torneko Taloon from DQ4 and Yangus from DQ8, only one of which was ever released outside Japan (though this subseries has been dormant for a long time even though the wider Chunsoft Mystery Dungeon series the first game spawned continues to this day).

Avatar Tuner 1&2 immediately spring to mind.

Isaac deserves a spot in smash = W Isaac deserves Shulk's spot in smash = I hope you lose the ability to breathe

The first game that comes to mind for me is Burnout 3: Takedown, such a good game but it sucks not being able to play it on Xbox One or any modern consoles! I have so many good memories of me visiting my cousins house where he had a 360 and racing against each other and trying to beat each others scores in crash mode. I would kill for that game to be remastered or at least made backwards compatible!

Battle Golfer Yui, published by Sega for the Mega Drive is actually another game stuck on the system. It's a Golfing JRPG that never left Japan and has never been rereleased to this day. It has a very good fan patch and it's relatively affordable on the second hand market if you wanna opt for the authentic route.

The fact that I can play Herzog Zwei on my switch is crazy. I was hoping it would be a trend (it wasn't). Still hoping for Mischief Makers& Skies of Arcadia to appear on anything.

Bomberman 64 is one of my favourite games of all time, and I'm so mad that so many excellent 64 games are just lost to time now.

Great video! Some other SRPGs I badly want to see get a Switch/PC port: Shining Force 3, Dark Wizard, and the Tellius Fire Emblem games (Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn).

Ever do a list about your personal biggest gaming mistakes? One of mine came to mind when you mentioned the AMPED series. When I got my original Xbox, it was being sold only in a bundle ($500 for the system, extra controller, dvd remote and 3 games) and I picked Tony Hawk 2X (great), the original Shrek (never finished it) and AMPED 1. I literally had Halo 1 in my hand and didn't think my dad would buy it for me (I was turning 14 at the time). Then I got home and 2 weeks later got it on my birthday. I HATED AMPED. lol. Never got used to it and spent HOURS trying to not suck at it (never happened). Then I heard SO MUCH about Halo in the weeks after my poor decision. lol. Eventually earned enough money to buy Halo and loved it.

Huh, I always wondered which first FPS game was that brough the camera control that we know in modern games. Never would have guessed it to be Aline Resurections.

Amped 3 is one of my favorite games of all time. So happy to see someone finally talking about it

That's why I have a 5TB rom library currently.

Funny thing, I do still have my 360 hooked up. And that's because not all my games on it are playable on the XB1. Such as many Arcade titles, Kinect titles, and random other titles.

Forgotten GameCube games next? If multiplats aren't disqualified, I'd love to hear you talk about Robotech Battlecry.

I agree with you. It seems like up until now we're FINALLY getting software capabilities catching up to our modern advanced hardware technology. Until now, we've had improving hardware, yet our software systems are still limiting and holding us back so much at (how games are made, how they can be built, rendered, how the gameplay feels, how tedious things are, etc. Etc.) For me, I have been barely interested in many games for quite some time. Then I saw The Calisto Protocol coming out and honestly it's a game I am most excited for in SUCH A LONG TIME. Glen Schofield is so good at putting together amazing team's. They have so much passion into their project. They've put so much effort and complexity into the gore effects, physics effects, atmosphere, environment, gross & grime, yet it's oddly facinating & amazingly facinating to look at. I'm so excited. This dev team seems so good and passionate about what they do and create. It gives me vibes to the best of the good old days of the Xbox 360 era games. Finally something like that but with the capabilities of the modern day and used in actually good effective ways. It's crazy how rare it has been to see something like that. We've been going through a long slump in gaming quality lately for the past few years imo. So I'm hoping this is the start to a new chapter of good games coming back. Me personally, I care way less about graphics, ray tracing, etc. Compared to how much I care about physics builds, good enemies good a.I., physics effects related to combat and environmental aspects, character movement. Like being able to move around uniquely, climb, etc. Really letting us explore and play around with well built game mechanics in a polished environment. That's what matters to me. (BTW I got a range of old gaming systems so I can play old games because I to this day find myself enjoying them more than the majority of current era new games. I got a original Xbox. A 360, Gameboy color, Gameboy Advanced, N64) I have been loving going back and playing Max Payne 1 and 2, red dead Revolver, Alan Wake, skate 1, dead space 1&2, condemned, halo1-3, assassin's Creed 1 and 2, GTA 3-4, doom 3, L.A Noire, Singularity, Batman origins, etc. I have just been utterly loving diving back into these games. I just easily get playing and turn my brain off, and lose myself into the mindless video game experience. When they focused on if a game felt good to play, or was fun, catchy gameplay)

Ever since I learned I could get emulators on my phone in high school, I've never looked back. Official emulators could never compete.

It's still a crime that Radiata Stories has never seen any kind of port.

If Capcom remaster and port God Hand to Switch or PS4 I'd buy that game again for the third time.

I'm just thankful for all the emulators out there. Been playing PS1 stuff like crazy lately and I'm having a blast! It's crazy that a lot of old games are way better than most modern games coming out. No microtransactions and finished products, those were the good days.

You know what is an incredible forgotten game. Rhythm Thief on the 3ds, it's gotta be one of my favorite hidden gems, right up there with Blinx 1 on the OG Xbox

This video reminded me of playing brain lord as a kid, as a Canadian it always cracked me up that in the game the town of Toronto gets overrun by demons at one point lol

The fact that amped 3 hasn’t been made backwards compatible kills me

A spreadsheet of all these games would be nice, along with a few underrated gems.

I seriously cant think about Bomberman 64 The Second Attack without tearing up. That game meant a lot to me as an 8 year old, let alone today. As soon as i get enough cash, i'm buying a n64 with an everdrive to play this with someone special.

Robotrek was one of my favorite games back in the day. Me and my friends used to play Mr. Roboto every time I fought a boss in the game for "inspiration"

I replayed the Maximo games a couple years back, in part because I thought to convince myself that they couldn't possibly hold up to my memories and I should just let them go. What can I say, I'm weird that way. Turns out Maximo still fucking rules. Who knew. Always makes me a touch sad whenever it gets brought up. A little bummed he wasn't in Marvel vs Capcom 3 too, would've been perfect alongside Viewtiful Joe and Amateratsu. Rip buddy. You save the world twice.

I loved LotR War in the North, I still quote all the annoying battle quips with my friends to this day. It was a super underrated game.

You know, given that it was Enix who bought out Square to create Square-Enix, it's odd how little love they've given to the Enix side of the equation...

I watched this video already several days ago, yet it still stays on my mind. I feel like that with almost every video you release, this is some real YT magic here! Please keep being awesome :)

Things are not getting better, with live services game preservation is at its worst right now

I'm glad you're talking about this stuff because someone somewhere is gonna be like "oh yea I forgot all about that game and I also have the knowhow to port this thing" and low and behold, 6 months from now an announcement of an old game re-released

FFTA is still the only FF game I've ever played all the way through. Something about a game called "Final Fantasy" telling a gripping tale of dealing with trauma through escapism was meta as fuck and really compelling.

Bomberman 64 is still one of my favourite n64 games. Played it as a kid when it was first released. 40 years old now and still play it from time to time. Classic

What problems do N64 or saturn emulators have? They are as close as 100% functional as they can be, with better resolutions, controlls and framerates.

I'm immensely bitter about the lack of re-releases for the Armored Core series. It was the God Damn 25th Anniversary of the series this year and FromSoft has said basically nothing. Some day, Raven, we'll fly again...

You can still buy games on Nintendo's website version of the eShop. The 3DS and Wii U stuff is still there and can be purchased directly on there. And if you add funds to your Switch, you can also use that balance directly on the consoles themselves. I think you will be able to do that until March next year, at which point yes it will be impossible

I would love to see your take on the legacy of kain series and what the series could do to revamp or recapture what made it so unique. But the type of content you put out now is very good to garnish attention not just to what were fan favourites but also forgotten but stellar games that were just released usually at unfortunate times. It's good to see you clear and talk about what you want to talk about it because then you can tell enjoyment in your voice when you talk about these things, and that's what's most important that you continue to do stuff you want to do, but honestly giving any up and coming or forgotten or struggling series that deserves some love because it is a good game, then that is also something I would very much be interested in watching and sharing with people.

Golden sun needs a modern game for the Switch.

All 50 Cent Blood on the Sand needed was a run button!

I'm gonna need a port of that GC Custom Robo.

An entire segment could be dedicated to just Mistwalker's games. Especially included would be The Last Story.

Gotta love some old games. Some of those gems are stuck because they wouldn't be suitable for * cough* modern audiences *cough*. Seriously, a lot of AAA companies will invest more and more to attract the new generation then to support the old one. As for emulation support, well you showed the numbers. The community are not going to pay that ridiculous ammount to have a fidelity rom. I remember even Zelda Ocarina of Time to have lots of issues with emulation to this day. Emulation is just there to relieve our nostalgia after all. And we appreciate that. Thanks for the entertainment.

I gave in and unboxed my old 80GB PS3, put a SSD in it and installed custom firmware. First time doing it but now I can play any game from any region. Digital games I can download directly from a store PKGi and disc-only games I can convert and import into my SSD. So many cool little features and tools on the CFW too. So happy I did. I can also import PS, PS2 and PSP games. Insane!

The only Super Nintendo RPG I hear less about than say something like terranigma (which I've played it's great) or Dragon Quest in the west is Ys V. I just finished it and while I wouldn't say it's a masterpiece on the level of Final Fantasy 6 it is also far far from being a bad game

Omega Boost, I had the demo and played it over and over forever. I never knew the name until now. Maximo was my jam, so difficult as a kid.

I hope Breath of Fire 3 and 4 are on this list