The fact that half his number of subs have already watched the video only 2 days later shows how strong of an audience Sean's managed to atract with great, solid and consistent content. My number 1 favorite RU-vid channel at the moment.
I wish Japan had faith that we would embrace their madcap style and sense of humour. I would've loved to had played Mad Panic Coaster (although looking difficult af) back in the day as well as that Slap Happy Rythm game, Mental! Great stuff Sean.
Maybe it was also the American companies thinking that it wouldn't sell or mesh well with the West and refused to bring them over too ? I agree though, we missed out on so many great games.
The japanese PS1 library is truly a treasure trove of hidden games. Glad to see you covering them! My suggestion for the Japan-only wheel is Zoku Gussun Oyoyo, a really fun puzzle arcade game which is sort of a mix between Tetris and Lemmings.
Sean, your channel is a complete goldmine. What a treasure. But I want to highlight how great it is aesthetically. The little music stings, the typographic effects, the bits of distortion and filters on the visuals are just 👌 You've got great taste mate good on you. Keep it coming. I can see its a lot of work god bless you, we appreciate it 🙏
SideBySide exudes a DAD ENERGY that i dont know if i can quite explain, but it just feels like one of those simple, well presented games that an older person can pick up for a short time, enjoy the slick presentation and real cars and its difficult and subtle enough that it can justify coming back for long periods of time. My dad had some rally games on the PS1 and PC that were exactly like that
im so glad the wheel finally showed us Slap Happy Rhythm Busters! Also Dark Tales was super interesting. Thanks Sean the wheel videos continue to be my fave content on youtube!
I think this is the first episode where I atleast knew about every game, even though I haven't played any of them besides SideBySide. Also eyooo my boi Xindictive!
“Your goal isn’t to go as fast as possible, you uh, simply have no choice in that matter,” Right, so an average Phantom class WipEout 2097 race, gotcha
Kind of a hard week this has been, I'm needing this. At work at the moment but once I get home I'll get me some snacks, put on my oldest comfiest pants and let The Wheel... well, take the wheel.
Man, I've always been gutted that Slap Happy never got a Western release as it looks right up my alley. The style on it is insanely cool and I love a good fighter and rhythm game so melding the two is peak PS1. Some very interesting titles on this one, and Dark Tales is definitely one I'd like to try! Expertly analysed Sean, even if I had to do a double take when I thought you said "trash" instead of "thrash" 🤣
That Mad Panic Coaster opening has no business going that hard, makes me want to get my skateboard and drink a PBR! Sounds like something off 90s Fat Wreck Chords. Side By Side looks like my kind of game, just need to add Eurobeat to the sound files. Tho you mention gabber, maybe Paul Elstak would work too haha. Between those and Slap Happy (OST sounds sick), this episode had a lot of bangers I need to play. Even Dark Tales looked intriguing and I'm not even a horror fan!
The wheel truly is a magnificent thing. Volume 13 of the series already, and yet it still features games I never saw before. xD Probably one of the greatest selections too! Racing, fighting... And I'm honestly just mesmerised by the lead actor from that horror game, what a performance!
Went to revisit Side by Side Special 2000 thanks to this video and I've been having a blast, super glad this series exists as it's quickly risen to becoming one of my favorites on RU-vid. Some notes about the game: In Side by Side Special 2000 the AI speed DOES ramp up slightly for each bump up in difficulty, however the AI speed is constant between difficulties in the original Side by Side Special (for some odd reason). The game also has analog support, though only via the NeGcon. The game is still more than playable with a standard pad, but I'd imagine the fine analog steering would help for the tougher courses! As much as I do genuinely enjoy the Zuntata soundtrack for the game, I must admit that playing Eurobeat instead really improves the experience :V Hopefully sometime in the future you'll get to cover Cave's (yes, that Cave!) Touge Max series, they fill a similar niche of "Racing games with arcadey yet nuanced drift handling on mountain passes." They focus a bit more on the tuner aspect as well, and they're damn good in their own right!
I've my PAL copy of Road Rage 3 (Togue 3) in preperation for inevitable appearace of the Tougue Max games. Anytime a Cave game pops up in the wheel, I know we'll be in for a good time!
About side by side: 1) Special 2000 is actually easier. The OG had a much more restrictive time, to the point its impossible to complete some tracks on higher difficulties. 2) Winning on every track, you will eventually unlock 3 original tracks for this port. Winning at each of those will unlock a themed Taito car (a van, a wagon and a truck) 3) Time Attack is a must. This a racer you have to sit down and learn. Until you have beaten the 1st place time there, forget about winning it. 4) MT is a must. Its slows you down faster and you have control of your drifts as well. 5) The AI has an extremely rubber bending. I am still to win all tracks, kinda gave up on the last one. Its a good game still, especially for the time. Genuinely feel is one of the better PS1 racers driving wise.
38:00 Lol at the "Ojisann" Nissan spoof, didn't expect to see that. Nowdays "Ossan" is the more popular parody, but the meaning remains the same, "old man".
Mad Panic Coaster and Dark Tales have been on my wishlist for so long now but I've never pulled the trigger. Mad Panic Coaster for obvious price reasons but I definitely need to grab Dark Tales soon!
Great video series! As you pointed out in another video I think most youtubers cover the same games over and over again which leads to many forgotten games. A bit similar to Spotify, any music not on Spotify will soon be forgotten.
This was a super fun episode! I had heard of Dark Tales but I didn't realise how much of it was totally my jam. Slap Happy Rhythm Busters looks really neat too and Mad Panic Coaster is... quite something.
Whoever did marketing for Midas must be an absolute genius. “Nobody will buy this. What even is a Battle Gear? We need something that will resonate with kids, something exciting. Let’s call it… Tokyo Road Race.”
It’s nice that I see Gradius Gaiden on the wheel and I hope R-Type Delta got in the obscure one before the next video’s Production Also PSA: whoever suggested Sexy Parodius want to ruin Sean’s Ad Revenue unless it’s worth losing it
I've said this before, but I love the look of ps1 games going for a cartoonish, faux celshading look. PS1 can't do actual cel shading, so it's all textures, and games like Slap Happy Rhythm Busters and Megaman Legends look great.
They're doing their best, but in doing so they create their own lil pocket of faux cel shading style that really stands out on the console and I love em for it.
Heh, as soon as I saw the first scene from the Dark Tales game, I thought "How long will it take for you to mention Twin Peaks or David Lynch" and I wasn't disappointed 😊
Nice to see Dark Tales pop in! I will mention, this game is *nearly* english fan translated now. Someone did do work with the translation efforts (iconoclast), but there are bits here and there missing. I've yet to add the subtitles to my videos on the game however, but they exist, so if you wanted to know if the translations exist: They do, just not fully complete yet. If anyone wants the translations and wants to try the task into somehow adding them into the game itself, i will happily provide! Anyone that can help finish the translation efforts would also be awesome too. I am also the first person to 100% complete this game and to learn of the logic this game has for all endings. It is a tad bit messy still however.
I only know two PS1 hackers from top of my head Hilltop(Dr. Slump, Aconcagua, B. L. U. E. - Legend of Water) and Fothsid (SMT1, Persona 1(ongoing)) Whether they'd take on another project I can't say, but it never hurts to ask.
@@arciks11 i can see if i can contact them about it. Can also see if they can find a way to do similar for another japanese only ps1 game, Suzuki Bakuhatsu. That one has worse translations efforts so far, still need a dedicated translater for it.
One thing with Touge style games is that I don't think they're generally meant to be beatable in Automatic Transmission. You have to know when to downshift (and when to downshift multiple gears rapidly), and when it's actually disadvantageous to upshift. I've never been any good at that.
Love your videos! Thanks for the content. By the way, if you had a son and named him Sean that person would be Sean Seanson's son Sean Seanson which is beautiful tongtwister.
In previous videos I suggested a Houshin Engi (TV anime based) game, and it completely passed me by that it was a japan only game, whoops! So this is my final, formal submission for that game on here 😅
Ah, a new "Japan Only PS1 Games". You know how to make Saturdays more amazing! Game #1: I have seen this game before, I think the first time was in a video about 200 Japan-only PS1 games by Redd Arremer. Well, I always thought it looks wacky and also in terms of speed it is the F-Zero GX of rollercoaster/minecart levels but as a full game (and yes, I know F-Zero GX came out later). Game #2: Can you say "dorifto" much? Seriously though, this looks like a really fun racing game. Game #3: Oh, I have seen this one before as well. It always intrigued me as a fan of fighting games...but then for some reason I forget about it till I see it again. Game #4: Well, that is quite an intriguing (horror) game. Also thank you for the nightmare fuel. 😅 Kitty spotted at: 0:49 1:48 (does the cat guitar count?) 33:26 Thank you so much for your hard work you are providing to us! This was once again a bunch of really fun reviews. Kudos!
If anyone is wondering how culturally significant touge is, you can’t open Forza Horizon 5 Eventlab without tripping over at least three touge stages. Problem is there isn’t a lot of quality put into most of them. I tried to make one but it had so many assets that my 2014 Xbox One couldn’t handle it and the game crashed
The comment you make at about 39:38 about not seeing the x men game at a tournament anytime soon, You absolutely may see this having tournaments soon. A beta was just released (about 4 days ago) for PS1 netplay with rollback netcode.
Im gonna give you the best advice to get good at side by side 2000, play with manual transmition, its a life changer, you need to take some curves on the hardest courses the cleanest way possible and with specific gears shifting. Also, yeah, the game is turbo hard, it doesn't forgive even a couple of mistakes on those courses you mentioned, most taito arcades racers are like that, I guess that's the way they designed the replay value on them. Excellent video. Hope to see Battle Gear 2 reviewed someday, that game can be brutal, but its one of the best racing games ever made imo.
Mad Panic Coaster manual book you the game story, but I forget some detail not sure: Dr. Jones make this crazy Coaster, but he stupid son mandatory takeover he Coaster, then dr.jones find the lovers to help dr.jones recapture the coaster.
9:55 no! No! No! If anyone went into a motion cabinet with Mad Panic Coaster they would not exit while occupying their own body. That would be so violent their soul would be ejected as their bodies bluescreened
Getting your pick chosen on the wheel is like getting picked in the price is right 😂😂. I found out about Slap Happy at Magfest at like 2am. There was just a group running money matches in the console room. I lost like 30 bucks that night
Gods, I wish "PSX" was still applicable. Unfortunately, the PlayStation eXperimental moniker doesn't feel right given the release of the PSX product having a PS2 base.
You know while editing it I thought to myself, damn I went a whole video without mentioning a mechanic. I don't think it factors too much into my opinion of the game overall, but its still something I wish I took the time to talk about. (Also yes, I did use the break on occasions)
Great Video Sean, an epic selection of games here for sure. Mad Panic Coaster looks insane & i will have to try it when i get the chance, I played Side by Side a while back & i agree it is a cool game but is tough, i think its by far one of the best racers I've played on the PS1 so far. Slap Happy Rhythm Busters I agree is an epic game, been playing that over recent months & i never knew about it until you mentioned it on Twitter so had to try it out & it is as good as it looks, a really cool game. Dark Tales is an interesting game, I'll definitely have to look more into that for sure. Again another great video, totally enjoyed watching, Cheers!
Thanks for watching pal! I actually recall seeing Side by Side on your channel before, thats why the game looked familar to me when I first booted it up haha
thanks so much for making these videos. i am sure it takes a lot of time and effort to put these volumes together, but they always seem to inspire me with cool art or game ideas i hadn't come across before and it's very inspiring.
Mom! I'm on the telly! As for the Side by Side and it's difficulty, I've been playing this game on and off for more than a decade and I'm as bad at it now as I was day one. Ridge Racer it's not
After hearing you mention no one had anything on Zero/Vertex I did some digging around, and you were right. Until I finally found a Japanese YT streamer who managed to hit every ending and get the credits to play. I wrote out everything, going to try adding it to the mobygames entry, maybe we'll see a bunch of crossover hits with existing staff at other companies and figure where this studio came from for only a single game. Though it seems like a lot of the casting was done through "theatrical company june theater" (劇団 六月劇場). Edit: Well that didn't take long. Bob Timbello is one of the core designers and he was a writer on Dungeon Explorer II and a Planner on Dino Crisis 3. LMAO.
Timbello seems to appear in the strangest places. He played something of an important part at NCS Masaya during their early years, for instance. I'm surprised no one's tracked him down for an interview.
@@DragoonEnRegalia I'm still working on doing all the moby entries, but it appears the one common denominator is a ton of the dev side all worked on "Yellow Brick Road"/イエロー・ブリック・ロード (of which Bob worked at Acclaim Japan at the time and they're set as one of the publishers for it). We'll see once I've got the credits all inserted.
Love your channel man! :D Ik you’re probably strapped with your current projects but have you thought about making a personal favorites series? Or maybe just like a top ten ps1 games? Would love to hear what your favorites are!
Thank you, fellow Sean! I probably will one day to celebrate a channel milestone or something, I think the hard part is actually narrowing down my favorites at this stage since there are so many... but hey we'll get there someday :)
If it isn't on the wheel already, I'd recommend Culdcept Expansion, it's a unique card board game rpg which actually became a sizeable series with games on the ds and 3ds
I hear you're a boy racer now, Seanson. How'd you get interested in that sort of thing? I work the pass all day and at night I just like to get a nice cup of tea, can't devote meself full time to the old racing.
Oh my, do I have thoughts this time around! So, Mad Panic Coaster... Honestly, even just watching the footage felt exhausting, which might make me just another old man, but hear me out, here - the camera is too close in on the coaster car. Sure, it gives a good view of the characters in the car, which gives the game more personality, and sure it gives the sensation of vertigo and speed (what Roger Callois termed 'ilinx'), but it also makes it really hard to see things to react to them in time, both enemies and turns. I dunno, I might be wrong; you played it and I didn't, so what do you think? Side by Side Special - not much to say other than if you had a rough time with it, it would unequivocally destroy me. Slap Happy Rhythm Busters - Okay, I need to try this. Between this, Incredible Crisis, and Galerians, I think Polygon Magic may be taking a place beside Human Entertainment as a PS1 dev I will absolutely proselytize for! Dark Tales from the Lost Soul - I absolutely agree with you about the visual style just feeling more horror game to me. For me, I think it's because my first experiences with horror games had nothing to do with Resident Evil (although, I did notice the RE2 BG music; well played). Instead, I cut my teeth on games like D, Mansion of Hidden Souls, and the like, where these new-fangled polygons were pre-rendered in high, glossy quality, so seeing that with the skeletal host is just right up my alley. Also, just based on the title screen, I suspect that Vertex and Zero are separate companies - the title screen copyright shows Sammy and Zero, with Zero appearing to stand alone (I could be wrong, though - I unfortunately do not know what the kanji says). Another fantastic episode! I really needed something like this right now, so thank you! You and @SteadySphere are absolute heroes.
Ay man thanks for watching! Yeah I think a lot of the my problems with Mad Panic could have been alleviated some what some adjustments to the camera perspective, but it's a hard one to pull off thanks to amount of jumping needed and the I suppose the velocity of all your actions it could so easily vere into the territory of making you feel unwell while playing it. Still, I appreciate the cajones do even just make a game that fast and extreme, even if it's often to it's detriment.
Very interesting episode: - Mad Panic Coaster: concept arcady interesting and so japanese, but it's so fast it could give me headaches ! As well as it's crazy price, my god how a game like this be so expensive ?? - Side By Side Special 2000: I had a game on PS2, I think it was called Kaido Racer or something like this, based on the same concept. I really didn't like it, I couldn't even pass the first tracks how hard and unintuitive were the controls ! So I understand you on how bad you're in this game... - Slap Happy Rhythm Busters: one of the very few fighting games I'm interested to try, even if I don't like much this genre - Dark Tales From The Lost Soul: another interesting dicovery, even if the Japenese only language is clearly a barrier. Gameplay side, quite poor, but refreshing concept.
@@SeanSeanson 👀👀👀 I was unaware that there was an English patch in the works! Fantastic news!! While I have you here, I just want to say that you've almost singlehandedly resurrected my interest in the PS1 and I don't know if I should thank you or cuss you out because I've spent so much money on Psygnosis games by this point.
Great Video Sean! How about seeing "Mobile Suit Gundam Char's Counter Attack" That would be rad! Keep up the great work brother, I joined your patreon. I want to see my boy blow up.
