Little Ralph's Hidden Gem Demo Discs 

Great video, don't burn yourself out! ;)

Its awesome, Jimmy... Just dont push yourself too hard... We always love your video whenever its done... No rush...

​@@bpcgos @Paul Sutton Thanks, guys. I feel like there's "RU-vid pressure," but yeah, I don't think I'll burn myself out!

Thanks as always--I would love to try to reach out to one or all of those three and do an interview with them. Maybe one day I'll grow a pair and try!

Thanks, I'm hoping to do similar videos in the future with demos!

Thanks so much for stopping by and leaving a comment, too!

I'm happy and surprised you heard about it from this channel. Thank you for watching and I'm glad you found something to enjoy about this humble demo disc video.

Lots of great stuff...but also a lot of horse race gambling, slot and mahjong games, too!

Thank you--I am a big fan of The Adventure of Little Ralph, so I'll look for memorabilia sometimes...there's not much out there! I live in Japan, so I hope my Japanese is at least passable!

Hey, I'm glad you picked that up, as well as Pocky & Rocky w/Becky...I've regretted sitting on the fence for that one for like two decades now, prices are insane, even in Japan! Great choice for your favorite PS1 game--SotN was a literal game changer for me, got me interested in Castlevania as well as non-RPGs on the PS1 at the time and it's definitely a top ten of any platform in my opinion. And I think the most important thing to say is congrats on getting married, even if it was a while ago now!

@@ImportGamingFTW thank you so much!! I went back and watched your episode on PlayPlay too, great intro into what's sure to be a great video series! Left my thoughts on that one too. SotN was game changer for me too, first Castlevania i actually liked and made me go back and check out Super Metroid and Rondo of Blood. I was all RPG back then too and it rekindled my love for good side scrollers (and also was the reason I eventually bought Valkyrie Profile, another personal fave)

Thank you, Jason--I will keep trying!

Always appreciated, Vanessa--hope you'll find the time/motivation to put out a new video yourself!

@@ImportGamingFTW If you were on Discord or Twitter you would see the hints that I have been dropping towards the next one. ;D

Thanks, as always--and hope you enjoy Ralph on your XStation (jealous!).

Bro, it's been a long time--we're not young anymore. I'll send you that Hero Hero-kun manga. And tell Jocyne HER little PVM is adorable...(she's going to beat me up again, isn't she?)

I think you made the right call, Casp--I know it's not gonna happen too soon, but next time you're in Japan, let me know. THAT will be a good time to shit bricks...I'll even help.

While I'm a guy who has enjoyed many an RPG in his time, where narrative is the main driving factor for a player to slog through the game, I totally get what you mean about modern games/journalism. There's a lot of pretension that just doesn't really sit well with me, which is probably why I don't pay those kinds of things much attention anymore. I also agree with the indie scene--I'm all for people going outside the big business, "AAA" model. It really produces some amazing games, and some of my absolute favorites were indie titles produced ten years ago or so. But it's all become a bit diluted, a bit "trendy" now, it seems...kind of like RU-vid and the content, quantity and quality of the videos produced on the platform. You get real gems like Shovel Knight here and there, but a lot games that pay homage to older games seem like they lack the "soul" of many of the classics...while it was a detriment to the health of those programming them, the time, memory and hardware constraints really produced magic. Good luck getting Gungage--that's one I had as a kid, great soundtrack, and fantastic game once you get used to the controls!

Thanks, man. I actually have my eBay page open in another tab right now, considering if I should nab something. Maybe today's the day I pull the trigger on Gungage! Y'know, I gotta say, I wasn't even thinking about RPGs when I was ragging on games journalism, lol. That's totally understandable in those cases! I was thinking more like third-and-first person action games now; they just don't care about the gameplay. AT ALL. Like those Wolfenstein reboots from Machine Games? The ones that should just be balls-to-the-wall, giant beefy Jewish supersoldier BJ Blazkowicz dual-wielding rocket launchers while blowing apart robot Nazis on the Moon? But actually aren't that _at all?_ The ones that have bad stealth and demand you pick up ammo clips from the floor manually, and star a depressed guy surrounded by a bunch of idiots who won't shut the hell up and is constantly forcing you into conversation scenes while only _rarely_ breaking that up so you can fight a robot dog or something? Good lord, when I watched the Giant Bomb Quick Look of that second one - the last time I think I watched anything of theirs - and one of their guys just wandered around the town _listening into the conversations Nazis were having_ while heaping praise blindly upon the game _for such great world-building,_ I was losing my mind. It doesn't matter what game does it for people, or from what outlet (Lord knows people hate on IGN and Eurogamer and plenty more because that's where they've had the same kind of moment); once you see stuff like that, it really opens up your eyes to just how often it happens. If a AAA game has a lot of walk-and-talk moments, they love it. Doesn't matter if there are broken stealth systems, shoddy gunplay or melee combat, half-baked platforming & traversal, or an out-of-whack ratio of walking around locations to _actually doing something,_ journalists are blind to that. In fact, they seem to *prefer* it that way. The less they have to engage with a game, the better. They just want those cutscenes! Well, I guess that's why people nowadays mostly just turn to RU-vidrs and Twitch streamers for game coverage. Games journalism is truly maddening. Which is why I so easily slip into ranting, - uh, my bad about that btw :P I gotta stop doing this.... I promise I *will* stop doing this. Thanks for giving me a space to vent this time though; clearly, it's kind of a pet peeve, lol.

It's funny, back then you could find advertisements for even the most "minor" of games. It's something I enjoy looking for when purchasing old gaming magazines.

I will--also, is this Aaron?

It is not, but I do hear the similarities! That reminds me, I need to get a copy of the Japanese game for Ian--one of the greatest gaming box art masterpieces of all time!

Hey, Bub--thanks for watching and commenting, as always. Glad to hear you're enjoying 428--actually, I was originally going to do a video on that a few years back! I have the special DVD that came with the Wii version that I was going to feature, too...but then the localization got announced and I abandoned it.

Oh, is that a thing? Thank you so much, I didn't get any notification! Sorry this reply came a little late, too!

I got the cheaper one because I'm poor--thanks for your help! It's decent, slightly better than the camcorder from work. I only paid like $170 for it, too. Someday, when I learn to budget my money better and actually find a job that appreciates me, I'll go for that other camera. EDIT: Also, those outside shots were filmed in January with the camcorder.

Hanky panky.

@@ImportGamingFTW This is the correct answer.

I might have mentioned it on a stream once upon a time, but for some reason I forgot about it until reminded of it again recently. I don't think I even mentioned it in the old video...but that's one I REALLY want to redo and give it like a 30 minute video treatment. Little Ralph is a tough game...if you want to 1CC, speedrun or high score it. Other than that, it's not so bad since continues are infinite--I hope you'll enjoy it if you play it again! Might have to emulate or go PSN store, as it's very expensive now.

@@ImportGamingFTW oh i believe it! i do have a real JPS2 now but yeah some of the ones I want are like crazy expensive! (jikkyo oshaberi parodius is another one on my list but man that one's up there too!!) so i just emulate those for the time being. will definitely have to revisit little ralph though)

You found Mirano sealed? Nice--I did see that a lot of the games that have gotten pricey in Japan are still cheap on ebay (usually European sellers). I'll have to give it a deep look sometime. I've been trying to get Mirano for the past year especially, and each time I find one on Mercari, it goes for pretty cheap...and because it's listed for cheap, it usually gets bought up quickly and I'm too late! I'll keep an eye out for PocketStation stuff, there's bound to be something in a Play Play disc somewhere.

@@ImportGamingFTW Hope you can find a decent priced copy as i'd love to see you review mirano sometime, i like it a lot the minigames are really fun and the sprite animation is gorgeous. Found my copy by total accident i saw a sealed psone books version going on ebay but the guy wanted like $600 and i was like screw that so i went searching across the net and ended up seeing a pic on google images of a sealed copy and when i saw where the image came from it was ebay and wildly the auction was still active it was listed in a weird way that i don't think anyone found it. Had a BIN of £110 which i instantly jumped on especially as it was flawless not even a hint of sun fade, not cheap but finding a sealed first print was insanely rare. Used up all my luck now lol, wish i could find a mint copy of tokyo wakusei planetokio i want that game so bad but it's not easy to find and with it been on multiple disks the chance of one of the disks been wrecked is quite high.

Why, thank you--let's do a collab sometime and *maybe* invite your husband, if he's on his best behavior. Also, stop using Line and stay with Skype.

File that under the X-Files.

Bought it in 2013 or 2014 on ebay, actually--I think it was $65 shipped, best offer. Crazy how much it's gone up in price in a few years--it's about $300 in "acceptable" condition in Japan now, so I imagine it's about twice as much on ebay.

@@ImportGamingFTW Interesting. I also enjoyed your Recent Installment of Demo'ing Demos and has inspired me to start collecting Demo Discs for Game Consoles that I own And I ask you this... Do you know of any Demo Discs from Other Children's Monthly Manga Magazines like V-Jump or the All Mighty Master of All Tie-In Manga Publications itself.... CoroCoro Comics ????

I'm not sure which ones might not be dumped, but a friend of mine has offered to help me dump the demos I own that haven't yet. Maybe sometime this year we'll work on that.

I need to see that Record of Lodoss War video from you first, Jocyne. Thanks in advance!