Paprium for the Sega Genesis and Mega Drive - REVIEW! - Game Sack 

I miss CGR.

I miss CGR and Undertow too.

The CGR Undertow ending Video is one of the best RU-vid finales that I have ever seen. It felt like a real TV ending with flash backs and music and everything. Main CGR unfortunately had an ending and then a revivial and then Mark had a Breakdown and did those weird "Who Defeats" videos and just stopped doing RU-vid. I still miss him though and I hope he is doing well.

Forget Paprium, play more Truxton, Musha and Herzog Zwei

@@Therealmadkong He's still doing his youtube, renamed the channel to 80's comics

Rumor has it he hasn't taken it off since it came in.

This is now my greatest wish.

Everyday we stray further from God's light.

1734: Rioting for sanitary working conditions and fair wages 2021: Rioting because Dave is not wearing a thong

I'm lighting the torches now. Due to Covid-19 they're $130 apiece with optional DLC to upgrade them to Molotov Cocktails if he further refuses to wear said Thong.

After how many takes?

Could've been a hundred takes and it wouldn't be any less impressive! That shit was nonsense!

It was pretty amazing.

@@ShaneSemler isn't he also on amazon?

I really wish he had stuck with Classic Game Room but people’s interests change and I can respect that he followed his own wishes instead of those of others.

@@the8wave pretty sure he moved on because he wasn't making any money with CGR but I could be wrong. Sucks, CGR was easily one of my favourite youtube gaming channels

@@ShaneSemler It seems over atm :/

yup, and i think if you refrain from hitting him when he pops up, more of the sound test opens up

That's really cool :) Still haven't met him.

@@brorianszk He's a nice guy and a talented musician.

@@ChaossX77 Yup his track is a fine addition to the BGM most of the time!

yeah i know. what a shítty "game". place this in the 'no-skill-required' section. wheres the game? years of waiting and when the package finally arrives theres still no game. what a joke. look at all the stupid comments praising this "game" when there is no game. epic fail

Yeah looking at pictures and videos of that cardboard box, I'm glad I got the simple-but-effective Classic edition in the clamshell box. I really don't need all that extra stuff, it's just useless bloat that doesn't improve the game in any way. The Classic clamshell looks nice on my shelf and holds the game cartridge perfectly.

Not before swapping the game manuals around.

yeah that one is dave's, he deserves it for leaving us. and give him the rattly cart, oh wait....

What about the thong, though? Will Joe use it together with Dave?

@@turrican4d599 I'm pretty sure Dave's gonna wear that thong on mondays, wednesdays and fridays, and Joe on sundays, tuesdays, thursdays and saturdays. And they'll never gonna wash it, of course.

It's too bad that he let the negativity of the youtube comments get to him and shut everything down. I miss him as well.

@@kandigloss6438 Hey! He's still around and has a pretty good podcast called "Turbo Volcano".

​@@jmatt781And CGR is now back, baby!

I'll be so excited when my pre-order arrives (hopefully in March)... I just hope I don't have AIDS!

I actually bought Truxton based on his recommendation. Its a great game, but not the best ever.

@@Not-Great-at-Gaming blasphemy!

Looks like Paprium has more than three enemies onscreen, and the co-op AI looks more sophisticated, so this probably isn't something the SNES could do without a helper chip.

This is 24megs vs. 80megs plus some extras, Paprium is faster of course and it puts more sprites on screen! But Final Fight 3 is still a good brawler (the best on SNES imo) and in 1 player mode there is no slowdown at all.

If only I could watch the review on a Vectrex.

@@Not-Great-at-Gaming if you attach 32x to it you can!

I mean, he took 8 years to finish a 16-bit side scroller. Lol

@@TooBokoo Hey man, it's not like he drove away most of the original dev team on purpose or anything! These things things take time!

I'm intrigued as to why people haven't started calling him "Ponzi" instead.

He seems to hate any modern technology with a passion so much that he either has no clue how it works or thinks the people who buy his game will accept his "expert" answer.

Its a nod to 30FPS games I think

Thanks! I noticed they mispelled your name in the game credits. :( They said JReed I believe.

Hey Jredd tell that beautiful asshole Fonzie to port the game to SNES using the SA-1 chip. That would be indeed amazng!

Many thanks for the great review and positive feedback regarding the OST. It’s also cool you noticed some little musical Easter eggs we threw in. Another is in the track Neo-Metal which has a little nod to Afterburner. Keep up the great work on Game Sack. 😃

what are some of your favorite tracks?

@@GameSack I noticed! I guess I needed the extra E to refill my energy tanks. Too bad I lost a D. I suppose after helping to write a soundtrack like that I was so out of it I became 1 dimensional for a while.:P

"It's better than nothing" - Keiji Inafune

I'd be interested in fixed better AI , removing the cheap 1 hit kills boss fights rely on, more moves and better animation

@@TooBokoo That's a good phrase for a FREE product...

@@TooBokoo Inafune didn't say that, it was the guy translating for him that said that. He was still involved with the game, so it was still bad to say, but not quite as bad as Inafune saying it.

The game can be patched and adding more stages, characters, costumes and abilities is a good thing. Plus we can play this game online co-op in the future

It's a polished turd.

It looks freakin' amazing!

The cartridge has almost the power of a dreamcast (180mhz?) And this is the result?...

@@anthonya.jumelles7103 It plays great actually.

You live close to the intergalactic space station?

I'm not against such a device in the cart, but you're definitely right about putting such a thing in there while saying everything he does about 16-bitness.

What they're doing for this game could likely have been done with a much simpler custom chip, but it seems they ran into trouble with the development of the Datenmeister and opted for a more readily available off-the-shelf ARM Cortex CPU instead. You can be sure that Fonzie will have bullishly rejected its inclusion and stubbornly pushed for the custom chip idea as long as humanly possible, until even he had to concede that it wasn't viable and they had to opt for plan B instead.

Or buy Streets of Rage 4

no

The fonz is right, no modern machine could possibly do this game justice

The Switch lacks the Blast Processing™ needed to run Paprium.

The saturn video is a true ode to the love of gaming. And that silver ps2 you got is really close to my heart, as his review of that is one of the videos of him that i've rewatched most times, second only to the saturn video itself. Time to pay those a visit for nostalgia sake!

Because he's a narcissist.

right? so bizarre. it read like the ramblings of a madman.

Is he actually an English speaker? It sounds like it was run through some really cheap translation software.

He is originally Swedish and lives in France, to the best of my knowledge. His grasp of the English language is not great. The game itself is also riddled with spelling errors in its English incarnation. Fonzie really needs a proofreader.

There are lots of good things going in this game. It will inspire other games. I'm sure of that. The piece of metal didn't move when I received the game but it happened one week later ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

so if it's not a heatsink...what is it?

@@SegaCDUniverse Could be RF shielding, what I thought when I first saw it

@@johnathin0061892 Not at all, metal plates are not effective as RF shields unless they are connected to a constant potential (e.g. ground). That metal plate seems to be only decorative.

it's a fake "heatsink" with the fake chip make and model number on it. a 180MHz STM32 ARM MCU doesn't need a heatsink. although I didn't realise it had other chips as well (the name Altera rings a bell - FPGA...? if so not sure what its role is.)

I wonder as well. It's fun to think about as I play.

How much would it cost to make a game look like that in 92? Isn't that altera chip a 450mhz fpga?

@@GameSack had this game been out as well as all those color hacks of existing Sega games.. im sure the sega vs nintendo debate would be even more heated!

Well, it would've been announced in 1992 and then released in 2000. 😂

They would have been utterly blown away. And although it's not perfect, I expect it would have gotten probably 9/10 from most mags.

Interesting!

Thanks for the info ApenBaard.

From what little i know from the whole story, Fonzie as a character surely reminds me of the whole Phil Fish story. Maybe the douchy persona is a shield to avoid what happened to Phil, maybe he is just bonkers af, who knows...

Even where it's technically competent the aesthetics and "humor" of the game just ruin it, with all the magenta edgelord stuff lathered over everything. It's like one of those "X-Treme" games from the 90's, only somehow stupider. The spritework doesn't save it, it honestly looks soulless and cliched even despite all of the technical detail. I really hope nobody buys this, it deserves to just be a fiasco.

@@kiyoaki1985 I actually feel like that is the goal here, just so that, in a few years, it becomes one of those rare, sought after "holy grails" of the retro collecting scene. Kind of a turned up to 11, purposedly made version of what earthbound achieved with the stinky ad back then...

@@HCSilvaRodrigo Diference is Earthbound is an amazing game

@@OnlyEpicEmber Fair point, and it's why it all sounds a bit artificial, forced. Earthbound was just the first that came to mind, though. The retro collecting market is full of subpar games that are considered holy grails just because they sold poorly and not every completionist can have a copy.

On top of his response to people wanting to play the game on the mega sg. I have to agree with you wholeheartedly.

@@FloridaEbikes The hardware will most certainly die, so we have to keep it alive through hardware and software emulation

@Poorly Playing Retro, more like Poorly Representing Humanity.

@@vitamind.d.fishinsea8570 I see even HD CRTs coming sooner than that. Doubt they'd ever get to 4K, though, but who really cares about that?

Poorly Playing Retro Idiots is a nice word for these manipulative, pathological psychopaths so full of themselves, a mentality that permeates many in the tech world.

Hell nah of course not no genesis or any video game for that matter

ditto to everything you said.

The CGR skit at the end is really fitting, as i feel like Joe is one of the few remaining bearers of Mark's non corporate, laid back, in-depth style of review from the golden CGR days. Clint from LGR and Jason "Metal Jesus" are the only other two that come to mind, with Projared deserving honorable mention. These folks are really refreshing to watch among the sea of shouty merch-pushing twitch streamers turned youtubers we have these days.

@@HCSilvaRodrigo Ah yes, I am also a big fan of LGR. He covers such a broad range of computer tech from all eras and he really knows his stuff. Love watching his channel. Indeed, RU-vid is just flooded with amateurs who know very little about the more intricate details of computer & video game hardware. I am a tech nerd at heart myself who's knowledge of electronics & computers runs deep, thus I truly appreciate the RU-vid channels that focus on the tech side at least a bit, and those who actually know their shit VS those that just try to act like they do but clearly don't. Those same RU-vidrs also spread far too much misinformation that ends up being taken as fact by viewers who simply don't know any better. It gets tiresome after a while, however at this point I am subscribed to all of my favorite channels that I know and trust, and thus I get to stick to them and don't even bother with the others, although I do come across a new and interesting channel every once in a while. Like for example, I recently ran across a passionate Famicom collector on RU-vid named Elrinth, a channel with very few subscribers yet his video's are excellent and detailed, and the guy appears to also be one of the few that knows his stuff. His channel is just starting out it seems, but his content has quickly grown on me as his video's show and talk about all the right things, and I also happen to be a big fan of Famicom collecting myself. When he talks about games he always shows gameplay footage of them which is nice, even if he ends up covering several dozen games in a single video. I like little touches like that. His just happens to be the latest channel that I've discovered.

@@skins4thewin Now that you mentioned the famicon, i feel dumb for forgetting to mention Game Dave, as he is also worth watching (or listening, the first season of his digitally distracted podcast is really relaxing for some reason), even if he sometimes edges dangerously close to the shoutier aspects of youtube.

@@HCSilvaRodrigo Oh yes! I absolutely LOVE his channel! I think his channel is CRIMINALLY underviewed & undersubscribed! His stuff is as high quality as it gets & I absolutely love his upbeat & positive vibe. I actually like his sense of humor and in your face nature, makes the show that much more entertaining imo. The dude is clearly talented as well, with some of his video's having ridiculous production values. His channel is undoubtedly one of my favs.