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@@gw7817 Thanks! If you like my vibe there's a lot more where that came from lol

@@Lexus2JZ I'm glad I could kick up that nostalgia for you! I had the Genesis version of this, but never knew it got ported. We might play the Sega CD one on steam in the future because it looks wonderfully cursed lol.

@@tsu7206 I thought nobody cared about this series, but I guess I was wrong and it's a cult classic lol

That actually would have been the perfect point to stick a lawnmower in the mix. I guess during that part I can just say "bweeeeeaaa" but what's the use? 😔🚜

@@nessadvantage9447 ah yes Run Saber! I played that for a 10MoG as well lol. Greatly enjoyed it too, what a fun game. This one however, ugghhh it's rough lmao. Feels like I'm underwater the entire time.

@@ThatPunkYT yeah it wasn't a fun experience playing that strider game lol. Watching your playthrough of festers quest atm😅 You should play gremlins 2 for the nes if you haven't already. It's another great game from sunsoft. Sunsoft had great games for the nes: Journey to silius, blaster master, festers quest, gremlins 2, batman. Not only fun but, they all had great music in their games. Enjoying your blind playthrough of festers quest so far. Hard game....impossible without a turbo controller though.

@ You know what, I can totally check out Gremlins 2 for next week's 10MoG - I've never played it and have heard decent things. I hope you enjoy the playthrough of Fester's Quest! To be fair, I *did* play the European version which makes some major improvements (check out a video from user "Displaced Gamers" for more info on this, really cool watch), so I did make it easier on myself. I grew up with the US cart of Fester, and wanted to play the European version to see if it was more enjoyable... and.... ehhhhh, it kinda still felt lackluster in the end lol. 6 or 7/10 imo, but that's aight.

@@ThatPunkYT that would be cool. To give you a fair warning, the first couple of levels you are stuck with a tomato as a weapon, you do get better weapons afterward. I'll give you a tip when playing: the 1st time you get to wangs shop in the 1st level (theres always a door in each level it's imperitive that you seek each one) Buy ether the heart which is a health upgrade or an extra gizmo (lol extra life) When you get a new weapon which is a matchstick buy the container with a P on it. It makes your weapon more powerful and as long as you don't have to use a continue you'll always have the powerup for your weapon. After that just keep buying extra gizmos and the game is smooth sailing for the most part🙂 Yeah i saw that, pretty sweet that the walls don't affect your weapons in the euro version. I beat the game years ago old school with the wall problem. i did have a nes advantage, i wasn't about to break my fingers rapidly spamming the button😅

Yeah it was pretty freaky imagery for a kid to be faced with... but I didn't have any problems with it lol. From what I gather, the Sega CD version of this has some insanely blursed 90's CGI. We might check it out on stream together one day just to experience it together.

@@mohastgridlock lol I think more people have ROM surfed than you realize 😅 I'll turn you into a believer yet.

Yeah I grew up with the Genesis version and wasn't a fan - but maybe that was just me being a kid. I *will* say however this GB remake is quite good. Music is nice, it controls well, and there might be some weird potential speedrun tech with flying up through a platform if you come into contact with it. Not too shabby!

Ahhhh. See, I missed out on that since I never saw the movie. I hear the Sega CD version of this has deliciously psychotic CGI. Might have to investigate for myself 🤔

​@ThatPunkYT that soundtrack goes hard though

Yeah it's pretty damn good, not just for a Gameboy game either!

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Yo that's awesome you played this. I hope I was able to kick up some nostalgia for you :) As you can tell, I was blown away by how much work actually went into this. One day I'd like to return and try to do a full clear of it for funsies <3 Maybe if we stretch language far enough we can say that the only fighter from Greece was Hakan - but to be fair I think that was oil he was covering himself in, and not grease 😅

AND bullet resistant gas tanks it seems, too! This game def was a trip, but crazily enough, not *that* bad in terms of jank. Plus, I wouldn't doubt that there's some speedrun tech here with getting shot up into the sky as you jump through a platform. Glad you enjoyed! \m/

If there's a grid lock does there mean there's also a grid key?

@@gemubaka I didn't even notice the "M" for "more gas!" ⛽😭

Yo thanks for that info, all that stuff you described is indeed pretty wild - especially the bit about that one NPC being able to be controlled by P2. That's beautiful. From what you describe it sounds like the potential is there for some advanced movement and stuff, I didn't even realize the star is a platform lol. Even tho I played it poorly, I could def tell there was more under the surface.

@@ThatPunkYT you played fine for going in blind I don't know if I even finished level 1 before my first game over lol

Hah thanks. I def felt a bit inept at it though, and now I understand why. In this series though, it's a blessing if I can actually get to and kill a boss within 10 minutes 😅

Also another f7n fac5 is the underwater tube area in the first stage is all 1 time use assets. There's a ton of unique sprites and one off enemies and areas. This game is a whole ass world of its own.

Ahhh it's a platform too? I would have never thought of that, and I can imagine it would of only happened by accident without reading the manual lol. Really cool that there's lots of unique one-time use assets as well, that's an incredible amount of heart. I didn't play this one too well so it didn't sink its teeth in me, but I can see why you like it! I'm glad I finally got around to checking out your recommendation :)

That surprises me, it was a regular thing for me and my friends. Browse through a folder, boot up a random game, give it a few minutes, get bored and move on to the next. This whole series was actually inspired by getting a sesh of that in last year with a friend. I hope I can at least recreate that feeling for ya :D

Well well wellllllll... Thank you so much. Happy to have had you be a part of it 🤘

@@JoePReal_FK Roadkill made up for his betrayal by zapping the Gravis for me on my final run. It's great how you and I both inspired one another. It's exactly the main reason I do almost everything I do, music or videogames. This race is gonna be lit. Can't wait, friend! 🤘🐭🧀

@@mohastgridlock Get in the Cone.

It was dope having you there, and being able to do it both for myself, and all my friends 💪🩵🩷

Maybe THAT'S the magic I was looking for all along! 🤣🪄🧙‍♀️

My first experience with this was a fun one, but I must have not played it long enough to get to level 2 lol. Can't believe it takes you from fun action to meandering around looking through a maze. I've never even seen the Arcade version, I'll have to check it out as well :D

@@ThatPunkYT The arcade game is way more like Shinobi/Shadow Dancer

Shadow Dancer is my favorite Genesis game, even cleared it on max difficulty plus no shuriken mode on stream. I'll 1,000% give it a shot on a future 10MoG since you say that.

@ The original Shinobi and Shadow Dancer arcade machines are my favorite games alltime, but I love the Genesis versions too. I play the arcade version of E-Swat on the shitter a lot, I was doing just that when I came back to the PC and your video popped up, LOL

@PlasticCogLiquid Hah well thanks for waiting until after the shitter to leave a comment, tho honestly I don't mind either way 🤣 I played Shadow Dancer Arcade in another 10MoG a while back, def wanna return and try to beat it. It seems short enough to get it done without too much trouble.

Yeah I realize that now. I previously thought Probotector was ONLY on NES (now I realize it's the entire franchise's name in Europe), and what I was expecting was a weird NES port or something lol.

LOL that Black and White video was the first thing I thought of. Remember how ground breaking that was to see back in the day? This game absolutely slaps, and I'm def gonna wanna try to clear it one day. That soundtrack is SOOOOO GOOOOD :D

@@gemubaka Wait, you mean I have to play this, FOREVER?! 😭 (ty, friend!)

@@xjuice_leex Happy to help! This is one of my favorite albums of all time. Enjoy! 🤘

@ThatPunkYT I definitely prefer these tracks over the ones on Homeland Insecurity

Yeah, HI sounds a bit too pristine and perfect right? I like when there's a little grit to a recording. This sounds more like they did in the rehearsal studio.

I know you say this is the best possible outcome, but there's a world where a Baby's Day Out Shmup exists and I want to be a part of it. 😫 Baby, OUT! 👶👆

Lol this game is kind of a fever dream. 100% recommend trying it yourself. Also, happy New Year, friend!

This guy fumbles around with all the grace of a jello mold falling down an escalator. It's beautifully horrid lol. Happy New Year, my friend!

Oh wow, so yeah it sounds like Action Fighter takes influence from a bunch of other games. Oddly enough, I could unconsciously feel that fact lol. I really liked this title. Very cute, and the gameplay changing up was a *very* pleasant surprise! I don't think I've ever played Xevious, but if you say it's an extremely important game then I have to experience it for myself!

@@ThatPunkYT Xevious is incredible if you're a fan of golden age arcade games. It not only invented vertically *scrolling* shooters as we know them now (prior games only allowed you a single screen, with the one exception being Atari's Caverns of Mars which had your ship on the top and scrolled down), it did so while introducing a ton of other gameplay embellishments. The most obvious is being able to bomb ground targets, which again, keep in mind this was the first proper vertically scrolling shooter, and they already were adding gimmicks like that. On top of that, the game had a sophisticated enemy AI system, where the AI would adapt to how well you played. The game might have been a score chase, but if you played better, you still got to see new things in the forms of enemies and formations that would spawn for a lesser player. When you died, it would significantly decrease your 'threat' level, and the longer you lived and more enemies you shot down, the more you'd see. Even the very first enemies in the game have a bit of strategy to them, they slowly move into your line of fire, and then break away once they're directly in front of you. It genuinely redefined the entire gaming industry. Gradius was made because Konami wanted to one up Xevious. Bubble Bobble was made because the creator, Mitsuji Fukio played Xevious and was like 'Taito's games fucking suck nowadays, I'm gonna make something as good as Xevious.' 'Game Freak' was a term applied to people who were particularly good at arcade games in Japan, and Tajiri Satoshi got the name for being so good at Xevious. One of the first issues of Game Freak magazine (which is what it was before being a game company) was a detailed walkthrough Tajiri wrote for achieving high scores in Xevious. Fucking Mew exists because Tajiri remembered a rumor about a secret ship you could get in Xevious and wanted to do that but real. Yuzo Koshiro said that the day Xevious was announced for the Famicom was one of the happiest days of his childhood. Rydeen would actually create a 'soundtrack' album for Xevious titled Super Xevious (seemingly nothing to do with either of the Xevious sequels under that same name), which contributed to video game music garnering a sense of legitimacy in Japan, which led to Japanese celebrity composer Sugiyama Koichi seeking out the job to compose Dragon Quest with Enix (yes, he sought them out). Then there's of course the importance of Xevious when tracing things back. Endo Masunobu created the Tower of Druaga as his next game, which was sort of an RPG for the arcades. He made it because he wanted to create a game with a proper ending, because some people were getting so good at Xevious that they literally were playing for hours on a single credit and pissing off arcade operators. And Druaga was a direct influence for Hydlide and the Legend of Zelda. That's not even getting into the fact that Endo wanted Xevious to be proof that games could have deeper stories than the fluff most arcade games had, so he wrote a novel to go along with Xevious with a lot of lore. I can't paint a full picture of how big of an impact Xevious had, but it really was a paradigm shift for the gaming industry at large. Anyway, thanks for reading my rambles, I absolutely *love* video game history, and it's really fascinating and fun to watch you discover these games, to see what lines you draw and your takeaways from these short time playing things. I've actually gotten back into romsurfing with a friend of mine inspired by your videos. That said, definitely recommend checking out Xevious, and I also recommend giving Spy Hunter a go. Action Fighter is *brutal* and Spy Hunter is a little more generous in that regard (though still brutal).

@@ThatPunkYT Mostly just Spy Hunter and Xevious, the Road Fighter thing is just a riff on the title. Though Road Fighter did get a Master System conversion, albeit as an unofficial SG-1000 port which was just slapped onto Master System. Which was pretty common, the SG-1000 and MSX were extremely comparable hardware wise, and the Master System had full backward compatibility with the former system, so stuff like that just happened. I'm glad you liked it though! It's a fun one, though absolutely brutal. I definitely recommend checking out both Spy Hunter and Xevious, if only to get a taste of what this game was trying to do. I've never played the Arcade version of this one, though from what I understand it's fairly different. Might also be worth your time. As someone *obsessed* with video game history, it's been very fun watching your videos and seeing your takeaways and assumptions from your extremely limited time with each of these games. It actually got me back into romsurfing, and I've been doing it a bit with a friend lately. I say that all to say, thanks for putting out this content, it's very nice to see. I start with all that because I'm gonna ramble a bit about Xevious, and you've got the important part of my comment out of the way, so you don't actually need to read the following absolute wall of text. Xevious is a *landmark* title. A genuine paradigm shift for the industry. Xevious was the first true second generation shooter. Everything up to that point was still largely working within the bounds that Space Invader set. Galaxian and Galaga (also Namco) were the biggest steps forward at that time, but they didn't really escape the play format of Invaders. Galaga is often considered the 'last word on Space Invaders styled shooters,' a game that you can't really add or remove to without diminishing it somehow, and I absolutely agree with that. However, it is still an Invader's style shooter. Xevious was the first game to push into scrolling shooter design as we know today. I say as we know today, because there is one antecedent that did do true vertical scrolling and free movement in a shooter before it, that being Atari's Caverns of Mars. That game has your ship on top scrolling down however, and while also an enjoyable and historically significant title, it was much clunkier than Xevious and a little overcomplicated. Xevious created the SHMUP as we know today. Scrolling vertically upward and the ship is untethered from the bottom of the screen. However, Xevious wasn't content to *just* be the forerunner to an entirely new style of shooter. No, it had to be exemplary beyond that. The game has a secondary fire, the bombs, which allow you to attack targets on the ground. Ground targets offer a lot of points, but are also every bit as hostile as aerial foes, meaning that the player needs to have good spatial awareness and be capable of juggling multiple targets in order to succeed in Xevious. Beyond this, Xevious also has a very sophisticated enemy AI system. The player has a 'threat level' which goes up the longer they live and the more enemies they kill, and drops substantially on death. While the game has a fairly long loop and you will face certain targets guaranteed over the course of a loop, most foes are determined by your threat level. The better you play, the harder the game gets, but you also get to see new enemies and formations with their own behaviors to adapt to. Despite being a score chase arcade title, the game actually allows you to see new things if you play well. I mentioned how Galaga and Galaxian were the most successful evolutions of Space Invaders, and that they were also developed by Namco. There's a phenomenon in Japanese game development from that era that I've seen some Gaming Historians refer to as 'Namco Envy.' Every developer wanted to be Namco, to create the next Pac-Man (which itself was sort of the next Heiankyo Alien), then the next Galaxian, then the next Galaga. Xevious was such a massive step forward though, it ended up having an even bigger effect on the industry than Namco's prior works. To just list off a few examples: -Konami created Gradius specifically to try and one-up Xevious, literally saying 'If we're going to make an STG (Shooting Game) let's try to surpass Xevious.' -Mitsuji Fukio joined Taito to create Bubble Bobble specifically because he felt Xevious had a depth that he had never before experienced in a game, and was inspired to create something of that quality to turn around Taito's fortunes. He felt that Taito's contemporary games were of low quality, that they hadn't done anything interesting since Space Invaders, and Xevious was the embodiment of how lame their games had gotten. Space Invaders is often viewed as the inflection point from which the Japanese games industry was properly born, and now they were being completely shown up. -Game Freak was a term applied to players who were extremely good at arcade games, and Tajiri Satoshi was often called one, and used it as the name for his gaming magazine. One of the first issues was a detailed guide for high scoring written by him, as he was a *massive* fan of Xevious. When he would later go on to create Pokemon, he actually created Mew specifically because he remembered an old arcade rumor about a secret ship in Xevious, and wanted to create something with a similar aura of mystique, though actually real. Game Freak's first game, Mendel Palace was made for the Famicom, and in an interview he stated he chose to develop for the Famicom because he saw it as a 'dream machine' because it could 'play games like Xevious.' Funny enough, Mendel Palace would actually be published by Namco, which I imagine he must have seen as some sort of honor. -Super Xevious, a more difficult 'sequel' that was sold as a conversion kit for the game, would actually have its music remixed by Yellow Magic Orchestra and sold as a single, which along with YMO's other works helped push Video Game Music into mainstream legitimacy in Japan in the 80s. This led to Sugiyama Koichi, at the time a celebrity composer in Japan, seeking a job with Enix to compose for Dragon Quest, because he believed video game music had great potential. -Koshiro Yuzo, who you probably know as the composer of Streets of Rage, said that the day Xevious was announced to be coming to the Famicom to be one of the happiest days of his childhood. -Miyamoto actually stated in a 1986 interview that he was a huge fan of both Xevious and the Tower of Druaga (which I'll touch on briefly here in a moment). That's to say nothing of how Xevious actually pushed its creator. For one, Endo Masunobu wanted the game to have a deeper plot than other games at the time, believing games could be more than just whimsical nonsense, so he actually wrote a novel to go along with the game to offer context to its world and story. This story would be built on in later Xevious games, which directly reference the events of the novel. In fact, the recent Pac-Man episode of Secret Level features a *fuckton* of Xevious referecnes, with Pac-Man himself appearing to be a cloned GAMP (the supercomputer that serves as the villain of the Xevious franchise). Beyond that, Endo's next game would be the Tower of Druaga. Which he created because some players were getting so good at Xevious that they could play for hours on a single coin and arcade operators were getting pissed off. He wanted to create a game with an ending, and so created something that could be considered an RPG for the arcades. It was still a little bit more maze chase game than proper RPG, though it would be a massive direct influence on games like Hydlide (one of the first ever proper Action RPGs ever made) and the Legend of Zelda. We wouldn't have Zelda without Xevious. I really can't overstate how important of a game it was.

@@joeriley1219 I'm really happy to hear that you've been enjoying the series, and that I've inspired you to get back into a little rom-surfing of your own. Everything I do, whether it's speedruns, beating old games from childhood, my music, or this series, I do in the hopes to inspire someone to do the same - create, and expand their scope. I did read your comments on the history of all of this and I find it fascinating. You always have an amazing amount of knowledge on videogame history - have you ever thought of making a video series of your own where you shpeil about videogame history? I know personally, I'd watch the hell out of it, and I think others would appreciate it as well. Also, on the topic of this series of mine, I have 4 more episodes scheduled and then I need to record more, but I've been thinking of having entire streams dedicated to it instead - simply and honestly, to cut down on video editing and stuff (my free time has sort of been cut recently and I'm trying to see how I can be the most efficient the time I DO have). Each episode takes a little over an hour of time - from playing, to editing, thumbnails, and scheduling. I wonder what your thoughts (or anyone's thoughts) reading this are. Once again, I'm really happy to hear you've been enjoying the series, and I will also say that we're 99 episodes deep and I've played some weird shit along the way, so if you haven't dove backwards into the series very far you might find some super interesting stuff in there (like Sesame Street Fighter, RUclips Street Fighter, and that Uniqlo Capcom crossover lol). <3

@@ThatPunkYT Okay, whoops, didn't mean to write two comments. RUclips wouldn't show my first one, so I thought I had reloaded before posting it or something. I was up *very* late, so sorry about that. Either way, of course! Your enthusiasm for these things, both between 10MoG and your speedruns is infectious. I know the 'fury and explosiveness of Romsurfing' thing is kind of a bit, but I do find these videos to be very fun in a chill way, just that fun of discovery and seeing the genuine excitement at unexpected moments or quality. I have thought of doing youtube videos, but the truth of the matter is that I'm not really one for editing, and writing scripts is difficult. When I did the Avengers video, I kind of had to force myself to end the script because I struggle to coordinate things, and knew it would devolve into rambling unless I forced myself to have an end point. Plus, while I had created it for love of the game, the reason I chose to do a video essay specifically was to prove to myself I could do it. I'd like to do another one at some point, but I feel it'd have to be on a topic I'm incredibly passionate for. Maybe Hydlide or something, that's a game that I absolutely love though whose reputation has been utterly tarnished by anachronistic bashing. As for your logistic struggles, I think a stream format would definitely be a reasonable solution. People tend to be much less discerning about these sorts of things if they're just twitch VODs, I find. If I had to make another suggestion (assuming you're not already doing it), it would be to try and record in batches. Beyond that, standardize your work. Record an hour (so anywhere from 4-6 episodes, going off the video lengths I see here), and for thumbnails, make them uniform. Create a PSD with a transparent version of the 10MoG logo, then you can just throw the game's boxart or a screenshot on a layer beneath and export that for your thumbnail. You can very quickly save multiple of them, and recording like that means you can just split the videos up as you edit. Of course, I'd understand if you'd feel that would cheapen it all, but if you're trying to maximize your time, something like that would be my first recommendation after switching to streaming.

That was a nice little history lesson/story, thanks for sharing that! I'll probably end up giving the Arcade version at some point, I think I might actually get some enjoyment out of it then lol. Also, you mention Comical Joe, which I also played like 2 or 3 10MoG episodes ago. Despite it being kind of tough I got some enjoyment out of it once I got into a flow state 😁

@@gemubaka My BASS was not ready for this one 🐟

Blood and STONED 😎

@@gemubaka OPTIONS MENU "You could always not play" 🤷🙃

Ah yeah I did say that in the description as well. I have a whole bunch of weird hacks in my folder and no idea where they come from, so any additional info is always appreciated! This game was really fun, esp with the weird "staff flick" mechanic. I'd revisit it :D

I think I'll skip the Game Boy version for now, that's all the Aristotle I can handle lol.

@j.goggels9115 thank you!

Here's a link to the Gamefaqs page with the cheats on it: you might also want to use the parental unlock code listed there. Have fun! gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps/199341-wu-tang-shaolin-style/cheats

@@ThatPunkYT Thank you very much, I'm succeeding, I'm finding it complicated to unlock chamber 21

I'm not certain how to solve your problem but I wish you luck! Don't forget about gamefaqs and its guides! 👍

@@gemubaka looking at my scheduled episodes and... Ehhhhh, I'm not so certain about that 😅

LMFAO Decisions, decisions!

Yeah this game is pretty sick, I didn't think anyone else even knew what it was lol. Apparently, in the SNES version there are some levels that support 3D glasses. They knew as kids we all had a spare pair around the house lol