yeah i liked some trash. those wrestling games until wrestlemania the arcade game were dumpster juice. space jam was actually really fun and the only game to have officially have Michael jordan (possibly ever)
It's a good point, we played the games we had, I mean if you spent all your savings on a new game then surely you were going to get as much out of it as possible. Also I think the memories associated with a game, like having a good time playing it with family and friends is much more important than whether some reviewer liked it or not.
I remember renting Street Smart for the SNES... I dunno WHY I thought it would be at least half as good as Street Fighter II... boy was I wrong... XD But yeah, definitely a gamble... even as rentals!
It's true. I mean I even have a soft spot for utter mediocrity like Batman Returns and Talespin on the Mega Drive, purely because of the amount of time I spent playing them when I was a kid with a very limited games library.
I don't have the words to express how much I appreciate your humbleness, your unique way to explain what you feel with opinions and not with straight statement like other RUclipsrs. A true Lord, thumbs super up!
Opinions can still have fundaments to why you think something should be considered in a certain way, which can have more valid points (with evidence and logical criteria) than someone else's point of view, you know? There's still room for debating, and that's what so fun about videogame discussions!
@@thewindthatblows Yes dear Seba I know, you're right. I just wanted to point out the extreme care and gentleness the Lord has when he's talking about something he cares. Most of the retrogame RUclipsrs just offend everything and everyone for the view's sake (not naming anyone for respect... RRZ). Sglx is different and I wanted to praise him.
Reminds me of Ashen's bad game reviews. Some of the stuff on the ZX Spectrum was far worse than any of the games on all the top 10 lists you see (Superman 64, ET 2600, etc)
Examples for those curious: A-Team: C64. Can you stop the A-Team's giant heads from invading our planet? SQIJ: Spectrum. Literally unplayable unless you find the bug. Bridge It: Amstrad CPC. Control 4 bridges to keep a neverending army of suicidal clones alive. It may be the most repetitive game ever made. It's not like these platforms couldn't handle a good game. Chase HQ was a classic on CPC and Spectrum. The C64 gave us the Turrican series. But you took your chances.
@@lucag.lisickza425 Over here in America, most experienced the first two in the worst ways possible. Between the hero being made more fragile to punish renters and the bizarre efforts to use the Universal Soldier license? It was rough going. We wouldn't get a taste of what the series really offered until Mega Turrican. And even then, much of the Super Nintendo port of that game was gutted in order to fit into a comically small 4 Megabit cartridge ROM.
Wow, Dynamite Duke, now thats a game that rarely gets mentioned nowadays! We used to call it "Donut Man" when it was first released :D But loving terrible video games, it's what the Japanese call "Kusoge" (Kuu-so-Ghey)
Kusoge literally means shit game (kuso = shit, and ge = gehmu/game). So I wouldn't define that word as the love of bad games, but there are definitely those that love kusoge. There's more love I think for bakage (baka = stupid), since these silly games aren't necessarily conventionally bad. There's also surumege (surume = dried squid), basically games that become more fun over time the more you play. This is in reference to how surume, a type of beer/alcohol snack, releases more flavor as you chew on it.
"When you see me give a negative opinion about a video game, it's not to attempt to make you feel bad about something you enjoy, it's just my opinion... as i spend more time in the hobby, i have come to care less about what others think about my own opinions and become far more interested in hearing theirs." One more reason why we love you (and your opinions!). Thank you for the great videos.
"Even today, you'll find some asshole on the internet saying bad things about the games you love." ~Sega Lord X Sega Lord hates Battle Arena Toshinden, but I loved that game. Still enjoy your channel tho. 😆
I enjoyed the first 3 games. I haven't played them since back in the day, so I have no clue if they still hold up (doubtful). I have found memories of the series regardless
@@whosaidthat84 omg, last battle was terrible but played it ‘cos it cost money. I played the hell out of Altered Beast and Moonwalker packaged with the magadrive/genesis. I even played Sword Of Sodan which a lot of people dislike immensely. 🤫
Some folks seem to forget that reviews are informational, meant to give you an idea of the content and whether or not it's worth your time because there is so much content out there to choose from. Not as any sort of reference to rule your life or anyone else's. The trick is to find reviewers that are close in taste to yours so that the review has meaning. But no one has exactly the same taste as anyone else, so even that shouldn't be taken as gospel. It helps no one if you go along with opinions you don't agree with. Don't worry about it so much.
No one out there taps into that feeling of being a young Genesis gamer like you do, dude. The love of parallax scrolling (still looks amazing to me to this day) and how authentically you present even the bad stuff. I love this channel.
I'm an unashamed fan of Deadly Towers for the NES: it was hard and at times frustrating but had lots of hidden items that offset many of the problems. Also, the ending was very satisfying.
@@XTRABIG I hear you! The dungeon level is a mess, however, once you find the parallel zones the rewards were high and stumbling upon one was an exciting moment. The tower guardians were very cool. Had Prince Myer started at least 1/4th his potential power, the game may have been better recieved [he become significantly powerful at full crank]. We should also recognize that this was a fairly early game in the NES library and hating this games seems to have become a meme of sorts, which is a shame.
I had James Buster Douglas boxing back when I was a kid and loved it. I never understood why some were so critical of it. ITs like they played a different game than me.
I remember playing Fantasia as a kid and really loving it. Those graphics and that music really made an impression on me. The sega rendition of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" from the soundtrack is still really ingrained in my head.
Great perspective. Beauty (or fun) really is in the eye of the beholder. One of my favorites of all time is a game that catches a lot of hell-Castlevania 64. Love the reference to playing Rambo on the black and white television, by the way, brought back the memories!
@@Nov-5062 Honestly, I think it really all had to do with timing and exposure. As a kid, I wasn’t the biggest fan of Castlevania (I know that’s sacrilegious to say), and had only really spent extensive time with Simon’s Quest on NES. What drew me to the Nintendo 64 Castlevania games were the gothic motifs rather than any expectations around side-scrolling Metroidvania action, and Castlevania 64 had dark storytelling and intrigue in cinematic spades. Castlevania 64 was also my first real exposure to 3D gaming as well, so the flaws never really stunk as much to me as they might others, rather I was mesmerized by the possibilities. Similarly, I really enjoy the later Lords of Shadows-another gothic-inspired game that isn’t so much traditional Castlevania as it is an amalgamation of other titles in Castlevania clothing. So I think the combination of expectation (I was not looking for a traditional Castlevania experience) and exposure (before the Castlevania 64 experience, I had played a lot of NBA Hangtime and Golden Eye on N64, with otherwise a 2D pedigree) set the stage for a game that I still love all these years later. I fire it up and cruise through it at least once a year, with emulation, upscaling, and the right adapter to plug in my official N64 controller, it’s still a treat to me. Maybe that makes sense, maybe it just makes me crazy, but the heart wants what the heart wants, no?
@@Bushidounohana I definitely feel you, man. Seeing my brother playing Time Commando on DOS while all we ever played before was Commander Keen and Dangerous Dave was a moment I'll never forget. It had a strange atmosphere to it, and to this day I still love dark, weird games.
firs saw it in the arcade back in the day. finished it on mame about 8 years ago. i finally had closure finishing the game. it was hard and gruelling even with save states
Same here, I find the arcade a very good game and the Megadrive version a very close port. The controls were a bit experimental but they work for what they try to do, on the rest of department I find it a very appealing and fun game.
Space Jam was a great game. It was colourful, controlled well, had some fun mini games sprinkled in and overall was just fun. Each character had their own special moves that would trigger different dunking animations and commentary, so it had lots of variety too
Altered Beast is a "you had to be there" game. It was competing against 8-bit Nintendo. It looked amazing and the idea of transforming into beats was a cool concept even if the game was kind of hollow, but so were most arcade games
As a person who rewound space jam 17x a day til my vcr ate the tape I can say that space jam game solidified some friendships I still have til this day like I can’t imagine my life without some of these ppl I hated when I got old enough to see the reviews it got I remember saying “they didn’t play the same game I did couldn’t have” lol
I grew up with Sonic 06. I don't care what anyone says, it was fun to me. I ironically enjoyed messing around with the glitches too. Kirby Airide is another game I liked
I thought Air Ride was considered pretty great by most Kirby Fans. I’m looking forward to playing 06 someday because it sounds hilarious with all the glitches.
"bad" games are a treasure trove of personality and fun ideas. even if they don't always land, they're often a treat if you leave your judgment at the door and experience it for what it is
You mentioned something I admire and remember doing myself. “Making my own special moves..”. This. So much this. I remember my folks got me a few games like this where you play it SO MUCH because well.. my parents were poor and games were expensive. So we would “break” the game. Meta game as it were. Play it differently. This right here is something I know us older gamers do often. “Cook with the ingredients you have..”
Nothing will ever be as beautiful in my eyes as 2d 16 and 32 bit pixel art and the Sega Saturn had so much beautiful 2d pixel art in Japan that will never be topped!!
I had a Saturn back then but I got rid of it. It's only 20 years later that I REALLY got what the system had to offer. Those Japanese titles were just amazing!
Just barely made it past the intro and already decided that you've deserved a thumbs up just for the topic alone and for sticking to your thing. Good work, man.
Even more, I might even go the mile and say that these B-tier games are an indication of what defines the core attraction of gaming in total! These games are the bread and butter, if you will, the onions and garlic, the mashed poatoes and gravy. You can have lobster with caviar all day every day if you want to be that guy (and that is fine!! that's totaly fine dude), but every now and then you just need a crave the itch for something dirty, something rough, like a hot grilled cheese sandwich to grind your damn teeth in and rip the frigging cheese off and roar like a lion! And that, folks, is why we love video games.
Remember the Nintendo Centers in the middle of your local Shopping Mall? A Free Multi Nintendo Gaming experience,that kids use to fight over playing...sometimes.. Mid 80's up to mid 90's... It was like a free Nintendo Arcade! I remember playing alot of games before they came out in stores ,Super Mario 3 and Super Nintendo before it was released for sale.. even.. And being able to test any game before you buy it was amazing. Man... I miss that period of TIME... Things were so much simpler then ...
lol, i still get WWE Wrestlemania NES songs stuck in my head at random for no reason. I don't know if I"ve played that game more than 10 minutes in 30 years but those songs still pop up for no reason.
I just recently found your channel, and I'm glad I did and after watching this video I know I am NOT ALONE in loving Rambo, for whatever reason this is in the top 5 list of NINTENDO games for me, from fighting animals and bugs to eventually going against Humans and getting guns to having to fight big spiders etc. It was a big part of my childhood and I played it relentlessly until I beat it.. I'm 41, so this is right up my alley from my youth lol. Cheers mate!
For me it's Secret of Mana. I accept the fact that most people love it, but I was so disappointed that it's the only SNES game I've sold in recent years.
Love this. I had Vigilante and Rocky on the master system back in the day and loved them and still do. Apparently they weren't to everyone's taste tho in the modern age.
I think it’s all about expectations with these games, as long as you’re not comparing these games to more high profile and well known games then you can have some fun with these games.
I remember having a heck of a great time playing Karate Kid on the NES, a game that was not very much loved by the majority. I could write a neverending list of games that have been hated by some - or most people - which totally entertained me for a good while. That all boils down to "that's what I have to play", and you learn to like them eventually, as you said in the video. Thumbs up, keep the nice content coming!
I own and love a few “bad” games, I mainly collect them if they’re interesting to me in some other way, like being technically fascinating. Stuff like Wolfenstein SNES, Virtua Racing Mega Drive, Zero Tolerance, Stunt Race FX, E.V.O. The Search for Eden, and Mechwarrior SNES. None of those are terrible, but they aren’t the best games, but they’re all unique enough or technically interesting enough to make me want to own them.
Back in the day though, it was often a choice: Play the "bad" game you got as a present that year, or play nothing lol It's because of this that there's a few terrible games that I put more hours into as a kid than I would put minutes into today.
I honestly love Sonic R. Sonic Gems Collection was the first game I ever bought with my own money. And it was my first 3d Sonic game. It was also the first game I ever Speedran (100% on hard in 30 minutes when I was like 9). Played everyday for months.
I do like castlevania legend on gameboy i got good memorys of it once i played it the first time in 2007 on an emulator, 2007 was a great time with way less worrys, i can’t believe we are 14 years futher in time, to me it feels like 14 seconds ago.
I loved Kane and Lunch. I know it's bad, but I enjoyed the settings. There was a title screen in part 2 that was inside a small apartment on a rainy night. No music, just the muffled sounds of the city and blurry city lights through the rain covered window. There were all kinds of small details like that throughout the game, then your following the two biggest screw ups in gaming history through definitely the worst times of their lives.
Enjoyed the video, I agree that Castlevania Legends is an enjoyable game I had fun with. Other “stinkers” I enjoyed but others hated were Robo Cop 2, (NES), Dick Tracy (NES), Rocketeer (NES), Total Recall (NES), Batman Returns (Genesis), Fester’s Quest (NES). Back then, like you, I didn’t get a lot of games when I was a kid so I enjoyed or learned to appreciate what I got. Heck I was still playing games on my little black and white TV until 1988. But the memories are what brings a smile to my face and still have those games in my library.
Fester's Quest is very good. The problem is people have taken AVGN seriously, and another problem is people don't read manuals and don't know how to play some games. To enjoy Fester's Quest you need to learn that you must avoid certain "power ups" which actually downgrade your weapon
I had so much crap... But damn if I didn’t force myself to “get into” all of it. Something that’s totally a relic. I wish I had the kind of patience I used to.
Yep, it is a bitter taste to pick up a new, fifty dollar (or more) game that doesn't live up to your hopes so the initial reaction is to press on and try to find things to enjoy about it, since the store won't take it back and you know that you're stuck with it. That was me with Super Thunder Blade, among other examples.
I guess we can apply the rule " beauty is in the eyes of the beholder" in video games as well. Just a few examples of NES games that I love but everybody considers bad: Capitain America, Double Dragon iii, The Punisher, Monsters in My pocket (absolutely love this one). There are many mores but the bottom line is: if you enjoy and have a great time with a game, why care what everybody else care?
1:00 I'm sure I read that issue of EGM back in the day but I had completely forgotten just how low the scores for Herzog Zwei were, even though today it's generally regarded as a pioneering real time strategy game.
Hmm good question, what would I put in this kind of list. Maybe Charge and Blast on the Dreamcast, Ground Zero Texas on Mega cd, Highlander on Jaguar cd, Golden Axe 3 on Mega Drive, My Hero on Master System, Batman the arcade game on Saturn or that Motocross game on 32X, Cowboy Kidz on C64, Sonic 06 on Xbox 360.
I loved Wrestlemania as a kid, and you are correct in saying that it took some imagination to enjoy it. Also Buster Douglas boxing was fun as hell at the time.
Great to see Castlevania Legends getting some love. I've never really understood the hate on that one. It was one of the few Game Boy games I had and i enjoyed it. I'd love to see more videos like this one SLx! Also I felt bad for the Sega CD getting all 5s in that gaming magazine lol
Also loved Dynamite Duke back in the day. Oddly enough, it's one of those games I suck at if I try to replay it, but almost 30 years I did put some time in it like you. Never knew it was such a reviled game ^^ Loved that kind of gameplay though, and its cyberpunkish setting kept me playing! =) Ain't nothing wrong in having some guilty pleasures =)
One game that gets a lot of flak that I enjoyed, was Double Dungeons on the TurboGrafx. I once spent a good chunk of my summer vacation back in 1992 plaything through each dungeon and eventually completing it, just to get a paragraph of text and a small picture for the ending. I admit that I am a fan of the original Street Fighter. I don't mind revisiting it, whether it be on my Duo, PSP, or at the arcade. I would also say Friday the 13th on the NES, but it has received more favourable coverage in recent years.
I will alway say that Altered Beast is a good game in that it did exactly what it needed to do. It was a pack in when the Genesis launched, and it showed off the 16-Bit graphics and sound of the Genesis that the NES could never hope to even come close to. You could hook up your shiny new system and get a very good looking and sounding port of a fairly recent arcade game right in your living room. It was 2 player simultaneous so that both pack in controllers could be put to use right away. Is it the deepest game? No. It is good as an arcade port though, and right off the bat it showed you that the Genesis was going to be able to deliver on the promise of visually spectacular arcade action at home that SEGA promised. (As long as you didn’t play Super Thunderblade next of course)
I grew up with the Atari 2600 and then the NES. Altered Beast was the first Genesis game I ever played. My mind was blown. It was my first real next-gen expierance. I've played it so much, I have the game memorized, but I've never forgotten my first impression.
@@homiedclown I have a modded SNES mini with Altered Beast and it's totally a comfort game. It can be beaten in about 15 mins and the feeling of turning into a beast (that music!) is so fuckin awesome!
The one I love that comes to mind is Silver Surfer (NES). I didn't even play it as a kid, I played it in 2019. It had some fame as being an impossible game (proably due to AVGN), and I wanted to see if I could beat it. To my surprise it had amazing music and was not actually that hard at all. In my opinion it's easier and more fun than Gradius, and it's actually one of my favorite NES games.
My personal pick whenever this topic comes up is always Friday the 13th on the NES. I feel most peoples negative opinions on this game comes from the how confusing it can be on a first playthrough. Once you figure out how Jason works, how to obtain the different weapons, and how to navigate the map, its great fun and can legitimately unnerving at times, like the part where you find Pamela's head in the forest and have to fight it, or finding Jason hiding in one of the cabins at night, and who could forget that Game Over screen.
Boy did I regret spending my hard earned money on that title back then. But like Sega Lord X explained, I learned to play it and I it became a favorite. Never beat it but I have fond memories of that title.
I started with only two games for my Genesis as a kid. The bundled Sonic 2 and Bulls vs Blazers. Kids at my school loathed Bulls vs Blazers but I played the shit out of it. I still love that game to this day. Great video.
Oddly enough, it was Dynamite Duke that lured me into getting a Sega Genesis after watching those "Genesis Does" Tv spots. Duke was a hybrid of G.I.Joe and Marvel's Deathlok character, so what's not to love about this arcade port? 😉
As others have said, reviews are references and what they say is more important than the score. It's also worth reminding ourselves that there are people who won't like "good" games, and people who will like "bad" games. Castlevania 4 is a "good" game that I don't like very much, yet it's a favorite among people I still respectand usually agree with. Disagreement is fine as long as we express our opinions rather than try to tell others theirs are wrong as long as they can provide good reasons for them. I don't remember all the bad games I like or liked because they weren't bad to me, but Hyper Zone reminds me of Iridion 3D on the GBA due to the effects. I remember the reviews for it were terrible and I was a bit worried when I received it as a gift. I gave it a chance, figured it out, and had a really frun time with it. I saw DragonBall Z Buu's Fury on GBA get some low review scores, and I think those reviewers missed the point. I also had Altered Beast on the Master System and I loved it back in 1989. I had no chance to get a Genesis then, but I got to play Altered Beast, and did so a lot and could beat it. I see now all its problems, but it was a good game to me then and I can jump back into it quickly and look past its flaws and probably still do okay with it.
I got Captain Comic for the NES at the local swapmeet and although the game isn't very good, I still played the heck out of it since I didn't own games. From the weird blue cartridge to the classical music soundtrack, I still look up gameplay every now and then for nostalgic purposes. I'm with you, we play what we had.
Awesome video! Yeah, My biggest problem with "professional reviewers" is how they often don't review a game based on a game's core pillars. They should ask themselves "What does the game set out to do?", "how well does it achieve these goals?" and "do I subjectively enjoy these core pillars? AND would people that do enjoy them like the game more than me?"... More often than not reviewers are often reviewing their own expectations of what they want a game to be, and not the game itself. And that just sucks.
That first minute and 38 seconds, I couldn't have put any of those words any better than you have! And, there are really only two video game examples of my own to be able to mention here, as ones that I STILL enjoy on once a year replays, but yeah, have been condemned by the masses (and sorry, both are SNES....); Young Merlin, is often damned as a poor Zelda clone with a lot of backtracking and no saving feature (it has password continue though), and it's one of my most favorites for the console, despite loving ones like A Link To The Past, or even the Quintet games like Illusion Of Gaia or Terranigma. Anyway, the second, is Lester The Unlikely. Now, believe me, I DO love the DKC trilogy and the Mega Man X games, but Lester is one of those "childhood/nostalgia memory" ones, and I'm a firm believer that, once someone gets the hang of the controls and the way Lester reacts to dangers in the game, it's actually a hell of a lotta fun.
Oh my gooooodddd, I remember getting Kiss: Psycho Circus on the Dreamcast. I was so used to Quake III: Arena at the time so when my mum’s friend very kindly bought me this for Christmas I was actually horrified 🤣 I recall the first level being called ‘Bad Streets’ and that used to crack me up. Suffice to say I didn’t really give it a chance as I had Metropolis Street Racer and Jet Set Radio all on the same day! Ah, memories.
aliens colonial marines i like that game and it has sentimental value to me now aswell cos me and my late best freind played the hell out of it and enjoyed it alot.
First time viewer here and I'm already subscribed before the video was over. Awesome work here and I couldn't agree more with your closing statement. Rock on!
Well said. Wrestlemania XVIII on GameCube wasn't received well amongst critics and most gamers (even I can see its flaws), but it was one of the VERY few games that my dad and I along with sister and her husband played together, sometimes spending as much as an hour in 4-way ladder match laughing as we all attempted to get up that ladder just to get knocked down and wind up outside the ring. We all also had our own created wrestlers. As basic as the create a wrestler might have been to some, I had a ton of fun just creating them, assigning them moves, putting together entrances, etc.
The only 2 games I would genuinely call bad here are Rambo and Wrestlemania. I unfortunately had both as I kid too. I just wish I was creative enough to pretend I was doing special moves. Great video dude
I think every video game reviewer should be using you, Sega Lord X, as the standard to shoot for. The high quality box art in the corner instead of just putting rhe title in text plus a nice big area to show off the gameplay footage while you talk. On top of that, you have a great knack for explaining everything in just the right amount of detail and when you do an editorial, its not obnoxious or fan boyish. You hit the right spots every time. You're honestly the reason I bought a SEGA Genesis Mini, preordered the Mini 2 and shelled out for a SEGA Saturn. Then to top it all off, I went and re-bought a model 1 Dreamcast. If only SEGA had your reviews back in 1995, you would sold their stuff better than they did. Segata Sanshiro in the East, Sega Lord X in the West!
When I was young and it must have been 1987 or 1988 I would incessantly beg, plead with, and pester my father for him to buy me that game because I thought that it looked so cool in advertisements; he never wilted on that one and I finally let it go. (and likely moved on to Phantasy Star) I finally had a chance to give it a try much later and it wasn't bad at all but by that time I was playing Genesis and Turbografx games and my SMS was consequentially pushed aside.
I can relate. Back then, I had the few games that my parents bought me (my own choices but there wasn't much to base my choices on except the game art and the back of the package.) I also had a game gear while my classmates all had gameboys, so I had no one to offer any recommendations to me. So I got Batman Forever which I later learned was considered bad by gaming magazines at the time. I personally enjoyed it but couldn't get past circus 1 for years since you needed to use the grappling hook in order to clear it and the commands for the tools weren't in the manual. It took me years before I finally figured out the commands by random inputs. Gamefaqs was around at that time but had no info for the game gear game.
Most kids at the time had loads of these middling games making up the bulk of most people's collection's with a couple of bad & a couple of good/great. Most were these funny middling games that you could still have some fun with, it was just that it took a different approach to get the best from them sometimes
Hyperzone is pretty good, it's like F-Zero meets Star Fox. Sure, you mostly shoot generic squares and triangles, but the environments and the music are great. Anyway, I think even bad games can provide fun if you are willing to spend some time with them. Recently, I've been playing Hunt for Red October on NES. It's got mediocre graphics and horrible music, but it can still be addictive and offer a good challenge. I think that games with absolutely zero merits are rare. There is always someone that can have fun and find quality even in the least expected places.
I wish more (grown up) people were as mature as you. It's baffling how much people care about what others say and how mad they can get, just because you don't like what they like and then they get even more mad when they realise that you don't care when they say something bad about things that you like.
“You played it until you liked it.” That is such an accurate statement for when I was a kid with a new game lol
IKR and some of the 8bit computer games were truly awful but you spent £2 on it so you made the most of it. 🙃
yeah i liked some trash. those wrestling games until wrestlemania the arcade game were dumpster juice. space jam was actually really fun and the only game to have officially have Michael jordan (possibly ever)
That's how I felt with Wayne's World on SNES
@@vipset87 There was also Michael Jordan in the windy city
We also didn't have the internet to tell if a game is bad. We just rolled the dice and played games til we enjoyed them.
It's a good point, we played the games we had, I mean if you spent all your savings on a new game then surely you were going to get as much out of it as possible. Also I think the memories associated with a game, like having a good time playing it with family and friends is much more important than whether some reviewer liked it or not.
It was a gamble back then.
I remember renting Street Smart for the SNES... I dunno WHY I thought it would be at least half as good as Street Fighter II... boy was I wrong... XD
But yeah, definitely a gamble... even as rentals!
It's true. I mean I even have a soft spot for utter mediocrity like Batman Returns and Talespin on the Mega Drive, purely because of the amount of time I spent playing them when I was a kid with a very limited games library.
@SSj Crono
Were public libraries or supermarkets not a thing where you grew up?
And you'd be sure not to get another game before the next birthday or Christmas, so you made peace with the ones you owned. 😁
I don't have the words to express how much I appreciate your humbleness, your unique way to explain what you feel with opinions and not with straight statement like other RUclipsrs. A true Lord, thumbs super up!
Opinions can still have fundaments to why you think something should be considered in a certain way, which can have more valid points (with evidence and logical criteria) than someone else's point of view, you know? There's still room for debating, and that's what so fun about videogame discussions!
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Yes dear Seba I know, you're right.
I just wanted to point out the extreme care and gentleness the Lord has when he's talking about something he cares. Most of the retrogame RUclipsrs just offend everything and everyone for the view's sake (not naming anyone for respect... RRZ). Sglx is different and I wanted to praise him.
@@fabioregina135 In that case, yes, he IS a nice guy
He has a kindness that is beyond human understanding. Sega lord is an ethereal being .we as mere humans are truly blessed by his retro game reviews.
If your old enough to have played games on the old 8 bit microcomputers your understanding of what is bad is on a whole different level.
Reminds me of Ashen's bad game reviews. Some of the stuff on the ZX Spectrum was far worse than any of the games on all the top 10 lists you see (Superman 64, ET 2600, etc)
agree on the spectrum there was some shit
Examples for those curious:
A-Team: C64. Can you stop the A-Team's giant heads from invading our planet?
SQIJ: Spectrum. Literally unplayable unless you find the bug.
Bridge It: Amstrad CPC. Control 4 bridges to keep a neverending army of suicidal clones alive. It may be the most repetitive game ever made.
It's not like these platforms couldn't handle a good game. Chase HQ was a classic on CPC and Spectrum. The C64 gave us the Turrican series.
But you took your chances.
@@juststatedtheobvious9633 finally someone who talks good of turrican
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Over here in America, most experienced the first two in the worst ways possible.
Between the hero being made more fragile to punish renters and the bizarre efforts to use the Universal Soldier license? It was rough going.
We wouldn't get a taste of what the series really offered until Mega Turrican. And even then, much of the Super Nintendo port of that game was gutted in order to fit into a comically small 4 Megabit cartridge ROM.
Wow, Dynamite Duke, now thats a game that rarely gets mentioned nowadays! We used to call it "Donut Man" when it was first released :D
But loving terrible video games, it's what the Japanese call "Kusoge" (Kuu-so-Ghey)
And now Larry! One of my faves comments on another one of my faves! Good day!
Kusoge literally means shit game (kuso = shit, and ge = gehmu/game). So I wouldn't define that word as the love of bad games, but there are definitely those that love kusoge.
There's more love I think for bakage (baka = stupid), since these silly games aren't necessarily conventionally bad.
There's also surumege (surume = dried squid), basically games that become more fun over time the more you play. This is in reference to how surume, a type of beer/alcohol snack, releases more flavor as you chew on it.
Hello, you!
I didn't think Dynamite Duke got all that bad of reviews. The graphics were undeniably good I thought.
Your level of content output is really impressive!
Have you played Atari today?
Impressive is the word. They are frequent, and they are all worth watching.
I agree wholeheartedly.
"When you see me give a negative opinion about a video game, it's not to attempt to make you feel bad about something you enjoy, it's just my opinion... as i spend more time in the hobby, i have come to care less about what others think about my own opinions and become far more interested in hearing theirs."
One more reason why we love you (and your opinions!). Thank you for the great videos.
"Even today, you'll find some asshole on the internet saying bad things about the games you love." ~Sega Lord X
Sega Lord hates Battle Arena Toshinden, but I loved that game. Still enjoy your channel tho. 😆
LOL Kappa XD
I enjoyed the first 3 games. I haven't played them since back in the day, so I have no clue if they still hold up (doubtful). I have found memories of the series regardless
@SSj Crono no, BAT was BAD. 🤪
I enjoyed Battle Arena Toshinden II a hell of a lot more than I did any of the Virtual Fighter titles, that's for sure.
@@kekeke8988 wow, so you prefer flashy visuals to actual playability? Unfathomable. Thanks for contributing to the demise of gaming. 😭
Bad games are a guilty pleasure. There are many ‘bad’ games that I actually enjoyed throughout the years.
I feel like if you enjoy a game, it means that it isn't bad at all, since it fulfilled its destiny as an entertainment product.
As far as the game isn't broken and can play then it's fair game, then it's a matter of overall quality.
Likewise. Twistwd metal small brawl was one of those games for me
Last Battle/Fist of the North Star on Genesis is so basic and bland but I play it still to this day. I think it appreciate its simplicity.
@@whosaidthat84 omg, last battle was terrible but played it ‘cos it cost money. I played the hell out of Altered Beast and Moonwalker packaged with the magadrive/genesis. I even played Sword Of Sodan which a lot of people dislike immensely. 🤫
Some folks seem to forget that reviews are informational, meant to give you an idea of the content and whether or not it's worth your time because there is so much content out there to choose from. Not as any sort of reference to rule your life or anyone else's. The trick is to find reviewers that are close in taste to yours so that the review has meaning. But no one has exactly the same taste as anyone else, so even that shouldn't be taken as gospel. It helps no one if you go along with opinions you don't agree with. Don't worry about it so much.
No one out there taps into that feeling of being a young Genesis gamer like you do, dude. The love of parallax scrolling (still looks amazing to me to this day) and how authentically you present even the bad stuff. I love this channel.
I seriously ran into a random person walking through an apt complex who name dropped sega lord X unprompted after seeing my n64 shirt.
I really enjoy Sonic R, the soundtrack is fantastic, so are the graphics, the roster of characters and the gameplay, Just needed more levels.
I did too, at release it was easily one of the best looking 32bit/64bit games period
As janky as it is, it's a great game.
Same! I wish it had more levels tough
I'm an unashamed fan of Deadly Towers for the NES: it was hard and at times frustrating but had lots of hidden items that offset many of the problems. Also, the ending was very satisfying.
Wow. I could never beat that game and I spent HOURS upon hours trying to beat it. Something kept pulling me back hahaaa
@@XTRABIG I hear you! The dungeon level is a mess, however, once you find the parallel zones the rewards were high and stumbling upon one was an exciting moment. The tower guardians were very cool. Had Prince Myer started at least 1/4th his potential power, the game may have been better recieved [he become significantly powerful at full crank].
We should also recognize that this was a fairly early game in the NES library and hating this games seems to have become a meme of sorts, which is a shame.
I had James Buster Douglas boxing back when I was a kid and loved it. I never understood why some were so critical of it. ITs like they played a different game than me.
I remember playing Fantasia as a kid and really loving it. Those graphics and that music really made an impression on me. The sega rendition of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" from the soundtrack is still really ingrained in my head.
I liked it.
The game was done by Infogrames, Sega just produced it.
@@paulclinton6414 Cool! Glad to hear I wasn't the only one :)
@@Hektols Ah, yes that's right. My bad. I still think that soundtrack was special. Those simple FM renditions were pretty catchy in a weird way :)
Great perspective. Beauty (or fun) really is in the eye of the beholder. One of my favorites of all time is a game that catches a lot of hell-Castlevania 64. Love the reference to playing Rambo on the black and white television, by the way, brought back the memories!
Castlevania 64 n64 is amazing
I never really liked it frankly. What made you love this game so much? Im curious
@@Nov-5062 Same, I would love to know why you guys enjoy it. I disliked it no more than half an hour in.
@@Nov-5062 Honestly, I think it really all had to do with timing and exposure. As a kid, I wasn’t the biggest fan of Castlevania (I know that’s sacrilegious to say), and had only really spent extensive time with Simon’s Quest on NES. What drew me to the Nintendo 64 Castlevania games were the gothic motifs rather than any expectations around side-scrolling Metroidvania action, and Castlevania 64 had dark storytelling and intrigue in cinematic spades. Castlevania 64 was also my first real exposure to 3D gaming as well, so the flaws never really stunk as much to me as they might others, rather I was mesmerized by the possibilities. Similarly, I really enjoy the later Lords of Shadows-another gothic-inspired game that isn’t so much traditional Castlevania as it is an amalgamation of other titles in Castlevania clothing. So I think the combination of expectation (I was not looking for a traditional Castlevania experience) and exposure (before the Castlevania 64 experience, I had played a lot of NBA Hangtime and Golden Eye on N64, with otherwise a 2D pedigree) set the stage for a game that I still love all these years later. I fire it up and cruise through it at least once a year, with emulation, upscaling, and the right adapter to plug in my official N64 controller, it’s still a treat to me. Maybe that makes sense, maybe it just makes me crazy, but the heart wants what the heart wants, no?
@@Bushidounohana I definitely feel you, man. Seeing my brother playing Time Commando on DOS while all we ever played before was Commander Keen and Dangerous Dave was a moment I'll never forget. It had a strange atmosphere to it, and to this day I still love dark, weird games.
I played dynamite Duke in the arcade. I also love Time Killers, Pit Fighter, the Combatribes and Arch Rivals.
Pit Fighter still makes me laugh. I enjoy it quite a bit haha
I remember playing Hyperzone at a software store and being hooked on it. The visuals were hypnotic.
The Saturn 2D bmup looks fun!
It is, give it a try if you can.
Dynamite duke is a classic in my book. Loved playing this game when I was a kid.
firs saw it in the arcade back in the day. finished it on mame about 8 years ago. i finally had closure finishing the game. it was hard and gruelling even with save states
Same here, I find the arcade a very good game and the Megadrive version a very close port. The controls were a bit experimental but they work for what they try to do, on the rest of department I find it a very appealing and fun game.
Rightfully so. A Sega Mega Drive Collection would not be comete without this great rail shooter. Gorgeous. Great arcade feel. Love it.
Someone should mod this game and make it the Genesis version of Gears of War =)
It plays and looks like the punisher for nes.
Space Jam was a great game. It was colourful, controlled well, had some fun mini games sprinkled in and overall was just fun. Each character had their own special moves that would trigger different dunking animations and commentary, so it had lots of variety too
Altered Beast is a "you had to be there" game. It was competing against 8-bit Nintendo. It looked amazing and the idea of transforming into beats was a cool concept even if the game was kind of hollow, but so were most arcade games
As a person who rewound space jam 17x a day til my vcr ate the tape I can say that space jam game solidified some friendships I still have til this day like I can’t imagine my life without some of these ppl I hated when I got old enough to see the reviews it got I remember saying “they didn’t play the same game I did couldn’t have” lol
I grew up with Sonic 06. I don't care what anyone says, it was fun to me. I ironically enjoyed messing around with the glitches too. Kirby Airide is another game I liked
Kirby air ride looks like a fun multiplayer racing game.
I thought Air Ride was considered pretty great by most Kirby Fans. I’m looking forward to playing 06 someday because it sounds hilarious with all the glitches.
"bad" games are a treasure trove of personality and fun ideas. even if they don't always land, they're often a treat if you leave your judgment at the door and experience it for what it is
You mentioned something I admire and remember doing myself. “Making my own special moves..”. This. So much this. I remember my folks got me a few games like this where you play it SO MUCH because well.. my parents were poor and games were expensive. So we would “break” the game. Meta game as it were. Play it differently. This right here is something I know us older gamers do often. “Cook with the ingredients you have..”
this is why i keep coming back, you put a lot of heart and soul making these videos that make you so unique. keep it up SLX!!
Rambo might as well have been called "Bug cutter"
You need to grind level-up quite much to play.
Should've been called Rambug : )
@@kranibal Ha, noice.
Gotta admit though that music is impressive.
Best game ever
That NES Rambo is why we convinced our parents to get us a Sega Master!
That's how some of us love The Cyber Shinobi.
Nothing will ever be as beautiful in my eyes as 2d 16 and 32 bit pixel art and the Sega Saturn had so much beautiful 2d pixel art in Japan that will never be topped!!
I had a Saturn back then but I got rid of it. It's only 20 years later that I REALLY got what the system had to offer. Those Japanese titles were just amazing!
@@kranibal - amen to that statement my friend.
Zelda 2 is more ‘divisive’ than ‘bad by consensus’, but a large amount of people dump on it. I freakin love it so much.
Same here, Zelda 2 is an awesome game.
That game wasn't for me, but I understand why it has its diehard fans. I liked the combat.
You all should give the Zelda 2 Redux Hack a try if you're looking to enjoy the game at it's full potential.
I got a lot further in Zelda 2 than I ever did in Zelda back then.
When it first came out, I hated it. Nowadays, I consider it okay.
Just barely made it past the intro and already decided that you've deserved a thumbs up just for the topic alone and for sticking to your thing. Good work, man.
Even more, I might even go the mile and say that these B-tier games are an indication of what defines the core attraction of gaming in total! These games are the bread and butter, if you will, the onions and garlic, the mashed poatoes and gravy. You can have lobster with caviar all day every day if you want to be that guy (and that is fine!! that's totaly fine dude), but every now and then you just need a crave the itch for something dirty, something rough, like a hot grilled cheese sandwich to grind your damn teeth in and rip the frigging cheese off and roar like a lion! And that, folks, is why we love video games.
Remember the Nintendo Centers in the middle of your local Shopping Mall? A Free Multi Nintendo Gaming experience,that kids use to fight over playing...sometimes..
Mid 80's up to mid 90's...
It was like a free Nintendo Arcade!
I remember playing alot of games before they came out in stores ,Super Mario 3 and Super Nintendo before it was released for sale.. even.. And being able to test any game before you buy it was amazing.
Man... I miss that period of TIME...
Things were so much simpler then
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I never heard of such a thing. Not in northern or southern California.
lol, i still get WWE Wrestlemania NES songs stuck in my head at random for no reason. I don't know if I"ve played that game more than 10 minutes in 30 years but those songs still pop up for no reason.
I just recently found your channel, and I'm glad I did and after watching this video I know I am NOT ALONE in loving Rambo, for whatever reason this is in the top 5 list of NINTENDO games for me, from fighting animals and bugs to eventually going against Humans and getting guns to having to fight big spiders etc. It was a big part of my childhood and I played it relentlessly until I beat it.. I'm 41, so this is right up my alley from my youth lol. Cheers mate!
These days I find a lot of games that people universally loved that I just can't get into so the flip side is true as well.
To me one of those games is Persona 3, after 30 hours in, it's just boring.
For me it's Secret of Mana. I accept the fact that most people love it, but I was so disappointed that it's the only SNES game I've sold in recent years.
Rambo was my first NES game next to the pack-in 3-1 cartridge. I absolutely loved it then and still do today!
I loved Dynamite Duke in the arcade. One of these days I'll get the home version.
The home version is even better than the arcade !
Shout out to Sushi X & EGM for being youtube before youtube
Damn, Sushi X. Haven't heard that name in decades.. nice call back.
I really enjoy your content and LOVE your intro. Hope to see some more SMS soon as well!
Love this. I had Vigilante and Rocky on the master system back in the day and loved them and still do. Apparently they weren't to everyone's taste tho in the modern age.
I think it’s all about expectations with these games, as long as you’re not comparing these games to more high profile and well known games then you can have some fun with these games.
I remember having a heck of a great time playing Karate Kid on the NES, a game that was not very much loved by the majority. I could write a neverending list of games that have been hated by some - or most people - which totally entertained me for a good while. That all boils down to "that's what I have to play", and you learn to like them eventually, as you said in the video. Thumbs up, keep the nice content coming!
Look at those Duel graphics for Master System ...
Ikr? If something can't be criticized about that game are the graphics and animations, they look almost 16-bit.
I own and love a few “bad” games, I mainly collect them if they’re interesting to me in some other way, like being technically fascinating. Stuff like Wolfenstein SNES, Virtua Racing Mega Drive, Zero Tolerance, Stunt Race FX, E.V.O. The Search for Eden, and Mechwarrior SNES. None of those are terrible, but they aren’t the best games, but they’re all unique enough or technically interesting enough to make me want to own them.
Back in the day though, it was often a choice: Play the "bad" game you got as a present that year, or play nothing lol
It's because of this that there's a few terrible games that I put more hours into as a kid than I would put minutes into today.
We're Back on SNES fits that bill for me hahaha
Super Tennis on the Master System was that kind of game for me.
Nowadays there are so many good games but we don't have the time to play them all 😂
Aztec Adventure on SMS says hi.
I honestly love Sonic R. Sonic Gems Collection was the first game I ever bought with my own money. And it was my first 3d Sonic game. It was also the first game I ever Speedran (100% on hard in 30 minutes when I was like 9). Played everyday for months.
I do like castlevania legend on gameboy i got good memorys of it once i played it the first time in 2007 on an emulator, 2007 was a great time with way less worrys, i can’t believe we are 14 years futher in time, to me it feels like 14 seconds ago.
Yep, that was a good game.
Love your channel. You have a brutal honesty about things that is quite enjoyable. I don't understand how folks can get so worked up over a game.
I loved Kane and Lunch. I know it's bad, but I enjoyed the settings. There was a title screen in part 2 that was inside a small apartment on a rainy night. No music, just the muffled sounds of the city and blurry city lights through the rain covered window. There were all kinds of small details like that throughout the game, then your following the two biggest screw ups in gaming history through definitely the worst times of their lives.
Enjoyed the video, I agree that Castlevania Legends is an enjoyable game I had fun with. Other “stinkers” I enjoyed but others hated were Robo Cop 2, (NES), Dick Tracy (NES), Rocketeer (NES), Total Recall (NES), Batman Returns (Genesis), Fester’s Quest (NES). Back then, like you, I didn’t get a lot of games when I was a kid so I enjoyed or learned to appreciate what I got. Heck I was still playing games on my little black and white TV until 1988. But the memories are what brings a smile to my face and still have those games in my library.
Fester's Quest is very good. The problem is people have taken AVGN seriously, and another problem is people don't read manuals and don't know how to play some games. To enjoy Fester's Quest you need to learn that you must avoid certain "power ups" which actually downgrade your weapon
Castlevania Legends has also really strong dialogues.
"WHEN YOU GOT A GAME YOU PLAYED IT UNTIL YOU LIKED IT" True wise words!!!!!!!!
I had so much crap... But damn if I didn’t force myself to “get into” all of it. Something that’s totally a relic. I wish I had the kind of patience I used to.
Yep, it is a bitter taste to pick up a new, fifty dollar (or more) game that doesn't live up to your hopes so the initial reaction is to press on and try to find things to enjoy about it, since the store won't take it back and you know that you're stuck with it. That was me with Super Thunder Blade, among other examples.
I guess we can apply the rule " beauty is in the eyes of the beholder" in video games as well. Just a few examples of NES games that I love but everybody considers bad: Capitain America, Double Dragon iii, The Punisher, Monsters in My pocket (absolutely love this one). There are many mores but the bottom line is: if you enjoy and have a great time with a game, why care what everybody else care?
You hit the nail on the head with Buster Douglas boxing. It's fun the first go around.
Great video as always, hope this channel hits 100k this month.
That EGM buyers guide at :40...I still have that magazine laying around
1:00 I'm sure I read that issue of EGM back in the day but I had completely forgotten just how low the scores for Herzog Zwei were, even though today it's generally regarded as a pioneering real time strategy game.
It’s because at the time no one understood it, as evidenced by the reviews themselves.
I love playing "bad games" with friends always gets a good laugh.
Hmm good question, what would I put in this kind of list. Maybe Charge and Blast on the Dreamcast, Ground Zero Texas on Mega cd, Highlander on Jaguar cd, Golden Axe 3 on Mega Drive, My Hero on Master System, Batman the arcade game on Saturn or that Motocross game on 32X, Cowboy Kidz on C64, Sonic 06 on Xbox 360.
I loved Wrestlemania as a kid, and you are correct in saying that it took some imagination to enjoy it. Also Buster Douglas boxing was fun as hell at the time.
My brother and I rented it and played it late into the night. Realistically it was probably until 8:00 or 9:00 but it felt like 1am 😂
Seeing space jam brought back a lot memories of me as a kid. Your videos truly rock sega lord x
Great to see Castlevania Legends getting some love. I've never really understood the hate on that one. It was one of the few Game Boy games I had and i enjoyed it. I'd love to see more videos like this one SLx!
Also I felt bad for the Sega CD getting all 5s in that gaming magazine lol
Also loved Dynamite Duke back in the day. Oddly enough, it's one of those games I suck at if I try to replay it, but almost 30 years I did put some time in it like you. Never knew it was such a reviled game ^^ Loved that kind of gameplay though, and its cyberpunkish setting kept me playing! =)
Ain't nothing wrong in having some guilty pleasures =)
One game that gets a lot of flak that I enjoyed, was Double Dungeons on the TurboGrafx. I once spent a good chunk of my summer vacation back in 1992 plaything through each dungeon and eventually completing it, just to get a paragraph of text and a small picture for the ending.
I admit that I am a fan of the original Street Fighter. I don't mind revisiting it, whether it be on my Duo, PSP, or at the arcade.
I would also say Friday the 13th on the NES, but it has received more favourable coverage in recent years.
Holy crap! A positive and supportive game video on RUclips! Rock on man, keep it up. The world needs more of this.
"Loving Bad Video Games
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*footage of Altered Beast*
Yep, I feel you.
I will alway say that Altered Beast is a good game in that it did exactly what it needed to do. It was a pack in when the Genesis launched, and it showed off the 16-Bit graphics and sound of the Genesis that the NES could never hope to even come close to. You could hook up your shiny new system and get a very good looking and sounding port of a fairly recent arcade game right in your living room. It was 2 player simultaneous so that both pack in controllers could be put to use right away. Is it the deepest game? No. It is good as an arcade port though, and right off the bat it showed you that the Genesis was going to be able to deliver on the promise of visually spectacular arcade action at home that SEGA promised. (As long as you didn’t play Super Thunderblade next of course)
I grew up with the Atari 2600 and then the NES. Altered Beast was the first Genesis game I ever played. My mind was blown. It was my first real next-gen expierance. I've played it so much, I have the game memorized, but I've never forgotten my first impression.
@@homiedclown I have a modded SNES mini with Altered Beast and it's totally a comfort game. It can be beaten in about 15 mins and the feeling of turning into a beast (that music!) is so fuckin awesome!
I really loved the look of Buster Douglas boxing, it had a real arcade look to it with massive sprites.
Your presentation was good enough to make me sub within 25 seconds. Whatever you’re doing is good
The one I love that comes to mind is Silver Surfer (NES). I didn't even play it as a kid, I played it in 2019. It had some fame as being an impossible game (proably due to AVGN), and I wanted to see if I could beat it. To my surprise it had amazing music and was not actually that hard at all. In my opinion it's easier and more fun than Gradius, and it's actually one of my favorite NES games.
I also don't get the hatred for Silver Surfer. It's a perfectly fine shooter and didn't find it too hard either
My personal pick whenever this topic comes up is always Friday the 13th on the NES. I feel most peoples negative opinions on this game comes from the how confusing it can be on a first playthrough. Once you figure out how Jason works, how to obtain the different weapons, and how to navigate the map, its great fun and can legitimately unnerving at times, like the part where you find Pamela's head in the forest and have to fight it, or finding Jason hiding in one of the cabins at night, and who could forget that Game Over screen.
Boy did I regret spending my hard earned money on that title back then. But like Sega Lord X explained, I learned to play it and I it became a favorite. Never beat it but I have fond memories of that title.
I love this video! Mad respect for making it!!
I started with only two games for my Genesis as a kid. The bundled Sonic 2 and Bulls vs Blazers. Kids at my school loathed Bulls vs Blazers but I played the shit out of it. I still love that game to this day. Great video.
Dude, Hyperzone rocks! Love that game. It was one of the first two games my little brothers and I got for the SNES. We played the hell out of it.
Oddly enough, it was Dynamite Duke that lured me into getting a Sega Genesis after watching those "Genesis Does" Tv spots. Duke was a hybrid of G.I.Joe and Marvel's Deathlok character, so what's not to love about this arcade port?
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As others have said, reviews are references and what they say is more important than the score. It's also worth reminding ourselves that there are people who won't like "good" games, and people who will like "bad" games. Castlevania 4 is a "good" game that I don't like very much, yet it's a favorite among people I still respectand usually agree with. Disagreement is fine as long as we express our opinions rather than try to tell others theirs are wrong as long as they can provide good reasons for them. I don't remember all the bad games I like or liked because they weren't bad to me, but Hyper Zone reminds me of Iridion 3D on the GBA due to the effects. I remember the reviews for it were terrible and I was a bit worried when I received it as a gift. I gave it a chance, figured it out, and had a really frun time with it. I saw DragonBall Z Buu's Fury on GBA get some low review scores, and I think those reviewers missed the point. I also had Altered Beast on the Master System and I loved it back in 1989. I had no chance to get a Genesis then, but I got to play Altered Beast, and did so a lot and could beat it. I see now all its problems, but it was a good game to me then and I can jump back into it quickly and look past its flaws and probably still do okay with it.
I thought that you were showing the megadrive version of james bond at first.
I got Captain Comic for the NES at the local swapmeet and although the game isn't very good, I still played the heck out of it since I didn't own games. From the weird blue cartridge to the classical music soundtrack, I still look up gameplay every now and then for nostalgic purposes. I'm with you, we play what we had.
“Playing on my white and black TV in my bedroom”... you just summed up my childhood in one sentence. Great video! Thank you!
My favorite RUclips creator right here always look forward to new videos from slx
Awesome video! Yeah, My biggest problem with "professional reviewers" is how they often don't review a game based on a game's core pillars. They should ask themselves "What does the game set out to do?", "how well does it achieve these goals?" and "do I subjectively enjoy these core pillars? AND would people that do enjoy them like the game more than me?"... More often than not reviewers are often reviewing their own expectations of what they want a game to be, and not the game itself. And that just sucks.
That first minute and 38 seconds, I couldn't have put any of those words any better than you have! And, there are really only two video game examples of my own to be able to mention here, as ones that I STILL enjoy on once a year replays, but yeah, have been condemned by the masses (and sorry, both are SNES....); Young Merlin, is often damned as a poor Zelda clone with a lot of backtracking and no saving feature (it has password continue though), and it's one of my most favorites for the console, despite loving ones like A Link To The Past, or even the Quintet games like Illusion Of Gaia or Terranigma. Anyway, the second, is Lester The Unlikely. Now, believe me, I DO love the DKC trilogy and the Mega Man X games, but Lester is one of those "childhood/nostalgia memory" ones, and I'm a firm believer that, once someone gets the hang of the controls and the way Lester reacts to dangers in the game, it's actually a hell of a lotta fun.
I only ever saw screenshots of Dynamite Duke back in the day - cool to see it in action!
Oh my gooooodddd, I remember getting Kiss: Psycho Circus on the Dreamcast. I was so used to Quake III: Arena at the time so when my mum’s friend very kindly bought me this for Christmas I was actually horrified 🤣 I recall the first level being called ‘Bad Streets’ and that used to crack me up. Suffice to say I didn’t really give it a chance as I had Metropolis Street Racer and Jet Set Radio all on the same day! Ah, memories.
aliens colonial marines i like that game and it has sentimental value to me now aswell cos me and my late best freind played the hell out of it and enjoyed it alot.
First time viewer here and I'm already subscribed before the video was over. Awesome work here and I couldn't agree more with your closing statement. Rock on!
Well said. Wrestlemania XVIII on GameCube wasn't received well amongst critics and most gamers (even I can see its flaws), but it was one of the VERY few games that my dad and I along with sister and her husband played together, sometimes spending as much as an hour in 4-way ladder match laughing as we all attempted to get up that ladder just to get knocked down and wind up outside the ring.
We all also had our own created wrestlers. As basic as the create a wrestler might have been to some, I had a ton of fun just creating them, assigning them moves, putting together entrances, etc.
The only 2 games I would genuinely call bad here are Rambo and Wrestlemania. I unfortunately had both as I kid too. I just wish I was creative enough to pretend I was doing special moves. Great video dude
Man dad and me on that Road Rash two, so many tossed controllers and anger throughout the house. Love that game.
I think every video game reviewer should be using you, Sega Lord X, as the standard to shoot for. The high quality box art in the corner instead of just putting rhe title in text plus a nice big area to show off the gameplay footage while you talk.
On top of that, you have a great knack for explaining everything in just the right amount of detail and when you do an editorial, its not obnoxious or fan boyish. You hit the right spots every time.
You're honestly the reason I bought a SEGA Genesis Mini, preordered the Mini 2 and shelled out for a SEGA Saturn. Then to top it all off, I went and re-bought a model 1 Dreamcast. If only SEGA had your reviews back in 1995, you would sold their stuff better than they did.
Segata Sanshiro in the East, Sega Lord X in the West!
Another gem from the most eloquent game reviewer on youtube
Cyborg Hunter on the SMS was a favorite of mine. I don't know anyone else who even played it, let alone liked it.
When I was young and it must have been 1987 or 1988 I would incessantly beg, plead with, and pester my father for him to buy me that game because I thought that it looked so cool in advertisements; he never wilted on that one and I finally let it go. (and likely moved on to Phantasy Star) I finally had a chance to give it a try much later and it wasn't bad at all but by that time I was playing Genesis and Turbografx games and my SMS was consequentially pushed aside.
I can relate. Back then, I had the few games that my parents bought me (my own choices but there wasn't much to base my choices on except the game art and the back of the package.) I also had a game gear while my classmates all had gameboys, so I had no one to offer any recommendations to me.
So I got Batman Forever which I later learned was considered bad by gaming magazines at the time. I personally enjoyed it but couldn't get past circus 1 for years since you needed to use the grappling hook in order to clear it and the commands for the tools weren't in the manual. It took me years before I finally figured out the commands by random inputs. Gamefaqs was around at that time but had no info for the game gear game.
Most kids at the time had loads of these middling games making up the bulk of most people's collection's with a couple of bad & a couple of good/great. Most were these funny middling games that you could still have some fun with, it was just that it took a different approach to get the best from them sometimes
MORE OF THIS, PLEASE. Seriously, loving the positive vibes! 👍
Hyperzone is pretty good, it's like F-Zero meets Star Fox. Sure, you mostly shoot generic squares and triangles, but the environments and the music are great. Anyway, I think even bad games can provide fun if you are willing to spend some time with them. Recently, I've been playing Hunt for Red October on NES. It's got mediocre graphics and horrible music, but it can still be addictive and offer a good challenge. I think that games with absolutely zero merits are rare. There is always someone that can have fun and find quality even in the least expected places.
I wish more (grown up) people were as mature as you. It's baffling how much people care about what others say and how mad they can get, just because you don't like what they like and then they get even more mad when they realise that you don't care when they say something bad about things that you like.
I knew Buster Douglas boxing wasnt so great but still.. i played the heck out of it lol, was really fun & something satisfying about it..