This was one of the hardest games I had growing up. Years later I realized my brothers and I never learned how to trigger the power ups. But we still played it so much, so clearly it was still fun.
the boat being boaty is what made it different and good. i don't think it would work if the player sprite went like a planted car or tank or directional walking kind of a thing.
This was a regular rental for me when I was a kid, I always thought the graphics and movement mechanics were impressive. It was difficult though, I don't think I ever beat it.
the 'movement mechanics' weren't anything new. It was typical top down racing game controls we'd had in many, many games before and since. This game is pretty great though. The sprite work making the boats almost feel 3D with all that smooth rotation was a big plus for me.
Rented this game as a kid many times from my local video store. Really nostalgic game for me and still great fun. Definitely not an easy game though. :)
This was one of those games that I remembered renting all the time... but couldn't remember the name to search it up. Finally I found it on Rare Replay and figured out what game it was after all these years.
Ah, Cobra Triangle. Thank you to my cousins showing me this back in the day and it only took 30 years to beat. Still a really fun game but it has that Nintendo hard factor in it.
I have a lot of nostalgia for this one. I remember getting the Power Glove for Christmas, and it was so awful that we returned it to Best Buy and exchanged it for Ninja Gaiden and Cobra Triangle. Much better value!
glad youre still making content. I was born in 2002 but the SNES is such a big point of nostalgia for me and im not sure why. The music, the graphics, the stories told on this console are some of the best
I rented this game from the video store as a kid back in the day and totally forgot about it until just now. Thanks for sparking this memory! It was an awesome game from what I remember!
As soon as I saw this game I thought it was immediately similar to another Rare game, Snake Rattle 'n' Roll! Not surprised they made this one looks cool.
My exposure to this game was through the minigame in the Donkey Kong Country 3 GBA port. It's basically this game with a Kong coat of paint, and I liked it
in 1989-1990 i was at my friend house on the same road as me during hot summer days. We were playing soccer, swimming in the pool, and after that we took Mr Freezes and popsicles. After that we were going in his cold and fresh basement to play this. Great memories and i still play every summer on my NES today.
I've been a fan of your channel ever since I stumbled upon your channel, TWICE! First time was when I saw your "review of Top Gear-series", about 10 years ago or so, which is a dear and special series to me and my neighbor, but I actually never got around to subscribe to your channel back then. But then, I stumbled upon your channel again when youtube brought me to your "Best SNES music"-video. THEN I just had to subscribe as I was sold! Awesome tracks from many of my favorite games. :) And since then, you've have kept making awesome retro-content while you have kept things simple and straight to the point. That I both respect and salute you for. Now, I am watching this video, and even though I am a big retrofan, it's slipped past me that Cobra Triangle and Killer Instinct were made by a lot of the same people! What a cool fact that was to hear. 2 very special games to both me and my neighbor. Thanks once again for another great video! PS: A neat difficulty curve was what we always cherished for back in the days and even today. Gotta love them challenges. :)
Man the hours I spent playing this as a kid. This is also a prime example of why having the booklet was crazy important during the NES era. I went several months not knowing about the power up system until I just stumbled on it. While this game isn't nearly as unplayable as some other games without instructions, knowing you had a spread shot at your disposal would have been nice to know. Also, amazing soundtrack. I still hum the boss music to this day.
This was one of the first videogames I ever played and I distinctly remember it as being both fascinating AND frustrating. I remember thinking the visuals and concept of the game were super cool but looking back it was definitely too hard for four-year-old-me and I never beat it lol. Fun, nostalgic video as always! I still own the cartridge from when I was a kid and this video has motivated me to pick it up again and finally try and beat it!
I always love seeing you go REALLY old school and review an old NES game. There were so many games on there that really deserve to be remembered, some of which weren't even that well known at the time, like this one.
I had this game as a kid. I still don't know how I did it, but I somehow got to the iceberg stage without the use of power ups, though that was where I ultimately hit a Game Over. U Can Beat Video games did a run-through of this title some months back -- check it out when you get the chance.
Cobra Triangle was one of the many NES games a friend of mine had back in the day and I remember coming back to this game frequently. I don't think it was too well known or popular back in the day so it's cool to see it being talked about today. I still need to beat this game... maybe one day
Hey! @SNES drunk! - idk if you read the comments...but I really appreciate and value your videos! I think you're very cool for doing this, and it brings me hope that the treasures of the past aren't lost and forgotten. (Never Give Up!) I wish the 90s lasted longer... Some of those games on NES and SNES were the best times of my childhood. Most times it was the only good time... (Video Games save lives.) You're just spreading awareness of a Life saving thing really. :) This video especially I appreciated, there's lots of games from back then, that I never got to enjoy and experience, and it really makes me sad. This is a way for me to rewind time, and have a chance to enjoy the experiences from my past that we're lost and forgotten...
loved this game when it came out. ... i remember playing non-stop for hours listening to Metallica's 'Kill 'Em All' on cassette over and over again (i must have gotten both around the same time).
This is my fifth favorite NES game. The game is so hard but rewarding. Damn that music hits hard. Love how even after all these years can wake up to see you still covering gems people underestimate how many great NES games there are.
@@havanaradio batman doesn't make my top 20 Super Contra and SMB3 are both in my top 5. Your top five can be different from mine and I'm sorry you don't enjoy it that is cool. If people all liked the same games we would have very little selection.
@@jimgrand8514 Right? Contra doesn't make my top 20. Batman does. :P We all got our faves and preferences. :) Not sure why havanaradio compares this well made game to Silver Surfer. That's weird.
Uh, this game looks incredible. I honestly find it hard to believe it's on the nes. Also, thanks Mr snes drunk for the consistent quality on your videos for so many years. I've been watching a ton of your back catalog recently and there's so many games I gotta try now
I remember playing this game back in the day when it was new. I remember having such a blast with it! I kept coming back and back again, trying to get further. That's all to say, this is one of the first games where I clearly remember enjoying the challenge the game gave me, and I looked forward to getting better at it! I also remember looking at the game again many many years later when I found it as a ROM on an emulator. I played it for like, three or five minutes and couldn't even get past the first level. I was flabbergasted and wondered if I was even playing the same game.
I was vaguely aware of this game, but never saw much of it. The graphics are much better than I thought. I think "ambitious" seems like a good adjective as well, lots of level variety.
This was one of the few games I had to use a Game Genie and the NES Max to finish. It pissed me off so much I got rid of it which I regret now. I'll pick up a copy somewhere eventually.
Nice! It is amazing how Rareware always made some creative and technically impressive titles on whatever platform they were working on! I've heard this game can get incredibly challenging (like many classic Rare games).
DRUNK....funny story. a week ago found one of those old posters that came inside the carts of NES games, with the first party games, u know it ? sadly it was ripped apart, so i kinda still loved it enough to hang it on my wall in a very bad way. thing is, i saw COBRA TRIANGLE on the poster and noticed that despite seeing it so many times on that poster, i never actually seen that game, and still i didn't bother with it but TO MY SHOCK, a week later, ur talking about it...what a weird thing.
posters that came INSIDE the carts? :O You mean inside the boxes, alongside the carts, right? Just picturing tearing open a NES cart looking for a poster and just finding the game's chip board. :P
Great review! This is most likely my favorite NES game (and I'm no n00b in NES). Just the right insane difficulty that still keeps you trying. That four way-shot though, ay ay ay
I've been waiting for a long time to see someone give this gem a proper review! The few reviews I have seen have been so obviously phoned in. They played the game for a few minutes and said meh it's RC Pro AM on boats and the controls are difficult.... just, no. To your point there is way more depth to it and you need to spend the time to learn this game inside and out to appreciate it. I can beat this game every time now (without continues). It's about a 15 - 20 minute playthrough. But I have a lot of spefic strategies like which route I prefer and exactly which power ups to get in what order, and also when to make sure and stash a force powerup for the nasty glacier levels! All things that took a while to learn but have made the game all the more rewarding to beat.
Holy crap. I remember playing this game plenty as a kid. I could never get close to beating it though. It always feels like a gem that nobody ever talks about.
Nintendo published Slalom for NES more than two years before Cobra Triangle and it was one of the few 3rd party developed black box titles and I wouldn't be surprised if they were the first Western developer to develop a NES game. They had a strong relationship pretty early on.
I've always liked Cobra Triangle, even if I never put in the effort to get all that far. Still, it's the kind of game that makes you *want* to play it more, so I know I'll be back again and again to try progressing just a little further each time.
The way the boat handles *looks* really rad! I haven't played it though so I don't know exactly how the controls feel...honestly I get vibes that it handles just a bit similar to the ship in Asteroids.
Can we just pause for a second and admire how fluid the boat's turn around animation is? That's 3-D CG quality stuff coming from the old NES. Must've made some model and somehow scanned it into the development software. Seems very impressive for the time.
It seems like there's a frame of the boat at each angle. Which is impressive considering there's also frame for jumping and tilting as the boat turns in the water. Having so many frames gives it that rotorscope animation quality, like with Flashback and Prince of Persia. And it is worth admiring.
This is one of my favorite NES games along with eliminator boat duel. I've never actually been able to get to the end of either them. But I like the unique idea of boat combat. Speaking of that it seems like the ultra difficulty was kind of all over the NES. 20 minutes to play you mean some takes twenty hours. So many NES games where you have to just practice and memorize the levels. Totally off subject but Kabuki quantum fighter is definitely one of those kind of games
I loved this one when I was younger, certainly one of my favourite Rare titles on the NES with Battletoads and Snake Rattle 'n Roll. Never managed to finish neither of those though, hah
So happy you reviewed this game. I played the crap out of this game when I was a kid. Yes it is very hard but still very fun. The controls are a little weird but you are a boat after all. And I know he said that it's like r.c. Pro-Am but I would disagree with that. I hate it r.c. Pro-Am but I really like this. I never could get used to the controls r.c. Pro-Am but this was actually fun and actually fluid after a while
This ranked up there as one of my most frequent rentals as a kid. It's hard as hell, but so satisfying when you get good at it. I never completed it, but young me used to be able to get pretty far on a rental weekend. Doubt I have the dexterity to make it as far these days. Also shout out to the soundtrack, another Wise classic, albeit that most of the tunes are pretty short and repetitive when you're stuck in the same level for a while.
I've been playing it lately, but I haven't been able to finish the waterfall levels, I always lose all my lifes trying to jump over the third and fourth waterfall :(
AHHH I can't believe I missed this one until now. This was one of my fav games because of the catchy BGMs and the extreme difficulty. I did manage to beat it but holy sheet, waterfall lvls were nearly impossible if you missed even one jump. In case someone decides to try it out, SNESdrunk is **wildly** understating how difficult this game is btw. 2:04 True but there is only truly 'winnable' path because any variation from it is next to impossible. I forget the order but if you go a certain way it helps quite a bit with the difficulty.
Wow! I never heard of that game before... Even though I had an NES and RC Pro Am and I loved RC Pro Am, so yeah it's something I should know before but sadly I didn't. xwx But I'm happy to know now, I should try it! Thank you for sharing that!
The GBA version of Donkey Kong Country 3 added some Funky Kong minigames that are basically new missions of this game, because they are just exactly like what you see it this video, isometric and all
One of my favourite NES games. I only beat it years later, I could never get past that last shark. I always found it funny / annoying that boat would sprout a helicopter rotor and fly away at the end of each level, but not use that to fly over the waterfalls in the waterfall levels.
Another great video- I didnt think it was worth playing back then but I didnt get many games I was poor. After watching though I was probably wrong, it looks fun.
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Rare actually remade this into a mini game in Donkey Kong Country 3 on the GBA.
This was one of the hardest games I had growing up. Years later I realized my brothers and I never learned how to trigger the power ups. But we still played it so much, so clearly it was still fun.
the boat being boaty is what made it different and good. i don't think it would work if the player sprite went like a planted car or tank or directional walking kind of a thing.
It's just standard top down racing controls like micro machines and such. I don't know what the issue is.
This was a regular rental for me when I was a kid, I always thought the graphics and movement mechanics were impressive. It was difficult though, I don't think I ever beat it.
Yep. Rented a million times but never could finish it
the 'movement mechanics' weren't anything new. It was typical top down racing game controls we'd had in many, many games before and since. This game is pretty great though. The sprite work making the boats almost feel 3D with all that smooth rotation was a big plus for me.
Me too... always rented this one from blockbuster. Crazy thinking back to those days and how different gaming was 😂
I hope you were telling everyone “the movement mechanics are most impressive” when you were a child
Never played it. Looks cool, though. I'm more of a SNES guy, though. I'm a bit "younger" if you will. Lol
wow what a flashback!! had completely forgotten about this game but instant waves of nostalgia with that footage. glad to hear it holds up
The let’s play was fun, I’ve rewatched your whole catalogue of them from the distant past and was pleasantly surprised to see a new one
Agreed 😊
Rented this game as a kid many times from my local video store. Really nostalgic game for me and still great fun. Definitely not an easy game though. :)
This was one of those games that I remembered renting all the time... but couldn't remember the name to search it up. Finally I found it on Rare Replay and figured out what game it was after all these years.
Ah, Cobra Triangle. Thank you to my cousins showing me this back in the day and it only took 30 years to beat. Still a really fun game but it has that Nintendo hard factor in it.
I have a lot of nostalgia for this one. I remember getting the Power Glove for Christmas, and it was so awful that we returned it to Best Buy and exchanged it for Ninja Gaiden and Cobra Triangle. Much better value!
I commented on the NES friend video that it was weird that yall released those videos 15 minutes apart, now I know why
I would love to see this come to Switch online NES lineup. Eliminator Boat Duel was awesome, too.
Eliminator Boat Duel is great. Underappreciated racer on the NES.
Wow! You've been busy! Keep it coming man!
One of my all time favs. Rare back in the day could do no wrong.
What about "Taboo" for the NES?
A lot of good memories playing this game with my friend in the early 90s. I didn't know Rare made it.
glad youre still making content. I was born in 2002 but the SNES is such a big point of nostalgia for me and im not sure why. The music, the graphics, the stories told on this console are some of the best
I rented this game from the video store as a kid back in the day and totally forgot about it until just now. Thanks for sparking this memory! It was an awesome game from what I remember!
As soon as I saw this game I thought it was immediately similar to another Rare game, Snake Rattle 'n' Roll! Not surprised they made this one looks cool.
My exposure to this game was through the minigame in the Donkey Kong Country 3 GBA port. It's basically this game with a Kong coat of paint, and I liked it
Totally forgot about that I guess it’s basically this game
in 1989-1990 i was at my friend house on the same road as me during hot summer days. We were playing soccer, swimming in the pool, and after that we took Mr Freezes and popsicles. After that we were going in his cold and fresh basement to play this. Great memories and i still play every summer on my NES today.
I've been a fan of your channel ever since I stumbled upon your channel, TWICE! First time was when I saw your "review of Top Gear-series", about 10 years ago or so, which is a dear and special series to me and my neighbor, but I actually never got around to subscribe to your channel back then. But then, I stumbled upon your channel again when youtube brought me to your "Best SNES music"-video. THEN I just had to subscribe as I was sold! Awesome tracks from many of my favorite games. :) And since then, you've have kept making awesome retro-content while you have kept things simple and straight to the point. That I both respect and salute you for.
Now, I am watching this video, and even though I am a big retrofan, it's slipped past me that Cobra Triangle and Killer Instinct were made by a lot of the same people! What a cool fact that was to hear. 2 very special games to both me and my neighbor. Thanks once again for another great video! PS: A neat difficulty curve was what we always cherished for back in the days and even today. Gotta love them challenges. :)
Man the hours I spent playing this as a kid. This is also a prime example of why having the booklet was crazy important during the NES era. I went several months not knowing about the power up system until I just stumbled on it. While this game isn't nearly as unplayable as some other games without instructions, knowing you had a spread shot at your disposal would have been nice to know.
Also, amazing soundtrack. I still hum the boss music to this day.
This was one of the first videogames I ever played and I distinctly remember it as being both fascinating AND frustrating. I remember thinking the visuals and concept of the game were super cool but looking back it was definitely too hard for four-year-old-me and I never beat it lol.
Fun, nostalgic video as always! I still own the cartridge from when I was a kid and this video has motivated me to pick it up again and finally try and beat it!
I always love seeing you go REALLY old school and review an old NES game. There were so many games on there that really deserve to be remembered, some of which weren't even that well known at the time, like this one.
I had this game as a kid. I still don't know how I did it, but I somehow got to the iceberg stage without the use of power ups, though that was where I ultimately hit a Game Over.
U Can Beat Video games did a run-through of this title some months back -- check it out when you get the chance.
I kept seeing this in NES game tip books and on posters and such but I never saw it in action. That is some excellent spritework
Cobra Triangle was one of the many NES games a friend of mine had back in the day and I remember coming back to this game frequently. I don't think it was too well known or popular back in the day so it's cool to see it being talked about today. I still need to beat this game... maybe one day
Love this game. One of my favorites of all time.
I used to love playing this when I would visit my cousins' place as a kid.
Play this for an hour, then go outside and throw rocks!
here we went to the pool.... and eat mr freezes... and we played after that :)
Hey! @SNES drunk! - idk if you read the comments...but I really appreciate and value your videos! I think you're very cool for doing this, and it brings me hope that the treasures of the past aren't lost and forgotten. (Never Give Up!) I wish the 90s lasted longer... Some of those games on NES and SNES were the best times of my childhood. Most times it was the only good time... (Video Games save lives.) You're just spreading awareness of a Life saving thing really. :)
This video especially I appreciated, there's lots of games from back then, that I never got to enjoy and experience, and it really makes me sad. This is a way for me to rewind time, and have a chance to enjoy the experiences from my past that we're lost and forgotten...
loved this game when it came out. ... i remember playing non-stop for hours listening to Metallica's 'Kill 'Em All' on cassette over and over again (i must have gotten both around the same time).
This is my fifth favorite NES game. The game is so hard but rewarding. Damn that music hits hard. Love how even after all these years can wake up to see you still covering gems people underestimate how many great NES games there are.
Top 5 ? Over batman, smb3, CV3, Contra, and solar jetman? I think not. It's silver surfer level.
@@havanaradio batman doesn't make my top 20 Super Contra and SMB3 are both in my top 5. Your top five can be different from mine and I'm sorry you don't enjoy it that is cool. If people all liked the same games we would have very little selection.
@@jimgrand8514 Right? Contra doesn't make my top 20. Batman does. :P We all got our faves and preferences. :)
Not sure why havanaradio compares this well made game to Silver Surfer. That's weird.
Fading out on the giant squid was the right move. Badass.
Uh, this game looks incredible. I honestly find it hard to believe it's on the nes.
Also, thanks Mr snes drunk for the consistent quality on your videos for so many years. I've been watching a ton of your back catalog recently and there's so many games I gotta try now
Never herd of it, looks fun and reminds me of Eliminator Boat Duel
Now this just booted up an old memory of a classic game I forgot existed. Thanks for the nostalgia fix SNESdrunk.
I like that its a boat shmup. Helps it stand out from all the other helicopter/jet/spaceship shmup thats out there.
the nostalgia
this game used to creep me out for some reason
I remember playing this game back in the day when it was new. I remember having such a blast with it! I kept coming back and back again, trying to get further. That's all to say, this is one of the first games where I clearly remember enjoying the challenge the game gave me, and I looked forward to getting better at it!
I also remember looking at the game again many many years later when I found it as a ROM on an emulator. I played it for like, three or five minutes and couldn't even get past the first level. I was flabbergasted and wondered if I was even playing the same game.
I was vaguely aware of this game, but never saw much of it. The graphics are much better than I thought. I think "ambitious" seems like a good adjective as well, lots of level variety.
This was one of my favorites as a kid. Great fucking game.
This is one of those games even I always forget about. It really is a gem, though, even if it's hard as nails.
This was one of the few games I had to use a Game Genie and the NES Max to finish. It pissed me off so much I got rid of it which I regret now. I'll pick up a copy somewhere eventually.
Top tier box art also. Rare rocked it on NES and this was a fav for me for a long while.
I've been waiting years for you to do a video on Cobra Triangle, great work :)
Nice! It is amazing how Rareware always made some creative and technically impressive titles on whatever platform they were working on! I've heard this game can get incredibly challenging (like many classic Rare games).
DRUNK....funny story.
a week ago found one of those old posters that came inside the carts of NES games, with the first party games, u know it ? sadly it was ripped apart, so i kinda still loved it enough to hang it on my wall in a very bad way.
thing is, i saw COBRA TRIANGLE on the poster and noticed that despite seeing it so many times on that poster, i never actually seen that game, and still i didn't bother with it but TO MY SHOCK, a week later, ur talking about it...what a weird thing.
posters that came INSIDE the carts? :O You mean inside the boxes, alongside the carts, right? Just picturing tearing open a NES cart looking for a poster and just finding the game's chip board. :P
@@carn9507 means u never cracked open a cart and found the posters inside ? ur missing out, go check them out now..... ;)
@@EpicLebaneseNerd hm i don't have any handy. I'll go buy one. Lessee... Little Samson... no one mind if i break open one of those? :P
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Great review! This is most likely my favorite NES game (and I'm no n00b in NES). Just the right insane difficulty that still keeps you trying. That four way-shot though, ay ay ay
Such unique vibe in this game. Loved it in my youth.
The rest of my day is always greater when I start it with one of your videos.
I've been waiting for a long time to see someone give this gem a proper review! The few reviews I have seen have been so obviously phoned in. They played the game for a few minutes and said meh it's RC Pro AM on boats and the controls are difficult.... just, no. To your point there is way more depth to it and you need to spend the time to learn this game inside and out to appreciate it.
I can beat this game every time now (without continues). It's about a 15 - 20 minute playthrough. But I have a lot of spefic strategies like which route I prefer and exactly which power ups to get in what order, and also when to make sure and stash a force powerup for the nasty glacier levels! All things that took a while to learn but have made the game all the more rewarding to beat.
Wow! This one slipped under my radar. Thanks for the recommendation. Just ordered a copy off of eBay and am excited to play it!
You just described pretty much every NES game. It was fun at the time. I don't have patience to keep dying anymore.
Rare remade this for Donkey Kong Country 3 on GBA.
Shout out to CartoonGamer8000, I learned that from his video just last week =)
Holy crap. I remember playing this game plenty as a kid. I could never get close to beating it though.
It always feels like a gem that nobody ever talks about.
Nintendo published Slalom for NES more than two years before Cobra Triangle and it was one of the few 3rd party developed black box titles and I wouldn't be surprised if they were the first Western developer to develop a NES game. They had a strong relationship pretty early on.
I still own this game. Definitely challenging, but lots of fun at the same time! Great memories playing it with my brothers back in the 90's.
This has some MAJOR Snake Rattle n Roll vibes
I've always liked Cobra Triangle, even if I never put in the effort to get all that far. Still, it's the kind of game that makes you *want* to play it more, so I know I'll be back again and again to try progressing just a little further each time.
The way the boat handles *looks* really rad! I haven't played it though so I don't know exactly how the controls feel...honestly I get vibes that it handles just a bit similar to the ship in Asteroids.
Seems like a good comparison
This feels so much like snake rattle and roll + rc pro am- totally makes sense that it’s rare.
Killer tunes!! As always thanks for the great video. And thank you, I did have a great rest of my day!
Can we just pause for a second and admire how fluid the boat's turn around animation is? That's 3-D CG quality stuff coming from the old NES. Must've made some model and somehow scanned it into the development software. Seems very impressive for the time.
It seems like there's a frame of the boat at each angle. Which is impressive considering there's also frame for jumping and tilting as the boat turns in the water.
Having so many frames gives it that rotorscope animation quality, like with Flashback and Prince of Persia. And it is worth admiring.
@@kri249 Prince of Persia, but you're a boat this time.
I wouldn't expect anything less from the madlads at Rare. They really loved pushing the boundaries of the NES and SNES.
I definitely had a lot of fun playing this game in the 90s, found this game for sale at a hardware store in my town.
@ 1:00 that's some impressive dodging
This is one of my favorite NES games along with eliminator boat duel. I've never actually been able to get to the end of either them. But I like the unique idea of boat combat. Speaking of that it seems like the ultra difficulty was kind of all over the NES. 20 minutes to play you mean some takes twenty hours. So many NES games where you have to just practice and memorize the levels. Totally off subject but Kabuki quantum fighter is definitely one of those kind of games
This week is like christmas for us SNES drunk fans. 3 great videos in a row!
I loved this one when I was younger, certainly one of my favourite Rare titles on the NES with Battletoads and Snake Rattle 'n Roll. Never managed to finish neither of those though, hah
So happy you reviewed this game. I played the crap out of this game when I was a kid. Yes it is very hard but still very fun. The controls are a little weird but you are a boat after all. And I know he said that it's like r.c. Pro-Am but I would disagree with that. I hate it r.c. Pro-Am but I really like this. I never could get used to the controls r.c. Pro-Am but this was actually fun and actually fluid after a while
I don't remember this one at all, it looks pretty nice. And that squid looks great!
So you are saying it might not be possible to think of 30 better games on the NES? Challenge accepted!
One of the best under the radar games for the NES. Followed by Solar Jetman. Still fun to play today
I remember one year for Christmas getting Cobra Triangle and Gotcha! The Sport.
I definitely spent more time with this game.
Did David Weiss also do the snake rattle n roll sound track? It sounds very similar to the music in this one
I really love the golden era of cooperation between Rare and Nintendo ! So many good games
This ranked up there as one of my most frequent rentals as a kid. It's hard as hell, but so satisfying when you get good at it. I never completed it, but young me used to be able to get pretty far on a rental weekend. Doubt I have the dexterity to make it as far these days. Also shout out to the soundtrack, another Wise classic, albeit that most of the tunes are pretty short and repetitive when you're stuck in the same level for a while.
Wow, I actually never seen this one before, it looks like it would have been a lot of fun
I've been playing it lately, but I haven't been able to finish the waterfall levels, I always lose all my lifes trying to jump over the third and fourth waterfall :(
One of my favorites!! Love the music.
Thanks for mentioning it's on Retro Replay! Gonna go try this out!
AHHH I can't believe I missed this one until now. This was one of my fav games because of the catchy BGMs and the extreme difficulty. I did manage to beat it but holy sheet, waterfall lvls were nearly impossible if you missed even one jump. In case someone decides to try it out, SNESdrunk is **wildly** understating how difficult this game is btw.
2:04 True but there is only truly 'winnable' path because any variation from it is next to impossible. I forget the order but if you go a certain way it helps quite a bit with the difficulty.
Bro, I've been trying to remember the name of this game for freaking years! Was one of my favorites as a kid
Honestly, this was my second favorite NES game ever!! I think it's the most underrated NES game.
That little tune is going to be stuck with me all day!
Ah, Nostalgia.... My Grandmother had this game, I used to play it at her house when I was a kid...
Oh, so that one surfing level in Battletoads was a not so subtle reference to Cobra Triangle. Neat.
This was the best NES game I didn’t own - rented it countless times!
THE hardest NES game I played as a kid. I hated it yet couldn’t stop playing.
David Wise also did the Battletoads ost. I actually did a cover of Stage 2 from Battlemaniacs, that soundtrack rocks.
The hits keep coming
You da man
Wow! I never heard of that game before... Even though I had an NES and RC Pro Am and I loved RC Pro Am, so yeah it's something I should know before but sadly I didn't. xwx
But I'm happy to know now, I should try it! Thank you for sharing that!
Seems to be a hidden gem in the NES library, I’ve never heard about it before but it looks really fun and unique!
It doesn't come at you as fast and hard as Battletoads but it's hard, very hard.
The GBA version of Donkey Kong Country 3 added some Funky Kong minigames that are basically new missions of this game, because they are just exactly like what you see it this video, isometric and all
One of my favourite NES games. I only beat it years later, I could never get past that last shark. I always found it funny / annoying that boat would sprout a helicopter rotor and fly away at the end of each level, but not use that to fly over the waterfalls in the waterfall levels.
I loved this game so much. I would play it at my cousins house all the time.
Without seeing this game before, my initial thought was "RC Pro Am but with boats... and guns", so its nice snes drunk called me out there :P
BIG YES, it's a top 10 NES game in my opinion. Rare is an amazing company.
Eh, maybe they were. Not so much these days.
i only had a handful of nes games growing up. this was one of them and i feel tense just watching this video.
Another great video- I didnt think it was worth playing back then but I didnt get many games I was poor. After watching though I was probably wrong, it looks fun.