Generally a bad sign when a game gives you ten lives right off the bat. Suggests the devs couldn't balance the game so just doused the player with lives.
At least they had enough thought to give you those lives. It's even more infuriating when a game isn't balanced and is super difficult and they give you 1 or 2 lives and expect you to beat it.
I wish the show was like this game. Indiana is always depicted as a confident rogue, but it would be so much more entertaining if he was a bumbling goofball who got struck by lightning, terrorized by a monkey wearing a little suit, crushed by spike walls, and if there was a whole episode where he was trying to cross a lake, but every time he tried to jump to the next patch of ice, a little fish divebombed him into the water.
He was a bumbling goofball some of the time in the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. The episode where he has to battle bureaucratic nonsense in Prague with Frank Kafka for example and he only is trying to repair a telephone line.
Genesis cases are so cool. Just like old PS1 cases before they went small. They had great artwork, an instruction booklet with unique artwork as well. Inserts too. Each game really was it's own little world with the case. Now today, games cases are too generic and basically empty inside aside the game disc.
genesis cases were pretty nice with some awesome box art, however my favorite box graphic design is snes. i love the graphic design on snes boxes, and some of the games had wicked art. and yes, i enjoy instruction manuals, inserts and whatnot. getting more bang for your buck whereas nowadays you just get the game. it also pisses me off when you buy a physical game and it's not even on the damn disc and it still makes you download it. fucking horseshit.
They don’t need instruction books anymore. The mechanics, gameplay, buttons and story are all included within the game......you don’t need to read them in a booklet.
@@MabuseXX They typically were within many games going at least back to the PS1. The point is that the nicer or thicker the manual, the more love was generally put into the game. It was cool supplemental material, and great manuals were part of the game world's lore, like the Sly trilogy's being the Thievius Racoonus slowly degrading over time for example.
The whip in this game seems SUPER AWKWARD and the controls overall seem like a cross between Lester the Unlikely and Adventures of Bayou Billy. I mean you know a games good if you're supposed to fall into the holes... 🙄🤣🤣👍👾👾
18:04 : Congratulations! You have kept India's advanced technologies out of the hands of the Germans. XDD Yes. The powerful indian weapon technologies between 1939-1945. Like crazy bats and snakes and Gurus. :))
I would actually highly encourage people to watch The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones they're on Amazon I just watched the entire series I have knitpicks but overall it's a very good series Actually, Sean Patrick Flanery is a better Indiana Jones than River Phoenix. It has the best World War 1 scenes that I've ever seen to me it really captures what the war would have been like. So I would actually highly encourage people to watch it
I saw this on netflix. One of the eps had Catherine Zeta Jones. The show ended before it got to indiana actually wanting to be an archeologist, and meeting Abner, and Marion. It does explain why he hates the nazis, in the main movies, to
@TheKumitechamp its super complex!! They expect you to stomp the incoming land vehicles (tanks,etc) , beam the planes and choppers down....breathe yoga-🔥 at the buildings!! Its chaos city & mass hysteria!!!!
@@pferreira1983 What are you talking about? Ninja Gaiden had some tricky spots, but the play control overall was pretty good. The really nasty jump sections didn't come into play until the final levels. This game looks virtually unplayable from the get-go.
The whip is a fucking 3D polygonal object, that's so wild looking. Very cool for the time as visual flair but not at all conducive to fun gameplay. You can see it functionally slow down at times. The VDP chip in the Genesis that handled the graphics was completely incapable of rendering 3D objects so the CPU has to handle all that arithmetic in real-time which is taxing when it's also doing everything else it has to do to run the game.
From what I remember games were 50 for the most part until the N64 came out and they started charging 60 for some of them, then that eventually became the new standard.
Hey Mike, I'm not sure if you take requests, but I do have a suggestion. This year marks the 30th anniversary of Bionic Commando on the N.E.S. I believe it was released in December off hand, but I think it could be a fun episode regardless.
Nicholas Aldred thank you. Literally came to the comments to see the first person that mentioned this. I LOVE james and mike been watching for ten years but cmon that one level where it said to bomb the supply buildings or somthing then they go around acting like they dont know what to do. Really makes them look stupid like read the beginning screen of the level man
The elephant runs whenever you whip it. In the case of James, you press down when you're charging your whip to hit the statues up above so you're whipping the elephant as a result.
I'm a fan of Indiana Jones movies also liked the television series I will be honest an Indi 5 movie isn't necessary because there is nothing else left for him to do he's married and done .
Being in the same age group as these two lads, I've got to say how f@cking thankful I am that (for the most part lol) nowadays not all games involve a grown adult hero being BATTED around by fish, birds, bats, rats and the like 😒
justin tahair you wont be disappointed. Indiana Jones on superfamicom is a good challenge and mostly a fair one if I remember it correctly. Some whip swinging parts were tough but maybe I did not get the machanics right. Overall control was very good. I liked the mix of different challenges, not just jumping and running and the close-to-the-trilogy-feeling. My favorite: fistfight on the German tank while it is moving toward the cliff
I had this game when I was a kid. I played it a lot but I cannot remember whether I liked it or not. Now the difficulty and confusion is slowing coming back to me.
I'm not playing the game and it's still pissing me off.
Indy's whip looks like a fishing line. No wonder the fish were attacking him.
If fish see line no eat
This belongs in a museum.
This doesn't belong in this world
So do you
YOU BELONG IN A MUSEUM!
This belongs in the Museum of Shitty Games.
Throw it over the side
the whip does not even act like a whip. Its like you are swinging around with a dental floss
Case in point: 4:51
As a lion tamer who uses dental floss for a whip, I can confirm this is true.
@@jimb.7523 Ha HA!!!!
@@jimb.7523 As a lion who uses a tamer for breakfast, I highly disagree
Generally a bad sign when a game gives you ten lives right off the bat. Suggests the devs couldn't balance the game so just doused the player with lives.
At least they had enough thought to give you those lives. It's even more infuriating when a game isn't balanced and is super difficult and they give you 1 or 2 lives and expect you to beat it.
@@wiictvchannel1112 Or, better yet, when they give you no lives (Double Dragon III).
The Egypt stage was hilarious...the slowdown, Indy moonwalking, Indy getting a snake up his ass... 🤣
I wish the show was like this game. Indiana is always depicted as a confident rogue, but it would be so much more entertaining if he was a bumbling goofball who got struck by lightning, terrorized by a monkey wearing a little suit, crushed by spike walls, and if there was a whole episode where he was trying to cross a lake, but every time he tried to jump to the next patch of ice, a little fish divebombed him into the water.
He was a bumbling goofball some of the time in the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. The episode where he has to battle bureaucratic nonsense in Prague with Frank Kafka for example and he only is trying to repair a telephone line.
I fuckin died laughing when he got hit by lightning XD
@@JCM-x84 yes James even god doesn't want this game played
Mike: "The end of the level, I can almost reach it!" James: "Let it go Mike"
Should’ve mailed it to the Marx brothers
They probably designed this game XD.
😂😂😂😂
Fred Fuchs probably designed this game.
That line is from Last Crusade .
“Junior?!?!”
When a problem comes along, you must whip it.
Wipe it good! ^_^
Love the reference.
When the game goes on too long, you must whip it.
Licorice whip!
Future AVGN episode with this game?
I can see it happen when Indiana Jones 5 comes out.
I was thinking the same thing tbh
InuYugiHakusho needs to happen
Yep
@@Jokuman357 you mean 4
I love the episodes where they laugh hysterically 😂
This game is perfect AVGN material
I lost it when you guys did.
I don't know if it's just me, but Young Indiana Jones on the cover looks a lot like Michael J. Fox.
It's Sean Patrick Flanery. Mostly known for the "Boondocks Saints" movies and for the 1995 Sci Fi/Drama,"Powder".
MARTY WE GOTTA GET BACK TO THE EARLY 90'S WHY DOC?
CAUSE THEIR IS A BETTER INDIANA JONES GAME THEN HA!
This game deserves a Nerd episode...
I love how confused young Indie looks on that cover.
That is one hell of a strong fish
This is my favorite episode. I wish they would give this a follow up episode. There is so much gold here.
With this and Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine, could we be looking at an AVGN: Indiana Jones Pt. 2?
I had this game when I was a kid, I never beat a single level 😭
The real question is, will young Indiana Jones survive James Rolfe and Mike Matei?
Didn't you mean James Wolfe.
Lmao
Why there's not a love heart in this coment?
Genesis cases are so cool. Just like old PS1 cases before they went small. They had great artwork, an instruction booklet with unique artwork as well. Inserts too. Each game really was it's own little world with the case. Now today, games cases are too generic and basically empty inside aside the game disc.
James Matthews that’s if your lucky enough to get a case. It’s all digital these days, even worse!
genesis cases were pretty nice with some awesome box art, however my favorite box graphic design is snes. i love the graphic design on snes boxes, and some of the games had wicked art. and yes, i enjoy instruction manuals, inserts and whatnot. getting more bang for your buck whereas nowadays you just get the game. it also pisses me off when you buy a physical game and it's not even on the damn disc and it still makes you download it. fucking horseshit.
They don’t need instruction books anymore. The mechanics, gameplay, buttons and story are all included within the game......you don’t need to read them in a booklet.
@@MabuseXX
They typically were within many games going at least back to the PS1. The point is that the nicer or thicker the manual, the more love was generally put into the game. It was cool supplemental material, and great manuals were part of the game world's lore, like the Sly trilogy's being the Thievius Racoonus slowly degrading over time for example.
"James Wolfe"
So like Heffer's family from Rocko.
I lost my sanity when the fish knocked you into the water and i think you did too
The whip in this game seems SUPER AWKWARD and the controls overall seem like a cross between Lester the Unlikely and Adventures of Bayou Billy. I mean you know a games good if you're supposed to fall into the holes... 🙄🤣🤣👍👾👾
Indy should learn how to whip properly from Belmont. 😅
18:04 : Congratulations! You have kept India's advanced technologies out of the hands of the Germans. XDD Yes. The powerful indian weapon technologies between 1939-1945. Like crazy bats and snakes and Gurus. :))
Haha I thought the same thing
India was a powerful territory of the British Empire at that time.
This is Young Indiana so it's like 1919 lmao.
@@Andronicus87 No, this is Harrison Ford. Not Henry Walton Jones Sr.
@@Andronicus87 No, it was Sam Wise Gammja, who played the young fucking Frodo!! Lock down your legs and you will see SEAN PATRICK FLANNERY!
why does london look like a Batman level
Wow 10/10 comment
I would actually highly encourage people to watch The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones they're on Amazon I just watched the entire series I have knitpicks but overall it's a very good series
Actually, Sean Patrick Flanery is a better Indiana Jones than River Phoenix. It has the best World War 1 scenes that I've ever seen to me it really captures what the war would have been like. So I would actually highly encourage people to watch it
I saw this on netflix. One of the eps had Catherine Zeta Jones. The show ended before it got to indiana actually wanting to be an archeologist, and meeting Abner, and Marion.
It does explain why he hates the nazis, in the main movies, to
Aoi it got up to him going to university of Chicago for archaeology but that’s it.
4:14 Indiana Jones was killed by fish that tried to knock him into the freezing cold water
2:57 This is Young Indiana Jones, we are talking about here. That's not Harrison Ford. It's Sean Patrick Flanery.
Far worse than that.. it is Shia Labuf.
@@LadyCoyKoi Its Sean Connery, perhaps ;)
The liquid metal terminator?
Yeah, its Arnold Schwarzenegger
Sean Patrick Flanery was the same guy who played as Powder.
Any one ever play Bart's nightmare for SNES ??? it had a Indiana Jones (Indiana Bart) Stage. Damn that level or whole game would get me mad...
Jumping those rocks..whipping at dragons and demon poking at Bart....all for a piece of homework!!! Nah not today!!! 💪👍👍
@TheKumitechamp its super complex!! They expect you to stomp the incoming land vehicles (tanks,etc) , beam the planes and choppers down....breathe yoga-🔥 at the buildings!! Its chaos city & mass hysteria!!!!
The Itchy and Scratchy levels were my favorite.I always saved the India jones level for last...it was pretty rage inducing!
This was hilarious! Hidden gem. Thank you for the laughs
I was trying to get this comment up earlier, but everytime I tried to get to my laptop, a fish kept knocking me backwards.
AVGN worthy game.. perhaps a bad castlevania clone..
@@pferreira1983 well he did review Ninja Gaiden so it's probably possible.
@@pferreira1983 What are you talking about? Ninja Gaiden had some tricky spots, but the play control overall was pretty good. The really nasty jump sections didn't come into play until the final levels. This game looks virtually unplayable from the get-go.
2:10 A fish knocking you back is better than a fish knocking you up.
The pen is mightier than the sword!!
This is like Lester the Unlikely
Fish wins ... Fatality
Fishality
Turn this into an AVGN episode. Please!
Wow what were the developers thinking.
"The game's too easy to finish." "I know, lets hit the player in the face with an animal every 2 seconds. That should up the difficulty."
I loved how you can make Indiana moonwalk in Egypt, with the storm pushing him back. Lol
Still more entertaining than a lot of garbage on tv. Always a pleasure to watch.
I love Mike's Mr. Belding laugh! This gameplay is hilarious.
This video is absolute gold! Mike had me crying 😂
This game is hurting my life. I actually felt relief when the ad interupted the gameplay. God bless your paitence on this one man
This game is unintentionally hilarious
The way the whip is rendered in real time as simple line vectors is hilarious.
Music is so bad my eardrums are hurting
It was so great meeting you this weekend at FPF!!
What's FPF stand for?
May not be a classic game, but it sure as fuck made for a classic episode of J&MM.
"You were beaten badly, Indy" - 31:52
This is AVGN material :D
Would be a good AVGN episode and a Matei-F-bomb Playthrough!
yea I got to level 3 of Tibet and yea game sucks really hard
background like painting from Bob Ross,
can't stop laughing!
😂😆😂😆😂😆
This is an AVGN episode waiting to happen.
Imagine whipping a bird that was flying towards you?! Haha!
I am only whipping bats and candles. ;)
@@kaimanic1406 There _are_ birds in Castlevania as well - what, do you just leave those alone? :P *WHIP that fuckin' bird!* LOL
23:30 Baby Plucky Duck: Indy go down the HOOOLE.....
Love the sound of Genesis controllers
Those facebuttons make such a satisfying sound...
"INDIANA JONES IS DEAD"
"YOURS SINCERELY.."
19:03 Did they have that many skyscrapers back then? Sheesh.
@1:21 the surname Rolfe actually means Wolf, it's of Norse origin. James is essentially a Viking.
With a Yiddish wife.
@@leeboy2k1 who cares thats his business
Young Indiana Jones invents a new difficulty called "slow ass whipping while enemies gang up on you"
“Why did it have to be fish?”
The whip is a fucking 3D polygonal object, that's so wild looking. Very cool for the time as visual flair but not at all conducive to fun gameplay. You can see it functionally slow down at times. The VDP chip in the Genesis that handled the graphics was completely incapable of rendering 3D objects so the CPU has to handle all that arithmetic in real-time which is taxing when it's also doing everything else it has to do to run the game.
We are also playing on the normal DIFFICULTY!
I remember playing The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles on my NES, and it was awesome
If I'd spend 60 dollars on this game as a kid in 1994 I'd be pissed.
Was games really still $60 in 94? I was born in 95, so I wouldn't know lol.
EZ- E If not more. I remember buying NES games in the late 90’s and most new games at Toys R Us were $79.99 - $89.99
EZ- E yes all games were 60 an up unless there was a sale
From what I remember games were 50 for the most part until the N64 came out and they started charging 60 for some of them, then that eventually became the new standard.
I did. I’m a jaded fuck till this day
22:27 We lost Mike, his mind is now in jokerland
I'd love to see yall play "The Incredible Hulk" on Sega Genesis. Keep up the great content guys.
Dude that game was my nightmare as a kid, I think I would manage to beat 3 or 4 levels every time I played it.
I think this game and Indiana Jones on the N64 would make another great Indiana Jones episode.
James Wolf is my favorite RUclipsr, especially with his Mad Computer Program Geek
And Table Top Jim
His last name is Rolfe not Wolf.
Wolf lmao
------The joke--->
( • • ) Your head
7:00 - "last time" okay mike, famous last words
Its weird seeing the AVGN laughing joyfully
One of the best episodes. Thanks for hard work put in this very entertaining video.
P.S., you should play NES version instead
this game looks like prime Nerd fodder, i can't believe how brutal it is
Hey Mike, I'm not sure if you take requests, but I do have a suggestion. This year marks the 30th anniversary of Bionic Commando on the N.E.S. I believe it was released in December off hand, but I think it could be a fun episode regardless.
This game doesn't even look bad. It tells you what to do in the text at the beginning of the level that you never read.
Nicholas Aldred thank you. Literally came to the comments to see the first person that mentioned this. I LOVE james and mike been watching for ten years but cmon that one level where it said to bomb the supply buildings or somthing then they go around acting like they dont know what to do. Really makes them look stupid like read the beginning screen of the level man
"Whip it! Whip it good!"
The elephant runs whenever you whip it. In the case of James, you press down when you're charging your whip to hit the statues up above so you're whipping the elephant as a result.
I'm a fan of Indiana Jones movies also liked the television series I will be honest an Indi 5 movie isn't necessary because there is nothing else left for him to do he's married and done .
Indiana Jones vs the Bridge Worker. Classic!
Being in the same age group as these two lads, I've got to say how f@cking thankful I am that (for the most part lol) nowadays not all games involve a grown adult hero being BATTED around by fish, birds, bats, rats and the like 😒
I mean, really just for the most park cuz link as a 20 year old gets hit by a fricking octopus and living trees in the new game lol
Best line ever, 'Just get into the hole and wait for it to be over.'
Mike seems to be such a nice guy! really himself in every video. And James too. Thats one reason I watch these videos. Just great!
Why is this not an AVGN episode yet? I lost it when lightning hit him on the bridge!
31:45 top 10 anime deaths
That gameplay matched with the contagious laughter had me cracking up for like 5 minutes haha. I love mondays now
Thanks for the content, guys!
Anyone else think of Earthworm Jim when they saw the birds? At least he could whip/blast them!
Please do a AVGN follow up to the Indy episode and include this and the Infernal Machine 😀👍
In all the years I've watched content on this channel I've never seen Mike lose his shit like that. I was howling right along with you!
The Indiana Jones game on the SNES is decent and Mike rocking that Donald Duck shirt
Yeah, it looks like the same designers who did Star Wars did that game as well.
they did as far as I remember
to be honest i didnt mind the emporos tomb but yea i would like to check ut this game as long as the challenge is there
justin tahair you wont be disappointed. Indiana Jones on superfamicom is a good challenge and mostly a fair one if I remember it correctly. Some whip swinging parts were tough but maybe I did not get the machanics right. Overall control was very good. I liked the mix of different challenges, not just jumping and running and the close-to-the-trilogy-feeling. My favorite: fistfight on the German tank while it is moving toward the cliff
This needs to be made into a movie trailer. Those crows and monkeys are right up there with the cats and dogs from jekyll and Hyde.
If you ever wanted to murder a fish....
11:52
"Is that gonna turn into a boss?" It reminds me of that statue in the Tomb Raider movie, even before you mentioned it!
9:49 Never played Earthworm Jim?
He should!
I had this game when I was a kid. I played it a lot but I cannot remember whether I liked it or not. Now the difficulty and confusion is slowing coming back to me.
mandatory AVGN episode