When you think about it one of the first "Chicken-o-meter" type bars was hangman. Every time you fail you get closer to death depicted with a representation. Sound familiar?
I love that half the people who used an actual chicken for their chicken-o-meter never bothered to look at what a chicken skeleton looks like! "How many ribs do chickens have?" "Dunno, like fifty. Just cram in as many as you can."
176 likes, so I’m gonna post a massive gold mine for you guys. I’ve found a few great videos with Ahoy in it that pretty much *nobody* knows about. 2 are interviews, 2 are long lost weapon guides that had to be taken down from Ahoy’s channel and the other is a video someone made about him. However, the 3rd video listed here has a picture of Stu and is technically the first ever face reveal of Ahoy: ruclips.net/video/nJdJU7eUkNw/видео.html ruclips.net/video/8BE91v0Hi7M/видео.html ruclips.net/video/sUBhD_iHil4/видео.html ruclips.net/video/3BFvX_rzWV0/видео.html ruclips.net/video/9tFgKoqQujE/видео.html Being subscribed for 8 yesrs since the M16A4 MW2 Weapon Guide has given me some knowledge about this guy!
KInda late, sorry for that, but would you mind pointing out which one of the 5 guys in the picture is Stu ? I'm really curious about the face that hides such a sexy voice, thanks in advance mate.
I thought this, too. Chicken and meat with a bone through it have been pretty iconic for health, so I was fully expecting this to be a video exploring that.
What I find crazy about his videos, is the fact that he makes everything on his own. At first I thought that this was like a company of sorts kinda like watch mojo because of the incredible quality of the editing and overall design.
Except WatchMojo is bland, boring, repetitive, and plays things far too safe. Ahoy puts genuine time and effort into putting out fantastic quality-over-quantity content.
Oh man, this is a pleasant surprise. Your "The Secret of Monkey Island" came out recently, so I thought we wouldn't get another video for a while. Very happy to see this.
You know it's a good video when you actually watch the video and it's good. I like Ahoy just as much as the next guy but there's no need to be so biased yeah? I'm sure Ahoy would prefer it that way.
9:27 The way you say "It's a chicken-o-meter!" in such a cheery way had me laughing. Thank you for the video, I'd love to implement a chicken-o-meter if I ever get the chance.
Mrlegitbeans reminds me of a very old (like 5 or 6 years ago) video series made called Digressing and Sidequesting which was a very unfortunately short-lived side series to Game Theory. In fact I'm like 90% certain he did a video on health bars like Ahoy's too. Just type digressing and sidequesting and the playlist should come up and it won't take up too much time because I don't think even 10 videos of D&S got made
Stuart, everything you do is the epitome of quality. I spent four days with the vector of the chicken bones in my head wanting to see this video and I was not remotely disappointed with the watch. Please keep doing what you're doing. Your content is glorious and you are an inspiration to video creators everywhere. Thanks.
When Ahoy uploads, the world stands still. People stop whatever they're doing, streets clog with cars as people jump out and find somewhere with wifi, firefighters let buildings burn, people having surgery are taken off anesthetic, and wars being fought come to a ceasefire as everyone scrambles to a computer.
Pity that you missed "Nemesis the Warlock" on the C-64. It was the most gut-wrenching chicken-o-meter at that point - or, indeed, any point: your life energy was represented by an anatomically correct heart held in an open hand. As you took hits, the hand would progressively close around that heart (making your blood drip) and when it reached the end, the game re-played the stages of the animation back and forth several times in a fluent movement with matching sound effect. I have never had my lifeblood squeezed out of me in a similarly cruel fashion. Come to think of it, none of the examples listed here come close. You should definitely check this game out. 😀
Yeah, Primal Rage had chicken-o-meters next to the standard fighting game health bars in the form of a beating heart. As you took damage, your heart would beat faster until you were defeated, at which point it would explode in a bloody mess.
Moral of the story: we should *CELEBRATE* the weird. Also, Doom had the face getting more bloody, which may or may not fit your definition of the idea...and, there was this other game nobody's heard of, that got inspired by the idea. That's called, The Way of the Badass.
MaverickDoesEveryhing that's kinda the joke. Although, to tell you guys the truth, with how successful Fortnite is, and assuming UT has a decent enough following, they'll actually be able to put more money into it. Hopefully they look at it, and decent arena shooters need to make a comeback
Well, I hope so too. But we've gotta be realist here: unless they pull out some miracolous stunt, it's not going to come back. the BR formula works *too* good for them to leave the comfort zone, they're making money with microtransactions and loot crates out of a free to play game. Pretty much like Valve did with TF2. They'll be simply going to milk it as long as they can.
I thought so too, and I was expecting this to be a condemnation towards health mechanics in modern games and how they created that behavior in contrast to the era of one hit deaths that came before it.
I remember one of my favorite childhood games, "Sarge's Heroes" about playing as a plastic soldier. There was a face of Sarge on the screen that got more and more melty and messed up as you got damaged.
Dang it, Ahoy is so darn good! He's the best RUclipsr...the best flipping RUclipsr ever! I respect someone who creates this much content from scratch. It makes his videos... *HIS.* You know what I mean?
Cavey Manta As someone who’s been subscribed to his channel for 8 years (my first ever video I watched of XboxAhoy was the M16A4 weapon guide), I’ve found a few great videos with him in it that pretty much *nobody* knows about. 2 are interviews, 2 are long lost weapon guides that had to be taken down from Ahoy’s channel and the other is a video someone made about him. However, the 3rd video listed here has a picture of Stu and is technically the first ever face reveal of Ahoy: ruclips.net/video/nJdJU7eUkNw/видео.html ruclips.net/video/8BE91v0Hi7M/видео.html ruclips.net/video/sUBhD_iHil4/видео.html ruclips.net/video/3BFvX_rzWV0/видео.html ruclips.net/video/9tFgKoqQujE/видео.html
Only now noticed this video. I'm a big fan of these type of health indicators and I've been ripping many of them in GIF format for my personal amusement. :) I personally call these skeletonization health bars, but I like the sound of Chicken-o-Meter and I understand where that name came from. Anyway, this video had 8 games that I was missing GIF animations from, so thanks for bringing these games to my attention. :) Here's some more chicken-o-meter examples that weren't featured on this video: Nemesis the Warlock (1987, Martech Games) Fright Night (1988, MicroDeal) Batman: Caped Crusader (1988+, Ocean Software) Rambo III (1988+, Ocean Software) Dragon Scape (1989, Wicked Software & Software Horizons) Storm Warrior (1989, Elite Systems) Gladiators (1989, Smash 16) MOT (1989, Opera Soft) Soviet (1990, Opera Soft) The Amazing Spider-Man (1990, Paragon Software) B.S.S Jane Seymour (1990, Gremin Graphics) / Spacewrecked (1991, Gremlin Graphics) James Pond series (1990+) Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991, Ocean Software) Deliverance (1992+, 21st Century Entertainment) Veil of Darkness (1993+, Strategic Simulations & Ving) Nitemare 3-D (1994, Gray Design Associates) Warlock (1994, Trimark Interactive, Acclaim, LJN) Tower of Souls (1995, Black Legend Software) Millennium Soldier: Expendable (1999+, Infogrames) Tweety and the Magic Gems (2001, Kotobuki System) RoboCop (2002, Titus, GBA prototype)
I found your channel two weeks ago and it seems like I have been blessed. This video was just something. I agree. The chicken-o-meter is brilliant and breaking conventions is what brings innovation.
3 minutes after posting I click hoping for the 1st comment, and find that I'm the 70th comment. Need to be much quicker on the old toes but it just goes to show the amazing buzz there is for every new Ahoy video. Keep it going my good man :-)
I always appreciated Spyro the Dragon having your health be represented by Sparx rather than just a health bar. It's both a cool visual, keeps the screen free of hud clutter, and also makes Sparx feel a bit more like a part of your adventure rather than just a generic buddy character.
I always thought Trespasser's "heart tattoo" was an interesting touch. Or the deteriorating portraits, like in Doom/Wolfenstein, or, more obscurely, Lands of Lore 2.
My favorite was the health bar/chicken-o-meter combo from Primal Rage. The bar was a big artery coming out of a beating heart that would beat faster and faster as your health depleted. When you run out of health, the heart explodes into a bloody mess. Good fun!
I was sure batman would be in the video. I would have loved to see madou monogatari too : that's a game where there is no seen life bar, like in real life. instead, you know how your character feels at the moment. the more deadly the character is, the more worried it is, with quotes like "I'm doing great", "it hurts", or "I'm nearly finished". ruclips.net/video/UuHFB0lNDvI/видео.html
In Amnesia: The Dark Descent, there are two chicken-o-meters! A heart, and a brain/spinal cord, which decay and shrivel with Daniel's health and sanity, respectively.
9:41 id Software were actually kind of _forced_ into using this iconic face HUD element due to limitations of the time; you couldn't simply assume that your player base was using stereo audio equipment back then, and ofc you had to build the game with the lowest denominator in mind. For people playing on mono audio equipment or the really unfortunate on their PC speaker, the face icon is how you determine which direction you are taking damage from, and so for those people, a health bar wouldn't have really worked. Of course by the time you fast forward to Quake III Arena, well, at that point it's just tradition. : )
Well, they could have just used an arrow or similar, like "modern" games do. Would have been less work, less memory, and more easily read to boot. I'm glad they didn't though, the portrait does a ton to communicate character. Another benefit of a large hud is of course that it boosts performance, being much easier to draw than another few hundred pixels of 3D.
A gruesome example I remember well was in a DOS Spider-Man game. There was a full on picture of Spider-Man on the side of the screen which would gradually turn into a skeleton as you took damage. Add to the fact that the game was overall rather surreal (as one with Mysterio as the villain should be) it made for a rather unnerving experience to a kid.
No matter what kind of subject his videos are on, he will always make it as engaging and interesting as possible. I would literally watch a documentary on coffee by him.
Life bars at the beginning: 1. Street Fighter 2. Skyrim 3. IDK 4. The Legend of Zelda 5. Fallout 3 6. Fortnite 7. Minecraft 8. Call of Duty 1 9. Pokemon 10. Halo Combat Evolved Could anyone tell me what 3 and 9 are so I can finish this list?
3 looks to me like it's from Streets of Rage, or some other beatup that had some bosses that have three health bars, but to save up space they would be filled with different colors, so after beating the health bar at first (which was colored in green), it would instantly be refilled, but this time with the yellow color. After doing the same, it will be filled with the red color, and finally, after draining the bar for the third time, the boss would be dead . You can't exactly apply that to the bar in the video, as that one has all three colors in one spot, but it's the closest thing I can think of.
LOL I hadn't heard of that one. My favorite was the Wolfenstine/Doom guy's face. And I don't know why they stopped using that idea. It was super cool and got the job done better than a health bar. You could tell your condition with a glance. Whereas, with multiple bars (health, ammo, magic etc.) the HUD can get really convoluted.
Not quite a chicken o meter since it's practical, but I wish more games would have more nuanced health like the paper doll seen in stuff like Deus Ex, Fallout or the extreme Dwarf Fortress goes to. when I get shot in the legs, my legs are gonna take it in the legs, if I'm shot in the head I'll probs die without a good helmet.
We've been blessed with 2 Ahoy videos in the same 8 months
Indeimaus when is the new darksoul video man
health souls?
My G
hold your horses - this decade is not over yet.
Wheres vid on remaster dad
When you think about it one of the first "Chicken-o-meter" type bars was hangman.
Every time you fail
you get closer to death
depicted with a representation.
Sound familiar?
I think you’re on to something there
That's a great point, hangman was probably the analog granddaddy of all health bars.
"Depicted with a representation" is probably as little information as you could possibly give someone.
@@lethauntic If they were dumb as fuck yeah, but a normal person can tell a rope getting closer to your neck isn't good.
I read that in his voice.
"ornate piece of poultry" Never gonna hear that string of words again.
"ornate piece of poultry"
"ornate piece of poultry"
"ornate piece of poultry"
"ornate piece of poultry"
"ornate piece of poultry"
you can, play the video again
this man is a factory of quotable lines
I love how all these videos just end up with Doom
These videos are...well...doomed.
Hey, you can't make a video about games and not eventually end up at Doom lol.
@@ThomasNimmesgern quite simple it was that influential
or the Amiga
I love that half the people who used an actual chicken for their chicken-o-meter never bothered to look at what a chicken skeleton looks like! "How many ribs do chickens have?" "Dunno, like fifty. Just cram in as many as you can."
If you see Ahoy, expect to see Doom.
TheUKNutter Obsession is a serial killer
176 likes, so I’m gonna post a massive gold mine for you guys. I’ve found a few great videos with Ahoy in it that pretty much *nobody* knows about.
2 are interviews, 2 are long lost weapon guides that had to be taken down from Ahoy’s channel and the other is a video someone made about him. However, the 3rd video listed here has a picture of Stu and is technically the first ever face reveal of Ahoy:
ruclips.net/video/nJdJU7eUkNw/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/8BE91v0Hi7M/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/sUBhD_iHil4/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/3BFvX_rzWV0/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/9tFgKoqQujE/видео.html
Being subscribed for 8 yesrs since the M16A4 MW2 Weapon Guide has given me some knowledge about this guy!
KInda late, sorry for that, but would you mind pointing out which one of the 5 guys in the picture is Stu ? I'm really curious about the face that hides such a sexy voice, thanks in advance mate.
Omnipotent duckling The man in the middle.
TheUKNutter as a semi new fan of ahoy (2years) thank you for the links
"Why?"
"Because it was cool."
Gives me chills.
You can see that line coming from a mile away, but it's still delivered so perfectly that the impact isn't negated at all.
Every line that Ahoy delivers is perfect. He could say, "Poppity pop pop" and I'd be blown away.
in doomguy's case I'd say it's more of a way to identify with the protagonist.. to show that it's not just a pair disembodied hands doing combat
You know why it gives you chills?
"Because it was cool" ba dum tss!
I always saw this chicken-o-meter as the evolution of the “HANGMAN” game, kids play with pen and paper
Right, nice for noticing that.
Michafrar I thought of Minecraft and its hunger bar
@@derpythean-comdoge8608 that's literally just a basic conventional status bar
A lesson modern videogame developers need to learn:
"Why? Because it's cool."
rule of cool
@@samcavanagh7993 yes.
it's the opposite. game devs only do things because they think it's cool
They're... pretty cool
@@DevinDTV Indie* developers. It's a pretty easy way to compensate for bad design.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY STU!!!
why is there MMXVIII or 2018 on here?
im subscribing because you payed attention. Not only to him but to you.
@@frostytheiceberg1127 sorry?
I've no idea what in the world is going on here..
@@fuzzydunlop1753 same.
I'm absolute in awe with how you edit the UI that works with the theme of the video. It's brilliant.
Hemang Chauhan And the voice
in awe at the edition of this lad, ABSOLUTE UNIT
I was expecting discussion of the Chicken-o-meter to eventually tie into the trope of chicken being a health pickup.
"wall chicken" always my favorite. chicken hidden in secret area behind walls. like Castlevania and Wolfenstein
I thought this, too. Chicken and meat with a bone through it have been pretty iconic for health, so I was fully expecting this to be a video exploring that.
"Winner! Winner! Chicken dinner!"
Runs away :-)
i was expecting to see minecraft's chicken bar
STREETS OF RAGE
yES ANOTHER MASTERPIECE AND SO SOON
ein lappen I was thinking the same thing
oH FUK DONT TELL KEE-SAMA
... Tavros? Is that you, M8? >):^?
Yes! Everything Ahoy makes is a masterpiece well worth the wait. He is my favorite Tuber
Always get excited to see you've uploaded ^_^
Underrated
"it's kind of rare" I see what you did there :D
eww rare chicken
@@vaiyt Yummy, salmonellalicious!
Rare chicken and the studio company name, rare
"Doomguy is the Chicken-o-meter's long lost cousin."
I don't think that has ever been said before.
Chickenguy
@@door-to-doorhentaisaleswom7012 familyguy
My health is at 100 now. Thanks for replenishing us.
No, your health is a full chicken!
What I find crazy about his videos, is the fact that he makes everything on his own.
At first I thought that this was like a company of sorts kinda like watch mojo because of the incredible quality of the editing and overall design.
stuart the legend
Except WatchMojo is bland, boring, repetitive, and plays things far too safe. Ahoy puts genuine time and effort into putting out fantastic quality-over-quantity content.
Ikr his stuff is amazing.
>watchmojo
>incredible quality
what?
spooK_xd
You can say what you want but watchmojo has a very clean standard style.
Oh man, this is a pleasant surprise. Your "The Secret of Monkey Island" came out recently, so I thought we wouldn't get another video for a while. Very happy to see this.
After this video I bet several indie game developers gonna make chicken-o-meter health bar for their games
I'm probably going to use it atleast once
I'd love it.
Atic Atac. The original Binding of Isaac.
Wow it's true, I always saw it as a Smash TV
You know it's a good video when Ahoy uploads 💚
JedDraws especially when he hasn't uploaded in 9 months
You know it's a good video when you actually watch the video and it's good.
I like Ahoy just as much as the next guy but there's no need to be so biased yeah? I'm sure Ahoy would prefer it that way.
Authentic Chicken-o-meter™
9:27 The way you say "It's a chicken-o-meter!" in such a cheery way had me laughing. Thank you for the video, I'd love to implement a chicken-o-meter if I ever get the chance.
Says it like David Attenborough finding a bird.
🎵 Is this real life? Is this just fantasy? 🎵
I can't believe you uploaded again.
Simte Queen is awesome
caught in a land slide
Don't wake up. ;)
I'm just a poor boy
ok Stuart this comment is a sign of something
I really like the fact how you can extrapolate a larger theme from just a simple topic like health bars. Kudos once again.
Mrlegitbeans reminds me of a very old (like 5 or 6 years ago) video series made called Digressing and Sidequesting which was a very unfortunately short-lived side series to Game Theory. In fact I'm like 90% certain he did a video on health bars like Ahoy's too. Just type digressing and sidequesting and the playlist should come up and it won't take up too much time because I don't think even 10 videos of D&S got made
Amazingly Awkward the host of that show committed suicide about a month ago...
So sad...
This is the best thing to wake up to after finals
I like your art
Gummy Snare thank you :)
Tell me about it
You’re everywhere now.
Ikr
"And why? - Because it was Cool! "
haha !
And why? BECAUSE I'M BATMAN!!!
Stuart, everything you do is the epitome of quality. I spent four days with the vector of the chicken bones in my head wanting to see this video and I was not remotely disappointed with the watch. Please keep doing what you're doing. Your content is glorious and you are an inspiration to video creators everywhere. Thanks.
5:46 You kinda glossed over one of the most awesome life bars I've ever seen. You move closer to the grave, that's just so cool.
Another version of hangman esentially
When Ahoy uploads, the world stands still. People stop whatever they're doing, streets clog with cars as people jump out and find somewhere with wifi, firefighters let buildings burn, people having surgery are taken off anesthetic, and wars being fought come to a ceasefire as everyone scrambles to a computer.
Screen shot Dis shit !
Pewdiepie rises from his chair and Edgar delays the stinky inevitable.
Now thats more in line with the type of writing demostrated here
Could not said it any better
Pity that you missed "Nemesis the Warlock" on the C-64. It was the most gut-wrenching chicken-o-meter at that point - or, indeed, any point: your life energy was represented by an anatomically correct heart held in an open hand. As you took hits, the hand would progressively close around that heart (making your blood drip) and when it reached the end, the game re-played the stages of the animation back and forth several times in a fluent movement with matching sound effect. I have never had my lifeblood squeezed out of me in a similarly cruel fashion. Come to think of it, none of the examples listed here come close. You should definitely check this game out. 😀
Primal Rage does something similar, even though it still prominently uses a traditional health bar.
Yeah, Primal Rage had chicken-o-meters next to the standard fighting game health bars in the form of a beating heart. As you took damage, your heart would beat faster until you were defeated, at which point it would explode in a bloody mess.
My chicken-o-meter is rock hard
Meaty
5:52
"Oof"
Meme intensifies.
Did the ROBLOX death sound, before it was cool.
Perfectly decribes gandi in the civilizations games
@@thingthing2773
Get the nukes.
I thought this was going to be a video about how enemies turn into food for health pickups 😂
Never clicked so fast in my life
*Might be failing my exams but at least I’m doing it in style...*
- "Why did you bring a roast chicken to your exam???"
+ "Well, you see..."
No way he is back this fast :o
Moral of the story: we should *CELEBRATE* the weird.
Also, Doom had the face getting more bloody, which may or may not fit your definition of the idea...and, there was this other game nobody's heard of, that got inspired by the idea. That's called, The Way of the Badass.
9:50
God can you imagine if Ahoy and LEMMiNO collaborated?
how can a video about a health bar be so fuckin good
A new video two weeks after the last one?
Is this a signal of the end times...?!
His production rate has gone up.
Vito C
Slightly yes, but this video is relatively short. The last one was almost seven times as long. Excellent work nonetheless.
Vito C it's gone up over 9000 percent!
Thought Stu said "...and until lunch time, farewell"
No Justin Y.? Nice
NOT NICE
don't summon him
@@miksuko i must destroy him.
@@dylan8736 you have won
WHEN DO WE GET UNREAL TOURNAMENT RETROAHOY
Novaseer tbh, probably when the new one finally actually drops
UT4 will never come out. It's a playable tech demo showing off the UE4's capability.
MaverickDoesEveryhing that's kinda the joke.
Although, to tell you guys the truth, with how successful Fortnite is, and assuming UT has a decent enough following, they'll actually be able to put more money into it. Hopefully they look at it, and decent arena shooters need to make a comeback
Well, I hope so too. But we've gotta be realist here: unless they pull out some miracolous stunt, it's not going to come back. the BR formula works *too* good for them to leave the comfort zone, they're making money with microtransactions and loot crates out of a free to play game. Pretty much like Valve did with TF2. They'll be simply going to milk it as long as they can.
Once Epic Games can get its head out of its wallet then we can have our UT 2017
I'm a simple man. I see an Ahoy video - I click like, and then I watch it.
filip000 I do that with every video. It’s become a habit so I sometimes click like on a bad video that I meant to dislike.
Wtf? Is it 6 months already?!
cms1138 it's been 9 months
Well no its been 3 weeks. It was a joke
cms1138 He was joking.
Thought is was gunna be about the correlation of health and how much of a chicken you are. High health= lots of risk, low health = highly cautious
I thought so too, and I was expecting this to be a condemnation towards health mechanics in modern games and how they created that behavior in contrast to the era of one hit deaths that came before it.
I remember one of my favorite childhood games, "Sarge's Heroes" about playing as a plastic soldier. There was a face of Sarge on the screen that got more and more melty and messed up as you got damaged.
Ahoy’s soundtrack is extremely underrated. I highly recommend you check it out.
He actually has a soundtrack? Ermagerd. It isn't canned royalty free music?! (Not saying that I think it's canned. It sounds really darn good). =O
Cavey Manta 75% of his videos he makes his own soundtrack. The polybius video is technically an entire album
Dang it, Ahoy is so darn good! He's the best RUclipsr...the best flipping RUclipsr ever! I respect someone who creates this much content from scratch. It makes his videos... *HIS.* You know what I mean?
Cavey Manta As someone who’s been subscribed to his channel for 8 years (my first ever video I watched of XboxAhoy was the M16A4 weapon guide), I’ve found a few great videos with him in it that pretty much *nobody* knows about.
2 are interviews, 2 are long lost weapon guides that had to be taken down from Ahoy’s channel and the other is a video someone made about him. However, the 3rd video listed here has a picture of Stu and is technically the first ever face reveal of Ahoy:
ruclips.net/video/nJdJU7eUkNw/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/8BE91v0Hi7M/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/sUBhD_iHil4/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/3BFvX_rzWV0/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/9tFgKoqQujE/видео.html
Ooh, this is a gold mine. Thanks, man! I actually got introduced to Ahoy no more than half a year ago, which is kind of sad...
Also, the chicken o'meter... that's just fowl.
I thought this was going to be about the floor chicken of streets of rage and tekken force
Eneas H. And castlevania games, too
*Chomp* "CHICKEN?!"
Only now noticed this video. I'm a big fan of these type of health indicators and I've been ripping many of them in GIF format for my personal amusement. :) I personally call these skeletonization health bars, but I like the sound of Chicken-o-Meter and I understand where that name came from.
Anyway, this video had 8 games that I was missing GIF animations from, so thanks for bringing these games to my attention. :) Here's some more chicken-o-meter examples that weren't featured on this video:
Nemesis the Warlock (1987, Martech Games)
Fright Night (1988, MicroDeal)
Batman: Caped Crusader (1988+, Ocean Software)
Rambo III (1988+, Ocean Software)
Dragon Scape (1989, Wicked Software & Software Horizons)
Storm Warrior (1989, Elite Systems)
Gladiators (1989, Smash 16)
MOT (1989, Opera Soft)
Soviet (1990, Opera Soft)
The Amazing Spider-Man (1990, Paragon Software)
B.S.S Jane Seymour (1990, Gremin Graphics) / Spacewrecked (1991, Gremlin Graphics)
James Pond series (1990+)
Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991, Ocean Software)
Deliverance (1992+, 21st Century Entertainment)
Veil of Darkness (1993+, Strategic Simulations & Ving)
Nitemare 3-D (1994, Gray Design Associates)
Warlock (1994, Trimark Interactive, Acclaim, LJN)
Tower of Souls (1995, Black Legend Software)
Millennium Soldier: Expendable (1999+, Infogrames)
Tweety and the Magic Gems (2001, Kotobuki System)
RoboCop (2002, Titus, GBA prototype)
Nobody is going to talk about Minecraft? It has probably the purest chicken-o-meter of all modern games; Higher food = Faster health regen.
Amazing video, liked and subscribed.
Wait how is your comment from two days ago?
Vanessa Magick 2 days ago?!
Now wait 5 months
People who pledge to the Ahoy Patreon get early video access.
Get ready for some great content, my friend.
It's a good day when Ahoy uploads
It's also a good month when he uploads 2 videos
Already? Ahoy, you are a God
I found your channel two weeks ago and it seems like I have been blessed. This video was just something. I agree. The chicken-o-meter is brilliant and breaking conventions is what brings innovation.
It's rare that a video anticipates every one of my thoughts and addresses them before I can post in the comments! Well done!
Ahoy your voice makes my thighs tremble
3 minutes after posting I click hoping for the 1st comment, and find that I'm the 70th comment. Need to be much quicker on the old toes but it just goes to show the amazing buzz there is for every new Ahoy video. Keep it going my good man :-)
I always appreciated Spyro the Dragon having your health be represented by Sparx rather than just a health bar. It's both a cool visual, keeps the screen free of hud clutter, and also makes Sparx feel a bit more like a part of your adventure rather than just a generic buddy character.
I always thought Trespasser's "heart tattoo" was an interesting touch. Or the deteriorating portraits, like in Doom/Wolfenstein, or, more obscurely, Lands of Lore 2.
My favorite was the health bar/chicken-o-meter combo from Primal Rage. The bar was a big artery coming out of a beating heart that would beat faster and faster as your health depleted. When you run out of health, the heart explodes into a bloody mess. Good fun!
Came for your voice stayed for the chicken
Impressed by your research, plus the deadline since your prev. upload. Keep it up!
2 Videos this close of release dates together? Did heaven open its doors to us in life?
I was sure batman would be in the video.
I would have loved to see madou monogatari too :
that's a game where there is no seen life bar, like in real life. instead, you know how your character feels at the moment. the more deadly the character is, the more worried it is, with quotes like "I'm doing great", "it hurts", or "I'm nearly finished".
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The first PC game, spacewar, pitted two ships against one another and they had shield meters. It came out in 1962
Two videos in one year??
Alex Snowden Quality over quantity
ikagura ahoy has always produced high quality videos. I’m just commenting on his upload “schedule” which he has joked about previously in the past
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You know the health meter I like? The melty face skull one from the TV show Knightmare. There's nothing more terrifying...
It reminded me of the skulls from Commandos, too detailed for me in my childhood ; _ ;
In Amnesia: The Dark Descent, there are two chicken-o-meters! A heart, and a brain/spinal cord, which decay and shrivel with Daniel's health and sanity, respectively.
9:41 id Software were actually kind of _forced_ into using this iconic face HUD element due to limitations of the time; you couldn't simply assume that your player base was using stereo audio equipment back then, and ofc you had to build the game with the lowest denominator in mind.
For people playing on mono audio equipment or the really unfortunate on their PC speaker, the face icon is how you determine which direction you are taking damage from, and so for those people, a health bar wouldn't have really worked. Of course by the time you fast forward to Quake III Arena, well, at that point it's just tradition. : )
Well, they could have just used an arrow or similar, like "modern" games do. Would have been less work, less memory, and more easily read to boot. I'm glad they didn't though, the portrait does a ton to communicate character.
Another benefit of a large hud is of course that it boosts performance, being much easier to draw than another few hundred pixels of 3D.
Interesting.
it may be called a chicken-o-meter but real question remains.
Does it taste like chicken???
And why did it cross the road?
and did it come before the egg-o-meter?
Quite interesting , but some new iconic arms episodes would be welcome ;P
Wow! Back So Soon? Excellent.
Yes, Ahoy Did A Very Good Work
stop writing like that please
The Apple 2 game *Karateka* (1984) was one of the first games to have a health bar for _both_ the player and enemy/boss. _Why is it missing?_
A gruesome example I remember well was in a DOS Spider-Man game. There was a full on picture of Spider-Man on the side of the screen which would gradually turn into a skeleton as you took damage. Add to the fact that the game was overall rather surreal (as one with Mysterio as the villain should be) it made for a rather unnerving experience to a kid.
A short one, but an excellent video none the less. o7 awesome job!
It's only short by Ahoy's lofty standards~
Frequent ahoy uploads? Am I in heaven?
Thank God you uploaded. Quality over quantity.
Beautifully done, compact, and always standing out from staple videos. This is why I enjoy your content all the time. Once again, thank you!
No matter what kind of subject his videos are on, he will always make it as engaging and interesting as possible.
I would literally watch a documentary on coffee by him.
I thought this was gonna be a video about hunger bars lmao.
I was thinking Minecraft all the way.
I thought it was going to be about food that heals you when eaten (IE: final fight roast chickens.) .
Life bars at the beginning:
1. Street Fighter
2. Skyrim
3. IDK
4. The Legend of Zelda
5. Fallout 3
6. Fortnite
7. Minecraft
8. Call of Duty 1
9. Pokemon
10. Halo Combat Evolved
Could anyone tell me what 3 and 9 are so I can finish this list?
#9 appears to be Pokemon. #3 feels so familiar, but I can't place it.
ReverendTed Ah. Okay. Havent played any of the games, but I can see the relation. Thanks!
Thank you for this, I was dying to know what 8 was, I recognized it and needed to know.
3 looks to me like it's from Streets of Rage, or some other beatup that had some bosses that have three health bars, but to save up space they would be filled with different colors, so after beating the health bar at first (which was colored in green), it would instantly be refilled, but this time with the yellow color. After doing the same, it will be filled with the red color, and finally, after draining the bar for the third time, the boss would be dead
. You can't exactly apply that to the bar in the video, as that one has all three colors in one spot, but it's the closest thing I can think of.
Okay, how could you not realize 9 was straight from pokemon without someone telling you?
Welcome back, Komanndant.
We were lucky with the chicken-o-meter. It could easily have turned out to be a poultry effort.
...I'll get my coat.
Mocking slaughtered birds is rather fowl
LOL I hadn't heard of that one. My favorite was the Wolfenstine/Doom guy's face. And I don't know why they stopped using that idea. It was super cool and got the job done better than a health bar. You could tell your condition with a glance. Whereas, with multiple bars (health, ammo, magic etc.) the HUD can get really convoluted.
not expecting a video this fast
I miss your cod gun guides
Justin Reyez Me too
Justin Reyez Goooooood I loved those
Oh man those are what attracted me to his channel, been like 5 or 6 years since :(
love your videos bud ^^
0:15 Never thought I'd see Fortnite in an Ahoy video.
I knew I've seen that health ba somewhere. I just couldn't put my finger on it
Not quite a chicken o meter since it's practical, but I wish more games would have more nuanced health like the paper doll seen in stuff like Deus Ex, Fallout or the extreme Dwarf Fortress goes to. when I get shot in the legs, my legs are gonna take it in the legs, if I'm shot in the head I'll probs die without a good helmet.
10:43 Literally takes up most of the screen
8:00 lol I like how you say "conventional health bars" with mild disgust.
"But what innovation came without bravery?"
True that.
He manged to make chicken slowly getting eaten sound intimidating.
Why use a Chicken-o-meter? Because - as the NASCAR RUclipsr S1apSh0es once said - it's fun. And fun sells tickets and puts backsides in seats.
If I wasn't really sleepy I'd be ecstatic to see this in my recommendations page, _always_ worth watching