My parents bought me Rival Truf and told me it was Final Fight. I knew it wasn't, but I put in the game anyway to play (I rarely got games back then). To my surprise it was a lot of fun.
Super Fire Pro Wrestling brings back memories of using the Road Warriors who I found out later in my life had been really good friends with my great uncle. RIP to all of em 🙏🏼🤘🏼
I remember picking up Solstice 2 Equinox based solely on the cover art, this was in Europe and the Pal version cover art was a complete lie. I was scolded by my brother who played the game and then he told me I was never going to be allowed to pick another Super Nintendo game from the store ever again.
Deadly Towers. Cover art that looked like a Frank Frazetta painting. Gameplay that involved a kid with a horned baseball cap who fights bouncy balls and puddles.
Thank you for this episode. Back when video stores were a thing my parents would take me with them every weekend and I could pick out a game or two to rent for the weekend. Seeing all these game covers reminded me why I passed up on renting/buying these games. Glad you added gameplay so I know what I passed up on over 2 decades later.
Stossels insufferable, I'm kinda shocked youtube allows his channel to continue despite him touting ultra right wing facist ideals under the guise of personal freedom.
@@BoleDaPole Well, now, that's just, like, your opinion, man. Try actually watching his program all the way through. Or maybe you should try looking up the definitions of those fancy scary words you so fondly seem to use as a weapon. I do not think it means, what you think it means.
It actually did, but they didn't have time to finish it so it was deactivated. There's a ROM hack out now which re-activated the two player mode and allows all three characters to be selected.
The best way to play Final Fight was Final Fight CD on SEGA CD. Uncut, voice acting, 2 player coop, all levels, plus 3 extra levels with time-attack-mode and new CD-sound.
I don't know what you're talking about with Buster Bros - those kids look cool _as hell_ with their hi-tops, sunglasses and backwards caps - every kid in the 90's Don't you pretend otherwise; you cringe _now_ as an _old man_ , but we all *were* that kid at some point around '91, lol And then, around '94, we all were those kids in the _Rival Turf_ cover, lol. NINETIES! (^-^)
Certainly not now. There's tons of people who jump on that kinda thing _now_ . But back in the 90's if you were a kid you probably looked like that at some point. Maybe had different patterns on your T-shirt , or different color of shorts, but it's pretty normal clothing for a kid back then. And fundamentally, there's nothing wrong with putting kids on the cover who resemble the kids you want to buy the game...... Though, I will admit.... perhaps there is something about the sunglasses that makes the kids seem a bit unappealing? Maybe something about the facial expressions? A little bit of smugness comes through there, I admit. They give off a bit of a "punchable face" vibe, sure.... they actually kinda remind me of _Rascal_ on the PS1, though by the time they tried to get away with it, kids just didn't look like this. But I think Buster Bros hit at the right time. And compared to _Kid Chameleon_ ? Now, that's crossing the line - NO KID had a leather jacket, or sported slicked back hair. Who are you trying to fool, Sega? THAT's outrageous; totally immersion breaking :P
Great writing, Drunk! Been binge watching your channel again...I love your analysis! I usually find myself agreeing with you, and you've certainly opened my eyes to a lot of SNES/SFC games that I didn't even know existed!
My favorite part about Rival Turf was the fact that you could rename most of the enemies in the game. However, you had to complete the entire game first before it allowed this. But I think there was a code to either do it right away, or just get to the end fast so you could start a new game much quicker. I did this over and over. I was so easily amused back then.
@@applejuicejunkie316 I swear there was another game by Jaleco (makers of Rival Turf), called Tough Enough. Had one character which looked the same in both games.
When I was a kid my aunt who knew nothing about video games got me Super Buster Bros as a birthday present. I remember seeing the box and thinking “what in the heck…?” Fast forward to today and that game is one of my ultimate hidden gems! It really is an addicting game and every time someone tried it, they always wanted to play it again when they came over.
"He looks like a combination of Malcolm McDowell and the guy from The Wallflowers" I have never seen a more accurate description of someone in my entire life
Rival turf is my childhood! Born in '91 with two elder brothers, two younger brothers and a little sister! We really played the sh*t out of this game, it's awesome!
I never thought I would learn the origin of the sprite of the character Bathios James, AKA Ultimate Hellbane, from Charles Barkley Shut Up and Jam Gaiden. Thank you so much for this.
Agreed, I immediately recognized him too when I saw the video. It's even his signature face, everything the RUclipsr said about this cover is wrong, it's a perfect fit.
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I think the x-kaliber 2097 cover is fine? its pretty bold, the logo with a sword to give a clue the player character uses a sword, despite the futuristic background of it to compliment the year its based in. i dont see whats wrong there. its obviously not a racing game if theres a giant sword infront of you, you can only assume its at least an action game. it tells more about the game than lots of popular covers do
Excalibur is the name of a famous sword so people should have got that hint right away without seeing any pic of a sword, although it is spelled differently in this game, it's still not hard to figure out. They could have done better with this cover. It was pure laziness.
@Some characters aren't allowed So a battleship, a mech or a cannon is a variation of King Arthur's sword? Dude I have to read the saga again, I wasn't aware he used a transformer. The game came out on a console made by a Japanese manufacturer and developed by Japanese game studios Fupac and Winds. Maybe snap out of your American-only world, dude.
Aw man that moment in a 90s kid's life when your parent said "OK, you can get ONE game from the clearance/sale/bargain bin". You had no smart phones to quickly look up reviews or something. All you had was cover art, the back of the box synopsis and screencaps, and if you were really brave, the word of the guy behind the counter. And you had just minutes to decide.
"yes I'm gonna stick with baseball bat" your humour isn't loud and so much in your face like other RUclipsrs which I really really enjoy. You made me laugh many times throughout this video. Subscribed!
Back in the 90s Covers where all the way to get a game lol haha. Man can you make a review to the *Jim Lee's WildC.A.T.S.* Game, i would really love to see your opinion! GREAT video as always man! Greetings!
Box art is the only reason I ended up getting games like Cybernator, Super Metroid, and Super Aleste back in the day. When you think about how much the picture on the cover influenced sales it's kinda wild how many titles chose to half-ass it.
My brothers and I had great fun with Rival Turf. I can't even remember how we got it. It certainly isn't something we would have looked for or been excited about. Every once in a while, we still do a playthrough when we get together. Holding down the L button the whole time makes your character run around like a maniac! It's a riot!
I don't know if I'm imagining it, but I remember there being a commercial of Phalanx game with that old man. I think we was playing his banjo explaining the legend of a space battle.
7:40 Ah, yes, the Rushing Beat series of beat them ups in Japan. They are a trilogy, you have Rushing Beat, then Rushing Beat Ran - Fukusei Toshi, and finally the third and final game Rushing Beat Shura. The interesting thing is that all three games were published in the USA, but all of them under a different title and none of them with any hint that they were sequels to each other. Rushing Beat was localized as Rival Turf!, Rushing Beat Ran was localized as Brawl Brothers, and finally Rushing Beat Shura was localized as The Peace Keepers. If you played any of those titles in the west you would know that the only things they have in common is that they are beat em ups.
Prince of Persia was one of my faves back in the day. My father rented it for us from Blockbuster back in the day and I'll admit, I wasn't immediately enthusiastic about it because of the cartridge pic. But I started playing it and loved it right away. My father ended up buying it down the road.
The Creeper LMAO! Bliss is in the eye of the beholder... but the full story is, I got called into work over the weekend and so got comp time off work thru tomorrow, and getting to chillax at home when I'd normally be working is what I was goin on about earlier. No sir, ain't nobody drinkin no beer before work (and certainly before a 50 minute commute)!
I feel ya man, its 5:06am, had a couple Jameson + ginger ale and now onto beer, digiorno in the freezer and chilling watching RUclips lol (I'm off today and tomorrow people so no need for a backlash lol) I work overnights as a cnc machinist so this time of day is normal for me lol
Metal Marines box art makes perfect sense. The guy is YOU looking over the war zone that you're in command of. There's also misses which is a main feature of the game. The two right arms? ... No I'm asking you cause I have no idea hahaha great video.
Me personally. I went by looking at the back of the box of the game,I looked at the screenshots and read the description of the game. My other sources for finding out about games were reading game magazines (gamepro,electronic gaming monthly,Nintendo power) and course talking to friends.
I wonder who those two kids from the rival turf covers are, after years they finally found out who the og Resident Evil life action cast was except Jill which is a bummer.
I was a 90's kid going to the video rental store every weekend to rent 2 games. Thanks to videos like these I get to see what I passed up on and I'm very glad I did. Getting my friends' month old Game Informer magazine helped to make my decisions. Keep up the great videos. I look forward to seeing more games I'm glad I never played, rented or bought.
I see the Super NES box art of Rival Turf!, and I'm like "Just look at these guys. What is this? From a failed audition to join New Kids on the Block? A magazine ad for Bugle Boy jeans? These guys are straight out of central casting for Salute Your Shorts." And here they are promoting a beat 'em up game.
Haha call out the John Stossel (spelling?) lookalike but have to resort to "The Guy from the Wallflowers" for Jakob Dylan. I mean, it's been decades since I thought about the Wallflowers, but he's a very famous person's son so you should have been able to get the last name. Meanwhile, John Stossel just came right to mind! Hahaha Great video, though. Love this channel.
Yes Metal Marines. Though if you really want to experience it you have to play the windows 3.1 version. Each screen is its own separate window and when you attack the missiles fly across your screen in-between the windows. Creates this very cool look that I never saw replicated in other games.
I was paying respect to him, he graduated long ago from merely being Bob Dylan's son and living in his shadow, to being "that guy from the Wallflowers"
I always looked at the back of the box and read the synopsis. Oh the pressure in the 90s to not choose a bad game to rent when you were spending Saturday at your friend’s house.
I guess maybe the idea behind Phalanx is you're listening to an old Bluegrass ballad about a space battle. Which if one of those doesn't exist yet someone really should get on it.
6:14 No, that's meant to look like that old German goalkeeper.Oliver Kahn. He is so iconic that even now his name is what comes up first for German goalkeeper on Google even though current German goalkeeper Manuel Neuer is really great in his own right, as he was the man at the help when they won the 2014 World Cup.
As a decades long tile mason, I appreciate the accusation that Prince of Persia's background looked like "someone's backsplash tile from 1971", ...because everything about that sentence is accurate
Metal Marines is one of the best games on SNES. The windows version is extra crazy and completely embraces windows. Your base and the enemies are in seperate windows and your attacks fly between the windows.
Super Buster Bros is one of my all-time favorites! I used to play it in the arcade and it was titled "Pang" or "Super Pang" and couldn't find it anywhere for console! Then thanks to the internet, 5 years ago I found the name was changed and another company picked it up and called it "Super Buster Bros"
Goalkeeper on cover of Super Soccer is, probably, meant to be legendary (and later infamous due to his book on widespread doping in sport) Danish goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel.
A friend of mine found some Snes games inside a trash bag... There was this Donkey Kong Country cartridge in there and i was excited to play it, so i inserted it into my Snes and... Well, i got surprised, the game wasn't DKC! It was Rival Turf instead... I liked it though! And it became part of my childhood n_n' I still like it's music and gameplay!
Enjoyed the video and plus I noticed alot of replies to comments and remarks. Usually after thousands of subs youtubers will drop off from answering almost completely. Shows you have decent character, kudos on that.
I will say as someone that grew up with the God tier designs of Atari game box art Metal Marines checked off a LOT of visual boxes for me. Love that damn game. Also, I will forever laugh at the Salute Your Shorts reference for Roval Turf. Donkey Lips and Sponge were my jam.
Played and beat Rival Turf several times. It's a fairly hilarious low-polish Final Fight knock-off, but yes, the simultaneous play helps save it enough for it to have been relatively fun back then. Just as hard as FF too because of how long it is. Some of the bosses get you with total cheap shots, so if you're good enough to survive on a couple lives for a while, they're sure to exhaust any extra lives you've earned.
Until today I had no idea Phalanx is a shootem up, I always thought it was a music game, or some weird game because of the cover. Cool video snesdrunk.
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What is that guy doing back there is that John Stosill 😂😂😂
I can't believe I just found your channel A+ commentary🔥👏
I think the Rival Terf cover is dope in its nostalgia.
"Road Warriors"? Never heard of such a team.... Road Warrior was a movie and the tag team featured in the video is called "Legion of Doom"!
Shit man those covers are ass and some of those games are solid..
My parents bought me Rival Truf and told me it was Final Fight. I knew it wasn't, but I put in the game anyway to play (I rarely got games back then). To my surprise it was a lot of fun.
Mom: We have Final Fight at home
Final Fight at home:
As if your parents knew games enough to even attempt that level of subterfuge back then.
Lol @ Truf
@@brightforwar3831 omg spelling! Haha funy
Considering it cut Guy, an entire stage, and 2 player. Final Fight was Final Fight at home.
God SNESdrunk your analogies delivered in absolute deadpan in these videos are like EVERYTHING. You make me smile everytime I watch ol
"Straight out of casting for Salute Your Shorts." I'm crying right now.
New memories unlocked ✋️🥺
😂😂😂😂😂 that made my day
“Camp Anawanna we hold you in our hearts! And when we think about you it makes me want to fart!”
Super Fire Pro Wrestling brings back memories of using the Road Warriors who I found out later in my life had been really good friends with my great uncle. RIP to all of em 🙏🏼🤘🏼
Maybe you could also do the opposite: not so good games with great covers. ;)
Agreed.
I ate a lot of crap just because the cover was awesome. Both on NES and SNES. Remember the Rambo cover?
I remember picking up Solstice 2 Equinox based solely on the cover art, this was in Europe and the Pal version cover art was a complete lie. I was scolded by my brother who played the game and then he told me I was never going to be allowed to pick another Super Nintendo game from the store ever again.
Deadly Towers. Cover art that looked like a Frank Frazetta painting. Gameplay that involved a kid with a horned baseball cap who fights bouncy balls and puddles.
Absolutely
@ElectroChill Hex yeah Drake and the 99 Dragons, I'm sure AVGN reviewed that one 😂
Thank you for this episode. Back when video stores were a thing my parents would take me with them every weekend and I could pick out a game or two to rent for the weekend. Seeing all these game covers reminded me why I passed up on renting/buying these games. Glad you added gameplay so I know what I passed up on over 2 decades later.
I want to play the hypothetical game that Phalanx’s cover would actually make sense with.
I'm sure almost everyone who bought or played it did too.
You dont mate it would scar you for life
Maybe like a post-apocyaptic red-dead kinda thing?
Its a really fun shooter but I still dont understand the box cover.
Banjo-Kablooie. It's a banjo based side scrolling shooter.
"Is that John Stossel?" :D that was great!!
Definitely the best part 😂
I roared. It does look just like him. Though, my vision's no longer...20/20.
And Dr. D David Schultz turns his head in anger.
Stossels insufferable, I'm kinda shocked youtube allows his channel to continue despite him touting ultra right wing facist ideals under the guise of personal freedom.
@@BoleDaPole Well, now, that's just, like, your opinion, man. Try actually watching his program all the way through. Or maybe you should try looking up the definitions of those fancy scary words you so fondly seem to use as a weapon. I do not think it means, what you think it means.
"I think you could even play this one on your microwave at one point." Too funny😂🤣
Mechner made it for the Apple II but dreamed one day it would be next to the Defrost setting.
Rival Turf: for when you found out Final Fight didn't have Co-op.
It actually did, but they didn't have time to finish it so it was deactivated. There's a ROM hack out now which re-activated the two player mode and allows all three characters to be selected.
Exactly!!!
@@nebularain3338 Dude, you just made my day. Thanks for that update, that's amazing to a nerd like me.
Exactly. Except I hated it. It paled in comparison to final fight. I never was able to beat it.
The best way to play Final Fight was Final Fight CD on SEGA CD. Uncut, voice acting, 2 player coop, all levels, plus 3 extra levels with time-attack-mode and new CD-sound.
I loved rival turf, and yes the box art always made me think those kids hung out with John Conner from T2.
I don't know what you're talking about with Buster Bros - those kids look cool _as hell_ with their hi-tops, sunglasses and backwards caps
- every kid in the 90's
Don't you pretend otherwise; you cringe _now_ as an _old man_ , but we all *were* that kid at some point around '91, lol
And then, around '94, we all were those kids in the _Rival Turf_ cover, lol. NINETIES! (^-^)
Am I on my own thinking that Buster Bros cover was pandering crap and that only kids in commercials looked like that?
Certainly not now. There's tons of people who jump on that kinda thing _now_ . But back in the 90's if you were a kid you probably looked like that at some point. Maybe had different patterns on your T-shirt , or different color of shorts, but it's pretty normal clothing for a kid back then. And fundamentally, there's nothing wrong with putting kids on the cover who resemble the kids you want to buy the game......
Though, I will admit.... perhaps there is something about the sunglasses that makes the kids seem a bit unappealing? Maybe something about the facial expressions? A little bit of smugness comes through there, I admit. They give off a bit of a "punchable face" vibe, sure.... they actually kinda remind me of _Rascal_ on the PS1, though by the time they tried to get away with it, kids just didn't look like this. But I think Buster Bros hit at the right time.
And compared to _Kid Chameleon_ ? Now, that's crossing the line - NO KID had a leather jacket, or sported slicked back hair. Who are you trying to fool, Sega? THAT's outrageous; totally immersion breaking :P
I meant THEN, hence the use of "was" and hence the comment
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ My bad
Me, still today, cuz I don't wanna grow up.
Those guys on the cover of “Rival Turf” must be in their 40s, maybe 50s today.
I imagine they also pull out the box art on the games anniversary and drink heavily while cringing at it. You can't come back from that 😂
@@vram1974 almost certainly 50s
8:02 damn, look how straight his leg is during the jump kick
They should get together and remake the picture now in the same clothes
Is that one on the right Jason Ackles from Supernatural
Great writing, Drunk! Been binge watching your channel again...I love your analysis! I usually find myself agreeing with you, and you've certainly opened my eyes to a lot of SNES/SFC games that I didn't even know existed!
My favorite part about Rival Turf was the fact that you could rename most of the enemies in the game. However, you had to complete the entire game first before it allowed this. But I think there was a code to either do it right away, or just get to the end fast so you could start a new game much quicker. I did this over and over. I was so easily amused back then.
I remember when I rented Rival Turf back when it first came out it reminded me of Final Fight!!! It’s actually a great underrated game!!!
For some reason I thought this game was called Tough Enough
@@applejuicejunkie316 I swear there was another game by Jaleco (makers of Rival Turf), called Tough Enough. Had one character which looked the same in both games.
When I was a kid my aunt who knew nothing about video games got me Super Buster Bros as a birthday present. I remember seeing the box and thinking “what in the heck…?” Fast forward to today and that game is one of my ultimate hidden gems! It really is an addicting game and every time someone tried it, they always wanted to play it again when they came over.
Phalanx has the best boxart lmao
LSSJ Gaming right. And best game name too
Not the europeen and japaneese ones though...
It definitely made u look when u went to Blockbuster.
Phalanx was a badass plane shooter.
@War Zone 😑
"He looks like a combination of Malcolm McDowell and the guy from The Wallflowers"
I have never seen a more accurate description of someone in my entire life
Really showing your age with the references in this vid lol my 35 yr old self felt rite at home lol
right at home
Same, at 34. 🤣
Damn we old
@@ASHAH925 old farts
@@ASHAH925in my late 30s, i dont feel old, still have my hair XD
Rival turf is my childhood! Born in '91 with two elder brothers, two younger brothers and a little sister! We really played the sh*t out of this game, it's awesome!
I never thought I would learn the origin of the sprite of the character Bathios James, AKA Ultimate Hellbane, from Charles Barkley Shut Up and Jam Gaiden. Thank you so much for this.
Guy on the cover of Super Soccer is based on German goalkeeper Oliver Kahn. Still a horrible cover, though!
Was guna say same
as a european guy I recognized Kahn, one of the greats!
It's not the nicest cover, but Oliver Kahn is pretty recognizable. I'm from Brazil and I knew that was Oliver Kahn on the cover back then.
Make Game Covers Great Again
Agreed, I immediately recognized him too when I saw the video. It's even his signature face, everything the RUclipsr said about this cover is wrong, it's a perfect fit.
Rival turf is in my snes right now. Game is hard af. Play with angry mode
"So you have to adjust what you do *on the fly.*"
I'm on to you.
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I think the x-kaliber 2097 cover is fine? its pretty bold, the logo with a sword to give a clue the player character uses a sword, despite the futuristic background of it to compliment the year its based in. i dont see whats wrong there. its obviously not a racing game if theres a giant sword infront of you, you can only assume its at least an action game. it tells more about the game than lots of popular covers do
Excalibur is the name of a famous sword so people should have got that hint right away without seeing any pic of a sword, although it is spelled differently in this game, it's still not hard to figure out. They could have done better with this cover. It was pure laziness.
@@subzero8679 Do you even know how many things are called"Excalibur" in popular Japanese culture? No, that's not a good hint.
@Some characters aren't allowed So a battleship, a mech or a cannon is a variation of King Arthur's sword? Dude I have to read the saga again, I wasn't aware he used a transformer.
The game came out on a console made by a Japanese manufacturer and developed by Japanese game studios Fupac and Winds. Maybe snap out of your American-only world, dude.
0:23: Actually the proper way to block a high-kick, so kudos for realism!
40% of my early purchases were made on the box art. Well that and my parents telling me to pick stuff out of the bargain bin lol
Aw man that moment in a 90s kid's life when your parent said "OK, you can get ONE game from the clearance/sale/bargain bin". You had no smart phones to quickly look up reviews or something. All you had was cover art, the back of the box synopsis and screencaps, and if you were really brave, the word of the guy behind the counter. And you had just minutes to decide.
G0ZERIAN
Exactly.
Do not forget how funny it was to rename enemies in Rival Turf by putting "CHRCONF" in the high score list. Added a lot of fun to me as a kid !
What does that mean?
I was on the cover of rival turf . I was the white kid in the orange jacket . I am not joking .
Proof?
@@classicretro3280 i have an un-opened copy of the game. still in the plastic.
you can call me jack flack
i just check the spelling .. it Jack Flak
Proof😂
"yes I'm gonna stick with baseball bat" your humour isn't loud and so much in your face like other RUclipsrs which I really really enjoy. You made me laugh many times throughout this video. Subscribed!
Thanks for taking the time to watch
"Is that John Stossel?"
the right reference + fantastic timing = me spitting sunflower seeds on my keyboard.
Must have 20/20 vision to be able to notice him.
Lost it.
some of these covers make total sense. Aerobic Supersonic is exactly what I would expect with that cover.
Back in the 90s Covers where all the way to get a game lol haha. Man can you make a review to the *Jim Lee's WildC.A.T.S.* Game, i would really love to see your opinion! GREAT video as always man! Greetings!
Box art is the only reason I ended up getting games like Cybernator, Super Metroid, and Super Aleste back in the day.
When you think about how much the picture on the cover influenced sales it's kinda wild how many titles chose to half-ass it.
My brothers and I had great fun with Rival Turf. I can't even remember how we got it. It certainly isn't something we would have looked for or been excited about. Every once in a while, we still do a playthrough when we get together. Holding down the L button the whole time makes your character run around like a maniac! It's a riot!
The Rival Turf cover looks like some early 90s "Winners Don't Do Drugs" PSA promotional poster.
I don't know if I'm imagining it, but I remember there being a commercial of Phalanx game with that old man. I think we was playing his banjo explaining the legend of a space battle.
I almost didn't watch this episode cause of the Thumbnails horrible cover art. Thank goodness I did because this video is on point.
Crap, I didn't even think of that, this video could've backfired horribly
Lol a friend of mine had that game and that's why I clicked on it. We got pretty far too.
7:40 Ah, yes, the Rushing Beat series of beat them ups in Japan. They are a trilogy, you have Rushing Beat, then Rushing Beat Ran - Fukusei Toshi, and finally the third and final game Rushing Beat Shura. The interesting thing is that all three games were published in the USA, but all of them under a different title and none of them with any hint that they were sequels to each other. Rushing Beat was localized as Rival Turf!, Rushing Beat Ran was localized as Brawl Brothers, and finally Rushing Beat Shura was localized as The Peace Keepers. If you played any of those titles in the west you would know that the only things they have in common is that they are beat em ups.
50k subscriber milestone is imminent. Do you have anything special planned? Congrats btw, well deserved.
55k
shit, that's 5K subs in 3 weeks. this dude is really climbing, and I don't find him as annoying as Matei.
60k
71K
Prince of Persia was one of my faves back in the day. My father rented it for us from Blockbuster back in the day and I'll admit, I wasn't immediately enthusiastic about it because of the cartridge pic. But I started playing it and loved it right away. My father ended up buying it down the road.
5:27 Holy cow!! That cover art was stolen from Sega's Genesis Golden Axe 2 by Boris Vallejo.
Haha yeah the woman on the left is straight lifted from riding the dragon on the Golden Axe 2 cover 🤣
What a labour of love.
1971 kitchen tiles will swing back around one day.
SSssnnnnnNNNnnacks + beer + SNES drunk video at 4am in the morning of a workweek = bliss
amazinglazedonut sounds hell tbh
Yea that sounds terrible lol
The Creeper
LMAO! Bliss is in the eye of the beholder... but the full story is, I got called into work over the weekend and so got comp time off work thru tomorrow, and getting to chillax at home when I'd normally be working is what I was goin on about earlier. No sir, ain't nobody drinkin no beer before work (and certainly before a 50 minute commute)!
amazinglazedonut No guts, no glory, Baby!!! Lmiao. Stay buzzed. Like me. 💜💜
I feel ya man, its 5:06am, had a couple Jameson + ginger ale and now onto beer, digiorno in the freezer and chilling watching RUclips lol (I'm off today and tomorrow people so no need for a backlash lol) I work overnights as a cnc machinist so this time of day is normal for me lol
Metal Marines box art makes perfect sense. The guy is YOU looking over the war zone that you're in command of. There's also misses which is a main feature of the game. The two right arms? ... No I'm asking you cause I have no idea hahaha great video.
Super Fire Pro Wrestling 3 and 4 were actually the directorial debuts of SUDA51 of Killer7 and No More Heroes fame, if you can believe that.
Me personally. I went by looking at the back of the box of the game,I looked at the screenshots and read the description of the game.
My other sources for finding out about games were reading game magazines (gamepro,electronic gaming monthly,Nintendo power) and course talking to friends.
Prince Of Persia' s box art was much better in the European version. I loved it. As good as the game.
That's Katsuya Terada for you.
Wow... How much I love it... Grear artist.
tollban The Sega version doesn't have background music right? I never understood that
I wonder who those two kids from the rival turf covers are, after years they finally found out who the og Resident Evil life action cast was except Jill which is a bummer.
I bought X-Kaliber 2097 based on the cover and title alone
b w I used to try to beat that game with my cousin and brother. Good memories.
I loved that game. Great title for it's time.
"is that John Stostle????" LMAO
0:42. I think that's supposed to be an old man seeing a UFO. But I could see how it might get free misunderstood
I love Rival Turf
I was a 90's kid going to the video rental store every weekend to rent 2 games. Thanks to videos like these I get to see what I passed up on and I'm very glad I did. Getting my friends' month old Game Informer magazine helped to make my decisions.
Keep up the great videos. I look forward to seeing more games I'm glad I never played, rented or bought.
Thumbs up for John Stossel reference
I see the Super NES box art of Rival Turf!, and I'm like "Just look at these guys. What is this? From a failed audition to join New Kids on the Block? A magazine ad for Bugle Boy jeans? These guys are straight out of central casting for Salute Your Shorts." And here they are promoting a beat 'em up game.
FYI, the guy from the Wallflowers is Jacob Dylan, Bob Dylan's son
Haha call out the John Stossel (spelling?) lookalike but have to resort to "The Guy from the Wallflowers" for Jakob Dylan. I mean, it's been decades since I thought about the Wallflowers, but he's a very famous person's son so you should have been able to get the last name. Meanwhile, John Stossel just came right to mind! Hahaha
Great video, though. Love this channel.
Lmfao John Stossel!!!
Yes Metal Marines. Though if you really want to experience it you have to play the windows 3.1 version. Each screen is its own separate window and when you attack the missiles fly across your screen in-between the windows. Creates this very cool look that I never saw replicated in other games.
The guy from The Wallflowers is actually Bob Dylan's son, Jakob Dylan.
I was paying respect to him, he graduated long ago from merely being Bob Dylan's son and living in his shadow, to being "that guy from the Wallflowers"
SNES drunk lol a high honor indeed
lol, but he graduated from Bob Dylan's shadow to David Bowie's shadow with that "Heroes" cover
I always looked at the back of the box and read the synopsis. Oh the pressure in the 90s to not choose a bad game to rent when you were spending Saturday at your friend’s house.
I guess maybe the idea behind Phalanx is you're listening to an old Bluegrass ballad about a space battle. Which if one of those doesn't exist yet someone really should get on it.
6:14 No, that's meant to look like that old German goalkeeper.Oliver Kahn. He is so iconic that even now his name is what comes up first for German goalkeeper on Google even though current German goalkeeper Manuel Neuer is really great in his own right, as he was the man at the help when they won the 2014 World Cup.
Rival Turf is the truth
You had me dying at each of your cover remarks. Straight Savage! 😂🤣
As a decades long tile mason, I appreciate the accusation that Prince of Persia's background looked like "someone's backsplash tile from 1971", ...because everything about that sentence is accurate
Metal Marines is one of the best games on SNES. The windows version is extra crazy and completely embraces windows. Your base and the enemies are in seperate windows and your attacks fly between the windows.
Man those kids on the box cover look tough...
Metal marines was on a snes game with 100 other games made from Japan. I loved that game
Hahahaha the guy from the wallflowers. I never saw what he looked like until now 🤣
Super Buster Bros is one of my all-time favorites! I used to play it in the arcade and it was titled "Pang" or "Super Pang" and couldn't find it anywhere for console! Then thanks to the internet, 5 years ago I found the name was changed and another company picked it up and called it "Super Buster Bros"
that's the coolest way for quick games' reviews :D
Goalkeeper on cover of Super Soccer is, probably, meant to be legendary (and later infamous due to his book on widespread doping in sport) Danish goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel.
Box art is regional which I'm thankful for being in the UK. I've seen some crazy cover choices from overseas
A friend of mine found some Snes games inside a trash bag... There was this Donkey Kong Country cartridge in there and i was excited to play it, so i inserted it into my Snes and... Well, i got surprised, the game wasn't DKC! It was Rival Turf instead... I liked it though! And it became part of my childhood n_n'
I still like it's music and gameplay!
Total props for The Great Muta reference that man's a wrestling legend!!!!🎉🎉🎉
I swear... every time I see the cover art to Rival Turf, I think it is a two-on-two streetball game.
Enjoyed the video and plus I noticed alot of replies to comments and remarks. Usually after thousands of subs youtubers will drop off from answering almost completely. Shows you have decent character, kudos on that.
Thanks for taking the time to watch
I just realized what Xcalibur 2097 looks like! It's the skyline from Highlander!
I like how you end your videos with an all too genuine "I hope you have a good day." You too, youtube guy.
Some of these games should've been on the SNES classic 🤨. Especially Rival Turf, loved that game.
Rival Turf is a snes classic.
Dude that prince of persia "back tile" you made fun of is actually pretty common in those regions today.
You actually watched "Salute your Shorts".
I see you're a man of class :D
As a kid in the 90s I saw Rival turf. Even as a 8-10 year old at the time I saw the box art and thought “nope” and to this day never played it
My cousin gave me Rival Turf back in the early 90’s and I loved it, great replay value.
I will say as someone that grew up with the God tier designs of Atari game box art Metal Marines checked off a LOT of visual boxes for me. Love that damn game. Also, I will forever laugh at the Salute Your Shorts reference for Roval Turf. Donkey Lips and Sponge were my jam.
The guy on the cover of Aerobiz was either having a Mr. Coffee or looking at Mr. Radar.
That dude on the Metal Marines cover looks like a depressed Sting.
Played and beat Rival Turf several times. It's a fairly hilarious low-polish Final Fight knock-off, but yes, the simultaneous play helps save it enough for it to have been relatively fun back then. Just as hard as FF too because of how long it is. Some of the bosses get you with total cheap shots, so if you're good enough to survive on a couple lives for a while, they're sure to exhaust any extra lives you've earned.
Salute your Shorts! 2nd best show ever to air Nickelodeon. The first being The Adventures of Pete and Pete.
Super soccer was one of the most rage inducing game I've ever owned.
Lol, "the guy from the Wallflowers" aka Jakob Dylan, BOB DYLAN'S SON.
Until today I had no idea Phalanx is a shootem up, I always thought it was a music game, or some weird game because of the cover. Cool video snesdrunk.
ROBOTREK!!!! A game I never herd about growing up but found through ROMs in highschool and hands down one of my top 5 SNES games
Rental stores never had Final Fight available but they always had Rival Turf. It was a regular go to for me.
X-Kaliber cover tells me that some swording in a city is coming up. So yes, it could be a hell of a lot more vague to me.
Aerobiz Supersonic...oh sweet memories i have for this game...such a shame Koei never made a follow up on this serie