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.
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.
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 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.
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.
"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
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
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.
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.
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.
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!
@@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.
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 loved Rival Turf, I used to asked my friends do they remember the game with the two kids on it because I forgot the name of it. They had no clue what I was talking about.
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.
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!
SNES drunk on fire this episode! Thoroughly entertained throughout! Would love to see a Part 2! Thanks for the upload! I'm using way too many exclamation marks!
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.
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.
I learned that the ‘Phalanx’ guy was born in the same town back in Sweden where I was born. How random is that! His name was Bertil Valley, and he was born in Gothenburg all the way back in 1913, but he grew up in Los Angeles, and resided in the Seattle area.
Sometimes they did a nice job, like in Contra: Hard Corps. The japanese cover looked like a badass 90s anime, while the western one looks like it could fit perfectly in a comic book of the time. I think bad covers happened because of marketing guys who didn't gave a fuck about the industry and were there just for a monthly paycheck.
"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!
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I remember the first time I beat Rival Turf. It was with my best friend and his cool little brother at his house. Spent the night with a Bigfoot pizza and when you died, you had to pass the controller. When we were watching the credits roll, the sun came up. Good times.
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.
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!
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!
Also, Rival Turf is so unintentionally funny, the bosses have some bizarre animations as funny dump names for each, one of them is a rapper who can get killed by his own goons, a car passes by dropping more enemies and if you make the boss stand in the middle of the road he can get run over by that car.
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
Salute Your Shorts reference opened up a Wonka tunnel of nostalgia featuring, Pete & Pete, Space Cases, Clarissa Explains It All and The Secret World of Alex Mack.
Rival Turf was never rented out at the video store, it was one of the few rentals that still had the instruction booklet in the plastic game container.
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.
Loved Metal Marines as a kid one of the few games I should have bought because I rented it so much. As well as one of the few bright spots in the SNES strategy genre. It was way ahead of its time! still play it today..
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 just did a video on some Super Famicom wrestling games over on my channel, and while Super Fire Pro Wrestling isn't a bad game, I would say it's one of those cases where there are so many sequels (there are at least NINE Fire Pro games on the Super Famicom) and most of them improve in some way or another. I'd recommend Super Fire Pro X Premium (the last release, but also the most sought-after) or Queen's Special over the original Super Fire Pro. Also, love that Phalanx box art.
On the Stick as a wrestling fan, i think fire pro wrestling is the most versatile,simple and amazing wrestling game, that game aged well not like some wrestling game with outdated wrestlers, in this game, you could just make that character and the pixel art really helps to make it looks like it.
Not into sports games at all, but if anybody's planning on going to Japan to get a Super Famicom and some games, I've seen some of the games in this series for as little as 30 yen if you shop around.
I just liked my own comment and was about to ask myself a question before realizing it was my comment from 6 years ago. Apparently I’ve been here before….
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"
You are my hero for mentioning Aerobiz Supersonic. There's a game I'd love to see get a modern rework and balancing. Glad I'm not the only one who enjoys it. :) Also, the Phalanx cover was a clever marketing ploy to make you look at a game you might otherwise tune out in a market flooded with space shooters. It was so odd you had to pick it up and say "what the hell is this?".
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 mean, X-Kaliber 2097's cover seems to make a lot of sense to me. There's a big sword in the middle and a city in the background. The gameplay appears to be running around a city and attacking with your sword. Am I wrong?
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.
Me and my brother took a chance on renting Kendo Rage back in the day (R.I.P. Blockbuster). We were very surprised by it! It was super fun, and we loved the 'anime-ness' of it. As for Phalanx, I always thought it was a puzzle game for some reason!
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.
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.
Ahh Robotrek. Got to be one of the most underrated SNES games. I played it after secret of Mana, chronotrigger, ff6 and the rest, but I was still a kid, so the slapstick nature didn't throw me off, and I really enjoyed it. The first time you enter a program into your robot and he starts doing combos like teleporting, or ramming, or nuking the screen. . Blew my mind.
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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..
😂🤣 "Bugle Boy Jeans"! Nostalgia at it's finest.
"Excuse me, are those Bugle Boy Jeans that you're wearing?" 😂
Or as Beavis and Butthead would say, "Excuse me, are those Bunghole Boy Jeans you're wearing?"
"Are those Flugle Boy jeans you're wearing?"
(looks down)
"I'm not wearing pants."
"Guess"
Why won't you tell me if they're Bugle Boy or not?
"I said Guess"
JUST TELL ME WHAT JEANS THOSE ARE!
*its
Did you go to Miller’s Outpost to them clothes?
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.
"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!”
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.
God SNESdrunk your analogies delivered in absolute deadpan in these videos are like EVERYTHING. You make me smile everytime I watch ol
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.
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 😂
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Am I the only one who noticed that kid's seriously jacked bicep? 😮
Hahah bro
LOL xDDDD I even noticed xDDDD
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.
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
"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.
I loved rival turf, and yes the box art always made me think those kids hung out with John Conner from T2.
"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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 😑
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!
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
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.
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 🙏🏼🤘🏼
Where are they now featuring The guys in the front cover of Rival Turf
Maybe they're tv/movie stars. Paul Rudd did a cringey super nintendo commercial back in the day
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Your subtle humor is soaring to new heights. Bravo!
Soaring. Heights.... Groooooan
After watching Firefly TV series I’ve started to love Phalanx cover
Rival turf is in my snes right now. Game is hard af. Play with angry mode
I loved Rival Turf, I used to asked my friends do they remember the game with the two kids on it because I forgot the name of it. They had no clue what I was talking about.
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.
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!
SNES drunk on fire this episode! Thoroughly entertained throughout! Would love to see a Part 2! Thanks for the upload! I'm using way too many exclamation marks!
MegaHarv oh that's his schtick huh
Pretty sure they're called excited marks!!!!
What do you mean by too many exclamation marks?!!! There's no such thing as too many exclamation marks dude!!! Seriously!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don't sweat it!
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.
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.
I learned that the ‘Phalanx’ guy was born in the same town back in Sweden where I was born. How random is that!
His name was Bertil Valley, and he was born in Gothenburg all the way back in 1913, but he grew up in Los Angeles, and resided in the Seattle area.
Never understood why Publishers didnt simply use the japanese coverarts of the games, instead of making this shit
Sheepy007 jp audience is a vastly dif market
You can Not Tell me that even Back then anyone Would objectively say These coverarts were better than the original ones
Too scary looking for suburbia parents
SNES drunk basically. "too japanese"
Sometimes they did a nice job, like in Contra: Hard Corps. The japanese cover looked like a badass 90s anime, while the western one looks like it could fit perfectly in a comic book of the time.
I think bad covers happened because of marketing guys who didn't gave a fuck about the industry and were there just for a monthly paycheck.
The Rival Turf cover looks like some early 90s "Winners Don't Do Drugs" PSA promotional poster.
"Yea im gonna stick with baseball bat" 😂😂😂
"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
"So you have to adjust what you do *on the fly.*"
I'm on to you.
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I remember the first time I beat Rival Turf. It was with my best friend and his cool little brother at his house. Spent the night with a Bigfoot pizza and when you died, you had to pass the controller. When we were watching the credits roll, the sun came up. Good times.
"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.
I love all the covers of SNES and also from NES. They was amazing, hours and hours to check the details on it. And the covers today bääähhh!
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😂
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.
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.
Bugle Boy Jeans !!!!! The memories/nightmares flood back in. Great Channel - keep it up!!
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 🤣
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!
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!
0:23: Actually the proper way to block a high-kick, so kudos for realism!
John Stossel is such a fantastic pull. Great video!
He must know John Stossel.
Also, Rival Turf is so unintentionally funny, the bosses have some bizarre animations as funny dump names for each, one of them is a rapper who can get killed by his own goons, a car passes by dropping more enemies and if you make the boss stand in the middle of the road he can get run over by that car.
👍 for the Salute your Shorts reference!
That was hilarious! I love your humor and the editing with the zoom ins and quips!
You should have compared the original Japanese box art with the hideous US art.
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
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
Salute Your Shorts reference opened up a Wonka tunnel of nostalgia featuring, Pete & Pete, Space Cases, Clarissa Explains It All and The Secret World of Alex Mack.
I don't get all the 80s and 90s "cool kids" look hate. Smells like nostalgia to me! Who cares, though. Great video!
Hate? Nobody hates those guys, they look funny as hell
maybe it's hard to understand because the garish colors and "risky business" sunglasses are back in style with millenial douchebags
You mean.. _Smells like teen spirit._
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?
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 lost it at the Salute Your Shorts reference. I mean, that one kid does look like a Bobby Budnick, so yeah.
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
Rival Turf was never rented out at the video store, it was one of the few rentals that still had the instruction booklet in the plastic game container.
Thumbs up for John Stossel reference
@2:39 - That castle actually exists in Bavaria, my auntie has a poster of it from a slightly different angle. That is quite cool and weird.
The cover art for Rival Turf is precisely why I never rented it back in the day.
1:32 "Arabesque" style kitchen back splash tiles. It's what I put up in my kitchen behind the stove 👌🏼😝👹🇨🇦❤️ last year.... not '71 😕
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.
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.
Loved Metal Marines as a kid one of the few games I should have bought because I rented it so much. As well as one of the few bright spots in the SNES strategy genre. It was way ahead of its time! still play it today..
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.
I just did a video on some Super Famicom wrestling games over on my channel, and while Super Fire Pro Wrestling isn't a bad game, I would say it's one of those cases where there are so many sequels (there are at least NINE Fire Pro games on the Super Famicom) and most of them improve in some way or another. I'd recommend Super Fire Pro X Premium (the last release, but also the most sought-after) or Queen's Special over the original Super Fire Pro.
Also, love that Phalanx box art.
On the Stick as a wrestling fan, i think fire pro wrestling is the most versatile,simple and amazing wrestling game, that game aged well not like some wrestling game with outdated wrestlers, in this game, you could just make that character and the pixel art really helps to make it looks like it.
Absolutely agreed! Even the older FiPro games hold up, even if newer ones improve on them.
Not into sports games at all, but if anybody's planning on going to Japan to get a Super Famicom and some games, I've seen some of the games in this series for as little as 30 yen if you shop around.
Shoutout for Metal Marines! I had both versions and preferred the PC version. Although I do not miss 3.5s.
I just liked my own comment and was about to ask myself a question before realizing it was my comment from 6 years ago. Apparently I’ve been here before….
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
You are my hero for mentioning Aerobiz Supersonic. There's a game I'd love to see get a modern rework and balancing. Glad I'm not the only one who enjoys it. :)
Also, the Phalanx cover was a clever marketing ploy to make you look at a game you might otherwise tune out in a market flooded with space shooters. It was so odd you had to pick it up and say "what the hell is this?".
Lmfao John Stossel!!!
7:27 the kid on the right wasn’t he in terminator 2. John Conners friend. Motorcycle and arcade scene.
Rival Turf is the truth
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
“Yeah, I’m gonna stick with baseball bat” 😂😂😂
some of these covers make total sense. Aerobic Supersonic is exactly what I would expect with that cover.
@3:19 He has a left arm but it’s on the right side. Or is it the wrong side? 🤔
I mean, X-Kaliber 2097's cover seems to make a lot of sense to me. There's a big sword in the middle and a city in the background. The gameplay appears to be running around a city and attacking with your sword. Am I wrong?
I like how you end your videos with an all too genuine "I hope you have a good day." You too, youtube guy.
Loved that game , i used to play this one and Final Fight 2 every day back in the good old 90's
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.
Me and my brother took a chance on renting Kendo Rage back in the day (R.I.P. Blockbuster). We were very surprised by it! It was super fun, and we loved the 'anime-ness' of it. As for Phalanx, I always thought it was a puzzle game for some reason!
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.
So does m. Bison use the psycho crusher on rival turf? And why is he wearing blue?
You had me dying at each of your cover remarks. Straight Savage! 😂🤣
I'm probably the only one on the planet that thought (when I first saw it) the Rival Turf cover was the cool.
Always glad to hear about Aerobiz Supersonic but is the cove really a problem? It's an airline sim showing suits and an airport. Pretty clear to me.
What's up with the World Trade Center in the background of the airline game at 5:00
That super buster bros cover reminds me of the way the kids on the early 90s slip n slide boxes were drawn.
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.
Salute your Shorts! 2nd best show ever to air Nickelodeon. The first being The Adventures of Pete and Pete.
Ahh Robotrek. Got to be one of the most underrated SNES games. I played it after secret of Mana, chronotrigger, ff6 and the rest, but I was still a kid, so the slapstick nature didn't throw me off, and I really enjoyed it. The first time you enter a program into your robot and he starts doing combos like teleporting, or ramming, or nuking the screen. . Blew my mind.