Joe does a fantastic job since Dave chose to step aside (Dave made the right choice, family should come first), I thought each episode would be shorter since it's only Joe... Happy I was wrong .
I agree, I thought for sure he’d cameo in the NES episode! Joe is great of course, it’s just nice to see Dave every now and then. Best video game show ever though.
BATMAN from SUNSOFT is amazing! It's like Ninja Gaiden.......except it's Batman and you can take your time! You'll love everything about it. Music, graphics, weapons, etc. One of my favorite games of all time!
Oh yeah I remember a game called "Super Bros Mario" or "Mario Super Bros" or something like that, it's been decades since I heard about it, but it used to be really popular on Brazil
@@unocualqu1era the game was actually based on a sci-fi movie that was released in 1993 and the main character in it was played by the same actor who was the detective in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" I never got the hype the film always gets, its always pissed me off how it overshadowed my favorite cult-classic film that came out at about the same time, called "Jurassic Park"
bobatruti Its only really popular in America. If it wasnt for Nintendo indoctrination within the US with this console & along with the Monopoly it had over the market, i doubt Nintendo would still be around today, certainly not making consoles anyway!
Brandin Bertucci The few that they have. Lets be honest, they have the Mario world characters and the Zelda world characters, the same load of characters America were indoctrinated with 35 years ago. And who doesn't own the rights to their "game brand characters" as you put it?
@@2strokesmoke783 as a brit when the nes was launched .... by tomy i was like wtf my amiga smashes that shit... i did buy a snes loved it bought a n64 sold it two days later... never bought a new nintendo product since... paid a fiver for a gba for my son ... he just wanted to play ps3 .... also bought a wii for the mrs 2nd hand because she wanted one for fitness 😧 .... lasted a week and its in its box .... still now 😂 Only in America ..... What game crash wtf you on about yank .... we never experienced that we had a thriving micro scene
Next year my nephew will be 18 years old i remember finding this channel and becoming a fan and sub 4 life wen my nephew was 11 , im so glad for Joe and game sack, still miss seeing Dave but im so glad your still doing game sack thanks again Joe
@@artemismeow my mom used to do that years ago.... she get a picture she liked and photocopy it about 40 times ... then cut them out. Forgot all about them until you mentioned it ... 😊. Goodluck bro
The system that introduced me and my little brother to video games. I cherish my memories of playing Super Mario Bros and my little Sesame Street games at just 4 years old. "Press the big black button to move little bird." I'm 34 years old now and I enjoy the older stuff much more than the new generation. Merry Christmas Joe. Thanks for putting so much work into these episodes.
@Jim Dwyer uh...no. Brothers were invented for the sole purpose of beating up and destroying in Street Fighter. When they eventually get married, it is one's sworn duty to seduce their wife.
An underrated game on the NES is the guardian legend. Held back by horrendous box art in america. The EU and JP artists got it right though. In my personal top 5 games for the system for sure
Agreed. Remember seeing an advert for it in a magazine back in the day but never got to play it until I went with a friend to his aunt's house for a pool bbq party and his aunt's son had it playing in the living room. I remember the excitement that I had when I first saw it and the advert came to mind. :)
Gotta be honest, when dave announced that he was leaving game sack and he was gonna pick the topic for his last appearance, I naturally thought that he was gonna pick the NES as his last episode before he left.
@Sandman Slim I had a friend who loved to overuse the phrase "I hate to say it, but..." and I was always like "dude, if you hate to say it, then don't...."
Fun fact, the way Joe says "Kage" sounds exactly like the brazilian portuguese word "Caguei" which translated to "I pooped"... See, told you this is a fun fact, you're having fun now.
Great video. It's blowing my mind that some people are complaining about certain games not being included. It's a freaking 40 minute video. He'd be editing until the end of the year if he included every NES game. I'm glad some Japan games I want familiar with were included. Again, nice Job!
Just passing by to tell that the main purpose of the mapper chips found in the cartridges is to BLOW THE HELL UP the 40KB ROM limit the NES normally have. They managed to shove a WHOLE MEGABYTE of data in metal slader glory with this. Also kirby is actually HUGE with it's 768KB of pure puff
Dr_Kachu san I remember being so impressed with the pseudo 3D the accomplished in that game... but it was so late in the system life I didn’t play it much.
@Brandon Kick TBF, the NES isn't as "far inferior" to the SNES as people often tend to think... They essentially share the same processor and resolution, but Nintendo cheated around these limitations with extra graphical power, a Sony soundchip (an earlier version of the one used on the Neo-Geo and the PS1) and, of course, plenty of advanced mapper chips
@@thestripedmenace the snes CPU is quite faster than the NES one. Not only it have a big clock advantage (3.58/2.68 Mhz versus 1.78Mhz), as it can do "16bit operations". Well as in two quick successive 8bit operations, but it's still quite faster to use em than using two 8bit ops.
Is this a dream? I was literally watching the Neo Geo CD review, after I had watched the Sega CD review, after I had watched the Sega 32X review :D Best day ever!!
I love how you added legend of kage and demon sword on there. Both are very fondly remembered by me. Dont know if you knew but demon sword on the famicom is a better and very different game? Check it out.
Been kept watching recent episodes from "The Game Boy Advance Review" to this one again and again for several times already. I can see a lot of love was put into these. They're just fun. Keep it up, old Joe! Love your show.
I'm really happy to see that Joe keeps producing these videos, and finally with the NES video. I was hoping to see Dave returning for this one, but I enjoyed the video very much, regardless. :-)
I smile, every single time that I open RUclips and see a new content from gamesack. Thank you so much Joe. I’ll follow this ch til the end of the universe.
Frankly i dare Joe to do a whole episode on the Atari 2600/5200/7800. At least people at old Atari knew how to count. What idiot at Microsoft thought calling the third x-box. The "X-box one" was a good idea. What there next system going be. The X-box Minus Zero.
Ditto. But my sms controllers kept breaking. Just stopped working so grams bought us a nes. I wished I woulda kept my sms. I seemed to be attracted to shit games on nes. First games were super Mario and Zelda. But it was all downhill after that. Most of the games that avgn reviews lol
Super Mario Bros. was a pretty hot arcade cabinet before the release of the NES. I remember being at Emerald Pointe in NC and seeing an older guy go through one of the warp pipes and was totally blown away. "Didn't know you could do that." Anyway, imagine my excitement when I found out the home version was coming. Got the deluxe set and Super Mario Bros. in the Xmas of 1985(Deluxe set came with Gyromite and Duck Hunt only). Boy were those magical times.
@@jordongutierrez1219 Dave left cause he got a promotion at his day job & couldnt find time to commit to Gamesack while he has a family to provide for. On Twitter they still seem to be on friendly terms & Dave sometimes has made cameo appearances
@@fcukugimmeausername Joe already made a community update on his youtube explaining the whole thing behind dave leaving. It has nothing to do with a breakup, Dave's life just got too busy with his job and all that and he just didn't have as much time to work on game sack as he'd like, not to mention he was burnout from GS so he decided to just leave the show and spend more time with his family as well. He and Joe are still great friends.
Still one of the greatest gaming platforms ever created. The games may be simple and primitive in today's standards, but they're still just as fun as they were back then. And the NES music is in a league of its own.
Not my first game console as the honor goes to the Mattel Intillivision, and Vic-20 computers(got them around the same time), it's by far one I've had some of the most fond memories with of course next to my C64. I still play my original system after having retrorbrighted it, did 10 NES chip mod, and blinking light win mods too it a few years back.
You should check BATMAN on the NES, also CONQUEST O THE CRISTAL PALACE, SHADOW OF THE NINJA, JOURNEY TO SILIUS, WILLOW, some of my personal favorites on the Console
That ending was phenomenal! "it's 8-Bit Dooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!" Love the NES. I think in retrospect it might be my favorite console of all time. (Maybe next Tuesday it'll be the SNES, but today it's the NES!) I still play on the original hardware to this day.
Some of my favorites on the NES besides Mario and Zelda include Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project. Both those games were, by and large, the closest to an actual Turtles arcade game experience you can get on 8-bit Nintendo hardware...
Hell yeah MERRY SACKSMAS!! High quality content and editing! Seeing how this channel has evolved over the years since the super scope vs menacer days is amazing!
Games I'd suggest for a follow-up video: Stinger Gradius Xexyz TMNT 1-3 DuckTales 1&2 Chip & Dale 1&2 Darkwing Duck Yoshi Dr. Mario Wario's Woods Final Fantasy Dragon Warrior I-IV Bomberman Ninja Gaiden 1-3 Mighty Final Fight Kirby's Adventure Magic of Scheherazade
I really believed you kept the old VHS tape all these years, and was hating myself for not being equally careful with my precious old porno collection...
Man, this episode is where we missed Dave. Joe killed it as always, but the NES was Dave's jam. Would have been a great surprise guest host for a brief comeback. Love ya, Joe! Always one of the best gaming channels out there.
Finally. I've been waiting 34 years for a review of the NES so I could figure out whether I wanted one or not. So much brand new, never before heard information here.
The NES was my first video game console. My parents bought it for me from Toys "R" Us. I remember coming home and plugging the system into the TV and seeing Super Mario Bros. for the first time. Suffice to say, I had never seen a video game like it at the time. I also had Double Dragon and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles the Arcade Game. Unfortunately, years down the road the system somehow disappeared along with the games. I ended up waiting a long time, but I eventually bought an NES myself. I absolutely love Super Mario Bros. 1-3, Castlevania, Metroid, The Legend of Zelda, Final Fantasy, Mike Tyson's Punchout!!, R.C. Pro-Am, Excitebike, Ducktales, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles the Arcade Game, etc. among other titles. Otherwise, thanks once again Joe for the great video. Thanks for bringing back my childhood memories. I really appreciate it. Keep it up!
Great vid. The NES is the the granddaddy of modern gaming and I love it. My favorite NES games : Zelda , Metroid , Punch Out , Bionic Commando. Keep up the good work 👍
@@salozmen29 There is no disrespect for Dave or Joe. With Dave being the die hard Nintendo, this was the perfect video for him. Joe has done a great job keeping the show going.
Great video. Very informative and a good overall look at the system. Hope you all still have more blurays coming. Can never get enough Game Sack. Still how can you have a NES episode without Felix the Cat? It's easy and simple, but so much fun.
Yeah, all these “vhs recorded clips” made me think... it’s gotta be... and I was just waiting for Dave to pop up at the end and school Joe in the outer or the skit... But the future refused to change........
@@thepickles8833 Dave wasn't friends with Joseph yet during the time period Joe was getting the VHS NES game tapes mentioned here. Also Dave seems pretty dead set on not returning to GameScrotum, I suppose even just for an episode on the game console that essentially single-handedly transcended Dave into a hardcore video game lover. I'm all for family first, but life should really be a balance rather than an all or nothing affair.
He did cameo on that one episode a few months back, but yeah it would have been nice to see Dave especially on this episode, it’s like Joe missing the Genesis episode.
Nice touch man! I love how you put the Audio Music Track to that "GameForce Boulder" song from your Road Rash episode during your "Blaster Master" segment. Keep up the great work!
“I don’t have the same nostalgia for the system...” Dude, that makes you the PERFECT person to review it - less bias, more facts, and a fair perspective.
Daaaaamn. How did the NES system review not come up in conversation with Dave when he was helping you out for all those years? It's weird that you're finally doing it now.
Good coverage! I love Mega Man, Blaster Master, and pretty much everything in this episode! Also, back at 29:46, The image of a hopping Dracula IS hilarious, but If you're seriously curious, the Chinese hopping vampire, or "Jiang Shi", hops because rigor mortis has settled in it's legs, rendering them almost useless. It's a corpse that died without a blessing. Basically it's soul got caught in it's body and it hops around sucking out the chi of the living to survive. Cool, huh?
Haha same here! Good morning from Belgium. Sunday morning with coffee and game sack. Never owned the NES, owned a master system, mega drive and also borrowed a Super Nes from a friend.
I bet I know why you weren't playing Super Mario Brothers 3 in 1990...you were to busy enjoying your Sega Genesis. While I did get to play Super Mario Brothers 3 in 1990 it was only at a friend's house. Like you, I didn't have time for any of that Nintendo 8-bit stuff after the Genesis (I got mine on Christmas of '89). Super Mario Brothers 3 is the best Mario game from the era. I liked it more than Super Mario World but that of course is due to the many suits Mario can wear. Excellent video as always Game Sack. You truly are in a class of your own. Addendum- No way can the Neo Geo AES/MVS replicate the kind of graphics and sound in Crystalis. It must have "1,000 Giga Power!"
The NES was my first system…when I finally got it for Christmas when I was 9 years old I was elated…I had wanted it for 4 years up to that point since I played super Mario bros at a friends’ house…since then I have been a huge game fan and eventually a 3D modeler, animator and content creator. Thanks Nintendo for revitalizing and revolutionizing gaming❤
Great episode, as always. Joe is a natural raconteur with a down-home sense of humor. He's usually very, VERY thorough when summing up the console hardware, but I was a bit surprised for the NES episode that only peripheral mention was made of the Zapper lightgun, and no mention was made of the 3D glasses or R.O.B., which was included with the original NES to help differentiate it as a "toy" from the "video games" that retailers had been so burned by. But any Sack episode is a treat!
I'm personally glad you had a segment about games that you grew up with. I already am well aware of the classics that mean the most to me, so it doesn't bother me because like you said...everyone has already done videos on this so it works out imho. Great job, love the videos as always :)
Joe does a fantastic job since Dave chose to step aside (Dave made the right choice, family should come first), I thought each episode would be shorter since it's only Joe... Happy I was wrong .
I wish Dave could comeback every once in awhile though
I agree, I thought for sure he’d cameo in the NES episode! Joe is great of course, it’s just nice to see Dave every now and then. Best video game show ever though.
Dave here. I miss the show bucks.
@@kakashi101able Same. And for a video like this, it would be nice for Dave to provide some anecdotes of his own history with the system.
So Joe is shorter than Dave? I didn't know you knew them so... intimately...
This Miyamoto fellow seems to have a bright future ahead of him.
No, he'll probably just end up in prison like Yuji Naka.
Finally someone has the courage to talk about the NES.
Are you serious? There literally hundreds of videos of people reviewing the NES.
@@The_Bad_Guy. he is being ironic
@@Xtatic_Shock sarcastic?
@@The_Bad_Guy. yes sarcastic
So brave.
BATMAN from SUNSOFT is amazing! It's like Ninja Gaiden.......except it's Batman and you can take your time! You'll love everything about it. Music, graphics, weapons, etc. One of my favorite games of all time!
I loved that game back in the day.
@@floppyseizure8615 Probably because it was fun. AND it was one of the best looking games on the console!
It also has one of the most satisfying walljump mechanics ever imo.
Im still pretty certain that Ninja Gaiden for the Nes was created by a sadist.
If I made a top 10 favorite nes games list, Batman would definitely be on it. Everything about it is excellent imo
Miyamoto with a "Genesis does" shirt, i see what you did there!
Especially as it wasn't even the Genesis in Japan, it was the Mega Drive there.
Yeezyus Christ! Thought I was the only one that caught that
10 seconds of nes music and the nostalgia knob get cranked up to 11 in my brain. I can feel it in my gut right now, 100%.
I love it when Game Sack covers obscure, failed consoles like this.
it was only obscure in the United States and Japan, it actually did very well in Europe and Brazil.
Oh yeah I remember a game called "Super Bros Mario" or "Mario Super Bros" or something like that, it's been decades since I heard about it, but it used to be really popular on Brazil
Say whaaaaaaaa????????
@@unocualqu1era the game was actually based on a sci-fi movie that was released in 1993 and the main character in it was played by the same actor who was the detective in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" I never got the hype the film always gets, its always pissed me off how it overshadowed my favorite cult-classic film that came out at about the same time, called "Jurassic Park"
It's a hidden gem.
I don’t know...
This “Nintendo” seems like a fad to me. I don’t think it’ll really last....
I beg to differ. It looks to have some staying power. Not too much, though.
bobatruti
Its only really popular in America. If it wasnt for Nintendo indoctrination within the US with this console & along with the Monopoly it had over the market, i doubt Nintendo would still be around today, certainly not making consoles anyway!
Brandin Bertucci
The few that they have. Lets be honest, they have the Mario world characters and the Zelda world characters, the same load of characters America were indoctrinated with 35 years ago.
And who doesn't own the rights to their "game brand characters" as you put it?
@@2strokesmoke783 as a brit when the nes was launched .... by tomy i was like wtf my amiga smashes that shit... i did buy a snes loved it bought a n64 sold it two days later... never bought a new nintendo product since... paid a fiver for a gba for my son ... he just wanted to play ps3 .... also bought a wii for the mrs 2nd hand because she wanted one for fitness 😧 .... lasted a week and its in its box .... still now 😂
Only in America .....
What game crash wtf you on about yank .... we never experienced that we had a thriving micro scene
It's a gimmick
Next year my nephew will be 18 years old i remember finding this channel and becoming a fan and sub 4 life wen my nephew was 11 , im so glad for Joe and game sack, still miss seeing Dave but im so glad your still doing game sack thanks again Joe
Would like to wish every Sack in here a Merry X-mas and a happy new year
A bunch of hairy sweaty sacks.
Same to you
Back at you, pal.
May your sacks be ever filled
Those transitions with the screen layers disappearing and reappearing is so cool to look at
Yea. I went on a youtube rabbit hole trying to find a tutorial on making them. ....still nothing BUT i learned how to crochet!!
It was making me dizzy
@@artemismeow easy go into photoshop and ..... extract the colours as individual layers .... then you can do what you want then
@@vasili1207 im gonna print out the layers then make a shadow box. XD this is cool
@@artemismeow my mom used to do that years ago.... she get a picture she liked and photocopy it about 40 times ... then cut them out.
Forgot all about them until you mentioned it ... 😊.
Goodluck bro
Game Sack FINALLY talking about my favorite system?! Merry Christmas to me!
Also, SO glad you included Vice Project Doom! No one talks about that game and it's great.
@@ErinPlays hope you had a merry xmas
Erin Plays it was ok.
@@ErinPlays how is Mike
The system that introduced me and my little brother to video games. I cherish my memories of playing Super Mario Bros and my little Sesame Street games at just 4 years old.
"Press the big black button to move little bird."
I'm 34 years old now and I enjoy the older stuff much more than the new generation. Merry Christmas Joe. Thanks for putting so much work into these episodes.
@Jim Dwyer uh...no. Brothers were invented for the sole purpose of beating up and destroying in Street Fighter. When they eventually get married, it is one's sworn duty to seduce their wife.
@@WtfRUclips_YouSuck What games he likes the most and thinks are the best is a subjective thing.
@Jim Dwyer Hey! Give him a call. ...casually ask if he's dating anyone. Your mission is clear. Merry Christmas, Jim.
@Jim Dwyer hope she likes Vienna sausage
Remember when consoles came with two controllers? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
The Switch kind of does
Comment is priceless bro
Snes does
🤣🤣💯
Remember when games where over 100! I do
I think you need to fix the tracking on your VCR when re-watching your friend Tom's videos.
An underrated game on the NES is the guardian legend. Held back by horrendous box art in america. The EU and JP artists got it right though. In my personal top 5 games for the system for sure
Agreed. Remember seeing an advert for it in a magazine back in the day but never got to play it until I went with a friend to his aunt's house for a pool bbq party and his aunt's son had it playing in the living room. I remember the excitement that I had when I first saw it and the advert came to mind. :)
@@gozinta82 yeah it's great. I play through it once every year or so.
I love how you put Shigi in a Genesis does shirt.
Compilation reviews with quality obscure titles sprinkled in are what I seek in life.
Those VHS recordings of video games are amazing! You should absolutely upload or archive them.
Dave must be smiling down from Heaven.
ModelJames13 who dat
MrFusion he was part of the show for most of Game Sacks episodes. He’s not dead, he left for family reasons
great video
@@DrWho2008t101 Thanks, but I had nothing to do with it.
😂ah that got me good 👍
Gotta be honest, when dave announced that he was leaving game sack and he was gonna pick the topic for his last appearance, I naturally thought that he was gonna pick the NES as his last episode before he left.
He probably did, but was talked out of it by Joe ;)
Dave has a special thanks in the credits, so they probably talked about the episode together, for some tips/opinions/games etc.
@Sandman Slim I had a friend who loved to overuse the phrase "I hate to say it, but..." and I was always like "dude, if you hate to say it, then don't...."
HUGE missed opportunity, ah well.
Fun fact, the way Joe says "Kage" sounds exactly like the brazilian portuguese word "Caguei" which translated to "I pooped"... See, told you this is a fun fact, you're having fun now.
Joe, you’re a one-man army! I don’t know how you do this by yourself. Please don’t stop doing these videos.
Great video. It's blowing my mind that some people are complaining about certain games not being included. It's a freaking 40 minute video. He'd be editing until the end of the year if he included every NES game. I'm glad some Japan games I want familiar with were included. Again, nice Job!
Man the NES is about to turn 35 years old, it's honestly crazy how fast time flies.
Almost 40 years old
Just passing by to tell that the main purpose of the mapper chips found in the cartridges is to BLOW THE HELL UP the 40KB ROM limit the NES normally have.
They managed to shove a WHOLE MEGABYTE of data in metal slader glory with this.
Also kirby is actually HUGE with it's 768KB of pure puff
Dr_Kachu san I remember being so impressed with the pseudo 3D the accomplished in that game... but it was so late in the system life I didn’t play it much.
@@bobafruti Indeed
@Brandon Kick TBF, the NES isn't as "far inferior" to the SNES as people often tend to think... They essentially share the same processor and resolution, but Nintendo cheated around these limitations with extra graphical power, a Sony soundchip (an earlier version of the one used on the Neo-Geo and the PS1) and, of course, plenty of advanced mapper chips
@@thestripedmenace the snes CPU is quite faster than the NES one.
Not only it have a big clock advantage (3.58/2.68 Mhz versus 1.78Mhz), as it can do "16bit operations".
Well as in two quick successive 8bit operations, but it's still quite faster to use em than using two 8bit ops.
Is this a dream? I was literally watching the Neo Geo CD review, after I had watched the Sega CD review, after I had watched the Sega 32X review :D Best day ever!!
Crystalis is still one of my faves to this day. Landstalker came later, then Alundra.
Thank you Blaster Master, but your boss is in another castle.
I love how you added legend of kage and demon sword on there. Both are very fondly remembered by me. Dont know if you knew but demon sword on the famicom is a better and very different game? Check it out.
vintageroller just was about to post this
Grew up playing demon sword and loved it
Kage was an awesome arcade game
Someone should record an episode of Game Sack so Joe can see what he's missing.😆 Have a great Christmas and a safe New Year🎉. See you next year.
Oh my God Joe is so bad off he doesn't have the internet anymore?! that is terrible, so he does have VHS? LOL LOL LOL
Maybe he should subscribe to Nintendo Power
@Mussell Bestbrook merry Christmas then
You mean..Dave?
Joe is the one doing the show, you mean dave?
Been kept watching recent episodes from "The Game Boy Advance
Review" to this one again and again for several times already. I can see a lot of love was put into these. They're just fun. Keep it up, old Joe! Love your show.
The NES episode we deserved, but not the one that we needed.
NaNaNaNaNaNaNaNa Sack Maaaaaaan!
I'm really happy to see that Joe keeps producing these videos, and finally with the NES video. I was hoping to see Dave returning for this one, but I enjoyed the video very much, regardless. :-)
The last time I was this early to a Game Sack episode Greendog was still relatively unknown.
I smile, every single time that I open RUclips and see a new content from gamesack.
Thank you so much Joe. I’ll follow this ch til the end of the universe.
The Atari 2600 with the faux wood trim was my family's first console. The second system after the Atari died was the Sega Master System.
same. I had the faux wood 2600 too. Pole Position and Arkanoyd fo lyfe!
Frankly i dare Joe to do a whole episode on the Atari 2600/5200/7800. At least people at old Atari knew how to count. What idiot at Microsoft thought calling the third x-box. The "X-box one" was a good idea. What there next system going be. The X-box Minus Zero.
Ditto. But my sms controllers kept breaking. Just stopped working so grams bought us a nes. I wished I woulda kept my sms. I seemed to be attracted to shit games on nes. First games were super Mario and Zelda. But it was all downhill after that. Most of the games that avgn reviews lol
Same here but, my next console was a 5200, then a 7800... and it goes on and on...
Super Mario Bros. was a pretty hot arcade cabinet before the release of the NES. I remember being at Emerald Pointe in NC and seeing an older guy go through one of the warp pipes and was totally blown away. "Didn't know you could do that." Anyway, imagine my excitement when I found out the home version was coming. Got the deluxe set and Super Mario Bros. in the Xmas of 1985(Deluxe set came with Gyromite and Duck Hunt only). Boy were those magical times.
wow i bet it was quite the trip playing that tape of your friend playing mario 2
edit, you had me.
I like the selection of games you chose for this. Some of my favorites, and also some I hadn't tried before. Excellent work.
I wish dave could have had an appearance in this one
No way. From what I hear the breakup was not good. A lot of money involved.
fcukugimmeausername give the source of where you heard this
@@jordongutierrez1219 On their reddit channel until it was closed recently.
@@jordongutierrez1219 Dave left cause he got a promotion at his day job & couldnt find time to commit to Gamesack while he has a family to provide for. On Twitter they still seem to be on friendly terms & Dave sometimes has made cameo appearances
@@fcukugimmeausername Joe already made a community update on his youtube explaining the whole thing behind dave leaving. It has nothing to do with a breakup, Dave's life just got too busy with his job and all that and he just didn't have as much time to work on game sack as he'd like, not to mention he was burnout from GS so he decided to just leave the show and spend more time with his family as well. He and Joe are still great friends.
I'm glad you brought up Crystalis. It's one of my all time favorites, and I like seeing it get some attention for once.
"thats because im a hippocrate!"
Classic charm i come for :)
NES episode without Dave makes me a little sad, fantastic episode though :)
Still one of the greatest gaming platforms ever created. The games may be simple and primitive in today's standards, but they're still just as fun as they were back then. And the NES music is in a league of its own.
Not my first game console as the honor goes to the Mattel Intillivision, and Vic-20 computers(got them around the same time), it's by far one I've had some of the most fond memories with of course next to my C64. I still play my original system after having retrorbrighted it, did 10 NES chip mod, and blinking light win mods too it a few years back.
My favorite console. Double Dragon II: The Revenege is a classic!
You should check BATMAN on the NES, also CONQUEST O THE CRISTAL PALACE, SHADOW OF THE NINJA, JOURNEY TO SILIUS, WILLOW, some of my personal favorites on the Console
Man, I just watched an ad of Steve Martin, before a console review video. This is surreal!
That ending was phenomenal! "it's 8-Bit Dooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!"
Love the NES. I think in retrospect it might be my favorite console of all time. (Maybe next Tuesday it'll be the SNES, but today it's the NES!) I still play on the original hardware to this day.
Oh yeah..the Mighty NES...i remember waking up early in the morning, at 5, to play before going to school...man...so many good memories...
Good timing on this one, as many of us got our first consoles for the holidays; the NES def brings back memories!
that's a pretty good vhs filter
Some of my favorites on the NES besides Mario and Zelda include Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project. Both those games were, by and large, the closest to an actual Turtles arcade game experience you can get on 8-bit Nintendo hardware...
at 2:35 show Megaman 3 gameplay but have Bubble Man theme song in the background... awesome lol
Hell yeah MERRY SACKSMAS!! High quality content and editing! Seeing how this channel has evolved over the years since the super scope vs menacer days is amazing!
Games I'd suggest for a follow-up video:
Stinger
Gradius
Xexyz
TMNT 1-3
DuckTales 1&2
Chip & Dale 1&2
Darkwing Duck
Yoshi
Dr. Mario
Wario's Woods
Final Fantasy
Dragon Warrior I-IV
Bomberman
Ninja Gaiden 1-3
Mighty Final Fight
Kirby's Adventure
Magic of Scheherazade
Yeah, let Dave do those games in the follow-up video!
I like how your humor has developed over the years.
I was happy to see someone finally cover Joust on the nes.
Nice Video Capture! I remember the games never looking this clear back in 87.
I really believed you kept the old VHS tape all these years, and was hating myself for not being equally careful with my precious old porno collection...
LupusRexRgis I have a VHS recording of the first time I beat Final Fantasy kicking around in my parents attic somewhere.
Merry christmas GAME SACK. LOVE THE CHANNEL. I HOPE IT STAYS FOR MANY YEARS TO COME. YAY GAME SACK!!!
Now I miss Dave. BTW Joe, Justin from AVGN was wearing the Game Sack shirt in the last rental reviews episode.
I spotted that too!
I can't help but think that this is your holiday gift to us dude.
Great work as always man!
Summary of this video:
"I never played this game but..."
LOL
Of all the channels about retro ganes that i watch im glad that you still put up contents about actual video games. Keep it up.
2 am time to go to sleep
Gamesack: Joe uploaded a new video.
Still watching lol
Same lol
3:50am time to go to bed
Just finished at 3am CST. The joys of unemployment!
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Thanks Joe! 2 good games to try: Flying Warriors, and Nobunungas Ambition!
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Man, this episode is where we missed Dave. Joe killed it as always, but the NES was Dave's jam. Would have been a great surprise guest host for a brief comeback. Love ya, Joe! Always one of the best gaming channels out there.
i love the effect you put on the game transitions. editing on point!
I can't believe that the NES is only getting covered now. Shows great discipline!
FINALLY!!! we've seen all the rest, now for the BEST. Thanks Joe, and Merry Christmas from the bottom of my Sack.
Finally. I've been waiting 34 years for a review of the NES so I could figure out whether I wanted one or not. So much brand new, never before heard information here.
The NES was my first video game console. My parents bought it for me from Toys "R" Us. I remember coming home and plugging the system into the TV and seeing Super Mario Bros. for the first time. Suffice to say, I had never seen a video game like it at the time. I also had Double Dragon and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles the Arcade Game. Unfortunately, years down the road the system somehow disappeared along with the games. I ended up waiting a long time, but I eventually bought an NES myself. I absolutely love Super Mario Bros. 1-3, Castlevania, Metroid, The Legend of Zelda, Final Fantasy, Mike Tyson's Punchout!!, R.C. Pro-Am, Excitebike, Ducktales, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles the Arcade Game, etc. among other titles. Otherwise, thanks once again Joe for the great video. Thanks for bringing back my childhood memories. I really appreciate it. Keep it up!
Is that a "bloodstained curse of the moon" tshirt?
Great vid. The NES is the the granddaddy of modern gaming and I love it. My favorite NES games : Zelda , Metroid , Punch Out , Bionic Commando. Keep up the good work 👍
This was an episode that needed a Dave cameo.
I know, this show has hit rock bottom.
@salozmen29 oh, come on.
@@ryeb The disrespect for Dave is unreal.
@@salozmen29 There is no disrespect for Dave or Joe. With Dave being the die hard Nintendo, this was the perfect video for him. Joe has done a great job keeping the show going.
Dave's not here, man.
Great video. Very informative and a good overall look at the system. Hope you all still have more blurays coming. Can never get enough Game Sack. Still how can you have a NES episode without Felix the Cat? It's easy and simple, but so much fun.
WHAT?!? How can you have an NES episode without Tecmo Super Bowl - only the best sports game ever made! OMG!
Tecmo Super Bowl was the only Nes game i could get my dad to play.
i'm glad startropics still gets lots of love, damn we need another one!
Can't watch now but here's my upvote and my comment for the algorithm.
I WILL BE BACK.
This is way post due review, awesome work joe, you're definitely doing a great job hosting all on your own
I feel bad for people that grew up with a master system instead of a NES...
I prefer the nes, but Master System has some very good looking ports and games
Still i prefer the nes music on most games.
I feel sorry for people that had a NES instead of the mighty master system.
I feel sorry for all you muggles .... playing nes or master system ....
Amiga was a thing
*are you serious it had better graphics and more color and FM sound on the bigger games* 💡
WTF dude, no Battle Toads, Nemo, TMNT 3, Gradius II, Duck Tales, Rescue Rangers, Side Pocket, SF2010, Double Dragon 2, Ninja Gaiden 1, 2, 3, Rygar??? At least you got the GOAT SMB3 featured...Great episode mate, Merry Xmas👊🏻
Can't cover every single game for obvious reasons
damn Dave should be there today!
And it's Christmas.... Remember when he said he worked for FedEx...... Not the quiet time of year right now ...
Yeah, all these “vhs recorded clips” made me think... it’s gotta be... and I was just waiting for Dave to pop up at the end and school Joe in the outer or the skit...
But the future refused to change........
@@thepickles8833 Dave wasn't friends with Joseph yet during the time period Joe was getting the VHS NES game tapes mentioned here. Also Dave seems pretty dead set on not returning to GameScrotum, I suppose even just for an episode on the game console that essentially single-handedly transcended Dave into a hardcore video game lover. I'm all for family first, but life should really be a balance rather than an all or nothing affair.
@@sega32xxx14 wise words! balance is everything!
He did cameo on that one episode a few months back, but yeah it would have been nice to see Dave especially on this episode, it’s like Joe missing the Genesis episode.
Game Sack back on top with this one! Nice work Joe!
Bob Cornhole taught me everything I know about the NES.
Nice touch man! I love how you put the Audio Music Track to that "GameForce Boulder" song from your Road Rash episode during your "Blaster Master" segment. Keep up the great work!
“I don’t have the same nostalgia for the system...” Dude, that makes you the PERFECT person to review it - less bias, more facts, and a fair perspective.
And people flip out when they get unbiased, non rose-tinted views.
@@GameSack Eh, a loud minority get their feathers all ruffled, I'd like to believe _most_ of us appreciate it tho 😊👍
Daaaaamn. How did the NES system review not come up in conversation with Dave when he was helping you out for all those years?
It's weird that you're finally doing it now.
Thank you for talking about crystalis!!
Crystalis was the shiznite!
Good coverage! I love Mega Man, Blaster Master, and pretty much everything in this episode!
Also, back at 29:46, The image of a hopping Dracula IS hilarious, but If you're seriously curious, the Chinese hopping vampire, or "Jiang Shi", hops because rigor mortis has settled in it's legs, rendering them almost useless. It's a corpse that died without a blessing. Basically it's soul got caught in it's body and it hops around sucking out the chi of the living to survive. Cool, huh?
Good morning from the Netherlands. Coffee and Gamesack to start the day. Never owned this console, prefered Sega.
Haha same here! Good morning from Belgium. Sunday morning with coffee and game sack. Never owned the NES, owned a master system, mega drive and also borrowed a Super Nes from a friend.
North American RUclipsr 16 bit sega sold better everywhere except japan
I bet I know why you weren't playing Super Mario Brothers 3 in 1990...you were to busy enjoying your Sega Genesis. While I did get to play Super Mario Brothers 3 in 1990 it was only at a friend's house. Like you, I didn't have time for any of that Nintendo 8-bit stuff after the Genesis (I got mine on Christmas of '89).
Super Mario Brothers 3 is the best Mario game from the era. I liked it more than Super Mario World but that of course is due to the many suits Mario can wear. Excellent video as always Game Sack. You truly are in a class of your own.
Addendum- No way can the Neo Geo AES/MVS replicate the kind of graphics and sound in Crystalis. It must have "1,000 Giga Power!"
If you are the type of person that picked the yellow car in "Rad Racer", then don't talk to me or my son ever again, weirdo.
The NES was my first system…when I finally got it for Christmas when I was 9 years old I was elated…I had wanted it for 4 years up to that point since I played super Mario bros at a friends’ house…since then I have been a huge game fan and eventually a 3D modeler, animator and content creator. Thanks Nintendo for revitalizing and revolutionizing gaming❤
Sunsoft’s Batman and Batman Return of the Joker.
Ninja Gaiden 1 & 2...........
blaster master, journey to silius . shatterhand , powerblade 1 & 2 . Metroid
Bubble Bath Babes and R.B.I. Baseball
Jackel, Russian Attack, Double Dragon 2, Super C, Ikari Warriors just to name a few.
Felix the cat
batman 1 was probably one of the best looking nes games I had seen at the time and loved it to death :>
Great episode, as always. Joe is a natural raconteur with a down-home sense of humor. He's usually very, VERY thorough when summing up the console hardware, but I was a bit surprised for the NES episode that only peripheral mention was made of the Zapper lightgun, and no mention was made of the 3D glasses or R.O.B., which was included with the original NES to help differentiate it as a "toy" from the "video games" that retailers had been so burned by. But any Sack episode is a treat!
> Special thanks: Dave White
A single tear is shed
I'm personally glad you had a segment about games that you grew up with. I already am well aware of the classics that mean the most to me, so it doesn't bother me because like you said...everyone has already done videos on this so it works out imho. Great job, love the videos as always :)