As a child, I got obsessed with Aerobiz and Aerobiz Supersonic. I played out air management scenarios by making little planes out of lego and using yarn to connect airports together. I'm glad other people actually love those games too.
You aren't alone. I still get together with a friend to play in person, even though we weren't friends as kids. We just both grew up loving this game. 😁
@@davidwesst , the PTO games were pretty good as well. The PTO game series also had one final solid entry for the PS2 as well, and, yes, it also got an NTSB-U release, though it is also kind of a hard game to find. Curiously, the prequel to that game never got localized, which is a shame.
Aerobiz reminds me of Aero Porter for the DS, a game where you literally sort the luggage at an airport. I could not believe how much fun it was, and it's definitely one to check out! It's directed by Yoot Saito, who also did SimTower, Odama, and Seaman! Wonderful episode as always!
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms games remind me of my dad. He kept getting every new one, and what he would do is play it through himself, then bring me in, pick his ruler and the nhave ME make all the decisions and direct the battles. It was so fun. I still play them, and I love it.
Fun fact about Dragon's Lair arcade game. It was ported to gameboy color. Yes. On a gameboy color. Animation now is redrawn in sprites and sound effects not so great at best but its same Dragon's Lair that doesn't require quarters. Capcom was publisher for this port
It is proof that the any console can at least run the arcade game well. Even the Amiga had Dragon's Lair, the AMIGA, a computer that many people used to play Lemmings on! Developed by the same madman who would later develop the SNES version of Doom, and make the Bleem emulator for PC!
I tried out Super Valis IV on NSO for the first time a few months ago. What stood out to me the most were the really nice-looking backgrounds, particularly the ones visible at 0:40 with scrolling clouds!
@@ChaseMC215 tl;dr they needed money. Long story with a better conclusion: Telenet Japan by 2006 was a shell of it's former self & were bleeding money. They had the bright idea to celebrate Valis 20th anniversary with the much maligned, criticized, deride and disastrous x-rated reboot. Which even among VN collectors is considered terrible, like straight up trash. As ridiculous as it sounds, Telenet actually allow a release of a proper anniversary collection called Valis Complete that was done by Project EGG for Windows PC and limited to only 2000 copies. It featured ports of the PC-Engine versions of Valis I-IV with digital manuals for each one, a digital version of the Valis III special promotion video, artwork from many characters, a special 4koma with Yuuko and Reiko and a limited edition of a Yuuko PVC figure. A year later Telenet Japan declared bankruptcy and their IPs went to SunSoft. In 2011, for Project EGG's 10th anniversary, released Valis Complete Plus which included everything above, but also includes also two more games: Valis SD and Super Valis IV, two CDs with the soundtrack from all the mentioned games (called Valis Sound Collection) and the visual scenes from the games in MPEG video format in high quality with the option to watch them independently of the games. This version is even more limited in turn, having only 500 copies. In 2019, Telenet IPs were transferred to EDIA, who have done strides better in respecting the IPs with the recent Valis & Telenet Shump collections on Switch.
I was really into the Valis games growing up. They were nifty Castlevania clones, more or less. I was sad to see them go the way they did. Real talk though, Super Valis 4 was really really hard.
My Mom's previous partner absolutely loved Dizzy and would always talk to me about it and how much he loved it so when I discovered I could run a NES Emulator on my PC and managed to get a working rom of Dizzy, I cannot tell you how ecstatic he was.
Editor Dylan being described as has snark is so on the nose. Now that he’s providing content for other games released for the week that Jared doesn’t cover has turned into the one of my favorite parts of the episode. Now I can describe my adventures with this series and now channel as such: Came for the ProJared, stayed for the Editor Dylan.
I've been a fan for years but have never commented on one of your videos, but your love for Aerobiz has won me over. Thanks for giving this awesome game its due!
Aerobiz is one of those management games that shouldn't work as well as it does, but it's also kinda proof that having tangible feedback just makes games feel better to play. It's not even a LOT of feedback but every stat in Aerobiz has just a little bit of graphics and animation to show what impact your choices make. It makes the scenario so much easier to picture in your head.
Aerobiz also feels a lot like a board game, rather than a war game, which is kind of refreshing in the strategy genre. As someone who’s actually moved away from a lot of violence in games, it’s nice to see a quality game where success is defined otherwise.
@@endymallorn , if you cannot handle violence in video games, then you cannot handle being a human in real life, you f u c k i n g pansy! Also, Koei Tecmo has made their bread and butter due to war simulations, as well as its mob warfare hack-and-slash games, most notably the Dynasty Warriors/Shin Sengokumusou franchise.
Having to turn a dormant series into a erotic vn is strange. Personally, I wouldn't mind crap like that, having a erotic VN to play, but if I wanted to play something like that, I'd play Taimanin Asagi, while beating my meat to the H-Scenes for the game.
I like Jared's presentation but I also like Editor Dylan's segment, I'm very happy that with the coincidence that the release rate of video games increasing over time ended up giving Editor Dylan more space. Like, just don't get me wrong, I'm not saying proportionally less jared is good, I'm just saying I'm happy with the distribution of time at the moment. Nice one, guys.
Hey Hey! That is correct, Dizzy in Europe was a huge deal - especially in UK And... Poland! Yes, even Camerica/Codemasters released a compilation With Dizzy, Micro Machines, Super Robin Hood etc. on... Famicon Disk, because in Poland, NES was popular due to Pegasus Console - NES Clone, which played pirate & Japanese cartidges!
UK Gamer here, the Dizzy games were most definitely my jam as a kid, essentially a platforming fetch quest game, but oh did I have so much fun with them.
3:21 "Both scenarios are accurate with real-world events affecting the airline industry." Wait, including the 1983-2015 scenario? How accurate is it? How many real-world events affecting the airline industry from after 1993 did they get right? Did they get the big one?
About the Sarah Jane Avory thing I have no proof that it's true but I'm highly incline to believe it knowing how she works and what she is doing recently. I follow her from a coupe of years since she entered the Commodore 64 scene and she did amazing things, in 2021 she released a jrpg for the commodore 64, Briley Witch Chronicles, and it's mind blowing. She did all by herself in a couple of years, the story is based from her own books (yes, she writes too) and it's a 15-20 hours story based rpg with exploration and turn based fights. But in the mean time she also made some shooters, still on the C64, as Neutron, Zeta Wings and Soul Force. Now she's working on the second Briley Witch game and a number of other projects, like some Amiga games. Yes, I'm a huge fan of her, as you can understand.
Editor Dylan, you read the room right. I was tired of all the Super NES games. Super Valis IV and Aerobiz were fine, but I would have preferred Dungeon Master or Jaguar XJ220 to Dragon's Lair.
I remember liking Aerobiz back in the day. I was in way over my head, but for some reason it stuck with me. Also, I'm still kinda impressed that the early 90s saw the release of faithfully translated Three Kingdoms games in the west. You'd think that went over the head of, like, 95% of the gaming audience at the time.
Dizzy games were my jam! My mom plays them to this day, although the other ones like Adventures of Dizzy, or I think it was Hero of Yolkfolk? There were dozens of others too like Kwiksnax or Go Dizzy Go! I remember having a huge collection of the old games bought at a black market - basically some guy had a huge list of games and you'd just pick anything up to a limit of a CD-R and pay (per game). I have this CD to this day, it holds many MANY memories!
Hey guys, this doesn't have anything to do with the current video (though I've really enjoyed this series since it debuted on Jared's main channel), rather, the 1992 videos. Just wanted to point out that there's still 1 missing from the '92 playlist: the September 23rd video originally titled "A Boxing Game that was Practically Punch-Out!! 3". I hope someone sees this so the '92 playlist will finally be complete!
Dizzy was TOTALLY my jam, Editor Dylan! Many people discovered it on the 'casette tape' consoles like the C64, but as a child, I played it on the Amiga. Having played most versions, the Amiga remains my favourite because of the better animation and sound design... Looking back on it, I still hate pressing up on the joystick to jump, that's the only bad thing I can say
For what it's worth, if you want to check out Valis, there's also a collection on Switch with the first three games. That said, the first one is only so-so, and the 2nd is kinda bad, but the 3rd is a genuinely solid Castlevania 3 knockoff. The highlight of all three is definitely the 90s anime cutscenes and early J-poppy soundtracks, tho.
What I loved about Valis 4 is that it sort of nudges towards a No Deaths Speedrun kind of play. And Aerobiz (I played Supersonic) is such a chill game that by the time you realize it, you are already addicted to it.
I love this channel because late 80' and 90's I worked in a UK indie computer/console store and remember a lot of these releases, many of which were (exotic at the time) imports. A real hit of nostalgia for me.
Dizzy was huge in Europe, particularly the UK, where it was developed. Since we were quite slow to pick up on the console gaming trend in comparison to America, we did a lot of our gaming on home computers, but were still aware of the trends in console gaming -- such as mascot platformers. Dizzy essentially became the home computer equivalent of characters like Mario and Sonic for platforms such as the ZX Spectrum (where the series was probably best known) and its contemporaries. Most of his adventures got ported to the 16-bit home computer platforms like the ST and Amiga also. The NES versions of the Dizzy games are actually really good. Rather than being straight ports, they've all been enhanced to take advantage of the NES' capabilities, adding stuff like smooth scrolling, larger maps and some fantastic music. They're well worth a play if you enjoy the "arcade adventure" style of game, which, as Jared says, combines the sensibilities of traditional adventure games with more action-based elements such as platforming. If you're curious, all the NES Dizzy games, along with some other titles from their creators The Oliver Twins (and some previously unreleased titles), can be played on the retro gaming platform Evercade, where there's a cartridge devoted to Oliver Twins games. Highly recommended!
@@TheGamersState I think that's similar for most people, in my experience at least. Being an adult isn't perfect but I get to make my own choices and decisions.
I remember playing the Sega Genesis version of Aerobiz for a week or two in the late summer of 2001, back around the time when I first found out that you could play Genesis games (and Japanese Mega Drive games never released in North America) maybe not entirely officially (wink wink) via emulation on PC. Since it was a very slow game to begin with, Aerobiz was probably one of the better games to play emulated on an unexpanded mail-order PC from Dell since it was a game where I didn't really have to worry about slowdown affecting gameplay. It was also kind of eerie that I was playing a game focused on air travel quite likely only two or three days before 9/11. The North American-released Sega Genesis ports of the Valis games, I think I rented both Valis III and Syd of Valis, were really only so-so gameplay-wise but I loved the anime-style presentation and Yuko as a character, and I really wish Telenet Japan would have done more with the main series after Valis IV. The Jaguar game on the Sega CD was one I definitely now wish I had bought as the scaling is quite impressive for a home console at the time. I think I avoided it because it wasn't OutRun and I was holding out hope that the Sega CD would get a port of OutRun that would take full advantage of the Sega CD's hardware scaling and CD audio and that it would be better than the arcade game (probably not technically possible on the Sega CD, at least not at the same framerate as the arcade game, but as a brand new Sega CD owner back in February 1993, it seemed like there were no limits to what the Sega CD could do compared to the base Genesis).
LOL Using the octopus scene from DBS to describe Valis X (which doesn't count). Looking forward to Valis Collection II which will have the PC Engine version of Valis IV.
Romance of the The Three Kingdoms III also got an SNES/NSFC release, and a PC release (in fact, the series always got PC/Windows releases worldwide), and the series is still sold internationally, with the fourteenth game in the series being released for the PS4 and Switch in 2020. Rumors have it that the fifteenth entry in the series is underway for all platforms.
I had never heard of Aerobiz growing up and probably wouldn't have payed it much attention. But man I absolutely have enjoyed watching you playthrough it and it's sequel on the gameplay channel/twitch. Keep up the great work.
Yes, I grew up with Dizzy. The Genesis game was gifted to me one birthday by my grandmother. Was just a random game she saw, and liked how it looked, so bought it for me.
I still remember fondly the afternoon I spent watching Jared's Aerobiz stream VOD. (Available on his gameplay channel btw.) A boring game to play? Maybe...? But I had such a pleasant time just _watching_ it, with cupsa tea and no rush.
One of my favourite turbografx games was released this week, Feb. 10, 1993 was Battle Lode Runner! It's too bad you guys didn't include it, it's a blast with friends
Hello Now in the 90s! I recently discovered your channel. I think it's awesome that you talk about videogames, especially Valis in this episode. I'm actually gonna pick up the Valis games for my switch. Awesome work, you've got a new subscriber
Oh, that Dragon's Lair game. I have vivid nightmares of a level which required you to carry an explosive barrel to a barrier to unlock the way forward. Underwater. With those floaty-ass bubble controls. And no mechanics to grab the barrel, meaning you just had to juggle it on your sprite. Even with rewind and save states, that was a nightmare.
So there's something funny about the Sega Genesis prototype of Dragon's Lair. Some Russian hackers got a hold of the prototype ROM and translated it in Russian and sold it as bootlegs back in the 2000s, I believe. Most of the bootlegs were sold as Assassin's Creed games for the Genesis.
Never thought I'd see one of my comments highlighted in a video. Cheers. You can get the full story - and many more - at her website. Also. You should check out the latest Dizzy game - Wonderful Dizzy. The original creators were on board for the design, and the Spectrum community was eager to show off what they could do. Mind you, the color clash is present, and even celebrated, but it's a free game and its one that everyone seems to love. How often do you hear about a passionate internet fanbase responding to the creators they admired as kids, and it being this heartwarming? Also, apologies if I've doubleposted. RUclips assures me that I need to send this again...are you even still reading these, this long after posting the video?
Aerobiz is one of those games that both myself and my dad enjoyed. It's definitely a favorite from my childhood and I recently played it on my Steam Deck.
I played 3(!) different Dizzy games in my childhood, all on PC, since english is not my first language it was tough AF, but it gave me a good boost in learning. Gotta know what you're doing if you wanna win, otherwise too much aimless meandering.
Aerobiz was intriguing, the wildest animation was watching it landing as a VTOL on the overworld map. Just going straight down on the landing strip, ez.
You know, come to think of it, the Aerobiz games honestly need a modern sequel, as well as have even more options for airports, the ability to have mergers, the ability to rise from a small local airline in a podunk rural area to being able to literally serve the whole world, and, of course, have new models, including some experimental ideas for future hypersonic and sub-orbital craft to choose from, and to also have issues to deal with internally for your airline, not just customer dissatisfaction, but also corrupt leadership, in both unionized, and non-unionized forms, have different jobs that have those sorts of issues within said airline, and to deal with things like customer satisfaction rates, parts recalls for aircraft, maintaining aircraft safety, etc.
I did indeed play one of the Dizzy games as a kid. Specifically "The Fantastic Adventures of Dizzy" on the NES. And holy hell CodeMasters knew how to put out BANGING music on the NES. Be it Dizzy, Micro Machines, or Big Nose.
8:45 Whenever a female game programmer is mentioned, check her bio. Almost always, she used to go by a different name... a much less feminine name, if you catch my drift.
I do catch your drift. What you're really saying is that you wanted to combine misogyny and transphobia in the same comment. Be honest - you googled Carol Shaw too. "There's no way a cis woman made River Raid! Well, I'll be damned..." Just kidding. There's no way you understand how impressive it is to make a good 2600 game.
One thing about dragons lair for NES. They designed it for 50hz PAL and screwed up porting it to 60hz NTSC. As a result it runs 20% slower than it should. The Japanese and European versions play much better. It’s still not good, but it does feel much better. Also, the developers screwed up with their build tools, so every dragons lair NES rom has the source code in it. They weren’t a highly competent bunch.
I have been an obsessive Aerobiz player for 30 years now. I used to play it at one of my best friend's house with his father and now it's become an annual tradition to get everyone together for 4 person Aerobiz. Easily in my SNES top 5.
Im an official "grew up with dizzy-er". Via Fantasy World Dizzy on the commodore 64 thanks to a special power known as "being old". Bonus round, the games over here came on cassette tapes meaning we had a loading time of 3+ minutes. But only once per session thankfully.
2:50 - Oh, man... I completely forgot about this game. One of my childhood friends really has been in to economical sim games. I remember borrowing that game from him to try it out. Good times.
I absolutely loved the SNES era of Koei games. Not just Aerobiz, but the Uncharted Waters games! One of the earliest sandbox style games I can recall playing in my life.
I feel like Jared waited his whole life for the opportunity to talk about Aerobiz again
Its so good tho
the big smirk gave it away…
As a child, I got obsessed with Aerobiz and Aerobiz Supersonic. I played out air management scenarios by making little planes out of lego and using yarn to connect airports together. I'm glad other people actually love those games too.
You aren't alone. I still get together with a friend to play in person, even though we weren't friends as kids. We just both grew up loving this game. 😁
@@davidwesst , the PTO games were pretty good as well. The PTO game series also had one final solid entry for the PS2 as well, and, yes, it also got an NTSB-U release, though it is also kind of a hard game to find. Curiously, the prequel to that game never got localized, which is a shame.
Aerobiz reminds me of Aero Porter for the DS, a game where you literally sort the luggage at an airport. I could not believe how much fun it was, and it's definitely one to check out! It's directed by Yoot Saito, who also did SimTower, Odama, and Seaman! Wonderful episode as always!
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms games remind me of my dad. He kept getting every new one, and what he would do is play it through himself, then bring me in, pick his ruler and the nhave ME make all the decisions and direct the battles. It was so fun. I still play them, and I love it.
Fun fact about Dragon's Lair arcade game. It was ported to gameboy color. Yes. On a gameboy color. Animation now is redrawn in sprites and sound effects not so great at best but its same Dragon's Lair that doesn't require quarters. Capcom was publisher for this port
It is proof that the any console can at least run the arcade game well. Even the Amiga had Dragon's Lair, the AMIGA, a computer that many people used to play Lemmings on! Developed by the same madman who would later develop the SNES version of Doom, and make the Bleem emulator for PC!
I tried out Super Valis IV on NSO for the first time a few months ago. What stood out to me the most were the really nice-looking backgrounds, particularly the ones visible at 0:40 with scrolling clouds!
Okay, that DBZ clip during the Valis VN part was absolute genius. It told us everything with just the art of implication. 😆
Even the ink spray?
Why turn a dormant series into a erotic VN?? We already have the adult shenanigans in the LiLITH made games with orcs and demons and stuff.
@@ChaseMC215 The what?
@@ChaseMC215 tl;dr they needed money.
Long story with a better conclusion:
Telenet Japan by 2006 was a shell of it's former self & were bleeding money. They had the bright idea to celebrate Valis 20th anniversary with the much maligned, criticized, deride and disastrous x-rated reboot. Which even among VN collectors is considered terrible, like straight up trash. As ridiculous as it sounds, Telenet actually allow a release of a proper anniversary collection called Valis Complete that was done by Project EGG for Windows PC and limited to only 2000 copies. It featured ports of the PC-Engine versions of Valis I-IV with digital manuals for each one, a digital version of the Valis III special promotion video, artwork from many characters, a special 4koma with Yuuko and Reiko and a limited edition of a Yuuko PVC figure.
A year later Telenet Japan declared bankruptcy and their IPs went to SunSoft. In 2011, for Project EGG's 10th anniversary, released Valis Complete Plus which included everything above, but also includes also two more games: Valis SD and Super Valis IV, two CDs with the soundtrack from all the mentioned games (called Valis Sound Collection) and the visual scenes from the games in MPEG video format in high quality with the option to watch them independently of the games. This version is even more limited in turn, having only 500 copies. In 2019, Telenet IPs were transferred to EDIA, who have done strides better in respecting the IPs with the recent Valis & Telenet Shump collections on Switch.
@@PaleHorseShabuShabu I'm guessing LILITH SOFT? They're known to make exclusively naughty VNs.
I was really into the Valis games growing up. They were nifty Castlevania clones, more or less. I was sad to see them go the way they did. Real talk though, Super Valis 4 was really really hard.
My Mom's previous partner absolutely loved Dizzy and would always talk to me about it and how much he loved it so when I discovered I could run a NES Emulator on my PC and managed to get a working rom of Dizzy, I cannot tell you how ecstatic he was.
Previous partner? is your mom a Detective?
Damn I love Dizzy. Played the shit out of that game.
@@thedeadpoolwhochuckles.6852 That's a weird question. The typical assumption in that sentence would be a romantic partner.
@@thedeadpoolwhochuckles.6852 Err no, it means a former boyfriend.
Editor Dylan being described as has snark is so on the nose. Now that he’s providing content for other games released for the week that Jared doesn’t cover has turned into the one of my favorite parts of the episode. Now I can describe my adventures with this series and now channel as such: Came for the ProJared, stayed for the Editor Dylan.
I've been a fan for years but have never commented on one of your videos, but your love for Aerobiz has won me over.
Thanks for giving this awesome game its due!
It's my birthday today!
As a lifelong gamer who grew up in the 90s, I love this series. Really takes me back
This has become my comfort show. Keep up the great work!
6:45
Most players didn't get past that. And that was the very first level
I rented it once, and while I did eventually get past that screen, I didn't get much further. Very frustrating game to play.
There's a classic Angry Video Game Nerd episode on it.
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What's the point of an energy bar when everything kills you in one hit??? One, fucking, Hit!!
Happy 30th Aerobiz! I'm totally going to play that later to celebrate. 🥳
I played Aerobiz because of those streams and it became one of my favourites instantly.
As a Don Bluth fan, I appreciate that Dragon’s Lair and the man himself is mentioned here. I watched a lot of his films as a child.
Land before Time, Secret of NIHM, An American Tail all classics.
@@dragonchaserkev titan ae?
@@oaf-77 Sadly, never got the love it deserved. Both in terms of theater ticket sales and popular opinion.
Why?
Don't forget Rock-a-doodle!
Aerobiz is one of those management games that shouldn't work as well as it does, but it's also kinda proof that having tangible feedback just makes games feel better to play. It's not even a LOT of feedback but every stat in Aerobiz has just a little bit of graphics and animation to show what impact your choices make. It makes the scenario so much easier to picture in your head.
Aerobiz also feels a lot like a board game, rather than a war game, which is kind of refreshing in the strategy genre. As someone who’s actually moved away from a lot of violence in games, it’s nice to see a quality game where success is defined otherwise.
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g pansy! Also, Koei Tecmo has made their bread and butter due to war simulations, as well as its mob warfare hack-and-slash games, most notably the Dynasty Warriors/Shin Sengokumusou franchise.
Those Valis games had a ton of heart, loved them on my genesis
Have you checked the Switch E-Shop?
There's a Valis collection.👍🏼👍🏼
🤜🏻🤛🏻
Having to turn a dormant series into a erotic vn is strange. Personally, I wouldn't mind crap like that, having a erotic VN to play, but if I wanted to play something like that, I'd play Taimanin Asagi, while beating my meat to the H-Scenes for the game.
I like Jared's presentation but I also like Editor Dylan's segment, I'm very happy that with the coincidence that the release rate of video games increasing over time ended up giving Editor Dylan more space. Like, just don't get me wrong, I'm not saying proportionally less jared is good, I'm just saying I'm happy with the distribution of time at the moment. Nice one, guys.
I played Aerobiz Supersonic tons growing up with my brother. Its such a fun, chill game.
Hey Hey! That is correct, Dizzy in Europe was a huge deal - especially in UK And... Poland! Yes, even Camerica/Codemasters released a compilation With Dizzy, Micro Machines, Super Robin Hood etc. on... Famicon Disk, because in Poland, NES was popular due to Pegasus Console - NES Clone, which played pirate & Japanese cartidges!
UK Gamer here, the Dizzy games were most definitely my jam as a kid, essentially a platforming fetch quest game, but oh did I have so much fun with them.
Good wardrobe choice!
3:21 "Both scenarios are accurate with real-world events affecting the airline industry."
Wait, including the 1983-2015 scenario?
How accurate is it? How many real-world events affecting the airline industry from after 1993 did they get right? Did they get the big one?
Always a highlight of my Friday.
I had a friend come over with aerobiz and we played it for months nonstop every day. It's such a good game.
I loved Dizzy as a kid, UK cassette classic.
I had a bunch of dizzy games on the amstrad cpc 464, treasure island dizzy was my fav also played the dizzy game on the megadrive
@@clintbrew never got a chance playing the mega Drive port.
@@sisyphus8870 i have on my SEGA emulator. its not bad considering its the first Dizzy game ive played
About the Sarah Jane Avory thing I have no proof that it's true but I'm highly incline to believe it knowing how she works and what she is doing recently. I follow her from a coupe of years since she entered the Commodore 64 scene and she did amazing things, in 2021 she released a jrpg for the commodore 64, Briley Witch Chronicles, and it's mind blowing. She did all by herself in a couple of years, the story is based from her own books (yes, she writes too) and it's a 15-20 hours story based rpg with exploration and turn based fights. But in the mean time she also made some shooters, still on the C64, as Neutron, Zeta Wings and Soul Force. Now she's working on the second Briley Witch game and a number of other projects, like some Amiga games.
Yes, I'm a huge fan of her, as you can understand.
Editor Dylan, you read the room right. I was tired of all the Super NES games. Super Valis IV and Aerobiz were fine, but I would have preferred Dungeon Master or Jaguar XJ220 to Dragon's Lair.
I remember liking Aerobiz back in the day. I was in way over my head, but for some reason it stuck with me.
Also, I'm still kinda impressed that the early 90s saw the release of faithfully translated Three Kingdoms games in the west. You'd think that went over the head of, like, 95% of the gaming audience at the time.
Dizzy games were my jam! My mom plays them to this day, although the other ones like Adventures of Dizzy, or I think it was Hero of Yolkfolk? There were dozens of others too like Kwiksnax or Go Dizzy Go! I remember having a huge collection of the old games bought at a black market - basically some guy had a huge list of games and you'd just pick anything up to a limit of a CD-R and pay (per game). I have this CD to this day, it holds many MANY memories!
2:27 - What’s stopping us from watching both, mate?😏
I was obsessed with desert island dizzy on the commodore 64 when I was a kid! Now excuse me whilst I go buy some Rogaine for men...
Hey guys, this doesn't have anything to do with the current video (though I've really enjoyed this series since it debuted on Jared's main channel), rather, the 1992 videos. Just wanted to point out that there's still 1 missing from the '92 playlist: the September 23rd video originally titled "A Boxing Game that was Practically Punch-Out!! 3". I hope someone sees this so the '92 playlist will finally be complete!
A new episode of one of my favorite youtube series on my birthday, today is looking good
Love Aerobiz for all the reasons listed.
February 10rd, my favorite day in February
Dizzy was TOTALLY my jam, Editor Dylan! Many people discovered it on the 'casette tape' consoles like the C64, but as a child, I played it on the Amiga. Having played most versions, the Amiga remains my favourite because of the better animation and sound design... Looking back on it, I still hate pressing up on the joystick to jump, that's the only bad thing I can say
Dude, you can just hear how excited Jared got to talk about aerobiz.
2:44 I never want to see the word "President!" and a picture of Ted Cruz that close together.
For what it's worth, if you want to check out Valis, there's also a collection on Switch with the first three games. That said, the first one is only so-so, and the 2nd is kinda bad, but the 3rd is a genuinely solid Castlevania 3 knockoff. The highlight of all three is definitely the 90s anime cutscenes and early J-poppy soundtracks, tho.
The first valis on megadrive is awesome
What I loved about Valis 4 is that it sort of nudges towards a No Deaths Speedrun kind of play.
And Aerobiz (I played Supersonic) is such a chill game that by the time you realize it, you are already addicted to it.
I love this channel because late 80' and 90's I worked in a UK indie computer/console store and remember a lot of these releases, many of which were (exotic at the time) imports. A real hit of nostalgia for me.
Dizzy was huge in Europe, particularly the UK, where it was developed. Since we were quite slow to pick up on the console gaming trend in comparison to America, we did a lot of our gaming on home computers, but were still aware of the trends in console gaming -- such as mascot platformers. Dizzy essentially became the home computer equivalent of characters like Mario and Sonic for platforms such as the ZX Spectrum (where the series was probably best known) and its contemporaries. Most of his adventures got ported to the 16-bit home computer platforms like the ST and Amiga also.
The NES versions of the Dizzy games are actually really good. Rather than being straight ports, they've all been enhanced to take advantage of the NES' capabilities, adding stuff like smooth scrolling, larger maps and some fantastic music. They're well worth a play if you enjoy the "arcade adventure" style of game, which, as Jared says, combines the sensibilities of traditional adventure games with more action-based elements such as platforming.
If you're curious, all the NES Dizzy games, along with some other titles from their creators The Oliver Twins (and some previously unreleased titles), can be played on the retro gaming platform Evercade, where there's a cartridge devoted to Oliver Twins games. Highly recommended!
does anyone else tear up when they watch this series? I'm like 38 and this is the closest thing i have to memories of childhood.
My Childhood was honestly kinda bad so I don't miss those times sadly.
Bruh you got depression?
Germany checking in....Iam 43 and miss those Days...Good Times
@@TheGamersState I think that's similar for most people, in my experience at least. Being an adult isn't perfect but I get to make my own choices and decisions.
It makes me really happy. Good memories.
I remember playing the Sega Genesis version of Aerobiz for a week or two in the late summer of 2001, back around the time when I first found out that you could play Genesis games (and Japanese Mega Drive games never released in North America) maybe not entirely officially (wink wink) via emulation on PC. Since it was a very slow game to begin with, Aerobiz was probably one of the better games to play emulated on an unexpanded mail-order PC from Dell since it was a game where I didn't really have to worry about slowdown affecting gameplay. It was also kind of eerie that I was playing a game focused on air travel quite likely only two or three days before 9/11.
The North American-released Sega Genesis ports of the Valis games, I think I rented both Valis III and Syd of Valis, were really only so-so gameplay-wise but I loved the anime-style presentation and Yuko as a character, and I really wish Telenet Japan would have done more with the main series after Valis IV.
The Jaguar game on the Sega CD was one I definitely now wish I had bought as the scaling is quite impressive for a home console at the time. I think I avoided it because it wasn't OutRun and I was holding out hope that the Sega CD would get a port of OutRun that would take full advantage of the Sega CD's hardware scaling and CD audio and that it would be better than the arcade game (probably not technically possible on the Sega CD, at least not at the same framerate as the arcade game, but as a brand new Sega CD owner back in February 1993, it seemed like there were no limits to what the Sega CD could do compared to the base Genesis).
LOL Using the octopus scene from DBS to describe Valis X (which doesn't count). Looking forward to Valis Collection II which will have the PC Engine version of Valis IV.
I tried to recreate Air Canada in AeroBiz. I was a weird kid.
I can't stop giggling whenever you said Aerobiz, because of your High Seas Trader review lol
Romance of the The Three Kingdoms III also got an SNES/NSFC release, and a PC release (in fact, the series always got PC/Windows releases worldwide), and the series is still sold internationally, with the fourteenth game in the series being released for the PS4 and Switch in 2020. Rumors have it that the fifteenth entry in the series is underway for all platforms.
I had never heard of Aerobiz growing up and probably wouldn't have payed it much attention. But man I absolutely have enjoyed watching you playthrough it and it's sequel on the gameplay channel/twitch. Keep up the great work.
Description says February 10rd. Unless you happen to be reading this after they fixed it.
10rd... Pronounced February Tird.
@@spazzyphantasm I thought it was February Tenerd.
I loved Aerobiz on the SNES a long time ago, I used to play it with a friend..
Jared loving Areobiz explains so muuuuuuuuuuch...
I'm still not used to hearing Jerd say 1993 in the intro. It still feels like 1992 was only yesterday...
Yes, I grew up with Dizzy. The Genesis game was gifted to me one birthday by my grandmother. Was just a random game she saw, and liked how it looked, so bought it for me.
The hype behind Jared when he said, “Terror that flaps in the night!” I’m hyped now too!
I still remember fondly the afternoon I spent watching Jared's Aerobiz stream VOD. (Available on his gameplay channel btw.)
A boring game to play? Maybe...? But I had such a pleasant time just _watching_ it, with cupsa tea and no rush.
This show is always a highlight in my subscription feed.
i still play aerobiz sometimes !
I love Aerobiz and it fills me with joy to see how much Jared loves it too. I mostly played it's sequel though but both are incredibly fun games :)
AEROBIZ FUCKING RULES
My brother played Aerobiz, he really likes it, but he always struggles at the end game when his opponents suddenly undercut him at every turn.
always love your videos of these kind of oldies jared. cant wait to see my birthyear videos
One of my favourite turbografx games was released this week, Feb. 10, 1993 was Battle Lode Runner! It's too bad you guys didn't include it, it's a blast with friends
Hello Now in the 90s! I recently discovered your channel. I think it's awesome that you talk about videogames, especially Valis in this episode. I'm actually gonna pick up the Valis games for my switch.
Awesome work, you've got a new subscriber
"At least finish watching this video before you open another tab and Google it"
No.
Oh, that Dragon's Lair game. I have vivid nightmares of a level which required you to carry an explosive barrel to a barrier to unlock the way forward. Underwater. With those floaty-ass bubble controls. And no mechanics to grab the barrel, meaning you just had to juggle it on your sprite. Even with rewind and save states, that was a nightmare.
So there's something funny about the Sega Genesis prototype of Dragon's Lair. Some Russian hackers got a hold of the prototype ROM and translated it in Russian and sold it as bootlegs back in the 2000s, I believe. Most of the bootlegs were sold as Assassin's Creed games for the Genesis.
I can't wait for next week, I can't wait for some Darkwing Duck.
Guess Super Valis became Super Phallus.
Never thought I'd see one of my comments highlighted in a video. Cheers. You can get the full story - and many more - at her website.
Also.
You should check out the latest Dizzy game - Wonderful Dizzy.
The original creators were on board for the design, and the Spectrum community was eager to show off what they could do.
Mind you, the color clash is present, and even celebrated, but it's a free game and its one that everyone seems to love. How often do you hear about a passionate internet fanbase responding to the creators they admired as kids, and it being this heartwarming?
Also, apologies if I've doubleposted. RUclips assures me that I need to send this again...are you even still reading these, this long after posting the video?
Aerobiz is one of those games that both myself and my dad enjoyed. It's definitely a favorite from my childhood and I recently played it on my Steam Deck.
I played 3(!) different Dizzy games in my childhood, all on PC, since english is not my first language it was tough AF, but it gave me a good boost in learning. Gotta know what you're doing if you wanna win, otherwise too much aimless meandering.
Aerobiz was intriguing, the wildest animation was watching it landing as a VTOL on the overworld map. Just going straight down on the landing strip, ez.
My first outing with Dizzy was 'Dizzy's big 6 - Original Dizzy adventure game' on the AmigaCD32.
Dizzy was a pretty big part of my 90s childhood gaming in the UK. Although it was on the home computers, not consoles. There are a lot of dizzy games.
I saw "The Final Valis..." and clicked so fast 🤣
On it, or away from it? :P
@@rollanddev Yes.
@@fransmith1664 I see. Carry on then. :3
You know, come to think of it, the Aerobiz games honestly need a modern sequel, as well as have even more options for airports, the ability to have mergers, the ability to rise from a small local airline in a podunk rural area to being able to literally serve the whole world, and, of course, have new models, including some experimental ideas for future hypersonic and sub-orbital craft to choose from, and to also have issues to deal with internally for your airline, not just customer dissatisfaction, but also corrupt leadership, in both unionized, and non-unionized forms, have different jobs that have those sorts of issues within said airline, and to deal with things like customer satisfaction rates, parts recalls for aircraft, maintaining aircraft safety, etc.
I did indeed play one of the Dizzy games as a kid. Specifically "The Fantastic Adventures of Dizzy" on the NES. And holy hell CodeMasters knew how to put out BANGING music on the NES. Be it Dizzy, Micro Machines, or Big Nose.
Conflicted feelings for snes dragons lair. Never got past the second level but also played with the greatest person ever (grandma)
In a just world, no SNES game would be above $10.
Valis is its own Rule 34.
8:45 Whenever a female game programmer is mentioned, check her bio. Almost always, she used to go by a different name... a much less feminine name, if you catch my drift.
I do catch your drift. What you're really saying is that you wanted to combine misogyny and transphobia in the same comment. Be honest - you googled Carol Shaw too. "There's no way a cis woman made River Raid! Well, I'll be damned..."
Just kidding. There's no way you understand how impressive it is to make a good 2600 game.
can't believe Aerobiz isn't in the title of the video
I can't believe I missed this episode last week. Finally watched it's and now I'll watch today's brand new episode
One thing about dragons lair for NES. They designed it for 50hz PAL and screwed up porting it to 60hz NTSC. As a result it runs 20% slower than it should. The Japanese and European versions play much better. It’s still not good, but it does feel much better.
Also, the developers screwed up with their build tools, so every dragons lair NES rom has the source code in it. They weren’t a highly competent bunch.
10:06 "Nice day for fishin', ain't it? Hyuk hyuk!"
Yes, Aerobiz is *WAY* more fun than it has any business (no pun intended) being.
Later on, they tried to port Space Ace to the SNES to be as close to the arcade as possible with terrible results.
It's so pleasant to hear someone say something nice about the Dizzy games. Even if it is from Dylan himself.
Today is not the day, but someday a chapter will be written about how "Now in the 90's" is the greatest comeback ever.
I have been an obsessive Aerobiz player for 30 years now. I used to play it at one of my best friend's house with his father and now it's become an annual tradition to get everyone together for 4 person Aerobiz. Easily in my SNES top 5.
The terror that faps in the night? oh hey, thats me! :D
Im an official "grew up with dizzy-er". Via Fantasy World Dizzy on the commodore 64 thanks to a special power known as "being old". Bonus round, the games over here came on cassette tapes meaning we had a loading time of 3+ minutes. But only once per session thankfully.
2:50 - Oh, man... I completely forgot about this game. One of my childhood friends really has been in to economical sim games.
I remember borrowing that game from him to try it out. Good times.
The only Dizzy game I played growing up was on the Quattro Adventures NES cart... I remember liking the Robin Hood game more..
I absolutely loved the SNES era of Koei games. Not just Aerobiz, but the Uncharted Waters games! One of the earliest sandbox style games I can recall playing in my life.