StarTropics doesn't deserve to be forgotten. With Nintendo bringing back series like Punch-Out!, Kid Icarus, Advance Wars, and Famicom Detective Club, StarTropics NEEDS to be the next in line!
Thank you for everything you do! Yer videos have reignited my love for the retro games of my childhood and I can’t wait to sit down and play this game once I finish the video!
Nice video! I'm a little embarrassed to admit this, but I only just noticed the little 8-bit Kylo in all your thumbnails. That's a nice touch. ... How dare you call me slow!
Thanks for doing this one. I remember playing this as a kid (I remember all these old games), but it's always so cool to see old strategies and secrets I never knew at the time. And the history lessons are always really neat too.
Thanks so much for doing this! I have a love-hate relationship with this game. I beat it as a kid, but for the life of me I can't recall much about it, so this is a nostalgia trip of revivified memories.
Very nice video once again. I actually did beat this one for the first time a couple of years ago. Really is a shame this series died out after this game, but both of these games are true NES gems.
I picked up the SNES as soon as I could, so I missed out on this game when it came out in 1994. Seeing your video on it was great though! Maybe someday Nintendo will see fit to give us a third game, or at least make reference to this series in Smash.
Same. Remember back then we'd trade in our old consoles for the new ones because who would ever go back to playing old games, am I right?? Haha we were fools
Leonardo gives you a katana. I see what they did there. Lancelot's probably too busy boning Guinevere to care about some dragon. Noblest of Arthur's knights indeed...
That large koopa suffers from the same gaming syndrome as the Ghostbusters on the final staircase stage. Moving slow as hell when you need them to move fast but go hyper speed when the objective is complete
U can beat video games, do you plan on doing any more of the dragon quest games? dragon quest 2 would make for a heck of an episode as it is fun to play and the enemies get very challenging fast early in the game. would love to see your strategies on it. 😎
For something like this to die out so quickly is kind of sad... If there is a StarTropics 3, I'd love to get my hands on a copy and play it for myself.
There is one obscure Nintendo adventure game I cannot remember the name . I'm waiting for that magical day you cover it so I can remember the name and also find out how in the world to get past a part I could never figure out..
Man, I have been waiting for this one since the OG video. As always, you do not disappoint. :D So... now that we're here at last, I can say my peace about good ol' Zoda's Revenge. I think for the most part, it's a solid game. My main issue is that cop out, HORSECRAP ending. Didn't Mica EXPLICITLY mention that Argonia was, y'know... GONE?? As in, destroyed beyond any attempt at salvation? Why would Hirocon returning change that? UGH. What a terrible ending. That said, as I mentioned, I think the game itself is a fine successor to Startropics. The eight directional movement is an interesting mechanic that I wish a Startropics 3 would have come out to expand on further by making platforming that REQUIRES you to jump diagonally. Because unless I'm mistaken, there's no REQUIRED diagonal jumping in 2. There are some goofy moments with historical figures, but there were goofy moments in the first game. I mean, for god's sake Mike shoves BANANAS in his ears to block out Zoda's voice. This series is ALL about goofy moments and addictive gameplay. I'd steal your ST3 idea if I had the slightest bit of programming knowledge, HA. I know a user on Deviantart by the name of Diegichigo who actually made some sprites for Mica as a potential playable character for Startropics 3 and I'm all on board with that idea as well.
I feel like this series needs a reboot for the Nintendo Switch it can bring in new players as well as old nostalgia players who remember this game. You won’t need to change the story just update the graphics and your off and running
I wonder why they chose to develop this for the NES when the SNES was already out when they likely started development. Putting the sequel on the SNES likely would have led to possibly a sequel or 2.
thats a really good question that Ive wondered about for a while - Seems like making a sequel on their new hardware would have gotten it a lot more attention. They seem to have put a lot of work into making this game, so it would make more sense to design it for the newest system
I was never able to finish this one--not for lack of skill, but because the game sends you back to chapter 2 if you beat chapter 5 (or at least it did in the emulation)! While I'll admit that's a clever way to prevent piracy, I'd rather the game not work at all than jerk me around like that.
Cleopatra in this game is meant to look like Elizabeth Taylor, as Sherlock Holmes is designed to look like Basil Rathbone. Many people do not know that Cleopatra was actually Greek!
Also, Cleopatra was royalty, so she probably wouldn't spend a lot of time in the sun. In Ye Olden Times being ghostly white was considered attractive, since it meant that you're rich and didn't have to work outdoors.
24:27 Cleopatra looking very European is somewhat historically accurate. The ruling family of Egypt in that time were not native, but descended from Ptolemy, one of Alexander the Great's generals, making her Macedonian Greek and not Egyptian. Unlike the rest of her family, Cleopatra _actually bothered to learn Egyptian_ and could speak to her subjects, so she was extra popular with her people. Regardless, a suntan was the sign of a common laborer in both Greek and Egyptian society, and women in particular avoided getting one, lest they risk looking like that had to leave home to work. Cleopatra, as a noble, would have definitely made sure her skin was as pale as possible.
@staghornthedruid957 yes they are, but let's not forget modern Mediterranean people are quite the mixed lot, so that's not exactly the best control sample. Pure-bred ancient Greeks are said to have been mostly white, with the commoners having a more tanned tone, for the reasons already mentioned here.
Highly underrated game! Absolutely loved this one back when, but was always stuck at the last Zoda. Showed him who’s boss a few weeks back, did it in memory of my cousin who passed this year. We used to go to town on this game, starting fresh each time and challenging each other with weird level goals. I absolutely adore the OST. Outside of the obvious first party choices, this is my favorite soundtrack on the NES.
If you say "No" to the old caveman he'll say something about Mike actually being right-handed and a starting pitcher. I think you're actually _supposed_ to say "No" when he asks if you're the "southpaw reliever" but most RPGs have trained us to always say "Yes" to things like that...
Man its crazy how under the radar this game was... Ive recommended it to several people who seemed to all have the same "how have i never heard of this game" response
It came out so incredibly late in the console's life that basically there's like zero nostalgia attached to it. By 94 probably 97 percent of console gamers were onto 16 bit and even more.
I remember finding this game in KB toy store, around the year 2000, mixed in with random SNES and Genesis sports games that they had dug out of boxes in storage when they moved locations, within the mall. They also had a copy original Star Tropics. That was the first time I even knew Star Tropics had a sequel. Me and my friends couldnt get over the fact that an NES game was being sold as new, that long after the fact. I was in highscool and still played my NES only slightly less than my PSone.
SNES walkthroughs would be pretty cool, but with how long a lot of those games are, the frequency of video releases would probably slow to a crawl. Especially with all the secrets and alternative methods of doing stuff that usually gets shown.
I streamed through this game a while back, and maaan did it frustrate me. But the parts that weren't loaded with BS difficulty were really fun, and the sense of humor was amusing. Overall I liked it a bunch. In retrospect, anyway. And I even think I found a glitch on my own!
Great game! I usually have trouble with Zoda Y, but your strategy will make it much easier for me! As for a third game, I always thought they'd finally take it to the stars. In my mind, several years after the last game Mike and Miss Carol did get together and the aliens came back and abducted everyone from C-island except for Mike and his uncle who were stateside at the time (new alien leader wanting revenge for Zoda's final defeat in the last game). They return to C-island after Mike couldn't contact his girlfriend to find everyone gone. Dr. J then reveals the spaceship he was working on based on the remains of the wrecked ship from the first game and has Navcom re-programmed and ready to pilot it (gotta bring that robot back). Then Mike travels to outer space and each chapter as logged in the ship's log is a new planet/solar system he visits to try and find his girlfriend and the rest of the folks from C-island. They would meet up with various alien races (complete with references to other franchises and/or places that Star Tropics is known for and/or funny scenes where Mike tries to explain humans to them) including the ones he rescued along from the previous games and they help Mike by upgrading his ship with new abilities (kind of like how the sub in the first game got new abilities, but more in-depth and we could have some light space combat added to the game). As Mike rescues all the people from C-island they'd join him on the ship, and at the end they'd all be back on C-island with Mike being able to go around and talk to everyone optionally before talking to Carol one last time where they decide to go to the victory party together as a couple. This would've been a much bigger game on the SNES with tons of new places and things to do. Mike's new throwing weapons would've been some high tech "space balls" (yes, pun of the movie, but it's Star Tropics, we expect that), and with all the new alien tech he'd come across, he'd gain some unique new abilities too with some new consumable items (night vision for the dark rooms, hover shoes for temp walking over damage tiles, etc.).
Wow... you actually did Zoda's Revenge, it took me a while to get the game and now I can play it (on my NES, I already had it on my Wii thanks to the virtual console magic... that unless you do shenanigans on the console is impossible to get nowdays), your guide will help me a lot to beat the game.
Another great video YCBVG! I was fortunate as a kid to have both Startropics games and dipping the letter that came with the original in water as a 9 year old and figuring that out myself was something I'll remember for the rest of my life.
Having played Zoda's Revenge LONG before the original, I'd say the story worked perfectly well. Heck, Zoda and the alien children literally don't show up until the VERY end of the first game, so it practically didn't spoil anything for actually 'playing' the first game.
StarTropics 1 & 2 Remastered definitely long overdue... Then in StarTropics 3, maybe it'd be fun to beat stuff up as Mica? :P (Maybe in StarTropics 1 & 2, she was a bit younger then Mike & just wasn't old enough to fight yet, but in 3, she is now...? Imagine how powerful a Psychic Shot she'd be capable of... :D
i always felt like star tropics was an awesome name for a game but the actual game doesnt really match up with the name itself. it needs more space travel and more beautiful beach levels.
24:22 Well, to be fair, Cleopatra's dynasty (the Ptolemys) is actually Greek, so maybe she has that for why she's a bit lighter-skinned. Although one would think she could be more tanned.
Cleopatra was actually greek. So yeah she would European. If ancient greeks are somewhat close to today's greeks her skin tone would be spot on. Source - my wife is greek and I retired in Greece.
This game was a big deal. When the sequel was released i went to 3 different movie stores to find it for the friday-monday weekend deal and i slept on the floor in my living room for two days with the game in pause lol. I was 12 years old.
Bro, this series is awesome. You got the formula right. Its gotta be the perfect amount of dog. Nice work man. I'll watch anything you do. Every NES game, let's go.
When I was a kid I found a trick to max out your hearts at 20 early. If you speak to King Arthur again, you will get the same dialog and he will knight you again, increasing your maximum hearts by 1 again. This can be repeated a 3rd time to max out at 20.
I really love this youtube channel. You make videos for games i enjoyed as a kid, but couldn't beat. Games i never heard of and would have enjoyed. Last but not least games that i always wanted to play, but never had the money
If you met the actual historical figure, "Cleopatra," in a video game, and she looked like a modern European supermodel, for some reason, and had really pale skin, like, she wasn't a native Egyptian, but wouldn't she have, like, a tan, or something, being out in the desert sun, for years, even if it's just for brief public appearances, and she was wearing Queen Amidala levels of makeup, what would you do? Would you be mad?
While Cleopatra was born in Egypt, she traced her family origins to Macedonian Greece. She’s not what the woke generation thinks she is a “Black African Queen”… most ancient Egyptians had Greek in them. They had zero sub-Saharan African. There’s a reason why no other place in Africa looks like Egypt. Geographically and culturally, Egypt is more middle eastern than anything!!
Cleopatra likely appeared very European, because her ancestry was Greek. Alexander the Great conquered Egypt, and after he died, his general Ptolemy Lagides (Cleopatra's ancestor) took control of Egypt and rebranded himself as a pharaoh.
I watch for the in-depth details about the games you dive into. I stick around for the great commentary! You can make a whole additional video pointing out all the little easter-egg quips you make! "I feel like I'm ready to take on Apollo Creed!" Love it! Keep up the great work and thanks for putting these out there for us to watch!
If traditional videogame magazine's walkthrough article get turn into video format, this channel would be the prime example of how it would be like. Your videos actually gave me the nostalgia feeling of spending hours reading every words and looking at screen caps plastered on each page of my favorite magazines. Thank you
One correction about the Try Your Luck sign: In Zoda's Revenge, they can no longer take away lives. They only have +1 and +2 as possible outcomes, making it possible to get to 9 lives on certain dungeons.
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Have I already beaten this game multiple times already? Yes.
Am I going to watch this whole video playthrough? YES!
am i going to watch it multiple times?yes
"What if I told you...."
It makes me smile everytime I hear you say it, man! Keep up the great videos!
"...annnd more."
"nooo-torious for" that's my favorite lol
All right
"Sit back, relax...."
@@CylenX6 ...and enjoy the cheesy ending.
These games are super underrated, I have wanted Startropics 3 for a long, long time.
StarTropics doesn't deserve to be forgotten. With Nintendo bringing back series like Punch-Out!, Kid Icarus, Advance Wars, and Famicom Detective Club, StarTropics NEEDS to be the next in line!
One of my all time favourites. I remember dunking the letter under water to get the 747 code
Keep waiting for Mike in Smash Bros myself.
I would give up both of my balls to see another StarTropics.
This and F-ZERO needs to return
Thank you for everything you do! Yer videos have reignited my love for the retro games of my childhood and I can’t wait to sit down and play this game once I finish the video!
Keeping with the general theme, a possible third game could have been planet hoping around the galaxy.
I've been excited for this since the first star tropics video!
It was my birthday today, and it kinda sucked, this made my day for sure. Thanks! You make it look so friggan easy!
Happy belated Birthday 🎂 🎁 . I hope you have better birthdays in the future.
Nice video! I'm a little embarrassed to admit this, but I only just noticed the little 8-bit Kylo in all your thumbnails. That's a nice touch.
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How dare you call me slow!
I didn't notice. So cute.
Very underrated game. Downfall is that it came out toward the end of the NES life cycle. Well worth the playthrough.
Thanks for doing this one. I remember playing this as a kid (I remember all these old games), but it's always so cool to see old strategies and secrets I never knew at the time. And the history lessons are always really neat too.
Thanks so much for doing this! I have a love-hate relationship with this game. I beat it as a kid, but for the life of me I can't recall much about it, so this is a nostalgia trip of revivified memories.
Very nice video once again. I actually did beat this one for the first time a couple of years ago. Really is a shame this series died out after this game, but both of these games are true NES gems.
Thanks for posting this. It's so hard. I've tried beating it so many times but I've never been able to get far
33:08 - this can’t take lives away. You’re thinking of startropics 1
I picked up the SNES as soon as I could, so I missed out on this game when it came out in 1994. Seeing your video on it was great though! Maybe someday Nintendo will see fit to give us a third game, or at least make reference to this series in Smash.
Same. Remember back then we'd trade in our old consoles for the new ones because who would ever go back to playing old games, am I right?? Haha we were fools
I've been meaning to replay this title.
its a good one! BTW, I watch your channel all the time, big fan!
I love your endorsement of the game at the beginning.
I hope that dog gets lots of treats for beating all these games
Leonardo gives you a katana. I see what they did there.
Lancelot's probably too busy boning Guinevere to care about some dragon. Noblest of Arthur's knights indeed...
Amazing gameplay. I got me this game for the Wii virtual console, but I never made it over Chapter 4. ^^
If they had put this on SNES, more people would have played it and we would probably have more installments of this amazing title!
That large koopa suffers from the same gaming syndrome as the Ghostbusters on the final staircase stage. Moving slow as hell when you need them to move fast but go hyper speed when the objective is complete
U can beat video games, do you plan on doing any more of the dragon quest games? dragon quest 2 would make for a heck of an episode as it is fun to play and the enemies get very challenging fast early in the game. would love to see your strategies on it. 😎
For something like this to die out so quickly is kind of sad... If there is a StarTropics 3, I'd love to get my hands on a copy and play it for myself.
HOLY SHIT! MY FAVORITE NES GAME! YOU DID IT!
There is one obscure Nintendo adventure game I cannot remember the name . I'm waiting for that magical day you cover it so I can remember the name and also find out how in the world to get past a part I could never figure out..
Man, I have been waiting for this one since the OG video. As always, you do not disappoint. :D
So... now that we're here at last, I can say my peace about good ol' Zoda's Revenge. I think for the most part, it's a solid game. My main issue is that cop out, HORSECRAP ending. Didn't Mica EXPLICITLY mention that Argonia was, y'know... GONE?? As in, destroyed beyond any attempt at salvation? Why would Hirocon returning change that? UGH. What a terrible ending.
That said, as I mentioned, I think the game itself is a fine successor to Startropics. The eight directional movement is an interesting mechanic that I wish a Startropics 3 would have come out to expand on further by making platforming that REQUIRES you to jump diagonally. Because unless I'm mistaken, there's no REQUIRED diagonal jumping in 2. There are some goofy moments with historical figures, but there were goofy moments in the first game. I mean, for god's sake Mike shoves BANANAS in his ears to block out Zoda's voice. This series is ALL about goofy moments and addictive gameplay.
I'd steal your ST3 idea if I had the slightest bit of programming knowledge, HA. I know a user on Deviantart by the name of Diegichigo who actually made some sprites for Mica as a potential playable character for Startropics 3 and I'm all on board with that idea as well.
I feel like this series needs a reboot for the Nintendo Switch it can bring in new players as well as old nostalgia players who remember this game. You won’t need to change the story just update the graphics and your off and running
Another great episode! This reminds me of Ultima: Exodus... please consider doing that NES (and PC obviously) classic someday!
I love this game!
Well, maybe you should.
@@starofjustice1 ok?
Awesome video!
You said you thought the pizza company in this game was called Little Nero's? That was the pizza company from Home Alone.
I wonder why they chose to develop this for the NES when the SNES was already out when they likely started development. Putting the sequel on the SNES likely would have led to possibly a sequel or 2.
thats a really good question that Ive wondered about for a while - Seems like making a sequel on their new hardware would have gotten it a lot more attention. They seem to have put a lot of work into making this game, so it would make more sense to design it for the newest system
Proof the dog is playing he just said what's up to his fellow 🐕
I love the deep dive you provide. Any chance you might hit the kunio kun series. River city ransom or diversity girls :)
Thanks for your content :)
Are we going to ignore the fact that Persona sound effects play in a NES game? Starting at 2:00:08.
God i never played this i did beat star tropics so i guess its time to go on another adventure
I was never able to finish this one--not for lack of skill, but because the game sends you back to chapter 2 if you beat chapter 5 (or at least it did in the emulation)! While I'll admit that's a clever way to prevent piracy, I'd rather the game not work at all than jerk me around like that.
Have they added this to NES online? Seems like such a no-brainer
I've never even heard of this game
You can eat pork rare but it all tastes like ham when you do.
....i didnt even know there was a startropics 2 lol
StarTropics is one of my favorite NES games. I didn't even know a sequel existed.
Pro Jared brought me here.
Milon’s secret castle?
Was it a cat i saw
Was it a rat i saw holy palindrome batman
mike vs a deathclaw with a stone ax.. forget needing every weapon just to put one down just use a stone ax. that's hardcore man
Sweet ❤️
Another great video. Please go a little slower through the game text... Im listening very carefully AND trying to catch all the ancient "jokes".
Cleopatra in this game is meant to look like Elizabeth Taylor, as Sherlock Holmes is designed to look like Basil Rathbone. Many people do not know that Cleopatra was actually Greek!
Also, Cleopatra was royalty, so she probably wouldn't spend a lot of time in the sun. In Ye Olden Times being ghostly white was considered attractive, since it meant that you're rich and didn't have to work outdoors.
Ps Basil is the best Sherlock
Such an epic game!
24:27 Cleopatra looking very European is somewhat historically accurate. The ruling family of Egypt in that time were not native, but descended from Ptolemy, one of Alexander the Great's generals, making her Macedonian Greek and not Egyptian. Unlike the rest of her family, Cleopatra _actually bothered to learn Egyptian_ and could speak to her subjects, so she was extra popular with her people.
Regardless, a suntan was the sign of a common laborer in both Greek and Egyptian society, and women in particular avoided getting one, lest they risk looking like that had to leave home to work. Cleopatra, as a noble, would have definitely made sure her skin was as pale as possible.
The Ptolemaic King's even. A long line of his family ruled Egypt as Pharaoh for centuries after the death of Alexander and ended with Cleopatra.
Greeks are Mediterranean though
@staghornthedruid957 yes they are, but let's not forget modern Mediterranean people are quite the mixed lot, so that's not exactly the best control sample. Pure-bred ancient Greeks are said to have been mostly white, with the commoners having a more tanned tone, for the reasons already mentioned here.
@@franciscopina2899 so greeks are mainly brown
Highly underrated game! Absolutely loved this one back when, but was always stuck at the last Zoda. Showed him who’s boss a few weeks back, did it in memory of my cousin who passed this year. We used to go to town on this game, starting fresh each time and challenging each other with weird level goals. I absolutely adore the OST. Outside of the obvious first party choices, this is my favorite soundtrack on the NES.
@Wayne Mcfarren you probably haven't even played it dude so stop while your ahead
Little Nero's Pizza is from Home Alone. "Caesar's Hut" is a combination reference of Little Caesar's and Pizza Hut.
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NES is still my favorite console with your help im getting futher in my games than ever before, love the channel !
Me too
For all the game’s focus on Mike being a southpaw, you’d figure they could at least make his throwing animation left handed
If you say "No" to the old caveman he'll say something about Mike actually being right-handed and a starting pitcher.
I think you're actually _supposed_ to say "No" when he asks if you're the "southpaw reliever" but most RPGs have trained us to always say "Yes" to things like that...
Man its crazy how under the radar this game was... Ive recommended it to several people who seemed to all have the same "how have i never heard of this game" response
It came out so incredibly late in the console's life that basically there's like zero nostalgia attached to it. By 94 probably 97 percent of console gamers were onto 16 bit and even more.
Little Nero's, I believe, is the pizza place from the Home Alone movie.
Little Caesar's mashed up w/ Pizza Hut, but I think you're correct as well
@@James-kc4ft I'm sure that's what Caesar Hut in this game is a reference to. I was just mentioning where I think he got Little Nero's from.
Bravo! Such an underrated game that was released a little too late, since the NES was on its way out at the time. Definitely one of my favorites.
I remember finding this game in KB toy store, around the year 2000, mixed in with random SNES and Genesis sports games that they had dug out of boxes in storage when they moved locations, within the mall. They also had a copy original Star Tropics. That was the first time I even knew Star Tropics had a sequel. Me and my friends couldnt get over the fact that an NES game was being sold as new, that long after the fact. I was in highscool and still played my NES only slightly less than my PSone.
I want to see him beat Fester's quest. That game was so hard when I was a kid.
Almost did Festers Quest this month, its very high on my list now
I love that you do NES games, ever thought about doing SNES. Like a ff 6 or earthbound. 12 hour vids!!!
I'd love a massive 12 hour SNES rpg from this guy .
@Mystic maybe do it in two parts. I mean there other snes games he could fly through. I would never be upset to see him do Super Metroid.
Agreed for sure! He did do an early video of Super Star Wars for the SNES but from what I can tell it’s the only one
Robotech, only rented it a few times but I remember it being a fun quirky ealry snes rpg. I think it was called Robotech it was a enix game.
SNES walkthroughs would be pretty cool, but with how long a lot of those games are, the frequency of video releases would probably slow to a crawl. Especially with all the secrets and alternative methods of doing stuff that usually gets shown.
Papa Oom Mow Mow is a song by The Rivingtons. Look it up here on RUclips. It's a pretty famous song. 🙂
It's also part of Surfin' Bird
I streamed through this game a while back, and maaan did it frustrate me. But the parts that weren't loaded with BS difficulty were really fun, and the sense of humor was amusing. Overall I liked it a bunch. In retrospect, anyway. And I even think I found a glitch on my own!
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Great game! I usually have trouble with Zoda Y, but your strategy will make it much easier for me!
As for a third game, I always thought they'd finally take it to the stars. In my mind, several years after the last game Mike and Miss Carol did get together and the aliens came back and abducted everyone from C-island except for Mike and his uncle who were stateside at the time (new alien leader wanting revenge for Zoda's final defeat in the last game). They return to C-island after Mike couldn't contact his girlfriend to find everyone gone. Dr. J then reveals the spaceship he was working on based on the remains of the wrecked ship from the first game and has Navcom re-programmed and ready to pilot it (gotta bring that robot back). Then Mike travels to outer space and each chapter as logged in the ship's log is a new planet/solar system he visits to try and find his girlfriend and the rest of the folks from C-island.
They would meet up with various alien races (complete with references to other franchises and/or places that Star Tropics is known for and/or funny scenes where Mike tries to explain humans to them) including the ones he rescued along from the previous games and they help Mike by upgrading his ship with new abilities (kind of like how the sub in the first game got new abilities, but more in-depth and we could have some light space combat added to the game).
As Mike rescues all the people from C-island they'd join him on the ship, and at the end they'd all be back on C-island with Mike being able to go around and talk to everyone optionally before talking to Carol one last time where they decide to go to the victory party together as a couple.
This would've been a much bigger game on the SNES with tons of new places and things to do. Mike's new throwing weapons would've been some high tech "space balls" (yes, pun of the movie, but it's Star Tropics, we expect that), and with all the new alien tech he'd come across, he'd gain some unique new abilities too with some new consumable items (night vision for the dark rooms, hover shoes for temp walking over damage tiles, etc.).
44:22 - I like to quickly hop all the way to the last block and attack from there. Gives you less chance to fall in and it's a little more consistent.
lol. You cover these games so well I don't even feel like I need to play them. Good job.
Star Tropics 2 is so much easier than the first game. That last stage in 1 is _brutal._
Youre so good at these games! This series was so hard! Even with Nintendo Power
There was nothing more satisfying than the victory music at the end of each level. Wow! you´ve done it! is my favorite line of all times...
I played the SHIT out of Startropics back in the day, over and over. Between that guide and this one, you've done my childhood proud!
Wow... you actually did Zoda's Revenge, it took me a while to get the game and now I can play it (on my NES, I already had it on my Wii thanks to the virtual console magic... that unless you do shenanigans on the console is impossible to get nowdays), your guide will help me a lot to beat the game.
Another great video YCBVG! I was fortunate as a kid to have both Startropics games and dipping the letter that came with the original in water as a 9 year old and figuring that out myself was something I'll remember for the rest of my life.
Having played Zoda's Revenge LONG before the original, I'd say the story worked perfectly well. Heck, Zoda and the alien children literally don't show up until the VERY end of the first game, so it practically didn't spoil anything for actually 'playing' the first game.
StarTropics 1 & 2 Remastered definitely long overdue...
Then in StarTropics 3, maybe it'd be fun to beat stuff up as Mica? :P (Maybe in StarTropics 1 & 2, she was a bit younger then Mike & just wasn't old enough to fight yet, but in 3, she is now...? Imagine how powerful a Psychic Shot she'd be capable of... :D
Another idea for Star Tropics 3 that is available to steal: Call it "Star Tropics 3: The Legend of Zoda"
Now that's branding!
Ocarina of Tropics.
i always felt like star tropics was an awesome name for a game but the actual game doesnt really match up with the name itself. it needs more space travel and more beautiful beach levels.
24:22 Well, to be fair, Cleopatra's dynasty (the Ptolemys) is actually Greek, so maybe she has that for why she's a bit lighter-skinned. Although one would think she could be more tanned.
44:40 - fun fact that if you take too long to beat the boss, he goes nuts and a log of projectiles will appear likely killing you
ngl this boss freaked me out when it started spewing stuff all over the screen that's impossible to avoid
Cleopatra was actually greek. So yeah she would European. If ancient greeks are somewhat close to today's greeks her skin tone would be spot on. Source - my wife is greek and I retired in Greece.
This game was a big deal. When the sequel was released i went to 3 different movie stores to find it for the friday-monday weekend deal and i slept on the floor in my living room for two days with the game in pause lol. I was 12 years old.
Damn I’m glad I stumbled on this channel. I feel like I’m restoring bits of my childhood
I think it's funny that the magical words are clearly from Surfin' Bird. Every body knows that the bird is the word!
Bro, this series is awesome. You got the formula right. Its gotta be the perfect amount of dog. Nice work man. I'll watch anything you do. Every NES game, let's go.
When I was a kid I found a trick to max out your hearts at 20 early. If you speak to King Arthur again, you will get the same dialog and he will knight you again, increasing your maximum hearts by 1 again. This can be repeated a 3rd time to max out at 20.
The end of the era! NES games forever! (1984-95) rest in power NES games!
I wonder if the game was actually released for the SNES if it would of been more popular?
1:46:16 - You can avoid spike damage by jumping to the green square to the left or right of the entrance first.
I really love this youtube channel. You make videos for games i enjoyed as a kid, but couldn't beat. Games i never heard of and would have enjoyed. Last but not least games that i always wanted to play, but never had the money
I push that like button like that dog pushes the NES controller button!
If you met the actual historical figure, "Cleopatra," in a video game, and she looked like a modern European supermodel, for some reason, and had really pale skin, like, she wasn't a native Egyptian, but wouldn't she have, like, a tan, or something, being out in the desert sun, for years, even if it's just for brief public appearances, and she was wearing Queen Amidala levels of makeup, what would you do? Would you be mad?
While Cleopatra was born in Egypt, she traced her family origins to Macedonian Greece. She’s not what the woke generation thinks she is a “Black African Queen”… most ancient Egyptians had Greek in them. They had zero sub-Saharan African. There’s a reason why no other place in Africa looks like Egypt. Geographically and culturally, Egypt is more middle eastern than anything!!
If Cleopatra ordered a pizza.
What would be the chances it was a Little Caesars.
Cleopatra likely appeared very European, because her ancestry was Greek. Alexander the Great conquered Egypt, and after he died, his general Ptolemy Lagides (Cleopatra's ancestor) took control of Egypt and rebranded himself as a pharaoh.
I watch for the in-depth details about the games you dive into.
I stick around for the great commentary!
You can make a whole additional video pointing out all the little easter-egg quips you make! "I feel like I'm ready to take on Apollo Creed!"
Love it! Keep up the great work and thanks for putting these out there for us to watch!
If traditional videogame magazine's walkthrough article get turn into video format, this channel would be the prime example of how it would be like.
Your videos actually gave me the nostalgia feeling of spending hours reading every words and looking at screen caps plastered on each page of my favorite magazines. Thank you
One correction about the Try Your Luck sign:
In Zoda's Revenge, they can no longer take away lives. They only have +1 and +2 as possible outcomes, making it possible to get to 9 lives on certain dungeons.
I like your golden retriever, but I'm sorry my yellow labrador is better
Thank you as always for your consistently great Saturday content. Glad to see those subs shooting too, 50k here you come!
As always love your videos still waiting on that Guardian Legend walkthrough