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1:16:22 In case anyone is curious (and because it gives me an excuse to actually use all the useless horror game info I know), Monster Party was originally going to be a game called Parody World: Monster Party where the sendups and homages to classic horror movies and characters were much more explicit (ie. The pitcher plant being a normal flytrap with a mic and amp that says "Feed me Seymore!", the Pumpkin headed dude being a hunter from Planet of the Apes, and a ton of others). It was changed late in development because of the legal risks, but a complete rom of the OG version fully translated is online if you want to look. Played it myself and it plays identical, just makes way more sense. Glad I finally get to use this useless info somewhere.
Yup, Monster Party is infamous for being pretty bizarre and going through a strange development cycle. Here are a few more Fun Facts: -If you're an OG, you probably remember learning about Monster Party from a site called Syd Lexia. The author noted that, while the liquid on the final game's title screen is just green slime, there's a prerelease promo image where it's a pool of blood. Given what we know from the prototype ROM (see below), it looks like the color was changed to meet Nintendo of America's censorship rules. That doesn't explain why a short but extremely gruesome body horror scene in the ending was kept, though. -Syd also argued that the sudden shift in atmosphere as you pass the cactus was deliberate, not to catch players off guard, but to trick the higher-ups at Bandai and Nintendo. His theory was that the companies' overworked supervisors would have only cleared the game's benign first level before giving it a stamp of approval, assuming the rest of the game was like that. I disagree with that personally, but regardless, the cactus scene is a cool and iconic part of the Monster Party experience. -For some reason, they shelved the Japanese version just before release, and it only came out in the US. Someone found a prototype Famicom copy, and it ended up being sold between private collectors for a while. Thankfully, someone dumped the ROM and released it publicly in 2014. It's functionally complete, but a bit glitchier and less polished than the released NES version, and it still has the more blatant horror references. It also has the bloody title screen from Syd Lexia's old promo shot. -As noted, a lot of the parodic aspects were made more subtle in the US version. The popular belief is that they toned it down because the American legal system was (and to a lesser extent, still is) more stringent than the Japanese system when it comes to the line between parody/satire/pastiche and plagiarism/copyright infringement. --The pitcher plant boss was originally a Venus flytrap, and its boss room came complete with a set of overhead stage lights and an amp on its right. You could jump on top of the amp for a better shot at the boss, and in fact, _you still can in the NES version._ The platform is still there, but the graphics for the amp and stage lights were overwritten by black tiles, so there's just an unexplained invisible floor that you won't find about unless you happen to run past the boss and jump. --The pumpkin-headed bedsheet ghost boss was originally an ape that rode a horse and (I think) threw spears at you. Its Japanese intro dialogue translates to "Seize him! I will give you the honor of becoming my slave!" An obvious Planet of the Apes reference, and in the prototype, there's even a cartoonish depiction of the ruined Statue of Liberty in the background of the boss room. Like Not-Audrey II's stage equipment, the developers removed the Statue's remains by replacing the graphics with black tiles, so technically they still exist in the NES version as distinct assets. This time it had no effect on the gameplay, but even before the release of the prototype gave it context, astute ROM-hackers had already discovered this patch of visually identical but programmatically unique background tiles.
1:24:00 In case anyone's curious why names in NES credits are so weird (including stuff like the first two Zelda games, the Castlevania series etc and not only this funny Eversion-progenitor kusoge), a lot of companies employed a "you must use funny nicknames when crediting yourself" policy to prevent competitors from stealing their developers. (If you've been following the industry discourse, Konami's HR department still seems to believe it's the 1980s...)
@@thethrashyone Yeah, Capcom really adhered to that policy throughout the 80s and 90s. It's why no one knew Yoko Shimomura made almost every single theme in Street Fighter 2 until the 2010s.
1:50:53 You bet right. As my favorite game on NES, I should remind *Zombie Nation* is available to purchase on Switch and Windows (Steam). It is the first re-release ever and it also includes the Japanese version, *Abarenbou Tengu,* with several gameplay extras.
If I'm not mistaken Beetlejuice ate bugs in the cartoon. Been like 25 years since I've seen it so not a hundred on that, but I kind of remember him eating worms and beatles.
I'd love to see him play Sweet Home, that and the remake of Night of the Kamaitachi. Now if only there was a fan translation of Otogirisou, we'd have a holy trinity.
Oh my 01:11:08 it triggered my memory. Im from eastern eu and we just started to get tvs but no channels yet and we had white noise/static and when we tried to switch channel we could see someone played this game again in some noise quality but it was this game. how cool it was as a kid to watch something like this it was magical, and now 20+ years later to watch vinny play it and its like woaah dood back in to the childhood
Sweet Home is so freaking good man, I love the enemy sprites so much that I had to find/put them on the spriter's resource page. Truly one of the most underrated games on the NES/Famicom. Of course, I'd love to see Vinny play through the whole thing, but that's wishful thinking + I know he's got better things to do/play.
The european version of Fester's Quest removes the thing where your projectiles vanish when they collide with walls, that change makes the game a whole lot more playable in my opinion. Games still not great or anything but you could do a lot worse, it does have a cool soundtrack like most NES Sunsoft games.
55:30 the broken glasses grift happened to me once, the very FIRST time I went to NYC on my own as an adult (to go to Nintendo World too of course). I was kinda shocked but the guy fumbled over trying to stick it to me and I just walked away first chance I got. The CD thing happened to me as well but I was with company and it was pretty easy to dump it back on the guy.
I see a good mix of AVGN and Jontron myself, AVGN's episodes being Beetlejuice, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Fester's Quest, Friday the 13th, Ghostbusters (something Irate Gamer would wind up reviewing at that) and Nightmare on Elm Street whereas the games Jontron covered were Monster Party and Samurai Zombie Nation (something Spoony reviewed too).
The most terrifying thing in this video is the idea that someone would spend $15 for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Talk about getting scammed. EDIT: The average asking price on Ebay is $20-30. WTF you can buy 2 or 3 good NES games for that price.
I remember playing Chiller on an arcade machine in the batting cages back in 1989. The crossbow peripheral it used was the same exact one in the much more light-hearted game aptly named "Crossbow" which was like Lemmings where you had to shoot everything threatening the NPCs rather than build things for them. It was so horrifyingly violent, I stopped playing while the game was still in progress because I felt sick and like I was doing something wrong.
Monster Party is probably my most memorable game that I owned back in the day due to it being the weirdest game I'd played. Can't believe my father ever bought it for me after not knowing anything about it.
Not many people know this, but the Friday the 13th NES game was developed by ATLUS. Yes, *that* ATLUS. The "Boonty plis plae Persona 5, onli 20 meenutes" ATLUS. The _publishers_ were the "Laughing Joking Numbnuts" themselves but the true perpetrators of the unspeakable evil were them.
As said in the Vid, LJN was just Acclaim's personal shovelware brand since the company had a fuckton of toy licenses and other things before acclaim bought them.
Fun Fact! Bram Stoker's Dracula has an amazing arrangement album by +TEK the composer of ExZodiac If anyone is interested you can find it on their RUclips channel
45:52 can confirm, met charles at TMG 2018 dressed as traveller princess peach from mario odyssey. he signed my sunshine poster and copy of M&L: bowsers inside story to 'super princess ali' without me even asking him to. also, had him sign a waluigi poster for my BFF and he did waluigis voice at the same time he was a very sweet man overall!
What if the reason that Fester's Quest is so long and bad is because the Addams' are a family of masochists and sadists and it kinda keeps with that theme?
In classic Vinny fashion, he plays two hours of weird NES games with tons of comedic potential and it's a goofy DPCM drum fill that gets him (1:46:51).
Mega Man 6 was a 1993 game as well, and it turned out pretty good. Well, aside from the jumping goofs and the fact that some people might find the bots insensitively designed.
1:11:35 Pokemon was more than likely inspired by Ultraseven of all things. Ultraseven keeps kaiju in capsules that he's able to throw out for battle, and when they become too weak to continue he even calls them back into the capsule with a similar laser-like effect. Considering so many Pokemon designs are also inspired by the Ultra series, I think it's a pretty safe bet.
@@warbossgegguz679 This was one of many of the inspirations as well. When I mention Ultraseven's connection, I'm mainly referring to the way the idea is executed. The visuals of the monsters going in and out of the capsules (Pokemon was even called Capsule Monsters at one point in development), and the way Ultraseven gives them attack commands as well.
yo, sweet home is actually lit as shit! sadly, it would take a while to properly get through, and in true NES fashion, it's not exactly straightforward. if anything, please look up the tie in movie because it's so hilariously goddamn awful. I can't help but point and shout "we can get out!" whenever I see the moon through a window because of how awful the acting was in that disasterpiece. It's also probably for the best that you didn't play too much of sweet home on stream as well given that instead of being a silly scare game, it's a genuinely morose game with a fairly serious tone. there are frequent and vivid depictions of gore and body horror! sidestepping potential spoilers, people scream to you as they're burnt alive, the two male party members are bisected at the waist should their health hit 0 (and their corpses remain should you want to use their bodies for storage), and one character straight up gets his flesh vaporized from his bones while you helplessly watch. it is impressively horrifying and fucked up for an NES game and I love it a shitload. booti pls don't play, is arrrrpeegee and would require much more time and focus than you could spare it.
Sweet Home would 100% be a game Vinny would play.... IF it were remade. In fact, I think it really should be remade so more people play it; really, I think it just needs quality of life improvements and 16bit graphics. ... But it would have to be by fans since (unless things have changed with the licensing) I read an article like 5 years ago saying Sweet Home the game and the movie have been stuck in legal limbo since the directors of the two hated each other due to creative differences or something. I forget, but iirc the basic idea is that the article was about the reason Resident Evil didn't stay the Sweet Home remake it began development as is because it was impossible for them to get the IP.
Most licensed games made by JP devs have a way higher bar for quality, even when it comes to them doing Western IPs like Capcom and Konami's licensed games. Sweet Home is a cool and obviously super important game... but it's REALLY clunky even for an NES/FC RPG. The party system is cool though, and obviously it + Alone in the Dark gave us RE. As far as the movie goes, I like it in the same way I like Housu and other schlock horror movies. Is fun. The acting may be more of a cultural barrier though, since JP acting being about as subtle as a brick to the head is intentional thanks to Kabuki informing their style of dramatic acting. Same reason why people think subs sound fine but dubs sound over the top... because the Japanese is also over the top, it's just harder to know that if you don't know the language.
@@That_One_Xatu I mean, tbh I like the movie, but it was definitely not worth reupping the license both because by then the movie was almost 6 years old + it let them have creative freedom. Also, it's a fun movie but it's not like high quality cinema, lol. It's a trashy JP horror movie a la House, Grudge, Ring, etc. Junji Ito it is not, lol.
oh it is DEFINETELY a B movie that kinda just sucks at times lmao, but growing up has taught me that it's okay to like garbage in spite of or even due to its cheesiness. I'm proud to be a certified professional dumpster diver who wholeheartedly recommend things that suck to others BECAUSE they suck. given that binyort played that zelda ii game maker port, it might not actually be a waste of time (well, a waste of time for everyone but the 50 people who are still enthusiastic about this game) to try that myself for sweet home 🤔 I could stand to take a break from my current works in progress, but given how dogshit off-the-rails passionate I feel about game development, that may something to bring to the table for spooptober 2025 or something. well, won't know if I don't try!
I wanted to comment on the CD thing. I used to work down the street from a convention center and one day there was a comic book convention at it so I went after work. As I was waiting to cross the street I saw these three guys hurrassing people about thier CD's to the point of running out into traffic. When I was allowed to walk I gave a huge birth, walking deep across the street to avoid them but one ran up to me telling me to take his CD, that it was important to him to get his music out there, etc. I just waved him away saying thank you but no. He kept going and going. It was clear it was rap and I was honest and said dude, I'm sure your great but I hate rap. If you force me to take your CD I will throw it in that trash can right over there. It would be better to give it to someone who will enjoy it. This did not stop him at all. I had never heard of this scam but It was obvious what was happening. Especially after I told him I'd throw it out and he's still shoving the CD towards me telling me he's a local artist that needs exposure. You want your CD exposed to the trash can? I said I was local too and not interested. He didn't stop until I finally got to the convention doors. I'm sure if I even touched that CD I'd be yelled at and hurrased and probably attacked. I'm sure i looked like a mark because I was a white dude in a full suit but I'm not stupid.
*Bad NES voice* Ghostbusters! That stairway segment if you’ll forgive me for the pun, haunts me. Thank God for the 2009 game and it’s remaster. Oh lord, Monster Party, I’m getting JonTron flashbacks.
I watched a channel called "U Can Beat Video Games" and they covered NoES, and I have to say, it is a much better game than most would think. Would love to play the 4 player mode one day!
@@RedSpade37 On the one hand, it's an LJN game, so it's kind of a miracle it came out as good as it did, on the other hand, it's also technically a Rare game (!), so... maybe that's why it came out as good as it did?
Vinny thank you so much for reminding me of Eversion, I have vivid memories of my friend showing it to me years ago in middle school but I could never remember the name of it. I googled for years and looked through all kinds of indie titles and freeware titles and never found it. Now I know the name and can go buy it and the amount of dopamine I feel is roughly equivalent to 3 hours of speen
The Werewolf game isn't bad at the beginning, it is one of those games you need to know all the basics even hidden moves ones, and know power-ups rules too, like the human form got a projectile attack you can keep using, it's a charge attack move and does double damage then the punch. But further through the game it does becomes BS. alot of these games are not "casual" friendly games
he played paarthurnax in skyrim, but apparently he doesnt have the range to play mario but slightly less bing bing wahoo sounding according to some people online
@@mechadeka i would not in fact be complaining about it, actually. what reason would i have to complain? mario's actual voice actor doing a slightly different voice sure beats chris pratt not doing any voice at all
1:51:13 That was me with Battle Arena Toshiden and trying to explain it by saying that the boss was some big dude on a checkered platform flowing through a cave and everyone had weapons. People kept thinking it was modified Soul Edge.
I fuckin' had Fester's Quest. I literally had that goddamn cartridge and it always frustrated me to no end. With how few games I had as a child, it was usually either between Friday the 13th, RoboWarrior, Kirby's Adventure, Mario 1/Duck Hunt, Mario 2, Mario 3, Gotcha and Festers Quest. I might have had a few others, but yeah, that's the one's I usually tried to play.
Zombie Nation sounds familiar, though, the version I played had no giant head and the zombies screamed constantly, also there was this box that spat out guns.
omg monster party was the game I had as a kid that I was too young to play XD it gave me nightmares, then literally years later I remembered some little part of it and spent hours trying to find proof that this game existed (with no recollection of the name or anything). found it eventually but no one ever knows what I'm talking about when I bring up this game!
Elm Street actually has *4-player* co-op. Imagine a 4-player platformer on the NES. It took Mario until the Wii to reach that! Rare was just like "yeah we'll toss that into this no-budget licensed game."
Man, New York City doesn't seem safe with people forcing CDs onto you and then charging you $40 for them or people intentionally bumping into you and doing that scam that Eric Andre did with the porcelain laptop (but not as a joke). I don't know how Joel was able to avoid all that stuff although even Joel overtipped a taxi driver because tipping isn't a thing in Sweden? Like bad things happen everywhere don't get me wrong, but Vinny's bad stories of New York City makes me not want to go to big cities in the very country I live in with seemingly the only advantage of the big cities being more activities/stores outside of your home to spend money on such as all the unique/quirky/expensive restaurants such as ones where you drink ass juice.
My GF and I were watching this at like, 7:30 in the morning over the weekend and for whatever reason, maybe sleep deprivation, the hard sound cut at 33:26 made us both start crying laughing, which was only made worse by Vinny's instant death.
I swear the Bram Stoker's Dracula music sounds a lot like the Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets game for Game Boy Color. Unfortunately, I can find the composer for this game (Jeroen Tel), but the Harry Potter game's music is just credited to "Semi-Precious Studios".
Im kinda sad. Not sure if I'm old or this is the state of the internet now, but when I saw Monster Party i thought of JonTron and o haven't scene anyone else mention that review. The intro is giving me a ton of flash backs lol.
Fester's Quest manual basically says "This game is no fun without a rapid fire controller". Once you get one of those, it's actually good. You still have to deal with gun and whip downgrades, but a lot of the enemies are definitely easier to deal with. Personally, I'd rather see a hack that cuts all enemy HP to 1/5 so it's playable without rapid controller, though the splitting ooze may still be problematic. Even with rapid fire that thing can totally just get out of control.
1:20:31 Is it just me or does the music after the first level turns from happy smiles to blood and skulls sound like Planet Bunnera from The Legendary Starfy?
1:12:46 That's not entirely true, they were already calling it "Pokemon" for short long before it ever reached America. More accurate to say would be "This franchise is why no official material can acknowledge what Pokemon is short for outside of Japan."
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1:16:22 In case anyone is curious (and because it gives me an excuse to actually use all the useless horror game info I know), Monster Party was originally going to be a game called Parody World: Monster Party where the sendups and homages to classic horror movies and characters were much more explicit (ie. The pitcher plant being a normal flytrap with a mic and amp that says "Feed me Seymore!", the Pumpkin headed dude being a hunter from Planet of the Apes, and a ton of others). It was changed late in development because of the legal risks, but a complete rom of the OG version fully translated is online if you want to look. Played it myself and it plays identical, just makes way more sense.
Glad I finally get to use this useless info somewhere.
Not useless 👍
Holy shit, thanks! I had been wondering why the hell it's so weird since I came into contact with the game.
Thanks, Warboss
@@littlejunkettes4122 I've been holding onto this info for like 2~3 years but I finally found a place where it's relevant :)
Yup, Monster Party is infamous for being pretty bizarre and going through a strange development cycle. Here are a few more Fun Facts:
-If you're an OG, you probably remember learning about Monster Party from a site called Syd Lexia. The author noted that, while the liquid on the final game's title screen is just green slime, there's a prerelease promo image where it's a pool of blood. Given what we know from the prototype ROM (see below), it looks like the color was changed to meet Nintendo of America's censorship rules. That doesn't explain why a short but extremely gruesome body horror scene in the ending was kept, though.
-Syd also argued that the sudden shift in atmosphere as you pass the cactus was deliberate, not to catch players off guard, but to trick the higher-ups at Bandai and Nintendo. His theory was that the companies' overworked supervisors would have only cleared the game's benign first level before giving it a stamp of approval, assuming the rest of the game was like that. I disagree with that personally, but regardless, the cactus scene is a cool and iconic part of the Monster Party experience.
-For some reason, they shelved the Japanese version just before release, and it only came out in the US. Someone found a prototype Famicom copy, and it ended up being sold between private collectors for a while. Thankfully, someone dumped the ROM and released it publicly in 2014. It's functionally complete, but a bit glitchier and less polished than the released NES version, and it still has the more blatant horror references. It also has the bloody title screen from Syd Lexia's old promo shot.
-As noted, a lot of the parodic aspects were made more subtle in the US version. The popular belief is that they toned it down because the American legal system was (and to a lesser extent, still is) more stringent than the Japanese system when it comes to the line between parody/satire/pastiche and plagiarism/copyright infringement.
--The pitcher plant boss was originally a Venus flytrap, and its boss room came complete with a set of overhead stage lights and an amp on its right. You could jump on top of the amp for a better shot at the boss, and in fact, _you still can in the NES version._ The platform is still there, but the graphics for the amp and stage lights were overwritten by black tiles, so there's just an unexplained invisible floor that you won't find about unless you happen to run past the boss and jump.
--The pumpkin-headed bedsheet ghost boss was originally an ape that rode a horse and (I think) threw spears at you. Its Japanese intro dialogue translates to "Seize him! I will give you the honor of becoming my slave!" An obvious Planet of the Apes reference, and in the prototype, there's even a cartoonish depiction of the ruined Statue of Liberty in the background of the boss room. Like Not-Audrey II's stage equipment, the developers removed the Statue's remains by replacing the graphics with black tiles, so technically they still exist in the NES version as distinct assets. This time it had no effect on the gameplay, but even before the release of the prototype gave it context, astute ROM-hackers had already discovered this patch of visually identical but programmatically unique background tiles.
"SORRY. I'M DEAD" is a Monster Party quote I often mistake for the "sorry nothing" meme
It was actually used in the game Castle in the Darkness in a secret area! Vinny played it, I don't think he ever finished it tho.
'hi, im dead'
@@mikotoh hi dead, I'm dad.
Wait
And is the inspiration for the name of the first RUclips let's player, Deceased Crab.
@@YersiniaPest I watched his La Mulana 2 playthrough recently!
1:24:00 In case anyone's curious why names in NES credits are so weird (including stuff like the first two Zelda games, the Castlevania series etc and not only this funny Eversion-progenitor kusoge), a lot of companies employed a "you must use funny nicknames when crediting yourself" policy to prevent competitors from stealing their developers. (If you've been following the industry discourse, Konami's HR department still seems to believe it's the 1980s...)
Guess that explains "Yuuki-chan's papa" in all the early Mega Man credits.
Holy shit that's so scummy
And I thought it was an innocent inside joke all this time
@@thethrashyone Yeah, Capcom really adhered to that policy throughout the 80s and 90s. It's why no one knew Yoko Shimomura made almost every single theme in Street Fighter 2 until the 2010s.
Considering the timing of things, Permanent spine damage made me cackle so hard I almost cried.
What was the thing about timing, exactly?
@@WinEntity someone got permanent spine damage at Twitch Con 22 due to unsafe events, specifically a foam pit
1:50:53 You bet right. As my favorite game on NES, I should remind *Zombie Nation* is available to purchase on Switch and Windows (Steam). It is the first re-release ever and it also includes the Japanese version, *Abarenbou Tengu,* with several gameplay extras.
Holy shit thank you for telling me this. I had no idea
If I'm not mistaken Beetlejuice ate bugs in the cartoon. Been like 25 years since I've seen it so not a hundred on that, but I kind of remember him eating worms and beatles.
He eats bugs in the movie also.
Well, him eating bugs in the cartoon was offscreen... and was it onscreen in the movie?
Another vote for a full Sweet Home playthrough
Yes!
I'd love to see him play Sweet Home, that and the remake of Night of the Kamaitachi. Now if only there was a fan translation of Otogirisou, we'd have a holy trinity.
Never gonna happen lol. He clearly hated it.
I love how in the "FREDDY'S COMING!" popup, there's a tiny tm over FREDDY'S
shouldn't it be after "freddy" since that's the trademarked part, like "freddy™'s coming"?
Oh my 01:11:08 it triggered my memory. Im from eastern eu and we just started to get tvs but no channels yet and we had white noise/static and when we tried to switch channel we could see someone played this game again in some noise quality but it was this game. how cool it was as a kid to watch something like this it was magical, and now 20+ years later to watch vinny play it and its like woaah dood back in to the childhood
14:22 and this is where the Bram Stoker's Draculas' music goes absolutely mental.
Even if it was a brief moment I'm glad he played Sweet Home and Shadowgate, hopefully he'll give them another chance in the future
Sweet Home is so freaking good man, I love the enemy sprites so much that I had to find/put them on the spriter's resource page.
Truly one of the most underrated games on the NES/Famicom.
Of course, I'd love to see Vinny play through the whole thing, but that's wishful thinking + I know he's got better things to do/play.
Classic
ive been marathoning 70s and 80s horror movies these last couple weeks, perfect timing on this stream vincent
The european version of Fester's Quest removes the thing where your projectiles vanish when they collide with walls, that change makes the game a whole lot more playable in my opinion. Games still not great or anything but you could do a lot worse, it does have a cool soundtrack like most NES Sunsoft games.
Monster Party was the first NES game I ever beat as a kid... still holds up.
Sweet Home is really a solid game.
Hell yea
55:30 the broken glasses grift happened to me once, the very FIRST time I went to NYC on my own as an adult (to go to Nintendo World too of course). I was kinda shocked but the guy fumbled over trying to stick it to me and I just walked away first chance I got.
The CD thing happened to me as well but I was with company and it was pretty easy to dump it back on the guy.
You were part of a Yakuza Substory, dude.
Just looking at the names of games featured brings the memories of AVGN episodes lmao.
You truly feel like John Angry Nerd
I see a good mix of AVGN and Jontron myself, AVGN's episodes being Beetlejuice, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Fester's Quest, Friday the 13th, Ghostbusters (something Irate Gamer would wind up reviewing at that) and Nightmare on Elm Street whereas the games Jontron covered were Monster Party and Samurai Zombie Nation (something Spoony reviewed too).
The most terrifying thing in this video is the idea that someone would spend $15 for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Talk about getting scammed.
EDIT: The average asking price on Ebay is $20-30. WTF you can buy 2 or 3 good NES games for that price.
I remember playing Chiller on an arcade machine in the batting cages back in 1989. The crossbow peripheral it used was the same exact one in the much more light-hearted game aptly named "Crossbow" which was like Lemmings where you had to shoot everything threatening the NPCs rather than build things for them. It was so horrifyingly violent, I stopped playing while the game was still in progress because I felt sick and like I was doing something wrong.
I'm confessing my age here, but I had a similar experience. It was so... gruesome, I was confused.
I played Pac-Man for the rest of the evening...
Bringing out the AVGN classics
Piss on AVGN, NINTENDO classics.
Or JDG (the better AVGN) if you understand French.
ROLLING ROCK ON THE ROLLING ROCKER
@@furydeath ROLLING ROCK! ROLLING ROCK-ER!
@@Caz122 YE-HEAH ROLLING ROCK ON THE ROLLIN' ROCKER!
Monster Party is probably my most memorable game that I owned back in the day due to it being the weirdest game I'd played. Can't believe my father ever bought it for me after not knowing anything about it.
Because parents then played Nintendo games and after all, the reviews esp online about video games.......... lol no, sorry I'm dead.
Monster in my Pocket was a series of collectible rubbery mini-figures of monsters from various mythologies and media.
Not many people know this, but the Friday the 13th NES game was developed by ATLUS.
Yes, *that* ATLUS. The "Boonty plis plae Persona 5, onli 20 meenutes" ATLUS.
The _publishers_ were the "Laughing Joking Numbnuts" themselves but the true perpetrators of the unspeakable evil were them.
As said in the Vid, LJN was just Acclaim's personal shovelware brand since the company had a fuckton of toy licenses and other things before acclaim bought them.
@@warbossgegguz679 Then the co-founder of LJN went on to create THQ.
@@cookieface80 and then Jakks Pacific.
Fun Fact!
Bram Stoker's Dracula has an amazing arrangement album by +TEK the composer of ExZodiac
If anyone is interested you can find it on their RUclips channel
45:52 can confirm, met charles at TMG 2018 dressed as traveller princess peach from mario odyssey. he signed my sunshine poster and copy of M&L: bowsers inside story to 'super princess ali' without me even asking him to.
also, had him sign a waluigi poster for my BFF and he did waluigis voice at the same time
he was a very sweet man overall!
I think Maniac Mansion would of benefited a lot being on the snes instead but it's pretty impressive for nes
Damn, you unlocked a memory I didn't know I had with monster in my pocket.
0:03:43 0:09:37 0:11:14 - Vinny Beetlejuice impression
0:14:59 - Bewildering skyline
0:28:44 - Demon babies
0:32:05 - Vinny's passive?
0:47:28 - Jason(s)
1:18:18 - Fusion! Monster Party's wild. I can definitely see Eversion's resemblance to it.
1:38:48 - ITSvvv
1:46:50 - Drum fill and (not) softlock
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde main theme is actually kinda good though, super moody and spoopy.
Same with Friday the 13th, that title screen music is legitimately kinda unnerving.
Fester's Quest has some cool NES jams
That’s Sunsoft for ya.
The Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde game has some impressive spritework though.
What if the reason that Fester's Quest is so long and bad is because the Addams' are a family of masochists and sadists and it kinda keeps with that theme?
Try the EU version, its a patched version that is much better. You can shoot through walls, for a start.
Or maybe as less of an excuse, the game was just horrible because LJN and shitty game design.
In classic Vinny fashion, he plays two hours of weird NES games with tons of comedic potential and it's a goofy DPCM drum fill that gets him (1:46:51).
Thanks Vinny for the scam prevention, I hopefully will visit Comic-Con someday and these are useful.
32:00 Vinny's passive procs once again.
“Johnny Boy!!” I lost my shit when you made that reference 😂
wow the intro on maniac mansion had me convinced that it might actually be good with all the cool text animations on the title. damn
Need to somehow get a coop zombies ate my neighbors.
Bram Stoker's Dracula just unlocked a memory I had from when I was a small child and watched my parents play NES while I fall asleep.
That song at the end was fucking sick.
Monster Party is awesome. I had it as a kid and loved that game!
The composer for Bram Stoker's Dracula is unhinged
Monsters in my Pocket definitely deserves a remaster or an entry in the NES Online, if Konami grants it, that is.
To be fair, kirby's adventure was published in 93, and that was a damn good game.
Mega Man 6 was a 1993 game as well, and it turned out pretty good.
Well, aside from the jumping goofs and the fact that some people might find the bots insensitively designed.
Ah yes the AVGN Halloween Games Pack
Alternative title: LJN Games Pack
1:11:35 Pokemon was more than likely inspired by Ultraseven of all things.
Ultraseven keeps kaiju in capsules that he's able to throw out for battle, and when they become too weak to continue he even calls them back into the capsule with a similar laser-like effect. Considering so many Pokemon designs are also inspired by the Ultra series, I think it's a pretty safe bet.
Pokemon was inspired by the Japanese tradition of kids keeping beetles as pets and having them fight.
@@warbossgegguz679 This was one of many of the inspirations as well. When I mention Ultraseven's connection, I'm mainly referring to the way the idea is executed. The visuals of the monsters going in and out of the capsules (Pokemon was even called Capsule Monsters at one point in development), and the way Ultraseven gives them attack commands as well.
yo, sweet home is actually lit as shit! sadly, it would take a while to properly get through, and in true NES fashion, it's not exactly straightforward. if anything, please look up the tie in movie because it's so hilariously goddamn awful. I can't help but point and shout "we can get out!" whenever I see the moon through a window because of how awful the acting was in that disasterpiece.
It's also probably for the best that you didn't play too much of sweet home on stream as well given that instead of being a silly scare game, it's a genuinely morose game with a fairly serious tone. there are frequent and vivid depictions of gore and body horror! sidestepping potential spoilers, people scream to you as they're burnt alive, the two male party members are bisected at the waist should their health hit 0 (and their corpses remain should you want to use their bodies for storage), and one character straight up gets his flesh vaporized from his bones while you helplessly watch. it is impressively horrifying and fucked up for an NES game and I love it a shitload. booti pls don't play, is arrrrpeegee and would require much more time and focus than you could spare it.
Sweet Home would 100% be a game Vinny would play.... IF it were remade. In fact, I think it really should be remade so more people play it; really, I think it just needs quality of life improvements and 16bit graphics. ... But it would have to be by fans since (unless things have changed with the licensing) I read an article like 5 years ago saying Sweet Home the game and the movie have been stuck in legal limbo since the directors of the two hated each other due to creative differences or something. I forget, but iirc the basic idea is that the article was about the reason Resident Evil didn't stay the Sweet Home remake it began development as is because it was impossible for them to get the IP.
Most licensed games made by JP devs have a way higher bar for quality, even when it comes to them doing Western IPs like Capcom and Konami's licensed games. Sweet Home is a cool and obviously super important game... but it's REALLY clunky even for an NES/FC RPG. The party system is cool though, and obviously it + Alone in the Dark gave us RE.
As far as the movie goes, I like it in the same way I like Housu and other schlock horror movies. Is fun. The acting may be more of a cultural barrier though, since JP acting being about as subtle as a brick to the head is intentional thanks to Kabuki informing their style of dramatic acting. Same reason why people think subs sound fine but dubs sound over the top... because the Japanese is also over the top, it's just harder to know that if you don't know the language.
@@That_One_Xatu I mean, tbh I like the movie, but it was definitely not worth reupping the license both because by then the movie was almost 6 years old + it let them have creative freedom. Also, it's a fun movie but it's not like high quality cinema, lol. It's a trashy JP horror movie a la House, Grudge, Ring, etc. Junji Ito it is not, lol.
oh it is DEFINETELY a B movie that kinda just sucks at times lmao, but growing up has taught me that it's okay to like garbage in spite of or even due to its cheesiness. I'm proud to be a certified professional dumpster diver who wholeheartedly recommend things that suck to others BECAUSE they suck.
given that binyort played that zelda ii game maker port, it might not actually be a waste of time (well, a waste of time for everyone but the 50 people who are still enthusiastic about this game) to try that myself for sweet home 🤔 I could stand to take a break from my current works in progress, but given how dogshit off-the-rails passionate I feel about game development, that may something to bring to the table for spooptober 2025 or something. well, won't know if I don't try!
I wanted to comment on the CD thing. I used to work down the street from a convention center and one day there was a comic book convention at it so I went after work. As I was waiting to cross the street I saw these three guys hurrassing people about thier CD's to the point of running out into traffic. When I was allowed to walk I gave a huge birth, walking deep across the street to avoid them but one ran up to me telling me to take his CD, that it was important to him to get his music out there, etc. I just waved him away saying thank you but no. He kept going and going. It was clear it was rap and I was honest and said dude, I'm sure your great but I hate rap. If you force me to take your CD I will throw it in that trash can right over there. It would be better to give it to someone who will enjoy it. This did not stop him at all. I had never heard of this scam but It was obvious what was happening. Especially after I told him I'd throw it out and he's still shoving the CD towards me telling me he's a local artist that needs exposure. You want your CD exposed to the trash can? I said I was local too and not interested. He didn't stop until I finally got to the convention doors. I'm sure if I even touched that CD I'd be yelled at and hurrased and probably attacked. I'm sure i looked like a mark because I was a white dude in a full suit but I'm not stupid.
*Bad NES voice* Ghostbusters!
That stairway segment if you’ll forgive me for the pun, haunts me. Thank God for the 2009 game and it’s remaster.
Oh lord, Monster Party, I’m getting JonTron flashbacks.
Surprised Binyot didn’t make a Tommy Wiseu joke since that characters name was Mark.
Weird this pack didn't actually have the GOOD Ghostbusters game for NES, New Ghostbusters II.
Zombie Nation got a surprise re-release last year on Switch and Steam!!
Nightmare on Elm Street is a great game, actually. And the music rules.
I watched a channel called "U Can Beat Video Games" and they covered NoES, and I have to say, it is a much better game than most would think.
Would love to play the 4 player mode one day!
@@RedSpade37 On the one hand, it's an LJN game, so it's kind of a miracle it came out as good as it did, on the other hand, it's also technically a Rare game (!), so... maybe that's why it came out as good as it did?
@@JadeFoxAlpha Hey, that's a neat observation. I think you're right!
David Wise's music is pretty much the only thing the LJN games have going for them given they were developed by Rare
And Jeroen Tel! The Alien 3 NES soundtrack rules.
And Tim Follin's music for Pictionary
Vinny thank you so much for reminding me of Eversion, I have vivid memories of my friend showing it to me years ago in middle school but I could never remember the name of it. I googled for years and looked through all kinds of indie titles and freeware titles and never found it. Now I know the name and can go buy it and the amount of dopamine I feel is roughly equivalent to 3 hours of speen
why does the music at 1:16:22 sound so familiar to me even though i've never played this game? was it used in something else?
would 1000% want a Sweet Home playthrough, this game is dope af
1:04:25 When I turned 20, I posted that screenshot on FB
10:42 I can't believe LJN made the first Nova Skeleton all the way back in 198X.
The Werewolf game isn't bad at the beginning,
it is one of those games you need to know all the basics
even hidden moves ones, and know power-ups rules too,
like the human form got a projectile attack you can keep using,
it's a charge attack move and does double damage then the punch.
But further through the game it does becomes BS.
alot of these games are not "casual" friendly games
A nightmare on elm street? I think you mean Boo! Haunted House
Charles Martinet could have played a toned-down Mario suitable for dialog scenes. Surely.
he played paarthurnax in skyrim, but apparently he doesnt have the range to play mario but slightly less bing bing wahoo sounding according to some people online
@@bruhbbawallace Contrarians
@@bruhbbawallace And if he didn't do the bing bong wahoo voice, you'd be complaining about that right now, genius.
@@mechadeka i would not in fact be complaining about it, actually. what reason would i have to complain? mario's actual voice actor doing a slightly different voice sure beats chris pratt not doing any voice at all
Thanks for the upload Twitch Member!✌️
1:51:13 That was me with Battle Arena Toshiden and trying to explain it by saying that the boss was some big dude on a checkered platform flowing through a cave and everyone had weapons. People kept thinking it was modified Soul Edge.
48:30 I'm going to need the specifics on how that filter is put together
They should have called these games "BOO! Haunted House."
GHERSTBUSTERS
I fuckin' had Fester's Quest. I literally had that goddamn cartridge and it always frustrated me to no end. With how few games I had as a child, it was usually either between Friday the 13th, RoboWarrior, Kirby's Adventure, Mario 1/Duck Hunt, Mario 2, Mario 3, Gotcha and Festers Quest. I might have had a few others, but yeah, that's the one's I usually tried to play.
Zombie Nation sounds familiar, though, the version I played had no giant head and the zombies screamed constantly, also there was this box that spat out guns.
omg monster party was the game I had as a kid that I was too young to play XD it gave me nightmares, then literally years later I remembered some little part of it and spent hours trying to find proof that this game existed (with no recollection of the name or anything). found it eventually but no one ever knows what I'm talking about when I bring up this game!
I have suspicion that the werewolf game was at one point a wolverine game. The final boss is Magneto. One boss looks like juggernaut.
Elm Street actually has *4-player* co-op. Imagine a 4-player platformer on the NES. It took Mario until the Wii to reach that! Rare was just like "yeah we'll toss that into this no-budget licensed game."
i'm drinking rolling rock, OOOONN the roll & rocker!
anyone know what emulator vin is using?
Man, New York City doesn't seem safe with people forcing CDs onto you and then charging you $40 for them or people intentionally bumping into you and doing that scam that Eric Andre did with the porcelain laptop (but not as a joke). I don't know how Joel was able to avoid all that stuff although even Joel overtipped a taxi driver because tipping isn't a thing in Sweden? Like bad things happen everywhere don't get me wrong, but Vinny's bad stories of New York City makes me not want to go to big cities in the very country I live in with seemingly the only advantage of the big cities being more activities/stores outside of your home to spend money on such as all the unique/quirky/expensive restaurants such as ones where you drink ass juice.
32:20 Vinny does corruptions without even trying.
VinePassive is too powerful.
My GF and I were watching this at like, 7:30 in the morning over the weekend and for whatever reason, maybe sleep deprivation, the hard sound cut at 33:26 made us both start crying laughing, which was only made worse by Vinny's instant death.
Sorry im dead is hilarious and feels like nowadays humor
Thank you for the NY comic con survival tips Vin /gen
The JonTron video for Monster Party is still one of my favorite videos.
Far better than the Chris Bores review
6 year old me rented the Ghostbusters game, and it made me cry. lol
so funny enough the giant head is the good guy and everyones like possed by demons or something was the premise
I swear the Bram Stoker's Dracula music sounds a lot like the Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets game for Game Boy Color.
Unfortunately, I can find the composer for this game (Jeroen Tel), but the Harry Potter game's music is just credited to "Semi-Precious Studios".
Vinny the swamp thing has always been a statement on pollution since it's very inception. It's not just the game, lmao.
One of the screams in thriller shooting game, sounds like the scream in the three stooges game..
Am I tripping or did I already see a pixelated NES Freddy kreuger in a vinesauce thumbnail before this
Maybe Joel played it? He made a hardcore friday on Friday the 13th so maybe he also played Nightmare on Elm Street too
Now this is what I was talking about I loved this
this NES ghostbusters makes the C64 one look good
Im kinda sad. Not sure if I'm old or this is the state of the internet now, but when I saw Monster Party i thought of JonTron and o haven't scene anyone else mention that review. The intro is giving me a ton of flash backs lol.
Hi, yes, it's me, Mike Wazowski with a Blood Bagel's forgotten B-Side song about hurting your back inadvertently.
Monster party always makes me think of the jontron video
wish vinny at least went to the room with the southern belle in uninvited. would've liked to see his reaction to one of the earliest jumpscares.
surprised nobody said that Ghoul School looked like a low budget alternate version of Zelda 2.
I like the fester's quest music
why is the overworld music in the nightmare on elm street game so damn catchy
Cause it's David Wise
Because the bramble blast guy did it.
Fester's Quest manual basically says "This game is no fun without a rapid fire controller". Once you get one of those, it's actually good. You still have to deal with gun and whip downgrades, but a lot of the enemies are definitely easier to deal with. Personally, I'd rather see a hack that cuts all enemy HP to 1/5 so it's playable without rapid controller, though the splitting ooze may still be problematic. Even with rapid fire that thing can totally just get out of control.
this showed up in suggestions but dont see it in yout video feed, weird
1:20:31
Is it just me or does the music after the first level turns from happy smiles to blood and skulls sound like Planet Bunnera from The Legendary Starfy?
Vinny didn't even try to play Friday the 13th.
I remember the werewolf games music being used in something I’m just not sure what
1:12:46
That's not entirely true, they were already calling it "Pokemon" for short long before it ever reached America. More accurate to say would be "This franchise is why no official material can acknowledge what Pokemon is short for outside of Japan."