If you would like to get 10% off any one of these games then use this code: RGB10. Pixel Heart has kindly made this available till the 31st of May 2022.
You're right, the art style of any Bitmap Brothers game is instantly recognisable. Both these games look amazing, it's awesome to see new releases shine so much!
@@RetroGamerBoy The graphics of the Bitmap Bro's games were all done by Dan Malone, absolute legend. I'd like to know what he's done since the 16-bit days... if he's still active in game development, his style hasn't stood out as strongly.
Ya I though the same, even as a kid. My SNES boxes always looked a little more tatty than my MD and Genesis ones. The choice of cardboard also makes it super expensive to collect complete in box games.
Wow magic pockets looks like the game they played on “live and kicking” (or another Show) over the phone on a Saturday morning awesome games though and it’s amazing to see games for the mega drive still after all this time
Generals of the Yang Family was originally a Taiwanese game released at some point during the mid to late 90s no one is 100% sure of exactly when but it came out but like many Taiwanese games from that period they seem to be popular choices for releases these days.
Love the new feature . Where your preview/review playing the game like a live stream .! This is my top 5 retro shows in RUclips Excellent work mike .! I can’t wait for the new episodes . P.a we are still waiting for your review on the Triple bypass chip
@@RetroGamerBoy 😂 it’s a lot of guys doing it . you mail your genesis to them and they send it back, if you don’t want to do the labour yourself. We want your review on it . I’m praying they do this with the svp !. Sega & the indie comm,so we can chip the genny and indie devs take a slash at maybe a sonic adventure/tomb raider/metal gear . That little svp is fast for 16 bit era . Not very interested in mods myself Mike.? But The 3ps interest me because it’s a sega sanctioned product , like the wireless controllers & sonic mania. If you dive into sega cd did you ever get into popful mail ?… Remember gamepro magazine 😂 Should have a review system ala with Graphics,sound,gameplay,fun factor Or was that game fan 🤔, Anyway mike look forward to the next episode…. What a time to for retro gaming.! Genesis still does .!👍
Excellent to see this from you Mike. PixelHeart are great fellas with excellent public relation skills. Always answers my questions and share their Neo-Geo material to help them with additional exposure bro. 8^) Anthony..
Enjoyed this video. I generally like your 10 min (ish) review videos rather than game play but this was decent to have on in the background. The magic pickets reminds me a bit of Switch blade both in looks and quirkiness
Have to admit, whilst it looked a bit clunky to begin with, I was quite getting into Magic Pockets by the end of your playthrough! Will have to give that one a go on the Amiga. You're right about Pixel Heart's boxes, they do a great job with the small details 😊
The cover of Magic Pockets is pretty off-putting, but Generals of the Yang Family looks great in all regards. Nice video, thanks for sharing some gameplay of these two titles. Cheers!
I agree, the sound effects for your attack moves in a beat 'em up is one of the most important elements. It has to be visceral. It's one of the best aspects of all classic beat 'em ups. I don't think I've ever tried a Bitmap Brothers game...although, I've heard a lot about them on the Kim Justice vids I've watched. Magic Pockets definitely looked more interesting and creative than the Yang game.
G R E A T ! Finally you featured Magic Pockets! I mentioned Magic pockets a few times in my comments, it’s one of those childhood PC games that I managed to complete and it is also one of those MD games which is impossible to get a rom of it to play on the Mega EverDrive. I saw it selling for 69.90 Euro last year (after hunting for it) but the Cost after adding the shipping fee is kinda steep.
I just got Yang Family last week, and the Pixelheart cover art resoundingly beats the dreadful cover of Piko Interactive's version of it. Also, please do not take this personally, but I think you should have put in a little research on the game before shooting the video, instead of going in blind. That really does makes for a much stronger video.
If you've seen any of my other videos you'll see how deep I go on the research. But I needed a break and thought I'd try a different format as well. Thanks for the feedback though👍
generals of the family is not a new game... the game is a translation of Yang Jia Jiang : Yang Warrior Family (this game is from the 90's and its taiwanese) and like Shui Hu - Feng Yun Zhuan (water margin) it rips some sprites and gameplay elements from other games AND from "water margin" (not a bad thing, just indicating this as detailed info) Magic Pocket it was a pretty fun game i played on DOS with my oooooooooold 286 , the graphics of DOS games where pretty much copy paste at that time, this game looks like half of the games released during the 80's / 90`s like "GODS"
Magic Pockets looks great, Reminds me of a similar game I played years ago but I cant remember the name! As for the first one it kind of reminds me of Knights of valour just no where near as good! Looks a bit to basic for a modern beat em up in my opinion.
@@RetroGamerBoy It was the Yang Family game, it's the artwork when Piko published it a few years ago. But yeah did a few pieces of anime-esque artwork for games over the years! Oni on the PS2 is probably the most famous.
@@RetroGamerBoy Haha, that's awesome! it was a great game, Had really jarring controlls at the time, but they're literally what modern-day FPS controls are, so it was way ahead of its time!!!
I always felt like the music/sound effects in these TW localizations were pretty grating. Also, if WM's track record is anything to go by, I think you're going to be waiting on Paprium for some time, unfortunately...
The camera movement in that second game is attached way too precisely to the player movement. A bit of a dead zone before the camera moves in response to your movements would have made it far less visually jerky and just uncomfortable. And the fact his movement seems very linear too, no smooth slow-in slow-out arcs to jumping for example, makes it worse still. It doesn't look like a great game, but I guess it's okay. Typical Amiga platform stuff imo.
@@inceptional You are not fair, you are a hypocrite at its finest, you said thunder force 4 would of been better on the snes, how would such a game be better on slower hardware with a horizontal resolution locked at 256 pixels exactly?
I'm totally into new games being released for older consoles. But I think that, if it's not to bring something new, with mechanics never seen before on the console, or some kind of inovation in the graphics, something that one couldn't imagine back in the day, I think it's a waste of our time to give attention to generic games being released. Pier Solar was an ideal candidate, because of the lack of Square like RPG's on Genesis. This Beat'n'Up here, totally the kind of game that don't manage to be better than even the more average 90's beat'n'ups on the Genesis, it's a totally waste of effort and time. Magic Pockets looks slightly more interesting, but still feels like a generic platformer with Amiga graphics.
These games are from back in the day and have been released for the first time on the console in most territories. I do agree with games having to do something new. A game can be great without having to innovate, infact this most games. I would like to see more people release games for the console and for them to see success. The more this happens the more it encourages others. And while not all of them will be great some will.
That 'Generals' game is just a down graded hack of a knights of valor game. These guys aren't making games from scratch anymore. That's why they're not good.
@@RetroGamerBoy Generals of Yang is using rigid sprites that look more like unity / mobile phone game assets, not anything resembling Mega Drive sprites. Magic Pockets looks like an Amiga game, not even designed with consoles in mind... Modern devs who probably never owned a Mega Drive, cashing-in on nostalgia and failing hard.
it is bitmap game betty boop music on amiga and motor mouth or going live had iton they show people would phone in to play it and xenon 2 was bitmap game with bomb the base did music and bitmap did gods
It's really middle of the road, like I said I found myself looking at the backgrounds and just mashing buttons. It's not terrible, it's not great either.
"Streets of Rage 2, Streets of Rage 2" rubbish It's Bare Knuckle... and it was Bare Knuckle 3 that had story cutscenes but of course Sega of America's staff decided to censor and alter the game into Streets of Rage and heavily censor the games while at the same time they made their in house rubbish Eternal Champions with their torture porn violence ripping us off back then. Play the English translation rom of Bare Knuckle III to get story. As far as the Generals game it's obviously a copy inspiration of Capcom's side scrolling beat em ups right down to some of the tropes... only it's made by amateurs at programming such games because although they managed some good looking graphics, the gameplay seems very meh... enemies don't scream in agonizing loss like in the Streets of Rage or Bare Knuckle games... That game is more like the watered down rubbish port of Double Dragon where you beat enemies and they didn't bother to replicate how the arcade version had better punching, kicking sounds and how enemies would groan or scream when beaten. Aka even Golden Axe shows some insanity of coding mastery for a game that was reprogrammed early in the life cycle of the Sega MegaDrive and still holds up to the Bare Knuckle series. Paprium belongs of the MegaDrive Genesis... a shame that the company hasn't produced or shipped more copies due to their legal issues... that they're talking about putting it on PS4 and PC? speaks volumes of how it's not getting to us who still have our old game systems and are not into piracy because we want physical release versions.
If you would like to get 10% off any one of these games then use this code: RGB10. Pixel Heart has kindly made this available till the 31st of May 2022.
You're right, the art style of any Bitmap Brothers game is instantly recognisable. Both these games look amazing, it's awesome to see new releases shine so much!
It's amazing how trademark the art style of Bitmap bros games are.
@@RetroGamerBoy The graphics of the Bitmap Bro's games were all done by Dan Malone, absolute legend. I'd like to know what he's done since the 16-bit days... if he's still active in game development, his style hasn't stood out as strongly.
18:13 "Is there an arrow in your pocket or you are just happy to see me?"
The Devs knew exactly what they were doing.
@@RetroGamerBoy LOL
I must admit, I love the Genesis boxes. This is one area where I absolutely think the Genesis pisses on the SNES with its crappy cardboard boxes.
Ya I though the same, even as a kid. My SNES boxes always looked a little more tatty than my MD and Genesis ones. The choice of cardboard also makes it super expensive to collect complete in box games.
Magic Pocket looks good I’m definitely be looking to get a copy for my mega drive collection 👍 thanks Mike
No problem, it's a great game.
That's why final fight had meaty crunching sounds when making contact, that's vital for satisfaction
Fact and science
Wow magic pockets looks like the game they played on “live and kicking” (or another Show) over the phone on a Saturday morning awesome games though and it’s amazing to see games for the mega drive still after all this time
😅 it does a bit
The second game actually good. I am sure it could found some fans back then.
I think it did. Quit a few people ha e mentioned it before.
Generals of the Yang Family was originally a Taiwanese game released at some point during the mid to late 90s no one is 100% sure of exactly when but it came out but like many Taiwanese games from that period they seem to be popular choices for releases these days.
I think the are probably cheap and easier to buy and licence.
Magic Pockets reminds me of Risky Woods because of the animation and artwork. That was one of my fav games.
The game play is very different, but I see where you are coming from on art style.
Love the new feature . Where your preview/review playing the game like a live stream .!
This is my top 5 retro shows in RUclips
Excellent work mike .! I can’t wait for the new episodes .
P.a we are still waiting for your review on the
Triple bypass chip
The 3BP scares me a little, but I will do it. I'm think of combining a number of mods together to build out one Uber console.
@@RetroGamerBoy 😂 it’s a lot of guys doing it . you mail your genesis to them and they send it back,
if you don’t want to do the labour yourself. We want your review on it .
I’m praying they do this with the svp !. Sega & the indie comm,so we can chip the genny and indie devs take a slash at maybe a sonic adventure/tomb raider/metal gear . That little svp is fast for 16 bit era .
Not very interested in mods myself Mike.? But The 3ps interest me because it’s a sega sanctioned product , like the wireless controllers & sonic mania.
If you dive into sega cd did you ever get into popful mail ?…
Remember gamepro magazine 😂
Should have a review system ala with
Graphics,sound,gameplay,fun factor
Or was that game fan 🤔,
Anyway mike look forward to the next episode…. What a time to for retro gaming.! Genesis still does .!👍
Seems like there’s a nice retro market for physical releases for old consoles
It's a pretty healthy scene at the moment.
I remember playing Generals of the Yang Family and enjoyed it :)
It's not a bad game at all. I'm looking forward to keeping it.
@@RetroGamerBoy Good to hear :)
Excellent to see this from you Mike. PixelHeart are great fellas with excellent public relation skills. Always answers my questions and share their Neo-Geo material to help them with additional exposure bro. 8^)
Anthony..
Anthony I've been super impressed with them. I'm glad I found them.
Magic pockets is pretty cool looking. Another decent Pixelheart pickup!
I love it. It's a real throwback to all those great Amiga 500 games.
Generals looks like something I would pick up. I love the variation in characters as they all seem distinct to their style. Great review!
Thanks, ya the all play differently with weapon and specials variations.
Thanks for the great video and all of the information. I will definitely be picking these games up.
Awesome, there is a 10% off code in the comments if you wanted to use Pixel Heart.
Enjoyed this video. I generally like your 10 min (ish) review videos rather than game play but this was decent to have on in the background. The magic pickets reminds me a bit of Switch blade both in looks and quirkiness
Mybe a format I can do a few times a year.
@@RetroGamerBoy I usually get turned off my long game play videos but I did enjoy this one 👍🏻
Have to admit, whilst it looked a bit clunky to begin with, I was quite getting into Magic Pockets by the end of your playthrough! Will have to give that one a go on the Amiga. You're right about Pixel Heart's boxes, they do a great job with the small details 😊
I carried on playing Magic Pockets, it's a brilliant game.
I'm waiting for that Phantom Gear!!!!
Yes, me too !
@@aurelie7436 And Astebros!!!!!
Snap
The cover of Magic Pockets is pretty off-putting, but Generals of the Yang Family looks great in all regards. Nice video, thanks for sharing some gameplay of these two titles. Cheers!
I quite liked the cover. although I think it grew on me over time.
Box art looks lovely . The back looks very convincing of the time.
It's some lovely artwork on both.
Suggestion to next time: News about the hack to Ghostbusters on the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive where it will be possible to play as Winston😊
I've not seen that, I need to check this out.
Another great video Mike, thanks.
Thank you and it's great fun to make these kinds of videos.
I agree, the sound effects for your attack moves in a beat 'em up is one of the most important elements. It has to be visceral. It's one of the best aspects of all classic beat 'em ups. I don't think I've ever tried a Bitmap Brothers game...although, I've heard a lot about them on the Kim Justice vids I've watched. Magic Pockets definitely looked more interesting and creative than the Yang game.
It was the Diamond in the rough for me. I'm still playing it now and it's very good.
Magic pockets looks like my kinda thing. Be nice if if turns up on Antstream…cough cough 😉 Thanks Mike 😎👍🏼
I'll have to see if I can find someone to make this happen...
Cool format 👍
Thanks 😁👍
G R E A T ! Finally you featured Magic Pockets! I mentioned Magic pockets a few times in my comments, it’s one of those childhood PC games that I managed to complete and it is also one of those MD games which is impossible to get a rom of it to play on the Mega EverDrive. I saw it selling for 69.90 Euro last year (after hunting for it) but the Cost after adding the shipping fee is kinda steep.
I remember you mentioning it 😁👍 If it helps I've got a 10% off code in the pinned comment.
I just got Yang Family last week, and the Pixelheart cover art resoundingly beats the dreadful cover of Piko Interactive's version of it.
Also, please do not take this personally, but I think you should have put in a little research on the game before shooting the video, instead of going in blind. That really does makes for a much stronger video.
If you've seen any of my other videos you'll see how deep I go on the research. But I needed a break and thought I'd try a different format as well. Thanks for the feedback though👍
@@RetroGamerBoy Absolutely, your attention to detail in previous episodes is apparent and very commendable.
Saludos desde Michoacán de Ocampo México a seguir jugando videojuegos bastantes de sega
Hello! and welcome 😁👍
@@RetroGamerBoy cuando visitas México amigo seguero
That was nice honest review Mike and very fair. I don’t think it’s for mr but I enjoyed watching you play
Thank you for watching. Hopefully it was still entertaining 😁👍
Another great video mike
Thank you Sir.
Awesome video!
Quick question, is there anywhere you would recommend to get protection covers for mega drive games?
I get mine from retroprotect.co.uk
Reminds me of Water Margin
It's similar, I wonder if it's the same Devs.
generals of the family is not a new game... the game is a translation of Yang Jia Jiang : Yang Warrior Family (this game is from the 90's and its taiwanese) and like Shui Hu - Feng Yun Zhuan (water margin) it rips some sprites and gameplay elements from other games AND from "water margin" (not a bad thing, just indicating this as detailed info)
Magic Pocket it was a pretty fun game i played on DOS with my oooooooooold 286 , the graphics of DOS games where pretty much copy paste at that time, this game looks like half of the games released during the 80's / 90`s like "GODS"
Ya I knew both games got a 90s release. I could not find the original developer though for Generals of the Yang family.
Lmao "I've got gas".
😅
Something grows in his pocket 😆
🤣 yup
Magic Pockets looks great, Reminds me of a similar game I played years ago but I cant remember the name!
As for the first one it kind of reminds me of Knights of valour just no where near as good!
Looks a bit to basic for a modern beat em up in my opinion.
They aren't modern, both games are from the mid 90s, but only recently got a North American and European release.
15:41 Whoa, Magic Pockets has magic cankles! Is he supposed to be a baby, or is he just worryingly obese?
Maybe both
aww you didnt gwt the version with my artwork on it :(
Which version and game was that? I had no idea you made cover art.
@@RetroGamerBoy It was the Yang Family game, it's the artwork when Piko published it a few years ago. But yeah did a few pieces of anime-esque artwork for games over the years! Oni on the PS2 is probably the most famous.
@@Larry oooh I love Oni great game. I had that on my desk at PlayStation for about 6 years 😅
@@RetroGamerBoy Haha, that's awesome! it was a great game, Had really jarring controlls at the time, but they're literally what modern-day FPS controls are, so it was way ahead of its time!!!
Good lord, Amiga has several thousands of games made for it, but they released this?
I guess that's what they could licence.
Can I ask you wish one you prefer : Water Margin or Generals of the Yang Family?
Water Margin by a mile. The Game is pretty much a trace over of Knights of the Round.
I always felt like the music/sound effects in these TW localizations were pretty grating.
Also, if WM's track record is anything to go by, I think you're going to be waiting on Paprium for some time, unfortunately...
I have the same feeling.😥
*Cool games bro*
Yup they are not bad, definitely worth checking out.
The camera movement in that second game is attached way too precisely to the player movement. A bit of a dead zone before the camera moves in response to your movements would have made it far less visually jerky and just uncomfortable. And the fact his movement seems very linear too, no smooth slow-in slow-out arcs to jumping for example, makes it worse still. It doesn't look like a great game, but I guess it's okay. Typical Amiga platform stuff imo.
Yeah right, if that was a snes game you’d say how precise the camera movements are.
It is a bitmap brothers game and has the typical high quality gameplay. But it may not be to everyone's liking.
@@RetroGamerBoy please ban Inceptional he is a snes wad, he shouldn’t be allowed to comment on the mighty megadrive or this channel.
@@inceptional You are not fair, you are a hypocrite at its finest, you said thunder force 4 would of been better on the snes, how would such a game be better on slower hardware with a horizontal resolution locked at 256 pixels exactly?
Hi there - can you please tell me where to get original sega genesis cases? - like the one in this video.
I'm not sure where Pixel Heart buy theirs, you may want to contact them. I usually go on eBay.
I just bought games from Pixel Heart, but they're too big for my Sega Genesis. Someone explain this since it is sold for Genesis.
good games
They are fun to play.
Is there any other companies doing new physical games
Quite a few. Check out Mega Cat Games and PSCD Games. Oh and Retro-Bit as well.
I'm totally into new games being released for older consoles. But I think that, if it's not to bring something new, with mechanics never seen before on the console, or some kind of inovation in the graphics, something that one couldn't imagine back in the day, I think it's a waste of our time to give attention to generic games being released. Pier Solar was an ideal candidate, because of the lack of Square like RPG's on Genesis. This Beat'n'Up here, totally the kind of game that don't manage to be better than even the more average 90's beat'n'ups on the Genesis, it's a totally waste of effort and time. Magic Pockets looks slightly more interesting, but still feels like a generic platformer with Amiga graphics.
These games are from back in the day and have been released for the first time on the console in most territories. I do agree with games having to do something new. A game can be great without having to innovate, infact this most games. I would like to see more people release games for the console and for them to see success. The more this happens the more it encourages others. And while not all of them will be great some will.
I would have put it on easy too 😅
😅 yup, although in this case I think I should have tried on hard. It's a little too easy.
Sounds like Sonic 2... Lol
😅
Some of them have been out ages ?
Yup, like I say in the video, these got a worldwide release in 2017 & 2018.
Parabéns jogão
Thank you
That 'Generals' game is just a down graded hack of a knights of valor game. These guys aren't making games from scratch anymore. That's why they're not good.
Well this was made in Taiwan in the early 90s, so I guess it's a product of the times.
Nice boxes, crap games.
I had a Mega Drive back in 1992, and would have avoided all 4 of those games even then.
Is that because of the graphics or the genre of game they are, or something else?
@@RetroGamerBoy Generals of Yang is using rigid sprites that look more like unity / mobile phone game assets, not anything resembling Mega Drive sprites. Magic Pockets looks like an Amiga game, not even designed with consoles in mind... Modern devs who probably never owned a Mega Drive, cashing-in on nostalgia and failing hard.
it is bitmap game betty boop music on amiga and motor mouth or going live had iton they show people would phone in to play it and xenon 2 was bitmap game with bomb the base did music and bitmap did gods
Very interesting.
I played Generals and was disappointed. I hoped it would play similar to Water Margin but found Generals rather boring and lackluster.
It's really middle of the road, like I said I found myself looking at the backgrounds and just mashing buttons. It's not terrible, it's not great either.
Clan game is a rip off of Capcoms Warriors of Fate
Interesting, being a game from Taiwan in the 90s I'm not surprised.
"Streets of Rage 2, Streets of Rage 2" rubbish
It's Bare Knuckle... and it was Bare Knuckle 3 that had story cutscenes but of course Sega of America's staff decided to censor and alter the game into Streets of Rage and heavily censor the games while at the same time they made their in house rubbish Eternal Champions with their torture porn violence ripping us off back then.
Play the English translation rom of Bare Knuckle III to get story.
As far as the Generals game it's obviously a copy inspiration of Capcom's side scrolling beat em ups right down to some of the tropes... only it's made by amateurs at programming such games because although they managed some good looking graphics, the gameplay seems very meh... enemies don't scream in agonizing loss like in the Streets of Rage or Bare Knuckle games...
That game is more like the watered down rubbish port of Double Dragon where you beat enemies and they didn't bother to replicate how the arcade version had better punching, kicking sounds and how enemies would groan or scream when beaten.
Aka even Golden Axe shows some insanity of coding mastery for a game that was reprogrammed early in the life cycle of the Sega MegaDrive and still holds up to the Bare Knuckle series.
Paprium belongs of the MegaDrive Genesis... a shame that the company hasn't produced or shipped more copies due to their legal issues... that they're talking about putting it on PS4 and PC? speaks volumes of how it's not getting to us who still have our old game systems and are not into piracy because we want physical release versions.
I cannot believe number 3 was cut to pieces for North America and Europe.
The second game actually good. I am sure it could found some fans back then.
I think it did, a few people asked me to play it.