Love these English Friendly import videos, it's so hard to sift through all the various mahjong and visual novel games for every old system before you find one that you can actually play
Hey, So thanks for the Christmas/birthday present. Mitsume ga Tooru was a game I was trying to figure out what I played when I visited Vietnam as a child. I was sick due to the water I drank and had one of those 100 Games in 1 consoles to keep me company. Mitsume ga Tooru was one of those games that kept me distracted due to how fun it was. Yeaaaaars later, I was trying to figure out what game it was I played and I looked up the game by false description like "monk with spear platformer." Then you came up and upload this and your intro showed the game! At that point I hoped you showed the game in the list and lo and behold. Anyway, thanks SNESDrunk, you made this guy nostalgic about his childhood again. Happy holidays buddy.
I think it bears mentioning that even though they may not need English patches, many of those listed here do have them. Also noteworthy is that you have to avoid hitting your head on the ceiling in The Quest of Ki (which is カイの冒険 in Japanese or Kai no Bōken -- note "Kai" for pronunciation).
I've played A LOT of Moon Crystal back in like, 2013-ish, that game impressed the hell out of me! Never managed to finish it though... Also, Crisis Force is also AMAZING! It feels a step above what you usually see on NES, it almost feels like a PC engine game!
Me neither. The third level of Moon Crystal has these timed doors and the timing is pretty tight. After surpassing these I lost my last life on the boss, along with my will to replay the game.
I got so used to playing PAL versions of Gimmick (running quick due to region differences), that now every time I hear the music playing at its normal speed it sounds all weird and derpy.
I usually don't think your japanese pronunciations are bad or anything, except for this one, wondering if there's japanese viewers getting a kick out of it lol. Another great video as always, can confirm Gimmick is top 10 8-bit games
I am from Asia Country. Three Eyes Boy is one of my favorite famicom game, I prefer it more than Megaman. Action Kungfu Jakie Chan, Choujin Sentai Jetman. And both G. l.Joe 1,2 is my Best NES /Famicom Action Games. RPG go for Dragon Ball Z RPG Famicom 1,2,3, Gaiden and Tenchi no Kuru / Dynasty War 1,2.
FYI, there's a Kunio-kun compilation game out there for Switch and PS4 named Kunio-kun: The World Classics. It has _all_ the old NES Kunio-kun games from River City Ransom to dodge ball to this hockey one you talked about. Play Asia sells an "international" version, which is the Asian version with English menus, though I doubt the in-game menus were translated, so buyer beware.
my friend had a bootleg famicom that played pirate carts so i grew up playin te kunio series. as a kid and not being ale to read a word of japamese. through trial ad error, the whole nes series of games were fully playable. dont be scared off, they are top nes games.
Gimmick!! I always love seeing that game get love, such an absolute gem. The music is incredible and the depth to the gameplay and platforming is crazy. So many people write it off as a cute Kirby clone and don't realize how crazy difficult and rewarding it is. A big recommend from me as well 😄
Odogaron I am aware of how term was created however if a game has absolutely nothing castlevania about it then it is not a metroidvania style game, it is a metroid style game. Essentially Castlevania gets credit for what it borrowed.
Is "Gimmick" related in any way to the Dreamcast game "Elemental Gimmick Gear"? I think your Japanese is getting better. You seem to struggle less with the long Japanese names than you used to.
On the baby one, it's the english word miracle btw. Also, your japanese isnt the worst I've ever heard as a non Japanese speaker of Japanese descent...
The name "Samurai Pizza Cats" makes more sense when you realize the name of the pizza parlor they work for is called "Pizza Cat," even in the original Japanese version. I mean the Japanese name basically translates as "Legendary Cat Ninjas WHAT THE HELL?!?!" Oh, and the fact the name of the place is called Pizza Cat apparently is a very clunky Japanese pun on Pizza Hut, provided you know that Japanese turns western short u sounds into their standard a. So, Pizza Hatto = Pizza Catto. Still, shame the NES was well over its way out by the time Samurai Pizza Cats actually hit the airwaves, otherwise we probably would have got that game.
The thing that baffles me is that the show was bigger in the west than it was in Japan, but Japan still had a crapload of merchandise, but the US only had 2 comics that were back up stories in Power Rangers graphic novels. And even then the comics weren't written by anyone who actually saw an episode, so the characters are all wrong. I heard that Europe, France especially, had some toys. We didn't even get so much as a Kid's Meal promotion by a third party fast food franchise.
A friend described Gimmick as "Kirby's Adventure by way of Dark Souls." He's not WRONG, you know. Also, Holy Diver was included on Retro-Bit's Super Retro Cade console, giving you a way to play the game legally if you don't have an NES handy.
That is so awesome! I’ll have to look into the system especially if it has more games by Irem Also Nintendo Switch online will hopefully get Gimmick soon since we’re quickly receiving all of Sunsoft’s other games (that aren’t movie tie ins)
@@Sabith01 yeah I haven't heard it referenced since it originally aired. So it's definitely safe to say it didn't go very far. I remember loving it as a kid.
While Gimmick was released in some PAL regions as Mr. Gimmick, you don't want to play that version. It is missing a sound chip that the Famicom version has. There is a patch on romhacking.net that switches out the title screen of the JPN version with the PAL title screen, but it's really minor and not really needed. www.romhacking.net/hacks/4206/ All of the games on here do have translations on romhacking.net as well.
OH BOY I WATCHED THIS VIDEO AND REALIZED THAT I AM STILL ANTICIPATING WHEN THE MR. GIMMICK CART WITH BOX AND SUNSOFT 5B AUDIO CHIP REPRO FROM THE SITE I USE IS BACK IN STOCK SO I CAN BLOW 85 DOLLARS ON WHAT PEOPLE TELL ME IS THE BEST GAME THERE IS. IMA SUNSOFT SUPER NERD!
Oh gosh, Samurai pizza cats was such a good anime! It was released in 1991 in France and maybe Italy from what I know. Characters were nuts and scenarios were brilliantly stupid. It was funnier than TMNT with more actual fights and less shitty jokes. More on the absurdity of the situations. What a good show it was... Thanks for the video again.
So you did it :) I saw it coming anyway, sooner or later. I hope this is just Part 1 because there are many more English-friendly FC games out there. One of my favorites in this category is Layla - an otherwise straightforward action platformer featuring somewhat confusing level design and the ability to use a variety of weapons. And there's also an excellent hack of this game called The Iris Missions with completely redesigned levels and a rocking sountrack, which is one of my favorites on the system.
Kyatto ninden teyandee translates as "Cat ninja teyandee" (The teyandee doesn't have an exact translation) The original series had a different tone to the one we had in the west, that saban adapted to be some kind of Animaniacs with cats, and, at least for me, it's hard to see an entire episode on this times, it aged pretty bad The original one it's a lot of fun, the complete series was uploaded here on youtube some time ago I know you put the "Pizza cats" name as a pun, but i want to share the trivia for everyone :)
lol It's pretty typical of most of the games he mentions. If it looks cool, it's probably $100-$400. I myself go directly for a high quality reproduction cart for $45 or less at that point . Of course several other ways to play are available. Supply and demand on really old hard to find goods are always high no matter the medium.
Aw man, perfect timing with this video! My wife just got me a Famicom Mini console, and I'm looking for some unseen gems to load onto it. Keep up the good work, and Happy Holidays, my dude
When I was younger, me and my neighbor friend were in searching for Kunio kun game series like Sports, basketball, street fight, football...those were the times. One of the best games on nes!
A Gamer Aaron I like the style, and it also works because the plot of the three games is pretty darn good. Ninja Gaiden 2 is my favourite NES game of all time, and I’ve played over 100 NES titles, almost all on original hardware.
Ah, "Samurai Pizza Cats." Loved that show as a kid. For the uninitiated, there was an anime called "Kyatto Ninden Teyandee." Saban got the rights to this show and wanted tot dub it into English. One problem. No one on the writing staff spoke Japanese, so they would watch an episode and then write an entirely new script based on what they thought was going on. This led to a gag dub with a ton of fourth wall humour.
to be more precise, the script was sent to the US dubbing team by the studio but it got lost somewhere over the Pacific (this is even referenced in the theme song). The dubbing team actually did have a translator but he wasn't very good at hearing the dialogue as compared to reading it
Samurai Pizza Cats was broadcasted by Fox Kids in Brazil and it's got a bit of a cult following in the late 90s. It was a funny goofy show to watch and I couldn't have imagined there was a NES game of it. Great selection. Happy holidays! Btw, your voice sounded different, like it was kinda deeper. I hope you're doing well
If Irem wanted to adapt the sequel to Kid Nikki (aka Kaiketsu Yanchamaru) for the US, why not call it Teen Nikki? Then again the original game didn’t probably do it all too well when it came out in the USA. :/ ...that could be.
Wait. How do you play 4p on Famicom? Aren't we limited to two built-in controllers and an EXT port controller? I have a ASCII Stick II Turbo with an EXT port on it but it's a pass-thru as far as I can tell. The Arkanoid II Vaus controller has a second port for the original Vaus but all it does is switch pins around so it's really more like breaking up Atari paddle controllers.
It'd be nice to have a link to the other videos of the series mentioned in the beginning. It'd make it easier to watch them, now that I know they exist I kinda want to watch them first or at least just watch them in general....🤔 Maybe there's a playlist? Either way, thank you for all the videos you make. They are always a joy and I often wish they were longer videos. 😄👍
We can thank Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for all the crazy cartoons names that came after it. I often imagine a bunch of suits sitting around in an office and wondering how they can compete with TMNT. It must have seemed insane to them, but they saw the kids loved it, and so they come up with Biker Mice from Mars. 6:00 I don't think the baby is digging. I think it's eating.
On the note of Gimmick. Totally check out the Annotated Play by Frank Cifaldi. There is SO much in Gimmick that makes it stand out than any other NES game. Just the sheer amount of little detail
Cool thing about Samurai Pizza Cats is there's an actual translation patch for it, but the translators went the extra mile- not only did they release a direct translation, they released a patch that modified the game to make it more like the English dub of the anime! That's some serious dedication, especially considering how hilarious that dub is.
When you get to the end of Crash N The Boyz: Street Challenge, the ice hockey game, or Ice Challenge, is advertised for that upcoming winter season. Sadly, the game never came out in the USA. Technos Japan really developed a fantastic universe with Kunio Kun. Crash N The Boyz: Street Challenge will always be one of my favorites. top 10 NES game no doubt about it.
Do you have any idea how many Famicom Kunio Kun games there are? Think about it like this- There are 6 Mario Games, There are 7 Megaman games, and There is 11 KUNIO KUN GAMES ON FAMICOM ALONE, including Basketball, Soccer (2 of them), A 2-on-2 Fight Pit, a Triathlon, Crash n’ the boys, and a sequel to RCR set in feudal Japan. They’re all fantastic. I got my copy of Nekketsu Hockey Bu from eBay for only 12 bucks. :)
I always enjoyed the hilarious insanity that was the Samurai Pizza Cats TV show, so I was excited to discover an NES game based on it. Thank you for giving this some screen time.
Crisis Force is one of the best by Konami... Gimmick is a game that you really wanna love because of the graphics, music, but the gameplay/controls are not good. The game is too hard (but not a "good hard"), and it is one of those games you just wanna get it over with and you feel like never playing it again.
Here's my list of FC titles that you may want to consider in the future. All of these are 'English-friendly' titles. I excluded anything that you have already featured. Tetris 2 + Bombliss (BPS) DeBlock Door Door Quarth JJ: Tobidase Daisakusen II Salamander Lot Lot Pooyan Fantasy Zone Fantasy Zone 2 Circus Charlie Bubble Bobble 2 Arkanoid II Air Fortress Don Doko Don Don Doko Don 2 Meikyu Jiin Dababa Twinbee Moero TwinBee Gun.Smoke Twinbee 3 Nazo no Murasame Jo Penguin-Kun Wars Space Invaders The Goonies The Tower of Druaga Puyo Puyo Egypt Gradius II Splatterhouse: Wanpaku Graffiti Yu Maze Parodius Da! Shinwa kara Owarai Falsion Galaxian Binary Land Nuts & Milk New Ghostbusters 2 Mappy Mappy Land Lode Runner Flappy Crazy Climber Vs.Excitebike Akumajou Special: Boku Dracula Kun Vs. Ice Climber Recca'92 Eggerland Knoght Move Devil World Wai Wai World Halleywars Otoky Arumana no Kiseki Bomberman Warpman/Warpwarp Dig Dug
Ike Ike! Nathingy Hockey looks like a modified Super Dodge Ball... Wich got a SNES version... Ooppsss. Googled before posting... Super Famicom Version*
These games are nice but they are expensive even on the Famicom because they’re rare. Gimmick $ 500 Adventure island 4 $270 Mitsumi ga tooru $130 Bio Miracle $190 Holy Diver $ 100 Crisis Force $100 Seirei densetstu aka little Samson $250
As a big NES fan, I became interested in games I refer to as the "alternate library". Games that are outside of the official North American releases. They include unlicensed games, prototypes, homebrews, and non-US games (Pal and Famicom) I wrote down a list of over 50 famicom games I want to play. One game I recently discovered is Super Star Force. It's a top down shooter with run and gun stages. It alternates between the 2. In the US we got Star Force, but I didn't know there was a sequel on Famicom.
Gimmick as a possible top 10 NES game? Bruv, I can barely name 10 retro games that deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with it. Clear #1 8-bit game for me and I'll fight anyone who disagrees! Totally not biased because I own a Famicom cart of it. =P
next time I go famicom shopping I'll know what to look for. edit: my favorite seller has none of these, of course, so it looks like these wont be so affordable to get...
I used to play Moon Crystal a lot. And I mean A LOT, the cutscenes were like a Ghibli movie and therefore endlessly fascinated then-little-me even though I couldn't make sense of the moonrunes; it also had an advantage over Ninja Gaiden by not being ungodly difficult. Mitsume ga Tooru was pretty much my first exposure to Tezuka, and I didn't even realize that at the time.
Tbh Gimmick was the only one on the list that looked really worth going back to play. As far as NES goes though Little Nemo: DreamMaster is the only platformer that was extremely good and worth playing again still today with Kirbys Adventures being right behind it.
Some great picks! Definitely dig Crisis Force, if you want a Konami shmup that's not Gradius or Life Force/Salamander this will defniitely fit the bill!
I am super glad someone properly spoke the _FAMILY COMPUTER_ by its correct name. Unlike other western youtubers that are too scared to say it by it correctly.
Excellent list! Always looking for more nes games to play without downloading a language hack! Hope theres more nes and other consoles (tg16, master system, genesis, gb, etc) in the future!
9:00 You can also use your NSO active NA Switch account to play both the Famicom and Super Famicom apps. So your NA account friends can see when you're playing an NSO Famicom or Super Famicom game.
Kunio kun no Nekketsu Soccer League is another river city ransom spinoff, this time with soccer. Its amazing! I don't even like soccer at all but the game is so much fun with all the crazy moves you can pull.
The only game Ive ever played that I did without any translation patch is Door door. It was developed by Koichi Nakamura, who later founded Chunsoft (named after the lead character in this game).
Thanks. Now the nerds are gonna come on over here and buy up all the shit and jack up the prices, just like what happened in USA. Great job. Thanks. Ruin it for the rest of us.
Currently in Japan on vacation and definitely have been game hunting. I have a Japan exclusives list I’m searching for and learned of a bunch of those through your vids. Thanks!
Mitsume is indeed "three-eyed", but Tooru is "Thor". Double o in Japanese is just a hard o that you hold for a beat longer. It doesn't make the "ooh" sound from English. That sound in Japanese is u.
maybe you mentioned it in an older video, but Cocoron is a really enjoyable, easy on the text, "open-world", character customizable, Mega Man style game, I believe even made by the same head creator from Mega Man 1.
I was in korea for a month in 1992 and my cousin had the river city hockey game. I just got a nes last month and am getting a nes to famicon converter so I can get that game. I know they brought over some other river city sports games to the US, but the hockey one was my favorite.
Im playing bio miracle blah blah blah before on my Android emulator but the game level designs are tough even the boss are similar still the game was fun.
The Kunio-kun hockey game was going to be released in the US as Crash N The Boys Ice Challenge (seen advertised at the end of Crash N The Boys Street Challenge beating the game with Crash's team)
Have you done a video on psx/Saturn games that could have been done on SNES/Genesis? Just curious since there were some that looked like it could have been.
This is a good list. Crisis Force is good (great for a NES game), but my problem with it is that if you are going to be going out of your way to play retro shoot em ups, then it's pretty much a waste of time to play them from the 8 bit era, just go straight to the arcade games or at least stick to the TG-16.
worth noting that even if they're gaijin-friendly, some of these still have translation patches: Moon Crystal, Samurai Pizza Cats, and Holy Diver to say the least
I find it really unusual that Joy Mech Fight never got any kind of official release outside of Japan. Then again, same goes for all of the earlier Fire Emblem games.
Love these English Friendly import videos, it's so hard to sift through all the various mahjong and visual novel games for every old system before you find one that you can actually play
That's the idea, thank you for watching
Hey,
So thanks for the Christmas/birthday present. Mitsume ga Tooru was a game I was trying to figure out what I played when I visited Vietnam as a child. I was sick due to the water I drank and had one of those 100 Games in 1 consoles to keep me company. Mitsume ga Tooru was one of those games that kept me distracted due to how fun it was. Yeaaaaars later, I was trying to figure out what game it was I played and I looked up the game by false description like "monk with spear platformer." Then you came up and upload this and your intro showed the game! At that point I hoped you showed the game in the list and lo and behold.
Anyway, thanks SNESDrunk, you made this guy nostalgic about his childhood again.
Happy holidays buddy.
Love stories like these!
Don't drink the water. They put something in it... To make you forget...
I don't even remember how I got here
Red Bull's Diggin Through The Carts doc interviews the dude who composed the music to Gimmick.
I think it bears mentioning that even though they may not need English patches, many of those listed here do have them. Also noteworthy is that you have to avoid hitting your head on the ceiling in The Quest of Ki (which is カイの冒険 in Japanese or Kai no Bōken -- note "Kai" for pronunciation).
I've played A LOT of Moon Crystal back in like, 2013-ish, that game impressed the hell out of me!
Never managed to finish it though...
Also, Crisis Force is also AMAZING! It feels a step above what you usually see on NES, it almost feels like a PC engine game!
Me neither. The third level of Moon Crystal has these timed doors and the timing is pretty tight. After surpassing these I lost my last life on the boss, along with my will to replay the game.
Anything that gets close to the greatness of the PC Engine, you know is worth your time. Big fan of your work Michirin.
Thank you ^^
Man I need to go play some of these, I forgot how fun they are! thanks!
I got so used to playing PAL versions of Gimmick (running quick due to region differences), that now every time I hear the music playing at its normal speed it sounds all weird and derpy.
Sunsoft making an 8-bit game with great music? Unheard of! Great vid , man.
So Blaster Master and Fester's Quest didn't have good music then?
@@tb3411 I was being sarcastic. Sunsoft is known for having the best 8-bit, chip tunes of the era. Batman, being at the front of every conversation.
@9:05 I'm a huge "World Cup Soccer" fan (as well as Super Dodgeball and their fighting games). I will be seeking this game out!
The 90’s tropes trumped the cat tropes: the ninja cats didn’t even get nine lives.
I usually don't think your japanese pronunciations are bad or anything, except for this one, wondering if there's japanese viewers getting a kick out of it lol. Another great video as always, can confirm Gimmick is top 10 8-bit games
Heh, I actually have the cart for that hockey game but have yet to try it out.
I haven't watched all your videos, so maybe you've done it already, but you need to do a version of the THX noise as the intro to one of these videos.
I can imagine future SNES Drunk videos: "It was 2010's Konami so the pachinko machines pachinko'd"
I am from Asia Country. Three Eyes Boy is one of my favorite famicom game, I prefer it more than Megaman. Action Kungfu Jakie Chan, Choujin Sentai Jetman. And both G. l.Joe 1,2 is my Best NES /Famicom Action Games. RPG go for Dragon Ball Z RPG Famicom 1,2,3, Gaiden and Tenchi no Kuru / Dynasty War 1,2.
the WHITES think they know better
FYI, there's a Kunio-kun compilation game out there for Switch and PS4 named Kunio-kun: The World Classics. It has _all_ the old NES Kunio-kun games from River City Ransom to dodge ball to this hockey one you talked about. Play Asia sells an "international" version, which is the Asian version with English menus, though I doubt the in-game menus were translated, so buyer beware.
I loved the Soccer fight games. Especially the Banana kick
Even the soccer and samurai games?
@@DRCEQ I'm not sure. Yes to the soccer one, but most of the titles are in Japanese, so...?
my friend had a bootleg famicom that played pirate carts so i grew up playin te kunio series. as a kid and not being ale to read a word of japamese. through trial ad error, the whole nes series of games were fully playable. dont be scared off, they are top nes games.
soccer game is Goal 3 or Kunio-kun no Nekketsu Soccer League.
Gimmick!! I always love seeing that game get love, such an absolute gem. The music is incredible and the depth to the gameplay and platforming is crazy. So many people write it off as a cute Kirby clone and don't realize how crazy difficult and rewarding it is. A big recommend from me as well 😄
Not to mention it released a few months before the first Kirby game.
I believe gimmick was developed by 2 or 3 people
Gimmick is being remade for the exA-Arcadia(new arcade platform), I hope it becomes available for a wider audience eventually.
I love that SNES Drunk didn't say "Metroidvania." 3:26 He said "Metroid-style exploration game" instead.
Well yeah, Adventure Island doesn't have a whole lot to do with Castlevania
Agreed, most people would say metroidvania when there’s absolutely nothing Castlevania present.
@@Ramjet164 because Castlevania aped Metroids formula so the two franchises are entwined because of it.
Odogaron I am aware of how term was created however if a game has absolutely nothing castlevania about it then it is not a metroidvania style game, it is a metroid style game. Essentially Castlevania gets credit for what it borrowed.
Is "Gimmick" related in any way to the Dreamcast game "Elemental Gimmick Gear"?
I think your Japanese is getting better. You seem to struggle less with the long Japanese names than you used to.
Thanks for being literally the only person to ever compliment my Japanese lol
On the baby one, it's the english word miracle btw. Also, your japanese isnt the worst I've ever heard as a non Japanese speaker of Japanese descent...
It would be awesome to get a list of affordable games for those of us looking to get the original carts.
"hm, ive never heard of gimmick. lemme look it up on ebaaAAAAAY OH MY GOD 400 DOLLARS"
thats actually cheaper then I imagined for the current price of it
Reproduction carts, flash carts, multi-carts, and emulation are your friend for these extremely high priced games.
@@TheAlphaOmegaX3 i know, i just like the originals like everyone else
The name "Samurai Pizza Cats" makes more sense when you realize the name of the pizza parlor they work for is called "Pizza Cat," even in the original Japanese version. I mean the Japanese name basically translates as "Legendary Cat Ninjas WHAT THE HELL?!?!" Oh, and the fact the name of the place is called Pizza Cat apparently is a very clunky Japanese pun on Pizza Hut, provided you know that Japanese turns western short u sounds into their standard a. So, Pizza Hatto = Pizza Catto. Still, shame the NES was well over its way out by the time Samurai Pizza Cats actually hit the airwaves, otherwise we probably would have got that game.
The thing that baffles me is that the show was bigger in the west than it was in Japan, but Japan still had a crapload of merchandise, but the US only had 2 comics that were back up stories in Power Rangers graphic novels. And even then the comics weren't written by anyone who actually saw an episode, so the characters are all wrong. I heard that Europe, France especially, had some toys. We didn't even get so much as a Kid's Meal promotion by a third party fast food franchise.
I love that the show is available on Amazon Prime. Its just as cheesy and dumb as I remember!
Great video! Hope Clyde, you, and everyone else is having a good holiday. Take care brother.
What a pretty good video
Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty good.
A friend described Gimmick as "Kirby's Adventure by way of Dark Souls." He's not WRONG, you know. Also, Holy Diver was included on Retro-Bit's Super Retro Cade console, giving you a way to play the game legally if you don't have an NES handy.
That is so awesome! I’ll have to look into the system especially if it has more games by Irem
Also Nintendo Switch online will hopefully get Gimmick soon since we’re quickly receiving all of Sunsoft’s other games (that aren’t movie tie ins)
2:24
He said SWAT cats. I am happy now.
I thought there was a 99% chance he was making that one up. Did not expect it to actually be real.
@@Sabith01 yeah I haven't heard it referenced since it originally aired. So it's definitely safe to say it didn't go very far.
I remember loving it as a kid.
Dude your vids inspire me no joke
While Gimmick was released in some PAL regions as Mr. Gimmick, you don't want to play that version. It is missing a sound chip that the Famicom version has. There is a patch on romhacking.net that switches out the title screen of the JPN version with the PAL title screen, but it's really minor and not really needed.
www.romhacking.net/hacks/4206/
All of the games on here do have translations on romhacking.net as well.
Total length of video: 614 secs.
Total length of "SNES Drunk": 1.5 sec.
.24% of the video was spent listening to "SNES Drunk."
OH BOY I WATCHED THIS VIDEO AND REALIZED THAT I AM STILL ANTICIPATING WHEN THE MR. GIMMICK CART WITH BOX AND SUNSOFT 5B AUDIO CHIP REPRO FROM THE SITE I USE IS BACK IN STOCK SO I CAN BLOW 85 DOLLARS ON WHAT PEOPLE TELL ME IS THE BEST GAME THERE IS. IMA SUNSOFT SUPER NERD!
Oh gosh, Samurai pizza cats was such a good anime!
It was released in 1991 in France and maybe Italy from what I know.
Characters were nuts and scenarios were brilliantly stupid. It was funnier than TMNT with more actual fights and less shitty jokes.
More on the absurdity of the situations.
What a good show it was...
Thanks for the video again.
Was aired in germany as well, the german intro is fun as hell!
So you did it :) I saw it coming anyway, sooner or later. I hope this is just Part 1 because there are many more English-friendly FC games out there. One of my favorites in this category is Layla - an otherwise straightforward action platformer featuring somewhat confusing level design and the ability to use a variety of weapons. And there's also an excellent hack of this game called The Iris Missions with completely redesigned levels and a rocking sountrack, which is one of my favorites on the system.
Joy Mech Fight reminds me of Vectorman on genesis.
Kyatto ninden teyandee translates as "Cat ninja teyandee" (The teyandee doesn't have an exact translation)
The original series had a different tone to the one we had in the west, that saban adapted to be some kind of Animaniacs with cats, and, at least for me, it's hard to see an entire episode on this times, it aged pretty bad
The original one it's a lot of fun, the complete series was uploaded here on youtube some time ago
I know you put the "Pizza cats" name as a pun, but i want to share the trivia for everyone :)
And if you're a fan of the American adaptation, there's an English patch that also changes all of the character names and such.
Great list! Thanks! Obake No Qtaro Wan Wan Panic is English Friendly Famicom game as well
I always thought there should be a game based on Ronnie James DIo and holy diver, there is!
Hey you should try this amazing game.....$400 LOL. Good list though.
All of these games on cart you showed go for ridiculous prices online lol. Sad retro gaming has been scalped to hell and back these days.
i couldn't agree more
lol It's pretty typical of most of the games he mentions. If it looks cool, it's probably $100-$400. I myself go directly for a high quality reproduction cart for $45 or less at that point . Of course several other ways to play are available. Supply and demand on really old hard to find goods are always high no matter the medium.
I used to own numerous games that now are worth small fortunes. I CAN'T FIND ANY OF THEM!!!!
Samurai Pizza Cats game?! :O
Oh man, I forgot about Moon Crystal. I didn’t even realize it never got released in the US. I just remember playing it long ago.
This was such a good episode I'll be down loading a few of these soon 😁👌👍
Aw man, perfect timing with this video! My wife just got me a Famicom Mini console, and I'm looking for some unseen gems to load onto it. Keep up the good work, and Happy Holidays, my dude
Buy me Bonestorm or go to hell!
Exactly the same happened to me =) ~ Merry Christmas everyone!
Great reference, THRILLHO
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The Quest of Ki is pronounced "Kye". Good game though
When I was younger, me and my neighbor friend were in searching for Kunio kun game series like Sports, basketball, street fight, football...those were the times. One of the best games on nes!
D'awww, you should've mentioned how Moon Crystal has those badass Ninja Gaiden cutscenes as well. Truly the best looking game on the NES/Famicom.
"Ninja Gaiden cutscenes"
You mean... 'cutscenes'?
A Gamer Aaron he says NG cutscenes as in they’re in that style, with the film noir/anime style mash up.
@@lordlouie3550 Oh, okay, I see.
A Gamer Aaron I like the style, and it also works because the plot of the three games is pretty darn good. Ninja Gaiden 2 is my favourite NES game of all time, and I’ve played over 100 NES titles, almost all on original hardware.
@@lordlouie3550 good times. Video games are a huge part of life. 🤟
So about 1 out 2000 people hit the thumbs down button on your videos. Who are these strange people and what's they're deal??
Ironically every game on this list has an English fan translation. Anyway good list. =P
Ah, "Samurai Pizza Cats." Loved that show as a kid. For the uninitiated, there was an anime called "Kyatto Ninden Teyandee." Saban got the rights to this show and wanted tot dub it into English. One problem. No one on the writing staff spoke Japanese, so they would watch an episode and then write an entirely new script based on what they thought was going on. This led to a gag dub with a ton of fourth wall humour.
to be more precise, the script was sent to the US dubbing team by the studio but it got lost somewhere over the Pacific (this is even referenced in the theme song). The dubbing team actually did have a translator but he wasn't very good at hearing the dialogue as compared to reading it
Samurai Pizza Cats was broadcasted by Fox Kids in Brazil and it's got a bit of a cult following in the late 90s. It was a funny goofy show to watch and I couldn't have imagined there was a NES game of it. Great selection. Happy holidays!
Btw, your voice sounded different, like it was kinda deeper. I hope you're doing well
If Irem wanted to adapt the sequel to Kid Nikki (aka Kaiketsu Yanchamaru) for the US, why not call it Teen Nikki? Then again the original game didn’t probably do it all too well when it came out in the USA. :/ ...that could be.
Wait. How do you play 4p on Famicom? Aren't we limited to two built-in controllers and an EXT port controller? I have a ASCII Stick II Turbo with an EXT port on it but it's a pass-thru as far as I can tell. The Arkanoid II Vaus controller has a second port for the original Vaus but all it does is switch pins around so it's really more like breaking up Atari paddle controllers.
It'd be nice to have a link to the other videos of the series mentioned in the beginning.
It'd make it easier to watch them, now that I know they exist I kinda want to watch them first or at least just watch them in general....🤔 Maybe there's a playlist?
Either way, thank you for all the videos you make.
They are always a joy and I often wish they were longer videos.
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We can thank Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for all the crazy cartoons names that came after it. I often imagine a bunch of suits sitting around in an office and wondering how they can compete with TMNT. It must have seemed insane to them, but they saw the kids loved it, and so they come up with Biker Mice from Mars.
6:00 I don't think the baby is digging. I think it's eating.
On the note of Gimmick. Totally check out the Annotated Play by Frank Cifaldi. There is SO much in Gimmick that makes it stand out than any other NES game. Just the sheer amount of little detail
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Is it just me or does this fish boss look like a Goldeen with "Anime Robo Armor" fully engaged?
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These games definitely do look like a lot of fun
Cool thing about Samurai Pizza Cats is there's an actual translation patch for it, but the translators went the extra mile- not only did they release a direct translation, they released a patch that modified the game to make it more like the English dub of the anime!
That's some serious dedication, especially considering how hilarious that dub is.
When you get to the end of Crash N The Boyz: Street Challenge, the ice hockey game, or Ice Challenge, is advertised for that upcoming winter season. Sadly, the game never came out in the USA.
Technos Japan really developed a fantastic universe with Kunio Kun. Crash N The Boyz: Street Challenge will always be one of my favorites. top 10 NES game no doubt about it.
That ain't true lover
@@cazamilfs8945 what's not true?
You mean Technos.
Darkwing Geese you're right. edited.
Do you have any idea how many Famicom Kunio Kun games there are?
Think about it like this- There are 6 Mario Games, There are 7 Megaman games, and There is 11 KUNIO KUN GAMES ON FAMICOM ALONE, including Basketball, Soccer (2 of them), A 2-on-2 Fight Pit, a Triathlon, Crash n’ the boys, and a sequel to RCR set in feudal Japan. They’re all fantastic.
I got my copy of Nekketsu Hockey Bu from eBay for only 12 bucks. :)
I like this eeries the best because I got my SD2SBES all filed up and need to know what I can play from the big list
I always enjoyed the hilarious insanity that was the Samurai Pizza Cats TV show, so I was excited to discover an NES game based on it. Thank you for giving this some screen time.
Love your channel! 💪
Crisis Force is one of the best by Konami... Gimmick is a game that you really wanna love because of the graphics, music, but the gameplay/controls are not good. The game is too hard (but not a "good hard"), and it is one of those games you just wanna get it over with and you feel like never playing it again.
The ~English-friendly series was what caught me on this channel, never leaved since then =)
Here's my list of FC titles that you may want to consider in the future. All of these are 'English-friendly' titles. I excluded anything that you have already featured.
Tetris 2 + Bombliss
(BPS)
DeBlock
Door Door
Quarth
JJ: Tobidase Daisakusen II
Salamander
Lot Lot
Pooyan
Fantasy Zone
Fantasy Zone 2
Circus Charlie
Bubble Bobble 2
Arkanoid II
Air Fortress
Don Doko Don
Don Doko Don 2
Meikyu Jiin Dababa
Twinbee
Moero TwinBee
Gun.Smoke
Twinbee 3
Nazo no Murasame Jo
Penguin-Kun Wars
Space Invaders
The Goonies
The Tower of Druaga
Puyo Puyo
Egypt
Gradius II
Splatterhouse: Wanpaku Graffiti
Yu Maze
Parodius Da! Shinwa kara Owarai
Falsion
Galaxian
Binary Land
Nuts & Milk
New Ghostbusters 2
Mappy
Mappy Land
Lode Runner
Flappy
Crazy Climber
Vs.Excitebike
Akumajou Special: Boku Dracula Kun
Vs. Ice Climber
Recca'92
Eggerland
Knoght Move
Devil World
Wai Wai World
Halleywars
Otoky
Arumana no Kiseki
Bomberman
Warpman/Warpwarp
Dig Dug
Japanese Super Mario Bros 2, Gradius II, and Recca 92 come to mind.
Ike Ike! Nathingy Hockey looks like a modified Super Dodge Ball... Wich got a SNES version... Ooppsss. Googled before posting... Super Famicom Version*
Can't lie, I didn't know about most of these and now I'm going to check them out. Thanks again, Drunk! Keep doing you, man! Love this channel!
We were supposed to get that Kunio-Kun Hockey game in America, It was advertised in Crash and the Boys : Street Challenge
These games are nice but they are expensive even on the Famicom because they’re rare.
Gimmick $ 500
Adventure island 4 $270
Mitsumi ga tooru $130
Bio Miracle $190
Holy Diver $ 100
Crisis Force $100
Seirei densetstu aka little Samson $250
As a big NES fan, I became interested in games I refer to as the "alternate library". Games that are outside of the official North American releases. They include unlicensed games, prototypes, homebrews, and non-US games (Pal and Famicom) I wrote down a list of over 50 famicom games I want to play. One game I recently discovered is Super Star Force. It's a top down shooter with run and gun stages. It alternates between the 2. In the US we got Star Force, but I didn't know there was a sequel on Famicom.
Samurai pizza cats was a legit cartoon in Canada. My girlfriend thought I was making shit up when I told her this years back.
Gimmick as a possible top 10 NES game? Bruv, I can barely name 10 retro games that deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with it. Clear #1 8-bit game for me and I'll fight anyone who disagrees!
Totally not biased because I own a Famicom cart of it. =P
next time I go famicom shopping I'll know what to look for.
edit: my favorite seller has none of these, of course, so it looks like these wont be so affordable to get...
I used to play Moon Crystal a lot. And I mean A LOT, the cutscenes were like a Ghibli movie and therefore endlessly fascinated then-little-me even though I couldn't make sense of the moonrunes; it also had an advantage over Ninja Gaiden by not being ungodly difficult.
Mitsume ga Tooru was pretty much my first exposure to Tezuka, and I didn't even realize that at the time.
Tbh Gimmick was the only one on the list that looked really worth going back to play. As far as NES goes though Little Nemo: DreamMaster is the only platformer that was extremely good and worth playing again still today with Kirbys Adventures being right behind it.
Some great picks! Definitely dig Crisis Force, if you want a Konami shmup that's not Gradius or Life Force/Salamander this will defniitely fit the bill!
Trying to decide if I want to take the plunge and buy a Famicom or not. This is a helpful video.
I am super glad someone properly spoke the _FAMILY COMPUTER_ by its correct name. Unlike other western youtubers that are too scared to say it by it correctly.
Excellent list! Always looking for more nes games to play without downloading a language hack! Hope theres more nes and other consoles (tg16, master system, genesis, gb, etc) in the future!
9:00 You can also use your NSO active NA Switch account to play both the Famicom and Super Famicom apps. So your NA account friends can see when you're playing an NSO Famicom or Super Famicom game.
Kunio kun no Nekketsu Soccer League is another river city ransom spinoff, this time with soccer. Its amazing! I don't even like soccer at all but the game is so much fun with all the crazy moves you can pull.
The only game Ive ever played that I did without any translation patch is Door door. It was developed by Koichi Nakamura, who later founded Chunsoft (named after the lead character in this game).
Thanks. Now the nerds are gonna come on over here and buy up all the shit and jack up the prices, just like what happened in USA. Great job. Thanks. Ruin it for the rest of us.
Are your videos causing some of these games to be $300+? Think about it....You always help me have a nice rest of my day....
Currently in Japan on vacation and definitely have been game hunting. I have a Japan exclusives list I’m searching for and learned of a bunch of those through your vids. Thanks!
Mitsume is indeed "three-eyed", but Tooru is "Thor". Double o in Japanese is just a hard o that you hold for a beat longer. It doesn't make the "ooh" sound from English. That sound in Japanese is u.
That hockey game looks awesome...Super Dodge Ball is one of my favorite NES games, so I'm glad to know that's a thing!
maybe you mentioned it in an older video, but Cocoron is a really enjoyable, easy on the text, "open-world", character customizable, Mega Man style game, I believe even made by the same head creator from Mega Man 1.
I was in korea for a month in 1992 and my cousin had the river city hockey game. I just got a nes last month and am getting a nes to famicon converter so I can get that game. I know they brought over some other river city sports games to the US, but the hockey one was my favorite.
Im playing bio miracle blah blah blah before on my Android emulator but the game level designs are tough even the boss are similar still the game was fun.
The Kunio-kun hockey game was going to be released in the US as Crash N The Boys Ice Challenge (seen advertised at the end of Crash N The Boys Street Challenge beating the game with Crash's team)
Samurai Pizza Cats absolutely bonkers cartoon show crazy game as well ☺ ♥ 🇯🇵
Whoa! They did that floaty limbs thing with Joy Mech Fight just a couple of years before Vectorman and Rayman.
Have you done a video on psx/Saturn games that could have been done on SNES/Genesis? Just curious since there were some that looked like it could have been.
This is a good list.
Crisis Force is good (great for a NES game), but my problem with it is that if you are going to be going out of your way to play retro shoot em ups, then it's pretty much a waste of time to play them from the 8 bit era, just go straight to the arcade games or at least stick to the TG-16.
worth noting that even if they're gaijin-friendly, some of these still have translation patches: Moon Crystal, Samurai Pizza Cats, and Holy Diver to say the least
Adventure Island 4, Joy Mech Fight and Mitsume ga Tooru too, actually. I believe the only one that doesn't is the last game, as a matter of fact.
Happy Belated Christmas. Cool video, I kind of want to check out a few of these
I find it really unusual that Joy Mech Fight never got any kind of official release outside of Japan. Then again, same goes for all of the earlier Fire Emblem games.