All I had to go on was the name when I was a kid, so I thought this was the SNES update to Mega Man. Like I thought "Ultra is bigger than Mega, right? So I guess this is Mega Man but powered up for the new console!" You can imagine how disappointed I was after getting it home from the rental place.
Fun fact about the Ultraman: Towards the Future television series! The series was filmed in Australia as a joint partnership between Tsubaraya Pro and the South Australian Film Corporation. It's much better than the video game.
Yeah I'm a little disappointed SNES Drunk didn't go into this history of Ultraman at the time. This game exists to promote the then-upcoming toy line and Australian-Produced TV show. I had all the toys as a kid but even I thought the game sucked. Still my younger brother loved the monsters much I made clay figurines so he could play with all of them.
Living in the USA, it wasn't until many years later that I actually saw an Ultraman TV show. I got the game thinking it would be good, but was really disappointed.
I had a similar first experience, except it was this and Home Alone 2 for me (still have no idea to this day why my parents chose those two games). All I can say is good thing my new SNES that Christmas came with Super Mario World or I would've had a fairly bad holiday.
Hey when this came out it didn't feel like it was so terrible, Street Fighter 2 may have come out around the same time in the arcades but most of us hadn't been spoiled by it yet lol
Got it in 92 for Christmas from an uncle. While the controls were awkward, the enemy’s limited attacks were easy enough to deal with, so it was just a matter of figuring out how the power attacks worked. Once my brothers and I figured that out, the rest of the game fell in short order, with even the final boss just requiring the “run away” strat once you did like 20% damage.
The first person I knew who got an SNES had this along with Final Fight and Super R-Type - It easily got rhe least play. And to this day I haven't figured out how to finish off bosses. Also, the music playing in this video is from the Super Famicom release which was actually based on the original 1966 TV series. The North American release was based on the 1990 series Ultraman Towards the Future.
Had that same issue when renting. You switch to a charge shot with R after some time for the finisher. Took quite some time to pass the first boss and it was very much more of the same moving forward..
@@Marzimus i think it took me like 30 minutes to realize that the first time 🤣🤣. I was like, why wont this bastard die???? Oh...i can change the intensity of the plasma beam??
Okay, so this game isn't a 1:1 port of the arcade game from Japan. Yes, it functions the same as that game. Yes, it still sucks. But the source material is different. As Ultraman is a franchise in Japan, the arcade game is based on the original 1966 Ultraman, nowadays known as Ultraman Hayata for differentiation. The Super Famicom did get a port of the version with the Hayata stuff intact. When it was localized for the US and Europe they decided to base it off of the most recent (at the time) Ultraman that was airing in the States to cash in on the show's "popularity", Ultraman Great.
cheers from Brazil! this and game sack are my fav channel regarding content, opinions and quality! My shiba inu always watches with me when Clyde T Dog appears!
Reminds me of how I got Speed Racer for SNES as a kid. New. Full price. For fun I would glitch out of bounds and enjoy the first open world game I ever played.
That paragraph in the Ys section of the Super NES guide about the soundtrack being available in Japan was the first time I found out that other people liked video game music enough to want to listen to it while doing something other than playing video games. I was glad I wasn't alone!
I was obsessed with this game as a kid. Towards The Future was my first experience with Ultraman when it was on Saturday morning tv so I was all for this. I came back to it 20 years later and quickly realized I was a stupid kid. Love Ultraman, but this game was painful.
I actually enjoyed this game when I was a kid, although I was confused by the mechanics at first. It is more of a game you play strategically than similar-looking games, and it makes more sense when you look at the action of the show and the genre the game is trying to recreate.
Yeah! That's how i played it, from a multi-game cartridge, i don't recall which other games it had tho. Can you list yours? Also you @ETAJ94, which games were on that cartridge, do you recall?
I remember when the series 'Ultraman Great' aka Ultraman: Towards the Future was aired in my country back in the late 90's, didn't know there was a game based on that version
In the fun age of "I have no idea what games are good so I ended up with some weird games", this was one of the 5 or 6 SNES games I had. It is very VERY funny though, the way they just flick their arms out to attack with no enthusiasm.
As a kid, the Japanese sentai show was mindless fun. As an adult, its always hillarious that Ultraman has to boss rush the monster of the week before his power runs out.
Today I can't say why, but as a Famicom owner back in the day, I really got impressed by this game IN MAGAZINES. Anyway, I didn't played or see it at that time, just a lot of years ago via emulation... maybe because took some time for us to have Super Famicom rental stores in Brazil (only had after a semester from the US SNES release) and by there, a lot of other games (we had both JP and US games here almost at the same proportion, even some different versions of the same game). Cheers! EDIT: Yeah... here in Brazil, from themid-80s until today, Japanese animation (included tokusatsu, that isn't animation but were all mixed together on broadcast and watched by the same public) is considerably more popular than from the US or anywhere else, and the Ultra Family were the beginning of that (we also had Nationaro Kido and some other older stuff... but that all were not there yet). We took tokusatsu very serious and maybe that made me instant love the pictures on magazines... just don't explain why there were not a single sign of this game around here
I rented this in the '90s (during the very brief Ultraman hype in the US), and turned it off after 10 minutes. We immediately took it back and rented something else.
I owned this as a kid, took me a few years to figure out what to do though. Couldn't get past the first enemy, then figured out the finisher & then I just blew though the game. Their was a western released Ultraman movie around this time, so it's probably a movie tie in (it's how I know about him).
I haven't watched this yet, but I wanted to just point out that if your answer is anything other than "NO", I will have lost all faith. This was one of the first games I got when I had my Super NES back in the day... and it was absolute clunky garbage. No one should be subjected to it. EDIT: My faith is intact.
My guess is it was released in the US to have a one on one fighter available for the console riding on the popularity of SFII and also it must have been easy to localize this game since there's not much text.
This was the only game my friend had when we were kids in 1991 other than the packed in Super Mario World which we were sick of playing too much. We played for half an hour, then we played outside the rest of the day!
*My Dad LOVED Urutoraman when he was a kid.* 💙 *He use to play with me with his childhood action figures when I a kid. He even had this game for Super Famicom.*
I received my SNES for Xmas 1991; I was 11. I also received a handful of games. The games were, Super Bases Loaded, Super Ghouls and Ghosts, Pilotwings, F-Zero, and......Ultraman! It's bad, but it's good
Iunno, I was kinda interested in what Ultraman was, as there was more than just this video game in part of a weird, half-assed multimedia push to make him A Thing. There was brief period when the Ultraman show was on one of our local independent stations’ early morning, before-school programming block, and I distinctly remember wanting to get the giant Ultraman and Gudis figures that were available in discount stores for a few weeks, a few years before Power Rangers got big-and by that point, all that interested me about that show was Amy Jo Johnson. As for the game itself, it looks more like a pro wrestling game than an actual fighting game, in that it’s super slow-paced and you have all the life meter crap to go through before you can finish a match. WWF War Zone and Attitude were still doing that years later. Maybe those games are still doing that, I don’t know, I haven’t paid attention to wrasslin’ since the Attitude Era, much less the games.
Power Rangers followed teenagers while all of the characters in Ultraman are usually adults. As a kid I was always fascinated by the sci-fi babble they used to explain the monsters and how most of the time between fights was spent investigating the threat rather than going to school or a juice bar like the rangers did. Power Rangers felt more like people just going about their daily lives and then just being randomely summoned to fight the new villain, but the team in Ultraman were experts in dealing with monsters and aliens and thats what their daily lives were, so it felt cooler to young me.
I owned a copy of Ultraman, mainly because my mom grew up on 60s Ultraman. At the time I was not aware of the 90s TV show tie-in. This was pre-Power Rangers. The game wasn't god awful, just a meh type of game once you figure out the controls. The other games were way better. I also owned a copy of Bill Laimbeer's Combat Basketball (Don't ask).
This was one of the first games I've rented for the SNES back when I got the console, along with Hyper Zone, in 1991. At that time it was really impressive to see how these characters had huge sprites and the flow on their moves. I remember it took me a while to figure out how to beat the enemies, I kept punching them for a long time until I noticed I had to blast them in full power to end the fight. Last year I've looked it up and boy was I scared of how bad it looks and feels for today's standards? Lol blame on an era where our best fighting game for consoles was still Fighting Masters for the Genesis. Great video as usual!
My first game outside of the pack-in, when you’re 12 though the game blew your mind with its fancy effects and sprite sizes. I found it more playable than a lot of the shovelware released later in the consoles lifespan.
Other than the included Super Mario World, this was my very first game for the SNES, the very first game system that was exclusively mine and not bought by my parents for the family. Even back then, before seemingly endless gaming options, when "choice paralysis" did not exist at least for gaming, I gave this steaming turd about 15 minutes before I focused exclusively on SMW. I still want those 15 minutes back.
Similar story here, except I made *many* attempts to get any fun out of this game...which usually resulted in twenty-or-thirty minute playthroughs. Even then, still never managed to beat it. When you only get maybe a couple of games a year (birthday/Christmas), you just kinda have to make do. In hindsight, I was a somewhat dumb and stubborn kid.
In Canada, for whatever reason this Ultraman series got at least one VHS release, titled "Ultraman" which was a compilation of the first half of the show. That was my first exposure to the Ultra franchise. A year or so later we picked up a SNES and sure enough this was one of, if not the first games I'd ever rented in my life. It was also a sobering moment for me. The realization that not every video game was fun, even if it was about something you loved.
Ultraman just wasn't a big hit outside of maybe those college anime clubs that survived on tape trades and Japanese grocers that had bootleg VHS rentals at the time. They had an Ultraman series airing in the US at some point around then, but it wasn't popular. Even 10 years later, 4Kids tried and failed to bring Ultraman Tiga over here. If the game was released to coincide/promote some Ultraman series dub in the West, I couldn't tell you when both were released.
Yes I can confirm this sucks. The 3DO Ultraman also sucks. I played this SNES monstrosity at a friend's house - never had a SNES, was a Sega kid but my friend got his parents to shell out £65 to import this from Japan for his Japanese SNES. I felt sorry for his parents, he had a lot of expensive cruddy games for some reason
It was based on a Japanese and Australian coproduction tv series from the early nineties that was televised here in the states. There’s Super Famicom game almost exactly the same with the exception that it was based on the original series from the sixties.
The TV show made it to America in some markets around this time. It didn't last, but later the same thing would be done with Power Rangers to much better success. A lot of games based on sentai or anime shows seem to have this obsession with "End it like it does in the show". Hence the need to use burning plasma on all the bosses. It seems only recently with things like Dragonball Fighter Z they've made that sort of thing optional bonuses and Easter Eggs, and the gameplay is better for it. Edit: Some of those backgrounds are GORGEOUS for 91 tho.
@cybercop0083 Yes, i just playing it now and got to stage five. To answer people's question. You need to max out your special attack when the enemy life bar said "finish". Use that attack on it to win
I actually remembered watching the TtF TV show growing up. My brother was a fan and he recorded every episode of that show! My brother is really into kaiju monsters so naturally he was all over Ultraman
When we were deciding between the SNES and the Genesis, I rented this game along with the console. My brother rented Super Adventure Island. Needless to say, he made the better choice. We ended up getting a Genesis because of Sonic, but sometimes I think back on that event and wonder if it could have gone the other way if I got something besides Ultraman.
I never played this Ultraman game, but oh, my god, hearing you mention Great Battle 4 and core memories of playing them while not knowing who Kamen Rider or Ultraman were just got unlocked!
This was one of the first SNES games I ever had, from that Christmas when I was seven years old. I never got very far into this game, but my dad and I would play it together on weekends for a couple of months until we (that is, he) finally beat the final boss and got a completely forgettable ending screen. I had no idea who Ultraman was before I had this game, and I never got into the series later, either, so this is basically my one and only point of knowledge about the guy. I believe my dad bought it because he thought that surely Ultraman was related to Superman. Anyway, I'm never going to stand up and defend it, but this game will always have a special place in my memories.
Damn that cut deep. I remember Christmas of '92 my dad got me an SNES as a surprise and he forgot to take it out of his trunk. We went out for a family dinner and he went to get something. I saw the SNES box and freaked out! He said, " Well okay let's go to Blockbuster." We didn't have any games so I rented Ultraman and he got Pilotwings. I went crazy but pretty quickly I realized that Ultraman was pretty awful lol. Luckily he saved SF2 for my other surprise gift!
I was a pretty big Ultraman fan as a kid back then. They used to air Ultraman Tiga on FOX Kids! every Saturday morning for about two years, plus thanks to Mighty Morphing Power Rangers, the Super Sentai genre was taking off by 1994.
woow thad dodgeball one... i remember passing hours playing that one and metal warriors in my cousins house on a good old emulat- ops... legitime console...
Ha, absolutely correct take on this game, but I have a huge soft spot for it. My folks got it for my brother and I without any knowledge about it, they just knew that we loved giant monster movies and stuff like that. At the time, I really loved the big sprites and the mode 7 scaling intros for each fight simply because I had never seen anything like that. Basically the only move you need is the super high jump kick. Definitely one of those games where I didn't see the flaws at the time because it was one of the only games I had to play.
My brother and I rented this when I was like 8 and we had no idea how to play it. As somewhat avid child gamers, we were pretty frustrated by it. Didn't get anywhere and ended up just returning it.
I had this game as a kid (unfortunately) and here is a couple of interesting tidbits I found out about it later in life. The title screen of the game with the vertical scrolling patterns is actually meant to mimic the intro of the 90s TV show, check it out on RUclips. Same with the sequence of him growing into a giant before each fight. The first level of the game where you are fighting Gudis actually takes place on mars as it represents the first episode of the 90s TV show where Ultraman fights Gudis on Mars. The 3 minute timer which seemed like a bullshit gameplay mechanic was actually part of the lore of the show as Ultraman could only remain on earth for 3 minutes because of the immense energy he used. The game was likely released when it did on the SNES to help market the 90s TV show.
I feel like there were a bunch of ads for Ultraman action figures around this time, so maybe they were revving up for a tv show in the US that never came to pass
I loved the TV show when I was a little kid, more like obsessed actually. I rented the game and system and was disappointed that it was impossible; neither my mom nor I could get past the first monster.
I remember being hyped AF as a kid after reading about this game in a magazine, renting it and being MASSIVELY disappointed. I think it might have been my first videogame frustration.
Is it wrong, I LOVED this game. Still do. Yes, it's repetitive, but the fights are short enough it doesn't get too boring before the game is over, and it ramps up the difficulty and keeps the fights varied JUST enough they don't feel the same. Maybe Im just a big Ultraman fanboy.
I know we don't often get to see Drunk64 since you weren't a big fan of the N64 but I'd love to see your review of Aidyn Chronicles, the first mage, aka one of the ONLY turn-based/JRPGs on the N64
Video count starting with following intros: SNES drunk: 875 NES drunk: 5 Segadrunk: 69 Steamdrunk: 43 Switchdrunk: 7 Turbodrunk: 4 Without any kind of Intro: 41 Previously on SNES drunk IS drunk: 2 SNES drunk IS drunk: 1 Previously on SNES drunk plays StarFox: 1 Previously on SNES drunk plays Final Fight: 1 3 Hours of the SNES drunk Intro: 1 A four minute and 30 second long SNES drunk Intro: 1 Videos completely about Clyde T. Dog (No Intro as well): 3
Wholly crap I forgot about that guide! This likely had more of an impact on me than I realize. I think Nintendo Power did a fairly good job during these times. I wasn't so much tied up in ratings, but the pictures and descriptions were enough for young me to figure out if a game was good or crap. I had a knack for picking out games since the NES. I don't think I failed once by the time I reached the SNES. My games are basically a top 50 list on the system thankfully. I actually stopped renting around this point cause if there are 5 games available on the shelf when the rest are already rented then, well.....yeah
The only Ultraman I cared about as a child was the Canadian television series called My Secret Identity staring Jerry O'Connell. Ironically, this show was happening around the same time as that game got made.
I think the reason it got a western release was because they were going to release the first Ultraman show made outside of Japan everywhere which shared the same name as the game as far as I know the only English speaking country it was released in was Australia though and it was never released anywhere else.
I owned this! I agree it’s bad but I had fun with it but only because I was a kid and didn’t know or have anything better…that was until I found a game store that had a deal that you could swap games. I don’t remember the exact details of the deal but I traded this for Mortal Kombat on SNES. I got the flawless victory that day!
Ahhh, yes. I remember this title. Never got past the first fight. It blew my mind when it got one of the higher trade-in values when I brought it into the local Rhino Games store.
I was into kaiju (Godzilla and Gamera) movies growing up, and seeing the first screenshot of this game made me want to buy it. Several years later, kids in America were embracing the Mighty Morphing Power Rangers (which I couldn't get into). It was an okay game.
I remember renting this and just having no idea what to do lol it was my grandma that eventually figured out what you're supposed to do, but even then it just became so boring. One of the few times I tried to return a game earlier
I unironically loved this game as a kid. It's a bit hard to go back to now, because it's so sluggish. But I loved the pixel-art, the music, and even the gimmick of having to finish your opponent with a special finishing move superhero/sentai style was something different from other games. I recommend at least trying it out, just for the novelty.
Hahaha I owned this cause I loved that live action TV show that would come on in the mornings. The whole game could be finished by only using the jump kick, but as bad as it was I kinda loved it.
I remember a kids' TV show about this guy was imported from Japan around when this game came out; maybe they thought the show had some kind of audience here that they could take advantage of, but I never heard anyone at school even mention it.
I remember this game and have fond memories for sure. Not of the game itself, it was awful, but of my neighbor renting it basically as soon as it came out so we spent the weekend outside riding bikes in order to keep away from the SNES. A shame as Ultraman is pretty awesome as a series but it deserved a better North American release for sure.
Had this as a kid and yea man, it was crap back then. We used to tell our friends it was so sick and then watch teh disappointment when they couldn't figure out how to kill an enemy. Play other Ultraman games, or even Monster Rancher Ultimate Kaiju.
Oh, God. This was horrendous. Even the gaming media at the time said it was horrible. Back then I was mesmerised by the console so nothing stopped me wanting one, but this made me realise not everything was incredible on the machine.
This was one of the first SNES games i played, along w Super Mario World!! Back then i tried to convince myself it was amazing, but yup...it was a repetitive slodge
This game was lost media for me for the longest time. I had vivid memories of watching my older cousins play this at my grandmother's house. I don't think anyone was able to get past the 3rd or 4th monster. I had no idea how to find this until a few years ago. Can confirm this game is awful.
All I had to go on was the name when I was a kid, so I thought this was the SNES update to Mega Man. Like I thought "Ultra is bigger than Mega, right? So I guess this is Mega Man but powered up for the new console!" You can imagine how disappointed I was after getting it home from the rental place.
@@lhfirex I dearly hope Megaman X took some of that pain away.
I had a cousin who told me that's what Ultraman was n geez was the disappointed
@@hoodafudj pure evil
I... My mother needed to return a game after finding out i got a mario Joshi puzzle game 😂 my expectation was a mario game with Joshi. Gameboy
I knew what Ultraman was from my parents.
Fun fact about the Ultraman: Towards the Future television series! The series was filmed in Australia as a joint partnership between Tsubaraya Pro and the South Australian Film Corporation. It's much better than the video game.
Yeah I'm a little disappointed SNES Drunk didn't go into this history of Ultraman at the time. This game exists to promote the then-upcoming toy line and Australian-Produced TV show. I had all the toys as a kid but even I thought the game sucked. Still my younger brother loved the monsters much I made clay figurines so he could play with all of them.
Living in the USA, it wasn't until many years later that I actually saw an Ultraman TV show. I got the game thinking it would be good, but was really disappointed.
Well, if you still want the pain, you can import the PAL version from UK or france.
The show itself never aired in Australia but we did get it in America. Funny enough the Anerican made Ultraman Powered never aired in America
Y'all got the the best. Spellbinder was filmed in Australia, too, and it was awesome
It wasn't worth playing 32 years ago! :-D
I realized it's been that long and I'm mad at you now 😂
I remember renting this and returning it an hour later. It was so sluggish.
My 1rst SNES game along with Super R-Type.
I also still have an Ultraman sticker from this toyline on my NES.
Im sure the sticker is worth loads now!! I collect old ultraman pop up books from that era
Even with that terrible slow down, Super R-Type is the much better game. I also have Ultraman lol
This and Super WrestleMania were the first two games I bought for my SNES as a kid.
Somehow I still loved the system.
I had a similar first experience, except it was this and Home Alone 2 for me (still have no idea to this day why my parents chose those two games). All I can say is good thing my new SNES that Christmas came with Super Mario World or I would've had a fairly bad holiday.
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Ugh. I saved up for Super Wrestlemania. Bought it with my birthday money. Man, was that a hard lesson to learn.
It's a good thing you stuck with it. 😎
Total length of video: 320 secs.
Total length of "SNES Drunk": 3 secs.
.94% of the video was spent listening to "SNES Drunk".
not long enough....get those number up mr. snesdrunk!
@@thenostalgiafactor5023 that's the best part of the vid lol
I remember going to a friend's house and watching them play this and thinking, "Cool...this sucks." Exactly like that.
I’m writing that one down for future use lol! Now I know exactly how to respond to watching the Barbie movie 🙃🤷🏾♂️🤣 thank you for that
Hey when this came out it didn't feel like it was so terrible, Street Fighter 2 may have come out around the same time in the arcades but most of us hadn't been spoiled by it yet lol
Got it in 92 for Christmas from an uncle.
While the controls were awkward, the enemy’s limited attacks were easy enough to deal with, so it was just a matter of figuring out how the power attacks worked.
Once my brothers and I figured that out, the rest of the game fell in short order, with even the final boss just requiring the “run away” strat once you did like 20% damage.
Agree with that. Probably one of the first games I played on SNES after Super Mario World.
The first person I knew who got an SNES had this along with Final Fight and Super R-Type - It easily got rhe least play. And to this day I haven't figured out how to finish off bosses.
Also, the music playing in this video is from the Super Famicom release which was actually based on the original 1966 TV series. The North American release was based on the 1990 series Ultraman Towards the Future.
Had that same issue when renting. You switch to a charge shot with R after some time for the finisher. Took quite some time to pass the first boss and it was very much more of the same moving forward..
@@Marzimus i think it took me like 30 minutes to realize that the first time 🤣🤣. I was like, why wont this bastard die???? Oh...i can change the intensity of the plasma beam??
Okay, so this game isn't a 1:1 port of the arcade game from Japan. Yes, it functions the same as that game. Yes, it still sucks. But the source material is different. As Ultraman is a franchise in Japan, the arcade game is based on the original 1966 Ultraman, nowadays known as Ultraman Hayata for differentiation. The Super Famicom did get a port of the version with the Hayata stuff intact. When it was localized for the US and Europe they decided to base it off of the most recent (at the time) Ultraman that was airing in the States to cash in on the show's "popularity", Ultraman Great.
Hence why the SNES version is called Ultraman: Towards the Future--what Great was called in the US.
cheers from Brazil! this and game sack are my fav channel regarding content, opinions and quality! My shiba inu always watches with me when Clyde T Dog appears!
New SNES Drunk? Best thing to happen on this day!
Reminds me of how I got Speed Racer for SNES as a kid.
New.
Full price.
For fun I would glitch out of bounds and enjoy the first open world game I ever played.
That paragraph in the Ys section of the Super NES guide about the soundtrack being available in Japan was the first time I found out that other people liked video game music enough to want to listen to it while doing something other than playing video games. I was glad I wasn't alone!
Oh yes, game music albums were a big thing in Japan even back then
I was obsessed with this game as a kid. Towards The Future was my first experience with Ultraman when it was on Saturday morning tv so I was all for this. I came back to it 20 years later and quickly realized I was a stupid kid. Love Ultraman, but this game was painful.
I actually enjoyed this game when I was a kid, although I was confused by the mechanics at first. It is more of a game you play strategically than similar-looking games, and it makes more sense when you look at the action of the show and the genre the game is trying to recreate.
Had this game on a 8 games in one cartridge that my dad got me from Japan.
Also have a great day!
I still have a cart 6 in 1 that has this game. The best part of this game is the music.
Yeah! That's how i played it, from a multi-game cartridge, i don't recall which other games it had tho. Can you list yours?
Also you @ETAJ94, which games were on that cartridge, do you recall?
I remember when the series 'Ultraman Great' aka Ultraman: Towards the Future was aired in my country back in the late 90's, didn't know there was a game based on that version
HOLY FUCC that high-ass jump
Who would've thought Ultraman did it before Marvel vs Capcom
In the fun age of "I have no idea what games are good so I ended up with some weird games", this was one of the 5 or 6 SNES games I had.
It is very VERY funny though, the way they just flick their arms out to attack with no enthusiasm.
As a kid, the Japanese sentai show was mindless fun. As an adult, its always hillarious that Ultraman has to boss rush the monster of the week before his power runs out.
Today I can't say why, but as a Famicom owner back in the day, I really got impressed by this game IN MAGAZINES. Anyway, I didn't played or see it at that time, just a lot of years ago via emulation... maybe because took some time for us to have Super Famicom rental stores in Brazil (only had after a semester from the US SNES release) and by there, a lot of other games (we had both JP and US games here almost at the same proportion, even some different versions of the same game). Cheers!
EDIT: Yeah... here in Brazil, from themid-80s until today, Japanese animation (included tokusatsu, that isn't animation but were all mixed together on broadcast and watched by the same public) is considerably more popular than from the US or anywhere else, and the Ultra Family were the beginning of that (we also had Nationaro Kido and some other older stuff... but that all were not there yet). We took tokusatsu very serious and maybe that made me instant love the pictures on magazines... just don't explain why there were not a single sign of this game around here
I rented this in the '90s (during the very brief Ultraman hype in the US), and turned it off after 10 minutes. We immediately took it back and rented something else.
i'll avoid the game, but i won't avoid your review.
As an SNES, SNES drunk, and Ultraman fan, I am pleased to see this video.
I owned this as a kid, took me a few years to figure out what to do though. Couldn't get past the first enemy, then figured out the finisher & then I just blew though the game.
Their was a western released Ultraman movie around this time, so it's probably a movie tie in (it's how I know about him).
I haven't watched this yet, but I wanted to just point out that if your answer is anything other than "NO", I will have lost all faith. This was one of the first games I got when I had my Super NES back in the day... and it was absolute clunky garbage. No one should be subjected to it.
EDIT: My faith is intact.
My guess is it was released in the US to have a one on one fighter available for the console riding on the popularity of SFII and also it must have been easy to localize this game since there's not much text.
This was the only game my friend had when we were kids in 1991 other than the packed in Super Mario World which we were sick of playing too much. We played for half an hour, then we played outside the rest of the day!
*My Dad LOVED Urutoraman when he was a kid.* 💙
*He use to play with me with his childhood action figures when I a kid. He even had this game for Super Famicom.*
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I received my SNES for Xmas 1991; I was 11. I also received a handful of games. The games were, Super Bases Loaded, Super Ghouls and Ghosts, Pilotwings, F-Zero, and......Ultraman! It's bad, but it's good
Wow, nice haul for Christmas! It must have been super magical.
Iunno, I was kinda interested in what Ultraman was, as there was more than just this video game in part of a weird, half-assed multimedia push to make him A Thing. There was brief period when the Ultraman show was on one of our local independent stations’ early morning, before-school programming block, and I distinctly remember wanting to get the giant Ultraman and Gudis figures that were available in discount stores for a few weeks, a few years before Power Rangers got big-and by that point, all that interested me about that show was Amy Jo Johnson.
As for the game itself, it looks more like a pro wrestling game than an actual fighting game, in that it’s super slow-paced and you have all the life meter crap to go through before you can finish a match. WWF War Zone and Attitude were still doing that years later. Maybe those games are still doing that, I don’t know, I haven’t paid attention to wrasslin’ since the Attitude Era, much less the games.
Ultraman was an amazing series. Honestly thought it was far better than the original runs of Power Rangers.
Power Rangers followed teenagers while all of the characters in Ultraman are usually adults. As a kid I was always fascinated by the sci-fi babble they used to explain the monsters and how most of the time between fights was spent investigating the threat rather than going to school or a juice bar like the rangers did. Power Rangers felt more like people just going about their daily lives and then just being randomely summoned to fight the new villain, but the team in Ultraman were experts in dealing with monsters and aliens and thats what their daily lives were, so it felt cooler to young me.
I owned a copy of Ultraman, mainly because my mom grew up on 60s Ultraman. At the time I was not aware of the 90s TV show tie-in. This was pre-Power Rangers. The game wasn't god awful, just a meh type of game once you figure out the controls. The other games were way better.
I also owned a copy of Bill Laimbeer's Combat Basketball (Don't ask).
This was one of the first games I've rented for the SNES back when I got the console, along with Hyper Zone, in 1991. At that time it was really impressive to see how these characters had huge sprites and the flow on their moves. I remember it took me a while to figure out how to beat the enemies, I kept punching them for a long time until I noticed I had to blast them in full power to end the fight. Last year I've looked it up and boy was I scared of how bad it looks and feels for today's standards? Lol blame on an era where our best fighting game for consoles was still Fighting Masters for the Genesis. Great video as usual!
My first game outside of the pack-in, when you’re 12 though the game blew your mind with its fancy effects and sprite sizes. I found it more playable than a lot of the shovelware released later in the consoles lifespan.
I forgot who had the outro "and have a great rest of your day" for quite some time...and then I remembered it was SNES Drunk.
Other than the included Super Mario World, this was my very first game for the SNES, the very first game system that was exclusively mine and not bought by my parents for the family. Even back then, before seemingly endless gaming options, when "choice paralysis" did not exist at least for gaming, I gave this steaming turd about 15 minutes before I focused exclusively on SMW. I still want those 15 minutes back.
Similar story here, except I made *many* attempts to get any fun out of this game...which usually resulted in twenty-or-thirty minute playthroughs. Even then, still never managed to beat it.
When you only get maybe a couple of games a year (birthday/Christmas), you just kinda have to make do. In hindsight, I was a somewhat dumb and stubborn kid.
In Canada, for whatever reason this Ultraman series got at least one VHS release, titled "Ultraman" which was a compilation of the first half of the show. That was my first exposure to the Ultra franchise. A year or so later we picked up a SNES and sure enough this was one of, if not the first games I'd ever rented in my life. It was also a sobering moment for me. The realization that not every video game was fun, even if it was about something you loved.
Ultraman just wasn't a big hit outside of maybe those college anime clubs that survived on tape trades and Japanese grocers that had bootleg VHS rentals at the time. They had an Ultraman series airing in the US at some point around then, but it wasn't popular. Even 10 years later, 4Kids tried and failed to bring Ultraman Tiga over here. If the game was released to coincide/promote some Ultraman series dub in the West, I couldn't tell you when both were released.
Yes I can confirm this sucks. The 3DO Ultraman also sucks. I played this SNES monstrosity at a friend's house - never had a SNES, was a Sega kid but my friend got his parents to shell out £65 to import this from Japan for his Japanese SNES. I felt sorry for his parents, he had a lot of expensive cruddy games for some reason
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Man, I remember that Super NES guide! I wish I still had it. Instead, I own a copy of this game. :(
It was based on a Japanese and Australian coproduction tv series from the early nineties that was televised here in the states. There’s Super Famicom game almost exactly the same with the exception that it was based on the original series from the sixties.
The TV show made it to America in some markets around this time. It didn't last, but later the same thing would be done with Power Rangers to much better success.
A lot of games based on sentai or anime shows seem to have this obsession with "End it like it does in the show". Hence the need to use burning plasma on all the bosses. It seems only recently with things like Dragonball Fighter Z they've made that sort of thing optional bonuses and Easter Eggs, and the gameplay is better for it.
Edit: Some of those backgrounds are GORGEOUS for 91 tho.
I rented this and couldn't beat the last boss.
Did you buy it, to settle the score?
@cybercop0083 Yes, i just playing it now and got to stage five.
To answer people's question. You need to max out your special attack when the enemy life bar said "finish". Use that attack on it to win
I actually remembered watching the TtF TV show growing up. My brother was a fan and he recorded every episode of that show! My brother is really into kaiju monsters so naturally he was all over Ultraman
When we were deciding between the SNES and the Genesis, I rented this game along with the console. My brother rented Super Adventure Island. Needless to say, he made the better choice.
We ended up getting a Genesis because of Sonic, but sometimes I think back on that event and wonder if it could have gone the other way if I got something besides Ultraman.
I never played this Ultraman game, but oh, my god, hearing you mention Great Battle 4 and core memories of playing them while not knowing who Kamen Rider or Ultraman were just got unlocked!
This was one of the first SNES games I ever had, from that Christmas when I was seven years old. I never got very far into this game, but my dad and I would play it together on weekends for a couple of months until we (that is, he) finally beat the final boss and got a completely forgettable ending screen. I had no idea who Ultraman was before I had this game, and I never got into the series later, either, so this is basically my one and only point of knowledge about the guy. I believe my dad bought it because he thought that surely Ultraman was related to Superman. Anyway, I'm never going to stand up and defend it, but this game will always have a special place in my memories.
Damn that cut deep. I remember Christmas of '92 my dad got me an SNES as a surprise and he forgot to take it out of his trunk. We went out for a family dinner and he went to get something. I saw the SNES box and freaked out! He said, " Well okay let's go to Blockbuster." We didn't have any games so I rented Ultraman and he got Pilotwings. I went crazy but pretty quickly I realized that Ultraman was pretty awful lol. Luckily he saved SF2 for my other surprise gift!
I was a pretty big Ultraman fan as a kid back then. They used to air Ultraman Tiga on FOX Kids! every Saturday morning for about two years, plus thanks to Mighty Morphing Power Rangers, the Super Sentai genre was taking off by 1994.
woow thad dodgeball one... i remember passing hours playing that one and metal warriors in my cousins house on a good old emulat- ops... legitime console...
Ha, absolutely correct take on this game, but I have a huge soft spot for it. My folks got it for my brother and I without any knowledge about it, they just knew that we loved giant monster movies and stuff like that. At the time, I really loved the big sprites and the mode 7 scaling intros for each fight simply because I had never seen anything like that. Basically the only move you need is the super high jump kick. Definitely one of those games where I didn't see the flaws at the time because it was one of the only games I had to play.
My brother and I rented this when I was like 8 and we had no idea how to play it. As somewhat avid child gamers, we were pretty frustrated by it. Didn't get anywhere and ended up just returning it.
I had this game as a kid (unfortunately) and here is a couple of interesting tidbits I found out about it later in life. The title screen of the game with the vertical scrolling patterns is actually meant to mimic the intro of the 90s TV show, check it out on RUclips. Same with the sequence of him growing into a giant before each fight. The first level of the game where you are fighting Gudis actually takes place on mars as it represents the first episode of the 90s TV show where Ultraman fights Gudis on Mars. The 3 minute timer which seemed like a bullshit gameplay mechanic was actually part of the lore of the show as Ultraman could only remain on earth for 3 minutes because of the immense energy he used. The game was likely released when it did on the SNES to help market the 90s TV show.
I remember watching the show back then and thinking "aussie Ultraman?", it was kinda cool. Briefly emulated this game in 1999 and it was not good.
I feel like there were a bunch of ads for Ultraman action figures around this time, so maybe they were revving up for a tv show in the US that never came to pass
I loved the TV show when I was a little kid, more like obsessed actually. I rented the game and system and was disappointed that it was impossible; neither my mom nor I could get past the first monster.
Thank you for yet another stellar vid. I am always happy to see a new SNES drunk video, regardless of the game. I am thankful for your efforts. o7
Excellent review 😊
I remember being hyped AF as a kid after reading about this game in a magazine, renting it and being MASSIVELY disappointed.
I think it might have been my first videogame frustration.
Come for the harmonious opening. Stay for the hard hitting retro review journalism.
Is it wrong, I LOVED this game. Still do. Yes, it's repetitive, but the fights are short enough it doesn't get too boring before the game is over, and it ramps up the difficulty and keeps the fights varied JUST enough they don't feel the same. Maybe Im just a big Ultraman fanboy.
I know we don't often get to see Drunk64 since you weren't a big fan of the N64 but I'd love to see your review of Aidyn Chronicles, the first mage, aka one of the ONLY turn-based/JRPGs on the N64
Video count starting with following intros:
SNES drunk: 875
NES drunk: 5
Segadrunk: 69
Steamdrunk: 43
Switchdrunk: 7
Turbodrunk: 4
Without any kind of Intro: 41
Previously on SNES drunk IS drunk: 2
SNES drunk IS drunk: 1
Previously on SNES drunk plays StarFox: 1
Previously on SNES drunk plays Final Fight: 1
3 Hours of the SNES drunk Intro: 1
A four minute and 30 second long SNES drunk Intro: 1
Videos completely about Clyde T. Dog (No Intro as well): 3
I used to play the shit out of this game when it came out. It was actually fun once you get the hang of it.
I normally like the SNES sound font, but there are games like this that go all out on the reverb and trumpet that don't do it justice.
Super Godzilla is awful dootful too.
Sad part is I rented this as a kid and even finished it the same day. Doesn't look like it has aged well at all.
Thanks for the video, SDrunk, it makes me wonder whether this game's sales were one of the reasons not many tied-in titles left Japan.
Wholly crap I forgot about that guide! This likely had more of an impact on me than I realize. I think Nintendo Power did a fairly good job during these times. I wasn't so much tied up in ratings, but the pictures and descriptions were enough for young me to figure out if a game was good or crap. I had a knack for picking out games since the NES. I don't think I failed once by the time I reached the SNES. My games are basically a top 50 list on the system thankfully. I actually stopped renting around this point cause if there are 5 games available on the shelf when the rest are already rented then, well.....yeah
The only Ultraman I cared about as a child was the Canadian television series called My Secret Identity staring Jerry O'Connell. Ironically, this show was happening around the same time as that game got made.
I love how this game tries to justify why Ultraman doesnt just use his finishing laser right when the fight started
I remember renting this game as a kid. And I remember being horribly disappointed with it.
Even as an Ultraman fan I've opted to stay away from this one.
I think the reason it got a western release was because they were going to release the first Ultraman show made outside of Japan everywhere which shared the same name as the game as far as I know the only English speaking country it was released in was Australia though and it was never released anywhere else.
Not now, nor then.
I owned this! I agree it’s bad but I had fun with it but only because I was a kid and didn’t know or have anything better…that was until I found a game store that had a deal that you could swap games. I don’t remember the exact details of the deal but I traded this for Mortal Kombat on SNES. I got the flawless victory that day!
We need a Super Famicom Drunk of the Japan only Kamen Rider and Ultraman games!
Ahhh, yes. I remember this title. Never got past the first fight. It blew my mind when it got one of the higher trade-in values when I brought it into the local Rhino Games store.
Happy you’ve been back in action SNES drunk
I was into kaiju (Godzilla and Gamera) movies growing up, and seeing the first screenshot of this game made me want to buy it. Several years later, kids in America were embracing the Mighty Morphing Power Rangers (which I couldn't get into). It was an okay game.
Today is my birthday and this was a fun unexpected surprise, thanks man.
I vividly remember watching my brother play this game in the early 90s when I was like 2. The first boss gave me nightmares. lol
I remember renting this and just having no idea what to do lol it was my grandma that eventually figured out what you're supposed to do, but even then it just became so boring. One of the few times I tried to return a game earlier
I think this is the first stay away no matter what lol ever SNES game can't be a winner I guess. Thanks for the continuing work!
There's plenty of those. A fellow by the name of Smight is doing a "Worst of SNES Quest" if you want to look into that.
I unironically loved this game as a kid. It's a bit hard to go back to now, because it's so sluggish. But I loved the pixel-art, the music, and even the gimmick of having to finish your opponent with a special finishing move superhero/sentai style was something different from other games. I recommend at least trying it out, just for the novelty.
Hahaha I owned this cause I loved that live action TV show that would come on in the mornings. The whole game could be finished by only using the jump kick, but as bad as it was I kinda loved it.
I remember a kids' TV show about this guy was imported from Japan around when this game came out; maybe they thought the show had some kind of audience here that they could take advantage of, but I never heard anyone at school even mention it.
The box art is burned into my brain from seeing it on the shelves at the rental store.
I got this for a present as a Kid.I hated it with all my heart, but I DID finish it, because you just had to finish your games back then 😁
I remember this game and have fond memories for sure. Not of the game itself, it was awful, but of my neighbor renting it basically as soon as it came out so we spent the weekend outside riding bikes in order to keep away from the SNES. A shame as Ultraman is pretty awesome as a series but it deserved a better North American release for sure.
Had this as a kid and yea man, it was crap back then. We used to tell our friends it was so sick and then watch teh disappointment when they couldn't figure out how to kill an enemy. Play other Ultraman games, or even Monster Rancher Ultimate Kaiju.
Maybe it was one of the first releases because it was so quick to make? Art was probably the most time consuming.
Oh, God. This was horrendous. Even the gaming media at the time said it was horrible. Back then I was mesmerised by the console so nothing stopped me wanting one, but this made me realise not everything was incredible on the machine.
I got this with my snes on my 13th birthday. It was ass-rabies even back then.
This was one of the first SNES games i played, along w Super Mario World!!
Back then i tried to convince myself it was amazing, but yup...it was a repetitive slodge
Two random videos in 2 weeks about ulteaman into the future. My frie d had this as a kid, and we did not get it.i think I got to level 3 or 4 tops.
This game was lost media for me for the longest time. I had vivid memories of watching my older cousins play this at my grandmother's house. I don't think anyone was able to get past the 3rd or 4th monster. I had no idea how to find this until a few years ago. Can confirm this game is awful.