The hardest I’ve heard him laugh previously was during the Harada’s Bar interview when Harada explained that he doesn’t wear hats and proceeded to wear Sakurai’s to prove his point.
I've been wanting to ask about Sakurai doing a multi-fighting game playthrough to showcase the current state of the genre that inspired him to create Smash Bros. If it happens, my fingers are crossed so that he could also play Last Blade 2 to give us the insider developer story on how Hibiki became so popular relative to the series despite having a few degrees of separation from the main character and main storyline (I've been on a Last Blade binge for the past few days so forgive me).
That Major Havoc game looks really cutting edge for its time. The space shooting section at first glance looked like a HD game inspired by arcade games
That's vector graphics for you. They could pull 1024×768 no sweat. Unfortunately, Atari's color vector hardware then also had heat problems, which also explains why Tempest fell off in popularity. Battlezone didn't use real color vector graphics, but simply had colored plastic on the monitor, so it didn't suffer the same issues.
That is something so great about video game history, the early games are so much simpler and quick to get into, that you can really go on a tour, discover and explore all the different mechanics and their evolution in a relatively short amount of time. And you can experience them for yourself! I am really enjoying these guided tours into history with mister Sakurai.
Another fantastic video. Also as soon as Ghosts and Goblins came out and Akino said "Mr. Sakurai." " Can I sit this one out?" I laughed so hard. I felt that on an emotional level. lol Ghosts and Goblins is so fun but sooo hard.
There is a old game center cx episode where he was so bad that the staff agreed for him to take the game home and practice it. He was sp dedicated he took the game with him in Gameboy sp form and practiced before and after his meet up events. The red arimer was his nemesis throughout.
I've heard from @JeremyParish often enough how Xevious is one of the three primordial games from which all other Japanese video games originate from, but seeing Sakurai explain about it in such detail shows how *absolutely groundbreaking* it truly was! (0 Days without a Xevious reference)
note: 0:49 NHK is Japan Broadcasting Cooperation. 1:11 V sign is often used not only when you win something, but also when you attract attention, in Japan. 6:29 クリアを阻止する - Against the game clear (Arino side) クリアを目指す - To the game clear (AD side) 12:12 青雲試練編 - Local Tournament ("青" means blue and "雲" means cloud) 道場 - dojo 12:19 ↖︎練習 - practice ↓技テスト - attck trial 12:33 始め(hajime) - "Go!" or "Start!" ーーーーー 廻し蹴り(まわしげり) - spining kick 追い突き(おいづき) - front punch 12:22 足蹴り(あしげり) - kick 前蹴り(まえげり) - front kick 12:24 後ろ蹴り(うしろげり) - back kick 12:25 後ろ廻し蹴り(うしろまわしげり) - back spining kick In Japan, these kicks or punches are called "技"(waza).
I wish the Famicom Detective Club had an extra mode explaining cultural, historical, and language, as they keep on talking about how the name of the school is weird, but I don't understand enough Japanese to know what's so weird about it..! 😅
@@TeruteruBozusama The Steins;Gate VN has this neat feature where they provided you with a glossary for Japanese-specific slangs that helped understand the game better, especially since it's deeply entrenched in Otaku-culture. Wished more games implemented that.
These two have an amazing dynamic! I love that Sakurai is very excited and nerding out about the technical aspects of the games, while Arino is making witty quips and trying his best to survive! Very entertaining!
If there’s anything I want to come out of this series, I hope Sakurai takes a cue from Arino-kacho’s personal RUclips channel and just does mindless videos visiting old game centers and opening merch lottery tickets. I want to hear Sakurai’s thoughts on electromechanical. Maybe even something on medalge…
Arino Kacho.... you're a shady one, ain't ya, when it comes to Mario Bros? LoL. What a great video. This is turning into one of my top RUclips channels to follow.
Namco were known for having items or characters in games show up in later titles as easter eggs. One of the later "fruits" you eat for bonus points in Pac-Man is a Galaxian, for example.
The bit Sakurai-san mentioned about it being hard to talk and play at the same time reminds me of how that can be a strategy in competitions. I swear, there's been a few times I've won a round of Smash, just by keeping a conversation going with my opponent.
Pro Tip when playing Ghosts 'N Goblins: Patience, patience, patience! If you try to rush the enemies you'll likely die as they overwhelm you. The key is to be a little more patient and take them out before they become a problem, like what Sakurai does with the first Red Arremer. I was really pleased to see the game featured here as GnG is one of my favorite franchises (I'm proud to say I've beaten all of them at least once :) )
You make the Princess Prin Prin Proud...Also Nice Mega Man profile pic. Also, I got the Entire Mega Man Legacy Collection (Well Maybe... They still haven't released Legends and Star Force)
Never in my lifetime did I think I would be witnessing something like this, But 2023 is also the year when Takeshi's Castle made a return. I love both programs.
One thing about Ghosts and Goblins is that it's one of the few games, during that time, that makes you play it over and over again until you beat the boss of the game with a specific weapon. Otherwise, it's a continuous cycle.
If I remember the Game Center CX episode for it correctly, the show staff didn't tell Arino that a second run was required to get the good ending until he had gotten the first one. He had been trying for hours and multiple days, to the point where the staff lent him the game to practice off screen. His reaction was priceless!
Seeing Sakurai describe Gradius as perfection brings a huge smile to my face. Konami couldn't miss back in the NES era. Still one of the greatest game companies to this day! Up next is Kunio and Space Harrier!! That means they'll definitely play Outrun for the grand finale and I can't see a more fitting end!!
I scrambled to find these 2 games on Switch: "Star Force" (it's in "Arcade Archives"), and "Major Havoc" (it's in both "Atari Flashback Classics" and "Atari 50" collections).
Oh yeah. The story behind Smash was that he was playing a Street Fighter or KOF cabinet in an arcade once and the way the machines were networked, he was matched against another player in the arcade and mercilessly stomped them, but it turned out it was a woman there with her boyfriend that was first timing the game. He felt bad and thought about how to make a more accessible fighting game, which is great because Smash is probably the only fighting game I have the mental bandwidth for!
The first game is like a precursor to Ikari Warriors, one of the first few arcade games I got into! Super cool! Those are some complicated-sounding controls, I can see where SNK's version got their idea from. I also played Pac-Land, and that game is BRUTAL. It had three face-buttons, easily a whole palm apart from one another, and you had to rapid-tap Left and Right with rhythm to build momentum, and the jump button was right in the middle. It made Pac-Man *EXTREMELY HARD* to control with any degree of accuracy, which is sad because it's otherwise really top notch for it's time!
And now, the second part! Glad to see you two are still having fun, and I can't wait to see how this all ends! By the way, this was the first time I had interacted in the premiere of a Sakurai video specifically, so there's some neat trivia!
Hope they mention Defender because that game was an inspiration to many shooter games including Fantasy Zone. And yes in the early 80s American Games were going for Vector Graphics but the crash hampered game dev in the West and the more colorful raster images of Japanese games became the norm.
Part two of "Mr. Sakurai flexes his arcade game skills", starring the moment where he "Isn't that great at Gradius" but gets farther than I ever do without dying or rewinding.
1:25 I’ve seen the famicom port of Front Line and it’s awkward as hell! I didn’t know the arcade version had a joystick and rotary dial, which makes it a lot more fluid. 7:34 oh he’s VERY confident in dodging those fireballs and talking at the same time This is a childhood game of mine on 2600. Graphics are different but play is similar enough 14:07 Don’t try this at home, Kids! 23:24 Yes, if you’re an arcade operator you don’t want someone to drop a coin in and 1CC Gradius for 20 minutes all day every day. Gradius and a few other games of this era felt like home console games
gradius is so punishing! you really can't lose a life and doing so makes the rest of the game so much harder... "gradius effect" is something all shoot em up fans fear when they play games with power ups like those.
"I'm not actually that good at Gradius" he said. Lol well damn if that's not good enough for him then I wonder what he considers to be good gameplay lmao. He demolished that game
Given that Hideki Kamiya recently started a RUclips channel and said he cannot work in game development for a year due to contractual obligations, maybe that’s another crossover idea?
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I don't think I've ever heard Sakurai laugh so hard. Glad the collab was as fun to do as it is to watch.
The hardest I’ve heard him laugh previously was during the Harada’s Bar interview when Harada explained that he doesn’t wear hats and proceeded to wear Sakurai’s to prove his point.
I am A-OK with calling Arino Kacho the Father of All Let's Players, the man truly is a living legend.
Queue up KOF 95 and let's see some of Sakurai's legendary skills
Cant wait for Maximilliand Dood to show up and play with Sakurai
PLEASE
I've been wanting to ask about Sakurai doing a multi-fighting game playthrough to showcase the current state of the genre that inspired him to create Smash Bros. If it happens, my fingers are crossed so that he could also play Last Blade 2 to give us the insider developer story on how Hibiki became so popular relative to the series despite having a few degrees of separation from the main character and main storyline (I've been on a Last Blade binge for the past few days so forgive me).
@@SadFace229 he needs to invite maximillian dood to the show
But hear me out: JUSTIN WONG
That Major Havoc game looks really cutting edge for its time. The space shooting section at first glance looked like a HD game inspired by arcade games
That's vector graphics for you. They could pull 1024×768 no sweat. Unfortunately, Atari's color vector hardware then also had heat problems, which also explains why Tempest fell off in popularity. Battlezone didn't use real color vector graphics, but simply had colored plastic on the monitor, so it didn't suffer the same issues.
Yeah if you told me that came out in the last three years I'd believe you
Watching Sakurai and Arino play Mario Bros made me laugh out loud. Arino truly is the father of Let's Plays!
That is something so great about video game history, the early games are so much simpler and quick to get into, that you can really go on a tour, discover and explore all the different mechanics and their evolution in a relatively short amount of time. And you can experience them for yourself!
I am really enjoying these guided tours into history with mister Sakurai.
Another fantastic video. Also as soon as Ghosts and Goblins came out and Akino said "Mr. Sakurai." " Can I sit this one out?" I laughed so hard. I felt that on an emotional level. lol Ghosts and Goblins is so fun but sooo hard.
😂
There is a old game center cx episode where he was so bad that the staff agreed for him to take the game home and practice it. He was sp dedicated he took the game with him in Gameboy sp form and practiced before and after his meet up events. The red arimer was his nemesis throughout.
I've heard from @JeremyParish often enough how Xevious is one of the three primordial games from which all other Japanese video games originate from, but seeing Sakurai explain about it in such detail shows how *absolutely groundbreaking* it truly was!
(0 Days without a Xevious reference)
Seriously, this is so much fun to watch. By the time it was done I didn't realize it had already been about 30 minutes.
note:
0:49 NHK is Japan Broadcasting Cooperation.
1:11 V sign is often used not only when you win something, but also when you attract attention, in Japan.
6:29 クリアを阻止する - Against the game clear (Arino side)
クリアを目指す - To the game clear (AD side)
12:12 青雲試練編 - Local Tournament
("青" means blue and "雲" means cloud)
道場 - dojo
12:19 ↖︎練習 - practice
↓技テスト - attck trial
12:33 始め(hajime) - "Go!" or "Start!"
ーーーーー
廻し蹴り(まわしげり) - spining kick
追い突き(おいづき) - front punch
12:22 足蹴り(あしげり) - kick
前蹴り(まえげり) - front kick
12:24 後ろ蹴り(うしろげり) - back kick
12:25 後ろ廻し蹴り(うしろまわしげり) - back spining kick
In Japan, these kicks or punches are called "技"(waza).
I wish the Famicom Detective Club had an extra mode explaining cultural, historical, and language, as they keep on talking about how the name of the school is weird, but I don't understand enough Japanese to know what's so weird about it..! 😅
@@TeruteruBozusama The Steins;Gate VN has this neat feature where they provided you with a glossary for Japanese-specific slangs that helped understand the game better, especially since it's deeply entrenched in Otaku-culture.
Wished more games implemented that.
@@w21aaaaai am japanese and same goes for american culture
I love seeing friends have fun.
These two have an amazing dynamic! I love that Sakurai is very excited and nerding out about the technical aspects of the games, while Arino is making witty quips and trying his best to survive! Very entertaining!
AH that Ghost and Goblins Episode Reference.
To Quote the Famous Episode:
"If I play anymore of this, I might start hating video games"
i am loving to see Sakurai gaming
If there’s anything I want to come out of this series, I hope Sakurai takes a cue from Arino-kacho’s personal RUclips channel and just does mindless videos visiting old game centers and opening merch lottery tickets. I want to hear Sakurai’s thoughts on electromechanical.
Maybe even something on medalge…
I love the chemistry these two have, they seem to be having so much fun!
To think Sakurai was already winning both in survival AND in-game score despite having the laggy monitor. What an absolute beast of a gamer.
Arino Kacho.... you're a shady one, ain't ya, when it comes to Mario Bros? LoL. What a great video. This is turning into one of my top RUclips channels to follow.
Sakurai's spider senses on fleek!
Im only just now getting arround to these and I really love them. TY Sakurai for getting these subtitled.
Haha Sorry Arino-san, but the Father of all Let's Play is Marcus with his tv show "Level one" that got released in 1998 in France
These two videos showed me how different games were made back in the day compared to Japan and the West.
Didn't know where the Special Flag came from in Smash before this. Thank you, Sakurai.
It's had several appearances in Namco games, the first appearance is actually in an arcade game called Rally-X
Namco were known for having items or characters in games show up in later titles as easter eggs. One of the later "fruits" you eat for bonus points in Pac-Man is a Galaxian, for example.
The bit Sakurai-san mentioned about it being hard to talk and play at the same time reminds me of how that can be a strategy in competitions. I swear, there's been a few times I've won a round of Smash, just by keeping a conversation going with my opponent.
Sakurai going far in Gradius is pretty impressive!
Sakurai: "I'm not very good at Gradius."
The whole Xevious section had me thinking about the arcade in Earthbound
"I'm not great at Gradius" and yet, Sakurai was GAMING without a care.
Pro Tip when playing Ghosts 'N Goblins: Patience, patience, patience! If you try to rush the enemies you'll likely die as they overwhelm you. The key is to be a little more patient and take them out before they become a problem, like what Sakurai does with the first Red Arremer.
I was really pleased to see the game featured here as GnG is one of my favorite franchises (I'm proud to say I've beaten all of them at least once :) )
You make the Princess Prin Prin Proud...Also Nice Mega Man profile pic. Also, I got the Entire Mega Man Legacy Collection (Well Maybe... They still haven't released Legends and Star Force)
This makes me want to take a deep dive into yhe Arcade Archives collection. 😊
It's also one of the best ads for the Atari 50 Collection one could ever have.
Never in my lifetime did I think I would be witnessing something like this,
But 2023 is also the year when Takeshi's Castle made a return. I love both programs.
One thing about Ghosts and Goblins is that it's one of the few games, during that time, that makes you play it over and over again until you beat the boss of the game with a specific weapon. Otherwise, it's a continuous cycle.
If I remember the Game Center CX episode for it correctly, the show staff didn't tell Arino that a second run was required to get the good ending until he had gotten the first one. He had been trying for hours and multiple days, to the point where the staff lent him the game to practice off screen. His reaction was priceless!
You could call it the granddaddy of win-via-ultimate weapon/attack/form games.
@@dado__ So he went through all of that and was shell shocked when he realized that he had to beat it again with that weapon? Ooof!
Seeing Sakurai describe Gradius as perfection brings a huge smile to my face. Konami couldn't miss back in the NES era. Still one of the greatest game companies to this day!
Up next is Kunio and Space Harrier!! That means they'll definitely play Outrun for the grand finale and I can't see a more fitting end!!
Love this crossover, It is excellent
Nice, there is going to be a part 3. I'm really enjoying this.
This is my new favorite Let’s Play Channel. The banter between them is so precious.
This is genuinely one of my favorite Let’s Play series that I’ve ever watched. This is so fun!😄
It’s very interesting getting to see a popular Japanese RUclipsr thanks to samurai’s localization team. Retro game master seems like a lot of fun!
so much fun watching this! these two are so funny especially together!
I scrambled to find these 2 games on Switch: "Star Force" (it's in "Arcade Archives"), and "Major Havoc" (it's in both "Atari Flashback Classics" and "Atari 50" collections).
Were they playing on Switch? I was very confused with the controllers they're using. They look like Pro Controllers but also not
@Feroror Yes, Atari 50 Anniversary is on the Switch...I got it myself
26:53 Can't wait for the sequel of "This is not how you are supposed to play the game"~
I can't be the only one that wants to see Sakurai just do laps around Ghosts n' Goblins
The sound effects of Xevipus immediatly reminds me of the arcade in Earthbound!
His game knowledge is insane. And he can throw so much shade. I love it.
these are so fun to watch! hope we get to see more sakurai gameplay beyond the finale
We learned that not only Sakurai san makes really good games, But he’s also Good at playing them too!
Game designers tend to be pretty good at them, since they understand all the small things that makes it tick.
More importantly is that he's very knowledgeable about each of them.
He's like a walking videogame museum lol
Oh yeah. The story behind Smash was that he was playing a Street Fighter or KOF cabinet in an arcade once and the way the machines were networked, he was matched against another player in the arcade and mercilessly stomped them, but it turned out it was a woman there with her boyfriend that was first timing the game. He felt bad and thought about how to make a more accessible fighting game, which is great because Smash is probably the only fighting game I have the mental bandwidth for!
The first game is like a precursor to Ikari Warriors, one of the first few arcade games I got into! Super cool! Those are some complicated-sounding controls, I can see where SNK's version got their idea from.
I also played Pac-Land, and that game is BRUTAL. It had three face-buttons, easily a whole palm apart from one another, and you had to rapid-tap Left and Right with rhythm to build momentum, and the jump button was right in the middle. It made Pac-Man *EXTREMELY HARD* to control with any degree of accuracy, which is sad because it's otherwise really top notch for it's time!
I had no idea about the enemy table system in Xevious, very interesting
I like how it's kept educational throughout the video 😮
Sakurai has the absolute CLEANEST endcards of any channel on this website
I never heard of Major Havoc before but I am really impressed by the graphics of that.
Oooooh the first Kunio game is next!
I'd love to see how good Sakurai is in KOF95!
this series is a lot of fun
And now, the second part! Glad to see you two are still having fun, and I can't wait to see how this all ends!
By the way, this was the first time I had interacted in the premiere of a Sakurai video specifically, so there's some neat trivia!
Hope they mention Defender because that game was an inspiration to many shooter games including Fantasy Zone. And yes in the early 80s American Games were going for Vector Graphics but the crash hampered game dev in the West and the more colorful raster images of Japanese games became the norm.
I like seeing these
I watched Game Grumps for a decade. This is my favorite "let's play" series I've ever watched. Arin, meet your grand-daddy, Arin-OOOOOOOO
子供のころFrontlineめちゃくちゃ好きだったｗ
Part two of "Mr. Sakurai flexes his arcade game skills", starring the moment where he "Isn't that great at Gradius" but gets farther than I ever do without dying or rewinding.
I was hoping we'd get to see Zaxxon, but that Major Havoc game looks super-cool!
Atari at its finest
And this continues to be one of the greatest collaborations of all time 😂
This has been so fun to watch! I hope there are more videos like this in the future
This is SO GOOD!! Thank you to 8-4 for the translation.
What a great series of challenges! Nakaimura was the top of the cake here!
Mario Bros. (arcade) is not the first game with "Mario" in the title; the Game & Watch game with the same name predates it
Ghosts and Ghoblins 🤯 looking forward to the finale🎉🎉🎉🎉
7:55
Sakurai with the Homie Stock
this is awesome. impressed by arino's gradius run
Now I want the Arcade Archives “Ghosts n Goblins”!
EDIT: I just realized it’s part of the Capcom Arcade Stadium collection, which I have.
I have the 2
They hit Makaimura and I was like "Oh boy"
Wow .. Sakurai is a living videogame encyclopedia ! The guy knows so much !
nice collab! thanks sakurai!
This channel always brings stuff I din't know I needed.
Me: "That was fun, but it looks like Sakurai wins!"
26:45 _COMING UP NEXT TIME_
Me: "hUH?!?"
Love Arino!
I hope they make it all the way to 2005 so that they can compete in THE iDOLM@STER Arcade!
Watching this just felt cozy and wholesome
Arino is pretty good at Gradius!
I'm absolutely loving this series 👏🏻 and Sakurai is just a complete living game encyclopedia lol
The request to skip Ghost and Goblins is amazing.
There was a game from my childhood that I could never find and I think it was Front Line.
I love this channel!
Star Force looks like a lot of fun, I'll try it out
I really like these lets plays!!!
Absolutely legendary
LOVE THIS KEEP EM COMING
Whoa, never played Major Havoc - will give it a try sometime later!
Check out Atari 50th Anniversary Collection!
1:25 I’ve seen the famicom port of Front Line and it’s awkward as hell! I didn’t know the arcade version had a joystick and rotary dial, which makes it a lot more fluid.
7:34 oh he’s VERY confident in dodging those fireballs and talking at the same time
This is a childhood game of mine on 2600. Graphics are different but play is similar enough
14:07 Don’t try this at home, Kids!
23:24 Yes, if you’re an arcade operator you don’t want someone to drop a coin in and 1CC Gradius for 20 minutes all day every day. Gradius and a few other games of this era felt like home console games
this was surprisingly entertaining
I'm loving this series and this crossover!
I see Fantasy Zone in te preview!! YAY!
More collabs, please. Mr. Kacho is hilarious.
Two of my favourite Gaming personalities crossing over? Amazing, yes please,
Somewhere Slowbeef is shaking in rage
Nice crossover again!
Yes, another let's play! I can wait to see more of this Mr Sakurai!
I hope they bring in one of those Basketball shooting games they have at Chuck E Cheese
gradius is so punishing! you really can't lose a life and doing so makes the rest of the game so much harder... "gradius effect" is something all shoot em up fans fear when they play games with power ups like those.
Getting anxiety watching them play Ghosts and Goblins... especially Sakurai doing good with his defensive play...
Sakurai is a gaming beast!
"I'm not actually that good at Gradius" he said. Lol well damn if that's not good enough for him then I wonder what he considers to be good gameplay lmao. He demolished that game
Given that Hideki Kamiya recently started a RUclips channel and said he cannot work in game development for a year due to contractual obligations, maybe that’s another crossover idea?
Well he did say his content wouldn't help or delve into the video game industry in any way so that'd be an interesting parallel