12:00 Tim and Geoff Follin. Anywhere you see one of their names, the music is going to be really good... Even if the game is really bad. Luckily, Plok is actually a pretty decent game, unlike so much of the unfortunate crap they got saddled with. I consider Jake Kaufman to kinda be the guy that picked up where the Tim and Geoff left off.
Funny enough Plok is still around. The Pickford Bros (plock's creators) turned him into a comic series which is still going: www.zee-3.com/plok/index.php
@@Rexdawn Not quite; it's Ledian who's designed after Pulseman, not Pikachu. That said, Pichu's signature move Volt Tackle is based on one of Pulseman's techniques.
He is also remembered through Pikachu's Volt Tackle attack. I'd wager there will be a reference to him in the upcoming Town game by Game Freak too, they really like Pulseman.
Tempo is so cute!! Apparently the music in the level he played is repetitive because you're supposed to add instruments by stepping on rainbow music notes. Vinny just died so often he never got to one LOL
sonozaki ohhhhh that's such a cute idea, omg i need to try that game out some day when i get a better computer (my current one is too slow for platformers :/)
sonozaki More instruments get added to the songs when you find “Katy” Tempo’s girlfriend. But vinny kept dieng, so he never got to hear it. Katy also helps Tempo in the levels buy destroy walls, and killing enemies. But once again we never got to see that.
Thanks for covering Plok, Vinny. It's unironically my favorite Super Nintendo game. Here's a fun fact: the concept for Plok predates Rayman by a few years. The Pickford Brothers came up with the idea for lobbing your limbs at enemies before Rayman was even a thing back when they were coming up with concepts for an arcade game called The Flea Pit. Unfortunately for them, though, Rayman came out first and poor Plok got left in the dust. A shame, that. #JusticeForThePickfordBros
00:01:05 Kang Fu 00:11:55 Plok! 00:25:46 Chuck Rock 00:32:24 Power Piggs of the Dark Age 00:37:00 The Ottifants 00:42:08 Jazz Jackrabbit 00:49:37 Kao the Kangaroo 00:54:08 Super Bonk 00:59:52 Tempo 01:07:15 Prehistorik Man 01:13:45 Puggsy 01:23:10 Pulseman 01:29:18 Radical Rex 01:36:12 Ristar 01:38:05 Rocket Knight Adventures 01:44:18 Rocky Rodent 01:51:43 Super Widget 01:54:15 Toejam & Earl 2 01:57:47 Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel 02:03:35 Croc Legend of the Gobbos
Vinesauce: The Full Sauce vinny should’ve played original PC release of Kao the Kangaroo if he wanted to experience real trash, but on the other hand perhaps it’s better for him that he didn’t
Rocket Knight Adventure may be a forgotten mascot to everyone else, but I will always remember it as an awesome game. Still have the original cartridge.
I remember loving this game until some boss where you got in a giant robot and had to enter a boxing match with another giant robot (I could be completely misremembering that). I could never beat it, I'm not sure if it was complete bullshit or if I was just a stupid kid.
10:55 If you actually read the credits, it was mostly the Hugo Hoekstra dude repeated a dozen times, and like three other people. The game only pretends it has a real long credits list, which I don't know is more amazing or sad.
@@sausbilligan9911 The Room is a masterpiece compared to this. Average Mario Maker player knows that you should design your level to not have softlocks, and that was apparently too hard for creators of Kang Fu.
Been a long time but I think a good chunk of the game is clothes themed, with plok being a sentient clothes golem. COTTON island.. the world is called Poly-Esta. Polyester. as in clothes.
@@kirbysmashedkirbysmashed7400 Yeah, this is true. In the Akrillic (itself a clothes pun, lol) levels you can see things like pincushion trees, buttons in rocks, and such. It would have fit with the Yoshi's Wooly World/Kirby's Epic Yarn concept in more recent years.
The strikeout, even in the video title itself is a nice touch. Well done there And I'm surprised Vinny just learning about Tim Follin. Add Jazz Jackrabbit to the list, and that's just me 41 minutes into this; Vinny memory is real. His reaction to Bonk's wackiness was joyous, very good reactions overall
Does anyone remember The Short-lived Klonoa series? It was basically a cute 2D visual game like Kirby but has a darker aesthetic with its plot and characters. I love it since it had a very unique vibe of its gameplay and story at the time.
I was really happy that Vin went into a minor Tim Follin K-Hole. I remember playing Agent X II for the C64 back in 1988 and thinking later in my life that it could have been a Joe Satriani piece. The theme song to Solstice is still a level of prog rock/metal on par with Yes.
I had only ever played Croc 1 before (had it way back in the day and eventually finished it a couple of years ago) so when I heard there was a Croc 2 I was super interested... Just didn't feel as good to me for some reason, like the levels weren't as nice to play and while the controls were certainly better... They didn't feel as nice as say Crash Bandicoot etc. I ended up finishing that one 100% as well but I can't say I was having "fun" as it were.
Mobile: 00:01:05 Kang Fu 00:11:55 Plok! 00:25:46 Chuck Rock 00:32:24 Power Piggs of the Dark Age 00:37:00 The Ottifants 00:42:08 Jazz Jackrabbit 00:49:37 Kao the Kangaroo 00:54:08 Super Bonk 00:59:52 Tempo 01:17:15 Prehistorik Man 01:13:45 Puggsy 01:23:10 Pulseman 01:29:18 Radical Rex 01:36:12 Ristar 01:38:05 Rocket Knight Adventures 01:44:18 Rocky Rodent 01:51:43 Super Widget 01:54:15 Toejam & Earl 01:57:47 Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel 02:03:35 Croc Legend of the Gobbos Both prehistorik man and puggsy have wrong times.
White Sand Cosmos “This is the Denesis, I’m telling you. This is- when they senesis, the ddueneffeh... and then they said Genesis-enesis annn Super Nintenesis, this is what they meant.”
00:44:39 For the record in case it was unclear vin, when I said the people who made this made Gears of War, I meant *the Cliff Bleszinski* co-designed Jazz Jackrabbit 1 & 2 and even worked as a producer on the second one. So the creator of GoW, Unreal, and Bulletstorm got his start at Epic by making a wacky loony tunes/sonic-esque character for the PC market... Also, it's worth noting Zero was published by a Japanese company... So I'm not so sure if the Japanese were really offended. Americans sure, but given this and stuff like KanColle I don't think the Japanese take WWII as seriously as we do at this point.
I have two major memories from Croc when I was a bab: The Game Over screen making me depressed, and the game freezing on a white screen after the first boss. I must have tried at least ten times throughout my childhood to get that game to work after the first boss, and I was a very impatient kid (plus I don't think I could save so I had to start over) so I only tried once or twice each time before giving up and playing something else. I even remember getting false hope a few times, thinking "did it just move slightly?" but nope. Maybe I unknowingly only had a demo!
42:30 my heart sank when I saw he played the first jazz jackrabbit. He would've had a much better time with the second one - so much more unique and so much more personality
Rocket Knight Adventure will always hold a special place in my heart. That game was so amazing. The new one on steam was alright... had nothing on this though.
@@TerrorOfTalos Well, yes, but I meant "new" in a relative sense since the only games that came before it were in the SNES/Sega Genesis era almost 20 years prior.
Joseph Bridges unless you’re Ned Flanders, not really. At least not in that context. It’s kinda the reverse of how “shag” is an innocent enough word to us, but to you guys it’s slang for “fuck”
@@mraljfri770 Yoshi's Island was right around the corner and Nintendo thought the games were too similar in terms of look and style. Had Yoshi not been around Nintendo were ready to publish Plok themselves.
Awesome to see Chuck rock!! I still have the copy i grew up with😂 I could only ever get to about lvl 3,also a cool forgotten mascot game for next EP would definitely be Spanky's Quest!!!
At least on the PlayStation 1 version Croc, if you press that small button between the analog sticks and enable or disable analog stick mode, you'll get a different control scheme than tank control. it's some weird attempt at modern controls, where left and rights on the analog stick cause your character to move in a arc relative to the camera. It didn't help me a ton, I could not get used to how drastic the arc turns were in this mode.
Oh good god, Kang Fu. That travesty would have been completely forgotten had it not been unearthed by AVGN. Imagine the psychological effects of anyone who saw that Game Over screen as a kid. And as for Jazz Jackrabbit, you should have played the original DOS game or Jazz 2. The GBA game is utter trash. Also, have some games that Vinny should probably have a look at in a fourth stream: * Air Zonk (TurboGrafx-16) * Astal (Saturn) * Blinx the Time Sweeper (Xbox) * Bubba 'n' Stix * Bug! (Saturn) * Fire & Ice (Amiga) * The Great Giana Sisters (C64) * Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure (DS) * JJ & Jeff (TurboGrafx-16) * Kid Klown in Crazy Chase (SNES) * The Lost Vikings (SNES/MD) * Mohawk & Headphone Jack (SNES) * Psycho Pinball (MD) * Quik the Thunder Rabbit (Amiga) * Rascal (PS1) * Scaler (GCN/PS2/Xbox) * Socket (MD) * Superfrog (Amiga) * Titus the Fox * Wally Bear and the NO! Gang (NES)
Oh god, Mohawk and Headphone Jack. That's the one where the screen's just constantly rotating, like the developer really got into the console wars and aimed to one-up Sega with a game that's ALL MODE 7 ALL THE TIME. The Game Grumps played it once and somebody left the best comment: "This is like the Oops All Berries of Sonic." I'd love to see Vinny's reaction to that mess.
2:11:33 You know I'd honestly rather have this crocodile make an annoying noise sometimes over Link screaming through the entirety of the GBA version of A Link to the Past. Honestly a really cool video. Love seeing this history, as always.
Does anyone else remember Blasto? Dad picked that game up because it was voiced by Phil Hartman, and it's kinda an ok 3D PS1 platformer, but the voice acting and wisecracks from what I'd seen were rather great. Could also suggest Ball Busters and perhaps a few other PS1 titles and things.
@@OurBenefactors Just bc it didn't get popular or bunch of games doesn't make it a failure or a failed character. Ppl still like Glover and Gex. Cult followings exist, not everyone likes the mainstream.
Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel was my brother's favorite game on the whole SNES, and I've played through it more times than I can count. I don't know how, because going back to it all these years later, it is remarkably hard to control. I was glad to finally see it here after starting these off with Aero.
1:43:26 the SNES version of Aladdin is way better than the Genesis one in everything but the selling point of "Disney animators worked on the Genesis one"
2:06:50 I vividly remember playing a fair bit of Croc as a kid on PC, and I apparently deleted the part of the memory where it was TANK CONTROLS?! I guess 6 year old me would have just gone with it, especially considering I would go on to play Ratchet and Clank, the original game, with the horizontally-inverted controls by DEFAULT, and just learned it that way. God, that was terrible. 2:07:00 Wait, so you're telling me this game has *Deadly Premonition's* control scheme, plus jumping but minus shooting?! Beautiful.
Holy shit. "Power Piggs of the Dark Age" is practically a carbon copy of Aladdin for Genesis. Down to the attack animations, sound effects, using a sword and throwing small objects etc. Also Puggsy singlehandedly ruined one Christmas for me. Seeing that game again, the anger vomit is rising
Back in 2011, my friend always invited me over, to play some video games on his Mega drive, which he got from his brother. The first game, I played on this console, was The Ottifants. The Ottifants were a mascot, created by the german comedian Otto Waalkes. He was especially popular in the 90's and even today, he still is a great comedian. The Ottifants are quite famous too, well at least here in germany. They even have their own Wikipedia site. BTW, the video game, sadly, wasn't that great, in fact it was pretty terrible. I'm sorry for my bad english, I'm from germany.
I've seen The Ottifants through a Russian romhack that dubbed the game "Shrek" I will say this though, the opening music from that game is awesome. I find myself listening to that from time to time. Had no idea those funny looking creatures were so popular in Germany. That's cool
@@TheBigDynamo Seeing someone replying to my 3-year-old comment really caught me off guard. That was unexpected. I'm interested in listening to the opening music you were referring to. Is it on RUclips? If yes, can you please share the link with me? I'd appreciate that.
I'm amazed that no one in the chat was willing to tell Vinny that it's based on a forgotten cartoon. Perhaps the cartoon was so forgotten that not even the person who made the collection knew about it.
Puggsy has a lot more to it than meets the eye, the physics are only part of the experience (and more complex than you may think), you really need to see the game in full to get the most out of it, experiment with the items, learn the controls (I'd highly suggest watching the first game demo to learn the controls in more depth) enjoy Matt Furniss' amazing music, master the physics and see what all it has to offer, there weren't many other games like it at the time if any, I consider myself very fortunate to have grown up with this underrated gem and it reigns supreme as my favorite 3rd party Genesis/Mega Drive game of all time.
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Seeing Plok's music getting some much needed love warms my heart.
12:00 Tim and Geoff Follin. Anywhere you see one of their names, the music is going to be really good... Even if the game is really bad. Luckily, Plok is actually a pretty decent game, unlike so much of the unfortunate crap they got saddled with. I consider Jake Kaufman to kinda be the guy that picked up where the Tim and Geoff left off.
IIRC Jake Kaufman did got inspired by Follin bros. So does David Wise.
Tempo has some amazing sprite animations and his character design is pretty adorable too.
MrWolfSnack Well it was on the Sega 32x
LOAF The gameplay and music are also kick-ass too.
If they backgrounds weren’t so busy it would be better
Plok definetly deserves a stream plus release on SNES online!
Funny enough Plok is still around. The Pickford Bros (plock's creators) turned him into a comic series which is still going: www.zee-3.com/plok/index.php
the creators said that they don't think that they can put it on SNES online twitter.com/PickfordBros/status/1171401871258521600
#PlokforSmash
@@woot000 well I believe what they meant is that it's not up to them if the game gets on SNES online or not
200th like
Wish Vinny listened to Tim Follin's other insane music
Pulseman was not forgotten, he just became the pokemon Rotom.
I'd jizz my pants if it got re-released as a part of SEGA Forever or AGES for the Switch
Isn't Pikachu supposed to be a reference to Pulseman?
@@Rexdawn Not quite; it's Ledian who's designed after Pulseman, not Pikachu. That said, Pichu's signature move Volt Tackle is based on one of Pulseman's techniques.
He is also remembered through Pikachu's Volt Tackle attack. I'd wager there will be a reference to him in the upcoming Town game by Game Freak too, they really like Pulseman.
@@Lucas-db2jq I hope so, Pulseman deserves all the love it can get
This video has made me genuinely want a Plok comeback
Imagine the first impression of Plok if the Beach theme is the first world.
Hoping he streams it one day.
Tempo is so cute!! Apparently the music in the level he played is repetitive because you're supposed to add instruments by stepping on rainbow music notes. Vinny just died so often he never got to one LOL
sonozaki ohhhhh that's such a cute idea, omg
i need to try that game out some day when i get a better computer (my current one is too slow for platformers :/)
I'm tempted to play super tempo just because how cute his design is and how nice the sprite animation is
Indeed. According to that beady eyes.
Hi Fi Productions was probably the worst way to start the game
sonozaki More instruments get added to the songs when you find “Katy” Tempo’s girlfriend. But vinny kept dieng, so he never got to hear it. Katy also helps Tempo in the levels buy destroy walls, and killing enemies. But once again we never got to see that.
Thanks for covering Plok, Vinny. It's unironically my favorite Super Nintendo game.
Here's a fun fact: the concept for Plok predates Rayman by a few years. The Pickford Brothers came up with the idea for lobbing your limbs at enemies before Rayman was even a thing back when they were coming up with concepts for an arcade game called The Flea Pit. Unfortunately for them, though, Rayman came out first and poor Plok got left in the dust. A shame, that.
#JusticeForThePickfordBros
Don’t forget Ubisoft fucking sued them over it lol.
22:28 The game seems colorful and cheery, meanwhile the music sounds straight out of Hotline Miami
The bosses and the later stages are hard af
00:01:05 Kang Fu
00:11:55 Plok!
00:25:46 Chuck Rock
00:32:24 Power Piggs of the Dark Age
00:37:00 The Ottifants
00:42:08 Jazz Jackrabbit
00:49:37 Kao the Kangaroo
00:54:08 Super Bonk
00:59:52 Tempo
01:07:15 Prehistorik Man
01:13:45 Puggsy
01:23:10 Pulseman
01:29:18 Radical Rex
01:36:12 Ristar
01:38:05 Rocket Knight Adventures
01:44:18 Rocky Rodent
01:51:43 Super Widget
01:54:15 Toejam & Earl 2
01:57:47 Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel
02:03:35 Croc Legend of the Gobbos
Shame you only played the 32x Tempo game. There's a Saturn one called Super Tempo and it plays WAY better.
Vinesauce: The Full Sauce vinny should’ve played original PC release of Kao the Kangaroo if he wanted to experience real trash, but on the other hand perhaps it’s better for him that he didn’t
Think the music to Plok is good, listen to Pinball Dreams!
Prehistorik Man should be 01:07:15, not 01:17:15
Deep within your mind no one else can find the love that you inspire, from another place not from outer space but from some place even higher!
Rocket Knight Adventure may be a forgotten mascot to everyone else, but I will always remember it as an awesome game. Still have the original cartridge.
It's a fine game, hard as balls too
Same here, one of my favorite 2D platformers but hard as hell. Missed opportunity not being on the Sega Genesis Mini.
I remember loving this game until some boss where you got in a giant robot and had to enter a boxing match with another giant robot (I could be completely misremembering that). I could never beat it, I'm not sure if it was complete bullshit or if I was just a stupid kid.
It holds up well. Still a great experience from start to finish.
same and I have still yet to beat it
Plok!'s music is legit amazing.
Follin brothers are god of vgm because not only they make godly musics, they also pushes the soundchip to its limit.
Don’t forgot Plok’s boss theme. It’s the best
10:55 If you actually read the credits, it was mostly the Hugo Hoekstra dude repeated a dozen times, and like three other people. The game only pretends it has a real long credits list, which I don't know is more amazing or sad.
It reminds me of the credits of The Room, where Tommy Wiseau get's credited over and over.
@@sausbilligan9911 The Room is a masterpiece compared to this. Average Mario Maker player knows that you should design your level to not have softlocks, and that was apparently too hard for creators of Kang Fu.
The Room made me feel like I was soft locked
Astro-Eagle - Eagle
Reminds me of Neil Breen credits, where he comes up with a bunch of fictitious companies.
The Plok music segment is great.
I like the character idea for plok. Little jelly guy who throws his limbs for attacks. That music too, hot damn!
Tim Follin does some pretty great stuff.
Been a long time but I think a good chunk of the game is clothes themed, with plok being a sentient clothes golem.
COTTON island.. the world is called Poly-Esta. Polyester. as in clothes.
Rayman before Rayman and is much better.
@@kirbysmashedkirbysmashed7400 Yeah, this is true. In the Akrillic (itself a clothes pun, lol) levels you can see things like pincushion trees, buttons in rocks, and such. It would have fit with the Yoshi's Wooly World/Kirby's Epic Yarn concept in more recent years.
Plok is appearantly made of dynamite?
The animation on Tempo is really REALLY good 1:00:03
Aw man, Vinny's gonna play Jazz Jackrabbit? I can't wa-- [GBA music starts] Oh no
Oh no, he played GBA Jazz..
GBA Kao is even worse
So many memories of Jazz and Jazz 2 on PC
Pulseman hasn't been forgotten. He lives on in spirit through the Pokémon games and also as Pichu and Pikachu's Final Smashes.
Plok gets better in later levels, the first world is kinda like a tutorial.
Plok is the most underrated game on the SNES. It’s music is amazing and the gameplay is pretty good as well.
Yep. It's pretty tough, though.
Shame Ubisoft were dicks and sued Rare claiming Plok ripped off Rayman, which is false
The strikeout, even in the video title itself is a nice touch. Well done there
And I'm surprised Vinny just learning about Tim Follin.
Add Jazz Jackrabbit to the list, and that's just me 41 minutes into this;
Vinny memory is real. His reaction to Bonk's wackiness was joyous, very good reactions overall
1:47:54 - That may be one of the most unintuitive game mechanics I've ever seen in my life.
Friendly reminder that the laugh in Ploks’ boss theme isn’t a preexisting sound effect
Who gave Vinny the wrong Jazz Jackrabbit game.
Missed opportunity to have him see Eva in the title screen and coin the term "rabbertsons".
Actually tho. I was so disappointed. The JJ2 music was also incredible.
Yeah for real. This might be the only time he plays Jazz Jackrabbit on the channel and its THIS one.
The other games are infinitely better, I didn't even know this one existed somehow
Me :)
17:35 "I've been diddled again"
Does anyone remember The Short-lived Klonoa series? It was basically a cute 2D visual game like Kirby but has a darker aesthetic with its plot and characters. I love it since it had a very unique vibe of its gameplay and story at the time.
It may be resurrected and given a reboot since there is apparently a new trademark.
@@someone-uz4mi If only truer words would ever be spoken that day.
I really want a comeback
I was really happy that Vin went into a minor Tim Follin K-Hole. I remember playing Agent X II for the C64 back in 1988 and thinking later in my life that it could have been a Joe Satriani piece. The theme song to Solstice is still a level of prog rock/metal on par with Yes.
Rocket Knight Adventures is my favorite game on the Genesis, Ristar is also amazing!
This
I would give anything to see either of those games come back
Ristar had one of my favorite soundtracks on the Genesis.
Glad that Vinny enjoys some tim follin composed game music.
Vinnie discovering that Tim Follin exists = legendary
Could you imagine if Earthbound's music had Plok's instruments
It still won't be as good if Tim Follin did not compose the music.
Time for silvagunner to remix it
The ominous vaporwave kangaroo game with good music and bad gameplay was a great start to a Sunday stream.
Ahh Croc 1 and 2 i remember playing those with my brothers, fun games.
I had only ever played Croc 1 before (had it way back in the day and eventually finished it a couple of years ago) so when I heard there was a Croc 2 I was super interested... Just didn't feel as good to me for some reason, like the levels weren't as nice to play and while the controls were certainly better... They didn't feel as nice as say Crash Bandicoot etc. I ended up finishing that one 100% as well but I can't say I was having "fun" as it were.
1:17:04
For his neutral special, he wields a
Mobile:
00:01:05 Kang Fu
00:11:55 Plok!
00:25:46 Chuck Rock
00:32:24 Power Piggs of the Dark Age 00:37:00 The Ottifants
00:42:08 Jazz Jackrabbit
00:49:37 Kao the Kangaroo
00:54:08 Super Bonk
00:59:52 Tempo
01:17:15 Prehistorik Man
01:13:45 Puggsy
01:23:10 Pulseman
01:29:18 Radical Rex
01:36:12 Ristar
01:38:05 Rocket Knight Adventures
01:44:18 Rocky Rodent
01:51:43 Super Widget
01:54:15 Toejam & Earl
01:57:47 Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel
02:03:35 Croc Legend of the Gobbos
Both prehistorik man and puggsy have wrong times.
Fans of Plok's soundtrack should really check out music from Equinox, another Follin composed Snes game.
Heh, fans of Plok probably already heard of that game.
A hear Silver Surfer music in first time.
1:18:09
Vinny strokes out while describing the Genesis' superiority to the SNES.
White Sand Cosmos “This is the Denesis, I’m telling you. This is- when they senesis, the ddueneffeh... and then they said Genesis-enesis annn Super Nintenesis, this is what they meant.”
This is a gross misrepresentation of Jazz Jackrabbit
1:30:26 You got it right.
Ristar is said like "wrist", as evident by how it's writen in Japanese リスター.
I like how he expected plok's music to not be as good as Kang Fu's
Vinny, that snare in Kang Fu has that "wet" sound like Crystal Teardrops in Symphony of the Night.
21:20 for Vinny being blown away by incredible fuckin music
Dude jazz jackrabbit 2 is the BUSINESS. And the music slaps
I still have Croc 1 and 2. Great games.
Outside998 Some if my favorite 3D platformers!
I was hoping Klonoa would be here, he needs more love.
but I don't want to consider him forgotten :(
Not many people know about him though.
2:04:52
Adding that scream to my mental soundboard...
Croc was a childhood game of mine. My cousin and I would play it for hours.
00:44:39 For the record in case it was unclear vin, when I said the people who made this made Gears of War, I meant *the Cliff Bleszinski* co-designed Jazz Jackrabbit 1 & 2 and even worked as a producer on the second one. So the creator of GoW, Unreal, and Bulletstorm got his start at Epic by making a wacky loony tunes/sonic-esque character for the PC market...
Also, it's worth noting Zero was published by a Japanese company... So I'm not so sure if the Japanese were really offended. Americans sure, but given this and stuff like KanColle I don't think the Japanese take WWII as seriously as we do at this point.
Cliff Bazinga, renowed creador of smash mobile succes Lawbreakers.
@@georgewilson7432 Yes, the creator of Radical Heights.
Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if some of them _liked_ the Imperial Japan references. They aren't exactly apologetic about it.
@@skepticpunk_ To be fair, are we very apologetic about the pacific theater?
@@warbossgegguz679 We're more apologetic about it than they are, at least.
1:29:52
It's just not the same without Radicalsoda doing the wizard rap.
I came here to comment that but you beat me to it.
I know. I felt my "rap muscles" tingle when I saw him.
Fun fact: the villain in Chuck Rock is named Gary Gritter.
Vinny really should check out Tomba
I would really prefer if you’d be quite.
I can't believe Game Freak Made a Sonic x Megaman clone that's actually kinda good
OH NO HE PLAYED GBA KAO
romulo27 That’s the WORST version!!!.....
romulo27 That’s the WORST version!!!.....
"Ha, alien, why you do?"
~Tempo Wiseau, 2019
Surprised Vinny didn't notice the Peter Griffin mushrooms at 1:53:00.
Radical Rex has aged so well, a time capsule of pure 90’s gaming
I have two major memories from Croc when I was a bab: The Game Over screen making me depressed, and the game freezing on a white screen after the first boss. I must have tried at least ten times throughout my childhood to get that game to work after the first boss, and I was a very impatient kid (plus I don't think I could save so I had to start over) so I only tried once or twice each time before giving up and playing something else. I even remember getting false hope a few times, thinking "did it just move slightly?" but nope. Maybe I unknowingly only had a demo!
9:34 Het 2.0
Tim Follin was a god at pushing a console's music to the extreme. Unfortunately most of the games he composed for are trash.
Tim Follin's magnum opus of music is Future Tactics: The Uprising. :V
42:30 my heart sank when I saw he played the first jazz jackrabbit. He would've had a much better time with the second one - so much more unique and so much more personality
That wasn't the first one; it was the third one, which they just called "Jazz Jackrabbit" because... IDK, first one they released on the GBA I guess.
@@stevethepocket Ugh, seriously? This compared to Jazz Jackrabbit 2 on PC practically tarnishes the series name. Such an odd choice this came after
Plok! 's soundtrack reminds me low-key of Earthbound's
Rocket Knight Adventure will always hold a special place in my heart. That game was so amazing. The new one on steam was alright... had nothing on this though.
New one? Man 2010 was almost a decade ago...
@@TerrorOfTalos Well, yes, but I meant "new" in a relative sense since the only games that came before it were in the SNES/Sega Genesis era almost 20 years prior.
@@kappinr-m80s23 ah ok
I had Croc when I was younger. I knew it was nowhere near as good as Spyro or Banjo Kazooie but it was still entertaining enough to finish.
It's got more in common with Crash than either of those tbh.
Secular Ascetic That’s true but I didn’t own any Crash games as a kid
Alotta back pedaling in that intro Vinny ;)
Why does it say "I've been diddled again" in Plok?! Is that an edit?
Nope, it legitimately says that. 90’s corniness mixed with European influence will do that.
zombehnashun It means he’s been cheated. Is the word not used often outside the UK?
@@OlSwitcheroo In modern American slang, "diddled" usually means "molested", typically in the context of "diddling kids".
Joseph Bridges unless you’re Ned Flanders, not really. At least not in that context. It’s kinda the reverse of how “shag” is an innocent enough word to us, but to you guys it’s slang for “fuck”
@@rugalbernstein5913 or how you shouldnt say "I dont want a fag" around an American. You'd get beaten up for just saying how you dont smoke
Aaww tempo is adorable and so well animated.
"These bees look a lot like the bees from Donkey Kong Country. Isn't that interesting?" Hm, yes, interesting that bees look quite bee-ish.
These streams remind me of renting weird mascot games from convienence stores and videogame stores growing up.
I think Puggsy might have been the actual first "physics based platformer". All I could find on this record are games that came out WAY after it.
Tim Follin needs to compose music for the Vinesauce video game
Plok almost became a Nintendo Mascot on the level of Kirby thanks to basically the music alone. Unfortunately they never went through with it.
What happened ?
@@mraljfri770 Yoshi's Island was right around the corner and Nintendo thought the games were too similar in terms of look and style. Had Yoshi not been around Nintendo were ready to publish Plok themselves.
@@jamesalexander5559 that sucks :/
Super Widget, as bizarre as it is, was a good game, IMO, had it when i was a kid, and hearing the music again was a blast of nostalgia
Tempo the fly is adorable, and that mascot deserved better than the 32x.
I guess the fact that Plok was distributed in Japan by *Activision* made more easier to Mr. Miyamoto recognize it...
A time when Activision was not complete shit.
Awesome to see Chuck rock!! I still have the copy i grew up with😂 I could only ever get to about lvl 3,also a cool forgotten mascot game for next EP would definitely be Spanky's Quest!!!
21:15 I'm just gonna leave this for myself
At least on the PlayStation 1 version Croc, if you press that small button between the analog sticks and enable or disable analog stick mode, you'll get a different control scheme than tank control.
it's some weird attempt at modern controls, where left and rights on the analog stick cause your character to move in a arc relative to the camera. It didn't help me a ton, I could not get used to how drastic the arc turns were in this mode.
Oh good god, Kang Fu. That travesty would have been completely forgotten had it not been unearthed by AVGN. Imagine the psychological effects of anyone who saw that Game Over screen as a kid. And as for Jazz Jackrabbit, you should have played the original DOS game or Jazz 2. The GBA game is utter trash.
Also, have some games that Vinny should probably have a look at in a fourth stream:
* Air Zonk (TurboGrafx-16)
* Astal (Saturn)
* Blinx the Time Sweeper (Xbox)
* Bubba 'n' Stix
* Bug! (Saturn)
* Fire & Ice (Amiga)
* The Great Giana Sisters (C64)
* Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure (DS)
* JJ & Jeff (TurboGrafx-16)
* Kid Klown in Crazy Chase (SNES)
* The Lost Vikings (SNES/MD)
* Mohawk & Headphone Jack (SNES)
* Psycho Pinball (MD)
* Quik the Thunder Rabbit (Amiga)
* Rascal (PS1)
* Scaler (GCN/PS2/Xbox)
* Socket (MD)
* Superfrog (Amiga)
* Titus the Fox
* Wally Bear and the NO! Gang (NES)
Oh god, Mohawk and Headphone Jack. That's the one where the screen's just constantly rotating, like the developer really got into the console wars and aimed to one-up Sega with a game that's ALL MODE 7 ALL THE TIME. The Game Grumps played it once and somebody left the best comment: "This is like the Oops All Berries of Sonic." I'd love to see Vinny's reaction to that mess.
SorachiJirachi lost vinking is not mascot
@@Melvinshermen As far as I'm aware, they served as de facto mascots for Blizzard until they made World of Warcraft.
I loved The Lost Vikings. Charles Deenan did a fantastic job on that game's soundtrack.
2:11:33
You know I'd honestly rather have this crocodile make an annoying noise sometimes over Link screaming through the entirety of the GBA version of A Link to the Past.
Honestly a really cool video. Love seeing this history, as always.
1:33:31
Vinny gets visited by le monke
When Miyamoto first saw Plok he was inspired to create all of existence.
Does anyone else remember Blasto?
Dad picked that game up because it was voiced by Phil Hartman, and it's kinda an ok 3D PS1 platformer, but the voice acting and wisecracks from what I'd seen were rather great.
Could also suggest Ball Busters and perhaps a few other PS1 titles and things.
Thank you so much for the segment title change. ❤👍
But they are failed mascots
@@OurBenefactors Just bc it didn't get popular or bunch of games doesn't make it a failure or a failed character. Ppl still like Glover and Gex. Cult followings exist, not everyone likes the mainstream.
Example, Toejam and Earl didn't fail at all. It got 3 games and a remake of the original most recently. It was successful.
I loved Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel as a kid. Not really an outstanding game, but I still find myself playing it every few years.
Flicky and The Ooze would be good for this segment
Typo in the description, it says 1:17:15 for prehistorik man or whatever it was called when it is at 1:07:15.
Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel was my brother's favorite game on the whole SNES, and I've played through it more times than I can count. I don't know how, because going back to it all these years later, it is remarkably hard to control. I was glad to finally see it here after starting these off with Aero.
1:43:26 the SNES version of Aladdin is way better than the Genesis one in everything but the selling point of "Disney animators worked on the Genesis one"
Oh man vinny should have played the 3D Kao game, now that's some (actual) decent stuff.
21:00 was the fucking highlight of my day
2:06:50 I vividly remember playing a fair bit of Croc as a kid on PC, and I apparently deleted the part of the memory where it was TANK CONTROLS?! I guess 6 year old me would have just gone with it, especially considering I would go on to play Ratchet and Clank, the original game, with the horizontally-inverted controls by DEFAULT, and just learned it that way. God, that was terrible.
2:07:00 Wait, so you're telling me this game has *Deadly Premonition's* control scheme, plus jumping but minus shooting?! Beautiful.
Would love to see a Part 4 with some Jazzy Jackrabbit 2 for the PC, maybe a couple of other forgotten PC gems
Croc was my favorite game when I was little
Same here. Shame I was pretty bad at it back then, couldn't figure out how to get past the 2nd boss.
Holy shit. "Power Piggs of the Dark Age" is practically a carbon copy of Aladdin for Genesis. Down to the attack animations, sound effects, using a sword and throwing small objects etc.
Also Puggsy singlehandedly ruined one Christmas for me. Seeing that game again, the anger vomit is rising
What, did you ask Bubsy for Christmas instead?
55:31 blue balled
Back in 2011, my friend always invited me over, to play some video games on his Mega drive, which he got from his brother. The first game, I played on this console, was The Ottifants. The Ottifants were a mascot, created by the german comedian Otto Waalkes. He was especially popular in the 90's and even today, he still is a great comedian. The Ottifants are quite famous too, well at least here in germany. They even have their own Wikipedia site.
BTW, the video game, sadly, wasn't that great, in fact it was pretty terrible.
I'm sorry for my bad english, I'm from germany.
I had no idea that you weren't English, all spot on
@@ashleyking8851 Thank you! That's a big relief for me. I really appreciate your comment. I thought, my english skills were pretty bad.
I've seen The Ottifants through a Russian romhack that dubbed the game "Shrek" I will say this though, the opening music from that game is awesome. I find myself listening to that from time to time. Had no idea those funny looking creatures were so popular in Germany. That's cool
@@TheBigDynamo Seeing someone replying to my 3-year-old comment really caught me off guard. That was unexpected.
I'm interested in listening to the opening music you were referring to.
Is it on RUclips? If yes, can you please share the link with me? I'd appreciate that.
@@wiliusundefined8666 ruclips.net/video/4oWO7EPUCgE/видео.html
I'm amazed that no one in the chat was willing to tell Vinny that it's based on a forgotten cartoon. Perhaps the cartoon was so forgotten that not even the person who made the collection knew about it.
Puggsy has a lot more to it than meets the eye, the physics are only part of the experience (and more complex than you may think), you really need to see the game in full to get the most out of it, experiment with the items, learn the controls (I'd highly suggest watching the first game demo to learn the controls in more depth) enjoy Matt Furniss' amazing music, master the physics and see what all it has to offer, there weren't many other games like it at the time if any, I consider myself very fortunate to have grown up with this underrated gem and it reigns supreme as my favorite 3rd party Genesis/Mega Drive game of all time.