The CGR Undertow ending Video is one of the best RUclips finales that I have ever seen. It felt like a real TV ending with flash backs and music and everything. Main CGR unfortunately had an ending and then a revivial and then Mark had a Breakdown and did those weird "Who Defeats" videos and just stopped doing RUclips. I still miss him though and I hope he is doing well.
I'm lighting the torches now. Due to Covid-19 they're $130 apiece with optional DLC to upgrade them to Molotov Cocktails if he further refuses to wear said Thong.
lol so true. Like a fool I have backed both.. Though I have played Star Citizen since around 2014 and even in a broken alpha state it has been one of my favorite games yet.
@@dekky3908 I mean... that’s the most capitalistic thing imaginable. I explain a 15000 dollar ship by saying that something is worth what people will pay for it. They put it out there and if someone buys it... that’s what it is “worth”.
@@JazGalaxy True, but just highlights the fact that some people have more money than brains. I am sure some Saudi Prince is already reveling in the might of his unstoppable digital armada.
Could you imagine if developers focused on making games like this for SegaCD in the 90s vs. the FMV and shoveled ports they threw at us? Not everything in this cart could be implemented on CD but they could have easily fit the game data plus red book audio.
Fit the data... sure. The loading time for something like this would be horrendous though. Remember the load times between Shan Tsung transformations in Mortal Kombat? Imagine that, but much worse here. Sega CD didn't have much RAM. This game is obviously using a lot of fast ROM data streaming and on-the-fly decompression that would be very problematic when reading from a slow-ass CD into a small RAM cache all the time. Of course, if they made a PCE "Arcade Card" (or Saturn RAM cart) like RAM expansion for the Sega CD, everything I said would go out the window.
I really wish he had stuck with Classic Game Room but people’s interests change and I can respect that he followed his own wishes instead of those of others.
@@the8wave pretty sure he moved on because he wasn't making any money with CGR but I could be wrong. Sucks, CGR was easily one of my favourite youtube gaming channels
Yeah looking at pictures and videos of that cardboard box, I'm glad I got the simple-but-effective Classic edition in the clamshell box. I really don't need all that extra stuff, it's just useless bloat that doesn't improve the game in any way. The Classic clamshell looks nice on my shelf and holds the game cartridge perfectly.
@@turrican4d599 I'm pretty sure Dave's gonna wear that thong on mondays, wednesdays and fridays, and Joe on sundays, tuesdays, thursdays and saturdays. And they'll never gonna wash it, of course.
I would love to play this but the next preorders are for April and I'm not sure if that's this April or April in 8 years 🤷 Also I miss Classic Game Room 😔
yeah i know. what a shítty "game". place this in the 'no-skill-required' section. wheres the game? years of waiting and when the package finally arrives theres still no game. what a joke. look at all the stupid comments praising this "game" when there is no game. epic fail
Joe that after credits scene about Classic Game Room broke my heart man. I miss them so much. I honestly feel like the RUclips I grew up with is gone. Are you ever going to do another RUclips parody episode?
Here's a thought: They MIGHT be playing audio on the arcade stick by simply storing the audio on the arcade stick itself, and just triggering it to play those sound files via the wire. That way it wouldn't have to transfer audio over the wire.
Most likely, yeah. It's much simpler to send an index for a sound that they know the stick hardware will recognize, then to stream music data from the goddamn controller ports
I don't know if I should be happy for the nostalgia upon hearing that homage to Classic Game Room, or bummed out that the Intergalactic Space Arcade is now collecting dust in hangar :( Miss you, Mark!
Yup, the same is also written in Chinese, Japanese and Korean. The Korean hangul being most prominent as the city Paprium is in what used to be Busan, South Korea.
EDIT: there are actually blue pills in the game. Nothing to do with the matrix tho. I should've watched the video before commenting. Is that a Matrix reference? Blue pills? Or is it a different kind of capsules?
@@Sheevlord It's not The Matrix reference, It's just some type of future drug that gives power and addiction. I think the developer never intended it as the Matrix reference.
After I received my copy of Paprium and read that letter I really was hoping you'd cover the letter itself during your review. I got my wish and then some. God bless Joe's Literacy Corner. Game Sack fucking rules. Also: that CGR parody at the end was 10/10 perfect.
"This game is there, that's all matters." = the tagline for every unfinished or bugged game ever released The DLC plans, imo, are pretty lame. Probably 99% of the people who were interested in this, would have gladly waited for longer for all planned content to be on the cart. This isnt like some day-1 modern release.
@@TooBokoo Inafune didn't say that, it was the guy translating for him that said that. He was still involved with the game, so it was still bad to say, but not quite as bad as Inafune saying it.
The game can be patched and adding more stages, characters, costumes and abilities is a good thing. Plus we can play this game online co-op in the future
Looks like Paprium has more than three enemies onscreen, and the co-op AI looks more sophisticated, so this probably isn't something the SNES could do without a helper chip.
This is 24megs vs. 80megs plus some extras, Paprium is faster of course and it puts more sprites on screen! But Final Fight 3 is still a good brawler (the best on SNES imo) and in 1 player mode there is no slowdown at all.
Hilarious edits and gags this time. You're coming into a league of your own not only as a technical presenter, but as one of the funniest gaming personalities.
He seems to hate any modern technology with a passion so much that he either has no clue how it works or thinks the people who buy his game will accept his "expert" answer.
Dude, this was the review I have been waiting for! I absolutely love your style and that Classic Game Room parody was fantastic. I'm glad you enjoyed the music Groovemaster303 and I put together. Imagine sitting on an album of stuff for 7 years! This made my day man! Thanks for being awesome :).
Many thanks for the great review and positive feedback regarding the OST. It’s also cool you noticed some little musical Easter eggs we threw in. Another is in the track Neo-Metal which has a little nod to Afterburner. Keep up the great work on Game Sack. 😃
@@GameSack I noticed! I guess I needed the extra E to refill my energy tanks. Too bad I lost a D. I suppose after helping to write a soundtrack like that I was so out of it I became 1 dimensional for a while.:P
The mega wire can “patch” the game and allow online co-op play. Stage interactions are cool. You can throw enemies against background object to inflict more damage. There is a lot to find in this game. On very hard A.I is a bit better plus you can unlock very very hard. Tho A.I is trash, needs patched
The developer sounds like an elitist who made design decisions which inconvenience the player based solely on their own preferences. Their communication is flat out arrogant and the people behind the game really put me off it, which is a shame as I love these kind of beat-em-ups and the aesthetics are outstanding, absolute eye candy.
Amazing technical achievement, but with Fonzie's history of the development and the whole attitude I can't bring myself to pull the trigger buying it-- still, very cool to see! Thanks for the review
Holy cats! 300 Episodes! I've been a fan of each and every episode! This has been a great run and shows just how skilled you are in making wonderful entertainment! Thank you Game Sack! I shall raise a toast to 300 more episodes!
He is originally Swedish and lives in France, to the best of my knowledge. His grasp of the English language is not great. The game itself is also riddled with spelling errors in its English incarnation. Fonzie really needs a proofreader.
There are lots of good things going in this game. It will inspire other games. I'm sure of that. The piece of metal didn't move when I received the game but it happened one week later ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@johnathin0061892 Not at all, metal plates are not effective as RF shields unless they are connected to a constant potential (e.g. ground). That metal plate seems to be only decorative.
it's a fake "heatsink" with the fake chip make and model number on it. a 180MHz STM32 ARM MCU doesn't need a heatsink. although I didn't realise it had other chips as well (the name Altera rings a bell - FPGA...? if so not sure what its role is.)
@@GameSack had this game been out as well as all those color hacks of existing Sega games.. im sure the sega vs nintendo debate would be even more heated!
I got the Limited Edition (U). Purple Cart. No pin. No Thong. Postcard not signed. I don't even remember there being an option for an investers edition when I preorder in march of 2017.
I would not have survived quarantine if it weren't for all of the Game Sack videos to spend time with, thank you for these Joe, your work here is always entertaining and always appreciated
Btw heres a thing most people wont mention: The game actually adds extra graphics to the lower part of the screen in pal-mode like streets of rage does(v.30 50hz option), making use of the extra resolution! And it also still plays, looks and sounds pretty good in general in 50hz pal mode. One of the better 50hz experiences ive had on the megadrive (dont have a modded megadrive) Ps: love the troll minigame xD after all that happened with the game and fonzies refusal to show it off that was an insanely ballsy move!
It’s clear that an incredible amount of talent went into the graphics and sound here, but Fonzie seems like kind of an arsehole, and the game itself bogged down with some bizarre design choices. At the asking price it’s more of a curio than something I’d be in a rush to play.
From what little i know from the whole story, Fonzie as a character surely reminds me of the whole Phil Fish story. Maybe the douchy persona is a shield to avoid what happened to Phil, maybe he is just bonkers af, who knows...
Even where it's technically competent the aesthetics and "humor" of the game just ruin it, with all the magenta edgelord stuff lathered over everything. It's like one of those "X-Treme" games from the 90's, only somehow stupider. The spritework doesn't save it, it honestly looks soulless and cliched even despite all of the technical detail. I really hope nobody buys this, it deserves to just be a fiasco.
@@kiyoaki1985 I actually feel like that is the goal here, just so that, in a few years, it becomes one of those rare, sought after "holy grails" of the retro collecting scene. Kind of a turned up to 11, purposedly made version of what earthbound achieved with the stinky ad back then...
@@OnlyEpicEmber Fair point, and it's why it all sounds a bit artificial, forced. Earthbound was just the first that came to mind, though. The retro collecting market is full of subpar games that are considered holy grails just because they sold poorly and not every completionist can have a copy.
The chips in the picture include an FPGA but more importantly and ARM Cortex-4 32-Bit CPU. The rest is FLASH/SDRAM memory and some basic bus/multiplexer chips. The FPGA could fairly be used to simulate a hard to find old chip, but it's hard to justify the presence of the 32-Bit ARM which is a couple orders of magnitude more powerful than the Genesis while getting on your high horse about how special 16-bit platforms are. It wasn't unheard of to stick a enhancing chips in a Genesis game, thought it was rare unlike the NES where mappers were standard not long after launch in the US. But this is much closer to sticking the Dreamcast's CPU and a quarter of it's memory on the cart.
I'm not against such a device in the cart, but you're definitely right about putting such a thing in there while saying everything he does about 16-bitness.
What they're doing for this game could likely have been done with a much simpler custom chip, but it seems they ran into trouble with the development of the Datenmeister and opted for a more readily available off-the-shelf ARM Cortex CPU instead. You can be sure that Fonzie will have bullishly rejected its inclusion and stubbornly pushed for the custom chip idea as long as humanly possible, until even he had to concede that it wasn't viable and they had to opt for plan B instead.
I bought a Framemeister and a Japanese PS2 off Mark. The same ones used on the reviews. And he drew a little Edit Station 1 on there for me too. Pretty cool to have. That video where Mark goes and buys a Sega Saturn is one of the best episodes. Vintage RUclips. Miss CGR!
The saturn video is a true ode to the love of gaming. And that silver ps2 you got is really close to my heart, as his review of that is one of the videos of him that i've rewatched most times, second only to the saturn video itself. Time to pay those a visit for nostalgia sake!
Paprium i rated this game 9/10 nearly perfect beat em up allowing you play with CPU enabled!!! Without your friend your cpu will help you out!!! This game deserve to play!!! Forget cyberpunk 2077!
It's great that the game is finally here, but nobody should give these idiots money ever again. First of all, their "custom" chip was a bunch of BS. LOL! And secondly, any time a company makes it a point to talk about how much money they lose on each cart and are lowkey trying to make you think you got a great deal which somehow makes up for an 8 year wait with almost no updates makes me immediately think they're a bunch of liars... Even though after 8 years with hardly any updates, most people already thought they were.
Poorly Playing Retro Idiots is a nice word for these manipulative, pathological psychopaths so full of themselves, a mentality that permeates many in the tech world.
There is a code for 3 player mode! AAA, Up Up Up, Down Down Down at the character select. Also, Kickstarter for Paprium HD, Mini-Paprium, Paprium Game Guide, OST and more! Now, someone get me Ghost Corps The Videogame series! Hooooooo!
The game exceeded my expectations. Is it perfect? No. It's damn fun though, with a surprising amount of replay value, and a ton of style and personality.
The Classic Game Room gag at the end brought a tear to my eye.
I miss CGR.
I miss CGR and Undertow too.
The CGR Undertow ending Video is one of the best RUclips finales that I have ever seen. It felt like a real TV ending with flash backs and music and everything. Main CGR unfortunately had an ending and then a revivial and then Mark had a Breakdown and did those weird "Who Defeats" videos and just stopped doing RUclips. I still miss him though and I hope he is doing well.
Forget Paprium, play more Truxton, Musha and Herzog Zwei
@@Therealmadkong He's still doing his youtube, renamed the channel to 80's comics
The thing I love about Gamesack is how Joe goes the extras mile to make everything “interesting” from a watchabllity perspective. It’s inspiring.
If there isn't an ending skit with Dave wearing the thong sometime in 2021, we riot.
Rumor has it he hasn't taken it off since it came in.
This is now my greatest wish.
Everyday we stray further from God's light.
1734: Rioting for sanitary working conditions and fair wages
2021: Rioting because Dave is not wearing a thong
I'm lighting the torches now. Due to Covid-19 they're $130 apiece with optional DLC to upgrade them to Molotov Cocktails if he further refuses to wear said Thong.
Fonzie: “We lost a lot of money in the game”
Also Fonzie: “Here’s your leather sexy thong!”
I also though that move was really fucking stupid
@@edgarmonrgiz7952 Making a Paprium drink and arcade machine for the launch party was better???
@@pferreira1983 Nobody said that
@@orenmauritzen8674 No but that was money ill spent as well.
@@pferreira1983 Yeah, we all agree no doubt
I'm impressed. Paprium actually came out before Star Citizen.
lol so true. Like a fool I have backed both.. Though I have played Star Citizen since around 2014 and even in a broken alpha state it has been one of my favorite games yet.
Star Citizen isn't real, it's an elaborate money laundering scheme by the Russians! How else do you explain 15,000 USD for a digital spaceship...
@@dekky3908 I mean... that’s the most capitalistic thing imaginable. I explain a 15000 dollar ship by saying that something is worth what people will pay for it. They put it out there and if someone buys it... that’s what it is “worth”.
@@JazGalaxy True, but just highlights the fact that some people have more money than brains. I am sure some Saudi Prince is already reveling in the might of his unstoppable digital armada.
Paprium is unfortunately out of my price range... maybe a repro cart one day. 🤔
Could you imagine if developers focused on making games like this for SegaCD in the 90s vs. the FMV and shoveled ports they threw at us? Not everything in this cart could be implemented on CD but they could have easily fit the game data plus red book audio.
Plus the sprite scaling!
Fit the data... sure. The loading time for something like this would be horrendous though. Remember the load times between Shan Tsung transformations in Mortal Kombat? Imagine that, but much worse here. Sega CD didn't have much RAM. This game is obviously using a lot of fast ROM data streaming and on-the-fly decompression that would be very problematic when reading from a slow-ass CD into a small RAM cache all the time. Of course, if they made a PCE "Arcade Card" (or Saturn RAM cart) like RAM expansion for the Sega CD, everything I said would go out the window.
@TrueSinister as a mega CD owner back in the day I'd say that was a good thing.
@@jbmaru The Mega CD has sprite scaling built onto its hardware.
Yep they didn't use it like they should have. Wasted capabilities.
The ode to CGR and Mark made me very nostalgic and sad. I really hope he's doing alright.
It was pretty amazing.
@@ShaneSemler isn't he also on amazon?
I really wish he had stuck with Classic Game Room but people’s interests change and I can respect that he followed his own wishes instead of those of others.
@@the8wave pretty sure he moved on because he wasn't making any money with CGR but I could be wrong. Sucks, CGR was easily one of my favourite youtube gaming channels
@@ShaneSemler It seems over atm :/
Hate this flimsy packaging, that one will be Dave's.
Yeah looking at pictures and videos of that cardboard box, I'm glad I got the simple-but-effective Classic edition in the clamshell box. I really don't need all that extra stuff, it's just useless bloat that doesn't improve the game in any way. The Classic clamshell looks nice on my shelf and holds the game cartridge perfectly.
Not before swapping the game manuals around.
yeah that one is dave's, he deserves it for leaving us. and give him the rattly cart, oh wait....
What about the thong, though? Will Joe use it together with Dave?
@@turrican4d599 I'm pretty sure Dave's gonna wear that thong on mondays, wednesdays and fridays, and Joe on sundays, tuesdays, thursdays and saturdays.
And they'll never gonna wash it, of course.
I would love to play this but the next preorders are for April and I'm not sure if that's this April or April in 8 years 🤷
Also I miss Classic Game Room 😔
That manifesto goes to show that game developers really do need publishers...or at least a PR Firm
or better yet, not make their games entirely based around their ego and personal preference
The "manifesto" sounds like it was written by a douchebag full of himself (Gwenael Godde). I can't wait to pirate this rom when it is cracked......
The game is not made for money, publishers wouldn't touch it. Also gaymers 'make a game you like and we will like it'.
How you managed to keep a straight face while reading Fonzies Manifesto is awesome. Good review Joe.
After how many takes?
Could've been a hundred takes and it wouldn't be any less impressive! That shit was nonsense!
12:38 Enemies stand around, waiting for you to beat them up. What is this? A Steven Segal movie?
yeah i know. what a shítty "game". place this in the 'no-skill-required' section. wheres the game? years of waiting and when the package finally arrives theres still no game. what a joke. look at all the stupid comments praising this "game" when there is no game. epic fail
With the way 2020 went I don't blame Fonzie for thinking there were 16 months.
Imagine if that other copy was daves copy. But he found out how shit the game was and he just decided to say he didn't own it
@@bando7593 The game's great though
(I thought it was 8 months though)
Not gonna lie. Was hoping you’d be wearing the XXS Speedo for the post credits
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That'll be coming in the first DLC pack, via your very own GAMESACK WIRE that you plug directly into your home computer device.
Who said he wasn't?
Joe that after credits scene about Classic Game Room broke my heart man. I miss them so much. I honestly feel like the RUclips I grew up with is gone. Are you ever going to do another RUclips parody episode?
I just noticed that whenever the saxophone guys turns up you hear his sax part play on top of the original stage music. That's actually pretty cool.
yup, and i think if you refrain from hitting him when he pops up, more of the sound test opens up
That's really cool :)
Still haven't met him.
@@brorianszk He's a nice guy and a talented musician.
@@ChaossX77 Yup his track is a fine addition to the BGM most of the time!
Lost it at "literacy corner". Fantastic.
I'll be so excited when my pre-order arrives (hopefully in March)...
I just hope I don't have AIDS!
Here's a thought: They MIGHT be playing audio on the arcade stick by simply storing the audio on the arcade stick itself, and just triggering it to play those sound files via the wire. That way it wouldn't have to transfer audio over the wire.
Most likely, yeah. It's much simpler to send an index for a sound that they know the stick hardware will recognize, then to stream music data from the goddamn controller ports
I don't know if I should be happy for the nostalgia upon hearing that homage to Classic Game Room, or bummed out that the Intergalactic Space Arcade is now collecting dust in hangar :( Miss you, Mark!
Maybe next time we shouldn't banish him from Earth.
It sounds like he sold his stuff long ago
Man, that ending made me miss good old CGR.
Nice shout out to classic game room. Whenever i see truxton game I hear Mark's iconic TRUXTON!!!
I actually bought Truxton based on his recommendation. Its a great game, but not the best ever.
@@Not-Great-at-Gaming blasphemy!
Mark from CGR was the best. That guy could literally review a shovel full of dirt, and still make it entertaining. Love that guy.
It's too bad that he let the negativity of the youtube comments get to him and shut everything down. I miss him as well.
@@kandigloss6438 Hey! He's still around and has a pretty good podcast called "Turbo Volcano".
@@jmatt781And CGR is now back, baby!
There is some Hindi text written on box "नीले कैप्सूल" which means "Blue Capsules"
Yup, the same is also written in Chinese, Japanese and Korean. The Korean hangul being most prominent as the city Paprium is in what used to be Busan, South Korea.
Thanks for that. Does that mean anything within the context of the game?
EDIT: there are actually blue pills in the game. Nothing to do with the matrix tho. I should've watched the video before commenting.
Is that a Matrix reference? Blue pills? Or is it a different kind of capsules?
@@Ashura96 DANZIG = 댄싱!
@@Sheevlord It's not The Matrix reference, It's just some type of future drug that gives power and addiction. I think the developer never intended it as the Matrix reference.
"Did you just say tits?" is my favorite running gag.
It never gets old. Every time I hear the word titular, that quote plays in my head.
@@ravagingwolverine Did you just say "tits"?!
After I received my copy of Paprium and read that letter I really was hoping you'd cover the letter itself during your review. I got my wish and then some. God bless Joe's Literacy Corner. Game Sack fucking rules.
Also: that CGR parody at the end was 10/10 perfect.
I love the Classic Game Room review at the end! I wonder if they'll port it to the Vectrex.
"This game is there, that's all matters." = the tagline for every unfinished or bugged game ever released
The DLC plans, imo, are pretty lame. Probably 99% of the people who were interested in this, would have gladly waited for longer for all planned content to be on the cart. This isnt like some day-1 modern release.
"It's better than nothing" - Keiji Inafune
I'd be interested in fixed better AI , removing the cheap 1 hit kills boss fights rely on, more moves and better animation
@@TooBokoo That's a good phrase for a FREE product...
@@TooBokoo Inafune didn't say that, it was the guy translating for him that said that. He was still involved with the game, so it was still bad to say, but not quite as bad as Inafune saying it.
The game can be patched and adding more stages, characters, costumes and abilities is a good thing. Plus we can play this game online co-op in the future
"Does that mean the Super Nintendo is more powerful than Paprium?"
The FF3 slowdown with that CPU player + 3 baddies speaks for itself.
Looks like Paprium has more than three enemies onscreen, and the co-op AI looks more sophisticated, so this probably isn't something the SNES could do without a helper chip.
This is 24megs vs. 80megs plus some extras, Paprium is faster of course and it puts more sprites on screen! But Final Fight 3 is still a good brawler (the best on SNES imo) and in 1 player mode there is no slowdown at all.
Forgot to add I believe you can play 4 players with two Paprium Grandsticks. It’s mentioned in the manual.
Best Mark Bussler impression ever, lol! I miss the days before he went off the deep end...
I really miss Classic Game Room! I hope I'm not in the minority that got the reference :)
If only I could watch the review on a Vectrex.
@@Not-Great-at-Gaming if you attach 32x to it you can!
The CGR closing was spot on. I miss me some Classic Game Room.
The classic game room outro was spot on.
My thoughts exactly
Missing references to Truxton and the Vectrex.
It needs a flamethrower.
That classic game room bit at the end was top notch stuff
That ending skit makes me wish Classic Game Room is still around.
This is the classic example of a skilled developer who has no idea what the hell to do with said skills.
When he claims he gave all of them away long ago, I assume he is referring to his Fux.
Hilarious edits and gags this time. You're coming into a league of your own not only as a technical presenter, but as one of the funniest gaming personalities.
I miss classic Classic Game Room.
That CGR spoof at the end, hahaha. I miss that show.
"PS4 runs at half interlaced frames"
I'm starting to doubt Fonzie's skills as a developer.
I mean, he took 8 years to finish a 16-bit side scroller. Lol
@@TooBokoo Hey man, it's not like he drove away most of the original dev team on purpose or anything! These things things take time!
I'm intrigued as to why people haven't started calling him "Ponzi" instead.
He seems to hate any modern technology with a passion so much that he either has no clue how it works or thinks the people who buy his game will accept his "expert" answer.
Its a nod to 30FPS games I think
Well, maybe there is a game developer more megalomaniacal than Kojima out there, after all.
Dude, this was the review I have been waiting for! I absolutely love your style and that Classic Game Room parody was fantastic. I'm glad you enjoyed the music Groovemaster303 and I put together. Imagine sitting on an album of stuff for 7 years! This made my day man! Thanks for being awesome :).
Thanks! I noticed they mispelled your name in the game credits. :( They said JReed I believe.
Hey Jredd tell that beautiful asshole Fonzie to port the game to SNES using the SA-1 chip. That would be indeed amazng!
Many thanks for the great review and positive feedback regarding the OST.
It’s also cool you noticed some little musical Easter eggs we threw in. Another is in the track Neo-Metal which has a little nod to Afterburner.
Keep up the great work on Game Sack. 😃
what are some of your favorite tracks?
@@GameSack I noticed! I guess I needed the extra E to refill my energy tanks. Too bad I lost a D. I suppose after helping to write a soundtrack like that I was so out of it I became 1 dimensional for a while.:P
The Classic Game Room parody at the end did not go unappreciated
Whilst it may not be the greatest game, its a great technical achievement, for sure.
It's a polished turd.
It looks freakin' amazing!
The cartridge has almost the power of a dreamcast (180mhz?) And this is the result?...
@@anthonya.jumelles7103 It plays great actually.
The mega wire can “patch” the game and allow online co-op play. Stage interactions are cool. You can throw enemies against background object to inflict more damage. There is a lot to find in this game. On very hard A.I is a bit better plus you can unlock very very hard. Tho A.I is trash, needs patched
The 80 MEGA POWER!!! bit nearly made me jump out of my skin
Same here, I have headphones one. Freaked me out.
@@AllAroundATL Scared me too jeez, and i had just woke up.
It scared the shit out of me.
Tool albums take 8 years and are almost as coherent as Fonzie. So there’s that.
Happy 10th anniversary Game Sack!
Still waiting for the rom dump 2+yrs after release
Dang I miss Classic Game Room!
The developer sounds like an elitist who made design decisions which inconvenience the player based solely on their own preferences. Their communication is flat out arrogant and the people behind the game really put me off it, which is a shame as I love these kind of beat-em-ups and the aesthetics are outstanding, absolute eye candy.
An obnoxious Portland hipster.
@@davetheimpaler204 Pretty sure Fonzie is European though
@@SonofSethoitae Same difference.
@Lassi Kinnunen 81 It uses more than 80mp or space and uses the chip to decompress the graphics on the fly. The audio is also done via the extra chip.
This. I don't see why developer needs to act that way. Are they want to mimic the 'in your face' attitude from the 90's? It's just came out childish.
This. Was. Incredible! You are great at what you do Joe!
The Classic Game Room bit was too accurate. Mark would be proud.
Amazing technical achievement, but with Fonzie's history of the development and the whole attitude I can't bring myself to pull the trigger buying it-- still, very cool to see! Thanks for the review
The story behind this game is simply fascinating.
And that CGR skit was *LEGENDARY.* xD
That post credits scene made be feel a kinda way. I miss CGR and Mark.
Holy cats! 300 Episodes!
I've been a fan of each and every episode!
This has been a great run and shows just how skilled you are in making wonderful entertainment!
Thank you Game Sack!
I shall raise a toast to 300 more episodes!
Wow! That literacy corner was straight up baffling! I am confused why any dev would put that into print for their game!
Because he's a narcissist.
right? so bizarre. it read like the ramblings of a madman.
Is he actually an English speaker? It sounds like it was run through some really cheap translation software.
He is originally Swedish and lives in France, to the best of my knowledge. His grasp of the English language is not great. The game itself is also riddled with spelling errors in its English incarnation. Fonzie really needs a proofreader.
I'd probably get it for ten bucks on the Nintendo Switch
Or buy Streets of Rage 4
no
The fonz is right, no modern machine could possibly do this game justice
The Switch lacks the Blast Processing™ needed to run Paprium.
24:38 I need that guy to just follow me around all day.
I did it. I made it through the entire "Oldest To Newest" Playlist! Keep the excellent videos coming, Joe!
$130 for a cartridge game with a big piece of metal rattling around inside. Wonderful.
There are lots of good things going in this game. It will inspire other games. I'm sure of that.
The piece of metal didn't move when I received the game but it happened one week later ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
so if it's not a heatsink...what is it?
@@SegaCDUniverse Could be RF shielding, what I thought when I first saw it
@@johnathin0061892 Not at all, metal plates are not effective as RF shields unless they are connected to a constant potential (e.g. ground). That metal plate seems to be only decorative.
it's a fake "heatsink" with the fake chip make and model number on it. a 180MHz STM32 ARM MCU doesn't need a heatsink. although I didn't realise it had other chips as well (the name Altera rings a bell - FPGA...? if so not sure what its role is.)
Man, I love long reviews of just one game.
This was great. And that CGR reference was just gold.
i wonder how people and gaming mags would have reacted had this game been officially released in 1992 instead of 2020.
I wonder as well. It's fun to think about as I play.
How much would it cost to make a game look like that in 92? Isn't that altera chip a 450mhz fpga?
@@GameSack had this game been out as well as all those color hacks of existing Sega games.. im sure the sega vs nintendo debate would be even more heated!
Well, it would've been announced in 1992 and then released in 2000. 😂
They would have been utterly blown away. And although it's not perfect, I expect it would have gotten probably 9/10 from most mags.
Inafune 2016 - "It's better than nothing" Fonzie 2020 - "This game is there, that's all matters."
But, i dont think that guy from M#9 meant it that way at all.
Inafune never said that, ben judd was the one that added that opinion.
The game box of the "Investors Edition" is the same as the "Limited Edition" - just not as many extras as the Investor Edition.
And I guess one of them has a purple cartridge instead of pink from what I understand.
@@GameSack Yes, my JP Limited cart is purple. I wonder if the JP Investor Edition is too?
I got the Limited Edition (U). Purple Cart. No pin. No Thong. Postcard not signed. I don't even remember there being an option for an investers edition when I preorder in march of 2017.
I would not have survived quarantine if it weren't for all of the Game Sack videos to spend time with, thank you for these Joe, your work here is always entertaining and always appreciated
Btw heres a thing most people wont mention:
The game actually adds extra graphics to the lower part of the screen in pal-mode like streets of rage does(v.30 50hz option), making use of the extra resolution! And it also still plays, looks and sounds pretty good in general in 50hz pal mode. One of the better 50hz experiences ive had on the megadrive (dont have a modded megadrive)
Ps: love the troll minigame xD after all that happened with the game and fonzies refusal to show it off that was an insanely ballsy move!
Interesting!
Thanks for the info ApenBaard.
Watermelon made Pier solar and the Great architects right? I loved that game.
Shout out to Classic Game Room. Loved the end skit
The fact you made a Class Game Room reference at the end is pure brilliance.
I miss CGR
From the looks of it, the game has a lot of character, like its creator. Good or bad, it's certainly refreshingly sincere.
It’s clear that an incredible amount of talent went into the graphics and sound here, but Fonzie seems like kind of an arsehole, and the game itself bogged down with some bizarre design choices. At the asking price it’s more of a curio than something I’d be in a rush to play.
From what little i know from the whole story, Fonzie as a character surely reminds me of the whole Phil Fish story. Maybe the douchy persona is a shield to avoid what happened to Phil, maybe he is just bonkers af, who knows...
Even where it's technically competent the aesthetics and "humor" of the game just ruin it, with all the magenta edgelord stuff lathered over everything. It's like one of those "X-Treme" games from the 90's, only somehow stupider. The spritework doesn't save it, it honestly looks soulless and cliched even despite all of the technical detail. I really hope nobody buys this, it deserves to just be a fiasco.
@@kiyoaki1985 I actually feel like that is the goal here, just so that, in a few years, it becomes one of those rare, sought after "holy grails" of the retro collecting scene. Kind of a turned up to 11, purposedly made version of what earthbound achieved with the stinky ad back then...
@@HCSilvaRodrigo Diference is Earthbound is an amazing game
@@OnlyEpicEmber Fair point, and it's why it all sounds a bit artificial, forced. Earthbound was just the first that came to mind, though. The retro collecting market is full of subpar games that are considered holy grails just because they sold poorly and not every completionist can have a copy.
I miss Classic Game Room so much
I could thank Fonzie for bringing back the Literacy Corner, aka the best corner.
4:29 Ass far ass cheeky spelling goes, it might be used by citizens of Uranus.Butt hey, at least Mark is back....sort of.
The editing and individual segments are so good in this show. One of the best episodes I’ve seen. Awesome job Joe
The chips in the picture include an FPGA but more importantly and ARM Cortex-4 32-Bit CPU. The rest is FLASH/SDRAM memory and some basic bus/multiplexer chips.
The FPGA could fairly be used to simulate a hard to find old chip, but it's hard to justify the presence of the 32-Bit ARM which is a couple orders of magnitude more powerful than the Genesis while getting on your high horse about how special 16-bit platforms are.
It wasn't unheard of to stick a enhancing chips in a Genesis game, thought it was rare unlike the NES where mappers were standard not long after launch in the US. But this is much closer to sticking the Dreamcast's CPU and a quarter of it's memory on the cart.
I'm not against such a device in the cart, but you're definitely right about putting such a thing in there while saying everything he does about 16-bitness.
What they're doing for this game could likely have been done with a much simpler custom chip, but it seems they ran into trouble with the development of the Datenmeister and opted for a more readily available off-the-shelf ARM Cortex CPU instead. You can be sure that Fonzie will have bullishly rejected its inclusion and stubbornly pushed for the custom chip idea as long as humanly possible, until even he had to concede that it wasn't viable and they had to opt for plan B instead.
Loved the cgr bonus ending! Needs more truxton tho
Oh man, that ending made me laugh and somewhat sad at the same time. RIP Classic Game Room
Looks like kaneda’s bike from Akira makes an appearance at 10:00 cool
Omg the skit at the end. Nailed the "homage".
That ending was amazing! I hope CGR see's this.
CGR :( made me feel very nostalgic, I love those days.
I bought a Framemeister and a Japanese PS2 off Mark. The same ones used on the reviews. And he drew a little Edit Station 1 on there for me too. Pretty cool to have.
That video where Mark goes and buys a Sega Saturn is one of the best episodes. Vintage RUclips.
Miss CGR!
The saturn video is a true ode to the love of gaming. And that silver ps2 you got is really close to my heart, as his review of that is one of the videos of him that i've rewatched most times, second only to the saturn video itself.
Time to pay those a visit for nostalgia sake!
The AI of the enemy that doesn't want to fight is perfectly fine. He's the smartest!
Thank you for recording gameplay with that crisp video quality.
that dramatic reading was amazing.
Paprium i rated this game 9/10 nearly perfect beat em up allowing you play with CPU enabled!!! Without your friend your cpu will help you out!!!
This game deserve to play!!! Forget cyberpunk 2077!
It's great that the game is finally here, but nobody should give these idiots money ever again. First of all, their "custom" chip was a bunch of BS. LOL! And secondly, any time a company makes it a point to talk about how much money they lose on each cart and are lowkey trying to make you think you got a great deal which somehow makes up for an 8 year wait with almost no updates makes me immediately think they're a bunch of liars... Even though after 8 years with hardly any updates, most people already thought they were.
On top of his response to people wanting to play the game on the mega sg. I have to agree with you wholeheartedly.
@@FloridaEbikes The hardware will most certainly die, so we have to keep it alive through hardware and software emulation
@Poorly Playing Retro, more like Poorly Representing Humanity.
@@vitamind.d.fishinsea8570 I see even HD CRTs coming sooner than that. Doubt they'd ever get to 4K, though, but who really cares about that?
Poorly Playing Retro Idiots is a nice word for these manipulative, pathological psychopaths so full of themselves, a mentality that permeates many in the tech world.
There is a code for 3 player mode! AAA, Up Up Up, Down Down Down at the character select.
Also, Kickstarter for Paprium HD, Mini-Paprium, Paprium Game Guide, OST and more!
Now, someone get me Ghost Corps The Videogame series! Hooooooo!
Man I miss Mark of Classic Game room. 😅
This Fonzie guy looks like he's easy and fun to work with, I'm sure Sega will be giving him a call.
I love the Classic Game Room skit at the end !!!! I miss his videos. He lives close to me , so I still follow him on Facebook . Great video !!!!
You live close to the intergalactic space station?
The game exceeded my expectations. Is it perfect? No. It's damn fun though, with a surprising amount of replay value, and a ton of style and personality.
Omg when you read that letter..
PS
"This is the 16 day of the 16th month...."
I lost it and gave myself away for not working at work.
Thanks.
OMG the impression of Mark at the end.... what a throwback , i loved it!!
Classic Game Room is basically a cult classic nowadays
Just to note I ordered the Limited Edition like Dave did and I didn't get a thong included. I guess that was an exclusive from Fonzie...