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| 171 | Reboots | Arcade - Altered Beast NES - Ninja Gaiden, Ninja Gaiden 2, Ninja Gaiden 3 SNES - Prince of Persia PlayStation - Tomb Raider, Rayman PlayStation 2 - Devil May Cry, Devil May Cry 3, Altered Beast Xbox - Ninja Gaiden, Ninja Gaiden Black Gamecube - Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Xbox 360 - Ninja Gaiden 2, Ninja Gaiden 3 PlayStation 3 - Tomb Raider, Ninja Gaiden Sigma, Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2, Rayman Origins PlayStation 4 - DMC: Devil May Cry |
*Tomb Raider: Rise of the Tomb
Raider (Xbox One) appears briefly mid way through the episode. Bayonetta
(Xbox 360) appears quickly in the Devil May Cry segment. *This episode features games from all four different PlayStation console generations. And since Tomb Raider on the Xbox One is very briefly shown, it also includes gameplay from each Xbox console generation as well. |
0:26:24 | 6/26/16 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 170 | Awesome Videogame Music | NES - Castlevania 3, Gauntlet TurboDuo - Gate of Thunder, Lords of Thunder, Dungeon Explorer Genesis - Gauntlet 4, Ecco the Dolphin, Ecco: Tides of Time, Thunder Force 2, Midnight Resistance, Super Hydlide SNES - Super R-Type, Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts Sega CD - Lords of Thunder, Ecco the Dolphin, Ecco: Tides of Time |
*The music for the ending was originally written back in the year 2000 and released on the popular website Overclocked ReMix. It was updated several years later with new lyrics and slightly better sound quality. This new version sat dormant and hasn't been released anywhere outside of this episode. | 0:29:30 | 6/12/16 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 169 | Copycat Games | NES - The Legend of Zelda, Mega Man 2, The Krion Conquest,
Castlevania, 8 Eyes, Holy Diver Sega Master System - Golvellius, Golden Axe Warrior, Master of Darkness TurboGrafx-16 - Neutopia, Neutopia II, Shockman Genesis - Crusader of Centy, Strider SNES - Run Saber Arcade - Osman Nintendo 64 - Super Smash Bros. PlayStation 3 - 3D Dot Game Heroes, PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royal, God of War 3, Dante's Inferno |
*The making of this episode from concept to released product was chronicled for a "Making of a modern Game Sack episode" which will be an extra feature on the upcoming Volume 2 Blu-ray release. | 0:28:46 | 5/29/16 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 168 | 15 Delicious Games Based on Food Products | NES - Yo! Noid, M.C. Kids, Spot: The Video Game, The California
Raisins: The Grape Escape GameBoy - Spot, Cool Spot, Spot: The Cool Adventure Genesis - Chester Cheetah: Too Cool to Fool, Chester Cheetah: Wild Wild Quest, Global Gladiators, McDonald's Treasureland Adventure, Cool Spot, Spot Goes to Hollywood SNES - Chester Cheetah: Too Cool to Fool, Chester Cheetah: Wild Wild Quest, Cool Spot Saturn - Spot Goes to Hollywood PlayStation - Pepsiman, M&M's Shell Shocked Xbox - Burger King: Pocket Bike Racer, Burger King: Big Bumpin', Burger King: Sneak King |
*First full episode to be
presented at 60 frames per second. *First episode using the El Gato HD60 as a capture device instead of the El Gato Game Capture HD. *The ending skit was originally made for the "More Hacks and Homebrews" epsiode, but was moved to this one so the Rubber Feet Challence could be used instead. Fortunately it kind of fits since Joe is drinking a delicious soft drink as the skit starts. |
0:29:35 | 5/15/16 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 167 | Let's Make a Youtube Show | NES - Super Mario Bros, Super Mario Bros 3 TurboGrafx-16 - Aero Blasters, Air Zonk, Andre Panza Kick Boxing Genesis - Truxton, Castle of Illusion |
*Not a normal episode in any
sense. Instead it is a parody of several other popular Youtube gaming
channels. *Shot when Game Sack was on hiatus, before the PlayStation 2 episode. *First use of the new Canon C100 Mark 2 camera. *Took nearly 3 weeks to make as Joe's hair and beard needed to grow back to shoot the scenes with Dave. His hair was trimmed very short for the Irratating Gamer scenes and the beard was totally gone for the Plastic Game Room and Really Pissed Off Nerd scenes. |
0:14:07 | 5/1/16 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 166 | More Hacks and Homebrews + Rubber Feet Challenge | NES - Final Fantasy IV, Meteor Swarm, Game On Expo Retro
Championships, Castlevania: Chorus of Mysteries, Super Mario Bros 3 Mix Sega Master System - Sonic the Hedgehog (FM music) TurboGrafx-16 - Atlantean, Santatlantean, Hu-Zero Genesis - Golden Axe (Recolor), Golden Axe 2 (Recolor), Out Run (Recolor), Sonic the Hedgehog (Music and rotation enhancements), Altered Beast (Recolor and revoice), Street Fighter 2 Special Champion Edition (Recolor and revoice), Super Street Fighter 2 (Recolor, revoice and new backgrounds) Sega CD - Final Fight CD (Recolor) SNES - F-Zero (MSU-1), Super Metroid (MSU-1), The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (MSU-1), Sydney Hunter and the Caverns of Death, Justice Beaver Wii U - Sydney Hunter and the Curse of the Mayans |
*Includes the Rubber Feet
Challenge as the ending skit. Classic Game Room challenged us to find the
best rubber feet on a console after we challenged him to find the best SELECT
button. *Originally had a different ending skit, but the Rubber Feet Challenge was moved up to be more timely. |
0:31:20 | 4/17/16 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 165 | The Sony PlayStation 2 | Playstation 2 - Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy, Urban Reign, Yakuza, Yakuza 2, Rygar: The Legendary Adventure, Shadow of Rome, Blood Will Tell, Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando, Firefighter F.D.18, Odin Sphere, GrimGrimoire, Silpheed: The Lost Planet, Ape Escape 2, Zone of the Enders: The Second Runner, Onimusha Warlords, OZ: Over Zenith aka The Sword of Etheria, Sly Cooper and the Thievius Racoonus, Hot Shots Golf 3, Hot Shots Tennis, Sega Rally 2006, Sega Rally Championship, Galaxy Force II Special Extend Edition, Monster World Complete Collection, After Burner II, Gain Ground, Phantasy Star: Generation 1, Phantasy Star: Generation 2, Hokuto no Ken, ICO, God of War, Okami, Shadow of the Colossus, Gran Turismo 4, Suikoden III, Shadow Hearts | *Longest episode yet! *Game Sack returns after a nearly 2 month break! *The stop motion animation ending was done as a replacement for the original live-action ending which just wasn't very funny. |
0:44:48 | 4/3/16 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 164 | Renovation Products part 2 | Genesis - Vapor Trail, Sol Deace, Wanderers from Ys, Gaiares,
Elemental Master, Beast Wrestler, Todd's Adventures in Slime World, Jennifer
Capriati Tennis, Traysia, Earnest Evans, El Viento Sega CD - Time Gal, Road Avenger, Revenge of the Ninja SNES - Neugir: The Journey Home |
*Sol Feace (both Sega CD and
Mega CD versions), Earnest Evans (Mega CD), Ys Book 1 and 2 (TurboGrafx CD)
and Ys III (TurboGrafx CD) each make a brief appearance in the appropriate
segments. Double Dragon (arcade PCB) makes a brief appearance in the Road
Avenger segment. *Last episode released before long-needed Game Sack hiatus officially begins. |
0:26:24 | 2/14/16 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 163 | Renovation Products part 1 | Genesis - Valis, Valis 3, Syd of Valis, Arcus Odyssey, Exile, Whip
Rush, Final Zone, Master of Monsters, Dinoland, Arrow Flash, Gain Ground,
Granada SNES - Arcus Spirits, Doomsday Warriors |
*Only the second two-part
episode we've done, but its the first where part 1 and 2 are released
back-to-back. *As a single episode it was over 50 minutes long, so it was broken into two parts. |
0:23:43 | 2/7/16 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 162 | Games with EXCESSIVE Violence! | Genesis - Technocop Xbox - Manhunt Wii - Madworld PC - Postal 2 Playstation 3 - Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Playstation 4 - Hotline Miami Xbox One - Mortal Kombat X |
*First time the Xbox One has been
featured on the show. *Dave was originally going to feature Timekillers on the Genesis, but had issues getting his cartridge to work. He replaced it with Hotline Miami. *Shot and recorded at the same time as the Minimal Violence episode. |
0:29:10 | 1/24/16 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 161 | Good Games with Minimal Violence | Dreamcast - Crazy Taxi, Crazy Taxi 2 Xbox - Syberia, Crazy Taxi 3 PSP - LocoRoco PlayStation 3 - The Orange Box - Portal, LittleBigPlanet, LittleBigPlanet 2 Wii U - Captain Toad Treasure Tracker |
*Yoshi's Woolly World (Wii U) makes a brief appearance in the LittleBigPlanet segment. | 0:28:50 | 1/17/16 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 160 | Wrestling Games | NES - Pro Wrestling PC Engine - Fire ProWrestling Combination Tag Genesis - Saturday Night Slam Masters SNES - Saturday NIght Slam Masters Saturn - Fire ProWrestling S Six Men Scramble Nintendo 64 - WWF Wrestlemania 2000, WWF No Mercy, WCW NWO Revenge Dreamcast - Giant Gram 2000 All Japan Pro Wrestling 3 |
*The majority of this episode was made back in October of 2015. Joe felt that he couldn't get into the games enough to give them a fair review and would likely piss off the fanbase as a result, so the episode was put on hold despite all of the gameplay being recorded and scripts being written. Then Christmas came and Dave got super busy at his job and needed some time off from Game Sack. So Joe reworked his scripts, got rid of one game (Wrestlemania Arcade on the Saturn), replaced it with Giant Gram 2000 on the Dreamcast, recorded more Fire ProWrestling S on the Saturn, reworked his existing scripts and wrote a fresh script for Giant Gram 2000. The live action parts were shot the same day as the previous episode, Kart Racers 2. | 0:24:26 | 1/10/16 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 159 | Kart Racers 2 | SNES - Battle Racers Playstation - Crash Team Racing, Woody Woodpecker Racing Nintendo 64 - Lego Racers Dreamcast - Looney Tunes Space Race, Wacky Races Playstation 3 - F1 Race Stars |
*Crash Nitro Kart (Xbox) appears
briefly in the Crash Team Racing segment. *The road in the ending skit comes from Gran Turismo 5 (PS3). *First time using the Framemeister to record Dreamcast footage instead of the XPC-4 |
0:25:10 | 1/3/16 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 158 | Fighting Games 3 | TurboGrafx-16
CD-ROM - Martial Champion SNES - Gundam Wing: Endless Duel, Ranma 1/2 Super Battle Neo Geo - Matrimelee Playstation 2 - Capcom Fighting Evolution Playstation 3 - Aquapazza: Aquaplus Dream Match, Street Fighter 4, Ultra Street Fighter 4 |
*Power Instinct (SNES and Mega
Drive) appear briefly preceding the Matrimelee segment. Street Fighter II
Hyper Fighting (Arcade) appears briefly in the Street Fighter 4 segment. *Jen appears in the ending skit. |
0:27:00 | 12/27/15 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 157 | 2D 32-Bit Games | Playstation - Heart of Darkness, Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, Mega Man 8,
Silhouette Mirage Saturn - Darius Gaiden, Silhouette Mirage, Elevator Action Returns, Mega Man 8 |
*Joe's voice really did break while recording the voiceover for Elevator Action Returns. Recording resumed the next day. The ending that exists in the episode was originally made to show Dave that Joe also suffers from time to time when doing his voiceovers and Dave isn't the only one who has a difficult time occasionally. Dave thought it was funny and suggested it be used as an ending skit. The original ending skit that was shot and edited was removed and replaced. Maybe it will show up somewhere else someday. | 0:26:29 | 12/20/15 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 156 | Digital Games That got a Physical Releease | Playstation
3 - The Journey Collection: Journey, Flower,
Flow Wii U - Ducktakes Remastered, NES Remix Pack Vita - Retro City Rampage Playstation 4 - Shovel Knight, Brothers |
*First appearance of a Vita game on Game Sack. Gameplay was done via the Playstation TV which is basically a Vita with an HDMI port, optional PS4 controller and low game compatibility. | 0:26:48 | 12/13/15 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 155 | The SNK Neo Geo AES and MVS | Neo Geo - Waku Waku 7, Robo Army, Prehistoric Isle 2, Street Slam, Zed Blade, Andro Dunos, Blazing Star, Eight Man, Aero Fighters 2, Aero Fighters 3, Captain Tomaday, Shock Troopers, Shock Troopers 2nd Squad, Crossed Swords, Fatal Fury, Fatal Fury 2, Real Bout Fatal Fury Special, The King of Fighters '94, The King of Fighters '95, The King of Fighters '96, The King of Fighters '97, The King of Fighters '98, The King of Fighters '99, The King of Fighters 2001, The King of Fighters 2002, The King of Fighters 2003, Samurai Shodown, Samurai Shodown 2, Samurai Shodown 3, Samurai Shodown 4, Samurai Shodown 5, Garou Mark of the Wolves, Super Dodge Ball, Neo Turf Masters, Metal Slug, Metal Slug 2, Metal Slug X, Metal Slug 3, Metal Slug 4, Metal Slug 5, Neo Bomberman, Panic Bomber, Nightmare in the Dark, Zupapa, Sengoku, Sengoku 3 | *Thanks to Bill Bradley and Bill
Arensberg for helping to obtain shots of the pre-crash conoles and the MVS
cabinet, respectively. *Lots of stop motion animation in this one. *46 different games captured for this episode. |
0:44:01 | 12/6/15 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 154 | Not in Japan | NES - Adventures in the Magic Kingdom, Batman Returns Genesis - Greendog - The Beached Surfer Dude, Pocahontas, Boogerman SNES - Secret of Evermore, Boogerman |
*Murumasa (Wii) appears VERY
briefly in the Secret of Evermore segment. Batman (Genesis) appears briefly
in the Batman Returns segment. *Features some stop motion animation of the Greendog cart inserted into the Genesis |
0:26:53 | 11/29/15 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 153 | Games We Never Beat | NES - Ninja Gaiden, Legendary Wings Sega Master System - Alex Kidd in Shinobi, Lord of the Sword TurboGrafx-16 - The Legendary Axe SNES - Earthworm Jim 2 |
*Damn these games for getting the best of us! Still, this was a very enjoyable episode to make. | 0:26:23 | 11/22/15 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 152 | SNES Shoot-em-Ups 2 | SNES - Darius Twin, Super Nova, Strike Gunner STG, D-Force, The Hunt for Red October, Biometal, Imperium, Aero Fighters | *Aero Fighters (Arcade) appears
briefly in the Aero Fighters segment. *The Super Nova segment was added a week after Joe and Dave got back from Portland and just as Joe was getting over his cold. The rest of Joe's dialog was recorded before the trip to Portland. If you listen closely you can tell. *The controller at the end is real and is the Dempa Micomsoft XE-1AP. The footage of M.U.S.H.A. being played is actual footage of the controller being used with the game. M.U.S.H.A. is one of the few games that are compatible with the analog controller. |
0:27:19 | 11/15/15 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 151 | Video Pinball Games | Genesis - Sonic Spinball, Crüe Ball TurboGrafx-16 - Time Cruise GameBoy Advance - Sonic Pinball Party, Pokémon Pinball: Ruby and Sapphire Saturn - Digital Pinball: The Necronomicon Playstation 2 - Flipnic |
*Sonic the Hedgehog 1 and also
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 appear briefly in the Sonic Spinball segment. *Both Joe and Dave really love video pinball. There are a couple references to the early Naxat Pinball episode if you look closely enough. |
0:25:49 | 11/8/15 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 150 | Games That Aren't as Bad as You Might Think | NES - Milon's Secret Castle TurboGrafx-16 - China Warrior Genesis - Altered Beast, Shadow Blasters SNES - Hook Nintendo 64 - Yoshi's Story |
*Altered Beast (Arcade, Sega
Master System, Famicom, PC Engine and PC Engine CD) all appear briefly in the
Altered Beast segment and are involved in a sexy side-by-side comparison.
Hook (Sega CD) appears briefly in the Hook segment. Zoom (Genesis) appears
briefly in the Shadow Blasters segment. *Dave and Joe both feel that the ending segment sucks almost as much as Beast Wrestler does. |
0:26:04 | 11/1/15 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 149 | 3D Platformers | Dreamcast - Rayman 2: The Great Escape, Sonic Adventure, Sonic Adventure
2 Playstation 2 - Jak II, Maximo Playstation 3 - Mirror's Edge Wii - Super Mario Galaxy, Super Mario Galaxy 2 |
*Dave originally wanted to cover Journey as a 3D platformer but we decided it was not really much of a platformer. He chose Mirror's Edge instead. Same difference? | 0:27:18 | 10/18/15 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 148 | Not in North America! | NES - Devil World, Trolls in Crazyland, Crackout, Over
Horizon Genesis - Zero Wing GameBoy - Hammerin' Harry: Ghost Building Company SNES - Twin Bee: Rainbow Bell Adventure, Terranigma GameBoy Advance - Kuru Kuru Kururin |
*Joe really enjoyed making the Zero Wing intro voiceover, but Cat's voice in particular caused a bit of vocal strain and he could not finish the rest of the episode's recording until 2 days later. | 0:25:14 | 10/11/15 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 147 | Fan Translated Games | NES - Akira, Fire Emblem, Cocoron Genesis - Rent A Hero, King Colossus Saturn - Shining Force III: Scenario 2 - Target Child of God, Shining Force 3: Scenario 3 - Bulzome Rising |
*Shining Force 3: Scenario 1 -
God Warrior of the Kingdom (Saturn) makes a brief appearance in the Shining
Force 3 segment (duh). *First episode using the Zoom H5 mic which replaced the old Zoom H4n. |
0:24:43 | 10/4/15 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 146 | Left in the Arcade 4 | Arcade - Dyna Gears, JJ Squakers, Trio the Punch: Never Forget Me, Out Zone, Fixeight, Ken-Go, Bonk's Adventure: Special Arcade Version | *Joe looks pretty tired or
"bummed out" in this episode. He was having an off day and kept
flubbing up everything he was trying to say, requiring many different takes.
The ending skit was done in a single take however. *The ending skit featured video footage from the actual Party Time: Gonta The Diver 2 PCB board. It's the only game in this episode which isn't being emulated. *Yes, we know Trio the Punch had an exclusive emulated release in Japan on the PS2. Mistakes happen. We're human. |
0:22:47 | 9/27/15 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 145 | The Nintendo GameBoy | GameBoy - Burai Fighter Deluxe, Bionic Commando, Duck Tales 2, The Castlevania Adventure, Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge, Castlevania Legends, Kid Dracula, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX, Pokemon Red Version, The Sword of Hope, Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Land, Donkey Kong Land 2, Tetris, Dr. Mario, Solomon's Club, Balloon Kid, Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters, Trax, Revenge of the Gator, Kirby's Pinball Land, Kirby's Dream Land, Kirby's Dream Land 2, Operation C, Contra The Alien Wars, Super Mario Land, Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins, Nemesis, Gradius: The Interstellar Assault, Metroid II: Return of Samus, Ninja Gaiden Shadow, Space Invaders, Small Soldiers | *Although it appears there's no
stop-motion animation in this episode, there actually is. The dolly shot zoom
near the beginning is stop motion at 30 frames per second. *Several methods of capturing GameBoy footage were used. A SNES with US Super GameBoy via s-video into a Sony DSR-25 deck, a GameBoy Player running on the GameCube via component cables captured at 480p and desaturated in editing. the same but run through a Framemeister and scaled to 720p and a SNES with a Super Game Boy 2 with in-game color pallette set to black and white and scaled by the Framemeister to 720p. This last option yielded the best, sharpest result. |
0:37:29 | 9/20/15 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 144 | Controversial Games | Genesis - Mortal Kombat SNES - Fighter's History Sega CD - Night Trap Playstation - Thrill Kill PC - Doom Playstation 4 - Grand Theft Auto V |
*Lots of footage from both
Senate Hearings Committee meetings from C-SPAN used. *Both Mortal Kombat (SNES) and Mortal Kombat 2 (SNES) make a brief appearance in the Mortal Kombat segment and Fighter's History (Arcade) makes an appearance in it's own segment, obviously. *Be sure to check out the full Senate Rave Music Video that was made as a companion piece to this episode. Link on the right! |
0:28:10 | 9/13/15 | WATCH EPISODE WATCH FULL SENATE RAVE MUSIC VIDEO |
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| 143 | Anime and Manga Games | NES - Hokuto No Ken, Hokuto no Ken 3, Hokuto no Ken 4. Fist of the
North Star, Golgo 13 Sega Master System - Hokuto no Ken, Black Belt Genesis - Shin Seikimatsu Kyuseishu Densetsu Hokuto no Ken, Last Battle SNES - U.N. Squadron GameBoy Advance - Shamen King: Master of Spirits, Astro Boy Dreamcast - Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage |
*U.N. Squadron (Arcade),
Forgotten Worlds (Turbo Duo) and Lords of Thunder (Turbo Duo) show up briefly
in the U.N. Squadron segment. *Both GameBoy Advance games had to be re-recorded as the original videos were of very low quality. |
0:23:42 | 9/6/15 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 142 | Left in Japan 7 | GameBoy - Noobow SNES - Flying Hero, Ganbare Goemon 2 Saturn - The Game Paradise!, Gale Racer Gamecube - Kururin Squash! |
*Power Drift (Saturn) is shown
breifly in the Gale Racer segment. *I don't care what anyone says, Sword of Vermilion is enjoyable! |
0:21:42 | 8/30/15 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 141 | Random Fighting Games 2 | Neo Geo - SvC Chaos: SNK vs Capcom Playstation - Ehrgeiz, Battle Arena Toshinden 2, Bloody Roar, Bloody Roar 2 Dreamcast - Guilty Gear X Wii - Castlevania Judgment |
*The arcade versions of Battle
Arena Toshinden 2, Erhgeiz and Beastorizer are shown briefly. *A fly was bothering Joe which made him do an animation about punching a fly. The ending was built around this just to use the clip. |
0:22:17 | 8/23/15 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 140 | The Amiga CD32 | Amiga CD32 - Arabian Nights, Bubble and Squeak, The Chaos Engine, Beneath a Steel Sky, Bump and Burn, Top Gear 2, Guardian, Super Stardust, Overkill, Lunar-C, Deep Core, Gloom, Roadkill, Pinball Illusions, Pinball Fantasies, Alien Breed Tower Assault, Alien Breed 2, Alien Breed 3D, Zool, Zool 2, Simon the Sorcerer, Superfrog, Battletoads, Skeleton Krew, Liberation, James Pond 2 Codename Robocod, James Pond 3 Operation Starfish, Heimdall 2, Pierre Le Chef is Out to Lunch, Naughty Ones, Disposable Hero, Banshee, Fightin' Spirit | *Thanks to Robert "Fight
Club" Hubbs for loaning us the system! *All of the dolly zoom shots are actually stop motion animation done at 30 frames per second. *First time recording a PAL video signal. Joe was not impressed. |
0:37:27 | 8/16/15 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 139 | Demo Discs | Turbo Duo - Air Zonk 3-in-1 Kiosk Demo Sega CD - Dragon's Lair Demo CD Saturn - Choice Cuts Sega Saturn Video Sampler, Panzer Dragoon Playable Preview Playstation - Spyro the Dragon Demo Disc, Lunar-Silver Star Story Complete Demo Disc, Squaresoft Collector's CD, Playstation Underground Jampack Winter 1998 3DO - 3DO Interactive Sampler #'s 1, 2 and 4 Dreamcast - November 1999, September 2000, December 2000, February 2001 Playstation 2 - Skygunner Demo CD, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Konami Preview Disc Gamecube - Metroid Prime Echos Bonus Disc, Star Wars Rebel Strike Limited Edition Preview Disc, Mario Kart Double Dash Bonus Disc |
*Joe had to borrow a lot of
discs from Dave to have enough to cover in this episode. *Notice the black label is covering the Lunar "Demo CD" all throughout the episode until the end. |
0:25:01 | 8/9/15 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 138 | Unconventional Sports | NES - Caveman Games, Super Dodge Ball, Punch-Out!! TurboGrafx-16 - Ballistix Genesis - Arch Rivals, NBA Jam, American Gladiators, Jerry Glanville's Pigskin Footbrawl, Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe, Mutant League Football, Mutant League Hockey SNES - Super Punch-Out!! 32X - NBA Jam: Tournament Edition Neo Geo CD - Super Baseball 2020 Gamecube - Sega Soccer Slam, Mario Superstar Baseball Wii - Punch-Out!! |
*Game Sack returned to being weekly starting wit this episode! *This one has been on the burner for a while. Once the previous sports episode hit 60,000+ views we decided it was time to go ahead with this one. Hopefully this one will do much better. *Super Baseball 2020 was recorded specifically for this episode back when the Neo Geo CD episode was made. |
0:22:28 | 8/2/15 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 137 | Games We've Always Wanted to Talk About | NES - Mega Man, Whomp 'Em GameBoy - Gargoyle's Quest Genesis - McDonald's Treasureland Adventure Playstation - Loaded Playstation 2 - Downhill Domination Playstation 3 - Demon's Souls, Urban Trial Freestyle, Dragon's Crown Wii - Muramasa - The Demon Blade PC - Ys Origin |
*Guest starring Pat Kilbane as
the Humor Coach. He's known for things such as MADtv, Day of the Dead,
Seinfeld, Semi-Pro, Evolution and more. *Shot simultaneously with the Gaming Compilations episode. |
0:26:06 | 7/19/15 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 136 | Kart Racers | SNES - Super Mario Kart GameBoy Color - Mickey's Speedway USA GameBoy Advance - Mario Kart Super Circuit, Konami Krazy Racers Playstation - Chocobo Racing Nintendo 64 - Mario Kart 64, South Park Rally, Diddy Kong Racing, Mickey's Speedway USA Playstation 2 - Pac-Man World Rally, Bomberman Kart Xbox - Crash Nitro Kart Gamecube - Mario Kart Double Dash Nintendo DS - Mario Kart DS PSP - Modnation Racers Playstation 3 - Sonic & Sega All Stars Racing, Little Big Planet Karting Wii - Mario Kart Wii 3DS - Mario Kart 7 Wii U - Mario Kart 8, Sonic & All Stars Racing Transformed Arcade - Mario Kart Arcade GP |
*Nintendo didn't flag this
episode thankfully. Screw them nonetheless. *Joe initially didn't want to show Mario Kart 7 or Mario Kart DS. Dave insisted that they be there so Joe had to capture the footage. This is a difficult process and Joe will have his revenge. |
0:29:39 | 7/6/15 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 135 | Gaming Compilations | Sega CD - Sega Classics Arcade Collection Playstation 2 - Megaman X Collection, Taito Legends, Taito Legends 2, Capcom Classics Collection Volume 2, Fantasy Zone Complete Collection Wii - SNK Arcade Classics Volume 1, Metal Slug Anthology, Kirby's Dream Collection Special Edition Xbox - Capcom Classics Collection Xbox 360 - Namco Museum Virtual Arcade Playstation 3 - Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection |
*Metal Slug Anthology is one of
the few games for the Wii that only runs in 480i and not 480p. As a result Dave had to
re-record the game footage. Who would make a Wii game in 480i only? SNK Playmore that's who. But this was an early title in the Wii's life. *Joe bought Namco Museum Virtual Arcade just for this episode. He planned on covering the series on the original Playstation but he only had the first disc. |
0:28:29 | 6/21/15 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 134 | Unlicensed Games | NES - Camerica Quattro Adventure and Quattro Arcade, Chiller,
Bubble Bath Babes, Tetris (Tengen), Fantasy Zone (Tengen), Shinobi, After
Burner, Alien Syndrome, Bee 52, Toobin' Genesis - Barver Battle Saga, V.R. Fighter vs Taken 2, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Sonic Jam 6, Lion King 2, Lion King 3, Shui Hu Feng Yun Zhuan |
*Bubble Bath Babes' bodacious tits are censored with a banner reading "U R NOT E" and the E is red. So it reads as "You are not ready". This was one of the early marketing slogans Sony used for the original PlayStation console in the US. We were going to originally leave them uncovered, but we didn't want to be responsible for millions of sticky computer monitors and we thought the banner was funny. So hopefully it gave you a few hours' worth of hearty laughter. | 0:24:38 | 6/7/15 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 133 | Games That Need a Physical Release | Wii - Gradius ReBirth, Contra ReBirth, Castlevania The Adventure
ReBirth, Lost Winds, Lost Winds 2 Playstation 3 - After Burner Climax, Daytona USA, Scott Pilgrim vs The Word: The Game, Hard Corps Uprising, Dead Nation 3DS - 3D Space Harrier, 3D Out Run, 3D Super Hang-On, 3D Thunderblade Playstation 4 - Shovel Knight, FEZ, Axiom Verge |
*Many games were recorded,
edited and then removed because they had physical releases in some form or another. Those reviews can be viewed right here. *The ending skit was shot at Dave's house in a timespan of about 45 minutes. |
0:24:14 | 5/24/15 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 132 | Game Repros | NES - Sweet Home TurboGrafx-16 CD - Ginga Fukei Densetsu Sapphire, Bonk 3 CD, Dungeon Explorer 2, Godzilla, Dynastic Hero, Cycho Rider, Startling Odyssey 2, Xak III Genesis - Alien Soldier SNES - Starfox 2, BS The Legend of Zelda Ancient Stone Tablets, Shodai Nekketsu Koha Kunio-kun (River City Ransom 2), BS Excitebike, Shockman BS, Magical Pop'n |
*There were over 130 different camera shots done for this episode which lengthened the production time. | 0:28:48 | 5/10/15 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 131 | The Neo Geo Pocket Color | Neo Geo Pocket Color - Metal Slug 1st Mission, Metal Slug 2nd Mission, Sonic the Hedgehog Pocket Adventure, King of Fighters R-1, King of Fighters R-2, Dark Arms: Beast Buster 1999, Samurai Shodown, Samurai Shodown 2, Rockman: Battle and Fighters, The Last Blade, The Match of the Millennium: SNK vs Capcom, Neo Turf Masters, Baseball Stars Color, Dynamite Slugger, Pocket Tennis Color, Fatal Fury First Contact, SNK Gals Fighters, Cardfighters' Clash: SNK vs Capcom SNK version, Cardfighters 2 Expand Edition, Biomotor Unitron, Faselei!, Pac-Man, Bust-A-Move Pocket, Puyo Pop, Magical Drop Pocket, Puzzle Link, Puzzle Link 2, Big Bang Pro Wrestling, Cool Boarders Pocket, Evolution: Eternal Dungeons, Cotton: Fantastic Night Dreams | *Most games in this episode were
played on the Neo Pop emulator running on Joe's ancient Windows XP machine.
The VGA output was recorded into the Mac Pro for capture. This PC died about
80% of the way through gameplay capture, so Joe's friend Bill whom was seen
in the Console Modding episode (#111) whipped together a similarly powered PC
for Joe to finish capturing gameplay with. Finally a few pick-up scenes were
captured with Joe's Mac Pro running Windows 8 via emulation and that running
Neo Pop. The screen capture application in the Mac OS captured the footage.
This was done only for the minigames in The Match of the Millennium. *Joe's Neo Geo Pocket Color screen all but died and Dave's handheld had to be used for the on-camera shots where the screen is shown running. |
0:30:53 | 4/26/15 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 130 | Games that Push Hardware Limits 2 | NES - Kirby's Adventure, Super Mario Bros 3 Genesis - Gunstar Hereos, Contra Hard Corps GameBoy - Race Drivin', Faceball 2000, Zas GameBoy Color - Dragon's Lair SNES - Rendering Ranger R2, StarFox, Doom, Stunt Race FX, Yoshi's Island Playstation - Tekken 3 Nintendo 64 - Resident Evil 2, Conker's Bad Fur Day, F-Zero X Playstation 2 - Shadow of the Colossus, God of War II, Tekken 5, Gran Turismo 4 Gamecube - Rogue Leader: Rogue Squadron II |
*The "voices" segment
includes quick clips from Space Harrier (SMS), World Class Leader Board
(SMS), Robocop vs Terminator (SMS), S.C.A.T. (NES), WCW World Championship
Wrestling (NES), Granada (Genesis), Task Force Harrier EX (Genesis), E-SWAT
(Genesis), Space Harrier 2 (Genesis), Mega Turrican (Genesis), Dynamite
Headdy (Genesis), Strider Returns (Genesis), TMNT Turtles in Time (SNES),
Star Ocean (SNES), Tales of Phantasia (SNES), Blazing Lazers (TuroGrafx-16),
Taito Chase HQ (TurboGrafx-16), Champions Forever Boxing (TurboGrafx-16) and
Street Fighter 2 Champion Edition (TurboGrafx-16). *The original ending had Joe and Dave slowing down because Game Sack was being pushed to its limit. It wasn't very well done or entertaining, so Joe made a new ending with the stop motion animation. |
0:30:25 | 4/12/15 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 129 | The PC-FX | PC-FX - Team Innocent, Zeroigar, Boundary Gate, Battle Heat, Tengai Makyo Karakui Kakutouden, Blue Breaker, Welcome to Pia Carrot, Miraculum, Power Dolls FX, Raruli Ra Rura, Der Langrisser FX, Last Imperial Prince, Zenki FX, Fire Woman Matoigumi, Farland Story FX, Dragon Knight 4, Chip Chan Kick, Nirgends | *Thanks to BlueBMW for
providing the PC-FX system and SamIam for providing some usefull info and
PC-FX music! *Anime *Anime *Anime |
0:33:16 | 3/29/15 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 128 | Games with Female Protagonists | Sega Master
System - Phantasy Star Genesis - Monster World IV, Valis 3 SNES - Super Metroid Nintendo 64 - Perfect Dark, Mischief Makers Playstation 2 - Tomb Raider Anniversary, Space Channel 5 part 2 Playstation 3 - Heavenly Sword Playstation 4 - Alien Isolation |
*Syd of Valis (Genesis) appears
briefly in the Valis 3 segment. *The ending sketch originally went on for a bit longer back and forth between Joe and Dave, but it ended up being cut as it just worked better as it is, super short. *First time we've covered a PS4 game! *Joe bought Alien Isolation just to cover in this episode. Good thing he ended up liking it! |
0:25:01 | 3/15/15 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 127 | Sunsoft | NES - Blaster Master, Fester's Quest, Batman: The Video Game,
Batman: Return of the Joker, Fantasy Zone, Journey to Silius, Ufouria,
Freedom Force GameBoy - Blaster Master Boy, Batman, Trip World GameBoy Color - Blaster Master Enemy Below, Project S-11 Genesis - Blaster Master 2, Batman, Superman, The Death and Return of Superman, Super Fantasy Zone SNES - Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel TurboGrafx-16 - Batman Saturn - Galaxy Fight, Waku Waku 7, Albert Odyssey Playstation - Blaster Master: Blasting Again Wii - Blaster Master Overdrive |
*Gremlins 2: The New Batch
(NES), Panorama Cotton (Mega Drive) and Gimmick (NES) get quick shout-outs
towards the end. *Albert Odyssey and Albert Odyssey 2 (both for the Super Famicom) make a brief appearance in the Albert Odyssey section. By the way, I hate spelling "Odyssey" I always want to spell it as Oddessy or something like that. *The tip Joe gives Dave in the ending skit is a real tip. The switches need to be perfect and the side switch often likes to pivot in a way which will not let the system power on. |
0:36:39 | 3/1/15 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 126 | Sega after the Dreamcast | Xbox - Out Run 2, Out Run 2006: Coast 2 Coast Gamecube - Super Monkey Ball Adventure Wii - Sega Superstars Tennis, Sonic Colors, Nights: Journey of Dreams, Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz, Super Monkey Ball: Step & Roll, The House of the Dead 2&3 Return, The House of the Dead Overkill Xbox 360 - Sonic Generations, Virtua Fighter 5, Vanquish Playstation 3 - Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing, Sonic & All*Stars Racing Transformed, The House of the Dead 4, Valkyria Chronicles PSP - Valkyria Chronicles 2 |
*Least "retro" episode
to date with mostly modern or almost modern games featured. *Mario Tennis (Gamecube), Mario Kart: Double Dash (Gamecube), Mario Kart 7 (3DS), Nights (Saturn), Sonic R (Saturn) and Super Monkey Ball 2 (Gamecube) all make brief appearances. *Dave gets revenge on Joe for breaking his GameBoy back in the Top 5 Arcade Conversions episode. |
0:33:17 | 2/15/15 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 125 | The CD-i | CD-i - Tetris, Hotel Mario, Pac-Panic, Burn Cycle, Zenith, The Apprentice, Link: The Faces of Evil, Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon, Tetsuo Gaiden, Zelda's Adventure, Kingdom: The Far Reaches, Kindom: Shadoin, Micro Machines, Solar Crusade, Escape from Cyber City, Kether, Mutant Rampage Body Slam, Thunder in Paradise Interactive, Atlantis: The Last Resort, The 7th Guest | *Quick side-by-side of Micro
Machines on CD-I, NES, and Genesis. *First episode with gameplay recorded entirely in composite video, since that's all the CD-I unit we used offered. *Thanks to BlueBMW for supplying the CD-I and games. He was not eager to get it back. |
0:32:30 | 2/1/15 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 124 | Left in Japan 6 | Famicom - Nuts & Milk GameBoy - Fortified Zone 2 PC Engine - Bonze Adventure PC Engine CD - Ane-San Mega Drive - Twinkle Tale Mega CD - Urusei Yatsura: Dear My Friends, Warau Salesman/The Laughing Salesman Saturn - Lunar Magic School, Saturn Bomberman Fight!! Playstation - Harmful Park, The Adventure of Little Ralph |
*Special appearance by The Game
Chasers in the ending skit. *Fortified Zone (GameBoy), Operation: Logic Bomb (SNES), Parodius (PC Engine), Air Zonk (TurboGrafx-16) and Lunar Magic School (Game Gear) make brief appearances. *Yes, Nuts & Milk is a real game. |
0:28:36 | 1/18/15 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 123 | Top 5 Arcade to Home Conversions | Arcade - Smash TV, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Gain Ground,
Punch-Out!!, Gun.Smoke, Choplifter, R-Type, Ghouls 'n Ghosts, Out Run, Monkey
Ball NES - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game, Mike Tyson's Punh-Out!!, Gun.Smoke Sega Master System - Choplifter TurboGrafx-16 - R-Type Genesis - Gain Ground, Ghouls 'n Ghosts SNES - Super Smash TV Saturn - Out Run Gamecube - Super Monkey Ball |
*Smash TV (Genesis), Choplifter
(SG-1000), R-Type (Master System), R-Type Complete CD (PC Engine Super CD),
Out Run (Master System, Genesis and PC Engine) all appear briefly. * The Out Run segment runs at 60 frames per second. This is the first episode to make use of 60fps. At this time no 60fps episodes are planned for the future until Youtube improves and increased 60fps playback options. *Super Monkey Ball runs in 480i (interlaced) but footage for this episode was captured in 480p via the Gamecube component cables using a program called Swiss to force the Gamecube to display 480p. The original Super Monkey Ball has never looked so good! |
0:26:25 | 1/4/15 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 122 | Data East | Arcade - Heavy Barrel, Midnight Resistance, Lock 'n' Chase, Caveman
Ninja, Bad Dudes vs Dragon Ninja, Two Crude, Burger Time, The Real
Ghostbusters, Karnov, Captain Silver, Bloody Wolf NES - Heavy Barrel, Bad Dudes, Burger Time, Karnov, Captain Silver Sega Master System - Captain Silver TurboGrafx-16 - Bloody Wolf Genesis - Midnight Resistance, High Seas Havoc, Joe & Mac, Two Crude Dudes, Dashin' Desperadoes GameBoy - Lock 'n Chase SNES - Joe & Mac, Congo's Caper, Joe & Mac 2: Lost in the Tropics Neo Geo - Windjammers, Spinmaster |
*First episode dedicated to a
developer/publisher. *Karate Champ, Bump n' Jump, Ring King, Chelnov the Atomic Runner, Robocop, Desert Assault, Boogie Wings, Nitro Ball, The Cliffhanger Edward Randy and Karnov's Revenge (all arcade versions) are each shown briefly. *Dave has a new beard. |
0:30:16 | 12/21/14 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 121 | Giving Games a Second Chance | NES - The Legend of Kage GameBoy - Bubble Ghost TurboGrafx-16 - Bonk's Adventure Genesis - Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat 2, Ultimate Mortal Kombat Trilogy (Hack), Risky Woods SNES - Mortal Kombat 2 32X - Doom Saturn - Burning Rangers, Doom Playstation - Final Fantasy VII, Doom Nintendo 64 - Doom 64, Donkey Kong 64 Dreamcast - Resident Evil: Code Veronica |
*Features Doom 128 skit that we
shot in 1997. *Doom 128 was not the intended ending for the episode. We originally shot a completely different scene involving sealed games but it was pretty cheesy. Maybe it will appear in a different episode or as a bonus on a DVD set someday. Fortunately Doom 128 was appropriate and was able to replace the original ending. |
0:28:59 | 12/7/14 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 120 | The Sega CD | Sega CD - Snatcher, Spider-Man vs The Kingpin, AH3 ThunderStrike, Final Fight CD, Dark Wizard, Shining Force CD, Soul Star, The Terminator, Lunar: The Silver Star, Lunar: Eternal Blue, Vay, Devastator, Cliffhanger, Ecco the Dolphin, Ecco: Tides of Time, 3 Ninjas Kick Back, Battlecorps, Silpheed, Android Assault: The Revenge of Bari Arm, The Ninja Warriors, Dungeon Explorer, BC Racers, Jaguar XJ220, Formula One: Beyond the Limit, The Adventures of Batman & Robin, Popful Mail, Eye of the Beholder, Sonic CD, Rise of the Dragon, Space Adventure Cobra, Keio Flying Squadron, Robo Aleste, Panic, Batman Returns, Road Avenger | *Fire Emblem (Super Famicom) is shown briefly during the Shining Force CD
segment. *"Welcome to The Next Level" song written by Brimaxian for the credits. An instrumental version is also played during the first on-camera segment at the beginning of the show. *Thanks to Brian G VanBuren for again encoding us to play natively on the Sega CD for the ending skit. *New 3D-ish Game Sack logo by Yoshi Vu premieres in this episode. |
0:40:30 | 11/23/14 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 119 | Sequels That Changed the Game | NES - Castlevania, Castlevania II: Simon's Quest, Super Mario
Bros, Super Mario Bros 2 Sega Master System - Zillion, Zillion 2: Tri-Formation, Alex Kidd in Miracle World, Alex Kidd: The Lost Stars TurboGrafx-16 CD-ROM - Ys Book 1&2, Ys III: Wanderers From Ys, Dracula X: Rondo of Blood, Final Zone II GameBoy - Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins, Super Mario Land 3: Warioland Genesis - Toejam & Earl, ToeJam & Earl: Panic on Funkotron, Final Zone SNES - Super Adventure Island, Super Adventure Island II Playstation - Castlevania Symphony of the Night |
*Every single Alex Kidd game is
shown in the Alex Kidd segment, even if only briefly. The original Final Zone
on the MSX is shown briefly during the (surprise surprise) Final Zone
segment. *The Legend of Zelda and The Adventures of Link were originally going to be shown, but Dave chose to include the Super Mario Land games instead. |
0:30:35 | 11/9/14 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 118 | Mech Games | NES - Metal Storm Genesis - Target Earth Sega CD - Battlecorps SNES - Front Mission: Gun Hazard, Cybernator, Xardion Saturn - Gungriffon, Assault Suit Leynos 2 Nintendo 64 - Bangai-O Dreamcast - Bangai-O Playstation 2 - Zone of the Enders |
*First year without a
Halloween-themed episode. They generally are not very well received, sadly. *Regular ol' non-Gun Hazard Front Mission (SNES) appears briefly. *Side-by-side of Bangai-O N64 vs Dreamcast *Joe was happy to finally have a reason to talk about Target Earth. |
0:25:35 | 10/26/14 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 117 | Same Game, Different Name 2 | Arcade - Shinobi, Shadow Dancer NES - NIghtshade, Darkwing Duck GameBoy - Alien 3, Beavis & Butt-Head Genesis - The Jungle Book, Power Rangers: The Movie, Alien 3, Beavis & Butt-Head, The Adventures of Batman & Robin, Shadow Dancer, Shadowrun TurboGrafx-16 - Darkwing Duck SNES - The Jungle Book, Power Rangers: The Movie, Alien 3, Beavis & Butt-Head, The Adventures of Batman & Robin, Shadowrun Sega CD - The Adventures of Batman & Robin, Shadowrun Playstation 2 - Shinobi, Nightshade 3DS - Shinobi |
*Side-by-side of Jungle
Book on Genesis and SNES. *Both Dave and Joe were getting over colds caught at Retropalooza during the making of this episode. |
0:32:20 | 10/12/14 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 116 | Games Based on Movies | NES - Dick Tracy, Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters 2, New Ghostbusters
2, Star Wars, Back to the Future, Back to the Future 2 & 3 Sega Master System - Dick Tracy, Ghostbusters, Back to the Future Part 2 Genesis - Universal Soldier, Dick Tracy, Ghostbusters, Demolition Man, Back to the Future 3 SNES - Indiana Jones' Greatest Adventures, Demolition Man, Super Star Wars, Super Back to the Future Part 2 GameBoy - Dick Tracy Sega CD - Demolition Man 3DO - Demolition Man Saturn - Street Fighter: The Movie Nintendo 64 - GoldenEye Xbox - Spider-Man 2 Playstation 3 - Ghostbusters, Back to the Future The Game |
*Star Wars Arcade (32X), Jedi
Power Battles (Dreamcast) and Rogue Leader (GameCube) make brief appearances
in the Star Wars segment, *Shot in Plano, Texas on the evening of September 20, 2014 just after the Retropalooza convention had ended for the day and only hours after we gave our first panel ever! This might explain why we look so tired. *Shot in the Film-Tech screening room. This room can run 8mm, 16mm, 35mm and 70mm film in mono, stereo, surround, magnetic audio, unmarried prints, Dolby Digital, DTS, and SDDS sound formats via changeovers or platter. Also supported is DCP content via a Christie digital cinema projector. The speakers are QSC 4-way with bass shading so it sounds incredible as well. Game Sack refuses to use any other auditorium or screening room. *Joe messed up and forgot to switch the power on for the shotgun mic so we had to use the backup on-camera mic from the Canon 6D for the audio since there was no time to reshoot or ADR the dialog. |
0:31:45 | 9/28/14 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 115 | Regional Differences | NES/Famicom - Castlevania 3, Blaster Master, Contra/Probotector, Bionic
Commando, Life Force/Salamander TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine - Splatterhouse Genesis/Mega Drive - Splatterhouse 2, Sonic the Hedgehog, Dynamite Headdy, Batman, Phantasy Star 2, Phantasy Star 3, Contra: Hard Corps, Decapattack/Magical Hat GameBoy - Kid Dracula, Castlevania 2 SNES/Super Famicom - Super Castlevania IV, Final Fight, Final Fight 2, Tetris Attack/Panel de Pon |
*The Adventures of Bayou
Billy/Mad City was to be included, but Dave chose Tetris Attack/Panel de Pon
instead as gameplay footage had already been recorded. *A few examples of regional differences in Splatterhouse were also mentioned in the Gaming on Halloween 3 episode and are reiterated here. |
0:27:36 | 9/14/14 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 114 | Left in North America | NES - The Lone Ranger, G.I. Joe - A Real American Hero, G.I. Joe -
The Atlantis Factor, Datdreamin' Davey Genesis - Rolling Thunder 3, Bimini Run, Trampoline Terror, Chester Cheetah: Too Cool to Fool, Chester Cheetah: Wild Wild Quest SNES - Tin Star, Chester Cheetah: Too Cool to Fool, Chester Cheetah: Wild Wild Quest Playstation - C: The Contra Adventure Wii - Eduardo the Samurai Toaster |
*Rolling Thunder (arcade)
appears briefly. *90's Dave also shows up. Footage is actually from 1992 and not 1994. *The slap at the end was real, but sped up. There were many different takes with a fake slap but they all looked fake. The sound of the slap is also real. |
0:28:13 | 8/31/14 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 113 | Games that Push Hardware Limits | NES - Cosmic Epsilon, Sesame Street Countdown, Recca: Summer
Carnival '92, Batman: Return of the Joker Genesis - Red Zone, Mega Turrican, Alien Soldier SNES - Street Fighter Alpha 2 GameBoy Color - Shantae Saturn - Street Fighter Zero 3 Playstation - Gran Turismo 2 |
*Red Zone, Mega Turrican, Alien
Soldier and Street Fighter Zero 3 were recorded with an RGB connection.
Everything else was recorded using S-video. *Dave had one of the most difficults times he's had recording his dialog for the gameplay segments. There were many different takes for each line and it resulted in nearly 45 minutes of recorded VO. |
0:29:02 | 8/17/14 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 112 | Fanboys Forced to Switch Sides | Genesis - Chakan: The Forever Man, Alisia Dragoon, Star Control, Kid
Chameleon Sega CD - Robo Aleste Super Nintendo - Mega Man X, Magic Sword, Rival Turf, Brawl Brothers, The Peace Keepers, Faceball 2000, Kirby Super Star |
*There was another ending shot
featuring both Joe and Dave that took 5 different takes, but it was scrapped in
favor of the current Chakan stop-motion story as it was not as entertaining. The Youtube video thumbnail was taken from this scrapped ending. *First episode where Dave records Genesis gameplay on his own. He used the Genesis model 2 that was modified in the previous episode. *Joe had to loan Dave his Sega CD to record Robo Aleste because the capacitors in his unit were starting to fail, causing very noticeable audio problems. |
0:29:10 | 8/3/12 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 111 | Console Modding | No games are showcased, just quick stuff shown as examples. | *In this episode a Turbo Duo has
all of its capacitors replaced. It also has s-video added as well as RCA
audio jacks on the back so that it is not necessary to use the DIN jack which
is inconveniently mounted on the side of the console. Also a Genesis model 2
has its sound circuitry redone with a "Mega Amp" as well as the
addition of s-video and RCA jacks on the back. *First appearance of Joe and Dave's friend Bill who is a wizard at repairing and modifying electronics. *This episode was shot over 3 different nights at Bill's and we had to make sure we kept wearing the same shirts. The night of replacing the Turbo Duo's capacitors and adding s-video approached 10 hours alone. *Dave has a job where he must wake up early and Bill is a night owl so Dave could not attend. So in the episode it was decided to just leave Dave sitting back in the Game Sack studio the entire time for comic effect. Dave and Bill do know each other, however. |
0:26:26 | 7/20/14 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 110 | Left in Europe | NES - Noah's Ark Sega Master System - Asterix, Running Battle Mega Drive - The Second Samurai SNES - Asterix, Hanna-Barbera Turbo Toons, Jelly Boy, Super Dany Nintendo 64 - Taz Express Playstation 2 - Masters of the Universe: He-Man Defender of Grayskull |
*The First Samurai (SNES) and
Asterix and the Great Rescue (Genesis) make very brief appearances. *Jelly Boy is not related in any way to Jelly Boy 2 which was reviewed in our "Unreleased Games" episode. *No game insert scenes in this episode They will return. |
0:22:22 | 7/6/14 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 109 | Random Fighting Games | Genesis - Justice League Task Force PC Engine Super CD-ROM - Advanced VG Super Nintendo - Super VG, Justice League Task Force Neo Geo - The King of Fighters '99 Neo Geo CD - Gangan / Aggressors of Dark Kombat, The King of Fighters '94, The King of Fighters '95, The King of Fighters '96, The King of Fighters '97, The King of Fighters '98 Saturn - Marvel Super Heroes, Dead or Alive Playstation - Rival Schools, Guilty Gear, Soul Blade Dreamcast - Soul Calibur, Dead or Alive 2 Playstation 2 - Soul Calibur III Xbox - Soul Calibur II, Dead or Alive 3 Gamecube - Soul Calibur II Xbox 360 - Soul Calibur IV, Dead or Alive 4 |
*Completed in it's entirety
before production began on the previous episode, The Hyperkin Retron 5. That
episode was pushed up to be closer to the release date of the console while
this one ended up being delayed a week. *Footage for the Gamecube version of Soul Calibur II was captured using the hyper-rare mega-expensive Gamecube component cables running in progressive scan. This increases the value of this episode and will ensure audiences get 16.3% more enjoyment out of it than they otherwise would. |
0:26:03 | 6/29/14 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 108 | The Hyperkin Retron 5 | No games were showcased, just quick stuff shown as examples. | *Thanks to Eric Lappe for
loaning the Retron 5! *Special appearance by Eric Lappe of Let's GET!! and The Video Game Years. *Number of different shirts worn by Joe in this episode: 4 |
0:14:30 | 6/22/14 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 107 | The 3DO | 3DO - Shockwave, Shockwave 2, Super Street Fighter 2, PO'ed, Crash 'N Burn, Trip'D, Total Eclipse, Cyberdillo, Guardian War, Stellar 7, Space Hulk, Road Rash, Plumbers Don't Wear Ties, Way of the Warrior, Captain Quazar, The Need for Speed, Star Control 2, Burning Soldier, Cannon Fodder, Return Fire, Virtuoso, Gex, Strahl, Killing Time, Bladeforce, The Horde, Lucienne's Quest | *Thanks to Mark Brancucci for providing TWO 3DOs and about 80 games. Sorry
we didn't get to cover them all! *The Need for Speed (Playstation) appears in The Need for Speed segment and also gets a side-by-side with the 3DO version. |
0:38:11 | 6/8/14 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 106 | Same Name, Different Game | Genesis - Batman Returns, Pirates of Dark Water, Sunset Riders,
Aladdin, Animaniacs SNES - Batman Returns, Pirates of Dark Water, Sunset Riders, Aladdin, Animaniacs Sega CD - Batman Returns |
*Blaster Master (NES) makes a
brief appearance in the Pirates of Dark Water segment. *Duck Tales (NES) and Chip n Dale Rescue Rangers (NES) make brief appearances during the Aladdin segment. *These NES appearances are also the first time we recorded NES games in s-video. *Shove It! The Warehouse Game (Genesis) and Boxxle (GameBoy) make a brief appearance in the Animaniacs segment. *The ending segment "Boxed Tetris" was actually shot before episode 100 about 3 months before this episode. It was kept on file in case we couldn't think of an ending to do for a particular episode and it finally came in handy. |
0:24:22 | 5/25/14 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 105 | Random Games | SNES - The Lost Vikings, Pop'n Twinbee, Nightmare Busters Genesis - The Lost Vikings, Crusader of Centy, Cadash NES - RC Pro-Am, RC Pro-AM 2, Willow Sega Master System - RC Grand Prix GameBoy - Ninja Gaiden Shadow Neo Geo - Blue's Journey TurboGrafx-16 - The Legend of Hero Tonma, Cadash |
*No theme at all for this episode. Just games that we wanted to talk about. *Shadow of the Ninja (NES) appears briefly during the Ninja Gaiden Shadow segment. *Side-by-side of Cadash (TurboGrafx-16 and Genesis versions). *Blue's Journey (Neo Geo), The Legend of Hero Tonma (TG-16) and Cadash (both TG-16 and Genesis) were all recorded in direct RGB in this episode, mainly as a test. All of the other games were recorded using s-video. What did you think? |
0:23:39 | 5/11/14 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 104 | The Neo Geo CD | Neo Geo CD - Ninja Commando, Real Bout Fatal Fury, Real Bout Fatal Fury Special, King of the Monsters 2, Pulstar, Metal Slug, Metal Slug 2, Overtop, Neo Drift Out, Samurai Shodown, Samurai Shodown 2, Samurai Shodown 3, Samurai Shodown 4, Savage Rein, Far East of Eden: Kabuki Clash, Puzzle Bobble, Crossed Swords 2, Top Hunter, Fighters History Dynamite (Karnov's Revenge), Viewpoint, Ironclad, Twinkle Star Sprites, The Last Blade, The Last Blade 2 | *Thanks to
michael@consolecolors.com for supplying the Neo Geo CD! *The Last Blade (Neo Geo AES) appears briefly in The Last Blade segment. *Karnov (NES) appears briefly in the Fighters History Dynamite section. *Dave had to slap Joe many times before getting a good take. |
0:35:01 | 4/27/14 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 103 | Left in Japan 5 | PC Engine
Super CD-ROM - Fray in Magical Adventure, The
Legend of Xanadu II Super Famicom - Ganbare Daiku no Gensan (Hammerin' Harry), Lupin the 3rd, Magical Pop'n Saturn - Super Tempo, Tryrush Deppy, Super Dimension Fortress Macross PC Engine - Genji Tsuujin Agedama Dreamcast - Zero Gunner 2 |
*Etoile Princesse (Sharp X68000)
appears briefly in the Fray segment. *Tempo (32X) appears briefly in the Super Tempo segment. |
0:21:31 | 4/13/14 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 102 | The Sony Playstation | Playstation - Ape Escape, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Oddword: Abe's Oddysee, Point Blank, Alundra, Ghost in the Shell, Warhawk, Tobal No 1, Tobal 2, Strider 2, Ridge Racer, Ridge Racer Revolution, Rage Racer, Ridge Racer Type 4, Herc's Adventure, Parappa the Rapper, Xevious 3D/G+, Einhander, Metal Gear Solid, Crash Bandicoot, The Adventures of Lomax, Motor Toon Grand Prix, Final Fantasy VII, R-Type Delta, Spyro the Dragon, Klonoa: The Door to Phantomile, Gradius Gaiden, Disruptor, Time Crisis, Blasto, Silent Hill, Vandal Hearts | *Quick appearance by Castlevania 3 (Famicom version) in the Symphony of the
Night segment. *Quick appearance of Strider Returns (Genesis) in the Strider 2 segment. This game just keeps showing up! *As always, the stop motion was shot at 5K resolution. *The final stop motion segment is called "Playtime for the Playstation". *Joe says that they showed around 40 games but in reality they only showed 32 different games in this episode. *Thanks to Michael Kobialka for providing some of the games! |
0:37:02 | 3/30/14 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 101 | Failed Mascots | Genesis - Socket, Vectorman, Vectorman 2 TurboGrafx-16 - Keith Courage in Alpha Zones SNES - Captain Commando Playstation - Croc, Croc 2, Punky Skunk Saturn - SCUD The Disposable Assassin Nintendo 64 - Buck Bumble Gamecube - Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg, Chibi Robo |
*Croc (Sega Saturn) is shown
briefly *Captain Commando (Arcade) is shown briefly *Side-by-side of Croc on Saturn and Playstation *Side-by-side of Captain Commando on Arcade and SNES *Gex was almost included, but there were so many different games in the series that it was decided to save it for another time. *High Seas Havoc had gameplay recorded for this episode but wasn't written about. It was replaced in the episode by SCUD. |
0:25:11 | 3/16/14 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 100 | Top 10 16-Bit Games | Genesis - Road Rash, Gaiares, The Revenge of Shinobi, Castle of
Illusion SNES - The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time, Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts, Super Mario World, Super Castlevania IV TurboGrafx Super CD - Dracula X: Rondo of Blood |
*100th episode! *Our first Top 10 ever. *Features special extended intro sequence with original music by Brimaxian. *Thunder Force 3 almost made it in instead of Gaiares. *Dave swapped the order of TMNT 4 and Super Ghouls n' Ghosts after he recorded gameplay footage for the episode. |
0:31:15 | 3/2/14 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 99 | The Other 16-Bit Fighting Games | SNES - Ranma 1/2 Hard Battle, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Tournament Fighters, Dragon Ball Z Super Butouden 2, Clay Fighter, Killer
Instinct Genesis - Budokan, Fighting Masters, Eternal Champions, Virtua Fighter 2 Sega CD - Eternal Champions Challenge From the Dark Side TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine - Strip Fighter 2 |
*TMNT Tournament Fighters
(Genesis), Clay Fighter (Genesis) and Killer Instinct (Arcade) all make brief
appearances. *Very quick clip of creepy-ass teenage Joe. |
0:24:20 | 2/16/14 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 98 | Left in the Arcade 3 | Arcade - B.Rap Boys, Battletoads, Mystic Warriors, Bucky O'Hare, Blood Bros., Hook, Boogie Wings, Night Slashers, Nitro Ball, Thunder Cross II | *DJ Boy (arcade and Genesis
versions), Bucky O'Hare (NES) and Thunder Cross (arcade) all make brief
appearances. *The arcade scenes were shot at Fun City in Littletom, CO (All of their 25 cent games are broken). *The arcade backgrounds were shot at 1UP in Denver, CO. |
0:22:47 | 2/2/14 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 97 | The Sharp X68000 | Sharp X68000 - Star Wars: Attack on the Death Star, Gradius, Salamander,
Gradius 2, Nemesis 90 Kai, Super Hang-On, Akumajou Dracula, Thunder Force II,
Etoile Princesse, Aquales, Mad Stalker, The Cockpit, Geograph Seal Shorter reviews: Genocide, Genocide 2, Crossfire EX, The Return of Ishtar, After Burner II, Space Harrier, Alien Syndrome, Cotton Fantastic Night Dreams, Akazukin Cha Cha Cha, Gemini Wing, Daimakaimura (Ghouls 'n Ghosts), Naious, Marble Madness, Strider, Granada, Star Trader, Street Fighter II' Champion Edition, Super Street Fighter II The New Challengers, Thunder Blade, Sol Feace, Final Fight, Arcus Odyssey, Overtake, Undeadline |
*Most parts of the X68000 overview segment were shot back in July of 2013.
The power supply kept failing and that delayed this episode by nearly 6
months. *Star Wars (Arcade), F-16 Fighting Falcom (Sega Master System) and Space Harrier (TurboGrafx-16) are all shown briefly. *The ending skit is based on the one that was featured in the 32X episode. *Thanks to BlueBMW for supplying the X68000 stuff! |
0:36:18 | 1/19/14 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 96 | Unreleased Games | NES - Star Trek V The Final Frontier, Sunman Genesis - ResQ, Fido Dido, Time Trax, Mr. Nutz 2: Hoppin' Mad, Jim Power: The Arcade Game SNES - Mr. Bloopy, Jelly Boy 2, Mr Tuff, Wile E. Coyote's Revenge, Steven Seagal is The Final Option Saturn - Major Damage Dreamcast - Toejam & Earl 3, Half Life |
*Quick shots of On the Ball
(SNES), Time Trax (SNES), Mr. Nutz (SNES), Death Valley Rally (SNES), Daffy
Duck: The Marvin Missions (SNES) and Bugs Bunny Rabbit Rampgae (SNES) are in
various segments. *In the ending skit, the game "Richard Gere's Virtual Gerbil" is actually an unreleased prototype called "Virtua Hamster" on the 32X. |
0:26:52 | 1/5/14 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 95 | The RetroDuo Portable | No game reviews but quick, direct-feed footage is shown of Contra 3 (RDP and SNES), Mega Man 2 (RDP), Castle of Illusion (RetroGEN and Genesis), Karnaaj (Super Retro Advance) and Rastan (RetroGEN and Sega Master System) | *Shot simultaneously with the
previous episode (Homebrews, Hacks and Demos) *165 different camera shots were done for this little 12 minute episode. *The video for SNES and GameBoy Advance games had to be recorded to Hi8 videotape and then digitized because the RetroDuo Portable seems to be doing something weird with its color output. Oddly, Genesis and Master System games output color perfectly from the unit. *First (and so far only) episode of Game Sack edited entirely in Final Cut Pro X |
0:12:06 | 12/29/13 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 94 | Homebrews, Hacks & Demos | NES - Sir Ababol, Battle Kid, Castlevania 2 (hack) Sega Master System - Digger Chan Genesis - Sacred Line Genesis, Glass Breaker MD, Project MD, Bad Apple SNES - Road Blaster, Super Mario Odyssey, SNES Test Program, Star Ocean (English hack), Seiken Densetsu 3 (English hack), Ys V (English hack) TurboGrafx-16 - Tongueman's Logic, Reflectron TurboGrafx CD - Mysterious Song, Insanity |
*Lots more stuff appears
briefly *The ending was shot AFTER the next episode which is the Retro Duo Portable review. |
0:31:39 | 12/22/13 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 93 | Sports Videogames! | NES - Bases Loaded, Bases Loaded 2, Tecmo Bowl Sega Master System - Reggie Jackson Baseball, Super Tennis Genesis - Tommy Lasorda Baseball, Sports Talk Baseball, John Madden Football (all of them for the system), Pat Riley Basketball, Lakers vs Celtics and the NBA Playoffs, Bulls vs Blazers, David Robinson's Supreme Court, NBA Live 95, James "Buster" Douglas Knockout Boxing/Final Blow, Evander Holyfield's "Real Deal" Boxing, Greatest Heavyweights SNES - Hal's Hole in One Golf, Super Tennis, Super Bases Loaded, Tecmo Super Bowl, Tecmo Super Bowl III Neo Geo - Baseball Stars Professional Saturn - Decathlete, Winter Heat, Worldwide Soccer/Sega International Victory Goal Dreamcast - Virtua Athlete 2000 |
*Come on already! There's gotta
be at least one episode about sports games! *World Series Baseball '98 (Genesis), Baseball Stars 2 (Neo Geo), Tecmo Super Bowl (Genesis) and Tecmo Super Bowl II (SNES) appear briefly. *We chose to do this because we thought it'd be an easy episode to make, but ended up putting quite a bit of work into it. *Bases Loaded 2 has crappy music. |
0:30:17 | 12/8/13 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 92 | Superior Follow-Ups | Sega Master
System - Wonder Boy, Wonder Boy in Monster
Land TurboGrafx-16 - The Legendary Axe, The Legendary Axe II, Alien Crush, Devil's Crush Genesis - Jurassic Park, Jurassic Park Rampage Edition SNES - Pilotwings GameBoy - The Castlevania Adventure, Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge, Super Mario Land, Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins Nintendo 64 - Pilotwings 64 Playstation 2 - God of War, God of War II |
*Wonder Boy III (SMS), Wonder
Boy in Wonster World (Genesis), Sonic 2 (Genesis) and Side Pocket (Genesis)
all make brief appearances. *The ending was shot nearly a year and a half before the rest of this episode. It was made for a an episode of the show Video Game Take Out called Please Stay Tuned. *Joe's first Maya 3D animation ever is in this episode. It's the Game Sack logo in the TV just before the closing credits. *Joe had a hard time choosing his final game and tried the Jurassic Park games on a whim. It ended up being his favorite segment of this episode. |
0:26:44 | 11/24/13 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 91 | Disappointing Follow-Ups | NES - The Legend of Zelda, Zelda II:The Adventure of Link, Blaster
Master Genesis - Toejam & Earl, ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron, El Viento, Rocket Knight Adventures, Sparkster, Cool Spot, Spot Goes to Hollywood SNES - Sparkster, Cool Spot Sega CD - Annet Futatabi Playstation - Blaster Master Blasting Again, ESPN Xtreme Games, 2Xtreme Wii - Excite Truck, Excite Bots |
*Earnest Evans (Genesis) is shown briefly in the El Viento/Annet
Fuatabi segment. *Blaster Master 2 (Genesis) shown briefly during the Blaster Master segment. Yuck! *Contra Hard Corps and Castlevania Bloodlines (both Genesis) are shown briefly during the Rocket Knight Adventires/Sparkster segment. |
0:25:57 | 11/10/13 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 90 | Remakes | Arcade - Chuka Taisen PC Engine - Chuka Taisen PC Engine Super CD - Dracula X - Rondo of Blood Sega Master System - Cloud Master PSP - Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles, Mega Man Powered Up NES - Super Mario Bros, Super Mario Bros 2 (US), Super Mario Bros 2 (JP), Super Mario Bros 3, Duck Tales, Mega Man, Mega Man 2, Mega Man 3, Chuka Taisen, Metroid SNES - Super Mario All-Stars Genesis - Castle of Illusion starring Mickey Mouse, Flashback: The Quest for Identity, Mega Man: The Wiley Wars GameBoy Advance - Metroid Zero Mission Playstation 3 - Castle of Illusion, Ducktales Remastered Xbox 360 - Flashback Wii - The Monkey King: The Legend Begins |
*Side-by-side clips of the
originals and remakes for every entry in this episode. *Dave accidentally said "Monkey King: The Journey Begins" on the voiceover instead of "The Legend Begins". It was noticed during editing and Dave lives a half an hour away so it was just decided to leave it in. Cutting it out was tried but it didn't sound like a complete sentence. |
0:25:15 | 10/27/13 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 89 | Gaming on Halloween 3 | Arcade - Splatterhouse NES - Splatterhouse Wanpaku Graffiti Sega Master System - Ghost House TurboGrafx-16 - Splatterhouse Genesis - Splatterhouse 2, Splatterhouse 3 Super Nintendo - Majyūō (King of Demons) Saturn - D, Deep Fear Xbox - Otogi, Otogi 2 Playstation 3 - Splatterhouse |
*Shot at the end of August two
days after Episode 85 was shot. *Features "Sonic Doom" ending movie. *Sonic Doom was shot almost entirely in reverse except for the driving scenes and the end where Dave is awake. All of the other clips are playing backwards in the final movie. *Sonic Doom was shot and edited almost entirely within a 48 hour timeframe. |
0:21:18 | 10/13/13 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 88 | The Sega 32X | 32X - Kolibri, Star Wars Arcade, Shadow Squadron, Darxide,
Knuckles' Chaotix, Virtua Racing Deluxe, Virtua Fighter, Metal Head, Tempo,
Zaxxon Motherbase 2000, Star Trek Starfleet Academy Starship Bridge
Simulator, World Series Baseball, RBI Baseball '95, Space Harrier, After
Burner II Complete, WWF Wrestlemania: The Arcade Game, WWF Raw, FIFA Soccer
96, Cosmic Carnage, Pitfall The Mayan Adventure, Brutal Unleashed: Above the
Claw, NFL Quarterback Club, T-Mek, Mortal Kombat II, Primal Rage, BC Racers,
Toughman Contest, Doom, Spider-Man: Web of Fire, Romance of the Three
Kingdoms IV, Motocross Championship, NBA Jam Tournament Edition, Golf
Magazine Presents 36 Great Holes starring Fred Couples 32X CD - Supreme Warrior, Night Trap, Fahrenheit, Slam City with Scottie Pippen, Corpse Killer |
*The ending skit was shot in May
of 2008, long before Game Sack was even a twinkle in our eyes. It's otherwise
known as a stand-alone skit called "Advanced Technology and You"
and originally was made to come across as an old educational advertisement.
The stilted acting was actually quite intentional and certain parts had to be
redone because they weren't stilted/wooden enough if you can believe
that. *Virtua Racing (Genesis), Blackthorne (SNES), Bug (Saturn) and Zaxxon (Arcade) make brief appearances. |
0:31:52 | 9/29/13 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 87 | Games that Time Forgot | Genesis - Ristar SNES - Stunt Race FX, Uniracers Sega CD - Wonder Dog Playstation 2 - The Mark of Kri TurboGrafx-16 - Bravoman Playstation - Crash Team Racing Saturn - Bug!, Astal GameBoy - Solar Striker |
*We really had no idea what this
episode was supposed to be about. The initial idea was "Failed IPs"
but we felt that too many people wouldn't know what the term "IP"
referred to. Then it kind of evolved into a "Whatever happened to"
episode. The final title of "Games that Time Forgot" wasn't decided
upon until editing had begun. We hope it makes sense! *We lost the sound recorded from the shotgun microphone for the ending skit so we had to fall back to the on-camera mic sound. It works but it could have sounded much nicer. *Rise of the Kasai (PS2), Bug Too (Saturn), Akumajo Dracula X Nocturne in the Moonlight aka Castlevania Symphony of the Night (Saturn) all make very brief appearances in this episode. *Unicyclist Rick Redmond (now a cop) makes a brief appearance from one of Joe's older video projects. |
0:23:03 | 9/15/13 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 86 | Games that Need Sequels | Genesis - Streets of Rage, Streets of Rage 2, Streets of Rage 3,
Golden Axe, Golden Axe 2, Golden Axe 3, Shining Force, Shining Force II Sega CD - Shining Force CD, Popful Mail, Golden Axe (from Sega Arcade Classics Collection) TurboGrafx-16 - JJ & Jeff (Ken Chan and Kato Chan) SNES - Axelay Playstation - Return Fire, Jumping Flash 2 Playstation 2 - Okami PSP - LocoRoco, LocoRoco 2 |
*Footage from Golden Axe -
Revenge of Death Adder (arcade) is briefly shown during the Golden Axe
segment as well as Golden Axe Beast Rider (PS3, Xbox 360), Golden Axe: The
Duel (Saturn) and a Golden Axe prototype by Sega Australia. *Footage from Ancient's cancelled Streets of Rage 4 prototype is shown during the Streets of Rage segemtn as well as Streets of Rage Remake (PC and Ruffian Games'cancelled Streets of Rage prototype. *Composer/arranger of the Streets of Rage Remake music used in the opening segment is Gecko Yamori. Used with permission on the condition that his name in the credits be pink. |
0:25:33 | 9/1/13 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 85 | Our Favorite Racing Games | Dreamcast - Daytona USA, Hydro Thunder Playstation 2 - World Rally Championship (WRC), Out Run 2006: Coast 2 Coast Xbox - Burnout 3: Takedown, MotoGP 3 SNES - F-Zero Playstation - Road Rash Nintendo 64 - Wave Race 64 Saturn - Sega Rally Championship GameBoy Advance - Mario Kart Super Circuit |
*Joe was originally going to
include Super Hang-On and recorded lots of footage for it, but swapped it out
at the last minute for Sega Rally on the Saturn. Some of that recorded
footage can be seen playing on the TV behind Joe and Dave before the credits. *The ending is meant to make fun of amateur production values on older video equipment. |
0:22:08 | 8/17/13 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 84 | Videogame Magazines | N/A | *Over 143 pages scanned for this
episode. *Some magazines were so big that each page had to be scanned in multiple passes just to get the entire image. *Gameplay from Snail Maze (Master System), Batman (Genesis), Ecco the Dolphin (Dreamcast) and Jet Grind Radio (Dreamcast) are all shown briefly. *First episode released partnered with Screenwave Media. |
0:22:38 | 8/4/13 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 83 | The Sega Master System | Sega Master
System - Space Harrier, Choplifter, Deep Duck
Trouble starring Donald Duck, Golden Axe, Golden Axe Warrior, Golvellius,
Fantasy Zone, Fantasy Zone II, Fantasy Zone: The Maze, Galaxy Force, Wanted,
Wonder Boy, Wonder Boy in Monster Land, Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap,
Wonder Boy in Monster World, Kung-Fu Kid, Ghouls 'n Ghosts, Cloud Master,
Streets of Rage, Streets of Rage 2, Alex Kidd in Miracle World, Alex Kidd in
Shinobi World MONTAGE: - Out Run, Castle of Illusion, After Burner, Rescue Mission, Psycho Fox, Rambo, Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic Chaos, California Games, Action Fighter, Spellcaster, Global Defense, My Hero, Rampage, Kenseiden, Astro Warrior, King's Quest, Lord of the Sword, Phantasy Star, Missile Defense 3-D, R-Type, Vigilante, Road Rash, Alex Kidd: The Lost Stars, Ghost House, Alien Syndrome, Street Fighter II, Miracle Warriors, Renegade, Poseidon Wars 3-D, The Ninja, Ys: The Vanished Omens, Transbot, Ultima IV, Altered Beast, Enduro Racer, Double Dragon, Master of Darkness, Power Strike, Zillion, Gangster Town, Rastan, Cyborg Hunter, Scarmble Spirits, Black Belt, Zaxxon 3-D, Hang On, Maze Hunter 3-D, Shinobi |
*Snail Maze is briefly shown in
the section covering the SMS console. *The stop-motion animation sequence at the end was produced in a bit over 3 hours (sound was done later). Joe had no idea what the ending was going to be other than that it was going to be stop-motion. *Joe announces to the world that he wants to try and get a full complete US Master System set. He's serious about it! Can you help? *Made before the Neo Geo X Firmware Update mini-episode, but released one week after. |
0:28:39 | 7/21/13 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 82 | The Ys Series | Sega Master
System - Ys: The Vanished Omens NES - Ys, Ys 2: The Final Chapter, Ys 3: Wanderers from Ys Sharp X68000 - Ys, Ys 3: Wanderers from Ys TurboGrafx-16 CD - Ys Book 1 and 2, Ys 3: Wanderers from Ys, Ys 4: The Dawn of Ys Saturn - Falcom Classics, Falcom Classics II Nintendo DS - Legacy of Ys Books 1 & 2 PSP - Ys 1&2 Chronicles, Ys The Oath in Felghana, Ys 6: The Ark of Napishtim, Ys Seven SNES - Ys 3: Wanderers from Ys, Ys 4: Mask of the Sun, Ys 5 Genesis - Ys 3: Wanderers from Ys Playstation 2 - Ys 3: Wanderers from Ys, Ys 5: Lost Kefin Kindom of Sand, Ys 6: The Ark of Napishtim |
*Guest starring the Happy
Console Gamer! First episode with a guest appearance. Super fun episode to
make! *Ys Memories of Celceta for PS Vita is only shown via screenshots. It was not released in time for this episode. *Thanks to BlueBMW for the X68000. It arrived just in time to include the two Ys games on that system. The system will get its own dedicated epsiode in the near future. If you are from the future, you may already be aware of this and even see the X68000 episode entry on this very page! But since I'm from the past, I do not see that entry yet. |
0:23:37 | 7/07/13 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 81 | More Overlooked Gems | Genesis - Quackshot starring Donald Duck, Granada, Elemental
Master TurboGrafx-16 Super CD-ROM - Beyond Shadowgate GameBoy - Kirby's Block Ball Gamecube - Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Master System - Black Belt Playstation - Tomba, International Track and Field Saturn - Shinobi Legions / Shinobi X |
*Castle of Illusion (Genesis)
appears briefly. *Shadowgate (NES) appears briefly. *Track and Field (NES) appears briefly. *World Class Track Meet (NES) appears during the ending skit. *The ending skit had to be shot 10 times from 5 different angles (2 times for each angle). We really wore ourselves out and you can see and maybe even hear it in a few shots if you watch closely. |
0:23:06 | 6/23/13 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 80 | The Rare and The Valuable | TurboGrafx-16 - Magical Chase GameBoy - Castlevania Legends Mega Drive/Genesis - Marble Madness (both EA and Tengen versions) Playstation - Einhander Sega Master System - Sonic the Hedgehog Super Nintendo - E.V.O. NES - Little Samson, Duck Tales 2 Sega 32X - Spider-Man Web of Fire |
*Magical Chase for the GameBoy
Color appears briefly. *Quick side-by-side of US and JP versions of Magical Chase. *Cotton for the Turbo Super CD appears quickly during Magical Chase. *Castlevania Adventure (GameBoy) appears during the Castlevania Legends segment. *Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap (SMS) appears during the Little Samson segment (because mice stick to things). *Dave's pronunciation of Einhander was a joke. He did record it normally afterwards but Joe kept the fake German accented one and pasted it in with his regular commentary. |
0:22:13 | 6/9/13 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 79 | The Neo Geo X Portable System | Neo Geo X - King of the
Monsters, Alpha Mission 2, World Heroes Perfect, Fatal Fury, League
Bowling, Fatal Fury Special, Magician Lord, Real Bout Fatal Fury Special, Baseball
Stars 2, Cyber Lip, Art of Fighting, Metal Slug, Mutation Nation, The King of Fighters '95, Puzzled, 3 Count
Bout, Nam 1975, Super Sidekicks, Samurai Shodown II, Last Resort, Ninja Master's Firmware Update Episode: - The King of Fighters '96, Blazing Star, Kizuna Encounter |
*Companion firmware update episode was made and released on 7-14-2013. *Street Fighter (Arcade) appears briefly during the Fatal Fury segment. *The Neo Geo Pocket Color makes a very brief appearance showing Neo Turf Masters, Metal Slug 1st Mission and Sonic Pocket Adventure. *All Neo Geo X games are heard with the left and right channel swapped. That's how the hardware outputs the sound via HDMI as explained in the intro. This could have been fixed this during the editing process but we wanted you to hear it like it really sounds. *The stop motion animation sequence at the end took about 3 hours to shoot. |
0:26:23 | 5/26/13 | Main Episode: WATCH EPISODE Firmware Update Episode: WATCH EPISODE (0:05:13) |
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| 78 | RPGs - Part 2 | Genesis - Pier Solar SNES - Breath of Fire, Super Mario RPG, Final Fantasy 6/3 Sega Saturn - Panzer Dragoon Saga Playstation 3 - Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch |
*The DS version of Ni No Kuni is
shown very briefly. *Screens for Pier Solar HD provided directly by Watermelon. Thanks, guys! *Footage and voiceover for Breath of Fire and Super Mario RPG were recorded and edited before the first RPG episode was even uploaded. *This episode was originally going to include a couple of action RPG games, but it was decided to have an episode dedicted specifically to action RPGs at some point instead. Some gameplay footage for that eventual episode has already been recorded, much of it before RPG part 1 was uploaded (though no voiceovers have been written or recorded yet, though). *An updated version to Joe's Final Fantasy Robovoice song debuts in this episode. Nothing like a singing computer! |
0:25:59 | 5/12/13 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 77 | Room and Collection Tour | NES - Devil Word | *We initially didn't want to do
room tours because we thought they were a bit self-serving, but we
continually got requests for them so we'd thought we'd have fun with it and
at least try to make it entertaining. *The cat from episode 3 makes a brief appearance. *A Glidecam was used for much of the footage of all the rooms. These can get quite heavy! Youtube also seems to have issues with the smooth motion on computers that aren't very new. *Only one game was shown and only briefly, Devil World, a reproduction cart for the NES. It was designed by Shigeru Miyamoto and is the only one of his games never to be released in the USA. |
0:23:36 | 4/28/13 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 76 | Gaming on a Budget | NES - Jackal, Rampage, Super Mario Bros. 2 Sega Master System - Rampage Genesis - Dynamite Headdy Sega CD - Rise of the Dragon Neo Geo - Magician Lord, Nam 1975 Dreamcast - Towny Hawk's Pro Skater 2 Wii - A Boy and His Blob |
*Joe and Dave appear in suits.
Joe has a mustache. *This episode was really fun to make. *Games that were shown briefly in other games' segments: A Boy and His Blob (NES), Bill Laimbeer's Combat Basketball (SNES), Decapattack (Genesis), Doki Doki Panic (Famicom Disk System), Dynamite Duke (Genesis), Super Mario All-Stars (SNES), Super Mario Bros. 2 (Famicom), Super Mario USA (Famicom), Top Gun (NES), Top Gunner (Arcade) |
0:22:10 | 4/15/13 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 75 | More Really Bad Games! | NES - Contra Force Genesis - Blaster Master 2, Time Killers, No Escape, Revolution X, Aero the Acro-Bat SNES - Bill Laimbeer's Combat Basketball, Aero the Acro-Bat, Revolution X, No Escape TurboGrafx-16 - Night Creatures Nintendo 64 - South Park 64 |
*Blaster Master (NES) appears
during Blaster Master 2 segment. *Had to reshoot and re-record part of the episode. Even the reshoot had minor problems. It's almost as if this episode didn't want to exist. *The first Really Bad Games episode was kind of fun because the games were awful in a way that you could practically laugh at them. Not this episode. With the exception of Revolution X and maybe some aspects of South Park 64 and No Escape the games here are just bad, period. Both Aero and Blaster Master 2 made Joe physically ill to play and edit (he's in charge of recording all Genesis footage since his console has s-video). Therefore this is one of Joe's least favorite episodes. |
0:20:41 | 3/31/13 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 74 | RPGs - Part 1 | NES - Mother Sega Master System - Phantasy Star Genesis - Phantasy Star 2, Phantasy Star 3, Phantasy Star 4 SNES - Earthbound, Chrono Trigger Sega CD - Lunar: The Silver Star, Lunar 2 Eternal Blue Saturn - Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete Playstation - Chrono Cross |
*Gameplay recording for this
episode began nearly 7 months before this episode was released. *Gameplay footage for part 2 has mostly already been recorded as of this episode's release date and even some dialog has been recorded. |
0:25:53 | 3/16/13 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 73 | Arcade vs Console 2 | Arcade - Super Contra, E-SWAT, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Thunder
Blade, Ninja Gaiden, Shinobi NES - Super C, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game, Ninja Gaiden, Shinobi Sega Master System - E-SWAT, Thunder Blade, Ninja Gaiden, Shinobi GameBoy - Operation C Genesis - E-SWAT, Super Thunder Blade, Ninja Gaiden PC Engine - Thunder Blade, Ninja Gaiden, Shinobi Lynx - Ninja Gaiden |
*First episode back after 1 week
delay due to Joe being hospitalized for 6 days due to gallbladder surgery and
Dave having the flu. Can you tell? *Side-by-sides for each game in the show. *Music during side-by-side of Thunder Blade and Shinobi arranged by Joe. |
0:26:23 | 3/03/13 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 72 | Overlooked Gems | Genesis - Mystic Defender, Predator 2, Air Diver Sega CD - The Space Adventure Cobra SNES - Super Chase H.Q., Lock-On, Super Air Diver 2 GameBoy Advance - Drill Dozer Sega Master System - Predator 2 Playstation - Skullmonkeys, Pocket Fighter, Klonoa Wii - Klonoa Playstation 3 - 3D Dot Game Heroes |
*The Neverhood (PC) appears in
the Skullmonkeys segment. *Spellcaster (Sega Master System) appears briefly in the Mystic Defender segment, as does the Japanese version of both Spellcaster and Mystic Defender. *The TurboGrafx-16 version of Chase H.Q. appears in the Super Chase H.Q. segement. *The PC Engine version of the original Cobra game (released in Japan only) shows up in the Space Adventure Cobra segement. *After Burner II's (Genesis) title screen is displayed in all its glory in the Air Diver segment. *After Burner (Sega Master System) even gets some screen time during the Air Diver segment. |
0:25:28 | 2/10/13 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 71 | Left in Japan 4 + Twin Famicom | Famicom/NES
- Wai Wai World, Wai Wai World 2 Famicom Disk System - Castlevania, Castlevania 2, Kid Icarus, The Legend of Zelda, Metroid, Bio Miracle Bokkute Upa Super Famicom/SNES - Mickey no Tokyo Daibouken, Umihara Kiwase, Do Re Mi Fantasy, Mario & Wario PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16 - Gekibo/Photograph Boy, Coryoon |
*System overview of the Twin
Famicom, supplied by Matt Turner. *Crisis Force (Famicom) appears briefly for the Twin Famicom audio demonstration. *Milon's Secret Castle (NES) appears briefly during the Do Re Mi Fantasy segment. *Air Zonk (TurboGrafx-16) appears briefly during the Coryoon segment. |
0:23:22 | 1/27/13 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 70 | Multiplayer Gaming | Genesis - Gauntlet 4, Crack Down SNES - The King of Dragons, Pocky & Rocky, Pocky & Rocky 2, Super Smash TV, Super Mario Kart, Metal Warriors NES - North and South, Archon Nintendo 64 - Mario Kart 64, Mario Party 2 |
*Games that are shown briefly
include: Kiki Kaikai (Arcade), Kiki Kaikai (PC Engine), Crack Down (Arcade),
The Chessmaster (NES), Battle Chess (NES), Target Earth (Genesis) and
Cybernator (SNES) *MERCS (Genesis) is shown during the ending. MERCS is not a multiplayer game on the Genesis. *The "Game Sack City" makes a return to the credits for this episode. |
0:21:08 | 1/13/13 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 69 | The Sega Saturn | Saturn - Clockwork Knight, Clockwork
Knight 2, Psychic Killer Taromaru, Pebble Beach Golf Links, The King of
Fighters '95, The King of Fighters '96, The King of Fighters '97, Metal Slug,
Cotton 2, Marvel Super Heroes, X-Men vs Street Fighter, Vampire Savior, Street
Fighter Zero 3, Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter, Saturn Bomberman,
Radiant Silvergun, Die Hard Arcade, Virtua Cop, Virtua Cop 2, The House of
the Dead, Guardian Heroes, Virtua Fighter, Virtua Fighter Remix, Fighting
Vipers, Virtua Fighter Kids, Last Bronx, Fighters Megamix, Solar Eclipse MONTAGE: Nights, Shinobi X, Battle Garegga, Dead or Alive, Iron Storm, Steamgear Mash, Shining Wisdom, Shining the Holy Ark, Shining Force 3, Mega Man X4, Sonic R, Panzer Dragoon, Panzer Dragoon Zwei, Panzer Dragoon Saga, Galactic Attack, Bulk Slash, CrimeWave, Grandia, Blast Wind, Hyper Duel, Daytona USA, Daytona USA Circuit Edition, Tryrush Deppy, Gungriffon, Magic Knight Rayearth, Darius Gaiden, Dragon Force, Dragon Force 2, Batsugun, Virtual On, Princess Crown, Thunder Force 5, Astal, Decathlete, Jikkyou Osyaberi Parodius, Dark Savior, Night Striker S, Sengoku Blade, Soukyugurentai, Sega Rally Championship, Assault Suit Leynos 2, Burning Rangers, DoDonPachi, Bug!, Legend of Oasis |
*Montage
of a ton of Saturn games. Wish I could have included them all but I don't
think most people would want to sit through it. *Featured video footage of Lunar: The Silver Star Story and Gungriffon when the MPEG card is mentioned as those games have MPEG card compatibility. |
0:31:51 | 12/30/12 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 68 | Licensed Games That Don't Suck! | NES - Bugs Bunny's Birthday Blowout,
Ivan "Ironman" Stewart's Super Off-Road, Gremlins 2: The New Batch,
The Goonies, The Goonies 2, Rambo Sega Master System - Rambo: First Blood Part 2, Rambo III, Super Off Road Genesis - Rambo III, Super Off Road SNES - Super Off Road, Super Off Road: The Baja Saturn - Daytona USA, Daytona USA Circuit Edition Dreamcast - Daytona USA Arcade - Super Off Road, Daytona USA 2 |
*Side-by-side
of Super Off Road console versions. *Side-by-side of Daytone USA console versions. *Quick video of Famicom Goonies game shamelessly taken from some random Youtube video. Fair use! |
0:21:59 | 12/16/12 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 67 | Games That Defy Genre | NES - Balloon Fight Genesis - Ranger X TurboGrafx-16 - Somer Assault SNES - Kirby's Dream Course Saturn - Nights, Christmas Nights Wii - Boom Blox, Nights: Jouney of Dreams, Kororinpa Marble Mania, Marble Saga Kororinpa PS3 - Flower, Heavy Rain Wii U - Nintendo Land/Balloon Trip Breeze |
*First appearance of the Wii U on the show. | 0:21:32 | 12/2/12 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 66 | Double Dragon | Arcade - Renegade, Double Dragon,
Double Dragon 2, Double Dragon 3 NES - Double Dragon, Double Dragon 2, Double Dragon 3 Sega Master System - Double Dragon Genesis - Double Dragon, Double Dragon 2, Double Dragon 3, Double Dragon 5, Battletoads and Double Dragon SNES - Super Double Dragon GameBoy - Double Dragon, Double Dragon 2, Double Dragon 3 Game Gear - Double Dragon Lynx - Double Dragon GameBoy Advance - Double Dragon Advance Atari 2600 - Double Dragon Atari 7800 - Double Dragon Neo Geo - Double Dragon Playstation 3 - Double Dragon Neon |
*Quick
side-by-side of the arcade versions of Double Dragon and Double Dragon
2. *New Double Dragon music arranged by Brimaxian specifically for this episode. *First episode without the fart sound in the opening. |
0:29:24 | 11/18/12 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 65 | Really Bad Games! | Genesis - Pit Fighter, Shaq-Fu,
Slaughter Sport, Stormlord, Back to the Future Part 3, Sonic the Hedgehog,
Nightmare Circus, Wayne's World SNES - The Lord of the Rings Volume One TurboGrafx-16 - Impossamole, Darkwing Duck Arcade - Pit Fighter |
*Quick
side-by-side of Arcade and Genesis versions of Pit Fighter *Shot a new, updated scene for the Creepy But Not Quite Haunted House featured in the previous episode showing what would transpire if Dave stopped to wash his hands instead of running away. |
0:23:42 | 11/4/12 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 64 | Gaming on Halloween 2 | Genesis - Ghouls 'n Ghosts,
Devilish SNES - Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts TurboGrafx-16 - Ghost Manor GameBoy - Super Marioland 2: 6 Golden Coins GameBoy Advance - The Pinball of the Dead Playstation - Castlevania Chronicles, Darkstalkers, Darkstalkers 3 Saturn - Night Warriors, Vampire Savior Dreamcast - Vampire Cronicles For Matching Service Xbox 360 - Alan Wake Mac - Amnesia: The Dark Descent |
*Amnesia
represents the first PC game shown on Game Sack. *Released a year to the day from the first Gaming on Halloween episode. Spooky! *Contains the short movie "The Creepy But Not Quite Haunted House" shot in 2002. |
0:21:49 | 10/21/12 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 63 | Games that Disappointed and Surprised Us | Genesis - Super Monaco GP, Last
Battle, Altered Beast, Stormlord, Ghouls 'n Ghosts, Road Rash, Herzog
Zwei SNES - Final Fight, Contra III, Castlevania Dracula X TurboGrafx-16 - Jack Nicklaus' Turbo Golf PC Engine Super CD - Dracula X: Rondo of Blood NES - Mighty Final Fight, Super C Master System - World Grand Prix, Road Rash Neo Geo - Neo Turf Masters Neo Geo Pocket Color - Neo Turf Masters Playstation - Motor Toon Grand Prix Playstation 3 - Gran Turismo 5 3DS - Mario Kart 7 MSX - Herzog |
*Quick
Side-by-side of Super Monaco GP on the Genesis and World Grand Prix on the
SMS. *Side-by-side of Road Rash on the Genesis and SMS. *Quick Side-by-side of Dracula X on SNES and PC Engine Super CD. |
0:20:01 | 10/7/12 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 62 | Left in the Arcade 2 | Arcade - Osman, Strider, Aliens,
Dead Connection, Aliens vs Predator, Michael Jackson's Moonwalker, Gun Force
2, Gun Force, Ninja Baseball Bat Man, The Cliffhanger Edward Randy, The
Outfoxies, Wild West C.O.W.boys of Moo Mesa, Sunset Riders Genesis - Michael Jackson's Moonwalker, Castle of Illusion starring Mickey Mouse TurboGrafx-16 - Air Zonk |
*This was to be the first episode edited in Final Cut Pro X. Couldn't do it. Too weird and iMovie-ish, couldn't do the complex things I needed it to. Resorted back to Final Cut Pro 7. | 0:17:33 | 9/23/12 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 61 | The Nintendo 64 | Nintendo 64 - Beetle Adventure
Racing, F-Zero X, Blast Corps, MRC: Multi-Racing Championhip, Diddy Kong
Racing, Wave Race 64, Star Soldier Vanishing Earth, Kirby 64: The Crystal
Shards, Banjoe Kazooie, Super Mario World, The Ledgend of Zelda: Ocarina of
Time, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask MONTAGE: 1080ź Snowboarding, Yoshi's Story, California Speed, Castlevania, Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness, Extreme G, Extreme G: XG2, Mario Golf, Mario Tennis, Cruis'n USA, Cruis'n World, Crus'n Exotica, Dr. Mario 64, San Francisco Rush, Rush 2, San Francisco Rush 2049, Excite Bike 64, Glover, Goldeneye 007, Killer Instinct Gold, Conker's Bad Fur Day, Mario Kart 64, Mickey's Speedway USA, Mischief Makers, Paper Mario, Mario Party 2, Perfect Dark, Pilotwings 64, Pokmon Snap, Ridge Racer 64, Sin and Punishment, Donkey Kong 64, Super Smash Bros., Star Wars: Rogue Squadron, StarFox 64, Harvest Moon 64, Top Gear Rally, Top Gear Rally 2, Top Gear Overdrive, Top Gear Hyper Bike, Wetrix, Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, Turok 2: Seeds of Evil, Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion, The New Tetris, Jet Force Gemini |
*Only
Nintendo 64 games shown. Nothing
from any other system is shown even for comparitive purposes. *Ending was changed from a live-action segement with Dave and Joe to a stop-motion animation segment at the last moment as the live-action segment just wasn't very entertaining. |
0:25:23 | 9/9/12 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 60 | Sega Genesis/Mega Drive Shoot 'em Ups | Genesis - Super Fantasy Zone,
Adventurous Boy, Arnold Palmer Tournament Golf, Gaiares, Trouble Shooter,
Battlemania 2, Fire Shark, Wings of Wor, Eliminate Down, Sagaia, Slap Fight
MD, Thunder Force 2, Thunder Force 3, Thunder Force 4/Lightening Force Sega CD - Android Assault PC Engine Super CD-ROM - Super Darius II Sega Master System - Sagaia NES - S.C.A.T. Arcade - Darius 2 MONTAGE: Heavy Unit, Master of Weapon, Elemental Master, Darwin 4081, Curse, Space Turtleship, M.U.S.H.A., Robo Aleste, Gley Lancer, Forgotten Worlds, Lords of Thunder, Twin Cobra, Twin Hawk, Vapor Trail, Viewpoint, Zero Wing, Phelios, Gadget Twins, Insector X, Kolibri (32X), Fire Mustang, Sol-Feace/Deace (Sega CD), Battle Squadron, Air Buster, Steel Empire, Grind Stormer, Arrow Flash, Crossfire, Undeadline, Xenon 2, Bio Hazard Battle, Divine Sealing, Mega SWIV, Silpheed (Sega CD), Verytex, Bio Ship Paladin, Dangerous Seed, Truxton, Keio Flying Squadron, Magic Girl, Raiden Trad, X.D.R. X Dazedly Ray, Task Force Harrier EX, The Earth Defend, Whip Rush, Hellfire, Zaxxon's Motherbase 2000 (32X), Gunstar Heroes, Batman, The Adventures of Batman & Robin, Subterrania, Atomic Robo-Kid, Space Invaders '91, Burning Force, After Burner 2, After Burner Complete (32X), After Burner 3 (Sega CD), Space Harrier (32X), Space Harrier II, Star Wars Arcade(32X), Panorama Cotton, Bimini Run, Galaxy Force II, Shadow Squadron (32X), Super Thunder Blade, Night Striker (Mega CD), Darxide (32X), Soul Star (Sega CD) |
*Every
true shoot-em-up without exception is shown. *Montage of Genesis/Mega Drive/Sega CD/Mega CD and 32X shooters. Longest montage yet. First montage with actual dialog. *92 different games captured for this episode. |
0:26:27 | 8/26/12 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 59 | A Very WTF Episode | Playstation - Incredible Crisis Saturn - Cho Aniki Sega CD - Wild Woody, Panic! Playstation 2 - Katamari Damacy, Stretch Panic TurboGrafx 16 CD-ROM - It Came From the Desert 32X - Kolibri |
*Brand
new intro shot for this episode. *Brand new intro and credits music composed for this episode. *The majority of the dialog is looped. *The Episode 48 scene was actually shot when Episode 48, Left in Japan 2, was being made. *The scenes reminisced to next were shot near Christmas of 2004. *The earliest scenes reminiced to were shot in early February of 1995. |
0:20:28 | 8/12/12 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 58 | 16-Bit FMV Madness! | TurboGrafx-16 CD-ROM - Sherlock
Holmes Consulting Detective, Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective Volume
2 Sega CD - Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective Volume 1, Night Trap, Sewer Shark, Double Switch, Tomcat Alley, Midnight Raiders, Ground Zero Texas, NFL's Greatest: San Francisco vs Dallas, Prize Fighter, Slam City with Scottie Pippin, Marky Mark Make My Video, Dragon's Lair, Space Ace, Cobra Command, Road Avenger, Time Gal, Revenge of the Ninja MONTAGE: The Masked Rider Kamen Rider Zo, Microcosm, Mansion of the Hidden Souls, Fahrenheit (32X), Mad Dog McCree, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, Who Shot Johnny Rock?, Corpse Killer (32X), The Exterminators, Megarace, Wirehead, Surgical Strike |
*Yes,
this episode is really running off of a Sega CD. BIG thanks to Brian G VanBuren for his
awesome job encoding and coding the CD! *Features FMV game montage. First montage using game audio. *Features a Game Sack game after the credits where the player tries to host the show while Dave goes on vacation. The game is actually playable, but unwinnable. |
0:25:53 | 7/29/12 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 57 | Left in the Arcade | Arcade - Gang Busters, Devastators,
GI Joe, Psycho NICS Oscar, Superman, Dynamite Duke, Tecmo Knight, Macross
Plus, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, Gate of Doom, Spiderman the Video Game,
Willow, Metamorphic Force, R-Type Leo, Golden Axe: The Revenge of Death Adder NES - GI Joe, GI Joe - The Atlantis Factor Sega CD - Cadillacs and Dinosaurs |
*Emulation was necessary to use to show all of the arcade games. | 0:23:44 | 7/15/11 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 56 | Western Developed Games | NES - Marble Madness Master System - Strider II, Marble Madness, Earthworm Jim Genesis - Awesome Possum Kicks Dr Machino's Butt, Batman Forever, Dark Castle, Earthworm Jim, Earthworm Jim 2, Normy's Beach Babe-o-Rama, Marble Madness, Strider, Strider Returns, Sword of Sodan, Dave White Forever Sega CD - Flink, Earthworm Jim Special Edition 32X - Motocross Championship SNES - Earthworm Jim, Earthworm Jim 2 Saturn - Earthworm Jim 2, Powerslave Playstation - The Adventures of Lomax, Bubsy 3D, Crash Bandicoot Arcade - Marble Madness Playstation 3 - Burnout Paradise, Earthworm Jim HD 3DO - Way of the Warrior |
*Side-by-side
of Marble Madness *Side-by-side of Earthworm Jim *Side-by-side of Earthworm Jim 2 *Features the crappy "Dave White Forever" Genesis game after the credits. *First episode over 1/2 hour long |
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| 55 | Left in Japan 3 | Genesis - Dangerous Seed, Dahna,
Rent-a-Hero, Pulseman Saturn - Blast Wind, Hyper Duel, Princess Crown, Dungeons & Dragons Collections: Tower of Doom & Shadow Over Mystara NES - Mr. Gimmick, Splatterhouse Grafitti Wakpun SNES - Ghost Sweeper Mikami PS2 - Odin's Sphere PS3 - Splatterhouse |
*Side-by-side
of Hyper Duel's Arcade and Saturn modes *Side-by-side of Dangerous Seed *Shot entirely with the Canon XF100 |
0:28:44 | 6/17/12 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 54 | The NEC SuperGrafx and the Atari Jaguar | SuperGrafx - 1941 Counter Attack,
Aldynes, Ghouls 'n Ghosts (Daimakaimura), Granzort Jaguar - Alien vs Predator, Checkered Flag, Club Drive, Cybermorph, Fight for Life, Flashback, Iron Soldier, Kasumi Ninja, Raiden, Tempest 2000, Ultra Vortek, Wolfenstein 3D Genesis - Flaskback, Ghouls n' Ghosts, Virtua Racing 32X - Virtua Racing Deluxe, Virtua Fighter, Metal Head TurboGrafx-16 - Keith Courage in Alpha Zones |
*Thanks
to Matt Turner for loaning us the systems! *Features side-by-side of Ghouls n' Ghosts: SuperGrafx vs Genesis. *Features side-by-side of Flashback: Jaguar vs Genesis *This episode has more stop-motion animation than any other to date. |
0:26:29 | 6/3/12 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 53 | Frustrating Games! | Saturn - Steamgear Mash, Shining
Wisdom, Rayman Playstation - Rayman NES - Solstice, Battletoads, Ghosts 'n Goblins SNES - Equinox Genesis - Mutant League Hockey, Mutant League Football Master System - Power Strike Sega CD - Batman Returns, The Adventures of Batman & Robin TurboGrafx-CD - Exile, Exile Wicked Phenomenon 32X - Star Wars Arcade |
*Intro
features a re-imagined Game Sack theme.
Some people like it, most don't. *The disc Dave tosses is actually one of the "Digital Copy" discs that came with the Back to the Future Blu-Ray set. *The disc Joe snaps is just a CD-R that burned improperly resulting in a coaster. *First episode shot entirely on the Canon 5D Mark II |
0:22:33 | 4/20/12 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 52 | The Sega Dreamcast | Dreamcast - Samba de Amigo, Soul
Calibur, Jet Grind Radio, Ikaruga, Power Stone, Dead or Alive 2, Confidential
Mission, Virtua Tennis, Outtrigger, The Typing of the Dead, Toy
Commander Wii - Samba de Amigo MONTAGE: Virtual On: Oratorio Tangram, Dynamite Cop, Sonic Adventure, Sonic Adventure 2, Rez, Shikigami no Shiro 2, Rayman 2, Marvel vs Capcom 2, Grandia 2, Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future, Blue Stinger, Phantasy Star Online, Sega GT, Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage, Zombie Revenge, Segagaga, Sega Rally 2, King of Fighters: Evolution, Daytona USA, Napple Tale, Virtua Fighter 3tb, San Francsico Rush 2049, Shenmue, Guilty Gear X, Street Fighter III 3rd Strike, Test Drive Le Mans, Resident Evil: Code Veronica, POD Speedzone, Skies of Arcadia, Looney Toons Space Race, Quake III Areana, Crazy Taxi, Pen Pen TriIceLon, Super Magnetic Neo, Hydro Thunder, Border Down, Space Channel 5, American Pro Trucker, Gunbird 2, Fighting Vipers 2, ChuChu Rocket,Capcom vs SNK: Millenium Fight 2000, Giga Wing 2 |
*Features
fake Dreamcast ad (shot in late 2000) *Features "New Dreamcast" skit after the credits (shot in early 2000) *Montage of 43 Dreamcast games *Due to the archival nature of some of the footage as well as the acquisition of new cameras during the making of thi episode, a total of four different Canon cameras contributed footage. They were the 5D Mark II, 7D, 60D and XL1. |
0:27:01 | 4/6/12 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 51 | Genesis games that should have STAYED in Japan! | Genesis - Pac Man 2: The New
Adventures, Jewel Master, Toki: Going Ape Spit, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:
Tournament Fighters, Beast Wrestler, Heavy Nova, Earnest Evans. Sega CD - Heavy Nova, Black Hole Assault, Earnest Evans 32X - Cosmic Carnage MONTAGE: Galaxy Force II, Rastan Saga 2, Dino Land, Fighting Masters, Thunder Fox, Last Battle, Quad Challenge, Street Smart, Cyberball, Super Thunder Blade, Syd of Valis, DJ Boy, Air Diver, Growl, Ka-Ge-Ki, James "Buster" Douglas Knockout Boxing, After Burner III, Zaxxon's Motherbase 2000, Deadly Moves, Traysia, Star Blade, Super Hydlide, Cal. 50, Fatal Labyrinth, Super Volleyball, Captain America and the Avengers |
*Montage
of bad Genesis games brought over from Japan. *Atomic Robo-Kid appears in the credits as it almost made it into the montage. *Anouncement that the show is going bi-weekly. :( |
0:21:13 | 4/22/12 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 50 | Donkey Kong Country & Valis | SNES - Donkey Kong Country, Dounkey
Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's
Double Trouble, Super Valis IV Genesis - Valis, Syd of Valis, Valis III NES - Valis TurboGrafx CD - Valis, Valis II, Valis III, Valis IV |
*Side-by-side
of Valis for Genesis and PC Engine CD *Side-by-side of Valis 2 (Turbo CD) and Syd of Valis (Genesis) *Side-by-side of Valis 3 for Genesis and Turbo CD *Side-by-side of Valis 4 for PC Engine CD and SNES *GameBoy, GameBoy Color, GameBoy Advance and N64 versions of Donkey Kong gameplay appear briefly in the background of the camera segments. |
0:22:28 | 4/15/12 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 49 | The Nintendo Gamecube | Gamecube - Luigi's Mansion, Super
Smash Bros. Melee, Metroid Prime, Rougue Leader, Wave Race Blue Storm, F-Zero
GX, Super Monkey Ball, Super Monkey Ball 2 Nintendo 64 - Wave Race 64 Xbox - Super Monkey Ball Deluxe MONTAGE: Batallion Wars, Mario Golf, Kirby Air Ride, Donkey Kong Jungle Beat, Warioware Inc, Pikmin 2, Mario Party 6, 1080Ą Avalanche, Custom Robo, Odama, Animal Crossing, Final Fantasy - Crystal Chronicles, Geist, Wario World, Starfox: Assault, Mario Kart: Double Dash, Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg, Eternal Darkness, Paper Mario - The Thousand Year Door, P.N. 03, Chibi Robo, Fire Emblem: The Path of Radiance, Resident Evil Zero, The Legend of Zelda: The Windwaker |
*Includes
montage of many exclusive Gamecube games. *Includes segment of Joe showing off his extreme Super Monkey Ball skillz. |
0:22:09 | 4/8/12 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 48 | Left in Japan 2 | SNES - The Firemen Genesis - Devil Hunter Yohko Sega CD - Keio Flying Squadron SMS - Megumi Rescue NES - Kid Dracula GameBoy - Kid Dracula Saturn - Keio Yuugekitai, Sengoku Blade, Burning Rangers Playstation - Wonder 3 Arcade Gears |
*Includes the exciting story of Joe's missing Sengoku Blade. | 0:18:05 | 3/25/12 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 47 | Whatever Happened to ActRaiser & Alex Kidd? | SNES - ActRaiser, ActRaiser 2. SMS - Alex Kidd in Miracle World, Alex Kidd The Lost Stars, Alex Kidd High Tech World, Alex Kidd BMX Trial, Alex Kidd in Shinobi World, Anmitsu Hime. Genesis - Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle. Arcade - Alex Kidd The Lost Stars. Saturn - The Yakyuken Special |
*First
use of of the green screen. *Alex Kidd theme used in the opening camera segment arranged by Joe. *Typo in the credits. |
0:19:00 | 3/18/12 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 46 | TurboGrafx-16 / PC Engine Shoot 'em Ups | TurboGrafx-16 - Air Zonk, Side
Arms TurboGrafx CD/Duo - Super Air Zonk, L-Dis, Gate of Thunder, Lords of Thunder, Ginga Fukei Densetsu Sapphire, Side Arms Special, Forgotten Worlds, Rayxanber II, Rayxanber III, Spriggan, Spriggan Mark 2 Genesis - Forgotten Worlds Sega CD - Lords of Thunder MONTAGE: Blazing Lazers, Sinistron, R-Type, Gradius II, Soldier Blade, Super Raiden, Zero Wing, Metamor Jupiter, Psychic Storm, Image Fight II, Dragon Spirit, Fantasy Zone, Download 2, Galaga '88/'90, Super Darius, Super Darius 2, Cotton: Fantastic Night Dreams, Magical Chase, Ai Cho Aniki, God Panic, Sylphia, Ordyne, Psychosis, Avenger, Aero Blasters, Star Parodia |
*Side-by-side
of Lords of Thunder. *Side-by-side of Forgotten Worlds. *Montage of Turbo shoot 'em ups. |
0:22:13 | 3/11/12 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 45 | More Underrated Games | SNES - Batman Returns NES - Jackie Chan's Action Kung-Fu, Bucky O' Hare TurboGrafx-16 - Jackie Chan's Action Kung-Fu Genesis - Sonic Crackers 32X - Knuckles' Chaotix Playstation - Jumping Flash! Xbox - Gunvalkyrie |
*First
episode shot in the new studio. *All gameplay video of Knuckles' Chaotix was recorded back when episode 14 was being made with the same experimental RGB to HDMI converter. |
0:16:14 | 3/4/12 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 44 | Six Great 8-bit Platformers | NES - Wizards and Warriors, Ninja
Gaiden, Castlevania SMS - Kenseiden, Ninja Gaiden, Masters of Darkness |
*Joe
wears a hat. *Dave drinks Coors Light. |
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| 43 | Left in Japan | Genesis - Golden Axe III,
Gleylancer SNES - Cosmo Game: The Video Playstation - Hermie Hopperhead Saturn - Bulk Slash, Battle Garegga Arcade - Cosmo Gang: The Video |
*Dave's story at the end of the episode is 100% true. | 0:15:31 | 2/12/12 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 42 | Casual Games | Wii - Wii Sports, Wii Sports Resort,
Animal Crossing City Folk SNES - Mario Paint Genesis - Art Alive! N64 - Animal Crossing Gamecube - Animal Crossing DS - Animal Crossing Wild World Xbox 360 - Test Drive: Unlimited |
*Features an old Mario Paint vs Art Alive segment originally done in 1992. | 0:14:41 | 2/2/12 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 41 | The Pioneer LaserActive | LaserActive Mega LD - Space
Berzerker, Pyramid Patrol, Hyperion, Triad Stone, Road Blaster/Prosecutor, 3D
Museum, I Will: The Story of London, Rocket Coaster, Virtual Cameraman,
Virtual Cameraman 2, The Great Pyramid. LaserActive LD-ROM2 - Vajra, Manhattan Requiem, Quiz Econosaurus, Angel Mate Genesis - Sonic the Hedgehog TurboGrafx-16 - Legendary Axe Sega CD - Road Avenger iOS - Manhattan Requiem |
*Thanks
to Byron for the LaserActive and games! *The "Game Sack City" credits return for this episode. |
0:16:50 | 1/29/12 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 40 | Overhead Run n' Guns | Arcade - Ikari Warriors Saturn - Commando, MERCS, Gun.Smoke NES - Commando, Gun.Smoke, Ikari Warriors, Ikari Warrirors 2 Victory Road SMS - MERCS Genesis - MERCS TurboGrafx CD - Last Alert Neo Geo - Shock Troopers, Shock Troopers 2nd Squad Xbox 360 - Wolf of the Battlefield: Commando 3 MONTAGE: Alien Syndrome, Crossfire, Rambo: First Blood Part 2, Rambo III, Elemental Master, Super C, Contra III, Twinkle Tale, Zombies Ate My Neighbors, Blaster Master, Cal. 50, Smash TV, Bloody Wolf, Crackdown, Out Zone, The Ninja, Total Carnage, Heavy Barrel, Gauntlet, Gauntlet IV, Fester's Quest, Fray Xak Gaiden, Soldiers of Fortune, Time Soldiers, Undeadline, Predator 2, Final Zone, Final Zone 2, Pocky & Rocky, Pocky & Rocky 2. Dungeon Explorer (TG-16 & Sega CD), Isolated Warrior, Guerilla War |
*Side-by-side of MERCS | 0:20:06 | 1/22/12 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 39 | Rail Shooters | SNES - Starfox Sega CD - Silpheed N64 - Starfox 64, Sin and Punishment Saturn - Panzer Dragoon, Panzer Dragoon Zwei Xbox - Panzer Dragoon Orta Dreamcast - Rez PS2 - Rez, Silpheed The Lost Planet Xbox 360 - Rez HD Wii - Sin and Punishment Star Successor |
*First episode in which Dave recorded some of the gameplay footage himself at his house. | 0:16:13 | 1/15/12 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 38 | Out Run | Arcade - Out Run, Turbo Out Run,
Outrunners SMS - Out Run, Out Run 3D, Battle Out Run, Out Run Europa Genesis - Out Run, Turbo Out Run, Out Run 2019, Outrunners PC Engine - Out Run Game Gear - Out Run GameBoy Advance - Sega Arcade Gallery - Out Run Saturn - Sega Ages Out Run Dreamcast - Shenmue 2, Yu Suzuki Gameworks PS2 - Sega Classics Collection - Out Run Xbox - Out Run 2, Out Run 2006: Coast 2 Coast Xbox 360 - Outrun Online Arcade |
*Last episode shot on the dark brown couch | 0:22:02 | 1/8/12 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 37 | After Burner | Arcade - After Burner, After Burner
II NES - After Burner (Tengen & Sunsoft) SMS - After Burner Genesis - After Burner II PC Engine - After Burner II Sega CD - After Burner III 32X - After Burner II Complete GameBoy Advance - Sega Arcade Gallery - After Burner Saturn - Sega Ages After Burner Dreamcast - Shenmue 2, Yu Suzuki Gameworks PS2 - 3D Ages - After Burner II PSP - After Burner Black Falcon PS3 - After Burner Climax |
*Features the mega-hit song "Broken Wings" by the world-famous band Mr. Mister. | 0:19:41 | 1/1/12 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 36 | SNES Shoot 'em Ups | SNES - Gradius III, UN Squadron,
Phalanx, Parodius, Chatting Parodius Live, Super R-Type, R-Type III, Space
Megaforce, Firepower 2000, Axelay. TurboGrafx-16 - Blazing Lazers, R-Type. SMS - Power Strike. |
*Christmas
'11 episode. *Intro fatures snow and a Christmas rendition of the Game Sack tune by Brimaxian. |
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| 35 | Let's Play Soukyugurentai | Saturn - Soukyugurentai. Genesis - Forgotten Worlds |
*The
first episode to break the 20-minute barrier *No planning was done for this episode. All dialog and VO is "improv". This was the easiest and fastest episode to make |
0:22:03 | 12/18/11 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 34 | 8 and 16-bit Disney Games | Genesis - Aladdin, The Great Circus
Mystery, Castle of Illusion, World of Illusion, Fantasia. SNES - Aladdin, The Magical Quest starring Mickey Mouse, Magical Quest 3. NES - Aladdin, Duck Tales, Duck Tales 2. GameBoy Color - Aladdin. SMS - Aladdin, Castle of Illusion, Land of Illusion, Legend of Illusion. MONTAGE: Mickey's Ultimate Challenge, Mickey Mousecapade, Gargoyles, Adventures in the Magic Kingdom, Donald Duck, Deep Duck Trouble, Lucky Dime Caper, Quackshot, Maui Mallard, Goof Troop, Pinocchio, Bonkers, The Jungle Book (all versions), The Little Mermaid (all versions), The Lion King (all versions), Tale Spin (all versions), Darkwing Duck (all versions), Beauty and the Beast (all versions), Chip and Dale Recue Rangers, Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers 2, Donald Duck Mahou no Boushi, Mickey's Safari in Letterland, Pocahontas, Mickey Mania, Mickey's Playtown Adventure. |
*Side-by-side
of Aladdin *Montage of various Disney games *Quackshot music used during credits arranged by Joe. |
0:18:55 | 12/11/11 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 33 | Games That Cause Polarizing Opinions | SNES - Yoshi's Island. Sega CD - Sonic CD. Gamecube - Super Mario Sunshine. Dreamcast - Shenmue, Shenmue II. Xbox - Shenmue2. |
*Side-by-side
of Shenmue 2 *Contains parody of the Lucky Hit minigame from Shenmue 2 |
0:16:44 | 12/4/11 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 32 | Some Notable Vertical Shoot 'em Ups | TurboGrafx-16 - Soldier Blade,
Raiden. Genesis - MUSHA, Raiden Trad, Divine Sealing. Playstation - Raystorm, The Raiden Project. Saturn - Galactic Attack, Layer Section 2. SNES - Raiden Trad. Jaguar - Raiden. Lynx - Raiden. |
*Side-by-side
of Raystorm & Layer Section 2. *Side-by-side of Raiden. |
0:15:59 | 11/27/11 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 31 | Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3 | PS3 - Battlefield 3, Call of Duty
Modern Warfare 3. 32X - Wolfenstein 3D, Doom. Genesis - Zero Tolerance, Beyond Tolerance, Battle Frenzy, Cybercop, Toy Story, Duke Nuk 'Em 3D |
*Side-by-side of Battlefield 3 & Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3. | 0:14:42 | 11/21/11 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 30 | Guilty Pleasures | GameBoy Advance - Kirby Nightmare in
Dreamland. NES - Kirby's Adventure. Genesis - Hard Drivin', Race Drivin', NHL '94, Curse, Crystal's Pony Tale. SNES - NHL '94. |
*Side-by-side
of Kirby Nightmare in Dreamland & Kirby's Adventure. *Side-by-side of NHL '94. |
0:11:19 | 11/13/11 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 29 | Four Underrated Games | Gamecube - Pikmin. Genesis - Ghostbusters, Gain Ground, Road Blasters. Arcade - Gain Ground. SMS - Gain Ground. TurboGrafx CD - Gain Ground. PS2 - Gain Ground. Sega CD - Road Avenger. Saturn - Road Blasters. iOS - Road Blaster |
*Features
"Misheard Lyrics" for Road Avenger's opening (later released to
Youtube on its own). *Side-by-side of Gain Ground. |
0:15:01 | 11/6/11 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 28 | Thunder Force & Cotton | Arcade - Cotton: Fantastic Night
Dreams. Neo Geo Pocket Color - Cotton: Fantastic Night Dreams. TurboGrafx CD - Cotton Fantastic Night Dream. Playstation - Cotton: Fantastic Niight Dreams. SNES - Cotton 100%, Thunder Spirits. Genesis - Panorama Cotton, Thunder Force II, Thunder Force III, Thunder Force IV/Lightening Force. Saturn - Cotton 2, Cotton Boomerang, Thunder Force V, Thunder Force Gold Pack 2. Dreamcast - Rainbow Cotton. Sharp X1 - Thunder Force. Sharp X68000 - Thunder Force II. PS2 - Thunder Force VI. |
*Side-by-side
of Cotton: Fantastic Night Dreams. *Side-by-Side of Thunder Force II. *Side-by-side of Thunder Force III, AC, Spirits. |
0:18:30 | 10/31/11 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 27 | Gaming on Halloween 1 | SNES - Zombies Ate My Neighbors,
Ghoul Patrol, Super Castlevania IV, Demon's Crest. Genesis - Zombies Ate My Neighbors, Haunting Starring Poulterguy. GameBoy - Gargoyle's Quest. NES - Gargoyle's Quest. Xbox - Silent Hill 2. PS3 - Limbo. MONTAGE: Demon Souls, Nosferatu, Uninvited, Kid Dracula, House of the Dead, Devil's Crush, Jaki Crush, Maniac Mansion, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Splatterhouse, Splatterhouse Wanpaku Grafitti, Ghostbusters, Mansion of Hidden Souls, Ghosts n' Goblins, Ghouls 'n Ghosts, Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts, Ultimate Ghosts 'n Goblins, Friday the 13th, Fester's Quest, Resident Evil 5, Monster in my Pocket, Mr. Bones, Cotton, Alan Wake, Decapattack, Master of Darkness, Dead Rising, Vampire Savior |
*Zombies
Ate My Neighbors side-by-side. *Montage of good games to play on Halloween. *Intro features Halloween-themed visuals as well as an awesome Hallowen rendition of the Game Sack tune by Brimaxian. |
0:15:34 | 10/21/11 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 26 | Some Games We Don't Want to Talk About | SNES - Bubsy. Genesis - Bubsy, Bubsy II, John Madden Football, Jeopardy, Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat II, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3. 3DO - John Madden Football. 32X - Mortal Kombat II. Arcade - Mortal Kombat. |
*Second
letter arrives from Dwayne. *Bubsy side-by-side. *John Madden Football side-by-side. *Mortal Kombat II side-by-side. |
0:09:03 | 10/6/11 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 25 | Portable Videogame Systems | GameBoy - TMNT. GameBoy Color - Metal Gear. GameBoy Advance - Super Hang-On, Kirby Nightmare in Dreamland, Legend of Zelda Four Swords. DS - Feel the Magic XX XY. 3DS - Super Monkeyball 3D. Game Gear - Ristar. TurboGrafx-16 - Soldier Blade. Genesis - Barney's Hide and Seek Game. Lynx - Rygar. Neo Geo Pocket Color - Neo Turf Masters. Wonderswan - Final Fantasy II. PSP - Ys Seven. iOS - Angry Birds |
*Features
Sega VMU advertisement (later released to Youtube on its own). *Games are only briefly shown playing on the portable devices, not actually discussed in detail. |
0:19:11 | 10/9/11 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 24 | Four Games with Superior Sequels | NES - Ghosts 'n Goblins, Mike
Tyson's Punch Out/Punch Out. Saturn - Ghosts 'n Goblins. Genesis - Ghouls 'n Ghosts, Street Fighter II Special Champion Edition, Super Street Fighter II. Saturn - Virtua Fighter, Virtua Fighter Remix, Virtua Fighter 2, Super Street Fighter II X. 32X - Virtua Fighter. SNES - Super Punch Out, Street Fighter II, Street Fighter II Turbo, Super Street Fighter II. Arcade - Street Fighter. TurboGrafx-16 - Fighting Street, Street Fighter II Champion Edition. 3DO - Super Street Fighter II Turbo. SMS - Street Fighter II. PS3 - Street Fighter IV. |
*First
letter from li'l Dwayne arrives. *Punch-Out music arranged by Joe. |
0:14:40 | 10/2/11 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 23 | Four Games with Disappointing Sequels | Arcade - Rastan, Space Harrier,
Planet Harriers. SMS - Rastan, Space Harrier, Space Harrier. Genesis - Rastan Saga 2, Strider, Strider Returns, Space Harrier II. Playstation - Strider 2. NES - Tetris. SNES - Tetris 2. 32X - Space Harrier. Game Gear - Space Harrier. NES - Space Harrier PS2 - Space Harrier Saturn - Space Harrier. |
*Space Harrier side-by-side | 0:14:31 | 9/25/11 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 22 | Dare to Compare: Versions of Blackthorne and Batman | SNES - Blackthorne. 32X - Blackthorne. GameBoy Advance - Blackthorne. Arcade - Batman. NES - Batman. Genesis - Batman. PC Engine - Batman. GameBoy - Batman |
*Side-by-side
of Blackthorne *Side-by-side of Batman *Joe did the arranged Blackthorne and Batman music for the side-by-sides comparisons of both series. This was done because no other arranged music was available. |
0:14:54 | 9/12/11 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 21 | Wonder Boy and Adventure Island | Arcade - Wonder Boy, Wonder Boy in
Monster Land, Wonder Boy III: Monster Lair. SMS - Wonder Boy, Wonder Boy in Monster Land, Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap, Wonder Boy in Monster World. NES - Hudson's Adventure Island, Hudson's Adventure Island II, Hudson's Adventure Island III, Adventure Island IV. GameBoy - Adventure Island, Adventure Island II. SNES - Super Adventure Island, Super Adventure Island II. Game Gear - Revenge of Drancon, Wonder Boy III. Genesis - Wonder Boy III: Monster Lair, Wonder Boy in Monster World, Monster World IV. TurboGrafx-16 - Bikurriman World, Monster Lair, Dragon's Curse, Dynastic Hero, New Adventure Island. Wii - Adventure Island: The Beginning |
*First
episode without "Game Sack City" credits. *Includes side-by-side montage. |
0:19:52 | 9/4/11 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 20 | Sidescrolling Run n' Guns | NES - Contra, Super C. Genesis - Gunstar Heroes, Midnight Resistance, Contra Hard Corps. GameBoy Advance - Gunstar Super Heroes. SNES - Contra III, Gun Force. Neo Geo - Cyber Lip, Metal Slug 4. Saturn - Metal Slug. DS - Contra 4. Playstation - Gunners Heaven. Wii - Contra ReBirth. PS2 - Contra: Shattered Soldier. PS3 - Hard Corps Uprising MONTAGE: E-SWAT, Contra Force, The Terminator, Demolition Man, Alien Soldie, Realm, Operation C, Rolling Thunder 3, Rendering Ranger R2, Journey to Silius, E-SWAT, Contra Advance, C: The Contra Adventure, Dinosaurs for Hire, Earthworm Jim, Turrican, Nightmare Busters, The Adventures of Batman & Robin |
*First
episode with a montage. *First episode featuring the Neo Geo. *Special thanks to Rob Ivy for supplying the MVS and Metal Slug 4. |
0:19:40 | 8/24/11 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 19 | Arcade vs Console 1 | Arcade - Earth Defense Force,
Fantasy Zone SNES - Super E.D.F. SMS - Fantasy Zone. TurboGrafx-16 - Fantasy Zone. NES - Fantasy Zone (Tengen & Sunsoft). PS2 - Sega Classics Collection: Fantasy Zone. |
*Thanks to Rob Ivy for supplying the arcade boards for this episode as well as building the Supergun. Also, next time we do an ending like this, Dave will be on the receiving end! | 0:14:03 | 8/14/11 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 18 | Road Rash (16-bit and up) + Game Force Boulder | Genesis - Road Rash, Road Rash 2,
Road Rash 3. Sega CD - Road Rash. 3DO - Road Rash. Saturn - Road Rash. Playstation - Road Rash, Road Rash 3D, Road Rash Jailbreak. Nintendo 64 - Road Rash 64. GameBoy Advance - Road Rash Jailbreak. |
*Game
Force Boulder tour and song opens the episode. Game Force Boulder song written and
arranged by Joe. *First episode featuring side-by-side comparisons of the same game. I wish I would have included the cool Master System version. |
0:14:00 | 8/7/11 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 17 | Controllers for the 32-bit era and Beyond | Saturn - Space Harrier, After Burner | *Very
little game footage. There is a short segment in the middle called
"Intermission". *The "Intermission" segment was re-edited with different audio in 2012 to avoid a potential copyright issue after voluntarily removing it from the internet two months prior. The new intermission features the same footage, but is now set to ragtime music and looks like old film footage which is run too fast. The original segment ran at normal speed in full color with a song called, apropriately, "Intermission" by The Offspring. Both ways worked well, but I think I like the new version a bit better anyway. |
0:19:11 | Original: 7/31/2011 Re-Release: 6/10/12 |
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| 16 | Some Cool 16-bit Ninja Games | Genesis - Revenge of Shinobi, Shadow
Dancer, Shinobi III. TurboGrafx-16 - Shinobi, Ninja Spirit. SNES - Hagane, Legend of the Mystical Ninja |
*This episode received a ton of negative backlash because we didn't include a lot of games we didn't even own. | 0:10:34 | 7/25/11 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 15 | Final Fight and Streets of Rage | Arcade - Final Fight. SNES - Final Fight, Final Fight Guy, Final Fight 2, Final Fight 3. Sega CD - Final Fight CD. Genesis - Streets of Rage, Streets of Rage 2, Streets of Rage 3. Saturn - Final Fight Revenge |
*Wish we would have shown more of Final Fight CD. | 0:08:34 | 7/11/11 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 14 | Star Odyssey + Random Battle 2 | Genesis - Star Odyssey, Blue
Almanac SNES - Axelay SMS - R-Type |
*Axelay
(SNES) vs R-Type (SMS) *Star Odyssey footage was captured using an experimental RGB to HDMI converter. |
0:07:21 | 7/4/11 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 13 | The TurboGrafx-16 | TurboGrafx-16 HuCard/CD -
Splatterhouse, Military Madness, Dracula X, Magical Chase (JP version), Star
Parodia, The Legendary Axe, The Legendary Axe II, R-Type, Ys Book 1&2, Ys
III Wanderers from Ys, Ys IV: The Dawn of Ys, Gate of Thunder, Lords of
Thunder, JB Harold Murder Club. Turbo games shown briefly: Street Fighter II Champion Edition, Fatal Fury 2, Art of Fighting, Ginga Fukei Densetsu Sapphire. |
*First episode to focus on a single system. | 0:13:53 | 6/27/11 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 12 | Gaming Collectables | N/A | *No
games were featured at all in this episode, only game-related items. *Shortest episode |
0:06:58 | 6/20/11 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 11 | Retro Gaming on HDTVs and Video Connections | NES - Kid Kool, Gumshoe, Marble
Madness, Mega Man 2. SNES - Castlevania Dracula X. Genesis - Ys III, Sonic |
*First
episode with new, extended intro with music by Brimaxian. *First episode in 1080p HD. *No games actually focused on, they were used for illustrative purposes only. |
0:08:00 | 6/13/11 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 10 | NES Zapper vs Sega Light Phaser | NES - Duck Hunt, Gumshoe, Wild
Gunman, Hogan's Alley, To the Earth, Mechanized Attack, Freedom Force,
Shooting Range, Operation Wolf, The Lone Ranger, The Adventures of Bayou
Billy. SMS - Safari Hunt, Marksman Shooting & Trap Shooting, Operation Wolf, Laser Ghost, Gangster Town, Rescue Mission, Shooting Gallery, Assault City, Space Gun, Wanted, Rambo III, Missile Defense 3-D. |
*Capturing the video from these games was more difficult than usual because they MUST be played on a CRT monitor which is not present in the room where Game Sack is edited. So the games were recorded onto digital videotape and then captured into the computer. | 0:14:04 | 6/6/11 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 9 | Rally Racing Games | Saturn - Sega Rally
Championship. Dreamcast - Sega Rally Championship 2. PS3 - Sega Rally Revo, Dirt 3. Xbox - Rallisport Challenge, Rallisport Challenge 2. |
*First episode in which we delivered our coverage into the microphone together at the same time. Little to no planning went into the lines themselves resulting in a lot of "umms" and uh's". | 0:13:13 | 5/30/11 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 8 | Tetris and Other Puzzle Games | NES - Tetris (Nintendo &
Tengen), Dr. Mario. GameBoy - Tetris, Dr. Mario. Virtual Boy - V-Tetris, 3D Tetris. SNES - Tetris & Dr. Mario, Tetris 2, Kirby's Avalanche, Wario's Woods. Nintendo 64 - The New Tetris, Dr. Mario 64, Pokemon Puzzle League. Dreamcast - Sega Tetris. DS - Tetris DS, Meteos. Wii - Tetris Party Deluxe. Genesis - Colums, Columns 3, Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine. PSP - Tetris |
*Least popular episode to date. | 0:12:06 | 5/22/11 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 7 | Controllers for the 8 and 16-bit era Systems | NES - Gun.Smoke | *Very
little gameplay, mostly camera video. *First episode featuring the Game Sack t-shirts. |
0:13:07 | 5/15/11 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 6 | Mario vs Sonic - Which is Best? | Genesis - Sonic the Hedgehog 1, 2,
3, Knuckles. Master System - Sonic the Hedgehog 1, 2. Sega CD - Sonic CD. Saturn - Sonic R, Sonic Jam. PS3 - Sonic 4 Episode 1, Sonic and Sega All Stars Racing. NES - Super Mario Bros 1, 2. SNES - Super Mario World, Super Mario All Stars, Super Mario Kart. Nintendo 64 - Super Mario 64, Super Mario Kart 64. Gamecube - Super Mario Sunshine, Super Mario Kart Double Dash. Dreamcast - Sonic Adventure 1, 2. Wii - Sonic & the Secret Rings, Super Mario Galaxy ,Super Mario Galaxy 2, Super Mario Kart Wii, New Super Mario Bros Wii |
*Made
solely to attract new viewers and invite controversy. It worked! It's also the first episode which
required any sort of complex editing. |
0:12:31 | 5/8/11 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 5 | Naxat Video Pinball Games | TurboGrafx-16 - Alien Crush, Devil's
Crush. SNES - Jackie Crush. Genesis - Dragon's Fury, Dragon's Revenge. Wii - Alien Crush Returns |
*Only Naxat-based pinball games and their offshoots are featured. | 0:11:44 | 5/2/11 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 4 | Random Battle 1 | SMS - Rambo III, Rambo: First Blood
Part 2, Operation Wolf Saturn - Panzer Dragoon, Panzer Dragoon Zwei, Panzer Dragoon Saga Genesis - Rambo III Xbox - Panzer Dragoon Orta |
*Rambo
III (SMS) vs Panzer Dragoon Saga (Saturn) *First onscreen appearance of Jen. First Random Battle. Yes, the games are really selected at random. |
0:07:03 | 4/25/11 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 3 | 8-bit 3D Gaming: NES vs SMS | NES - Rad Racer, 3-D World
Runner SMS - Blade Eagle 3-D, Space Harrier 3-D, Out Run 3-D, Zaxxon 3-D, Poseidon Wars 3-D, Maze Hunter 3-D, Line of Fire, Missile Defense 3-D |
*Brief mention of the Vectrex 3D Imager. | 0:07:33 | 4/18/11 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 2 | 16-bit Street Fighter II + 3DS | SNES - Street Fighter II Turbo. Genesis - Street Fighter II Special Champion Edition. PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16 - Street Fighter II Champion Edition. 3DS - Pilotwings Resort. |
*Quick
look at the 3DS system in the beginning. *Shot before episode 1 was released on Youtube. *First episode in HD (720p). *First episode shot with the Canon 7D which would be used in many future episodes. |
0:08:34 | 4/11/11 | WATCH EPISODE |
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| 1 | SNES Superscope vs Sega Menacer | SNES - Super Scope 6 in 1, Yoshi's
Safari, Battleclash, X-Zone Genesis - Menacer 6-in-1, T2 The Arcade Game. Sega CD 32X - Corpse Killer |
*First
episode. We thought of the name
"Game Sack" about 5 minutes before we shot the episode. *480p only. Shot with the old Canon XL1. *Shot on the same day the 3DS was released in North America: Sunday, March 27, 2011. Released on Youtube April 4, 2011. *This is the only episode which has an unboxing. |
0:07:21 | 4/4/11 | WATCH EPISODE |
| TOTAL RUNNING TIME OF SERIES: | 69:11:00 |
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