Road Runner's Death Valley Rally (SNES) Playthrough
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- čas přidán 8. 04. 2022
- A playthrough of Sunsoft's 1992 license-based action game for the Super Nintendo, Road Runner's Death Valley Rally.
From the MacVentures to Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective to Beavis & Butthead: Virtual Stupidity, ICOM was responsible for several celebrated adventure games in their time. They were also responsible for some truly terrible action games, including the likes of Ghost Manor and Yo Bro!
Road Runner's Death Valley Rally isn't the worst game they made. I'll give it that much credit.
Following the Sonic mascot-platformer blueprint, the game puts you in control of the Road Runner as he streaks across fifteen stages in an attempt to escape being murdered by Wile E. Coyote.
If nothing else, Death Valley Rally certainly looks the part. Reviewers raved over the quality of the graphics, often saying that it looked just like the cartoon upon which it was based, and they were totally right. Even thirty years later, it still looks fantastic. The characters are dead ringers for their TV counterparts, and the animation is just as convincing.
Just like in the cartoon, Wile E. has a huge variety of ACME-branded implements of destruction that he wields as inexpertly as ever. He gets a brand new gadget for every stage, and a lot of the game's fun comes from seeing what he'll use next...providing you can ever make it past the first few levels.
The problem with Death Valley Rally is that the gameplay didn't see a fraction of the effort that the developers invested in nailing the look and feel of the show.
The controls are a nightmare: Road Runner skids on every surface as if it was ice, and his jump is floaty and imprecise so you'll constantly have to correct jumps in midair to avoid overshooting platforms. The collision detection feels off, too - Road Runner's collision box is narrower than his sprite, so you'll miss jumps that look like you should've been able to make just fine, over and over again.
The stages are built so that'll you'll need a lot speed to clear certain obstacles - just like Sonic - but the game is fond of throwing obstacles and pitfalls in your path without fair warning, and Wile E. Coyote regularly flies through the screen to attack without any sort of heads up. The inordinate number of blind jumps and unavoidable hits you end up taking puts a huge damper on the overall experience.
Nintendo Power's coverage of this one was telling. NP usually avoided overt criticism of the games they covered, but Death Valley Rally's feature goes out of its way to tell you how sloppy the controls are, and it does so on more than one occasion.
Road Runner's Death Valley Rally is an unfortunate example of what happens when style is prioritized over substance. It looks fantastic, but once you hit start, that controller suddenly becomes a stick of Acme dynamite in your hands.
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You nailed it in your description: this game is style over substance. I rented this game once and all I remember is that Roadrunner felt like he was on rollerblades with no brakes. It was like playing Arkanoid with a regular NES controller.
Published & Developed by Icom Simulations, Inc. [C] 1992-2020 Icom Simulations, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Licensed by Nintendo of America, Inc. (SNES Console)
This Looks Like A Looney Tunes Game Released By Hudson Soft.
Also This Game Is Very Underrated! Like Sure RoadRunner Skids When You Stop Moving Him😏😏😏😏 But It's Make It Look Like A Road Runner And Wile E. Coyote Spectacle On Ice!
Oh boy, I remember the difficulty of this game. This was before the times of the internet. This game was no joke, but I managed to beat it despite how weird the controls felt at times.
I was so curious about this when as a kid I saw an ad panel in an archie comic
This game was the bane of my existence when I was a child
The game incentivizes you to speed up and at the same time punishes you by doing so.
Classic Sonic moment
But unlike Sonic, there’s no progression.
Speed is what you use to progress through the levels. Here your punished no matter what you do.
exactly like Sonic
@@Antonio-hx7yh Bullshit only stup... people that never play sonic would say this in sonic you know when to run and slowdown and you dont have to made blind jumps like in road runner
@@sephistar1074 Try to play road runner after this try to say the same bull... in sonic you can control the jump and you dont skid when you land a jump its like road runner has soap on his foot...
This game has some really impressive sprites that really represent the Looney Tunes well but it's really hard to control. Road Runner slides all over the place when he's running. It was really frustrating when I was a kid and rented this from the Video Store. I managed to beat the first stage but, I don't remember getting any further than that.
I think I got a far as level 4
I can't believe I finally found out what this game was called and that I didn't have mandela effect and actually played this game about 10 years ago. I remember trying to find games about roadrunner and coyote but there was nothing good except for Desert Demolition, and after surfing through 20 pages on Google I found this. Lol I always thought that was just a dream
If only the presentation of this game could've been combined with Desert Demolition "Starring The Road Runner". Then we'd have the ultimate game of cat and mouse "or in this case Coyote and Road Runner".
This is one of those games that should have been a home run, but falls flat on its face.
Literally For the Coyote. Heh heh
Stage 1 was near impossible when I was a kid. I was given this as a kid for Christmas and while I never thought the controls were bad, maybe a lil slippery the constant hazards the track layouts and platforming really made this one frustrating. The worst thing was it took months to beat the first 3 levels of the first stage. The boss took me 15 years to finally get through, and another 5 years after that of just going through the other stages. What really sucked about this game was the levels are so painful to get through but that final boss I was able to beat my first time through. The last boss is such a pushover, I felt more anger than satisfaction. That first boss was criminally hard, the next one just brutal, but the further you get into the game the bosses are easier and easier. This is not a fun game at all. If you want to get your Road Runner fix on an old console, Desert Demolition for the Genesis/Mega Drive is a much smoother fun experience.
If this game had better controls it would have be fair. But I do like the music and graphics on this game and I did beating this game a few times before
I didn't even get past the first boss. I always thought it was the final boss till this day. Now to see I had a lot longer way to go just pisses me off
It's fun seeing the ending again as an adult. One of the most rewarding finishers. Was able to beat this with a lot of trial and error but probably couldn't do it again.
I remember when I was a kid, I ended up with a copy of this. I traded a kid I met on a vacation to Puerto Rico. I forgot what I traded him, but this is what I brought back to the states. Never understood how to play it well. But I just liked it.
Death Valley Rally looks amazing, but it fails spectacularly at being fun.
Just like the cartoons
It really disappointed me as a kid. I want to like this game. But, it just has way too much bullshit in it that keeps it from being a fun game.
How to play Road Runner's Death Valley Rally:
Just play Desert Demolition.
My brother somehow beat it. I think. There may have been a level-skip code, though.
Not unless you like speed and Road Runner.
I’m convinced the only reason this was featured on one of Nintendo Power covers is because Nintendo saw it as an answer to Sonic
It's been such a long time since I last saw or played this game. What a great gameplay,it reminded me so much of my childhood.
It was really tough to control the Road Runner,so much that the last time I played it maybe last year I quit after the first 3 places.
Oh Darling thank you so much for uploading these great 90s SNES games.
Lol, you can tell how badly the player wanted to be over with the construction level. Forget getting a perfect.
I noticed that too, lmao. They were like, "screw the flags, just get me out of here." 😂
The SunSoft sound effect on the logo stuck with me from Blockbuster Rentals.
I have this game for the Super Nintendo since I was a kid. It’s was my first Super Nintendo game and I beat this game at the age of 14 because I try really hard to beat this game. I don’t care 🤷♂️ about the bonus flags I care about to finish the game.
Level one: The Desert 🌵
Level two: The Construction Site 🏗
Level three: The Train 🚂
Level four: The Caves 🦇
Level five: Outer Space 🪐
Like Road Runner says “Beep Beep!” Wile E. Coyote on every level are referencing from one of the Looney Tunes episodes that are familiar when you play this game.
I remember this one. Many can agree that Desert Demolition for the Genny is better.
+The Real Sean W. Stewart Desert Demolition is a quicker and easier game to play through, and you can play as either Road Runner or Wile E. Coyote.
You're extremely good at this game. I remember it being one hell of a hurdle to beat growing up. Thanks for the memories.
Coyote's ficticious latin names
0:50 Hungarius Uncontrolibus
18:04 Gadgetius Fanaticum
28:33 Ravenous Uncontrollibii
39:29 Ravenous Carnivorous
51:25 Famishus Vulgarium
I just played this Game once only to watch roadrunner die.
Real history x33
Coyote's perseverance is priceless
😂👊🏼
12:53 Smooth.
Controls may be a problem but Road Runner's Death Valley Rally still looks like the kind of game I'd want to play if I had my own SNES.
If only Nintendo would add this and other Looney Tunes SNES games to the SNES Nintendo Switch Online app.
That would be up to Warner Bros whoever worked on the titles to get them there. There are certainly a few of the SNES Konami games made with Warner Bros' license that would be really nice to see.
Can't believe ya played through this monstrosity
Speedy Gonzales: Los Gatos Bandidos was a major improvement over this. Controls are far more refined, but it has its own set of issues.
Speedy Gonzalez: Los Gatos Bandidos=Sonic The Hedgehog 4 snes
Just like one of Wile's ACME gadgets, it looks great but fails to deliver on proper functionality. That's too bad because I love these characters.
Good ol' ACME. In this game ACME stands for "Awful Controls Mar Experience".
That Sunsoft logo at the very beginning hurt my soul.
It could've been worse. At least they were just the publishers and not the actual developers on this one! 😅
The drop off and quality of SunSoft branded games from the 8 bit to the 16 bit Era is one of gaming’s greatest tragedies
I've tried to finish it several times over the last decades, and now, reading the video descripción as well as the comments, I see I'm not the only one who just can't understand the game and even less stay with it long enough. That's a shame since it really has some appeal.
So many comments about the terrible controls but for me the hardest part is putting up with this god awful music.
Road Runner is truly my favorite out of everybody!
man that BEEP sounds perfect for a snes game
I had this game as a kid. It really is a nasty piece of work.
Those poor scorpions look like I feel lol
Look at these floaty mechanics. It looks like the typical SNES swill you had to swim thru to find the well known gems.
The controls was weird but the graphics was good
38:29 EGAD!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I remember this game and played it once. Though hard as heck, I loved the Road Runner cartoons. This was SNES Blast Processing.
I do recall the Japanese version, the title was called "Wile E. Coyote vs. Road Runner".
i miss that game
20:32 Perfect timing!
One of many games i regretted buying when I was a kid. 😂
i love this game, cool playthrough man
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I remember this boss battle was difficult. I kept getting crushed
Then it seem the Coyote got you more times.
I heard of this game back in the day. But I never got to see gameplay footage of it until now.
This game in the 90's was the equivalent of the Sega Sonic games in terms of speed running.
9:00 poor coyote 🥺
Probably the closest thing that the SNES ever got to a Sonic game.
@Chaz Starkey Now that was how to do SNES Sonic. What a great game 👍
It's one of them.
Console wars just did a vid on this, lol
Even AVGN briefly covered this game, in one of his videos.
That episode was great. I was there in the live chat along with a friend of mine for the premiere and had a lot of fun. They're very funny. Plus I'm a big Looney Tunes fan, would watch them on television whenever they were on. The Road Runner shorts are some of the funniest in the Chuck Jones directed library
This game traumatized my childhood. Creating it should be considered child abuse
I remember owning this game as a kid and it frustrated me to no end. One of the only games that I never beat.
You know how your parent(s) ask do you like a game because they gave it to you as a gift? I kept lying to myself and to them saying that I liked it when really I didn't actually like this game.
I really liked this game back then. I rented it from block buster back in the days.
It felt kinda like Bubsy to me
And yeah I managed to beat this even as a kid
Totally forgot about Bubsy. Thanks for the reminder.
As amazing as this game looks, I'd rather be watching the catapult sequence from the 1963 Wile E. Coyote and Roadrunner cartoon, "To Beep or Not To Beep."
By any chance, was Bugs Bunny in Rabbit Rampage made by the same team as this game? Because I feel it had a very similar issue of style over substance. Like yeah, it _looked_ great, sure, but damn if it didn't do everything in its power to screw over the player at almost every turn. The biggest offenders, IMO, were the bosses. Boy, could they be an exercise in tedium, regardless of their actual difficulty. I'd say the biggest offender was, fittingly enough in this case, Wile E. Coyote (whose entire stage was a pain, but that's a rant for another time). And yet, despite my complaints, I actually have some fond memories of that particular game.... probably because I actually managed to beat it as a kid, unlike the Road Runner game, lol.
Here because of my friend jerma and pizza tower : -)
Pizza tower? (i know for jerma's case, but not pt)
Had this back in the day.... it sucks hard.
It looked and sounded great, but RRDVR was insanely frustrating and unnecessarily difficult.
Did he just "fall" from Mars to Earth?
Loved this game back in the day, jjust thought it was too short.
This and Desert Demoltion fall into the same boat for me, looks good, plays like absolute shit. This was also the point Sunsoft started sullying their name, releasing games by other developers, much like Acclaim would do, making it look like Sunsoft had fallen off a cliff in quality (the only thing they were still doing right at the time were their Hebereke games).
"Had fallen off a cliff"
Like Wile E. Coyote?
Desert Demolition was really good though. I never had it as a kid, but I love the game now for its fast-paced gameplay that controlled like a dream. I think it looks better graphically, too.
@@Dorian_Scott It hardly even had a soundtrack to it, pretty much feeling in the sound department like the Taz Mania games on that system. You could tell even it wasn't a Japan made game as it didn't use the better sound drivers present in a lot of Japanese made titles. I've played both, Sunsoft's best Looney Tunes licensed games just seem better on the Game Boy. The Genesis one was made by Blue Sky Software, who didn't exactly have a great track record of their own, these were the same guys behind the awful Genesis Little Mermaid game. Looking at their list of games they created, none make me go "Oooh great game". Everything they put their hands on just didn't seem all that great, the only thing they seemed to excel at were the Joe Montana games on the Genesis.
I remember this game made me want to go fast but it felt like going fast was never allowed...
0:55, MEEP MEEP!
Wow! They even ended the game with a Fat Lady singing joke. You don't see that much anymore.
as a child, this was 1 of my first video games in the easrly 90s. i played it years later and remember thinking how terrible it was
The controls killed it even though I did beat this game a few times before but I do like the graphics and music with cutscenes though
Hardest Game
Ive been waiting for you to finally do this one nintendo complete i played this last winter man this took me almost a month to finally beat the stage 2 Boss was always a neck to neck battle for me and escaping the giant mutant coyote in the last level good Lord lol someone comment was on point they said beautiful graphics and animations nightmareish Gameplay controls and level Design this is sunsoft weakest looney tunes game so far in my opinion but i still liked it lol
Desert demolition was so much better!
This game did had some funny animation and music
Unreal athleticism
32:18. Nice dodge there.
One game that could benefit with a widescreen and/or camera zoomed out. This game COULD'VE been pretty good.
Loved the way the game looked but as others have mentioned, this game was infuriating to actually try to play.
Commercial for this game: *_"'Road Runner's Death Valley Rally.' Is this a great game or what?"_*
Well, if by "great" you mean awful controls, obnoxiously designed levels with *TONS* of shit thrown at you without warning, and plenty of "leaps of faith..." Then yes. It's a fantastic game.
Seriously, though. This game sucks. But, at least the graphics are good.
The music is good, too.
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1:03:49 epic fall!
Wile E Coyote falling
sonic goes iceskating
I actually Loved this game.
thanks
This game is scary and too nerve wracking for the kid me 🙂💔
Road Runner: Beep, beep.
This game drove me crazy as a kid. After a while, I just wanted to beat it bc it pissed me off so much, not bc i actually enjoyed it. And I still never beat it! 😂
Road Runner > Sonic
I actually beat this game though it was only via sheer luck due to the awful controls.
Exactly 01 hour: 06 minutes: and 56 seconds long.
This game is harder than Dark souls
this game isn't bad but the boss fights felt like pace breakers, and I could almost never get past the second one.
50:42 Wile E Coyote says BEEP BEEP
1:02:10 giant Road Runner!
At least it was miles high better than the abysmal NES version.
I wonder if that Nintendo Power review talked about the game's AWFUL music that fails miserably to be like the music in the cartoons.
Terrible game, but since it is a licensed franchise released early on SNES lifecycle i give it a relief.
Rented it a couple of times in the early 90s, and really tried playing but so boring.
However, Sunsoft's Bugs Bunny Rabbiit Rampage (1994) is another level, with some silly difficulty moments for sure, but way better music,graphics, gags and playability
Me not sure if me finish it’s game🎮🕹️
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Gosto de jogo Roadrunner e wile e coiote
1:05:38 The famous error of the game'' San Fransisco''
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Say, did I hear that this game was unreleased?
@BlazingSouldHunter286 No, it was released. It had a sequel planned, "Wile E.'s Revenge", where Wile E. Coyote would have been the playable character. It was never released because Sunsoft's American offices closed due to bankruptcy.
this coyote make feel bad.....🤣🤣🤣
Complete All Flags In 100%!
I beat this game multiple times when I was 7. I have no fucking idea how or why.
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