When you think about it one of the first "Chicken-o-meter" type bars was hangman. Every time you fail you get closer to death depicted with a representation. Sound familiar?
I love that half the people who used an actual chicken for their chicken-o-meter never bothered to look at what a chicken skeleton looks like! "How many ribs do chickens have?" "Dunno, like fifty. Just cram in as many as you can."
176 likes, so I’m gonna post a massive gold mine for you guys. I’ve found a few great videos with Ahoy in it that pretty much *nobody* knows about. 2 are interviews, 2 are long lost weapon guides that had to be taken down from Ahoy’s channel and the other is a video someone made about him. However, the 3rd video listed here has a picture of Stu and is technically the first ever face reveal of Ahoy: czcams.com/video/nJdJU7eUkNw/video.html czcams.com/video/8BE91v0Hi7M/video.html czcams.com/video/sUBhD_iHil4/video.html czcams.com/video/3BFvX_rzWV0/video.html czcams.com/video/9tFgKoqQujE/video.html Being subscribed for 8 yesrs since the M16A4 MW2 Weapon Guide has given me some knowledge about this guy!
KInda late, sorry for that, but would you mind pointing out which one of the 5 guys in the picture is Stu ? I'm really curious about the face that hides such a sexy voice, thanks in advance mate.
9:27 The way you say "It's a chicken-o-meter!" in such a cheery way had me laughing. Thank you for the video, I'd love to implement a chicken-o-meter if I ever get the chance.
I thought this, too. Chicken and meat with a bone through it have been pretty iconic for health, so I was fully expecting this to be a video exploring that.
I remember one of my favorite childhood games, "Sarge's Heroes" about playing as a plastic soldier. There was a face of Sarge on the screen that got more and more melty and messed up as you got damaged.
Oh man, this is a pleasant surprise. Your "The Secret of Monkey Island" came out recently, so I thought we wouldn't get another video for a while. Very happy to see this.
What I find crazy about his videos, is the fact that he makes everything on his own. At first I thought that this was like a company of sorts kinda like watch mojo because of the incredible quality of the editing and overall design.
Except WatchMojo is bland, boring, repetitive, and plays things far too safe. Ahoy puts genuine time and effort into putting out fantastic quality-over-quantity content.
Moral of the story: we should *CELEBRATE* the weird. Also, Doom had the face getting more bloody, which may or may not fit your definition of the idea...and, there was this other game nobody's heard of, that got inspired by the idea. That's called, The Way of the Badass.
Mrlegitbeans reminds me of a very old (like 5 or 6 years ago) video series made called Digressing and Sidequesting which was a very unfortunately short-lived side series to Game Theory. In fact I'm like 90% certain he did a video on health bars like Ahoy's too. Just type digressing and sidequesting and the playlist should come up and it won't take up too much time because I don't think even 10 videos of D&S got made
You know it's a good video when you actually watch the video and it's good. I like Ahoy just as much as the next guy but there's no need to be so biased yeah? I'm sure Ahoy would prefer it that way.
Stuart, everything you do is the epitome of quality. I spent four days with the vector of the chicken bones in my head wanting to see this video and I was not remotely disappointed with the watch. Please keep doing what you're doing. Your content is glorious and you are an inspiration to video creators everywhere. Thanks.
I found your channel two weeks ago and it seems like I have been blessed. This video was just something. I agree. The chicken-o-meter is brilliant and breaking conventions is what brings innovation.
When Ahoy uploads, the world stands still. People stop whatever they're doing, streets clog with cars as people jump out and find somewhere with wifi, firefighters let buildings burn, people having surgery are taken off anesthetic, and wars being fought come to a ceasefire as everyone scrambles to a computer.
Just want to say Ahoy, coming from an old-school gamer, thank you. Your vids are a great archive of information for anyone who appreciates gaming history.
Pity that you missed "Nemesis the Warlock" on the C-64. It was the most gut-wrenching chicken-o-meter at that point - or, indeed, any point: your life energy was represented by an anatomically correct heart held in an open hand. As you took hits, the hand would progressively close around that heart (making your blood drip) and when it reached the end, the game re-played the stages of the animation back and forth several times in a fluent movement with matching sound effect. I have never had my lifeblood squeezed out of me in a similarly cruel fashion. Come to think of it, none of the examples listed here come close. You should definitely check this game out. 😀
Yeah, Primal Rage had chicken-o-meters next to the standard fighting game health bars in the form of a beating heart. As you took damage, your heart would beat faster until you were defeated, at which point it would explode in a bloody mess.
And today's trend is "Pulsating/Bloody Camera" I wonder if we will go full circle and go back to these animated "Chicken-o-meters" or devs will create something different
No matter what kind of subject his videos are on, he will always make it as engaging and interesting as possible. I would literally watch a documentary on coffee by him.
The best implemented life bar I've ever encountered was in Dead Space were the segmented spine indicates how much hp is left. Makes sense and doesn't unnecessarily obscure the screen.
Only now noticed this video. I'm a big fan of these type of health indicators and I've been ripping many of them in GIF format for my personal amusement. :) I personally call these skeletonization health bars, but I like the sound of Chicken-o-Meter and I understand where that name came from. Anyway, this video had 8 games that I was missing GIF animations from, so thanks for bringing these games to my attention. :) Here's some more chicken-o-meter examples that weren't featured on this video: Nemesis the Warlock (1987, Martech Games) Fright Night (1988, MicroDeal) Batman: Caped Crusader (1988+, Ocean Software) Rambo III (1988+, Ocean Software) Dragon Scape (1989, Wicked Software & Software Horizons) Storm Warrior (1989, Elite Systems) Gladiators (1989, Smash 16) MOT (1989, Opera Soft) Soviet (1990, Opera Soft) The Amazing Spider-Man (1990, Paragon Software) B.S.S Jane Seymour (1990, Gremin Graphics) / Spacewrecked (1991, Gremlin Graphics) James Pond series (1990+) Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991, Ocean Software) Deliverance (1992+, 21st Century Entertainment) Veil of Darkness (1993+, Strategic Simulations & Ving) Nitemare 3-D (1994, Gray Design Associates) Warlock (1994, Trimark Interactive, Acclaim, LJN) Tower of Souls (1995, Black Legend Software) Millennium Soldier: Expendable (1999+, Infogrames) Tweety and the Magic Gems (2001, Kotobuki System) RoboCop (2002, Titus, GBA prototype)
I always appreciated Spyro the Dragon having your health be represented by Sparx rather than just a health bar. It's both a cool visual, keeps the screen free of hud clutter, and also makes Sparx feel a bit more like a part of your adventure rather than just a generic buddy character.
Amazing video Stu. Showcasing the Chicken-o-meter and then in term health bars, energy meters and/or life gauge now come into fruition in video games, mostly fighting games. All in all, GLORIOUS Video Stu. 10/10
as always, an absolute pleasure to watch any Ahoy videos! Often a blast from the past, always interesting takes on things you may or may not have noticed and thought about before.
Dang it, Ahoy is so darn good! He's the best CZcamsr...the best flipping CZcamsr ever! I respect someone who creates this much content from scratch. It makes his videos... *HIS.* You know what I mean?
Cavey Manta As someone who’s been subscribed to his channel for 8 years (my first ever video I watched of XboxAhoy was the M16A4 weapon guide), I’ve found a few great videos with him in it that pretty much *nobody* knows about. 2 are interviews, 2 are long lost weapon guides that had to be taken down from Ahoy’s channel and the other is a video someone made about him. However, the 3rd video listed here has a picture of Stu and is technically the first ever face reveal of Ahoy: czcams.com/video/nJdJU7eUkNw/video.html czcams.com/video/8BE91v0Hi7M/video.html czcams.com/video/sUBhD_iHil4/video.html czcams.com/video/3BFvX_rzWV0/video.html czcams.com/video/9tFgKoqQujE/video.html
I thought so too, and I was expecting this to be a condemnation towards health mechanics in modern games and how they created that behavior in contrast to the era of one hit deaths that came before it.
MaverickDoesEveryhing that's kinda the joke. Although, to tell you guys the truth, with how successful Fortnite is, and assuming UT has a decent enough following, they'll actually be able to put more money into it. Hopefully they look at it, and decent arena shooters need to make a comeback
Well, I hope so too. But we've gotta be realist here: unless they pull out some miracolous stunt, it's not going to come back. the BR formula works *too* good for them to leave the comfort zone, they're making money with microtransactions and loot crates out of a free to play game. Pretty much like Valve did with TF2. They'll be simply going to milk it as long as they can.
You make the best video game documentary style videos on youtube man, please don't ever stop making them. These are the best way to relive old games for a moment, while seeing where they live/d in the gaming environment. Thankyou!!
Was not expecting to see the Knightmare health meter in this video! Brings back happy memories, I was actually on the show in 1989, we lasted 2 episodes (just) and died by walking off a ledge. Happy days!
My favorite was the health bar/chicken-o-meter combo from Primal Rage. The bar was a big artery coming out of a beating heart that would beat faster and faster as your health depleted. When you run out of health, the heart explodes into a bloody mess. Good fun!
I swear every video you get closer to videos you love and enjoying it with putting your own opinions into your video. If without your enjoyment of the chickenometrer, I would have never seen this
Thanks for you videos. They just really make my day. I'm extremely happy that i found your channel. I'm really into the retro games. And your RetroAhoy videos are just something. You deserve more than a million of subscribers. Don't lose your will to make a great content.
3 minutes after posting I click hoping for the 1st comment, and find that I'm the 70th comment. Need to be much quicker on the old toes but it just goes to show the amazing buzz there is for every new Ahoy video. Keep it going my good man :-)
We've been blessed with 2 Ahoy videos in the same 8 months
Indeimaus when is the new darksoul video man
health souls?
My G
hold your horses - this decade is not over yet.
Wheres vid on remaster dad
"Why?"
"Because it was cool."
Gives me chills.
You can see that line coming from a mile away, but it's still delivered so perfectly that the impact isn't negated at all.
Every line that Ahoy delivers is perfect. He could say, "Poppity pop pop" and I'd be blown away.
in doomguy's case I'd say it's more of a way to identify with the protagonist.. to show that it's not just a pair disembodied hands doing combat
You know why it gives you chills?
"Because it was cool" ba dum tss!
When you think about it one of the first "Chicken-o-meter" type bars was hangman.
Every time you fail
you get closer to death
depicted with a representation.
Sound familiar?
I think you’re on to something there
That's a great point, hangman was probably the analog granddaddy of all health bars.
"Depicted with a representation" is probably as little information as you could possibly give someone.
@@lethauntic If they were dumb as fuck yeah, but a normal person can tell a rope getting closer to your neck isn't good.
I read that in his voice.
"ornate piece of poultry" Never gonna hear that string of words again.
"ornate piece of poultry"
"ornate piece of poultry"
"ornate piece of poultry"
"ornate piece of poultry"
"ornate piece of poultry"
you can, play the video again
this man is a factory of quotable lines
I love how all these videos just end up with Doom
These videos are...well...doomed.
Hey, you can't make a video about games and not eventually end up at Doom lol.
@@ThomasNimmesgern quite simple it was that influential
or the Amiga
I love that half the people who used an actual chicken for their chicken-o-meter never bothered to look at what a chicken skeleton looks like! "How many ribs do chickens have?" "Dunno, like fifty. Just cram in as many as you can."
A lesson modern videogame developers need to learn:
"Why? Because it's cool."
rule of cool
@@samcavanagh7993 yes.
it's the opposite. game devs only do things because they think it's cool
They're... pretty cool
@@DevinDTV Indie* developers. It's a pretty easy way to compensate for bad design.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY STU!!!
why is there MMXVIII or 2018 on here?
im subscribing because you payed attention. Not only to him but to you.
@@frostytheiceberg1127 sorry?
I've no idea what in the world is going on here..
@@fuzzydunlop1753 same.
"Doomguy is the Chicken-o-meter's long lost cousin."
I don't think that has ever been said before.
Chickenguy
@@door-to-doorhentaisaleswom7012 familyguy
If you see Ahoy, expect to see Doom.
TheUKNutter Obsession is a serial killer
176 likes, so I’m gonna post a massive gold mine for you guys. I’ve found a few great videos with Ahoy in it that pretty much *nobody* knows about.
2 are interviews, 2 are long lost weapon guides that had to be taken down from Ahoy’s channel and the other is a video someone made about him. However, the 3rd video listed here has a picture of Stu and is technically the first ever face reveal of Ahoy:
czcams.com/video/nJdJU7eUkNw/video.html
czcams.com/video/8BE91v0Hi7M/video.html
czcams.com/video/sUBhD_iHil4/video.html
czcams.com/video/3BFvX_rzWV0/video.html
czcams.com/video/9tFgKoqQujE/video.html
Being subscribed for 8 yesrs since the M16A4 MW2 Weapon Guide has given me some knowledge about this guy!
KInda late, sorry for that, but would you mind pointing out which one of the 5 guys in the picture is Stu ? I'm really curious about the face that hides such a sexy voice, thanks in advance mate.
Omnipotent duckling The man in the middle.
TheUKNutter as a semi new fan of ahoy (2years) thank you for the links
"it's kind of rare" I see what you did there :D
eww rare chicken
@@vaiyt Yummy, salmonellalicious!
Rare chicken and the studio company name, rare
9:27 The way you say "It's a chicken-o-meter!" in such a cheery way had me laughing. Thank you for the video, I'd love to implement a chicken-o-meter if I ever get the chance.
Says it like David Attenborough finding a bird.
I always saw this chicken-o-meter as the evolution of the “HANGMAN” game, kids play with pen and paper
Right, nice for noticing that.
Michafrar I thought of Minecraft and its hunger bar
@@derpythean-comdoge8608 that's literally just a basic conventional status bar
I was expecting discussion of the Chicken-o-meter to eventually tie into the trope of chicken being a health pickup.
"wall chicken" always my favorite. chicken hidden in secret area behind walls. like Castlevania and Wolfenstein
I thought this, too. Chicken and meat with a bone through it have been pretty iconic for health, so I was fully expecting this to be a video exploring that.
"Winner! Winner! Chicken dinner!"
Runs away :-)
i was expecting to see minecraft's chicken bar
STREETS OF RAGE
After this video I bet several indie game developers gonna make chicken-o-meter health bar for their games
I'm probably going to use it atleast once
I'd love it.
Always get excited to see you've uploaded ^_^
Underrated
My health is at 100 now. Thanks for replenishing us.
No, your health is a full chicken!
Atic Atac. The original Binding of Isaac.
Wow it's true, I always saw it as a Smash TV
5:46 You kinda glossed over one of the most awesome life bars I've ever seen. You move closer to the grave, that's just so cool.
Another version of hangman esentially
I remember one of my favorite childhood games, "Sarge's Heroes" about playing as a plastic soldier. There was a face of Sarge on the screen that got more and more melty and messed up as you got damaged.
"And why? - Because it was Cool! "
haha !
And why? BECAUSE I'M BATMAN!!!
Authentic Chicken-o-meter™
Oh man, this is a pleasant surprise. Your "The Secret of Monkey Island" came out recently, so I thought we wouldn't get another video for a while. Very happy to see this.
5:52
"Oof"
Meme intensifies.
Did the ROBLOX death sound, before it was cool.
Perfectly decribes gandi in the civilizations games
@@thingthing2773
Get the nukes.
yES ANOTHER MASTERPIECE AND SO SOON
ein lappen I was thinking the same thing
oH FUK DONT TELL KEE-SAMA
... Tavros? Is that you, M8? >):^?
Yes! Everything Ahoy makes is a masterpiece well worth the wait. He is my favorite Tuber
What I find crazy about his videos, is the fact that he makes everything on his own.
At first I thought that this was like a company of sorts kinda like watch mojo because of the incredible quality of the editing and overall design.
stuart the legend
Except WatchMojo is bland, boring, repetitive, and plays things far too safe. Ahoy puts genuine time and effort into putting out fantastic quality-over-quantity content.
Ikr his stuff is amazing.
>watchmojo
>incredible quality
what?
spooK_xd
You can say what you want but watchmojo has a very clean standard style.
Moral of the story: we should *CELEBRATE* the weird.
Also, Doom had the face getting more bloody, which may or may not fit your definition of the idea...and, there was this other game nobody's heard of, that got inspired by the idea. That's called, The Way of the Badass.
9:50
🎵 Is this real life? Is this just fantasy? 🎵
I can't believe you uploaded again.
Simte Queen is awesome
caught in a land slide
Don't wake up. ;)
I'm just a poor boy
ok Stuart this comment is a sign of something
I really like the fact how you can extrapolate a larger theme from just a simple topic like health bars. Kudos once again.
Mrlegitbeans reminds me of a very old (like 5 or 6 years ago) video series made called Digressing and Sidequesting which was a very unfortunately short-lived side series to Game Theory. In fact I'm like 90% certain he did a video on health bars like Ahoy's too. Just type digressing and sidequesting and the playlist should come up and it won't take up too much time because I don't think even 10 videos of D&S got made
Amazingly Awkward the host of that show committed suicide about a month ago...
So sad...
You know it's a good video when Ahoy uploads 💚
JedDraws especially when he hasn't uploaded in 9 months
You know it's a good video when you actually watch the video and it's good.
I like Ahoy just as much as the next guy but there's no need to be so biased yeah? I'm sure Ahoy would prefer it that way.
Stuart, everything you do is the epitome of quality. I spent four days with the vector of the chicken bones in my head wanting to see this video and I was not remotely disappointed with the watch. Please keep doing what you're doing. Your content is glorious and you are an inspiration to video creators everywhere. Thanks.
I found your channel two weeks ago and it seems like I have been blessed. This video was just something. I agree. The chicken-o-meter is brilliant and breaking conventions is what brings innovation.
I'm absolute in awe with how you edit the UI that works with the theme of the video. It's brilliant.
Hemang Chauhan And the voice
in awe at the edition of this lad, ABSOLUTE UNIT
My chicken-o-meter is rock hard
Meaty
I thought this was going to be a video about how enemies turn into food for health pickups 😂
Thought Stu said "...and until lunch time, farewell"
This is the best thing to wake up to after finals
I like your art
Gummy Snare thank you :)
Tell me about it
You’re everywhere now.
Ikr
When Ahoy uploads, the world stands still. People stop whatever they're doing, streets clog with cars as people jump out and find somewhere with wifi, firefighters let buildings burn, people having surgery are taken off anesthetic, and wars being fought come to a ceasefire as everyone scrambles to a computer.
Screen shot Dis shit !
Pewdiepie rises from his chair and Edgar delays the stinky inevitable.
Now thats more in line with the type of writing demostrated here
Could not said it any better
He manged to make chicken slowly getting eaten sound intimidating.
Just want to say Ahoy, coming from an old-school gamer, thank you. Your vids are a great archive of information for anyone who appreciates gaming history.
how can a video about a health bar be so fuckin good
Pity that you missed "Nemesis the Warlock" on the C-64. It was the most gut-wrenching chicken-o-meter at that point - or, indeed, any point: your life energy was represented by an anatomically correct heart held in an open hand. As you took hits, the hand would progressively close around that heart (making your blood drip) and when it reached the end, the game re-played the stages of the animation back and forth several times in a fluent movement with matching sound effect. I have never had my lifeblood squeezed out of me in a similarly cruel fashion. Come to think of it, none of the examples listed here come close. You should definitely check this game out. 😀
Primal Rage does something similar, even though it still prominently uses a traditional health bar.
Yeah, Primal Rage had chicken-o-meters next to the standard fighting game health bars in the form of a beating heart. As you took damage, your heart would beat faster until you were defeated, at which point it would explode in a bloody mess.
We were lucky with the chicken-o-meter. It could easily have turned out to be a poultry effort.
...I'll get my coat.
Mocking slaughtered birds is rather fowl
God can you imagine if Ahoy and LEMMiNO collaborated?
I'm a simple man. I see an Ahoy video - I click like, and then I watch it.
filip000 I do that with every video. It’s become a habit so I sometimes click like on a bad video that I meant to dislike.
And today's trend is "Pulsating/Bloody Camera"
I wonder if we will go full circle and go back to these animated "Chicken-o-meters" or devs will create something different
No matter what kind of subject his videos are on, he will always make it as engaging and interesting as possible.
I would literally watch a documentary on coffee by him.
Beautifully done, compact, and always standing out from staple videos. This is why I enjoy your content all the time. Once again, thank you!
*Might be failing my exams but at least I’m doing it in style...*
- "Why did you bring a roast chicken to your exam???"
+ "Well, you see..."
His production rate has gone up.
Vito C
Slightly yes, but this video is relatively short. The last one was almost seven times as long. Excellent work nonetheless.
Vito C it's gone up over 9000 percent!
The best implemented life bar I've ever encountered was in Dead Space were the segmented spine indicates how much hp is left. Makes sense and doesn't unnecessarily obscure the screen.
It's rare that a video anticipates every one of my thoughts and addresses them before I can post in the comments! Well done!
Finally, some Ahoy content.
My Ahoy-o-meter was going down.
No way he is back this fast :o
Only now noticed this video. I'm a big fan of these type of health indicators and I've been ripping many of them in GIF format for my personal amusement. :) I personally call these skeletonization health bars, but I like the sound of Chicken-o-Meter and I understand where that name came from.
Anyway, this video had 8 games that I was missing GIF animations from, so thanks for bringing these games to my attention. :) Here's some more chicken-o-meter examples that weren't featured on this video:
Nemesis the Warlock (1987, Martech Games)
Fright Night (1988, MicroDeal)
Batman: Caped Crusader (1988+, Ocean Software)
Rambo III (1988+, Ocean Software)
Dragon Scape (1989, Wicked Software & Software Horizons)
Storm Warrior (1989, Elite Systems)
Gladiators (1989, Smash 16)
MOT (1989, Opera Soft)
Soviet (1990, Opera Soft)
The Amazing Spider-Man (1990, Paragon Software)
B.S.S Jane Seymour (1990, Gremin Graphics) / Spacewrecked (1991, Gremlin Graphics)
James Pond series (1990+)
Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991, Ocean Software)
Deliverance (1992+, 21st Century Entertainment)
Veil of Darkness (1993+, Strategic Simulations & Ving)
Nitemare 3-D (1994, Gray Design Associates)
Warlock (1994, Trimark Interactive, Acclaim, LJN)
Tower of Souls (1995, Black Legend Software)
Millennium Soldier: Expendable (1999+, Infogrames)
Tweety and the Magic Gems (2001, Kotobuki System)
RoboCop (2002, Titus, GBA prototype)
If I wasn't really sleepy I'd be ecstatic to see this in my recommendations page, _always_ worth watching
I always appreciated Spyro the Dragon having your health be represented by Sparx rather than just a health bar. It's both a cool visual, keeps the screen free of hud clutter, and also makes Sparx feel a bit more like a part of your adventure rather than just a generic buddy character.
It's a good day when Ahoy uploads
It's also a good month when he uploads 2 videos
Amazing video Stu. Showcasing the Chicken-o-meter and then in term health bars, energy meters and/or life gauge now come into fruition in video games, mostly fighting games. All in all, GLORIOUS Video Stu. 10/10
The first PC game, spacewar, pitted two ships against one another and they had shield meters. It came out in 1962
Also, the chicken o'meter... that's just fowl.
2 Videos this close of release dates together? Did heaven open its doors to us in life?
The quality of your videos is absolutely stunning. Keep up the good work!!
as always, an absolute pleasure to watch any Ahoy videos! Often a blast from the past, always interesting takes on things you may or may not have noticed and thought about before.
Ahoy’s soundtrack is extremely underrated. I highly recommend you check it out.
He actually has a soundtrack? Ermagerd. It isn't canned royalty free music?! (Not saying that I think it's canned. It sounds really darn good). =O
Cavey Manta 75% of his videos he makes his own soundtrack. The polybius video is technically an entire album
Dang it, Ahoy is so darn good! He's the best CZcamsr...the best flipping CZcamsr ever! I respect someone who creates this much content from scratch. It makes his videos... *HIS.* You know what I mean?
Cavey Manta As someone who’s been subscribed to his channel for 8 years (my first ever video I watched of XboxAhoy was the M16A4 weapon guide), I’ve found a few great videos with him in it that pretty much *nobody* knows about.
2 are interviews, 2 are long lost weapon guides that had to be taken down from Ahoy’s channel and the other is a video someone made about him. However, the 3rd video listed here has a picture of Stu and is technically the first ever face reveal of Ahoy:
czcams.com/video/nJdJU7eUkNw/video.html
czcams.com/video/8BE91v0Hi7M/video.html
czcams.com/video/sUBhD_iHil4/video.html
czcams.com/video/3BFvX_rzWV0/video.html
czcams.com/video/9tFgKoqQujE/video.html
Ooh, this is a gold mine. Thanks, man! I actually got introduced to Ahoy no more than half a year ago, which is kind of sad...
I thought this was going to be about the floor chicken of streets of rage and tekken force
Eneas H. And castlevania games, too
*Chomp* "CHICKEN?!"
Thought is was gunna be about the correlation of health and how much of a chicken you are. High health= lots of risk, low health = highly cautious
I thought so too, and I was expecting this to be a condemnation towards health mechanics in modern games and how they created that behavior in contrast to the era of one hit deaths that came before it.
Man the way that you converted all of the retro video game clips to 60fps for editing made them look BADASS
Never clicked so fast in my life
WHEN DO WE GET UNREAL TOURNAMENT RETROAHOY
Novaseer tbh, probably when the new one finally actually drops
UT4 will never come out. It's a playable tech demo showing off the UE4's capability.
MaverickDoesEveryhing that's kinda the joke.
Although, to tell you guys the truth, with how successful Fortnite is, and assuming UT has a decent enough following, they'll actually be able to put more money into it. Hopefully they look at it, and decent arena shooters need to make a comeback
Well, I hope so too. But we've gotta be realist here: unless they pull out some miracolous stunt, it's not going to come back. the BR formula works *too* good for them to leave the comfort zone, they're making money with microtransactions and loot crates out of a free to play game. Pretty much like Valve did with TF2. They'll be simply going to milk it as long as they can.
Once Epic Games can get its head out of its wallet then we can have our UT 2017
loved the transition from the chicken-o-meter, to id's pioneer FPS-o-meters... made my day!
You make the best video game documentary style videos on youtube man, please don't ever stop making them. These are the best way to relive old games for a moment, while seeing where they live/d in the gaming environment. Thankyou!!
Impressed by your research, plus the deadline since your prev. upload. Keep it up!
Already? Ahoy, you are a God
I honestly love these videos, the quality is good, the editing is awesome, and the narration is amazing. I hope to see a lot more in the future.
Was not expecting to see the Knightmare health meter in this video! Brings back happy memories, I was actually on the show in 1989, we lasted 2 episodes (just) and died by walking off a ledge. Happy days!
Came for your voice stayed for the chicken
Wtf? Is it 6 months already?!
cms1138 it's been 9 months
Well no its been 3 weeks. It was a joke
cms1138 He was joking.
why does that music sound so nostalgic, hearing it for the first time
My favorite was the health bar/chicken-o-meter combo from Primal Rage. The bar was a big artery coming out of a beating heart that would beat faster and faster as your health depleted. When you run out of health, the heart explodes into a bloody mess. Good fun!
A new video two weeks after the last one?
Is this a signal of the end times...?!
Amazing video, liked and subscribed.
Wait how is your comment from two days ago?
Vanessa Magick 2 days ago?!
Now wait 5 months
People who pledge to the Ahoy Patreon get early video access.
Get ready for some great content, my friend.
"Doomguy is the Chicken-o-meter's long lost cousin."
you don't hear that often.
Great written. great video.
I swear every video you get closer to videos you love and enjoying it with putting your own opinions into your video. If without your enjoyment of the chickenometrer, I would have never seen this
Ahoy your voice makes my thighs tremble
You know the health meter I like? The melty face skull one from the TV show Knightmare. There's nothing more terrifying...
It reminded me of the skulls from Commandos, too detailed for me in my childhood ; _ ;
Thanks for you videos. They just really make my day. I'm extremely happy that i found your channel. I'm really into the retro games. And your RetroAhoy videos are just something. You deserve more than a million of subscribers. Don't lose your will to make a great content.
That's some sick synth. I dig the music.
3 minutes after posting I click hoping for the 1st comment, and find that I'm the 70th comment. Need to be much quicker on the old toes but it just goes to show the amazing buzz there is for every new Ahoy video. Keep it going my good man :-)
Thank God you uploaded. Quality over quantity.
The writing and production quality of your videogame vids are way above average.
"But what innovation came without bravery?"
True that.
I loved the video. I was kind of sad that the chicken-based hunger meter in Minecraft never made a cameo though. :p
The Kush Connoisseur that’s not actually your “health”
More like it is your “hunger”
Minecraft is too bad for this man
Fantastic video! Glad I got to see it early thanks to the Ahoy Patreon!
I just love your channel so much. The amount of effort put into making the videos is top notch
Love, love, love these videos so much. Great way to start the weekend
Frequent ahoy uploads? Am I in heaven?
not expecting a video this fast
I love your videos
the best part of my year, an ahoy video!