I'm glad to hear Jared recognise the quality of the Street Fighter movie. Guile's inspiring rallying cry to his troops is perhaps the greatest speech in the history of cinema, rivalled only by President Whitmore in Independence Day.
Clearly they used to be. I was subscribed in the early 2000's and they were a lot more generous, but they also had a lot less third party support that wasn't for their handhelds in the 64-Gamecube era
That's why I laugh when I hear people complain about $59.99 games in 2023. There were $89.99 games in 1993! Lol! Games are like the one thing that has resisted inflation.
@@chriskoschik391 strangely true yeah. lots of dumb crud going on in game production but artificial price hikes are definitely not one of them. I mean maybe they are now, going up to 70 from 60, but whatever.
I always noticed how the live-action movie from the 90s and american cartoon show was seemingly trying to make the Street Fighters like some team force going against the Shadoloo comparable to G.I. Joe and Cobra, and the commercial for the figures outright just has Guile having "G.I. Joe" on his vest to hammer in that was exactly how they saw it.
Sign.. I miss Rik Mayall (the guy in the commercial at the end there) He was a gem. This weeks been shitty for losses, so appreciate the Friday piece of joy all the more, buddies! Thanks for the effort you go through for this little piece of nostalgia. ♥
As an Iron Maiden fan, I somehow find it hilarious that one of the EGM reviewers' name is Steve Harris And thank you editor Dylan, for showing the entire Nigel Mansell commercial. RIP Rik Mayall
Having Street Fighter and Final Fight in a single episode is just fitting, love the saga ever since the first Street Fighter (yes I'm that guy) and continue to play with SF6. Also a big fan of Splatterhouse!
Final Fight and Splatterhouse in the same episode?? Considering the resurgence of beat'em ups we've been getting with Streets of Rage 4 and TMNT: Shredder's Revenge I say it's as good a time as any to revive either of these franchises
Splatterhouse 3 terrified the living shite out of me when I was like…5?! The boreworm consuming Jennifer is horrifying, especially when it eats her brain and she becomes a mindless beast. I always remember the clumsy line ‘Jennifer smells…the rot of the grave’. For some reason that still disturbs me ha! It’s a great game albeit difficult however.
We rented Techno Clash once as kids because I thought it was gonna be like Shadowrun, but it turned out more like "We have Shadowrun at home" instead. Also, Top Gear holds a special place in my heart mainly because of the music.
I’ll never forget how my dad bought me Street Fighter II Turbo for the Genesis. I believe it had something like a $75 price tag at launch! Sadly, I never got to play the game. My mom made him return it because she said it was “too violent”. Now that I think about it, I guess this is why I’m still a gamer at age 38!
This episode was a banger! Loved it from beginning to end. The commercials were on point, too. Nigel Mansell as played by Rik Mayall, AKA Drop Dead Fred. 🤣
As for the next episode: Final Fantasy Adventure (Sword of Mana) or Final Fantasy legend (The first in the SaGa series), Shinobi 3, and Wing commander for either the SNES or Sega CD. Interesting
I really needed this episode after a shitty week and Friday morning. Thanks you guys. You make me laugh and put a smile on my face, and help rekindle the love of gaming I've carried with me since childhood. Rock on. Also...that Nigel Mansell commercial was hilarious.
For anyone wondering what the hell was going on with that ad, it starred the late great Rik Mayall, an anarchic UK comedian famous for comedy TV series like Bottom, The Young Ones, and Man Down. He was also Flasheart in Blackadder. Nintendo wanted their UK ads to be a bit more edgy to compete with Sega, so they paid a very hefty sum to Rik, who was famously utterly mental, to make them. Apparently he bought a very nice house with the money.
...For the last year or so, I've been remembering an old top-down game I played as a kid, kind of an RPG, kind of not, that had you defeating enemies with spells, and involved weird technology and Las Vegas. I vividly remembered all of those details, but not the character names or the game's name. I'm so happy that the last pieces of that puzzle just happened to be in this episode, now I can properly remember Technoclash for the weird, fun, clunky game it was.
That commercial for the Street Fighter toys is so hilariously 90s, complete with the ridiculous effects in there with the actors. I miss when toy commercials were like that.
Well, technically Street Fighter 2 Turbo had 2 versions seperated into 2 modes at the main menu. There was the Turbo mode, which was based on Street Fighter 2 Hyper Fighting and Normal Mode which was based on Street Fighter 2 Champion Edition. Sega pretty much did the same with their special champion edition, but we get to that next month. :P
Honestly, the entire version history is far more complicated (and different) that he suggests. Most odd is that when he talks about the "original" SF2 he shows the bootleg "Rainbow" logo but he doesn't mention that "Turbo" exists because of and is greatly inspired by "Rainbow".
@@kyleolson8977 he also showed the wrong logo for super street fighter II. instead of the logo for that (yes there is a difference), he showed super turbo and glossed over the fact that super and super turbo count as different itterations. hyper street figher II wasn't released until 2003-04. 10 years after the actual super turbo.
@@Dekomata He did mention that Super SF2 "would get its own Turbo edition", but they also missed Super SF2 Turbo Revival for GBA. It's not much of an update, just has a few stages changed and adds Shin Akuma, so maybe it doesn't count.
Always great to see this every week. I never played Final Fight 2 but Maki was my fave in Capcom vs SNK 2 home version. Also, today is my birthday! So this is another wonderful gift.
I remember only being able to play Splatterhouse 3 from a place where we rented out consoles. It scared the crap out of me and as that gaming magazine said, it did give me nightmares, not due in small part to the digitized cutscenes. Weird that I have fond memories of it nowadays and really consider Splatterhouse a really good IP because of it. Wish we could get another one of those.
I'm heartbroken. Editor Dylan didn't care for second favorite racing game (behind Mario Kart) on the SNES. Nigel Mansell's World Championship is where I started to understand how cars worked and all of the music was amazing, especially the racing theme, which you oddly enough had to opt-in on. It wouldn't normally play in default setting.
Good on Editor Dylan for using the consumer price index! That's something you should consider in the collector's corner. Splatter House 3 being worth $80 today but the original MSRP of $65 means that someone who bought and held on to it *lost* real purchasing power.
Hi guys, just wanted to say I kinda needed this episode. Tomorrow I'm going back home, returning to my same old routine as always. The last three weeks on the Alps have been more of a blast than usual, also thanks to a friend opening up more about feelings we never talked about before. The feeling is bittersweet every year, leaning more towards the bitter end this time. The little joys in life always help, and Now In The 90's is one of them. So... thank you for doing this every week. You guys rock.
@@Xhalonick It was not supposed to be overly relatable - it was about letting this out. It's not the first time Now In The 90's has gotten me out of a blue period anyway
Don't mind the other guy trying to rile you up; it's more than fine for you to express your thanks and gratitude to a creator for helping you through a difficult time. It's a part of why we do what we do, after all!
@@ToshisGarden not trying to rile anybody up lmao. Just saying dudes comment looks like this and as a member of the internet I enjoy calling out cringe when I see it: *huge paragraph about how hard their life is after having a three week vacation in a beautiful mountain range but is a little less hard thanks to a video about retro games* Thanks for the diary entry XD
Every time you show a commercial I get transported back to my living room in the 90s. And it is both an elation and a punch in the feels. Keep up the fantastic work
Oh wow! Looks like I’ve played five games from this week’s episode. Of the five, Street Fighter II Turbo is my favorite and it’s also my preferred way of playing single player Street Fighter on the Super Nintendo. Super Street Fighter II’s difficulty was too much for me but the difficulty in Turbo feels just right.
OH MY GOD the guy in that advertisement at the end was Rik Mayall! Famous late British comedian known for slapstick "sitcoms" like Bottom and The Young Ones, as well as movies like Drop Dead Fred. He was also in Blackadder a couple times (Lord Flashheart), so I'm assuming there are at least a few Americans here that'll maybe recognise him, or at least think he sounds familiar.
He was meant to play peeves the polteageist in harry potter the philosopher's/sorcerer's stone but his scenes were cut would haved loved to see him in it though
I remember us renting Street Fighter II Turbo from Pharmhouse. May have been shortly after it came out, and the person working the register commented that we were the first to rent it. Also, my brother had rented Final Fight 2. Got to play it after coming back from the dentist.
This was shown in 1998 Commercial "Like one of those small Portable (Things)" where the announcer says "Never Ever buy these Expensive Cartridges again". (On Street Fighter II only).
I get home from a long, stressful week of IT work. Now in the 90s is a perfect way to unwind and prep myself for the weekend with a smile. --- Daye Adens, GamePro Magazine (not really GamePro magazine but always wanted to when I 'grew up')
Not surprised that Street Fighter 6 was mentioned in the Final Fight 2 review, but AM surprised that it was just the Mike Haggar statue mentioned and not that Carlos himself appears in PERSON as a cameo.
I still own Super Off Road: The Baja. I always thought it was crazy that you'd lose more money by hitting a deer than you would by running over a guy on an ATV. The game was legitimately pretty great. Not a system seller by any means but certainly a fun racer that always felt fun to go back to.
Man, that advert for Nigel Mansell's World Championship Racing - I forgot Nintendo UK got Rik Mayall to do a few ads for them in the early 90s, and the guy's a legend who left us all way too soon.
So many versions of Street Fighter 2, and I only had the original! Maybe it's strange, but in my mind, being able to play as one of the four bosses still feels weird.
Here's something interesting: Nigel Mansell's world championship had a romhack, back in the day, in Brazil called Ayrton Senna Racing. It's the same game, pretty much, but they add Senna's face during practice mode and... There's a song that plays during racing! So it's a better game, much like how Senna was a better pilot.
In the movie Wreck-it Ralph the first character to mention "going turbo" was M. Bison of Street Fighter fame. While I can't confirm this, I think that was a nod to the fact that Street Fighter 2: Turbo was the first game in the series to allow playing as the villains.
i really enjoy these and look forward to each friday to seeing em, its so strange seeing sometimes games that are now 30 years old but meh they were so good back then
It's worth noting one of the things that kicked off the series of Street Fighter II enhancements was a mod called Street Fighter II Rainbow Edition. It cranked the game speed up, allowed Ryu and Ken to do multiple Hadokens in succession, Guile's Sonic Boom gained honing, etc. James Goddard, who did design support on Hyper Fighting, played it and told Capcom they needed an update. Development started immediately afterward. The rest is history!
That British Nigel Mansell ad was fantastic. For those who are curious, the main person in that ad is Rick Mayall, a well known British actor/comedian.
I love the running gag in High School Girl, which takes place in the early 90’s, where every time a new version of Street Fighter II comes out the characters all ask “Where’s Street Fighter III?” Next month if Plok! Month! Don’t let him be diddled again!
Fun fact: Street Fighter II Turbo was the only Street Fighter game to be on the SNES Classic. I'm guessing because of the popularity that it was this version of the game and not Super II.
Ohhhh StarTrek next gen for gameboy!!! I had that! it's a really cool sim if you know what you are doing. The control are clunky but you get used to it. basically you get a quest from picard and to just do what he told you. Like go to planet A to pick up an ambassador and drop him off to planet B. So you warp there, go into orbit, beam the dude, warp to the next planet, maybe fight 1 or 2 ship, orbit the planet, beam down the dude. so the game is a bunch a small mission like that.
Splatterhouse is such an iconic game. I’ve only ever played the first one, once or twice, But they are an absolute treat to see in action, graphically. Probably an unpopular opinion. But i think its one of the best games sega had to offer. Sonic is alright…. But SPLATTERHOUSE?! That stuff scratches my horror and heavy metal itch. One game I’d love to see a movie adaptation of. Just a guy in a mask going berserk, fighting against grotesque creatures in an attempt to save his wife and son.
I really wish that Capcom would have included Final Fight 2 and 3 on one or the other Capcom Classics Collection disks for PS2. Almost all of the games were arcade games but the first CCC disk did include Super Ghouls N' Ghosts, another game that debuted on the SNES.
I remember getting SF2Turbo at Wherehouse Music and spend hours on it a day. Final Fight 2 we rented it at first but we end up buying the Japanese version because it was cheaper than the US version when we bought it for some odd reason. But it's fine because it was another Capcom title my brothers and I played so much.
Street Fighter II's legacy is long and complicated. The first game was Street Fighter II: The World Warrior in 1991, which was such a success that Capcom released an expanded update in 1992, Street Fighter II': Champion Edition. Romhacks of CE proliferated (e.g. the infamous "Rainbow Edition"), so Capcom released another update eight months later, Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting, the SNES port of which is featured in this video. September-October of 1993 will see the arcade release of Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers, which adds four new characters, new animations and moves for existing characters, and replaces a lot of the iconic voice lines; that one gets a SNES/Genesis port in 1994. Super Street Fighter II Turbo hits the arcade in early 1994, adding super moves, juggling, and throw tech, but the only notable console port it got at the time was to the 3DO. Capcom moved on to develop Street Fighter III and didn't revisit II until they ported it to the Game Boy Advance in 2001 with the subtitle "Revival." Revival used sprites from both the arcade and SNES versions of SSFII, so some animations look weird for a frame or two, and replaced some stage backgrounds. Hyper Street Fighter II: The Anniversary Edition (2003), allowed players to choose which game version of their character to play, so you could pit SFII Ryu against SSFIIT Sagat, for example. In 2008 as a downloadable title, Capcom released Super Street Fighter II Turbo: HD Remix, with everything redrawn by UDON Entertainment to 1080p widescreen scale and the soundtrack remade by OverClocked ReMix members. In my opinion, the HD Remix visuals feel stiff and jerky because they were drawn to match the original sprites' animation frames; fortunately, the old sprites are still available as a visual option. The last iteration of Street Fighter II to be released was Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers, in 2017 on the Switch. It added Akuma, Evil Ryu, and Violent Ken to the roster and reverted the balance back to Super Turbo. Perhaps the oddest addition to the game was "Way of the Hado," a first-person shooter mode featuring Ryu where the player used the Joy-Con motion controls to fight Shadaloo soldiers.
The cheat code for Invincibility in Shinobi 3 is still burned into my brain 30 years after reading it in Gamepro. Sound test: He runs, Japanesque, Inner Darkside, Shinobi Walk, Sakura, Getufu. It's the only way I can beat that game. First half aint so bad but then the falling rocks stage near the end...woof.
Hey, another game I had; Virtual Pinball. I think there's a 'story mode' or at least, a level progression. Always got stuck on A -Maze-ing. A pinball maze. Really enjoyed the limited pinball creator, too. Just like Little Big Planet, it's very easy to max out the stuff you can put in.
I'm glad to hear Jared recognise the quality of the Street Fighter movie. Guile's inspiring rallying cry to his troops is perhaps the greatest speech in the history of cinema, rivalled only by President Whitmore in Independence Day.
Who wants to go home... and who wants to go with ME?!?!
"Colonel Guile, these instructions".......flap flap right in the water, 😆hahahaha!
I have a feeling editor Dylan really wanted to insert that SF2 toy commercial anyway he could.
And I do not blame him. It is a masterpiece.
Duke couldn't contain his excitement in the commercial!
@@walterlucero5757 or even pronounce dhalsim the way the announcer did!
What I’ve learned from this series is Nintendo Power was hard to please
Clearly they used to be. I was subscribed in the early 2000's and they were a lot more generous, but they also had a lot less third party support that wasn't for their handhelds in the 64-Gamecube era
If game straight from Nintendo it's masterpiece or overrated .
Editor Dylan! You primed people into inflation during the collector's corner! You're literally my hero, dude.
That's why I laugh when I hear people complain about $59.99 games in 2023. There were $89.99 games in 1993! Lol! Games are like the one thing that has resisted inflation.
@@chriskoschik391 strangely true yeah. lots of dumb crud going on in game production but artificial price hikes are definitely not one of them. I mean maybe they are now, going up to 70 from 60, but whatever.
Never apologise for making episodes over 15 minutes. I want hours of this lol
I always noticed how the live-action movie from the 90s and american cartoon show was seemingly trying to make the Street Fighters like some team force going against the Shadoloo comparable to G.I. Joe and Cobra, and the commercial for the figures outright just has Guile having "G.I. Joe" on his vest to hammer in that was exactly how they saw it.
I am so happy you played the whole Rik Mayall Nigel Mansell commercial. RIP Rik. You are greatly missed.
Should traffic wardens be armed ?
Sign.. I miss Rik Mayall (the guy in the commercial at the end there) He was a gem. This weeks been shitty for losses, so appreciate the Friday piece of joy all the more, buddies! Thanks for the effort you go through for this little piece of nostalgia. ♥
RIP Rik. Miss you. And Richie's Bottom
i will always remember him as the people's poet.
That was the first thing I thought of when the Nigel Mansell game came up. Amazing advert.
As an Iron Maiden fan, I somehow find it hilarious that one of the EGM reviewers' name is Steve Harris
And thank you editor Dylan, for showing the entire Nigel Mansell commercial. RIP Rik Mayall
I don't think I'm alone on this. But this show needs to be longer!
I think it's the correct length. Always leaves you wanting more, which is why I tune up every.single.time.
Okay that commercial for that racing game is amazing!😂I feel like that would be a viral video if released today
Having Street Fighter and Final Fight in a single episode is just fitting, love the saga ever since the first Street Fighter (yes I'm that guy) and continue to play with SF6. Also a big fan of Splatterhouse!
Even the Japan-only NES Splatterhouse?
@@GabePuratekuta of course! Wanpaku Grafitty is awesome! My favorite is the original arcade, tho
@@garou119 Oh? Did you try the Evil Dead hack?
Final Fight and Splatterhouse in the same episode?? Considering the resurgence of beat'em ups we've been getting with Streets of Rage 4 and TMNT: Shredder's Revenge I say it's as good a time as any to revive either of these franchises
Splatterhouse 3 terrified the living shite out of me when I was like…5?! The boreworm consuming Jennifer is horrifying, especially when it eats her brain and she becomes a mindless beast. I always remember the clumsy line ‘Jennifer smells…the rot of the grave’. For some reason that still disturbs me ha! It’s a great game albeit difficult however.
We rented Techno Clash once as kids because I thought it was gonna be like Shadowrun, but it turned out more like "We have Shadowrun at home" instead. Also, Top Gear holds a special place in my heart mainly because of the music.
I’ll never forget how my dad bought me Street Fighter II Turbo for the Genesis. I believe it had something like a $75 price tag at launch! Sadly, I never got to play the game. My mom made him return it because she said it was “too violent”. Now that I think about it, I guess this is why I’m still a gamer at age 38!
This episode was a banger! Loved it from beginning to end. The commercials were on point, too. Nigel Mansell as played by Rik Mayall, AKA Drop Dead Fred. 🤣
AKA every voice in the 2000 cult classic Hogs of War!
A.K.A. The People's Poet
RIP to a brilliant comedian
As for the next episode: Final Fantasy Adventure (Sword of Mana) or Final Fantasy legend (The first in the SaGa series), Shinobi 3, and Wing commander for either the SNES or Sega CD. Interesting
So this week in 1993, we got a 2 game, a 2½ game, and a 3 game. Fascinating.
The 2 game is a bit more like a 4.125 game in 2023.
@@menhirmike - not by title :)
...neither was the 2½ game, but we got so many SF2 games in those years it might as well be!
I really needed this episode after a shitty week and Friday morning. Thanks you guys. You make me laugh and put a smile on my face, and help rekindle the love of gaming I've carried with me since childhood. Rock on.
Also...that Nigel Mansell commercial was hilarious.
For anyone wondering what the hell was going on with that ad, it starred the late great Rik Mayall, an anarchic UK comedian famous for comedy TV series like Bottom, The Young Ones, and Man Down. He was also Flasheart in Blackadder.
Nintendo wanted their UK ads to be a bit more edgy to compete with Sega, so they paid a very hefty sum to Rik, who was famously utterly mental, to make them. Apparently he bought a very nice house with the money.
Young Ones one of the greatest British Comedies ever made. @@Interference22
"WHAT'S A DHALSIM?!"
*eats a kick to the head*
"OH!"
God I miss the 90's.
I would totally buy a DVD/BluRay of this show.
Haha, a VHS box set to be as 90's as possible
...For the last year or so, I've been remembering an old top-down game I played as a kid, kind of an RPG, kind of not, that had you defeating enemies with spells, and involved weird technology and Las Vegas. I vividly remembered all of those details, but not the character names or the game's name. I'm so happy that the last pieces of that puzzle just happened to be in this episode, now I can properly remember Technoclash for the weird, fun, clunky game it was.
That commercial for the Street Fighter toys is so hilariously 90s, complete with the ridiculous effects in there with the actors. I miss when toy commercials were like that.
Well, technically Street Fighter 2 Turbo had 2 versions seperated into 2 modes at the main menu. There was the Turbo mode, which was based on Street Fighter 2 Hyper Fighting and Normal Mode which was based on Street Fighter 2 Champion Edition. Sega pretty much did the same with their special champion edition, but we get to that next month. :P
Honestly, the entire version history is far more complicated (and different) that he suggests.
Most odd is that when he talks about the "original" SF2 he shows the bootleg "Rainbow" logo but he doesn't mention that "Turbo" exists because of and is greatly inspired by "Rainbow".
@@kyleolson8977 he also showed the wrong logo for super street fighter II. instead of the logo for that (yes there is a difference), he showed super turbo and glossed over the fact that super and super turbo count as different itterations. hyper street figher II wasn't released until 2003-04. 10 years after the actual super turbo.
@@Dekomata He did mention that Super SF2 "would get its own Turbo edition", but they also missed Super SF2 Turbo Revival for GBA. It's not much of an update, just has a few stages changed and adds Shin Akuma, so maybe it doesn't count.
I don’t remember that on the SNES, only Special Championship Edition on the Genesis had two modes, one for CE and the other for Turbo.
Omg, that was Rik Mayall as Nigel Mansell in the Advertisement. Wow!!!😂
Even if its only in goofy commercial form, bless you for showing the world some Rik Mayall that isnt just Drop Dead Fred for the 500th time.
Always great to see this every week. I never played Final Fight 2 but Maki was my fave in Capcom vs SNK 2 home version.
Also, today is my birthday! So this is another wonderful gift.
Damn, seeing Rik Mayall in that commercial brought back memories. Young Ones, Grim Tales, Bottom... Makes me feel very old all of a sudden.
I remember only being able to play Splatterhouse 3 from a place where we rented out consoles. It scared the crap out of me and as that gaming magazine said, it did give me nightmares, not due in small part to the digitized cutscenes. Weird that I have fond memories of it nowadays and really consider Splatterhouse a really good IP because of it. Wish we could get another one of those.
Ever play the 2010 game?
I'm heartbroken. Editor Dylan didn't care for second favorite racing game (behind Mario Kart) on the SNES. Nigel Mansell's World Championship is where I started to understand how cars worked and all of the music was amazing, especially the racing theme, which you oddly enough had to opt-in on. It wouldn't normally play in default setting.
I love this show. Dylan’s hilarious dialogue and Jared bringing the nostalgia. Woot woot
Hell yeah my favorite part of the weekend
Super Off Road: The Baja is the reason why I began following the Baja 1000.
I'll always remember entering Down, R, Up, L, Y, B for 10-Star speed on Street Fighter 2 Turbo!
Good on Editor Dylan for using the consumer price index!
That's something you should consider in the collector's corner. Splatter House 3 being worth $80 today but the original MSRP of $65 means that someone who bought and held on to it *lost* real purchasing power.
Hi guys, just wanted to say I kinda needed this episode. Tomorrow I'm going back home, returning to my same old routine as always. The last three weeks on the Alps have been more of a blast than usual, also thanks to a friend opening up more about feelings we never talked about before. The feeling is bittersweet every year, leaning more towards the bitter end this time. The little joys in life always help, and Now In The 90's is one of them.
So... thank you for doing this every week. You guys rock.
Kinda cringe writing your diary on a retro game video. I'm sure you'll get hundreds of likes though
@@Xhalonick
It was not supposed to be overly relatable - it was about letting this out.
It's not the first time Now In The 90's has gotten me out of a blue period anyway
Don't mind the other guy trying to rile you up; it's more than fine for you to express your thanks and gratitude to a creator for helping you through a difficult time. It's a part of why we do what we do, after all!
@@ToshisGarden not trying to rile anybody up lmao. Just saying dudes comment looks like this and as a member of the internet I enjoy calling out cringe when I see it:
*huge paragraph about how hard their life is after having a three week vacation in a beautiful mountain range but is a little less hard thanks to a video about retro games*
Thanks for the diary entry XD
@@Xhalonick
Dude, if I'm cringe to you, then your comment is giving me more attention than I allegedly deserve haha
Rik Mayall there as Nigel Mansell, he would also feature in a lot of Nintendo commercials here in the UK, especially for the Gameboy. RIP.
Every time you show a commercial I get transported back to my living room in the 90s. And it is both an elation and a punch in the feels. Keep up the fantastic work
Oh man, that commercial with Rik Mayall was gold. "The people's poet is dead!"
The cutscenes from splatterhouse 3 terrified me when I was a kid, especially Jennifer dying
That Nigel Mansell commercial is absolute gold XD
Oh wow! Looks like I’ve played five games from this week’s episode. Of the five, Street Fighter II Turbo is my favorite and it’s also my preferred way of playing single player Street Fighter on the Super Nintendo. Super Street Fighter II’s difficulty was too much for me but the difficulty in Turbo feels just right.
SF2T also had a Champion Edition mode, so it was the second and third iterations of SF2.
"What's a Dhalsim?"
(kicks)
OH MY GOD the guy in that advertisement at the end was Rik Mayall! Famous late British comedian known for slapstick "sitcoms" like Bottom and The Young Ones, as well as movies like Drop Dead Fred. He was also in Blackadder a couple times (Lord Flashheart), so I'm assuming there are at least a few Americans here that'll maybe recognise him, or at least think he sounds familiar.
I'm one of them. He was brilliant. I miss him already.
He was meant to play peeves the polteageist in harry potter the philosopher's/sorcerer's stone but his scenes were cut would haved loved to see him in it though
I love this series.
Same😊
Reviews used to make no sense back then!
I remember us renting Street Fighter II Turbo from Pharmhouse. May have been shortly after it came out, and the person working the register commented that we were the first to rent it.
Also, my brother had rented Final Fight 2. Got to play it after coming back from the dentist.
Splatterhouse 3 got bloody great graphics. 😀👍🎮🎮🎮
This was shown in 1998 Commercial "Like one of those small Portable (Things)" where the announcer says "Never Ever buy these Expensive Cartridges again". (On Street Fighter II only).
Found Final Fight 2 the Japanese Cartdridge for 20DM (around 12$) back in the days here in Germany. Was my best catch in good old SNES days.
Dylan, without you Jared's jokes would be so much less. Your segment is the best.
This series is my childhood. Mostly Genesis at the time. Love it 👍😎
You're definitely going to love it in the next set of years.
I get home from a long, stressful week of IT work. Now in the 90s is a perfect way to unwind and prep myself for the weekend with a smile. --- Daye Adens, GamePro Magazine (not really GamePro magazine but always wanted to when I 'grew up')
Great job once again! Just heads up the description shows the games from last week's episode!
Still going super strong, I'm loving the show, and I'm thrilled that I'm not the only one!
@12:21- Rik Mayall! :) (Best known in America as the title character in Drop Dead Fred) An icon of British slapstick and the old UK Nintendo adverts!
Im always looking forward to a new episode! Amazing video jerd!😅❤
Not surprised that Street Fighter 6 was mentioned in the Final Fight 2 review, but AM surprised that it was just the Mike Haggar statue mentioned and not that Carlos himself appears in PERSON as a cameo.
I still own Super Off Road: The Baja. I always thought it was crazy that you'd lose more money by hitting a deer than you would by running over a guy on an ATV.
The game was legitimately pretty great. Not a system seller by any means but certainly a fun racer that always felt fun to go back to.
Whoa, you own Super Baha Blast!?
How much did hitting a deer cost?
Man, that advert for Nigel Mansell's World Championship Racing - I forgot Nintendo UK got Rik Mayall to do a few ads for them in the early 90s, and the guy's a legend who left us all way too soon.
oh my god that Nigel Mansell commercial was one of the funniest I've seen
So many versions of Street Fighter 2, and I only had the original!
Maybe it's strange, but in my mind, being able to play as one of the four bosses still feels weird.
You got this CZcams thing figured out very engaging. Great editing clips. Keep up the great work.
I feel SEEN! ❤
Thank you editor Dylan.
Just discovered this channel. It’s absolutely brilliant. Really like the style and format. Subbed!
Thanks for the game code, Dylan! Knew there was something suspicious going on with those credits, hah.
It's interesting that this episode focused on 2 beat-em ups and one fighting game. At least they were good games.
What a strong week. All these Pinball games!
Here's something interesting: Nigel Mansell's world championship had a romhack, back in the day, in Brazil called Ayrton Senna Racing. It's the same game, pretty much, but they add Senna's face during practice mode and... There's a song that plays during racing! So it's a better game, much like how Senna was a better pilot.
In the movie Wreck-it Ralph the first character to mention "going turbo" was M. Bison of Street Fighter fame. While I can't confirm this, I think that was a nod to the fact that Street Fighter 2: Turbo was the first game in the series to allow playing as the villains.
First home game. The arcades had Champion Edition which let you play as the villains.
This love for Guile's Theme is a new thing. Back then no one cared about Guile's Theme. Ken's Theme was (rightfully) considered the best.
Nice inflation reference. I'm now happily awaiting a future episode where Editor Dylan goes on a rant about the Federal Reserve.
That Nigel Mansell World Championship Racing commercial may very well be the best commercial I've ever seen 😂 Incredible
Your shirt is origami.
Deez nuts r orugami
Ngl, that shirt is very distracting.
That valley fold go harder than a mug.
It’s terrible
I didn’t even notice honestly.
i really enjoy these and look forward to each friday to seeing em, its so strange seeing sometimes games that are now 30 years old but meh they were so good back then
It's worth noting one of the things that kicked off the series of Street Fighter II enhancements was a mod called Street Fighter II Rainbow Edition. It cranked the game speed up, allowed Ryu and Ken to do multiple Hadokens in succession, Guile's Sonic Boom gained honing, etc. James Goddard, who did design support on Hyper Fighting, played it and told Capcom they needed an update. Development started immediately afterward. The rest is history!
Was that the one where multiple hadoukens would come out when you do a shoryuken with the low punch button?
Played Splatterhouse 3 so much it gave me nightmares. Own the 360 Splatterhouse version. Worth a nice price.
Goddamn Rik Mayall in an advert just popping up in Dylan's segment took me by surprise (rip Rik /salute )
The thing that’s weird about FF2 is that even though Guy’s fiancée was kidnapped, yet Guy isn’t there to save her…?
And thanks to the Street Fighter live action movie, we all learned that Cocaine truly was a hell of a drug.
That British Nigel Mansell ad was fantastic. For those who are curious, the main person in that ad is Rick Mayall, a well known British actor/comedian.
"WHAT'S A DHALSIM?" I love that ridiculous commercial.
I love the running gag in High School Girl, which takes place in the early 90’s, where every time a new version of Street Fighter II comes out the characters all ask “Where’s Street Fighter III?”
Next month if Plok! Month! Don’t let him be diddled again!
Fun fact: Street Fighter II Turbo was the only Street Fighter game to be on the SNES Classic. I'm guessing because of the popularity that it was this version of the game and not Super II.
"Right, Fang?"
"Woof."
Ohhhh StarTrek next gen for gameboy!!! I had that! it's a really cool sim if you know what you are doing. The control are clunky but you get used to it. basically you get a quest from picard and to just do what he told you. Like go to planet A to pick up an ambassador and drop him off to planet B. So you warp there, go into orbit, beam the dude, warp to the next planet, maybe fight 1 or 2 ship, orbit the planet, beam down the dude. so the game is a bunch a small mission like that.
Geez, even back then, video game companies were obsessed with expansions. How many expansions did Street Fighter II get?
Splatterhouse is such an iconic game.
I’ve only ever played the first one, once or twice,
But they are an absolute treat to see in action, graphically.
Probably an unpopular opinion. But i think its one of the best games sega had to offer.
Sonic is alright…. But SPLATTERHOUSE?! That stuff scratches my horror and heavy metal itch.
One game I’d love to see a movie adaptation of.
Just a guy in a mask going berserk, fighting against grotesque creatures in an attempt to save his wife and son.
Look at Ken's face LOOK AT IT!! Sorry had to come back and edit. Dylan your killing it.
I really wish that Capcom would have included Final Fight 2 and 3 on one or the other Capcom Classics Collection disks for PS2. Almost all of the games were arcade games but the first CCC disk did include Super Ghouls N' Ghosts, another game that debuted on the SNES.
That Nigel Mansell advert was superb, big props to the commercial team on that one.
I remember getting SF2Turbo at Wherehouse Music and spend hours on it a day. Final Fight 2 we rented it at first but we end up buying the Japanese version because it was cheaper than the US version when we bought it for some odd reason. But it's fine because it was another Capcom title my brothers and I played so much.
Street Fighter II's legacy is long and complicated.
The first game was Street Fighter II: The World Warrior in 1991, which was such a success that Capcom released an expanded update in 1992, Street Fighter II': Champion Edition. Romhacks of CE proliferated (e.g. the infamous "Rainbow Edition"), so Capcom released another update eight months later, Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting, the SNES port of which is featured in this video. September-October of 1993 will see the arcade release of Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers, which adds four new characters, new animations and moves for existing characters, and replaces a lot of the iconic voice lines; that one gets a SNES/Genesis port in 1994. Super Street Fighter II Turbo hits the arcade in early 1994, adding super moves, juggling, and throw tech, but the only notable console port it got at the time was to the 3DO.
Capcom moved on to develop Street Fighter III and didn't revisit II until they ported it to the Game Boy Advance in 2001 with the subtitle "Revival." Revival used sprites from both the arcade and SNES versions of SSFII, so some animations look weird for a frame or two, and replaced some stage backgrounds. Hyper Street Fighter II: The Anniversary Edition (2003), allowed players to choose which game version of their character to play, so you could pit SFII Ryu against SSFIIT Sagat, for example. In 2008 as a downloadable title, Capcom released Super Street Fighter II Turbo: HD Remix, with everything redrawn by UDON Entertainment to 1080p widescreen scale and the soundtrack remade by OverClocked ReMix members. In my opinion, the HD Remix visuals feel stiff and jerky because they were drawn to match the original sprites' animation frames; fortunately, the old sprites are still available as a visual option.
The last iteration of Street Fighter II to be released was Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers, in 2017 on the Switch. It added Akuma, Evil Ryu, and Violent Ken to the roster and reverted the balance back to Super Turbo. Perhaps the oddest addition to the game was "Way of the Hado," a first-person shooter mode featuring Ryu where the player used the Joy-Con motion controls to fight Shadaloo soldiers.
That Nigel Mansell commercial is fuckin top notch! I'm still laughing!!
The cheat code for Invincibility in Shinobi 3 is still burned into my brain 30 years after reading it in Gamepro.
Sound test: He runs, Japanesque, Inner Darkside, Shinobi Walk, Sakura, Getufu. It's the only way I can beat that game. First half aint so bad but then the falling rocks stage near the end...woof.
Hey, another game I had; Virtual Pinball. I think there's a 'story mode' or at least, a level progression. Always got stuck on A -Maze-ing. A pinball maze.
Really enjoyed the limited pinball creator, too. Just like Little Big Planet, it's very easy to max out the stuff you can put in.
Cant wait for wing commander. They did such a good job with the controls.
That racing commercial is so good!
Don't forget that Carlos is also in SF6 as a cameo-only fighter, complete with combos, special and super armor.
Sounds like Wing Commander is coming out next week. I played Wing Commander 4 on the PS1. I remember liking it.