Mega Drive Longplay [168] Vectorman
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One of the best platform/shooters on the genesis. This came out towards the end of the consoles life and utilises all the tricks to show that it can keep up snes.
Not so apparant in the video, but on a CRT screen all those black lines merge with the nearest color to produce another colour to produce more colours on screen then the native palette allows. This allows some nice transparancy effects that genesis cant do in hardware and pre-rendered 3d imagery similar to Donkey Kong Country....yeah I went there.
The game itself is fairly linier, but at the same time offeres some hidden path that can help or hinder, but at least leads to a tv pickup. Alot of the time I feel the weapon pick up are not in optimal places so often run out before meeting a gang of badies to kill.
I almost forgot to mention the music. The game shines here and shows what can be achieved when the sound artist knows how to utilise the hardware. Fm Synth at its finnest ;)
I did die a couple of times due to running out of time. This is no speedrun as I tried to show a few hidden areas. I think I may have missed on energy ball too.
I hope to see the Pinnacle of what md is capable of in Vectorman 2 as one of the last games released on the system. -
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"humans leaving the earth because of pollution and letting robots clean it up before they return" could this game be the reason why wall-e exists? :O
Hey, but that's just a THEORY...
@@stevepensando2593 A GAME theory! Thanks for watching!
It could become a theory
Probably since sega made vertorman it will equal that vetorman is wall e brother they have the same tragic story
WALL-E with guns😈
This was such a strange but incredible game. I still get surprised at the attention to detail in some of the level environments, and the music kicks ass. I hope this game gets rebooted some day, or at least some dedicated fan makes a fan-remake.
Strangely enough, a PlayStation 2 game was in development 2 years after Bluesky closed their doors, but it got cancelled. I am yet to know of who made it or why it was canceled.
It got canceled because I think it resembled to much of a third person Halo with Vectorman having guns. Plus he was more human looking, like a Master Chief, instead of being all bally like in the last two games. No idea who was the developer though.
vissova A fangame will be out eventually ;)
I accidentally killed the final boss in one shot...
Earthworm Jim gone Cyberpunk lol. Strange was the name of the game for Sega back in the day.
The bosses in this game were so terrifying. They were so cold and unforgiving.
Clockwork was annoying as hell to beat.
Games like this showed that 32X was a really bad move. Genesis alone handled SNES just fine. SEGA should have avoided 32X and Sega CD in order to save funds and time to develop Saturn in a better and more complete way.
A legendary console mistreated by it's master in the end.😔
@The Cipher Goddess Then multiple Genesis games from the mid 1990's would've never been cancelled, Sonic Xtreme would've been released in 1996 to compete with Super Mario 64, the Dreamcast gets released and competes with the PS2, Xbox and Gamecube, imagine that! and the CD and 32x never get released☺
That is Sega in another dimension.
@The Cipher Goddess Sega made dumb decisions but Nintendo made one of the dumbest decisions in gaming history when they sold out Sony during the development of the PlayStation to Phillips.
That decision was Sony's greatest gain and Sony would release a Titan that we now know as the PlayStation 1.
The original xbox is actually a sega whatever planet name they were on.. lol..Microsoft fucked them over and stole the console because they helped develop the chips. You can actually modify the xbox to do a bunch of cool stuff including play every sega game from every previous system.
The answer of SNES Pseudo 3D Donkey Kong & the fact that 32x was a bad move!
8:30 I love how they programmed this amazing rotating track and then the level is over in 5 seconds
I don't even get what exactly that level is meant to be.
It’s like this game didn’t know what it wanted to be, and is like many environments with no continuity, smash together, but I love it
The camera panning is impressive from a technical standpoint but visually disorienting. They should have stuck to one camera angle to make this segment more cohesive. A case of just because you can doesn’t mean you should
I remember having my heart in my throat playing these levels
@@bangerbangerbro you've been transformed into a train, on a track in the sky, and there's a boss that is clinging onto the track with its hands and trying to either crush you with its aforementioned hands or shoot you with bullets.
But it's so weird and trippy that it totally makes sense that most people wouldn't understand. i definitely didn't when I first played it.
8:11 I love how the player made sure to beat the first boss while standing in the very middle of the screen so Vectorman could do his "double peace sign pose" to MAXIMUM COOLNESS effect! :D
I was maybe 4 years old in the 90s playing this in my mom's apartment, this game will always be stuck in my memory. I hold this game special to my heart, and it still looks amazing considering!
Sega should have treat Vectorman as their own version of "Metroid-Castlevania" series. Imagine a Vectorman game where you have a huge world and you have to go back and forth collecting items, killing bosses and opening paths, but with this post-apocalyptic futuristic virtual world. It would kick asses!
Even if it was $60, I would still buy it on launch day. Especially if it had a story like the first game
You got it right!!!
@Sandy V. The levels were cool they weren't boring
@Sandy V. When you play on wicked or lame difficulty (medium or easy) you do pick up a lot of extra lives.
@@ToutEstPolitiqueEtCestLogique ?
Still one of the coolest games I've ever played
A co-worker of mine and I were salivating over the memories of this game 25+ years after it's debut!!!!!
Why didn't you mess with the 'Sega' logo? That was always fun lol
Ill have to try that. Didnt know there was anything you could do.
@@bangerbangerbro You can run around in the logo screen and mess around, there's also a bomb TV off-screen in the top right that when used will break the background/logo. Also, If you shoot the logo 24 times, then bash your head on it 12 times, it'll start a minigame where you have to collect as many Sega logo letters as possible as they fall from the top of the screen. A total of 120 fall, and if you catch 90 or more, the game automatically starts you at Day 5.
@@SQUIZZLER24 😲 I may have to retro fit my tv so I can play again just to do that. Has there ever been such an awesome game as Vectorman?
Yeah
@@SQUIZZLER24 Thanks for the details about how you do each thing. I'm going to try that.
This game is what helped me develope my trigger finger for call of duty.
Hallelujah
This was one of the first games I played growing up with my dad. I’m 32 now. Was randomly thinking about this game and thinking about the levels and how much of a bop the music was. Then realized I could watch a play thru. Thank you ❤Childhood nostalgia relived/revived
A pleasure to watch. I’m proud to say I could get all the TVs on every level, and collect all the photons. I could even clear my path back to the 1up without losing the x10 multiplier. I could do the same with the power sacks in Vectorman 2. Those were the good old days.❤️
I forgot how amazing this soundtrack was.... especially on level 2
This game is DKC, Mega Man, and Wall-E combined into one game and I freakin LOVE IT
Kinda mixed about the music though... it would've been better if it wasn't made on FUCKING GEMS.
Update: The music grew on me. I particularly love the melodies produced by it. I prefer 2's OST tho
This has to be one of my favorite games on the sega genesis
Here's a list of Vectorman days
levels for your play is:
Day 1 - Terraport
Day 2 - Metalhead
Day 3 - Tidal Surge
Day 4 - Absolute Zero
Day 5 - Arctic Ridge
Bonus round
Day 6 - Bamboo Mill
Day 7 - Rock 'N' Roller
Day 8 - Death Alley
Day 9 - Hydroponic Lab
Day 10 - Superstructure
Bonus round
Day 11 - Stayin' Alive
Day 12 - Nightscape
Day 13 - Dark Ruins
Bonus round
Day 14 - Underground Vault
Day 15 - Worldlink Center
Day 16 - Twist and Shout
Marko Basica OFFICIAL
Twist And Shout
Damn, 16 levels. Fitting for a 16 bit game, I guess :)
First of all...Vectorman's falling animation is AMAZING. Second of all, that freaking robot blueprint at 56:26 scared the shit out of me as a kid (I was young when we got Vectorman...31 years old now and still love this game)
I can see why.
😂 same
This was my favorite Genesis game as a child growing up in the 90s. I can't believe how good it still looks.
graphically, the arctic level was always the most amazing to me because of the lens flare
Let me see... a cluttered Earth, a nuclear bomb robot, and this is taking place in 2049..... this game is predicting the future!
Did they really make a game for the Genesis look like this without any circuit board being changed to something similar to Super Nintendo's Super FX chip? Well, that really shows how powerful an early 16-bit console like this can be!
Well it's just using lots of sprites for each character and moving them around for fluid movement.
Omg Vectorman was my favorite game back in the day when I was like 3 or 4 years old
+Zero i didn't know 3 year olds could comprehend what a game is
A Lego Man
My older brother taught me how to play Sega genisis back then
same, i was probably 3-4 when i started playing and it was games like Vectorman, Road Rash 3, Sonic the hedgehog among others.
@@BurakkuHishou damn, i was like 7 or 8 lol
You mean 8 or 10 years old.
20:14 незабываемый эффект линзы от солнца!! Красивый и казалось так круто - будто 3D!
Классная игруха! И по графике и по геймплею и по музыке. Одна из самых запоминающихся на Sega!😃
I used to play this a bunch on Sonic Gems collection for PS2 (or maybe it was Mega Collection Plus) trying my hardest to get past the first level. Needless to say I didn't and after a while, I mostly forgot about the game. I got a MegaDrive over a year ago, and I knew Vectorman was availabe for it. I didn't have any interest in picking it up for a while but eventually decided to give it another shot. I was happy I did, because i'm having a great time playing it, and now have newfound respect for it :)
It was gems collection. My copy is way too scratched to work properly (and that was how it was when I got it). I got a physical copy of vectorman last week when I saw it in a local CEX (you are in UK I presume given that you speak English, have English name, and have to be in Europe having used the PS2 version of gems collection, as well as saying mega drive).
0:59 “It’s 2049 and Earth’s cities, forests, and icecaps are fouled with toxic sludge. Humanity has escaped to the stars, leaving mechanical “orbots” to clean up.
Me: it’s 2020 and Earth is dealing with the coronavirus.
"while a vaccine is being developed some companies like Tesla and the goverment are working in the space travel technology ..."
yep , thats our world (english for my sorry)
Haha one of the best comments! 2021 now & Vector Man is future too haha!
Fun Fact: The "Thing Thing" series incorporated some of the tracks from this awesome game. My faves are the "Tidal Surge" and "Death Alley" Themes!
@LaBrandon Fun fact: you're doing it out of attention.
I remembered that i cried full with anger because of that train part
just picked this up the other day from my local retro store and have been having a blast, feeling like im 12 again~!
One of the best games from the mid-90s and I have to say it was a pleasure beating it with extreme joy in my childhood, definitely a classic. 💯
This was a pretty good game for the most part. Fair bit of warning though. DO NOT USE ANY CHEAT CODES! This game's AI is a smart one. If even one code is used, the game will call you out on it and will deny you the true ending. In other words, it trolls on cheaters.
yeah i remember the damn codes for the game too XD
Slow Mo hit: Down, Right, A, C,Up,Left,A = Dracula
Debug. C,A,Left,Left,A,C,A,B - Call a Cab
those two i remember the most.
use the game genie instead.
Kinda like Grunty's Code Vengance in Banjo-Kazooie lol
I finished it so many times before I discovered the cheats. It must have not punished me for that reason. Nothing changed when I used them.🤷🏻♀️
But can the game outsmart save states and rewind?
Vectorman was at the latter part of the genesis life cycle but it proved that with the time, effort, and polish Genesis didn't need no stinkin' *MODE 7*.
crazybongo5 hell the second stage looks better than most mode 7 games on snes, or atleast the ones that werent racing games.
+crazybongo5 Who needs MODE 7 when you can have Blast Processing instead?
Funny, because the Amiga also had "Blast Processing" (Motorola 68000 CPU)
George Vasquez Blast processing does not refer to the 68k, but to the ability to stream data directly to the framebuffer in realtime using DMA. This is why some games broke the barrier of 64 colors, demoscene magicians achieved 4096 colors on screen, and of course Sonic ran very fast. Look at Titan's Overdrive demos which are full of abusing the blast processing feature.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. The "blast processing" is just a marketing buzzword, but if it refers to something unique to the Genesis, it has to be a feature described above.
cyberholix lol, blast processing isn’t even a real thing. Mode 7 is though.
Brother, what memories, I remember that it did not go beyond the first level but I was always Impressed when lightning shot and you could see the reflection in vectorman
This was the most amazing game I ever played on Sega, and yes MK 2 was fun too.
If I remembered correctly, this was sega's answer to Donkey Kong Country.
mostly DKC, considering the graphics and that Capcom made a Megaman compilation for the Genesis.
People often forget to compare it to Rayman and Ballz.
The answer of SNES Pseudo 3D Donkey Kong & the fact that 32x was a bad move!
Wait you didn't destroy the Sega logo? HOW DARE YOU!@
RIGHT?!
I always did it when the game started
I always played the catch game, then destroyed it lol
Yeah that was the most funniest thing you could do in the game 😂
🤣
Shadow 3096 When i play the catch game after the catch game is done it automatically takes me to the title screen
This was Wall-E before it was cool
Wall-e is nothing cool, Vectorman otherwise...
I know people are gonna disagree with me on this. As I already stated in the Vectorman 2 comments, I personally always liked this game and Vectorman's first voice more. Although rather than focus on the "more darker tone" from the second game, I now realize how VERY inconsistent Vectorman sounds. Like his suddenly deep triumphant laugh. Though personally I like to think this just shows Vectorman is just a playful robot who's just getting high off the power up he gets so he take his time celebrating how much more power he gets. And in the second game he is shown to have a playful laid back, not so serious personality, at least until he does become serious, so much so he was willing to jam out to tunes while on the. Imagine if the same voice he has in the second game was this voice here with all the extra dialogue too.
On top of him hitting his head and then a higher pitch OOF happens. To be honest there were times my voice got high like that too when I bump my head or get hurt so to me it makes Vectorman feel like a robot with a human voice (that stll has thea robotic filter which is a good touch). If Sega does Vectorman again one day (I wish), they should definitely make him sound more like him in the first game.
2049? 32 years left!
31
30
Solar Flare [Who likes uploading SSBU replays] almost 29
29, close to 28
Now 26 ;)
Loved this game. Was too young to get all the way though it. Finding videos like this, where I can see how the game completes, is cooler than nostalgia. It's like I found hidden mental treasure where I get 20 year old closure to intense events.
Vectorman is a tough game to tame.
This game NAILED it as far as entertainment went...super under-rated even for it's time. I loved it as a kid.
I remember unlocking Vectorman 1 and 2 as hidden games in Sonic Gems Collection as a kid and being so confused, lol. I never made it past the first boss, but Vectorman as a character had a fun personality and the 3D effect looked pretty awesome for 16-bit. Plus messing around with the Sega logo was always fun.
I guess this was Sega's answer to DKC. Damn good one too I might add.
Wish he would make a comeback!
Domenic Vermillion there will be a fangame
Since lots of dead franchises are making a return one way or another (and I correctly predicted 2 series' returns), I hope a Vectorman 3 becomes a reality!
The original team is long broken up.
Along with Ecco, Ristar and NiGHTS!!!
Donkey Kong Country may have better colors and better looking sprites than this, but the animation and cinematography in this game is phenomenal.
Not better colors because the Genesis has the best RGB output of the 16-bit consoles. The SNES was just able to have more colors.
@@solarflare9078 what is this?
This game was so bad ass when I played it growing up, but I had such a big problem trying to play the mission after the first level with the train tracks and the robot trying to knock you off it! Getting older and playing it on emulators I was able to get past that and still see it as a bad ass game tho.
thatoneguitarguy 98 was that the disco one where you had to fight the boss?
thatoneguitarguy 98 wish you luck in your journey to defeat the game then!
thatoneguitarguy 98 oh jeez. gotta let me know how it goes.
thatoneguitarguy 98 anytime pal.
thatoneguitarguy 98 woo! congrats man, how do you feel?
Happy 27th Anniversary to Vectorman!
This was some really advanced stuff at the time. The graphics are so dynamic for a 16bit game.
"I'm rockin. / Come On! / Yeah! / Da de da. (That's what I heard) / Toasty. / Whoa!"
I remember this guy. SEGA's answer to Donkey Kong Country in a way.
I had this game and Vectorman 2.
I only got up to Day 14 back then. I should get this game again digital wise and beat it.
Nicely done MadMatty.
You can get all 2 games in Sonic's genises collection 😀
I heard "I'm rocket", "gone got a gun", "Juicy"
@@ellenunderwood7464 I don't know why CZcams doesn't show me comments that replied to me. Must be something I missed. Anyway thanks. I gotta search this up.
This game seemed very advanced at the time.
This brings me back, loved this game :D
This is visually stunning
omg I just traveled through time
Me too I'm travelling through time at 60 Secounds a Minute.
Can we please applaud this lunatic for playing our childhood in the hardest difficulty?
This game's graphics were so dope at the time.
The kinda still are.
I beaten this game twice before on PS3 Sega genesis collection:-)
My last SEGA Genesis game i buy and play a lot before moving to SEGA Saturn
...This game push all the polygons juice of Sega Genesis
Amazing Genesis classic right here.
I so remember seeing a small blurb in a games mag about a 3D Vector man game coming to PS2 that never released.
There are prototype videos of it here on CZcams if you wanna see what it would have been like.
Love this game's music.
I originally found this game on Sonic Gems Collection and thought it was going to be some game about Vector the Crocodile judging by the name but I was pleasantly surprised by this underrated classic.
Awesome game with an amazing soundtrack
this is sega's answer to megaman
Sega Man.
Actually, it's their answer to DKC. Nintendo said that the Genesis couldn't make a game like DKC, and Sega delivered. To be fair, the game still looks a bit...2-Dimensional...although that might just be the angle, combined with how shitty the quality was on when I watched.
Well. Nintendo wasn't exactly wrong. Everything about this game pales in comparison.
@@SomeOrangeCat Nah, I prefer DKC, but Vectorman definitely has superior animation and parallax scrolling.
0:56 30 years from now, this planet will be nothing but a toxic wasteland :(
lmao i just realized
His victory pose is like no other
45:10 very cool lightning with just color cycling in the background
We're only 26 years away from being in this game's setting. Also, they predicted Wall-E
One of the best Sega Genesis games!
21:40 que espetáculo de gráficos, música tensa e efeitos de luz e iluminação incríveis.
OMG i remember those days. It was awesome😭
I pray this gets remastered someday. 🙏🏾
Great looking game
Ok, thumbs up if any of you guys "Played to Win" back in '95!!!
Much better than "Pay to Win" nowadays
I missed the crap by a few months haha
Vectorman is one of my favorite games from Sega Genesis.
close call on the stayin' alive level - great job!
When the very best of the SNES and the Genesis were compared, both could perform exceptionally. They were about the same, except the Sega had more than double the CPU speed of the SNES. Just remember this:
Sega Genesis (Mega Drive) - 1988 hardware; 7.60 MHz
Super Nintendo (Super Famicom) - 1990 hardware; 3.58 MHz
Nintendo was just being cheap. They could have done so much more than they did.
SouthwesternEagle the Genesis was always underrated. I love both systems, but Nintendo fanboys are the worst. The snes did have superior sound, but that was thanks to sony's sound chip. Glad their plan to make a system together never panned out because we got the PlayStation.
SNES ROOLZ BITCH!
I like Nintendo better
In some cases comparing the clock rates of the CPUs is not enough to conclude that one CPU is faster than another. One CPU might be able to execute more instructions than another in a certain amount of cycles. "Blast Processing" is just a slightly exaggerated term created by Sega referring to a DMA feature of the Genesis, and has nothing to do with CPU speed.
What was saved on CPU cost was put into other areas of the hardware. The Mega Drive's 68K is meant to be a lot better than what the SNES has but it is not just because of clockrate.
i am still playing this game i love it!
me too
***** lol 3 vectorman plyers
Same
great game, one of my childhood favorites
Oh it Looks so amazing.
His actions are satisfying.
I remember when I first beat the airplane boss in level one I never knew you could blow it up it broke my fragile little kid mind
90's abstract aesthetic!
I never realized until my later years that his hunched forward peace sign victory pose might actually be a reference to former president Richard Nixon.
The flag animation guy deserves a badge.
these sound effects take me back man wtf. 90s were the best
The DKC of the genesis
Great Longplay Video
Such a great looking game 🤓
Vectorman: A bunch of programmers going "look at what I can do!" for an hour straight.
Pimpeaux best looking game on the system
Pimpeaux fuck off weeb
Nah, I'm good.
@@FlombaeEdge it's just a joke man. (Why do people take jokes seriously these days?)
Anyways funny joke XD
Loved this game! It was so hard cos I was so little but still played it :)
Loved this game as a kid.
This Game is still Reminding me since I've Played at 1990s
Dude i finnaly Fuckin Found this game Broo
Ive been Searchin For Years
Gotta love the inexplicable Nixon pose after every level.
I loved this game!!!
now this here folks is ONE OF THE BEST GAME TO EVER GRACE THE GAMING WORLD,EVER!
Still have my Mega Drive game of this xD still in my top 20 all time games
i played this when i was like 5, it was one of my favorites. took me a good 20 mins to find the title
Damn, there were a lot of secrets in the first level I never knew existed
Soo nostalgic >○