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Welcome to Now in the 90s, where we rewind the clock exactly 30 years ago to see what new video games had just released!
Released this week 30 years ago was Rock 'n Roll Racing, Run Saber and Pocky & Rocky!
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Editor: Dylan Lawrence
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Fun fact that you newer fans may not know, Jared reviewed Poky and Rocky with PBG way back in the day.
Still has one of the best video openings of all time.
And one of the best endings of all time too.
@@ASD_Music That intro was the first thing in my mind when he started talking about the game. Still one of the funniest things he ever did.
Still love watching it to this day. good old normal boots days
We're playing Pocky and.... JEEEZZUS 😂
If you remember Jared’s review of Pocky & Rocky with PBG, you’re a legend.
I only just now remembered it. What a crossover that was...
Then what are you if you own a cartridge of the actual game? Which I do, BTW...
It was the vid that introduced me to projared after all
Damn man, now I DO feel kinda old.
I still wish for another collab
Jared referring to ZZ Top as a single guy completely threw me there.
Yeah he charged too much. Threw me off too.
R.I.P. Dusty
Clearly it threw Dylan too 😄
Rock’N’Roll Racing has gotta be one of the best SNES games that no one ever talks about. It’s FANTASTIC.
Man, you're not kidding. I used to play the hell out of it with a neighbor, but I've never known anyone else familiar with it.
Always loved the soundtrack
I agreeee
Yes, my all time favorite game ever
Jared and PBG's Pocky & Rocky review is one of my all-time favorites.
"We're playing Pocky and..."
"JESUS!!!"
Never forget that🤣🤣🤣
That was so funny
"We're playin-" " *JESUS* "
“We’re playing Pock…”
“JESUS…!”
Rock & Roll Racing changed my life as a little kid.
That was my very first taste of rock and metal music.
Over 20 years later, i still listen to all of those songs.
I’ll play that game ANY time you pass me a controller.
Same, some of the voice lines still creep back into my head.
"Rip, is in another time zone!"
My all time favorite snes game ever. I still play it on my Miyoo mini plus and i take it with me everywhere i go. When i'm in line or waiting for food, i bust out the miyoo and play RRR
I remember renting Rock n Roll Racing as a kid and having a sleep over. we stayed up practically all night and were crying-laughing at the announcer yelling “Holy Toledo” after one of us got exploded 🤣
Pocky and rocky was the first game I remember playing on zsnes on PC circa 1998. What a time to be alive.
That UI was slick. I wish emulators still looked that stylish.
@@lilwyvern4 these days you're lucky to even get a shell program for something let alone one with fun and thought put into it..
I remember being a huge PBG fan back in the day and had to watch all of his vids, which led me to your review of Pocky and Rocky with him. It was the first time I’d ever heard of this “Projared” and I liked him right away, so I continued to watch his content. And that’s how I became a fan of you. Without PBG, I wouldn’t be here today watching this series, so seeing you talk about the game again was very nostalgic for me.
I’m the opposite, ProJared led me to Peebs, SpaceHamster and The Completionist
I have SO many fond SNES memories with Pocky and Rocky, Reshrined in the PS4 was AMAZING
Oh yeah!
I'm surprised you got through Rock 'n Roll Racing without mentioning the composer who digitized said rock tracks: Tim Follin. Plok, Silver Surfer, Pictionary and the X-Men/Spiderman game you reviewed - and music you praised - a while back...the guy has an almost legendary status at this point for going way harder on his tracks than needed for the games they're on, so it was a genius move on Blizzard's part to grab him for this job!
I unironically LOVE Run Saber. I rented it multiple times as a kid. It's so visually weird and I loved the wall climbing - you can even change your characters color palette by pausing and hit select IIRC. That first boss you fight while clinging to a fighter jet blew my goddamn 7 year old mind.
And yes I played Sheena, her vertical slash was great for destroying projectiles
I played Rock and Roll Racing back in the day and had fun with it. Years later I played Warcraft: Orcs and Humans, and became a huge Warcraft fan for decades. I always assumed Orcs and Humans was the first Blizzard game I ever played, and only a few years ago did I learn that Rock and Roll Racing was my first ever "Blizzard" game.
Natsume is such a great game developer... every game they released in the 90s was amazing, they just didn't have bad games. Pocky and Rocky, Wild Guns, Harvest Moon... All of them were golden.
Didn’t they develop LUFIA II? One of the best SNES RPGs.
Can't say the same about them in recent years tho.
@@chairs9459 Neverland developed Lufia, Taito published the games.
Agreed. No slouch on NES either - shadow of the ninja, shatterhand, SCAT etc
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9:45 For what it's worth, that framerate would have been considered acceptable for a full-3D flight sim at the time. Even PC sims struggled to maintain what we'd consider a playable FPS today. It wouldn't until 486s became more commonplace, with integrated floating-point math processing, that we started regularly getting flight sims that weren't slideshows.
I remember seeing Pocky and Rocky on a grocery store shelf back when every business rented games. Strange that I'd see the rarest games everywhere back then and now they're worth a small fortune.
Rock and Roll Racing is really great, I used to rent it a lot back in the day, for Sega Genesis, that is. We kinda made a coop running during several weekends, writing and re-writing the passwords. A magazine showed the password for unlocking Olaf and it was incredible, one of the first times we knew about hidden characters in console games.
Run Saber was a lot of fun playin with a friend, otherwise was not that charming.
Pocky and Rocky is one of my fav games, even if I cannot pass more than a couple of levels, it's really hard!
Great video as always, guys!
Rock N Roll Racing is in my top 10 favorite SNES games. Played that a TON with my brother. The definitive edition is great, but it's a bummer that Black Sabbath isn't in it anymore. Kinda funny that in 1993, pre-reunion, Sabbath music was cheap to license. Then they reunited and Sharon got her claws on it. Love that Bullwinkle's Family Fun Center got some love. All the Bullwinkle's out here ended up as Boomers Family Fun Center until Covid killed them. The funniest part is there was still random , 30ish year old Bullwinkle art around the mini golf courses that never were painted over and just sat there faded and sad looking.
Shout out to the best ProJared opening bit ever!
This is the first week I own all three games Jared talked about! What a great week
Fridays are my Monday at work. The very first thing I do after waking to get my mind right for work is watching Nit90s. You both give me something to look forward to at the beginning of the work week. 💛
I loved Pocky and Rocky! Discovered it as a hidden gem in my local Blockbuster and rented it 4 weekends in a row
The ProJared episode on Pocky and Rocky was my introduction to the game and I love it, it's also the episode that has my favourite opening of all time.
Rock'n'Roll Racing was my thing when my family visited my cousin's house and it was this game that awakened me to great rock bands.
This is the episode I have been waiting for. Pocky and Rocky was my obsession in first grade.
Interesting to see how Pocky and Rocky, much like Mystical Ninja, retained much of it's Japanese flare for the western release.
Yet Natsume thinks the curvacious goddess Ame no Uzume is too much for the western audience. She is supposed to be sensual, as proven with the Japanese trailer, but for the western trailer she was well clothed in comparison.
I mean when your main characters are a shrine maiden and a japanese raccoon dog it's kinda hard to get rid of it.
@@TheDeisasori I imported the Japanese version on Switch for this very reason. Not because "oh, you wanna see tits, why don't you watch porn instead"...no, because I'm fucking tired of censorship and being told what I can and can not view. Let's broadcast the most gruesome stuff in the new Mortal Kombat trailer! But don't you dare show cleavage. What a crock.
@@ElectricBarrier I recall reading the manual once and it tried to pass Pocky off as just a magician (if I remember correctly) or some sort of faith healer, her Hanafuda cards were just "magic cards" and her wand was just a "magic stick." So basically sort of like Castlevania trying to call Holy Water "fire bombs."
@@EdmondDantes224 lol, yeah, nice try dudes you're not fooling anyone. Not with the "fire bombs" either.
I love Pocky & Rocky! It was one of the few things that made going to Blockbuster video always worth it every time around. Thanks for covering this game and have a great weekend everyone.
Also as a side note, if you haven't done so already looking to the remaster of the game, on all consoles I believe
I looooove Run Saber!! I found it at Blockbuster and they must have been trying to get rid of excess inventory because they were selling it for like $3, so of course I bought it without even knowing what it was 😂 turned out to be really fun!
Also the arcade I remember as a kid here was one called TILT. I found out later it was a chain but it felt like a hidden secret here as a kid because it was tucked away in this quiet corner of a mall, but it was HUGE and had so many games I’d never heard of as well as this cool virtual batting cage game, and an ice rink attached even! I had some good birthday parties there 😊
**Stares intensely at screen playing P & R** .... **voice from over your shoulder** ..We're playing..JEEEEESUS!!
DylanRocky wagging his tail was a great sight. Thanks for another great episode.
I really recommend the definitive edition of Rock n roll racing for modern consoles. I just love the fact that the music is the original quality and they even put a few more songs in there. They got Red Barchetta by Rush. As a Rush fan, that is an automatic 10/10 in my book. :P
Rock & Roll Racing was insanely cool and fun, legitimately a great game. What a blast.
We had an arcade and mini golf with singing monkeys called Scandia in Kelowna, BC. Last time I went was probably in 99, and I moved away in the early 2000's so I wouldn't be surprised if it's long gone. It was a great place for mini golf: 18 holes outdoors and 18 in the basement with lots of thematic dioramas, castles, windmills and stuff. I don't think the arcade had been updated since the early 90s though.
Pocky and Rocky was a solid pick for rentals when I was kid. Never made it past the third level, but its one of those games that are fun to come back to now that I have the motor skills to actually clear it!
There's a Bullwinkle's in Oregon, Washington, and California. Send Editor Dylan to review them.
That "definitive" version of RnR racing they released on the blizzard arcade collection bangs. Cd quality tunes is 🔥
The closest arcade to my town was in the "big city" about 2 hours away. Aladdin's Castle. I used to hate going because I was poor as crap growing up and could only play a couple of games while my friends could play for hours on their hundreds of dollars of quarters. I would run out after a short while then just wander the mall alone after watching my friends play for a while. I ALSO was very proud and would never take a quarter from my friends after I ran out. It never helped that they generally insisted on playing the two quarter games multiplayer with me, which made me run out faster.
Ah, the good old days.
Pocky and Rocky is the sequel of the arcade game, not a remaster or a remake. New story, new characters, different stages, bosses and more upgrades, nothing in common with the first game except the appearance of the 7 gods of fortune and the main protagonist.
When I went to the video game museum last year they had a couple of consoles with several games set up.
They had Rock and Roll Racing setup to play.
SNK Boss Syndrome isn't about the AI being exceptionally overpowered, it's about boss characters getting unfair attributes like infinite super meter, abnormal canceling of moves into other moves, and broken specials that the players can't use when playing as the boss.
I didn't play SNK games as intently, but I remember Street Fighter 2 (in various incarnations) would actually change the priority of hits at times, to favor the boss. And if that ain't some bullshit. I don't know what is.
It's all those things and the AI, really. And most of the time, the playable version of the boss wasn't missing anything. Igniz still has a one move infinite combo when you play him in KoF2001, for example.
Starting to love this channel. I remember 1992 xmas, shit a brick bc I got a snes. I seriously remember crying I was so happy. I was 8.5 years at the time. I remember saving (me and my dad had a system, if I earned and saved for half he'd pay the other half) and I save for killer instinct (got the cdthat came with it even), saved 30 for a 32x, and then I remembered saving for ps1 war zone. Good times growing up
Also, Dylan kicks ass
*Thumbs up all the PBG/ProJared Pocky & Rocky intro references that I came here to make*
Rock 'n Role Racing got a live action movie adaptation, they completely changed the concept and theme, but end-up winning an Oscar for Best Song.
i remember always seeing rock n roll racing in a store close to my house and asking my mother for it, but always getting the answer "it looks satanic" odd times indeed
Ah satanic panic. The early 90s had some weird ideas. I remember my mum was worried about me going to see casper at a friend's birthday because she thought it might be satanic 🤦🏼♂️
you should have told her to blow nitro ya road toad
Rock n Roll racing was a cool spiritual successor of RC Pro-Am
Pocky and Rocky needs all the exposure it can get.
OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! It’s called Run Saber! FINALLY after all these years!!! I love you Jared!
As I kid in 90’s Brazil, we couldn’t afford many games so it was super common for people to just have 1 or 2 and just trade them around. In my suburb there was this game floating around with the sticker on the cartridge ripped off. No one spoke English, so we just called it (in Portuguese): “the girl and guy game” and that’s what’s printed in my brain.
I tried to look it up so many times but could never find it! Omg thank you so much! I’m totally legally buying a copy right now!
I knew watching your show every Saturday morning (that’s when it comes out here in Australia 😅) while I have breakfast would py off one day!
Run Saber was one of those games I discovered when I first got into emulation in the late 90s. I don't remember getting too far, and I think I dropped it for other games like Hagane and Alisia Dragoon.
Pocky and Rocky was a game I never played on the SNES. I did, however, get a copy of Pocky and Rocky 2 from a Target Black Friday sale in the mid 90s (alongside Super Metroid). My older sister and I used to play it, and we loved it. It's also one of the first games I remember beating in a relatively short time frame (13 days after I first started playing it, while I got through Super Metroid in 7 days).
As for arcades, there was no Chuck E Cheese near me. We had Celebration Station (which had no animatronics, but had a go kart track and loads of arcade cabinets/carnival games). I, unfortunately, only went a handful of times before it was closed down.
Man Rick N Roll Racing was crazy hard. I could never get past the ice planet. You absolutely have to have the hovercraft there.
I used to go to a Bullwinkles when visiting my grandfather as a child, many fond memories, thanks for the memory jog!
Obscure pizza arcades with animatronics. We town has a place called Peter Piper Pizza that back in the 80s to early 90s had animatronics in it.
Obscure arcade mentions: My father used to be a manager of sorts for a place out in NJ called Captain Good Times. It was a weekend side job for him at the time and I was just a little kid. He always took me and I always got unlimited buckets of tokens.
Oh, Rock N Roll racing played the hell out of my SNES cart and the Advance re-release. I didn't realize it was a sequel, I always thought it was the spiritual successor to R.C. Pro-Am on the NES. Similar game mechanics with space and rock and roll!
Haven't even watched yet but I know its good. This show every Friday has become one of my new favorite things.
Rock & Roll Racing I remember playing in the early 2000's via an emulator when going through various games I never heard of and discovering a bunch of gems in the mix... This was one of them. The music, voiced announcer, cast of characters and gameplay were addicting as hell... I figured due to music licensing we'd never see it again, but I was surprised to later learn a GBA version was made and once again surprised it got rereleased yet again via the Blizzard Collection... Complete with enhancements like widescreen, getting the same announcer to rerecord his lines and adding in new ones in better audio quality, even getting the original music's CD quality while also choosing to hear the old SNES/Genesis synths... but bafflingly, STILL relied on a password system to save your progress??
I think I am going to go back and rewatch the Jerd/Peeb collab review of Pocky & Rocky. That was a good time.
There are two places. One was Enchanted Castle which had animatronic stuff and had many arcades, go-karts, indoor mini golf, and laser tag. The other was Haunted Trails which was a regular thing my uncle took me to when I was a wee one. It had two mini golf courses, go-karts, and arcades. I have so many memories of the god-tier arcades I played at that place (both TMNT games, Simpsons, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter 2, the Punisher, and X-Men). I still have the knockoff large Godzilla I won there with tokens. Both places are around to this day.
Holy moly it's RUN SABER! I played the heck out of that game as a kid... and then apparently promptly forgot its entire existence until now, 30 years later. Wild. Blockbuster really was the avenue to playing a lot of random games back then... rent, beat, return, repeat with a new one. I agree with this review: Run Saber was a really solid experience, and it's a shame there isn't an easy way to play it in 2023.
Late to the vid, but our hangout growing up was a place called Enchanted Castle.
You had your main stage with dragon animatronics and pizzeria up front, then when you went through the huge doors you'd enter a Massive arcade. They later added go-carts, mini-golf, lazer tag, bowling, and this thing called The Rage which was a mini movie theater with moving seats ( first time I rode they played a Robocop themed scene)
I had several Arcades in the area that were fun to go to. Seattle Funplex was in the Interbay neighborhood, while Funtasia was on the border between Montlake Terrace and Edmonds. The later became a Bullwinkle's Fun Center before shutting down due to a fire. I miss both places for being nice to explore.
A fire caused by faulty animatronics?
Nope, being renovated to become a church.
i'm pretty sure pocky and rocky is actually a sequel, i think they talk about the events of kikikaikai in it
pocky and rocky with becky is the remake of kikikaikai and i guess reshrined is only _kind of_ a remake of pocky and rocky
On the subject of Bullwinkle: here in Juneau, Alaska, there is a pair of arcade/pizza restaurants called "Bullwinkle's Pizza." They don't have animatronics, just coin-op arcade machines and some cutouts/wall art of the characters
Small trivia: Pocky & Rocky/Kiki KaiKai’s main character (as well as SNK’s Nakoruru) was a direct inspiration for Team Shanghai Alice’s Hakurei Reimu. 🎉
While a lot harder to see the similarities with her later appearances on Windows and onwards, her original PC98 design is very clearly taken from Pocky.
There comes a time in every man’s life in which he asks, am I a normal boy or am I a genesis fly boy
Great week for SNES releases. Rock n Roll Racing and Pocky and Rocky are still great to this day.
Since you mentioned it, in the Southeast side of Houston, close to Almeda Mall, there's a hidden arcade known to us all as U.S. Golf and Games. It has been in business ever since I was alive (that I can remember). It has a minigolf course, a few ok arcades, batting cages, and it added go-karts a few years back. It's only 365 days a year, so you're never too far away from spending hours on pool tables like my brother did back in his day.
Pocky N Rocky was released with a price of freaking 64.95 WTH and people today complain that Tears of the Kingdom it’s 70 something ain’t right
I used to go to Chuck E. Cheese's for every birthday. When I realized the band was "robots", I tried to climb up the stage so I could remove the fabric covering and revel in the machinery underneath. But I was way too small to actually get up there.
Enormous amounts of co-op fun with Pocky and Rocky with my brother. Always had to rent it, never saw it in the stores in my area to buy.
A friend of mine who works at Disney Imagineering was stalking a Bullwinkle's that closed a few years ago in an attempt to purchase and restore the animatronics. True story!
Aw yeah! Not only Run Saber, but Pocky & Rocky as well.
Yes, I remember watching his Pocky & Rocky review back then. Still have it in my Favorites, too.
My go-to arcade as a kid was Wonderland. We had a couple of 'em nearby and one of 'em was a nickel arcade but the other one you could pay to get in and play everything as long as you want! Our parents would drop us off and come back HOURS later (and it still never felt like long enough)
I went to that Bullwinkle's in Oregon when I was a kid! They still had the animatronics at that point, and I remember eating pizza with my grandma while watching them perform. One of the last things I did with her before her memory got too bad and we had to take away her driver's license, haha
I grew up in Canada, and we had a Chucky Cheeae knockoff called Choo Choo Charlie's. It had a beaver on a train as it's mascot. Good times
We went to Chuck E Cheese periodically as kids, but my dad preferred to take us to SHAKEY'S because while the Arcade was smaller, it was better maintained and the food was infinitely much better.
When I was a kid, the Charles Entertainment Cheese knockoff that I went to was called Pistol Pete's, which later got bought out by the larger chain Peter Piper's Pizza. There was also an animatronic band. I only remember a gorilla, can't remember the other animals. It had a little console where you could press a button to make them play a specific song. I always used to pick Achy Breaky Heart. God i miss the 90s...
im so glad to see the post credits shots there with the all-beef cola. more people need to know its terror.
There was a really obscure arcade that no-one seemed to go into when I was younger. It seemed to have all the games that others didn't have. In fact it is where I found the arcade version of Castlevania with the mild exploration elements, before I knew what Castlevania was.
Oh look, engagement. The city we live in (or next to is more accurate) does have a Chuck E. Cheese, but it also has a similar place called Incredible Pizza. It does not have any animatronic characters, but there are a few themed sections of the dining area (like a 60s style diner, and I think another one usually has a movie playing), Go-Karts and some carnival type rides in the game area, a super small bowling alley (like only one or two lanes), laser tag, and at some point they added a trampoline park. The stuff in the arcade is pretty standard, actual games, big mobile games, ticket games, money stealers, the usual. I think I've only been to the Chuck E. Cheese once or twice when I was real young but I've been to IP several times. It's a nice place, and the food isn't half bad either.
Oh man, the only arcade we had nearby was at the Local bowling alley, they had a couple games up in the biggest theatre in town but that was a once in a blue-moon treat so to speak.
Dylan, you Rocky and Pocky.
I drive by the Bullwinkle's in Wilsonville all the time. I used to go to it as a kid.
Oh man, didn't know two of my favorite SNES games released in the same week. I played so much rock and roll racing and Pocky and rocky.
Small correction: Pocky and Rocky is the sequel to Kiki Kaikai.
The arcade game is almost nothing like it, outside of the very basics.
The remaster of Pocky and Rocky I have for Switch is absolutely fantastic. I never got to play it as a kid and jumped on it when it released physically on Switch
Hearing that PockyRocky backstory, it's so neat how this show is synced up with the week from back then. When they say people got review copies back in April, you go "eyy April, we just had one of those" and it connects better.
Dude. Rock N Roll racing was one my favorite SNES rentals growing up!!
The only arcades I really remember going to in the late 80s early 90s was the mall staple, Aladdin's Castle. We didn't have a ShowBiz or Chuck E Cheez anywhere near our town, so for us it was Aladdin's Castle followed by Sbarro's pizza in the food court.
We had three arcades that me and my dad would visit growing up in the northeast (PA and NJ mostly): Sports Park USA, Grand Slam, and BowCraft...it was around the early 90's, so we actually saw them get progressively emptier over the decade...and we just switched to consoles...
Can't believe marketing department did something good for once.
EDIT: Whoever did the western box art for Pocky & Rocky must be a wanted criminal.
Bullwinkle's ARE still around... that's awesome.... of course i got excited and looked it up before finishing the video... one day i'll learn
Aw man I still remember Jared's old review of Pocky and Rocky with PBG.
Good times.
I did have a "Bowlwinkles" near my place with a small arcade area. I went bowling there several times up through middle school and I remember having at least one birthday there. I got new Toa from Bionicle that year, it was great.
I had a Showbiz Pizza Palace where I grew up. it was eventually turned into a chucky cheese many years later.
Pocky and Rocky looks so cute. Which makes it all the more humiliating when you inevitably die.
I' actually own and STILL have Pocky and Rocky 2 on the SNES. I've never had the opportunity to play the original, but I will today!
The music in Pocky and Rocky was amazing!
I owned Pocky and Rocky as a kid. I loved the hell out of that game. All of my Super Nintendo/N64 games I owned were actually hand me downs from one of my parents friends kids. I still remember the day they were all sold to Funcoland. I’m still a little salty about it
Bullwinkle's in Wilsonville, OR (the only one I ever went to) is still open but its been renovated beyond recognition.