Press B 192: Game of the Year: 1990

While we work on our 2023 Game of the Year, let's roll back to what would have been our picks for the retro year of 1990!

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00:00 --> 00:53 Game of a year. Not that one. Today on hello and welcome to another episode of Press B to cancel. I am joined by three of the other four members of the podcast tonight. One of them couldn't make it. He is on assignment in the Northwest Territories investigating wood pizza ovens, so he should be back soon, we're hoping, praying for him. And otherwise, I'm joined by sinistar. How you doing, sir?
00:53 --> 00:55 I am doing well, how are you?
00:55 --> 00:58 I'm great. And GP.
00:58 --> 01:00 Hi, good to see you.
01:00 --> 01:04 Always lovely to see you, sir. And Chard.
01:05 --> 01:11 Hello. I'm worried that Jake is buried under a hedgehog sneeze of snow.
01:13 --> 01:14 Porcupine. Porcupine sneeze.
01:14 --> 01:15 Porcupine sneeze.
01:15 --> 01:17 I thought it was a porcupine's whisper.
01:17 --> 01:19 Yes, that's what it was.
01:19 --> 01:21 Is it a careless whisper?
01:23 --> 01:25 Never going to dance again never going.
01:25 --> 01:34 To snow again never going to shovel again guilty weather's got no blizzards. Okay, sorry.
01:34 --> 01:36 All right, I'll be Jake.
01:36 --> 01:39 Don't do inside jokes from the mp on the show.
01:40 --> 01:48 I'll be honest with you, that song is absolutely so true. Every time I feel guilty, I just stumble around.
01:49 --> 01:51 They're awareness people.
01:51 --> 01:52 Yeah.
01:55 --> 01:59 It'S always stair awareness week in Presbyterown.
01:59 --> 01:59 Wow.
01:59 --> 02:01 I can't talk tonight, I'm sorry.
02:01 --> 02:02 Presbyterian.
02:02 --> 02:04 Presbyterian townians.
02:04 --> 02:06 Presbyterians. Yeah.
02:08 --> 02:09 All right.
02:09 --> 02:10 Anyways.
02:12 --> 02:43 Our first game of the year episode of this year, and we're not talking 2023 because Jake couldn't make it. So we are talking 1990. We are choosing our top games specifically from 1990. Now, there seems to be a little bit of confusion as to what quantifies is what based on Moby games, they give just initial release date and I think that's kind of what we were using mostly.
02:43 --> 02:44 Yeah. Okay.
02:44 --> 02:53 So if you're like, no, I got that as soon as it came out in 91, well, it might have come out earlier in another region. There you go.
02:54 --> 03:04 That's kind of my question. Yeah. If a game was released in Japan in 90 and didn't get over to the States till 91, here's what it is.
03:04 --> 03:19 GP. We're lazy. Okay. We went into Moby games, we hit the browse button and we put in the year 1990, and we didn't actually qualify where it released in 1990.
03:19 --> 03:38 So there's the qualifier, is the qualifier. It's on the Moby list because there is a game on there that I'm considering, or have been considering. I've considered it. It's considered, but it was technically considered. Considered, yeah. Did you give it consideration 22nd of 1989. But if it's on the Moby list, I can use it. Yes.
03:39 --> 03:40 Yeah.
03:40 --> 03:41 All right, cool. Just want to check.
03:41 --> 03:41 Sure.
03:41 --> 03:42 Love you by.
03:42 --> 03:46 We're going to go buy Moby as the Moby games.
03:46 --> 04:02 The qualifier here, laziness, wins. We don't actually dive into the releases tabs and go look at North America. No, we work. Yeah.
04:03 --> 04:05 I don't even know when it ended.
04:08 --> 04:09 Still going.
04:11 --> 04:12 Yeah.
04:12 --> 04:14 The early 19 hundreds.
04:14 --> 04:16 I've got my hammer pants. Let's go.
04:17 --> 04:20 Wow, there's some great games in this anyways.
04:20 --> 04:21 There really is.
04:21 --> 04:22 Stop. Moby games time.
04:24 --> 04:27 And you can touch this.
04:27 --> 04:32 There's a game called Pimp wars in there, which, spoiler, pimp is one of.
04:32 --> 04:40 My favorite pimp games is a great game, honestly. That's right.
04:41 --> 04:47 While we're going over this list, can I throw a tiny wrench in our plan tonight?
04:47 --> 04:48 Yes, please.
04:49 --> 04:58 While we're going over this list, everybody submit your own personal rating for this game to me in a DM on discord.
04:58 --> 04:59 Okay.
04:59 --> 05:04 And at the end, I will reveal what the actual top of the four ended up being.
05:05 --> 05:08 I was going to say, someone better pick sex Olympics.
05:11 --> 05:19 If you quit giving away all my games tonight. Pimp wars, sex Olympics, and geisha was.
05:19 --> 05:21 Your third pick, wasn't it?
05:21 --> 05:25 And BC's tires, the sex version. Oh, my God.
05:26 --> 05:29 This is something. It's like King's quest and sex.
05:31 --> 05:34 I hope Jake is watching, giving us one of these.
05:35 --> 05:42 Yeah, he's too busy checking the wood ovens. He's too busy checking the wood ovens.
05:42 --> 05:44 Yeah. Fucking run around with his Pokemon.
05:45 --> 05:48 All right, who's starting?
05:48 --> 05:49 Yes. Wait.
05:49 --> 05:55 Yeah. Well, sinister, you seem excited to go first, so go ahead.
05:56 --> 06:06 All right, my first pick, and we may make it to second picks. We'll see. But my first pick, secret of Monkey island on dos.
06:07 --> 06:08 That's a good pick.
06:08 --> 06:09 Thank you.
06:10 --> 06:19 Now, I have a confession. I've never actually played Monkey island.
06:19 --> 07:20 Any of them safe, even the remakes. Okay, well, I will be honest with. So let me give a little history of know. Sierra had kind of the run of the gambit of adventure games, but Sierra was notorious for absolute brutality as far as save early, save often, because you will die by spending half a second making a decision. And so Lucas arts. Yes, that Lucas got into the mix. And I think maniac mansion came before this. But anyway, this game is. How is it described? It's loosely based on a novel, but it's basically a swashbuckling game. You're kind of a doofy. Yes. What?
07:20 --> 07:22 Based on the novel push by Sapphire.
07:23 --> 09:04 Is that what it is? I thought it was catch 22 by Guy prime. Anyway, you're kind of a doofy character. You're on an island. It's a caribbean island. Had some of the best soundtrack ever, especially if you listen to it on the MT 32 version, which was a piece of hardware, but you can listen to it on YouTube these days. But Lucas arts actually took it, and instead of making it so that you can die at a drop of a hat, they actually made it. So I think there's literally one place in the game you can die. And I think even if you die, it makes some joke about how Sierra. This is similar to a Sierra game or something. Anyway, and then, funny enough, the main character's name is Guy Brush Threepwood. And the paint program that they use to draw the character, they saved the name of the file as Guy, and it added brush as the file name, so it became Guy brush. And then there was a contest online, and that's where three point came from. But absolutely clever game. Some of the best humor in a game. Now, of course, this is early 90s humor, so this is not your modern humor game that you get, but it's got a lot of the funny. Anyway, great adventure game. Point and click adventure, the whole thing. That's my pick for 1990.
09:04 --> 09:09 That's a solid one. And I'm glad I didn't go with it because you explained it so much better than I could have. Well done.
09:10 --> 09:11 Thank you.
09:11 --> 09:15 Yeah. That's about the only thing I knew about that game, was the main character's name.
09:15 --> 09:22 Yeah, well, there you go. Named because they literally saved the file guy, and it became Guy brush. So Guy brush.
09:23 --> 09:24 There you go.
09:25 --> 09:26 Yeah.
09:26 --> 09:28 I thought he was just worried about sagebrush or something.
09:28 --> 09:36 So all of us are sending or just the others are sending a ranking for the game to you, werewolf.
09:37 --> 09:38 All of you.
09:38 --> 09:40 Okay, so I need to send you a random.
09:41 --> 09:44 Played it. Send me that. And so that'll adjust.
09:46 --> 09:49 Am I dming it just, like, private message?
09:49 --> 09:52 Yeah, just private message in discord.
09:53 --> 09:56 Okay. And we're doing it out of ten, right?
09:57 --> 10:06 Yes. Okay, please. The kiddo and I are learning fractions this week. Don't send me into fourth grade math, please.
10:06 --> 10:07 Wow.
10:12 --> 10:30 Yeah. Let's see. I'm reading chat here. I'm catching up on chat here. Welcome in Stripey and brother of sin. And Jake says Jesus Christ. Apparently Jake is Jesus Christ tonight. That's actually what happened. He's not apparently searching out, so he.
10:30 --> 10:33 Fixed the wood fire grill with the power of Christ.
10:34 --> 10:35 Yeah. Power of Christ.
10:35 --> 10:38 I like okiness that it imbues upon the.
10:40 --> 10:41 Know.
10:42 --> 10:44 Are you calling me Okie?
10:45 --> 10:56 Sinstrus is here. Elaine is here. Bridget's here. Awesome. Welcome in, everybody. All right, are we all caught up? Have we all sent our rankings?
10:56 --> 10:58 Yes, everybody has sent their score.
10:58 --> 11:07 Okay, any questions or thoughts or anything on Monkey island or secret of Monkey island?
11:07 --> 11:17 No, but I think I will be changing my name in our discord to Guy balls instead of Guy brush. So if anybody's not following our discord, please pop in and join us.
11:17 --> 11:24 It's now Guy balls prime brush or Primewood. Guy balls primewood. Yeah.
11:24 --> 11:35 That is the greatest name of all time. I have to go adopt a dog now so that I can officially name something. Guyball Primewood.
11:37 --> 11:39 This is my dog, Guy balls Primewood.
11:39 --> 11:41 It's a mouthful.
11:42 --> 11:50 I do want to mention that in trying to look up secret of Monkey island on Moby games. There's a secret of Donkey island.
11:52 --> 11:54 We don't talk about Donkey island.
11:55 --> 11:56 Yeah, nobody goes.
11:56 --> 11:59 It has to be like a parody, right?
12:03 --> 12:03 Yes.
12:04 --> 12:08 I don't know. That's probably a topic for another episode, but it exists.
12:10 --> 12:19 Well, remember my initial three games that I had to ditch because we talked about them at the beginning? Actually, secretive Donkey island was number.
12:25 --> 12:28 Okay, yeah, go for it.
12:28 --> 13:02 I've gone back and forth. I said this in a Marco polo earlier this week, but when it comes to video games released in 1990, I could very easily put together a top ten list. And that would just be a top ten list, not of 90s. But if you showed that to anybody, they'd be like, this is just a top ten greatest games of all time list. And it's a conversation that could be had. So it really is kind of an embarrassment of riches when it comes to, I mean, we were all eating good in 1990. I remember vividly. Six year old Guy brush Primewood waking up.
13:02 --> 13:04 Guy balls. Guy balls.
13:04 --> 14:39 Damn it. I messed up my own name just like my dad. Anyway, so I've gone back and forth about this, and this is kind of a vanilla pick, but follow me on this. For anybody who has heard me rant about this game in a negative light, I feel like I've grown some for my pick. And I'm going to say Mega man three. So here's why nobody saw that coming. Not a big secret that I'm a huge mega man fan, but I have been very vocal about my disdain or my distaste for Mega man three while I have grown to like it more in the last year or two or three I will say this. Of all of the games I might have chosen for the number one spot, Mega man three was the most relevant for advancing its own franchise and its own series. What they did in three, while I wasn't a complete fan of it, revolutionized that franchise from two and said, we still have more places to go, we still have a lot more growing to do, a lot more features and functions and fun that we can have with this character and the way that he operates. And then we got four, five, six and anything that came after that. So whereas two, a lot of people consider that to be the best in the franchise, okay. But three, they said that was great. We're going to do more stuff. And I think that's as much as I can really say about that. A week ago, I don't know that I would have made this pick, but the more I think about it, the more I think three was relevant, very much so, to the Mega man franchise. And that's why I picked that one for my number one release of 1990.
14:40 --> 14:41 I think that.
14:41 --> 14:41 Feel free to agree.
14:41 --> 14:49 Fair pick. Thank you. Was actually on the fence about picking that, but I figured you would.
14:50 --> 14:51 I've become predictable.
14:53 --> 14:53 Yeah.
14:53 --> 14:58 I wanted to go before GP because I was going to pick three and then watch him sweat it out.
14:58 --> 15:03 Well, there's another three that you can put on the list that just doesn't have the word mega man in it.
15:03 --> 15:04 No.
15:04 --> 15:10 Or we can switch if you want me to switch you. Mega man three. I'm going to go again.
15:13 --> 15:15 Duke me, baby.
15:16 --> 15:17 What?
15:17 --> 15:18 Right here? Right now?
15:18 --> 15:21 Sure. Sorry. YouTube.
15:22 --> 15:34 Mega man three was the first Mega man I owned. I played the hell out of that game. I love the soundtrack to that game. I almost picked it up on vinyl a couple of weeks ago. That's how much I love that game.
15:35 --> 15:42 The opening tune, the bluesy song or whatever, is one of the best tracks in all of Mega mandam.
15:42 --> 15:43 Absolutely.
15:44 --> 15:45 For sure.
15:45 --> 15:51 Yeah, you're right. The soundtrack to that one just wall to wall bops. It's good.
15:51 --> 16:17 That's when they started sounding like it was nes chip tune versions of rock songs. We didn't know where the rock songs came from. And the further the franchise got, eventually, my little brother was like Mega man. Nes songs sound like Ozzy Osborne songs turned into chip tunes. I went back and listened to a bunch of. I was like, that's pretty damn accurate.
16:20 --> 16:29 But that was the point, right? Yeah. Rockman Rush and roll and bass and treble eventually. Yeah, absolutely.
16:30 --> 16:33 Mega man. I'm coming home. Sorry.
16:35 --> 16:48 I love the crap out of three, I complain about the dark robots, doc, robots, whatever you want to call them. But I still love Mega man three. I don't think there's an entry in the mainline franchise that I like more.
16:48 --> 16:53 Than three going off the rails of Dr. Wiley's train.
16:54 --> 16:54 Perfect.
16:57 --> 17:00 All right, charter, you ready or do you need me to go?
17:00 --> 17:16 No, I'm ready. I'll go. There's so many good choices on here, so many games that I've played that I love, but I think I'm going to go with one that's near and dear to my heart as a I, this was the first game I ever.
17:16 --> 17:17 Beat.
17:19 --> 17:27 As a child and I saw it on here. I was super excited to see it. I am going with Disney's Chippendale's rescue Rangers.
17:27 --> 17:29 That's another great one.
17:29 --> 18:28 As a child growing up, I was a big Disney afternoon fan, would rush home from school and sit down and watch it. And I absolutely loved the rescue Rangers show. And when I found that there was a game on the NES, of course I had to have it. And me and my budy growing up, used to play the tag team where you'd pick each other up and run on stage and shit. And I fondly recall being at a buddy's house sleepover playing Trippadale's rescue rangers. And I approached fat cat, the final boss, spoilers, and I beat him. And there was much celebratory happening around the house that day because I forget how old if it was in the would have been eight years old. So eight or nine year old me celebrating my first video game victory with Chippendale's rescue Rangers. So that is going on my list is my favorite one in.
18:30 --> 19:04 This is, this is one that I think the first time I played it, I was seven, seven or eight. The kids next door rented it and so I was playing with them and then we were not good at it. We didn't get very far because the kids next door were a year older than me and a year younger than me. And so we were all just trash at this game. We had a blast, but we sucked. I don't think I beat it till many years later when I finally managed to get a hold of it outside of a rental and was able to play the crap out of it. And that was a lot of fun.
19:04 --> 19:09 It's a fun game and it's got some banger tunes. It's Capcom. I believe it's Capcom.
19:10 --> 19:14 Nes era. Capcom is pretty top tier.
19:14 --> 19:27 Incredibly, incredibly well versed in the musical era. So dark wing, duck and Chippendale rescue Rangers and DuckTales. All those Disney afternoon games have some of the best fucking soundtracks on there from Capcom.
19:27 --> 19:33 1990S Disney X. Capcom was just a bunch of fire left and right.
19:33 --> 19:38 I'm still waiting for Disney. Capcom versus X Men.
19:39 --> 19:40 Nice.
19:41 --> 19:42 That'd be a great fight game.
19:42 --> 19:46 That'd be good. I'm waiting for DuckTales versus Capcom.
19:46 --> 19:47 There you go.
19:48 --> 20:21 I will say this. I was solidly in my mid thirty s the first time I played Chippendale's rescue rangers. And I loved it. It was one of those things where it was a shame for me that I had waited so long in life to play it, but it was an immediate classic. The only feeling I don't have for it for that reason is nostalgia. But you can recognize greatness pretty easily. So that's a really good pick. And that would have been in my top probably four or five picks if I had to put like a big list together for this one. But well done.
20:21 --> 20:25 It's a strong title in that year against so many strong titles.
20:25 --> 20:46 Definitely. It's so funny that 90 gave us such a wide range of great versus just utter shit. Like I said, we were eating good, not just in volume of titles, but in the scale and scope of bombers to bangers.
20:47 --> 20:51 You could say there's a lot of scat in the 1990s.
20:52 --> 20:56 Chippendale in the 1990 Scooby doo I.
20:56 --> 21:01 Do want to throw out there. Chippendale was also like one of my favorite cartoons as a kid.
21:01 --> 21:02 Oh, yeah.
21:03 --> 21:10 I have the dvd of the first season. And that first episode is absolutely ridiculous and I still love it.
21:11 --> 21:14 But do you have the vhs tapes?
21:14 --> 21:22 Yeah, no, I never had the vhs tapes. But once I saw it on DVD at Best Buy, I was like, I have to have it. And I bought it.
21:23 --> 21:24 It's a good purchase.
21:25 --> 21:26 Nice.
21:26 --> 21:34 All right, well, I guess that leaves me with Super Mario world.
21:38 --> 21:41 The weaker super Mario three.
21:42 --> 21:44 No, the better super Mario three.
21:45 --> 22:36 I got to agree with sinister on that one. Super Mario world took what was great about Mario three, reduced the fluff, made it a game that you can save your file so you don't have to beginning to end that shit in one session. And so they actually made that to where they were like, well, we have a save battery in there now. These people can save their file and come back later. We can put tons and tons of levels in this and not feel bad and put alternate endings in these levels. This is the first Mario game that put in alternate ends to each level so you could open up new paths to secret levels. And that was super cool. It also had the hidden Star world. Right? The special world, as they call it. Well, Star Road and then the special world.
22:36 --> 22:37 Yeah, right.
22:37 --> 22:39 With the tubulars and tubular.
22:39 --> 22:43 Groovy, gnarly. All those good ones there where you.
22:43 --> 22:46 Get the different colored yoshis too, with the different powers in there.
22:46 --> 22:49 Was that. That's on Star Road. Yeah, Star road.
22:49 --> 23:05 You brought up that. This added an additional ending to most of levels. And I love the fact that you would think in a 2d platformer that that wouldn't be so well hidden. But they were well hidden.
23:06 --> 23:32 Some of them were wild. I want to say it was. Butter Bridge was the really wild one where you had to cape fly underneath the end of the stage and then keep going for a while. And then that brought you down into the ocean in the middle of the map where you're playing with torpedo teds underwater. That was a really cool design. I love that. Also. Just the ghost houses in this game were spectacular.
23:33 --> 24:30 I agree. This is a great game. I have a little bit of anger and resentment still for it. I know I've mentioned this before, but growing up, my rule was no game genies or codes until you can beat the game on its own. And for me, it was like that with warps and stuff. For the Mario games, I wanted to beat the whole game every stage before ever doing warps. So the day I found out that it's like, 93 is the best number you can ever get on your save file, because it's the number of exits out of the stages, not the percentage that you've completed it, it was 96 star. 96. Okay. Yeah. The whole time I'm like, what the fuck am I missing? And I wasn't missing anything. I had done as good as I could have done, and I just didn't know because I can't even talk. I'm an idiot. That's the sentence. I don't think.
24:30 --> 24:41 When you see a 96, you automatically think that there's 100%. You're 100 percenting it. That's just a myth.
24:41 --> 24:42 You're done.
24:42 --> 24:47 I don't know that. Does the star say, hey, idiot, you're done? No, it just pops.
24:48 --> 24:54 Or it's a motivator saying, come on, you only got 4% left, buddy. Don't do it.
24:54 --> 24:57 Was it a blue star? Prison is good.
24:58 --> 25:18 Jail is, to that point, my little bit of free time that I get over the past two weeks, I have been going back through and playing all of the Mario games, like, 100 percenting it. And I get to eight two with Mario one. I beat it. I beat it.
25:18 --> 25:20 I beat it. That's okay. We beat it.
25:21 --> 25:27 Should I even tell about 83? Like, should we even tell him about 83? I don't think so.
25:29 --> 25:30 Obviously.
25:32 --> 25:36 Without saying, sure you do.
25:36 --> 25:39 Super Mario. I didn't record stronger Super Mario World.
25:43 --> 25:52 No, Mario World is a great game. Beautiful colors, wonderful soundtrack. I still lean three, but again, that changes from day to day.
25:52 --> 25:52 Really?
25:52 --> 25:55 It depends on what side of the bed I woke up on.
25:55 --> 25:58 This introduced resnor.
25:59 --> 26:00 True.
26:03 --> 26:04 End of list.
26:04 --> 26:28 Sorry. Are there tanuki suits in world that maybe I don't know about? I can't tell you. The level of, like. How do I say it? Yeah. The level of legendary that tanuki suits carried. For whatever reason, in my childhood, amongst me and my group of peers, nobody cared about the sledgehammer suits. It was the Hammer brothers suits. Yeah, but nothing.
26:29 --> 26:37 You know what this doesn't have? Statue up the fucking frog suits. Boom. Mike drops are good for water levels, bro.
26:37 --> 26:41 No, the mic. Even in water levels, they're terrible.
26:41 --> 26:43 Yeah, I agree.
26:43 --> 26:44 Terrible if you're not very good.
26:45 --> 26:50 The hammer brother suit was really cool. And the Tanuki idea, really cool.
26:50 --> 26:52 Yeah, sorry, go ahead.
26:52 --> 27:04 But they didn't add a whole lot of functionality over what was already there. Right. The Hammer brothers suit is just a new arc for the fireball. And the tanooki suit is just like.
27:06 --> 27:07 You can become a statue.
27:07 --> 27:11 It's the raccoon tail in the ears. But Mario went all in on the know.
27:11 --> 27:13 Yes, he committed.
27:13 --> 27:17 Yeah, he went from cosplay to full fuzzy or furry. Love it.
27:18 --> 27:22 Ladies and gentlemen, a statue, ladies and gentlemen.
27:23 --> 27:28 Now the statue Mario. You could also screw yourself with it, guys.
27:28 --> 27:48 He's a fucking statue. He's crazy that way. Anyway, foo fighters, horrible impressions aside, world is wonderful. I only fight it a little bit because the US didn't get it till 91. But again, hey, we're going lazy.
27:48 --> 27:50 Moby games world.
27:50 --> 27:52 It's on the moby list, so it counts.
27:53 --> 27:56 It was birthed in the just didn't come to America.
27:57 --> 28:03 Next time we have to do game of a year, 1991 edition. We're all going to be in this boat where we're like, fuck, I wish we had Mario World.
28:06 --> 28:07 Can we commit to a game we already had?
28:08 --> 28:17 No, I already know what I get for 91. Because same year, f zero, I'm picking.
28:17 --> 28:23 Mario World for this year and last year because it was that good.
28:23 --> 28:29 Yeah, right. No, 91 has got to be Final Fantasy two. We'll deal with that when the episode gets here.
28:29 --> 28:32 Yeah, I'm going before GP on that one.
28:32 --> 28:36 Yeah, that's a good pick, Wolf.
28:36 --> 28:41 All right, thank you. I'm missing from Chard to help with the.
28:41 --> 28:42 Jesus Christ.
28:42 --> 28:44 You've not sent me the last two scores.
28:44 --> 28:46 Well, you know what I want for that?
28:46 --> 28:50 Dating that. Should I give my runner up or should we?
28:50 --> 28:53 Yeah, we should do runners up, right?
28:53 --> 28:59 Yeah, we'll do runners up. I think that's fair. Some honorable mentions. Yeah, those don't need scores.
28:59 --> 29:04 So are we going reverse order or are we going, let's do reverse.
29:04 --> 29:29 Okay, I'll go again. Okay. My honorable mention for me is actrazor. Yeah, I love me some act razor because it straddles sort of a three way line between a city sim, a platformer, and an rpg. It rides all three of those very comfortably long.
29:29 --> 29:30 And.
29:32 --> 29:41 Unfortunately, that fucking straddlestrat Enix was like, you know what? All the good stuff about the first one, get rid of it.
29:43 --> 29:44 Wow.
29:45 --> 29:51 So to me, actraiser one is still one of my favorite SNES games.
29:52 --> 29:53 That's a great game.
29:53 --> 30:08 That's a great game. I tried the remake recently. It just didn't hit the same. It's not as fun, it's not as good, it doesn't have the visual charm. But yeah, actrazer one, that's one of those games that I've probably played through a good dozen times, if not more.
30:10 --> 30:15 Nice. That's a good one there. All right, who was next?
30:15 --> 31:19 I think I was next. I think I'm on there. Honorable mention. So I'm going to throw out. See, there's two games that I have discussed that are already on this list. One of them is actually in our top 100 that I selected some time ago, and I'm not going to drop that one, but I am going to honorably mention a game that we discussed having an aha moment. One of our aha moments, or was the left field moments or funniest moments in a game that we had. And I am going with Loom. Loom. Loom is a point and click adventure game where you essentially play a shrouded monk of some kind. That's not where the name came from, Bt dubs. That uses music and a loom, a magical loom, to access musical notes and use that musical note to clear paths, solve puzzles, yada, yada, yada.
31:19 --> 31:21 Avoid tornadoes.
31:21 --> 32:01 Well, or run into them numerous times and laugh your ass off. Loom was a great Lucas arts entertainment. Point and click, trying to tackle that Sierra monster that was going on because during this time, Sierra had one of its best games released in its King's Quest series. And it's got a pretty good. I guess that's a Metacritic score. Yeah. Moby score. It's got a high Moby score, and I agree that it deserves such a score. So honorable mention goes out to Loom for me. It's a solid game. Solid point clicker.
32:01 --> 32:21 I'm glad that you said that. That was one of my favorite charred heavy episodes when we were doing the WTF moments. And we got to watch and listen to. I don't know. To me, it's iconic, and it's a game that I will forever only couple with you in my brain. So that's where my brain grapes take me. So well done.
32:21 --> 32:27 I'm glad that I have woven the sound of this man screaming into your mental loom.
32:27 --> 32:30 Yeah, well done. Well pun.
32:31 --> 32:32 Thank you.
32:32 --> 32:33 Whale pun.
32:34 --> 32:35 Whale pun.
32:35 --> 32:41 Whale pun. Wow. Nice.
32:41 --> 32:44 All right, next.
32:44 --> 33:22 Yeah, so this is where I'm a hypocrite and an asshole. The way that I was given wolf some gruff about, hold on. That game came out in America in 91. Technically, the game I'm mentioning came out 1989, December 22. However, it's on the Moby list. So by that virtue, we get to put it on there. The graphics, pretty good. The cutscenes, great. The soundtrack, in my estimation, one of the, if not the absolute best on the NES. Batman. The video game.
33:22 --> 33:23 Oh, boy.
33:23 --> 33:24 Batman.
33:24 --> 33:25 No. Batman.
33:25 --> 33:25 Yes.
33:25 --> 34:18 Based off of the novel push by Sapphire. No, the Michael Keaton Batman movie. It's a great game. They gave Batman a sidearm, a firearm, which is kind of stupid. But other than that, there's not a thing about this game that is not grand and perfect. The animations are great. They're not overdone, like Moon Crystal or what have you. The theming is spot on. Again, the soundtrack. Shut up. It's great. And the reason I picked Mega man three over this is because this is a personal favorite and not one that I thought was probably just because you always have to draw that line between is the category a favorite or is the category the best? Because those two things aren't necessarily always the same. So Batman, probably my favorite from the year, whereas Mega man three, definitely the best. But anyway, Batman for the nes, I'm.
34:18 --> 34:18 Right.
34:18 --> 34:41 My only real experience with this game, and I've watched a few streamers do it. I think I've even watched you do it. But Argus or Arcus or whatever, who basically just plays everything. But my experience is I hear the soundtrack of him humming it. Because you know how he does that, right?
34:41 --> 34:41 Yeah.
34:41 --> 34:50 And so that's how I hear the soundtrack is him just going, that was.
34:50 --> 34:57 One of my drum videos from way back when. I was hoping that would have been the one. But no, Arcus, that's fine. I get it. He is better than me, so that's good.
34:57 --> 34:58 Wow.
34:59 --> 35:03 Don't be like that. I still love gp. I still love you gp.
35:03 --> 35:05 I know, and I love you.
35:05 --> 35:07 Nobody plays metal storm like you do.
35:07 --> 35:18 Well, that's fair. And if I can put. Well, no, you'll go. And then I have one other game I want to mention as an honorable mention, third place. But that can wait.
35:19 --> 35:36 I just want to throw this out there. Batman is one of those games I did have as a kid, and I was so sad that I could not be better at it because I was absolutely awful and I was just never able to beat, I think, the level three boss or something like, dude, yes.
35:36 --> 35:38 It'S a tough game. It's NES hard.
35:38 --> 35:40 I don't even think I could beat it with game genie.
35:44 --> 35:48 Is that the eight two of Batman is the third level.
35:48 --> 35:53 Batman is all eight twos after the first level. Yeah, all eight twos, my friend.
35:53 --> 35:57 The first level is fine. After that, it's just eight two for eternity.
35:57 --> 36:02 Yeah. Even if you're good at the game, you're not really that good at the game. You know what I mean? Unless you're Arcus.
36:02 --> 36:06 No one is really good at Batman. That game is very difficult.
36:06 --> 36:11 Even Bruce Wayne was like, what? Horrible.
36:11 --> 36:16 It's all right. I have my bat glock that I'll bring with me everywhere I go.
36:17 --> 36:22 It's not an actual gun. It fires missiles. Surely that's the loophole.
36:24 --> 36:25 Because missiles aren't.
36:25 --> 36:29 Murderous at all, they are rpgs. That's true.
36:29 --> 36:32 Yeah. Nice, Batman.
36:32 --> 36:34 All right. Is it me?
36:34 --> 36:35 It is you.
36:35 --> 36:36 All right.
36:36 --> 36:36 Are you Batman?
36:37 --> 36:53 Well, my runner up, I'm going with two DOS games. This run around this time around, this go around, go around. I finally made it. Third try is wing commander. Wing commander.
36:53 --> 36:58 Yeah. You know, I'm surprised Dr. Mario wasn't on your list. I'm going to be honest with you.
36:58 --> 37:10 I love Dr. Mario, but I love get your bingo cards. I love Dr. Mario on that. For those listening to the podcast, it's the Nintendo 64.
37:10 --> 37:11 I love it. On my shelf.
37:12 --> 37:14 Yeah, I do. Yes.
37:15 --> 37:17 Unplayed. That's how I love it.
37:19 --> 38:01 No, wing commander. A 3d space fighting game. Instead of being like, true three d is the janky. Like, they drew all of the different sprites that were the different angles of the ships, and it was cool. Had missions. I mean, it had a little bit of a story to it. But if you ever played, like, the tie fighter game or x wing games, X wings versus tie fighter, it was kind of that before those existed. And so this kind of was like, I know elite existed before this, but it kind of was the beginning of the big genre of spacefighter games.
38:03 --> 38:07 The perspective is what we call mod two or mode two.
38:07 --> 38:09 Mode. Mode.
38:09 --> 38:50 Wow. Wing commander was that game in comic, not comic books, but in gaming magazines that I read growing up that I always wanted to play. Every time I see Wing commander on there, I'd be like, man, wish I had a computer that could a, exist and b, run it. So not having one for a while, and then we were stuck on windows fucking 95 for 80 some OD years. So any kind of chance and opportunity to get any kind of those games was few and far between growing up. But I'll tell you, I saw wing commander in a commercial or I saw it in a game magazine. I was. That's. That's the game I want. I want that.
38:50 --> 39:03 So then the third iteration had Mark Hamill and what's the guy that's like, the british guy? That's evil.
39:03 --> 39:05 Mads Mikkelsen. Mads Mikkelsen.
39:05 --> 39:12 No, it was before Mads. It was based on rush by whatever the. I don't have the joke because I.
39:12 --> 39:14 Based on the sapphire.
39:15 --> 39:16 Yeah. Thank you.
39:17 --> 39:18 That's three.
39:18 --> 39:25 Yeah, but I got that one. I actually brought that one up, so that's one for. Yeah.
39:25 --> 39:27 I love you so much.
39:31 --> 39:31 Okay.
39:31 --> 39:34 Yeah. I don't know who you're talking about. Was it Tom Wilson? Is that the guy?
39:35 --> 39:38 Rest in peace. Oh, no, that's Tom Wilkinson.
39:38 --> 39:39 Let's see. Hang on.
39:39 --> 39:40 He just passed.
39:40 --> 39:42 Oh, John Reese Davies.
39:42 --> 39:45 Well, John Reese Davies was in it as well.
39:45 --> 39:46 Jr. Absolutely.
39:47 --> 39:50 Jr. Yeah. That son of a bitch.
39:51 --> 39:55 Anyway, but Mark Hamill. I remember for sure. Mark Hamill.
39:59 --> 40:00 There you go.
40:01 --> 40:02 Thank you.
40:02 --> 40:03 Caligula himself.
40:04 --> 40:08 Yeah, that is one malcolm you do not want to be in the middle of.
40:08 --> 40:09 That's right.
40:11 --> 40:12 Toads McGotes.
40:12 --> 40:14 Toads McGoats.
40:15 --> 40:16 Wow.
40:18 --> 40:21 He was great in the mentalist, if anybody is familiar.
40:23 --> 40:29 The what? I never got to play wing commander. I also never saw the movie.
40:30 --> 40:30 Oh.
40:32 --> 40:52 I don't know if the movie was any good. I'm guessing not, since it was. There isn't nothing against Matthew Lillard, but this was well before he even portrayed the character in Scream. So I think this is one of his earlier roles. So it's Matthew Lillard and Freddie Prinze Jr. Let's fucking go. So long before Scooby.
40:52 --> 40:56 That's wild. You had to bring up full on.
40:56 --> 40:57 I did.
40:57 --> 40:57 Meltdown.
40:57 --> 41:03 Right. You had to taint this discussion of wing commander with the movie.
41:05 --> 41:08 It was better than Battleship Earth.
41:08 --> 41:15 Well, okay, that's true, but the shit I took in the toilet was better than Battleship Earth this morning.
41:15 --> 41:17 Battleship Earth.
41:17 --> 41:19 Battlefielders, you mean.
41:19 --> 41:21 Oh, yeah. Battlefield earth. Thank you. Right.
41:21 --> 41:23 With, you know what, Travolta and Forrest Whitaker.
41:23 --> 41:23 Travolta.
41:23 --> 41:23 Yeah.
41:23 --> 41:26 You know what? Yeah, who cares?
41:27 --> 41:44 Here's what I want to say about Forrest Whitaker. He is such an amazing actor that he found a way to come away from that movie kind of unscathed. And Travolta, who was also very prolific in the before, really took the brunt of the shitstorm.
41:44 --> 41:48 Well, you know, you put Traval Travolta in dreadlocks, and he just becomes a threat.
41:48 --> 41:51 Here's the question. Was that a religious film?
41:52 --> 41:53 Somebody's religion.
41:53 --> 42:01 Exactly. Yeah. Was that their version of, like, listen.
42:01 --> 42:04 We'Ve already offended enough lepers over the last couple of weeks.
42:06 --> 42:10 Okay, so did anybody have a third pick?
42:10 --> 42:12 Yeah, I got a mention.
42:17 --> 42:18 I don't know.
42:18 --> 42:21 Yeah, I don't think we should rank third picks, but we should talk about them.
42:21 --> 42:31 I don't think we've been scoring the second ones either. We just scored the first because honestly, the scores I did receive for the second round were, they're not coming close to the first round.
42:31 --> 42:32 Yeah.
42:32 --> 42:38 Okay, here's my question. Do I have to have played the game in order to put it on the honorable mention for best of show of 1990?
42:39 --> 42:46 No, I guess not. The game is, look, we're lazy. Let us be lazy.
42:46 --> 42:48 Yeah. Someday.
42:48 --> 42:49 The laziest episode.
42:49 --> 42:58 I love that game. It is such a good game. Nobody loves it but me and, like, four other people on the list. What game was that again?
42:59 --> 43:00 Silver surfer surfer.
43:00 --> 43:01 Okay.
43:02 --> 43:21 Great. Shitty gameplay, shitty graphics, lovability factor through the roof. I understand it's on nobody else's list. I saw it on there and I was honor bound and duty bound to mention.
43:21 --> 43:21 Honor bound.
43:21 --> 43:22 Thank you.
43:22 --> 43:28 All right, so before I do one more. Honorable mention. Char, do you have one more?
43:28 --> 43:32 I do have one more, actually. All right, back to it.
43:32 --> 43:34 Here. I think I actually have one too.
43:34 --> 43:54 Where did it go? Do you have ones like, I had one. Oh, here it is. Okay, I got one. Guys, I don't think you understand how much I greatly enjoyed playing this game on my Sega Genesis was actually at my uncle's house, and I used to play this quite a bit.
43:54 --> 43:55 Followed.
43:56 --> 43:57 No.
43:57 --> 43:59 Okay, which one? Game Boy.
44:00 --> 44:01 Is it the beat them up?
44:02 --> 44:25 It's a beat them up, yeah. It's a beat them up. It's a beat them up with some killer tunes. Prolific musician of the so on, created his own beat them up type game where you rescue orphan children from what I think is Joe Pesci, if I remember correctly, with a top knot.
44:28 --> 44:29 Does it start with a w?
44:30 --> 44:38 No, it doesn't start with a w. Starts with an m. If you flip that w upside down, it does. Michael Jackson's moonwalker.
44:39 --> 44:39 Moonwalker.
44:39 --> 44:41 All right. Genesis classic.
44:41 --> 45:29 Sega Genesis. Beat him up. Featuring the king of Pop himself, Michael Jackson. Yeah. Where you would charge up your dance moves and end up doing the Annie. Are you okay? Lean to kill enemies. Almost to the point that if you got enough star power, I believe it was. It's been a while since I played it. You turn into a dancing cyborg. It didn't make any sense, but it was a killer game. I enjoyed Michael Jackson's moonwalker quite a bit. And I saw this on the list. I was like, you know what? You know what doesn't get a lot of love? Michael Jackson's moonwalker. So we're dropping it like it's hot. So MJ mw. We're going with that one. Because I was a big Jackson fan in the got to go with Moonwalker.
45:30 --> 45:47 I think that's a good pick. I remember playing that a lot with my cousins. That was a lot of fun. And I think that was one of the first games that at least that I played that had music that I knew from outside of video games. And so that was kind of extra cool in that way.
45:48 --> 45:51 Nothing like a little blast processing to get that.
45:54 --> 46:06 If you had put that game or tried to put that game on any other system, it wouldn't have gone, I guess, because I don't know if they did port it other places. But I think the Genesis version is as good as that game was ever going to get.
46:06 --> 46:34 Fun fact, I believe it used to be an arcade game. I don't know if it was. I played it, came to the Genesis or it was first totally different. It was almost like a top down Michael Jackson game. While this one on the Sega Genesis was a side Scroller. So it was a different beast. I think you could turn into like a car or something in the arcade. Like if you got enough points or something, star powers you like, you turn into the robot.
46:34 --> 46:41 But then he also being a side scroller. I remember the arcade being a side scroller.
46:41 --> 46:42 It was more isometric.
46:42 --> 46:50 Yeah, isometric. Because I remember going, hey, I didn't know this was an arcade game. It looks way different than what I played as a kid.
46:51 --> 46:54 Yeah, the arcade game is a hard three quarter view.
46:54 --> 46:55 Okay.
46:57 --> 46:58 Look at me dropping.
46:59 --> 47:01 I do have an honorable mention as well.
47:01 --> 47:02 There we go.
47:03 --> 47:03 Okay.
47:03 --> 47:24 We discussed this in our Marco Polo, so I'm good with it. But the new remake of Kings Quest one on their new engine, it is not just a remaster, it is a remake. It came out in 1990. There you go.
47:25 --> 47:30 Yeah. Because the original was 84. One of the first remasters. Yeah.
47:30 --> 47:31 Wow.
47:34 --> 47:36 Anyway, that's my honorable mention.
47:36 --> 47:56 All right, well, my last honorable mention is going to be those paying attention to chat. My mom was hanging out in there. Dr. Mario for the neo. Dr. Mario is a good one. And honestly, those tunes still pop into my head and I'll just be humming them or whistling them all day long when it happens.
47:58 --> 47:58 Nice.
47:58 --> 48:16 It's still one that I go back and play. And I do have fond memories of actually playing that one with my mom. And my mom very much not a gamer. She was absolutely a mad woman at this game. She would start at level 20 and get to like, the wild.
48:16 --> 48:17 Very nice.
48:17 --> 48:18 Very nice.
48:19 --> 48:49 You know those memes about. Tell me where your anxiety started? Whenever I think of that, I think about the advanced levels, the latter levels of Dr. Mario. Oddly enough, though, really great soundtrack for that one, too. The sound effects. I mean, not just the soundtrack, but even whenever you polish off the last of a certain color in the pill jar. I don't know. It's an iconic game. I have a lot of nostalgia for that one. That's fun.
48:49 --> 48:50 Yeah.
48:50 --> 48:51 Solid pick.
48:54 --> 49:02 All right, are we ready for the reveal of. Pull back the curtain, wolf. Pull back the curtain.
49:02 --> 49:05 Do I give my acceptance speech now or.
49:05 --> 49:05 Wow.
49:06 --> 49:11 In third place, chill out. We have super Mario World.
49:12 --> 49:14 What the fuck?
49:14 --> 49:16 Because it's a really good 1991 game.
49:17 --> 49:22 It's a fairly good 1990 game. If someone had picked Mario three, it'd be up there.
49:22 --> 49:24 You know what episode?
49:25 --> 49:27 When we do 1991, I'm picking it.
49:28 --> 49:31 That's fine. I'll be great with it then.
49:33 --> 49:34 All right.
49:34 --> 49:37 In second place, we have Mega man three.
49:41 --> 49:49 You know what? That's fair. I don't even like that game. So whatever. I was trying to show growth as human being. But one thing you all have brought out is that, no, I'm a spiteful individual.
49:49 --> 49:51 I'm going to let you all know right now.
49:54 --> 49:55 Number one better be Batman.
49:56 --> 50:06 The difference in score between first and third was not even 1.7.
50:07 --> 50:07 Wow.
50:07 --> 50:14 So they were all very close. First place, we've got Chippendale rescue rangers.
50:14 --> 50:28 Yeah. Let's go. I may have way underscored sinister. Sinister. I'm pretty sure I'm the reason that yours isn't on there, sinisters. I ranked it like a six. Everybody else is 9.69.79.
50:28 --> 50:33 .8 no, they all came in in the eight range.
50:34 --> 50:35 Okay, cool.
50:35 --> 50:41 All right. I helped balance them by using the Moby score as a fifth score.
50:41 --> 50:42 Okay.
50:42 --> 50:52 Or as a filler score as well. Or if they didn't, and then the Moby one and then averaged it out based on how many submissions I received.
50:52 --> 50:54 So I played the greatest game in the 90s.
50:55 --> 50:58 We've all played that game.
50:58 --> 51:00 I played Chippendales. Jesus.
51:01 --> 51:01 Yeah.
51:02 --> 51:06 I played the greatest game in the picked HR 90.
51:07 --> 51:11 Keep trying to make it an entire decade. You keep trying to make it an entire decade.
51:11 --> 51:12 Yeah.
51:12 --> 51:17 Where's my. Hold on. I wasn't expecting this honor, but I.
51:17 --> 51:37 Came prepared for this and part of 91. Because, Mario, this is just game of a year. You and I are like all the years. We're like best friends. We are told whenever we do the best game in 1991 that will be challenged. And I can't wait.
51:37 --> 51:53 Yeah, whatever. Yeah, whatever. You can feel it on the walls of my room. Yeah. Okay. We'll see who.
51:55 --> 52:08 Well, just so you know, Moby games, according to my view here, it ranked number one for 1990 Super Mario World.
52:08 --> 52:09 Yes.
52:10 --> 52:27 Yeah. I'm not shocked. It's hard to debate that greatness. So my whole thing about it is mostly just the chronology of what exactly constitutes 1990. But I balanced Chippendale with Batman.
52:28 --> 52:31 Chippendale, apparently is 1990.
52:31 --> 52:32 It's so hard.
52:32 --> 52:33 Mega man three rule.
52:33 --> 52:35 It rules all.
52:35 --> 52:39 Mega man three is fourth for the year on Moby.
52:39 --> 52:46 Listen, not only am I humble, but I'm super brilliant too.
52:46 --> 52:49 Yeah. Nice. I love that.
52:49 --> 52:54 Monkey island is. And Chippendale ain't even page one.
52:54 --> 53:02 Yeah. Loom is like 16th act. Razor is like 20th.
53:02 --> 53:04 Chippendale is on page three.
53:04 --> 53:05 Where's Batman?
53:06 --> 53:11 Not here. Not at press b. It's page one. It's number one. Number one.
53:11 --> 53:11 Yes.
53:12 --> 53:15 The episode is not Moby's top whatever games. It's ours.
53:16 --> 53:17 Yes.
53:17 --> 53:18 And you know what?
53:18 --> 53:19 Awesome.
53:19 --> 53:21 Our opinion is the only opinion that matters.
53:22 --> 53:43 Well, if you're enjoying us giving a game of the year for a year, specifically, chime in presspeedcancel.com. You can get all of our details to go to discord, or you can comment here on YouTube. And let us know how we did this entirely wrong.
53:43 --> 53:48 Yeah. What was your game of a game of a year?
53:48 --> 53:56 How wrong I am from anybody. Except for you three. I'm usually truth.
53:59 --> 54:03 Let me explain to you how I'm also infinitely, always correct.
54:03 --> 54:15 Here's why I think I may have been wrong about the entire episode is because after everything we've discussed, all I want to do is play Dr. Mario. Like, as soon as we shut this down, I'm probably going to fire that.
54:15 --> 54:17 So, not a licensed doctor.
54:18 --> 54:19 Yeah. Make mine a doctor.
54:19 --> 54:25 That's right. Yeah. Kids, don't take as many pills as Dr. Mario throws.
54:25 --> 54:29 Say it's like the pharmaceutical companies now. Just throw pills at it. It'll go away.
54:31 --> 54:34 All right, guys, clearly Mario was working for Purdue.
54:35 --> 54:36 Yeah.
54:38 --> 54:39 Beautiful.
54:40 --> 54:40 Nice.
54:41 --> 54:41 All right.
54:41 --> 54:42 Well done.
54:42 --> 54:47 Thank you very much for listening. I think that's a wrap for this episode.
54:47 --> 54:51 Jake will never take single day off again.
54:52 --> 54:56 Yeah. Wood fired pizza grills.
54:57 --> 54:58 Yeah, ovens.
54:58 --> 54:58 All right.
54:58 --> 54:59 They're ovens.
55:02 --> 55:07 All right. This has been press b to cancel.
55:07 --> 55:08 And a good laugh.
55:08 --> 55:10 Press pizza oven of 1990.
55:10 --> 55:11 Press pizza oven.