Press B 202: Game of the Year: 1991

Step back in time to the gaming landscape of 1991, where the Sega Genesis/Megadrive was establishing its dominance and the Super Nintendo was making its grand entrance. Join us this week on Press B as we debate: What truly deserved the coveted title of Game of the Year in this unforgettable bygone year of gaming?

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00:00 --> 00:50 You know it's true. Everything I do, I do it for the top 91 games. M 1991. Today on welcome one and all to the greatest show on earth. Well, at least for the next hour on YouTube, I'd like to. I'd like to say hello to all my favorite people that are here, including Sinistar. What is going on? Sir, you are in a sweatshop. What are you. What are you doing? Are you making shoes? What are you doing over there?
00:50 --> 00:51 He's in a sauna.
00:51 --> 00:53 Yeah, this is.
00:54 --> 00:56 This is my Nintendo 64 over here.
00:56 --> 01:00 If you've been kidnapped twice, please, we're worried about you.
01:00 --> 01:04 Press B. Brought to you by Jordan Peele I'm worried.
01:04 --> 01:06 Sister, welcome aboard.
01:06 --> 01:22 Yeah, I am up at brother of Sins cabin cabin. And I am streaming from brother of Sins Cat cottage cabin. I'm up in the. In the mountains area and having a great time.
01:22 --> 01:43 Let's just take a moment and appreciate sinister dedication to the podcast that he is on vacation and yet still finds time to come and give me shit for the next hour. I appreciate it. Speaking of giving me shit, Jake, how's dragon dogma? Two's going. And the rest of your life, how's things going?
01:43 --> 02:12 You know, dragons dogmas might be. Some might say it's game of the year. Not me, though. I would never do that to you because I know that drives you nuts, but it's a pretty solid game. I got. I gotta say, though, when you sung Brian Adams, please don't sue us. Brian Adams. During my wedding, my wife insists that that's. That's our song. Oh, but really, what our song is. I'm gonna say this now. I'll show a clip later, is. It's a shit.
02:12 --> 02:13 I got Rainbow Connection.
02:14 --> 02:15 No, no, no connection.
02:15 --> 02:16 It's rainbow Connection.
02:16 --> 02:41 It's the snakes on a plane song that's done by Cobra starship. They've only done like, one song that made it anywhere, and it's that song. And I remember that song because I love that song. It was instincts on a plane, which is our first, kind of. When we met, we went together to group to see that movie, and I love that song, and she fucking hates it. And I think. I'm pretty sure she told the dj to not play it. When I said, that's our dance song.
02:41 --> 02:46 Oh, I did an acoustic version of one of my favorite songs from that album. So that's awesome.
02:46 --> 02:49 Well, we must start Canada listening.
02:49 --> 02:53 You know, Canada has apologized for Brian Adams on numerous occasions, Wolf.
02:53 --> 02:57 They still haven't. They still haven't apologized for Bieber.
02:57 --> 02:59 That's true. Wolf, how are you?
02:59 --> 03:00 He's not canadian, is he?
03:01 --> 03:11 I am doing pretty well today. I. Sorry, I kind of gave everybody heart attacks before the episode because we. Should I go into the rules a little bit?
03:12 --> 03:23 We just. Yeah, we'll have the rules. But we. We basically figured out how this episode actually works. A moment before we moments, 30 minutes.
03:23 --> 03:38 It was me saying, yeah, I'm barbecuing food for the wife and I, I'm probably gonna be late. And within the span of me saying, hey, I'm probably gonna be late, we literally fucking figured out the rules of this entire episode. All right, in that timeframe, sir, give.
03:38 --> 03:41 Us the rundown on what other rundowns there, Wolf?
03:41 --> 04:03 Okay, so as sinistar prefaced it with last time, lazy rules succeed. So it doesn't matter if it released in 91, 90, 91 or 92, as long as it released one of those years. One of them. So we're kind of going on the release here that's listed on Moby.
04:04 --> 04:04 Moby games.
04:04 --> 04:22 Yeah, if it's. Yeah, Moby games. So if it's Japan in 91, it's Japan. If it's North America, 91, it's North America. Basically, as we roll out more of these episodes, we're just not going to repeat games from episode to episode. So if it's claimed for 91, it's not going to be used in 92 and so forth.
04:22 --> 04:27 So just so you know, my games were released in 91 in Zimbabwe.
04:27 --> 04:31 Yes. And we're looking at you, Zimbabwe. Want to make sure you're still out there.
04:31 --> 04:32 We love you, Zimbabwe.
04:32 --> 05:03 We love you. All right, well, we also, since last weekend, we. We apologize for last weekend. Having to cancel a short notice was a really rough week for a bunch of us and we just couldn't muster the ability to put anything together which was supposed to. This was supposed to happen last week. GP was supposed to be a part of it. Unfortunately, this week he had to dip out for a family emergency. Not an emergency, it's a family fun thing. He's. Everything's good. He's fine. I was about to say his house just burnt down, but it's fine. He's on vacation.
05:03 --> 05:06 The emergencies of a birthday. Oh, no, we are.
05:06 --> 05:37 Well, you know, my birthday is in a couple weeks. It's kind of an emergency. So, um, so Wolf and I both discussed this on the MP's and the oracle polos that we are going to be representing him because there's a game on there that both wolf, myself and GP all absolutely love. And we decided that we were going to announce it once we figured out the rules of how we were going to do this. I didn't want to be the guy that took it, and Wolf didn't want to be the guy that takes it away. So we decided, you know, we're going to do it conglomerately. So, uh, Jake, do you give you.
05:37 --> 05:57 An idea how messed up this is? For those who are doubting our thought process here, look at Sonic the hedgehog from the genesis on Wikipedia. The north american release date says 1989. Moby game says 91. So it's kind of like, which one is it? I know it's not 89 because, I mean, I had that game at launch.
05:57 --> 06:05 Wikipedia is wrong because I have proof that it's 91. I have undeniable proof that it's 89 is the best.
06:06 --> 06:07 91.
06:07 --> 06:11 That 1991 tagged clamshell.
06:12 --> 06:12 Yep.
06:13 --> 06:15 Not for resale. I got that one.
06:15 --> 06:44 Not for resale. Well, I've got it right here in front of me. Okay, so without further delay, I guess we should. Might as well get into the meat and potatoes of this wonderful runner up, right? I would like to thank everybody. Hold on, let me gush about you fuckers for a few minutes, please, because I love you. I'd like to thank everybody for coming out today and the viewers, the listeners. And I want to say that we didn't. Is this. This is not the 2001? We did that already, right?
06:44 --> 06:47 No, we've already thanked them. Okay? They're.
06:47 --> 07:31 Fuck everybody else. Fine, never mind. 2002, 202. Fuck you. Okay? That's how. Anyways, I don't care. I want to thank everybody for coming out now that I'm hosting and I get to say something, I get. I don't get cut off by Jake anymore. Yes. You guys are awesome. Thanks for making such a wonderful year. Thanks for accepting myself and Sinistar, mostly sinister, into the fold with everybody else. I love doing this every Friday. See, I've stopped streaming, but I haven't stopped podcasting because I freaking love hanging out with these guys. So you and me both. Yep. It's. It's a lot of. Obviously, you're on fucking vacation. You popped in. I'm gonna have to do this from my. My master bedroom next week, so I gotta show you the next.
07:31 --> 07:34 Look, the next time you go on a cruise, we expect.
07:34 --> 07:37 Yeah, I'll buy remote lane package.
07:37 --> 07:39 Yeah, you're getting a satellite uplink, guys.
07:39 --> 07:45 Gonna go in, have Z's with me on the Wi Fi package on the cruise, because that's the only problem. Freaking expensive.
07:45 --> 07:47 Oh, sure, why not?
07:47 --> 07:52 All right. All right. Let's get into the meat and potatoes of this wonderful. Wait, no, Jake's got something to say. Sorry. Go ahead.
07:52 --> 08:17 Sorry. So for the listeners and the viewers of this episode, I wasn't here for the 1990 episode. Some of them may have not been there as well. And like, you know, I know, you know I love you guys, and you know that if I'm not an episode, you know that I listened to it. Some people may not have. So could you explain how you did it? Did you rank them at the end of the. Everybody went around in a circle, gave their picks, and then you ranked it?
08:17 --> 08:23 We. I sort of did a quick and dirty ranking system, but I don't think we're going to repeat that.
08:23 --> 08:24 Okay.
08:24 --> 08:30 It was basically everybody submitted their scores to me privately through DM and discord.
08:30 --> 08:30 Yeah.
08:30 --> 08:33 And then I sort of did the math and figured out which one came out on top.
08:33 --> 08:41 But I really think we just treat this like our regular game of the year episodes, where it's per person's game of the year.
08:43 --> 09:01 Like. Like it's not a bracket. Right. We're just going to say this was my favorite game of the year, according to me. Not, not according to everybody else kind of. That's just where we're going to stand on it. So we'll. We'll do round robin, we'll do runner up, we'll do game of the year. And if we have an honor and I'll mention if there's time, then maybe we'll fire off an honorable.
09:01 --> 09:12 But this is a good discussion. If you're listening to this or watching this and you want to rank, come talk to us in our discord, you'll be wrong.
09:12 --> 09:19 If we don't mention your favorite game in this episode for 1991, just know that your game sucks and it's not game of the year.
09:19 --> 09:21 And that is absolutely, without a doubt.
09:21 --> 09:21 Sure.
09:21 --> 09:23 The takeaway I'm getting from this, but that's okay.
09:23 --> 09:25 Yeah. Come yell at us on discord. Press be two.
09:26 --> 09:31 Cancel.com. No, Jake's. Jake's totally right. I don't typically agree on Jake, but he's totally right on this one.
09:33 --> 09:35 Okay, circus Charlie, let's go.
09:35 --> 09:37 Yeah, right. Well, he's 91.
09:38 --> 09:41 No, I'm looking.
09:41 --> 09:43 No way you're looking.
09:46 --> 09:48 80. 84.
09:48 --> 09:53 Okay, you know what? You know what Jake's pick is when we get to 84?
09:54 --> 09:59 I don't even remember how to filter. How to filter through date on this goddamn thing. So, okay.
09:59 --> 10:00 Who's starting?
10:00 --> 10:05 Who's gonna, who's gonna fire this off, wolf, you said you wanted to, you wanted to last.
10:05 --> 10:08 Because I have. I have a number of picks ready.
10:08 --> 10:13 Just in case Sinistar's got a number one finger. You go ahead and go first, man.
10:13 --> 10:37 Well, mine, mine are likely not to be duplicated, a, because I've already told you all what, what they were in our, in our market, polos and B minor pc games. So my runner up is. My runner up for 1991 is a might and magic three for the pc for DoS.
10:38 --> 10:46 Okay, can I just say I'm really disappointed you didn't pick the bard's tail construction set, which was notably released in 1991 to critical acclaim.
10:47 --> 10:50 I'm, apparently I'm. Apparently I got busted.
10:51 --> 11:00 Listen, this asshole is just butting into everybody's houses this month. Christ almighty. Gonna kick him out of mine last week.
11:00 --> 11:03 Breaking entering. Sinister's nickname in high school. Yeah.
11:03 --> 11:05 B and E, Sinistar.
11:06 --> 11:15 B and E, Sinistar. Yeah. Yeah. All right. What, what did you say, Jake? Because I was busy getting yelled at by my brother.
11:15 --> 11:21 You can ask him. How come you didn't pick the bard's tail construction set, which was notably released in 1991?
11:21 --> 11:30 Bardsdale construction set. That, that would have been, you know what? That's my, that's my bronze. That's my bronze for 1991. Nice.
11:30 --> 11:31 Okay.
11:31 --> 13:28 Yeah. Except mind magic. Actually, it's kind of funny because might and magic three, the mind magic series, is, is very similar in a lot of ways to Bard's tale games. So I guess I'm, I guess I'm kind of pitching picking a natural successor to the Bard's Tale series, at least until, you know, the, the newer games came out very recently. But no, it's a great rpg. It's, it's in the might and magic world. They kind of took. So there are, you know, your standard kind of dungeons, run of the mill dungeons, but they also kind of treat the overworld as a little bit of a dungeon as well. There's no, everything is on a grid. Even when you're out in, you know, the middle of the forest, even when you're going from town to town, even when you're going, you know, everything is that 3d grid, you know, style and, you know, all of the monsters. One of the things I appreciate about this game is all of the monsters are basically visible. It's not one of those games where you take three steps and you have a random encounter. You have the ability to, you know, shoot arrows, etcetera, at monsters as they're coming toward you. Uh, very d and D esque. Uh, you have a party of six. Uh, one of the things I love about this game is, um, much like Wolfenstein and that ilk, did your characters faces change based on their status. So if they're poisoned or if they're, you know, hurt or if they're, you know, etcetera, they, and a lot of them are actually very funny faces as well. They kind of make these goofy faces if they're, if they're, say, you know, poisoned or that sort of thing. But great, great rpg, large in scope. You know, we're talking tens if not hundreds of hours of gameplay and available on, on GoG if you want to play them on modern hardware.
13:28 --> 13:43 Yeah, that's the thing with those games is I miss so many of those. Like that era of gaming. I really need to go back and play some of them. I know they run on the mister, I think, for the most part. And if they don't go godsend for, for playing retro titles because they run so well, the package they have. Right.
13:43 --> 13:50 Brother of sin and I have a couple of christmases ago, it wasn't might magic. Or was it might magic three?
13:50 --> 13:54 That might magic you were talking about. You did the speed up fight, didn't you?
13:54 --> 14:03 It was either three or four. It was either world of zine or three. I think it was three, yeah. And we used the Mister AO 486 core to you to do that.
14:04 --> 14:04 Yeah.
14:04 --> 14:08 You sent me a video of you guys fighting like the final boss on that or something, I thought, didn't you?
14:08 --> 14:10 Something like that, yeah.
14:10 --> 14:19 Yeah. Is this now, am I, am I remiss you've talked about might and magic three on numerous occasions, if I'm not forgetting. Is this like one of your favorite games of all time? It wasn't it.
14:19 --> 15:00 I really have liked the might and Magic series, at least up through the world of zine, which is four and five combined. It was one of those games where they basically, you could buy four, you could buy five, but if you had both, it actually combined them and then you could actually portal between the areas in four and five. So I really like those. I think Gog actually sells it essentially as world of zine at this point. Yeah. So for those watching the video, werewolf has a. His background is currently might and magic three. The art is amazing. I love the art.
15:00 --> 15:03 So say that looks like, it looks like an office.
15:03 --> 15:03 Yeah.
15:03 --> 15:05 Like I'm coming into work.
15:05 --> 15:11 Yeah, yeah. That I think is actually one of the guilds, if I remember right.
15:12 --> 15:15 Celestial office of assembly. That's, that's what, that's.
15:15 --> 15:45 Yeah, exactly. So, no. And then, and then the other thing I remember, you know, being. Being a teenager when I played this, a young teenager when I played this. Of course I was impatient and didn't want to go through the rigmarole of actually leveling up. And this was one of those games that I was able to actually take the save and pull out a hex editor and find all of my stats and adjust them. I loved it. I thought it was great.
15:45 --> 15:49 Nice. All right. Strong pick.
15:50 --> 15:54 That is my runner up for game of the year for 1991.
15:54 --> 15:54 Runner up.
15:54 --> 15:55 Fantastic. Okay.
15:55 --> 15:56 All right.
15:57 --> 16:01 Uh, Jake, are you interested, or would you like me to go next?
16:01 --> 16:03 No, I'm.
16:03 --> 16:05 You need more time anymore?
16:05 --> 16:08 No, no, no. I'm. I'm gonna pick. I'm gonna pick.
16:08 --> 16:09 Okay.
16:09 --> 16:53 I have, you know what? Screw it. I have to take the Legend of Zelda, a link to the past for the Super Nintendo. I have to pick it. And that says Moby game says, I came at 91. That game is, it is one of my favorite games of all time. I know I keep saying links awakening, link to the past. It's hard for me to pick, but linked to the past did so much for me as a gamer as a kid is the first game I played on the Super Nintendo. It's one I still go back to even today to play the randomizers. Still a blast to play. Now. The Rom hacks are great. I mean, that game set the bar so high for that action adventure kind of, kind of gameplay, just the dungeons and everything. I mean, anytime I play a Zelda game now, I go back and compare it to link to the past and whether or not it's better than link to the past, and a lot of times it's not.
16:54 --> 16:59 So that is my favorite Zelda. So I am, I am applauding your pick.
17:00 --> 17:06 Mm hmm. Seems. It seems really listens to the mp's here. Super.
17:06 --> 17:07 Was that one of yours?
17:08 --> 17:09 Was one of what?
17:09 --> 17:12 I was, but that's fine. I found a backup.
17:12 --> 17:14 I thought, you really thought you're picking.
17:14 --> 17:22 The other one of the whole thing as you. You specifically said that? Much like my wife, you know, I listen to you guys all the time and then shook your head, so it's.
17:22 --> 17:25 I'm taking it back. You really don't think something else.
17:25 --> 17:27 I don't care about it.
17:27 --> 17:30 Chard, I got something for you. I'll give it to you.
17:30 --> 17:36 I got, I got some stuff. I'm looking at a nice little list. And I went, oh, I didn't know that was 91. So I'm good.
17:37 --> 17:40 I'm sorry. I didn't realize that was okay.
17:41 --> 17:54 This is where the podcast. This is where the podcast falls apart, everybody. Yeah, we apologize. It's now infighting. Sonic, just call. Just call. Jake attract 17. It's fine.
17:55 --> 19:45 Wow. So let me gush about Link to the past a little bit. I. Link to the past was one of the first Super Nintendo games that I really sat down and wanted to play. It was a game that I was like, this looks amazing. I love the original Legend of Zelda. It took me several years to get into Link's adventure. So, you know, going back into the same kind of, you know, isometric top down, you know, running around doing. Doing the roguelike type stuff. I absolutely loved this game. I love this play game all the way up into my forties and continuously played randomizers on this and did races and things. I freaking love this game. This might be if Final Fantasy did not touch Super Nintendo at any time, this would be one of my all time favorite Super Nintendo games ever made. It still holds up today. I think. It's still super beautiful. The music is memorable, and it's fun to listen to and hum along while you're running around the overworld. I love everything about this game. There's never a moment where I've been like, you know what? I'm tired of playing this because as soon as I fire it up, I can't stop playing it. It's so good. It's almost like an addiction. Like, I have to not play it so I can get other things done. Because the minute I fire that thing up, ain't nothing happening. I'm playing the hell out of this until it's done. I love the switching between the night, you know, the dark world and the real world and everything. I just thought it was a really good story. It's a great twist on things, and it almost felt like they took the original Zelda and made it, you know, into the next set of link to the past and. And just cleaned it up and made it better and made it more fun. And I can't say enough positive things about link to the past. I think this game is. Is easily one of the best night games made in 1991, um, ever. So, uh, Jake, I love your pick. Wow.
19:45 --> 19:46 Sorry.
19:46 --> 19:48 You like this game so much, maybe you should have picked this one. I don't.
19:48 --> 19:49 Yeah, I know.
19:49 --> 19:54 Maybe next time I won't be so late to the party on that one, huh? Next time, I'll just keep my. My secrets to myself.
19:56 --> 20:22 Now, here's a funny thing about this game. I absolutely love this game. I've played through it a number of times. I played through it on a Game Boy advance when it came out there. Um, a couple of my friends, when we were, like ten years older, when this came out, like, we all had Super Nintendo's. We were all playing through this, right? I think me and one of my friends both got soft locked with the key at death Rock.
20:23 --> 20:25 Ooh, I have heard of this.
20:26 --> 20:59 And that sucked. So we both had to start over. That was. That was very painful. But otherwise, this game is absolutely amazing. I wonder if that got patched out of subsequent versions, like release revisions. But yeah, I've also tried playing through this with the randomizer, not just by itself, but, like, the super metroid Zelda three randomizer. And yeah, I love this game. This is kind of the bar for 2d zelda in my mind.
20:59 --> 21:09 Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. Couldn't. I couldn't. I could not agree with that more. I think this game just carries. Carries the system on its back for the most part.
21:09 --> 21:09 It's.
21:09 --> 21:43 I don't know if there's. There's very many zeldas beyond this. I mean, listen, I know a lot of. I'm going to get a lot of flack for this, but I love wind Waker, I love Twilight princess, and, you know, all the other ones that it just. But this one, it just screams, like, perfection. The world of Zelda, in my opinion, there's not much. There's not much that I can say. I don't even think there's anything about it that I don't like. Like, I can't say. You know, one thing I don't care for is blank. I don't see that. I freaking love this game. It's so well done.
21:44 --> 22:01 Yeah. I can't think of a single flaw for me in this game. And, like, when I say I go back and forth between Link's awakening and link to the past, it's just because they're so similar. But, yeah, I can't think of a single fall in this game. This game is, to me, is like a perfect Nintendo game. Like, really, from top to bottom. I love how long it is, right?
22:01 --> 22:01 You.
22:01 --> 22:13 Like you said before, chard, there's a light in a dark world. You don't get that anymore. Even in modern zeldas, there's no way there's that many dungeons in the modern zeldas. It's crazy how much is packed into this cart. It's really something special.
22:13 --> 22:17 Yeah, I know. Fully aware how special this game is.
22:17 --> 22:39 Yeah, I actually streamed a good portion of this game a few years ago, and it was funny. I was like, I'm going to stream this game. I haven't played it in years. And one of the things I realized as I was streaming it is I had forgotten how long this game is, which is a good thing. Yeah, yeah.
22:39 --> 24:09 It's a beefy game. It's definitely can take up a good portion of your time. I. This is a funny story, and I'll try and make it brief so we can move on to the rest of the stuff. But most of you know my good friend Lord Optic. When we were growing up together, he used to have, his first apartment was somewhere based in Sacramento area. And I used to come up from my parents house and hang out with him on the weekends. And one night, during a pretty rough relationship that I was having that had separated, he came to his apartment. I had already been there, and I was on his beanbag chair playing link to the past, completely depressed. And he was like, you good, dude? I'm like, I was trying to save Zelda. At least someone's gonna get that. And so we. We finally remember that day. Cause that was. That was kind of a. It's. It's funny now. What's it then? But it's funny now. It was. Yeah, it was even my comfort game to go to when things were shitty. I would. I would fire that thing up and play it. So fun stuff. Real shame that I didn't get around to picking that one, though. So that's. That's a. That's a terrible waste. But tell you what, Jake, if that's. If you're good to go, sir, I'll go ahead and call out my. Not my second place. Is that what we're doing? All right. I'm going to hover around a certain system that I grew up with specifically. I didn't realize that according to Moby, this came out around this time. So this is quickly pushed.
24:09 --> 24:10 I think I know what you're going to pick.
24:10 --> 26:30 I don't know if you do, because this is a pretty. It's a pretty off the cusp. I don't talk about this one very often, but I absolutely. I rented this game hundreds of times for my sega. I played the crap out of it, and I did not realize it was released in 91. I'm going with my runner up is road rash. Road rash motorcycle combat game. I love road rash. I love this game. I love how stupid it is and how fun it is just to kick people off of their bikes. And you're flying through the air. And when you hit a car, you literally launch your body for miles and miles and you can see your bike dragging behind you. There's a code. I'll never forget it. There's a code that gives you a superbike that gets you like, that can get up to like 250 mph or something. Some asinine number that no human being should be going. And when you get that and you hit a car on that, you literally fly through half the map. It's hilarious. I love the physics in this game for it. For a. For a front or a back view racing type game. The physics in this game is freaking phenomenal. You hit a bump, you go and you fly through the air. You can kick people on the box, off their bikes while they're flying. You get chains and billy clubs and bats. It's super brutal, but it's Sega, so it's not like you see blood flying over the place. You're not decapitating people. Actually, sinistar got me a road redemption, which is kind of a remake homage to road rash. And when I found that, or when he got that for me, I played that game for like four days straight. I absolutely love road rash, and I'm super pumped to see that. It was, it was released, according to this, in 91. So lucky you, Jake. I've got some backups. Road rash is a phenomenal game. You could outrun the cops like the cops are trying to chase you down. You could knock the cops off of their bikes. I mean, it's. It's a total mess. You hit cows, you can hit people sitting on the sideline just rooting you on. It's. It's a mess of a game, and it's so simple and simplistic. I've never beaten it because it's impossible to beat. But I love road rash. And I'm. And I have to put this on my list, is one of my favorite games from 91. So if anybody has any remnants, I bet Sinistar does, because he and I were talking about redemption in the past.
26:30 --> 27:05 So, I mean, I only played this on the three do, but I love road rash as well. Honestly, I love any car or. Sorry, any bike game where you can kick the other players or kick the computer or whatever. It's one of the reasons that I love the adventure game full throttle. It almost has a road rash esque beat in the center of it. And so, yeah, I love any motorcycle game where you can pick your other, you know, the NPC's. So I'm in I mean, later on.
27:05 --> 27:29 When they released this for PlayStation one, I believe they had a remake come out. They started adding the. The soundtracks to it, and you had Soundgardens Kickstand on here and you fire loose and I threw up. I was like, road rage to fucking sound garden right now, which is, you know, Seattle, based on the 3d favorites on the three.
27:29 --> 27:31 Do rusty cage.
27:31 --> 27:38 Yeah, Rusty Cage was another one. Yeah, it's cool. I. Yeah, road rash needs to be on the list. I think it's a fantastic game.
27:39 --> 27:51 I just love it. No matter how far you go flying from your bike, he just gets up and he just makes that long run back. Yeah, it's just. Especially with the superbike, it's. You go flying when you hit something, and he just. He'll spend the minute running. I love it.
27:51 --> 27:51 Yep.
27:51 --> 27:54 It's the progression. Progression of excite bike.
27:54 --> 27:56 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yep.
27:56 --> 27:57 Yeah.
27:59 --> 28:02 So road rash rose rash is my runner up.
28:02 --> 28:04 I'm. I'm down. I'm down.
28:05 --> 28:06 Sweet.
28:06 --> 28:10 All right, so. Well, that gives us GPS runner up, right?
28:10 --> 28:12 Oh, we do a GP. Oh, we want to do gps now.
28:12 --> 28:14 Yeah, we should give it.
28:14 --> 28:20 Okay. Awesome. You. You. You want to do his. The first one?
28:21 --> 28:29 Well, I imagine the. The one you'll know more about would be his runner up.
28:31 --> 28:45 Maybe. I didn't play this one as much as I'd like to, but it's still. All right. Well, GPS, first runner up, I believe, is super techno Bowl. Is it techno Super bowl or Super techno Bowl super tech mobile?
28:45 --> 28:45 Yeah.
28:45 --> 29:42 Yeah, it is. Everybody knows super technical. It's still around today. You can get all kinds of different roms, and they've actually updated the teams to current rosters today. You can still play the old eight bit version on this Nintendo or on an emulator or whatever with the current players of the teams. For those football teams, it's really cool. There's a lot of people that'll still do computer generated scoring, so they'll have the computers play one another and they'll do, like, Super bowl predictions or they'll do, you know, championship predictions with super tech mo poll. And it's. And it's fun to watch. It's. It's. It's a classic sports game. Classic football game. I'm a big football fan, but I didn't play a lot of this growing up. I didn't get into it until the sports games I played a lot of were like, joe Montana 92, which I believe I have. If you got your bigger car.
29:43 --> 29:45 I think it's the one I played as a kid. Was Madden.
29:45 --> 29:51 Yeah, Madden's another man. I mean, Madden still around today, still releasing that one, but we'll save that one for the sports episode. Techno Bowl.
29:51 --> 29:53 Techno Super bowl is a classic.
29:53 --> 30:41 Yeah, it's an absolute classic and certainly deserves to be somewhere on this list in some fashion. People still play it today. Like I said, it's still running around doing its thing. So super technical is dope and would highly recommend it. So that, that, that's one that he definitely wanted to bring up and add to the. At least the runner up. So there's also some kind of jet sweep that you can do or run play where you could just grab the ball and run for freaking forever and no one can touch you. There's. There's a lot of cheating in this game. I believe it can't be done. So. But it's a. It's a great. It's a great game. I definitely dig it. So GP, we love you. Good job. Happy birthday. All right, Wolf, what are you bringing to the table, my friend?
30:43 --> 30:50 My choice is out of this world or another world, depending on the reason.
30:51 --> 30:51 Good pick.
30:51 --> 30:53 Was that 91?
30:53 --> 31:13 It was 91. It came out on Das in 91. So, yeah, out of this world. This is one of those games that I'm pretty sure I've gushed about this game numerous times on this podcast already. But just a reminder, again, this is a game that came out when.
31:16 --> 31:17 The.
31:17 --> 31:41 Cinematics and games were still something kind of new and exciting, at least for games at home. And so when my uncle got this, he was like, dude, you got to see this. Because I was the only one in the family that liked video games as much as him, so he was show to me. And, yeah, the Roscoe animation, the Jake.
31:41 --> 31:41 And I did a whole.
31:41 --> 31:42 Was just badass.
31:43 --> 31:46 A whole episode on. On another world. That's how much we love this game, so.
31:46 --> 31:48 That's right, we did.
31:48 --> 31:49 Yeah, we did.
31:49 --> 31:50 This does sound familiar.
31:51 --> 31:54 Yeah, you forget about that one, too. And the little.
31:54 --> 31:57 The little worms biting your. Your fucking.
31:57 --> 32:11 Yeah, the little fucking somersault worms with the one tooth that if you don't jump right, it ruins. It literally ruins the entire game because you can't get past the first section of the game after you've been chased by the Bear monster. Oh, no, that's before.
32:11 --> 33:05 Yeah, this. This is the one where they did a. The 20th anniversary edition, which I think who gave me that was sinister. Did you give me that? Probably. Probably, yeah, I think you gifted to me and it's like, it's an awesome way to play that game. Today. But the original absolutely holds up. I'm a big fan of those collections that digital clips does. They did one for Karateka and one for Atari 50, I guarantee you. And they just did one for Jeff Minter. I guarantee you. They're gonna do one on Eric Chai, I think his name is the guy who did another world or out of this world. There's no way they don't do a compilation with his stuff. Because this game's got to have a great history. The technology with the rotoscoping is. Was definitely ahead of the curve when this game came out. There's not a lot of music, but what music is there sounds great. Just. Just that. The way that he tells a story in this game without any dialogue is just awesome. It's very mesmerizing in terms of a game. I love this game.
33:05 --> 33:13 Every time I think of it, I think of that car at the beginning just skidding in and the headlights beaming. Yeah.
33:13 --> 33:17 Kicking him feet up on the desk and then going Ultron, you know?
33:17 --> 33:21 Yeah. And then all of a sudden in the water. Pool water. Right. Yeah.
33:21 --> 33:21 Yeah.
33:21 --> 33:23 Which you can drown in. Fun fact.
33:23 --> 33:24 Yep.
33:25 --> 33:27 Yep. Learn that too.
33:27 --> 33:35 That game. That game can end really fast, really early. Yeah, no, it's.
33:35 --> 33:35 It's great.
33:35 --> 34:10 And the. And the remaster version has the ability to switch with the new, updated, remastered look. Or you can, in the middle of the game, you can kick it back to the original, like, pixelated kind of look to it. So if you like, kind of the retro look from the original, you can change it. Like in. There's no, like, menu. You just press a button and it changes it for you. It's really, really cool. And it's got some really awesome puzzles to progress throughout the entire game that makes you, like, really think about it. And this is. This is an awesome pick. This is an awesome pick.
34:11 --> 34:18 Yeah, I didn't know that. I always love when games that get remastered let you toggle back and forth between the new graphics. Graphics.
34:18 --> 34:20 Mm hmm. Yeah, it's cool.
34:20 --> 34:34 That's something I find a lot of fun, especially with old games like, you know, from the eighties or nineties, where, you know, clearly the change is just super drastic. So. Yeah, I love when that happens. So that's cool that I didn't know that this game did that.
34:34 --> 34:35 Yep.
34:35 --> 34:44 Diablo two resurrected is a good example of that. Like, that's right. Literally, I think it's tab or whatever. And it's like old, old graphics.
34:44 --> 34:45 Yeah.
34:45 --> 34:55 It goes to show you how, like, the gameplay still holds up 2030 years later. Despite what it may look like with the redo it, the original gameplay still holds up, which is awesome.
34:55 --> 35:00 Yeah. And I mean, even if you look at the remaster, which we're seeing behind Wolf right now.
35:00 --> 35:00 Yeah.
35:00 --> 35:45 It still looks clean. Like, it looks like, it looks like a retro game that came out last year. Like, it doesn't look like it's been around for that long. Since 91. This is such a great, great game. I was hoping that they'd kind of expand upon something in this form, because the universe is great, that the combat is cool, the story is awesome. And like Jake said, it's so simple. There's, there's, there's not a lot of talking, if any. You just kind of. In macaroon. Exactly. I mean, you, you just keep, you just play it and follow the story as you play in it. And it kind of makes sense when you're playing it, even though it doesn't make any goddamn sense. It's, it's a cool, that's a great, that's a great addition.
35:45 --> 35:46 Great pick. It's a great pick.
35:46 --> 35:55 Agreed. All right. Are we, we going around Robin again? Are we, are we going back to the beginning, or are we, we do.
35:55 --> 35:57 Yeah, I think so.
35:57 --> 36:01 Okay. Sinister, you're, you're pulling us back in, baby.
36:01 --> 36:13 Well, my game of the year for 1991, I think, is one of the most well known franchises in video gaming, and that is lemmings.
36:13 --> 36:16 Hmm. Lemmings.
36:16 --> 36:17 Yeah.
36:17 --> 36:18 Wow.
36:18 --> 38:35 So if you look at the history, I mean, there's so much history behind this. But basically this whole thing basically stemmed from somebody trying to create a character for a different type of game. And they ended up creating this little character that was, you know, it was, they were creating a human like character for another game, and they ended up creating this character that became what the lemmings are. So if you're, if you've, if you've been hidden in a box since 1991, Lemmings is a puzzle game where you have, well, lemmings, for lack of a better term, that basically come out of a portal and just start walking. And if you aren't paying attention, they will generally walk to their death of some sort. And then there are different ways that you have to resolve this, where either you have to build a bridge, or you have to, as for those watching the video bash through walls, and each lemming can be assigned a role. And so you have climbers, you have the builders that build the up the bridges. When I say bridges, they kind of stack these tiles. So it's an upward kind of. You have fallers that will let a parachute and slow themselves down so that they don't die crashing into the ground. And then, of course, my favorite are. Well, I'm sorry. And then there are stoppers. And stoppers basically just hold out their arms and make it so that the lemmings won't progress past a point. So, you know, if you're about to lose all of your lemmings, you can throw a stopper in and save yourself. And then each puzzle has a limited number of these character types. So you have to solve the puzzle with the limited number of character types. Well, there are also, you know, occasionally leftover lemmings. Or if you're really sadistic and you've. And you've completed the goal, and there are still lemmings on the screen. There are exploding lemmings. And the only way to laugh every.
38:35 --> 38:36 Time I do it.
38:36 --> 39:28 Yeah. The only way to get rid of the lemmings that are like the stopper lemmings is to make them explode. And then my other favorite feature is not only is there a one at a time exploder, there is a all exploder button, and they make a little, uh oh. Explode. So. But this game was so popular that it had. I mean, it had so many expansions. It had sequels. It had, you know, a Christmas lemmings. Oh, no more lemmings, you know, et cetera, et cetera. So. But it's. It's just one of the greatest puzzlers of all time. But it's. But unlike a lot of puzzlers, it's. It's. It's fast paced and. And a bit of a struggle because these. These little lemmings are just going, and you have to deal with it.
39:29 --> 39:35 So, yeah, I remember this game very fondly coming out of the. The Super Nintendo, or at least I think.
39:35 --> 39:36 Yeah, same.
39:37 --> 39:38 Yeah.
39:38 --> 40:02 And I remember absolutely just being totally torn on trying to save all these little assholes lives, and they just didn't care. And I remember fondly being like, I hate them all. I hope they all fail, because I cannot. They won't listen to me. They're not doing anything I want them to do. So it's what makes me such a good dog parent, because, you know, I get a dog.
40:02 --> 40:05 I was gonna say it's no different.
40:06 --> 40:10 Well, when you find the exploder button for your dogs, do not press it.
40:12 --> 40:53 You know what I love about this for this game, except for, like, you know, the sequels and the expansion packs, there's nothing else like this. Nobody's done a lemmings clone? Not. Not to this degree. Not when you can have like a hundred of them on the screen at once. Not with these different abilities. The closest I think I can recall is humans, maybe, but that's like twelve humans at once. This is like dozens and dozens of lemmings. It is not only one of the best games in 91, this is also one of the most unique games ever made. It's just. It's such a unique puzzle game that's just not been duplicated. And I'm surprised nobody's tried doing like an indie version of this or something, or. It's bizarre.
40:53 --> 41:03 Yeah. This is a game that kind of stopped getting developed after lemmings 3D. Right? Like, lemmings 3D came along and.
41:03 --> 41:04 Which was not good.
41:04 --> 41:19 Yeah, no. There was a PSP version of lemmings, but it was basically a port of this, but redone with better graphics. I had that on. The PSP is one of my. One of my favorite games there, but that's also just like a reboot of this game. After that, there's like nothing, as far as I'm aware.
41:20 --> 41:20 Yeah.
41:21 --> 41:57 You know, I know it's not, but I always felt like Nintendo was trying to make Peekman, like, kind of a lemmings kind of feel because you had to gather and guide them to their next thing. So I could see that. I always. I could always. I mean, it's. It's totally loosely based, obviously, but it just felt like it's a very similar. Where you're. You're gathering the peak men up and you're trying to transport them to there. To a safe location. And that's how I kind of felt. Lemmings was designed in a similar. At least not gameplay wise and not mechanically wise, but, like, idea process wise, if that makes any sense. So.
42:00 --> 42:27 Fun bit of trivia. I found this out probably a year or two ago. The Amiga version of Lemmings has an intro video. The DOS version does not. I don't think the Super Nintendo version did. It has a little. A little video where lemmings are in like, a hot air balloon and it's.
42:27 --> 42:29 Like, okay, yeah, I remember this.
42:30 --> 42:35 The Genesis version has an intro. I'm wondering if it's the same. Actually, no, I'll have to look.
42:35 --> 42:36 I'll have to look.
42:36 --> 42:37 Yeah.
42:37 --> 42:39 Crazy. All right.
42:39 --> 42:55 Lemmings is a lot of fun. This is another one that, you know, the friend that I was playing Zelda with, we played this a fair amount to via rental, and we'd always get stumped at a certain point and just get really pissed at the game because we could not solve it.
42:55 --> 42:56 Yeah.
42:56 --> 42:56 Right.
42:56 --> 43:00 You know, after a couple months, we'd be like, let's try lemmings again, and we'll go rent it again.
43:01 --> 43:08 Well, it's one of those games where, like, it's. It's like bubble bobble. It's got, like a hundred levels more.
43:08 --> 43:09 Yeah.
43:09 --> 43:10 Yeah.
43:10 --> 43:47 I think the Genesis had about an extra exclusive 20 levels or something. Crazy. This is also. I want to call it to the Easter egg. Psygnosis did this one, but they also published Shadow of the Beast, which we did a whole episode on. Everybody loves shadow the beast, right. But there's three daughters and lemmings that are using the tree tiles from shadow the beast and the theme song from shadow, child of beasts. And as a kid, I remember playing lemmings and hearing that. That tune, and I'm like, that. That song is jamming. That song is awesome. And it's lemmings. And then I realized, oh, it's the same song with child the beast recently. It's the soundtrack overall in this game is just iconic. I love this game so much. That's an awesome pick.
43:48 --> 43:55 Thank you. All right, Jake, let me. Let me make sure you're not stealing my next one. What do you mean?
43:55 --> 43:56 Let me pull up charge list again.
43:56 --> 43:57 Yeah, please.
43:57 --> 44:20 They push ideas. No, no, no. I got. I got one. I'm sorry I blanked earlier, actually. I. Now I'm kind of messed up because I picked Zelda as my runner up. Is it my runner up, or was that actually what I would consider game of the year? Now I'm kind of confused, but the game I picked is still great. Maybe not. It's maybe not my personal game of the year, but I think it deserves the title of game of the year for its impact.
44:20 --> 44:23 Look, we all know you're going to.
44:23 --> 44:28 We all know you're not taking pilot wings. Okay, look, I was. I was gonna pick pilot wings, but.
44:28 --> 44:30 I know your turn was gonna take dogma, too.
44:31 --> 44:36 Just say dragon Wings is the game for the episode. Are you totally just gonna dip out on this one?
44:36 --> 44:38 I was. I should have taken it.
44:38 --> 44:39 Especially better have a.
44:39 --> 44:46 Back then I blanked out and picked Zelda by mistake. I don't know why I did that. No, I'm not pilot wings. I do like pilot wings. Don't get me. Wrong.
44:46 --> 44:49 Picks all that 400 times, and it just stuck in your head.
44:49 --> 45:12 That's why stimulate messaging is what it is. You really are my wife, Chard. No, I'm picking. I'm picking street fighter two. Okay, asshole. Street fighter. Because when you went to the arcades in night in 1990, people were probably playing like pacmen, donkey Kong. And there's other games too. Like a lot of beat em ups. Altered beast. Yes, there's that one too.
45:12 --> 45:12 All that.
45:12 --> 45:40 Sega had a lot of classics, but then in 91, it sweeped arcades. At least it did my neighborhood. And it's Street Fighter two. Like a fighting game as a genre really wasn't a big, wasn't even a thing, really. I mean, the first street fighter didn't make an impact at all in North America, at least in my neighborhoods. But street Fighter two, when that came out, suddenly you had like three, four. I think the one arcade I used to go to as a teen had an entire wall devoted to Street Fighter two. Like, it was insane how much.
45:40 --> 45:41 And there were lines.
45:42 --> 45:42 Mass.
45:42 --> 45:43 And there are lines.
45:43 --> 45:48 Yeah. And people were always putting their quarter up on the top of the cabinet, right, lining up.
45:48 --> 45:48 Yeah.
45:48 --> 46:19 It all star was Street Fighter two and the game itself. And while I like the other games in the series a little, maybe a little bit more, I love Marvel versus Capcom, all those games that came later, but I still love playing the original Street Fighter two. It's a great, fantastic game. It's also at a speed that I could play. I'm one of those idiots who keeps playing the normal mode of speed in turbo. I never play turbo mode. And it's because I like the original so much in terms of the pacing. But the characters here, Ryu, everybody fucking knows Ryu. Blanca Chung, Li, Honda. These are the classic Street Fighter characters. They exist even in the current version.
46:19 --> 46:20 Of the game that came out.
46:20 --> 46:26 The game that obviously we all know I'm going to finish this year is my Sisyphean game. Have you downloaded? It's going to happen.
46:26 --> 46:30 Wait, no, there's a street. There's a Street Fighter six.
46:31 --> 46:55 Yeah, somebody agreed to diamond rank it for some fucking reason. But anyway. But the original was fantastic. I was actually playing the original on the analog pocket last night. I'm like, this is great. I love this game. So I think. I think just the sheer impact of this game both when it came out, but years later, its impact just lasted even today is Street Fighter two. I think it's such a great game.
46:56 --> 46:57 That's a good pick.
46:57 --> 46:58 That's.
46:59 --> 47:19 I probably, you know, it's good that my dad doesn't listen to the podcast for reasons, because I used to raid his change to roar without him knowing. And I guarantee. I guarantee that probably 80% of it went to Street Fighter two.
47:19 --> 47:20 Yep.
47:20 --> 47:20 Yeah.
47:21 --> 47:39 Everybody knows Sam's town. I've brought it up on numerous occasion. My friend Mister Merv knows that place very well. Sam's Town was the first place that I saw Street Fighter two. And like Jake said, it literally took up an entire wall. It was a big screen tv that had about, I don't know, 4ft between it and the controllers.
47:40 --> 47:40 Yeah.
47:40 --> 48:59 Stand next to people and it took up the entire wall. And I walked in there going, what in the world is this? And little did I know that this game was going to be synonymous with everybody's gaming life from that day on. Like, Street Fighter is just Street Fighter two. Sorry, let me specify what I'm talking about here. Street Fighter two has carried itself so far into, into now that it is, it is such an icon of a game. It. Everybody knows arcades by Street Fighter two. Nobody, nobody, nobody in this world. You, even if you lived under a rock, you'd pop out of the rock and say, oh yeah, street Fighter two. Yeah, I know that. So, right, you know, it, it is so well known between gamers, non gamers, parents, children everywhere. Everyone knows about this game. It is dogs, cats living together, mass hysteria. It's, it's an incredible, incredible arcade game. Great pick. And it was one of those games that when they announced it was coming to consoles way later in its life, everybody was freaking out about that. It was like that. And Mortal Kombat were like, you're doing what to what? You're bringing that home, you know? So most of us were playing cyborg justice, saying we have a street fighter at home. And that was street Fighter at home.
48:59 --> 49:35 So, yeah, this was a game. The first time I played it was my, I hadn't even heard of it. I. Cause I just, I think I was not following the magazines as closely at this point. And my cousin was like, dude, have you played this? And I was like, no, what is that? He was like, okay, come on, we gotta go down to the store. And we, we biked like the 2 miles from his house to the grocery store, down to the lucky grocery store chain that doesn't even exist anymore. And surprisingly, he had played this quite a few times. I beat his ass.
49:36 --> 49:37 Nice.
49:38 --> 50:02 I'm pretty sure I totally got lucky, but I beat his ass. But yeah, this is a game that, you know, my friends and I, we would rent this for the Super Nintendo regularly. And then of course, it got like re release after re release. Eventually you had what? Super Street Fighter two turbo championship edition for the Super Nintendo where you could ramp the speed up to, like, ten stars.
50:04 --> 50:07 Royale with cheese edition. Yeah, yeah.
50:08 --> 50:39 I actually like putting that in because sometimes my inputs were too fast for the game to register at the normal speed, because I'm just like, just put the input. I don't want to do it at a certain pace. So when you ramp it up to, like, seven or eight, that's about where my input speed is for the moves. And then it's like, oh, yeah, every time you're good, I'm like, cool. I found it easier at a high speed than a low speed just because it actually has a rate that you can enter the codes or the moves.
50:39 --> 50:41 So wolf is flexing this episode.
50:42 --> 50:49 No, no, no. Like, it's. I mean, even still, I had to do it. I think I had to set it to, like, six recently when I was trying.
50:49 --> 50:51 I'm just. I'm just razzing you, man.
50:51 --> 50:52 But, I mean, the only way I.
50:53 --> 51:08 Can pull off the dragon punch, honestly, is if I use the, like, one the hitbox controllers behind me, like the. The button layout instead of the joystick. I'm terrible at doing certain joystick motions. In Street Fighter, the hitbox is what reignited my whole thing with fighting games lately. Cause those are hard to do.
51:08 --> 51:12 I suck at doing those things. With the analog stick. I kind of need the d pad.
51:13 --> 51:14 Yeah, really?
51:15 --> 51:26 I gotta play with a joystick. I gotta play with, like, an old school arcade joystick. Like, I have a really hard time playing it on, even on, like, one of the consoles, you know, I have.
51:26 --> 51:32 To be able to, like, mash my palm against it to, like, you know, do the maneuver. Right.
51:32 --> 51:34 Like you're driving a car. Yeah.
51:35 --> 51:38 Especially if you're doing Zangief's. Zangief's moves. Right.
51:38 --> 51:39 You're like, 360.
51:40 --> 51:42 Yeah, my stick shift.
51:43 --> 52:35 This is also the game, too, where it's my first experience with coming across bootleg arcade games. Right, because bootleg arcade games was a thing, right? The original Miss Pac man. The original Miss Pac man was. Was basically a bootleg of Pac man, right. That was semi official with a deal. So Street Fighter two, I don't know if you guys had ever counted this, but there's, like, a few people, pizza places that had a machine in there, and when they had street Fighter two, it was the Rainbow edition. And I didn't know what the hell that was. I didn't have any references to it in magazines, but there was air fireballs. Blanca was bouncing across the screen. And I found out later, as a bootleg, you can actually play today. You can download a copy of it, but there's all kinds of variants of this game. Completely illegal, completely unofficial, but they're what led Capcom to making iterations of this game, adding new characters, adding new moves. And the reason why we have air fireballs in some games is because of bootleg editions. That's pretty cool too, huh?
52:36 --> 52:37 Going back to.
52:37 --> 52:53 I played the standard. I didn't play anything that was bootleg. Yeah, I remember the red fireball being a glitch, and everybody was like, right. Oh, how do you get Ryu's red fireball? And it was just a glitch. That just happened so often. And then they turned it into real thing later.
52:54 --> 53:11 No, I was just thinking about the reason. One of the other reasons I need a stick is, like, if I'm doing guiles, like, you know, razor kick or whatever they call it, I'm holding it down, and then I literally take my thumb and just like, flip it to the top right. You gotta, like, you gotta have that motion.
53:11 --> 53:22 The feeling. It's all in the. It's all in the feel. I totally understand. I'm trying to convince my wife to let me get a joystick, like. Like a keyboard or a architect for a long time.
53:23 --> 53:25 You hear the stick. When it comes back.
53:27 --> 53:34 If you want to make one chart, I can. I can help you price it out. Like, there's. There's ways to do it depending on what you want. I can help you with that.
53:34 --> 53:46 Maybe we'll talk. I know you're the guy to talk to about joysticks and all that stuff, so maybe I'll reach out to you. Good pick. Strong pick. Yeah, it's not mine, but it's a strong one.
53:48 --> 53:50 Well, I'm glad I picked something original this episode.
53:50 --> 53:56 I love you instead of Street Fighter two that you were going to obviously pick charge. What's your. What's your pick?
53:57 --> 54:40 Well, since my game of the year was taken second place for some reason, I'm sorry, I'm going to move the one up that I have, but honestly, I've played this game more times than I can count. The franchise throughout the life of the Genesis was a game that I just lived by, and I played all the time, and I can't not give it love. It was released in 91, and it was officially released in 91 according to this. Shoreline Drive, Redwood City, California. Made in Japan. Mark 1991 by Sega Sonic the Hedgehog. Sonic the hedgehog is on board. Not for resell.
54:40 --> 54:41 This.
54:41 --> 55:38 This came with my genesis. It came with my console. And I thought to myself as, okay, growing up, is there anything out there that could be better than Mario and his brother Luigi? And yes, Genesis came through with one of my favorite video game mascots ever devised in Sonic the hedgehog. I love this game. I played this game for hours. When I first got my Sega Genesis, I lived by this game. I got the chaos emeralds. Super Sonic wasn't. I don't believe it was introduced until two, anyway. But you can get all the stuff. I've beaten the hell of this game. I even badged this game. I believe I batched this game on Ra not too long ago. I love Sonic. I love the Sonic franchise. At least up until Sonic and knuckles and a couple games beyond that. But I think Sega CD is pretty much where it, it ended its love for me. But just recently, actually last year, I believe I played oh, what is the one you talked me into getting, Jake.
55:38 --> 55:40 That I. Freaking Sonic mania.
55:40 --> 56:03 Sonic mania. It's excellent fan tastic game. Absolute callback to the original. Absolutely adored it. So that kind of brought back some nice little nostalgia for me. But this, this game, my buddy and I growing up played this all the time. I still have the original game that I have with the jewel case and it, or the clamshell. It's even got the instructions and the game inside.
56:04 --> 56:07 But absolutely, you can't sell that. You can't sell that.
56:08 --> 56:09 Nor would I.
56:09 --> 56:10 No, nor would I.
56:11 --> 56:19 Nor would I. I'm gonna hold on to Sonic for a while. So my game of the year for 1991 is Sonic the Hedgehog.
56:20 --> 56:48 Yeah, this is a game. This is a game that honestly, when I first get any, any retro console, whether it's a mister or retro pie or something, there's a couple games that I spin up, obviously Mario, which I've never completed, fuck eight one or fuck eight two. But I essentially, I'm like, oh, I'm going to go spin up Sonic on Genesis. Like, it's one of those games that I almost always spin up when I, when I have a new retro console.
56:49 --> 57:50 So it's such a good anchor. It's, it's a great anchor for retro gaming and, and I think a great addition to, you know, the retro genre. When it came out in 91 and we got, my mom brought home the Sega Genesis, I was just like beside myself with how cool everything was, how cool the character was. You could go, you know, you do the fast thing, you'd roll up and ball. It just was, it just was a really well done platform. And the subsequent sequels, two and three, Sonic and Knuckles edition with the attachable game on top where you can play, you know, the other games together, but with the added addition of knuckles and some other things. Absolutely cool. I still have that game back there too, but great franchise. I honestly, I think I like Sonic far more than I like Mario, but Mario has more games that are better than Sonic has. Beyond the Sega Genesis. I will argue that. But if it were a mascot type thing, Sonic. Absolutely 100% game of the year for 1991. Yeah.
57:50 --> 58:14 You know, maybe it's another episode we should do in the future is best packing game. Because when the Genesis first came out, it wasn't Sonic, it was like altered Beast. I want to say like Genesis when it first came out was all about the arcade ports, which were, which were fine. Like, I like, I like algae Beast on the Genesis. That's fine. But it was much better the arcades, but Sonic was. Sonic really pushed that system so early on and that's the system seller and it's one of the best packing games, I think.
58:14 --> 58:15 Agreed.
58:15 --> 58:20 Didn't they also pack in one of the Madden games or something? Also early on there's a. Yeah, there's.
58:20 --> 58:33 A sports pack or no. Well, there's a sportsman with Madden. There is altered beasts. And I think forgotten worlds was an earlier pack in title. I think if I'm not wrong, but yeah, Sonic is the one you wanted as a kid for sure.
58:33 --> 58:36 Well, yeah, it's an episode. Let's talk about it then.
58:36 --> 59:02 Yeah, I remember what, what brought my mom to buying the genesis in the first place was my grandmother, of all people had purchased a Sega Genesis. I don't know why she did, but she did. And it came with Alter Beast and Arnold Palmer golf. There's another game that was added. My family were pretty avid golfers, so I thought that was pretty funny to have that. But I do specifically remember having alter beast. And then when mom got me mine, mine had Sonic in it.
59:02 --> 59:07 So you know, grandma liked the alter beast. You know, that's the game of choice. Yeah.
59:11 --> 59:13 Wise from your way.
59:17 --> 59:18 All right.
59:18 --> 59:19 Love that game.
59:20 --> 59:23 Nice. All right, well, GPS game of the year.
59:24 --> 59:47 GPS next game of the year. His not runner up, as it were, is one that we've, a number of us have gushed about a few times on this podcast. It would be Final Fantasy two four for the Super Nintendo. And honestly, nobody likes that one.
59:48 --> 59:49 Who likes that one?
59:49 --> 59:53 Get out of here. Get out of here.
59:54 --> 01:01:06 Final Fantasy Four was my first real rpg and dear God, it was awesome. I cannot gush about this game enough. This is probably the bar for me as far as rpg's when I'm playing an rpg, it's. If it doesn't give me this feel that I got from this as my first rpg, it's usually not going to last, and I'm not going to play through it because this is one of the first games where I got emotionally invested in the story and the characters and wanted to know what was going to happen next and how they would resolve it. And this game absolutely delivered on that front. And yeah, there's certain plot points that are a little weak, but for the most part, the game nails the overarching story. Nothing feels completely out of left field. It all just kind of fits and works. And the mechanics in this game were really solid for an rpg in 91. Spoony Barton was my nickname in high school.
01:01:07 --> 01:01:07 Nice.
01:01:08 --> 01:03:30 Yeah, I. What. What can I say that hasn't already been said a hundred times about this game? I mean, I based my avatar on Twitch, based on my favorite character in all the Final Fantasies. And I know he's a little bitch, but I don't care. He's got really cool armor. I love this game. This. This game is what got me into understanding that a video game might have music, but then a video game may have a score like it is. It is designed to invoke feeling. It is designed to invoke joy and happiness and sadness and emptiness and all that stuff. The twist at the end where you think you're chasing the big bad throughout the game, and then it turns out you're not. It's very m. Night Shyamala and that whole, like, surprise. This isn't the enemy you're looking for. Like, that whole, the whole deal. I, and like Wolf said, being invested in the story, I mean, you start out part of a huge guard, and something's not right, and you pick up on that right away and you get sent off, and then this whole thing just explodes into this whole thing. You didn't. You didn't play games. When we were kids, we played games because they looked cool and they had all right mechanics. This game took me on a adventure of a lifetime that, like Wolf said, raise the bar. I listen, I was a Genesis kid, man. I couldn't find anything in my brains that even compared to Final Fantasy two four for the super Nintendo here in the states, nothing. I tried shining force two, closest thing I got. Fantasy star four, closest thing I got. Both great games. I'm not gonna argue that they're not good games, but they're not Final Fantasy four, man. It just. It cannot, they just don't touch it. And I. This game made me the rpg er that I am today. Like, this. This game took because I played one, and I hated it. We got stuck in the cave finding Astros asshole strohs, and then we played this, and we were like, this is redemption. This is amazing. And, yeah, I I've gushed enough. I've gushed on along long enough. This game is fantastic.
01:03:31 --> 01:03:53 If I ever say that, I'll just say real quick, if ever. If I ever say Final Fantasy is. Is. Why is this game so weird? Just remind me that there's a space whale in the moon in the original Final Fantasy four, because that game got weird in a good way. Like, I I mean, I could appreciate the game. It's not my thing because of the grind fest, but I love the music, I love the characters. It's. It's a great game, my friends.
01:03:53 --> 01:04:28 And I love this game so much. He had. He had. I'm sure you all knew somebody that had just, like, a mountain worth of legos, right now. This kid had a mountain of connects, if you guys remember those. And we built both airships, the hovercraft and the big whale, out of connects, like, to the degree that the airships, like, we built the little hook that could reach down and pick up the hovercraft and reel it up and carry it like we were nerds about this one.
01:04:29 --> 01:05:15 Oh, man. My friends and I used to, when we were young, and we'd play the imagination game. We'd pretend that we were Cecil and Kane, and he had a big trampoline. So guess who used the big trampoline all the time? This guy. I was always jumping in the air, jumping on the trampoline and using that. It's. This. This game has. Has done so much for me as growing up in my childhood to now, that I just. I can't. I can't say enough. I love six. Six is fantastic. But this one just, like, sits with me as a person. It's, like, in my DNA, like, how much I love this game. I still listen to the soundtrack. It's. It's just too good. It's a great, great game. Great game. So, good job, GP.
01:05:15 --> 01:05:15 Nice.
01:05:16 --> 01:05:18 Yeah, good job, GP.
01:05:18 --> 01:05:19 Hopefully, we've done it enough.
01:05:19 --> 01:05:23 All right. Take us home, wolf.
01:05:23 --> 01:05:41 All right, my final pick. I guess my. My game of the year for 1991 is. Well, I'll not belabor it. It's Toejam and Earl. Yes.
01:05:42 --> 01:05:44 I love Toejam and Earl.
01:05:44 --> 01:06:18 I love the soundtrack in this game. I love the sense of humor in this game. The wackiness of just all the power ups, the enemies, everything. Like, you get the. The mailbox that comes to light. You don't know if it's gonna be an evil mailbox or a mailbox that you can mail order from one of the early. You're like. You're like, oh, man, I hope this is a mailbox where I can buy stuff, because I got a ton of money and no presents, and all of a sudden, it's like, ah, shit. Chases you off the edge of an island, and you're back on the previous level dealing with the three boogeymen and two sets of bees that you didn't.
01:06:18 --> 01:06:19 Want to deal with anymore.
01:06:19 --> 01:06:21 You thought you were done with them, right?
01:06:21 --> 01:06:21 Yeah.
01:06:21 --> 01:06:22 So.
01:06:24 --> 01:06:29 Roguelike, on a console, like, that was never happening back then, right?
01:06:29 --> 01:06:50 This was like the roguelite at the time, before roguelites were a thing, this was a roguelite. And, yeah, I love that to hell. Like, I. I think I played through the fixed worlds one time, and aside from that, I was like, no, no, I'm tired of experiencing the same thing. I like random worlds. It's more fun.
01:06:50 --> 01:06:51 Yep.
01:06:51 --> 01:07:08 And, I mean, lo and behold, I'm still, like, I'm huge on roguelites to this day. I. What? My last few games were moonlighter, spiritfall, Bellatro. I'm sure there was one before that. Like, it's my jam. So apparently it's been my jam for decades.
01:07:09 --> 01:07:11 It's been your toe jam?
01:07:11 --> 01:07:12 My toe jam?
01:07:12 --> 01:07:13 No. Toe jam.
01:07:14 --> 01:07:14 Yeah.
01:07:14 --> 01:07:15 This.
01:07:15 --> 01:07:16 Unless he's on vacation.
01:07:17 --> 01:08:00 This game epitomizes the 1990s. It absolutely got the hip hop soundtrack that was super popular back then. It's got. It's got the dude with the backwards hat that. The flava flav alien with his fucking medallion and his goddamn backwards hat sneakers. The big dude with the Bermuda shorts and the sunglasses. It's like Ren and Stimpy. Before Ren and Stimpy was a thing, you know, it's. It's such a great game. You get. You get the hula girls and you can't walk. You get stuck, like, dancing with the hula girls. The Cupid guy will mess up your controls if you get shot by his bow and arrow. You got the freaking dentist leaping around, screaming.
01:08:00 --> 01:08:08 Yeah, he's basically the dentist from. What's the little shop of horrors.
01:08:08 --> 01:08:10 Little shop of horrors.
01:08:10 --> 01:08:14 You can sneak up on Santa and scare presents out of his sack.
01:08:14 --> 01:08:15 I mean, hilarious.
01:08:15 --> 01:08:16 Yeah.
01:08:16 --> 01:09:16 And a lot of. I think the. If I remember right now, correct me if I'm wrong, but the guy did a lot of this work, like, after hours, like in a booth, like trying to get this game complete. And he did all the, all the voices himself. The guy that I think designed it so the money and the, and the laughing dentist and the boogeyman and all that stuff. I believe he did all the voiceovers himself because he was trying to, like, do it fairly inexpensively and put this thing together. Quote me, you know, find us on on discord, tell us we're wrong. But, uh, collecting the ship part going from level of running from the bees, the boogeyman being the scariest enemy running around. I love toe jamming. Or I we played this game till I don't think I ever finished this game because it's just too goddamn hard. The randomizer just makes it real. I mean, it's not even randomizer, but it's, the randomizer portion of this game made it exceptionally difficult. And my patience as a child was not strong.
01:09:16 --> 01:09:34 So, yeah, that was another aspect of the, the roguelite thing to it too, was all the presents were always mixed up. And some of those presents could kill you. Some of those presents would give you an extra life. Some of those presents would randomize all the presents. And you're starting fresh. You have no idea what anything is.
01:09:34 --> 01:09:36 Yep. Yep.
01:09:36 --> 01:09:42 And that's a straight call back to potions and rogue. Right. Where it just, you have to learn the colors for that run. What color potion means. What, this?
01:09:42 --> 01:09:42 Yeah.
01:09:43 --> 01:09:43 I love that.
01:09:43 --> 01:09:44 Yeah.
01:09:44 --> 01:09:51 How much it makes sense that a present is random. It makes totally set. Totally makes sense. Yeah. This game oozes charm, man.
01:09:51 --> 01:09:52 I do like it really does.
01:09:52 --> 01:09:58 The soundtrack in this game is amazing. I have an instrumental version of it on CD.
01:09:59 --> 01:10:01 That's gotta be good. That's good.
01:10:01 --> 01:10:06 It's really good. Because they, they went hard with the funk and jazz aspects of it.
01:10:06 --> 01:10:22 They they did a re release. Not a re release, but they did, they brought back Chojam and Earl, again, called a remake of the groove, I think, not too long ago. Yeah. And it's it's, you know, the second one was, was, sorry. It was a dumpster fire. It wasn't very good.
01:10:22 --> 01:10:23 It was not as good.
01:10:23 --> 01:10:40 But they brought back again the isometric downward camera exploring the, you know, the planets like this centered around the second, the new remake. And it's really, really well done. They I feel like they did a hell of a job bringing it back.
01:10:40 --> 01:10:56 I think the second one was the only one that strayed from this formula, which, I mean, the second one in terms of, you know, visuals, charm, sense, of humor, all of it. It was all still there, but the gameplay sucked compared to toe Gemini one.
01:10:56 --> 01:10:57 Yeah, right.
01:10:57 --> 01:11:25 But there was a toe jam in three on the original Xbox, and it added another character or two that were not previously there. And it was four players at once. So it was that same sort of gameplay style, but it was three, like, proper three D. And I don't think it landed as well, unfortunately. I mean, it's. It's kind of a niche. A niche audience.
01:11:25 --> 01:11:28 Did we do an episode on this game? I think we did an episode on this one early on.
01:11:28 --> 01:11:31 I think we did do an episode on Toe Gemini.
01:11:31 --> 01:11:32 I think you guys did.
01:11:32 --> 01:11:33 I'll have to link it.
01:11:33 --> 01:11:52 Yeah, this is a great game, but this is a fantastic game and makes me want to play it again. Makes me want to play the remake. As a matter of fact, I have it, so I might fire that up. I wonder if that's steam deck compatible. I should try that on steam deck, I would think. I'm watching the dentist chase after the guy and play through. I'm getting anxiety.
01:11:53 --> 01:12:05 The worst ones in my mind were the bees, the dude with the lawnmower, the woman with the kid in the shopping cart, and the absolute worst was the phantom ice cream truck.
01:12:05 --> 01:12:07 The phantom ice cream truck. Okay. Yeah.
01:12:08 --> 01:12:24 You know what I love this one is how broken the items could be for a run. Like the rocket shoes or the wings. Like, you get certain items and it just suddenly you just clear a stage and it felt so broken in the best possible way, especially when you're playing in on a random world.
01:12:24 --> 01:12:47 That's good and pretty consistent for me, that, like, getting to stage 14 is about where my presence run dry and I'm struggling every time. If I can make it over that, like, the next three or four levels, if I can make it to, like, 18, I'm golden. But if I can't, that runs over. Like, if it doesn't improve quickly, it's over.
01:12:47 --> 01:12:48 Right.
01:12:48 --> 01:13:01 And, yeah, the sense of humor in this game, like, the jokes between levels on the elevators and, you know, sometimes they just say random stuff when you're picking things up. Like, all right, I got a buck or, ew, gross. Lettuce, you know?
01:13:01 --> 01:13:10 Right. Oh, yeah. I like the. When you drink the root beer, he burps for, like, a good 20 minutes or whatever.
01:13:10 --> 01:13:13 Yeah. And you can wake up sleeping enemies because of the burps.
01:13:13 --> 01:13:13 Yeah.
01:13:13 --> 01:13:19 Occasionally your dude, like, you'll be sneaking along and one of them just sneezes because you got bad rng.
01:13:19 --> 01:13:20 Oh, the pack.
01:13:20 --> 01:13:21 Wake them up.
01:13:21 --> 01:13:25 I love the pack of nerds. God, I love this game. It's so good.
01:13:25 --> 01:13:41 Yeah, this is a great pick. I've only. I've only played this as an adult. I never played it as a younger person, so I. But. But what I have played of it, I've appreciated. And I should go back and. And play some more.
01:13:42 --> 01:13:50 Yeah, my. This was a game that, again, the same guy that I played Sonic with, we. We fire this thing up and we play the hell out of this game. Love toj.
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