For the Alex Kidd vid? I used this piano/flute piece for the opening: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04CpTpMRmkE
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For the Alex Kidd vid? I used this piano/flute piece for the opening: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04CpTpMRmkE
Oh no, not that one, I know that one, the one afterwards, in the intro.Quote:
Originally Posted by KimbleJustice
That's "Glitches in my Head" by rchrdcrg: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu0EI5BlKW8
Thanks, it's pretty awesome.Quote:
Originally Posted by KimbleJustice
Indeed! Rchrdcrg's actually one of my subscribers, and a cool dude - I noticed he'd posted that track on his channel, so I asked him if I could use it. He even supplied me with a souped-up version of the Space Harrier hi-score theme I use to end the vids! He definitely needs more exposure - if you check his channel (http://www.youtube.com/user/rchrdcrg?feature=watch) he's got loads more cool tunes.
This week's quickie video is up.
The Meganificent Seven - Episode 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2qRXQbcTT8
The series that continues to cast a wry eye over the Genesis / Mega Drive library. This episode covers the following: Tommy Lasorda Baseball, Super Daisenryaku, Arnold Palmer Tournament Golf, Thunder Force II, Last Battle/Hokuto no Ken, Ghouls 'n Ghosts, and Golden Axe.
Glad I had this kicking about in the pipeline, otherwise there wouldn't have been any video at all this week. Sitrep on Phantasy Star: Review written (it's a long one), main game capture done, supplementary capture still mostly to do and there's a bloody lot of it. It may be out late next week, depending on how much time I get.
I don't know how much further I can string this series out, but it's still kicking...here's my actual opinions, if you're really interested:
Tommy Lasorda Baseball - Despite what the video says, I do actually like baseball. I'm awful at baseball games though - I lack the patience and I completely suck at fielding, which means I'm usually down about 5 runs after the 1st inning. I actually played this game a fair bit in the Sega Channel days, where it was called "Super League". 's ok.
Super Daisenryaku - Well, I can't really play it - I can't do turn based games in Japanese. From what I've seen, it's not bad but it's so damn slow. The computer takes ages mulling over every single movement...I'd rather play something a bit faster paced, methinks.
Arnold Palmer Tournament Golf - Pretty rubbish on the whole. I'm glad the Fantasy Zone easter egg is there, otherwise I'd have had nothing at all to say about it.
Thunder Force II - Yep, what it says in the video. The horizontal stages are good, and the top-down stages are rubbish.
Last Battle - I wish for 2 things about this game: That you got more than one bloody life, and that those maze stages didn't exist. If you add the blood and gore of the Japanese version, it's kind of fun in a rubbish way. People don't usually like this game, but I honestly prefer it to Altered Beast.
Ghouls 'n Ghosts - A classic, of course. Hard as hell and having to complete the game twice is evil, but it's pretty fair on the whole - you can't really knock back infinite continues and checkpoints in 1989. I don't find it frustrating at all - it's brilliant.
Golden Axe - This one's been covered before. Again, a classic - it may be a little dated, but it's still one of my favourite beat-'em-ups.
Enjoy the vid! It may not be a review, but the next review will more than make up for it.
The sky's falling in...
Phantasy Star IV - The End of the Millennium:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRhMl7Hzki8
It's my first RPG review...it'll probably be the last one for quite a while. Phantasy Star, like many RPG's, is a series I've dabbled in but have never really gone full-on into - not any fault of the game, but I always end up putting the game to one side and never going back. But things change, and I thought it was time to give the game a proper whirl...I wish I'd done it sooner.
The video features the usual detail you'd expect - all of the Phantasy Star games get a look-in (Well, the four big ones anyway. I don't have any means of showing PSO, and online RPG's are REALLY not my thing anyway - never played them, no interest whatsoever in playing them), and there's other stuff too - the challenge of actually making an RPG video, and how barren the JRPG scene was in Europe in the 16-bit years...in this day and age when you can get absolutely everything, it's important to remember that once upon a time we basically got nothing over here. One fairly famous game changed all of that, so that gets a few mentions as well (and no, that game will never, ever be reviewed. I'd like to, but just...no).
This review's a bit of a series finale. Partly because of crunch time @ uni over the next few weeks, but also because things are changing on the channel - for the better. I am happy to say that this will be the last video to feature emulation for any Mega Drive/Master System game. I've been mulling over the purchase of an Everdrive for months now, and a few days ago I finally bit the bullet. I also have a DVD recorder sitting here, waiting to capture the footage (it's the best, easiest, and cheapest way to get good MD footage. RGB all the way!)...this means that the channel will probably be almost totally MD/Genesis games for the next while...not that there's anything wrong with that! (I aim to have similar flash devices for the Amiga and SNES in the future. SNES first, probably - WinUAE is actually a very, very good emulator...ZSNES kind of isn't and bSNES doesn't play nice with Fraps).
So yeah, the channel's going legit. Enjoy the new vid!
So many awesome rpgs mentioned in your video. It's so terrible all you got was secret of mana. The snes best rpgs are still some of my most played games.
Hah, I also wasn't conditioned to be able to enjoy or expect RPGs. My first RPG was Dragon Warrior at a buddy's house, the constant march of progress obsessed me enough to get through the grinding. After that I played Sword of Vermillion, Phantasy Star 2-4 and the Lunar games in the 16-bit generation. The only reason I played these games was because Action games saw a decline into the mundane at the time whereas Arcades were making significant advancements.
Also, am I the only one here who finds youtube so slow that it is basically unwatchable now?
I made a vlog today, so...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7SyFjeQDTM
A state of the channel sort of thing. Talking about the transition from emulation to real hardware. Hardly a replacement for a review, but it'll do.
Alas, the comments have been soiled. By myself and some arsehole who's insanely dogmatic when it comes to emulation. Apparently my videos are killing the industry. I took umbrage to that when I should have probably listened to the sage old advice "don't ever read the comments". Hey-ho.
You should have blocked him after his first dickish comment, I would of. No point bothering with idiots like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by KimbleJustice
A proper new video!
A Load of Amiga Arcade Ports:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI9oiqEE2Dk
With the Mega Drive still being readied for service, the Amiga takes centre stage. This video is...well, exactly what it says on the tin - eight Amiga ports of classic Arcade games. There's a trio of beat-'em-ups (Double Dragon, Battletoads, Final Fight), two Sega racers (OutRun, Super Hang-On), a couple of NES action games (Castlevania, Super C) and finally a big ol' fighting game - Super Street Fighter II. The ports range from pretty good to frankly diabolical - but the main aim was to make a nice little informative video about the venerable machine. My Amiga videos always seem to turn out that way. Enjoy!
Are you going to video on Amiga-to-Mega Drive ports one day, Kimble?
Hmm...maybe. The problem with doing that video is that a lot of Amiga games that were ported to the MD aren't really all that different on the console in terms of gameplay. Off the top of my head - the James Pond games, Zool, Galahad, Onslaught, Jimmy White's Snooker are all virtually identical looks-wise. The Amiga and Mega Drive are very similar machines - I'm not a technical minded person at all, but I'm sure I read that they both share the same processor architecture. Someone else can confirm that...so it might be a bit of a pointless video :/. Some of the more simmy games are different like Theme Park, Mega-lo-Mania and Syndicate, and they're also greatly inferior - but then that's obvious due to them being sim games you have to play with a bloody joypad. Shadow of the Beast is also noticeably inferior on the Mega Drive, but I did that already and I have no desire to play the MD port any more than I had to for the SOTB video (plus, I have no desire to ever again play SOTB II, full stop).
Amiga to SNES would perhaps give me more material, but I don't have a lot of interest in doing that (not that many games to choose from, and the main difference is "everything is fatter". Ditto PC to Mega Drive...however, there are certainly other Amiga videos in the pipeline. Perhaps a better vid would simply be "Amiga games that you can play on a Mega Drive".
EDIT: Of course, there's one video that's a logical conclusion to the whole idea that I touched on somewhat in the vid...Arcade to ZX Spectrum. That's definitely one I'd like to do in the future. There's a LOT of material, a lot of crazily ambitious ports, some utterly brilliant ones, and of course ones that are worse even than what you'd expect. And I could even finish it all off with Street Fighter II at the end, again.
The world needs that spectrum video kimble.