Yes, but we didn’t know back then…

​@@exelmans8855I did, that's the same year the Super Nintendo came out.😅

Redskins Super Bowl!!!!!

Indeed great games end of Cold War

Yeah, it's a lot more fun with a friend in co-op.

probably same engine

Playstation would still be here. Sony was playing chess while Nintendo and Sega were playing checkers during that Era. Gaming magazines were talking about Sony making deals with Squaresoft and Capcom, ect. Nintendo was sticking with cartridges and Sega was boasting about the arcade experience at home. The only thing you may be right about is Microsoft because they saw a weak link in the market.

The best one was the "SEGA!" yell at the beginning of Sonic 3D Blast. That always made my whole family laugh because it was so shocking and unexpected, just out of nowhere loud deranged yell. And then a full motion video intro for the game, which is absolutely insane that it's possible to do that on a normal genesis cartridge on a normal genesis, with no extra chips in the cartridge or anything like that. The guy who programmed the game has a KZfaq channel and he explains how he managed to do FMV on a stock regular genesis cartridge, and he's an autism-level savant when it comes to programming, nobody else could do the same things he was doing. Full motion video in games only existed on the Sega CD, until he came along and showed you could do it on a regular cartridge. But to manage it he had to invent like 10 different brand new programming techniques that weren't written down in any textbook or programming manual because they didn't exist until he invented them. His channels called Game Hut. Here's the video of him explaining how he managed it, he's a genuine genius: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f8uYqrljsJyUomw.html

Same here, that was an awesome year!

Yeah it's incredibly trippy to play both those games, because the games are literally exactly the same other than the visuals. It's like a romhack. The engine, the level layout, the bosses etc are all exactly the same, but they just _LOOK_ different. So they use a different sprite for your character, but it's the same in terms of how high he jumps and so on. And all the platforms and interactive objects etc in the world are in exactly the same place, but again they simply look different. So it's only the visuals that are different. Absolutely everything else is exactly the same. It's like if someone put a new sprite and new enemy sprites and new terrain pixel art and new background pixel art on a Mario game to make it look like a sonic game, but everything other than the visuals stays exactly the same, with every platform and obstacle in the same exact spot, they just have different pixel art on them. So yeah, if you play both of them it's very trippy because you're playing the exact same levels in the exact same way, but they just look different. I don't know of any other game that does that. A complete visual swap like that. I know there was that game for SNES of the Jetsons cartoon, but in that game they only changed the main character sprite to the George Jetson character, from what it had been in the original game that was called Yōkai Buster Ruka no Daibōken. I don't think they changed the rest of the visuals in that, only the main character sprite. But I may be wrong about that. With this game, Decap Attack and Magical Hat no Buttobi Tābo! Daibōken, they feel so different to each other despite being exactly the same, because the visuals just have an entirely different vibe, with the original being very colourful and happy and bright, and then Decap Attack being horror themed. Also these aren't the only 2 games that do this. Because both of them were also originally released as Psycho Fox on the master system and Kid Kool on the NES. They're still the same game! So this game was released at least 4 times with completely different names and visuals and story etc while being the same exact game. I don't get why they did it, cos I think these games could have sold fine with their original characters. But I'm glad they did this, because it's one of the craziest things you can play, to play the same game 4 times with completely different visuals each time while being the same game. I wonder if speed runners can do the same speed run on any version of the game, using the same strategies and tricks. In which case it's probably best to put them all in the same category instead of as separate games. Like if you programmed a TAS to speed run Decap Attack, you could use the exact same programmed TAS to play Magical Hat instead and it'd work exactly the same because the games are identical except for the visuals.

thank you much!

I'm pretty sure most of his viewers are our age, i.e. we grew up with these games cos we were born in the 80s. Do today's kids care at all about the mega drive? I doubt it somehow. They're obsessed with mobile games which are invariably awful. But us elderly people in our 30s and 40s still love the mega drive or the snes or whichever console a person had and grew up with. Maybe cos of nostalgia blindness, or maybe just because these games are timeless and so are still as great now as they were back then.

Lol it's not the first rogue-like game. The first rogue-like game is called ROGUE! Hence the name rogue-like. It means a game that is like the game called Rogue. It is like Rogue, so it's rogue-like. Go play the original Rogue, there's ways to play it on your phone or tablet or whatever device you have. Also there were many many many many rogue-like games before toejam and Earl that weren't Rogue. Rogue inspired so many people to make rogue-like games. Like the game Nethack which is perhaps the most popular rogue-like of all time, and was released years before the genesis even existed as a console, let alone how long before it took the first Toejam and Earl to come out. Like with Rogue you can play Nethack on your phone if you wanna check it out. It's fun. It's brutal. Like Roguelikes are meant to be.

Omg I don't think I've ever seen anyone mention The Immortal! Absolutely awesome game, one of my favorites at that time. Awesome graphics and fairly gorey for then. Used to love the different ways he killed the goblins.