Same, I remember hiding under the covers every time it played 😂

I couldn't complete it even with ten pints

Game is hard as hell, that music though!

Same

lol everytime I used the cheat code... I still got trapped somehow. The cheat code didn't stop some things from getting permanently screwed up like certain switches and destructible things

"This one is for you Roger. Cheat mode is now active."

Only the first game was harder!

Pahhh they were goblins

I always took this to be the defining moment for the series. You are at exactly the halfway point between being the beast from Beast I to becoming the compassionate human in Beast III. This action was necessary for survival but will weigh on the character's conscience forever. The moral consequence of this choice is the Shadow of the Beast. Questioning the morality by you, the player, marks the transition of the character from beast to man.

Considering that at least one of the prisoners was locked up for trying to stop Aarbron's sister being kidnapped in the first place. "Thanks for trying to save my sister, er, let me get that door for you..."

Ever played the Jurassic Park games on Genesis? The cutscene at the beggining was nightmarish. The overall aesthetic of that game is so realistic it's really scary

The Fighting Stork me too

Lights254 totally agree with you.

Actually they made a remake of the first one in 2016 on ps4

Lights254 exactly! Amiga games had that feeling that is impossible to replicate...it was the apex of human computer creativity. After this era everything went downhill.

IMO, the souls game series have the same spirit and this is why they were so well succeeded. The deepness of these works are amazing, makes me want to know more about their world and about their stories. I'm happy to find this great game here, I just knew the first one.

@@matheusyamanishi8684 Was about to say the same. Souls games (including Demons Souls and Bloodborne) are among the few games that managed to replicate this kind of atmosphere nowadays.

Agree. I don't remember many games that had game over sequence so much better than ending.

jammerc64 Extremely likely because game cartridges were exceptionally small in data capacity back then (Cram the gameplay in, everything else is optional), it wasn't until towards the end of the NES life that cartridges up to 1MB or so became cheap enough for mass production for video games. SNES featured cartridges up to around 4 or 8MB I believe, N64 had only a handful of games use the largest 512Mb cartridge (64MB) and then everyone transitioned to CD's.

***** Amiga games came on 880kB 3'5 disks and could use more of them at cost of uncomfortable disk juggling ;)

Ah floppy disks, okay then ignore my previous comment.

I think that the genesis version had an extended ending sequence...but isn't really all that long anyway

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Never managed to complete it back in the day, in fact didn't even make it halfway though...

bg anonimouse i had no idea what to do till i find the cheat and a guide. I think no one completed the game till the cheat "ten pints".

I remember I had the first game on the genesis when I was like 10 and I was clueless I got to the point of just running as far right or left I culd without dying after seeing how to play through these gamea theres no way I culd figure it out even nw that im 22

There's a difference between hard and poorly designed. Making a game unbeatable because of some obscure way of solving a puzzle isn't good game design. Of course, this was years ago before some of those concepts were better understood. It's a nice piece of nostalgic software and has a lot of good stuff going on, but it's by no mean a great game. It's ok, at best. The atmosphere, art and music is great tho. Is mostly the concept of the gameplay that sucks so hard.

My brother and I used to argue who got to wear the shirt that came with it lmao! I'd basically forgot until I read your comment!

so true. The dark fantasy vibe is great. Also the sound impressive and crystal clear. Very classy game, very smooth. But playability is so-so

Nice one, Roger, this one's for you 👍

***** Oh well I would of never of figured that out

***** Thanks for the grammar correction matey. And yes, it's the most evil game I have ever played, but also the most beautifully darkest ;)

+Bruce Hood You could also screw yourself over at 13:48 by diagonally jumping between the branch and ground and falling thru the map. Lots of ways to put fist thru keyboard.

Matt Vantech lol

***** the new one looks a lot like the first one.

+Dean Humble I would tend to agree with you but then I played Navy Moves on the Amiga/C64/Speccy etc. I can't get more then 30 seconds in.

Silver Surfer is pretty easy actually. It's super punishing until you get used to it and build up some firepower, but then you can breeze through for a while until you die and lose your upgrades again. Several years ago I purchased and played it as an act of reverence to Tim and Geoff Follin, and although I thought it was hard at first, two hours later I had finished it, during my first and thus far only session with it. Battletoads, on the other hand, I have never finished. I couldn't as a kid; I came back as an adult and still couldn't. But I did get further in it than I ever could in Shadow of the Beast II...

Hard for all the wrong reasons. At least Ninja Gaiden is a good game.