I had a diabetic friend play this once, he collected every snack and collapsed and asked why since he only ate the healthy ones. I told him he ate too many and caused Captain Novolin to die of diabetes, and he proceeded to laugh so hard that he couldn't breathe for like 5 minutes

My brother was diagnosed as a type 1 diabetic in the early 90's and played this in the hospital. Years later, I told him I picked up a copy of Captain Novolin he said "why the hell did you buy that? That's the worst game I've every played!"

I love how you decided to not even ask the question in the video's title this time. xD

I remember when I was a kid my doctor gave me a copy of “Captain America Meets the Asthma Monster”. It was so bad it was funny. Apparently Cap was supposed to have asthma and fought a dude in a discount Swamp Thing costume with dust bunny henchmen. Pretty sure he had a gun that gave people asthma attacks. The 90s were wild…

That cereal box has not been skipping leg days.

Captain Novolin is jacked, has a 12 foot vertical, and can even make a boat hop. I'd call those superpowers

2:38 - Not inaccurate...if you eat too many carbs and don't get enough insulin, your BG gets too high, you get ketones, and go into ketoacidosis. And die. Daughter is Type 1 Diabetic. And laughed the first time I showed her this game when she was about 18.

This was on the ROMbox I procured. No Trials of Mana, no Super Metroid, but Captain N made the cut.

When the SNES Drunk title is a statement instead of a query

2:19 Turns out he was succeeded by Scott Malkinson.

"A blonde Wendy Williams"... 🤭😁😄😆😅😂🤣😭💀☠️

They should make a Shredder's Revenge-esque Family Matters beat em up, with Carl and Steve and the rest Wilford Brimley has been in a number of NES rom hacks This one makes me think of those games where you have to keep eating [ Joe and Mac, Garfield's Funfest] because your health is constantly going down

When I was diagnosed with diabetes as a child, I remember my doctor lending thid game out to me for a week. My conclusion from playing it was diabetes can't be worse than this game, and maybe I'll be able to flip in the air as a Type 1. I was wrong on both!

I remember an old LP by Diabetus on this game and all I got to say is… “Check you feet!”

Patrice O'Neal is the only diabetic i recognize as a superhero

The code idea is really awesome for that time!

I got halfway through this game before realizing that you can stomp by pressing down. This was so hard and i was like "they must really hate these diabetes kids".

The captain certainly has a strut. I need to see him walking down the street to the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.

LMFAO i love how all the other titles are a question, even for the bad ones but this you just head off at the pass like **NO** 🤣

Whew, dodged a bullet. I JUST loaded up my brand new copy of Captain Novolin into the old SNES, when I decide to check and see what's on KZfaq.

Carl Winslow MD! 😂😂

Let me guess, the box and cartridge goes for an astronomical amount of money these days

My favorite thing about this game was the part where Captain Novolin was told to keep a note on him that says he's diabetic, so if he's found unconscious, he should be given some sugar. Because that's what superheroes should have: little notes telling people how to rescue them when they inevitably fail and lose consciousness. But in all seriousness, I don't think it's unplayable. Just tedious and takes some getting used to, and the concept of a "superhero" who's really just a fit guy who's found ways to live with his diabetes is more than a little silly. But so is the giant walking food, so I have to think that was understood, even by the people who made it.

That 3 digit 666 gag was not missed :D LOL

My mom was an RN that worked the local hospital's diabetes clinic when this came out, and she brought it home for me to review for her. She was so excited about it that I didn't have the heart to tell her how bad it was.

Man, you nailed it with the "1989 shareware game" vibe. Just brutal art direction.

I thought I recognized the box art from your last video but this definitely opened some memories. I think I remember renting this one as a kid and hating it, like we could never figure out anything on it!

Medical SNES games. What a time to be alive. I can see one day we're playing asteroid style games but really it's shooting cancer cells with nanobots. Really make the loop complete with the gamification of medical treatment. Thanks for all the awesome videos!!!

“Go home, Steve! Go home, go home, go home!!”

watching snesdrunk from hawaii 😮

I was one of those kids that got this game for free when it came out. Even back when I got it, it wasn't accurate on how to manage my diabetes. BUT, I also basically made anyone who came to my house play it. And it did make me feel better, since at the time diabetes wasn't as well known and no other kids near me had it. I was able to point at it and say that we had a video game for it. AS bad as it is, I still love it! (The game clearly didn't work tho as I am typing this at 2:30 am with a low blood sugar. -_- )

I remember getting this for free from my doctor soon after it come out (I've been diabetic since I was three). I remember later getting another game starring diabetic elephants which was much more fun. I actually found one of my old video game notes notebooks a couple of weeks ago which had my code for this.

I remember when my local game store in SoCal at the time had a sealed version of this game for around $400 in the early 2000's which was insanely high at the time. I seriously think they had no intention of actually selling it and just wanted it to be a conversation piece/display trophy for customers.

Epic beer belch synced to the timing of the SNEEEEEEEEESdrunk intro 🍻 cheers!

I still remember Diabetus's let's play of this game

The way Novo Nordisk employed this game made it both a component of product labeling and an article of direct-to-consumer promotional material. Innovative, in a way, hopefully well-meaning, but definitely an artifact of the time and something that would be difficult to impossible to get approval for today.

Dude I have your channel to notify me of everything, like even if you sneeze I should get a notification. This is the second video I haven't received a notification on. Wtf

You have a great rest of your day as well!

Thank you whole heartedly for enduring that pain for our entertainment. Please take care while recovering.

Well done, I bet you’re glad to have that review done and over with. :)

Suddenly hit with nostalgia for finding weird gems in shareware from magazines…

Sounds like a fever dream of Scott Malkinson

Love how the title is not even a question anymore. 🤪

for personal reasons, when someone mentions shareware from the 90s, i feel a bit happy and yes, this looks like a shareware game u get in PCZONE magazine in 1994.

So it finally happened. You reviewed it. I gotta say, you were as fair and kind as you could be. Those Atari 2600 level sound effects... UGH. Love the "GOOOOD INTENTIONS!" joke, btw. But I'm a sucker for anything Simpsons.

I love how you tried to put in 666 lolololol

Even your goodbye message at the end sounds harsh and defeated. This must have taken a lot out of you lol.

WOW! I remember seeing this game when i was younger playing at an old game store.

Could've made a cool brawler. Beating the chips out of a cookie, kicking the cereal out of frosted flakes.

When I was a kid In the 90s, I was a volunteer for the American Diabetes Association and while helping move offices, we found a sealed copy of Captain Novolin and I asked if i could have it. I ended up playing the game quite frequently and even beating it on multiple occasions. Why? Idk, I liked schlock.

This is one of those games I only know exists thanks to the internet. I don't think they bothered shipping any copies to the small town where I grew up.

Damn I forgot about this channel. Ty algorithm

My dads company was the financial backing on this project and I got an early copy of it and as a 9 year old kid who didn’t have diabetes my first thought was “these kids have it hard enough being children with type 1 diabetes, so why give them a game that’s as utterly as impossible to play as being a kid with type 1 diabetes?”

You've done well, Drunk. You've done well.

"Call Captain Novolin for your diabetus testing supplies. He can help you live a better life."

Top 13 PAL exclusive Snes games

I remember reading about this game in Nintendo Power back in 2007 when I was reliving the retro days of gaming and showing it to an old friend of mine who had Diabetus, which I wasn't even aware of until I met him. it was then that I realized that there was a lot more to eating only Junk Food than just gaining weight and dirtying teeth. Under my conditions these days, I have to be careful not to over eat and end up gaining a total of 180 pounds, or I'm bound to end up with Diabetus. My old friend whom I mentioned kept eating McDonald's and that was how he ended up with Diabetus.

Hey SNES drunk. Been following you for a while, thanks so much for all you do, SNES remains the most timeless console of all time and you cover its games very well. I'd be very keen to hear your thoughts on Jelly Boy, if you ever get time. It was an Ocean game, so there's lots to say about it, it's an interesting one. Either way, thanks for all you do, and all the best

Ngl, those helicopter Twizzlers made me hungry 😋

I grew up with diabetes type 1 and my friend showed me this game on his emulator. It was kinda fun to see how they had tried to convey parts of the treatment as gameplay elements. We had some good laughs playing it. For some reason it took me until now to realize the name Novolin is based on the same company that produces my medicine.

I think this is the first time a title in SNES Drunk's library that is not even a question.

I still have the Nintendo Power issue with the Captain Novolin article. I think that issue was the one with a cover for Aladdin?

"i'm scott malkinson, i have diabetes"

Where did you found that one?

I love that Simpsons reference. Great review as always :>

I had this game "gifted" to me by Buffalo Children's Hospital when I got diagnosed in 1997. Weren't they supposed to use it in the hospital? Yes, they were. Did they? No, they did not, because they recognized it as useless. (Also, they prescribed Eli Lilly insulin, so... brand loyalty?)

But is it as bad as that Crocodile game about Asthma 😂

Ok, I didn't know about the storyboarding! In all honesty, I can't help but wonder how differently Captain Novolin would be received if it were a reskin of a _good_ platformer or if today there were a romhack of SMW or a Godot remake with everything done well instead.

"Diabetes Headquarters" Two words I never thought that I'd hear combined in my lifetime, but here we are.

My parents’ 5-year-old brown lab is a diabetic and she gets the best treatment available anywhere. Other than her Type 1 Diabetes, she is a perfectly healthy dog.

That title is blunt and to the point.

as a diabetic I had to learn about this game while in the hospital at 14 when I became a diabetic

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should.

I love you, SNES drunk

Those junk food enemies are so grotesque. The junk food industry should have sued for slander.

I am currently watching this video while eating cookies,cake and having a cherry Pepsi lol

My boy didn't hesitate to ask if you should play, he straight up said there are better things to do with your time lol 😂😂

When you jump why does it look like his head is in his chest on the way down? 😆👍

Can these games be save with rom patches?

Respect. Thank you for reviewing it so nobody else has to. Though seriously, you did this game about as much justice as it could be given. Too much edu, not enough tainment.

This is amazing hahah peak 90s gaming

Thanks snes drunk your the best, can you look at some baseball games with the 2024 season starting ?

Love that this game doesn't even get the courtesy of having the title be a question.

Thank you for not burying the lede.

I found this game on a ROM and just... wow. WOW.

I KNEW I saw one of these in Nintendo Power! (and never saw it again.)

Now I see where Evan G aka badinsults avatar on the zsnes board comes from after all these years

I feel like this review really needed that clip from always sunny where Mac says diaBeedees all funny like it's a serious condition but it said very hilarious right there.

I'm anxiously waiting for at least one captivating, inventive educational game out there for SNES… not amazing, just surprisingly okay. Like, is there a Secret of Evermore about gastroenteritis?

we need Captain Narcan and Miss Mifepristone for todays kids!!!

How is my dude still finding games?? God bless 'im.

3:33 It‘s a somersault jump! Practicality be damned, this is a good effort

Finally someone recognizes Carl Winslow in this game!!

Total length of video: 350 secs. Total length of "SNES Drunk": 2 secs. .57% of the video was spent listening to "SNES Drunk".

Lol wjen u mentioned this last week, i was hoping somehow you'd wind up reviewing it.... lol insane

Does anyone else think this would have been better served on the Atari Lynx?

I play Captain Novolin every single day to remind me to take my insulin and I don't even have diabetes.

Thank you so much for making a video on Captain Novolin!

1:37- Carl Winslow? Looks more like someone A.I. generated a "Will Smith diabetes" picture! 😂

“A blonde Wendy Williams” 🤣🤪🤪