What is a game that you think makes the console it's on look weak?

6:17 Mark's eyes quickly glancing at the screen is the type of thing that makes Game Sack so great. You're the best, Joe.

Appreciate Joe going for so long. Never dipped in quality, always excellent.

Having a new game sack episode when you get home from a awful day at work is a God sent.

Joe, you have provided 8 years of glorious entertainment to me. I want to thank you so much for it. Goodbye.

I don't know how much effort went into that little joke moving Mark Cerny's eyes, but I assure you it was worth it.

I’ve been watching Gamesack since 2013 and I’m so glad Joe is still making videos

Another Saturday night with Game sack. Love the topic.

i like that you dont just bash the game, the comparison looks well researched and make the video so much enjoyable. thanks for the content.

With no disrespect to Dave, I’m really liking Joe’s single-man approach to Game Sack. It just feels more focused and consistent.

I really enjoyed battle arena toshinden 3. The graphics were much improved for that game. It even had a 60fps mode… which removed all the textures and backgrounds lol. Still a great fighter for the time

11:40 I thought you were gonna mention the swastika pattern when you said "look at this"

I used to own Shove It for the Sega Genesis I later found out there are like 40 puzzle games that are literally level for level copies of Shove It I don't know which one came first, but this is one of those games that was sold a hundred times with different titles

I believe the VDP2 chip on the Saturn can do transparencies hence the ones in the background in that Battle Toshinden game, whereas VDP1 cannot so the character’s skirt could not be done properly.

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These types of compilations always break my heart. Great video games don't just happen, they take time, hard work and talent. These guys, well, I like to think they really tried their best ... 😅

Best channel on KZfaq. Straight up. I’ve known Joe since exporting stereo sound Sega and legit - the best retro game channel is here. Sub immediately.

Give it some more years, this channel will end up just a bunch of jokes and crazy end skits. I'm not complaining.

The closing gag always makes me watch until the very end.

I bought Shove It for the Genesis, they had it for $12 on sale at Toys R Us in 1990, and that made it an instant buy for me. The idea that you could actually buy a brand new game at that price was insane. So after finally getting home after being out all day with my mother, and reading, and re-reading the box and manual over and over again in the car - I fire up my new game cartridge... and yep, it's a game where you push a box. I will say that I played this way more than I've ever played any other game where you push a box around.

Thanks Joe for keeping Game Sack alive! One of my favorite channels! This series is right up with my favorite with Games that push console limits!

Favorite part of Sunday mornings👌🏼

I bought the Saturn first before buying the PS1 2 years later. But before I bought the PS1, I remember seeing Toshinden 1 being demoed at a store and I was so impressed by its graphics. Some time later Toshinden came to the Saturn, and I bought it immediately. Indeed it was such a let down. everything looked dark, the new character art looked worse. I don't know why Ellis costume used dithering but Cupido's stage could be transparent. You thought I'd learn from that but in the end I also ended up buying Toshinden URA and D-Xhird, only to be disappointed all three times.

Based Game Sack is always here to play and appreciate games with decades of refined taste. My refuge from today's gaming industry

Nice Joe. Entertaining episode which hasn’t left me searching eBay for once! My wallet thanks you.

oh my god yes a new gamesack, i'll brew a cup a JOE

What a great topic for video! As always, thanks for some of the best KZfaq videos out there!!!

I’ve never seen anyone wear a Greendog shirt before. That’s awesome!

A new episode is always a treat; I look forward to them every other week.

Road Riot 4WD was a pretty fun arcade. The sitdown cabinet had force feedback on the wheel and the seat so you felt getting shot. As a game it's nothing special, it was an experience. Perfect for a huge & noisy amusement arcade, not so much for a home console.

I really love this channel, it holds a special place in my heart

To be fair, Shove It on Genesis (and GB Boxxle) was a version of Sokoban, which every system had to have at the time (I first played it as the shareware MacSokoban on a Macintosh 512kE.) For a deep dive, see Jeremy Parish's review on Gameboy Works.

I couldn't remember if it had already been covered in previous episodes, but I instantly thought of Golden Axe for PC Engine when I saw this episode's topic. Good to see it in here. I don't know what they were thinking with that one. Imagine being a PC Engine owner in Japan and picking that up thinking you were going to get a decent arcade port. I suppose reading magazines was really important in those days for such situations. What an epic disaster. And we know the PC Engine can do so much better. Sticking with PC Engine, that Strider port is unfortunate. As the story goes, it was supposed to be a SuperGrafx game, which makes sense since Strider isn't well suited to the base PC Engine. SuperGrafx is so weird. Not only did it only have five games(plus the two hybrid Darius releases as I recall), but those few games came out over a period of almost two years. It's crazy. The PC Engine was a good machine, but it hit its sprite limits fairly often to where flicker was noticeable. The Genesis managed to do Strider thanks to its increased sprite capabilities, in addition to the second background layer, in its high-resolution mode, and even then it probably barely held it together. Interestingly the Strider franchise has an odd history with looking bad. Strider Returns is notoriously awful. The NES Strider game, while still okay, is a buggy mess. It's clearly unfinished. What's weird is that it was meant for Japan, and then never released there. I concede that Toshinden looked good at the time, but it was not nearly as good as Virtua Fighter or Tekken. The magazines really pissed me off with that. The dithering on that one character is so funny when the game zooms out. It's amazing how bad Double Dragon was handled on the Genesis. I recently re-played Double Dragon 2 arcade and I just don't like it, so maybe it was better that the NES and PCE reworked the game. The PCE game is my favorite version. The arcade is plagued with slowdown too amazingly enough. Funny how being an unoptimized mess is the aspect of the arcade they ported faithfully to Sega's machine.

I love these episodes because I'm confident that 90% of the people who worked on the games you're covering hated the experience and said to themselves day after day, "Well, at least this is so bad that people won't remember it even existed."

Damn I still love this show. Crazy how long you’ve been doing it, thanks man. Unrelated but finally got a ps5, that Ratchet and Clank looks AMAZING!

In Slave Zero on Dreamcast you missed that if you use the verticality of the levels, which is easy to do, the upper buildings have no roofs and you fall out of the world LOL

Sunday morning, Fresh cup coffee and a new video from Game Sack, Life is good

Hell yeah love a good late night Game Sack. You can wait your turn, Sleep. Joe's talking now.

I played Lawn Mower Man on a 486 PC with a CD-ROM back in the early 90s and thought it was super cool and futuristic but I had no idea what was going on or what to do. That combination resulted in lots of 5-minute sessions as I tried to figure it out, got frustrated, and walked away.

Love the “Now in Color” on the teaser screen haha. Reminds me of Futurama intros

This is probably my favorite channel ever on KZfaq... You nephilim make some good stuff about vidya games.

That ATV game... Sounds like the riders are being shot at from off screen, which is very understandable considering the game they agreed to be in

That stage 2 music in Total Eclipse is one of my favorite tracks of all time

Things must be tough for Futurama's president Nixon if he's resorted to selling laundry detergent.

I don't get excited for new content from any other channel like I do for Joe and Game Sack.

Ishido has the most misleading box art ever, i remember the first time i seen it i thought it was something like Shinobi

Sunday is much better now

Per usual, that ending is fantastic. (Ordering pizza)

Loved the ending skit, as usual. Games that make the console look weak is still such a fun series, always good for a laugh.

Your end-skit made me lol in the middle of the night. Thanks for that. :D

And now I'm off to buy some laundry detergent. Nice ad placement Joe!

Awesome callback to the Leon Redbone All commercials from back in the day.

I think...no, I'm _certain_ that pizza stains is the most excitement that Greendog has ever known.

6:15 Don't you DARE spread misinformation about one of the most important developers in history. Let it be clear: He made KNACK! And KNACK II BABY!!!

The robot character in Criticom has a backwards throw and you can ring out in this game so you can win every single match by walking backwards and then doing a throw with him

Lol at Joe being such an audiophile that he enjoyed super hylide for the stereo sound

It's about time these episodes came in color.

Finally Game Sack in color! Been waiting

I love you so much Joe. I always watch your videos everynight before i sleep. And now my knowledge about retro gaming is increase

Your editing is insane! Another awesome video

Street Combat/Ranma lets you assign up as jump in the options. Also the other characters are available, but you need a cheat (hold L&R and press A, Start on the title highlighting VS, then hold L&R again on the VS screen and hit left or right to choose).

That deadly premonitions music took me back. Great episode Joe

Wow, I hadn't thought about the old-timey announcer from the All detergent commercials in a while. Thanks! I think. You're not kidding about that TurboDuo port of Golden Axe... I let out the kind of horrified shriek you'd normally make after seeing the Golden *Girls* naked. Both this and Estelle Getty will haunt my dreams for weeks.

I know that’s not how you pronounce Infogrames but that’s what they get. Agreed.

Metal Slug 2 feels that way. Glad the corrented in metal Slug x :)

Thank you for all your work Joe!

Did you just wake up one day and realize you could do a Leon Redbone impression and this is the only place you could think to show it off? If so, I approve.

Best video game channel EVER !! I can't wait for another 'Left in Japan' video. Thumbs up Mr. Joe.

Why is Mike Stoklasa trying to sell you detergent? "Half in the bag! ...Joe can't eat pizza good!"

And i was sitting there drunk af waiting for the train to get home and poof new gamesack episode! Thank you GGG!(gamesack ginger guy)

Graphics that will not kill you!

24:48 Slave Zero, I really like to play this game in the Dreamcast back in the day.

In my mind the PS1 to the Saturn was what the Super Nintendo was to the Mega Drive. While the Mega Drive beat the Super Nintendo in some ways like faster processor and generally higher resolution the thing that always stood out was the Super Nintendo having more onscreen colours. Same for the PS1 the Sega Saturn beat the PS1 in some ways like 2D Sprites and even 3D didn't look too bad but PS1 ports made the Sega Saturn look weak because of the way transparencies work on the Sega Saturn. But both the Mega Drive and Sega Saturn have examples of games that look great and play to the strengths of the respective consoles

Seriously Joe, you should make an episode about SNES games with excessive reverbing sounds and talk with reverb for the entire run

Can't say I've really listened to the theme song in a while, but I just blasted it in my ears with all the power a Valhalla2 can muster. I made me really happy. Love you, Joe.

6:17 Joe just got added to, Mark's list.

The beard is looking sharp mate! Thanks for more great content. Keep the videos coming! Your production value is top-tier. Hopefully one day, I can reach that kind of quality.

I remember being super disappointed by Slave Zero. But that just reminds me of when I revisited the Dreamcast not too long ago when I was, uh, making "back up copies" of games and trying them out. There really was a lot of crap games on that system. Ever play Roller Coaster Simulator? It's basically a bare bones wireframe generator. Or Air Force Delta? Or Spirit of Speed?

"Stwider, you can defeat me, I have Alrec Bardwrin"

So glad game sack is now in color

Was that Richard Nixon trying to sell me laundry detergent at the end?

All these games in this episode makes you ask "WHY DO THESE VERSIONS EXIST"?

The reskinning of Street Combat is especially odd, since if I'm not mistaken, didn’t one of the Ranma fighting games for SNES make it outside of Japan?

Any chance of getting an episode (or multiple) centered around the 32-bit demo discs that used to be given away? You mention the Sega Saturn and I just dug mine out and played some of the demo discs I have for it: Sega Screams, a video sampler with one of the 1995 commercials (the video quality was very good on a CRT), the Nights demo, and another later one that had Baku Baku Animal and Daytona USA CCE. It was a ton of fun for a few hours. I even found one that is a Saturn Pop music CD they must have given away with the console. If anyone else read this far, do you also remember the Sega Saturn stickers they gave away with the console? Too neat!

Inindo is fascinating to look at. I've never seen a less 16 bit looking 16 bit game.

that post-credits scene has me rollin' 🤣

I respect the use of Comic Relief from Deadly Premonition

OMG that Inindo game, I was thinking the whole time it was on NES until I noticed the music being "advanced" for NES but no, its a SNES game, holy shi...

Games that make consoles look weak - %75 of Nintendo switch e-shop games.

The Deadly Premonition soundtrack at the end…

I liked inindo way of the ninja, but it's obvious it was developed for the nes and got ported at the last minute to the snes. Really interesting game, but really slow. One of the first open world game I played.

I can't get enough of the games that make SEGA consoles look weaker than 5% of their libraries series! Keep em comin, Joe.

Funny thing about Criticom: it got a reboot on the N64 as Dark Rift and that runs and animates MUCH more nicely. Full 60 FPS. Ironic since a lot of games on the N64 make it look weak due to the system needing specific coding to draw out its full power. Also, not knocking 240p, but scanlines can kiss my butt. I don't want to play my games on a Venetian blind. Thankfully, not all retro TVs show the effect. Anyway, PLENTY OF Switch games outside of Nintendo's own would make that console look like a slug simply because 64-bit ARM is poorly understood in terms of optimization. The very thing that allows the Switch to be a portable system both powerful and energy-efficient is also making running more up-to-date games at a decent speed difficult, almost defeating the point of the concept. But, thankfully, besides Nintendo's own games being good as usual, stuff like the modern Doom and The Witcher III ports exists.

Sounds like PC Engine Stryder was constantly stepping on hot coals…”hot hot hot hot”

I remember that Street Combat/Ranma 1/2 game because I rented the Ranma 1/2 version along with Dahma for the Genesis at my local video store and remember hardly touching that Ranma game.

Look at that beard. Ultra realistic graphics.

Helmut's sound in Street Combat is hilarious. Another awesome video. Gamesack is the best.

Criticom ooh man I remember renting that! The characters, sound and music were very unique 😆😀

That Toshinden music is amazing.

Joe just keeps putting in the mail. Still the best channel on youtube.