What Genesis / Mega Drive games do you think sound the worst? How about the best?
@PremierRomanov4 жыл бұрын
Gonna have to go with Doom for the worst on the Mega Drive. Or as it's better known, Farts of Doom.
@BlueflagAlpha4 жыл бұрын
The best has to go VectorMan
@BallisticFaceGuy4 жыл бұрын
@Apharmd Battler Selective memory maybe? The sound was a constant point of contention back in the 90s.
@JohnSmith-eq2tf4 жыл бұрын
Probably the unreleased street fighter II turbo. It was a very bad cheap bootleg. Champion was perfect dude. Not sure what you're smoking. Mortal kombat 1 sounded pretty bad at first and part 3 is auful. MkII for sega was brilliant. Aladdin had good music from the movie, Jurassic park, revenge of shinobi, streets of rage 2 and 3, dr. Robotnik's mean bean machine, x-men. I think you hate the raw arcade mono sound sega offered to be honest. I think royal.rumble sounded bad, but raw and WWF the arcade were decent sounding.
@drunkensailor1124 жыл бұрын
Shadowrun sounds attrocious, but it's so awesome.
@NipplesTheEnchilada23234 жыл бұрын
Honestly, I like Sonic Spinball's music for the most part, though that Options Screen music can burn in hell for all I care.
@SmaMan4 жыл бұрын
I remember pressing the mute button on my remote any time I was about to go to that screen. (It also played on the high scores iirc)
@SuperLlama424 жыл бұрын
I don't even think the Options menu is all that bad. Maybe I've just built up a tolerance for GEMS sound.
@psysonic23084 жыл бұрын
Sonic spinball soundtrack is by far better than sonic 4 soundtrack
@SlySuavity4 жыл бұрын
*"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-"* -- Robotnik.
@i.m.evilhomer50844 жыл бұрын
Apparently, it can sound better or worse, depending on the Genesis/Mega Drive model & emulator. It still sounds screechy as all hell on something like Model 1, but at least it sounds slightly more tolerable.
@slib46464 жыл бұрын
having flashbacks to an older Sack episode where Dave plays Marble Madness and his ears literally bleed
@M4R14NO944 жыл бұрын
I'm surprised there wasn't a callback to that. lol
@LordMoebius4 жыл бұрын
@@M4R14NO94 yea honestly I was watching this hoping to see that. Was probably their best gag. Wish I could remember what episode it was on so I could watch it again.
@cambrodia31894 жыл бұрын
@@LordMoebius Bad Music I think?
@Nukle0n4 жыл бұрын
Bad Western Games I think
@LordMoebius4 жыл бұрын
@@Nukle0n yea you're right, western developed games, episode 56 at 19:10min
@Kafei20064 жыл бұрын
Barney's voice: "We found a fart". Literally what he's saying XD.
@smugshrug4 жыл бұрын
i love the Genesis sound chip. whether it sounds good or bad is entirely dependent on the skill of the person utilizing it. Just like any other sound chip.
@the-NightStar4 жыл бұрын
Untrue.
@smugshrug4 жыл бұрын
@@the-NightStar not an argument
@yittmashups4 жыл бұрын
@@smugshrug I'd argue that that's not totally true. I know there are some synth 'instrument' sounds the SNES uses that I dislike so much, which has nothing to do with the composer; the sound itself just sucks. The composer can chain together an amazing string of notes, but it's still a dinky sound. I'm guessing this is what other commenter also meant.
@Zedek3 жыл бұрын
@@yittmashups It's FM - you can do everything you wished, technical knowledge about that required. The best digital keyboard - the legendary Yamaha DX7 II - is a "sister synthesizer" both of the YM2612 (Genesis) and the YM2812 (SoundBlaster/AdLib). The amount of awemeoness the DX7 brought into the music world shows how that is possible. I prefer the crystal-clear emulation of waveforms over crappy samples used in many SNES games that also used tons of reverb to cover that up.
@CodyMechanix2 жыл бұрын
True.
@DJ_InYourFace4 жыл бұрын
"Genesis games that sound like AAAASSSS"
@BlueflagAlpha4 жыл бұрын
Assssssssss
@blackphoenix774 жыл бұрын
*ASSSSSS!!!*
@konversion4 жыл бұрын
Very ass.
@craigjuan57444 жыл бұрын
Full of AAAAASSSS!!!
@mikealb46764 жыл бұрын
Trademark by angry video game nerd
@bald_engineer4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for touching on the different Genesis sound "systems" used by games. Not a point many make when pointing out the bottom end of the Genesis music library.
@bajinaji4 жыл бұрын
Totally. I seem to recall that the documentation for the underlying sound programming was only in a somewhat poor Japanese document,so most of the non Japanese developers were set a huge disadvantage - hence while even if gems was not great at making good sound,it was documented in English. Not totally sure I'm right though...
@VencabotArchive4 жыл бұрын
One of the funniest post-credits skits so far. Had me laughing non-stop ever since, "But I'm a misogynist!"
@laidback934 жыл бұрын
It was the best! The car gag had me going!
@rustymixer2886 Жыл бұрын
Sega CD game sack best post credit
@mspeter974 жыл бұрын
GEMS wasn't THAT bad when you think about it. When used correctly the results could be really nice, Comix Zone as you said is a nice exemple of how a clever dude could use GEMS to its maximum potential, the Earthworm Jim games use it and sounded great. Toy Story used it too and it sounded amazing (though that title screen music used some amazing trickery to play a MOD file).
@SparkyMK3 Жыл бұрын
Aladdin on Genesis used GEMS as well and that had some great tunes as well (though the arrangements of the movies songs are something of a mixed bag).
@LavaCreeperPeople11 ай бұрын
Nah, GEMs music is mediocore at best. literally any track from sonic 2 is better than most GEMs 'music"
@maconthesticks11 ай бұрын
@LavaCreeperPeople tbf sonic 2 music is better than most Genesis music, GEMS or not.
@LavaCreeperPeople11 ай бұрын
@@maconthesticks yeah
@Turbulation111 ай бұрын
The main reason some GEMs music sounded good was because the tracks would mostly use custom FM patches that weren't on the preset list, so mainly it just reduced GEMS to being an easy way to implement music.
@MegaDriveProfile4 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately, its true. Games like this create a huge stigma behind the genesis having a crappy sound chip. As a fan its quite annoying because it couldn't be further from the truth. I think any audio chip has the potential to sound awful really and although this is cliche, its the man behind it that really counts. GEMS can actually be good like you said with Comix Zone. I suggest people check out the Rooftop track from Demolition Man, it uses GEMS and its pure awesomeness. Being a genesis fan can get tough!
@davidaitken85034 жыл бұрын
@Benjamin Owuye Jagun I certainly like the compositions in some of the games you mentioned, but the "instruments" if you can call them that, usually, but not always, sound worse than SNES, Turbo Grafx 16, and even most of the better NES games. But lets face it, the music isn't the main reason the audio of the Sega Genesis is so detested, it's the sound effects. Even many of the games that are commonly held up as proof positive that the Genesis has amazing audio by every Sega fanboy such as Streets of Rage 2 still have mostly shit sound effects. The music tracks that appear in both Mega Turrican and Super Turrican all sound better on SNES. There is a night and day difference in quality between Castlevania Bloodlines and Super Castlevania 4. I suppose from someone looking back on it from the year 2020, the Genesis synthesizer is quite a novelty and the SNES's audio sounds low quality compared to the crisp and clear audio of today, but it really cannot be understated what a giant leap forward the SNES's audio was following a decade of widespread synthesizers. It really was ahead of its time.
@brigurugi4 жыл бұрын
Okay... headphones on, new Game Sack notification and now I'm deaf.
@dallas23144 жыл бұрын
The reason why the voice samples for Super Street Fighter 2: The New Challengers were changed on the Sega Genesis is because the arcade version also changed the voices. SSF2 was the first version of Street Fighter 2 released for the CPS2 board so all the audio was remade for the new sound chip. Guile's voice (also the voice of the new announcer) is pretty weak, but it's something I've gotten used to over time. While the audio in this port is definitely not good, the SNES version of SSF2 also sounds far worse compared to the earlier SF2 games released on that platform. Both 16-Bit consoles got excellent ports of SSF2, but both had pretty bad sound. SSF2 on the Sega Genesis was actually the game that got me serious about Street Fighter 2. I first played it on January 28th, 2018 and got hooked. I mostly played the SF2 games in single player and occasionally with button-mashing friends since I was unaware of any online multiplayer options. Finally on February 28th, 2019 (exactly 13 months after first playing SSF2 on my Genesis) I discovered FightCade and began playing Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo online. I play 2-3 hours every day and I've improved quite rapidly. I main Old Guile (SSF2 version of Guile available in Super Turbo) and I've already gone to some local tournaments and compete every Monday night on online tournaments. I thank SSF2 on the Sega Genesis for getting me into competitive Super Turbo. As someone who didn't grow up back when Street Fighter 2 was released (I'm currently 18 years old), I have this port to thank for turning my retro gaming passion into something amazing.
@LeoDoesAllThis5 ай бұрын
Yeah, I’ve heard that some other people say that the SNES version has better character voice samples than the Genesis’, but they are also poor, compared to the original arcade version. I’ve always been thinking that the creators of the Genesis version might be using a mix of QSound and GEMS, but I do wonder what sound chip did they use for the SNES version.
@diebesgrab4 жыл бұрын
I’m just gonna say it, I actually like how X-Men sounds on Genesis. Maybe it’s because it was one of very few video games I grew up with, but to my ears, the scratchy instruments actually suit the rough metal vibe a lot of the music has.
@CheesyNoodlez Жыл бұрын
Same
@chinossynthesizer7056 ай бұрын
Fm synthesis turns scratchy because the modulators are high, which just happens when programming certain sounds are using certain algorithms.
@rafaelantonio67652 ай бұрын
i like it too sounds different a mettalic tone
@tedmoore864 жыл бұрын
"Who needs two ears anyways" Vincent Van Gogh
@anniewarbucks17944 жыл бұрын
Savage
@Rudofaux4 жыл бұрын
OOF
@MyPhobo4 жыл бұрын
"I agree" Evander Holyfield
@ApemanMonkey4 жыл бұрын
Too soon.
@thatguy37184 жыл бұрын
"What?"- Beethoven
@SpeedyNoriega4 жыл бұрын
"Guile's Sonic boom now sounds like a polite suggestion" That was a spot on description
@Formedras4 жыл бұрын
Not the Genesis' fault, though. The announcer and Guile have the same voice actor, and they got swapped out in Super Street Fighter II.
@Vlaphor4 жыл бұрын
"Aww, he didn't mention Chakan in the good Genesis music section. He must've just forgotten" Sees it in the bad music section. "Grrrr"
@Dorelaxen4 жыл бұрын
RIGHT?!?!
@RetroGamePlayers4 жыл бұрын
That Soundtrack is awesome. Just the overworld music is so well done. It's got a industrial / NIN / KMFDM feel too it.
@lukasperuzovic14294 жыл бұрын
Chakan made me not want to own a Genesis
@the-NightStar4 жыл бұрын
@@RetroGamePlayers Finally someone else who knows KMFDM. Also, I agree.
@osurpless4 жыл бұрын
ᵗʰᵉNight★Star “KMFDM, badder than the best. Megalomaniacal, harder than the rest!”
@adamgr69884 жыл бұрын
I loved that transition of fuzzy '90s Batman footage to razor sharp pixels. Thanks for all the attention to detail Joe, it doesn't go unnoticed.
@Dreddtube4 жыл бұрын
The cheek percussion part was 100% accurate. Seriously, I could not distinguish the music from it After the first time.
@BlookiesFookies4 жыл бұрын
I'm now interested in the "Worst Sounding SNES Games"
@LobotomyTC4 жыл бұрын
All of them.
@hyazza41044 жыл бұрын
Guile: hey Ryu Ryu: yes ? Guile: Sonic boom 🥂
@jessragan67144 жыл бұрын
Ru-Paul!
@GoldenSirius4 жыл бұрын
Hilarious LMAO
@CaptainCoolzCT-4 жыл бұрын
"Sonic Boom! Sonic Boom! Sonic Boom! Sonic Boom! Sonic Boom!"
@ninetendopesaitama21073 жыл бұрын
Ryu : what? i couldnt understand your weak voice.
@ericjohnson66345 ай бұрын
Why is this not the top comment?
@RetroTuna4 жыл бұрын
its annoying when people say the Megadrive had crap sound GEMS has a lot to answer for.
@RetroTuna4 жыл бұрын
@ben owen yep or have been playing them @games crapy console, the Megadrive sound chip is awesome in the right hands.
@solarflare90784 жыл бұрын
Tell me about it. Literally every SNES fanboy in this comment section misunderstands this video and think it's supposed to be slander to the Mega Drive that they can support, and he clearly says it isn't. Some even go to the point of saying stuff like Monster World IV, Phantasy Star IV, Super Monaco GP, and Mortal Kombat 1 sucks. It annoys me to death.
@RetroTuna4 жыл бұрын
@@solarflare9078 It's the way it is these days with the internet fanboys are going out of there way to bad mouth everything they can, keyboard warrior's are a scourge of the modern day.
@Vintersemestre004 жыл бұрын
Hey Mr. Game Sack, I just wanted to let you know that I love this channel and one of my absolute FAVORITE things about it is that you put subtitles. That is just awesome and seemingly very uncommon. Thanks so much!
@TheRealJPhillips4 жыл бұрын
Gotta do one for the SNES too sir. There were some muffled, muddy, reverbed, overly compressed pieces of sht on there man
@avideogamemaster4 жыл бұрын
Chessmaster
@solarflare90783 жыл бұрын
Captain Commando
@thomaspleacher27354 жыл бұрын
When Genesis games sound good, they sound flippin' amazing. But when they sound bad it is hell.
@CarbonRollerCaco2 жыл бұрын
High risk, high reward.
@josephdelacruz68304 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this episode. Honestly, as an audio engineer myself, I really enjoy the parts of the episodes where you talk about nerdy audio stuff, and to have this whole episode like that was a treat! This has become one of my repeat Game Sack episodes along with Let's Make a KZfaq Show and the Video Game Memories ones. Thanks, Joe!
@ilikecurry23452 жыл бұрын
I grew up partially with Sonic Spinball by merit of it being on the Sonic Mega Collection. Imagine my surprise when Joe, as he's apparently called, put it on the list!! And color me even more surprised when I found out that the Osomatsu saga as a whole predates the Osomatsu-San anime that took the world by storm in 2017 or so, with a 1988 game called Osomatsu-Kun, and presumably a manga and anime before it.
@worsethanhitlerpt.25399 ай бұрын
My problem with most Genesis games isnt the sound just the sound FX are WAY too loud. Vector Man 2 and DecapAttack are the worst for this
@bildo19774 жыл бұрын
Ultimate Qix was a port of an arcade game called Volfied. The "music" was the same in that game as well.
@BusterBootlace4 жыл бұрын
I think most of us were playing these games on old crappy TV hand me downs when we were young, so we probably didn’t notice so much 🤣
@atari-staffroom4 жыл бұрын
Joe slapping his face to the "tunes" of X-Men needs to be immortalised as a meme.
@robertparker62803 жыл бұрын
I second this!!!
@SlyHikari032 жыл бұрын
Yes
@ilikecurry2345 Жыл бұрын
"Does this count as annoying?"
@MrWolfTickets4 жыл бұрын
6:54 I think the Genesis' sound chips just started smoking really young.
@bischoffdev4 жыл бұрын
Had to listen to the Rocket Knight Adventures soundtrack after this episode in order to recover.
@ztoxtube4 жыл бұрын
The best-sounding version of Super Off-Road was on the NES, courtesy of David Wise.
@T3KNUG3T54 жыл бұрын
idk. The follin versions pretty good
@danmakuman4 жыл бұрын
FM synthesis was, along with PSG, some of the most important ways to produce audio for Arcade machines and PCs back then, specially in Japan. Basically every developer used those Yamaha sound chips to create sound, the Genesis uses an FM chip (along with a PSG one) because Sega knew that was the best way to go and everybody used it in their country (And even 1 game for the NES/Famicom used an FM chip called "Lagrange Point"), even themselves. From games like TMNT, Street Fighter 2, Snow Bros. etc all those games use the same family of sound chips as the Genesis (with some differences). It depends of the programmer or/and the musician to create great music and sound, but you need to understand that it is a synthesizer, creates synthetic sounds, not realistic ones (sometimes it does tho) so you can't expect stuff it can't produce, just like the NES, it barely sound like an instrument but still pretty cool in the right hands,
@k-leb46713 жыл бұрын
Whoa, I had no idea there were any NES games with FM synthesis.
@bangerbangerbro3 жыл бұрын
This has been said so many times it's unreal. It's not particularly relevant to this video either.
@SlyHikari032 жыл бұрын
Yup.
@solarflare90782 жыл бұрын
Elliott Savva And yet there’s still many idiots that don’t know this
@ToxicBrainSludge Жыл бұрын
the actual problem is that fm synthesis is easy to take it into that metallic, abrasive sounding area, because it's basically using math to multiply one soundwave by another and that can quickly produce lots of inharmonic, atonal, or dissonant sounds. the issue isn't that synthesizers don't make realistic sounds, or that anyone playing a sega genesis expected it to. the issue is with the nature of fm synthesis specifically and how it takes a lot of knowledge, including math stuff, to get nice sounds out of it. and apparently people didn't know how to do that and nobody thought to go get some manuals or guides on how to do it. even crazier still, the first commercially available and common fm synths like the DX7 came with plenty of decent sounding presets, already included. so you didn't really HAVE to know how to program them, you could just use those sounds, which many people did. but for some reason, sega, in their lack of foresight, didn't provide a system with presets for developers to use, which would have ensured that most games on their console would have sounded 100x better than many of them ended up sounding. bottom line, sega themselves dropped the ball here. still, it's also kind of weird that the developer(s) of gems, DID make a system WITH presets, which tons of people then ended up using, and included a bunch of terrible ones! it seems like the developers of GEMs themselves didn't even understand FM synthesis. it seems like they had no business making GEMS in the first place.
@Avrelivs_Gold4 жыл бұрын
24:05 that Faery Tale Adventure theme is actually good. you hear it for hours and it starts to grow on you, organ music for a big adventure, clear fantasy sound that you won't find anymore, because everything is epic and orchestral.
@TV0R114 жыл бұрын
Castlevania Bloodlines has amazing music on genesis, its also amazing what they did to make the music for Toy Story to work on Genesis.
@ElectronerpProductions4 жыл бұрын
There's a really interesting video by one of the developers about how the music worked.
@WillKeaton4 жыл бұрын
There's something unique about the way the Genesis sounds. It's dirty, it's gritty, and that gives it a sound that sets it apart from other consoles.
@jasonhubbard67754 жыл бұрын
I remember the Marble Madness music in the skit for "Piss Poor Ports." It was comic genius.
@pengwin_4 жыл бұрын
i actually like the way Ecco The Dolphin sounds, more so than the CD version which is just ambient dolphin sounds. Man, the genesis had some real bad sound sometimes, CastleVania: Bloodlines was like a miracle.
@jc_dogen4 жыл бұрын
except the sound effects...
@avideogamemaster4 жыл бұрын
Ecco the Dolphin sounds great and it fits the premise of the game too
@costby11054 жыл бұрын
Really it is more how people with talent were able to use the tools, as stated in the video even the gems sound driver could sound great given the right talent. Most Game boy games sounded pretty bad but given the right talent you got soundtracks like the three Zelda GB games.
@willthomas2310 Жыл бұрын
Castlevania: Bloodlines wasn't made by the Gems sound engine, tho
@pedroguilherme98114 жыл бұрын
25:20 - "Ordeeeeeer!" I did not know John Berkow was in the game.
@ilikecurry23453 ай бұрын
OBEEEEEEEEEEM
@BB-te8tc4 жыл бұрын
Chakan had some fantastic hub world music though. It really sold me on the game's atmosphere. GEMS seems to work alright for ambient-ish tracks I think.
@pingusupremacy60064 жыл бұрын
This comment section is in the memory of all great sounding genesis games : SOR games All Thunder Force games Sonic 1, 2 and 3 Batman by sunsoft Vectorman Mortal kombat games Flashback The two earth worm jim games Phantasy star IV Shining force games Shinobi II and III Golden axe I, II and III Colums III(yes) Dr Robotnik mean bean machine Road rash I, II and III Bloodlines Contra hard corps Gunstar heroes And I'm certainely missing a lot of them
@Prizrak-hv6qk4 жыл бұрын
I'll add some: Gaunlet IV Panorama Cotton Midnight Resistance Gaires Gleylancer Eliminate Down Elemental Master Troubleshooter (Battlemania) 1 & 2 (...hell, just insert every Japanese shmup here). Alisia Dragoon Socket Tiny Toons Rocket Knight Adventures Castle and World of Illusion Ristar Strider Forgotten Worlds Magical Troll (Tarututo) Beyond Oasis Flink Mega Turrican Crusader of Centy Luckily, in most cases, the quality of Genesis sound corresponded to the overall quality of the game, so there aren't many good games ruined by bad sound and almost all of the Genesis must-plays have good sound.
@retrosoul87704 жыл бұрын
@@Prizrak-hv6qk That is definitely true, grateful that the masterpiece games are not ruined by bad sound! Adding more! (many obscure but excellent JP exclusives!) Dragon Slayer 1&2 (Field + many others) Master of Monsters (Intro + others) Devilish (everything) Langrisser II (1 is good too but II is outstanding, The Last Battle, Knights Errand) Gauntlet IV Monster World IV (Finale) Ys3 (Seal of Time) Superman (Round 4 and 5) Dragon Ball Z Buyu Retsuden Steel Empire Mega Turrican Twinkle Tale (Stage 2) Bio Hazard Battle (as you said, basically every JP shooter) Shura No Mon Devil Hunter Yohko ATP Tour Champ Tennis Herzog Zwei Rolling Thunder 2 & 3 Ranger X (Jungle) TMNT Hyperstone Heist Time Trax (Track 5) With all of our picks together, we've got quite the set! And many ppl say only Sonic and Streets of Rage sound good...a cringe worthy myth
@drewsebastino28894 жыл бұрын
No one's mentioned Comix Zone after listing 70 games?
@retrosoul87704 жыл бұрын
@@drewsebastino2889 that just goes to show how many great soundtracks are out there man. Forgot that one. Speaking of western scores, Adventures of Batman&R was outstanding too.
@SkullDraizer4 жыл бұрын
I wish the pacman part never ended.
@redacted2275 Жыл бұрын
16:37 I wonder if someone has already come up with a hybrid version of "Marble Madness" with Tengen's audio and EA's graphics and controls.
@HHog4 жыл бұрын
Someone who's skilled at ROM hacking should make a hack of the EA Marble Madness to give it the Tengen soundtrack so you can have the best of both worlds.
@dantefloressq4 жыл бұрын
That's actually a great idea. Is it even possible though?
@HHog4 жыл бұрын
@@dantefloressq There are people who managed to turn Sonic 1 into a fishing game. I think the sky's the limit as long ad the skill is there :v
@leoleonvids3 жыл бұрын
It is important to note that Sonic 1 has been disassembled and that the hacking scene for it has been around about 2 decades by this point, thus there is lots of documentation, tools and skilled people in it. I don't doubt it'd be possible to put in the Tengen music in the EA version, but size limits would probably be annoying, plus both Tengen and EA used their own custom drivers for the most part (not sure if the Tengen ver used their driver or GEMS, but I know the EA version used the EA driver according to SMSPower at least,) and to port music from one to the other the drivers would have to be reverse engineered if they haven't been already, which is... eugh It's times like these where I wish all Genesis/MD games were either SMPS or GEMS.
@animalmother80374 жыл бұрын
Still love x-men on sega lol. Even with its crazy stage music. Especially the drums in the 1st stage or the mouth drum you visually demonstrated. ROFLMAO!
@Invidente74 жыл бұрын
Now do genesis games with the BEST sound!
@allhailthelegs4 жыл бұрын
You know he will haha
@musicvideoenhancer4 жыл бұрын
Yes, and episode about Streets of Rage 1 and 2 only, great idea!
@Richard.Linder4 жыл бұрын
Yeah. Just what I was thinking.
@madmax20694 жыл бұрын
@@musicvideoenhancer there's far more than just 2 games on genesis that sounds great
@Caun-884 жыл бұрын
Is a good idea, I'd actually like to know because I'm someone who personally finds Genesis in general sounds ugly
@carlosaugustodinizgarcia35264 жыл бұрын
The beta version of Street Fighter II for Genesis (named Street Fighter II' turbo,but based in Champion edition) had clearer audio samples.
@joeyvlo4 жыл бұрын
22:15 this delighted me to no end.
@rlnook73064 жыл бұрын
Love these late uploads. Always good when watching random videos on KZfaq to see something good come.
@entretienrgt5144 жыл бұрын
Hey Randy
@sparkydeltorro4 жыл бұрын
i watched this episode wearing headphones :(
@MrFairhill4 жыл бұрын
Me too.
@sabin19814 жыл бұрын
I feel your pain, brother. I did the same :(
@collie48564 жыл бұрын
me too ouch
@Jesse__H4 жыл бұрын
It was the right way to do it, I think. Sorry, did you say something?
@thebonefish4 жыл бұрын
For that genuine Genesis Model One experience of course!
@SmaMan4 жыл бұрын
Ohh but Sonic Eraser *was* released on "Sega Game Toshokan." Sure, a random japan-only early 1990s download service, but still one that someone took a listen to and said, "Yeah, that's good enough for people to pay a subscription for."
@Yuzoboy4 жыл бұрын
Even though some of these games had bad sound, they are engrained into our childhoods and end up giving us good feelings of nostalgia. Powerful memories.
@scm64entertainment44 Жыл бұрын
SNES does the same to our childhoods. They have good music. And good Mode 7 effects
@DemomanX6144 жыл бұрын
Come on, Xmen isnt that bad. Like the magneto screen music is really good
@16BitJayGaming4 жыл бұрын
I still rock out to the Shi'ar Empire stage theme, and used to make Cyclops dance to it.
@dimmufan884 жыл бұрын
I feel like this episode of game sack made Dave proud 😂
@NYCJoeBlack4 жыл бұрын
dimmufan88 - What happened to David?
@dimmufan884 жыл бұрын
@@NYCJoeBlack busy life I suppose
@NYCJoeBlack4 жыл бұрын
dimmufan88 - Maybe...
@robsmors4 жыл бұрын
Joe, judging by your Marble Madness gameplay footage I believe you don't realise you can speed up by holding the A button, IIRC. Makes bumping the black ball off the edge and making platform jumps way easier!
@ozzydio72334 жыл бұрын
I miss the days, where you could tell the platform a game was on, just by listening to the music.
@Copec4 жыл бұрын
We need a MD+Version of EA Marble Madness with good the soundtrack.
@elbitxo59454 жыл бұрын
specially because the arcade game on MAME needs trackball, the MegaDrive version has the best gameplay for d-pads. Romhacking listen to us!
@Carlixyz4 жыл бұрын
Please some homebrew hacker listen this!
@sabin19814 жыл бұрын
sadly this is only for the music, nothing can ever fix the diabolically bad sound effects in most MD titles :(
@TonyLikeGames24 жыл бұрын
During the Marble Madness segment, I was expecting the clip of Dave’s ears bleeding because of the horrible music.
@MrSegAsh4 жыл бұрын
Make no mistake the genesis is awesome.
@tangreen72674 жыл бұрын
You should have mentioned Beavis and Butthead for Genesis as an excellent example of poor Genny music. Upon starting it up, a PC - only gamer friend of mine asked if the " sound card " in my Genesis was broken !
@radioactivechimp4 жыл бұрын
The scariest halloween video I’ve seen so far
@kingdavid75164 жыл бұрын
"You play the piano, right?" Uhh, yeah, I own a keyboard, correct. 13:44
@emmettturner94524 жыл бұрын
It was composed for the NES version. Sucked there too, of course
@thaddeusmcgrath4 жыл бұрын
22:16 When mother plays the keyboard and she needs a drum line.
@LXDarkSniper4 жыл бұрын
I strongly disagree on Xmen. Shi'ar Empire was one of the best tunes on Sega. If Clone Wars made this list then there would've been problems lol
@Dehler554 жыл бұрын
Totally agree. I was looking for someone to say this
@GameTropics_pr Жыл бұрын
Man I think I have never heard anyone say Super Street fighter 2 sounds are Awful. I totaly agree.
@PurpleSanz4 жыл бұрын
There is no true worst-sounding-sega-genesis-games without Greendog. Just sayin'.
@konversion4 жыл бұрын
Joe, please let Dave know that we miss him and hope he's doing well... or at least I do. He should come back for a cameo at some point.
@Lost_n_Found_14 жыл бұрын
Aaron Sander did a few weeks ago
@_zoinks25544 жыл бұрын
Dave's new boyfriend is the jealous type.
@ryeb4 жыл бұрын
He was in an episode a few weeks back. Joe’s doing a fine job with the show though!
@konversion4 жыл бұрын
Oh shit, was he? How the hell did I miss that? Guess I gotta watch that then 😄
@the-NightStar4 жыл бұрын
@@Utubesuxmycock James Rolfe has far better things to do than associate with this chucklefuck.
@newspooiechannel8 ай бұрын
6:43 You know, Stan Bush of 'Transformers: The Movie' fame did a lot of those "I Love What You Do For Me!" commercials for Toyota. I wonder if that is his voice used for the clip.
@lightguard14 жыл бұрын
"Batman games just somehow kept getting worse and worse" How about Adventure of Batman and Robin? This game is beyond awesome.
@JomasterTheSecond4 жыл бұрын
Can't wait for the video showing the best sounding Mega Drive games, because then you can put *_GRRRRREEEEENDAWWWWWWGGGGG_* in there! GREENDAWG is the best at *_EVERYTHING!_*
@wonderingmonitor19964 жыл бұрын
next I'll play X-men on the Genny, Joe will be playing the music in my mind 😂 thanks Joe!
@Pensive_Scarlet4 жыл бұрын
I wonder how much effort it would ultimately take to turn Osomatsu-kun into a Bart Simpson game. It would give me an excuse to compose an entirely new and properly decent soundtrack, but would enough people appreciate the humor of the idea?
@PacDork4 жыл бұрын
In the 90's I was a game tester at Viacom New Media...I had to play the Sega Genesis version of Zoop for 40 hrs a week, 3 months straight. Originally, every time you pressed the button to shoot your little arrow piece, the game would attempt to say "ZOOP ZOOP ZOOP"...but because of the bad Genesis sampling, it sounded like "JEW JEW JEW". I wrote that up as a bug, so they changed it to a horrible ear piercing beeping sound. "BRRRRZZZRP BRRZZZRP BRRZZP". I wrote that up and said "if you want people to love this game, you have to mellow out the constant obnoxious sound FX or they're going to throw it out the window! They then changed it to a very pleasant "whooosh whoosh whoosh" sound effect, which is how the game shipped. That's my contribution to making Genesis sounds LESS annoying! I guess it worked, as Zoop is not on your list! :)
@SCU3A_S7EVE4 жыл бұрын
0:37 - Sounds like Ric Flair and the Four Horsemen are walking to the ring.
@Aragorn78844 жыл бұрын
LOL. A reference for the obscure minority.
@Dick_Valparaiso4 жыл бұрын
Dean Malenko also used it as his solo entrance.
@drunkensailor1124 жыл бұрын
@@Aragorn7884 dude everyone knows the four horsemen.
@mutalix4 жыл бұрын
@J Dee Carter Damn thats harsh.
@Randarchy534 жыл бұрын
I actually dig that version of the double dragon sound track!
@ilikecurry2345 Жыл бұрын
Also, Bible Adventures totally reuses the same engine as Super Mario Bros 2/Doki Doki Panic. Which brings this meme to mind: "Can we buy Mario 2?" "We have Mario 2 at home." Mario 2 at home: Bible Adventures
@rgerber4 жыл бұрын
Dude, the ending skit about Pacman is absolutely legendary!!! Nobody commented on this 🤭😂🤣
@cloudair41544 жыл бұрын
i HIGHLY disagree with sonic spinball being on this list.. the sound on that game is great imo
@the-NightStar4 жыл бұрын
Same. Sonic Spinball is great and sounds great.
@super_pretendo4 жыл бұрын
Yeeeeep. Been the base of a whole lot of excellent remixes and mashups as a result.
@iSquishy894 жыл бұрын
No Fantasia? Disappointed!
@nightbirdds4 жыл бұрын
I gotta defend GEMS somewhat. It was actually a really nice toolset when you got into it. You could go in and customize every instrument or make your own. The default sound that you hear were all example sounds that weren't supposed to be used, but composers did anyway. It's not the hammer's fault when you smash your thumb with it. GEMS was just a tool, and it drew a real line in the sand between composers that were in it to make a quick buck and those that knew what they were doing.
@gamer400004 жыл бұрын
Hey, you should do a follow up with worse sounding SNES games at some point, to show not everyone used the SNES sound chips effectively.
@starstarstar4643 Жыл бұрын
That marble madness game sounds like a horror movie 🥴😆
@yurifairy2969 Жыл бұрын
tommy tallarico shoutout has aged extremely poorly
@Wallyworld304 жыл бұрын
Super Off Road was a superb game. The Arcade version had a massive truck steering wheel to steer your tiny truck! 3 of those giant wheels were somehow squeezed onto the standup arcade machine.
@SuperKokuJin9164 жыл бұрын
What?! No GREENDOG?!!! I guess you can only take so much trauma per episode. Eternal Champions was the only GEMS audio that was actually amazing to me. It still has some of my favorite 16-bit tunes. Now, World Heroes on the Genesis was a HUGE stinker. As a huge fan of the original Neo-Geo game, and after a few delays, I was glad to finally play it on my Genesis...but that didn't last long. The sound effects were either down sampled or missing entirely. The music was WAY worse with that twangy GEMS sound. The developer didn't include each stage's song and even reused what they had in other stages!! By this time it's sequel hit the arcade and SNES so I didn't look back. Just horrible!
@neogenesis77064 жыл бұрын
Chakan is my most hated game on the system.
@SEGAClownboss4 жыл бұрын
I never really minded the Mega Drive's sound chip and I'm still baffled by this popular opinion that it always had a bad sound. I thought it was right for the period. Guys, do you remember the 90s? Grunge music, Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Sonic Youth? Noise was everywhere in music all the time, and the Mega Drive took that sound and ran with it.
@colingznetworkplus46183 жыл бұрын
Exactly, I didn’t mind Sonic Spinball’s soundtrack, but here we are
@motherbrain862 жыл бұрын
@Benjamin Jagun its not the gems software thats bad all the time for me its the people who use it
@CarbonRollerCaco2 жыл бұрын
@@motherbrain86 GEMS was designed to allow sound designers to be quick and dirty. But it's still not easy to be good with, and indeed even harder than with other sound fonts.
@CarbonRollerCaco2 жыл бұрын
Pop music even then was more than grunge and techno. The Genesis was more of an ace in a few things than a king-of-all-trades like the SNES in terms of sound.
@stevethefishdotnet4 жыл бұрын
Here in Japan, the Megadrive name for the Qix game is "Volfied." I've no idea why.
@Nestalgba920234 жыл бұрын
Because Qix inspired arcade games in Japan are mostly turned into pornography ones so…but it just my theory.
@laughingfurry3 жыл бұрын
Two things. 1. Marble Madness on NES sounded better. 2. Barney. Honestly, the only soundtrack that makes me nauseous. I would've said Heavy Nova as worse. However, Heavy Nova's soundtrack never made me sick. I'm going to try to muster through. If not, this is where I stop with this video. Edit: Thank you for keeping that segment short.
@aldebarangoldsaint4 жыл бұрын
Best Musics: Streets of Rage 1 / Revenge of Shinobi !!!
@Wolfdragon925844 жыл бұрын
I totally agree. Those are my go-to soundtracks for Genesis.
@Wolfdragon925844 жыл бұрын
@ben owen Oh boy, we've got an elitist over here!!!
@mikedrop44214 жыл бұрын
This was awesome. I definitely want a "Best soundtracks" video now. Maybe an idea for a series where you cover soundtracks and/sound for other consoles? You don't have to make the videos all 30min long either. Thanks for this video either way.
@rgerber4 жыл бұрын
Oh hell yeah. Just expect Donkey Kong to be somewhere there but I would be very interested
@SlyboАй бұрын
This needs a counterpart episode. "Games that managed to make the awful Genesis audio sound good." That tinny GEMS audio is like a needle to the eardrum. "TINGGGgggGGGGGgggGGGGG....."
@Eleminop4 жыл бұрын
Marble madness is about the quality I'd expect from a toddler smashing on a toy piano with a hammer.
@DankPeezy4 жыл бұрын
I see a "The BEST sounding Genesis games" episode in our near future. Lol
@Holammer4 жыл бұрын
Gotta listen to some good Megadrive music to cleanse my palate after this. Gauntlet 4 - 'transparent obstacle' will do. ... aaaah yeah!
@LorenHelgeson4 жыл бұрын
Oh, hell yeah! Now THAT is a great Sega Genesis track.
@moth.monster4 жыл бұрын
BRB gonna sample "let's play the bass drum" to create some hardbass
@philmuller-geib33613 жыл бұрын
Whoever is a musician MUST listen to the Shinobi III soundtrack. It's a masterpiece and the best on the Mega Drive
@Yukatoshi4 жыл бұрын
Tiertex are notorious in the UK for their atrocious home computer ports of games, usually contracted by the equally notorious US Gold.
@GameSack4 жыл бұрын
Yes they are awful!
@Yukatoshi4 жыл бұрын
Game Sack If you think Turbo Outrun on MegaDrive/Genesis is bad, try some of their Amiga ports. They’re a whole different level of awful lol.
@mattfahringer1484 жыл бұрын
now do this for the SNES
@poble4 жыл бұрын
@ben owen as a nintendo fan, yeah, I agree the snes is way too overrated imo
@comradecrimsonsmaidenporiu87662 жыл бұрын
I absolutely love that the subtitles during Marble Madness say (shrill videogame music) and (annoying videogame music)
@nicandknacksandseans4 жыл бұрын
Anyone else concerned by the concept of an anthropomorphic bass drum repeatedly beating itself in the face for Barney’s sick amusement?