"How can the game based on the anime that I've never seen be bad!?" had me cracking up :)

Andrew is not only an iconic character through all your stories and lore, but he's also such a natural on camera. The charisma and chemistry between both of you is unreal. It's no wonder how you've remained such great friends after all these years. Congrats on your friendship.

"Despite the rumors" haha ​​Andrew became the rich kid. Thank you so much Johnny ...

WHAT!!?? My friends and I looking back LOVE all that generations Lord of The Rings hack and slash's...legit that was a staple game for my friends and I in elementary school

When Andrew said Johnny knocked him off ledges, my brain jumped to the old Garfield cartoons.

I enjoyed both Lord of the Rings games. It captured that 'against all odds' feel of the movies. Frustrating at times no doubt,but fun.

Johnny, I absolutely loved the Two Towers video game. Played it when I was 10 years old. I enjoyed it so much I did all the bonus content at the end of the game lol

Those Lord of the Rings movie tie in games were my childhood! I can’t tell you how many hours I’ve put in to both the Two Towers and Return of the King! How dare you have an opinion different than mine 😆 guys you broke my heart!

When you guys started talking about selling your collections to get a system and a game, it struck a nerve. Back in 96 I sold my SNES and the 75 games I had for it in order to buy the N64 and Mario, while it was good I hated that system and regretted getting rid of SNES collection. In order to play one game.

Andrew's beard has a beard...

I love the GameCube lord of the ring games.......😭

This video is really heart warming. You can tell there is real history between you guys. It’s so fun watching you guys reminisce. Makes me miss the friends I grew up with. This video shows it’s not just talking about games it’s the passion and HCG has it! Can’t wait to see what your channel has in 2020.

it was great to see the story that you have told a long time ago about getting a friend agitated in Double Dragon by attacking his character in it and now have your buddy here to give his reaction from it. This type of video is great and reminds us of what makes video games so much fun. Keep up the good work.

Man, that talk about selling your whole collection for a game/system, oof. I remember doing that, but I was lucky and hit it out of the park getting Goldeneye :p

Dude I loved Two Towers! I thought it was fun. But Return of the King was way better.

I'm glad you have concent where you talk organically and genuinely, showing that you are not only friends but actually gamers. Nothing here is just being said for the sake of saying it. Love your videos.

Hey, I liked two towers. Return of the King was much better though. You get to play as gandald, the hobbitses, and the main three in aragorn, legolas and gimli.

I actually really enjoyed both the Two Towers and ROTK games on the PS2. Maybe I just have my nostalgia goggles on from when I was younger lol, but I definitely had a good time when it first came out.

Aww man I loved those EA LOTR games when I was 10 when they came out hahah. Played it a lot with my friends co-op back then, because we were just way into those movies.

Really love seeing your guests, your childhood friends are awesome people!

Lunar 1&2 on PS One are gorgeous!!! Tell your friend to try this versions!!! On of the best memories of my childhood with my best friend!!!

Omg, Johhny I have so much fun when Andrew, Rob-Man or other guests are around and talking stories, messing with each other, I love and adore it! ❤

John I'd just like to say, as a long term viewer who rarely comments, I love your work and really appreciate what you've done here over the years. You're a staple of my daily entertainment and your overall positivity (apart from this video 😂) is very refreshing in the community and really gives off a humble vibe that means a lot to me. All the best for 2020, and thank you again.

Gotta love those christmas lights reflecting in that genesis unit!

I love this chemistry. It's so pure. Thanks for having Andrew on, this was awesome! Happy New Year guys. :D

Another fantastic episode with Andrew! Love the Douoble Dragon story so much. I was smiling throughout the video.

Lol Johnny I loved The Two Towers game, it actually gets better later into the game when you start unlocking new moves and abilities not to mention different characters and levels. I remember way back then first playing it not knowing if I'd like it because they just throw you in an epic battle and you don't know what to do. When you beat the game you unlock one of my favorite modes and its Sauron's Tower, it's an endurance mode up Sauron's Tower fighting wave after wave of enemies picking up small items as you go and it gets harder and harder, if you make it to the top you fight Sauron apparently but I've never made it, fun two player co op

That was funny. I have a few of these games, I'm sure we all do lol! And that song at the end... loved it ;)

Randomly watching some HCG episodes and stumbled across this one. Before watching, figured I’d mention that I own both those shirts you guys are wearing. Awesome lol

Hilarious recounts and song! 😂 Great to see Andrew swing by.

I love when Andrew is at your place telling stories with you! Always super entertaining!!

This is a good duo. Fun episode!

Woohoo me and the kids were waiting for an episode. We were eating porridge watcing an old episode and a new one popped up. Cheers man!

I had the ps2 version of the Lord of the ring games from EA and had an absolute blast with them, ashame you guys had such a bad time.

@3:20...”you knew within 30 seconds...” 😂🤣😂 omg guys I can TOTALLY relate! I’m the same age as you and I can’t think of an example off hand because I’m laughing so hard. But the frustration and bitterness in that quote is so damned funny and sincere!! Lmao Great video!

Zelda also misspelled "knight" to "nut": Dark Nut, anyone?

OMG seriously!? I felt you on Lunar after you discussed selling your collection to get it, but the Lord of the Rings hack n' slash games were some of my favorites from back when I was younger lol

All your friends are nice and friendly talkers Johnny such a lucky you have in have them :) cheers

I saved my allowance for spiderman and xmen for the snes. I was so disappointed 😑

I loved the two towers game! I loved return of the king even more

Oh man I remember the Two Towers on the Gamecube. Pretty sure my parents considered putting me in an anger management class after hearing the amount of swearing coming from my room back then lol. Just thinking of that Helm's Deep part where you have to defend this huge gate while getting constantly beaten up by enemies coming in from out of frame still makes my blood boil a bit

That laugh Johnny does when he asks Andrew how mad he was about selling his collection to buy Lunar! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Lol 10:53 - 12:04 Johnny is still doing this today to his subscribers!! To many must buy positive review recommendations for modern games on this channel, but I’ve learned to just watch this channel for johnnys reactions and feel good vibes, not to take what he says or his recommendations so seriously...

I used to play The Two Towers on the original Xbox back in the day and I remember loving it hahaha

Can’t remotely agree on The Two Towers being a “cheap cash in”, but thanks for sharing the memories...always a fun watch.

Thats so interesting you didn't like Lord of the Rings Two Towers. I have very fond memories of that game in my first apartment back in the day. Also has a 87% Metacritic.

Man, I still love the LotR movie games. Take me right back to those days

Man, I can't wait to be doing this with my friends in a couple years.

I used to love Zillion II on my wonderful Master System, i never ever played Zillion I, might get it in the future:-))

Loved this episode lol if anyone brought games back then they would understand the pain lol 👍❤️

Hey Johnny and Andrew. I spent hours drawing out and mapping all of the world of Simons Quest, i loved that game. But, like you I literally confronted a brick wall ( or rock cliff in this instance) and was unable to proceed. I evently got the idea of going into Coles bookstore and searching through a Nintendo hint book. "Oh yeah, equip the red crystal and kneel in front of a cliff for 10 sec", why didn't I think of that, how obvious. Still love the game to this day though, very nostalgic.

That's how we got stuff back then ^_^ Music, Movies, Games.. Look at box, read title, look at price.. "yeah that sounds and looks cool".. That's how I got my youthanasia album with megadeth, boy was my intuition spot on! :D

I fixed the battery in my copy of Lagoon on SNES with paperclips and electrical tape, and I still feel like I put too much effort into it.

I just realized we’ve never seen Andrew and Rob in the same video…yet. I loved this episode!

The Zillion series has some of the best music of all time; Zillion 1 was epic and underated. So cool the Sega light phaser was modeled after the Zillion gun. Would love to see the series revitalized.

Thank you for mentioning the Nintendo hotline. I was just reminiscing about that the other day. Great memories!

that lotr game is one of my favorites lol me and my brother put 100+ hours in the third one

Now I have to rethink every recommendation Johnny has ever given, LOL! ;)

I loved that LoTR game! Haha

I died laughing about double Dragon because I was the exact same way! I realized that was the first time trolling was in my DNA lol!

That’s hilarious. I had great memories playing two towers and return of the king with friends as a kid. It’s been years since I’ve played them. I wonder if they where actually any good or not lol.

Great stuff - So genuine - I dig it

Bro, I've been watching you for years! Let us know if you ever do a fan get-together in San Diego! I'll totally be there to meet ya!

Lord of the Rings: The Third Age is where it’s at on PS2. I will say I like the movie adaptations as well

I just wanted to say that because of this video I sat down and tried playing Zillion II, I've had the game since 09 and never really gave it a chance. After a few hours with it I can say it's a pretty good game, I actually beat it, it's not a very long game only 8 stages long. You need to play it untill stage 5 at least, you can turn into a flying mecha kinda thing and the game has some cool shmup sections.

Dude.... lord of the rings two towers and return of the king on the ps2 was a good game for me. I loved the fire arrows from legolas and when he shot two arrows at a time.

I love how honest andrew is, he doesnt mess around lol

I finally beat my childhood favorite NES game a few days ago.. The Guardian Legend!!! Through the miracle of save-states i no longer have to deal with those over complex passwords that rarely ever seemed to work..lol

The Return of the King game is great!

The song at the end made me hit the Thumbs Up Button. Respect :D

Once you read up about the cryptic puzzles, Simon’s Quest is a great game

Such an amazing duet! When is the album coming out? ;)

I had LotR Return of the King in PS2 and thought it was awesome.

I also got a sega for christmas in '89. Was only 6 yrs old at the time.

The two Towers is the video game of my childhood haha I love it so much

Whoa! Talk about "War of the Beards" :P You guys rock! "I play Japanese Role playing games and Fighting games, damn it" Words to live by, as an SNK Square fan... :D

I LOVED the two towers game back in the day

ZILLLLLLIONNNNNN!!!!!!!!!! OMG. Thats the game i m looking for since...pfff 20 plus years...... Johnny thank you for this clip. I was looking for that game but didnt know its title.. its Zillion (first one). I have huge nostalgia for that one as i played it at my friends (like you i guess). I could have sworn it was a built in game on the Master System... Thats why i couldn't look and find it...

AVGN mention!!!...Johnny, you ever meet James Rolfe? Love both your videos/channels.

Buck Rogers for the Sega Genesis. This RPG has made me tolerate the issues I have for both Phantasy Star III and Shining in the Darkness. I bought it used and looked everywhere for the first planet you need to visit. I never did and shamelessly handed it off to a friend as a gift.

I Own Lunar from back in the day I loved it, but if I had to sell my collection at time to be able to get and play I would have such disdain if not hate for it then. (however I was in Jr High when Lunar came out so spare money was more plentiful cause I had a job) I loved our sub to Nintendo power and I was lucky never having to call the hotline, My Dad was a big gamer and called it himself for those games LOL. (my dad is now in 70's and still plays all the old games)

I don’t know man I like the Lord of The Rings game

I only played The Two Towers as a kid. i never had Return of the King. I should probably try thst out sometime.

My friends and I actually enjoyed Zillion back in the day.

Holy crap… The first thing I thought of after seeing that zillion game footage was, this looks like moon patrol for the 2600.

Tactics Ogre "We all Cling together?". Brutally hard and frustrating. Ironic because Final Fantasy Tactics is one of my favorite games ever.

😆 Great Video..so funny.

Legend of Dragoon. Got to the disc 3(?) final battle with Lloyd. Got my ass handed, because didn't know he had 'counter-trigger' for Dragoon form (and the Buster.) It's not the battle, or that I lost what frustrated me so much because I have played A LOT of RPG's at that point. It was the game itself that pissed me off. So after I lost to Lloyd I finally asked myself "Do I really care about what is beyond this fight?" the answer was "No", After that I have never touched the Legend of Dragoon again.

I had to have a go at Zillion 2 after hearing this. I actually acquired both Zillion games, gifts from a friend, in the late 1990s, but never put much time into them. First, I'll say it was probably the wrong choice to have one of those scrolling bike levels to be stage one. It's definitely tough at first, though easily exploitable. I can definitely see it being tougher for kids to figure out. As for the game, overall, it's okay. It's quite simple. And I can understand why it would be disappointing to those who liked the first Zillion. However, I can see how some people might have found the first Zillion to be too complicated, with all the symbols, searching, and ID card stuff. So I can see why Sega wanted to try something different as well. I am surprised to hear that Andrew hated the game almost right away. Back in those days, when getting games was somewhat rare, it was common to go back to playing after a poor first impression to find something fun in it, or to just adapt to what it requires. I've had plenty of occasions when I'd get games and would think it was not so good or too hard as a first impression, but going back to it later in the day or the next day provided a different experience. Then again, I definitely owned and rented games that I never liked, so that happens too.

Just cleaned out a closet today and I found all of my old Sega Genesis stuff!! 1st edition console, 2 controllers, 32X adapter and 30 games!! It all still works!! eBay, here I come!! Maybe.....

Funny hearing how you guys talking about calling gaming hotlines. I was working at the Sega Hotline but back in the time it was just a normal call. I actually quit because Sega were shifting to a premium cost model. I didn't want to be dealing with hostile gamers being charged by the minute as I hunted the tips for them. LOL

The Lod of the Rings Two Towers (and Return of the King) are awesome games. If you love games like GOLDEN AXE and LOTR it's a perfect mix. I played it on the Xbox, but I assume they are all similar. The video quality on the Xbox was also excellent.

This is a great gaming channeling. Not just always negative and angry but................not just loving everything because you're supposed to. Just like news: we need things that just keep it down the middle.

Reminds me of a quest I am on. Has anyone ever come across the "Script-book" that the 1-900 NINTENDO help line operators had? I have seen clips of the binder with FAQs and solutions for all NES games but I have never even heard of one coming up on the open market. Does anyone have a lead here?

Wow, I can totally relate to the SegaCD+Lunar thing: I sold my MegaDrive/MegaCD collection to afford a SNES in order to play Chrono Trigger. And even if I still think Chrono is one of the best JRPGs of all time, there's now way I'll pay 500+ euros to rebuy some of my favorite ones such as Lunar and Snatcher. But i "miss them" a lot.

Monster Madness: Battle for Suburbia was thrown, plus the controller was smashed.

Lunar Silver Star Story Complete for the PS is one of the greatest RPGs of all time! As with the sequel!

best channel Holidays 2019

wow didn't expect LOTR on here!

I didn't own the two towers. But I had Return of the King on the PS2 and I always thought this game was awesome. I get nostalgic about how cool this game was! The combos, and upgrades, etc. Maybe it plays different (looks the same!) but I enjoyed it, personally. It's interesting to see a whole different take on this one.