Aww… he didn’t mention the fart is an instant kill on Kiba (because of his heightened sense of smell). That was a kinda cool thing that the moves referenced the original story.

So glad I found this channel! I definitely feel like we grew up playing lots of the same games

The running up tree mission from Storm 1 were actually in multiple other Naruto games before that. The Running up tree mission first appeared in Ultimate Ninja 2 for PS2, and went on to appear in Ultimate Ninja 3 and Ultimate Ninja Heroes 2 for the PSP, and even in Rise of Ninja for the Xbox360. Storm 1 was actually the last game to have the tree running mission

Don't think I've ever played Ninja Council 1, but played 2 and loved it as a kid. Probably wouldn't like it as much these days, but this video brought back so many great memories

I really hope you make a video on Rise of A Ninja and Broken Bond. Those games are so special and unique. It's such a damn shame that it isn't backwards compatible, which it might be due to licensing issues, but they had the rights or permission when they made the game so why couldn't they bring it back? Either way please make a video on those games. I don't want them to become obscure, they might have already but damn I love those games

Always love the unboxing segment! This channel has so much nostalgia for me!

4:00 I did the same. Sasuke's Fireball jutsu is the only one I bothered memorizing, and I still know the signs. They are BURNED into my memory.

Nice video as always! Glad to see some Naruto love. I checked my collection and Volume 9 of the Manga was the Chunin Exams Ino vs Sakura, Naruto vs Kiba, and Neji vs Hinata. Man that takes me back!

Thank God for your Naruto games reviews because that's how I found you and I love you now been watching all your vids since

Funny story, I actually hated Naruto around when it first came out(didn’t even watch it yet was just a closed minded youth who thought anything that wasn’t dragonball was lame) I went to a sleep over with one of my moms Co workers sons and he had a naruto watch party since toonami was doing a marathon of Naruto that night. It was at the time of the chunnin exam finals, I think the first episode that came on was Sasuke Vs. Gaara and when he started kicking gaaras ass with Lee’s speed I was perplexed, and once Sasuke used the Chidori for the first time I became a life long Naruto fan. That night one of the kids there gave me Ninja Counsil as a way for me to catch up with the series, I was in love with the game, not only being able too play as Sasuke but also having a Naruto campaign was legit, BUT that wasn’t all, being able to unlock Kakashi as a secret character was more than my 9 year old brain could handle. This was one of the games that truly got me into the series, I think even today it plays pretty well and has some great fan service for classic Naruto.

Matty my guy I memorized the hand signs for fireball jutsu when I was a kid too. You are a true man of culture.

Retro Rebound has to be in my top YT channels ever, good stuff Matty.

Man i loved this game as a kid. It was super easy even back then, but still fun. Would love for you to do the Uzumaki Chronicles games next!

Bro do Rise of Ninja and The Broken Bond!! I also used to love the Clash of Ninja games. I was already a little older (like high school) when Naruto came to America and had watched a ton of anime before then and thought it was awesome. My first ever cosplay was Zabuza.

Keep on doing what you want to do Matty!

I love binging your videos. Most of the games you cover I grew with. But games like these, I never got into, but I might have emulated or looked into back in the day when I was getting into Naruto.

I played through this and one of the other ninja council games, and the first of the DS JStars in Japanese back in 2005/6. We had a few Japanese kids in our school and one of them rode the same bus as me. The games worked on my North American DS and he let me borrow them. I didn’t have internet so it was all trial and error, ESPECIALLY for the Jstars game. But they were so much fun. And especially back then it felt like this super cool mysterious thing to play these games that hadn’t gotten US releases yet and in the case of JStars never did

HEY! Always great to see more Retro Rebound on my Subscription Feed, keep them coming Matty :)

Dam man nice review. Tuned half-mindedly for the review not expecting a good game but stayed for the suuuuuuuper in-depth review on collecting and the state of the vintage product.

I love OG Naruto and your videos so this is a match made in heavan. Looking forward to more Naruto!

I recently played this for the first time, and thought it was pretty fun! Boss battles irritated me because I couldn’t figure out how to win for a few rematches. Still a fun game

I’m with you Matty. OG Naruto is so great. Shippuden has amazing moments/characters/major catering to epic reveals/returns and everything, but it’s all carried by the foundation that Naruto set up. Also the English dub is great. Orochimaru was amazing. I mean how couldn’t he be, it’s Steve Blum.

I remember this game. Even older PSP owning kids were interested in the GBA Naruto game haha.

I have the regular black Konoha headband, I personally prefer the black one over the blue one.

YES! Please cover more Naruto games! I'm so excited!

This game unironically got me into Naruto. Through a random ROM download

Funny that you are doing the Naruto game retrospectives, because I also just started recording a retrospective for Naruto Storm what a coincidence.

My late grandfather gifted this to me after my elementary graduation. I finished the game during the summer.

Man this is nostalgic for me. I played this game before I even knew Naruto was an anime. Played a lot of emulation, decided to branch out and try some of the Japanese only games for the gba. This was one of them as well as the tactical rpg, and a handful of other games based on cover art and single in game pictures. Had a friend big into anime and was trying to get me into anime. Went looking for something he mentioned say Narutos goofy face on the home page of the site i found and ended up watching it. The anime was in the 60 episode range at the time and i remember it was roughly chapter 117 of the manga because i remember downloading chapters 117 and on. crazy times.... then it got localized and everyone got into it, and some friend of a friend got one of the gamecube games and tried explaining the lore and characters to me...

You really dived into pretty much most games i played growing up.. including this so thank you for all that you do keeping everybody’s memories alive

Hyped for more Naruto videos, keep em coming Matt! Whose your favorite Naruto character?

Cant wait for an Uzumaki Chronicles video. Kept trying to convince myself i liked it while being nervous waiting to see if they were still gonna call rasengan "spiraling sphere" when the dub caught up

Music was just Ight??? The there song they use for the leaf scroll (map) ALONE was insane! I was just leaving it on that screen just to jam out to it in the back of the car. Beat was fuego and I’ll never forget it

Megaman Battle Network, Naruto Ninja Council, and Circuit City!?! Man, did we live the same childhood or something cause I was there for all that and share all the same nostalgia there

Ready to see your ninja council 2 video, that's the one I had. I loved it but maybe thats the nostalgia talking, I haven't played that game since I was a kid.

This game was so fun! Maybe because I was only a kid when I played, so I didn't know any better, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. The adventure part was challenging and fighting the vast genin bosses was fun. It's definitely not on the same level as Megaman BN games, but I don't think it was that bad either. Nostalgia at it's best. But this was the only fun Ninja counsel game. The following games just lacked something this first one had.

Kotor 1 and 2 are truly amazing...after so many years I still remember the plot twist at the end that's how good it was

I have both Ninja Council 1 and 2. I prefer Ninja Council 2 way more than 1. The pixel art is great, the music is serviceable. But all in all it’s a better experience in my opinion. Great review! It sure hit me in the nostalgia feels, hope you see more reviews like this one!

matt do you use your GameCube to capture your gameplay for your GBA reviews or do you use an emulator?

how is it you look older than me but all of your nostalgic recounts make you seem younger

Great video man. As always. Would love to see more Naruto. Rise of a ninja is probably the best Naruto game of all time

Naruto Ninja.. Council? Never heard of it but with a title like that I’ll admit I’m interested. First video of yours I’ve ever seen, hope it’s good.

Definitely do your research when approaching clash of ninja and ultimate ninja storm. Those two games have pretty deep aspects that most people don't pick up on.

I want you to pick apart the dragon ball gba games so badly after watching this lol. Great content, think I'll watch some more :P YO I FOUND THEM!

Did you play the Naruto RPG series? The Ds Version of path of the ninja doesn't contain the secret fight with Itachi that the GBA version had, and I have them both, it's hard to decide which one I want to play. Naruto RPG 2 is only released in Japan and it's really good. It's somewhat sad that the best Naruto RPG didn't release in English.

I remember when Naruto Chronicles 2 came out and I was very happy it was a two-player me my brother and my nephews played that to hell and back it's just too bad not many games do co-op anymore

i remember returning his game after beating it in like a few hours when i was 9 told gamestop guy " it was too easy " got castlevania dawn of sorrow instead here because i still remember this

Ninja Council 2 was such a good game to me! It had secret missions and, it felt like a fair challenge for the time. It was my first Naruto game ever, and Naruto was my first anime besides Dragon Ball Z/Pokémon that I’d watch too! I feel like a lot of kids at that time had that experience.

I never played the game but I remember right around when my older brother borrowed a DVD of Naruto from his friend there was a thing in game power about a orange gba sp with a white leaf symbol. Just randomly remember that almost 20 years later.

Deff subbing for that next naruto vid

Are there any naruto shippuden spoilers in this review? I want to watch it but i’m trying to avoid spoilers :D

I love how I seen 1 guy do a review video for those storage cases and now its like everywhere I go people are using them I legit did not expect them to blow up like that heck last month they where so good I bought a bulk order for my n64 carts to keep dust out who ever invented those things is a certified goat for retro collectors

I completely forgot I owned this as a kid. So much fun from what I remembered

Using Fart on Kiba also was funny af

I bought Ninja Council 1 and 2 in hindsight and was disappointed 2 removed all voice clips.

I remember buying this and beating the whole thing in chidren's group in church. It was fun but really short, I was really disappointed by the length.

I remenber playing this when i was 6 or 7 this is nostalgic af

Okay lol when you said Naruto and attack on titan were you first real anime and said it in a way that implied you had the feeling at the same time I was legit concerned because we are the same age and I grew up on Naruto and did not watch aot until like halfway through high-school Naruto I agree on was my first anime that and the heroic age. Watched that after the Joplin tornado really liked that one

It would be dope if you did the Storm Games! Or clash of ninja

That spiderman 2 game you showed us was from the game boy ADVANCE not color

The funny thing is, I just went through my shit 2 days ago looking for my laptop charger and found my tin of game boy and advanced games and I still have this 😂

Do the Ultimate Ninja, Uzumaki Chronicles and Clash of Ninja series. I haven't played this.

I think the fact it knows what it is, and doesn't need to be super hard, but still, just a fun game, and faithful to the source material (except for a genin taking on a jonin, unless you're kakashi) makes it special. I'm not a casual by any means, but I love Kirby, and that game is accessible to all. This game kinda feels like that.

Have not played this game since my childhood, but I too absolutely adored this game as a kid. Played it so much.

a sound test, would’ve crushed me too🤦🏽‍♂️

NC2 was my top 5 go to emulated games in school right next to MMBN 5 and 6

Literally found this game in a random box my folks dropped off when I bought my house 2 states away. Had to watch this before popping it back in to play

I remember losing my shit when finding the scroll to unlock everyones 4th jutsu and unlocking kakashi. His 4th being lightning blade had my little mind freakin lol

Please diffently do a review videos of naruto ultimate ninja games and the naruto uzumaki chronicles games

Does anyone remember the Kiba fight? I remember playing this when I was like 11 playing it, and if you fail the Uzumaki barrage and fart it dealt half damage

I remember learning not the fireball jutsu but chidori.

I’m playing this with a GBA emulator on my iPhone for the first time because I never got it as a kid and I’m having a blast. I agree there is a certain carefree, childlike attitude where the game isn’t as serious as later entries . It’s a nice pick up and play for a few minutes and then put it down.

This game was the first naruto game I got and it was also how I introduced my mom to anime because I used to hide my naruto watching in my room every week

Man same, naruto was the anime that got me into anime fr. Unfortunately I didn’t veer off into others THAT MUCH until it was all the way finished 🥴

14:50 Well I mean in Ultimate 3-5 you can play as- and beat up Hanabi, who at the time was 7 years old.

The headband fits the part in your hair too well

Rise of a Ninja next?! That was the game that got me hooked into Naruto on the Xbox 360!

I remember playing this game on my friend's GBA SP back in the day and had my mom take me to Best Buy that very night just to pick this game up. A very much worth it buy. Reviews like these are why I believe journalists and game reviewers are obsolete these days. We don't need anyone giving a rating for a game and saying if its good or bad. The only thing we need to do now is just do our own research on KZfaq and judge for ourselves after we've played. Journalists are from a forgotten age in a bygone era. Ninja Council was a cool and fun experience. Not much more is needed to be said.

I’m not sure the magazine company but there was an issue that had the hand signs and young me thought it was the sickest thing

This game is one of my fav Naruto games ever. Ultimate Ninja 3 is still my all time fav Naruto game. I played the Ninja Storm series, and yeah, they're cool. But I still prefer Ultimate Ninja 3. Still playing it sometimes these days if I got time.

i had this, and it was fun. but i think that's because i didn't have much else to play back then.

Naruto ninja council 2 was the first game I've ever beat, and actually TRIED to get the best score, idc how ""bad"" people say they are, the first 2 games were so fun to me and made me feel accomplished (I didn't know about the 3rd game on the DS til much later) Funny enough I liked the second game more because I liked playing as Sakura, she was one of my favorite characters and even dressed as her for Halloween in 7th grade. I sucked at the first game though and I never finished it haha Naruto was one of my first a imes I really got into and the first of Naruto holds such a special place in my heart, I kinda fell off in Shippuden but still go back to watch og every once in a while and still feel absolutely exhilarated to rewatch it

I'm surprised this wasn't more adored. The fact they used Sakura to pad out the Empty Secret areas in the Map is Hilarious. When you realize she's also a Non Playable Character, as her own Text claims she is "Hiding" makes this even more Funny if you think about the Irony of it all. It's like the entire game was a Hit piece to Sakura's Character in Naruto. Although I heard it had a Terrible budget.

Didn't grow up with Ninja Council as they didn't release here, but I loved the Ultimate Ninja series.

ninja council 3 on ds where you had to use the touch screen to do hand signs or touch points on the body for neji or blow in the mic for fire ball jutsu.. to be that was the apex

this man said the combat was easy to cheese, but i distinctly remember orochimaru and gaara, especially gaara, being hard as hell to beat.

you should do the ubisoft 360 exclusive naruto games

I was in 3rd grade when Naruto came out in the US. Did you learn the hand signs way later or are you a few more years older than I thought 🤔? I remember drawing the hidden leaf village leaf on my notebook and i remember one time in class I had my hoodie on with the hood over and kinda covering my face and eye like Kakashi 🤣. Teacher was like dude it's not even cold go put your hoodie way.

"Spider-Man 2 on my Gameboy color" *shows GBA Spider-Man 2* I had that game too. I never had an OG xbox so I got the PC version of KotOR I and II. The games feel like they were meant to be played with a mouse.

Ninja council 1 was one of my favorite GBA games. I replayed it over and over.

When i was young I found Kiba's weakness by play as Naruto if you failed level 3 ninjustsu Kiba will lost most of his health and allow Naruto to perform fully level 3 ninjutsu

My brother owns all the Ultimate Ninja games. Man those were the good ol days.

dude this game was fire when i was a kid. idk how it holds now. but i loved it and the 2nd one

I got this in the used section of my local game shop (where i got pretty much got all my gba games when i was a teen) and I enjoyed it when i first played but then realized "wow! this game is so basic" and then got blown away by ninja council 2 in comparison when i played it on an emulator years later.

as a kid, this was pretty lit on gba

If you want to play a truly horrendous Naruto game then you should try Kizuna Drive. I’ve genuinely never played something so bad

Man, I miss the cover art for older games like that back in the day

did you play ninja destiny?

I remember this one And I remember it not being great lmao

I haven’t thought about this game in so long 😂