Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde? In the SAME Game? Now I've Seen Everything

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde? In the SAME Game? Now I've Seen Everything | Ranking the NES, Episode 44

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Күн бұрын

The quest for the top NES games continues! We must rank every NES game! How were they able to fit both Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde onto one NES cartridge? It's insane! This week's batch is really something. First up it's Clu Clu Land, then a little Mystery Quest, and... well, at least Mighty Final Fight is in there somewhere, right?
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00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:56 - Clu Clu Land
00:51:20 - Mystery Quest
01:24:32 - Ninja Kid
01:43:55 - Hoops
02:04:32 - Mighty Final Fight
02:33:08 - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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@flemishdog Ай бұрын

50 minutes of Clu Clu Land? the Clu Clu Land fandom haven't ate this good for decades

@flemishdog Ай бұрын

The best part of Mystery Quest is that they took out half the game for the US release. I played and finished the twice as long Famicom Disk System game (with a guide to be fair)

@MissAshley42 29 күн бұрын

I haven't seen that much consecutive Clu Clu Land play since I first played it via Animal Crossing.

@Lupinvej Ай бұрын

When UFO 50 comes out, I would enjoy seeing a ranking of all 50 games.

@cryssnail Ай бұрын

Holy shit yes

@jeremyquiros5483 Ай бұрын

I still can’t believe the Dr. Jekyll x Mr. Hyde collab happened. Nintendo is the GOAT for getting them in the studio together.

@justinc.5591 Ай бұрын

Dr. Jekyll ft. Hyde

@drmariomariomd6733 Ай бұрын

Jekyll's flow was very sick and on point in this track

@poposterous236 Ай бұрын

I was really disappointed by the fallout but the diss tracks were fkin legendary

@fredriksahlstenglimmevi3259 Ай бұрын

Put them in Smash Bros. you cowards!

@meyejaco Ай бұрын

Mystery Quest has three sentences written about it on its Wikipedia page.

@damarziman Ай бұрын

Mystery Quest is the game equivalent of when characters on TV are eating generic versions of a food just labeled "Cereal", "Soda" etc.

@knightdehumidifier Ай бұрын

I'd love to celebrate Father's Day, but my dad went out the door and said he was getting a pack of Dynowarz at the local mini-mart, and he never came back.

@dyscostic Ай бұрын

Hasn't been the same since he got in the accident and destroyed his spondylus.

@poposterous236 Ай бұрын

oh god no NOOOOOOOOOOOO

@Spirit0f Ай бұрын

This touched me.

@d.s.i.6722 Ай бұрын

My dad was a Low G man, too bad he couldn't stay on the ground long enough to stop and say he loved me 😢

@zaxxoid Ай бұрын

Your dad asked himself ''Is my life better than Dynowarz: Destruction than Spondylus'' and did not like the answer

@Jaspertine Ай бұрын

Clu Clu Land took me a very long time to figure out. There's a fun game in there, but you gotta be willing to really look for it. I can understand if that feels like work to some players.

@OrbitalWu36 Ай бұрын

Jeff I have been sick and taking NyQuil for like a week. Sometimes I fall asleep watching these videos at night. I just wanted you to know that I have been recently diagnosed with a spinal condition called spondylolithesis and I had a dream that I was at the doctor and you were there and you diagnosed me with dynowarz: destruction for spondylolithesis and I yelled at you lol

@nomchonks Ай бұрын

feel like im going nuts. that attacking cat animation in Dr Jekyll is the funniest thing ive ever seen, why is no one commenting on it.

@antonionii Ай бұрын

Low G Man The Low Gravity Man is such a classic bar

@newman5924 Ай бұрын

I'm pretty sure Jeff mentions it and its full name every single show.

@foolio29 Ай бұрын

Dr. Tracksuit has some words for Dr. Jekyll

@radjago Ай бұрын

"I'm a doctor too!"

@beatchef Ай бұрын

Playing Clu Clu Land feels like experiencing one of those anxiety dreams where you are walking or running and can't control yourself in some way. Gives the same feeling and just feels unpleasant. But you keep wanting to try to like it cause it has the Nintendo polish.

@chriswinchester679 Ай бұрын

You wanna know the *best* part of Mystery Quest? You have to play through the game four times to get the "good" ending. Not once, not twice, not three times. Four times. It's not any harder either, it's just "playthrough the entire thing again."

@PhoenixWrightfan101 Ай бұрын

As a kid, my parents got me the GBA e-reader from Toys R Us one summer. I got a handful of game cards to scan and I thought it was kind of exciting. Seeing Donkey Kong 3, NES Golf, NES Tennis, and other stuff kinda blew my mind as a kid. Alas, Clu Clu Land was the one that stood out to me the most of that small bunch. I was kinda enamored with how weird and unique it is. Even now, I watch this segment with a smile.

@ce7.0 Ай бұрын

if you want to play Clu Clu Land with dedicated hand buttons, try DK King of Swing and Jungle Climber

@eXiLe824 Ай бұрын

The second level theme of Mystery Quest kind of slaps in a minimalistic kind of way

@d.s.i.6722 Ай бұрын

Had an instant flashback of memory nostalgia the second Jeff starts playing Dr Jeckyl Mr Hyde. Like a hidden long buried trauma, I suddenly remember bringing it home after renting it from the video store and my pre-teen brain not understanding ANYTHING about wtf how to play it and being stuck with it all weekend

@beatchef Ай бұрын

In Japan, Mystery Quest was published by Square, and still has a little page on the Square Enix website. It was originally a Famicom Disk System game and due to all the extra space it had an intro with full screen graphics, longer levels and a better soundtrack due to the extra channel on the FDS hardware. It still had the mishmash of really poor and really excellent tiles in the tileset and still has the terrible main character sprite that clashes with the style of the backgrounds and makes it look unlicensed. I can only find three published games made by the developer.

@g.u.959 Ай бұрын

So glad Jekyll and Hyde managed to squash the beef and quit releasing diss tracks for a bit! Hyde especially, that dude was walking his career SO far back

@livinggarbagetruck 25 күн бұрын

Aside from the sick dunks, every second of Hoops took something outta me

@Mrster Ай бұрын

Wasn't disappointed by the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde playthrough.

@ryans3420 Ай бұрын

Jeff turning into the Angry Video Game Nerd

@never4ever8 Ай бұрын

Little do people know that James Rofle became who he is simply by playing the NES library

@Thiago-yv1xp Ай бұрын

But actually funny

@beatchef Ай бұрын

And Jeff doesn't seem to have ever watched any AVGN because every time a game comes up (apart from TMNT) that was made famous by AVGN he says he's never played or even seen that game.

@jestinjund Ай бұрын

I remember seeing Jekyll and Hyde at my local walmart on clearance for 7 dollars when I was about 10 years old. I used my 2 weeks of allowance (10 bucks) to buy it and I was so damn excited I was buying a whole game for that price. Even at 10 years old, I knew within 5 minutes that I got got. The box art still stands as one of the most ridiculous NES games out there though so I'll give it that.

@Spirit0f Ай бұрын

I once went on a Mystery Quest with some LSD one time. It also had the Nintendo "Seal of Quality" on it.

@NewAgeRed 4 күн бұрын

1:26:10 Whistle? You mean hair dryer. 😏

@MissAshley42 10 күн бұрын

Only a true man of science can look at Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and conclude "There's something to this!"

@esmerylan Ай бұрын

Ninja Kid wasn't a launch title, but it was one of the first 3rd-party releases alongside two other Bandai titles that don't have a great reputation: M.U.S.C.L.E. and Chubby Cherub.

@NoSchkrango Ай бұрын

Mystery Quest's tiles look like if you took the pixel art out of the game, blew it up to double its intended size, and then just shoved it back in

@DarkLadyMarie 27 күн бұрын

"is it better than Dinowarz" is the only thinking keeping me going in this wretched world

@brockk3277 Ай бұрын

People may notice, but that precision jumping in mystery quest was unbelievable!!

@JuiceJive Ай бұрын

The bassist on Mystery Quest was going pretty hard.

@tydigame Ай бұрын

Love this ranking series - reminds me of the old Game Room days in a way with your ability to make truly terrible games entertaining to watch. So much fun.

@BenGoodsonModular Ай бұрын

I had no idea that Mighty Final Fight existed. Its amazing!

@jkrycz Ай бұрын

I am always on the side of the jumping brains.

@Vlaphor Ай бұрын

I used to have slightly fond memories of Mystery Quest since my cousin had it when we were kids and I'd mess around with it and a few other games when I'd go over to his house. Neat concept anyways...

@Jagerbomber Ай бұрын

I thought that praying mantis was Ridley, but you were right, lol.

@bdre5555 Ай бұрын

Wow, a black box game I've never even heard of. I'll never be able to look at myself in the mirror again

@sirzmo Ай бұрын

It's time for that time of the week where my favorite things merge, Friday, Science, Video Games, and Jeff.

@JZekis Ай бұрын

I remember Hoops being fun but I think it's mostly fun in 2 on 2 mode even when playing 1 player.

@TalkernateHistory Ай бұрын

Clu Clu make a man go coo coo

@fraudcakes Ай бұрын

Nintendo made another attempt at Clu Clu Land with DK King of Swing, which controls very similarly, but uses the L and R buttons to turn. Data East were on dev duties. It's pretty fun, but is much slower and less manic than Clu Clu Land.

@NewAgeRed 4 күн бұрын

I just realized. I've had a copy of Hoops for like 20+ years. Yet have never played it. 😶

@fredriksahlstenglimmevi3259 Ай бұрын

When can I order the official ”Live by the hole, die by the hole” coffee mug?

@joenickel9948 Ай бұрын

did i miss it or did jeff never acknowledge that clu clu land uses zelda's rupees? I used to play this game a little bit as a kid and I have 0 recollection of the rupee sprite being used in this game.

@schtive81 Ай бұрын

For all of the shit that Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde gets... it does have some really nice background and tile art. i really like the shading on the trees. The character sprite aren't bad either. It is weird that the birds drop dog coil dookies. Interesting idea, bad game. I never played this game as a kid. I remember seeing the box art for this one at the rental store, I always thought it looked amazing. Especially the 'Psycho Wave' selling point.

@VinnyVance Ай бұрын

Is the sound effect of bouncing off the wall in Clu Clu Land the Super Mario Bros jump noise?

@British Ай бұрын

i feel like Clu Clu Land got done here

@Achoohorsey Ай бұрын

Does Ninja Kid have the same music as some other game you've played for the list?

@sc20kshotgun Ай бұрын

A lot of classic AVGN in this installment of the show

@furrymessiah Ай бұрын

I am altering the SPONDEELOOS. Pray I don't alter it any further.

@GreatistheWorld Ай бұрын

I like to think Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde started as a Falling Down licensed game, but they couldn’t finish it when the pitch fell through

@slippy85 Ай бұрын

So much science! What's next? The Nobel Prize?!?

@tommylakindasorta3068 Ай бұрын

Clu Clu Land, eh? There's always something unexpected from the Gerstmann Advisory Panel.

@beatchef Ай бұрын

It seems to have been pretty popular in Japan, for some reason it always gets included in OST selections and nostalgic collections

@christianwalker7308 Ай бұрын

If only they combined that version of Final Fight with River City Ransom

@daisymortis Ай бұрын

Ikari Warriors is the only game I keep feeling it's waaay too high on the list. It's basically as broken as RoboCop. Failed science on that one

@chappymcchapster6130 Ай бұрын

Fri-day is the best-day. *cough* Oh shit, also, we are barreling towards an all-Jeopardy last episode.

@jacobtupua6158 Ай бұрын

The NES generation. When you convinced yourself a bad game was good because it was the only thing your parents bought you for Christmas.

@houdin654jeff Ай бұрын

“ *angry grumbles* …HOLE!” -Jeff Gerstmann, 2024

@ranman2106 Ай бұрын

dig the shirt

@gimballock5106 27 күн бұрын

Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde doesn't explain itself very well. When you turn into Mr.Hyde, you're not actually walking backwards. Rather, Mr.Hyde is walking down a copied, mirrored world of Dr.Jekyll. If Mr.Hyde catches up and reaches the spot where Dr.Jekyll was when he transformed, he gets hit by lightning and immediately dies. Very strange mechanic, to be sure.

@sydneymeanstreet Ай бұрын

There's a fantastic series of videos on Displaced Gamers about the mess that makes up Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. A game so shitty they didn't even bother to check if the game worked properly when they cut two of the levels.

@dyscostic Ай бұрын

WHEN I GET MAD I GET PAID

@threeo8314 Ай бұрын

Hole.

@MrGreedylou 26 күн бұрын

Thanks Adam =(

@3Dant Ай бұрын

Voice back in action just in time for the important shit to be done

@kevinkuenn5733 Ай бұрын

Mr. Doc & Bomber all the way

@joshua1281 Ай бұрын

What is the lowest ranked game on the current list that you think will be in the top 20 when it's all said and done? I'm guessing Contra.

@ChrisLT 27 күн бұрын

Not even the worst doctor in video games this week. To quote an old poem, "If my day keeps going this way I just might, break your funkin' face tonight!" And yeah, Sonic CD's US soundtrack is way better.

@ericfuchs123 Ай бұрын

Mystery Quest was a Square joint originally which fits since the platformer sections in every one of their games with platforming since have all universally sucked.

@Gafgarion45 Ай бұрын

I regret to inform everyone that Hao can not swim. Game Over.

@sydneymeanstreet Ай бұрын

Nintendo might as well leave the Clu Clu Land ROMs up, nobody's intentionally downloading them.

@xtlm Ай бұрын

Did he say that we were going to call a spade a spade lol

@JoeShufferton Ай бұрын

AVGN finally beat Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde after years of shit-talking

@sydneymeanstreet Ай бұрын

If you bought, played or enjoyed Mystery Quest I regret to inform you that your right to criticise European games has been revoked.

@daneofurexistence Ай бұрын

Not to be negative, but when I heard Jeff say Clu Clu Land feels terrible, I felt a bit of glee. I have never enjoyed that game.

@NoSchkrango Ай бұрын

Happy that Clu Clu Land has been Clu Clu Ban'd from the top 200

@Hardworlder Ай бұрын

Jeff, why did you play Clu Clu Land for 45 minutes? That has to be one of the longest sections of a single game in this series yet. But it's for Clu Clu Land

@Livingeidolon Ай бұрын

How soon we forget the super mario bros special streams

@pointblank0020 Ай бұрын

He played Ikari Warriors for over an hour. Clu Clu Land was interesting mechanically so I think it deserved it

@Patyourdrums Ай бұрын

Is it just me or is the gameplay audio just too loud?

@newman5924 Ай бұрын

His complaints on clu clu land make no sense. You push in the direction of the peg you want to go. Simple. "it would be easier if you could control the hands" is a silly statement that makes no sense....especially when he says it while on the bottom of the screen, with no pegs anywhere except up, and says "if I push left nothing happens"

@pointblank0020 Ай бұрын

It seems like a cool game with a high skill ceiling

@uncertainultradian Ай бұрын

Yeah, a lot of it seemed to be his brain filling in for what was actually happening. 39:45 he's successfully finding gems on purpose, moves right acknowledging his finding more, bounces off a wall to move left & find more, continues straight into a pit and complains that he wanted to head right but instead headed left. His complaints often have no connection to reality, if you watch closely. He complains about the hands' directions being relative when they are in fact absolute. It's weird because I think he's actually quite good at it, but then he puts it below the Three Stooges. Urgh. I tried it for the first time after seeing this because it looked so fluid and interesting, and it's my favourite NES game now. The controls are quite elegant, and turn what would be a Pacman picture gimmick into something enjoyable in its own right.

@meohmy1117 Ай бұрын

50 minutes of clu clu land? Who wants that? Is that the banger this week? 🤮

@VinnyVance Ай бұрын

We are not here for enjoyment, we are here for science.

@bdre5555 Ай бұрын

My only small complaint about these streams, is some of the games you play way too long. Like the first game you played about twice as long as we needed to see. I'd rather see more games per stream, then have to fast forward for 20 minutes to the next game.