Nintendo europe REAAAALY liked Plok too

@@alex_-yz9to As they should. It's not like got-tier, but definitely underrated.

it was more than that, shiggy personally loved ploks gameplay putting it in his personal favorite platformers list. Nintendo was gonna publish plok everywhere, but he resembled a character from a prototype game (super donkey from the gigaleak) too much, so it was only in europe. Shame, plok coulda been in smash!

And Tim Follin (the composer) actually HATES video games and yet composed the sickest jams! Oh also, someone made a remix of the boss music but Hotline Miami styled

For me it was when he told retro it would be fun if Samus had bug eyes and that's why the visors exist in Prime Or the splatoon devs to come up with original characters for the game and if not then they would use mario

Yeah, the instruction manual even references it.

Not from the SNES era, but this reminds me of a similar dev store of why the first Ratchet & Clank didn't have any strafing. The devs legit didn't think about it while designing the game. By the time they had the idea it was way too late in development to properly add it. They did have time to at least try a compromise though: with the jetpack upgrade you can hover around on the ground (meant they didn't have to design a new animation system for the character) but it feels really floating & bad to control.

I'm not sure but I remember reading in Retro Gamer magazine that they actually didn't add a password sstem in it on purpose. I should see if I can find the article.

@@Ruudos I just did a search and you're right, I found an article mentioning that it was an intentional design choice but they regretted it immediately afterward. I remembered it half right

Oof...

Plok Prequel when ? Who owns the franchise ?

@@Gatorade69 The Pickford brothers, they kept the rights to the IP

@@Idran That's cool. I feel now would be the perfect time for a sequel or prequel handled by some indie studio. They could get real crazy with the art style.

​@Idran I read that as "the Plokford brothers" at first.

I also noticed that the font on the score and Plokontinue letters are also different, they look more old-school

Goddamn

oh no! What a great musician. I could listen to the Akryllic track every day. They did a great job on Spiderman and Xmen soundtrack as well

What a legend

Hotline Miami

James Wick

This music turns people badass.

*More SNES music that goes hard af:* “Full Mega Man X OST” Super Mario Kart soundtrack “Street fighter II / 2 soundtrack” "Complete Super Metroid Soundtrack (1994)” “Plok! SNES Soundtrack” “Spiderman X-Men Arcade's Revenge FULL soundtrack” “Mystic Quest Legend Soundtrack (SNES OST, 25 Tracks) Final Fantasy Mystic Quest” Dragon Ball Z Super Butouden 1 OST TMNT SNES “MEGA MAN VII OST (SNES) Checkpoint” “Power Rangers Complete Soundtrack OST - SNES” chrono trigger soundtrack “[SNES] Super Bomberman OST (SPC)” “Super Bomberman 2 Full OST” “Super Bomberman 3 Full OST” “Super Bomberman 5 Full OST” Casio Mario Soundtrack Exception: Mega Man X Corrupted OST (not SNES but sounds very identical)

Or jacket from hotline Miami

"Hey, in Plok 2, the Fleas could come back and-" Plok: "Nah man, trust me, they are NOT coming back."

It does have a web comic that continues where the game left off. It's pretty interesting

I remember this mascot from the Jon Tron and Arin Let's Play!

@@helfire14 "I eradicated the source"

@Username That Works Oh my god I forgot about that. Hahaha Thanks for the reminder. I need to reread it.

"Do you like diddling people?"

The italian Joel quote :O

Or "Watch out for aliens" turns into "watch out for the cops."

My favourite is: "TIM IT WAS JUST PLOK"

Or "First you're afraid of ghosts! Then you're afraid of police!"

Plok deserves a sequel all these years later.

But Tim Follin isnt doing work for game companies anymore, but Carpenter Brut is a possible second choice.

Got a link for that comic?

@@term-827 What does this mean? What does Carpenter Brut have to do with Plok or Tim Follin?

@@Frietuurs Listen to the plok boss theme and then roller mobster and get back to me on that

*More SNES music that goes hard af:* “Full Mega Man X OST” Super Mario Kart soundtrack “Street fighter II / 2 soundtrack” "Complete Super Metroid Soundtrack (1994)” “Plok! SNES Soundtrack” “Spiderman X-Men Arcade's Revenge FULL soundtrack” “Mystic Quest Legend Soundtrack (SNES OST, 25 Tracks) Final Fantasy Mystic Quest” Dragon Ball Z Super Butouden 1 OST TMNT SNES “MEGA MAN VII OST (SNES) Checkpoint” “Power Rangers Complete Soundtrack OST - SNES” chrono trigger soundtrack “[SNES] Super Bomberman OST (SPC)” “Super Bomberman 2 Full OST” “Super Bomberman 3 Full OST” “Super Bomberman 5 Full OST” Casio Mario Soundtrack Exception: Mega Man X Corrupted OST (not SNES but sounds very identical)

@@LavaCreeperPeople rip Super Bomberman 1 and 4

@@Josuh i did add super bomberman 1 xD sorry, super bomberman 4 was a bit disappointing though so....

Oh shut up! What a stupid thing to say.

@@LavaCreeperPeople Earthbound, the DKC trilogy, and Clock Tower anyone?

genuinely one of my favourite soundtracks of all time, the stuff he managed to do on the NES while so limited is still revolutionary

The guy truly was an innovator of that era. Frankly, I think the music is pretty damn solid in the strictest sense, but even if you didn't, you can't deny that he was a wizard where manipulating the limitations of the system is concerned. Musically, he's great, but sonically, his soundtracks were feats. A lot of talented people would have trouble making something sound that good with *modern* hardware, he did it well over 30 years ago.

TIM IT WAS JUST PICTIONARY

Yeah, when I first heard of Tim roughly 15 years ago, he was by far the most underrated composer. Now? He's finally getting the respect he deserves, although nobody has talked about Equinox yet.

*TIM IT WAS JUST PICTIONARY*

Ah flights of fantasy...

Sure. Of course that's his opinion. Games *significantly* easier he calls unbeatable, but Plok is a fair challenge. What a profoundly strange sad little man. He has my pity.

@@traewilson5127 "Resident Evil's puzzles are impossible without hints."

"The game's appeal is of the same high quality as Bubsy; both games feature outstanding action."

Gitcy! Its good for your spleen.

Really? What’s he worked on?

Oh really? What’s it called

@@inaccurateprophecy8971 Contradiction and At Dead of Night. Contradiction was apparently a bit of a struggle to get properly financed but At Dead of Night ended up going fairly viral as OP mentioned and he has plans of making a sequel.

@@DisplayName317 I liked Contradiction. It's too bad it ended on a cliffhanger that will probably never be resolved, though

@@DisplayName317 Dude, he did At Dead of Night?! I loved that game.

It had to have been Maddening the first time.

What would you like to talk about with it?

Reminds me of the one time I bought Conkers Bad Fur day and it ended up being Pokemon Colosseum (Edit: Pokemon Stadium 😂 GC game would have been shocking)

Or how Plainrock swapped Star Fox Weekend with PGA Tour

@@reinforcedpenisstem lole

"Then I'm gonna recycle it 300 times and retire on my offshore savings accounts" - Follin 2004

Spontaneous 360 camera

I lost it at that part it was so unexpected

Just recently found the channel and yeah, that's what drew me in was his manner of speaking. It feels personal. Like current AVGN has just gotten so bad It's clear James is just reading a script, when it used to have that personally feeling that Nitro Rad's videos have.

@@Gatorade69 Funny you should say that, because NitroRad's real name is also James

It's genuinely good cinematography that comes out of nowhere lmao, such a great little skit

hi verified

what?

WTF!? Scottecs qui?

What's the mechanic?

What does that mechanic do?

Cool

How did you leave a comment a day ago

@@kakazi2170 if i answer i'd have to subject you to a patreon advertisement

@@kakazi2170 People who give Nitrorad money through Patreon get access to his videos a day earlier than those who don't.

his optimism and excellent critiques are why I subscribed. I had heard of NitroRad for years but never watched until his Illbleed review showed up in my home feed. he quickly became one of my favorite reviewers because of how positive he is

Also Spider Man and X-Men in Arcade's revenge! Which if you haven't heard, just find Gambit's theme and you'll fall hard.

Oh shut up you!

I remember this mascot from the Jon Tron and Arin Let's Play!

Aaaand you can rage yourself by pressing L and R after you get the amulet. It consumes shells and in return your somersault is imbued with a razor ability.

Oh shut up!

There's a channel named explod2A03 that explains some of the tricks ("Single Channel Echo by the Follin Bros.")

From what I had seen in another recent video on the game, the soundtrack used only 5 out of the 8 channels, which was shocking. But it explains why you could still hear all the sound effects, whereas Megaman X used almost if not all the channels and that's why you'd sometimes have audio clipping out. Follins did magic.

And yes it's unbelievable how long the tracks are! They all felt like a trip you're taken on.

I've seen multiple people say, as if it's fact, that the Follins used sound effect channels in the music to make it better, and then multiple people contradict them to say that actually part of what makes the soundtrack incredible is that they _didn't_ do that. That makes sense to me, I think beyond the compositional ability they were extremely clever programmers who really understood what they were working with. By this time they were used to working magic with 2A03, Amiga, and even ZX beepers, so where other composers felt they needed the extra channels at the expense of sound effect conflicts, they decided to just use workarounds (like clever multi-pitch sampling and lots of tweaking of certain instrument sounds rather than just compressing recordings) and make music that sounded like about 10 channels with just 5. Don't get me wrong, I particularly love modern chiptune that uses a couple more channels than most games of the real chiptune era had available (VRC6, mostly). But being able to absolutely maximize harsher limitations deserves at least as much credit. Anyway, all this does make me wonder where so many people got such a strong misconception (assuming that's indeed what it is). Were there reviewers or youtubers that just assumed this music had to use the sfx channel trick and then spread that idea?

I was thinking the same thing. The OG Rayman was so brutal for me as a kid.

I just saw u on markiplier comment section 🤔

You just said the same thing about Elvis the Alien. Get outta here!

@@victoriouswinner7745 yeah

We aren't cooking anything mr white.

how are you everywhere?

for whatever reason i imagine him sounding scottish af like count dankula voicing him

True story: I spent too much time yesterday wandering through various Spotify playlists, and it infected my dreams. The only part I now remember clearly, though, is going through one playlist for stuff to check out and going, "Oh, there's a Plok remix! Well, I *have* to listen to that." It's invaded my subconscious and I've never even played it, good job.

I have always wanted to play it. It's just so weird and Treasure made great unique games. Don't think it will be quite as good as something like Gunstar Heroes though.

@@Gatorade69 yeah it definitely doesn't have the same action as that, it is a bit more slow paced. I can also see it getting annoying after a while, but it definitely sticks with you

I'm super keen for it to come to switch, but yeah, I feel like my nostalgia lifts that one to another level.

That's absolutely bananas that you actually saw that old video LMAO

@Nitro Rad Okay, so, apologies for posting this as a reply here, but apparently KZfaq's AI marked me as a spammer. Why? Because of _one time_ over a month ago I tried to warn people away from buying a messed-up broken version of a TV-show on Google TV and recommended buying it elsewhere instead. (Guess posting that warning on all 13 episodes of that show was enough to trigger that. Or maybe it just didn't like the words "buy", "not", and "do" in reverse order.) So now I can only _reply_ to people rather than post new comments, horray. And the only way I even found out was because I tried editing a comment here and got an error, then when I refreshed the page the comment was just gone, and checking back a few days later, nope, still nothing. -_- Oh, and turns out me "liking" or "disliking" a video no longer has an effect either. The system still keeps track that I've voted ... but the next time I load the page the numbers are back to what they were before. So yeah. Disabling dislikes wasn't enough for KZfaq, I guess. -___- ------------------------------------------ 12:44 "Have you heard the music to Pictionary on NES?!" ...Waitaminute... actually, I have! o_O Where have I heard this before? Maybe he's on 8bitpeoples. c__o__m ? (gotta assemble the link yourself, sorry) Around 2008 - 2013 I listened to a ton of stuff from there... This made me go through my entire collection from that time, weirdly couldn't find it though, so don't know what pseudonym he might go by. Also: Yay, Plok! A friend had that, and I played it only like once or twice (so obviously I didn't get very far), but somehow it stuck with me. So horray for childhood memories! :)

I just came back to this exact video because of hearing the news. We're starting to lose some amazing people behind the marvels we grew up with.

Marina: Yahoo!