Rise Of the Robots AI begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to contact Brian May.

This game looks like something you'd see characters in a TV show play.

"Good child bearing hips there"

"The hentai was canceled" FUCK. Now what do we do?!

"ALL OF WHICH I OWN!" You are WAY too eager to announce that lol

“Rise of the Robots is gonna be a huge hit, look at all the marketing we’re throwing into it.” “How’s the game?” “The what?”

Future What Happened. Kentucky Fried Console.

I actually bought the Rise of the Robots novel back when I was in Secondary school, but it was so damn boring and took so long to get to the actual robots, I quickly lost interest and never got through. I can only remember there being a character who was only ever referred to as 'The Thin Man'. Everyone called him that, even when it wouldn't make sense to refer to him like that.

11:31 "Uppers: Nice graphics Downers: Farcically tedious" That's it. That's the episode.

my favorite is when the cyborg and the sentry fight like at 2:30, because it's basically Red Bionicle vs. Big Dick Pepsiman

I bought this piece of garbage on SNES with hard earned lawn mowing money back when it came out. I don't remember what lies I must have told at the store I bought it at, but was able to get a refund on it.

According to Kim Justice, this game caused a video game magazine crash in Europe. Probably because quite a number of magazines give it a high score. Computer and Video Game Magazine gave it a 91 I think. Moreover, Doom 2 in the same issue was given a 86.

My favorite thing about Rise Of The Robots, at least of the SNES version I played as a kid: You can play two player mode as mentioned. However the first player was forced to be Babby Blue Bot Cyborg. Second player could choose any of the remaining bots including the penultimate opponent. The way progressive difficulty worked in ROTR wasn't by having AI become more advanced or computer opponents using more advanced combos: It was done by having the later enemies do more damage. This carried over to two player. The second player could choose said penultimate bot and kill the first player in as few as four hits. This game is REALLY bad.

Small error: Brian May is still very much Queen's guitarist, although at this point it's basically become its own cover band.

"Opponents actually learn from their mistakes and read your moves" bullshit!

The Brian May OST did in fact see inclusion in later ports of Rise, namely the 3DO version, which allowed you to select from three OSTs (the original, May's work, & the Japanese OST [yeah, the Japanese release had a couple of unique songs!]). Also, while it's understandable that Matt focuses on the American side of things, there's word that Rise effectively destroyed the credibility of numerous UK gaming mags of the time, proving that a bunch of them would literally just take payolas & give positive reviews for underwhelming games. This was apparently a common complaint at the time, but none of the arguments were for absolutely indefensible games... Until Rise. Early UK magazine reviews apparently praised Rise like crazy, and it quickly was found out that those magazines were the ones that got "exclusive" early coverage for reviews, so when Rise came out & was shown to be undeniably bad those magazines looked really bad.

I would’ve liked Rise of The Robots to be a stylish, 90’s action adventure game. Not a bare bones generic fighting game.

so, I finally got around to finishing up the Novel. it was honestly pretty interesting at parts. it definitely takes it's time building up character and world building, which is welcome, though unfortunately it definitely was written before they decided to nix the massive plans they had for the franchise, as it sets up more than one branch to go off of in later pieces in the franchise timeline, which Rise 2 did not use at all, unfortunately (spoilers below) also, the Novel only had two fights, one against two loader droids at once, which was well enough written to give me hope for the rest of it, until there was no more fights until the Supervisor, who didn't have a real fight at all (Coton used Tackle, it failed) . oh and Coton (the robot) had a sister that was stuck in the building, and she defeats the supervisor, by using a lighter to trigger the sprinkler system, which melts her. then they both escaped successfully.

The original Unreal does still actually look pretty decent despite its age.

13:35 Seriously, OMF 2097 is one of the all-time best PC fighters ever, even today. Good on Matt to mention it because it really did blow ROTR out of the water in every possible way.

Now let's wait for WHA HAPPUN to Cyberpunk 2077! :D

He kinda looks like a guy on a graphics card box

I was ten in 1993 and to me, Queen was "the band who did that Mighty Ducks song"

So, funny story about the whole music by Brian May. My dad actually bought the whole game because of the "Music by Brian May" as he was a huge fan at the time. Then we found out it was a trash game but a great memory we share.

If we’re talking more about bad fighting games, it would be interesting if you did a whole episode on Kasumi Ninja since you mentioned it. Essentially a part of the Mortal Kombat: Attack of the Clones games. Otherwise, I really enjoy this video & your other ones!

There was a "Director's Cut" for MS-DOS that was really just the regular game with some bonus material. It included some kind of 100 page journal by one of the heads of the team. It was this very weird mix of enthusiasm and just adding too much detail to document the game's incompetent production. My favourite part was when he described how he peed in a vase so he didn't have to interrupt a call with a publisher.

Starting to feel like the rush to make a multimedia franchise out of a yet-to-be-made video game is a theme that keeps popping up on this show. Seriously, has that strategy ever actually worked?

That Astar reference gave me some awful flashbacks from those ads. Scared the living crap out of me as a kid! "Je suis Astar le robot je peux remettre mon bras vous pas" Those War Amps ads were something else

No one: Matt in every episode: M I N D P A L A C E

The fact there is no ROTR hentai makes me sad, buy knowing Griffith gave us BLACK RAZOR is uplifting.

Cyborgs face is literally the predator's mask.

"Everything is lies! EVERYTHING IS LIIIIIIIIIES!" That basically sums up the gaming industry as a whole.

I remember renting this from Blockbuster with my cousin because my aunt wouldn't let us play Killer instinct.

I honestly had no prior knowledge of this supposed dud , so this info will be completely new to me .

I'm just glad people remember One Must Fall. That game was badass!

Suggestion: talk about Batman: Dark Tomorrow, widely considered to be one of, if not, the worst Batman games ever made.

god the amount of hype this game had was immense, This game was everywhere in the games media. I remember when Bad Influence (A UK games based show) changed it entire opening to hype this game.

It is really impressive how fast he's been getting these out. We love you, Matt. I think we can all agree from recent big name games that this series will never run out of material. In case it does, though, I submit a suggestion of: Donkey Kong home versions (coleco, atari, PC). It's been done before but it's a classic tale of miscommunucation and intrigue with drunk American businessmen clashing against repressed Japanese businessmen...it killed Atari and ultimately infulenced the creation of Nintendo of America.

Damn, Matt wasn't kidding when he said the hentia was canceled. Literally only one picture on rule 34.

I had Rise 2 as a kid. It was one of those games that always kinda just showed up at my house. It always kinda creeped me out with how weird and broken it was. But changing the color of your robot during the loading screen sold me. Like who else was doing that?

I am so glad someone remembered One Must Fall. The intro music is still in my music rotation 28 years later! Being a DOS exclusive was such a weird move.

I appreciate the One Must Fall 2097 music underneath. Had both that and Rise on PC, but loved OMF a TON more than Rise due to playability.

Step 1: Design a blue guy to put in magazines for hype. Step 2: Step 3: lots of money

Been hoping for this one for eons!!! Thank you!!!

The story of No Man's Sky's rise, fall and rerise deserves its own episode.

I owned and probably still have Rise 2: Resurrection. I was still young and inexperienced enough with games that quality barely influenced whether I could have fun. I'm pretty sure there's a piece of paper in the spot where the manual should be with the codes for unlocking the boss characters to this day

I remember this game. Oddly I still like some of the character designs, but everything outside of those and the initial premise were a huge letdown.

the only thing i know about 'one must fall' is that freeman's mind used a song from it in order to make a joke about programmers

Cant wait for the CP77 'wha happun' episode.

The thing I remember most about this was that the first guitar magazine I ever bought featured Bryan May and had Cyborg tabbed with a backing track. It also featured tabs for Back in Black by ACDC and the riff from Cowboys from Hell as riff of the month.

This was one of those "rented once on a Saturday" games.

Seriously though, this channel is gold for anyone that's an old-school gamer because it's a blast from the past with every one of these episodes.

This gives me the closure I needed. I Had this garbage for the 3DO. Living in a 3rd world country where the consoles were (and are) too expensive, my father busted his ass to buy me the 3DO, for which there were very few games and also very expensive. This game crushed my soul, thinking how much of an effort it was to get me the system and games. Thankfully I had Gex and Theme Park to soothe my soul.

Not being a 'Rise of the Robots' fan myself, I seriously thought this video was about 'One Must Fall: 2097' for a second.

Astar, the robot from Planet Danger! There's a deep cut from my Canadian childhood.

The Spiderman Turn off the Dark episode of Wha Happun will be a masterpiece

i remember being about 8 years old, hanging with the neighbors kid trying to play this game on his snes but its just so hard

Rise of the Robots? More like Rise of the Jump Kicks.

I thought it was just a bad dream or something, but now that there is a video about it, this game is real and I played it.

The blue cigar-chomping robot in the sequel gave you the finger, 8/10

god i miss One Must Fall, and by spiritual extension, Rising Thunder.

Team "One Must Fall" here. I still play it every now and then.

Oh geez, haven't though of Astar since I was a kid... Deep cut right there

ok but "Mercy is a human trait" is honestly a pretty sick tagline for a fighting game about robots

Thank you for pulling Astar out from the depths of my mind

I remember playing it at a friend's house and being surprised at how they could get so much wrong while looking so good.

Wow I haven't heard the One Must Fall 2097 theme in forever

I spent 4 minutes of this video trying to decode what NRG stood for. It's Energy. I hate it, A+

This takes me back. It was great to learn what happened behind the robot curtain. Thanks for the great video. Speaking of fighting games from the 90s, anybody else remember Battle Beast for the PC? Very cartoony visuals and jokey humor.

Any chance you can do Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier?

OMF 2097 was epic for its day. I was a SF2 and Mortal Kombat 1 & 2 nut and OMF immediately captured me with its single player, upgrade-centered campaign mode. It's a shame it never got any console ports. Fantastic game!

Man I loved One Must Fall. I remember playing the hell out of the demo as a teenager and then ordering the full version over the goddamn telephone, as was the style at the time.

I don't know how I managed to live my entire life without this, considering I read all the game magazines, ads, and every bit of nonsensical media as a kid inside the Toys R Us game section. Video games are weird.

Now I want to see one for Criticom.

You seriously need more subs, I’m learning so much and some of these games will be classics now 2021. Love the editing and everything you do within the channel it’s awesome. I’ve also been gaming since NES duck hunt days and this channel warms my nostalgic heart ♥️

One Must Fall: 2097 Nostalgia Rush!!!

One Must Fall is a gem, a diamond in the rough. Loved that game.

Astar references are far and few between. Well done.

Totally caught you using the opening theme from One Must Fall, that's epic and you're awesome for even knowing what it was, LOL 😆

I just wanted to find a way to message you man, I used to watch two best friends since I was like 15 n I’m 20 now n wanted to just like thank you and the other guys because honestly your shit got me through some of the toughest times in my life and it was like the building of my sense of humor so just like thank you man it makes me happy you’re still making videos :)

I recall that my brother rented this for the SNES and we tried playing it and it was BORING. It's amazing how a company took an interesting idea and sucked the interest out of it. Plus, the Amiga info is hilarious. 13 disks?! Nothing scream fun like swapping disks every few minutes. 5/100.

I desperately want a mash up of "Everything is Lies" with "Everything is Awesome."

That One Must Fall 2097 Menu song at the start is a real ear worm

I've played Bedlam. It was an isometric view, point-and-click real-time action game. You start off with one unit and as you progress you end up with 3 that you can cycle between and control 1 at a time. The units looked a lot like the SCV units in StarCraft. You blew stuff up with machine guns and rocket launchers. I can't quite remember what the enemies were, some generic monster type I think. It had sort of interactive/destroyable scenery. I finished it, I remember it being fun but nothing special. My dad bought it in a grocery store on a discount/clearance shelf in those big old-school PC game box. The weirdest part is they never sold games there except for this one time. At the same time I got a few other obscure titles: Crusader No remorse, Crusader No regret, The Dame was Loaded.

As I was watching this (indeed very good) video, I remembered playing a demo of a PC fighting game called "Theatre of Pain", and it was made by Mirage! There's not much information about it online, but it says that it was the second last game of Mirage, after "Rise 2" and "Bedlam". I have to revisit it: I remember being amused by it because one of the character's shouts sounded like and Italian swear word, me and my friends chuckled at that a the time xD

I dunno, I enjoyed the game, it was a simple, good looking fighter, I remember it was my ritual to finish it once every Saturday morning before I started my weekend. It was relaxing.

There was also a CD version of this game for the Amiga CD32 as well, and I got this game for it as soon as it was released. It was a short and clunky game, but the graphics weren't too bad for the time. One thing to notice is that one big plus on the Amiga CD32 was that you had a gamepad with multiple buttons, while most people used an 8-way joystick with one button (with some exceptions) on most other Amiga's making fighting games a lot harder to play on them. I don't know have any experience with the floppy disk version of Rise of the Robots, but many of those larger games would have some form of hard disk installation but most people that I knew didn't have a hard disk installed.

13:17 Yo, SICK NOKIA RINGTONE

To be fair, Rise of the Robots didn't soak up Millions in Pre Orders. They just made a Shitty Game.

I had the shareware One Must Fall 2097 for quite a while, and eventually dropped the full price for all the content. I agree, it was definitely far and away better than Rise of the Robots.

Thanks for mentioning One Must Fall! That game was fantastic on every level.

I owned Bedlam way back in the day. I think it was available at Wal-Mart in their shovelware section. It was a somewhat decent isometric game where you piloted a robot around levels and had to achieve different objectives all the while blowing pretty much everything up. Kind of like Desert Strike (SNES), but on the ground.

Any mags who gave the game glowing reviews were then after never bought again, seem to recall in the uk a multiformat mag gave all the versions glowing reviews cannot remember what mag though.

I has this dump for the sega Saturn. 😂

Excellent channel man...great game selection and interesting tidbits abound. Well done.

I had the SNES version as a kid. The lose screen traumitized me. That eye.... the music... ahhh

There was a time I thought he would eventually run out of clusterfuck media to make episodes about then cyberpunk 2077 the best out of all of us was a clusterfuck then...then I realized that it’s the human condition to make clusterfucks and Matt’s job to make videos online for our entertainment

I don't think you'll see my message, but I would love a "What happened" to a game called "Slave Zero."

I love the wha happun series, keep them coming bud!! Always makes for a good day seeing a new one hit the inbox

Loved the use of One Must Fall 2097 music in this video!