"Pandamonium is the most interesting, cutting edge video game documentarian on the internet right now" Barack Obama

That Steven Spielberg quote is actually real, but it was not said in regards to Bug!. That was Mr Spielberg's reaction after playing Pebble Beach Golf Links.

5 Minutes original review now become an hour extended review ?? This is another level of dedication that we appreciated very much ...

I can understand why 90s gamers lost their minds over Bug and gave it high review scores, because I saw Bug on an in-store Sega Saturn demo kiosk in 1995, and it turned my world upside down. It looked unbelievable. Long after we left the store, I was still thinking about it.

The "quote" has been removed from Wikipedia. :) STILL WORKING ON SEGA RALLY in case you were wondering. Thanks for watching. This comment was heavily edited, the original was a comment about the then upcoming live premiere of this video.

30:15 really good Tim Rogers impression tbh

That opening was jaw dropping. And that transition to the theme song is the best you've ever done

I love how your reviews are more so full on documentaries rather than actual reviews. Not that you don't have good critical analysis of games, but that your reviews are so much more than just critical analysis. Going on a 5 minute tangent about Spielberg's false quote is just a single example of how in depth an interesting your reviews are.

"Sonic Jam overworld" That's a desperate reach to put some shine on SEGA. Loved the video.

If Spielberg isn’t gonna be interviewed here, I’m telling Chairman Segata on you

I feel seen for perhaps the first time in my life. Incredible work my guy. Bug! had an outside influence in my life as a kid, I could not get past the 3rd world no matter how hard I tried and so I sent a literal letter through the actual mail to Sega explaining how unfair I thought the game was. I still have fond thoughts of the game to this day though, it's got that 90s charm to it

I've always been curious if Bug! had any influence on Sonic Xtreme, as a lot of Sonic Xtreme's leaked footage looks like Bug! but with a fish eye lens on the camera.

Dude, I can't stress this enough, your videos are fucking incredible. You deserve like 3000x the views and subs you get. I always look forward to watching these when they drop. May Segata bless you.

I can't stress how much i look forward to these. Thank you Mr. Panda, sir.

Despite its flaws, Bug! was one of my favorite video games on the Saturn.

“Ma, take me to Jack in the box, I want the Bug toy in my kids meal” No person has ever said this

Wow! I saw your tweet looking for info on the Spielberg quote a while back, glad to have stumbled across this video for closure.

Still the undisputed champion of KZfaq Saturn content.

I've never had a Sega console, and have never played the vast majority of the games you're reviewing so I have absolutely no nostalgia towards them whatsoever. And yet I always find myself glued to the screen for each new review, just because they're so fascinating, and well made. Additionally, as someone who's currently working in the games industry, it's really heartwarming to see someone put so much effort into creating content that talks about the industry's history. Kudos to you, Mr. Panda Man

This video is incredible. The editing and research dedicated to “Bug!” for the Sega Saturn. People need to see this. You played and got footage for Normie’s Beach Babe-o-Rama for this video.

I'm part of the problem. I've been giving the Spielberg "quote" for years. Absolutely incredible, thanks for going the extra mile.

It's amazing that I recognized Bug as revolutionary and uninteresting when I was 13 years old. I went straight from being a Sega diehard to a Playstation owner.

Dude, your comedic timing and taste is amazing. The little nod to Boomerang with the wind up Bug is *Chef's Kiss*

Just wanted to say i absolutely love your videos! serious in depth research and review of these Saturn games. My young daughter and i adore playing sega saturn together. we currently are playing nights into dreams. perhaps you will still be making these videos by the time she's fully grown in your quest to review every U.S. Saturn game and we will remines together about the good old days of playing saturn together while watching your reviews and hearing the back stories of these games. BTW she likes bug as well but my god is it infuriating. I think its hard as an adult for a young kid its a temper tantrum inducing nightmare! give me mario 64 for the little one any day of the week! Keep up the work and much love from us saturn fans

Fun fact! This is one of the best channels on KZfaq.

Thanks for using that Casiopea midi. Really enhanced the magazine scores segment.

This will sound familiar by now. I don’t ever comment on YT videos. The games you are reviewing are average at best. The videos are 90min at least. And yet your work is amazing. Thank you for going so deep in your research. It’s so much fun to watch 👏👏👏

I really love how at some point, you started interviewing the developers. That was a really good idea. It brings a perspective that no other game reviews have.

Once again, amazing video. Literally one of the best series on KZfaq. In general, I find the whole video game documentaries/retrospectives to be an annoying trend on KZfaq, as most of them are just unnecessarily long and bloated game reviews that repeat themselves again and again, but yours are different. Your last 5ish videos have done a phenomenal job at showcasing the insane video game landscape of 1995 and the pure incompetence of Sega as a company. Your ability to dig deep into these games to tell us the story of the Saturn is impressive. I didn't realize Bug! had that much relevant history to the Saturn. I also love how you have been including the programmers and designers of these games as first hand sources. These guys finally get their voices heard and it gives a whole other perspective of video game design in the mid 90s. I always learn something about the Saturn in these videos and it just makes me want to start collecting for Saturn and learn more about it. I just have a few comments that I wanted to share. You did mention it, but I think its worth reenforcing when you said that Super Mario 64 was why people don't remember many of these mid 90s platformers like Bug! Super Mario 64 was one of the nuclear bombs in video game history and Bug! was one of its casualties. Just in its demos, it obliterated nearly every single platformer at the time and it changed platformers forever. And the ones that survived, like Crash Bandicoot, had to make significant improvements just to compete(which ended up being a great for Crash because Crash Bandicoot 2 is one of pinnacles of the PlayStation). There is a reason why the N64 survived even though it suffered from the blunder of not having nearly enough games released in it's first year. Why does that problem sound familiar? I also wanted to defend Sega's decision for the 32X. In hindsight, yes it was a foolish decision. But think back to 1994. The Genesis was starting to slow down sales wise, the Jaguar was boasting superior hardware capabilities(lol), and Donkey Kong Country was right on the rear view mirror. They also had internal knowledge that the Saturn was way behind development wise. They had a lot of pressure to do something. I understand the justification to bolstering the Genesis until the Saturn was ready. In theory, it would have given Sega breathing room to do the Saturn correctly and if they did the 32X correctly, Sega wouldn't have felt the need to chaotically rush the Saturn. The 32X also gave amazing ports of Virtua Racing and Virtua Fighter, which shows that the 32X was capable of great games. I wonder if Sega didn't lay off 2/3 of their employees, if the extra bandwidth would have prevented the 32X from being a disaster, which may have prevented a lot of the mistakes of the Saturn? Anyways, you have been on a roll. You are doing a great service to the Saturn's history. I am looking forward to more of this series(crossing my figures for a Virtual Hydlide Revisit, because there is 0 info on that game and I find it fascinating). Thanks for your hard work.

Wow, an hour-long plus review of Bug! that is...really good, has amazing footage and is entertaining the whole way through. Why doesn't this channel have more subs!? Thanks for the heads up about the Japanese version. Had no idea it was so different.

Hahaha, thank you so much for the “cracking the seal” joke. Also, the 1+ hour documentary this is. Really awesome stuff.

I bought a Saturn in Japan because I love your videos PandaMonium! I already had so much fun playing and am looking forward to play some more.

I played through it a couple of years ago and liked it a lot. I liked the 3D maze design of the levels. It just looks cool at times.

1:03:38 yep, exactly what I did back in the day to work around the save file deletion : copy it to a backup cartridge after beating a world. It did make the game more enjoyable once I discovered that.

Thank you for opening the packaging on the Bug! Jack in the Box Action Figure 🙏🏽

I never expected to see such an in-depth documentary on Bug! of all things, but this was a fantastic watch. Thanks for the video.

The Sega Saturn has always been a curiosity for me. I remember wandering around in Myst and playing Daytona USA on my half-brother's Saturn and then I never saw it again. Learning about the blunders of Sega and the infighting of US and Japan Sega branches that lead to a promising console to lose steam from the beginning is such a delight. Can't wait for the rest!

Bug never resonated with me, but I love how you turn every game you review into a huge piece of video game history. Thank you for your hard work.

Still the most criminally overlooked channel on this site.

Death crimson music? Lmao man you’re such a trip, in the best way. Masterful at this, truly one of the best at this. Among my favorites.

Fun fact: I actually got a Yoshi wind-up toy for Easter this year. It also stopped working soon after I got it, though in this case, it at least lasted a few days. Still, that ending bit about the Bug wind-up toy breaking after two windups reminded me of that thing.

Your videos continue to be an inspiration Panda! Albeit I won't be making saturn content but I will always strive for this quality and style with my analysis-type videos when I get to them. Thanks for your amazing work!

So glad I just found this channel, I just got to the cut to the intro song and holy crap I can tell I’m gonna spend a loooooong time devouring the content here

Another unbelievable video, what else can you say, bravo 🙌

Was getting worried but the world is good again with your videos sir.

In a way, Bug didn't need a video as long, well documented, cleverly written, and creatively edited (not to mention fun to watch) as this one. But after watching it, well the game deserved it. You almost made me want to pop the disc in my Saturn to give it another chance (I don't have the time to do it at the moment, but still). Incredible work, lot of research that pay off. Still, I love the Saturn and its games, and I have some sort of a biais for "obscure" and forgotten games (including bad ones), but I wasn't exactly thrilled to watch an hour documentary about Bug! in the first place. And yet, this is amazing. Just discovered your channel, and I think you rocks. Keep up the good work on this series of reviews, I will be here to watch them. Every single one of them. Cheers from France.

Your presentation style is really great. Thank you for your passion for saturn

I was really into insects as a kid. It was like my thing. We got the Saturn and we picked up bug along with a couple other games. I thought for sure that goes into my favorite game of all time. And then I played it I remember wanting to love it so hard, but I just couldn’t find myself enjoying it even back then I wasn’t sure at the time if I was bad at video games But I quickly realized that bug was just not a fun game and it was a hard pill to swallow. Honestly, my favorite part of the game was seeing sonic sprite in the little mini game. That was the first time I saw sonic on the Saturn. And in a weird way honestly, that’s kind my favorite part of bug to this day! Excellent video. I don’t think I ever made it past world 3.

Thank you for making all of these, can't wait for Sega Rally!

I’ve only recently gotten into the Saturn because of panzer dragoon and sega rally, but your videos have insane production quality, and research, not to mention the interviews. You, action button, and tehsnakerer out here making whole movies Looking forward to you talking about all 5 versions of rally championship on Saturn for 10 hours.

I like your theory about the difficulty difference between American and Japanese titles from this period...the first Panzer Dragoon stands out to me as an example. That game also seems to have like 3 or 4 revisions in both regions...and the game "supports" the analog controller in the last revisions.

Wonderful video! I'm glad to see someone on KZfaq who actually gathers accurate info.

Subs have nearly doubled since I started watching this channel. Quality has increased EXPONENTIALLY. Thank you for another banger papa Panda 🐼

I must have watched the original review of this 3 or 4 times. It's so incredible that there was so much more to say about this bug game. This was such a fascinating era of video game history and I'm glad we have someone so insightful to uncover it for us. Great vid panda!

30:15 yoooo I understood that reference! Tim Rogers is another of my favorite reviewers-turned-exhaustive-researchers-creating-ridiculously-in-depth-video-breakdowns-of-everything-about-and-surrounding-a-game

Dude, your quality is unmatched. I just wish you did more than 2 videos a year...but I guess that comes with the quality.

Fantastic video as always! This level of video game journalism is just not found anywhere else. Never thought this little gem from childhood would carry so much history and intrigue. Thank you for sharing so much great information!

This isn't just reviewing, this is an in-depth history as well. Great video!!

Only 5 minutes in and you are already knocking it out of the park with both the presentation and investigation, fantastic work.

This is an incredible video. You deserve a lot more clicks.

I wasn't allowed to have game consoles until I was 11, when the Gamecube game out. So for a few years in the late nineties, one of the only opportunities I had to play non-PC video games was when I went to my Aunt's house a couple of times a year. She had a Saturn. Her favourite game for the console was Bug!. As a kid who only had a few fleeting hours with the console, it was really easy for me to enjoy Bug!. The cartoony nature of the game and 3D level design drew me in. But I was never able to even surpass the first level 🤪. Still, to be honest, my only experience with 3D platformers up to that point was playing Sonic 3D Blast for PC. So, to some extent, I was enjoying the novelty that Bug offered some years after Bug had already been surpassed by superior platformers. So it was....

this feels like a legit documentary bud - i haven't seen your current stuff yet but i hope you pursue this long format further

I used a memory card to have more "continues" because after every level I copyed it to the memory card. Loved that game.

Wow!!!!!!!! So much incredible gaming history!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't imagine the difficulty developing games in that era building your own engine in assembly... In my assembly college class I felt accomplished adding and subtracting numbers lol Seems like Jaguar, 32X, Saturn were all doomed with poor dev kits?

The Boomerang channel theme playing while winding up the Bug Jack in the Box toy made me smile.

Fantastic video! Very well put together, this deserves more publicity! Very well done :D

Another home run of a video by Pandamonium!

Really enjoyed the depth of the deep dive into Bug!! It's always great to get into the story behind the games we grew up with.

As a new Saturn owner, this stuff has been absolutely fascinating. I found bug to be a good looking and kinda fun time, but it didn’t hold my attention because there are so many other kinds of games I can play. But if I had it at launch (I knew literally one kid with a saturn) I could see putting time into the Bug games

I just know that the "Sonic Xtreme gets canceled" episode is gonna be so insane when it eventually comes out

You got the Tim Rogers hair down 1:1, well done lol

That transition into your intro was smmmooottthhhh

I'm from Kansas and always wondered why I never saw a Sega Saturn in person growing up. Looking at that map at 47:39 it makes sense now.

This video is such well edited and so detailed! Keep up the good work! Also 55:55 hurts me lmao. Poor Astal… underrated even back then…

The extra info/insights/history is appreciated.

I really appreciate these episodes. You do an excellent job pulling together various media to create a really nice documentary. Keep up the killer work.

Bug! ❤️ The scene where bug got hit on the golf course was incredible.

Seriously! What absolutely phenomenal work putting this together! You are a champ to have brought to major interest the history of these games. Love it!

Loved watching it .. and loved it even more watching again.. thank you for the quality content … honestly , you single handedly inspired me enough to get a Fenrir

Death Crimson music within the first minute. I already like this video.

Well I wasn't expecting a Tim Rogers reference in a video series about Sega Saturn games lmao

Seeing a new one of these drop is always a bladdy treat. Thanks so much for these and keep it up! Looking forward to Sega Rally.

I was not expecting that Rancid Maxwell Murder interlude 😳

Man, your videos are always so well done and well researched. Personally I was a NES/Genesis kid and I have only seen 1 Saturn in my entire life, well besides playing Resident Evil on one at Kids R Us. While I might have adopted the PlayStation and went down the Sony route (I did have a Dreamcast at my dad's house) because of yours and others channels I have a lot of respect for the Saturn.

This is like the 3rd or 4th of your videos I've watched, and I gotta say. Your intro slaps. Also every one of your videos so far was a game I loved as a former Saturn owner. Shit, in its time, there was no game I was as hyped to get as Virtua Cop. My dad hated violent games, and guns, and I had been campaigning for months to convince him I wasn't the destructive asshole I had been as a child in the years before. Long story. But anyway, I remember the night I won him over, all the stores were sold out, and we resorted to Chips 'N Bits that would advertise in every EGM. How fucking geeked I was after we placed the order over the phone. Virtua Cop was easily my favorite game that year. There are few games that evoke nostalgic memories like that. Bug isn't one of em. I owned it. And I forced myself to like it because I wasn't buying my own games yet because I wasn't old enough to have a job, at least not in my dad's eyes, he wanted me to focus on school. There was one early level, maybe the second "world", I could never make these jumps where I think you had to bounce of bubbles or something. I kept dying and didn't want to keep spending what felt like an eternity to make my way back there again. The game felt "Nintendo" hard, like a sorta Crash Bandicoot from Temu.

Holy crap I just noticed the Boomerang reference when you opened the windup toy

Best channel on KZfaq.

12:40 I had no idea Bug! was the result of a fierce three way competition to see who could make the worst Sega Saturn game.

Thank you for making this!!! I’ve been looking for Bug! content

fun fact Mr panda I own the JP copy of bug 1 and too and the Japanese version of Bug 1 doesn't seem to actually have that weird 3 save restriction the US version had

you earned yourself a new subscriber, fantastic video!!

A neighbor kid on the block got Saturn and Bug. I thought it was alot of fun, especially since i only had Genesis. Bug was fun, the Dung Beetles left an impression. But it was overshadowed by Daytona forsure.

In Bug Too, one of the greatest AI to Player insults EVER, was when those little green ghosts the early levels grab you and scream, "Looooserrr!!" 😅

I love video essays about miscellaneous games! Keep it up!

1:02:13 That music cue unlocked memories I forgot I had.

Love the use of the steep slope sliders ost :))) o man can't wait for the steep slope episode in 2051

Amazing documentaries. Glad I found this channel

Damn, this is quite the review, the added sections really explain a looooot about bug. I have it and I kinda knew something was off about the level design, this video really explains it. edit : Also the intro and that boomerang bumper reference? *chefs kiss*

Great video, as always. You know, maybe part of the problem with Bug! aging well had less to do with the 3D platformer format as a whole and more to do with the missed potential with Bug! as a whole that existed within the game itself already. You even seem to admit that the game gets better later on, and it's almost as though maybe they should've gone for more of a puzzle or exploration angle than an action one.