I’m not ashamed to say, it’s my favorite game of all time. Came out when I was a young history nerd. The officers were all researched well. The hard mode was an awesome challenge. The battles and management were great for the time. I still play it once a year.

This game is criminally underrated, the fact you can take advantage of the knowledge of events on both sides.

The title that probably holds the crown for "Most Metal Name but Least Metal Game."

"Give me Liberty, or give me SNES!" - Patrick Henry probably.

They really stiffed Benedict Arnold on his loyalty stat in this game, wonder what he did to piss off the developers.

My Dad became obsessed with Operation Europe on the SNES and he got so good at it I could never beat him at it. Good memories. He also loved the P.T.O games.

2:18 he's coming he's coming he's coming

Koei hit their stride with The Romance of the Three Kingdoms series starting with 3 and continuing up through a lot of sequels. My entire family would sit down and play part 8 on the PS2 for hours at a time. It was like our family game night thing which was one of the few things we did all together that was just kind of calm and relaxing...until we eventually conquered all the computer controled characters and had to start fighting with one another, then it became like playing Monopoly as we started trying to destroy one another. Thankfully, it could take a couple of family game nights before it reached that point.

I remember reading somewhere that these type of games were popular in Japan as they found the history of foreign nations, especially the U.S. rather fascinating. Pretty sure there was a Famicom game along the same theme that was never officially translated and brought to the west.

Dude just casually found the most advanced SNES game

Most American "Snes Drunk" intro ever.

The Brad Neely reference was clutch. I'm gonna have "Washington, Washington" on repeat all day

Well done on the intro today, sir. 🇺🇸

2:33 "Let's facilitate connectivity with our founding fathers" OK that line gave me a chuckle

Make sure to play Gemfire! Fantasy-based! It was a favorite of mine and my best friend's, when I was 11! The fact we understood how to play it is just now hitting me as unusual... I would begin as the kingdom with only one territory, and I knew how to politic with food trading, and spying, and appeasing my people, and cultivating crops, and waiting for high sales seasons, and battling my way across all 43 provinces (I think)... We would ally with each other's kingdoms in 2 player, until the map was covered, allowing each other equal spaces... then we'd break the alliance and see who could win! It was even back and forth pretty much! So much fun for a 9, and an 11 yo pair of dorks!

This and PTO for the super Nintendo were the favorite of my Father. I have great memories watching him play these games

I didn’t realize you’re 42, man! That’s inspiring. Way to keep going, loved seeing your videos for the first time about 4-5 years ago. Always quality!

The intro today legit made me chuckle. Bravo! Loving the DrunkFriend podcast!

Love this game! I remember when I first got it too! Two things really stood out in my mind: I fondly remember the naval support mechanic. Although at first I was deeply disappointed when the backup didn't show up on turn one of the battle. Broken mechanic I thought. So much for the "We'll be there" that the admiral had pledged when I made the support request. Then, on turn 14 or so the CPU controlled navy finally showed up and turned the tide of battle! I thought it was so cool that 1) the mechanic worked and a CPU controlled asset was actually fighting on your side for once (this was rarely seen in those days as the CPU was virtually always working against the player) and 2) they had factored in a delay in arriving which was pretty time period accurate. I'm not sure what factors affected the delay; whether it was RNG or how much money you allocated to the navy at budget time but nevertheless I thought it was cool that they represented that naval support was in no way precession coordinated as it is in modern times. Another memory this brought back was in high school one of the questions on a history quiz was to name 5 or so officers from each side of the war. Having played the shit out of this game I knew a ton of names including those more obscure figures. Partly for fun and partly to show off I listed like 25 for each side and when I got the paper back I got full credit for the question but the teacher had put a bunch of question marks next to the less well known officers I had listed. I remember feeling a lil tinge of pride that I knew a smidge more than the teacher as petty as that was. I can only imagine the teacher going "WTF" when he started reading the long list of names😂

Video count starting with following intros: SNES drunk: 865 NES drunk: 1 Segadrunk: 69 Steamdrunk: 42 Without any kind of Intro: 41 Switchdrunk: 6 Turbodrunk: 4 Previously on SNES drunk IS drunk: 2 SNES drunk IS drunk: 1 Previously on SNES drunk plays StarFox: 1 Previously on SNES drunk plays Final Fight: 1 3 Hours of the SNES drunk Intro: 1 A four minute and 30 second long SNES drunk Intro: 1 Videos completely about Clyde T. Dog (No Intro as well): 3

I had this for Sega while I was in the Navy. I played it on my Nomad. I wanna say I beat it, but I highly doubt it. Probably tossed it overboard or gave it away. 😂 Sparkster for sure got completed.

This game is known as Dokuritsu Sensou in Japan, and is programmed by Stieg Hedlund while working at Koei. Empire Total War's Road to Independence campaign has a similar premise to this, apparently.

As a father, who enjoys historical stuff, especially military history, I felt that dad comment SNES Drunk. Lucky for my kids, I’m not going to subject them to these sim games. I Just pull a Larry David and drag them to historic sites. Also, I heard that Professor Brothers “Washington” Reference. You are a Man Of Culture and This is why you have the best reviews. “Had a wig for a wig, had a brain for his heart. He’ll kick you apart, he’ll kick you apart!”

The Ethan Allen joke is what got me

Glad you`re still here man

My great grandfather was 90 when this game was released. He would always politely decline invitations to play with us. But, somehow, he played this one. It was still playing on his bedroom TV when his friend found him dead.

I had this on the Genesis. It's definitely one of those games that you turn on for 2 minutes, have no idea what to do, and turn it off and play something else.

You kind of reviewed this like someone who's never encountered a turn based strategy game before. I loved this as a kid and played the hell out of it. I could never win as the British, though. Good video.

Another Koei game, Aerobiz Supersonic, is probably my favorite simulation game on the SNES. No combat, just trying to create the world’s best airline. Maybe a bit on the sedate side, but sometimes it’s good to just chill

That brad neely reference kicked ass! Didn't expect that, haha

I sunk a LOT of hours into their PTO 2 (Pacific Theater of Operations). KOEI had some real gems for the SNES

2:15 aw a Brad Neely reference! Warms my heart.

3:01 fun fact: after the war, ethan allen lobbied for VT to become a state. when that didn't work, he then lobbied for it to rejoin Canada, which worked better

2:17 - 🎵he’ll kick you apart, he’ll kick you apart Ooooh He’ll save children - but not the British children 🎶

My step-brother and loved KOEI strategy games back in the day. Our local Mom & Pop rental store sold us their copy of Genghis Khan II because we were the only ones who ever rented it!

lovely intro! No surprise Koei was involved, I was immediately reminded of Romance of the... series.

SNESDrunk:"You start out being asked to pick between George Washington or Thomas Gage." What he meant was "asked to pick between George Washington or being wrong." There I fixed it. Happy D-Day everyone!

The Koei strategy games were always great. Not for everyone, but if you liked history and strategy games, they filled a niche nobody else really touched. Still worth playing today, though companies like Paradox have taken over where Koei left off since they sort of make strategy games still but mostly focus elsewhere.

My older brother is nearly 10 years older than me and he was a teenager when this came out. He played this game CONSTANTLY back in the day. I would watch him play but I'd always bug him to play Mario Kart, Street Fighter 2, Peace Keepers, etc lol. He was always a good big brother and would play with me, but whenever he could, he'd put in time on this game in particular. Funny enough, he eventually got way into the ROTK games and subsequently got me and my cousins into them as well as we got older. I feel like he just wanted to beat up on us in those games 😂

2:16 I love the Brad Neely “George Washington” song reference.

That Brad Neely shout though. Let me lay it on the line, he had two on the vine.

For strategy games, Romance of the three kingdoms 4 for SNES. KOEI did well to streamline gameplay, and it’s user friendly commands. Pretty good music and more visually appealing than it’s predecessors.

Perfect timing this ends up in my feed on July 4th! I miss this gem of a game. I used to play Koei's Pacific Theater of War series of games. When I discovered this one, I had to play it. It's funny seeing my hometown in Massachusetts as part of the map. Given it is the site of one of the earliest armories to manufacture guns.

The most American SNES game ever. I feel like this would've been a perfect 4th of July video...but, hey, a month early is still good! 🇺🇸

Great job! As a dad, and history buff, (I know, I repeat myself) it’s cool to see that these games were made in the first place. Not everything had to be robots and aliens.

The Revolutionary War was actually 241 years ago. Doesn't take long for a country to turn into crap. The game is actually good, if you like these types of simulation/ tactics games that is. I've been a huge fan of Koei since the original Nobunaga game on the NES.

Always love getting a new SNES Drunk video!

Oh hey, I remember this one! My dad loved playing it! 😆I seem to recall playing it multi-player with him a few times, but never got into it like he did. Usually when we played a game like this together it was Gheghis Khan 2 Clan of the Gray Wolf or RotK 4.

He'll save children, but not the British children

"facilitate Connectivity" another MSt3k reference, nice

That last cutscene would make a great metal band shirt

So glad you finally got to this game! Hope to see more KOEI reviews in the future

He's coming, he's coming, he's coming

Speaking of Koei, I would absolutely play the ever loving hell out an American Revolution version of Dynasty Warriors. See how ridiculous their uniforms get, what kind of super powers they give to major figures from the era, I’m just saying…

I had this on PC waaaay back when and I loved it. I also had L'Empereur for PC. I also remember playing all-nighters of Romance of the Three Kingdoms II on SNES. Miss those games!

Awesome video! Great content man! I enjoyed this episode! Have a great day Drunk!

Here comes George; in control.

I rented this game once and just fell in love with it. Never was able to find a copy to buy and the place that rented would not let me buy it.

You're the best, throwing in that Brad Neely line

We had this growing up, I hardly understood what was going on but both my brothers were able to beat it with both the Americans and the British. So a lot of nostalgia for this one, especially the music. The historical part was lost on child me as I'm from Canada. 😅

I'm starting to think everyones dad loves history and wars. It reminds me of Dennis Leary's song, Asshole. "I like football, and porno, and books about war."

He'll kick you apart! He'll kick you apart! NGL, If they made a modern re-make of this game in the style of the latest Dynasty Warriors or Samurai Warriors I'd easily put 100 hours into it... Call it Liberty Warriors or something.

First time this channel was suggested to me out of the blue. Really enjoyed this and I'm a hardcore SNES fan so totally hitting the sub button 👍.

Koei made an impressive set of pacific naval strategy games called Pacific Theater of Operations. I loved all their historical simulation games as a kid!

I can't believe I've never heard of this

Shame you couldn't want another month to upload this as a 4th of July special lol

Can you imagine if they made a Dynasty Warriors game like this? I'm just imagining Benedict Arnold as the equivalent to Lu Bu.

I was excited to get this game about a decade ago. I tried it out, but didn’t have the manual. I had played a few Koei games like Gemfire and liked it a lot growing up. It just was a bit too high of a learning curve at the time. I would like to get back to it someday. Great video.

Koei released a different version of this game in Canada, “Poutine and Apologies”. Thank you for the video!

"Washington, Washington, 6 foot 8 weighs a f'in ton. Opponents beware, opponents beware. He's coming, he's coming, he's coming."

Brad Neely reference brings me waaaaay back. Love it.

The Koei game I played a ton of on the SNES was P.T.O. 2. Lovely video as always

Total length of video: 405 secs. Total length of "SNES Drunk": 4 secs. .99%...OK, I'll round to 1% for the melodic intro, of the video was spent listening to "SNES Drunk".

Come for the SNES. Stay for the Drunk.

My dad was definitely one of the tech affluent history buffs that played these kinds of games back in the day. He had Genghis Kahn, Pirates and a WW2 strategy game along with graduating to age of empires

Best video intro I can remember, well played.

as a guilty pleasure i like Mario is Missing

As an Openly American guy, and a history fan, I like the idea of this. I liked Nobunaga's Ambition on GB and got Genghis Khan II on Sega. Its cool that you don't need to know the history but if you do, it makes the game easier. History is actually pretty interesting, and kinda 16+. Look at The Bible: Murder! Inbreeding! Genocide! Ritual Sacrifice! Daemon Worship! War! Cities getting nuked! Slavery! SVU things! Male organ damage! Nude scenes! And that's only The Book Of Genesis! 1776 was cool esp if you know all the occult things and darker secret groups. People slag on history thinking "its old" but do we throw out Shakespeare or Jules Verne for being old? The Seeds of the Future lie berried in the past. If you can see the pattern, you can know what's coming.

I was also about 13 when these games came out. But Ghengis Khan 2 was my jam back then, i used to play that game all the rime.

To be honest here, this game and EVO Search for Eden are great SNES games that follow under the “Edutainment” category. They both were developed by prominent developers/publishers and are kind of historically accurate to what they are trying to portray. Both are great games to play!

We all about to be playing liberty or death in real life

Lemme tell ya something, SNES Drunk. My dad is also a HUGE history buff, but was hesitant to ever pick up a video game, with a few exceptions. Now they didn't exactly line up with his history love, but... He used to get stoned with his buddies when I was a little little guy in the mid-late 80s and play MULE. I asked him if he was actually into it or if it was just for the party. It was the latter. He LOVED Doom when it first dropped, and got his whole office playing it, including his very square Swedish company president (who got extremely motion sick) The last time I saw him with a controller in his hand it was when he and my mom got me GTA3. Dad had a grand old time running everyone over and getting murdered by cops. We also had a brief Tetris rivalry in the early 90s, and he'd play the occasional Madden. So when people talk about Dad Games, my mind shifts to those.

Considering that Koei would later make the Dynasty Warriors series, I kinda want a spinoff taking place during the American Revolution. They could even have Samurai Shodown's version of Andrew Jackson as a guest character!

It’s educational? I don’t wanna be educated! I wanna rot my brain!

This was one of my dad's favorite games. He still plays the SNES port of it. This and ROTK are his favorites.

L'mperor was a game from this series on the NES where you play as Napoleon, and my dad loved that game! Many years later he found this one, and played it all the time!

Was that a freaking Brad Neely reference I heard! A man of class and distinguishable taste! I love your videos man!

You are very much right about dads being into games like this. My dad exclusively would play stuff like Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Madden in the 90s. It looked way, way too complicated for my liking as a young kid so I never tried them but he loved em.

I remember renting this as a kid, absolutely loved it. It's still fantastic

When I was a kid, my dad loved playing this game and I still have the game in the original box. between this game, civilization and various other war games back then it was a fun time for him.

1 SNES DRUNK today is worth two tomorrow. Loved the intro as well!

I have played this game since launch as a middle schooler. I am now 44 years old and play this yearly. Posted AARs on youtube too of it.

God I was obsessed with this game as a kid. I honestly felt like I was the only person that knew this game existed sometimes.

Best SNESDrunk intro ever.

I didn't have a PC back then, and was so happy to discover these Koei games for console. Just what I was looking for!

Ultimate General is such a great and under-appreciated series! It's great to hear it get a shout out!

The game was hard in the same way "Nobunaga's Ambition" was. One had to learn the point was not to conquer territory, hold it, and garrison it like in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms," but rather to keep an army in the field and on the move to take out the enemy army before they can expand. I always played as the British. I recommend pulling Thomas Gage out of Boston with ships before he can be attacked from all sides, take him south, and put the colonials in a pincer between the southern colonies and Canada. Marching north from the south provides a lot of empty land and places to build up loyalty and troops before hitting the solid blue bloc in the middle colonies and New England.

Hey I've missed a lot of your past uploads. I have today off ill spend some of it watching your videos. Have a great day sir.

This video is just as informative as it is hilarious. Great stuff 👏 😂

lol that opening cracked me up good😂