Another terrible video. You should be ashamed of yourself

The man sure know how to thumbnail, I appreciate such fine art.

I played septerra core on my PC as a kid and had totally forgotten it till now. Thank you so much memory reawakening wizard!

Great video, I'm finding that 32 bit 3D aesthetic more and more appealing with time

This may be the first time I see a video about "forgotten games" where I have not heard of the games a million times in other videos! Pretty good work! Thanks for it!

Thumbnail is from Steam Hearts for PC98. The company is TGL-Giga the same of Variable Geo and Bringaty.

I'm only a minute in and I'm loving how he puts all 32 bit in the same category regardless of year. props for also having pc since that is generally forgotten in how the bitwars are structured.

Always appreciate R-Type Delta recognition. Fun fact, there's actually four ships you can choose from. You can unlock one of the POW Armors to play as, and it's pretty darn good!

In a time when every single PS1 in Brazil was modded and pirate games could be had for about US$ 5 each, I made a point to import a copy of R-Type Delta, and between shipping and taxes ended up paying 2x US Retail for it. Worth every penny. To this day it is the only game from my PS1 collection that I kept, and I still play it on my PS3.

Man, R Type Delta was always mentioned as one of the "big three" shmups on the PS1, alongside Thunder Force V and Einhander. Weird to hear people don't talk about it, but it's definitely widely regarded as one of the best (and arguably the best) in the series in shmup circles.

This type of content is so calming and entertaining, really ideal to watch when I'm in bed and it's raining outside. The only thing that's missing is the midnight snack tho.

This was a great list! I grew up without the 32-bit generation entirely, so it's been so much fun seeing all of these games that I missed out on. Battle Blues and Hell Night really stood out to me, the latter especially because it has the same unsettling vibe that mainline Shin Megami Tensei games have, but with a more grounded sort of vibe. I subscribed and can't wait to watch more of your videos!

Thanks for showing off Bulk Slash and Stellar Assault SS! To clarify about our fan localization that you mentioned during the Stellar Assault segment: We didn’t hire any voice actors - everyone was a volunteer. We kept money completely out of the project, as we did with Bulk Slash.

Stopping by to say I really love your channel, one of my favorites in a long time, as most retro stuff has been done over and over, I find you unique. Keep up the good content, I'll keep watching.

Super interesting video. I was highly surprised by The Wizard of Oz, a good example that the DS has unknown gems.

Awesome and criminally underrated channel. I discovered a lot of great games from these videos. Good job!

Great video! So many awesome games-I now need to try out Septerra Core and Battle Blues. I also appreciate the Shiren 2 love ❤️ such a fun game, and I’m glad the English fan patch is doing well!

This 32 bits video needs a part 2

Hell Night (also known as Dark Messiah in Japan) was by far the most terrifying PS1 game I've ever played. The game uses sound queues in a way that makes it to where you need to REALLY listen. I even ended up cheesing the monster a few times by going in a room to reset where it would appear a few times. It helps the graphics give that uncanny valley vibes to it. Such a gem.

This is a really amazing list with some really good recomendation for people who loves to collect these obscure games.

I loved the Wizard of Oz game! It was so much fun, and I loved the character interpretations of the Scarecrow and Tin Man. The trackball moving style was unique, and I got used to it very quickly. Thanks so much for including it here, because more people need to know about it and try it out for themselves.

One thing about the Nintendo 64: Yes it is a 64 bit system but developers prefer using 32 bit instructions and calculations due to being faster than 64bit and most likely also for compatibility reasons with the Playstation and Saturn at some extent. I think one of the few games that uses actual 64bit instructions was Conker Bad Fur Day. Most games on the N64 ran at 32bit instructions so is correct including them here, but at the same time is kinda weird since until very recent years we totally phased out 32bit systems in favor of actual 64bit systems, at the end of the day the bit thingy was more of a marketing standpoint after the PS1/N64/Saturn era rather than actually talking about the console capabilities.

The Shiren series is fantastic! I got a hold of a Super Famicom cart of the first game some years ago. Awesome to see the series get more rep!

every time one of your videos randomly finds me, im surprised at how good you are at digging up random games. i literally only knew 2 games on this list: keio and bulk slash

Thanks for the video 👍 The 90s anime art used in some of the games tickled my nostalgia quite a bit 😊

Great video! For The Wizard of Oz: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road, the music was made by Hitoshi Sakimoto, Michiko Naruke and Masaharu Iwata which is a winning combo. I would add Guardian's Crusade and Mega Man: Battle & Chase to this list. They are both great games. Guardian's Crusade has a very cartoonish, almost playdough like visual style, but it is colourful and has great locations. The music slaps and while the story is simple, it feels like a fairytale. When travelling through the overworld, there are a few ways to travel with one way being painfully slow, but is needed to travel across water and the other which comes later in the game is really cool and takes away the need for the prior option. The battle system relies on you feeding you taking care of 'Baby' who is your dragon which has powers as well as using what is known as Living Toys. They are summons and each one has its own power whether it be status, damage or healing related. Mega Man: Battle & Chase was the first 3D Mega Man game and unfortunately came out at a time when people were burnt out when it came to Kart racers despite being released before Mario Kart 64. The visuals are great for the time having a lot of colour and detail in each of the racers and the background visuals. The music was composed by Yoshinori Ono who although didn't make music for Capcom regularly, he produced one heck of a soundtrack. The gameplay is like if you took the core idea of Mega Man where you have to beat a boss to get their power, but turn it into a race and if you win you can choose which part of the defeated bosses kart that you want to take. This can lead to some really cool upgrades and if you get all of the individual parts by beating the boss on multiple completed playthroughs of the game, you gain access to taking the body of their car which gives you access to their powers while still retaining the character that you chose. The game does suffer with not having a standard drift system and the courses can be a bit narrow in areas with not as much creativity in the course layout as a Mario Kart game, but the rest of the game makes this a great playthrough.

I'll be playing all these games on my Obscure Handhelds. They allow me to emulate older games on the go.

Awesome video! Thanks for showing off these games.

Thank you for this upload. I love this channel.

KEIO looks so damned good! Imagine if 2D didn't take a 20 year hiatus. Castlevania SOTN & Keio could have been the dawn of a golden age

Keio Flying squadron is tragically neglected IP. The love and dedication they spent fleshing out the tanuki army reminds me of metal slug series.

Thanks I noted some games to try on Saturn ! ^^ Nice video really.

This video introduced me to so many amazing looking games, I'm so excited to play them. God bless you Ren Hoek 🙏

Cannot have enough PS1 content, kudos for St1ka... NesClone could be my first console,but PS1 trully the one that shaped my gaming taste with its variety of genre

There's nothing "suggestive" about Steam Hearts, it's exactly what you see. After all it was made by Giga, one of the more prominent eroge developers in the industry. It takes place in a world where people are infected with a behavior changing virus, and your 2 sibling protagonists are the only ones that are immune. They set out to cure the infection (by making love to the affected girls) The Saturn version is slighly toned down, though not by much. But the gameplay is definitely superior compared to the PC-98 and PC-Engine version

Wizard of Oz is so good! Stoked you enjoyed it too. Great video!

Battle Blues looks interesting. Almost the entire 3DO's library is hidden gems. So many unique games. I'll have to check it out, I've never heard of this one.

Most N64 games were written in 32bit code so it's really a 32bit machine that just happens to support the occasional 64bit command.

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Much respect for showing r-type delta the luv it deserves ❤

Its nice to see some love for R-type Delta :) My introduction to the series too!

ah, the Gif girl from every website i visiter in late 90's ~ early 2000's xD

Played one game featured on release (Septera Core) and was playing another game for the first time (Silent Bomber) when I fired up your video. Love your selections

Septerra core! Yes! Great video, great taste! Thank you for shining the light on septerra core.

Nice, ODT... I loved that era of games. A ton of third person shooters with wild ideas. Great video!

Bulk Slash remains a favourite, and always appreciate more people talking about Stellar Assault!

Thank you so much. I owned a copy of ODT back in the day, and forced myself to finish it over a summer, due to not having any other new games. It was both a chore and an accomplishment. Fast forward to today, and I have spent the past several years trying to remember what this game was. At this point I had thought I had actually hallucinated it or something. Once again, thank you for proving I was not crazy.

The music and sound effects in silent bomber sounds really good, really stands out.

Septerra Core is indeed a hidden gem, played back in our college days in the 99-2000. Still playing to this day, heck we even buy the steam version again. the story is so good and unique. Really recommends it

Thanks for silent bomber, I played it when I was a child and couldnt remember the name, you brought a lot of memories back :)

Great video!

Thanks for the Wizard of Oz recommendation it was a pretty fun game, i played around 28 hours approximately and i did really adore the graphics and artstyle being Autum map the best of the four seasons. Wish you the best and hope to see more videos like this.

Thank you time stamping tour video.

An interesting list, ngl. I like how almost every game that you presented here is in different style, both graphically, but also gameplay-wise.

props to you for Silent Bomber. I had it and it was awesome. sadly it suffered from a horrid bug that blocked the loading of the next level after a specific boss fight. only after internet came in my life that I discovered the bug could be skipped by... skipping the cutscene.

This video made me realize that 32 bit is an era of video games. The switch from 32 to 64 bit was so seamless that most people did not even notice it or even knew what changed. Heck, the PS3, XB360 and Wii U were 32 bit consoles but the Switch has a 64 bit processor yet the games don't look that much different. On PC, the biggest difference was only the amount of RAM your system could handle.

I Love your Videos, dude. im happy you make such cool content.

Awesome recommendations.

Gonna revisit and steal some of these games to make more let's plays. 🤘🤘 Love your lists, man. 🖤

Awesome video

Wow, actual hidden gems for once. You are a gem, sir.

SepterraCore is a deep cut, i got this in a bargain bin at toys r us for like 5 bucks loved ever min of it and barely hear anyone talk about it good job man

I always love finding out about obscure video games. They’re so much fun! Heck, I know this one nobody talks about called Freekscape Escape From Hell

Battle Blues looks awsome, its one of the coolest looking games ive ever seen on the 3DO. This, Lucienne's Quest, and Guardian War are the 3DO titles that appeal most to me.

Not a single one of these I've heard about before... which just means a lot of games to check out eventually!

42:00 I got recommendation from your video after watching some of your reference here :) Is that a coincidence ? I may think not !

Fair play, I expected to know most of these games, but had only actually played R-Type Delta, and even that was only a demo.

Great video. I am also getting more and more to 32 bit games… I would recommend the game Casper on 3DO,SS or psx. Also like very much Crusader No Remorse on the SS, PSX and PC. For the third one I would recommend Legend of Oasis 2 on the SS, it’s like a Zelda clone. Not very well known games that never got big scores but I love them. Grande abraço

Happy to hear about Septerra Core. My first purchase on gog years after playing it. Heck I'm gonna try to run it on the Steam Deck for fun 😄

I was a big Shadow Squadron fan back in the 32X days. Played the hell out of that one! Gotta check out the Saturn version for sure!

Steam Hearts had the those beautiful characters designed by the late Takahiro Kimura. A great artist that mostly work as character designer, director and key animator. He passed away just last year 2023. Among the stuff he worked on is Dirty Pair Flash, Gundam G, MS08 Gundam, Gaogaigar, Code Geas and many videogames from the early 90s.

Hey St1ka, it's me again, I just beat O.D.T., and I gotta say, your review convinced me to play the game in the first place and I ended up liking it quite a bit, even though it's a very unpolished gem, it's a game that desperately needs a remake to realize the developer's original vision.

I like Septerra Core. Haven't played it in years by now, but I had fun with it. It was pretty cool playing a game like that on PC back in the day.

Love the reference to pitch meeting series :3

Ok! I own one of them (Wizard of Oz BtYBR) I have 2 downloaded to my Saturn Satiator. (Flying Squadron and Steam Hearts) and have heard of 2 others. Great list!! I love your vids!

Wild and wacky episode, I like, I like !!!

This is quite good. 32 and 64 Bit era was when I was old enough to buy my own console from earning pocket money from my parents at the time. So I have nostalgia from this era of gaming the most because it was the 90s and it was just after the 16 bit era for some of these games, while others are from the 16 bit era but enhanced by CD technology like the SEGA CD and Turbo-CD addon that was the PC Engine CD in Japan. Seeing Japanese Anime games from this era feels like they should have made OVAs out of the source of those games. So therefore they count as 32-bit games due to the enhanced power of CD-addon technology despite their obvious limitations with FMV videos.

02:48 - Keio Flying Squadron 2 (Sega Saturn) 05:09 - Septerra Core (PC) I've played both of 'em, and they're great. Especially Keio i've played over and over again like Parodius Deluxe.

There is a PC version of Killing Time as well and can be easily bought these days on most online stores.

You should check out such systems as the NEC PC-FX, the Virtual Boy, the Game Boy Advance, the Bandai Playdia, the Apple Pippin, and the Casio Loopy. I can name those few off the top of my head; might remember more later that I discovered before. Also, since you counted the 64-bit Nintendo 64 in this video, you might as well have also included the Atari Jaguar as well.

Shiren is so beautiful. I have played a handful of these but a few really interesting ones I want to try like The Note and Septerra Core!

The thumbnails got me in now am invested lol

You're one of the only channels that covers games that I actually own... Most of my giant collections consist of games most people go "What the heck is that??? I've never played that..." 👍

Very cute artstyle. I miss this type of gaming.

Always happy to see R-Type Delta get some love.

Nice!

I like the soundtrack in Septerra Core. It's by Bungie vets Marty O'Donnell and Mike Salvatori, and if you listen close you'll also hear the voice acting talents of Steve Downes.

Hell night is a great game. Loved it

Nice look forward to your next video. Love the accent and just a question did you do any voice acting in the video: What about a man?

I could find maybe half of these games available on Steam or GoG just now, but Bulk Slash looks so much fun!!

O.D.T. is one of my favorite games, there is a PC version available on Steam and GOG too. Great game, I wish someone would remaster it already and give us some improvements like an increased draw distance.

the note's voice acting makes RE1's sound heavenly. also killing time looks sick

Nice, I'm off that day so I'll bee sure to tune in. Love the lists St1ka whips up for these vids

Bulk Slash sure reminds me of Virtual-On! :D Cool game!! :)

I never thought about Shirin the Wanderar, gonna have to see about emulating it.

Okay... downloading ODT right now. I've never heard of this game in my life before, but it looks pretty fun.

Septera Core was introduced to me during afterschool pc classes. It was more like a club where we learned about PCs and played old games. Warcraft 3, Neverhood Chronicles, Stronghold Crusader and such. One time I saw SC and knew I wanted to play more even if my english wasn't good. So over the years I played 2 times and always got stuck due to the game script failing. I might had beaten it once with cheats on but i don't remember. It is a good game

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How did you apply bezels to an old PC game like Septerra Core? Excellent choice btw. This is a good game that hardly anyone remembers. A true hidden gem on PC.

Very much appreciate this video! Lots of cool games I haven't seen before.