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“Literacy is tougher than any Dark souls boss” - Pan Pizza (2022)

Always love seeing people spread the Wario Ware gospel

As a french canadian I can confirm that Kid Paddle terrified me as a child. I started actually wanting to read them when I was 12 and starting to get into edgy shit, coincidentally around the same time I started watching your videos, Pan.

Never stop with the adult swim aesthetic, I love it so much and brings back so many memories.

Rebeltaxi's gaming videos have the same vibe as watching late-night television and I love it.

You ever hear of Golden Sun? It's not traditionally colorful but the particle effects are incredible for the system

Fun fact: Kuru Kuru Kururin, as the video showed, was developed by Eighting. Best known for the Bloody Roar franchise but also renowed for their shoot 'em up games, notably Battle Garegga. It was headed by Masahiro Yuge, who worked at Toaplan on shooters such as the legendary Truxton.

3:12 Even as someone who hasn't taken French since highschool, even I can tell you that says "Minigames". Also, Kid Paddle was shown a lot in Canada back in the day. I immediately recognized the theme song when it cropped up.

Sigma Star Saga mega fan here: Bandai Namco owns the rights to the franchise. Devs over at Wayforward have actually wanted to make a sequel/re-release the original for quite a while now (They've confirmed as much on Twitter), but their hands are tied on the matter unless BN decides to give them back one day. The game's ending (Whichever they decide to deem canon) deserves to be followed up on, cause the state of the universe afterwards would make for a compelling sequel. Thanks for covering it, Rebel! It needs all the love it can get!

The origins of WarioWare _and_ Pan's humor in a single video? Our cup runneth over!

Kid Paddle was about a kid named Kid who loves Games and Horror/Gore movies. You either had gags about video games or gags about horror/gore movies, or the classic school gags. It made references to retro games and such, and how unfair they were. Also the creatures are not aliens, just in-game monsters called Blorks. There was a spin-off with a character called the little barbarian and they called it "Game Over", it was about Kid's avatar in game (the little barbarian) failing to pass various traps/levels and die in gruesome ways.

So in the next one you’ll talk about Astro Boy: The Omega Factor, right? It’s filled with so much fan service for the larger Osamu Tezuka extended universe by making his “Star System” (his method of “recasting” the same character models in different “roles” like they were actors in film and television, this allowed him to save time making manga because he wouldn’t always have to come up with a new character design for each of the hundreds of manga and anime projects he made throughout his sadly cut-short by cancer life) a huge plot point and fetch quest in the second half of the game. It’s incredible they were able to make such a dedicated tribute to Tezuka’s many creations when most of his manga library wasn’t translated into English until long after this game and the 2003 anime revival of Astro Boy had concluded. And speaking of Treasure, this was console was pretty much their last hurrah when it came to side scrolling bullet-hell schmups, and Gunstar Super Heroes would also be a good GBA game to mention next time.

Despite its flaws, Sigma Star Saga is my favorite GBA game that no one's ever heard of. So nice to see it getting attention. Personally, I think the main reason it failed is just the "two great tastes...?" gameplay. The Venn Diagram of people who enjoy RPGs **and** Shmups is pretty slim.

If you like Kuru Kuru Kururin, you should try roundabout on PS4/Steam! Same general gameplay but with a bunch of new gimmicks & open world with gloriously cheesy live action cutscenes in the style of a Sega CD FMV Game.

Shame you didn’t talk about Wario’s greatest achievement, Wario Land 4 on the GBA

The thing to remember about Sigma Star Saga, apart from Psyme being best girl, is that Krill ships are bioships and, as such, are alive. Random encounters are literally a random ship in atmosphere on patrol getting scared by something moving and sucking up the nearest person wearing a parasite suit to blow up enough scary things until it calms down. I wish WayForward would revisit the universe, maybe with the random encounters toned down a smidge or reworked a bit, even if it means having to change the lore behind them.

Never knew the OG Wario Ware and I'm surprised to see how it has a similar wackiness to Wario Land 4. Wonder which one was conceptualized first?

Urban Yeti on GBA is one of the weirdest, most "WTF!?"-inducing games I've ever played, right up there with LSD Dream Emulator on PlayStation or Attack of the Mutant Penguins on Atari Jaguar. Especially when you start getting into the cheat codes. Also Asterix & Obelix XXL is another Euro exclusive, but very cool game shockingly ambitious attempt at a 3D platformer for GBA.

Sigma Star Saga felt like spin off of Blaster Master, but with more sexy aliens.

The GBA was the first gaming consoles I had as a kid, with the first game I played was Crash bandicoot the huge adventure, an experience I definitely never forget.

Recognised Sigma Star Saga from the thumbnail immidiately, loved that game back in the day!

Even though I didn’t grow up with a GBA, I feel oddly nostalgic for games on there like the Mario Advance series and the Sonic Advance trilogy. Maybe it had to do with the various fan works made in Adobe Flash like Super Mario Bros Z, Final Fantasy Sonic X, Sonic RPG, and Bowser’s Kingdom to name a few. Also I enjoyed my time playing the Super Mario Advance games on the Wii U Virtual Console. Also if/when you’re going to cover the Nintendo 3DS, I legit want to see you cover Blaster Master Zero. It is a fun revival and really should get more attention. It’s also from the people who did Mega Man Zero, Azure Striker Gunvolt, and Mega Man ZX. Also legit, it’s dumb that Nintendo hasn’t let Waluigi appear in WarioWare.

I really appreciate Sigma Star getting some recognition. Not sure if I’d call it ‘underrated’, but defiantly a hidden gem.

You should cover some Japanese exclusive games like Densetsu no Stafy or Tomato Adventure! The former is the first game in a series with only one game being released in the west and the latter is sort of a prequel to Mario and Luigi

23:30 Pan talking about his trip to the netherlands is oddly wholesome.

I totally forgot Kid Paddle existed. Even when you're covering games you manage to remind me of old forgotten cartoons.

Summon Night Swordcraft story 1 and 2 held me over quite a bit in my childhood.

Kid Paddle's author (Midam) had even more success with the spinoff comic "Game Over", focusing on the barbarian vidya character and the horrible deaths he or the princess he tries to rescue meet. The comic was (and still is) published in several kid magazines. It's great and it shows that trash or gory humor still works with the young uns. While not yet a classic, it's broadly recognized in France.

There's 2 Klonoa games on GBA: Dream Champ Tournament & Empire of Dreams. You've also got Riviera: The Promised Land, a GBA game with voice clips that started as a WonderSwan Color game & later got a PSP remake. SOMEONE should talk about it.

Man sigma star was one of my favorite games on my gameboy i still have it to this day.

i absoluetly adore warioware inc gba. future titles definitely have improvements with gameplay and content, but something about the og has this charm that's pretty much impossible to replicate

Ahhh, I love the GB Advance. back in early 2003 I think, my first game for the advance was a Ruby version my mom bought me at this beachside shop before I even had the handheld itself. But over the summer, my friend David let me borrow his and I was definitely the envy of my brothers for a while. ...Maybe a little too much though, because my older brother wanted to play my Ruby version so much that when I told him no, he threw my old Red Version against the wall and it deleted my entire file with my level 80-90 pokemon. I cried for an hour. *_GAME BOY ADVANCE WAS A HELLUVA DRUG._*

Thank you for talking about Sigma Star Saga. It's one of the most underrated and oft-forgotten games WayForward has ever made, in my opinion.

There is also a Kid Paddle cartoon that I remember watching here in Canada back when I was a kid. You should look into it.

glad to see sigma star saga being talked about

Ah man i remember sigma star saga, what a weird concept

"wise man once said never trust anyone obsessed with ashley.....not even me" Pan Pizza 2022

I loved Sigma Star Saga, it has its issues but it had a fun story that works for the gameplay.

I swear your videos always bring me back to the early 00s

Good to see you talking about my favorite portable system of all time xD My biggest recommendation for a future next video about the GBA is Boktai: The Sun is In Your Hand, basically a Zelda clone that had a cartridge with a solar sensor, and it had Hideo Kojima involved in the production. Boktai 1 is one of my absolute favorite games in the GBA library xD

I honestly don't understand why this channel doesn't have more views. It's S-tier content. Reminds me of how I felt when I was a teen in HS watching G4 TV . Also awesome music! Kudos to the Andrew W.K- We want fun!! Hail to the wolf. The party god!

I remember playing some old NES games on Gameboy Advance SP back when I was a kid. _Super Mario Bros. 3_ got me introduced to Mario.

I owned a copy of Sigma Star Saga. I got it with a copy of Sword of Mana in a trade involving my copy of Pokemon Diamond. I didn't get far in it. Recently I sold my GBA games to a used game store. Mainly because the GBA I owned wasn't working and the DS I had wasn't in the best shape.

I'm surprised any one else knows about Sigma Star Saga. It was originally bundled in a 2 for 1 cartridge with another obscure game called Rebelstar: Tactical Command, made by the same guy who created the original XCOM (which you should totally cover in your next video, Pan)

Those transitions are so aesthetically pleasing

6:50 You mentioned Bobobo and Wario Ware in the same sentence. I am now legally obligated to forward this video to my good friend Behonkiss. BTW, speaking of Wario, you might want to give Wario Land 4 a test drive. That's where the weirdness of the Wario franchise in general really started.

RT you have no idea how long I’ve been trying to look for Sigma Star Saga. Ever since I played it and lost my PSP that had a pirated port of it I had long since forgotten the name and couldn’t for the life of me search it up as my spotty memory of it couldn’t give me a good enough search. I seriously thank you for finding this niche title and I’ll be playing this little fun game again thanks to your review.

I'd say you should talk about Superstar Saga, Wario Land 4. There's also drill dozer, a platformer by game freak that has rumble on the cartridge. There is also those astro boy games by treasure. I haven't played em, but they are considered hidden gems and are LUDICROUSLY expensive.

neat sigma star, i remember snagging a copy but never played it, also vaguely remember tagging wayforward if they could ever make a port or remake of it cause a friend dared me to ask and they actually responded, according to them appernelty yes namco owns the rights so unless Namco decides to make a port or remake their wont be any more sigma star for now

23:14 Well ackshually... When making cheese you separate the curds from the whey which contains a majority of the lactose, aging it also decreases the little remaining bit of lactose. The harder the cheese the less lactose it has in it and is fine for most lactose intolerant people to eat. Swiss/cheddar are fine for most lactose intolerant people unless they are super sensitive to lactose because it is a tolerance, just like how if you do heroin all the time you will build up a tolerance to it. I am very smart.

That whole opening of the Black Belt Challenge segment makes me hopeful that Pan is a Cammy fanboy as well

Jesus, immediate rush of nostalgia seeing Kid Paddle again. Never got any of the games but I read the comics like crazy as a pre-teen. Yeah those were bloody as fuck, I guess we're pretty chill when it comes to depicting gore if it's cartoony enough. 3:12 Okay, since Pan can't read cursive nor French: it's "Mini-jeux", meaning Mini-games. Nothing more to it than that.

Please talk about the Sonic Advance trilogy, I feel like people are forgetting how AMAZING they all are, especially compared to the 3D Sonic games from that era.

I never had consoles as a kid, so when I had my first touch screen phone, I downloaded a GBA emulator and I loved downloading the ROMs of all sorts of games, both popular and obscure. A strange, colourful game that particularly stuck with me was Drill Dozer by Game Freak, It had a pretty wacky gameplay gimmick and really cute character designs and aesthetics. Also, this Wario Ware is the first and only Wario Ware game I've ever played. Even though I never completed it I still had so much fun.

Rhythm Tengoku. It's barely talked about outside of the pre-existing RH fandom. It's a surprisingly fun rhythm-game minigame collection

Sigma Star Saga deserves a lot more attention, despite it's flaws it's a pretty cool game.

Ah sigma star. The art of the purple girl was in a gaming magazine, and was one of my earliest. . .recreation materials. Good times.

Ah the GBA was my generation I played some hella colorful stuff on it in my day

I see Sigma Star Saga I click. Seriously underrated game

I've reqlly been sleeping on this channel for way too long, because it's just oozing with charm and pretty colors The loding screens are just as entertaining as the actual content, and that's impressive

I pride myself on having played a ton of gba games, even a lot of obscure ones and you still managed to find some I've never even heard about.

“Kuru Kuru Kurunin, Be carful of pronunciation “ Oh I get it

I have a lot fun (and frustrating) memories of Sigma Star Saga. It's one of the rare times I took a blind chance on a game without a franchise backing it or word of mouth, and I ultimately wasn't disappointed. So many hours were spent figuring out how to get each ending, and hours wasted trying to figure out how to save your one Bro in the game only to learn it is impossible. Another nitpick I have to add is that you are locked out of getting the best ending on your first playthrough. You can save Psyme but the way to save the human chick only unlocks after you've already beaten the game once.

Local Idjit here. As a fan of Sigma Star Saga, I emailed Wayforward back in 2014 (back in the bad old days when I was young and quite dumb), and as you said, Namco owns the characters and premise. Unless Wayforward buys those rights back (unlikely), there will be no Sigma Star Saga II. RIP. -Sincerely, a Local Idjit.

The Wade Hixton art is kinda funny to me because the whole game resembles Kim Possible or Penny Arcade to me, and then there's the referee that looks like a Cow and Chicken character.

GBA is by far my favorite console of all time, hands down, this was definetly a treat

im glad to know someone else loves the gba wario ware as much as i do.

Rebel taxi and warioware. Nothing screams early 2000s more. I love it

These obscure game videos are my favourite ones Pan makes!

Man, if they kept the name "Fire Eaters" and kept the original box art that game would have sold here like hotcakes. No idea why people let the pencil pushers make artistic choices.

Awesome video! I'm pretty interested in that Kid Paddle game! Such a colorful list of GBA games!

I'm so glad my favorite youtuber mentioned Bobobo! It does random lol humor really good.

Hm, I imagined Pan would be the kind of guy to employ more style with his censorship

Psyme is rightfully on the thumbnail. Glad to see someone talk about Wayforward's Sigma Star Saga

Glad Wario Ware got a mention. Would love to see a video on obscure D.S games

Someone needed to tell Pan about the Kid Paddle TV series. I grew up watching that shit.

You should do a video on the Game Boy Color, covering games like Xtreme Sports, Survival Kids, and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Also, In a Discord AMA from 10 months ago, I asked to Matt Bozon if Sigma Star Saga ever took some inspiration from Shantae, and he said Yes, since he directed and produced Sigma Star Saga, and thus, had Bozon's characters, art style and wrtiting style. I'm kinda upset that Shantae 2: Risky Revolution on GBA never happened, it looked quite colorful, and more charming than the modern Shantae games, but at least, I'm glad Sigma Star Saga exists, since it still has that Matt Bozon charm.

Nothing screams "bizarre GBA game" more to me than Boktai.

I love Black Belt Challenge - you're super right; it succeeds so much because it plays to the limitations of the handheld -- but this is the first time I've seen the hidden fighters. Or that angry-eyes giant flower that Rana uses, for the matter. They all look hilarious; man this game rules. There's a lot of funny details and designs in that game I noticed before; makes me dig it even more now :D

Bro everytime pan uses that ps2 sound effect shit makes my heart sink in sadness and a sense of tranquility at the same time

20:00 aayyy I got Street Fighter Alpha 3. I just love love love that fighting game. I loved the visuals and the announcers voice. Such a cool fighting game. Something was just charming about the graphics back then.

I loved me some sigma star saga. Beat it so many times growing up and I'm sure it's the reason I gotta thing for purple chicks.

If you're gonna be discussing strange GBA games, Rhythm Tengoku (or any Rhythm Heaven game) is a must to talk about!

The WarioWare series is the bizarre and underrated gem 💎 of Nintendo

That GBA boot up sound made me momentarily revert to a simpler time in my life.

Thanks! I've got two new games that I've never played thanks to you! Mostly I played morbid crap, so Kid Paddle fits right in!. Black belt challengers reminds me of Darkstalkers, so that's the other one I got.

@6:10-.-Imagine how beautiful this game would be if it got a remake.

11:00 the brown dog looks a lot like Pappy Van Poodle.

I wasn't expecting to hear THAT specific melty blood track in this video. As some maniac that makes sure it's downloaded on every phone he owns in case the net goes down, I was taken off guard that somebody buy me can stand that earrape long enough to include in a video.

dude. the pan on holiday illustrations looked dope. More of those please

Pan's "say something vulgar/cringey/depressing at the start of the video and then immediately move on without acknowledging it" humour is the best kind of humour

Black Belt Challenge looks sick! I've even started to listen to the soundtrack after this video. Such bangers!!

just found your channel and this video made me feel so nostalgic, not because of the gba games but because it just gave me the same feeling i had when i was like 7 and woke up at the crack of stupid in the morning so i could watch cartoons before school, it never worked lmao i would always get caught by my dad or my uncle

GBA library is HUGE, like you can easily find 50 game that would intertein you for a year. You have FF tactics, Golden Sun, Mario tennis (minigames where fun), yu-gi-ho and Duel master for card, Megaman Battle network with a fun combat system not turn base, The sims in GBA is an adventure game, very weird and sick! Very charming, you have Advance wars as the older brother to Fire emblem in GBA, there is a serie of pinball games for pokemon, quite fun, Broken Sword for those wanting a point and click adventure, Zelda, harvest moon. And this isnonly by the top of my head.

kurukuru kururin was my very first Gameboy Advance Game when I got my GBA as a kid. I liked it

Ever hear of Lay Sia? Cool cartoony action platformer. Well animated and cool art style for early GBA.

I wish the "chocovaders" game had an English release I'd definitely suggest taking a look delightfully funky stuff

Holy shit! I thought I was the only person left who remembers Sigma Star Saga! O.O

Its nice that you visited our country but sadly you were in the worst part. Be sure to visit the lovely south next time! Also major big ups for actually using "The Netherlands".