Shadowrun was by far one of my favorite SNES games ever made. Too bad I didn't discover it until emulation became available, long after I had sold my SNES..

Fun fact! The artist who did the cover art for the Shadow of the Beast trilogy (Roger Dean) was a regular feature for the covers of other games by Psygnosis, AND his otherworldly art was also featured as cover art for bands such as Yes and Asia

This game was phenomenal! After finishing it the first time, I immediately went back and played it again to see all the stuff I missed. In my opinion, it has one of the best soundtracks on SNES.

That Shadowrun ad edit is amazing.

I still have the phrase "geeked by go-gangers" in heavy rotation in my vernacular. Thanks, Shadowrun!

The moment he said "Hit it Rockapella!" I felt an urge to watch Jared's old Carmen Sandiego video.

I remember when Shadowrun came out on SNES, it was really hard to find a copy. I had to get my local game store to specifically order me a copy after spending two weeks searching every local video game retailer in my area. Still have my original boxed copy and booklet. The poster that came with it hung on my wall for years until it literally fell apart.

Dylan's confusion about Congo's Caper is very understandable, since I heard that in Japan it was originally named Joe&Mac2 and what became 2 was 3.

Shadowrun is an rpg where you watch glimpses of the fmv promotional video and you start a quest to find the full version

NOW... in the 90s, my father turned a mere 42 years old. He had a wife, two kids, a sweet house on the lake, and a burgeoning dentistry practice. He still has those things, but he had them then, too. I'm glad I got to call and wish him a happy birthday today, and am unsurprised to report that he was mowing on his day off from the office, for his birthday. The man likes his simple pleasures, and I'm so fortunate and grateful that he was able to support my pleasures, like having a SNES and games.

Dylan's humor gets better on every episode

I was just thinking of shadowrun. I loved how both versions were so different from each other

The Shadowrun SNES game started a life long obsession with the brand for me. As others have mentioned it was a surreal experience. A game setting like no other. It would literally become the grand father of the Shadowrun Trilogy that would arrive decades later.

The whole story with Shadowrun’s launch feels like a cyberpunk plot. Very appropriate

Confession time - Nintendo Power's review of Shadowrun is what got me interested in tabletop RPGs in the first place. A game with elves and orcs and wizards and dragons - set in my hometown of SEATTLE!?!? Where the f*** do I sign!? 😂 Cool story time - so my little bro and his buddies were running a campaign, using an actual street map of downtown Seattle. Three of his players were leading the cops on a high-speed chase through SoDo in a thick fog. Dude turns into a tunnel he barely noticed in time, only to wind up with THE F***ING MARINER MOOSE on his windshield! They had turned into T-Mobile Park just as a game was starting! When you're a local, it just hits different...

I must accept that fighting a dragon who just so happens to be the evil CEO of a megacorp, sounds very metal

good ep Dylan your not alone all those joe and mac, bonk, adventure island games just run together I avoided them like the plague

Funny how in Japan Congo's Caper was a direct sequel to Joe & Mac. The original game was known as "Tatakae Genshijin" with Congo's Caper referred to as "Tatakae Genshijin 2: Rūkī no Bōken (Adventure of the Rookie)". On top of that, Joe & Mac 2: Lost in the Tropics is actually "Tatakae Genshijin 3". It's like Data East looked at the chronologically confused Final Fantasy series and said "WE CAN DO THAT TOO!"

I LOVE the SNES Shadowrun adaptation, warts and all. Loved it as a kid, love it as an adult. I just played through half the game again last year, it's still a lot of fun. Playing through the newer trilogy (Returns, Dragonfall, and Hong Kong) was great, too, but there's something special about the old SNES version. Side note, seeing the pages of Nintendo Power on these videos always takes me waaaay back. Great series, Jared!

The SNES release was delayed numerous times, and when it finally came out, the internet didn’t yet exist and I got stuck/lost a couple times and gave up on it. I finally beat it years later, and still own it to this day. It’s better than the Genesis port, and MUCH better than the often-dull newer trilogy that was re-released for the Switch last year.

I'm glad there are others who are enjoying the 90's in this way 30 years later. 4 years ago i started playing my full Master System and Genesis collections but i'm playing them in order from 33 years ago, so i'm now in 1990 now!

Love Shadowrun and, as I see a couple of commenters have mentioned already, it having a Swedish translation (for whatever reason) made it quite special for us!

I just love the humor of editor Dylan!!! He adds so much to this show!

Shadowrun can't fail because it's dystopian. Failure is success! Edit: Apparently people feel the need to reply to a comment about pretendy fun-time games with their idiotic political beliefs. I don't want to individually reply, so I will say this here. Trans rights.

ReBoot! I wonder if that Shadowrun promo vid is long enough to feature a ProJared episode like the Dragonstrike one.

There is also a japanese exclusive Shadowrun game for Sega CD

Man, Shadowrun is so awesome! Didn't play it when it came out, as I didn't have a SNES, and I am sure my mother would have been against buying it. I played it some time in the mid 00's, got pretty far until I lost the save. As others have said: there was a Swedish translation, which, as was also stated, a rare thing in the 90's. The translation is pretty good, but also hilarious. The gaming magazine Super PLAY did a article on the game in the early 00's, and one of the most memorable quotes for the writer of the article was when you go down an alley you get jumped with the message "Du har gått ner fel gränd, det är ditt sista misstag, sumphjärna!" which translates to "You've gone down the wrong alley, that was you last mistake, mushbrain!" (I think that is the quote, been a while since I read the issue, and some 10 years of the magazine makes it a big hard to find without spending a day looking for it). Swedish is a really hard language to sound threatening in. And talking about random Swedish translations for games: for some reason Legend of Mana's opening and ending themes are in Swedish.

Fun fact, Jake shows up in the Hare Brain Scheme Shadowrun returns.

My cousin and I were OBSESSED with Shadowrun. The atmosphere, the music, the gameplay, so damn cool. Still one of my favorite game worlds ever. We used to rent it repeatedly. When the video store we’d rent it from was going out of business I finally bought it. Got the clear clamshell rental box as a sweet bonus too. Have both the game and the rental box to this day.

What unfortunate about Beast 3 not getting a home console release is that the first 2 beast games are extremely frustrating. Yet Beast 3 is a genuinely decent game

The Shadowrun video alone makes this episode worth watching.

Shadowrun is one of my all time favorite games. Just excellent all around, and that soundtrack is badASS.

Any else think that Jared was setting up to tell us that the “troubled employee” that was going to be scapegoated for Shadowrun was going to turn out to be a legendary programmer? That’s the vibe I got.

Your show is starting to spread. I'm beginning to see it linked in Discords I'm a part of. You guys are knocking it out of the park. Please keep it up!

I always try to play Shadowrun once a year. Easily my favourite Snes game, or at least the one that has held up the best for my personal preferences.

One of the best episodes yet! Part for having Shadowrun (Hey, I have the Swedish version... the only SNES game that was released in Swedish, in a pruple video casette box (for rentals)). The other part making this episode a killer was Editor Dylan's "uuh.. buh... err..." 😆 LOVE IT!

Editor Dillans segments have become my favorite parts of the show. Loving this channel Jared!

Congo's Caper confused me so much as a kid, because it copied so much about Joe & Mac, AND was from the same publisher

I don't know about Joe & Mac, but in Congo's Caper your character is a monkey who turned into human after some mysterious stones fell from the sky. When taking damage, your character will revert to monkey form but can recover by finding the red stone. However if you collect 3 red stones as human you will turn into a super saiyan; so basically it's a tale of alien power forcing evolution on earth or something. The game is on Switch SNES classics library BTW. Other than two prehistoric-themed games from Data East, there's also another one by Titus (the company that by coincidence also mentioned in this video) called "Prehistorik Man", also on Switch SNES library.

Fun Fact: Congo's Caper is actually called Caveman Ninja 2 in Japan, so not only are Joe & Mac and Congo's Caper in the same universe, but it is a sequel to the first Joe & Mac.

That XBox 360 game is one of the most original FPS games ever made. If it had a single player campaign and more content and had been finished, I'd probably still be playing it, but since it's only online it's never worth going back to.

I don’t know why, but the Shadowrun segment may have been my favorite segment I’ve ever seen in this show.

I remember when my cousin and I rented Shaowrun we called the Nintendo hotline to help us get through the game. His Mom or my aunt wasn't happy when she received the phone bill.

Shadowrun is one of those SNES RPGs that I have never tried that version of. The source material, Genesis, and much later Returns Trilogy, yes. Now, the rights to Shadowrun, along side Battletech, are in the hands of Topps and Catalyst Game Labs. Topps has them thanks to buying out Wizkids in the mid 2000s, as opposed to the Current Wizkids who are owned by NECCA. Liscense ownership laws are complex & weird... And as for Titus the Fox, I know something that will be discussed a bit more in a few years that came out of the same studio. I can already feel that kryptonite fog rolling in to Metropolis.

Shadowrun was a very interesting game that had two main problems. 1: the tabletop game is much more adult-themed than is video game counterpart. 2: the graphics of the time couldn’t do the game justice.

This game was awesome! With the creepy music, noir dialogue and the post modern day scenes, I loved it! The ending was kind of bleh once you went up in the corporation tower. I was lead to believe that in Shadowrun itself, the corporations were so massive they weren't just office buildings but like arcologies Ala sim city.

Love a bit of Shadowrun on the snes

Who knew Dylan’s section would turn into comedy gold!

I was rewatching your Shadowrun Returns videos on your Let's Play channel recently, Jared. It was good stuff. I hope you get around to playing Dragonfall, I think you'll like it more than the original.

Always love Jared's excitement for tabletop games.

The SNES version of Shadowrun is so good! And one of very few games to be translated to Swedish lol

Jared's "Do it, Rockapella" quote got me right in the soul.

Congo's Caper is actually Joe & Mac 2, funnily enough. The Joe & Mac 2 NA got is Joe & Mac 3. For whatever reason when released in EU, Joe & Mac 3 retained the 3 despite the EU getting "Congo's Caper" rather than "Joe & Mac 2" The series is called "Caveman Combat" in Japan, rather than Joe & Mac. Joe & Mac: Caveman Combat, Caveman Combat 2: The Adventures of Rookie, and Caveman Combat 3: The Protagonists Are Joe & Mac Again.

Ah... Surprise Reboot. Always good when that show gets brought back into memories. Dylan's quickly gonna need his own fleshed out segment. How he gets so much value and laughs in the short time he gets is beyond me. Ooooh.. Red fidora time. Shame far as I know none of the games used that song, but man Carmen was HUGE. Not a lot of franchises can say they had not one, but two hit TV shows, one being edutainment that people STILL talk about, even beyond the excellent title songs, yes both of them. Where in time was alright.

I love the SNES Shadowrun. Of course, Jake would be a completely unplayable mess by tabletop rules, but I still love the game.

**gets out of morgue tray** "my brain feels burnt..." what a way to start a game

Now in the 90s is delicious. Eat it once every Friday for a good time.

Okay, I usually read how the comments section and viewers really love Dylan's part. And I got to say, it's always been hilarious. But for this week made me laugh a whole heck of a lot more. I'm really glad they added this section in general. If it's getting longer, Jared, just take it up with your writer. He knows what the people like. LOL. Jokes aside, the show's really something else.

This game was underrated back in its time. One of my favourite game of all time.

I spent time with my grandfather over the summer working as his assistant, fetching tools for him and helping where I could for $2 an hour as he installed carpets so I could buy this game. I had rented it from the local blockbuster and it blew my mind. I never played a game with a modern setting, and a dark gritty setting at that. I didn't know video games could have modern music, with drums, bass, and electric guitar. I certainly had never been exposed to the noir genre, or even knew what it was, but I loved it. Uncovering the mystery of the plot was awesome. Even the instruction book was badass. This opened my mind to what games could be and laid the foundation for my love of the genre. When The Matrix comes out years later, I already have the intellectual furniture for those concepts due to this game. The anti-authoritarian anti-corporate undercurrents in these early media properties had a hand in developing my political worldview as an adult. It's important for kids to be exposed to complex, dark, or adult themes in their play so they can develop critical thinking skills and grow into adults capable of seeing things from multiple perspectives.

Take a drink every time he says "Shadow". J/K don't do this you'll die... ;)

Fun bug in Shadowrun. Get a full group of mercs. Then go recruit the merc from the video terminal. If there's a merc in the group that will betray you at the end...they will pick this moment to betray you and you smoke them (making room for the new video terminal merc). If all mercs in the group are non-betrayal mercs then Jake Armitage basically says "OK! Looks like the group is full...I'm outta here!" and leaves the group. Unfortunately, this leaves you without any way to move the group anywhere...

I love you Jared, make no mistake, but I think Dylan is stealing your thunder.

Shadowrun was so surreal to discover as a teen, but I'm really glad I did. Highly formative in the long run.

Fridays are best days because of Now in the '90s

I loved Shadowrun on SNES but mostly because that's what us SNES players got. Admittedly the Genesis version was much closer to the tabletop game in visuals and tone.

I was expecting the price of Shadowrun to be much higher, with it being a SNES RPG that reviewed well but didn't sell well

I randomly found this game and started playing it thinking "eh it's ok".. before accidentally playing it all the way to the end credits (which seemed to come out of nowhere). This is a _great_ game.

It just isn't Friday until the Now in the 90's notification hits.

I absolutely loved this game as a kid. I rented it blindly and refused to return it.

In a world where I'm used to Jared being my favorite goofaround, it's so awesome to see him be the straight "tells us some game histories" guy while Dylan's the sidebar cut-up.

Henceforth!! Joe and Mac will be known as Joseph and Macaroni!!😂😂👍

Just discovered this channel and I've been devouring all the videos. Never watched ProJared before, but he's definitely one of the best. I've been really nostalgic for this exact era of games lately too, so this is definitely satiating a hunger of mine. Great work, keep it up!

"Watch your back, shoot straight, conserve ammo, and never, ever, cut a deal with a dragon."

I was 13 when this game came out and remember being completely captivated by it. I had never played a game like it up until that point. The only flaw for me was how you couldn’t run while you were shooting. Otherwise, the game was an experience. The characters, the music, the sound effects and the plot made for a stellar game for its time.

Joe and Mac was named Tatakae! Genshijin in japan, something like "Attack! Caveman" and probably that's why is also known as Caveman Ninja. Congo's Caper is actually Tatakae! Genshijin 2, but they didn't use a Joe & Mac 2 probably to avoid confusion, as neither Joe nor Mac appear in the game (except for that statue as an easter egg/secret). Joe & Mac 2: Lost in the Tropics is the third game, Tatakae! Genshijin 3, and that's why they included the image of the main character of Congo's Caper as an easter egg. Cool video, as always!

Was a big SNES fan growing up, but I preferred the Genesis RPG, it was a great open world sandbox. It felt way ahead of it's time.

It really is a bit of a shame that Shadow of the Beast III didn't get to release on other platforms beyond the Amiga. It was the best designed game of the trilogy. Part of that comes from the fact it wasn't always a SotB game until later into development. The third game has our hero Aarbron fully human now travelling to four locations (you can select which location to go to though only two from the start) to collect relics to obtain enough power to finally destroy Maletoth for good. These relics are The Skull of Louq-Garou from the Forest of Zeakros, Pandek's Mace from Fort Dourmoor, The Quintessence of Being from The Caves of Bidhur, and the Crystals of Hodag from Nosthomak. Once you get all four, then you finally get to fight Maletoth himself. While it can be easy still to mess up a puzzle and have to restart from a checkpoint (each level has at least one), it helps that you have 3 lives this time instead of having to restart the whole game. Also while nothing amazing, I find the ps4 SotB game to be something the devs really wanted to make. The amount of detail and care and references to other Psygnosis games throughout (as well as the history of the series presented, and the first game's Amiga version being playable in a really well cone emulation setup) shows it wasn't some random cheap cash grab, but a small team's passion project to bring back a series that had been dormant since the 90s.

I loved this on the SNES back in 1993, although I never finished it...I got all the way to the end, last dungeon, game crashed, wiped the save file and everything. I really should go back and replay it... Great video.

I was obsessed with this game back in the SNES heyday. I was a huge RPG fan and the cyberpunk atmosphere and story was a breath of fresh air. What I wouldn’t give for a remake.

Regarding SNES Shadowrun, Beam Software created a spiritual sequel to it under the name Alien Earth which was released in 1998 on Windows PC only.

A factor in Shadowrun’s sales must have been that basically no stores carried it. I looked EVERYWHERE for it in the 90s and never once saw it for sale. There was ONE videostore that had it for rent; that’s it.

Shadowrun was in my top 10 SNES games. I was also playing the table top RPG at the time.

that campy video promo was for the Sega Genesis game, not the SNES one. you can tell, hecause it says "FASA" on it. also, the full thing can be found on youtube

I find it hilarious how I get an ad break before Jared actually says “Editor Dylan”, so it’s like he’s introducing whatever idiotic thing KZfaq thinks that I am interested in buying. This isn’t a complaint. I get a kick out of the randomness. Also, I genuinely like the concept of Shadowrun, though it’s just another item to be added to my “I’ll experience this one day” list.

I really just want to hear Projared talk about Shadowrun more. I love Shadowrun.

I'm a big fan of the Shadowrun Returns games but I did not know about the original and its protagonist. That was very interesting to learn that the devs included in in the newer games. A very cool touch on their part.

Such a great game and thank god for this show. I watch this every Friday on my lunch break and between this and the 90s Roulette podcast, I get all my nostalgic goodness in

I played Shadowrun for SNES via emulation back in 2007 and never able to get through specific point of the game. You'r needed to get into the club but cant without invitation or document, cant say for sure. So I walked around every location I had in my desposition, talked to everyone, used every item with success. So I never completed it and don't know about what happens past that point. But game is good and music is nice but controls could've be better. I had better experience with version for Sega Mega Drive (almost completed it actually, this one I remember for sure, had to give cartridge back to it's owner). I love endings of Joe & Mac, that all I can say about first game. Congo's Caper in japan is part of the Joe & Mac series. First game is called Joe & Mac - Tatakae Genshijin, Congo's Caper called Tatakae Genshijin 2 - Rookie no Bouken and Joe & Mac 2 - Lost in the Tropics is Tatakae Genshijin 3 - Shuyaku wa Yappari Joe & Mac, that's why it looks like Joe & Mac, yes, Dylan?

I don't want realism in my sports games. If I wanted realism in my sports, I'd go play/watch ACTUAL sports. I want Baseball Simulator 1000, where you get special powers, and can even blow up the opposing team.

I used to play the shadowrun ttrpg in prison, there was lots of d&d groups but only one shadowrun game going on. Yes, prison is way nerdier than you thought. I had an absolute blast playing as a disgraced professional wrestler who put every point into body and strength, only to keep accidentally exploding enemies with non lethal body slams.

That commercial...😅😂

"some run and gun" this better be super turrican, dont forget about! X3

I love how Dylan kept being at a loss for words when coming up with an excuse for why most of those games released were blatant rip-offs of games released within the week.

10:33 That is, in fact, the most flattering picture of Tony La Russa they could get their hands on.

As soon as I saw ProJared, I knew I would not be disappointed; What an amazing backstory for an amazing game.

Shadowrun for the SNES is an overlooked classic. Still waiting 30 years later for the sequel promised at the end of the game.

Anyone else hears the "Imagination" song from the old Willy Wonka movie when the credits theme starts to play (14:26)? I half expect Jared to begin singing "Come with me And you'll be In a wooooooorld of pure imagination!"

Titus the fox isn't only a game to surf on the mascot craze. They already had the same logo in 1987 (And honestly, I had one of their game for the GBA when I was young, and I always found the logo super-creepy. It looks like a "warning" sign on a chemical bottle ! Like "beware of that fox" ahah). The game was created as a tie-in-game in france, for a very popular 1991 "joke" song, song which is quite hum racist. Then Titus was like "Hum, I bet I can sell more copies if I reskin the game" and to not create a character they put their mascot. A game, about a joke song, I always found it very specific.

I rented SNES Shadowrun several times, but I ended up buying a copy from a kid in high school for about $20, I think. Unfortunately, after high school, almost my entire SNES collection was stolen by a neighbor. I was... not happy about that. I've only gotten a couple back, I don't really have the money or space to be collecting. Sadly, Shadowrun is not one of them. I think I mentioned this last week, but SNES Shadowrun actually got me into tabletop games. Dumb kid me was in a game shop with a friend (He was big into Magic the Gathering) and I was looking over the books when I saw Shadowrun. "Hey, look, someone made a game based off that SNES game! Okay, I'm buying this." My friend did end up getting Genesis Shadowrun, and it was a very different game. Of the two, Genesis Shadowrun stays WAY closer to the actual rules, but I definitely prefer the story and gameplay of the SNES one.