16-Bit Gems - #23: seaQuest DSV (SNES/Genesis)

[@Yuriofwind]

There's a magic quality to your reviews that compels me to watch them multiple times. You don't want to know how many times I've watched the episodes on Earthbound. Great review!

[@BrenTenkage]

its 2018...where is my talking dolphin LOL

[@no1reallycaresabout2]

0:55 Don't forget both shows had a federation of sorts, in Star Trek it's the United Federation of Planets, in Seaquest, it's United Earth Oceans (UEO), both have a backstory of experiments gone wrong with genetic engineering and a WW3, both have at least one aggressive country that doesn't follow treaties, (In Star Trek, it's the Cardassian Union, in Seaquest, it's the Macronesian Alliance), both the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D and Seaquest have a semi-exploration, semi-military role

[@GBAer64]

Everytime I watch these videos. There's some kind of charm to the reveiw that makes me like these guys even more.

[@kyledynia7945]

so that's what happens after roo's wife says "oh great, another box of useless shit" 3:55

[@RocketLawnchair]

I always remember seeing this game on the shelf but never tried it out. As always I love hearing the story behind the game and how it all came to be. Kudos as always my friend.

[@doubleumedia]

Already saw this on your site, but i cant resist watching a 16-bit gem, keep em up Roo, your one of my favorite reviewers.

[@bubbysitch]

lol i just spewed white castle burger on my screen at 03:55 made my day

[@prixelderp5231]

Your comparison of this game to the Star Trek series did the impossible: it actually created a bit of interest for me to check this out. Nicely done.

[@bearsaremyfav]

Oh hey, my favorite site just linked me to one of my favorite internet series. Thanks HG101!

[@saunagamer]

i always learn so much when I watch your videos. Especially your huge Zelda episode! Keep it up!

[@Rakiarmas]

Hey! I remember the Seaquest from my youth. They show'd the show one summer time & I really enjoyed it. Although it was just one time run since in Finland we don't really show these "little classics" on the TV that often. Mostly we see more famous & wanted TV shows these days.

[@brownkv081]

I think...where he got hit in the nuts...was the funniest thing I have seen in months.

[@davecam4863]

I love your First Contact poster my man.

[@joeedangerously4295]

Here's a fun bit of trivia about SeaQuest. The pilot aired on the same night as Lois And Clark's pilot. Of course I watched Superman but SeaQuest beat the hell out of it in the ratings because it was developed by Spielberg in the wake of Jurassic Park. The reviews were universally glowing for the L&C pilot but they knew they would be creamed so the producers begged ABC to reschedule. They wouldn't do it and they paid for it. If you watch the two pilots now though, it's super obvious which one was better. Lois and Clark is one of the best pilots of all time to this day.

[@AnyaAngie]

WOW... thanks so much for that. I had an SNES AND I was a HUGE sQ fan, yet I never knew they made a VG of it.

[@Aliibox]

Im glad your finally becoming more well known, can't wait for you to become a classic reviewer :)

[@MnmzzzCS2]

3:59 roo's wife i think does the show proud.

[@moosa17]

I was fascinated by this game as a young kid watching my older cousin play it. It may be far from perfect but I don't think the feel of this game has ever been recreated.

[@esper4605]

I love how a lot of movies were post-New Millennia and now I get to make fun of their dashed expectations.

[@dukejivetalker7541]

commitement to a fucking bit 3:58 go on my son

[@hawkstringfellow]

they jumped the shark.. with the dam aliens

[@tombrown3072]

3:57 👌

[@MadWritter]

"Bathisphere" -- That's the first time a Lazy Pun got me laughing.

[@stevenjones2529]

Hi all! A little trivia... NBC originally ran Star Trek in the late 60's. And, as much as I loved SeaQuest, NBC has been trying to make the "next Star Trek" for years. In fact, they tried to use the fact they originally aired Star Trek as a lever on Paramount to run The Motion Picture in the 80's. ABC and Paramount said, "AR AR Earth Humor" and ABC ran the movie. Nice video on the games! Live Long and Prosper!

[@mage0killer]

you are honestly funny :D loved the girl steping in and slaping you and smacking you in the junk :D

[@sonicfan288]

This was posted the day after my birthday. Huh, ain't that convenient. :D

[@silvershadows21]

He explained the seasons perfectly... heh, i remember in seasin one where they're like "when the war ended in 2010" ... yeah im pretty sure we're still at war

[@skydoosher]

You hit the nail on the head

[@g.waldmeister1851]

I recently rewatched SeaQuest and I must say your summary of the show's three seasons was pretty accurate. The second one being the absolute worst of the whole series. Personally I liked the first season most although it was sometimes a bit slow and contrived (as in: "how to we transform this thing we want to comment on into an underwater issue. There sometimes just wasn't any conceivable way).

[@Zeithri]

Season 2 prompted me to write my first and only review on IMDB about how bad a certain episode was. Seaquest DSV: Playtime (1994) Episode 5, Season 2

[@TheDrunkenCelt]

Aw shit son, Ted Raimi up in that bitch!

[@LavaCanyon]

You should review Subterrania (genisis)

[@thetanplzer]

I can't agree with you today as i wasn't even aware seaquest existed.

[@DamnRandall]

Great video. I loved seaQuest as a kid. I even enjoyed the terrible second season. I never bothered picking up the game because I had assumed that it was terrible as many TV show to video game deals are, but I'm considering picking it up now thanks to your video. Cool stuff.

[@edgarchpa]

Great video man

[@devicat]

i wait for every episode lol

[@DoctorCuriosity]

UST -> Unresolved Sexual Tension, I'm guessing.

[@SpiralPegasus]

Why do I feel Roo getting beat is the highlight of this episode?

[@Jaryth000]

Very good review as always, but really, you deserved the hit you got for those puns.

[@Trusteft]

I would love to have played this. I hope that PSN will have this one day. Or at least have PSN one day. Either way, I need to play this game!

[@TimetravelerKi]

Completely forgot about this show :D

[@luiscanamarvega]

man... i really want his chair...it looks very comfortable..

[@mrfuzzer1]

NIce review this seems brilliant.

[@piplup10036]

LOL at the end :P

[@sixstringscumdog]

@ClanOfTheGrayWolf i like how, if you're out of ammo, u can just ram their ship. hahah awesome.

[@GBAer64]

Maybe it's the freaking voice of Roo. Or maybe because of how the selection of music played during the vids really fitted with it. By the way do you know if he's still alive?

[@ghostfacedude93]

whens the next lesson going to be! its like taking a history class except you're actually paying attention.B)

[@mistertitanic]

Will the next review be a Genesis exclusive? :D

[@P13R4T]

12:22 My channel's theme song! Woo!

[@WIIRULESMAN]

nice LOST reference

[@Johny2662]

And what does the dry wit joke mean?

[@Kousaburo]

Roo is the new Nerd!

[@King_K_Rool_]

@TheLengendGaming what this particular game?

[@stantim5245]

try starflight on the sega gen : 3 if you like seaquest and star trek you will like this game roo! : 3

[@nostre81]

i like your reviews

[@Kplaylist22]

11:57 I cant believe its not dirt!

[@TheBrazilRules]

Download Games you did never seen. YOU ARE A PIRATE!

[@TheBrazilRules]

Actually that would be 1F since the hex system starts with 0

[@KiloGraham]

found your link through hg101

[@ohboyhey2k4]

like the LOST reference lol

[@PatootyPanda]

his real name isnt joey roo right?

[@Eurt76]

Now we just have to wait for Pat to comment on this video. -:D

[@Johny2662]

What made the Dry Wit joke cause Roo to get hit by a girl? :P

[@LukeOfTroy]

I was super young, so I can't honestly judge, but I loved SeaQuest. I got to like Star Trek when I was older, but the idea of Star Trek rip offs in different settings sounds like a fantastic idea to me. People need to stop poo pooing idea theft, it's brilliant. As long as the content is essentially new, and copyright/trademark is more or less respected (lots of complexities there I'll just ignore for now) then I don't think you can really claim to own an idea. If you think that you can turn an idea into something profitable, and you think that if someone else gets your idea and they can turn it into something that makes your thing less profitable, then it's your job to try to keep it out of their heads, not their job to ignore it once it gets in there. The distinction between 'idea' and 'intellectual property' is a blurry one, but "Serialized stories about a scifi crew of explorers' is definitely just an idea. Captain Kirk however is intellectual property, if you have nothing to do with Star Trek's creation and without permission you take the character of Jim Kirk, and put him into a TV show where he's in an Earth prison in the Early 2000s and he's trying to break out, then stealing the character is not okay (With many, many caveats) but stealing the 'idea' of Prison Break is fine, and could be amazing. So in short, no one owns ideas, because they aren't worth anything unless you can make them into something, and if that something is better, that just means it's better, and if the guy that first came up with the idea made something worse, then it was worse. (A billion complexities and complications notwithstanding)

[@Zeithri]

" _Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason to ever write another novel. Except that each writer brings to the table, if she will let herself, something that no one else in the history of time has ever had._ "

[@Cobrasons]

@Yuriofwind Same here.

[@GBAer64]

Well. He hasn't made a video for an entire summer. But I'm worried that he might be in some hard rock and a tight place. Or maybe he's busy with summer or..... he's just a bit lazy oh well.

[@werotus]

@eperger I'm resisting the massive urge to correct your spelling.... XF

[@megamanfan3]

Even thou SeaQuest wasn't that great of a series, it did have a pretty good game. I don't think anything will beat Star Trek Bridge Commander, though. (Except for Star Trek Online. If it goes F2P, of course.)

[@hawkstringfellow]

hey hey lucas was not solving all the ships problems he worked with everyone

[@Ashli-Meabh]

So.. You're on retroware, blistered thumbs, reviewtopia, blip, youtube, AND your own site.

[@hawkstringfellow]

it was darker but no ds9

[@Hylanvahr]

@deathman1021 Sounds like you saw a Season 2 episode. Please ignore that whole season. You'd be amazed how much different (and better) the show was in Season 1. It got more serious and military in Season 3, but for the love of Darwin, pretend Season 2 never existed. It's better that way.

[@LuigisNo1]

I love how you ended the video with that song xD, makes everything you said about buying the game false.

[@classicgamingsuch2245]

WTF is severe UST?

[@Cubeface]

I swear I saw a reset button earlier...

[@hawkstringfellow]

and seaquest was orginal.....

[@g.waldmeister1851]

Ah, come on. They even acknowledged the similarities to Star Trek. Think of William Shatner having a guest spot and the number 1701 appearing in the communications protocol and so on. That is not a bad thing, though. TNG simply paved the way for the sci-fi boom of the early nineties and paying homage to that is okay.

[@menoseloso119]

Hahaha Lost reference ftw!

[@Randomheart0]

Lost reference!!!

[@CatoLongHair]

This was a good review, but i wouldent go so far as to call sea quest it a "gem" Id say Aladdin makes the cut, but this game reminds me of pilot wings... innovative for its time, but not much in terms of replay value now.

[@hideo2727]

whos the girl?

[@samusvikerness661]

3:57 I bet that was the first time a girl touched your nads.

[@JeffreyOsb]

+samus vikerness Fairly certain that's his wife.

[@TheBalloga]

their is a reset button!

[@rotciv97]

you are hilarious.

[@danielcervantes4431]

Pat is fucking hilarious haha the only thing that keep me watching this video (just because i don't like this game) after watching the commentaries

[@Cobrasons]

SOME GIRLS JUST CAN'T APPRECIATE DRY WIT >:c

[@Johny2662]

lol so the joke isn't so funny and thus, I get it now. :P

[@hawkstringfellow]

but the show was solid

[@Macabre215]

3:52

[@devicat]

@doubleumedia ditto

[@TForceX]

Like!!!

[@freakonaleash8848]

Yar had you are a pieret

[@LeFruFru]

Sam Raimi

[@Calriec]

I liked Seaquest, but it pretty much was a Star Trek: TNG ripoff with a little bit of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea thrown in. Not completely original, but mostly watchable.

[@eperger]

hehehe priesous botty

[@Jodie842]

I remember that show very well. It was a blatant TNG ripoff and very, very dull.

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

Y'know, you speak so terribly fast that I can NEVER understand your name. 'I am XYZRT of the Clan of the Greywolf" is all I can hear...