Breakers Revenge is an Incredible Fighting Game

I adore this game.
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[@SantiLokyyo]

Lmao imagine having friends that are into fighting games like me.

[@theWIIISEguy]

Lmao. Right?

[@MaxMax-qg7gw]

Mood

[@IPODsify]

@Scrooge McDuck I tried to but my application was rejected "because there's already a gaming club" The games: MOBAs and Shooters.

[@boitahaki]

@@IPODsify Infiltrate and convert

[@DorE3k]

hop on discords and find some in your area

[@ott0ma71c]

Two things I feel should be mentioned: 1) As much as I love SNK this is not actually an SNK game (unless they acquired the license) , it did release on NeoGeo but many non SNK titles released on the system. 2) As a Condor main, I feel both he and Rila deserve to be mentioned not just Sho, Saizo, and Tia.

[@casono]

I do love me some Condor

[@TheAlfa127]

BALOOON BOMB

[@solonsaturngaming3727]

BALOOON!! KARNOV WINS!!

[@TyRiders2]

Same I'm a Condor main

[@solonsaturngaming3727]

@@TyRiders2 pelè

[@Bullitthiphop]

Yeah i found this game once by accident during the days of supercade and GGPO, super fun with all the mechanics you'd expect from a game

[@leandrusi4533]

I never knew there were "days of supercade and GGPO" like its a distant past. I still play on GGPO (now called fightcade)

[@5uberpwn2]

That was the same with me. In GGPO back in the day, I was playing some random games with friends and we ran in to this game, SUPER fun... And recently (now that I have more fighting game experience), I'm seeing the fun more unbalanced stuff of the game.

[@Tinfoiltomcat]

This and Karnov's revenge are fucking amazing for no reason

[@ironsyndication3815]

Dankuga / Kaiser Knuckle II too!

[@AirLancer]

It's interesting that you often see people assume any game released for the Neo Geo was made by SNK, even if they were made by ADK, Data East, or whoever else. It'd be like assuming a game on the SNES was made by Nintendo.

[@a1337turtle]

Glad to see Breakers getting some love.

[@Crunkman2k]

The Neo Geo had some of the most fun hidden gems in the mid-to-late-90s - Breakers Revenge, Waku Waku 7, Fighters History Dynamite, Kizuna Encounter and Double Dragon are some of the most fun jank fighters that I have ever played, and they've only recently (in the last couple years) been getting any exposure. Also Pielle's noises are only topped by FHD's delightfully dumb voice clips.

[@thorocomments817]

Kizuna Encounter! 😫

[@Marisu_Prada]

1:02 The game I'm talking about is SNK's 1998 release: Breakers Revenge. Dude c'mon, not even 3 seconds later the title screen says: *VISCO GAMES* 1996 - 1998 Visco corporation all rights reserved.

[@jdestroyer9721]

Not to nictpick but he's correct the reason it says 1996-1998 is probably because the original game breakers was on 1996 then breaker's revenge which adds saizo was 1998

[@kiranvenugopalan4372]

@@jdestroyer9721 Um, I think what's Marisu was mentioning was about Visco Games, which is true. This wasn't an SNK Game, but it was on the NeoGeo Platform(owned by SNK) but Visco Games made this game.

[@phantomgamer4463]

Same with Rage of the Dragons, Waku Waku 7, Galaxy Fighter, Gowgaizer, Double Dragons and Matrimelee ( Power Instinct 4), all of these titles are non SNK games.

[@violetcaster4644]

Breakers 1 has an interesting quirk: when playing a mirror match, player 2 will be given a different name, implying that there are characters in the Breakers universe who are essentially clones of the main roster. However, this apparently isn't a thing in Breakers Revenge. Hm. Edit: The fighters do have alternate names in Breakers Revenge, but Sho's alternate name seems to be bugged.

[@iad4872]

This game and Karnov are really fun especially with some friends and a few beers, World Heroes Perfect fits the bill too if you don't mind old KOF 94/95 button inputs

[@sadowolf]

Breakers Revenge is one of those games that I always reference is one of my all time sleeper favorites, and nobody ever knows what I'm talking about haha. I always thought it struck a nice balance between feeling like an SNK game and a Street Fighter game, and being the big Street Fighter nut I am I always loved how similar it was to that. In some ways it just flat out rips Street Fighter and a multitude of other games off, but they do well to only rip off good games, and in the end it comes together into a fantastic fighting game haha. If you're familiar with 2D fighting games in general, you can quickly pick up BR and know what you're doing, and even immediately know how to play certain characters just because they stick to well-known character archetypes so strictly. It's ridiculous fun where you can look like a badass regardless of whether or not you actually are one at fighting games, and I played the hell out of it years back. Definitely feeling like revisiting it.

[@fugutabetai]

This was a really fun watch, short enough that I could fit it in a break while working, and a game I didn't know about. Thanks!

[@nighthoodlupin3500]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this wasn't made by SNK developers. This was developed by Visco. Not every game released on the Neo Geo was developed by SNK, after all. I agree with everything else though, this game is smooth. Gotta wonder what happened to Visco's devs. I'm sure they didn't stick around when Visco decided to just make slot machines for southeast asian casinos.

[@otaking3582]

2020 is almost over, and yet the collection doesn't seem to be released yet. What the hell?!

[@thesolgoodguy]

Thank you very much for highlighting this game. I was surprised to see lots of somewhat recent tournament footage in this video!

[@ridho_act]

I am still waiting for the breakers collection

[@Ramsey276one]

The gems you could fight at arcades in the past century... Sometimes to be gone the next week.... But seriously CONDOR, WHAT ARE YOU WEARING?! XD

[@icommentoneverything7032]

I play it yesterday the game is absolute brilliant. Wish I played it when I was a kid!

[@BlayzeDeville]

Rila was a highlight of my childhood, this game is the best fighting game I've ever played in my life. Really glad i came across this video

[@bzchoy]

My kind of games, where they put fun over balance.

[@atomiswave2]

Ridiculously good fighting game

[@DoomRater]

Forget the backdash, look at that NAME, the most Engrish French name I've ever read

[@CYI3ERPUNK]

luv'd playing this game for years on neogeo emulators back in the 90s

[@DDRUTOU]

The ending. I did not see that coming

[@thomasprovitt1806]

"Pielle" might be THE most stereotypically Japanese thing i've ever seen... I love it.

[@JeshuaMorbus]

Metal Wolf Chaos: "Hold my beer..."

[@Raiden3651]

Saizo's "ooh yeah" every bomb toss.

[@fuckedfromabove1969]

the most fun Ive ever had playing a fighting game

[@kingkoopa3000]

I'm late to the table here , but yeah, breakers revenge is a great game. It doesnt really do anything unique or different compared to other fighters and the characters are generic as it gets, but gameplaywise its fantastic . The game just plays really smoothly and just feels good and intuitive. Glad to see it get some love .

[@elvalen1259]

I gotta thank you for making this video, after playing it for some time, i found a fun af game

[@grapechu5358]

Love this game it was the first I made someone rage quit, Rila is my main!

[@asimplethievingbat5978]

Yo... truth be told I'm not mufh of a fighting game guy beyond casual play and shit talking, but this man makes this shit so interesting that I can't stop

[@NegaNekojin]

As someone who actually played this on an arcade cabinet, I truly appreciate this video. ^^ It might be a Street Fighter II clone, but it's still quite the underrated gem.

[@theraymunator]

Even if it is a clone, I'd say it has a distinct enough feel to it which makes it unique compared to SF2.

[@Matthew-ye1qm]

Thank you so much, this is the game I never knew I needed

[@ironsyndication3815]

Fighters History Dynamite, Dankuga (Kaiser Knuckle II), & Breakers Revenge are my Trifecta!

[@chadmolitor6691]

I just played this for the first time last night, and it's a VERY solid game. Just dumb fun. The game plays surprisingly well.

[@YukiColburn]

Holy shit someone knows that game. Holy shit the entire comment section knows that game. Holy shit this is a cool channel, time to see what other obscure fighters are mentioned here, fingers crossed for Galaxy Fight and Waku Waku 7

[@noheiro9877]

Holy shit a Nanaya profile picture

[@OswaldVon]

Played this when I was 12 I loved it

[@null1023]

man, I miss playing this with my friends at college I wasn't ever remotely good at it, but it was a total blast to play should pop this in on Fightcade (at least, until it gets released on Steam) and get absolutely wrecked at some point

[@din_5817]

Me for most of the video: yeah this game looks pretty cool i think I'll check it Theory fighter: *shows pielle and his dash sounds* Me: you son of a bitch I'm in!

[@josuearriaza3952]

An amazing game i played with my brothers

[@Evilryu4005]

I love that game I discovered it about year half ago. I want them to release it to console

[@Scroteydada]

The 3 shotos: Sho Ryu Ken

[@philiphunt-bull5817]

Wait, so the combos in this game are as intuitive as Khan's bnb from hftf? Nice.

[@feloniousmonk2926]

I just tried it out and I gotta admit, I'm impressed. It's really fun. Is there a discord by any chance?

[@TheBlackOtaku]

Sho Kamui is like if Ryu & Ryo Sakazaki from KOF had a love child.

[@TyRiders2]

No mention of Condor??? His Tomahawk is an anti Air, it eats fireballs AND it's a juggles

[@lookinlikeapinkrabbit4569]

The Collection just came out yesterday for Playstation

[@cirro51]

So Breakers Collection is due to come out sometime in the near future for all major platforms. I'm very much looking forward to this! kzbin.info/www/bejne/bXmYXqeBmcSgeq8

[@GerardoSantana]

Condor is a grappling goat.

[@Itsgeestatus]

I Like👍🏾Both Versions Of Breakers!!!!! (They Were Some Slight Differences Tho)

[@mr_0n10n5]

I mained Dao Long. That's the only charge character I can play on my keyboard with some consistency.

[@obscurelobster]

Amazing content as always! Power Quest for the Game Boy Color is absolutely my go to B-Fighter that I LOVE! I would recommend you go check it out. Oh and dare I speak forbidden... and face Judgement for Castlevania Judgement

[@plasmahdtv]

SNK and NEOGEO are legendary, no 2d fighter fan should skip it.

[@Shadowrudude]

...shit dawg that backdash makes me wanna play him LMAO

[@kerovibe]

Could you make a trailer on the breaker mechanic and breaking moves.

[@FaxxuYT]

Whens Karnovs Revenge

[@TheoryFighter]

One day I'll have to do a video entirely on bahhloooon.

[@FaxxuYT]

@@TheoryFighter I cant wait lmao

[@snoozy04]

LOL that back dash

[@Mug4Times]

this vids 2 years old and i JUST realised that im in this vid at around 3:10 lmao

[@armorbearer9702]

It sounds lke Breakers Revenge is an excellent way to introduce newbies to fighting games.

[@necrogenesis1981]

You mention intuitive games, but one game that's definitely not Intuitive is Last Blade, I remembered playing that game and getting my ass kicked, so I bought it to try to get good at it and I still got my ass kicked. I was expecting to be able to play it like Street Fighter.

[@williamgreen9749]

I fucking love this game.

[@DeronHargrove]

Looks interesting, that's for sure

[@mingyaowu7720]

Anyone realised that saizo stage similar to "ryu" stage?. Sho, pielle, tia similar to Street fighter, kof feel.

[@VinceOmega]

Effeminate French pirate travels to Japan and stabs ninja on feudal rooftops. More at 11!

[@greensun1334]

"Breakers Collection" - isn't Breakers Revenge exactly the same game like Breakers plus playable Saizo?

[@dirtynewyorker4542]

Tia is like a mix of Chun Li and Mai

[@Dragonflyetc]

Looking at her moveset, I see: - Charlie's Sonic Boom with Chun-Li's Kikoken reach - Chun-Li's faster Senenshu that looks like Terry Bogard's Crack Shoot - Ryu's Shoryuken but weaker - Chun-Li's Hyakuretsuken with a slight movement forward - Bison's (o Vega's) Psycho Crusher - Ken's Shinryuken but a bit more forward and finishing with Sakura's Sakura Otoshi - An overhead axe kick + her version of Hyakuretsuken + an air grab that ends similar to Juni's Earth Direct Unless you are refering to his brown hairstyle, I don't see any other similarities with Mai Shiranui ^^U

[@jhonviel7381]

we live in a discord society

[@jamestillett3002]

The Game was actually made Visco it ran on Neo-Geo Hard-ware

[@keiharris332]

Whacky resets and hard combos? IT'S MAHVEL BAYBEE

[@dbnpoldermans4120]

SNK's release? Visco man, Visco! But I agree, same with Double Dragon

[@iychi2212]

Rhis game is really fun unfortunately i can't find someone to play with

[@vlay4274]

OK OK YOU SOLD IT MAN

[@alvinmercado6305]

Honestly the gameplay feels better than sf2, fight me.

[@casono]

I only really like Alpha 3, would play BR and Kizuna Encounter any day tho

[@salj.5459]

Cason I hate Alpha 3

[@casono]

@@salj.5459 Alpha 3 feels like a stunted KoF. I prefer KoF over SF and the only SF games I like are ST, the movie, and alpha 3. Something about the designs and overly simple fighting game mechanics with low damage and a fireball poke style puts me to sleep. Not every game has to be like DBFZ, HnK, MvC and PRBG but I tend to prefer games like MK9 and MKX in terms of explosiveness and speed as the baseline. Any slower than that and I dont have fun. The exception for games like Bushido Blade where 1-3 or so hits KO is cool by me.

[@tengutribe]

@@salj.5459 To each their own. I can understand why you probably hate it.

[@tengutribe]

@@casono Basically high damage fighters you like. Me as well

[@psykopyro]

When is Bloody Roar going to get a re-release collection? :(

[@mrosskne]

15 minutes? ok, should only take me about 18 months then

[@bigsmoke9209]

OooOoohh. OoooOohh.

[@Jesus-hu4lq]

The years almost over and nothing has been announced about breakers.

[@PhongTran-uc6mk]

It's announced here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qZykZYObmtJqgqc Coming soon TM I hope it will have rollback netcode.

[@ironsyndication3815]

Not "Snk's release"...It is VISCO bro!!!

[@About9000]

So it doesnt have motion inputs?

[@Minority119]

tia makes me wanna go unga bunga

[@Kulodemandril]

i fucking love breakers revenge, i play pielle lmao

[@solonsaturngaming3727]

BALOON BALOON!, KARNOV WINS! Lmao sorry just saw Jwongg just get slammed by a Karnov lmao

[@PinupSticknerd]

Beers? Uh :) Tia ftw. Pierro' a la sexy though. Whooosh

[@sickonotes3895]

Where can I find this game

[@necrogenesis1981]

Apparently Breaker's Collection is coming out sometime this year, it has both games.

[@djkillermemestar1265]

Mine is maybe mark of the wolfs 🔥 or mk Armageddon for the Wii lol 😂

[@MyNamesNotLars1]

When we start house sessions again? I never stopped because I dont let the government tell me who to play with

[@co7897]

1:28 it just has that old snk feeling. Honestly coming from capcom fighters I always found snk games MUCH harder to play. Working short hops into my game was a development in itself.

[@portablerefrigerator4902]

But I dont have friends!

[@TheoryFighter]

Go to any local event (when it's safe) or join a discord of a game you enjoy, you'll meet some like minded people and then you can preach the good word of Breakers Revenge

[@DoomRater]

So Tia's like K Rool then, the more your brain goes off the better you get?

[@adriansimsoongleong8878]

Try last bronx by Sega too!

[@Steambull1]

Great video for introducing a great game... ...but there still aren't many players. Such a shame. You can become decent with one character by playing the CPU for 30 minutes. The inputs are so fluent, it makes ST feel like SF1.

[@Cringycoot]

bruh i made a sf og in the past called sho. he was also a shoto, and i made him because i always found it weird that there wasn't one called sho, since ryu and ken's names appear in Dragon Punch's name (Sho-Ryu-ken).

[@TerryBollea1]

What the heck does "plus on block" mean???????

[@SolidSonicTH]

It means when an opponent blocks an attack, you will be able to move before they exit block stun. It is "plus" because the difference in time between when you are able to move again after your attack is blocked and when your opponent can (measured in frames per second) is a positive value (hence the term "frame advantage").

[@TerryBollea1]

@@SolidSonicTH ooookkkk. What difference does this make? Your opponent will just keep holding block. Why is this even a thing? After all these years, youd think programmers would figure out how to fix this.

[@SolidSonicTH]

@@TerryBollea1 Because if you can move before them, you can continue pressuring them. They can't react because you're always at an advantage. Maybe you can use the advantage to walk up and throw once they're out of block stun or you can try to catch them with a poke because they try to resist and you are already at an advantage. There are moves that are neutral or negative on block too. Maybe those attacks have great range or are difficult to get around, which is why you'd use them over something that's plus on block.

[@TerryBollea1]

@@SolidSonicTH I get the concept. But why havnt devs fixed this yet? Also, why wouldn't you just keep blocking? Like Ryus famous jump kick low kick Haduken. As long as you block the first hit, you just keep holding block and nothing hits you. Regardless if its "plus" or "negative". Also why wouldn't you just use a "plus" move, and keep your opponent blocking till he hits the wall, and then throw him? Ive never seen this move done in arcades, on tv, or on the internet. Yet, I constantly hear people bitching about moves not being "plus on block". If its so important, why does no one use it? Why didnt we hear about it back when we were 15 and constantly sharing info with each other, and buying full magazines dedicated to playing certain carecters with fram by frame pictures? Theres something missing here.

[@SolidSonicTH]

@@TerryBollea1 Because balance isn't about just making everyone as strong as possible, you need to incorporate weakness. Weakness breeds the need to play around those weaknesses to emphasize that which the character is strong at. If a character has a lot of moves that are negative on block but their reach is incredible, you have a balanced character. Keep the opponent at maximum range where they can't punish your moves and struggle when that gap is closed because your attacks now leave you at enough of a disadvantage where a wrong decision can be costly.

[@adriansimsoongleong8878]

Try ragnagard

[@gl1tchmast3r43]

3:15 I can confirm this is true. I was playing as Tia yesterday and I got command grabbed out of my "invincible" super and it was so funny 🤣🤣

[@Haassan1]

So, how can we get it?

[@yaboikiba4302]

I mean, Breakers Revenge is good... . . . . But Garou thou

[@nikrue22]

"Shoto" You mean Ken-alike Ken mentioned!!!

[@AnnCatsanndra]

I was playing Breakers Revenge yesterday on the collection, and I'm absolutely baffled the game isn't a bigger thing? Like, how on earth have Sho, Ryu, and Ken not been in a crossover game together yet, but Ryu and Ryo have? And like in some ways Breakers feels not too far from GBFV:R?? You just turn it on, pick a character, press some buttons, the move list is *right there* you're good to go. Even if we never get a new Breakers, it'd be cool if Sho and Tia could show up as guests in some other game.