Console Wars - Samurai Shodown - Super Nintendo vs Sega Genesis

In this episode we take on the original Samurai Shodown. The games were very similar, but there were differences. Which one was better? The game for Super Nintendo or Sega Genesis?? Find out in this episode of Console Wars!
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[@FranciscoSamour]

I miss Greg so much. This episode is particularly awesome.

[@SylentEcho]

Dude, same.

[@RetroreviewsPlus]

Do you think Greg will ever come back

[@michaelreed6849]

The chemistry between these two was so much better.

[@dimelo8826]

What happened to Greg?

[@aztecwhistle9122]

Plenty of women use that "Samurai Potion" nowdays

[@SuperHns]

best game goes to NEO GEO version!

[@coffeeblak86]

SuperHns lmao. I wish they did that.

[@subzero8679]

Neo Geo isn't part of this battle.

[@maxpower10k]

okay, Richie Rich 😂

[@Dr_Doomfans01]

The original is the best 😁

[@milltownhayes4100]

Neo geo was a 32 bits console...genious

[@BigEWR]

My goodness. One thing I like about these episodes is that you never know who's going to win each round. When it seems like one guy has it in the bag, his partner manages to take away his victory in a split second.

[@samgao]

oh wow.. didn't know Super Nintendo cut out that much frames of animation! You can definitely see it on Haohmaru's Tornado projectile. There's only like 2 frames on SNES, where as the Genesis looks to be a lot more.

[@bmac2814]

"The winter dance. For everyone who works at the toothpick factory." Im dying 😂

[@ViniVHSoares1993]

I love how you analyze the games and make them justice, i've seen lots of people bashing the SNES version of Samurai Shodown because of the smaller sprites, and i've seen lots of people bashing Run Saber because is "just a rip off", it's like they don't even want to give those games a fair chance, gotta love how the plots are always funny, creative and blend in perfectly with the reviews.

[@SailorPalutena]

Genesis is better for being more faithful to the arcade/NeoGeo, specially the music. People bashing the SNES version is because of that. Preference for the SNES version is just a matter of 'opinion' and shouldn't be taken in consideration.

[@THENAMEISQUICKMAN]

Really, most arcade fighting games are better on Genesis/Mega Drive despite them usually having worse visuals. People just go "well you COULD buy a six button controller but I didn't feel like it so SNES wins". Street Fighter 2, UMK3 and SamSho are all better on Genesis/Mega Drive simply because the gameplay is more similar to the arcade, which means you're actually playing something closer to the real thing. Anybody who took Street Fighter 2 seriously could tell you about how so many links and combos that you can do in the SNES port just don't work on the arcade and vice versa.

[@OtomoTenzi]

A faster 10MHz processor + a 48 meg cart could've fixed all that!

[@thatguybehindtheglass]

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[@musicvideoenhancer]

@@THENAMEISQUICKMAN This is simply not true. I tried REALLY HARD to find these said combos that it's possible on Genesis Street Fighter but not on Snes, couldn't find anything. Considering how Genesis version is just a washed down port os Snes, I doubt that they tweaked the physics in the code. I play A LOT of both versions, they play exactly the same (which is a good thing for genesis, as you can see in the very game being compared here, Genesis Samurai Showdown is inferior to Snes because it changes a lot in the gameplay, comparing both versions to the arcade).

[@MoonMagicks]

Loved the episode! Do Clayfighter in the future!

[@mitu123Copper]

Yep, I would love to see Clayfighter on here.

[@footyfam8990]

Aaron Johnsen Yes! I would love to see clayfighter on console wars!

[@baalfgames5318]

but would it be a best or worst comparison?

[@dlaimer]

Dan: Bigger is better. Trust me. Every girl I ever dated told me that. Greg: So? Every girl I ever dated says "we're really good friends"... (Starts sobbing) Best joke on this channel ever.

[@maxpower10k]

Idk that fart potion got me 😂

[@SylentEcho]

Love this series! You guys do such an awesome job with the review and even the little gags in the middle.

[@ConsoleWars]

Thanks!

[@pliniomsann]

Forgot to mention that Genesis doesn’t have the same arcade moves (High Slash), also some medium slashes

[@worldofretrogameplay6963]

The Neo-Geo MVS version of Samurai Shodown kicks the snout out of both versions. :P

[@JOE_BIDEN_GAMING17]

"snout"?

[@Banedracul1]

You guys rock! loved all your videos so far, and perfect subject matter for me as I have my SNES and Genesis always hooked up.

[@ConsoleWars]

Nice!

[@SylentEcho]

The skits in this episode are pure GOLD! If I were Netflix, or something, I'd give you guys a full time show there, man.

[@MaxwelThuThu]

7:07 GRAND DAD? Great episode! If i had 4 hands.. oh boy... Twister!

[@ConsoleWars]

Lol. Nice!

[@NintendoFan]

Ah, caralho! Tu comentou exatamente a mesma coisa que eu, só que horas antes! XD E o mais bizarro é que o minuto dessa parte é o 7. XD

[@tialenmitchell2451]

Console Wars yes you guys ARE PLAYING BATMAN RETURN ON SEGA GENESIS AND SUPER NINTENDO HELL YES

[@MaxwelThuThu]

Quando ele tocou essa música, pensei até que era piada com GRAND DAD mesmo. XD E nem percebi que o minuto era 7. É MUITA COINCIDÊNCIA!

[@NintendoFan]

***** Eu também pensei que era uma referencia, mas aparentemente não era. O fato do minuto ser 7 é mais bizarro ainda. XD

[@MizzahTee]

The puppets put me in tears every time. Great show guys! Keep up the good work!

[@ConsoleWars]

Thanks man! Glad you enjoy it!

[@rael_gc]

The explanation they gave on that time for Genesis version missing Earthquake was to make other characters bigger. This explains the tiny chars on SNES too (because Earthquake was the biggest one as possible, others would be smaller).

[@ConsoleWars]

That's what people are saying. Good to know!

[@inlovewithi]

Are you saying that it's not a memory issue, but rather that with the current size of the Genesis characters, they wouldn't have been able to add in Earthquake because the Genesis wouldn't be able to handle it to well? So they would have had to make Earthquake smaller, and as a result make the other characters smaller?

[@subzero8679]

Earthquake sucks ass

[@Webhed-sc8ev]

Come on, guys, we all know who the real winner is... Greg's beard!

[@gamesurvivor3129]

Here here

[@pliniomsann]

Forgot to mention that the attacks on the Genesis are DIFFERENT from the arcade. It seems like a different game

[@DanielAyy]

Should be called Beard Wars

[@christopherearl8948]

Don't overlook Dan's lesbian cut.

[@Ralkila]

I'm the only one that see some resemblance like if they were the young version of GameSack?

[@SuperHns]

lol

[@mitu123Copper]

You aren't alone on that.

[@ViniVHSoares1993]

Greg - I'm Nintendo Dan - And i'm Sega Greg - That's exactly right Sega No mentions to megapower though.

[@milesevans1073]

Omg what a great thought!!!!

[@Scorch6969]

Hells. Yes.

[@fatangrygeek5746]

didn't know Greg was German, I have a character who is German too. But yeah, it's nice to know your heritage Greg!

[@MerelyAFan]

I love how elaborate the plot setups are to get to the segue of ""This game was great on the Sega Genesis" "No it was better on Super Nintendo"". By this time next year I expect Super Nintendo to be living in the woods and trying to convince Sega to hang with panthers and bears in the introduction to the Jungle Book episode.

[@ronindebeatrice]

MerelyAFan Remember: an argument about Samurai Showdown developed from Dan worried about dance moves...

[@chuckobscure]

Great to have frest Console Wars after a long day at work! :)

[@thegraymarketsafari2485]

These videos are always so good. Keep making them.

[@ConsoleWars]

Thanks! We will!

[@thegraymarketsafari2485]

Console Wars we'll keep trying to make ours better. Anyone else want to see Blanka go against the green dude on this game?

[@EpicChubs05]

So glad your channel was recommended. Loving the content!!

[@AllMyYummies]

The 16-Bit wars had the greatest battle in history. Fighting games of that area. Really tested the loyalty of some of the most hardcore gamers.

[@rdwaynewright]

thank you SO MUCH for doing this series, I had forgotten how much I loved this game. So hard.

[@VahanNisanian]

Great series. I wonder what will happen should you ever run out of SNES/Genesis comparisons? Will there be Saturn/Playstation?

[@Ryuujin1078]

Vahan Nisanian it would make sense for these guys to compare games from other generations although it's not going to be as drastic like 16-bit games. Heck they can do handhelds and PC titles

[@cup_noodls]

Vahan Nisanian no Saturn and n64

[@warrobots4life808]

NES Vs Master System would be awesome!

[@SNESdrunk]

Atari Lynx vs Neo Geo Pocket

[@SNESdrunk]

***** Cheers

[@BluesElwoo2]

Great episode as always! Keep it up guys!

[@ConsoleWars]

Thanks!

[@jasonstl636]

Always glad to watch another video. You guys are my favorite low production channel. You guys would make my top 10 underrated gaming channel list.

[@ConsoleWars]

Sweet!

[@sfighter0085]

I don't think I've complemented on Dan's musician skills before. Now, I gotta say, he's really good. His rendition of the "Growing Pains" theme is a real showstopper.

[@justanotheryoutubechannel]

It’s interesting now the arcade version used lots of sprite scaling techniques, and it’s kinda shame that the SNES version didn’t try to use a Mode-7 layer to allow scaling. I don’t think it would’ve been easy to pull off due to not really being designed for that but it would’ve looked really cool if it could, and been closer to the arcade.

[@lopony7944]

They already went over why

[@justanotheryoutubechannel]

@@lopony7944 I must’ve missed that, sorry. Or I forgot because I waited until the end to comment

[@OtomoTenzi]

@@justanotheryoutubechannel A faster 10MHz processor + a 48 meg cart could've fixed all that!

[@LarryLopez91]

SNES could've pulled off that effect if it had a SuperFX chip inside. Many sprites in Yoshi's Island had scaling and rotation effects that weren't just limited to a single background layer.

[@wongyc5585]

Mode 7 is only for background usage,not for sprites

[@johnmecca9008]

Man, I totally love you two. Just funny as hell. Presentation and script is always awesome. I have no clue why y’all don’t have more subscribers.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@VOLTRAR]

Yaaaaaaay! I was hoping you guys did this one.

[@manfredmaicon9793]

What? I missed this episode! Simply epic!

[@ravagingwolverine]

This one was fun since I had no idea which way it was going to go. Both versions have nice music based on the clips here. A shame about the SNES voice samples. How strange the SNES loses there since voice samples are typically a weakness for the Genesis. I also enjoyed the setup for the episode with the potions and how easily anything is illogical is brushed aside, which is good for a few laughs. Good job as always.

[@ConsoleWars]

Yeah, we're all about a few good laughs.

[@BLKBRDSR71]

"I'm going to play with myself" "ALL NIGHT" 😂

[@Molul_]

Looking forward to getting home and watching the episode! For the next, how about Mega Bomberman vs Super Bomberman 3? :)

[@ConsoleWars]

Yeah, we'll look into that.

[@retrosoul8770]

5:15 "So, every girl I've ever dated says we're, really good friends" (depressingly looks down). Imaooo this is one of the funniest vids I think you guys have made, cheers guys, awesome video once again!

[@ConsoleWars]

Sweet!

[@retrosoul8770]

Greg's delivery of that line was freaking perfect, body language, facial expression, priceless.

[@septarap3901]

"Great could be subjective" Damn, that was so freakin' deep

[@braselthegamer]

I grew up with the Super Nintendo port. It's a great game. Even though you declared the snes version the winner, I'm now curious about playing the Genesis one. Great video!

[@iwanttocomplain]

Did you ever play it?

[@rael_gc]

Just realized today (well, with a friend's help) that some Genesis moves are totally different then arcade. Get Haohmaru and check his sword movements (weak, medium, strong) on arcade, SNES, and then check the same in Genesis (different on this). More interestingly, while the Sega CD version lacks Earthquake too, it's a new port (by JVC), and it preserves the arcade movements.

[@mxev9626]

Great work, guys! Keep up! Although I personally think that blood and fatalities have more to do with presentation rather than graphics.

[@greendog8682]

damn forgot you guys did this grats on50k!

[@josphok4142]

I am nintendo , and I am sega this console war ,I love u guys plz keep up

[@TheBobcatXtreme]

You can also hit both slash buttons and both kick buttons to do heavy attacks in the SNES version without the use of the shoulder buttons. Just so everyone knows.

[@darkhour616]

Good show, guys! May I suggest "The Pirates of Dark Water"? You all will have fun analyse both versions... Good luck...

[@PaulNat360]

i grew up playing the Genesis version of SamSho. the Genesis version had some attacks missing like Haohmaru's forward stab (medium slash/punch), Galford's jumping spinning kick (roundhouse kick), etc. and, of course, it lacked Earthquake, a character i was never interested in. still it was one of the better NeoGeo-to-Genesis ports at that time.

[@iwanttocomplain]

That's true about the forward slash which is a really useful move. Earthquake isn't a great character and I gave up trying to learn him because he slows the game down. The snes version of this game is too slow to be really exciting but it is very strategic and can have some exciting moments.

[@AxlTheScourge]

Would you guys be willing to do Fatal Fury? I love that game and it started the King of Fighters Series and is a classic !

[@LilReikoGold]

Have you guys review pink panther goes to hollywood tlfor the snes and genesis yet?

[@MANOFBLADE]

Batman returns is the next episode. Am I right? Cuze that quote was said by The Penguin :D

[@SameNameDifferentGame]

Batman Returns X-Man Console Wars Spectacular next?! Also, the farting Lucky Charms bit cracked me up. Well done, fellas.

[@crashicbrosx]

5:14 LMFAO I COULDN'T STOP OF LAUGH

[@104d_3rr0r_vince]

/SNES drinks the dwarf potion.

[@saizerboy]

batman returns is going to be the next episode, perfect episode for holidays.

[@mrmanjumac3454]

Man watching old episodes. Always loved these guys. Greg was a cool cat

[@asa-punkatsouthvinland7145]

Perhaps ironically Earthquake may have been cut from the Genesis version because his sprite would have been too large with the zoomed in view similar to how in the NES TMNT Tournament Fighters you can't have 2 players as Hothead.

[@Elayzee]

LOL! loved this one. :D Keep it going guys! :)

[@JReed7560]

love the new video. thank you for sharing.

[@ConsoleWars]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@nathanhaycraft216]

"What a crazy random happenstance!" I saw that reference...

[@pliniomsann]

Don’t you guys realize that the arcade moves are different in the Genesis version ? Especially the strong sword

[@MuscleM100]

It's 2023 miss Greg so much ❤ he was the heart of Console wars

[@poncho828]

great work again guys 👏

[@ConsoleWars]

Thanks!

[@Neo2000gaming]

Super funny episode! I laughed loudly quite a few times.

[@ConsoleWars]

Glad you enjoyed it man!

[@2no3]

awesome episode..made me late for work watching it lmao...keep em up guys..tone.vs

[@ConsoleWars]

Hopefully you didn't get in trouble.

[@Loona2019]

Rock n roll racing that game would be a awesome console wars future episode.

[@revolutionoftheclassics3630]

“We’re really good friends” lol 😂

[@seanmyster6]

Just downloaded Samurai Shodown II on my Nintendo Switch today, and it made me want to rewatch this episode.

[@damo9961]

Yay laggy input on an emulator and even worse through a modern TV. Only way to play these games is on original hardware on a CRT

[@Ramjet164]

Had the 3do port back in the day. Loved it, still have it, still love it!

[@thousandstar]

yo the foreshadowing and Segway in this episode was godlike

[@Molul_]

That 6 button controller... I wonder how different the Genesis catalog would have been with that pad from the beginning. I also wonder why Sega didn't add shoulder buttons to the 6 button pad, being it a response to Super Nintendo's gamepad.

[@avideogamemaster]

probably because they wanted a whole new idea for their game pad. And to be fair, at that time (1989), no game needed more than 2 or 3 buttons

[@XBladenoJutsu]

SEGA's controllers were designed after Arcade machines.

[@PointReflex]

The Genesis itself is designed after arcade hardware so go figure ;)

[@JJB11]

Great Episode. Keep it up, Dudes. 👍

[@ConsoleWars]

Thanks! We will!

[@nimaiiikun]

finally a new episode! love it! will you guys eventually review the sega-cd version too? i heard it was substantially different from the Genesis beyond music.

[@PlusUltraAdrian]

Great job guys. You both should compare the SNES and Genesis version of The Jungle Book.

[@ConsoleWars]

Thanks! We def will compare those games.

[@pikabluebear9941]

2:19 Dan rejects his humanity and becomes a Vocaloid

[@elvismorales85]

Hi guys, Have you done Fatal Fury series? It comes to both systems.

[@box-breaker3837]

Love this game! Being a massive SNK fan and a die-hard fan, collector and player of the NeoGeo, I love seeing how the SNES and MegaDrive handled the Neo games. Good work guys! MJ

[@parrydox.gaming]

Lmfao. The lucky charms fart

[@amyrosearchiesonicplaypoem8760]

Amazing video do primal rage next

[@pferreira1983]

Great episode. I feel Samurai Showdown on the Mega Drive does at least have better presentation. Shame the PAL release is so expensive!

[@HipsterBlackMetalOfficial]

Joke starting at 1:17. Had me dying.

[@pikabluebear9941]

Not sure if it's possible but can you compare Street Fighter Alpha 2 on Super Nintendo vs Sega Saturn?

[@jakster16]

Batman Returns! Wasn't sure you guys were going to do this for December, but great choice.

[@BGizzle8098]

Mane said I tasted that! I fell out😂

[@Redmage1987]

LOL @ That face Dan made during the intro. xD 2:25 "I should have known better than to listen to your hair brained scheme!" - I see what you did there! Also, I wish I had Lucky Charms scented farts! These games look awesome. They look very different from the typical fighters like Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat, which I think is pretty suckaweet. I never knew that this was a pretty big series, either. Anyway, great job on the vidya, guys!

[@AdamViklund]

Excellent as always, guys! Keep up the great work!

[@ConsoleWars]

Thanks!

[@jettcord6834]

The "Show me that smile" Growing Pains theme song is one of the best theme songs of all-time! I miss the 80's/90's man.

[@animalmother8037]

Lol! Great episode! Almost thought this should be a tie. Love finishing moves but have when characters aren't included.

[@pungentcorpse]

I'd love to see you guys do Wonder Boy v.s. Adventure Island!

[@sufiretro5238]

Nice video guys, greetings from Colombia

[@ConsoleWars]

Thanks Colombia!

[@RobbyRaccoon]

The acting here makes Joe and Dave of Game Sack seem like a couple of Thespians.

[@euphoria_7477]

This channel is criminally underrated.

[@gordon_shumway]

Joe Snes yes!

[@cloudair4154]

that fart was so funny LOL

[@sarikrana4215]

Awesome a new video :)

[@TheKaneada]

Another fun episode...thanks for making these videos! One thing I wanted to point out though...SNK games are traditionally four button games. The layout is A,B,C,D so its kind of odd that chose to make the games six buttons...typically in an SNK fighting game you would press A + B, or C + D for high level attacks, so the way they laid out the controller schemes on the SNES and Genesis kind of doesn't make any sense.

[@ConsoleWars]

Glad you enjoyed it! Yeah, the controller layout for both games is totally different from the arcade.

[@OtomoTenzi]

It's totally weird that you had to hold down the L/R buttons on the SNES controller just to make a hard attack... This completely throws off the timing of combos; as if there were ANY combos at all. Why couldn't they just have 6 different attack strengths assigned to the already existing 6 buttons?🤔

[@wmir2350]

This is my favorite among the new episodes, great work on this one, never heard of this game, I would like to see what you guys think of Spider-man the animated series game 1994

[@thevoivod]

Regardless of anything else, I agree that the more 'zoomed-in' approach works way better with the graphics in these instances.

[@AkumaTh]

Awesome episode! I'm surprised SNES has the smaller sprites this time. And Batman is back on Console Wars!

[@danielm2808]

I love the continuity errors in the episodes. It adds to the charm. Content is key and u guys smash it. Would love to see these up against the Neo Geo version. Would guess Neo Geo is better though

[@SPac316]

Nothing can beat the original NG versions. But this is what we had to work with since most families couldn't afford a Neo Geo back then.

[@LevidtheRetroGamer]

time for a haircut dan! lol. how about tmnt tournament fighters?

[@ConsoleWars]

No way, I'm letting it grow. And yes, eventually tournament fighters.

[@worldofretrogameplay6963]

I won Gamepro’s Samurai Shodown contest during the 1990s. You had to draw the journalist, Scary Larry, in a game parody. So, I drew Elderly Fighter. I didn’t win 1st place, which was an MVS 1-slot arcade unit with a copy of Samurai Shodown, but I did win the Genesis version of the game.