Games that Push Hardware Limits 9

[@GameSack]

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[@retrogamer41_sepiamta]

Would "Cooking With (my)Sack" be a thing in the future?

[@QF_Dan72]

does it work worldwide?

[@Cyberbrickmaster1986]

I've tried something that's just like Hello Fresh, but it cost too much money over time and you still have to make the recipes yourself. it's actually less tedious and costly just to look up a good recipe and buy the ingredients yourself, then make it at your own pace.

[@acecarrera1]

Remember it's HelloFresh, not HelloJoe....or HelloDave.

[@beardsarejustfacepubes8620]

In times like these you want people wasting money on this? Bad form

[@64-Bit-Gamer]

I live in the UK and can confirm the 16 bit era was indeed the Queen's favourite. There wasn't a Christmas day that passed without her mentioning Sega, Nintendo, and even TurboGrafx, on one occasion, which was controversial as it wasn't actually 16 bit.

[@brendanroberts1310]

You know your joking when your from the UK and you mention the turbografx

[@64-Bit-Gamer]

@@brendanroberts1310 I *am* joking, but I do seriously wonder where the Queen stood on the 16 bit Console War. Guess I'll never know.

[@davidortiz2696]

Wgaf

[@shootermcgavin1208]

It had a 16 bit GPU, why does everyone think that bits are only tied to CPUs? The SNES had a 16 bit CPU and it was shit. The 8 bit CPU of the TG16 was much faster. Nothing wrong with naming it the TG16.

[@bigduke5902]

@@shootermcgavin1208 You're right. This guy should delete his original comment.

[@tehlias]

Also, as a developer in the industry for almost twenty years now, I really appreciate the passion and attention to detail you’ve had on Game Sack. The piece here on Shenmue got me thinking about a frequent topic co-workers and I have had over the years: what games were the most transformative for the industry. My go-to’s when we talk about it tend to be A Link to the Past - from both a game and world design standpoint, it felt like something we never had even imagined, and its also a great example of a developer truly ‘advancing’ a series forward. FF3/6 is another one, mostly for world, characters and story creating what i’d argue is to this day one of Square’s most compelling stories. Mario 64 is usually the gimme with all of us for really defining what a 3d platformer could be. And then Shenmue - yea, it’s got its rough edges, but it really created an open, living, breathing world that you felt apart of. Now we take that for granted in modern games. Anyhow, it’d be interesting to do something like that as a companion sub-series to this! Thanks for all you do - your videos are the highlight of every other weekend of mine :)

[@poisonouslead85]

Shenmue walked so Yakuza could fly.

[@paxhumana2015]

@@poisonouslead85 , Lost Judgement exists too, you know.

[@tr3vk4m]

I think you mean "a part of" like, you are one part of something - not "apart" which means separate from.

[@reptilez13]

I look to PC games. Doom, Daggerfall, Diablo, Warcraft 2 and then 3, the Ultima games all did a ton to show that, without certain limitations consoles had, what could be done for immersiveness and storytelling. Same with System Shock 1 and 2, Deus Ex, etc once 3D Accelerators happened. The early Lucas Arts games, Monkey Island etc for humour, art and storytelling. Wing Commander and Space Quest for different reasons, PC gaming is hard because different eras were drastically different but yeah.

[@bigduke5902]

Isn't it funny to think about how little progress modern gaming has made creatively in the same frame of time between A Link to the Past and Super Mario 64?

[@dwood78part23]

Now that's something you don't see everyday- a Game Sack video with a sponsor. I love this series.

[@MGForums]

I know and don't know if it's to be taken seriously or not xD

[@GameSack]

@@MGForums It's real. If there's a link at the top of the description, it's real. :)

[@ColdCobra84]

@@GameSack An unfortunate coincidence after last episode's skit! Still, no shame in making extra money for your hard work.

[@skins4thewin]

He has most definitely had sponsors on his videos for years now in fact. Mostly hair loss products for us old fogies.

[@abex701]

I like to think last video's skit was a jab at this one

[@tehlias]

This...may be the best post credits scene you've ever done. Bravo.

[@Chaos89P]

I don't know if you know this, but it's based off an actual Legend of Zelda commercial. No reference to GREENDOG!, however.

[@Doc_Valparaiso]

@@Chaos89P I think that's why Jim is praising it so much. I remember that stupid commercial🤣

[@Jesse__H]

The recent one where he mocked the "be sure to like and subscribe and ring the bell" KZbinrs was hilarious too! Joe's on a roll.

[@Doc_Valparaiso]

@@Jesse__H It's really good to see Joe enjoying himself. I know there was a lot of burnout happening a few years back. I've been preaching the Gamesack gospel for 10 years now.😁

[@treedeblue]

Would have 2 agree.. we are seeing Joe blossom as a artist oh my

[@robintst]

Shenmue, blemishes and all, was such a surreal and amazing experience at the time. My 18 year old nephew just got a Dreamcast and he is in love with it as he is with most things old SEGA. Probably my doing, when he was little I gave him his first console... a Genesis. 😁

[@kpegc]

Raising him right I see 👍

[@supernintendochalmers3811]

Gay

[@PastoKage]

I'm glad that someone is finally talking about Sonic 2 on the MD! Such an hidden gem!!

[@deathproof8732]

Wtf is a Sonic

[@worsel555]

@@deathproof8732 *MJR frantically looking for pen and paper* WRITE THAT DOWN WRITE THAT DOWN! Though to be fair he's not done one of those types of videos in a while I believe.

[@Chayaen]

"hidden"? It´s a fucking beloved game cause for a lot of people it´s still the best Sonic game.

[@worsel555]

@@Chayaen *WOOSH*

[@Chaos89P]

@@deathproof8732 Some sort of blue rat that can run without a secondary button. I couldn't get into it. The second game has this mutant wolf or whatever as the second player.

[@duncanrathband5492]

Joe, I love how you never beg for subscriptions. You just offer quality content and let the rest follow from there. It's a touch of class much needed on this platform. You rule 😃👊💛

[@bigdeagle1331]

I’ve been gaming since 78! Every retro game you show brings me back to those days! Thanks for the remember berries!

[@DeathInTheSnow]

I still can't believe how sharp WipEout 3/Wip3out looks today. It was so crisp back then! Mind you, every WipEout game pushed the limits of the console it was on in one way or another. I miss that series so much...

[@watson3047z]

I really like these technical episodes. Oh and Rock n Roll Racing was so fun back in the day.

[@PsychomachineryEBM]

Still fun, RnR Racing is criminally underrated

[@dbzfanatic278]

fun fact: you can play rock n roll racing on the switch in a Blizzard/Activision combo pack on the eshop.

[@novelezra]

Good to see you get a sponsor Joe. You have provided us plenty of free content of the last decade and it's time to start reaping those rewards.

[@oldguy9051]

Yes, it's finally time to ditch this channel!

[@WezzleG]

@@oldguy9051 why so you resent people working for a living? God damn Commies.

[@brandonginsburg3120]

You reap what you sew. An apple a day keeps the copter away. In one ear, out the mother.

[@JomasterTheSecond]

I can't believe Queen Elizabeth didn't manage to see this episode of her favourite show, Game Sack, before she died. RIP her majesty, she was the biggest gamer we ever knew.

[@mcostafernando]

Alien 3 for the Master System was released by TecToy in Brazil as well... I bought it and remember being blown away by the graphics at the time!

[@andreperez8961]

How old are you? Wow.

[@mcostafernando]

@@andreperez8961 I'm 41 haha

[@colinbaldwin7773]

Wave Race 64 always impressed me. Not only were the water effects incredible for the time but the water physics and the way they affected the way your water craft handled were incredible. It never ceases to impress me, even today. Whether or not it pushes the N64, i cant say

[@v82mp95]

Modern vintage gamer did a video on the water effects on Wave Race 64 a month or two back. Interesting and actually quite simple in programming terms

[@ByGeorge846]

Thank you so much for honouring Her Majesty The Queen with this episode. I'm sure she is looking down, smiling, and royally waving as we take in this information.

[@PikaLink91]

10:23 I have this gut feeling that I remember having briefly played this game in my childhood.

[@Write-Stuff]

I don't know if anyone has ever brought it up, but it never ceases to impress me just how smoothly Joe inserts cartridges into systems and plugs in cords and controllers. I at least scrape the sides to some degree.

[@GameSack]

Thanks for noticing. When I want to do this effect, I'll remove the cartridge PCB, and then play the video backwards of me removing the cart which makes it look like I have perfect aim when inserting it.

[@davidscott9257]

the magic of video editing lol.

[@GuestZer0]

"It even gets all blocky like the Super Nintendo! And who doesn't love that?" I love it, that's for sure!

[@kinorai]

I remember when the Queen played Mutant league hockey, she just wouldn't stop trash talking Prince Charles! What a time!

[@budsunny]

I bought the Game Gear version of Gunstar Heroes at a random game shop when I visited Japan in the early 2000’s. I really enjoyed it and it’s become one of my favorite Game Gear games.

[@Falcnuts]

Watched the whole ad just for the love of the show for like a decade, Hello Fresh was a great tool that taught me the foundation of cooking skills!

[@marafolse8347]

That shenmue face tech is insane! Wow

[@phillipl.2029]

For anyone who wasn't around in the 90's that 'commercial' at the end was spot on for the style of that era. Well done! Also, I really miss the variety of arranged music you used to use for the end credits. Probably was lots of work but it was really special.

[@LeoStaley]

Now I really want a technical explanation of how they did those levels on lawnmower man.

[@Dwedit]

On SNES, you can use Windowing to draw up to two simple polygons (single color only) per scanline. This can be done in any graphics mode, including Mode 7. As for the Genesis, I'm not sure what it's doing to get the Mode 7 looking effect, but it looks a lot like the Mickey Mania trick. Game Hut did a video about that. Additionally, Genesis allows a very gentle tilt effect (vertical displacement can change every horizontal 16 pixels).

[@Sinn0100]

Okay, so how I understand it is...at some point in the Sega Genesis's life developers started utilizing software solutions in order to mimic the same effects as the Snes. There are actually quite a few games that have scaling, sprite rotation, sprite warping, and all types of wild things that it technically wasn't designed to do in retail games. These tricks weren't the only impossible feats developers were able to pull off on a Genesis either. The color limitations on the Genesis really hurt it especially when the Snes launched with 32,768 colors@256 on screen at once. Somehow developers smashed through the 61+3 limitation as well. I know there are games hitting 128 per screen on the Sega Genesis...I just can't remember which one it is. The only effect that the Genesis has never pulled off or at least that I have heard of us true transparencies. There is even smooth running polygonal based games that released on the Genesis during its original run. Look up Kawasaki Racing for an example of the Genesis pushing polygons with minimal slowdown. Addendum- Have you seen what indy developers are doing with the Sega Genesis right now?! If not, go look up Mortal Kombat Arcade Edition, Street Fighter 2 Special Champions Edition, Wolfenstein 3D and Super Street Fighter 2 as a start. There's a guy that is making Star Fox on the Genesis that will run on bone stock hardware that isn't on rails. I have also seen F-Zero and Sonic Racers (think Mario Kart). Incredible stuff...

[@kiwibro6454]

@@Sinn0100 its crazy what developers can do with old hardware like this nowadays, really proves the capabilities of the system that only a few actual devs got to achieve back when it was current , tho about the polygons , hard drivin/race drivin are good examples of that, a bit slow but enough to actually be playable and competent ports of their arcade counterparts

[@Naedlus]

@@Sinn0100 Toy Story on the Genesis/Megadrive was likely the game. In the between level panel cut scenes, they layered sprites with images to add more colour to the region. As well, they made use of the light/dark setting for colours as well, granting them roughly double the available colour to normal

[@Sinn0100]

@@Naedlus I think you're right...yeah, Toy Story on the Genesis was incredible. The first person levels floored me at the time. Normally, I wouldn't have gone 10 feet near a Disney game but that one and Aladdin on the Genesis forced my hands. Oh and Castle of Illusion back in 1989.

[@MzuMzu-nx1em]

Really funny the comic relief at the end . Totally gets the weirdness of the 80s commercials

[@28Pluto]

It's literally a remake of one of the Zelda commercials. It gets the weirdness, because it imitates the commercial exactly.

[@MzuMzu-nx1em]

@@28Pluto you seems the expert. Is there any underground culture about 80s commercials?

[@worsel555]

So happy to see Wipeout 3 featured! My brother and I bought it on release and we were stunned at how amazing the game looked, especially the downward corkscrew in The Mall track. It's still one I pull out to show off now and then.

[@BocaRetroGames]

The sketch on the end is just pure gold. Congrats on that Joe!

[@mcbaby]

Congrats on the sponsor ad, you deserve it for the years of quality content you put out 🤘

[@justingogas]

Played the original NES commercial and Joe's version side by side and they are almost perfect analogues frame for frame. Makes me want to use crack too.

[@NattosoupStudio]

27:43 I love the Shenmue filmography. Maybe we'll get a GameSack automata one of these days.

[@MrRom92DAW]

Thank you for doing what you do with these vids, there are so many hidden gems that really deserve some recognition and a little time in the spotlight. I had no idea they made another Sonic game!!

[@TheFLOMAN76]

Here I am. Stuck and loving it, In my hot tent. Got a fire going in the little wood stove, drinking some and smoking some and then here comes.... Joe!!! And then the night gets that much better! Love me some Sack! Game... That is! 😉

[@vidarlystadjohansen9829]

This channel is incredible!

[@maxwelseven]

Awesome! About SNES hi-res games... In the Japanese version of RPM Racing, they disabled high resolution during gameplay. Since hi-res is just a background thing, it doesn't affect performance, so it works the same. Trials of Mana uses horizontal high resolution for all text and menus. Even if the main game is in low resolution, the text boxes will use the resolution of 512 pixels wide. Tokimeki Memorial also uses it for all the text, as it's a port of the PC Engine CD game that runs at 344x239 and reeeeally needs some screen space. Porky Pig's Haunted Holiday uses for the first screen of every level, except the first... for some reason. They look really sharp though, nice skinny pixels. As for sprites, the SNES can double their vertical resolution with interlacing, but not horizontally. No game has done this except Nintendo's repair carts, so all those games just uses normal resolution sprites. There are some other games that only use high resolution for the logos, but they are all Japanese games, like "Yu Yu Hakusho: Tokubetsu Hen".

[@alicesavage69420]

I'm SO happy to finally see someone give some love to The Lawnmower Man game. It's probably one of the best licensed games of that era, it clearly had a lot of effort put into it

[@basteagui]

the lawnmower man is great on the SNES but i do wish they let us mow some lawns. you know? maybe after mowing the lawn you can play some of the fine golf titles from the NES on them

[@deftones8717]

Lmao I love what you did in the top corner of the thumbnail.. “you can’t read this sentence because there’s stuff in front of the text.” Hahah you’re the best Joe! Got my coffee ☕️ Nothing better than sipping on a fresh cup of Joe, whilst watching Joe, on a relaxing Sunday morning. Hope all is well, man!

[@Deanster101]

I actually love the crazy blockiness of the sprite scaling.

[@Athesies]

Can't wait to try out this sonic 2 game! I love giving obscure under appreciated games a shot

[@AHMEDRAVENBARNACLE-84]

Trust me you won’t.disappoint 😁

[@OfficialiGamer]

Sonic 2 is one my favs, There is an android port and on modern systems too (at least xb1/ series X

[@KasumiKenshirou]

Thinking about it now, I actually never played the Genesis version. I had the Game Gear versions of Sonic 1 & 2, but never had a Genesis. I was aware at the time that the Genesis version was much different than what I had on the Game Gear, but I never played it outside of briefly in the in-store displays. (In the Game Gear version, Tales is kidnapped instead of being onscreen with Sonic during the game.)

[@JoeyBoxOfDonuts]

I really enjoy the quality and personality that is put into these videos. I didn't see it coming, but I'm pretty sure Game Sack is my favorite channel.

[@socialistprofessor3206]

After waking still dazed from yesterevening's bacchanal, I was greeted with this pleasant surprise from Game Sack. A smile crept onto my face as I knew the joy, in some form, would continue.

[@PierreVonStaines]

Joe “No onions for me thank you” Redifer.

[@kamilpotato3764]

Wipeout 3 Special edition is for me still best entry in the series.

[@pengwin_]

it was friggin BEAUTIFUL for a PS1 game, i was impressed!

[@neoqueto]

WO3SE aged extremely well. It still looks and feels shockingly modern. It's my favorite game of all time.

[@Estorium]

Congrats on the sponsor Joe. Some extra money to put into gaming :D

[@PsychomachineryEBM]

Hopefully someday we will have the Food Sack channel on KZbin

[@bennyblanco519]

I appreciate the small details in game sacks vids. Thanks for keeping comb over Joe it's very period accurate. 👌

[@reptilez13]

Gratz on the sponsor! It feels weird considering how many of your old vids are sponsor less lol, but glad you are getting support for all the awesome work you do! :)

[@kennethd4958]

This is one of my favorite "series" by Game Sack and I am so glad you're still putting out such amazing content and solo nonetheless...I get so happy when I see a new GS video.... Game Sack has been and always will be my go to channel for retro gaming, Keep up the great work Joe and hurray for getting sponsors!

[@spencerstevens2175]

13 years and this is the first sponsor I've seen. If anyone deserves it, it's you guys

[@julioagua]

Wow, that Sonic 2 game is such a little hidden gem! I don't get how Metal Jesus missed that one :O

[@AnalogX64]

Metal Gear Solid, Gran Turismo and Tekken 3 for the Original Playstation, there have been many interviews the developers discussing what they had to do, to optimize and use every bit of memory for the system. For the Dreamcast it would have to be Shenmue II.

[@acecarrera1]

My favorite episode is back! Personally it's one of your best series, right up there with gaming memories and music, although there's only one episode on the latter so far.

[@habibkebob3880]

Love that you schedule your ads and put in a little logo bump. Very slick.

[@carlosdelcampo119]

When Joe says, thank you for watching Game Sack, I want to reply: no, thank you for creating informative and fun content. His videos are awesome.

[@koopakape]

Seeing Tails the fox yawn to Joe going on about interlaced graphics was something I didn't realize I needed in my life

[@plaztik767]

Wipeout XL and Three Have the greatest soundtracks (Late 90’s techno 👍🏻)

[@PrimitiveBaroque]

No question Shenmue for the DC was such an incredible experience. I can't forget the wintery x-mas in Dobuita.

[@zanychelly]

The eyes of the characters in the shenmue passport is impressive.

[@BenWard29]

You know, her majesty just loved blast processing.

[@sgtsquank]

You missed your calling Joe. That's the perfect 'infomercial smile'. Thanks for the laugh this morning.

[@BrasilGT]

Alien 3 was released in Brazil too, Joe.

[@TimelessGamingUK]

There’s a section in Jet a force Gemini where the floor is reflective. So the characters and all the action are mirrored on the ground. I don’t know much about the technicality of it but it impressed the hell out of me at the time!

[@3dmarth]

They had to duplicate every character and object in the scene, and flip them all upside-down. A bunch of N64 games did this, but it always looked great. Speaking of JFG, it also had its main characters casting up to two shadow maps at the same time, from different angles! Even some GameCube and Xbox games didn't use this technique at all, opting instead for a simple circle to represent the character's shadow. But even if they did have proper shadows, it was very rare to have more than one at a time.

[@jasonmurray890]

My favourite & unforgettable game of all of time was both Shenmue 1 & 2 on Dreamcast which I thought was pretty amazing & fantastic games to play on, Thx for posting this video👍👍

[@AkamoriRivals]

Even with the existence of games like Yakuza, Shenmue still has a level of atmosphere that has never been matched for me. Even playing it recently, it still possesses that same magical feeling, and every time I play it even having have platinumed it on PS4, beating it countless times on Dreamcast, and now owning it on PC, I can still say that there is something infinitely and undeniably special about it. The world feels real in ways that many games fail to.

[@PsychomachineryEBM]

Shenmue is way better than Yakuza

[@AkamoriRivals]

@@PsychomachineryEBM I don't know... Yakuza 0 is pretty freaking awesome.

[@dutchcinephile1362]

Poeple love to wear glasses

[@TheStrategist314]

Agreed. That game was just so ahead of it’s time and the only thing more amazing is that the game will never be finished the way it deserved.

[@TheStrategist314]

@@AkamoriRivals This person isn’t saying that the game isn’t good…they are saying that it doesn’t have the ground breaking affect that Shenmue had.

[@neoasura]

Back when you could only see static images in magazines, Lawnmower Man look incredible, I always wanted to play it.

[@BenjiMordino]

As a proud commonwealth citizen that was heavily sedated when QE2 died (read:drunk, much like now) I found it offensive that you both slandered her majesty, and spruiked Hello Fresh. To be fair though Joe, I feel you don't care what I think, so for that I love you. Game Sack is best.

[@brandonjenkins6381]

Great way to start Sunday is with a new game sack video

[@kekula69]

that whole thing about the queen was extremely tasteful considering how long it's been since she was pronounced gone. i hope you don't feel bad or anything because it was genuinely good

[@Killbomb]

Joe even makes the promo entertaining...bravo.

[@promptcriticality6728]

Shenmue did a great job of including gollum in the game!

[@wolfgangfrost8043]

24:17 I must come from another Mandela Effect universe or something because the Silly Dice Maze was always the highlight of Gunstar Heroes when I'd play it with my friends in High School. So much variety with the bizarre bosses, a ton of fun glitches you can cause. Good times.

[@christopherdowling1478]

Just in time to watch before bed! Keep up the outstanding work you do!

[@shelterfromcold8620]

Right there with ya buddy.

[@filippoBTV]

For me it is breakfast time but I agree with what you said 😉

[@50shadesofbeige88]

7:50 Dude, if you haven't already... you. should try Wipeout XL on PC with the Glide API. Im sure you can emulate it. It's worth the hassle.

[@thev2ify]

Lawnmower man is the snes equivalent of a fever dream

[@PsychomachineryEBM]

I wonder how good would be playing that on LSD lol

[@pileofwit]

The movie is the movie equivalent.

[@RighteousPT]

Queen died and GameSack gets a sponsor? Do the math! Nice episode, Wipeout felt amazing back in the day

[@malik87breaker]

Last year. I played 2097 / XL. I was surprised. Not only on the technical aspect. But i died in the first level. My vehicle was destroyed. I was farily suprised :D

[@Windavinci]

17?

[@ricktifferpowers1762]

Wipeout xl: you have unlocked a memory!

[@TranquilVision]

Video starts at 1:07. Use the SponsorBlock addon to skip such in-video ads automatically. Reclaim your time.

[@gameoverwehaveeverypixelco1258]

The techno music from wipeout is what reminds me so much of the psx. I can remember playing demo disks with wipeout and playing just for the music.

[@Phillyjoe2]

Loving the Wipeout games getting a shout out. I loved these games back in the 90's, and they all had killer soundtracks 😎

[@6Stevo]

Doom 3 was a great inclusion. It blew me away at the time. Couldn't believe what the OG XBox was doing! So impressive and still looks good today!

[@AkiraHDR50]

Pretty sure the queen would have been a Neo Geo fan. She'd be one of the few people to afford one at that time.

[@brandonginsburg3120]

One time, 21 years ago, I was visiting a relative's older mother (she was probably about 7O). She had a PSX to keep her mind sharp and was playing it in front of me. I forget which game, but I thought it very cool.

[@TheRelen222]

Actually the queen was known to have been a fan of Wii sports. One of her grandchildren had one and she became interested in it.

[@Windavinci]

Nah, she wouldn't have been into fighting games which is pretty much all you got with neogeo. She'd have been a PC or Amiga gamer I'm fairly sure.

[@TechRyze]

@@Windavinci Royal family are always kicking off with each other. She probably loves Sniper Elite 🤣

[@chewrafa]

As always, a great video. I truly enjoyed this one. Games that push the Game Gear could be GGAleste 1, GGAleste 2 and the new GGAleste 3. Also by Compile, Power Strike 2 on the Master System it's a true showcase of what the old Sega 8 bit console can do (I think that game was covered in a past episode, but I'm not sure). The Alien 3 game on Master System it's doing a lot more than the parallax. Probe implemented some "inertia" in the main scroll that can be seen when Ripley stops moving, making the main scroll to stop moving but smoothly. The game also has a very good sound engine (specially for the drums section), a good use of the very limited on screen maximum colours and a lot of good animations for Ripley. All of this is done at the expense of an atrociuos fps count drop, but sadly it's something very common in the Master System library, specially in later games. For the Lawnmower man game on Genesis the secret it's the cpu. It has enough power for moving certain number of polys, even with textures. The SNES can also do things like that but using lower poly count. The "3D" sections were probably done with that in both consoles, so no need to sprite scaling. For the MegaDrive/Genesis final boss I'm not sure how they achieve the scaling. Maybe a textured polygon group or maybe software sprite scaling with horizontal mirroring.

[@kicksex]

Doom 3 is excellent. I played it when it came out alone in the dark and it was great fun. Play it with a big stereo. Totally worth it

[@Chaos89P]

It's available on modern consoles as well, nowadays. Fun time on the go with the Switch.

[@jfh400]

Sponsors take note, this is one of the only channels where I don't skip the ad read. also RIP Lizzie

[@overweightactor]

1:47 "The 16-bit Era was her favorite, so..." Oh, boy. I can't wait to add this to Liz's Wikipedia. I've even got a citation!

[@BenHeckHacks]

SMS requires port access to update the video RAM/animate the fake parallax. Whereas the NES could use mapper chips to automatically switch banks of tiles to achieve the effect with very little overhead.

[@loganjorgensen]

Lawnmover Man certainly is like a demoscene thing but you play it. Love to see somebody do a breakdown on the effects GameHut style since it's not just the methods but also how smoothly they go it to run too. SNES music really captures that newage thing that was so big in 90s CGI. SCD one is boring but a good example of early single CD space management the way the FMV changes res dynamically. Kind of let Wipeout pass me by bitd but it definitely was a hardware pushing series. True reviews back then were heavily about pop-up but I can't say it ever bothered me that much as a player, short draw distance and fog was my beef heh. Today I do focus on the hi-res PS1 games more since I use higher than Composite where you can see the crisp pixels better. I'm just glad there is something in 512x448 running on SNES, so often you look at console specs where it says it goes THIS high in screen resolution and you think to yourself "Where, no game runs in that?". ^_^ Other than Popeye arcade or Midway cabs you didn't see that kind of fine pixel rendering on a TV bitd. Actually surprised it wasn't used more for pause menus or puzzle games on SNES like PS1 games often did, probably cart space. Genesis could only increase height resolution alone, Sonic2 SS makes more sense now. ;) Also interlacing without purpose, innovative. O_o??? 15:44 Well it is technically sharper and good for document viewing, plus it does have some kanji enhancing qualities which you showed later. Mainly it's the FMV speed that suffers the most on TG-CD that the higher res doesn't help with. Idk the whole platform has a funny technical side to it being 8+8-Bit lol. I don't mind later day retro, I couldn't do Progressive Scan when this was new so fun to see what I can try now. :D The OG Xbox Doom3 port really pushes things to the hardware limit, turned out better than HL2 did in most people's eyes heh. I still think Shenmue looks incredibly sharp now, the intricacy of the world details hold up even if the resolution is low compared to now. Those GBA 3D games are mighty impressive in any era "32-BIT POWER!". Gunstar on GG, I don't think there is another game that pushes that hardware limit as much.

[@Quimbyrbg]

Queen Liz would have been so happy, though I believe she was more of a Speccy fan; She knighted the guy who produced the Spectrum for her birthday in 1983. No doubt she saw your episode covering the NES version of Elite, so she would have been chuffed. For the next Push Hardware limits, I would like to see ports onto hardware that shouldn't have been able to handle them (like Gunstar Heroes on the GG) that retained the game feel. A lot of them would have already been covered though, but it's a topic I find interesting. Examples would be Road Rash (MS), Mortal Kombat 2 (GB), Tekken (GBA), Virtua Fighter (MD), Jungle Hunt (2600), Mario 64 (DS), Donkey Kong Land (GB), Street Fighter Alpha (GBC), SFA2 (SNES), SFA3 (GBA), Rampage (MS), Burnout (PSP), Panzer Dragoon (GG), Donkey Kong (GB).

[@SomeGuy712x]

(7:03) I know you probably said "320 pixels wide" there, but when I first heard you say that, it really sounded like "320 pickles wide" to me, and that gave me a good laugh.

[@Dorelaxen]

Joe eating with Greendog was just the best.

[@TheStrategist314]

I honestly always thought Lawnmower Man was about a dude who got chopped up by a lawnmower cutting his lawn.

[@FintanMoloney]

Always enjoy these videos when I'm up early on a Sunday - no work today :D

[@GoredonTheDestroyer]

I would just like to pour one out for our boys at Vicarious Visions. They aren't dead, but the studio is, and that makes me very upset.

[@monochameleongaming5317]

Rock and Roll Racing was basically the sequel to RPM Racing - both early Blizzard games, showing the team learning from their experiences I guess. I do love these videos, particularly for the games (like the Sesame Street one, way back) where it's not necessarily the whole game but there are outstanding parts.

[@jeffhlewis]

I remember playing Shenmue 1 during the summer before my first year of college...go to work IRL, come home, fall asleep playing Shenmue where I'm working an actual job in the game...rinse repeat. And in no way was this ever boring at the time - it always felt like there was some corner of the game that you hadn't explored yet, or a person you hadn't talked to. One of the biggest "you had to be there at the time" experiences in gaming history.

[@davidscott9257]

I'd put the original Splinter Cell for the og xbox on games that push hardware limits, the shadow and lighting detail on that game was two generations ahead of other games

[@A2Adam]

Garfield Caught in The Act for Genesis and The Flash on Master System are my picks for future episodes. Great work on this!

[@NesrocksGamingVideos]

I Lol'd at dinner with Green Dog!

[@MrGreatDane2]

I believe that this is the first episode in this series that featured the Original Xbox, I'm happy to see it here!

[@Seafoamgaming]

One game I absolutely have to give a shout out to is Shiren Monsters NETSAL on the GBA. It's not nearly as impressive as the Asterix Game, but it's a 3D Soccer game on the GBA... With a fully rotating court. It still uses sprites, and there are probably a lot of other soccer games that try the same thing, but it's such a niche game and I haven't seen anything to that extent on the GBA outside of Smashing Drive that I feel it's worth a suggest (which is a far more 3D-intensive game I think was even covered in a prior episode)