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.

[@hi_tech_reptiles]

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?

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@vidarlystadjohansen9829]

This channel is incredible!

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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...

[@infinity2z3r07]

Wip3out was a stunner in 95. Wanted to love those games, but control is way too floaty and constantly losing 100% of your momentum on walls just sucks. The F-Zero games did it right.

[@GameSack]

Agreed.

[@neoqueto]

Wip3out was released in 1999, you're thinking OG WipEout (1995). The handling model sucked in that game, it's sort of culturally significant in a niche way for being the first entry in the franchise but it's also massively overrated as a game. 2097/XL and Wip3out play great and turn those physics-related flaws from tedious to challenging. Same can be said about the following games from the series. But they all feel much floatier and more technical than F-Zero, not everyone's cup of tea but definitely worth a second chance.

[@jcwyatt3]

Don't know if you've shown them in a past video or not. But the Star Wars: Rogue Squadron games on the GameCube tend to push the system pretty hard.

[@brandonginsburg3120]

That GameCube was like, "Hey! Back off! Ease up on me!"

[@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

[@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 🤣

[@forrestredd2706]

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

[@forrestredd2706]

@@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]

@@forrestredd2706 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.

[@drunkensailor112]

Shenmue still looks insane on my dreamcast and tv

[@pengwin_]

How bout a game of lucky hit?

[@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

[@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.)

[@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.

[@marafolse8347]

That shenmue face tech is insane! Wow

[@kicksex]

You should’ve showed the Sega cd version of lawnmower man. Now I have to go look it up😂

[@realtrisk]

It's a horrible FMV game that is nothing like the cart version.

[@julioagua]

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

[@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!

[@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 😃👊💛

[@NIProductionsLLC]

For part 10, check our Fatal Fury Special for The Game Gear. The animations and frame rate really impressed me!

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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".

[@cavauro]

i opened my gba to see if the hardware wasn't 3d like you claimed. it definitely is

[@kicksex]

Holy crap. Anyone reading this, check out the Sega CD version of the lawnmower man. It deserves its own video 😂😂

[@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👍👍

[@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).

[@Wyrenth]

I wouldn't say it pushed the hardware limits any, but Dark Law: Meaning of Death on the SNES is another game that uses Mode 5 for text. I'm not sure they strictly needed to do so, but that's what they did.

[@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.

[@WHATISUTUBE]

97TH!!!!

[@Agostoic]

So close!

[@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.

[@BenWard29]

You know, her majesty just loved blast processing.

[@promptcriticality6728]

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

[@Wyrdwad]

Regarding "Games That Push Hardware Limits 10," I've recently learned that the Intellivision, of all things, is apparently a WAY more powerful system than people have ever given it credit for -- it's just that nobody really bothered pushing it to its full potential back then, because they basically just wanted to port existing arcade or Atari games to it, or crap out new games fast enough to be sold on store shelves the next month. Indie/homebrew developers are seriously breaking the Intellivision wide open nowadays, though, and the games they're producing for it are frankly astounding. KAI Magazine, a one-man homebrew developer who got his start making MSX indie games, has been pumping out insane Intellivision games left and right these last couple years, with a port of his MSX Metroidvania "The Sorrow of Gadhlan' Thur" being the most recent -- only, the MSX game was flip-screen, while the Intellivision game features smooth omnidirectional scrolling with animated backgrounds! There's also "A. F. Anthropomorphic Force" and "Star Mercenary," which feature smooth scrolling and parallax, with the former in particular also featuring massive screen-filling bosses. Check out some KZbin videos -- I think you'll be impressed! Were it not for the lower screen resolution, these games could honestly pass for NES titles, and would be relatively impressive even there. I can't recall if indie/homebrew titles are fair game for this series (I have the memory of a goldfish), but if so, I highly recommend checking these titles out and maybe considering them for inclusion in the next video, as I don't think anyone could deny that they push the ever-loving hell out of the Intellivision!

[@loganford3921]

I was addicted playing darts in the arcade in Shenmue in December 2000. I got the number 1 spot on the online leader board for about 20 mins lol.

[@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 😉

[@FastTquick]

I think it’s insane how it was possible to play Asterix and Obilix XXL on a Game Boy Advance. If one didn’t know any better, he’d probably believe the game was an early PS1 3D platformer.

[@pengwin_]

Dude that was CRAZY!

[@mattb154]

It would look acceptable for a DS game. Amazing work.

[@Kunigun]

hello From Ukraine 🇺🇦. you're awesome:)

[@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!

[@bigdeagle1331]

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

[@Deanster101]

I actually love the crazy blockiness of the sprite scaling.

[@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?

[@PrimitiveBaroque]

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

[@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.

[@neoasura]

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

[@dominicrinaldi8241]

Damn, knocking it out of the park again Joe! Awesome video.

[@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!

[@L_Train]

Wipeout was an interesting game at the time. It wasn't necessarily good I my opinion but I nonetheless found myself playing and playing it. Perhaps it was the lack of wheels that made it interesting lol. It's soundtrack was the same. Oddly interesting, just enough to make you curious and dive in. I had the sega Saturn version

[@moonbilal707]

You should talk about Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria on PlayStation 2 in the next Hardware Limits episode. That game supports 1080i mode.

[@TheStrategist314]

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

[@hououinkyouma8255]

On wich planet did people have such bad CRTs? The one from the 80s and 90s had a clear screen. You can only get such bad quality by messing up the cables.

[@basket472]

WOW I have never knew of Shenmue Passport. that is crazy stuff they had on display

[@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.

[@JimLeonard]

If you haven't covered it already, there are several Atari lynx games that push the limits of that hardware. For example, the 3D games like hard drivin that use the functionality of one of the chips as an effective floating point processor, or stun runner which builds the tunnels out of multiple scaled wall sprites.

[@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

[@chaospoet]

I could actually picture her Majesty playing Sherlock Holmes on Turbografx CD. Just saying.

[@vespasian606]

There was another game that came to the Xbox in the same year as Doom 3. You might have heard of it. I played the 360 version shortly afterwards and apart from a few bullet effects I couldn't tell the difference. RIP Gordon Freeman.

[@thenewsupermonkey122]

Crazy how dave left, but the quality didnt drop at all. Great episode. There are some seriously impressive late gen ps3/360 games. Rise of the tomb raider on 360 is a feat.

[@Bartycrouch]

Marko's magic football for Sega Game Gear. Not an amazing game but definitely impressive on the platform. Big characters and animations

[@gamingquarterly6353]

Just when you think he cant top his last end skit, he proves us wrong.

[@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!!

[@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.

[@Brylant1980]

I only have such a dream that this video never ends 😍. Great job 👍

[@hi_tech_reptiles]

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! :)

[@PierreVonStaines]

Joe “No onions for me thank you” Redifer.

[@PikaLink91]

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

[@Will45_]

Games are getting on Game Sack just for having high resolution menus now 😂

[@primalconvoy]

You forgot to mention that "Wipeout XL" was only the American name. The original, and more widespread name, was "Wipeout 2097". Also, why didn't you mention the high resolution, interlaced graphics on the 16 bit Amiga 500? Psygnosis often used it for their logo screen, such as in the AMAZING looking and sounding shoot em up, "Agony".

[@OfficialiGamer]

Have you checked out Half Life 2 on the XBOX? Its equally as impressive as Doom3. Minimum PC requirements were a 1.7 GHz CPU, and 512MB RAM. Well over the 733Mhz Celeron and 64MB Ram on the system

[@QF_Dan72]

Lawnmower Man, never heard of it but the game itself looks fun to play.

[@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)

[@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.

[@orderofmagnitude-TPATP]

For me with Shenmue.... I stopped my life for a week to live the life of a 16 year old boy avenging his dad. I mean I got a job and everything on it. Lol Thats how it felt at the time. Every time a fight came in my adrenaline started going and my hatred to kick those sailors asses was huge.

[@Killbomb]

Joe even makes the promo entertaining...bravo.

[@dogeymon83]

Hey, whatdya expect from the Sega cd version of lawnmower man? They tried to make it different because people complained about Sega cd games just being re releases of the Genesis versions

[@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.

[@StormsparkPegasus]

I'm much more tolerant of

[@roberto1519]

I'm still not sure if I misunderstand Game Gear's color capacities, from what I can tell, it has a larger pallet to pick more color variants from, and it only seem to be able to do that using its lower 160x144 resolution, games such as Castle of Illusion, running in SMS compatibility at 256x192 (actual GG cart) won't use any enhancement whatsoever. Game Gear titles converted to run on a real SMS, with the proper color pallet fixed will show little to no difference in colors, added the benefit of a increased viewable area. Like the Amiga, I believe the increased color count in the Game Gear is probably more usable on still screens, (the Amiga have some nice loading screens/intro scenes that benefit from that, but on actual gameplay, that can't be used), such as the GG Portrait (Virtua Fighter) titles, and even so this is still not clear to me if the SMS couldn't pull that off, too. I'm no tech savvy, but as far as I observed, there's basically nothing the Game Gear does the SMS can't do, as they are the same, with the stereo sound, like the increased color pallet, being side effects of the product being a handheld (earphones and lower resolution), and aside from the small screen, I think the contrary is also true, being that the GG can output 256x192, and accept the SMS accessories, if it was modded properly.

[@pda1799]

Ahhh, Hello Fresh sharing with Green Dog(s)….😂

[@francisbrodie9140]

Reason I like gamesack is because every other dude was doing the avgn thing which would be funny if you’re 5 joe just does his own thing

[@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.

[@skins4thewin]

It always gets me when ppl say that the GBA was just a souped up SNES. I mean I get why ppl say that based on the sorts of games the system featured but if you look at the hardware specs that simply isn't true at all. The GBA is worlds more powerful than the SNES and there isn't anything about the hardware that is similar. It just happens to have somewhat similar 2D capabilities and has a whole bunch of ports and stuff from that era. The ARM based CPU was indeed powerful enough to do some basic 3D stuff which is why there are some 3D based games on the system. It was rather impressive for a handheld at the time.

[@gustavo_vanni]

Wait a minute Joe, if you really have no friends at all, as you always say, who the hell was shooting that Hello Fresh ad?!?! The camera wasn't on a tripod, 'cause we can see it's wobling a bit. So either you do have at least one friend who was willing to help you, or you are a MASTER in video editing. I bet was the latter...

[@ninjacostar3849]

How about technically impressive set pieces in games?

[@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.

[@mcbaby]

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

[@disconinja108]

You know that queen loved 16-bit games so much, but she absolutely hated modern games like Doom 3. So including these games in this episode is kind of disrespectful to the queen. May she rest in peace 🕊️