How Rise of the Dragon Was Improved on the Sega CD

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Dylan's excitement at "SOMERSAULT" made me chuckle. Genuinely adorable.

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[@benjaminkellog7311]

"Somer Assault" on the TG16 marks yet another "Rapid-Fire Release" that somehow proves more interesting to me than the main three in an episode. It's oddball ideas like a puzzle platformer starring a Slinky that have kept me coming back to this show and wishing such obscure games were championed more often and made available for modern audiences. Now the only question is who do I recommend this to? Former pro wrestler "Pretty Boy" Doug Somer? People obsessed with the Slinky toy? Fans of the "Log Song" from "Ren and Stimpy?" I do get the feeling that "Somer" would be great for a snack and fit on my back, so...

[@arkein55]

Ok Somer Assault actually looks great, thanks Editor Dylan.

[@Mystik3eb]

That Somer Assault realization was golden.

[@TheHarDeOne]

SOMERSAULT! God damn that caught me off guard and left me laughing harder than it should've. Thank you Editor Dylan, once again you've made my Friday. Thanks for being awesome.

[@Makeshift_Mulder]

One of the best shows on KZbin, guys. Very polished. Feels like those VH1 80's nostalgia shows.

[@CloudDany]

That playtrough of Rise of the Dragon was great! A shame it couldn't be finished.

[@LadyRP]

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[@Torin2Sequel]

Hearing Dylan talk about the tennis games needing unique spins on gameplay made me think of World Court Tennis on the TurboGrafx-16. While it had basic tennis gameplay, it also had a 'Quest' mode. You go on a quest to defeat some kind of evil tennis player or something. It plays like an old Dragon Quest rpg. But rather than level up the player, winning battles nets you money that you can spend on tennis shoes, rackets, and clothing that will raise your overall 'stats'. I remember that its actually possible to challenge the final boss pretty early on. But while I'm not sure if he was impossible to beat, it sure felt like it. You needed to adventure out and find a magical tennis ball that would allow you to play against him on a more equal type of match. I always enjoyed playing this game when I was younger. It doesn't really change the gameplay of tennis, but it offers enough of a unique spin on it to be fun.

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[@Aberukun]

Editor Dillon sure loves sport games.

[@Kinshinobi]

OMG..as a 5 year old kid, I had Overlord and have no idea how to play it. I couldn't remember the name of the game later in life up until today, thanks Jared and crew for connecting me back to a piece of my childhood!

[@DawnOfTheOzz]

Rise of the Dragon is basically a long lost sequel to Snatcher.

[@jasonblalock4429]

4:06 Just to be clear, the SegaCD version has never been ported. You can get the DOS version on GOG for a few bucks. And it is a very good game, if you like cyberpunk and can put up with the usual quirks of 90s adventure games.

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[@DoCKathos]

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[@TheGamersShade]

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[@pixelgoat7317]

OMFG, this episode was such a treat! Two obscure games, Power Moves and Rise of the Dragon, featured in the same episode? Yes please! I remember spoofing the hilarious cover art of Deadly Moves in doodles I'd put in the margins of my notebooks during college lectures. I also would laugh pretty hard at the 'dollar store brand' character designs, especially Warren; he looked like he was being blackmailed and trying to see his kidnapped wife and kids again lmao. Also, I freaking loved watching you play (and appropriately mock) Rise of the Dragon; tis a damn shame Sega CDs put absolutely no investment into their CON score because just looking at them funny would render them defunct.

[@A.S.Bridges]

Ok seriously, you guys are crushing it. This show is awesome.

[@daviddamasceno6063]

Rise of the Dragon looks amazing. Now I have to watch that gameplay!

[@Silvergun_Raven]

Rise of the Dragon has been one of my favorite games on SEGA CD since it released! Glad to still have my SCD collection, along with Snatcher and Shining Force CD!

[@natebetts9426]

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[@RedSoul001]

Nice the audio is actually good in this video. Good job!

[@Upthemeds]

Editor Dylan is a delight

[@cvanims]

I have Somer Assault and had such fond memories playing it when it first came out.

[@t75044]

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[@danielthomas7193]

A slinky with guns. I can honestly say I wasn't expecting that this episode. 😲

[@kamencj]

Thank you for getting Kamen right! you have no idea how many people refer to it as Cayman instead. looking forward to the next episode!

[@chibiacer]

I played the heck out of Overlord back in the day. Also, nice delivery on "Somersault" 🤣

[@marcocamacho8467]

Editor Dillon, I loved your reaction to Crash and the Boys. It felt so real and was heart warming to see you genuinely find a sports game you enjoyed. The script definitely caught me off guard and just made it very enjoyable.

[@witecatj6007]

CRASHING the Boyz was another great addition to the Kunio-kun series of games. It's over the top nature was par for the course of the various sports titles featuring Kunio and company. Glad the series saw a resurgence with River City Girls.

[@stax6092]

I'd definitely check out a playthrough of Somer Assault, it seems amusing. Editor Dylan, I don't know how you missed that.

[@seanspear6224]

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[@Erikuzuma]

I've never wanted to see Dunkey play a game more than Somer Assault.

[@LordSephleon]

Rise of the Dragon is one of two games on Sega CD I owned in the 90s and didn't complete (the other being Dark Wizard, which is on my retirement completion bucket list alongside Ogre Battle). A friend and I were playing the game together - one of us actually playing, the other helping with notes and puzzles. We screwed up one of the later puzzle solutions that led to a game over, and we thought we missed a clue somewhere and had to restart the game, so we took a break... that's lasted about 26 years or so. We have talked about trying to get back to finishing it over the decades, but life does what it does. Someday, someday....

[@wolfsmith]

Ok not only SOMERSAULT but also SUMER ASSAULT as in ancient Sumeria hence all those mythological monsters and magic desert themes

[@a2c2008]

Great episode you guys! Love your humor, Dylan! :)

[@retromacman620]

Been catching up on these since I discovered the channel back in like January! I know there were some duds, but y'all really make the Sega CD seem like a pretty cool psuedo system! I love the 90's and this is great catching up on games I missed as a kid! ❤ really love these!

[@actuallogic6411]

Oh hey! Rise of the Dragon! I remember that playthrough you did!

[@SailorLoonie]

Somer Assault looks so good! BE A SLINKY EXTREME

[@fedupN]

This show makes me smile. 😁

[@C01dEyes]

Love rise of the dragon. I remember playing a demo of the MS DOS version when I was a kid and it wouldn't be until around 2008 that I finally got to play the whole game. Just so happened to be the Sega CD version and the fully voiced dialogue really was a nice touch.

[@cwells7285]

great episode! i remember playing wimbledon with my cousins. we never had alot of fun with it.

[@mjdf122]

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[@kabochaVA]

7:13 "Somer Assault"... a great play on words... it becomes "Somersault"... but only if you remove the "Ass"...

[@B.J.Camire]

Man I love this show ^_^ I hope you never stop making it. To anyone born over 30 years ago, this show will be entertaining 'til the day we die :) I'm really looking forward to 30 years from now when Dylan has to talk about the 235 games release on Steam this week 🤣 Quick question: I saw you list a game at $76 even this week. Sometimes you'll say >$10 ("just over ten dollars") and sometimes you'll see $11 (which is about as "just over ten dollars" as one could reasonably expect to find). So how do you determine the prices for the value changes at the end of each episode (i.e. why was this $76 instead of >$75)?

[@jeremiah1293]

That playthrough as pretty fun to watch. Congrats on you guys getting recognition from KZbin!

[@Wolfburns]

Another great episode. I am glad you pointed out the pun Dylan cause I wouldn't have picked it up hahaha 😅 Thank you both so much for this great channel!

[@devingunnels3251]

Supremacy: Your Will Be Done is a BADASS title

[@The.Culture.Consultant]

Time to unwind with this nostalgia rewind, always a delight

[@cloudstrife8]

I hope you continue this all the way through Dec 1999

[@meow_bastard]

How could he not?

[@EsperHubb]

When I was young, I'd watch one of my brothers play Rise of the Dragon. He had beaten it but never figured out how to get the good end though.

[@bdillmore40]

Now I can't wait for Jared and Dylan to talk about that Tennis game on TurboGrafx -16 that is actually an RPG sports game. I forget the name of the game.

[@LanEXHikari]

Bomberman next week? At times it baffles me how influential were some titles or movies that immediately got imitators, particularly Bladerunner. Time to rewatch Rise of the Dragon ✌🏼

[@trident042]

Heck it, I'm gonna give Somer Assault a try. Thanks, Dylan!

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This is seriously one of my new favorite series. I'm glad it came across my recommendations. Keep up the great work guys!!!

[@GiygasStarman]

Friday Night Tights and Now in the 90's makes my weekend!

[@GOLVEL]

Maybe include a trivia question or something similar at the end? That way one's more stuck to the chain :-)

[@almightycinder]

It doesn't surprise me that Rise of the Dragon is really common. It was on store shelves for a long time. I remember seeing it at a game store (EB or one of the other ones that GameStop bought out) way back in 1998 or so at the Sea-Tac Mall (which is not in Sea-Tac and has since been renamed.) I remember it being about the only time I ever saw a Sega-CD game in a store.

[@Sly88Frye]

Oh man I want to play as a slinky that sounds awesome!

[@533hornet]

Dude Somer Assault looks rad as heck. Im gonna have to try it out

[@violetarche3746]

I'm liking learning about all these Sega CD titles since I'm used to places only talking about FMV games and Sonic CD

[@DanPantzig]

Editor Dylan, you'll be maybe happy-ish to know that I go and check out most of the obscure games you bring up. Not all of them, because some of them are just sports games, but yeah. Thank you, Dylan and I guess Jared too.

[@Imnotsure0987]

Great upload keep up the great work 90's crew!

[@chaospoet]

Atlus on Turbografx was them at their most experimental. Somer Assult, Dungeon Explorer and they worked on Legendary Axe 2 as well. While in this same era making games like Run Saber on SNES. Now it's just either Shin Megami Tensei or Persona. I wish they had the variety they had back then.

[@Claudethechiefsfan]

Every time Jared says "and yet another..." I always expect him to say Mega Man at this point lol

[@KnightRaymund]

lol. Not even Capcom could pump them out THAT fast

[@arkayanon]

I only discovered Somer Assault in the last couple years as I've been exploring TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine takes recently, and I really enjoy it. We owned a TG16 back in the day, but only had a couple of games.

[@nowherefrosty]

The slinky one seems rad! Somer Assault falls straight into my type of games!

[@WilliamTheWatchful]

663 days until Donkey Kong Country... ... ... ... ... ... SOMERSAULT!

[@Hanokaze]

It's fun to learn about games I had no idea existed during my youth. Case in point, Somer Assault; wild stuff.

[@segagirladventurespico]

7:01 slinky looks cool lol

[@Hummingbird78]

This show is like my comfort food

[@SohakmetGameplay]

I'm starting to wonder if we'll ever see a week of releases in the 90s that do not have some sort of sports game.

[@M613M]

When it comes to Sega CD it isn't a matter of if your console will break randomly, but when...

[@opo3628]

NGL, Rise of the Dragon is a guilty pleasure of mine. Even the silly, low-effort, obviously thrown in at the last minute side-scroller action sections have their cheesy charm.

[@MagicUntapped]

Hey, Jared, any thoughts of including notable PC game releases in addition to the console and handheld ones?

[@tonyjackson4078]

Now in the 90's is an almost perfect example of short form content. Around 10 minutes, humorous, informative, and both hosts are enjoyable to watch/listen to.

[@AldorasDeranor]

Well now i gotta check out that slinky game, this one looks really unique Love this show, always discovering something new :)

[@DaveVoyles]

Rise of the dragon was so immersive. Took me forever to figure out how to beat it. Now I know you can beat it in one hour 😂

[@Sinn0100]

Summersault! Don't feel bad I just got it too. ;)

[@kyuubinaruto17]

Another great episode.

[@PapaWolfGTG]

Rise of the Dragon is one of my favorite games of all time. It, along with Snatcher and Shadowrun on both Genesis and SNES really shaped my love of cyberpunk and got me into running a Shadowrun ttrpg campaign that lasted over 12 years and multiple editions!

[@PapaWolfGTG]

Little secret about the final boss of Rise of the Dragon: if you have a bomb left over, you can walk next to the boss and press A+B and hold them for a second, you will plant on on him and kill him in one hit. I’ve never seen anyone else use this trick! I discovered it on one of my many playthroughs back in the 90s.

[@codydhf3]

Before knowing what the game actually was. I would've believed that Power Moves was a fitness game.

[@jettesides420]

Rise of the Dragon baby!

[@shadowvash07]

Shameless plug here, but the video game convention I work for, TooManyGames, just announced Rise of The Dragon voice actor Cam Clarke as one of its guests for this year's con. Just saying, if you have one of those very common copies of the game, you could come and get it signed.

[@erikrick]

I've got fond memories of playing Overlord. It was kinda unique on the NES.

[@ThePkmnYPerson]

The slinky with googly eyes for Smash.

[@flpshmn]

these are videogames for sure

[@avereynakama9854]

That is a heck of a lot of tennis games. How many are we at now that y'all have covered? Somer Assault looks wacky in a good way. I'd love to give it a try if I could. Again, thanks so much for making this show, guys. It's short and sweet and a nice dose of nostalgia mixed with genuine interest and excitement to learn about games I've never heard of or a bit more about games I've played/seen as a kid. This show is kinda like walking through a rental place back in the day and someone actually saying, "Yo, you should definitely try this one!" or "Eh, this one's just meh. Move along."

[@rajangeta8334]

I remember the rise of the dragon playthrough fondly and how jerd lost his weapons by checking them with the shady club security and never got them back

[@Doc_Valparaiso]

I'm experiencing a Mandela Effect with Power Moves on the SNES. I do remember the title being sanitized. But, I remember it being called *Lethal Moves* on SNES. I also played the heck out of Deadly Moves on the Genesis. Fond memories of my friend throwing his controller and rage quitting. Good times playing a mediocre fighting game.👌 Edit: I forgot I also owned Rise of the Dragon (had to see the gameplay). Got it on clearance at K-mart along with Bram Stoker's Dracula and Eternal Champions for the Sega CD.

[@teksett]

That cryofleah shirt though ❤