I admire its impurity: Alien Syndrome / Aztec Adventure

I admire its impurity: Alien Syndrome / Aztec Adventure | Segaiden

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@jeromeellsworth1320 Жыл бұрын

I'll be looking forward to "Guts Level Works," Jeremy's in-depth exploration of the history Giger imagery in video games.

@GreatistheWorld Жыл бұрын

My withered memory was correct: to an exceptional degree, Aliens really did have its own vibe on VHS

@BigBangBlitz Жыл бұрын

I appreciate the Upright Citizen's Brigade line at the end.

@RoGoGradStudent Жыл бұрын

Titular line!

@Larry Жыл бұрын

I had the SMS version of Alien Syndrome as a kid, the fact enemies would spawn where you're standing when you moved the screen drive me nuts. SIMS did try and fix a lot of the SMS versions issues with the Game Gear version though. Which is also a sequel, Alien Storm is canonically a sequel too.

@joezar33 Жыл бұрын

Aztec Adventure is my favorite 8bit Zelda like game on the Sega Master System

@orpheusx Жыл бұрын

Another video with fantastic video capture quality. Oh, and some interesting commentary. :)

@absolutezeronow7928 Жыл бұрын

It's definitely interesting that Tengen wound up publishing an unlicensed more accurate to the arcade version of Alien Syndrome.

@KorenLesthe Жыл бұрын

My favorite Alien "hommages" are from the Turrican games, especially Turrican 2 on Amiga and 3 / Mega Turrican ^^.

@David-ln8qh Жыл бұрын

Never knew how similar Alien Syndrome was to Zombies Ate My Neighbors. I would've loved it as a kid.

@johnnygrind77 Жыл бұрын

I dunno if anyone has said this to you ever, but thank you, Jeremy, for pronouncing H.R. Giger's name CORRECTLY! So many people say it like Geiger. Ironically, I was listening to The Dead Kennedys today, who also featured H.R. Giger artwork on their album, "Frankenchrist." I love Wednesdays. Thank you.

@tolindaniel Жыл бұрын

I had the Atari ST port of Alien Syndrome as a kid and it actually terrified me - the really low, discordant echoing bass in the music was really unsettling, and the distorted voice samples felt like the stuff of nightmares.

@aBetterMove 9 ай бұрын

When speedrunning Alien Syndrome this year I've found that you can wangle a flamethrower upgrade for the final Boss, Mr Mimi. We are still digging into the code because there's a secondary condition but what we know for now is if you can collect 25 to 29 ? powerups without them triggering invincibiity you at least have a chance of the powerup.

@Belgand 7 ай бұрын

From what I gather Alien was such a massive success in Japan that even the Roger Corman-produced knock-off, Galaxy of Terror, did quite well there and became a cult hit. To the point of showing up as a direct reference in other works with erotic tentacle monster content, such as Call Me Tonight.

@jmullner76 Жыл бұрын

Playing Aztec Adventure as a kid, it was fun but frustrating. Of course now it is obvious why. This actually would make for a good re-imagining like the Wonder Boy games that cam out recently.

@TeruteruBozusama Жыл бұрын

Realizing one's kid self wasn't bad but inexperienced, and sometimes the games weren't only too hard, but also really bad, is quite the trip..!

@slightlyevolved Жыл бұрын

Ahhh. I always loved vacationing in Mexiru.

@Agrahim Жыл бұрын

Having a crappy day, listening to some of his videos making it better. I have to admit I underrate this channel, every video is good.

@Sixfortyfive Жыл бұрын

Aztec Adventure does seem to pull at least some of its fundamental gameplay from an arcade title. "Legend" is a 1986 side-scroller that has basically an identical bribery/mercenary mechanic (right down to the "OH!" pop-up on recruitment) and some other similarities in its inventory / sub-weapons. I've seen Legend attributed to both Sega and Coreland (who were frequent Sega collaborators in the System 1 era), but I've never come across a reputable source for that, and Legend runs on a Kyugo-manufactured board rather than any hardware that Sega put out themselves.

@Sixfortyfive Жыл бұрын

Only vid I could find on a quick search, since "Legend" is a pretty unhelpful generic search term: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pavak5yXZdB8h9k

@aguilerajohn Жыл бұрын

That range is giving me king colossus flashbacks

@FerretWarlord1 Жыл бұрын

The xenomorph influence is obvious, but when I see Alien Syndrome, with many of its monsters being human parts that were haphazardly blended into an amorphous lump of meat, I'm more reminded of John Carpenter's The Thing.

@satoukazuma7952 Жыл бұрын

I had both of these games when I was very young, and I really wanted to like them because they at least LOOK appealing at first glance, but the gameplay just never lived up to expectations. When it comes to Giger-inspired Master System games, it's pretty hard to beat R-Type imo. Definitely looking forward to that one!

@skuzzbunny Жыл бұрын

Aztec Adventure would make a fun rom-hack update project...!!o

@Kaylakaze Жыл бұрын

I never realized James Cameron did Aliens. It seems he did the exact same thing to that series as he did to Terminator: took a horror movie and turned it into an adventure

@ginormousaurus8394 Жыл бұрын

Aliens reminded me of the movie Them (1954), which was about giant ants that were mutated by radiation. Both films featured a little girl who was the sole survivor of an attack by the monsters, soldiers fighting the monsters, people entering the monsters' nest, and the monster eggs being destroyed by flamethrowers. The original Alien had similarities to the films It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958) and Planet of the Vampires (1965).

@billcook4768 Жыл бұрын

Can’t say I love these games. But I do love me some Billy Ocean. Get out of my dreams… and into my car.

@supercrownjosie7732 Жыл бұрын

"less wretched than dragon power" should have been on the box

@YesterdaysMoose Жыл бұрын

Lest we forget the heavily Aliens inspired 1987 Atari / Midway classic Xenophobe.

@woooordtest2874 Жыл бұрын

They should've added a continue feature in Aztec for sure, but there is at least a secret level select code that definitely helped me finish it.

@tolindaniel Жыл бұрын

Above all the seven seas, I'd want to drown in the Billy Ocean.

@chadwickjdillon Жыл бұрын

My god, he Did have the titular line!

@LKitesar Жыл бұрын

you said the titular line!

@JeremyParish Жыл бұрын

I appreciate how many people are watching this all the way to the end

@LKitesar Жыл бұрын

@@JeremyParish I always tend to. I like to try and guess what game/s are coming next. you're scripts have been very sharp and punchy with the wit lately - btw!

@nzz6063 Жыл бұрын

The titular line in the film!

@jasonblalock4429 Жыл бұрын

6:00 And most recently it was one of the SMS games you can collect and play in the Like A Dragon (Yakuza) spinoff Lost Judgment.

@thankyou329 Жыл бұрын

"miserable butter knife" lmao 🤣

@murphiverse Жыл бұрын

Hi Jeremy! Love your videos. I appreciate how much effort and thought you put into the descriptions of these old, simple games. I'm curious, is there an episode where you address why you tape yourself with a 80's era video camera? I get the concept, I'm just curious if you ever address it. Thanks for covering old-school SEGA!

@goranisacson2502 Жыл бұрын

Never heard of Aztec Adventure before, what animals are the companions? Am I just seeing things, or is it the classic Bird/ Dog / Monkey trio of the Momotaro fairy tale?

@JeremyParish Жыл бұрын

Sorry, I'm pretty sure the "monkey" is a cat.

@StefKnightCS Жыл бұрын

amazing job

@taidan19 Жыл бұрын

I think someone once said this in a very old, 1up-era episode of Retronauts, but it’s amazing how much of the Japanese game industry can be traced back to Aliens and Laputa

@enkidude Жыл бұрын

The titular line!

@Boonehams Жыл бұрын

"The Millennium Falcon wasn't a bird! Have you even seen Star Wars?"

@SaturmornCarvilli Жыл бұрын

I only played the arcade version of Alien Syndrome. Ultimately, I found it had too much search and rescue. Ironically, unlike SNK's SAR: Search and Rescue. Which I vastly prefer in the top down, scroll in different directions and fight aliens genre of video games.

@jamesmoss3424 Жыл бұрын

Alien Syndrome is an amazing Sega arcade game. 😀👍🎮

@marxisttheoryandlore Жыл бұрын

Oh shit, I didn't know Master System had an Upright Citizens Brigade game

@guyfromnj Жыл бұрын

I had the master system when I was a kid I had Alien syndrome, Alex kid, rocky, Alf, a racing game and maybe a couple others. Once I get the nes I didn’t buy master system games anymore. Well my parents didn’t I was a child.

@rubberwoody Жыл бұрын

First xenophobe, Metroid, and contra now this. Ridley Scott and Cameron had a ton of influence over 80s video games It just have something to do with xenomorphs' silluoutes being easy to portray in 8 bit

@jonothanthrace1530 Жыл бұрын

And Zelda.

@rubberwoody Жыл бұрын

@@jonothanthrace1530 Zelda?

@jonothanthrace1530 Жыл бұрын

@@rubberwoody It was inspired partially by the movie Legend.

@travisjordan3853 Жыл бұрын

Don't forget George Lucas & Steven Spielberg's influence as well with Star Wars & Indiana Jones. Star Wars for example, was referenced in the Xenogear's art book, Perfect Works, which cited Darth Vader as the main inspiration for the character Grahf. Meanwhile, Elly's outfit was based on a combination of the armour worn by the Imperial Stormtroopers and a race queen's dress.

@ginormousaurus8394 Жыл бұрын

@@travisjordan3853 The armoured guards in Phantasy Star resembled a cross between the Imperial stormtroopers and Boba Fett from the Star Wars movies, like the clone troopers that would later appear in Star Wars - Episode II: Attack of the Clones.

@allluckyseven Жыл бұрын

On our next episode: 🎶Raaaaay Guuuuun! 🎶

@itsmerickv Жыл бұрын

Was that the titular line from Star Wars?

@MrVyvyanbasterd Жыл бұрын

I don't think it's accurate that the number of non-weapon pickups you get (I'm guessing you're talking about "?" and "W" panels) relates to the weapon you have at the boss. You get what you entered the boss fight with.

@orderofmagnitude-TPATP Жыл бұрын

Sure....but no excuses sega. Look at the 3rd party nes version!!

@ValkyrieTiara Жыл бұрын

Fun fact: The Japanese language only has five vowels, and they order them specifically as A I U E and O. Pretty much all sounds in Japanese can be made by appending one of eight consonants to the front of one of these vowels; there are no standalone consonants in Japanese (besides N). It's so orderly you can easily look up a chart and maybe a youtube video and learn how to pronounce 99% of Japanese words in less than an hour, and learn to read hiragana and katakana in a week or two. Why does that matter? The mercenaries in Aztec Adventure, as Jeremy mentioned, are Papi, Pupe, and Po. It's literally just the P line in the kana chart, broken up a little bit to sound like cute names. It's sorta like if, in English, they were named Alan, Bob, and Cedric but like 4x sillier.

@EvanCWaters 6 ай бұрын

The Pa Pi Pu Pe Po?

@ValkyrieTiara 6 ай бұрын

@@EvanCWaters If that's a Metal Gear reference, then yes the La-li-lu-le-lo is similar lol

@robintst Жыл бұрын

Master System Alien Syndrome being made flip screen isn't it's worst transgression, it's more that the player movement feels too stiff and that square D-pad with it's lack of tactile feel is one of the worst things ever created. Really a lot of experiences were made worse on the Master System by that terrible controller and not every game played nice with trying to swap in a Genesis pad.

@ginormousaurus8394 Жыл бұрын

Yes, Alien Syndrome is one of the Master System games that are incompatible with the Genesis controller. Others include Bomber Raid, Great Volleyball, Montezuma's Revenge, Penguin Land, Tennis Ace, Shanghai, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?, and Wonder Boy in Monster Land.

@robintst Жыл бұрын

@@ginormousaurus8394 Wonder Boy was the most disappointing for me in that respect, the platforming in it demands a better D-pad.