I played 12 of my LOW KEY FAVORITE SNES games!

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[@YourTaciturnFriend]

The Top Gear games were just released as the Top Racer Collection a couple of months ago on Switch, Steam etc.

[@flophouseplays]

Yooooo

[@cerebraxis607]

​@@flophouseplaysYou ever played the dungeon building rpg on Snes, called Chaos Seed? I don't see a whole lot of people talk about it, but it has some pretty unique features and reminds me of Secret of Mana / Legend of Mana in its visual delivery and the fighting(minus rotating menus), but not its other gameplay elements. I'm about 20-some hours in, and I definitely feel like we missed out. I don't know if it would have sold well in the US, and the menu system to use magic might turn people off, but it's def. unique.

[@TheRADRAD]

Solid collection, even if the new game they added isn't really a new game, but a Top Gear 1 romhack with tuned up cars.

[@GimpyDingo]

Top Gear was such a good race. I played against my friend all the time.

[@adamfrazer5150]

Top Gear 2 🤤 heavily played 👍

[@TheRetroBassist]

Blackthorne is absolutely GOATED. I'm playing the 32X version for the first time and was dumbfounded to discover it has a totally new area, the snowy level, because I grew up with the SNES version in the '90s.

[@phoenixlich]

The after-credits ending hints the story could continue, yet decades later there is nothing! cowards!

[@TheRetroBassist]

@@phoenixlich Yeah, and it's a pity because this game has all the ingredients to make at least a badass trilogy. But it's like Matt said, I definitely DON'T want a Blackthorne sequel/remake/reboot coming from the Blizzard Entertainment of the last 15 years lol.

Yeah I think Matt needs to re-examine the 32X version, I think it's better than the SNES version. Like you said it has an extra level, plus the blood that was censored from the SNES version.

[@inceptional]

Watching and listening to both side by side, I actually think the SNES version looks nicer pretty much across the board. Not on some irrelevant technical level, but an actual artistic level and in many of the little details, like the lovely pixel art characters vs the kinda ugly pre-rendered versions with moobs, the smoothly animating waterfalls vs the ones apparently flowing at six frame per second or something, the shimmering gems in the background rocks vs no shimmering, the extra parallax and additional animation and effects in some bits of the intro, the proper explosion sprite and screen flash when you blow up doors, the animating flames vs static skulls on sticks, the HUD that can be brought up and hidden away at will rather than always being there on the right side of the screen, etc. And it even sounds better too. The 32X version is quite scratchy and harsh on the ears., and those loud crunchy footsteps in the 32X version get annoying too. Also, I'm inclined to think the controls will be better mapped to the SNES' default controller as well. I have a faint recollection I've already checked and that is the case. I don't think an extra level would compensate for that for me personally. And there's actually a patch to turn the blood red in the SNES version if it's really that important. I never even remotely noticed it until someone like you specifically pointed it out literally decades after the fact. So, as far as I'm concerned, I think he's good with the SNES version.

[@flophouseplays]

So I went back and looked at videos, while I recognize it's cool there's an added level and blood, those are two improvements, versus the entire game still looking quite ugly at all times, compared to the amazing pixel art of the original. Everyone can enjoy the version they want, but the rendered look ain't for me.

[@amethystfrost]

Power Rangers nerd here: Lipsyncher and Silver Horns are basically monsters of the day who were in one episode each. They did appear in Power Rangers, and came from Dairanger (the Sentai series after Zyuranger), which is where the Thunder Megazord and Mega Tigerzord came from.

[@durazno4948]

"It's better to avoid bombs than to be nimble" might be an awkward way of saying, "Rather than trying to dodge when somebody throws a bomb at you, don't give them a chance to throw the bomb in the first place."

[@bearded_snorlax]

Use the Hannibal Buress method: If you see a bomb, go away from it

[@durazno4948]

@@bearded_snorlax My first thought from that: if you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a bomb!

[@TylerComptonShow]

That's strong advice

[@kukuhimanputraraharja8084]

or isekai yourself to another dimensions before their bombs are made.

[@Pirateyware]

I think what he actually means is "hide in the shadows to avoid bombs, don't try to jump over them"

[@Prohass]

I honestly think True Lies is one of Arnies best performances. The lines are great but he also has fantastic comedic timing and delivery, it’s a genuinely hilarious movie with great action and set pieces and just well done all around. It’s one of my favourite movies of all time let alone favourite arnie films

[@flophouseplays]

big agree!

[@PubStar87]

such a classic!

[@phoenixlich]

plus it features Windows version 3.1 in the intro!

[@adamfrazer5150]

Saw it in the summer of '94, still highly regard it as one of the best blends of action & humour - it's an absolute S-Rank 🤘

[@ThingsOnDemand]

Another blockbuster brought to you courtesy of the American military-industrial complex!

[@CornyPuddle]

I love when you do "your favorites" or "never played" videos for systems. I've found so many good games watching these kinda videos. Dinosaurs For Hire on the Genesis is currently my favorite that I can thank you for 😊

[@TruKriegsaffeNo9]

Mutant Chronicles started life as a tabletop RPG. Like Shadowrun, it was one of those 90s-era games that managed to break into media outside of tabletop games and tie-in novels... to an extent. Vampire had a TV show, Shadowrun had a couple of video games.

[@supremacistdawn]

Mutant Chronicles also had that movie that came out ten years after everyone had stopped caring about the franchise.

[@samwill7259]

Aquaman does have portions of his palace that are drained of water but not many and less of them over time Remember, Arthur was born and raised as a surface dweller. Sometimes he's just more comfortable that way Plus as the official ambassador of Atlantis to the outside world, he does a lot of hosting.

[@theliveliestcorpse2997]

I was say yeah, it makes sense as a courtesy to to those who don’t breath underwater

[@JohannesBee]

Whether it's this new 'low-key favorites' series or more of the 'I've never heard of this' series, I'd love to see you do some more episodes on throwback consoles like the Neo Geo or Saturn!

[@TomatoAbe]

It is I, the guy who was super into the Mutant Chronicles: Warzone tabletop war game as a kid, checking in once again. Thank god that 40k, which at the time I believed was a vastly inferior ripoff, even though it came out years earlier, and reading the rule book later showed they were the exact same gameplay system that just swapped high rolls as good instead of bad, never took off.

[@samwill7259]

Comic Nerd Round Three! Despero isn't a mercenary or a bounty hunter, he's a conqueror His third eye gave him the ability to dominate the minds of others so he grew up never being refused anything so believes in his own superiority. The JLA has corrected that notion for him on several occasions

[@emilysong2000]

I'm a simple girl...I see Biker Mice from Mars in the thumbnail, I click!

[@RainbyFIN]

I'm an enby but same

[@aquamarine7599]

Transgirl... same

[@maybetoby]

Aquaman comics had everything underwater. But they would have rooms not full of water for visitors from the surface. I love the Power Rangers: Fighting Edition. I just wish you could use all the available Megazords for story mode. Ninja Megazord was my favorite. 1:06:17 these are from the earlier seasons lol I just assumed fighting the other Megazords was a training session. 1995 was still Mighty Morphin Power Rangers era. The big change was Zeo in 1996. I love Battle for the Grid. Too bad they don't make new content for it anymore. Gundam Wing: Endless Duel is another good game. Pretty sure it's the same game engine as MMPR: Fighting Edition.

[@zZaxOo]

wow that doom troopers backgrounds felt so much like Country, im surprised DK wasn swinging on some vines back there xD

[@FullMetalSnorlax]

Glad to finally know where the Charls Barkley shut up and jam Gaiden RPG sprites come from.

[@OutOfTheGameLetsPlay]

I love these playthroughs of collected games. I always learn about some that I regret missing out on back in the day like Doom Troopers. I remember seeing ads for it and totally ignoring it at the time, but now I wish I'd at least rented it or something.

[@lavernebennet7395]

Fun fact about Kamek, in Japanese *all* Magikoopas are called Kameks; I guess there might have been some localization miscommunication for Yoshi's Island (or maybe it was a deliberate choice idk). So the localizers just have to decide when it's Kamek and when it's just some Magikoopa

[@Patrick-Phelan]

There was a Brawl in the Family strip about that. "Toad, come with me on an adventure!" "I'm not Toad! I'm just a Toad!" "Oh, all right. I'll just pick up Yoshi here and..." "That's not Yoshi! It's just a Yoshi!"

[@Prohass]

matt describing constant warfare as “a lot of back and forth” In the grim darkness of the 41st millennium, there is only a lot of back and forth

[@dreamshade]

1:03:45 I love that Batman can just kinda duck inside his cloak to block Darkseid's omega beams

[@wolfboy527]

1:34:50 - Rocky Rodent ascending to the heavens feels oddly morose in a mascot platformer. That choir music came out of left field.

[@Bloodletter8]

You can shoot Nurgle Guy's bones back at him when he chucks them at you. You shoot him first and it pisses him off enough to throw femurs at you. Gotta just get the angle right. It shortens the fight by a lot and he can't puke as long as you keep distracting and hurting him.

[@aquamarine7599]

I wish I knew this

[@Bloodletter8]

​@@aquamarine7599 The shit I remember after like 30 years never ceases to confuse me. Glad it was helpful this time.

[@DoorsInTheLabyrinth]

The opening cutscene with the demon king on the throne always reminds me of the opening of the movie Legend with Tim Curry. But, on the other hand, it's my favorite movie so it doesn't take much to remind me!

[@thesegaguy6279]

Honestly, you can't go wrong with any version of Blackthorne. The 32X version has updated visuals and an exclusive area, the GBA version is pretty much a handheld port of the SNES version. Hell, both 32X and SNES are playable in the Blizzard Arcade Collection.

[@Weap0]

I'm surprised no Weaponlord but maybe that's a high key favorite.

[@flophouseplays]

Absolutely!

[@ArtificialOrangeStudios]

Biker Mice From Mars did have a revival cartoon in 2006, but they could always use another revival.

[@aquamarine7599]

I believe it is along with a comic and recent run of figures.

[@lavernebennet7395]

Baku Hatakeyama, who played the first ever Yellow Ranger (Kirenger), killed himself at age 34 and cited his failing acting career and being typecast as Kirenger (I haven't seen Himitsu Sentai Gorenger but to my understanding he was kind of a "funny fat guy" character) as reasons. Maybe that's why the show's cursed

[@theycallmejojo6090]

SNES Biker Mice has one of my favorite regional differences because the PAL version is just the same game but it is loaded with Snickers advertisements.

[@homembarata]

There's a David Brevik GDC video about the making of Diablo where he tells the story of how Blizzard didn't know there was another studio working on the MD/Genesis version of Justice League and only found out at an event, when they've met the team working on that in person. That's how they met each other and this eventually led to Blizzard funding Diablo, buying the studio and changing it to Blizzard North.

[@purodave]

One of my coolest retro gaming finds is a copy of King of the Monsters 1 or 2, I forget which off the top of my head, but it still has the sticker from the rental store. That store is one we frequented and both King of the Monsters were very regular rentals. Very likely that the cart is one I played on a ton as a kid. Was a really cool throwback to find at some random yard sale. Oh and as good as Blackthorne is I still got to put Rock 'N' Roll Racing as their top.

[@BlahNetworkBro]

I was online looking at comics the other day and saw a new run of biker mice from mars and while I was totally unaware it was an old school franchise my first thought was “that is some Matt Mcmuscles ass shit”

[@TheVampireEd]

I guess the idea of you fighting the other Zords is that you’re just training against each other, hence the Zordon stage for every one of those fights. Ivan Ooze seems like his personality was based on W.C. Fields, the guy who may know of based on the line “Go away kid, you’re bothering me.” A line that had been parodied a decent amount over the years, I think the rooster, Foghorn Leghorn, from Looney Tunes was based on him too and also said that line as well. So that’s probably why he seems so goofy to you, he’s basically an old cartoon character.

[@TimBogard]

1:47:14 That would be sick to see some more racing games. I remember seeing burning road in your ps1 vid and was hype for that lol

[@ryangraham2459]

I GOT DIRT TRAX FX FOR MY BIRTHDAY LONG AGO! IT STILL REMAINS ONE OF MY FAV SNES GAMES AND I STILL HAVE THE BOX AND MANUAL FROM MY CHILDHOOD!!! NICE PIC MATT! THANKS FOR BEING MY CONSISTENTLY FAV KZbinR!

[@thedannydarko]

Zedd such a good villain he came back 25 years later.

[@adamfrazer5150]

56:35 the second a studio mentions a term like 'IPO', the rot sets in.

[@RikouHogashi]

That Post-Blackthorne era Blizzard jab right at the start XD you know what I can respect that

[@ImJustSaijan]

Lol I wanted to make a star raft/warcraft/diablo joke but I thought nah....lol

[@RikouHogashi]

@@ImJustSaijan a Raft to the Stars? now that would be a fun game though I'm sure you meant StarCraft witch to me is the best series that came from Blizzard

[@LeeDanielWriter]

My bucket of kfc arrives, I fire up youtube and this is top of my subs list. This is going to be a very good evening.

[@KyleS.1987]

More floppy retro goodness! Thank you!

[@rocdaddy225]

NBA GIVE AND GO is the home port of RUN AND GUN ARCADE..

[@VeridianHerald]

If you want a brutal "bathroom" fight scene, watch Eastern Promises. Also, lovely selection, I haven't seen X-Kalibr 2097 in a very long time.

[@czechlineage]

Based on our taste in SNES carts and the comparative rental versus buying budgets that it sounds like our families were working with, you and I would have either been bestest buddies or bitter rivals at the local video store. I'm imagining 10-year-old me side-eyeing you real good as you walk up to that NBA Give 'n Go cart on the shelf. "Dammit, I don't wanna rent College Slam again! I'm trying to play as the post Drexler, Rod Strickland Blazers! How does he know about the secret sauce of the Konami basketball game?"

[@wraithcadmus]

The Game Gear Power Rangers is pretty decent, especially for a portable fighter. Covers the first season of the show with King Sphinx, Nasty Night, Green Ranger Saga, Shell Shock, Polluticorn, and Cyclopsis. The arcade mode also obeys rules, like Putty can't fight Zords because of the size difference, but monsters have to fight everyone because they are both sizes.

[@robertolivera9786]

Man I would love to watch long videos of you playing through a whole game and give tips

[@dealt]

As far as SNES games I rented multiple times, one that sticks out in my mind is 'Super Off Road - The Baja'. 'NBA Give & Go' as well

[@Flymehomegiantswan]

Doom Troopers needs more love

[@a.rheser8181]

Ah, a man of culture. Blackthorne and MMPR the fighting edition are some of my favourites too. Hagane the final conflict, Spawn the videogame, World Heroes, Weaponlord, Boogerman and Cybernator are in my SNES boy stable.

[@thomasderosso5625]

Hell yeah! JLTF (I liked Superman and Darkseid, but Green Arrow was my best character), MMPR:tFE (I want to say Ninja and Shogun were my go-tos), Tetris Attack, and True Lies were some of my favorites to rent back in the day!

[@lavernebennet7395]

Raphael the Raven appears in the original Paper Mario, he's seemingly some sort of deity??? and he helps you out

[@afrolessninja]

a Top Gear collection came out a few months back but because of the show the game collection is called top Racer now...

[@Korgoth9]

Yeah. They used the Japanese title for the collection.

[@ghostmutton]

Mutant Chronicles is just biding its time for a wicked comeback. It definitely won't be lost in annals of history.

[@lavernebennet7395]

Cheetah became a catgirl through magic so that's probably why the lions don't attack her

[@alexsummerdown831]

Man, Blackthorne was such an awesome blend of Scifi, and isekai.

[@Mahazuhul]

Has Matt ever told the story of the first time he saw the crushed pelvis gag? That must have been glorious. How did he even survive?

[@Rightchickenwing]

2:07:27 Oh wow a movie tie in game that was actually good 😃

[@GiomMorales]

mann your humor is so funny, never change my dude

[@powerfulech0356]

seeing Rocky Rodent unlocked a memory deep within of a friend who had it when I was a kid. Preferred when we would play his copy of Mario World lol

[@Pepocho]

Biker Mice from Mars was spectacular for it’s time. Vinnie was the fastest if you use his corner taking with the shoulder buttons.

[@Mr.Spongecake]

1:33:47 "None of that interaction made any sense to me. Lemme know in the comments if that made sense to you." None of this crack-induced fever-dream of a video-game makes sense to me.

[@Rightchickenwing]

40:34 Demongonis, the worst form of Gonorrhoea 😂

[@Maskedheretic]

You should play the excellent MUGEN game, TMNT vs Justice League Turbo, it uses assets from Task Force and Tournament Fighters and it's legit good.

[@fedupN]

I clicked SOLELY for the Blackthorne image. Because YES. It is a great freaking game. Then, what do I see? DOOMTROOPERS! MWAHHA! So many of these bringing back memories like Rocky Rodent and the Power Rangers fighting game.

[@jnerdsblog]

1:19:00 not College Slam which was basically college NBA JAM, but NCAA Basketball I think it was called? Using MODE 7!!!!!1one

[@johnsullivan3069]

Leaving a like for picking max steiner because soon as i seen his name i said to myself matt should pick him in honor of the big bad booty daddy himself scott Steiner 😂

[@inceptional]

Actually some pretty decent choices there.

[@nonexistent4177]

Top Gear 3000 was actually my favourite. I loved that, with all the futuristic stuff racing on other planets. Having nuclear engines, and like futuristic gearbox that I forget the name of... either way, I loved it. Only complaint I would have had is that they did not do enough to make it "futurery". As it still just looked mostly like Top Gear 2.

[@Hero-For-Hire]

My cousins and I played Biker Mice all the time when we were kids. I always played as Vinnie. I still have a Vinnie action figure from back then

[@TheRealCaptainFreedom]

I forgot about the Biker Mice From Mars. There were tons of early ‘90s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ripoffs looking to cash in on the TMNT craze. Street Sharks, Battletoads, and Stone Protectors all came out around this time.

[@andybarnes888]

Not sure how Blackthorne passed me by back in the day, looks awesome. Giving a bit of a Flashback vibe, and I loved that.

[@Ryuujin1078]

You mentioned FX Fighter… I hope you do make a video about the game and its history from a potential SNES title to the PC release. I’ll say the music it awesome!!

[@Rightchickenwing]

2:20:34 Oh wow these ghoul like soldiers things remind me of Killzone

[@Rightchickenwing]

6:47 Celebratory T bagging the Orc 😂

[@czechlineage]

Also, there's a PS1 game called Magic & Kareem Slam n Jam or something similar that must have been developed by the NBA Give n Go folks. Very similar presentation, controls, sprites, etc.

[@BWMegatron]

2:20:56 My first thought was Rufus Shinra

[@yakumoyomi5765]

Sounds like it might be time to think about doing a "Top Gear Retrospective" video, where you go back through those games and see if any might have grown on you over the years.

[@doomster706]

There is a new collection with the first 3 games, called Top Racer Collection. It seems to have online play too.

[@VBrancoPT]

Blackthorne is cool. Besides that game, Blizzard also made The Lost Vikings 1 & 2 and Rock 'n' Roll Racing. The rest is history, with all of the Diablos, Worlds of Warcrafts, Starcrafts... Back when the company used to be awesome.

[@ReinEngel]

Renting was my favorite thing to spend money on. It quickly replaced action figures. Sometimes, when I was really into a game, like LttP, I'd have this wave of euphoria wash over me when I realized that I owned it and never had to return it.

[@DanielZ5]

@1:08:55 should've inserted thunder cougar falcon bird

[@jamesc8968]

Was that a reference to Lex Luthor's plan in Superman Returns with the property and flooding?

[@Ice-Climber]

A fellow Panel de Pon player eh? Nice. I think the last thing Nintendo did with it was put the original, untranslated Japanese version on Switch online globally. It is identical to Tetris Attack really, only having one song different in the soundtrack (the same song that has been in every Smash game since Brawl).

[@anthonydealba6820]

16:55 actually matt her name is charlie

[@jamesbeck3862]

I played Black Torn on PC loved it!

[@Endocrom]

#1 American Samurai Jack, a shotgun instead of a magic sword #2 It's a Mice-eat-dog world. If they come back they need a crossover with The Mastodons™ where they can make a joke about cheese or something. #4 All I know is there's a Mutant Chronicles movie with Thomas Jane and Ron Perlman #5 All these fights could be resolved with some nice tasty Hostess™ Fruit Pies #8 Unhinged Honeycomb monster energy #9 Speeeeeeed! #11 "Took the ice trays out of the freezer" was taken from Tom Arnold's experience divorcing from Roseanne Barr #12 That music is trying very hard to either BE or NOT BE the Mortal Kombat theme.

[@sonofatwitch82]

2:16:50 SPOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@TheDaggerman30]

Yep Matt you did it again man. All 12 are on my list as well!

[@CoraxSage]

Blackthorne. Where little Mattie's love affair with the shotty began...

[@OriginalMasters]

Our channel humbly asks, why are you the skeleton man? Biker Mice, Rocky Rodent, and especially Tetris Attack are three of our faves.

[@wraithcadmus]

Wait, is Give 'n Go a home take on Run 'n Gun? That came out in 1993 and does the same viewpoint.

[@indefenestrible8196]

i would play Rocky Rodent at my cousin's house, and eventually her mom banned us from playing it because there is a shower scene

[@phoenixlich]

Low key snes favorites for me would definitely include Shadowrun, Demon's Crest, Stunt Race FX, Earthbound (was low key at the time), Mario Paint (only game i had that used the snes mouse), Battle Clash and Metal Combat (best games for the super scope i had), Mickey Mania, Mohawk and Headphone Jack (i could actually beat this somehow), NHL Stanley Cup (the live action replay feature was so much fun), Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen, to name a few.

[@samwill7259]

Power Rangers Nerd Round 1 (GDI Matt stop asking open ended questions about my obsessions) SIlver Horns was in MMPR, he was used in The Power Transfer Part II the episode where Jason, Zack and Trini were replaced He's not very memorable because of the context of that episode being a much bigger deal, he was basically only there for a mecha fight. Also he couldn't have been in Zyuranger because its a Dairanger monster.

[@rustyshackleford2633]

Biker Mice is too tier, the show and the game. I’ve been playing it my whole life too so internally I’m like “USE YOUR ITEMS! WTF ARE YOU DOING?!” 😂😂😂, her name is Charlie btw not Greasy Suzy 🤣

[@Harotham]

"What's the gross one, not Slaanesh." That's debatable.

[@Leetcore]

the Top Gear 1 soundtrack was such a banger even though it only had like 6 tracks

[@micshork]

I think Rocky Rodent is an okay game. I hope you consider playing more forgotten mascot platformers.

[@lavernebennet7395]

Raptor's second-in-command is named Kane? wow he really is Geese Howard

[@robsonmartins207]

Doom Troopers reminded me of a Genesis game called Skeleton Krew for some reason... I hope Matt plays it someday if he hasn't already

[@HazzardousEco]

I have NO KNOWLEDGE of Blackthrone from back in the day; I don't even remember reading about it in a magazine ad or even a review 🤔 I mean I knew of Prince of Persia, Flashpoint, even Out of this World, but nothing on Blackthrone...

[@tmmw1975]

I was jokingly going to mention Justice League Task Force as the other good Blizzard game and then it popped up. I also played a ton of it as a kid

[@yeahok1455]

NBA give and go? That was Run N Gun I remember sinking many quarters into that game