Left in North America 2 - Game Sack

[@GameSack]

Are there any more games that were only released in North America that you feel are worth playing? Also check out the original Left in North America episode (most of those games weren't worth playing) - kzbin.info/www/bejne/gpO0aX2jbJWpeJo

[@megasilverx1268]

Monster Tale on Nintendo DS was a pretty good game that unfortunately never left North America.

[@manakhemia5]

Where's Dave

[@sega32xxx14]

@The Deadpool Who Chuckles. Well....I mean poop WAS pouring out of him at a constant, non-stop rate, it was inevitable by the time he was forced to live in the backyard...

[@JohnKelly2]

@@manakhemia5 Dave's not here, man.

[@craigjuan5744]

I know you're not into sports. But you should try out David Crane's Amazing Tennis on the Sega Genesis.

[@spookydonkey42]

kickmaster is really impressive for an NES game. It's like they snuck in some extra MEGA POWER into that cartridge!

[@willmistretta]

Made by the same crew that did the first G.I. Joe NES game. That one's definitely worth checking out, too.

[@heavysystemsinc.]

Along with the 2 GI Joe games, they also made Low G Man and Burai Fighter.

[@alfredocanas6802]

@@willmistretta That's what I noticed right away!

[@BlueNightZX]

next do a left in BRAZIL, there is a LOT of games made only in brazil by TEC-TOY company for sega consoles i know that you must be aware of them

[@edwardarcherwrestling6295]

I support this

[@URYADOF]

that's a very good idea actually

[@videoguy6966]

You mean "Left in South America"? 😁

[@ygotuzzo]

The Master system is still sold around here. ..Discovered today 0.0

[@sega32xxx14]

@@ygotuzzo It just costs SO little to produce them that even if many sit on the shelf, every one that sells is almost pure profit. I mean with the cost of current gen gaming in Brazil, who could blame people for still picking up a Master System? It's still fun to play, and there's a huge amount of games.

[@Craig_Fulk]

Once the "Dreamcast" completely fades away, you will then have a dope ass cinnamon roll shirt.

[@cocodojo]

until Dave sneaks in one day and steals his cinnamon roll shirt

[@chigimonky]

What's ass cinnamon? Sounds nasty.

[@SotNist]

"why my cinnamon role look like ET bus a nut"

[@MetalJesusRocks]

I finally got to play Alien Front on an arcade machine in Portland, Or and it was pretty freakin' fun! Great video.

[@daronofennell3474]

Nice to see you on Game Sack! Love watching both your videos!

[@MyRetroLife]

The gag at the end never gets old! Great episode. I loved Alien Front Online back in the day. I never knew it was left in North America

[@metfan4l]

23:34 Look at that, the Dreamcast lettering on the shirt magically re-appeared! Almost as if this wasn't shot in order :D

[@philosophyoftrucking]

No more Jen. No more Dave. We're all that Joe has these days.😥😥

[@milesevans1073]

Coffee and game sack, I love starting my Sunday mornings off like this

[@BikerBenny]

Haha 😁 did the same

[@JimLeonard]

I am so envious of your emulated "CRT close-up" filters. Just noticed the "shadow mask" one in this video. Really excellent work.

[@FinalBaton]

Noticed the shadow mask one too! was a nice touch

[@Real1Gaming]

14:18 - "They never cared much about the NES in Europe" is completely false. They never cared much for it in the UK maybe, but we here in Scandinavia very much cared for it. The NES slaughtered everything else here. It also did okay in other European countries. I advice you to look up "The lie that helped Nintendo" , a fantastic investigative article about the rise of the NES and Nintendo in general in Scandinavia. Regardless, great video!

[@MarcoZ1ITA1]

Well yeah, Italy was decently big on both NES and SEGA Master System too but you must have gotten shafted by the distribution too right? Most games were one to two years late, if they were released at all. It was worse for Mattel countries also.

[@zackschilling4376]

Sounds interesting, checking it out now EDIT It was interesting, great recommendation!

[@Real1Gaming]

@@MarcoZ1ITA1 Oh yeah, we got the game just as late as everyone else lol. However it was marketed very well. The market was big enough for some releases to be Japan-Scandinavia exclusive like Mr. Gimmick. And some text-heavy games were localized for Scandinavia, like Deja Vu and Shadowgate. Not even today are games generally localized for Scandinavia!

[@videoguy6966]

Yeah! Wasn't the Nintendo Castlevania series really popular in Transylvania?🤣

[@Timo8.2.]

I’m pretty sure he said that Nintendo japan didn’t really care about Europe not that Europeans didn’t care about nes

[@brydon10]

Joe you've got to give yourself more credit. That "not one, not three, but two!" thing was actually really funny.

[@StubbornFunkyDonkey]

Yes! New Game Sack video is always highly appreciated 👍

[@Wykesidefruitmachine]

There's no such thing as a bad Game Sack episode! They are ALL excellent.

[@shuntaro2408]

So Joe didn't hate a european platformer? Well coloUr me surprised.

[@LobsterPuncher]

I see what yoU did there.

[@mistamontiel00]

@@LobsterPuncher l0l

[@fireflocs]

I really wish BattleTanx stuck around and made more of a franchise, with like 5 or 6 games across multiple generations.

[@derekdash2179]

Nice to finally hear you pronounced “TAAIIITTOO” correctly again.

[@MzuMzu-nx1em]

Was great back at the arcade era

[@Doc_Valparaiso]

@@MzuMzu-nx1em They made a lot of beat em' ups iirc.

[@MzuMzu-nx1em]

@@Doc_Valparaiso you mean shótemup or action games , ..raiden my favourite back at 80'90'

[@Jason-oc2tf]

Deeply sorry to hear about the passing of your mother. I wish the best for you and yours in this tough time.

[@turron83]

A GameSack video in the morning is good for the soul

[@qujo123]

"Its a Gamesack episode, how good could it actually be?" Dave dude, we love you man

[@jeremyjulkowski4844]

How fortuitous that Joe's wearing a Dreamcast shirt when I spent all day yesterday playing with my newly modded Dreamcast console playing the overlooked classic RPG shooter D2!

[@agarza915]

We need a follow up to your Sega Saturn episode. The first one was mostly fighting games with the rest of the library relegated to montage footage. I DEMAND SATISFACTION.

[@pinkace]

I got Alien Front when it first came out & played online a lot. The voice chat was only ‘burst’ mode; you could speak for a few seconds, useful only to call out for help or trash talk. It was not laggy at all, especially on SegaNet.

[@ibitejawbreakers61]

Love to see Bomberman in the thumbnail ❤ lol

[@mattcrowell5875]

At least Bomberman Online isn’t like games nowadays where the entire game is solely based on the online interactivity and has minimal offline campaign features. Good job Hudson Soft- I mean Konami- wait, I take that back.

[@Shrapnel82]

Love the captions: "(not quite Bloody Tears video game music)"

[@startedtech]

0:36 nice frame that says "Voultair is a flat earther", love it!

[@jong2359]

lol I completely missed it.

[@julioagua]

Who is Voultair?

[@jong2359]

@@julioagua premier console modder and youtube personality.

[@chazzlucas6395]

earth is flat ... read a book

[@julioagua]

@@chazzlucas6395 I don't own a bible...

[@jong2359]

5:27 Joe, I really feel that when a game presents an opportunity to use the word "sack" that you effing take it. Bags just fell flat, and I was forced to cry myself to sleep after this episode because of it.

[@MicahBuzanANIMATION]

Sunday just doesn't feel complete without a little Game Sack.

[@VideoGameStupidLC]

18:45 The description of this game... holy shit! Prophecy in the form of a N64 game..

[@Mimi.1001]

What about an "Bad games with an outstanding soundtrack" episode or "Games only good for its music" or whatever you want to call it? I know the show is more about the games in general, but it would be a great opportunity to honour Tim Follin, who just happened to work on kinda bad games. Check out the score of Pictionary on the NES for example! I think some Sonic games would also fall into this category, anyway I think your ears would like after they probably haven't fully recovered from some episodes back. It is astounding to me that so many Dreamcast games haven't even made their way to Japan despite being developed there, I mean it isn't like the Xbox, the Dreamcast sold decently well there. And the slightly faster built-in Modem the Dreamcast had in North America for some reason doesn't make that big of a difference I think.

[@nnnneeeeuuuu]

Goddamn it Joe, I bursted our laughing with the 60 frames joke

[@bmwolgas]

That's quite incredible that your Toshiba CRT television is still working 614 years from now.

[@Gambit771]

They made things to last back then.

[@superandroidtron]

Fun Fact: Kick Master was programmed by legendary shmup developer Shinobu Yagawa, who later went on to program the Famicom technical masterpiece "Summer Carnival '92: Recca".

[@jlh8830]

You two are hands down my favorite KZbin channel. Great work guys 👍👌 🤟. In the words of MJR your channel is a hidden gem.

[@alkostach]

Hello and thank you for helping me through another hangover Sunday.

[@charlesanthony6368]

this episode, and the MK episode of Digital Foundry are the best things that happened this week. Thank you. :)

[@SevenCompleted]

Battletanx is the best multiplayer game on the nintendo 64. The capture the flag mode is so much fun with 3 friends better than goldeneye or conkers. You can also get powered up versions of the secondary weapons by having 15 of it and pressing a and b at the same time. The mines lay down an instant minefield behind you, the 3 missiles fires a salvo that wipes out whatever is unfortunate to be in front of it, I think the guided missile just fires a massive one it's been so long since ive played.

[@FranktheTank319]

I was literally watching one of your older videos when this was posted. Lucky me!

[@FranktheTank319]

@Sandman Slim literally.

[@FranktheTank319]

@matt fahringer ok, bud.

[@ChibiTheEdgehog]

I like the faded Dreamcast wording. It gives you the "if ypu know you know" situation from distance. Because you either know the logo or you dont

[@ninjasec]

Great work . Relieved trauma when you show cased battle tanks, alien front online was fun in short sessions. Now I feel old. I also get motion sick when I play a lot of older games

[@ninjasec]

@Sandman Slim triggered

[@chazzlucas6395]

Arkista's Ring looks like a Gauntlet game

[@WhiteDjayanegara]

The excitement level for having new video releases from Game Sack is unsurpassed... This is honest.

[@WhiteDjayanegara]

@Sandman Slim thank you very much for telling me. This is also honest.

[@PurplePandaClock]

Pretty dope there are so many people from around the world watching game sack. Greetings from Illinois, middle America

[@nux3960]

"That wasn't an ad just letting you know.." lol XD

[@GoodVibeCollecting]

Hey...I actually like Beetlejuice for the NES. :P It has it's issues but it's far from bad. It's not as good as Jeopardy Junior Edition though. That game is a masterpiece.

[@phatRdude]

always a happy day when i see a gamesack notification ❤

[@XeviousD]

@Rashid Aljunaid Same here!

[@phatRdude]

@Sandman Slim is saying that makes you happy then your sick get help ASAP

[@deathmeowtal1503]

Always a treat watching new gamesack!! Awesome video again as always - I didnt know dreamcast had voice chat

[@cinnamondan4984]

Living in China at the moment makes the plot of Battle Tanx too real for me right now.

[@MzuMzu-nx1em]

Good luck . To have fun think about your nazy-commy government killed by their own virus

[@DocMcCray]

Well, if you can somehow make it to the US, we have some rather loose women. Don't know what your standards are.

[@cinnamondan4984]

Mzu5000 Mzu oh, I am an American lol

[@DocMcCray]

@@cinnamondan4984 Well, when you make it back you can have your pick!

[@Gambit771]

@@MzuMzu-nx1em The virus was probably created by the CIA.

[@lekanraposte6732]

Kickmaster look pretty damn impressive! With various backgrounds, parallax scrolling, and many interesting ennemies. I have to check this out. _Looking on Ebay…_ Ah, fak me.

[@Narhijan]

Great video as usual, thx Joe! I was need it. Now it's time for me to re-watch some more GS episodes

[@MoonsaultMadLad]

One thing I love about Game Sack, particularly Dave, is that he always admits when he's not good at a game. Why should game commentators always be awesome at every game? There's no wonder Game Sack reviews are great - they're down to earth and all about fun.

[@SwitchRetroGaming]

Alien Front Online was epic at the time. The Voice chat worked well too, it was only 5 sec's of audio but it worked and was pretty much the 1st console game to allowed chat online

[@SwitchRetroGaming]

@Sandman Slim Come again?

[@InvictvsNox]

Can I just say I love your filming method of using real CRT shots for when you need to zoom in? Also, I need Kickmaster immediately lol. Gorgeous looking game.

[@Tremadog102]

I remember seeing Alien Front Online in a magazine here in the UK. It obviously didn't release over here but I remember being excited to see it.

[@Xeo7]

I played so much of both Alien Front Online as well as Battletanx. And the voice quality on the mic for the former, at least from what I remember worked well enough, but it's not like I had much to compare it to then either. Battletanx was an absolute BLAST multiplayer, so long as we followed our house rule of "NO Nuclear Knights!"

[@strain42]

Hey, sorry, I know I'm super late to the party, but I wanted to throw out some possible titles for you to look into when you do Left in America 3. I tried to include a mix of Good, Okay, and Bad games just to add some variety Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law (PS2/PSP/Wii) - Ace Attorney style game developed by Capcom and [adult swim] based on the hit cartoon. Brooktown High (PSP) - A weird dating sim/mini-game title that was actually published by Konami. I'll confess I have kind of a soft spot for this title and I don't think I'll ever be able to explain why. (if I'm being honest this is the one I'd probably most like to see you talk about) Dragon Ball Z Sagas (GC/PS2/Xbox) - I mean...it's a classic and...well, not beloved, but infamous DBZ game. Honestly I was just kinda surprised to learn it was exclusive to America. Urban Yeti! (GBA) - Has some quirky charm, but not a great title. Top down game, best known for the speedrun at AGDQ. Twisted Metal 3/4/Small Brawl (PS1) - Just a trilogy of titles in the Twisted Metal series that were exclusive to North America. May be worth a look. Sneak King (360) - Another infamous title, the Burger King tie-in game. Actually all three of the Burger King games were exclusive to North America, but Sneak King is the only one really worth discussing. Plumbers Don't Wear Ties (PC) - It's bad. It's just so bad. It's so incredibly bad. Jazz Jackrabbit 2002 (GBA) - This one is pretty interesting. The other entries in the series left the country, so I'm not entirely sure why this one was exclusive. Anyway, kinda the black sheep of the series. Not great, but not super terrible either. Mostly worth looking at because of the series it's from. Godzilla 2: War of the Monsters (NES) - I mean...how on earth does a game developed by Toho starring Godzilla get released only in North America? Crazy, right? Hope that helps! Have an awesome day!

[@joefell5311]

With Joe, you always know. And knowing is half the battle!

[@SomeOrangeCat]

Yeah Battletanx is definitely a great one! Even came out on the PS1. The 3DO Company made a bunch of good games for that generation of consoles.

[@TM3Alumni]

Wooooooooooooow!!! Kickmaster! Just like that Joe brought me back to 3rd grade!! I was so awful at that game but i loved it.

[@WimpyMcWeaksauce]

HOLY WALNUTS YOU SPOOKED ME BAD AT THE END!

[@juiceala]

I have not one, not three, but two words to say, good episode!

[@Flint_Ironstagg]

Kickmaster is an awesome game. I remember picking it out for my birthday from the local video store. $99.99 Canadian. Worth it.

[@maverickAMH]

Aaaah, it´s Sunday and here is a new episode of my beloved KZbin-Show Gamesack. Greetings and thanks. Coffee anyone? ;-) ...

[@cinnamondan4984]

I used to love Alien Front Online. I am shocked to hear that it had only been released in the US.

[@johnporter9073]

Tin Head looks like a lot of fun. Very nice graphics.

[@TheRealJPhillips]

Yea I still got my original battletanx on n64. I was the guy tryna always tell ppl how underrated it is

[@VideoGameTakeOut]

I was surprised you didn't mention G.I. Joe when talking about Kick Master. They play very similarly and I'm pretty sure they were both developed by the same studio.

[@JoeyJ0J0]

Glad to see you, I loved your videos

[@VideoGameTakeOut]

@@JoeyJ0J0 Aww thank you so much! Hit up my other channel and I may be making some new ones before too long. :)

[@JoeyJ0J0]

@@VideoGameTakeOut awesome, that's good to hear

[@hamz7986]

The longevity of Game Sack's quality is impressive, Joe.

[@segamon]

Surprisingly, Alien Front Online played pretty good over dialup. The voices alowed you to say something for a few seconds to your team and it worked quite well.

[@WhoniverseReview]

The reflection in the screen at the end clip suggests that Joe is a vampire. Nobody sitting in that chair in the reflection.

[@everdale8920]

I'm just gonna make a statement: We need another "Let's make a KZbin-channel" video. I found that hilarous and has been waiting for you to honor some more youtube-channels in the weirdest and best way possible. Here's to me hoping you will consider it!

[@ronaldderosa]

Got a legit laugh out of that 60 fps gag. Well played.

[@LobsterPuncher]

That Taito pronunciation is glorious.

[@KRBadonkadonk]

I remember playing Alien Front Online, the voice chat seemed fine at the time

[@davidanderson7643]

Kick Master looks AMAZING! Definitely a hardware pusher.

[@FoxMan_FF]

When I saw Bomberman on the thumbnail, I figured you were going to talk about the equally American-only Atomic Bomberman for PC. Don't know if that was ever covered in a Game Sack episode, but it does have a lot of foul language in it (mostly hidden away in the game's code), so I could understand why it would be passed over. It does have some famous voice actors in it, though!

[@PBBoogie99]

My baby is keeping me up. Good thing there’s a new episode.

[@Johnnygrafx]

I like your frame count method. Definitely do that more often to confirm the frames.

[@LouGojira2]

I always thought Tin Head was a beautiful and mostly under-appreciated game...it's not the most fun game you'll play, but it's definitely easy on the eyes. But one thing about Tin Head that I always thought was totally out of place was the giant teddy bear head (I guess that's what it is?) you could hop around on. It brought the pace of the game down to a crawl and it certainly never fit in with the game's other visuals. I've always wondered who on the development team thought a hopping teddy bear in a sci-fi themed game was a good idea.

[@crazyivan030983]

Takich trzech jak nas dwóch to nie ma ani jednego. There is no three like two of us is no one. Greetings from Poland :)

[@Not-Great-at-Gaming]

I am the worlds biggest fan of Bomberman. Well, not really, but we used to play 4 player on my friend's Turbo Duo a lot back in the day.

[@deanhank1848]

Wow another new one, you are on a role Mr. and it's all high quality stuff.

[@darkwingdave79]

Once of my all-time favorites are Heavy Metal: Geo-Matrix (Dreamcast) & N20 (PlayStation). Not too sure if they're only US played but they're pretty badass.

[@lazarolzr2016]

Game Sack in my opnion,on'es of the best game channel on youtube and you know we all think that too.

[@MzuMzu-nx1em]

To me the cassettes and cartridge era will be always the best, including the giant and ludicrously expensive neo geo cartridges

[@Natepwnsu]

Battle Tanks 64. Best 3d0 game. Best multiplayer n64 game too

[@shaggybuddzz6369]

I miss dave and im OK with that.💣💣

[@Jesse__H]

I miss Matt's mom and I'm ok with that.

[@TheFartsandCrapsShow]

Woah, 6 years later we get a sequel? Hell yeah!

[@juiceala]

I never knew Bomberman online was exclusive to north america, and yet nobody ever mentions it, it was the first Bomberman I ever played and I still think it’s no contest the very best game in the entire franchise, simply because it’s an expansion on the multiplayer mode, even in single player mode, no dungen bullshit.

[@SotNist]

Man, I haven't see the cart for Out of This World since the 90's and didn't even remember there was an initial load time like that. At least the anniversary HD versions are snappy.

[@Ramjet164]

Tbh the snes version is by far the worst version released.

[@Gerenocidiac]

Had to lower the quality to 480p to see those flickering items disappear in Kick Master. I saw them all clearly in 1080p60, but at 480 which I believe is either 24 or 30fps, you're right, some of them don't even show up at all.

[@Zeldaschampion]

Don't worry Joe. I find Bomberman boring too.

[@Duke_Togo_G13]

Kickmaster looks awesome! Gotta get for my collection

[@SpiralPegasus]

I _can't believe_ Kickmaster only got released in the US! I wish I'd have bought it when I had a chance.

[@Not-Great-at-Gaming]

11:25 Looks like he's just taking an elevator down to the basement.

[@JeremyIbu]

battletanx is one game i used to play over at my friend house just only played the single player mode like 2 years ago

[@pokey4200]

lol that VMU flatline sound. I think every vmu i have makes the flatline sound on boot...

[@jmac79ers]

I always thought that Tinhead had a real Amiga vibe. Thanks Joe!!!

[@ChocoBeanChat]

That TV!!! Keeping it all the way classic 👌