Mega Drive Longplay [431] The Ooze

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Dr. Daniel Caine, research scientist working for The Corporation, while searching for the evidence that crimes were being committed using a toxic gas he created, has discovered that The Corporation has succeeded in developing a hybrid plague, a disease so dangerous and fast-spreading, it could wipe out humanity in just a few days.
Only The Corporation held the cure. They created "Operation: Omega": a plan to unleash this pestilence in water supplies around the globe, infecting the entire planet at a single blow. Then, they would extort billions of dollars from world governments to supply the cure! The Director found out about Caine hacking into his database and had the scientist injected with something green. Dr. Caine's body liquefied and was flushed down into sewerage. However, his skull and fist remained intact, and his new body is made of toxic goo. Swearing revenge, the doctor seeks two things: his former colleagues, and to assume his human form once again. He must now find the DNA helices scattered throughout the wasteland or else end up imprisoned in the Director's lava lamp...
The Ooze is a video game developed by Sega Technical Institute and released in 1995 for the Mega Drive/Genesis. Howard Drossin (who previously worked on music and sound for Sonic & Knuckles, Sonic Spinball and Comix Zone, and later for Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal) created music and sounds, and Dave Sanner, the developer of Sonic Spinball, was the lead programmer. In the game, players take the role of a slimy puddle of liquid and face off against various enemies and obstacles.
Players control Dr. Caine as a puddle of ooze with a head, who can move around and use two attacks. One is stretching out a maneuverable sliver of ooze whose length is only limited by how much ooze he currently has to attack. Players can also spit gobs of ooze (called a "Hocker of Death" ), which reduces the size of the ooze. Enemy attacks deplete the size of the ooze puddle as well, and the Ooze will die either if he becomes very small or if his head is attacked directly. He can also die by dropping off the edges of certain areas. Numerous puzzles must be completed in order to progress from one level to another. An optional goal of the game is finding and collecting all 50 helices, in order to see the game's good ending.
This could be a great action/puzzle game if it didn't have the insane, unfair difficulty. The developers could simply add a saving feature and solve all problems, but instead, one mistake forces the player trying to get the good ending to start all over. It's so hard, the game barely lets you learn it at all. Players are supposed to touch every pixel of every level in search for hidden items, passages and levers, and to memorize all encounters in the game, because a considerable part of them are anti-intuitive deathtraps. And for what? For the good ending, you get the same two screens as the bad ending (which is also the game over screen), with a low-quality animation slapped to them at the end! Slope mechanics are poorly done, but that's just a minor complaint about the game's otherwise solid and original design. Also, a few places on Level 5 seem to be inspired by nothing more than pure sadism.
All DNA collected, all paths shown, most (maybe all) items collected, good ending shown. -
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[@lankey6969]

This is one of those "where the fuck do I go?" games

[@Spawnwick_Boseman82820]

Just like toejam & earl

[@darkfallenangel96]

Heh AVGN reference

[@SpruceCampbell]

@@darkfallenangel96 I understood that reference.

[@Meta_Productions]

@@SpruceCampbell Power Core be like

[@DarkCreed]

Today that method will win you awards

[@effy.222]

this game used to terrify me as a kid. now as an adult i have a newfound appreciation for it! the music, the animation, the gameplay, the concept.... mostly the music

[@jacksonmckinnon399]

Same lmao and I just remembered this game today

[@AlexKrossLore]

Love it that almost all sound effects are also used in Comix Zone.

[@joeyjojojunior1794]

Both soundtracks make me wish I was deaf.

[@bishopalexander9164]

@@joeyjojojunior1794 They fuck though wtf are you smoking?

[@alvarochaves1999]

Both were developed by Sega Technical Institute.

[@emmajade9507]

Sonic Spinball also.

[@ZacTheFirst]

@@joeyjojojunior1794hell nah bro, the Comix Zone soundtrack is amazing

[@MrStickman1997]

The screaming from those hazmat guys is scarily brutal...

[@charliehoss1614]

Scrolled down to try to find a comment like this

[@steves678]

As a 30 year old man watching this i felt 8 years old again. This was my favorite sega game

[@lkotro21]

Dudum, du du du dudum. "Yes" Du du, du du, du du du dudum.

[@krystalthesquirrel4973]

Um, I have a question, what exactly is the point behind the beginning story...? I mean, I know how he becomes the ooze, but why would they make HIM the victim and for what purpose?

[@lkotro21]

@@krystalthesquirrel4973 They were just trying to kill him. It is only by some fluke he retained himself. How he managed to restore himself in the end that... is unclear.

[@palmside5613]

Actually, the real reason, they tried to kill him was because he was the debunking the schemes the employer were under to try and seek a way to prevent them from releasing a toxic gas that he made so that they could exploit it and the evil people running the factory know that by releasing it into the atmosphere so in which case when tons of people get sick by this virus, many innocents would have to fork up enough cash to them since they're the only ones who had possession of the cure for it so basically saying they tried to kill Dr. Caine solely because they wanted to silence him

[@palmside5613]

​@@krystalthesquirrel4973 yall read what I just told u lol

[@XperimentorEES]

While it looks awkward to control, still impressive how they portrayed the fluid physics for the time. Definitely one of those games that'd benefit from a remaster!

[@hazaelrodriguez9276]

For some reason the title screen would scare me and intro with the heartbeats just made it worse

[@hardmanfromamsterdam888]

i think it looks cool i was always obsessed with slime and gooey looking creatures

[@hardmanfromamsterdam888]

thats also why i like sonic heros sprites so much since they look all jelly like

[@Zmargo702]

Same here!! Thought it was just me

[@Zmargo702]

Closed No one was scared of the monster dude it was the aesthetic of the title screen. The sudden flashes of foreshadowing plot, the heavy music, the heartbeat, the imagery, etc. That low quality slime bubble wasnt the scary part

[@comedyloverism]

That’s why I like it.

[@vibri_]

I like how the game doesn't even have any HUD, because the character IS the HUD.

[@FickleFilms]

Diagetic design always impresses me when executed well

[@vukakovic7787]

Oh, his name is D. Caine... Because his body decays into ooze... On the same note, his file name is 00 Z

[@geraintjones9355]

This game used to scare me

[@aliascott7113]

Cyber TARDIS lmao same

[@chrisbenitez6385]

Dude SAME

[@tonyspindash5719]

I had nightmares for days

[@arktesla2875]

Cyber TARDIS Same. Freaked me out

[@ElectroNinjaHD]

as you can tell you aren't alone my dude, this game spooked me so much especially the intro to the game.

[@firemario8126]

The musics rocks as hell but the difficulty is so freaking high

[@fish5467]

@@Damian_1989 Ok

[@RickyBalboa004]

The Ooze all bosses: 16:40 - Giant Mutant Worms 50:20 - Mutant Eyeballs 1:10:15 - Giant Virus 1:45:15 - Corporation Security System 2:06:15 - Evil Director

[@karistartnotenough6358]

Ricardo Vinícius dos Santos Sá great

[@SophiaXiaoyuAralaCran]

The 3rd challenger is as far as I had gone before my system died too and where I failed at it too... no idea how to stop him....

[@Hearttoons2003.]

👁️👁️👁️

[@jcharmaine1]

@@Hearttoons2003. 🥝 👁👁👁

[@Monstermanlordgamez]

The 1st boss are actually snakes that are mutated not just some mutated giant worms

[@Umbra_of_Emberspike]

Hard but with a noteworthy hint of originality. The black gaping maw of the laughing ooze was ten times scarier than any of the enemies.

[@kiwibro6454]

the ooze itself was pretty impressive , especially how it flows about. This game grabbed my attention from the weird box art in the Japanese version, it looks as if it was a temporary cover until they finalize the artwork

[@JoeNuttss]

The way the ooze moves is so clever from a technological point of view, I wonder how it was programmed

[@PedroCouto1982]

I think it's still amazing. I assume several images were made for the edges, selected based on the surroundings. The fluid could be made of a particle system. The head would be the pivot and various squares move trying to be together around the head, but avoiding overlapping. When attacking, one of the squares becomes another pivot, like another leader, and the others follow it. But I don't know how it was implemented. It's a supposition.

[@legionbeast]

The concept of this game is freaking great. I could see a new version, still top down and with perhaps an upgrade system. Even make the plot that the good Doc anticipated that the corporation would try again and made a backup of the ooze serum just in the off chance he needed to become the ooze again. The whole fluid mechanic really would look amazing and... I'd take the difficulty down a notch or two. Like, first couple levels are piss easy, but then when we get to the corporation, gotta focus on the puzzle elements lest you get dead REAL quick.

[@legionbeast]

I also figure a mechanic would be to use the punch to "add ooze" to your opponents and when enough is on them, that's when they become goo and you kill them and can add them to you. Spitting does much the same, a bigger glob but it rips a chunk off your ooze body to do it. I'd also add a "corrosive" meter. By activating it, it turns all your goo into the corrosive type and you kill everything by touching it, but it doesn't last forever. You'd get it by consuming ooze and killing opponents and power up drops. Kinda like a rage instead of soley a powerup you find per chance.

[@buttman5101]

Theirs a new game called ‘Carrion’ coming out in 2020 that looks similar to this, we need more games like this!

[@nifftbatuff676]

The new version will be an open world with rpg elements, crafting and base building. And microtransaction for aesthetics like to have a cooler green shade.

[@legionbeast]

@@nifftbatuff676 [everyone disliked that]

[@jasonharris3502]

Love it! There should also be a level select AND a game save feature too and a map of the stage to where you are,where the hidden DNA are located as well as the hidden test labs(bonus levels). There should also be two endings. Both of them are happy endings. One where you some succeed in somehow exposing the Corporation's exploits to the world and the Director is taken off to jail. The whole plant is decommissioned however you use it's equipment to work on finding a cure. The other ending is after you've collected all the DNA,you install them in to a machine that successfully turns you human again. The evil Director,like the first game,is the one stuck in a lava lamp. And now that you're in charge,you use the entire plant to run more clean and efficient energy and improve the experiments for the betterment of mankind instead of evil. What do you think?

[@floristheavens]

I vividly remember the night I was walking through the kids r us game section with my grandfather and picking this game out. Along with Spiderman: separation anxiety and Comix Zone. 31 years old now, unbelievable how time flies lol. Really miss those days. I’m glad to see folks still appreciating this

[@2023PerfectDark]

This game scared me as a kid. I still feel uncomfortable watching this and Im 20years old now. This was more scary than ah! monsters to me

[@ZionMathisAKASonicFan1999]

2023PerfectDark never did scared when I was a kid. but I'm 17

[@blen4295]

I remember seeing it for the first time on show in one of those novelty gadget shops and I was petrified of it. obviously better now but I still get a bit uncomfortable today whenever I see it. :|

[@chrisbenitez6385]

I had his on a genesis along with some other games like Sonic Spinball when I was 5 and this definitely scared the shit out of me, now I’m 14 and yeah I do still get a bit uncomfortable while watching this lmao

[@roland_the_cursor]

I guess I'm a sick fuck because this game only intensified me having a vore fetish 😂😂😂

[@user-bf9hu9pv7z]

@@roland_the_cursor you mistaken with "v"

[@tbp_entertainment]

Technologically, this game is pretty impressive for its time.

[@solaris6428]

A very underrated game that deserves more attention

It was shit with awful controls.

[@theanglerfish9852]

The graphics, the music, the burps... This is one of the best games ever created. A true 16-bit gem.

[@marukinSFM]

This unlocked memories i completely forgot about

[@TinyDrew5]

Finally someone does a longplay collecting all the 50 helix things. Been trying so much to find them myself. It will feel like an achievement to complete this super difficult game.

[@CourierDan]

For a bigger crowning moment, the LongPlayer took the time to go down each different path and show off where to find the Helixes for those paths.

[@GS-kw1hx]

TinyDrew5 t

[@MarioDS01]

It would be enough of an achievement to beat this game, let alone any games this difficult or more so.

[@robertjones6891]

This game sparked my love for the creepy / horror genre of games and art

[@fench1234567]

This game should've had better guns in it for our hero. At least an "oozi", perhaps? :P

[@AXharoth]

xDDDDD

[@gamerperez7976]

Grade A +

[@MKD1101]

How about boozi?

[@segaking5846]

G O. N O W.

[@ChristianProtossDragoon]

🤣🤣🤣

[@unholyperiodza5442]

Some of the sound effects were recycled from Comix Zone.

[@shenglongisback4688]

Eric Cruz same developers

[@_ArmIa]

That roar whenever The Ooze gets hit in the head is a standout. One of my favourite things about this game is the sound design.

[@solarflare9078]

They both use GEMS

[@KokNoker]

Pretty sure I heard The Haunting Starring Poulterguy sounds too.

[@Tritnew]

@@solarflare9078 God bless the people who had to compose with that horrid program. They made some damn good tunes with it too.

[@decaffeinatedafrican5997]

this game spooked me as a kid. whenever that intro played i would run out of the room lmao. i also remember it being hard af! the music kicked ass tho.

[@everythingsalright1121]

the hardest part of this game is knowing what can and cant hurt you, and the fact that there's no map. little indication of where to go, or what flicking a switch opens up, etc

[@DINXIII]

Because I find the story of Dr D Caine absolutely fascinating

[@maryg7488]

Glad to read i wasn't the only kid terrified by this game.

[@everythingsalright1121]

Once I got the hang of it, I didnt find the game to be THAT difficult...I think the difficulty comes more from poor design in some spots; for example, its not very clear what can or cant hurt you. It is also very easy to get lost, and it's not very clear where you have to go or what your actions do. I remember flipping switches as a kid and trying to figure out what the hell it did.

[@VandelayDefect]

It certainly wasn't very clear on what could hurt you and what couldn't unless you eyeballed the protag's reaction during play and took note of sound effects. Thankfully, back in the day it was a lot easier to see what was going on since the screen views were so much smaller and there were limits on how much could spawn (to ensure it could fucking run in the first place). Not to mention there were no maps or anything so wandering around for hours trying to get an idea of where the hell you were was definitely a factor too.

[@broguns2420]

Dude I’m 24 I grew up with this game as a kid and still the intro with the music still gets me like Idky this game freaks me out while playing like it’s scary but so cool only problem hard af but fun

[@jasminelaflare]

Me too!!!😂

[@TheLambdaTeam]

Bro, this game is awesome! It reminds me of the 1985 movie "The Blob", which was pretty friggin' incredible too!

[@phobos2k2]

Why is this blob so satisfying to watch move around? Lol.

[@Dorelaxen]

Back when Sega could still think outside the box and weren't just about a friggin' hedgehog.

[@johnsimon8457]

Dorelaxen the US based SEGA Technical Institute was kinda meant to pursue off the wall ideas like this

[@giguyjoe]

Or a mob boss in Tokyo

[@thebestcentaur]

Don't forget...also the time when the games they made about that friggin' hedgehog were actually worth playing

[@sirkayda7205]

The hedgehog was outside the box and then copied endlessly by other developers.

[@nocturnasinterfector]

This is clearly an American game. Sonic belongs to japan

[@jannyboi260]

I still remember the theme song to this day, I hope it gets remade for 2020 lmao

[@aaronmayernik4002]

I love this game but DAMN! This looks like hell to play let alone achieve the good ending. Thanks for the awesome video! Keep goin dude! I wanna see more awesome videos like this.

[@SophiaXiaoyuAralaCran]

5:30 I never forgot that scream those boys did ever since back in the day.... it was hilarious! The funniest scream ever! X'D

[@devismiles2144]

Amazing game, never finished it though. Imagine a remaster, just dont let EA, Bethesda or ubisoft touch it

[@mr.4096]

Well said. Those are definately the 3 borgiest video game companies that assimilate everything into a fetid pile of reeking shit.

[@murrfeeling]

Gearbox it is! When Gearbox and Sega get together nothing can go wrong!

[@MarioDS01]

Agree. So sad that 3 use to be great companies would go so downhill after all those years. How in the world did they lose their way? I think they should go sort of back to basics and find out what actually worked really well in the past and experiment with new things or use great older series. They can build up from there and build up their reputation back, even if the games would be 2D ones, as long they are good and not rushed.

[@mattwo7]

@@murrfeeling [every Aliens fan disliked that]

[@TheIrland09]

This is a Sega game what do those companies have to do with it lol

[@Rarestgameplayer]

Wow, it's strange that a green liquid is the main player...

[@iwanttocomplain]

I've figured out the key to success in this game. It's your extending fist. It has a small green blob on the end which is barely visible but this is what you are aiming to hit things. pay close attention to it. To get it to go where you want is the aim but it will only travel in diagonals. So in order to hit things which you are not precisely in line with you must finesse it right at the end to hit the target be it an enemy or post to grab onto. Do a quick little circular motion. Then you will be able to hit target you are not precisely in line with on the 8 axis.

[@KerfufulzeProtogen]

Ahh this brings back so many memories when I was much younger I played it on a Sega Genesis plug and play and the tv was messed up so the ooze guy looked blue and with sonic 2 sonic looked purple and tailed looked more green.

[@bettyconfettii]

😂😂

[@bettyconfettii]

I can soooo relate**

[@nateblack8669]

Nothing screams Sega Genesis more than this game.

[@ArpeggioPegasusMusic]

Comix Zone ?

[@Damian_1989]

Between this game, Boogerman and Comix Zone, you get the impression that game developers for the Genesis did *serious amounts of acid.*

[@PrematureMailbox]

4:11 I swear the Danny Phantom theme stole this riff

[@LaShea69]

To World of Longplays: FINALLY!!! I clicked the "Like" button BEFORE I even watched the video, simply for the fact that you are FINALLY playing this game! I don't care if this is a complete 100% playthrough, I'm just glad that this finally exist! THANK YOU! I know this game is hella hard, that's why I couldn't do it, but you did, and I just want to say "Thank You."

[@legionbeast]

World of Longplays is actually comprised of videos submitted by players. If there a game you're a total boss at and would love to 100%? See if it's in WOL playlist anywhere, then record yourself beating it.

[@LaShea69]

Oh, I know; it's just that no one has attempted to play this before on this channel, and who could blame them, 100% or not. I'm just happy that The Ooze is up here.

[@brasilballs]

Well, I didn't watch the full video, but by the comments, it seems like it's a Good Ending 100% playthrough.

[@LaShea69]

It is, and the fact that Longplays didn't have to 100% it, makes me more appreciative to them for playing this hard-ass game.

[@DINXIII]

I wonder what the ooze would be like if it was a movie

[@bettyconfettii]

I wonder that too

[@TheLambdaTeam]

Introducing "The Blob" from 1985

[@ThePrayingMantis08]

After watching this video while trying to go to sleep, I coulda sworn that the footage jumped back at certain points. Concluded it was my imagination, although upon viewing this video again today I've noticed more instances where the footage jumped back. An example of this is when it jumps back from *WASTE PLANT PART II* to the end of *TOXIC DUMP* 's boss fight at 29:07. Jumping forward to about 39:33 seems to preserve the flow of the video. This was the only one that I have found upon today's viewing as of this moment. The fact that this jump exists shows that it's possible that there are more jumps, and that it wasn't my imagination a couple of days ago.

[@animationvigilante643]

I would have liked to see this game get the same treatment as people did with Sonic...🙂

[@johnlewisbrooks]

This was played so well I'm amazed the player only died a few times! This game was CRAZY hard! It does score high in the creativity area because I've never seen a game quite like this one yet.

[@AlexParr]

This game's death animation used to kinda scare me as a kid; but I still pulled through anyways because I thought I was a total badass.

[@duce1312]

The 90s did "dystopian" just right

[@elijahvincent985]

00:37 What's Milo from Atlantis doing here?!

[@firemario8126]

When i played for the first time, i thought the same thing.

[@XXXtremeMuthafucka89]

I love the way the Ooze says 'YES!' whenever he grabs those DNA things. Unfortunately: it's not worth getting them all since the 'reward' is just for a piss poor animation when you beat the game... that is, if you can beat it because it's also ballbustingly hard!

[@jasonharris3502]

On the bright side,you become human once again.

[@SaitohYatate]

Yeah, sounds like he got a lucky number playing craps.

[@blackthealmightysuperior4235]

What scared me was the game over scene as a kid

[@vantablack3831]

This game was 90s death metal/deathpunk in a nutshell. Think about it- You get turned into a gelatinous monster of toxic slime by a corrupt science corporation, and you must now claim vengeance on them by devouring all that stands as you welcome their flesh and bones into the very biomass they have created.

[@Meta_Productions]

That does beg a question though if Dr.Cane was going to expose the company then why did he not notice anything wrong in the Gentics Lab where he likely worked in and didn't see any destroyed walls and grounds with a big monster as well unless the company started killing everyone in the lab and destroying everything after the director put him through the toilet.

[@vantablack3831]

@@Meta_Productions Good point. I can only offer 3 feasible possibilities: 1: His eyesight was REALLY bad. After all, he did wear glasses. 🤷🏻‍♂️ 2: He possibly did know something was going on, but was threatened when he tried to dig deeper into the situation. 3: The corporation excelled at burning all evidence of what they were doing. Chances are, none of the personnel knew what was going on behind the scenes except the higher ups. I wish there was more lore to this game, because I'm sure everyone would love it. A remake would be cool.

[@Meta_Productions]

@@vantablack3831 If they make a remake they can explore more of the lore of the game and expand

[@vantablack3831]

@@Meta_Productions Yeah definitely. Especially with the technology we have now. Sega could do so much more with it. Same for Comix Zone and Altered Beast.

[@Meta_Productions]

@@vantablack3831 I have a great idea I should make a The Ooze discord server!

[@Hearttoons2003.]

When you open a dangerous egg, but the egg has a monster on it.......... 1:18

[@TontonMayonnaise]

What an impressive game ! I was searching for some good "blob" game and it existed ... And I didn't know it. Great great great !

[@jimbo3356]

only game were you get to play as "the Blob"

[@hervymarquezgarcia1079]

Carrion. 2020

[@goodperson656]

And I thought Zombies ate my Neighbor was a hard game...

[@bcs9000]

it seems like a fever dream, I loved it

[@teaguevox8160]

I never understood just how to play the game. What damages you, what damages opponents, the goal of the game even. It was really difficult and I ended up just giving up on it back in the 90s. But for some reason when people would mention games from that era on that console, I would always think of it.

[@TheDragonfriday]

I felt same way, but I got creep out and scared of the game. So I stopped simply I got too scared. I played it on a knock off fake consoles filled with roms. Mg earliest gaming experience only down side it doesn't have a way to save any progress.

[@31leoceara]

Fluids physics in a 16 bit game!!

[@soniaprune3408]

Tre : walmart don't start. Walmart: what? I'm not even doing anything to you . Tre yeah you are !

[@ladysnake8449]

A band named Green Jello made a song called the Misadventures of Shitman, this may be his origin story.

[@JohnnyThousand605]

So this is what Phobia were playing when they came up with Carrion?

[@Brewski007]

This game always scares me when I played it Mainly cuz I’m a “ZZZZZOOMAH 🧑🏽‍🦱” So I played this on the ATGames console, and oh boy the first level music always freaked me out, and I thought you were playing as the bad guy (I never watched the opening cutscene so I didn’t know this was kinda like a revenge story) and the death animation also freaked me out! My mom would turn it on sometimes just to mess with me I’m 15 now That was an embarrassing moment in my life

[@T-sHz]

Good game, just ball bustingly difficult: could never get any further than waste plant part II :(

[@ZionMathisAKASonicFan1999]

T-sHz same

[@ryancourteau5274]

T-sHz difficulty surpasses the difficulty of kid chamileon as i can get past the first few levels easy in kid cham not so much in the Ooze

[@JC-pu5mk]

Lol lucky i couldn’t even get past toxic dump

[@redking36]

I got to genetics lab at one point. There are too many holes and lasers.

[@guese1435]

I do

Wow, best horror-fiction game on Mega Drive console.

[@Benjamillion]

God this game was difficult....

[@haseo8244]

вєηנαмιℓℓιση true I have it as part of ps2 sonic mega collection plus and it's still hard for me.

[@pl8yr]

вєηנαмιℓℓιση truss me I never got around finishing it

[@caianclasen6622]

my ps2 sonic mega collection plus

[@sevcxa7119]

Bring back so much good memories bruh I wish I could go back and play again 😭😭

[@lamisscherrie]

I remember what i've unlocked this game in my Sonic Mega Collection Plus PS2 copy (which i still have). There was a lot of slowdowns and the background color was messed up.

[@dadkisser2682]

Mona Genesix so it isn’t just mine

[@ilovehamburgerandsprite2637]

Emulations can cause graphical errors

[@dnmstarsi]

Yep. Although personally, the error made the title screen a bit cooler.

[@tsc2121]

You were playing the PAL version of the game.

[@timothyroehm4307]

@@ilovehamburgerandsprite2637 Not every emulations my version of The Ooze rom on my PocketGo doesn’t have color messed up bit!

[@DINXIII]

It seems like Dr D Caine has a sense of humour as well

[@big5th159]

When I was younger and selected this it made me kinda scared even the sound effects playing it 🤧😂

[@thedrunkmonkshow]

Just when I thought I've played almost every major release on Genesis I stumble upon a video like this! This feels and sounds so much like Comix Zone to where I have to try it now and sucks that I didn't know about it as a child growing up.

[@Tritnew]

Made by the same developers.

[@Discovery_and_Change]

I'm 32 -- used to play this game as a 9-year-old at my babysitter's house, with her younger brother who was about 12.

[@redwright8028]

There used to be this place in my country where parents leave their kids while they go out and shop. I forgot what it was called but my parents would always leave me there and there was always this cabinet there which I played all the time. I even once gotten into a fight with one of the kids there cuz they wanted a turn LMAO

[@Lookimataco13]

Since I've been watching a lot of gampeplays from the 90s this was in my recommendation. never played it before but the soundtrack is awesome

[@Whatupmynakedapes44]

First time I played this 11 years a go the intro made me hide behind my couch

[@JoeContext]

I feel bad that Sonic Mega Collection is more well known than Sonic Mega Collection Plus because Gamecube kids never knew the feeling of coming home to boot up the game and then seeing their Sonic Heroes file unlocked Comix Zone and The Ooze. No kid had any idea what they were or what they had to do with Sonic, but they kicked ass.

[@KingKayro87]

I love how you die like 5 seconds after you enter Plague Factory Act I

[@material___]

I first played this on the red sega plug n play. Very interesting game

[@FlyingDuckMan360]

@C L As did I. It came out around the same time Danny Phantom aired on Nickelodeon, so I was quick to notice the similarities between the Danny Phantom theme song and the Toxic Dump theme.

[@cashgardnermedia5981]

This game scared the shit out of me as a kid

[@sleepyboiglitch]

This game was legendary, though it scared me shitless as a kid the music and gameplay hit hard

[@shadownaki]

Played this game long ago when I rented it from "Zappers" I loved it despite being utterly confused and frustrated by it

[@brookelim193]

The ending is good. I’m glad that Dr. Caine is back to normal but....he’s naked and muscular. I’m like....damn

[@jasonharris3502]

Guess there must have been a little something extra in that DNA he collected.

[@JoeBo24]

Sonic Mega Collection Plus for PS2 was my introduction to this game

[@yellowblanka6058]

This seems like one of those games that sprung out of a programmer experimenting, discovering a novel technique with hardware and then building a game/narrative around it.

[@jamesmanderson2661]

Ooz is good but i always wonder how it got into sonic mega collection

[@comedyloverism]

I was soo pissed off that this game wasn't included in the Sega Genesis Classics Nintendo Switch edition.

[@dnmstarsi]

I was kinda disappointed that this wasn't in the collection, period. It's not one of my favorites but I kinda enjoy this game back in Sonic Mega Collection (Plus). And it is a decent puzzle game.

[@timothyroehm4307]

comedyloverism :Join the club but at least we have Comix Zone still they should’ve put this game in as well.

[@genblob]

Same here. The game is 100% sega so they have no excuse to not include it in any of their collections. If they officialy release the rom, there would be so many people that would buy it

[@comedyloverism]

dnmstarsi that’s how I was introduced to this game and Comix Zone. I love sonic mega collection plus.

[@comedyloverism]

dnmstarsi if they made this into a horror movie, it would be an interesting one. An anthropomorphic slime showing us who the true monster really is.

[@ShivolusWankstain]

I remember being 7 or 6 playing this and not being able to sleep for days

[@happyswedishguy7951]

This is my childhood

[@DaveMire]

it takes 2 hours to finish this game!?! I don't think I can handle 2 hours+ of map memorization.

[@starofjustice1]

ya wtf rite?

[@AXharoth]

2 hours after a life long experience

[@mr.4096]

Does this game at least save your progress or are the developers sadists?

[@SirManchesterDevil]

@@mr.4096 I remember having this on the Mega Drive/Genesis, and no you can't save your progress. You have to beat this sucker in one playthrough. Unless you're playing on an emulator.

[@genblob]

very underrated though i do agree that it's unfairly difficult at times

[@ProStriker92]

Anyone knows why the cover of the japanese version is so strange? If you look at the cover (you can find it in Sega Retro) featurers some weird japanese text while the manual features pornographic themes. I tried to find info in both english, spanish and japanese (through translator) but i can find nothing.

[@yee369]

I wonder how cool this would be in 3D

[@SirBopALot]

Such an interesting concept for a game, but at the same time, a concept that wasn’t executed that well. If the game was remade, and the overall mechanics were handled correctly, it could end up being less obscure. The difficulty is also way too high for this game. I love the soundtrack for this game, and how The Ooze himself isn’t a sprite, but is instead comprised of small bits of graphics, essentially giving the character a “graphics engine” of sorts, and adding physics to him. He also does t have a health HUD, because the goo surrounding him *is* the HUD, which I always found really cool. The game was also apparently planned to be a Nomad pack-in game, which is the logical reason why there’s next to no text in the game for directions and such. I’d love to see this game done in a really elaborate hand draw art style, as well, so, when you move around, you would see a trail of ooze behind you. Not ooze that’s a part of your actual character, but just as a nice little attention to detail, to show the fact he’s made of radioactive waste. So, my closing thoughts and opinions are: Great idea, but not so great execution. Definitely needed to be reworked and revised, and made a *lot* less difficult.

[@legionaireb]

This game MUST be remade for modern markets!!

[@dnmstarsi]

I agree. Add in some save feature, cutscenes, utilized the unused music for The Ooze and a few other tweaks and boom, you got a good puzzle game for the modern generation!

[@jasonharris3502]

And two endings. Both of them have happy endings even if you don't collect all the DNA.

[@robertwhite3181]

I never knew that some of the levels had multiple routes, then again I never got past the 2nd level when I borrowed a copy for a few days

[@neeltheother2342]

This game freaked me out as a kid.

[@Soddarkryder]

What a cool soundtrack. The game is very unique, though.