This Was the Only Castlevania Game that Sega Ever Got

[@GitsuneG]

"Oh, come on." RIP Dylan's childhood memories.

[@bostonrailfan2427]

he got Bugs Bunnyed

[@GamerFromJump]

He sounded like Ian Sinclair’s “Oh come on!” from _Kaguya-sama._

[@GitsuneG]

@GamerFromJump I know Sinclair. Guy has been a Goat for the last 10+ years. I've watched him in anime.

[@CronosVids]

Whenever I hear the name Ken Griffey Jr. it automatically thinks of SNESDrunk. That’s kinda his thing, also a great channel to binge.

[@Snake4985]

Bit of a correction. In Bloodlines, one of the playable characters is John Morris, the son of Quincy Morris from Bram Stoker's novel Dracula. In the sequel Portrait of Ruin, it's not John you're playing as but his son Johnathan

[@Robeebert]

I'll never be okay with the name Jonathon not having two H's in it. Jon Morris(PoR), son of John Morris(BL).

[@Ails1234]

That sounds suspiciously like a JoJo reference

[@edvance1030]

Exactly! I was going to comment that when I saw your comment.

[@louyork8379]

I thought it was Phillip Morris of the tobacco monopoly

[@TheRealCaptainFreedom]

Huh?

[@Greenstone308]

I love the banter between Jared and Editor Dylan

[@SoldierZ3R0]

1:22 - Correction Castlevania: Symphony of the Night also released 1997 for the SEGA SATURN.

[@1-eye-willy]

i thought so

[@JamesJacksonKFPDad999]

Correct, though only in Japan. And of course there was the canceled Dreamcast game.

[@justin10054]

I was gonna say. Looks like Jared done goofed.

[@PopeTheRevXXVIII]

Yep came here to say just that and SOTN is being ported to the Genesis in modern times too

[@Keldroc]

Akumajo Dracula X: Gekka no Yasoukyoku was released in 1997 for the Sega Saturn. Nothing titled "Castlevania" was ever released on Sega hardware other than Bloodlines. Jared is technically correct.

[@SpanishFly120]

Castlevania Bloodlines was great. Also, Jonathan in Portrait of Ruin is actually John's son, while Charlotte is a distant relative of Sypha and Yoko. The game's also phenomenal and worth playing. Plus there's that whole "Jonathan!" "Charlotte!" "Jonathan!" "Charlotte!" meme with it.

[@Invidente7]

Eric lecarde is also in the game.

[@KazeMemaryu]

Charlotte's connection to the Belnades Clan is actually unclear. The Aulin family has only Charlotte as a named member, and it's only mentioned once by IGA that she's a distant relative of the Belnades.

[@bonesjackson81]

Bloodlines is my favorite Castlevania game. The atmosphere is great. 2 different ways to play. Love it.

[@ebbderelict]

Castlevania Bloodlines is tailor made for the Genesis. "The processing is so blast!"

[@Bumbleton]

I thought Claymates was a fever dream of my youth, I could never remember the name and I always thought I was thinking of Boy and his Blob. Thank you for putting my mind at ease. I should play it again.

[@Invidente7]

A boy and his blob got a remake by wayforward.

[@Sly88Frye]

I love that ending with Dylan responding to Jared's Boom-Shackalacka!

[@luisaugustomoreiramartinez1314]

What's the reference there?

[@JetmanPR]

"Ah, sucker." "WAIT WHAT--" INTERCEPTED!!

[@kapmahn]

NBA Jam

[@ReikuYin]

Also a call back to the coverage of the sport game Jared did, given he mentioned the "Oh, come on!" From the baseball game.

[@ThunderDragonRandy]

@@luisaugustomoreiramartinez1314 NBA Jam, one of the best basketball games ever made. EDIT (6 hours later): Yes, one of the best sports games ever made. I'm not a sports gamer and I enjoyed this as a kid.

[@MaesterMike]

Aw, poor Dylan at the end, not being able to talk about NBA Jam next week.

[@kazekamiha]

He did it to himself.

[@Chummy8]

It's ok. He can cover every other port of the game released over the rest of the year.

[@motherplayer]

I very much appreciate Konami and it's efforts with the Sega Genesis. While companies like Capcom was content to just let it float in the water and booning it with a few ports (Aside from GnG.), Konami made sure it got the occasional franchise release and even put forth a nice, original title for the system that is still well appreciated to this day. Bloodlines is no exception.

[@Invidente7]

Rocket Knight Aventures is a classic, and Sparkster is great as well. They all have been re released.

[@eightcoins4401]

@@Invidente7 Rocket Knight Adventures irattionally infuriates me since the character looks nothing like an Opossum He looks like some generic critter, when opossum would look cooler

[@mjdf122]

Another week in the 90s blessed to see all from 1980-Now

[@RileyVoorsanger]

Well, technically speaking, Symphony of the Night did get a Saturn port in Japan only in 1998, under the name "Nocturne in the Moonlight", also featuring Maria (from Rondo of Blood -- aged up) as a playable character. This version's bonus features I believe were included in the PSP port, the Dracula X Chronicles. Bloodlines is still my favorite in the entire franchise, and I'm one of the few that prefer it over SC4 on SNES!

[@dango5928]

mew ichigo

[@admiralAlfonso9001]

Ken Griffey Jr Baseball is one of the greatest baseball games ever made

[@LUCKO2022]

No. RBI is still Better. So is Baseball Stars This game is shit like your opinion.

[@Velduanga]

Me and my brother rented Claymates later that year. We got all the way up to the Africa world until the game froze with a debug message. The game has no save or passwords. That was the first time I was ever traumatized by a software crash.

[@monstersociety3360]

Was the second time from Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem? XD

[@Za_Lup]

Castlevania Bloodlines LOOKS amazing. Beautiful game.

[@SECONDQUEST]

It's fun too

[@Za_Lup]

​@@SECONDQUEST Oh, yeah, it's really cool.

[@GreatFox42]

Sounds amazing too. Some of _the_ best Genesis music ever.

[@osgeld]

I love the game but I still never get it stuck in my brain its a Castlevania game, always felt like a very excellent CV competitor (same with Contra Hard Corps, its great, I love the crap out of it, still feels like something along the lines of, but not quite Contra)

[@chaospoet]

It plays and sounds amazing too. If I recall correctly the person who would go on to do the soundtrack for Symphony of the Night did the soundtrack for this game as well.

[@MrMovees87]

Ohh man, my brother and I LOVED Ken Griffey Jrs Baseball! It was one of our favorite SNES games when we were growing up!

[@lillockey04]

I'm not big on any sportsball games but I played the heck out of this one as a kid (and NBA Jam, of course).

[@Mr.Boglin]

Btw: Jonathan Morris is the Son of John Morris from Castlevania: Bloodlines. Also John Morris is the Son of Quincy Morris, from Bram Stokers Dracula. the Texan with the BIG Ass Knife, you might remember from the movie! "Bram Stokers Dracula" Also Erik Lecarde uses the Alucard Spear! which is another awesome callback!

[@snootynerd4293]

@3:42 - Actually, the protagonist of Portrait of Ruin is Johnathan Morris, the son of the John Morris you played at in Bloodlines. They're completely separate characters.

[@magicalsleeper]

Jonathan! Charlotte! Jonathan! Charlotte! Jonathan! Charlotte!

[@JamesJacksonKFPDad999]

Ken Griffey Jr. Presents MLB is probably my favorite baseball video game. I probably completed five or six seasons in it over the years, starting when it was brand-new. I would go through MLB box scores in a newspaper to get the names of players to customize each team's roster with the real guys. A few years ago, the Mariners used its graphics to announce their roster or schedule (I can't remember which). It also influenced the "retro mode" in MLB the Show. Great game!

[@RonnRicco]

I like the sequel on snes better, graphically and the home run derby mode.

[@FuyuBiyori]

Didn't expect Jared to cover Ken Griffey Jr. That game was my jam for a long time. Still love it. I never got into the future games, but the original one was always my favorite sports game.

[@LUCKO2022]

The game was shit What the fuck is wrong with you?

[@DMBLaan]

For April Fools week, you should just cover a bunch of Tiger Electronics games!

[@carlosvergara4132]

Played Bloodlines recently on the NSO, amazing game.

[@moogs5992]

I genuinely love editor Dylan and I'm so glad that Jared has a co-host in this way.

[@dawakat08]

My mom got me a Sega Gensis in 96 from one of my older brothers friends, one of the games it came with was Castlevania: Bloodlines which was so hard for me back then. My best friend at the time Rory was a gensis master and I can remember getting through most of the game in 97 or 98. When I hear about this game I instantly remember us playing it as little kids and smile

[@dawakat08]

Genesis**

[@Adrienne_Quelle]

If you ever want a wild deep dive into the insanity that is the Seattle Mariners- like, as a franchise, as a team, as an entity- Dorktown's documentary on them is 100% worth a watch. The Griffey era is special, but there's so, so much more to them. Even more than just Ichiro.

[@shadowvash07]

Fun fact: Ken Griffey Jr presents Major League Baseball is the first digital representation of the, at the time, brand new Oriole Park at Camden Yards, arguably the best MLB stadium and progenitor of the modern open air ballpark.

[@garou119]

I was a Nintendo kid back in the day, but l have amazing memories of visiting a friend's house and playing Bloodlines until the early morning. Love the Castlevania series!

[@Samari45]

I am loving Jared and Dylan playing off each other. Dylan deserves to talk about NBA Jam with Jared.

[@louyork8379]

Griffey Jr was the best baseball game ever. Absolutely played the shit outta that game.

[@michaelkaminski84]

Sega also had another Castlevania game on their hardware. Symphony of the Night was on Sega Saturn.

[@GabePuratekuta]

It doesn't count since it was Japan-only and this channel only covers US releases.

[@ThePreciseClimber]

@@GabePuratekuta Well, then the title should've specified Sega USA instead of Sega in general.

[@jediknightgeo]

Great video once again Jared, though just a SLIGHT correction as Symphony Of The Night was released for the Saturn. Also, in Portrait Of Ruin you play as Jonathan Morris (John' son).

[@matthewruley8360]

The rosters for Ken Griffey Jr were not the players of that day. The Boston Red Sox are the characters from Cheers, Los Angeles Angels are famous actors, the Cincinnati Reds are famous writers with Bram Stoker as the pitcher, and the Colorodo Rockies have horror movie characters.

[@cjzani]

The Royals were all former presidents. As a Bostonian I loved the Sox being Cheers characters. It was nice to have the edit feature to change them to the real player news.

[@lilsunny7399]

he said the "Stats" were correct but the names had all been changed.

[@DuckyBe]

Oh hell yeah its FRIDAY BABY! Ya'll kill it every week- keep up the great work!

[@AvengerKit]

That "Sucker" made me laugh so much for no reason, you two have amazing chemistry 🤣🤣🤣

[@DontKnowDontCare6.9]

Correction: Jonathan Morris is the protag of Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin alongside Charlotte. John Morris is his father (the protag of Bloodlines). Eric Lecarde the other protag from Bloodlines, appears in Portrait of Ruin as Wind AKA the father of Stella and Loretta.

[@erok0809]

Claymates was a favorite of mine as a kid! I went to a daycare place before school, and they had a SNES there, and Claymates was one of the games I played a lot. Cool to see it here!

[@yakumoyomi5765]

The only baseball game I played a lot of as a kid was on the Sega Saturn, and it was the demo of World Series Baseball that was included on the "Bootleg Sampler" disc. I remember it because Ken Griffey Jr. was in it, and he was basically the only current baseball player I knew.

[@michaelgonzales92mg]

This was the game that introduced me to the Sega Genesis. When I was a kid, for my 3rd birthday my mom brought me to a KB Toys store and they had the games hooked up to abunch of tvs in the back. Long lines for each one, the first line I got in was the SNES line where they had Super Mario World. While I was playing my mom kept saying "is this the one you want? Hurry up lets go" and I kept saying "waaait I dont know yet!" Well at that time I looked over to my right and saw a bigger kid playing the Genesis and on the screen he was fighting this giant blue rock monster. It looked awesome, so I passed the controller and went straight for that line! As soon as it was my turn, I was blown away by the gameplay and graphics. I was Eric Lacarde(the guy with the lance) and it was amazing with all the skeletons and different monsters that would come after you. My mom asked again "Is this the one you want?" And I immediately said "Yes this one!" And after that Sega was my console and it changed my childhood forever.

[@TheYellowSignal]

That Boom Shakalaka joke was great! You guys are such a good combo.

[@kenshirathetrinity9917]

claymates is also on the interplay collection 2 for the evercade, released 5-22-2020.

[@aiox82]

Claymates is a fantastic platformer and HARD!

[@maverickhuntermeta4954]

Me: *Reads the title* "So are we going to forget about Castlevania: SotN also had a release on SEGA Saturn? Oh wait, that version is only in japan."

[@giacatnguyen9635]

There were a few baseball games I remember playing, and the Ken Griffery, Jr., game was one of them. I also remember Based Loaded for the NES.

[@sleepykirbo6392]

Man I wish those retro game collections included all those wacky tv advertisements from 80's and 90's. Also another great video Jerd! 👍

[@YoDragonFire]

I remember getting Ken Griffey Jr's baseball game along side the BatterUP baseball controller. Never could get the controller to work properly though, lol!

[@Greenery808]

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is on the Japanese Sega Saturn hardware. This is a pretty major oversight.

[@jamesevensen863]

Let's not forget the excellent music in Bloodlines, done by the ever-talented Michiru Yamane who also did the music for Symphony of the Night.

[@sleepingkirby]

It was funny to hear Jared's description of baseball sound exactly like how Dylan would have had it.

[@hermit6123]

Correction 12:00 The Art of Fighting/ Fatal Fury crossover conneciton is itself its own timeline. Terry, Ryo and the other characters appearing in KOF '94 onwards are not the same ones from the game series mentioned prior.

[@UndeadEggmiester]

Claymates is a very interesting little game

[@shado2us]

Dylan is an awesome editor!!! Hilarious to the max!!!

[@jesseblackmore8338]

It took me a while to appreciate and enjoy Bloodlines. It was difficult not to compare it to SCIV. Once I accepted that it controlled similar to the NES games, I finally stopped comparing the controls of the two games and actually really enjoyed the game once I finally saw more than the first couple of levels.

[@Invidente7]

It's better than Dracula X.

[@eightcoins4401]

For me its double edged. I felt it was kinda lame how easy SCIV was, so Bloodlines is a welcome change, but at the same time the western release is way too hard

[@SegaRallyRevo]

Are we just ignoring Symphony of the Night on the JP Saturn?

[@SteveBrandon]

The advantage of World Series Baseball on the Genesis vs. Ken Griffey Jr. Baseball on the SNES, if you were a fan of specific stadiums, is that World Series Baseball had.a much lower simulated camera angle so you could see stadium details in the background while you were batting, while, in Ken Griffey Jr. Baseball, you pretty much had to hit the ball to the outfield if not over the fence to see a significant differences between most stadiums. As someone who went to a few Montreal Expos games per season in real life, it was pretty mindblowing at the time to see Olympic Stadium recreated faithfully on the Genesis with a significant amount of real world detail (aside from the ads, for licensing reasons). I hadn't played Castlevania: Bloodlines until the Genesis Mini came out when I was already in my 40s so naturally I'm quite terrible at it. Same with the other Konami game on the Genesis Mini, Contra: Hard Corps.

[@SakuragiSan]

When Konami "was" a Focused Game Developer, not the Sad Shadow, they are sitting in so many Beloved IPs (Including HudsonSoft)

[@ArcaneEther]

Claymates was a special game to me. The second stage is "Jeremy's Backyard", it was the first time I ever saw my own name in a video game. The game also crashes like crazy on original hardware, so I was never able to beat it until Emulation became possible.

[@McRotsac]

Aawww man Ken Griffey Baseball! One day that game just appeared out of nowhere in my house as a kid, no box, nothing, just the cartridge. My sisters and I played it all the time. Great game.

[@Gorton]

Symphony of the Night came out on the Saturn in JP

[@ovlivion81]

I have to say yalls banter is great!

[@Holy_Zen]

Technically speaking, the tournament in Fatal Fury 1 was also called King of Fighters.

[@gamerbear84]

Though to be fair, the Art of Fighting games take place before the Fatal Fury ones in story canon.

[@acg4life]

I’m not sure if anyone called this out but the past 4 or 5 years of MLB The Show has a Retro Mode which is essentially Ken Griffey Jr Baseball. The mode even has “The Kid” commentating / sound bites throughout the game mode. Complete with breaking the bat over your knee when you strike out.

[@OddballEddie]

While Art of Fighting 2 was the game that consolidated that Fatal Fury and AoF took place in the same timeline, with AoF2 happening just prior to Geese killing Terry and Andy's father. Fatal Fury Special was the first to cross characters from different franchises which paved the way to the King of Fighters games. Ryo was a secret fight in Fatal Fury Special, also a hard one to get since you had to beat the game without losing a single round.

[@Arxane]

So yesterday I learned about the insane NES Pictionary OST done by Tim Follin, and what do I see Jared mention? Plok and Solstice, two other games whose music was done by Tim Follin. Talk about serendipity…

[@randyvoid155]

i remember playing ken griffy jr baseball in 6th grade during a hospital stay. that was in 1996, but it was pretty fun.

[@jdiluigi]

I love these videos. haven't missed one yet. But damn its Friday again already???? Time flies.

[@AngelCam7]

Cheer up, Dylan. There's always NBA JAM: Tournament Edition...

[@darkman4811]

Man, Ken Griffery Junior's Basaball really takes me back. I never owned the game, but I remember playing that game on a kiosk in Toys 'R Us back when it first came out. I was surprised at how snappy and fast paced it played. Probably the best sports game that I played on the SNES. Got to eventually hunt down a copy one of these days, and play it again.

[@WilliamTheWatchful]

250 days until Donkey Kong Country... Seeing the Montreal's Expo logo breaks my french-canadian heart...

[@geoffreychauvin1474]

It's not the only castlevania game that Sega ever got. Saturn has a version of Symphony of the Night it just never released outside Japan

[@eightcoins4401]

I think the series typically focuses on NA and PAL releases only, which would mean Japan only releases arent mentioned.

[@edmundolastra3279]

the "and... boomshakalaka" killed me

[@alphadad2225]

That shirt is awesome! Getting Phantom 2040 vibes

[@mraaronhd]

Fun fact: Symphony of the Night’s composer, Michiru Yamane, composed the music for Bloodlines.

[@JohnnyBGoode9]

I'm convinced that the old magazines had separate people for the numerical scores and the written reviews, who never spoke to each other. It's the only explanation. "Best game ever! 8/10." "A huge disappointment. 4/5."

[@rickkinomotog]

i like now in the 90´s but the episode get better when i get to play one of the game in my childhood like ken griffin jr baseball, thank you jared an dylan

[@PinchedAce1]

Castlevania Bloodlines was not the only CV game on Sega hardware. Symphony of the Night (Dracula X: Nocturne in the Moonlight) also came out in the Saturn in Japan.

[@chaospoet]

I think that Boom Shackalaka hurt Dylan more than Dennis The Menace did. Bloodlines is my favorite traditional Castlevania game. One thing to note though for collectors is there's actually two boxes for it. It was originally released in the standard plastic clamshell case. Then the second batch of releases for it were in the cardboard boxes they went with towards the end of the Sega Genesis life cycle along with games like Mega Bomberman and X-Men 2: Clone Wars for example. The prices may differ as a result. I have the clamshell version, and that tends to me the more common one, but I've not seen very many cardboard box ones.

[@DanDoesGame]

that claymates actually looks kind of cool

[@Ty-douken]

Man, I loved Claymates as a kid & totally forgot about it until just before it was added to NSO. Picked up a copy of it & Super Aquatic Games again because Nostalgia is a fickle mistress.

[@tipulsar85]

Ken Griffey Junior Presents is also entertaining for it's timing. Late in 1994 season, the Mariners would have to play the rest of their games on the road, as the Kingdome had some emergency repairs, as one of the ceiling tiles killed some of the maintenance staff, followed by the player strike. All this happening while in theaters a fictionalized version of the Minnesota Twins would se the actual Mariners give a mild preview of the 1995 season. As far as Nintendo's ownership of the team goes, that was all Nintendo of Japan's ownership. It gets confusing, because Howard Schultz was the former president of the American branch.

[@TokumeiCosplay]

Castlevania: Bloodlines is my favorite Castlevania game. Also, Ken Griffey games on the SNES were a highlight of video game nights with friends during my school years. :3

[@MrChuckGrape]

Kids needed those baseball games that year. It was some of the only baseball they were going to get.

[@J45yu456]

Always look forward to these updates from the NIT90s

[@alexcelticw]

Wait, Nintendo of America owned a baseball team from the MLB? I actually didn't know that

[@Incense3]

Yup. Up until 2016

[@HylianFox3]

NoA is based in Seattle so it makes sense

[@Tortelius]

Castlevania New Generations was my first and only castlevania during a long time because i had only a Sega Mega Drive. But that game made me love the franchise.

[@RichKnight36]

I love the music for Ken Griffey Jr. Baseball

[@trumpets101]

I’m so happy to get the return of the classic Now in the 90s punchline of “Reviews used to make no sense at the time”

[@AtlasBlizzard]

John and Jonathan Morris are not the same character. Jonathan is John's son.

[@samusaran11]

Castlevania SOTN was released on The Saturn.... but only in Japan.

[@trident042]

Oh lord these card games are only serving to make me think about Balatro at work.

[@Riptide27]

One interesting difference about the baseball games featured this week is that, as Projared pointed out, “Ken Griffey Jr Presents Major League Baseball” features the MLB license but not the MLBPA license so no actual players were in the game. On the other hand, “MLBPA Baseball” (which Dylan features at 9:49) had the MLBPA license but not the MLB license, so while actual players are featured, the actual names, logos and stadiums of the teams were not. However, over on the Genesis, “World Series Baseball” (featured at 10:00) was the first game to have both licenses! Genesis does, I guess.

[@NecrelKitsune]

Sotn for the Saturn says hello

[@JeremyPeeples]

Oh my God, Chris Cruise is doing the voiceover on the Bloodlines ad!

[@jamesmoss3424]

Castlevania: Bloodline is bloody brilliant on the genesis. 😀👍🎮

[@genesisSOC]

It really is, I never played it before until a few years ago and it was fantastic. Still not as good as Super Castlevania 4, Aria of Sorrow or Portrait of Ruin, but very good nonetheless

[@Crazy_Gamer_OG]

@@genesisSOCit's still one of the best classic style Castlevania games, & it's great in the new collection series from Konami. I wouldn't compare it to AoS or PoR since they are different genres. IMO, it's better than SC4 & X, but not as great as Rondo of Blood.

[@genesisSOC]

@@Crazy_Gamer_OG Super Castelvania 4 is the pinnacle of Castlevania and nothing will ever top it. Rondo is mediocre at best, even 1 and 3 were better.

[@marbles8641]

Hey Jarad, you dun-goofed TWICE on Castlevania! #1. Symphony of the Night was also released on the Saturn, with crappier graphics but with more playable characters and entirely new areas. #2. Jonathan Morris is Portrait of Rune is actually Jonathan Morris JR, the son of John Morris from Bloodlines and an entirely different and new character.

[@ThisIsCSDX]

Correction on Portrait of Ruin(unless I misunderstood). In Portrait of Ruin, you don't play as John Morris from Bloodlines, but rather his son Jonathan. I played the game a ton years ago, but I did check online to confirm *juuuuuust* in case. Edit: Also, I do remember this. Jonathan really hated his dad.

[@GabePuratekuta]

Of fourse. You'd hate your dad too if he died too early while wielding a powerful weapon meant for a bloodline your family belongs partially to.

[@magitek09]

Ah, good old castlevania: Bloodlines... I'm still trying to beat hard mode to this day

[@elec8101]

My older brother used to play Ken Griffey's Baseball. That alone makes me want to see the games released to current consoles.

[@HylianFox3]

I'll never get tired of the "video game reviews made no sense" running gag