Pilotwings: The Complete History | RETRO GAMING DOCUMENTARY

[@slopesgameroom]

2021 is the year of Slope's Game Room! Quite a lot is moving around. so be sure that you are following me on all platforms to keep up to date 🔴 Subscribe: goo.gl/0cmnO6 🔴 2nd Channel: goo.gl/MDskmO 🟣 Twitch: www.twitch.tv/SLOPESGAMEROOM 🎧 SLOPESCAST Podcast: anchor.fm/daniel-ibbertson

[@joeyparkhill8751]

Are you ever going to do the Complete History of the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series? Although you'd have to update it more often than you'd like if there are more remakes on the way...

[@duffman18]

Mr Slopes, please please don't hold your mug of tea directly over your expensive DJ equipment, it's scaring me Although I'm sure lots of people have come up to you requesting a song while dangerously sloshing around a pint of beer, at least in that situation it's their fault and you can try and get them to pay for new stuff

[@devingiles6597]

Slope's Game Room, you should do a video on the complete history of the original Star Fox.

[@eatmyass]

Can you make a Video on faxanadu there is no particular reason except it was clearly the best NES rpg of all time and i pumped 100s of hours into it as a child and no one ever talks about it.. Well there are other video game sites that do but there not slopes so I don't value their opinion

[@eatmyass]

Far superior to Zelda

[@MyRetroLife]

What an honor to do a VO quote from Shigeru Miyamoto! Thanks for having me on this episode and great job

[@refundreplay]

Lol, I thought you were Norm Macdonald.

[@johnnycigar2061]

What's a VO quote?

[@pferreira1983]

@@johnnycigar2061 Voice Over.

[@Madyetmellow]

Pilotwings on the N64 was such a cool game. I spent 100’s of hours just playing birdman flying around the world seeing where I could land and take photos with the camera. One of my all time favourite games on N64. It was a great after club game where you never needed to concentration.

[@Lightblue2222]

Except if u wanted to beat it. Then it got intense.

[@Madyetmellow]

@@Lightblue2222 yea it was bloody hard getting platinum medals on all courses. I think you only needed gold to unlock birdman, but it was fun going for platinum in a pull-your-hair-out way 😂

[@BB-te8tc]

I love when you include review excerpts from the era. It's always fascinating to look back and realize that even back then gaming journalists missed the point.

[@jasonblalock4429]

I dunno... The NYT was definitely off about Nintendo's retro appeal, but otoh, they were correct about PCs taking a much more prominent place in driving the games industry forward.

[@pferreira1983]

I actually kind of agree with the article.

[@Lou-T-Fisk]

I never owned a SNES but any time we rented one pilotwings was always a game we rented. I still pick it up a couple times a year and play through it. Still a ton of fun

[@PREEM513]

The song called “Flight Club” is stuck in my head since I was a kid. SNES had amazing music.

[@aaronmoore6275]

Rule one. You do NOT talk about Flight Club.

[@TonyStarkCLC]

@@aaronmoore6275 I was going to comment just about that, but you did it ahead.

[@KenNakajima07]

tun tun tuturu tutu, tan tan tara ta ta ta, tun tun tuturu tutu, tun tun tuturu tutu!!!!

[@ecosmith7852]

Me too

[@chrisd6287]

You guys really need to stop talking about Flight Club

[@Dargonhuman]

That quote from Ashley Dunn sounds like a little sister who was still salty from being forced to play Luigi to her older brother's Mario. I mean, really, by 1996 we had such timeless classics as Super Mario Bros 3, Super Mario World and Mario is Missing!

[@Sreyness]

Pilotwings 64 is one my all time favorite. I loved just flying wround with the glider and listening to the relaxing song.

[@DavidBentley23]

My Mom won $1000 and the next weekend we went to buy the SNES the first weekend it came out. We we got the Mario World packed two controller system, F-Zero, Sim City and Pilotwings. Me and my brother stayed up for 24 hours straight and beat Super Mario World...then we played Pilotwings...so boring...so we played F-Zero...we beat F-Zero over the week...then Sim City even seemed more exciting (we were very wrong then quit) and we were left with Pilotwings...After speeding time with it I can say I still enjoy playing it 30 years later. It is super chill and highly underated... especially how amazing the music was at the time. It's a true classic.

[@UnwrittenSpade]

The music in Pilotwings 64 is among the top game soundtracks I have personally ever heard. There are a couple of tracks on there that are simply flawless and perfect to me!

[@filipmartinez1162]

Definitely one of the most relaxing soundtracks

[@strain42]

I've definitely got a major fondness for this series, myself. There's just something so relaxing and charming about the simplistic nature of it all. 64 is definitely my favorite of the series, but I'd be up for seeing more. I really appreciate you doing this series, Slopes! Nice work!

[@washnunya]

That pseudo vr for the wii looks like it would've been amazing. Something like that might even hold up today.

[@orinanime]

@10:30 ah the amazing voice of TONY JAY! Gotta love those retro commercials!

[@cristianmastrocicco4552]

I loved Pitlowings Resort, I remember playing it on my New 3DS during car trips. I really wish they released an updated version (On the same console), or a sequel for Switch

[@bolterboy]

Hello Slope, I'm Jovan and I'm super sick with COVID19. My muscles all ache and my feet are swollen, i have trouble even getting out to take a piss. The point of this sob story is since i can't really move, i have been absolutely LOVING these old videos (esp. Castlevania) and wanted to thank you since this is the only thing keeping me sane with another 10 days in quarantine. Keep em comin, Love ya!!

[@MrMegaManFan]

I just bought a copy of this for SNES a couple weeks ago so good timing mate!

[@AutistCat]

Hello just discovering the channel. Quality product. ❤️

[@thecunninlynguist]

Was never the biggest PW fan, but the history and its inception is pretty interesting

[@ApemanMonkey]

"You fly a biplane" **shows a triplane**

[@PardoItalo]

Maybe it identifies as a biplane?

[@ApemanMonkey]

@@PardoItalo how very bicurious!

[@duffman18]

Triplanes should make a comeback. Old planes used to be so much cooler than the ones we have now

[@rabbitguy1984]

Shoutout to that secret helicopter mission you get for perfecting everything in the snes version. It was the best little treat/reward in a game ever

[@mikejenkins4924]

I always managed to get to it, but never ever beat it. Frustrated me to no end as a kid, haha.

[@607]

Uh-oh... I also noticed an entire mission type in the footage of the game used in this video that I had never seen before. I guess I should get back to playing! :P Do you mean that you need to get 100 points on each discipline before moving on to the next mission?

[@mikejenkins4924]

@@607 Me too. The snow covered levels in particular. Were there differences between the Pal and ntsc versions, perhaps?

[@607]

@@mikejenkins4924 How do you mean? I think the snow covered levels are among those in the expert mode. Edit: Oh. Just realised you are the same person that commented earlier. You never beat even half the game, then, and so you don't know what Thomas Rabbit is talking about, unless he didn't either, which seems very unlikely. :P

[@mikejenkins4924]

@@607 Ok. So this was all after that helicopter mission? Damn. There was so much more content I missed out on. As a kid I just could not finish that damn mission rescuing the flight instructors, so eventually I just gave up and moved on.

[@fredrick8691]

Thank you so much for making this vid! I love the Pilotwings series and you did great by it.

[@lilnosh]

Yo the sound design/music selection on this video is FANTASTIC!

[@slopesgameroom]

Cheers mate :D

[@peanutismint]

Loved this episode mate! Absolutely adored Pilotwings on SNES and N64, it’s right up my alley as far as console sim games go, and so much to explore in 64. I wish they’d make more!

[@slopesgameroom]

So glad ya liked it mate. Really enjoyed making this video

[@NobodysSon]

As hard as it is to imagine now I remember my sister and I feeling vertigo when we played Pilotwings on the SNES for the first time.

[@AcornElectron]

Keep up the good work fella and stay safe.

[@forwiiaremany1349]

Great video! Happy to be a new subscriber! Pilotwings....oh Pilotwings, how much I love this series! Especially the N64 game, it's my ever go to comfort game! I hope to see a new Pilotwings on the Switch, it's the perfect system to bring the series back on!

[@aaronrobinson9386]

These videos are really nice for finding new game series, especially since I've been playing that Sega Genesis Mini

[@stevie_caldwell]

Ashely - lol. Seriously, my first time on your channel and loved this highly informed retrospective of one of my favourite franchises. Subbed.

[@adamfrazer5150]

@9:29 your musical choices can often take me by surprise, love me some classic C&C tracks 👍😎

[@HollyGameShow]

Wonderboy Complete History is calling you my friend.

[@scottmcphee2076]

What a well researched video. I remember reading news about Nintendo’s new 16 bit console in a British magazine in early 1989. The article had photos of the console and the screenshots of Dragonfly.

[@MaidenHell1977]

I love Pilotwings on the SNES, I played it for months on end for hours and hours. I got really good at it too back in the day. Oddly enough I only got Pilotwings 64 a year or two ago and I'm for sure gonna pick that 3DS ASAP. Cheers Slope! Great video!!

[@therealbitwars]

The original Pilotwings soundtrack rips. I even memorized all of the lyrics. Bwa bwubba buh bwup baaaa...

[@slopesgameroom]

Hahaha I read that perfectly

[@duffman18]

I sometimes go on the nintendo online SNES thing for switch and just listen to the title music over and over again, using the rewind feature

[@FX103]

I would have loved that late 40s / early 50s era concept for Pilotwings on the GameCube. That was the golden era of flight testing with early jet engines, rocket planes, aerodynamic research and loads of prototypes. If they had concentrated the majority of the game on the flight trials with only operational missions at the end of each major segment (like the original Pilotwings) that would have worked well in my opinion.

[@juststatedtheobvious9633]

It's the appeal of speedrunning in a way the rest of us can appreciate. Cheers for giving an underrated series its proper due.

[@novalinnhe]

Great video, really extensive research too - thanks for putting this Complete History together. 👍

[@W3irdWombat]

I’m pretty convinced at this point that you are misusing “literally” just to drive me nuts. Great video as always.

[@mark_holden1]

Great vid Dan. One of my favourite SNES games back when it released. Was super challenging but loads of fun. Love the E3 footage. That's what we were watching on stream right?

[@Flabby555]

Slope,you are the *best* gaming historian *ever*

[@slopesgameroom]

I am pretty sure another KZbinr is known as that :P

[@Flabby555]

@@slopesgameroom yea,gaming historian

[@leonarddillon256]

Something that that this episode of Complete History didn’t discuss about the different methods/vehicles of flying and the bonus secret levels in the first Pilotwings. Playing either the plane, jet pack, parachutists, hang glide, and helicopter really pushed mode 7 to multiple perspectives and way on control. Even as a baby, I tried to get the the best score and play those secret levels like a penguin diving on water and the someone flapping their wings.

[@kadosho02]

I never owned a Super NES or N64. But it was fun to see this title showcased in game stores. It definitely felt like it was ahead of its time. Hopefully someday it will return.

[@bonggzilla]

Ultrawings on PS4 , Switch ,OCULUS QUEST and PSVR is a great Pilotwings like Game! Its relaxing and pure fun. It even support the Hotas Flightstick and VR on PSVR😁 Highly Recommended for Pilotwing Fans.

[@enzowarren9832]

I love Pilotwings! My favorite version is Pilotwings Resort, but I also enjoy the SNES original. Great games for when I’m tired lol

[@jedgrahek1426]

I am shocked that you didn't talk about level 4 of the original game, where it turns into a military campaign and you have to take out a bunch of targets in a helicopter or something? It was extremely difficult, and felt really out of place, but that was part of what made it great.

[@pauls6416]

One of my favorite franchises of all time.

[@skajohncarter]

It's probably been brought up a million times; but is that Paul Rudd in the commercial around 10:40?

[@BlastProcessing]

We had Pilotwings 64 when I was a kid. It may have been the slowest burn game I had on the console. It took a couple of years for me to bother with it, but eventually it clicked and I realised just how good it was. Nice one!

[@hateeternalmaver]

I wasn't that much into the first Pilotwings although I played it quite a lot (that's how it was, we played what we had back then... ) but I absolutely loved and cherished the second game. Platinum in all challenges and unlocked all the bonus games and spent hours and hours recreating scenes from the teaser VHS tapes and find crazy secrets and stuff. San Francisco Rush was one of those crazy timeeaters with super weird hidden stuff that I sunk weeks into to see everything.^^

[@FatNorthernBigot]

I totally wore my PW cartridge out in '91.

[@acecarrera1]

I love the idea of flying around the world with an airplane....where did I hear that before?

[@Pensive_Scarlet]

The Hulk Funcopop is bigger than the rest. Also, that little VHS pause effect on the main theme of the first game was brilliant. It's like you're a DJ or something.

[@salaciouscreations4323]

I would have loved to use that sudo vr effect on Wii. I use something like that to look around that uses the webcam. Bundled in that would have changed the dynamic for Nintendo even more.

[@hardlyme779]

I have fond memories of me and my siblings starting arguments and settling scores with this game on N64. Thank god my mother was a gamer.

[@MechanicalMooCow]

Oh fuck man... this was the second game I ever played at 4 years old back on the SNES. One of my all time faves

[@slopesgameroom]

It's such a relaxing game to pick up. Super nostalgic

[@GameApologist]

I wonder if there's a story behind that Pink Nessie that bleets like a sheep in 64.

[@Nintendude.]

Had the 64 version for years but never found it fun except for the Hand Glider. This past few weeks I am having some fun with Pilotwings SNES on NSO and got the 3DS ver I got not to long ago. I thing I am starting to get the game, anyways Hand Glider is still #1 for me.

[@Bukark]

R Bar sign spotted! Brings back some memories...

[@luichinplaystation610]

That ps1 game 007 Tomorrow Never Dies is up there with Goldeneye It's an amazing licenced movie game, even with car chase level included

[@adjustablesquelch8535]

I was thinking about that reverse Wii control effect the other day (that exact video). now 50" tvs and bigger are pretty cheap, it would be quite amazing what you could do with that technology now

[@PikaLink91]

Never played a Pilotwings, something about it always made me think it was little more than a tech demo for whatever system it happened to be on. I did win the SNES version in a christmas contest 10 years ago though.

[@hawkeyepearce1066]

I only ever bought three carts for my N64 , all bought soon after launch: F-zero, Pilotwings and Shadows of the Empire. I mulled over whether to get Mario 64 or Pilotwings, chose the latter, and never regretted the decision.

[@TheBroz]

Pardon? F Zero X came out something like 2yrs after the N64 launched.

[@hawkeyepearce1066]

That's what happens when I put in a comment while steaming drunk, mixed up my consoles! F-zero was my first cart for the snes, wave race was my other n64 cart.

[@JonGee420]

When I got my SNES on christmas all those years ago I got 3 games. Super Castlevainia, SF2 and Pilotwings.

[@PedroFerreira-sx2gd]

Excellent video from underrated série aimed to casual gamers. Also love the arcade game "prop cycle" that is the most similar thing to pilotwings without being copy and still iriginal that no one's mentions

[@slopesgameroom]

Ahhhhh yes, that was a great machine

[@aaronjones8254]

I still play pilot wings from time to time just to zone out and enjoy something

[@Nimmo1492]

Pilotwings 64, Birdman mode, Little States is my happy place.

[@DeaDGoD_XIV]

Honestly, there's been plenty of times I booted up a GTA to listen to the radio

[@forgedfulton4377]

I once watched my friend try and bite his controller in half through frustration playing this 😂

[@mho...]

i wonder why you used the command&conquer music at 9:23 ...seems very off for a video about SNES!

[@Bod8998]

Why are these not coming up on my feed or being notified

[@WarrenPetchalonis]

Look im new to this channel but nice dj setup man

[@devingiles6597]

Hey, Slope's Game Room! Can you please do a complete history of Secret of Mana?

[@SlyBeast]

You guys had the best PS1 cases!

[@knifetex]

Yes! This was my favorite game!

[@vincenzochianese9378]

I just readed the comment under the castlevania complete history part 2 thet asked you of the pilotwings complete history and then I receved this notification, fate I guess. (Sorry for the bad english)

[@duffman18]

He mentioned at the end of the Castlevania part 2 video that the Pilotwings complete history video was coming next, so he was already making it, it wasn't due to that comment. I mean it's been only a few days since the Castlevania part 2 video, it's impossible to make a video this complex and long in only a few days. The research required alone takes months, let alone the filming and voice recording and editing of the video, these videos are a hell of a lot of work

[@riftshredder5438]

I'm so happy Pilot Wings 64 is coming to the Switch

[@Naturefreund]

I loved the games on SNES and N64 and spent hours with Yet there was Island Flight Simulator and Flight if Light on Nintendo Wii U's E-Shop and Disney's Planes 1 + 2 for same system

[@mascadadelpantion8018]

Beautiful simply beautiful

[@AgsmaJustAgsma]

15:10 that shoddy-looking Jurassic Park logo, tho.

[@JohnnyMatherson]

No mention of the Nintendo leaks info about the 1st game? It was also called Flight Club

[@MANOFGOD9000]

I wonder if there's an American equivalent of that retrogamerbox. Looks like something I would get.

[@maripoza04]

Can you please do a complete history of Donkey Kong

[@ultimatejoshiewoshieness]

I love the Complete History & the History & the Games series but how about a few episodes about the consoles themselves. Like the Complete History of the Atari 2600 or the Complete History of the NES or Complete History of the SEGA Mega Drive, or the Playstation, PS2, XBOX, XBOX 360, Neo Geo, Wii, PC Engine, 3DO, (maybe even the Ouya, LoL XD) etc. Just a thought.

[@dun0790]

I think Nintendos best talent is simply system pressing a button to jump in a Nintendo game just feels right and intuitive for new player's are long time ones this is also the reason i wish Nintendo would do a first person shooter

[@kayeplaguedoc9054]

Another good comparison to prove that that flight sim was fairly advanced for 1993: The most advanced 3D game on the market that year for other systems (Well, PCs, anyways.) was Doom. That's the best you could get on anything else. Dooms sprites have aged better but that flight sim is mind boggling for the time.

[@donvittoriophoto]

I love playing some retro SEGR games.

[@davel231]

Woo! Act on Instinct!

[@rainasy1766]

why does slope not have 10x the views he has? its a shame really

[@AvexFuddle]

Great series, the 3DS version is a favourite. It’s all so relaxing

[@MrSkysenGames]

What is the big R in the background? It looks so familiar, but I'm drawing a blank.

[@gamingwithjamie2751]

My favorite game to chill with is the simcity series.

[@misaafton]

I love the C&C music

[@MatthiaGryffine]

I was never good at the original Pilotwings but I was great at 64. Both games are amazing nonetheless.

[@mikejenkins4924]

I played Pilotwings so much as a kid, but I don't remember that bonus level where you bounce on the P's, or the snow covered levels. Wtf?

[@DanPantzig]

I always loved the Super Nintendo, but completely ignored Pilotwings the whole time. In 2010 or so I finally gave it a go and absolutely loved it. That is, until the Expert missions. I mean, the game was still great, but it was pretty frustrating at that point, and the final helicopter mission can suck my ass.

[@Silenced23]

Was that Mr. Rudd playing the SNES in that commercial?

[@slopesgameroom]

Eeeeeeyup

[@BrianOBarknon]

My favorite game of all time

[@slugie7934]

Hi DJ SLOPE ONCE AGAIN GREAT VIDEO TO THE SERIES!!! NOSTALGIA!! NOSTALGIA!! NOSTALGIA!! THE SNES VERSION WAS THE BEST!!! ALSO REMEMBER PLAYING PILOTWINGS 64 WHEN I WAS 16 WHILST PLAYING BLUR ALBUM BY BLUR AND STOOSH BY SKUNK ANANSIE!!! ANY NEWS ON MORTAL KOMBAT VIDEO!!! CHEERS DANNY

[@LowKeyTired-q7d]

Ibbertson ... An awesome fella ...

[@pferreira1983]

I wouldn't say Pilotwings was revolutionary in the same way Starfox was but it was a needed stepping stone for Nintendo. I can't help agree with that review article either.

[@TechMetalRules]

Paul Rudd is timeless.