The OTHER Game That Upset U.S. Politicians

[@DoCKathos]

Dylan's tirades are getting more unhinged every week.. and I'm here for it.

[@RandyPannier]

the albuquerque tangent made my day. i have always loved that bugs bunny gag. thank you mr. editor!

[@chrismoesdgxh8866]

😊

[@valdenv]

I tuned in for 90's historical game overviews, but instead got an entire Game Theory episode!

[@rhynelinker7922]

For sure!! Also shout-out for Wilmington NC!

[@Robeebert]

that entire bit was a riot. holy crackers

[@GabePuratekuta]

@@valdenv Needs more FNAF references and obviously wrong information being yelled at us, though.

[@basileosalexios9200]

You gotta love the albuquerque segment. This show has so much soul and heart into it. I love it.

[@kylemascaritolo6361]

The effect on the politician shooting the gun was awesome.

[@Metafron]

Playing Lethal Enforcers in a theater lobby before i'd go watch the movie is a really fond memory I have. My dad liked it so much that he bought it for me for my Bday and we'd duo it from time to time.

[@Shuukuriimudaisuki-sama]

Loved the stealthy Weird Al joke in the Speedy Gonzales segment. "Well, what DO you have?" "A box of starving, half-crazed weasels!" "I'll take it!"

[@RavenWitchShade]

Man, watching Dylan slowly losing his mind whilst over-analyzing Speedy Gonzales was the highlight of this week's episode, the modified version of 'Yakko's World' was brilliant.

[@evillecaston]

Man, the ESRB hearings were insane. I can't believe they were so worked up over Lethal Enforcers. Funny how there was a SNES version, despite Howard Lincoln's insistence that Nintendo would never allow such violence in their "kids' toys". At least it all worked out in the end, by some miracle.

[@trident042]

What's super wild is how LONG they stayed worked up over video games. Rock music had already shown them the door, and we had from 1993 to whenever the heck Hot Coffee happened for people like Jack Thompson, Hillary Clinton, and that old guy who runs the country currently (go away Secret Service I'm not talking about him shhh) to start trying to absolutely crucify the whole entertainment medium.

[@brev653]

@trident042 hell, just four years back Trump tried to blame a mass shooting on games.

[@Pendarr]

It’s one of so many examples of these geriatric, out of touch politicians who completely ignore the actual context and content of the media they condemn. “Helps train kids to shoot cops” - are you joking? You play AS THE COP! Also love how Night Trap was framed as a game about murdering women when the literal point of the game is to prevent them from being murdered. I hate politicians.

[@trident042]

@@brev653 Yeah but no one with sense actually believes his ass.

[@johnofthewired]

@@trident042 it was an election year so they had to scream about something for votes i guess

[@brev653]

XZR is meant to be read as "exile," that's what the katakana laid over it says. "e-gu-za-i-lu"

[@HylianFox3]

more like "eh-gu-zai-ru" but I'm sure that's what they meant

[@brev653]

@@HylianFox3 that's a better breakdown of the pronunciation, I was more going for "what each character is."

[@HylianFox3]

@@brev653 it would have made more sense if the Japanese name was "XZL" but even then an English speaker would say "Exzeel" instead of "Exile" Languages are weird

[@brev653]

@HylianFox3 the reason for that is that Japanese doesn't actually have an "L" or an "R" sound. Instead, it has a sound not present in English that's sort of halfway between the two. In my previous comment, I wrote "lu," for the sake of keeping it simple, but standard practice would actually be to transliterate that character as "ru." In retrospect, I should've gone with "ru."

[@SkippD]

Missed you guys last week. Another excellent episode! The entire government panic over violent video games was a surprisingly depressing piece of nostalgia. Loved the Speedy Gonzales tangent.

[@RichKnight36]

"Alberkoikee." Thank you, Editor Dylan. Lol, for bringing back good Bugs Bunny memories

[@backslash_iii]

The Konami Justifier is arguably the coolest Sega controller. If you have a player two controller it's worth its weight in gold - it was mail order only. It was also REQUIRED for 2-player - the pink gun plugged into the first controller via an RJ cable.

[@jettesides420]

The "IT Crowd" clip with Working Designs logo had me in stitches.

[@AtlasBlizzard]

That UK magazine "Mega" was actually called Mean Machines Sega. That was my favorite Sega magazine as a kid, and it had a distinct style.

[@shannonwilliams7249]

The Jared, Dylan grouping is perfect. Couldn’t be happier with the show.

[@kongkunin]

Okay, no idea if it was intentional, but loved the the last minute description of what the Speedy Gonzales game actually was!

[@KeavyGoesLive]

I wanted Lethal Enforcers so bad when I was a teen. My parents refused to buy it for my birthday and I had to settle for Final Fantasy 3 on SNES. In the end, I'm honestly happy I got FF3 because I got WAY more playtime out of that game and, let's be honest, it has a far more involved story.

[@AtlasBlizzard]

Those IT Crowd clips made me so happy. A fantastic British show!

[@lotrdude13]

Editor Dylan, you are a GEM

[@chrisr3788]

Working Designs also made one of the most underrated RPGs on the PS1 “Lunar: Silver Star Story” which was ported from the Sega CD. It’s actually over Jared’s shoulder in the older ProJared videos and I’ve been patiently waiting for him to do a video on it for years 😂

[@napoleonfeanor]

I own the PS1 versions but always forgot to play them. Seems they are quite expensive now

[@yeethuus7009]

Underrated? That game is awesome!

[@Dungeon00X]

They "LICENSED" underrated Japanese RPGs. Lunar was made by Game Arts.

[@Sniperbear13]

i had it growing up. but i lent it to a friend and they never gave back the first disk still have Eternal Blue(but my Second disk might be borked).

[@doslover]

Was it underrated? I always saw it as a cult classic, those who knew about it seemed to love it (myself included)

[@stax6092]

Dylan with the Directions for Mexico. Amazing. XD

[@OutOfJustinsHead]

Hey Dylan. Great to see your getting more ambitious with your editing. Your Albuquerque section was great! Keep it up!

[@TigerNightmare]

I tried dual wielding Wiimotes for House of the Dead Overkill and my single core brain couldn't handle multitargeting. I either went center mass with both, or did proper head pops with right and stragglers with left.

[@clone_69]

Props to Editor Dylan for the geography lesson

[@ScrapKing73]

To this day, I can’t say “Lethal Enforcers” without trying to say it like it’s said on the game’s title screen.

[@prince_nocturne]

Lethal Enforcers, both on Arcade and Genesis, are great, but I grew up playing its sequel, the old west themed Lethal Enforcers 2. To this day, I still can hear the baddies popping out and going "YOU AIN'TA GONNA TAKE ME, SHERIFF!" and that buzz sound when you accidentally hit the dumb civilians that stand up in the middle of a gun fight (a sound sadly missing from the PS1 remake) Love that game. One of the classics of my childhood.

[@CaitlynZ]

This week's 90's movie release: So I Married an Axe Murderer Last week's 90's movie release: Coneheads Next week's 90's movie release: The Fugitive

[@sporedoutofmymind]

I've been playing Pistol Whip in VR and it struck me at how much it reminded me of Lethal Enforcers from when I was a kid.

[@darkman4811]

Dylan's section always gets better and better. I'm so down to take a geography coarse with Professor Dylan. 😂

[@c.argelfraster1291]

Another quality Editor Dylan segment 😂 Keep it up, Jared and Dylan! The show just keeps getting better 🏆

[@andrewmauney3082]

Lethal Enforcers and Virtua Cop were one of my favorite arcade games to play in the 90s

[@calanon534]

Lethal Enforcers is a fantastic game. From a "Gun Guy" perspective, it represented one of the last years on the calendar that a police officer character would be justified in being given a revolver as their main weapon. A scant three years later, and Resident Evil gives your character, a police specialist in S.T.A.R.S. (Special Tactics And Rescue Service), a Beretta as your main weapon. This represented a transitional period in policing arms, and the attitudes of firearms owners as a group - the die-hard "wheelgunners" were on the way out, or converting to semi-automatic pistols, a trend that had started as far back as the issuance of the Smith & Wesson Model 39 to the Illinois State Police in 1968, but only began to pick up speed in the mid-1980's, around the time the U.S. military adopted the Beretta M9 pistol. By 1995, most police agencies had discontinued issuance of revolvers to front line officers, with some agencies purging them entirely. From a Gamer perspective, this shift eliminated a sort of "bottom tier" on a ladder of weapon progression, and a shift in any expected difficulty curve in any games thereafter. While no real concrete examples of this really manifested, the change over to semi-automatic pistols with double stack magazines and capacities of 12 or more rounds does alter the parameters of difficulty for anyone designing a game based around such situations, with weapons of that capability being the "lowest tier" weapon available, rather than a simple 6-shot revolver.

[@doslover]

I loved Lethal Enforcers back in the day. I still say RELOAD in that voice any time I see or hear the word reload anywhere 😊

[@TheBlastMage]

We need more unhinged Editor Dylan game rants! I haven't laughed that hard in a hot minute!!! Wonderful episode as always ^_^

[@rajangeta8334]

The lightgun shot effect was a amazing touch, also the Albuquerque bit just golden editor Dylan doing wonderful work

[@aaronlea-art]

Welcome back, I can’t get over how addicted I am to getting a new episode weekly. Please do a Now in the 80s (I’m sure the research and production on this channel alone is a time suck, but I’m just being greedy here).

[@Gatorade69]

I'm glad they didn't do a now in the 80s. I personally feel like gaming was getting really good in the 90s, plus Jared and Dylan actually have actual experience and nostalgia from the 90s. Feel like there would just be less to talk about for the 80s.

[@felixl.l.2060]

Man, this channel is so goddamn good! Thanks for another awesome video!

[@psilimit]

Ok, sometimes Dylan doesn't sleep enough and it's pretty rough. But THIS is GOLDEN!!

[@TouyaChikage]

Fun fact, Exile Wicked Phenomenon also had an extremely rare slipcover (I own it luckily). I don’t know how it was acquired sadly. That slip cover is worth around $200-250 alone.

[@shannonwilliams7249]

Best best best show! Thank you and shout out from Wis!

[@FrabjousvonNiche]

“He bought up all the donuts before Al got there” Oh my god. I’ve never heard anyone reference that song in my life. Dylan, let’s get married.

[@Zangril]

There's another version of Final Fight where Guy was playable. There's a version called Final Fight: Guy on the SNES and it was a Blockbuster exclusive game.

[@aaronko3480]

Editors corner is becoming more fun than the main show! I'm dying here 😂

[@sabinkenobi]

Kudos for the "IT Crowd" meme, love that show

[@dameTHEname]

I still have Lethal Enforcers on Sega Genisis and it still works to this day.

[@HeXetic]

That last bit was high-effort and I am here for it, goddamn

[@TheGamersShade]

Great, I haven't had my now in the 90s fix for two weeks and I need it bad.

[@svovy5358]

Does anyone else remember when Howard Lincoln (Former Nintendo of America CEO/Former Reggie) said to the US government, under oath "You will never see a game like this (Night Trap) on a Nintendo system" 25 years later Night Trap was released on Switch, is Howard Lincoln guilty of Perjury?

[@Scoops_F1]

Big Pepe Silvia engery with the Albuquerque rant.

[@chenstormstout9456]

Oh my god that Yakko’s World Mexico edit got me good.

[@drummersarus]

I did always wonder why there were no donuts and only weasels in that donut shop. Thanks for clarifying that for me Dylan.

[@Equ3strianGam3r]

An episode of one of my favorite KZbin shows on my birthday. What could be better? Actually, a lot of things are probably better but, I still enjoyed it.

[@Sly88Frye]

Love that Albuquerque reference from Looney Tunes there when talking about the Speedy Gonzales game.😂

[@EdmondDantes224]

If I may plug another channel, a channel called Basement Brothers did videos on the original XZR games for PC-88, where he also gives rundowns of the plots and the version differences between XZR II and Exile 1. Its worth checking out.

[@RyukoDragonHalf]

My husband had no ideya there was a sequel to Exile on the Genesis! Good ol' Working Designs! (Also my husband, no joke, wore Jared's exact shirt today - gave us a jolt when we loaded up the video! XD Excellent taste in vaporwave threads!)

[@yeethuus7009]

Thanks for the shout out Jared and nice try with the pronunciation. I say it "Yee-thoose" but nobody gets it right anyway. This show makes Friday the best day of the week, BTW

[@cooltaylor1015]

I had the pink and the blue Justifiers. The pink one plugs into the blue one with a phone-jack type plug. I didn't have to mail away for it though. It came in a bundle with the game and blue gun from Wal Mart in 1995

[@shouryuuken4147]

XZR I and II are actually available on Project EGG aka Amusement Center, sort of a Japanese equivalent to GOG. Unfortunately it's only in Japanese. But technically speaking they said the truth. They just never specified on what kind of virtual console service and in which countries they would release it.

[@Gatorade69]

Wait, he said Sunsoft owns the rights ? Is Sunsoft still a thing ? I know the Blaster Master series still exists...

[@ThonyHedgehog]

I didn't expect an IT Crowd ref on here! :D

[@johnofthewired]

SHOT OUT FROM WILMINGTON!!!!

[@dashalpha]

Love the IT Crowd, that clip is hilarious and memed to death, also thx for the ABQ shout out.

[@CHMernerner]

Politicians angry at : Anything, even if that is not exist

[@psirensongs]

The Speedy Gonzales bit was tremendous! Holy shit. Also, I know there isn't much to say about the game, but I do have it for the gameboy, and for its time (and the hardware), it's a surprisingly okay Sonic clone. Nothing special, but fun enough to kill half an hour or so if you're on a long bus ride or car ride or something.

[@Dragoonnight]

Now that’s how you do a loony toons reference!

[@lawdcookies]

Can we have a separate "Strange Video Game Things" series for Dylan's amazing and unhinged tirades? They're absolutely hilarious! 🤣 Another fantastic episode you guys! Keep up the great work! ❤

[@cappantwan2978]

And I thought I knew everything about the Looney Tunes. Dylan continues to surprise me.

[@traphousegamer1906]

Nice job making the screen flash when lieberman had the justified in his hand...epic move

[@teh1archon]

Where's Mexico part was awesome! Prime material for Game Theorists.

[@Dragozan]

IT crowd reference = new favourite episode

[@clintbrew]

I remember the ep really funny with really long phone number and moss turning the fire into a screensaver😂

[@Dragozan]

@@clintbrew "Hello, is that the emergency services?... Then which country am I speaking to?"

[@AtlasBlizzard]

"Oh, four! I mean five! I mean fire!" 😂

[@TheCannoncrewmember]

Going Akimbo on the Area 51 arcade machine was such a BLAST. It was easy to reload with a quick off screen shot and you felt like Neo for a bit for fifty cents. Thanks for refreshing that memory, Jared!

[@ThomatoSauce]

I think I remember seeing Mighty Final Fight on the 3Ds eShop when that was still online.

[@ThomasHostvedt]

Lethal Enforcers, one of my all time favorite arcade games along side T2. The Justifier is great, at the time, you really felt like Dirty Harry blowin holes in bad guys. Good times!

[@trident042]

None of us: Nobody: Not a single human being: Dylan: *wheels in a murderboard about the geography of North America*

[@ejdouglass]

Lethal Enforcer was an entire vibe in arcades back in the day! I remember dodging and ducking and twerking around wildly as if my real-life position had any impact on whether my life bar went down, and I had a blast. Dylan's increasingly manic divergences (and accompanying gags, like what yielded Yakko's countries song) are a delight to see and really helps set apart the Jared and Dylan portions of the episodes. Mag-NIFICENT.

[@hawaiidkw1]

By any chance, did you ever play Police 911? That's the one where you _had_ to physically move to avoid shots. It was tough to aim while moving!

[@OGNoNameNobody]

My _Mighty Final Fight_ story is that I saw it at the local friendly video rental store, but I had my weekend plan set around renting some other, _Super_ Nintendo game, so I said to myself, "I'll cut back a little so I can rent it next week." Next Week: Not There Week After: Not There 3rd Weekend: Nope Broke down on 4 weeks of no sighting and asked Store Owner Lady(who was working the register at the time) "What happened to _Might Final Fight_ ?" Her Reply, to My Horror: First person to rent it never returned it. She called authorities to intervene based on the address they had on file. Address was deserted; dude straight up rented the game & skipped town w/ it. The cherry on top of the story is Owner Lady confided that she was done buying new NES games for the store, as apparently someone soaked her $75 for that copy. Sad Times....

[@Jbugx]

Light gun games in the arcade are cool. If they have a "shoot off screen to reload" function, just put the tip of your finger near the end of the gun and quickly cover it and fire to reload fast without having to move the gun off screen. It saves a lot of time. The gun I guess looks for darkness to register a reload. I don't know how it works I just know I can cheese it to maybe get a few more levels in.

[@KingKoopah]

Editor Dylan killing it. Love this series. Keep 'em coming Jared

[@titoleon3101]

How did Dylan slowly became the star of the show and I almost didnt notice it?

[@avereynakama9854]

Great episode, as always. I had to rewatch the episode to make sure I heard correctly: Lethal Enforcers allows the player to play as a cop shooting down bad guys, yet this game was used to claim that it was teaching children to shoot cops? What? Wouldn't it have been easier to just say they didn't want as many games with firearms aimed at kids (even though the rating on the box was MA-17)? Starting to wonder if these people even played the games that they were complaining about. Dylan went hard on the Speedy Gonzales game. Loved the tangent there. I thought I saw the boxing game somewhere before, but I'm not sure where. Those are some impressive graphics considering.

[@Satoascorpion]

Another absolute banger Dylan rant.

[@CONTROLLINGHORROR]

Dylan sounding like he's looking for Pepe Silva

[@jasonulloa]

Haha, I TOTALLY did that dual pistol thing at the arcades a couple of times more than I care to admit as a kid. My accuracy went into the toilet, but I certainly felt like a little badass.

[@JordanVickers21]

Dylan needs his own show

[@vtmarik]

God I rented a Sega CD from my local video place just for Lethal Enforcers, memories of being terrified that i'd damage the disc somehow.

[@miahthorpatrick1013]

Holy crap, that bit with editor Dylan and Speedy Gonzalez was fire!

[@JorgeAraujo97]

I wish I had kept a copy or two of Mighty Final Fight. They were everywhere and extremely cheap in my country, around 1994-1995.

[@TyphinHoofbun]

I worked at an arcade for a couple years, and I went Two Player Akimbo on every single light gun game I could. ...Time Crisis 2 and 3 were difficult since each player also has a foot pedal that you release in order to take cover and reload. We had the "Deluxe Cabinet" for 2, so they were too far apart for me to Akimbo, but I did try with 3 a couple times. "Target: Terror" was one that actually included an "akimbo" mode specifically, but it costs the same as two players, and you only had one health bar instead of two. So the only positive was that both guns contributed to your score, if you cared about that kind of thing. But the absolute best one to do that with was "L.A. Machine Guns" (which weren't light guns but joysticks as vehicle-mounted weaponry) because both the guns and the platform had force-feedback rumbling. Dual-wielding giant machine guns kicking back with every shot while the platform you're standing on is shaking with every explosion was such an awesome feeling!

[@pixelgoat7317]

Oh, you finally mentioned XGR/Exile! As a wee lil lad I played Exile for the Genesis because I found it in a bargain bin at Babbages and as an artist I thought the painting cover art was super cool. Without the context of the weird time travel hijinks in the original, Exile was interesting because of it's theological plot and weirdly philosophic themes. I was of course a little confused as a middle schooler but grew to appreciate it over the years. The ending is super depressing and thought provoking, however. I thought it really stood out on it's own! ...Then I learned about Wicked Phenomenon and it pretty much undid all of the impact of the predecessor game. Awww.

[@coryfusting9294]

The geometry bit had me dying 😂

[@bio_cat]

As an OG WD fan, I have every TG16 WD game, including Exile 2. Nice.

[@stewietk]

You wouldn't believe how many times I rewound the mighty final fight part where the characters are doing the combos, holy crap that looks so cool

[@Flynn01979]

Now here is editor Dylan waaay over thinking it.😆

[@raginreb]

Lethal enforcer. Many great memories playing this in the arcade. Amazing light gun game that prepped me for the likes of house of the dead and area 51.

[@smokinjoe3000]

I love this channel so much. Best one I've stumbled upon in years

[@riemaennchen]

I really missed this last week.^^

[@ZionKraze]

That Exile Wicked Phenomenon box art! It looks so frigging sick, I love it!

[@DFloyd84]

That Exile ad with the creepy wall face will never leave my memory.

[@jeffreyrumery6768]

😂😂😂 Sorry Jared. This might be YOUR show, but DYLAN'S segment is always the highlight! Love you both, though.

[@Marthelas]

Yo, cool to see my comment make it in a video. Love this series and everyone involved in it. Such a great team you've built, keep up the great work!

[@blakerussellcrenshaw9517]

July 28th 1993...my 10th birthday. In my gaming prime back then rocking my SNES. Link to the Past was blowing my mind. Mortal Kombat was the rental my dad would get me that I had to hide from my mother. Man, those definitely seemed like the good ol days. Man i love this show.