Which NES Game Is Better: Crystalis? or The Blue Marlin?

[@custum18]

My wife says, "What the hell are you watching?" I say, "That's my boy Jeff."

[@manwalrus]

I'm banned from watching this at night because if I fall asleep with the comptuer on all my wife can hear is a bunch of NES bleeps and bloops and Jeff saying "WHAT THE FUCK" over and over again.

[@zimmy4868]

@@manwalrusthat’s hilarious, lol

[@MrNick62780]

haha I do the same thing I like to put it on if I feel like napping

[@thepolarphantasm2319]

Warn your wife that Gerstmania will absolutely run wild on her as it would anyone else given such proximity to this broadcast

[@Livingeidolon]

​@@manwalrusthis reminds me of my dad watching Wopner!

[@MonotoneTim]

new Jeff angle, same great Jeff flavor.

[@knightdehumidifier]

T'was the Friday before Christmas, And from the other side of the doors, The children were sleeping, Dreaming about the Dynowarz. They were laying in bed, Wondering "is it loose or louse"?, No video game was more mid, Not even Mickey Mouse...capades. This song can go on, It'd be all the same, Happy Holidays to all, As Jeff ranks another NES game.

[@CassidyListon]

Crystalis is a pretty good game.

[@Spirit0f]

Crystalis is a Top 10 game using my particular brand of science.

[@clayr6724]

I remember playing Home Alone 2 on SNES. Basically the same as NES. I remember being constantly stuck on the first level and never knowing what to do with the elevator.

[@GreatistheWorld]

Chrystalis is easily in the top 10 NES games “you could put basically anyone in front of and expect them to get what its whole deal is pretty naturally”

[@thepolarphantasm2319]

"Spiderman belongs in this hole." - J. Jonah Gerstmann

[@cactrot83]

Love me some Crystalis, I've been singing its praises since I was a kid in the 90's. Glad to see it earning some recognition from the science.

[@Koalopoti]

Waiting for people to pass so I don't accidentally have to talk to them is also how I live my awful life

[@MNeely]

TFW HotB hits you with that Blue Marlin title theme music

[@daneofurexistence]

This is my favorite holiday special

[@HANBAGA-BACH]

"What am I doing? With my life, I mean." - Jeff while playing Home Alone 2 NES

[@messiahmozgus]

Sinister Six was one of the few carts I owned as a kid that I couldnt make any progress on. I couldnt sell it either. It was more of a conversation piece for ny friends who had the newer systems. I had to at least be able to say I had spiderman games at home, whereas they had stuff like Maximum Carnage.

[@justinc.5591]

This Spider-Man’s canon event is struggling to swing through that one gap in Sandman’s stage.

[@Spirit0f]

Say what you will about Home Alone 2, but I tip my hat to Imagineering's dedication to representing a historically accurate 8-bit version of 1992 New York City. Door men who try to strangle you, killer suit cases, the classic news stand p3do, and a bomb throwing front desk clerk? I have to respect it.

[@OrinLinwe]

It took a surprisingly long time till developers caught on that people who keep buying these spider-man games might want to experience a fun time as spider-man. That they weren't buying them as some kind of performance art project where they deliberately bum themselves out.

[@TrIp13G]

I beat Home Alone 2 on the NES when I was like 8, I think. Still can’t believe I pulled that off.

[@jafooli]

I never got past the hotel. Is there levels beyond that?

[@thefroyukenfiles3641]

@@jafooli Not much else really. After the hotel is the central park level, then the uncle's house that requires you to set off every trap against the burglars, and the final level (which is the shortest) in the city which takes you to a tall Christmas tree you have to climb.

[@jafooli]

I played home alone 2 as a kid and that hotel level haunts my sleep to this day.

[@Ghadius]

I'm realizing as I watch that I played some version of this Sinister Six game on the Sega CD. It had cutscenes after the boss fights. I remember Electro telling Spider-Man to get a hotdog on Coney Island.

[@Jaspertine]

When people say "video games used to be better..." Yup, same deal with movies, music, TV, books, etc. The new stuff might not be amazing, but when you go back to all the games that were rightfully forgotten, and actually compare apples to apples, the old stuff wasn't exactly kittens and rainbows either.

[@Spirit0f]

Real men watch this video at 240p.

[@thepolarphantasm2319]

Phantasy Star 2 grinding? Bro just hearing that phrase gave me a PTSD episode involving navigating Dezoria + having an inescapable fight with two giant robots at the same time every four steps or so And you already know those doggone robots gonna blast Anna and Dr Amy to paste :(

[@esmerylan]

I'd love to see a modern rerelease of PS2 that rebalances it, like what M2 did for the Sega Ages version of the first game on Switch. Love the game, never get very far when I try to play it these days because of the absurd grind and all the random battles.

[@Dontrel3030]

0:56 damn is that Chip & Ironicus Gextra Life fanart in the top right? what a blast from the past

[@JonathonToon]

Great new camera angle Jeff!

[@MissAshley42]

So close I can _smell_ the science.

[@Livingeidolon]

That's unadvisably close

[@Pimpemon]

So the hotel staff and all the people in Home Alone 2 are strangling the kid when he gets caught? I don't remember that from the movie.

[@JamesInDigital]

All hail the rise of Athena!

[@ChampippleD]

I like this host, but what happened to the other guy with the baby rocker in the background?

[@MrNick62780]

oh this is the one you said was stuck at 360 quality on the podcast

[@takaroth]

glad to have crystalis get the respect it deserves, definitely one of my faves from the NES days. It's definitely got some jank but I don't remember ever getting stuck too badly or being completely clueless about what to do (tho nintendo power probably played a part). One that probably won't get appreciated as much but I am still looking forward to is Faxanadu, that game was extremely my shit but also had some bad aspects and I wont be surprised if Jeff gets stuck somewhere

[@oyesiamtomsawyer2]

Am I going to die? Will the rats eventually kill me?

[@moondark1031]

Whenever you get your streaming system more steady, you may want to consider uploading the Ranking of the NES games in 1080p. I don't think any of this video will benefit from the extra resolution and time it takes to be uploaded by KZbin. I thank you for your top notch stewardship of the Videogamesman moniker.

[@LeafhopperV]

Crystalis NES is fascinating to me because I really did think it was only a Game Boy Color game for the longest.

[@oyesiamtomsawyer2]

As of 10 AM Eastern time December 21, this video is in beautiful 4K.

[@g.u.959]

I wonder how many people played Mario 2 for the first time and shouted aloud, “Look at all those vegetables!”

[@DOGroove]

I was going to check out Indiana Jones this weekend… but I might just play through Crystalis. Game looks dope.

[@aegisfate117]

George Washington: Cannot tell a lie Spiderman: Cannot shoot a web Jeff G: Still a threat

[@JuiceJive]

"Imagineering" must refer to the mental gymnastics you have to do to be so proud of the crap they were shoveling out to put your credits all over them.

[@AuspexAO]

They made a Gameboy Color port of Crystalis that added a bunch of bizarre story elements and for some reason got rid of that cool opening theme song. The NES version is still definitive in my eyes.

[@shidonidoni5704]

that new camera angle feels...... way more intimate.......

[@BenGoodsonModular]

I rank this new temporary setup below Dinowarz Destruction of Spondylous. Also, nobody has any friends at LJN.

[@nunyabidnits2193]

@14:32 Kemco continues to flarp out bimonthly RPG maker titles to this day.

[@justsignmeup911]

I rented the SNES Home Alone 2 in the 90s. I remember it being.......... playable.

[@snowblindu]

I love me some Jeff Gerst MAN!

[@ItMeDwaeji]

Is it that time already?? We ranking 8 bit Nintendo games??

[@threeo8314]

All the music in Home Alone 2 sounds like they made it for the Bart vs. games and they rejected them

[@schtive81]

For a 1992 NES game. Spider-Man and the Sinister Six looks really underwhelming. The first Spider-Man game that I remember playing that I liked was the one on the Game Boy that was made by Rare. The other one was Spider-Man vs the Kingpin for the Genesis. Which was a game that gave me Revenge of Shinobi vibes. But not as good. I liked how you could cling to walls, and the mechanic of taking photos for money was neat. Maximum Carnage was OK, but there are many better beat em up's (or belt scrollers) than it.

[@Osaiken]

Now we are reaching deep inside ourselves and asking the big questions. Crystalis or Blue Marlin?

[@psider9905]

fun fact: Spiders can swing on nothing in real life, this is called balooning and is because of their web is sticky enough and they are light enough that sticking on the air work when it's windy enough

[@BDreGaming]

Miami is in Hawaii apparently.

[@momscastle]

getting to rent one game and two movies a week? that's a flex

[@steve43ful]

Red Marlin has better starting fish.

[@Kenny-Blankenship]

Spider-Man: return of the spondylus

[@IllegallySighted]

My friend had a copy of Home Alone 2 back in the day, and if only Jeff would have seen what you actually had to do to proceed in that stupid hotel. And then there's the chef. This game was absolutely terrible.

[@koalaschola81]

The science may say different, but the fact is there are other fantasy adventure games on the NES which are equal to or better than Crystalis...Yet there is only one Blue Marlin...

[@ChrisHominski]

they should play that Home Alone song in Guantanamo

[@CTSchmidlak]

Damn - 6 hours later and still 360p?? KZbin, get it together! I need my SCIENCE.

[@JeffGerstmannShow]

At the moment it claims it'll be another six hours before it's done processing. Bonkers.

[@CTSchmidlak]

@@JeffGerstmannShow Damn, that's crazy! Science for breakfast then. Thanks for the update Jeff!

[@elbowgoose]

They call it 360p because when you see it you turn around 360 degrees and walk away

[@mrbuckets1106]

I feel a bite on your rod

[@bryce13950]

The Spider-Man game was painful.

[@UnseenShadow]

is this still 360p for anyone else?

[@djeezo007]

360p?

[@LordelX]

Crystalis is a top 20 NES game. Anything less is unscientific.

[@Musubi-Azeyma]

I knew even as a child when I rented Sinister Six that that game was absolute dog shit.

[@SethGolovin]

3:08:25 Can’t tell if Jeff is lying or if he is really unaware that he is about to play one of the worst games of all time.

[@andrew77961]

Spondy Louse

[@thepolarphantasm2319]

It's not ridiculous. It's not ludicrous. It's spondilious.

[@d.s.i.6722]

SPAWN DA' LOOS

[@groove66]

Jeff IN YO FACE

[@cybersub4693]

Yes!!! it's not better than Metal Gear 💀👍🏻

[@nunyabidnits2193]

Come see the softer side of Jeff Gerstmann

[@JZekis]

If I take anything away from this series. Imagineering made a lot of trash.

[@BDreGaming]

Can you maybe start uploading in 1080p? For us KZbin viewers, we basically have to wait until the next day now unless we want to watch in 360p. You basically can't even read the NES list at this resolution. Also, the camera is way too close up with this new camera angle.

[@GuardsmanGary]

cant see the video gamez? sign anymore, unsubscribed

[@lewt187]

Sound is so important that you rail on re-using samples, but then you rate Chrystalis super high despite the absolutely AWFUL music while The Guardian Legend barely gets a nod for possibly the best soundtrack in the entire library.

[@beatchef]

In the space of a year and a half, Imagineering made Barbie, Bart Vs The Space Mutants, Bart Vs The World, Home Alone 2, Swamp Thing, Ghoul School, and like 12 other games. They really were a menace, as Jeff says.

[@thefroyukenfiles3641]

Radical Entertainment did TAoR&B, not Imagineering.

[@beatchef]

@@thefroyukenfiles3641 I apologise, they did every single version of TAoR&B except the NES version. The crediting is weird.