Hello and welcome to game sack and in this episode
We're gonna do something that we don't normally do we're gonna talk about our recent pickups and in this particular episode
It's going to be stuff. We got it conventions. Yes conventions
You know those cool things where gamers get together and talk to each other and buy cool things
And that's where we got these games from in is true conventions are kind of fun
You get to meet different peoples other youtubers and of course find those games that you really have a hard time finding
Out in the wild in your known neighborhoods exactly and since we literally just got back from retro Palooza at the time
We're shooting this which is a while ago for you guys?
we thought you know we show what we got there and also a few of the previous conventions that we just haven't covered on the
Show yet he's it and with that said let's go
This is kid clownin nightmare world for the NES released by Kymco in 1993 a long time ago
I was looking for some games to cover for a left in Japan episode and came across a title called Mickey Mouse 3 I
Played it and I liked it, but as I started doing a bit of research on it
I found out that it was released in the USA due to copyright issues
Kymco rebranded the title the kid clan and thus began the series I was a bit disappointed since I couldn't cover that Mickey Mouse game
But it's all good because Here
I am talking about it now as kid clown back in 2015 Joe, and I were at the too many games Expo in Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
I knew I wanted this one and since I've never seen it in the wild what better place to find a game that you want
Then a game convention. Well I pay too, but game conventions are better
I was able to get the vendor to take five dollars off his asking price of 85 bucks, and I bought it
Yeah, it was more expensive than I really wanted to pay, but hey, I wanted it so I bought it
And I'm glad I did because the game is great fun
It's an action platformer with a strange story kid clown
And his family are travelling to the next town to perform at the circus when they meet the magician called nightmare. He insists
That kid help him open a treasure vault when kid refuses nightmare takes his family, and that's where the action starts
I know everybody's thinking it
So let's get the obvious out of the way kid Clan is one ugly
Mofo if anyone bases their game purchases by cover art
Then this title would get passed up immediately even inside the game his sprite is beyond ugly so for the rest of this review
I'm just gonna call him ugly
The game starts out with an introductory level so you can get the hang of the controls
After that you'll begin your journey through six different stages all with different themes
The thing that sets this platformer apart from others is the weapon that ugly uses he has an unlimited supply of balloons that he uses
to do many different themes
Of course as a weapon ugly can blow these things up and toss three of them at a time at his enemies
Most enemies take only one hit from a balloon before they die
But others will take a few more the balloons are quick and you can throw them all over the place
Which makes them really fun to use?
Ugly can also blow up a balloon and set it on the ground
Jumping on the balloon will act as a spring so he can reach higher platforms
Or you can use it to jump over enemies
Which comes in handy more than you'd think and?
Finally ugly can use a balloon to glide and cover more distance
Before you get to the ground and this one comes in handy in later levels
the boss fights in this game simple
And it just takes a few moments to get the pattern down
There are texts are easy to dodging if you keep pummeling them with balloons the fight is over before you know it
The levels are designed pretty well, and there's just enough enemies
So you're usually killing or dodging something scattered throughout each level or boxes that you can break open these contain the usual items like health
Invincibility and the ever-so-popular item that reverses your controls for a short while I really hate it when games reverse your controls
But luckily it only lasts for about 10 seconds or so
You'll also collect strawberries
Which the game likes to call chips between levels you get to play a shooting gallery type game
And your chips are your ammunition I?
Like it because you can increase your hearts to take more damage in the next levels
And you can even pick up an extra ugly
For a game that was released in 1993 I feel the graphics could have been a bit better
They're not horrible
But they're just not as luscious a Kirby which was released the same year
The music is decent and it has the familiar Kymco feel to it, and that's not a bad thing
This is a game that I'm really happy to have in my collection even though
I do wish it start Mickey Mouse instead of the ugly kid clown
I look forward to beating it from time to time is this one of those games. That's easy to pick up and play
I
Picked up super tempo on the Saturn at retro Palooza five from Tyler who runs the channel I retro gamer. That's like retro gamer
I accept with a little I in front of it
We've covered this one in our left in Japan episodes, but I had to use a CDR that I downloaded and burned
But now I have a copy that I can put on my shelf and gloat about making me feel really elite and way better than
other people
Just kidding the game itself is very unique and fun it's a sequel to the 32x game simply called tempo
But I feel that super tempo here is a much more enjoyable game. Though some would disagree. They're wrong though. It's a platformer
It's a shooter, and it even has some fun minigames one thing
It's not though is boring as you play the game constantly changes things up
So you never know what you're gonna be doing next
Well unless you've played the game before that is you control a bug named tempo and as butterfly girlfriend whose name
I believe is Katy tempo can jump and shoot bubbles which will hurt and eventually trap enemies for you
And then all you have to do at this point is touch them you're rewarded with notes that also act as currency in the game
Katy fires a flamethrower type weapon to burn enemies when she jumps and uses it she can float indefinitely
You need to use both bugs
But mainly I like using Katy when I have a choice because she's just more versatile the boss fights are interesting and always fun
Between stages you're awarded prizes for the money. You've earned and you use it to furnish your home
Yeah, that's right tempo and Katy are living together
And they're not even married such rampant debauchery
Some of the stages can seem kind of easy while others like this one can be very challenging
The visuals aren't super detailed and instead go for the simple cartoon look which is fine
Especially with the amazing colors that they chose the environments are all drawn very well like this large body of water underneath the waterfall
Well that is until you climb up and see where the waterfall is coming from
The music is also pretty simple and though not outstanding it fits the game well enough
This is a fantastic game and the language barrier doesn't get in the way very much
Tyler's late dad was the original owner of this copy and he gave me a very good price knowing that it would go to a
Good home. It did Tyler. It sure did and thanks I
Also purchased last rocks on the Saturn at retro Palooza 5 as I recall it was $30
Which isn't bad isn't great this one can best be described as Soulcalibur meets Virtua Fighter
There sold later sold adjure or whatever the hell they were calling it back
Then it's a weapons based fighter, but it controls very similar to Virtua Fighter it all takes place in the last Bronx
I guess I didn't know that there were multiple boxes
It's a fun little game with a decent amount of characters and stages for its time
Some of the moves can be tough to figure out, but they're there if you keep trying the fights mostly take place at nighttime
I like that a few of the stages even have stealing's on them it all runs at
60 frames per second and in high resolution hell it even says so right on the box
The music is decent and it fits, but I feel it could have been a lot better
There's not much more. I want to say about this one other than I needed it so I picked it up
This is the Horde buy toys for Bob on the Sega Saturn released in 1997
Back when I used to own one of those 3do machines the Horde was one of my favorite games on the system
But eventually I sold my 3do along with all of its games
And I still don't regret it when Joe and I went to the game on Expo in Phoenix, Arizona
I was browsing through one vendor Saturn games inside this one sitting there
He wanted 30 bucks for it, and I passed thinking that I might find it somewhere else cheaper
I went by that booth multiple times and every time the game was still there, but in his slightly different place
So I knew other people were looking at it
Eventually I said what the hell I'll get it
Sadly this dealer wasn't willing to haggle and they even charged me tax a bit upset
I still bought it anyway knowing that it was a great game, and I was happy to have it again in my collection
In the beginning you're treated to a decently long intro movie of a serving boy named Chauncey played by Kirk Cameron who is serving food
To the nobility as he's doing his royal duty the King starts to choke on his food while listening to a funny tale from his
High Chancellor who's played by Michael Gregory?
Nobody notices the King choking except for Chauncey and the Chancellor who apparently wants the King dead by the look in his eyes
Chauncey hurries to help the king and saves his life
For his reward the king gives the lowly serving boy his sword and a small tract of land for his very own
The only problem is the land is always under attack by the Horde
It's up to you to develop the land and make it suitable for others to farm and live
But your ultimate goal is to make money while fending off the Horde
Everything you do revolves around money and at the end of each season you have to pay taxes that get higher and higher
Kind of like I did when buying this game
To do all this the game has two phases a building phase in an action phase and these together count as one season the building
Phase comes first and you have to be fast because you only have two to four minutes to accomplish all you need to do
And there's lots you can do in this phase and some of it will earn you money while others are more for defense
To earn money you can plant and cut down trees or you can put down a cow which will bring in the coin
To defend your land you can dig ditches with spikes or you can dig by water ditches to extend them
If you have the cash you can also hire Knights and whatnot to help you defend your land from the Horde
But they're way too expensive for me
Meanwhile you on the other hand aren't strong
When the Horde comes in during the second phase all you have at first is your sword that the King gave you
You've obviously never held a sword before in your life
And it shows when you fight
You spin your whole body around and it only takes a few of these spins before you get dizzy
and you can't move so try not to just go and swing your sword willy-nilly because it just won't work as
The seasons go by you get treated to some cutscenes that are in the form of a fake news update
They try to be funny
But don't let me leave the hay they just aren't just like game sack of comings and goings
Announce that immigration is at an all-time high?
suggesting that the new friends fly free policy is
working
If I had one complaint about this game, it would be how slowly your cursor moves in the building phase
I mean come on
You only have two minutes
And it's so sluggish to move this thing across the screen
They did make it a bit easier by letting you do all of your work from a zoomed out view but even here
It's still a bit slow
this zoomed out view is also good for when the Horde comes along it takes a few seconds for them to reach your village and
If you get into this zoomed out view you can see where they're coming from which helps a lot
The Horde is totally annoying just like it should be they come in and tear down gardens and houses then they proceed to eat your
Villagers if you don't stop them and you have to stop them because you lose money for everything that's lost
Like I said before the game is insanely fun
I really suck at it, but I keep trying and trying because Tam is just that fun, and I think you might like it
Too so give it a try
All right, we're back Kirk Cameron
Yeah, that's the name you don't hear very often is it
That is true not even back in the day
Exactly anyway. We've got more games to talk about so let's go
Way back in
2015 at retro Palooza 3 I picked up pocket fighter on the Saturn believe it or not I still
Haven't played it. Well. No time like the present. We've shown this game on the PlayStation in our overlooked gems episode did someone say
Jim shut up metal Jesus
I said overlooked Jim's not hidden anyway
It can be played both with and without the 4 megabyte expansion Ram card you choose from several different Street Fighter and Darkstalkers characters?
They're all chibi looking and you only have 3 or 4 buttons
You need to worry about
One each for punching kick and another one that does a chargeable attack and yet another that seems to do a useless taunt as you
Beat on your enemy gems will fall out of your opponent's ass. Yep. Those could be considered hidden gems
Haha, if you collect enough gems then you can level up each of your moves so that they're way more powerful
But be careful because gems fall out of your ass when you're hit and the enemy can suck them up with their own ass to
gain an advantage
It adds a fun twist to the usual Capcom fighting action
initially I had a hard time getting used to doing the punches with the bottom row of buttons on my
Amazing Saturn 6 button controller, which is the best controller for any platform by the way?
But once I did get used to it everything played smoothly
The visuals are really nice everything is vibrant and I love the art style
I also really enjoyed the nos to other Capcom series like Resident Evil and whatnot
There's even a lot happening in the background to keep you entertained when you're not watching what you're doing
I played both with and without the RAM cart back to back honestly. I really couldn't tell any difference
Here's this stage without the RAM Kirk were you as brown because of some well. I selected them with the X button
And
here's the same stage with the RAM Kart Ryu is white because I selected them with the a button both ways seem to have the
Same amount of animation and detail, can you tell the difference?
The music is fantastic and it's all red becau do which is unusual for a Capcom game
But that makes it sound much higher in quality than most games that don't use red book
This is a great game, and I'm glad I only waited two years to play it
Also at retro Palooza this year I picked up Wing Commander three eye of the tiger
I mean part of the tiger for the PlayStation
I've played this a couple of times on the 3do, and this long box version was in great condition at a nice price
So I figured why the hell not this one mainly fascinates me because of who's all in the games many many FMV cutscenes
You've got Mark Hamill on loan from Star Wars
That dude from Indiana Jones and Lord of the Rings this dude from that clockwork movie and also that crappy Star Trek generations
movie this dude from Back to the Future
Even this guy from that one thing
They even used big names on the production side music by George Clooney game director Fred Savage and so on
During the game you can wander around the ship
And it feels a bit different than the 3do version from what I recall
The scene of getting into your ship is definitely different as for the gameplay itself
It's still slow and uninteresting. I really don't have any desire to play it at all. It's just not a game for me
I really don't know why I bought this they sold me on the names damn. You slightly chubby, but still sexy 90s Mark Hamill
Oh, yeah in the future colonel you have the option of choosing your own weapons
or you can trust my judgment and fly with my default loadout I
promise colonel never to disappoint
Here's silver lode published by vic tokai in 1995 for the playstation
It was also released on PC in the back of my mind
I have a memory of reigning this game and enjoying the point-and-click action in the crazy
Storyline as the years went by that memory would emerge making me want to find and play this again
My search got a bit more serious this year
I always looked at local game shops
And I looked but didn't find it at the game on exponent e niché's bummed out by that but not giving up
I felt that I might find it at retro Palooza 5 in, Arlington, Texas after looking at multiple vendor booths
I spotted it. Just sitting there and my breath escaped me I
Couldn't believe it. There was in its long box glory
I picked it up and looked at it and was a bit upset that it was missing the instructions
But decided that I really wanted it anyway. I was able to snag it for $40 which isn't bad
I
Was really excited to see if my memories would hold up
And thankfully they did as you can see the game is a first-person style point-and-click adventure set in the Wild West
As with all point-and-click type games to progress the story you have to find the on-screen hotspots that let you interact with them
And there's many ways to interact with this game
As you move your cursor around the screen you can change it to various things like an eye ball
Which will let you look closer at something or your character will give his opinion on what you click on?
There's others that are pretty self-explanatory like a cowboy boot to move or a hand which will let you grab an item
And there's a few more
But I won't bore you with all of them not like you're not bored already in the beginning
You stumble upon some settlers that were attacked by werewolves of the night before
The werewolves took a kid from one of the settlers, and he wasn't man enough to stop him now
He's asked you to go after them and get his kid back
He tells you that the town of silver lode is where the werewolves came from and gives you a bag of beans to help you
Start out oh right beans
The gameplays pretty smooth for the most part every now and again
I had troubles finding hotspots to click on but eventually got the hang of it
And I liked it because it's not totally straightforward if you make the wrong decision you can and will die
But if you save your game frequently it won't be a problem
One thing that I'm on the fence about is the audio it only has ambient sound effects
And I really do like how they did it however. There's really no music here, and I kind of wish there was and
To break up the point-and-click action, you can get into some audio swirling first-person shooter scenes these are pretty simple
And I think the targeting is very lenient has some of these Bester's that have shot seemed to die when I didn't have the reticle
on their body
I've got to say that I really like the artwork in this game all the scenes are drawn really well in there's lots of detail
in each one
And I'm always looking forward to seeing the next area the characters that you interact with are also done pretty well
Their lips don't sync up with the voice acting
But you know it who really cares so you're the gunslinger huh give the big man a warm hello boys
Hmm speaking of voice acting is pretty much hit and miss
Some are decent and fit the character really well while others are just well not good
I think my favorite is this manual laborer whose voice sounds like it's straight out of a Warner Brothers cartoon
You'd be tired too if you had to lug this cart around all day. I laugh every time I talk to him
So yeah the game is a good time, and I'm glad I finally got it
And if anyone has a silver load instruction manual just lean around let me know
Ugly son of a gun wonder what crime you were killed for my friend
At Gaiman Expo in Arizona earlier this year which is
2017 by the way I was able to score Grand Turismo 2 on the PlayStation
And also the blame cast disc for that game
I've never had a blame cast disc before so I was pretty stoked Gran Turismo on a regular ass
PlayStation still looks pretty good first time well actually. I should say it looks really damn good all things considered
I mean there's next to no texture warping which is
mind-boggling for a
PlayStation game the models and physics and stuff like that are all quite impressive as you slowly trudge around the tracks in your super low-budget
extra economy car very exciting
But how could this slow paced racing and licence earning simulation get any better well by playing it on a sega dreamcast of course
Just load the bling cast a disc remove it and then insert the PlayStation Gran Turismo 2 disc all of a sudden this
Looks like this the resolution jumps from a lowly pathetic and indiscernible
240p to a super sharp better than real-life 480p
Sega makes everything better, I did the math and going from 240 P to 480p. It's like 6 million times better
Not only that but you get 72 percent more dragula from Rob Zombie
No seriously though the game does look a lot better the emulation isn't perfect
But it does a good job cleaning up all the nasty dithering from the PlayStation version and rendering the polygons on a higher resolution
It's not as good as a real Dreamcast game, but it's definitely nice
It doesn't increase the framerate however, and you might see an intermittent graphic issue here
And there the controls are mapped to the Dreamcast controller well enough but to be honest
I prefer playing with a PlayStation controller more
The game will also need a very own dedicated VM you if you want to save your game
So keep that in mind
I still can't play this game very well
And it's still really not for me and also you may not like the changes made to the graphics
That's all subjective, but still I'm glad to have an actual Bleen cast disc and the game to run with it
Also at GameOn Expo I picked up Need for Speed the runs on the PlayStation 3 in this game
He plays a guy who has the runs and you need to race to the nearest bathroom as fast as you can
anyway
Dave got this way back when it was released and kept telling me how great it was and how I should get it
Naturally since it was Dave
I ignored him, but at GameOn expo we were wandering around and saw it and Dave started singing its virtues again
It was cheap
So I thought what the hell and I bought it
Initially the game isn't very impressive mainly because you play as this turd whistle
I just don't like how he looks, but I can appreciate needing to find a nearest bathroom ASAP
So I'll help him get through traffic and enemy cars who wish for him the soil
Not only is underwear, but also his car seat
You're driving across the entire USA trying to visit as many different bathrooms as you can and it features various scenes from many different
Locations after playing this game for a bit yeah, I'm still not very impressed for one
I happen to be very good at racing games, but this one is just frustrating
The enemies are relentless and the AI is often way better than you secondly the controls feel extremely floaty
also
the game is plagued with
Insane loading times if you wreck you get to stare at a long loading screen while the game sets you way back
Even selecting your car is frustrating because each one must slowly load
The graphics are pretty good
But it certainly isn't the best-looking racing game on the system the music is all licensed to garbage. Just like you'd expect from, EA
There's fun to be had here. I just think it could have used a little bit more time in the kitchen
The last game I got at game on Expo is road rash on the Saturn wow
I sure got a lot of racing games there didn't I they should change their name to racing game on X button
No, anyway, we talked about this one in our road rash episode of course, but now I have it for my very own
It's also available on the 3do playstation and the pc the saturn version here seems to have the best framerate believe it or not
It's not a huge difference, but it is noticeable, but the music is extremely weird
It's the same tunes as the other versions, but they chose very poor instruments to recreate it here as a result. It just sounds dumb
Still I'm glad to finally have every version of 32-bit Road Rash at my disposal and
Since I can do this a much higher quality now. Let's show all of them
this is a 3d o original running and spectacular s-video and
this is the PlayStation version which was released next and
of course here's the Saturn version
Last but not least here's the PC version shown for the first time ever here on gamesack
I still cannot get over that giant motorcycle dashboard at the bottom of the screen that actually hides your bike from time to time
Whose idiotic idea was it to include that anyway?
I didn't get this version at GameOn expo so screw it the Saturn version here is what I wanted to show and I'm glad I
Have it now
All right there you have it those are some games that we've picked up from conventions
Exactly, and it's probably gonna be a while before we go to another convention
Yeah, if you guys like this type of episode, would you like to see us continue it?
But you know not necessarily with convention videos, but like you know recent pickups once we gather enough
You know we can show you guys what we got and review them yeah something like that
Let us know and in the meantime. Thank you for watching Game Zach
You
I love you super tempo you truly do belong on my shelf
Shops wait wait
Dude was that that super tempo you just watch
I've been wanting to try that dude ever since reveal. It's so freakin awesome
But don't worry, I'll take care of it. You know me man. Don't worry, but my shelf
