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ObligatorySarcasm Since: Aug, 2016
#1651: May 19th 2024 at 8:02:30 AM

Eventually he's going to hit a saturation point where a game just cannot be topped in how bad it is (probably Cat Fight). Then the "Worst Fighting Game" series just turns into "Wow These Suck!: Fighting Game Edition" series.

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WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#1652: May 19th 2024 at 10:12:23 AM

I was a bit surprised because I thought the fact that it predated Street Fighter II would have meant more, but there was also the fact that it was only the SNES version that was terrible. He didn't grade each version of Rise of the Robots individually, though he has done just that with other games, like Beast Wars: Transmetals. I guess he started doing that sometime after Rise, in situations that deserve it?

Edited by WillKeaton on Jun 1st 2024 at 4:31:02 AM

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#1653: Jun 1st 2024 at 3:12:27 PM

That Mad Max game you vaguely remember hearing about. Interesting early history, fairly standard issues once it actually entered development

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#1654: Jun 2nd 2024 at 12:59:47 AM

Man the internet was really all over Fury Road. But he somehow glossed the middling box office of that movie.

But yeah, it's the usual publishers going greedy.

Edited by Ookamikun on Jun 2nd 2024 at 1:00:05 AM

IvanovTroping97 Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
#1655: Jun 15th 2024 at 9:12:46 AM

I've been wondering about why Tattoo Assassins hasn't been covered yet, despite it being in the opening to every episode. Then I learned that apparently the game was never actually released, so maybe that's why he never covered it.

Until now!

Tattoo Assassins finally gets a chance to be in the ring.

Lyendith Since: Mar, 2011
#1656: Jun 15th 2024 at 2:04:06 PM

Oh, I missed that there was a new champion. surprised Gotta watch that Pit Fighter episode.

Sid-Starkiller Since: Jan, 2021
#1657: Jun 15th 2024 at 3:20:51 PM

I'm thinking he just wants people to stop asking him about this one. Still a good vid.

omega2900 Jemerald of Brainrot from The Midwest, where everything is MID! (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: In my bunk
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#1658: Jun 15th 2024 at 3:47:37 PM

Ah yes. Another one of the few titles on the list I have played on actual hardware. Yes, Bile Fascination was my reason to play the only known cab at Galloping Ghost.

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AFan Since: Nov, 2022
#1659: Jun 15th 2024 at 4:46:00 PM

Weird how Tattoo Fighters is in the opening for each episode, but it took for there to be 4 champs before it was finally covered.

ObligatorySarcasm Since: Aug, 2016
#1660: Jun 15th 2024 at 4:48:18 PM

Ah yes, 90s: The Game. Where people lost their minds for gross-out content. Except in Earthbound where that hurt the game.

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Hylarn (Don’t ask)
#1661: Jun 15th 2024 at 5:02:56 PM

Ah yes, 90s: The Game. Where people lost their minds for gross-out content. Except in Earthbound where that hurt the game.

Is there any actual evidence that it hurt Earthbound? I always got the impression that Earthbound fans just couldn't accept that the general gaming public isn't that into their favourite game

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#1662: Jun 15th 2024 at 5:49:54 PM

[up]It’s hard to prove a causal relationship there, but advertising that is not an accurate representation of the product usually doesn’t help.

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Ookamikun This is going to be so much fun. (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
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#1663: Jun 15th 2024 at 6:58:47 PM

Why does everyone have a fart attack?

TheDarkMantis Shadow Bug from Ocean of Storms Since: Nov, 2017 Relationship Status: One Is The Loneliest Number
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#1664: Jun 15th 2024 at 10:28:06 PM

Yeah, the marketing for Earthbound, at least in North America, hurt it by putting way too much focus in Toilet Humor and adult jokes it lacked, and tried to do a Self-Deprecation routine... which just made people not bother with a product that didn't seem proud of itself.

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Hylarn (Don’t ask)
#1665: Jun 15th 2024 at 11:54:50 PM

Yeah, the marketing for Earthbound, at least in North America, hurt it by putting way too much focus in Toilet Humor and adult jokes it lacked, and tried to do a Self-Deprecation routine... which just made people not bother with a product that didn't seem proud of itself.

...Okay, actually looking up reactions at the time, the ad campaign was considered weird and not great, but also RPGs weren't popular, no one liked the art style, it was viewed as having an Uncertain Audience, and the actual gameplay wasn't highly thought of either. So, a more traditional ad campaign might have helped, but I don't it would have been enough to make it any sort of success

Karxrida from Eureka, the Forbidden Land Since: May, 2012 Relationship Status: I LOVE THIS DOCTOR!
#1666: Jun 16th 2024 at 7:05:54 PM

but also RP Gs weren't popular

I know you probably mean this as "RPGs hadn't hit their stride in the mainstream yet" and not "RPGs were outright unpopular," but enough of them had been successful prior to EarthBound that I feel like this wasn't much of a factor. The fact that it wasn't a typical fantasy RPG probably mattered more than it being an RPG in general.

Edited by Karxrida on Jun 26th 2024 at 8:03:32 AM

Larkmarn Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Hello, I love you
#1667: Jun 26th 2024 at 8:49:04 AM

Has Matt done Virtua Fighter 2? Not the beloved Arcade or Saturn versions, but the atrocious Genesis port that keeps getting rereleased in every Genesis compilation, presumably to bank on the name recognition of the property.

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Sid-Starkiller Since: Jan, 2021
#1668: Jun 26th 2024 at 8:55:27 AM

In Worst Fighting Game, you mean? Pretty sure no

IvanovTroping97 Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
#1669: Jul 13th 2024 at 10:35:22 AM

On this video of The Worst Fighting Game, Street Fighter enters the ring once more, this time with the game that started it all.

AFan Since: Nov, 2022
#1670: Jul 13th 2024 at 11:42:49 AM

Someone should point Matt in the direction of Dino Rex. Hollowshy did a great video explaining everything wrong with that game. It just might be a contender for Worst Fighting Game it's that bad.

Ookamikun This is going to be so much fun. (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
This is going to be so much fun.
#1671: Jul 13th 2024 at 12:02:44 PM

Even when I was a youngin' it was SFII that was quite spread in the arcades.

WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#1672: Jul 13th 2024 at 12:03:56 PM

I knew right away that, this wasn't going to score as bad as Human Killing Machine which is bad a copy of this.

Kind of curious how he'd score some really old/primitive stuff like Karate Champ or the game he briefly mentioned in this video, Urban Champion.

Actually, was Street Fighter the first game to use six buttons, half for punching, half for kicking, and each with three levels for light to heavy? Because that would be significant.

Edited by WillKeaton on Jul 13th 2024 at 2:10:15 AM

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#1673: Jul 14th 2024 at 6:44:13 AM

Amusing anecdote: the maligned pressure buttons that Matt keeps poking fun at would actually go on to inspire how Ryu controls in Super Smash Bros., with the long/short presses being used to incorporate light/medium attacks on a game that just has one button for normals. (Heavies would be treated as Smash Attacks, meanwhile.)

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omega2900 Jemerald of Brainrot from The Midwest, where everything is MID! (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: In my bunk
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#1674: Jul 14th 2024 at 8:21:41 AM

Actually a couple of Ryu's held attacks in Smash are based on heavies:

  • Held neutral (far) is based on standing heavy kick from SFII.
  • Held up tilt is based on close standing heavy punch from SFIII.

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WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#1675: Jul 26th 2024 at 11:26:38 AM

Remember when Matt played Expect No Mercy for Worst Fighting Game? Did you remember that it was a tie-in to a movie? Well, here's a review of the movie, Expect No Mercy.


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