Not just a masterpiece, the effortless way Doom implements modern game design without compromising its old school personality has redefined the idea of the "retro throwback".
By popular demand, we tackle one the PS2's most unique but also rarest and most expensive horror games. Does it stand on its own and is it worth the money? Guest starring Matt from Super Best Friends Play and Geoff from Mother's Basement.
Before that awful Scarlett Johansson movie, we were blessed with this 1997 gem that has got to be one of the most overlooked action games ever made! This is Ghost in the Shell for the Play Station 1.
Collect-a-thons are usually mascot-based platformers designed around the joy of collecting. After a brief drought, we have to ask ourselves: did Yooka-Laylee really revive the collect-a-thon? Did the collect-a-thon even really die? Turns out the answers are a wild romp through gaming history!
Yes there was an N64 Mouse! It's extremely rare and we got our hands on one! We tested on over 30 games including Goldeneye, Mario 64, Mario Kart 64, and Doom 64!
A walkthrough and thorough breakdown of (probably) the scariest level in all of video games. Silent Hill 2 is a masterpiece of sound and level design, but the Historical society is where the game really shines.
The Evil Within was marketed as Shinji Mikami's triumphant return to survival horror, but did it live up to the hype? Derek and special guest Javi Rodriguez from Critbox investigate.
Before the Switch, Wii U or even the Nintendo DS, there was the GameCube Link Cable! These cables let people play compatible GC games on their Game Boy Advances–AND they even sometimes got exclusive extra games. From Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles to Pac Man VS, join us as we take another dive into Weird Nintendo Extras!
Another round of games pushing the limits of Nintendo's classic Game Boy Advance! The Simpsons, even crazies taxis, and BIG trucks will have you staring in disbelief at your little handheld system. And thanks for Dollar Shave Club for sponsoring this video!
With Evo around the corner, it’s time to finally talk fighting games! And who better than Street Fighter? Four different Street Fighter games appeared on various Nintendo Game Boy systems and we are going to take them all on!
Nintendo’s done it again! This time it's a rampage against legally dubious ROM sites – causing beloved ROM site Emuparadise to remove all of its games. In this video we take a deep dive into the implications of ROM sites shutting down for the games industry as a whole, games preservation, and the games that are already lost.
The Nintendo e-Reader is a little remembered card-reader add-on for the Game Boy Advance. Despite the GBA being a massive success for Nintendo, this swiss-army-knife-of-a-peripheral was not. This is Punching Weight, and we're going to investigate what made the e-Reader so great as well as what was its downfall.
Dragon Quest's music begins and ends with one man: Koichi Sugiyama. We take a deep dive into who Sugiyama is and what his stranglehold on Dragon Quest music means for everyone else.
Happy All Hallow Spooktober O Ween's Eve! DAMNED Alexander and GRAVE Kramer dive into three of their favorite Japanese horror games that were so innovative they never made it over to the West.
Mega Man 2 is celebrated for lots of good reasons, but its ending doesn't get enough love. We take a look at why it was revolutionary at the time, and why it still means so much today.
It is estimated that there over a 1000 games made for Nintendo’s Game Boy Advance. No idea was too ridiculous for the GBA, except for maybe one — First Person Shooters. Despite hundreds and hundreds of games, there are only 13 FPS’s on the GBA and we’re gonna cover every last one! Welcome to PART ONE of our ode to GBA First Person Shooters, and in this episode it’s all about the ports!
Some of Konami's best video games were also their worst. Well, at least they were outside of Japan. We crack the code on which games and features didn't make it over to PAL and North America.
The N64 Transfer Pak tried to connect Nintendo’s home console with the Game Boy Color, with mixed results. Though it’s got some interesting uses (we’re looking at you, Pokemon), the Transfer Pak was an awkward stop gap. Still, it’s an interesting look into the beginning of a dark time in Nintendo’s history.
Nintendo makes the best worst named things, and we love them for it.
Video game cheat codes are dumb and fun, so what happened to them? From our favourites like Goldeneye to Tony Hawk Pro Skater, here’s a look at definitive cheats on the N64 and why it was the beginning of the end for video game cheats.
Nintendo's experiments with motion technology trace alll the way back all the way to the Game Boy Color.
The only thing more unnecessary than the Xbox HD DVD Drive? The actual Bluray & HD DVD war!
This isn’t the first time Bethesda screwed up a Doom console port. We look at the Nintendo Switch, Original Xbox, XBLA and iOS ports of Doom and Doom II and break down all the content, graphics, music and more ways they try to live up to the PC original.
Kenji Eno helped pioneer Indie game development in Japan, and he did it in the most punk rock way possible; from trolling Sony at their own Expo to sneaking unrated content past the ESRB. Electricity was his business tool.
We ain’t never stoppin.
Soulcalibur with a Dreamcast fishing rod? Mr Driller with a microphone? Motion controlled tennis six years before Wii Tennis? Sega Dreamcast is a great system but thanks to its amazing accessories, it is your one-stop-shop for the dumbest ways to play video games!
We talk best (and worst) horror video game remakes, remasters, reboots, and reimaginings in all of gaming! Including Resident Evil 1, Resident Evil 2, Silent Hill 1, Silent Hill 2, Silent Hill 3, Splatterhouse, Fatal Frame, and more!
The Sega Dreamcast VMU is good for more than just Sonic and Chao!
In order to love video games, you need to love a few the bad ones
The GBA slot on the original DS and DS Lite could do a lot more than just play GBA games!
A video 12 years in the making.
Xbox 360 Kinect was the future of gaming. If only Microsoft hadn’t gotten in the way.
The GBA slot on the original Nintendo DS and DS Lite could do a lot more than just play GBA games!
From the Nintendo 64, the Game Boy Advance, and on to the Switch; here’s a history of Nintendo’s innovation with haptic feedback AKA that rumble sensation where the controller does the vibration thingy.
This is a video about one of my favorite things, stupid video game controller. These are the ones I would LOVE to have.
Strategy guides were a major part of the video game industry, until they weren't! Uncle Derek takes you through his collection and a brief history of video game strategy guides.
Shouts to my boi, H'y P! And who knew Daikatana could be made into a kinda-alright Zelda clone?
What ever happened to the canceled Dreamcast port of Half-Life? And how does a PS2 demo disc have a bonus Half-Life campaign that no one found for 8 YEARS?? Half Life is a deep well.
Uncle Derek the HVGN is here to tell you all about that Hot Himbo Summer Bod!
The PreOrder Bonus is one of gaming's dumbest and craziest things, and WOW it's truly amazing sometimes...
Honey is FREE and finds coupons with the click of a button. Thanks Honey for sponsoring! | I could talk about Doom ports forever.
The Sonic GBA port is one of the most """amazing""" games I've ever played.
I've made two Sonic videos, I own only one Sonic shirt. Master System, Game Gear, 3DS, and Switch Sonic the Hedgehog.
I love video games, sometimes even the bad ones!
In episode 50 of Punching Weight and Uncle Derek gives the Tiger GameCom its due!
Donkey Kong Country ports. Funky forever, mine carts never.
Mario has shown up in a lot of games but these might be his weirdest cameos.
My journey to becoming a console mouse expert continues with the PlayStation Mouse
I finally got my hands on BOTH Resident Evil 4's Chainsaws. They're dumber (and better) then I could've ever imagined!
Welcome to the future of gaming
Keyboards: not just for taxes anymore.
This might be the dumbest video we've ever made.
Sega will put Sonic on almost anything!
The story of the biggest cell phone self-own in history. The Nokia N-Gage returns in our first documentary Past Mortem in over a year! It's the GAMES, stupid!
EDF! EDF! EDF! A gameplay video featuring brothers in arms fighting the bug menace! The EDF (and Matt McMuscles) saves the day. EARTH DEFENSE FORCE: WORLD BROTHERS is out now for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Steam!
The story of the N-Gage was of spectacular failure, but that doesn't mean it didn't have some impressive and ambitious games!
I enjoyed Resident Evil Village, but House Beneviento blew me away. It was so good and so scary I had to do a breakdown! Also, this was a little more relaxed than usual so Uncle Derek drops a lot of swears.
The extremely *adult* Pokemon Mini is the smallest cartridge based Nintendo console. The Pokemon Mini handheld follows in the proud tradition of crazy ideas being made possible only by the wild success of Pokemon, all while being approximately the size of a Game Boy Color screen. It's Punching Weight time!
Welcome to our dark digital future. Welcome to DELISTED. When Nintendo closed WiiWare, hundreds of games were lost. One game was Blaster Master Overdrive, a game that is not even listen on the developer's website anymore. Maybe because it's possibly the worst remake I've ever played! But bad games need preservation too!
You will believe an overweight man can skateboard.
Just your average original mobile game based on a movie based on a video game, that was first an N-Gage exclusive that then migrating to iOS before being DELISTED altogether. Resident Evil Degeneration!
What're ya buyin? Not Resident Evil 4 Mobile!
I used a GameBoy Camera, a Nintendo 64 DD, Mario Artist, and a dream. Perfect Derek mode is real!
Xbox recovered from the Red Ring of Death, but it never recovered from Don Mattrick (Sorry Sheila).
I have now literally covered all Resident Evil 4 ports once and for all! With this VR port done, I'm basically a Resident Evil 4 super coverer. Too bad it's the last one and I'll never feel this high again of completing every single RE4 game. Are there other games?
TLDW; We are basically, cutting our Patreon income in half, but we are hoping the change will allow us to grow the channel and have more flexibility to pick video topics based on more factors than “can we get it done in two weeks”.
Hey I'm Derek it's me Derek and thank you for all your support this year! This is more of a cozy video tour through my controller collection. I'm so excited for our plans for next year. Stay powerful!
The Zeebo tried to fix Brazil's notorious bootleg scene by putting mobile games where they really belong: the living room! Spoilers: it did not go well. But at least this Tectoy and Qualcomm collab gave us Resident Evil 4, Crash Nitro Kart, Tekken an exclusive Double Dragon and more... all on a digital-only anti-piracy home console. What could go wrong??
Hey I'm Derek it's me Derek and this is a warning: I'm BACK!
Doom RPG is not only a real thing, but John Carmack made it and FOUR OTHER official id RPGs.
Turtles In Time once had an awful 3D remake. Simpsons Arcade had a sequel on cell phones! And there's a port of X-Men Arcade with entirely new VO. But they’re just... gone? DELISTED traces the digital lineage of four legendary Konami arcade games!
I got Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D on a Zeebo! And an iPod! And an N-Gage?? It's Crash Bandicoot Delisted!
It's an SSFF Game Room tour! Technically an office tour, this is a showcase of Mr. Hey I'm Derek It's Me Derek's Video Game collection. From Wii to N64 to PS2 to weird controllers, there's a little something for everyone in our game room!
Punching Weight has covered every console port of Doom EXCEPT for one. I saved the best for the last, the one that stood above all the rest, the one that almost out-Doomed Doom. My personal favorite version: PlayStation Doom.
Game Room, aka that time Microsoft tried to sell us $620 worth of Atari, Intellivision, and Konami Arcade games on the Xbox 360.
Castlevania SotN almost officially came out for Tiger Electronics' GameCom system. And actually? It's incredible. It might be the best Game Com game even if it's only a prototype. Symphony of the Night has everything you'd hope for while controlling like a pile of jelly. What is a man if he's never played Tiger Electronics' portable prototype port of Symphony of the Night?
The development of 3DO Doom was so insane, so unbelievable, that I had to dedicate a whole video to it. Welcome to the FIRST EVER Doom Past Mortem, where we dive into why the console port of Doom on the 3DO is so wildly bad. Not even 6 levels of speed can save us managerial incompetence!
It's a huge day for digital games preservation, and it all started with Super Monkey Ball iOS. touchHLE is here, and with it a new era for iOS emulation for old iPhone and iPod games.
Ever wanted to know how RE4 Remake Chainsaw Demo pays tribute to the original Resident Evil 4 Trial Edition in excruciating detail? Then this video is for you! Resident Evil! 4!! Demos!!! If the suspense doesn’t kill you, the amount of details in this video will.
If Good Charlotte couldn’t make Donkey Kong bongos happen, then they were never gonna happen. But DK Bongos never die! All hail the bongo.
ZEEBO FOR LIFE! The Zeebo Gringo is back to review every Zeebo game, and let me tell you... the things you'll see... mercy to us all...
Fell down a deep rabbit hole and clawed my way back. I know too much about train controllers now.
Have a nice day! Faceball 2000’s legendary 16-player mode has never been documented, until now.
A bug or a feature of capitalism? GBA had some of the weirdest spin-offs, demakes, and ports - visual novels, pinball, tactics, deck builders, and so many isometric Tony Hawk games, cigar chomping publishers knew there was money to be made on the GBA so no idea too dumb, or too impossible. Sounds like a job for Uncle Derek! This originally appeared on the SSFF Patreon May 2024. You’ll maybe notice I cough really hard a few times, this was when I was fighting mold exposure and chronic sinus issues! I’m better now!
