The Nerd then switches consoles to the Genesis for its own version of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. Unfortunately, unlike the previous game, it is brutally difficult, such that the Nerd can't complete the first stage. It is a side-scrolling brawler in the same vein as the game based on the TV series, albeit with a plane-switching mechanic where players can jump between the foreground and background. The final stages are dedicated to Megazord battles which are a mild improvement over Jetman and look amazing.Īfterwards, the Nerd plays Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie on SNES. While each Ranger is a pallet swap of each other, they each have different weapons and fighting styles that make it fun to try each Ranger out. It is a simple, but fun side-scrolling platformer beat-em-up where players take control of each Ranger, starting off in their civilian forms before Morphing halfway through the stage. The Nerd then begins reviewing the Americanized Power Rangers games with Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers on SNES. Like Jetman, it is also mediocre, but otherwise okay. The game also had a unique password system, consisting of selecting three poses for the Red Ranger instead of traditional passwords. What is puzzling, however, is the sudden Megazord ping-pong and hot-potato bonus stages between stages, where failure constitutes an automatic Game Over, and trivia quizzes that are, while not impeding progress, are impossible without knowledge of the Japanese language. Thankfully, the later stages are not as difficult, since the other Rangers' weapons are better. Each Ranger starts off with a gun, but later gets their signature weapon, leading to frustration in the first level when the Yellow Ranger's gun is replaced with short-ranged daggers that are swung randomly. Unlike Jetman, level progression was linear and players were assigned a different Ranger for each level. Next, also on the Famicom, is Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger, the series that would be adapted into the original Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. The Nerd describes the game as being mediocre, but otherwise inoffensive: aside from the pause button being Select while Start activates a special attack, and the giant robot boss battles being mildly frustrating, it was servicable. It is an action platformer that, like the NES Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle game, gave players a choice of one of five Rangers with their own abilities, and like Mega Man, the option to choose which stage they wish to play. He starts with a Super Sentai video game, Choujin Sentai Jetman for the Famicom. As with any pop cultural phenomenon, it had a slew of video game adaptations, too many for the Nerd to be able to review in one episode, so he would review a small selection, at least one of which he is certain will piss him off. Last month he did a video on wrestling games.Featured Games: Choujin Sentai Jetman (Famicom), Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger (Famicom), Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers (SNES, GB, Genesis, Sega CD), Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers the Movie (SNES, GB), Power Rangers: Lightspeed Rescue (N64)ĭescribed as a mix of Godzilla, Ultraman, Kamen Rider, Voltron, and Saved by the Bell, the Nerd enthusiastically hypes up Power Rangers, a series of action shows using stock footage from the Japanese Super Sentai series that were a pop cultural phenomenon during the 1990s. Most recently AVGN has been doing one episode per month. This video does a good job of illustrating why the game drew so much attention from arcade-goers. Up to this point the story of Polybius has only been covered a few times by games media, and never with a proper video analysis. Others think anyone who who believes that it's anything other than an unordinary game should be check into an insane asylum.Īlso Read: 10 Games So Weird You'll Scratch Your Head And Ask Why Others say it was a brainwashing tool that the CIA deployed in the early 80's as part of a covert mission. government to recruit adept soldiers for the military. Some believe to this day that Polybius was used by the U.S. In the episode he dives deep into the legend of Polybius, a game released in 1981 that is considered one of the world's most mysterious arcade titles. The world famous Angry Video Game Nerd just released a new episode, and a particularly interesting one.
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