156: Real Hardware Beat-Em-Ups STONE PROTECTORS and STREETS OF RAGE 2
0SONG: Rage Is a Hard Street to Travel
A very jerry-rigged real hardware beat-em-up stream today! But it's real hardware, and we're using a LevelHike cable (wonderful piece of technology) to play my old Sega Genesis on a massive flatscreen TV. How do we capture the footage? With a 10-year-old webcam, hanging of my father's drying rack, pointing at the screen! Isn't that what all the streamers do? I can't get over how good it looks in the VOD.
Since my copy of SOR 1 has gone walkabout, we first play THE STONE PROTECTORS, based on the toys and TV show about a bad rock band transformed into wild-haired reptile-fighting warriors by magic gems, which was completed in the 90s but never officially released. I snagged a reproduction copy a few MAGFests back. It could have been so much better. The controls aren't that smooth and responsive, and I'm not just saying that because I think the B button is going on my joypad. It can be beaten, even without spamming Angus's special jump move. We only make it a few levels in. There are more cutscenes and funny bosses such as "Tackle Jackle" to discover.
We take a break to chat, show off a big box, do a game giveaway. I must have been thirsty this stream, because I was drinking Chinese rice tea, and beef-lemon prebiotics, AND Dutch cucumber vodka. Which is pretty strong stuff.)
And then we go for one of the greatest beat-em-ups ever made, STREETS OF RAGE 2 (yes, I played it for a test stream, shhhh). There were two slightly different versions of this for the Genesis in the 90s, something nobody has really written about. A crime boss took over the city and kidnapped our friend, so we have to punch a bunch of thugs to restore law and order! I boldly choose hard mode and then realize I am out of practice. I can't let chat down, though, so I press start on controller 2 and use that to finish the game! Embarrassing, I know, but it's not cheating if the game allows it! Of course I offer plenty of dumb jokes about names and such, and chat comes back with a few of their own. Much debate is also had about the nature and extent of the Syndicate and their corruption.
I wrote a song adaptation of Streets of Rage 2 back when SOR 4 came out, so I pause to sing a verse after each level, when the things I'm making jokes about are fresh in everyone's mind. It seems to go over well! We beat the game, do a final game giveaway of something weird, and raid off into the darkness--with one final verse of the song. And that was my last stream from back home in VA, before returning to LA and work.
Highlights include the Effen good sponsor, eerie noises coming from a possessed copy of Unreal II, chat coming up with every "Streets of Rage" joke name imaginable, me explaining the differences between the StealthFlight and StealthDeath revisions of SOR 2,
You can also spot my box of Super Mr. Bumblebee Boy in the background. And a CRT TV, and a VCR, and a MESS.
GAME BOX: Witchaven (and technically Streets of Rage 2 and Stone Protectors)
RAIDS: Breazustudios, cobra_commanda, slardybardfast,
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