Huber Syndrome - Episode 05: Hard R Rating

I remember so vividly where and when I saw the ninja turtles original film.It was opening night, dark and gloomy....A tense feeling was inside me because i was about to see a movie bring my beloved heroes to life.I was seven at the time and my father brought me to go see it.The location was in Quincy Center. In Quincy MA,the theater was of course packed and i remember sitting down and waiting with so much excitement and when the lights went down and the red screen came up to let you know the movie was going to begin.The entire theater went dead silent. You could hear a pin drop it was so quiet. I am 33 years old now and still can remember so much detail of that night and how memorable it was and how still I absolutely love TMNT. So you can assume i am excited for the new upcoming game and film....Cowabunga!

Sean Barrett

The nostalgia is REAL! :')

CUL-MA-NATION.

Loved the little bit on level design, Huber. Would love to hear more of your thoughts on game design in the syndrome.

Shane Riczu

Love learning about your love of film alongside getting my weekly dose of hype, keep it up and just do you!

Kolby Keith

I love seeing the hype from Huber. Recently after finishing Dark Souls 3 I was in a gaming slump where nothing was catching my eye to play. That's when I gave "Blues and Bullets" for PS4 a chance. Immediate elation. An uneasy alliance between Eliot Ness and Al Capone, Telltale style game with a gritty nior detective story, and Sin City style visuals. I know Huber is a busy guy but I will repost this all the way up to Mafia 3 in the hopes he would give this hidden gem a shot. For the Syndrome it goes well with "Elite Squad" a modern day Untuchables story set in Brazil based on true events.

Morgan Mohalla

Streets of Rage and Gilmore Girls. Is there any better combination on earth??

As a child my younger brother and I had Double Dragon 2 for our NES. When ever I think of beat em ups, this is the game I think of. Brotherly bonds were forged in those fires. Honorable mention goes to River City Ransom, which I didn't get to appreciate until I was a little older. It had context.

I got Streets of rage 2 for Christmas when I was about 7 or 8. I could smell the turkey and veg roasting in the kitchen while me and my older brother, still in our pj's, sank hours into Streets of rage 2. I was amazed at having new characters to pick from, I was always max. What a brute!!!

Huber a fan of Gilmore Girls? Just a funny detail when talking about Streets of Rage and TMNT.

Zugdar

You should try THE RAID as a good beat-em-up movie! It's all fight scenes and crazy montages all the time, really great dumb fun!

Streets of Rage 1... That's a special game for me. I was about 14 and for a while it was a family ritual to play it co-op with my late mother. She never played a videogame in her life but for some reason that one just clicked and we played the hell out of it. I'm now 36, still play on my old Mega Drive occasionally but could never play that game again as I feel that without my mother it doesn't makes sense to play it.

Rui Fidalgo

I love it, just watched bosman and now huber has his new episode up just like old times. Best childhood videogame memories were walking over to my friend's house and playing streets of rage 1 and 2 since at that time I didn't have a genesis. Great episode!

A Joker Fan

Mike !!! Turtles dude !!!!

Randy Verschueren

I never played genesis so I can't have an opinion but I could map your arguments TO THE POINT on TMNT: Turtles in Time for SNES. All the different locations, bosses, the feels when hitting the enemies and THE MUSIC. It's in top 5 OSTs ever for me. Just incredible. Listen to this genius Huber! <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV7YxfwT4r0" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV7YxfwT4r0</a>

Benny Samuelsson

STREETS OF RAGE 2!!! Yes...that game was freaking awesome. My dad hated that game because my brother and I would make so much noise playing it. At least one controller got broken because you felt like you had to smash the buttons as hard as you could in order to land a heavier punch. This is one of those games where you'd sit down to play, and then ten minutes later you'd find yourself standing up, four feet closer to the television, and you'd have no recollection of how you got there. Loved Streets of Rage 2.

Huber! I love ya for having GG in the background the whole time while you was ranting about violent videogames.

Samuli Vuorinen

Hi Huber! I don't have memory of street of rage really, nintendo fanboy alert. But i do have the memory clear as day of the first time i saw the ninja tortules movie as a kid, I was 6 years old, I live in Santiago de Chile to this day, and we went on vacation to the coast , all my family, you know the beach and stuff, this was 1992 and outside of big cities things are kind of old and wrecked so my mom take me to this cinema , "Ambassador" that she use to go when she was young, so this was old , really old, it has holes in the roof so when you were washing a movie the moonlight entered as it was little stars in the sky it was made of metal so it was cold and the seats were just chairs nothing fancy or anything so my mom cundle me to get warm (it made me so uncomfortable, but it as nice at the end) they had the most sweeeeeet pop corn I can remember. I value this memories now because I know that my mom didn't want to go there, I did , so she did it for me :). So what this movie theater was doing was grabbing old movies and projecting them , snow white, bambi, that kind of stuff, it was really cool, so one night we go to this cinema and there it was, in spanish "Tortugas Ninjas Mutantes Adolecentes" , the atmosphere was just right, my mom was kind of shock didn't knew if the movie was for kids or not, but I told her about the cartoons and she was ok with it, we really had a great time. Thanks for making the show and bringing this memory back to me. I found a picture of the theater as it is now , it is way smaller than I remember <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MQ16wzPmYog/UM-QVkukEcI/AAAAAAAACYk/CTde5Laz7lA/s1600/a5.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MQ16wzPmYog/UM-QVkukEcI/AAAAAAAACYk/CTde5Laz7lA/s1600/a5.jpg</a>

Yes Huber! Streets of Rage 2 is in my top 5 games of all time. Playing it on my parents hand me down tiny, old style, manual tuning, box TV. Battling through co-op on mania difficulty with my older brother and being bombarded by the colour and the sound. From the amazing sound track (picked up the vinyl only a couple of weeks ago), to the visceral thwack of the pipe, to the glorious health pick ups. Lobbing knives across the screen and fly kicking the biker gang from their perches. From the flaming fatboys and the jet pack nuisances, R.Bear and his whoomp-pa-pa combos, to the culmination of the lift level and Mr X. I was always Max, the original Mayor of Suplex City, and my brother handing out unrelenting punishment as Axel or Blaze. The cheeky backhanders or taking out guys coming from both directions at the same time with the pipe, stunlocking enemies or double teaming the bosses. Never had I experienced such gaming bliss, and never have we seen the likes of it since. There have been some great pretenders to the beat-em-up throne, but SOR2 remains the greatest of all time. Thank you for the episode, and the reminder of days past

I applaud your taste in games huber. I never was able to play streets of rage, but this really reminds me of playing co-op tmnt turtles in time with my brother. We must have rented it enough from jumbo video to actual pay for the stores copy on our own. Keep it up Huber.

I love the Gilmore Girls DVD proudly on display behind you

Walker Hope

Great episode Huber! Streets of Rage is the shit I noticed that dope framed Zeppelin poster in your bedroom and it got me curious about the type of music youre into. Since you talk about whatever you want on Syndrome you should do an episode on the music that gets you HYPED.

Aaaaahhhhhh SOR2 such an awesome game. I always played it at a friend ( i only had a Nes back then and was saving up for a Snes) But i became doubtful of my choice after playing this game. After a couple of hours his mom kicked us out to play outside, and so we played SOR2 outside in real life with some other friends i was 9 years old back then. We played it very carfully off course. Until one kid came in with a high kick and i wasn't prepared so he hit me on the nose. Nosebleed of course lol. After that i only played the game on the Genesis 😉 great retro episode Huber thank you.

I have been meaning to ask this for quite some time now. And now seems like a good time for this. PLEASE do a full stream of streets of rage 2! This game is my go to feel good game. I have it playable on almost every electronic device in and around my house. It is the only game I have Huber levels of Hype for.

That hard R rating applies to Streets of Rage too! I remember the first time I played Streets of Rage 1. It's 1991, I'm 7 or 8 years old, and my next door neighbor who was a few years older than me had a Sega Genesis. He invites me over one day to play a new awesome game, Streets of Rage. Until this time I had played lots of games like your Marios and Zeldas and whatnot, but THIS was a new, dark side of gaming I hadn't experienced. Right off the bat, we go to choose our characters and I see Adam, Axel and Blaze who look like they're in college or something, I'm too young to hang out with college kids at this point. Immediately when we start playing, I can see how dark and gritty this game is. It's night time, we're out on the streets in front of neon-lit bars, and we're going at it with hardened street thugs. This isn't some mambi pambi walk through the park, this is no holds barred fighting to the death. I'm talking about knives, ladies dressed like dominatrixes hitting me with whips, and shattering phone booths as I throw punks through them. My friend and I sat down and beat the whole game that day, and I felt a little bit more like a man having seen the brutality that was dished out on the streets that night.

V8 Dave

I was a young child, probably 6 years old. I loved visiting my grandparents because they had an NES and, although it was 1998, that was pretty much the only video game system I ever got to play. Grandma also had a certain VHS tape, though, a tape that I would end up watching every time we visited: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The only VCR was hooked up to a tiny TV in the corner of the kitchen, so I would sit as close to it as possible and try to ignore the other people going about their business. I was also super careful to turn the volume down every time they said "damn," because I knew if my mom heard that I wouldn't be allowed to watch it anymore. To this day I have seen that movie more than any other because of how often I watched it as a kid. And you know what? It still holds up.

My only vivid memory from seeing TMNT in theaters when I was 7 was some teenage guy that was with his mom and was talking through the whole movie. I think this was maybe only the third movie I'd seen in theaters (Roger Rabbit &amp; Back to the Future Part II being the first two). Of course I had all the toys and watched the cartoon. Besides the BTTF trilogy TMNT was my most watched VHS. The hard R moment for me was when Raphael shouts what I would refer to at the time as "the D word". There's no way Stephen Amell will top Casey Jones from the OG TMNT.

Eric Plunk

Haven't watched the episode yet, BUT IM WILLING TO BED HE MENTIONS BLOODSPORT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! JCVD

This was the most passionate episode yet. The first Ninja Turtles was the best! There's a great video on youtube showing all sort of goofy stuff that made it into the 4:3 version of the film, which tended to happens when films were released on vhs back in the day. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFLK0uXzerY" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFLK0uXzerY</a>

Jason Walstrom

I really wish these were like an hour long.

Daniel Ray

That couch, man.

Tokyo Slim

Oh man, Huber. More then any other ally you get me man. Streets of Rage! While I loved Streets of Rage 2 (rented it all the time), it was the original that got my brother and I out of bed on a Saturday morning. The music was incredible and every stage felt like it led into the next. But it was the realism that kept it my favourite. No fire punches. you need some help? You call in the boys in blue. I made sure I was ALWAYS player two, because I wanted to call in that sweet minigun rocket launcher, so good! Now, I will agree that TMNT 1990 was great (and you wanna talk hard R? how about an unconscious Raph, barely clinging to life in a bathtub!) BUT what movie comes to mind when I think about Streets of Rage? What is the definitive brawler movie? *clink *clink *clink Warrrriorrrrssss *clink *clink Come out and Pllaaaayyyy! The Warriors is the closest thing to Streets of Rage the movie. Plus, nothing I love more then a 1 night story. They head out at night and pull in for the final scene at dawn. OK, that's it, thanks for bringing up great memories. Stay Hyped.

So I'm six years old, and Turtles is my favorite thing of all time. Ive got the toys, I watch the cartoons, Ive got the raphael onesie pajamas. But that movie- TMNT- was the single greatest turtles thing in existence. Watched it daily as a kid after school back to back with the x men cartoon. I can quote it start to finish, every line. And come on, that burning building music when they escape April's junk shop? 10 / 10.

Another great episode! Thanks a bunch Huber! The Hypeforce flows through us all.

Parasitepaladin

we're trying to find out why it's happening, but it only happens in the app, if you view from a browser, it should work

Easy Allies

Anybody else getting this error message? "403. That’s an error. Your client does not have permission to get URL /sorry/IndexRedirect?continue=<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DQ1LDG4XmuS4%26feature%3Dyoutu.be&amp;q=CGMSBDbMFPkYme7TuQUiGQDxp4NL3RE9bBgcHuLXftWyb9AIzsiaxb8" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DQ1LDG4XmuS4%26feature%3Dyoutu.be&amp;q=CGMSBDbMFPkYme7TuQUiGQDxp4NL3RE9bBgcHuLXftWyb9AIzsiaxb8</a> from this server. That’s all we know." This affects every video after Episode 3 of Frame Trap, but I can still view the older vids. Frustrating to wait for them to hit YouTube, trapped at work needing my EZA fix!

Huber, I love the Gilmore Girls boxset in the background, prominently on display!

Alex

Yay, fixed!

Hang on while Huber appeals for a re-rating to Teen.

iconmaster

can you adjust it, I have no interest to sign in to youtube!! but I really wanna watch the video!

Marked as private still.

It's private to protect us from the hard R content.

2 hot 4 youtube

choco factory

It's (not quite) time for the syndrome

The video is private?

Oh no! The R was too hard for YouTube!

Gan Khef

private video link mang not cool

Hubert pls fix link

Huberrr!!!!

Eduardo Ortiz

The video is showing as private so I can't watch it :/

Link seems broken :(