Maybe "the green Yamo" is a personification of the seven deadly sins. He's green with envy, he has wrath for Bruce Lee, he's fat due to gluttony, he yells because of pride, he wears barely any clothing to represent lust, "Yamo" is Filipino for "greed," and he can't jump because of sloth. Or, maybe it's some kind of stealth criticism of the practice of yaocho in professional sumo wrestling.
This would have been the perfect game to have employed the Altered Beast-style twist ending where they it turned out you were filming a movie the whole time.
I rewatch basically all the weird video games videos every few months and then forget they exist. I just discovered my favorite excuse to not do something "because I'm just too powerful". I feel like it perfectly explains why while opening up all of the questions.
The sound the Yamo makes is used for calling the Ninja (when the Ninja is not already on the screen). I always called the sound a "moo", which fits with the bull statue making the same noise. I always assumed that the "geysers" were landmines.
Damn, you even got Linkara in on this. Great review, and totally weird game. But to be honest a lot of the weirdness lied in the graphics not being good enough to properly portray what the dangers were supposed to be.
Maybe it's because I played it a lot as a kid, but I struggle to see how this game is weirder than 90% of games from that era. You almost never knew what stuff was that came at you. It was just flying badness. Half the time enemies was pretty unrecognizable as well. Still loved the commentary though.
So: I grew up with this game on Atari 8-bit. I still love it. You can play it on Antstream, but it’s called “Lee.” The thumbnail literally has his first name blanked out (badly) on the box art, but it’s the same game and it’s still rad. And now, after watching this five year old video, I want a game called Bruce Lee where he fights bad guys and collects lanterns but also, like, takes out the trash and gets haircuts.
I had this game for C64 back in the day. Problem was, it was a bootleg, so we had no instructions for it. (Google it? You sweet summer child, this was 1986) so green sumo, ninjas out of nowhere, lantern triggers. Just accepted it. Thanks once again Tom, for unearthing the ancient gold of the home computer era.
Not to discredit your body of work up to this point, but for reasons I cannot articulate 10:30 provided me more laughter and enjoyment than anything I've seen. Something, something thug life. Well done.
xiaochicash Haha, thanks! Admittedly I was giggling a bit while editing it. I was afraid it wouldn't come together so well. I had to string together three clips and hope that there was no noticable continuity issues, and the comedic timing is REALLY difficult to get down, especially when the chair moves at such a slow speed. Luckily it came together really smoothly without much editing work. I'm glad you felt it paid off. :D
This game is great fun, certainly a lot better than the 16-bit Bruce Lee game. They also made a pretty cool homebrew version of this game for the Master System. I think that "burning building" at the end is suposed to be that treasure of infinite wealth they mentioned. Not easy to tell with 8-bit computer graphics though.
One of my favorite C64 games, even through i had badly pirated version, that often crashed in underground parts. :) Yamo (controled by computer) can jump in Spectrum version, dont know if he can in other versions, since i only played C64 and Spectrum. (And awesome PC remake called Ultimate Bruce Lee
i have no idea why there is a green sumo wrestler, but in real life it is possible to have grayish blue skin, (also i like the joke: "my ninja is broken, can i have another one?")
There's a Bruce Lee movie like that, Fist of Fury (In America it was called The Chinese Connection and another of Bruce's movies was confusingly titled Fists of Fury.). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fist_of_Fury
This game looks more like they got a bare bones synopsis of Game of Death II, where barely starred stock footage of Bruce Lee and continues with his character's brother. I say this because it's the only Bruce Lee related film (that came in an official box set) with an electrified floor.
What Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story? I know it's based off a biopic film on his life. It's the closest thing to playing a game guiding Bruce Lee in his life.
I think the only reason this happened was because of the bruce Lee knockoff movie genre. still, I'm disappointed they never made a game about the clones of bruce lee...
Bruce Lee was famous in the '70s because of his martial arts movies. So, "playing Bruce Lee" seemed kind of natural. You were going to be in a martial arts game.
And us Asians can't tell the ifference between Jewish people and Caucasians. It's honestly not even that easy for Asians themselves -- I've had many instances where I thought a Korean guy was Chinese.
Phacteria so people nowadays can't tell the difference between Karate and KungFu, where do Ninja and Sumo come from and Jackie Chan is not Japanese? Mmmm... I guess Beijing is in Japan now
Oprah Winfrey for the WiiU is underrated. If only is was on a more successful system it might have gotten the attention it deserved. Hoping for a Switch port!
Re. feeling self-conscious about the color - Would it have been better if he was portrayed in any other color, say, white (ew, right?), black, brown?... I don't see the point of this criticism.
first off, yamo is one of the traditional names, in japan, for some oni. second, i dont know what you wanted the skit to be, but, i'm down. : ) seriously, give me a sxript via message and, i'll record it , and, send it in private to you. third, assian wizards often have bull horns. hang on, i'll get you a lits of some of there names, for saying backwards into a mirror in your dreams. i'll put a star, by any i see named in an asian movie, and, two stars, by any i see named in a bruce lee flick. finaly , in older games, i've seen that same mutli colored strobe effect you couls identify as fire, being ussed for gold. so, those heaps of flawhing objects, could actualy be the gold. take a look. : )
Weird Video Games ohh... ok. : ) sorry , its just that.... i've seen so.e shit. so , i've learned to accept a lot of context as factual, despite its improbable likelyhood. sorry. : ) still working on the list thou , will have it before 1w cst. hopefully.... : /
Maybe "the green Yamo" is a personification of the seven deadly sins. He's green with envy, he has wrath for Bruce Lee, he's fat due to gluttony, he yells because of pride, he wears barely any clothing to represent lust, "Yamo" is Filipino for "greed," and he can't jump because of sloth. Or, maybe it's some kind of stealth criticism of the practice of yaocho in professional sumo wrestling.
handsomebrick Holy crap, new favourite fan theory.
Spoken better than most seven sins based media.
You are the only one who can bring back the old feelings of 2008-ish era RUclips humour and cameredarie with other youtubers. hats off, bravo
Weird Video Games: The Game
The goal is to sit in chairs you're allowed to sit in without getting caught.
fireflocs Haha, I pinned another comment already but now I'm pinning yours :D
The palace wasnt on fire, it was the vault with piles of flashing gold, vases and plates
Emanuel Martins Whew, that's s relief. The other way made Lee seem like a psychotic pyromaniac.
This would have been the perfect game to have employed the Altered Beast-style twist ending where they it turned out you were filming a movie the whole time.
I rewatch basically all the weird video games videos every few months and then forget they exist. I just discovered my favorite excuse to not do something "because I'm just too powerful". I feel like it perfectly explains why while opening up all of the questions.
The sound the Yamo makes is used for calling the Ninja (when the Ninja is not already on the screen). I always called the sound a "moo", which fits with the bull statue making the same noise.
I always assumed that the "geysers" were landmines.
I did the same.
But that was actually the beauty of its own -- you were left to your imagination to name stuff in the games.
I give them points of making Bruce Lee actually look like Bruce Lee on the title screen.
YES! A new episode. I hope you never finish this series, even if you upload one video every few months, it's just good to know it's still alive.
Damn, you even got Linkara in on this. Great review, and totally weird game. But to be honest a lot of the weirdness lied in the graphics not being good enough to properly portray what the dangers were supposed to be.
I think Yamo is just a Pun because its a suMO that YAwns
Marabonbon Wish I thought of that!
Oh, a portmanteau
Maybe it's because I played it a lot as a kid, but I struggle to see how this game is weirder than 90% of games from that era. You almost never knew what stuff was that came at you. It was just flying badness. Half the time enemies was pretty unrecognizable as well. Still loved the commentary though.
"Do I look Japanese to you?"
... little bit.
Sorry, Tom, ninja are a non-refundable purchase. You can't get a new one.
That’s not what the 30 day money back guarantee said!
Well, you should have told me that when I made this comment! It's been 6 years!
I thought I did
It’s 2018 right?
I may have failed to gather the necessary 1.21 gigiwats to transport the necessary paperwork
So: I grew up with this game on Atari 8-bit. I still love it. You can play it on Antstream, but it’s called “Lee.” The thumbnail literally has his first name blanked out (badly) on the box art, but it’s the same game and it’s still rad. And now, after watching this five year old video, I want a game called Bruce Lee where he fights bad guys and collects lanterns but also, like, takes out the trash and gets haircuts.
I had this game for C64 back in the day. Problem was, it was a bootleg, so we had no instructions for it. (Google it? You sweet summer child, this was 1986) so green sumo, ninjas out of nowhere, lantern triggers. Just accepted it. Thanks once again Tom, for unearthing the ancient gold of the home computer era.
I just found out about your show a couple days ago, please keep it up.
Not to discredit your body of work up to this point, but for reasons I cannot articulate 10:30 provided me more laughter and enjoyment than anything I've seen.
Something, something thug life. Well done.
xiaochicash Haha, thanks! Admittedly I was giggling a bit while editing it. I was afraid it wouldn't come together so well. I had to string together three clips and hope that there was no noticable continuity issues, and the comedic timing is REALLY difficult to get down, especially when the chair moves at such a slow speed. Luckily it came together really smoothly without much editing work. I'm glad you felt it paid off. :D
I'm sorry but I died from 2:06 to 2:35.
The sound killed me
This game is great fun, certainly a lot better than the 16-bit Bruce Lee game.
They also made a pretty cool homebrew version of this game for the Master System.
I think that "burning building" at the end is suposed to be that treasure of infinite wealth they mentioned. Not easy to tell with 8-bit computer graphics though.
When playing these old classic games, it's best not to think a lot about things and accept it as it is.
One of my favorite C64 games, even through i had badly pirated version, that often crashed in underground parts. :) Yamo (controled by computer) can jump in Spectrum version, dont know if he can in other versions, since i only played C64 and Spectrum. (And awesome PC remake called Ultimate Bruce Lee
I loved this game, as a kid, when I played it on the Commodore 64!
i have no idea why there is a green sumo wrestler, but in real life it is possible to have grayish blue skin, (also i like the joke: "my ninja is broken, can i have another one?")
And yet......it's awesome.
16:36 "I only do that kind of stuff naked!" - Vangelus
Had me in stitches. Is he against putting on body paint while wearing clothes?
Going to say that if the green guy is an Ogre the alternate title for the game could be Ogre Battle 64.
Teenage fat sumo tortugas was my favorite TV show, but why their game is named bruce lee?
in russia you dont play vladimir putin... thats right.
That flashing stuff in the end is supposed to be gold not fire
I posted your video on the AtariAge 8bit forum. in a positive way. thank you for this video. its funny,.
RichardCyberPunk Hey, thanks, man :)
I've seen at least two kung fu movies that showed Japanese people as the bad guys, so Bruce Lee fighting Japanese characters makes sense.
There's a Bruce Lee movie like that, Fist of Fury (In America it was called The Chinese Connection and another of Bruce's movies was confusingly titled Fists of Fury.). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fist_of_Fury
Yeah. That's it. Thank you.
This game looks more like they got a bare bones synopsis of Game of Death II, where barely starred stock footage of Bruce Lee and continues with his character's brother. I say this because it's the only Bruce Lee related film (that came in an official box set) with an electrified floor.
What Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story? I know it's based off a biopic film on his life. It's the closest thing to playing a game guiding Bruce Lee in his life.
Mrshootinputin I watched it many times when I was a kid. Then later I found out it was almost completely made up.
"Name one instance in pop culture media where ninjas jump." I hope you're joking.
Kimi FW Who, me....?
Can you think of one?
I think the only reason this happened was because of the bruce Lee knockoff movie genre. still, I'm disappointed they never made a game about the clones of bruce lee...
in the ending you don't burn down everything... i think you get... gold?... like, is yellow and shinny and stuff, i'm trowing ideas
Well this certainly was an unexpectedly weird game XD
Woop. A new wvg and game dungeon on the same day. Awesome! Have a like.
Bruce Lee was famous in the '70s because of his martial arts movies. So, "playing Bruce Lee" seemed kind of natural. You were going to be in a martial arts game.
Pretty sure there were jumping ninjas in Duel To The Death.
Yet another great video, never stop :) Even when you die
I think its easier to list ninjas that haven't jumped
Maybe the green guy is a zombie. Or an ogre.
I noticed many can't differentiate between the Chinese and the Japanese. The new Karate Kid movie is a great example.
And us Asians can't tell the ifference between Jewish people and Caucasians.
It's honestly not even that easy for Asians themselves -- I've had many instances where I thought a Korean guy was Chinese.
Phacteria so people nowadays can't tell the difference between Karate and KungFu, where do Ninja and Sumo come from and Jackie Chan is not Japanese? Mmmm...
I guess Beijing is in Japan now
Um, when you use "Chinese" and "Japanese" as nouns, normally people think that you're talking about Chinese and Japanese _people._
Phacteria Meant not only by appearance, but as a whole such as culture, behavior, language, etc. Generally, people can't differentiate.
At the very least, it makes sense in this game since the Japanese are the villains and Chinese people generally don't like Japan.
I think maybe it's supposed to be that the treasure flashes?
Oprah Winfrey for the WiiU is underrated. If only is was on a more successful system it might have gotten the attention it deserved. Hoping for a Switch port!
CrossKnights You get a Switch port, and you get a Switch port.....we ALL get Switch ports!
Good Job!
Wait wait wait. Linkara makes plushies? I figured the ones he has were made for him.
Kimi FW No, he sews all those Cybermats you see.
Yay new video !
3:45 Ryu Hayabusa.
Suddenly... NINJA!
Like if ur surprised every taim
There was a PC remake of this game made in 2008. It's called Ultimate Bruce Lee.
archive.org/details/Ultimate_Bruce_Lee
That boss is quite obviously an Oni, a japanese ogre.
Swift Nimblefoot You'd think so, wouldn't you? But nope. Wizard. Game says so.
It looks like Yama.
Re. feeling self-conscious about the color - Would it have been better if he was portrayed in any other color, say, white (ew, right?), black, brown?... I don't see the point of this criticism.
Bruce on mushrooms lol
Hey me mate Lotus Prince!
There's a game just called "Charlie Chaplin."
this game always confused the hell out of me, i mean, wtf is even going on.....??O
That comment on Vladimir Putin was oddly prescient.
khrwani
I played Bruce Lee (on Atari 800XL ) in the 80s. Anyhow, some things you tell are a bit far fetching.... I like humor ?
This generation doesn't play games, they watch others try to play videogames and make fun of everything for their failures. It's a thing.
I understand, actually his comments are very funny. Oh, i am 45 (born in 1971) gamer since 1982. creator /programmer since 1983.
absolutly mandatory! jk man, every episode is masterpiece :)
first off, yamo is one of the traditional names, in japan, for some oni. second, i dont know what you wanted the skit to be, but, i'm down. : ) seriously, give me a sxript via message and, i'll record it , and, send it in private to you. third, assian wizards often have bull horns. hang on, i'll get you a lits of some of there names, for saying backwards into a mirror in your dreams. i'll put a star, by any i see named in an asian movie, and, two stars, by any i see named in a bruce lee flick. finaly , in older games, i've seen that same mutli colored strobe effect you couls identify as fire, being ussed for gold. so, those heaps of flawhing objects, could actualy be the gold. take a look. : )
jim cable There was no actual sumo sketch. It was just an excuse to set up the actual sketch, which is everyone explaining why they won't do it.
Weird Video Games ohh... ok. : ) sorry , its just that.... i've seen so.e shit. so , i've learned to accept a lot of context as factual, despite its improbable likelyhood. sorry. : ) still working on the list thou , will have it before 1w cst. hopefully.... : /
The most racist thing in this video was the end screen.