I was a cover artist for Microsoft and capcom for years. You’d be surprised how much money and time goes into covers. There’s a committee/massive team of people JUST for the cover. The cover can make or break the sales of a game. Ex, for fable, I had done 250 roughs before we chose a final. It took an entire year just to solidify one cover 🤯
You mean it took an entire year to solidify 3 covers. Don't mean to bust your balls I just think its funny how the biggest difference in the covers of those games is the number that follows the word fable.
@@spencertaylor5001 I'm not sure unfortunately I however have seeon someone mention that it was the music from the Megaman X intro Sorry if it's not it
I experienced the grandma thing, she went to buy the lord of the rings movie, came back with a movie called lord of miracles that was about the life of jesus
I never understood the grandma thing. The titles are there in plain english. It's not like they aren't familiar with the english language. If they asked for a book at the library, and you brought them back some bullshit, they wouldn't be happy either. I think it's mostly due to the fact that they aren't paying attention and simply don't care. Or, if they're an asshole, (probably), then they did it on purpose.
I remember an interview with Kevin Levine about the generic cover of Bioshick Infinite, and he was like, "Yeah, it sucks but we want people to buy the game and this is apparently what sells."
Yet they forget those kinds of people will always buy the game no matter what. It's people like me who loses interest in games because they alredy literally the same thing with the same mechanics. The same loot. The same way of upgrading the same boss fights. It's all regurgitation
Castlevania's classic covers are clearly heavily inspired by the works of Frank Frazetta. The dude was a master at scene composition and the first castlevania cover has the same composition as Frazetta's Norseman.
That grid of boxes included Spec Ops: The Line. In that instance this very well might have been literally what the box art designers intended for it to say.
One time for Christmas, I asked my grandma for Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess on the Wii. She looked at the box art, said Zelda Twilight Princess sounded like a girly game, and she got me something different: Happy Feet. The video game. Love my grandma to death, but it’s a story I will never forget
The part that makes this especially funny is that Twilight Princess was the darkest, grittiest Zelda game thus far (at least as dark and gritty as a Zelda game can be).
Japanese box art of Dark Souls is SO GOOD! It really captures that distinctive, dark & desperate tone and looks bloody gorgeous. Compared to our "COD but with swords and it's blue" style
I guess I'm alone on this but I really like the American(?) box art better. I guess I just think it looks more interesting and, honestly, I like the blue. Also, I don't really get a COD vibe from it at all
Honestly though, aside from repeating old Dunkey video jokes, the most tired and redundant and frequently occurring type of comment under his videos is the one making fun of his comment section for being unoriginal. You're no renegade.
@shazza Scew you, I'm already mad that the Colts lost to the friggin Jaguars and now you're here being an infidel and blasting our one and true savior, Dunkey! Shame!
This is the first time I've seen the art for DOOM and Duke Nukem 3D side by side and I can't believe I've been so f**kin stoopin not to have noticed the similarity before.
They have morphed into one in some strange way in my brain. If I had to draw DOOM cover art from memory, I would draw doomguy in the duke nukem pose. I remember a year ago I for some reason looked at the cover art a bit too long and realized "hmm strange, I don't remember the pose being like that"
Castlevania songs Starting at 3:52 Castlevania - Vampire Killer Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest - Silence of Daylight Castlevania: The Adventure - Battle of the Holy Castlevania: Dracula X - Divine Bloodlines Super Castlevania IV - Forest of Monsters Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - Tragic Prince Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow - Pitch Black Intrusion
Not that anyone asked, but my favs for each game here in are: 1: Vampire Killer or Heart of Fire (Honestly can't go wrong with any of the tracks in Castlevania 1) 2: Silence of Daylight or Monster Dance Adventure: Death Fair Rondo/DCX: Divine Bloodlines SC4: Simon's Theme SOTN: Wood Carving Partitia Dawn: Dracula's Tears
Dunkey going "You know what game this is, _biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitch"_ still makes me giggle like an idiot, seven, eight months from when this vid was uploaded.
@@firebirdstark Bethesda had already ruined themselves, so it's probably gonna be an improvement. For everyone not on the Playstation! Ayyyyyoooo, let's gooooooo
Phalanx. Man, that's a deep cut. I actually bought that game because of the cover. I liked the mystique that it created, and it actually made me pick it up to figure out what it was. I think that was the point. You could also see the sample gameplay on the back of the box, so you knew that it was side-scrolling space shooter. Also, I think they changed the cover art for the NA region because they realized that the spaceship was drawn to look like a penis and testicles, and accurately oblong ones at that. Or, maybe that's just my testicles.
According to the guy who made the cover art, they did that because the market was pretty saturated with space shooters at the time, so they wanted something that would make it stick out. They saw a mall santa walking about and decided to hire him for a photoshoot.
5:05 they gave the best cover art yo phalanx Not only is the iconic old banjo playing man back as the focus instead of the spaceship, he's also colonel Sanders for some reason
I actually met the guy who drew the American Mega Man cover art. Apparently he wasn't given a lot of control over the design. Executive meddling, as you might expect, was partially responsible for the bizarre cover.
@@Markeplier23 Took me a fair bit of digging, but I think it's Marc Ericksen. He did the cover for Mega Man 2 (but not the others, as it turns out). I found the rest of the story, as well: the first Mega Man cover was rushed thanks to Nintendo's demands, and for some reason that artist had included a gun. For the second game, Capcom apparently wanted consistency, so Ericksen was tasked with doing the same thing.
In japan box art, Kirby looks like a dude who wants to give you a hug while in America he looks like he wants to steal and eat your soul just because he doesn't want to walk to the fridge.
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I cant explain how I feel right now hearing one of my favorite youtubers start their video with the obscure soundtrack of a jurassic park game I thought only I had played.
"Oohohoho, Not only does the American boxart hit you with that Capcom template... *but Rockman also shows up*" THAT'S SUCH A GOOD FUCKING JOKE WHAT THE FUCK
Psychonauts still has one of my favorite box arts! The second game was great but that box art has nothing on the stylized gritty-yet-colorful swirly collage of the game's cast, complete with Raz posing on a brain.
I was very disappointed by the box art they chose for Psychonauts 2 physical edition. The art they use on the app/store icon would make such a good box art.
@@MatthewTaylor86 If you've not seen it, make sure you watch the "Life Is Short" Christmas special. It's Cheggers, Barry from Eastenders, and Les Dennis doing a shite variety show around Britain. Magnificent.
I love you Dunkster. You're a beautiful human being and a magnificent angel. Thank you for getting the fact straight. By the way, Can't wait for Leah 2 and probably Dunkey 2 in the future, baby!
@@CaptMurph sadly no, the actual music from the Jurassic Park game on SNES isn't played in the video, but it basically sounded like 32 bit 007 golden eye music. It was pretty lit
Nakey Jakey did it as well and better imo. I feel like ole dunk watched Jakey awhile back and didn’t realize how similar this is. Good stuff and it’s different than Jakeys to a degree but when he got to mega man that was exceptionally similar. Not saying dunk is a Jakey clone I’m just saying we can’t be sure who came up with the idea of copying off of Steve Harvey’s video game reviews first
That Jurassic Park track is one of my all time favorite SNES tracks. That, the swimming stage in Donkey Kong Country, and Gambit stage in Spider-man and the X-men in Arcade's revenge.
Dunkey is a Holy name among the gospels of ye olden times, to spread truth and justice across the galaxy and beyond. Which equates to the distance of my local Papa Johns in ye current modern times.
I'm so sorry for laughing before I found him, I owe him 27 years of laughs....what's the conversion rate between Dunkey Laughs™ , Bitcoin and USD? I need to know since my Gma's dying and maybe the Bitcoin's enough to leverage against the other two and....fuck I ran out of funny
Some amazon reviews for Cheggers: "Five stars. Good" "I'd rather have my fingernails extracted without anaesthetic." "what the heck? whenever i put the game into the console and launch it their's just a image on cheggers face with no way to actually start playing? he just stares straight forward and sometimes the screen turns to static. please help!"
I've seen this video around 4 times and just now I noticed that he put the guy from the cover of Sonic 2 in Russel Grants Astrology at the end. Dunkey is a genius.
“When I was a kid, I had the weirdest games” Bro when you showed that Jurassic park game, I flipped my shit because I thought that was just something I had a fever dream of and nobody else hade experienced it LMAO
Its funny that Jakey said hes basically Dunkey but with him dancing on a ball, and now Dunkey made the exact same video as him, so basically here Dunkey is Jakey without the ball
If anybody were to ask Pacman about what he calls a ‘good time,’ they’d probably be expecting him to give an answer like hunting down all the Pac-Dots, eating fruit, or playing with Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde. This might actually be why nobody ever asked Pacman this question which- well. He’s not complaining. The actual answer is a lot more nuanced and also a lot more awkward to drop into casual conversation, especially when people have this idea of you in their head as this simple little sunshine with eyes and a big mouth who is just as innocent as Peach or Daisy. This is wrong on multiple levels, starting from the fact that Pacman has walked in on Princess Peach fucking the living daylights out of Rosalina with a strap on, whilst Rosalina was also blindfolded, tied up, and crying ‘I’m sorry, Mummy, I’ve been a bad girl!’ (which was, ironically enough, not the worst thing he’d seen them doing. He’ll never forget the incident with Mario’s hat), and ending with how Pacman would probably quite happily quit working in the game industry if it meant he could spend the rest of his life doing the hibbety-dibbety. Yes, you heard that right- Pacman, that big yellow fuzz ball so widely adored, loves nothing more than a good ol’ bit of gland-to-gland combat. Playing a game of Mr. Wobbly hides his helmet, as one might call it, or punchfucking the rosebud. Crack the pistachio nut. “I just really like humpy-squirty,” he said, quite casually, as if his dick wasn’t currently inside someone as he did the squat thrust in the cucumber patch. He was quite used to all this- a rip ‘n’ dip veteran so to speak- so he had mastered the art of multitasking during the act, able to remain so perfectly functional that if it wasn’t for the very obvious evidence that he was going heels-to-Jesus, you might walk past him and think he was just doing something perfectly casual with his time. It required a very skilled or determined partner (or partners) to be able to wreck him these days, otherwise he would just have to do so much clunge plunge that it would horrify even the most hardened nymphomaniac. (Except, perhaps, for Princess Peach and Rosalina. Those two are the only ones who can really compete against him when it comes to their dedication to the carnal groan-moan-WHOA!) Donkey Kong, the current victim of Pacman’s prowess, could only let a long, shuddering groan that sounded closer to the cry of a dying person than someone having the greatest dicking of their life time. He wasn’t even able to support his body at this point, just lying completely limp on the bed whilst Pacman ploughed him in a way that would put farmers to shame. Considering that Donkey Kong had already orgasmed four times at this point which- to him- was his limit, whilst Pacman had only done it twice and seemed to have another dozen left in him, the lack of enthusiasm was perfectly fair. Pacman was used to this kind of thing, and thus continued to talk as he did the bow-chick-a-wow-wow to Donkey Kong’s thoroughly creamed donut. “In fact, I’d even go so far as to say that my purpose in life is to bring an al dente noodle to the spaghetti house.” “Stooooooooooop,” groaned Donkey Kong, starting to feel like his asshole would literally burst into flames from how thoroughly phutzed it had been. Pacman obediently stopped, pulling out gently, and Donkey Kong slumped forward in complete defeat. Pacman patted him on the back in thanks and then jumped from the bed, wandering towards the door without caring for the fact that he was still hard. “It was fun,” Pacman calls as he leaves “your breath sure was ripe” and Donkey Kong waits a moment until he can no longer hear the sound of whistling or footsteps before he groans once more, load and defeated. “A monster,” is the word he utters. “A waka-waka monster.” And then, “Someone save us all.” Like most prayers, it is one that goes unanswered.
The way Dunkey talks about video games, one could talk about RUclips channels. The editing is a masterclass - agreeable, informative, hilarious. What else can you ask for? This man doesn’t get paid enough
I watched this a while ago and ever since dunkey pointed out Donkey Kongs hotdog fingers on the cover that's the only thing I can see when I look at the art now
I feel like I'm used to Dunkey's pacing, but I still get a kick out of sudden punchlines. It's always fun to find out where he's going. Which is usually in circles, but hell, it works.
I was a cover artist for Microsoft and capcom for years. You’d be surprised how much money and time goes into covers. There’s a committee/massive team of people JUST for the cover. The cover can make or break the sales of a game. Ex, for fable, I had done 250 roughs before we chose a final. It took an entire year just to solidify one cover 🤯
Hyuk, wow.
I know dude, my name is Barack Obama and at one point I was president of the United States of America.
@@bdawg2592 Thanks Obama
Oh, thank GOD the Fable 2 cover had a guy with a gun on it. I was thinking of playing it but only if I knew I could shoot things.
You mean it took an entire year to solidify 3 covers. Don't mean to bust your balls I just think its funny how the biggest difference in the covers of those games is the number that follows the word fable.
As a kid, I remember once saying, "I just wanna play the box".
So true.
Back then: Box art
Now: Cutscenes and gameplay that don't even make it into the final game
???
Don't Edit, the heart will go
that's why they made nintendo labo *ba dum tsh*
lol
"Cheggers" - a derogatory term referring to a frequent user of Chegg, an online academic service.
There has to be what... 6 whole people who know that and would be offended.
Best be careful!
HOW DARE YOU EVEN TYPE THAT WORD!!!! >:((((
Chegga please
I can’t believe you waste that much money on your education
But you're okay with yelling it at your wife.
6:34 Megaman european version looks like the best 80's kids movie every
How though.
Then Dunkey slaps that music and became 👌
@@bareq99 what song is this?! Been looking forever. Might be faster just to beat all the mega mans at this point
@@spencertaylor5001 I'm not sure unfortunately
I however have seeon someone mention that it was the music from the Megaman X intro
Sorry if it's not it
@@spencertaylor5001 It's MegaMan X's Title Screen Jingle
I experienced the grandma thing, she went to buy the lord of the rings movie, came back with a movie called lord of miracles that was about the life of jesus
Aragorn is Jesus, so I don't really see the problem
you still watch that jawn?
My dad came home with a movie called aerotroopers and it was god awful but somehow had Mark Hamil on voice acting.
@@matthewblankley9660I'm pretty sure Gandalf is Jesus but okay
I never understood the grandma thing. The titles are there in plain english. It's not like they aren't familiar with the english language. If they asked for a book at the library, and you brought them back some bullshit, they wouldn't be happy either. I think it's mostly due to the fact that they aren't paying attention and simply don't care. Or, if they're an asshole, (probably), then they did it on purpose.
For all game developers out there: When you're marking the box art for a game, please think about the grandmas
game developers don't make the cover arts bud.. but nice try tho
@@00vargarv i made the art for my games :(
I think about grannies all the time , wish I could smash a granny and break her hip.
@@boogityhoo7452 no
@@stephen1107 yes indeed
I remember an interview with Kevin Levine about the generic cover of Bioshick Infinite, and he was like, "Yeah, it sucks but we want people to buy the game and this is apparently what sells."
Yet they forget those kinds of people will always buy the game no matter what. It's people like me who loses interest in games because they alredy literally the same thing with the same mechanics. The same loot. The same way of upgrading the same boss fights. It's all regurgitation
Luckily it came with an alternate cover printed on the other side.
@@manwithballsonarm6775but that’s an entirely different issue
Tbf bioshock infinite doesn't know why it's an fps.
Castlevania's classic covers are clearly heavily inspired by the works of Frank Frazetta. The dude was a master at scene composition and the first castlevania cover has the same composition as Frazetta's Norseman.
Castlevania 2 was traced from a DnD book. "Heavily inspired" is generous.
@@LieseFury Source?
@@LordVader1094 ravenloft. also frazetta.
@@LordVader1094 It's a real classic, the very first Ravenloft adventure with Strahd von Zarovich himself on cover!
“Don’t worry there are no original ideas here”
Dunkey is almost as quotable as Gex.
Yeah, it's like looking at video game box art in Dunkey's house.
"this is like the time i looked for original box art in 2020"
That grid of boxes included Spec Ops: The Line. In that instance this very well might have been literally what the box art designers intended for it to say.
Reminds me of Doom 3 release night at John Carmack's house.
Notice how all the box arts there are from 3 years to a decade ago and are mostly shitty fuckin games
One time for Christmas, I asked my grandma for Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess on the Wii.
She looked at the box art, said Zelda Twilight Princess sounded like a girly game, and she got me something different: Happy Feet. The video game.
Love my grandma to death, but it’s a story I will never forget
The part that makes this especially funny is that Twilight Princess was the darkest, grittiest Zelda game thus far (at least as dark and gritty as a Zelda game can be).
she needs to get you that game or else you'll miss out on a lifetime of memories.
@@krisorszag9551 really, more than MM?
Sam T yes, for christ’s sake. shut up about majora for once
@@coldramentpm1013 whoa jesus relax man
"Here's a beautiful design by the guy who does kanye's merch" DEAD. Whoever that guy is, dead. That line was killer.
This line was intended to be the Rasmus Tagu killer
Hearing dunkey pronounce headhunter as "towka glowa" breaks every single bone in my Polish heart
u have bones in there?
@@enigmaa777 Polish people are built different
@@enigmaa777 💀
exactly bru
@@8bitpixelbreakin BAD TO THE BONE
This comment section has more quotes than the entirety of Gex's voiced dialogue
Shut up Justin.
thanks justin what a great take🦍💨
You're back
not today justin!
- Gex
True OGs remember when the thumbnail was Yoshi’s Island
So I'm not crazy then lol
Got really excited to watch the video tonight when I saw the Yoshi thumbnail, but now I am not so excited
I thought I was seeing things.
F
Wonder why it changed?
Japanese box art of Dark Souls is SO GOOD! It really captures that distinctive, dark & desperate tone and looks bloody gorgeous. Compared to our "COD but with swords and it's blue" style
Not only that but theirs isn't completely made up. The gear the guy is wearing on US doesn't exist anywhere at all, not even in concept art.
@@acojo8205 Not the DLC cover you absolute git
I guess I'm alone on this but I really like the American(?) box art better. I guess I just think it looks more interesting and, honestly, I like the blue. Also, I don't really get a COD vibe from it at all
@@scarymonsters524 lmao
it's a bad cover art but you're so wrong
@@LieseFury Okay tell me what gear he's using besides the Black Knight Ultra Greatsword that's been shrunken down.
I actually went and bought a copy of Cheggers Party Quiz thanks to this video. Rest in peace Keith Chegwin
"Don't worry, there are no original ideas here"
Just like Dunkey's comment sections
Honestly though, aside from repeating old Dunkey video jokes, the most tired and redundant and frequently occurring type of comment under his videos is the one making fun of his comment section for being unoriginal. You're no renegade.
Let me tell you something about originality.........
Something about originality Thank you for sticking around
"Note to self: don't expect any original ideas in Dunkey's comment sections." -Gex
@@shokosugi2346 u mad he calling people like u out
@shazza Scew you, I'm already mad that the Colts lost to the friggin Jaguars and now you're here being an infidel and blasting our one and true savior, Dunkey! Shame!
Dunkey: "As an adult all i can see is the LJN logo".
Exactly what i was focusing in on seconds before he said it.
It's funny because Maximum Carnage is the only good game LJN ever produced and it's box art is kickass.
Thank you AVGN
@@Cri_Jackal AND almost all of the games of this era gave you a poster in the box, so you had that image as a 17x11 poster
This is the first time I've seen the art for DOOM and Duke Nukem 3D side by side and I can't believe I've been so f**kin stoopin not to have noticed the similarity before.
They have morphed into one in some strange way in my brain. If I had to draw DOOM cover art from memory, I would draw doomguy in the duke nukem pose.
I remember a year ago I for some reason looked at the cover art a bit too long and realized "hmm strange, I don't remember the pose being like that"
@@aleksi2627beeg yoshi is so cute
I believe Duke Nukem 3D's box art is actually inspired by the poster for Heart of Darkness.
Do you mean Army of Darkness?
Dunkey: "...all i see is the LJN logo..."
AVGN has left the chat.
My thoughts exactly.
"Cheggers" sounds like a legit racial slur and I am uncomfortable reading, spelling, and especially saying it.
Don't be such a Chegger.
@@JanstonCordell "HEY, WATCH THAT MOUTH." -Uncle Phil
Wassup chegga?
@Ali Hadi Babar What is he agreeing to? Their existence?
@Ali Hadi Babar Whatever.
I love how the Halo theme is so absolutely legendary that you can know it’s being played as a joke; even if only for a literal second.
Bumbumbum buuum
Castlevania songs
Starting at 3:52
Castlevania - Vampire Killer
Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest - Silence of Daylight
Castlevania: The Adventure - Battle of the Holy
Castlevania: Dracula X - Divine Bloodlines
Super Castlevania IV - Forest of Monsters
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - Tragic Prince
Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow - Pitch Black Intrusion
Not that anyone asked, but my favs for each game here in are:
1: Vampire Killer or Heart of Fire (Honestly can't go wrong with any of the tracks in Castlevania 1)
2: Silence of Daylight or Monster Dance
Adventure: Death Fair
Rondo/DCX: Divine Bloodlines
SC4: Simon's Theme
SOTN: Wood Carving Partitia
Dawn: Dracula's Tears
Would you happen to know the megaman song from 6:34
@@nyyae Mega Man X title theme
Do you know the song at 0:23?
@@plasnes2055 Jurassic Park SNES - Mountain (Triceratops Trot)
2:30 I really thought he was gonna jump scare us with Ridleys loud ass scream
"Now look at donkey kong"
I'm just happy he actually acknowledged Sheep's existence.
same
Hey donkey review among us
???
That game rocks. A pear is the bad guy👏👏👏👏👏👏
I'm happy he mentioned bust a move what a great game that was
“Don’t worry, there are no original ideas here” lmao damn Dunkey speaks the truth
Every fifa/nba2k ever
i actaully stoped the video for a while and i was played them all:D
1:22 Dunkey single-handedly skewers the entire video game industry. For what is not the first time.
No one cares
Scott Woz would like a word with you.
7:23 bust a groove is such a good game. Thanks for introducing it to me, dunkey!
-mom can we have parrapa the rapper?.
+we already have parrapa the rapper at home.
Parrapa the rapper at home: 7:28
thats what i thought too.
2:24: “If you listen carefully, you can even hear the image
*ad immediately plays
“LeT’s PLay rAiD sHAdoW LegEnDs!”
Same timing for me, but it was a beer commercial
I got a political ad...
I got stadia which i dislike very much. Then i got a longer krogers ad right after.
i got a loud ass vacuum cleaner ad
I got an ad for meal replacement shakes that "taste JUST like cake!!"
"This is like criticizing box art at NakeyJakey's house"
-Gex, 2020
underrated comment
Agreed
I knew I'd find a baby chicken in this chat somewhere.
We've come full circle bois. Jakey was a Dunkey clone, now Dunkey redoes Jakey videos. Who is the real clone?
Yes
Dunkey going "You know what game this is, _biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitch"_ still makes me giggle like an idiot, seven, eight months from when this vid was uploaded.
....it's Glover 2, right?
3:32 “If every game has a dude with a gun, you can be the game that has a spider with a gun- and a knife.”
- donkygamer, 2020
"Don't worry, there are no original ideas here." If that isn't a telling style of the market right now, I don't know what is
did u know he stole this video from someone
And now Microsoft owns Bethesda, so 2020 can come to a close now before anything else is ruined
@@firebirdstark Bethesda had already ruined themselves, so it's probably gonna be an improvement.
For everyone not on the Playstation! Ayyyyyoooo, let's gooooooo
Spark412 lmao got em
@@lellol4167 Jakey?
“If you can’t trust the back of a box, who can you trust?”
-AVGN
James Rolfe is a gaming Saint!
Jose Tomas Campos Robledano he’s so genuine as a person and a reviewer
Also, anything with an LJN logo was doomed from the start
is that the video game version of AVN?
Am I missing a joke or do you really not know about avgn
Phalanx. Man, that's a deep cut. I actually bought that game because of the cover. I liked the mystique that it created, and it actually made me pick it up to figure out what it was. I think that was the point. You could also see the sample gameplay on the back of the box, so you knew that it was side-scrolling space shooter. Also, I think they changed the cover art for the NA region because they realized that the spaceship was drawn to look like a penis and testicles, and accurately oblong ones at that. Or, maybe that's just my testicles.
According to the guy who made the cover art, they did that because the market was pretty saturated with space shooters at the time, so they wanted something that would make it stick out. They saw a mall santa walking about and decided to hire him for a photoshoot.
I've seen this video so many times because it stands out for its humor, pacing, and analysis, even among other Dunkey videos
"zelda didn't need marketing although it did because I didn't know about it"
he was talking about when he was a stupid little kid x
I love that the Halo theme plays when Donkey Kong is mentioned.
2...
Biiiiiiiiiiiiiittccchhh!
Just assuming it’s a call back to the Halo 2 video
Actually a call back to the best of 2016 one at dunkey's love house
- Kanye West
Isn't Donkey Kong the new villain in Halo Infinity And Beyond?
I like donkey Kong
The European MM1 box art remains one of the coolest covers ever.
5:05 they gave the best cover art yo phalanx
Not only is the iconic old banjo playing man back as the focus instead of the spaceship, he's also colonel Sanders for some reason
"Santa?"
"Yes?"
"Can I have Smirf DS for Christmas?"
"No. Ballz."
Oh
oh
'What... what is that?'
'Its a bad fighting game'
'Oh ok'
RIP cheggers
Look up "Creature Trailer: The Postcard People" if you like boxes
You pop the knob in fanny, not in the arse
He died at the age of 60 after smoking 60 cigarettes a day fo years
I’m not making that up
A loss.
I went to school with his son. Man smoked like a chimney
6:56 I've never heard of that game and idk who Cheggers is but damn that guy looks so much like a friend's dad it's downright scary to me.
I actually met the guy who drew the American Mega Man cover art. Apparently he wasn't given a lot of control over the design. Executive meddling, as you might expect, was partially responsible for the bizarre cover.
I love that they remade his character into a fighting game character, it was amazing.
What was his name?
@@Markeplier23 Took me a fair bit of digging, but I think it's Marc Ericksen. He did the cover for Mega Man 2 (but not the others, as it turns out).
I found the rest of the story, as well: the first Mega Man cover was rushed thanks to Nintendo's demands, and for some reason that artist had included a gun. For the second game, Capcom apparently wanted consistency, so Ericksen was tasked with doing the same thing.
Russel Grant’s Astrology has a little something for everyone, 10/10
Yes and Jeff Gerstmann.
Dunkey comments have the same 5 jokes
It really makes you *feel* like Russell Grant
@@Illumernurti They really make you *feel* like you're reading the same 5 jokes
@@Illumernurti really make you feel like a dunkey fan. 10/10
Dunkey out here casually showing off his side gig of drawing box art for small indie games
Ok ninja boy
You’re early as well huh
Hi justin
not funny junny LOL
Why Justin Y?
"Here's a grame from Infogrames."
The subtle humor fkn kills me.
super metroid main menu screen ost, even for the 5 seconds it's in the video, gave me goosebumps
truly legendary
In japan box art, Kirby looks like a dude who wants to give you a hug while in America he looks like he wants to steal and eat your soul just because he doesn't want to walk to the fridge.
so what you're saying is the American boxart is more accurate
If feel that both things can be true for that huggable demon spawn.
Are either wrong?
My mom said if I could get 3k likes on my newest video she’ll buy me a professional setup so I could upgrade my content. Please please all I ask is for a like. Please and thank you 🚂 also drop a subscribe!!! Love you and hope you have a great life!
@@endgameisbad2733 lol no. Have a great day though
Don't lie to us Dunkey, we all know this video is you secretly telling all of is that you now love JRPGs.
early
Let’s go our man is still at it
The king truly is returning
I forgot u existed
Shutup
RIP Ryan Davis. Damnit, now I miss him all over again.
2:36 that beaver has seen some shit
“This is like unoriginality in Dunkeys comment section” - Gex
DAMN YOU COMPLETELY DESTROYED ALL THE KIDS IN THESE COMMENTS
I like how this comment, too, was copied from another one of Dunkeys videos
You're biased and nit picking i win bye bye
Stolen
My mom said if I could get 3k likes on my newest video she’ll buy me a professional setup so I could upgrade my content. Please please all I ask is for a like. Please and thank you 🚂 also drop a subscribe!!! Love you and hope you have a great life!
"You can even hear the image" *Get ready to raid* ad plays...
HA
"Hey kids, it's me Cheggers!"
I was ready for Knack
this is what happened
Ads?
I cant explain how I feel right now hearing one of my favorite youtubers start their video with the obscure soundtrack of a jurassic park game I thought only I had played.
"Oohohoho, Not only does the American boxart hit you with that Capcom template... *but Rockman also shows up*"
THAT'S SUCH A GOOD FUCKING JOKE WHAT THE FUCK
“Here’s a beautiful design by the guy who does Kanye’s merch”
Absolutely classic
I didn't get that one. Why is Arnold Kanye's designer?
@@Skitz0frenix watch his video on kanye's merch
had to pause after columns III to avoid spitting out my drink
TimotaSpit
Timotainment it’s mr tainment, good job on that remix 10
It's like something from a 90's math textbook.
Dear, Timo, stop watching Bunkley and make some more dank meemees like funnie grumpie cat!!
i knew tim was a fan of dunkey
Psychonauts still has one of my favorite box arts! The second game was great but that box art has nothing on the stylized gritty-yet-colorful swirly collage of the game's cast, complete with Raz posing on a brain.
It's one of my favorite box arts, but the PAL box art is hideous IMO. Worse colors and less art.
I was very disappointed by the box art they chose for Psychonauts 2 physical edition.
The art they use on the app/store icon would make such a good box art.
That “bust a move” box art for PlayStation is truly terrifying. If I saw that as a kid I would probably have nightmares 😂
Was not expecting sir Keith “Cheggers” Chegwin to be referenced in a Dunkley video
He's not even been found out to be a nonce either...yet.
@@Dogeggz Give it time
God rest his soul, his appearance on Extras was one of the funniest things I've ever seen in my entire life
@@MatthewTaylor86 If you've not seen it, make sure you watch the "Life Is Short" Christmas special. It's Cheggers, Barry from Eastenders, and Les Dennis doing a shite variety show around Britain. Magnificent.
@@MatthewTaylor86 "I buried my sister today :D "
Me 5 minutes ago: *Doesn't like Mega Man*
"Mega Man is everything, I would die for him"
I really don’t have interest in mega man but that European box art was awesome. Totally would buy the game with a cover like that.
I love megaman to death, and that box art just made me smile.
Megaman is my brother
@@levi_octavian Why you don't have interest?
@@iratoonix it seems cool I just personally never got into it.
I love you Dunkster. You're a beautiful human being and a magnificent angel. Thank you for getting the fact straight.
By the way, Can't wait for Leah 2 and probably Dunkey 2 in the future, baby!
I'm so exited for the sequel
Always loved the music from the SNES Jurassic park game. The music score is fantastic. Thank you Dunkey for bringing back some nostalgia
Is that what plays at 8:04?
@@CaptMurph sadly no, the actual music from the Jurassic Park game on SNES isn't played in the video, but it basically sounded like 32 bit 007 golden eye music. It was pretty lit
“Nobody is going to tell Santa they want balls for Christmas” - Gex
“This is like penis hour at George Clooney’s house” - Gex
“Note to self: don’t play ballz at Tim Allen’s house” - Gex
"Not unless it's Christmas at Mel Brooks' house" - Gex
“This feels like parents evening at Kevin Spacey’s house” - Gex
"This feels like Christmas at my house" - Gex
No joke this was a really interesting video to watch.
Nakey Jakey has a great one too.
Every video from dunkey is
Preaching to the choir
Nakey Jakey did it as well and better imo. I feel like ole dunk watched Jakey awhile back and didn’t realize how similar this is. Good stuff and it’s different than Jakeys to a degree but when he got to mega man that was exceptionally similar. Not saying dunk is a Jakey clone I’m just saying we can’t be sure who came up with the idea of copying off of Steve Harvey’s video game reviews first
There are an infinite amount of videos like this
That Jurassic Park track is one of my all time favorite SNES tracks. That, the swimming stage in Donkey Kong Country, and Gambit stage in Spider-man and the X-men in Arcade's revenge.
The way the Halo music plays for such a short snippet when he mentions Donkey Kong absolutely kills me.
Crazy how dunkey invented comedy, he doesn’t get enough credit for it
dunkey is so cool they even had an animal named after him
Nobody is going to tell Santa they want balls for Christmas
Testicular cancer patients excluded of course
Dunkey is a Holy name among the gospels of ye olden times, to spread truth and justice across the galaxy and beyond. Which equates to the distance of my local Papa Johns in ye current modern times.
I'm so sorry for laughing before I found him, I owe him 27 years of laughs....what's the conversion rate between Dunkey Laughs™ , Bitcoin and USD? I need to know since my Gma's dying and maybe the Bitcoin's enough to leverage against the other two and....fuck I ran out of funny
"u should never judge a book by its cover....but this is a videogame"
~ videogamedunkey 2020
Smart.
This might be one of the best videos you've ever put out.
Pikmin 2 is one of my favorite box arts. That always got my attention when I saw it at Blockbuster even after I played it.
Some amazon reviews for Cheggers:
"Five stars.
Good"
"I'd rather have my fingernails extracted without anaesthetic."
"what the heck? whenever i put the game into the console and launch it their's just a image on cheggers face with no way to actually start playing? he just stares straight forward and sometimes the screen turns to static. please help!"
"Cheggers called me afterwards and said 'Seven Day's"
*there's
Every copy of Chegger’s is personalized
Genuinely terrifying
"Actually scary game, 10/10 horror experience"
To summarize
Japan: Anime
America: Man with a gun
Europe: Something in the middle
Europe is just Normal
Manime with a ganime
3
Japan: Time honored story telling tropes in modern shape
Europe: Experimental, laissez-faire, daring
American: Predictable cheap shots
I've seen this video around 4 times and just now I noticed that he put the guy from the cover of Sonic 2 in Russel Grants Astrology at the end. Dunkey is a genius.
Keith Chegwin RIP. Miss ya big man, gone but not forgotten.
“When I was a kid, I had the weirdest games”
Bro when you showed that Jurassic park game, I flipped my shit because I thought that was just something I had a fever dream of and nobody else hade experienced it LMAO
i still haven't beaten it to your day
I rented the SNES and Genesis games (completely different games) and I've never met anyone that played either of them.
The real question is did you ever beat it? Those cheating raptor SOBs and the deus ex tyrannosaurus made me rage quit long before the end.
We played it a few times but thought it was gash in favour of Rock N Roll racing on the SNES which apparently no-one played and was absolutely wicked
Biggest problem of the game was the lack of a save feature. The 1st person part in the buildings was cool for the time.
“All warfare is based on localized Gex jokes”
- Sun Tzu
A crossover comment I see
"I haven't seen blasts like this since tournament night at Technoblade's house."
"If you know the quotes and the memes, you need not fear the result of a hundred shitposts." -Gex
Time tail it is!
And I think he knows a little bit more about Gex than you. He invented Gex
I keep coming back to this video because I enjoy Dunkey’s commentary on rating video game box art.
The box art was crucial to my success
"Or they're doing something so badass like looking at the ground" -NakeyJakey
@@AxxLAfriku What is this? Who made this?
YellowpowR just ignore Axxl he spams on a lot videos
Its funny that Jakey said hes basically Dunkey but with him dancing on a ball, and now Dunkey made the exact same video as him, so basically here Dunkey is Jakey without the ball
I miss Jakey :(
@@Glade4 When did Nakey Jakey sat that?
“Artist’s license? What for?”
-The creator of the Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow box art
If anybody were to ask Pacman about what he calls a ‘good time,’ they’d probably be expecting him to give an answer like hunting down all the Pac-Dots, eating fruit, or playing with Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde.
This might actually be why nobody ever asked Pacman this question which- well. He’s not complaining. The actual answer is a lot more nuanced and also a lot more awkward to drop into casual conversation, especially when people have this idea of you in their head as this simple little sunshine with eyes and a big mouth who is just as innocent as Peach or Daisy.
This is wrong on multiple levels, starting from the fact that Pacman has walked in on Princess Peach fucking the living daylights out of Rosalina with a strap on, whilst Rosalina was also blindfolded, tied up, and crying ‘I’m sorry, Mummy, I’ve been a bad girl!’ (which was, ironically enough, not the worst thing he’d seen them doing. He’ll never forget the incident with Mario’s hat), and ending with how Pacman would probably quite happily quit working in the game industry if it meant he could spend the rest of his life doing the hibbety-dibbety.
Yes, you heard that right- Pacman, that big yellow fuzz ball so widely adored, loves nothing more than a good ol’ bit of gland-to-gland combat. Playing a game of Mr. Wobbly hides his helmet, as one might call it, or punchfucking the rosebud. Crack the pistachio nut.
“I just really like humpy-squirty,” he said, quite casually, as if his dick wasn’t currently inside someone as he did the squat thrust in the cucumber patch. He was quite used to all this- a rip ‘n’ dip veteran so to speak- so he had mastered the art of multitasking during the act, able to remain so perfectly functional that if it wasn’t for the very obvious evidence that he was going heels-to-Jesus, you might walk past him and think he was just doing something perfectly casual with his time.
It required a very skilled or determined partner (or partners) to be able to wreck him these days, otherwise he would just have to do so much clunge plunge that it would horrify even the most hardened nymphomaniac.
(Except, perhaps, for Princess Peach and Rosalina. Those two are the only ones who can really compete against him when it comes to their dedication to the carnal groan-moan-WHOA!)
Donkey Kong, the current victim of Pacman’s prowess, could only let a long, shuddering groan that sounded closer to the cry of a dying person than someone having the greatest dicking of their life time. He wasn’t even able to support his body at this point, just lying completely limp on the bed whilst Pacman ploughed him in a way that would put farmers to shame.
Considering that Donkey Kong had already orgasmed four times at this point which- to him- was his limit, whilst Pacman had only done it twice and seemed to have another dozen left in him, the lack of enthusiasm was perfectly fair. Pacman was used to this kind of thing, and thus continued to talk as he did the bow-chick-a-wow-wow to Donkey Kong’s thoroughly creamed donut.
“In fact, I’d even go so far as to say that my purpose in life is to bring an al dente noodle to the spaghetti house.”
“Stooooooooooop,” groaned Donkey Kong, starting to feel like his asshole would literally burst into flames from how thoroughly phutzed it had been.
Pacman obediently stopped, pulling out gently, and Donkey Kong slumped forward in complete defeat.
Pacman patted him on the back in thanks and then jumped from the bed, wandering towards the door without caring for the fact that he was still hard.
“It was fun,” Pacman calls as he leaves “your breath sure was ripe” and Donkey Kong waits a moment until he can no longer hear the sound of whistling or footsteps before he groans once more, load and defeated.
“A monster,” is the word he utters. “A waka-waka monster.” And then, “Someone save us all.”
Like most prayers, it is one that goes unanswered.
PiLoTS LiCENsE? whAt fOR?
"As the book says, we are both blessed and cursed"
- Whoever has to aprove cover arts with anime, and Big Smoke ofc
Charlie-Efn Chapman why hasn’t anyone replied to this genius work of art?
@@orbsorbs8465 People are afraid of my power
The way Dunkey talks about video games, one could talk about RUclips channels. The editing is a masterclass - agreeable, informative, hilarious. What else can you ask for? This man doesn’t get paid enough
I love how “Super Mario Bros. 3” uses all the primary colors for its artwork.
"You can hear the image"
Ad kicks in.
*Loud Music*
Exactly what happened to me lol
Saaammee 😝
DRAFT KINGS - BASKETBALL IS BACK intensifies
Very Sad that so many had the same Experience
These Nakey Jakey clone channels are really getting out of control.
I totally support this comment hahaha XD
Lmao, remember the time dunkey showed nakeyjakey in dunkey clones vid? Who is laughin now
I love Dunkey, but we gotta get this to top comment
Do you mean avgn clone channels
@@JM-kj3dh AVGN's box art series includes most of these
5:00 Phalanx reference is dedication to the subtle art of complaining about bad box art.
I watched this a while ago and ever since dunkey pointed out Donkey Kongs hotdog fingers on the cover that's the only thing I can see when I look at the art now
Maximum Carnage is actually cool. Even AVGN had to admit it.
Laughing Joking Numbnuts
What were they thinking!?
When AVGN praises LJN for anything y'know they've done something right for once
It gave me a nightmare as a kid lol
And the soundtrack was made by the band Green Jelly. That's the first game I can remember that had music by an actual known band/artist
My favorite Dunkey videos are “Dunkey talks about obscure thing for almost 10 minutes” videos
I feel like we've been asking for these more and more again, since the structure video came out, it feels like its all paying off
he was probably inspired by Scott the Woz's 40 minute video
It's pretty sad that great box art is considered "obscure"
His humor is still apparent, but he gets to be a lot more clever with his writing than gameplay videos
@@andymcclurg9916 He gets the rare opportunity to have a Gex level of writing
I BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS ALL MY LIFE 1:59
I remembered this from my childhood but couldn't find the God damn name
3d ballz
These are legit my favorite videos of yours. one that discuss the genre of video games as a whole, or retrospectives (like your Tetris video)
As a Briton, I just want to say how incredible it is that the late Keith 'Cheggers' Chegwin is now part of the Dunkey Cinematic Universe.
This is like having no more room for original ideas at Kieth “Cheggers” Chegwin's house.
shut up
@@CaptMorgan1st airplane? What for?
Remind me not to drink tap water at Jerry Garcia’s house
The Omega is there a veterinarian in the house?
that jurassic park music in the intro and the toystory game brought back so many memories
That European MegaMan box art is amazing.
No joke. It looks lit.
Dunkey: “Donkey Kong”
*Halo music starts playing
this is the best comment on the video period.
Well its not donkey kong it's actually Winston 4
*C R A I G*
Dunkey kung
it's a reference to a joke he made in an older video, for anyone who didn't know.
As soon as he said ‘Never judge a book by it’s cover...but this is a video game’ I knew this was gonna be a good video
I feel like I'm used to Dunkey's pacing, but I still get a kick out of sudden punchlines. It's always fun to find out where he's going. Which is usually in circles, but hell, it works.
one of my all time dunkey videos. love this