To everyone chiming in about Gotcha being a toy line unrelated to the movie, all I can say is that the movie predates the toys and the game. And if it wasn’t related to the movie, I can’t see why they’d mention the Universal copyright in the intro screen of the NES game. But, I’m just speculating, maybe an LJN employee will chime in to clear this up :) To everyone commenting “whose” instead of “who’s”, sorry, I wanted to see if misspelling the word would increase views and it did. Soooo….gotcha?! ;)
The campus game “gotcha” came first. Then the movie. Then the toy line. The toy line was not related to the film, but they had to pay for the licensing to get the name. The video game was based on the toys
Yes I know the movie came first. The guns came later, but they had to pay a license to the movie studios to use the name. But they weren't related to the movie otherwise aside from the concept of paintball.
I watched that movie not too long ago for the first time since the 80s. Man, that would NOT be cool to do nowadays. How far we've fallen in terms of freedom.
@@stephenthomas1492 probably because of all the gun nuts running around. they love ruining shit for the rest of us. I'm so glad I got to play with realistic toy guns when I was a kid.
I heard one of the more obscure licensed titles for the NES was Barker Bill's Trick Shooting. Barker Bill's Cartoon Show was a 15-minute segment from the 1950s where a static picture of the titular character would appear on screen and announce whichever cheaply-sourced old black and white cartoon was coming up next.
@@JaxRetroGamer Now I'm curious if someone at Nintendo was a fan of the cartoon show. Hard to imagine Viacom/Paramount approaching Nintendo "Hey can you make a game of this obscure character that hasn't been on TV for decades?"
@@bmwolgas I am convinced at some point all of those old TVs and monitors people throw out are going to become very valuable. Vintage media needs vintage hardware for it to look and play right. I have a 62" tube TV that someone gave to me for free because it's such a bitch to move around. I had a friend build a custom TV stand for it because of how heavy it is. Chrono Trigger looks amazing on it.
I was in my early teens during the NES's peak so I was their target audience. IPs like The Lone Ranger and Gilligan's Island were definitely before my time but I was still very familiar with them thanks to reruns as was pretty much everyone my age. They were old yes but I guarantee every kid in my school could sing the Gilligan's Island theme and knew The Lone Ranger's catch phrase.
I think that's something that's forgotten from the days before the internet. We had constant reruns of old shows and cartoons running night and day on TV, so alot of these older programs were as familiar to us as the stuff that was new at the time.
I was born in the late 80s but I was still at a point where were were still watching stuff like that, honestly some of it I absolutely despised. I hate the Three Stooges and Gilligan's Island but my Mother and Uncle adore it. So a lot of these "weird" titles are things I easily associated with even if they were from a different decade. Shit Nickelodeon was still airing a lot of it up until the late 1990s or early 2000s. You know what I miss? Pink Panther. That cartoon was just weird.
Gotcha isn't based on the movie. It's based on a Toyline of the 80s by LJN Toys (yes, they did toys) that was basically paintball guns for kids. They had to license the name of the toyline from the Movie of the same name though, so that's why the game also has this copyright notice.
Had no idea Ghost Lion was based on a film. I would love to know the process involved to have a game like Stanley made. I have a very small connection to Dr Livingstone, my great grandfather was adopted into a family who were his descendants. And for the record I learned the 'Dr Livingstone I presume' line from Sesame Street.
Maybe that's where I'm remembering it from. I recorded the Bugs Bunny reference and then had trouble finding a cartoon to support it, but I did find a Sesame Street clip!
Interesting fact: The music for Battleship NES was made by Mark Knight who also composed the PS1 soundtrack for Duke Nukem 3D which is simply awesome, you should check that out. A different fact about Thunderbirds is that it served as heavy inspiration for Star Fox , so thanks to that we’ve got an awesome Nintendo series.
Thunderbirds was a British show and it was a pretty big pop-cultural touchstone here in England, along with Stingray and Captain Scarlett. Even though they were shows from the 60's, they still seemed to be on TV all the time when I was a kid in the 80s and the toys were still relatively popular. No idea why we had so many puppet based espionage shows. Even though they were British shows it never even occurred to me that it wasn't also a big thing in the US until watching this video, I just figured they were one of those ubiquitous pop cultural things from the 60s
Weird thing is that this Thunderbirds game also predates the huge renewed popularity of Thunderbirds in the UK which happened in early 90s because of re-runs of the show on BBC2 and led to the Tracy Island playset being the must have toy for christmas 1992 and it being sold out everywhere and led to TV show Blue Peter showing how you could make one out of junk. Which itself became so popular they even released an instructional VHS tape for it. :O Thunderbirds got a live action movie in 2004 directed by Jonathan 'Riker' Frakes which bombed hard and a remake show that ran from 2015 to 2020. But yeah, as for why this game was created? Guess the Japanese must have still been enjoying it, as you mentioned in the video they even made an anime inspired by it. :)
I'm Canadian/American, and it definitely seems to me like it made more of an impact in Canada than the US. Although I don't think the original show was ever broadcast during my lifetime in either Canada or the US (I was born in 2000), the show and the opening sequence are pretty iconic in Canada nonetheless. What I've seen of it looked rather mature and sophisticated in terms of plots. Far more so than your typical US children's television. I'm not sure if children were the intended target demographic of Thunderbirds but considering mature anime took a longer time to gain mainstream accepted in the US than in Canada, the UK or Europe because cartoons were viewed as for kids by default , and I can imagine electronic puppetry being viewed in a similar manner by US audiences at the time. A shame because it seems like it was actually a good espionage/adventure show, and the scale models they used were incredible. And the opening sequence is awesome. "5....4....3....2....1....Thunderbirds are go!" Was huge in Japan though. Although the anime adaptation Scientific Rescue Team TechnoVoyager/Thunderbirds 2086 kinda flopped.
@@JaceyMitchell I remember the Thunderbirds had a bit of a presence in the US but in the 70s more than the 80s. My brother, born in 1971, remembered it well. He really wanted the toys
Want to know something _really_ wild? That's not even the only game based on Stanley's search for Dr. Livingstone. There's a Spanish puzzle-platformer for the European 8-bits called "Livingstone, I Presume?" I had it back in the day and honestly it's not that bad.
Actually two. One in 1986 then a sequel in 1989. I had both on my Amstrad CPC and they're quite fun if frustrating. The sequel's graphics are pretty nice for the machine. There was an Amiga port of the sequel but despite looking quite nice, it plays pretty bad. One of those things what seems fine on the 8-bit seems janky as heck on the 16-bit. :P Anyways yeah I was kinda fascinated by that second game on my CPC particularly cos it had a power meter for using all the items, the boomerang, the whip, the grenade and the polevault. Felt kinda advanced back then. :)
Found this video and watched due to recognizing Ghost Lion. Never knew it was based on a movie. I still have my copy of this game I bought used from a Blockbuster back in like 1995... I thought it was a pretty neat little RPG.
I've always considered Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde to be among the more bizarre adaptation choices where the source material is still totally recognizable. I feel like most people, if they were asked which Robert Louis Stevenson story would be the easiest to sell to kids as an NES game, would pick Treasure Island.
Three Stooges. My dad got this for Christmas when I was a kid. It's a collection of minigames based on the show, but for what it's worth, it was pretty fun.
There are some interesting ones here. I was just in a store that had Ghost Lion and Zen Intergalactic Ninja. This video made me wish I had grabbed them! Next time I’ll be picking them up for sure. Awesome stuff man!
I feel I have to add the inclusion of three of the four Classic Chinese Novels on the NES. There's Romance of the Three Kingdoms (two games), The Water Margin (titled as "Bandit Kings of Ancient China"), and Journey to the West, which was reskinned as Whomp Em (well, the second game was. The first was Famicom-only and retained everyone's favorite Great Sage, Equal to Heaven). For better or worse, Dream of the Red Chamber has never been adapted as a video game (to my knowledge). Oh, and the Famicom RPG Sweet Home was based on a Japanese horror film of the same name. Can't forget that one.
Come to think of it, I haven't heard anyone talk about Livingstone in quite a while. Stanley and Livingstone were still pretty widely known back in the 80s and 90s. I think the story was a sort of meme floating around Hollywood at the time, possibly from the 1939 film about them. Back before the internet got big there weren't many kids who escaped the twin influences of Disney and Warner Bros, which carried forward a massive amount of accumulated cultural context that modern kids probably have no real substitute for, unless perhaps meme culture itself has replaced it.
I mentioned Thunderbirds in the comments section to one of your videos a while back. I doubt you remember, but I'm happy to see you cover it today! Damn you are thorough!!
Lone Ranger, Three Stooges, and Gilligan's Island can be explained by the Baby Boomer nostalgia boom of the 80's and early 90's. Very much a Nick at Nite type movement, and I can see them developing these games as nostalgic cash ins. If not directly meant for the 30-somethings at the time, intended for these parents to buy the games "for their kids." I'm almost surprised they didn't have a Lassie game at some point.
I was probably the rare 80s kid that went nuts for the Lone Ranger game, as I've always loved westerns. I watched the old reruns with Grandpa and I had a VHS of the 1982 "Legend of the Lone Ranger" film, which is what the NES game is based on.
@@KamenRiderGumo Yeah. It's very much an assumption that kids of any era ONLY watch the newest things. I was always watching older cartoons as a kid. Sure, the old standbies of Looney Tunes and Tom and Jerry, but also Bullwinkle and Terrytoons. If anything, those were a little more accessible back in the day than now. They released edited Bullwinkle VHS, they reran old shows during the day, some shows got reboots before the term existed (loved that Ralph Bakshi Mighty Mouse). But a lot of that did have to do with the Baby Boomer nostalgia culture. Not complaining, and I love seeing things more recent come back, even if it's just t-shirts and Pops and stuff.
I think the Lone Ranger looks pretty good. I definitely love Konami's soundtrack for it. The 8-bit rendition of the William Tell Overture is fantastic.
I found out from the Famidaily channel that James Clavel's doorstop novel Shogun got an adaptation on the Famicom. "James Clavel's Shogun: The Video Game" feels like a background joke from The Simpsons that somehow became real.
Some more licensed games I conveniently forgot about until now: The Last Starfighter, Wacky Races, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (it's actually a decent game), Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu, Puss in Boots (a fairy tale AND an anime), Snoopy's Silly Sports Spectacular (a reskin of a Donald Duck game), Adventures of Gilligan's Island (too obvious?), Widget, Fist of the North Star, and the two Golgo 13 games (Top Secret Episode and Mafat Conspiracy). Oh, and James Bond, Jr.
Stanley was actually a really fun game. An open world exploration/action game where literally every square on the map was a level, but you didn't know what was there till you explored it.
Little Nemo Dream Master and Puss'n'boots are pretty out there as far as adaptations go. I can't imagine any company today picking a comic that ended 60 years ago to base a game on. Puss'n'boots was similarly a very old story that no kid was likely to know at the time.
@@BigOleWords didn't even know there was a movie, but I am a fan of old comics. That makes way more sense they'd release a game like Little Nemo along with a movie. I actually had that game as a kid, but I was probably too young to see the movie.
hell yeah mr. vampire rules the sequels and rip-offs are cool too! and don't forget the mr vampire/the gods must be crazy crossover film, crazy safari!
100% agree! They were actually pretty popular in China and created a whole slew of sequels and psedu-sequels, there was even a modern more gritty horror "remake" made a while back that has the original actor. One of the actors in ther movie got so famous for playing that role, that he ended reprising that same basic role in a ton of movies and it ended being what he was most famous for. Weird thing was I always thought the title was Mystic Vampire not Mr.Vampire, but probably just my memory messing with me lol
@@dendroleon Those weird non-offical God must be crazy sequels (Specifically the third one as I thought it was legit sequel) always confused the heck out of me...until I read that the movies were SUPER popular in China and because of that a Chinese studio (which are quite notable for not exactly caring about rights and such, lol) went ahead and hired the original African actor and started making their own unofficial "sequels" to cash-in on the success. They definitely were fun in their own way, but kinda lost a bit of the original's feel and magic IMO.
Maybe it's weird, but as a kid, it was always exciting to see a NES cart with a new label I wasn't familiar with. This video makes me realize that hasn't changed for me.
If I were old enough and knowledgeable enough about programming back then, I probably would have been thrilled to try and make an NES adaptation of the movie "Stay Tuned".
Came here to say this! It was a "paintball" game that fired these plastic slugs with colored gel on them. The gel was water soluble and supposedly didn't stain, and the slugs didn't fire as fast as an actual paintball gun, but they stung when they hit you. I never played, but as a kid who was constantly bullied in the 80s, I was shot with these on a few occasions.
I always assumed the game was a tie-in to the toy line more so than the movie. Especially since I didn't know of the movie until I was older. Though I don't quite know if the movie came first and they licensed it out as a toy or the movie was part of a multimedia publicity blitz.
@@michaelturner2806 I get the feeling parents REALLY didn't want their kids playing with big, staining blobs of paint. You know kids. Someone's going to play inside despite the fact they shouldn't and ruin all the furniture.
The game Muscle is pretty obscure. It’s based on a toyline which itself was based on a cartoon that only aired in Japan yet they still released the toys and game here.
I loved the first Golgo 13 NES game, but had no idea until I moved to japan that it was based on a manga that began publication in 1968 and is still going!
Every morning when I get up, I yell at the top of my voice at 6am “Check This Shit Owwwwweeeeeetttaa!” Payback for the horrible neighbors in my building that keeps me up at night….
Monstwrs in my pocket was iny top 10. I remember getting it for Christmas and it came with a little orange Frankenstein action figure made out of rubber
Love learning more about incredibly obscure games I’m sure I played but not sure actually existed. I played Phantom Fighter back in the day, had no idea it was based on an even more obscure movie. Now that I know it was based on a comedy it makes a lot more sense now. Well, as much sense as any other licensed game back then.
Thunderbirds was pretty popular here in Europe. My cousin used to watch the show and had lots of toys and this was all in the early to mid 90s. However the game was never released over here.
My pick for best NES adaptation has to be Willow. A really well put together action/adventure with RPG elements. And though it adds quite a lot of stuff that isn't in the movie, the overall story is pretty faithful, and they even used the actors' likenesses for the character portraits, unlike Prince of Thieves.
9:52 In French, when you've got an apostrophe that makes a compound word, you don't need to pronounce it with a glottal stop. "Le empereur", because of its back-to-back vowels, becomes "l'empereur" and is pronounced like "lempereur". Nice selection! I hope you get around to that Stanley review someday.
Always love seeing "Tina Yothers" Ghost Lion art. Also, The Gilligan's Island game is the biggest "Why?" license I can think of. An outdated sitcom with no real action premise. As far as ibscure, I'd say the Puss in Boots game based on the Toei film that gave them their mascot. It was probably huge in Japan, but pretty unknown here. I'm glad they ported it, though. Always had a bit of a soft spot for that one.
Unlike the 2010 and 2020s, people didn't expect pop culture things to vanish after only a couple years off the air. Giligan's Island, I Love Lucy, Leave It to Beaver, The Honeymooners, and many other "outdated" or long since defunct properties were still considered ubiquitous household names up through the 80s and 90s, even with limited reruns or home video releases. Consider how The Flintstones also had game adaptations. It was also a sitcom from a bygone decade, its only then-concurrent pop culture presence was being the mascots of a sugary cereal and vitamin tablet, with the game still being based on the original TV cartoon and not its prequel babies variant (because of course there was a "Fred, Barney, Betty, and Wilma as preteens in 80s Bedrock instead of adults in 60s Bedrock" show). The Addams Family also had multiple game adaptations a long while after the show ended, and before its reinvigoration as a brand thanks to the live action movies. Gilligan's Island was only weird to base a game off of due to the lack of action in the premise; its brand recognition was plenty strong at the time to justify the license. The huge glut in the raw _amount of_ pop culture that gets made at all is part of why so much more, proportionally, gets forgotten nowadays (and even in the best of times, you'll only remember maybe the 10% best and 10% worst down the line, standing the test of time in one way or another).
I don't know your recording setup, but I use a powered composite splitter to send one signal to my TV and another to my capture card. No lag introduced so light gun games work perfectly.
Stanley and the Search for Dr. Livingstone was a very odd and rough-looking game but it also did have a strange draw to it. I first saw it played here on RUclips by DeceasedCrab. Definitely one of the more interesting and unique NES entries, it felt like it had potential as a serious adventure. Another interesting title - don’t know if it was licensed from something or not - was Clash at Demon Head. Similar adventure exploration vibe.
Thunderbirds was one of those shows that got repeated a LOT in the 80's (along with Stingray and Captain Scarlett)in the UK and most likely other places too so it's really not that big a surprise they made a game of it for the NES (Hell there was even a top 10 single using samples from the show in the UK)
I played Stanley a bunch as a kid for some reason. I dont know why i obsessed over it. It was fun but i remember beating it and going 'Cool' and then promptly forgot about it for 15 years. Discovered it in a defunct rom site and started playing again. Its a Bad story in a quirky but fun game
Monsters in my pocket was huge when I was a kid in 1992. But it vanished as quickly as it appeared and nobody remembers it. But there was a Konami game.
1992/1993 was a horrific time for many media properties: Power Rangers and X-Men and Batman killed viewership causing drops in quality and quantity of shows like that
@@BigOleWords I liked the idea of it. I did play it but I could never get past the first area because of the time limit and I couldn't really figure out what I was supposed to be doing.
Playing Gotcha! as a kid, I had pretty much no idea it was a game about paintball, let alone an adaptation of a movie. I just assumed it was another Operation Wolf style game. Does the movie have this paintball fight on the mean streets, shooting generic mohawk thugs?
The video game was based on the Gotcha! The Sport guns advertised by Jim McMahon, not the movie. Big Ole Words got his “facts” way wrong in this one. ruclips.net/video/EXPB04cCjcM/видео.htmlsi=PqSn6EoNJlHD0Oem
Thunderbirds were pretty popular in Brazil in the 80's and 90's. and even tho we didn't have the official NES, we had the Gradiente Phantom System(It was a NES clone), which all these companies officially released games for. And people say it was called "Phantom System" because it came with the Ghostbusters cartridge (these were officially licensed).
Interesting that you brought up Zen the Intergalactic Ninja. I ran into the creator at Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle and brought up the NES game. I think he said that Konami approached Archie Comics about potential properties to make into games - Don't quote me on this as I didn't write anything down.
BigOleWords, could you review the NES game Magician that you briefly mentioned in your James Bond Jr video? I missed on the chance to get it, and it being a side scrolling RPG, *possibly* the first of its kind, it looked interesting. *Hopefully* it either gets a re master for the modern system, or be re-released on NSO.
You never seen the Monster Squad? I'm pretty sure that's one of the questions they asked somebody who wanted to join their club. Now thinking about it. I wonder why that never got a licensed game. A squad of kids fighting against classic monsters seems like a cool game idea.
Thank you for adding the clam soup stage of three stooges that still lives rent free in my head from my child hood. When I rented just about everything else at our mom and pop video store to play I picked that up and….it became my dark souls for awhile and I can’t tell you why. Maybe because I was a nes kid and so many games were easy this weird title just confounded me enough I rented a few more times for like 2 bucks each. Aside from final fantasy I think it got the most rentals out of me
I used to play that Three Stooges game on my brother's Amiga 500 a lot. Seems like a lot of people have a sour opinion of it these days, even with the NES port, but I've always enjoyed it. It's an acquired taste.
The Japanese version of Tom Sawyer (or maybe it was Huckleberry Finn, can't remember which, it was downloaded to my mini) had the most racist caricature of a black person I've ever seen. It made my coworkers, most of whom are black guys, laugh their asses off.
In the early 2000s, I used to hang out in indie game dev forums and there was one black developer who used that sprite as his avatar because _he_ thought it was funny too. Nowadays he's part of the perpetually offended mob and fun police instead. Same jerk, different internet culture.
Yeah, first saw Akira in the very early 90s as one of the first VHS releases from Manga Video and it blew me away. And even today it's one of my fave movies. And the animation still looks gorgeous.
Fist of the North Star on NES always confused me. As you mentioned in this video, many Japanese properties had their license completely removed when being put on the NES. Not only does Fist of the North Star retain its license, it also retains its original art style, something I don't think any other Japanese property had when brought over. It's a very violent series where people's heads explode and that violence is kept in the game.
Unrelated to the content of the video, but I cracked up at your use of the "Jeepers Creepers" Mr. Show audio in your intro. Weird to think of NES games based on very violent/profane movies like Robocop (definitely NOT something kids should be viewing, though obviously many did) being marketed to children. Ditto toys based on said movies.
Believe it or not, the world of licensed games gets even weirder once you start delving into the world of the 80s microcomputers that were popular in the UK and Europe, like the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, and the Amiga. Stuff like the Eastenders game, based a long-running British soap opera. Would be kinda similar to the NES having an "All My Children" video game in 1988. 😂 Then again, I do believe the US got an All My Children tabletop RPG by the creators of Dungeons & Dragons in the 80s. That's pretty weird too. 😂 That Three Stooges game...hoo-boy, it really took a long time for games based around mini-games to get good. Mario Party it is not.
I love Zen the Intergalactic Ninja though. Really interesting late-era NES release. And the Game Boy game was pretty good too. And thank you for mentioning Rollergames. Really fun game! The term hidden gem has been beaten to death, but that's definitely an underrated game in my opinion. Legend of Ghost Lion is a much better game than the property it was based on deserved. That's a refreshing change of pace for a licensed game though, usually it's the other way around. 😆
come to think of it, it's crazy there were computer games of BBC shows like Eastenders and Grange Hill but NONE for Red Dwarf, the popular sci-fi sitcom, especially given how beloved it was (and still is) by computer nerds. You'd think a game of it would be an absolute certainty (especially when the show itself revamped a bit from series 3 and had action scenes more often, you could imagine a typical platform shooter with Lister armed with a bazookoid having to take out GELFS, perhaps with Kryten hacking computer systems, Cat sniffing out clues and trails and Rimmer able to go through walls and so on) but nope. Missed opportunity.
Back in the day, as long as a movie didn't show nudity, it was fine for kids to watch. I grew up on Rambo, Robocop, etc and it was fine. It's a shame that they can't make any new movies worth a damn any more. Just constant reboots and the degrade each time like a copy of a copy.
i need to say 1 thing: i love how Overt this guy is, i mean why not ? what is so bad about showing up in ur videos ? of course most will indeed know i am talking about a couple of other great nintendo youtubers that for some reason, choose to remain covert, but i think they showed their faces a couple of times, but not enough for me to remember if they did or not. anw, the dude is pleasing to the eyes, and i like to have a face to go with the voice, he has a very charming voice also. I say it as a fellow small content creator, i am not much to look at, but when i started showing up in my videos, people started warming up to the channel and i got more subs at the time. anw, amazing ep as always, really a great treat to see a new video.
@@BigOleWords I grew up in OC, Cali. I seem to remember their ads and seeing their vehicles with the dude w/ shades menacing a rodent with a finger and a big ass mallet behind his back. Yeah they are/were a legit pest company that got themselves nessed! i had the game and it was a mess but i kind of liked it.
To everyone chiming in about Gotcha being a toy line unrelated to the movie, all I can say is that the movie predates the toys and the game. And if it wasn’t related to the movie, I can’t see why they’d mention the Universal copyright in the intro screen of the NES game. But, I’m just speculating, maybe an LJN employee will chime in to clear this up :)
To everyone commenting “whose” instead of “who’s”, sorry, I wanted to see if misspelling the word would increase views and it did.
Soooo….gotcha?! ;)
I love trolling the Grammer trolls with intentional misspellings. Possibly the lowest kind of trolls.
The campus game “gotcha” came first. Then the movie. Then the toy line. The toy line was not related to the film, but they had to pay for the licensing to get the name. The video game was based on the toys
Yes I know the movie came first. The guns came later, but they had to pay a license to the movie studios to use the name. But they weren't related to the movie otherwise aside from the concept of paintball.
I watched that movie not too long ago for the first time since the 80s. Man, that would NOT be cool to do nowadays. How far we've fallen in terms of freedom.
@@stephenthomas1492 probably because of all the gun nuts running around. they love ruining shit for the rest of us. I'm so glad I got to play with realistic toy guns when I was a kid.
I heard one of the more obscure licensed titles for the NES was Barker Bill's Trick Shooting. Barker Bill's Cartoon Show was a 15-minute segment from the 1950s where a static picture of the titular character would appear on screen and announce whichever cheaply-sourced old black and white cartoon was coming up next.
Ok now that is a perfect example I did not know about! Thanks!
Terrytoons was already defunct, so I wonder if the game was actually even licensed?
@@Mephitinae CBS owns Terrytoons but CBS was bought by Viacom and Viacom bought Paramount.
@@JaxRetroGamer Now I'm curious if someone at Nintendo was a fan of the cartoon show. Hard to imagine Viacom/Paramount approaching Nintendo "Hey can you make a game of this obscure character that hasn't been on TV for decades?"
I appreciate your commitment to 4:3 aspect ratio.
I've commented on that before myself - gameplay footage looks fantastic on my big 22 inch CRT Philips monitor.
Got to!
@@bmwolgas I am convinced at some point all of those old TVs and monitors people throw out are going to become very valuable. Vintage media needs vintage hardware for it to look and play right. I have a 62" tube TV that someone gave to me for free because it's such a bitch to move around. I had a friend build a custom TV stand for it because of how heavy it is. Chrono Trigger looks amazing on it.
@@Uncle-Jay 62 inch CRT? Is that the correct size? I thought the biggest direct-view CRT's ever made were in the 40-inch range.
I was in my early teens during the NES's peak so I was their target audience. IPs like The Lone Ranger and Gilligan's Island were definitely before my time but I was still very familiar with them thanks to reruns as was pretty much everyone my age. They were old yes but I guarantee every kid in my school could sing the Gilligan's Island theme and knew The Lone Ranger's catch phrase.
Y'know, that's true, I have never watched an episode of Gilligan but i definitely knew the general theme of the song.
I think that's something that's forgotten from the days before the internet. We had constant reruns of old shows and cartoons running night and day on TV, so alot of these older programs were as familiar to us as the stuff that was new at the time.
I was born in the late 80s but I was still at a point where were were still watching stuff like that, honestly some of it I absolutely despised. I hate the Three Stooges and Gilligan's Island but my Mother and Uncle adore it. So a lot of these "weird" titles are things I easily associated with even if they were from a different decade. Shit Nickelodeon was still airing a lot of it up until the late 1990s or early 2000s.
You know what I miss? Pink Panther. That cartoon was just weird.
Gotcha isn't based on the movie. It's based on a Toyline of the 80s by LJN Toys (yes, they did toys) that was basically paintball guns for kids.
They had to license the name of the toyline from the Movie of the same name though, so that's why the game also has this copyright notice.
Yep, and Jim McMahon did the commercials!
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@OmegaDez I came here to say the same exact thing.
Yeah I was going to say, Gotcha! was paintball before Paintball was paintball. They had TV commercials for it and everything.
Chicago Bears quarterback Jim McMahon was in a Gotcha advertisement.
Had no idea Ghost Lion was based on a film. I would love to know the process involved to have a game like Stanley made. I have a very small connection to Dr Livingstone, my great grandfather was adopted into a family who were his descendants. And for the record I learned the 'Dr Livingstone I presume' line from Sesame Street.
Maybe that's where I'm remembering it from. I recorded the Bugs Bunny reference and then had trouble finding a cartoon to support it, but I did find a Sesame Street clip!
Interesting fact: The music for Battleship NES was made by Mark Knight who also composed the PS1 soundtrack for Duke Nukem 3D which is simply awesome, you should check that out.
A different fact about Thunderbirds is that it served as heavy inspiration for Star Fox , so thanks to that we’ve got an awesome Nintendo series.
Whoa cool!
As in... "Knockerboys" Mark Knight?
@@ilikecurry2345 I believe so
Thunderbirds was a British show and it was a pretty big pop-cultural touchstone here in England, along with Stingray and Captain Scarlett. Even though they were shows from the 60's, they still seemed to be on TV all the time when I was a kid in the 80s and the toys were still relatively popular. No idea why we had so many puppet based espionage shows.
Even though they were British shows it never even occurred to me that it wasn't also a big thing in the US until watching this video, I just figured they were one of those ubiquitous pop cultural things from the 60s
There's a RUclips channel that plays all the Gerry Anderson shows. Amazing puppeteering and practical effects.
As far as I know, Thunderbirds wasn’t on tv here in the 80s, and I’ve never heard of the other shows!
Weird thing is that this Thunderbirds game also predates the huge renewed popularity of Thunderbirds in the UK which happened in early 90s because of re-runs of the show on BBC2 and led to the Tracy Island playset being the must have toy for christmas 1992 and it being sold out everywhere and led to TV show Blue Peter showing how you could make one out of junk. Which itself became so popular they even released an instructional VHS tape for it. :O Thunderbirds got a live action movie in 2004 directed by Jonathan 'Riker' Frakes which bombed hard and a remake show that ran from 2015 to 2020. But yeah, as for why this game was created? Guess the Japanese must have still been enjoying it, as you mentioned in the video they even made an anime inspired by it. :)
I'm Canadian/American, and it definitely seems to me like it made more of an impact in Canada than the US. Although I don't think the original show was ever broadcast during my lifetime in either Canada or the US (I was born in 2000), the show and the opening sequence are pretty iconic in Canada nonetheless.
What I've seen of it looked rather mature and sophisticated in terms of plots. Far more so than your typical US children's television. I'm not sure if children were the intended target demographic of Thunderbirds but considering mature anime took a longer time to gain mainstream accepted in the US than in Canada, the UK or Europe because cartoons were viewed as for kids by default , and I can imagine electronic puppetry being viewed in a similar manner by US audiences at the time.
A shame because it seems like it was actually a good espionage/adventure show, and the scale models they used were incredible. And the opening sequence is awesome. "5....4....3....2....1....Thunderbirds are go!"
Was huge in Japan though. Although the anime adaptation Scientific Rescue Team TechnoVoyager/Thunderbirds 2086 kinda flopped.
@@JaceyMitchell I remember the Thunderbirds had a bit of a presence in the US but in the 70s more than the 80s. My brother, born in 1971, remembered it well. He really wanted the toys
This channel has rekindled my love of rare NES games, thank you :) Quickly becoming my favorite retro gaming show!
Awww thanks man!
Would love a part 2, this was amazing!
You got it!
Want to know something _really_ wild? That's not even the only game based on Stanley's search for Dr. Livingstone. There's a Spanish puzzle-platformer for the European 8-bits called "Livingstone, I Presume?" I had it back in the day and honestly it's not that bad.
Actually two. One in 1986 then a sequel in 1989. I had both on my Amstrad CPC and they're quite fun if frustrating. The sequel's graphics are pretty nice for the machine. There was an Amiga port of the sequel but despite looking quite nice, it plays pretty bad. One of those things what seems fine on the 8-bit seems janky as heck on the 16-bit. :P
Anyways yeah I was kinda fascinated by that second game on my CPC particularly cos it had a power meter for using all the items, the boomerang, the whip, the grenade and the polevault. Felt kinda advanced back then. :)
@@carn9507 I’d forgotten all about the sequel!
Whoa no way!
Found this video and watched due to recognizing Ghost Lion. Never knew it was based on a movie. I still have my copy of this game I bought used from a Blockbuster back in like 1995... I thought it was a pretty neat little RPG.
I really like it and I’m not super fond of 8-but RPGS
I've always considered Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde to be among the more bizarre adaptation choices where the source material is still totally recognizable. I feel like most people, if they were asked which Robert Louis Stevenson story would be the easiest to sell to kids as an NES game, would pick Treasure Island.
Oh man that would make a solid NES game!
Treasure island or shipwrecked
Just discovered this channel and I love how oldschool and genuine it feels.
Three Stooges. My dad got this for Christmas when I was a kid. It's a collection of minigames based on the show, but for what it's worth, it was pretty fun.
I cannot get past those damn oysters, but I’ll take your word for it!
There are some interesting ones here. I was just in a store that had Ghost Lion and Zen Intergalactic Ninja. This video made me wish I had grabbed them! Next time I’ll be picking them up for sure. Awesome stuff man!
Zen is amazing, no joke. Ghost Lion is maybe an acquired taste :)
Phantom Fighter!!! My mom got me this one and it confounded me as a kid. Ahhh, memories.
Nice!
I feel I have to add the inclusion of three of the four Classic Chinese Novels on the NES. There's Romance of the Three Kingdoms (two games), The Water Margin (titled as "Bandit Kings of Ancient China"), and Journey to the West, which was reskinned as Whomp Em (well, the second game was. The first was Famicom-only and retained everyone's favorite Great Sage, Equal to Heaven). For better or worse, Dream of the Red Chamber has never been adapted as a video game (to my knowledge).
Oh, and the Famicom RPG Sweet Home was based on a Japanese horror film of the same name. Can't forget that one.
Yeah those definitely fit!
For San Guo based games, don't forget Destiny of an Emperor! That one evaded me as a kid. I played it much later - great gae.
Sweet Home was also the inspiration for Resident Evil
@@Elucidus Oh yeah. There's even a sequel on Famicom.
@@alkristopher Yup, and I believe they've translated it - I still need to give that one a go.
Come to think of it, I haven't heard anyone talk about Livingstone in quite a while. Stanley and Livingstone were still pretty widely known back in the 80s and 90s. I think the story was a sort of meme floating around Hollywood at the time, possibly from the 1939 film about them.
Back before the internet got big there weren't many kids who escaped the twin influences of Disney and Warner Bros, which carried forward a massive amount of accumulated cultural context that modern kids probably have no real substitute for, unless perhaps meme culture itself has replaced it.
I mentioned Thunderbirds in the comments section to one of your videos a while back. I doubt you remember, but I'm happy to see you cover it today! Damn you are thorough!!
Do you remember which video? It’s definitely a game I’ll review at some point
Thunderbirds was still popular in Australia during the 80s haha. Also I had the Defenders of Dynatron City comics, they were pretty good!
Lone Ranger, Three Stooges, and Gilligan's Island can be explained by the Baby Boomer nostalgia boom of the 80's and early 90's. Very much a Nick at Nite type movement, and I can see them developing these games as nostalgic cash ins. If not directly meant for the 30-somethings at the time, intended for these parents to buy the games "for their kids." I'm almost surprised they didn't have a Lassie game at some point.
I was probably the rare 80s kid that went nuts for the Lone Ranger game, as I've always loved westerns. I watched the old reruns with Grandpa and I had a VHS of the 1982 "Legend of the Lone Ranger" film, which is what the NES game is based on.
I wish there would be a open world Lassie game like Red Dead, and you are Lassie, not a human. It could totally work.
@@KamenRiderGumo Yeah. It's very much an assumption that kids of any era ONLY watch the newest things. I was always watching older cartoons as a kid. Sure, the old standbies of Looney Tunes and Tom and Jerry, but also Bullwinkle and Terrytoons. If anything, those were a little more accessible back in the day than now. They released edited Bullwinkle VHS, they reran old shows during the day, some shows got reboots before the term existed (loved that Ralph Bakshi Mighty Mouse). But a lot of that did have to do with the Baby Boomer nostalgia culture. Not complaining, and I love seeing things more recent come back, even if it's just t-shirts and Pops and stuff.
Lassie! I’m holding out for the Mr. Ed game
I think the Lone Ranger looks pretty good. I definitely love Konami's soundtrack for it. The 8-bit rendition of the William Tell Overture is fantastic.
I found out from the Famidaily channel that James Clavel's doorstop novel Shogun got an adaptation on the Famicom. "James Clavel's Shogun: The Video Game" feels like a background joke from The Simpsons that somehow became real.
What?!? No way!
I often played the Amstrad CPC 464 game of Tai-Pan which was another book in that series and it has such a jaunty tune. :)
Some more licensed games I conveniently forgot about until now:
The Last Starfighter, Wacky Races, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (it's actually a decent game), Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu, Puss in Boots (a fairy tale AND an anime), Snoopy's Silly Sports Spectacular (a reskin of a Donald Duck game), Adventures of Gilligan's Island (too obvious?), Widget, Fist of the North Star, and the two Golgo 13 games (Top Secret Episode and Mafat Conspiracy). Oh, and James Bond, Jr.
Yes to many of those. Puss N boots I almost included
I remember being obsessed with last star fighter movie! Never knew their was a NES game 😅
The Last Starfighter is an exception, actually. It's really a port of either a C64 or a ZX Spectrum game. Sadly, I don't remember the name of it.
Oh man, so many strange NES games, love seeing you highlight some!
Hey I remember Fiorentina wearing the Nintendo jersey back then. Throwback.
Awesome! Yeah I had to have it
Was going to say something, but found your comment. I also like the white one they wore that year.
Great video and I love the Fiorentina shirt, I have one myself!
Stanley was actually a really fun game. An open world exploration/action game where literally every square on the map was a level, but you didn't know what was there till you explored it.
I have never given it a full run through. Soon though!
@@BigOleWords Nice!! I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
Little Nemo Dream Master and Puss'n'boots are pretty out there as far as adaptations go. I can't imagine any company today picking a comic that ended 60 years ago to base a game on. Puss'n'boots was similarly a very old story that no kid was likely to know at the time.
I guess there was a Nemo movie around that time? I never saw it. Puss N Boots though, outside of Japan no-one is getting that reference.
@@BigOleWords didn't even know there was a movie, but I am a fan of old comics. That makes way more sense they'd release a game like Little Nemo along with a movie. I actually had that game as a kid, but I was probably too young to see the movie.
Don't sleep on Mr. Vampire. It's a great movie.
hell yeah mr. vampire rules
the sequels and rip-offs are cool too!
and don't forget the mr vampire/the gods must be crazy crossover film, crazy safari!
@@dendroleon Vampire VS Vampire is the only sequel that comes close, IMO.
100% agree! They were actually pretty popular in China and created a whole slew of sequels and psedu-sequels, there was even a modern more gritty horror "remake" made a while back that has the original actor. One of the actors in ther movie got so famous for playing that role, that he ended reprising that same basic role in a ton of movies and it ended being what he was most famous for.
Weird thing was I always thought the title was Mystic Vampire not Mr.Vampire, but probably just my memory messing with me lol
@@dendroleon Those weird non-offical God must be crazy sequels (Specifically the third one as I thought it was legit sequel) always confused the heck out of me...until I read that the movies were SUPER popular in China and because of that a Chinese studio (which are quite notable for not exactly caring about rights and such, lol) went ahead and hired the original African actor and started making their own unofficial "sequels" to cash-in on the success. They definitely were fun in their own way, but kinda lost a bit of the original's feel and magic IMO.
Platoon on NES is the first video game I recall having a morality system. Shooting innocent villages will get you a court martial game over.
According to Wikipedia, Ultima IV (1985) on non-NES preceded Platoon (1987), but NES Ultima IV didn't appear until 1990.
Maybe it's weird, but as a kid, it was always exciting to see a NES cart with a new label I wasn't familiar with. This video makes me realize that hasn't changed for me.
Same, and there’s still ones I haven’t seen in person!
If I were old enough and knowledgeable enough about programming back then, I probably would have been thrilled to try and make an NES adaptation of the movie "Stay Tuned".
3:05 they had a lot of reruns of that show in the 90s were i live it aged well compared to some other 1960s shows
This is a great channel. I’m not even a big gamer but your knowledge and high IQ makes it really enjoyable. Well done dude
Hey that's kind of you to say!
Imagine believing in IQ.
@@YouToobLovesNazis let me guess. Everyone is equal and we can’t measure general intelligence and ability.
Just subbed a day or two ago. Ive been lovin the content! Thanks for the uploads. I can enjoy these videos and a beer before bed! Much appreciated!
Awesome, glad you dig it :)
wasn't gotcha a toy line as well? similar to laser tag?
Came here to say this! It was a "paintball" game that fired these plastic slugs with colored gel on them. The gel was water soluble and supposedly didn't stain, and the slugs didn't fire as fast as an actual paintball gun, but they stung when they hit you. I never played, but as a kid who was constantly bullied in the 80s, I was shot with these on a few occasions.
I always assumed the game was a tie-in to the toy line more so than the movie. Especially since I didn't know of the movie until I was older. Though I don't quite know if the movie came first and they licensed it out as a toy or the movie was part of a multimedia publicity blitz.
The NES ge is based on the toys which are based on the movie which is based on a game played on some college campuses. Confusing.
I didn't know about the movie until watching this! I thought the toys were original, and ceased super suddenly along with all the other toy guns.
@@michaelturner2806 I get the feeling parents REALLY didn't want their kids playing with big, staining blobs of paint. You know kids. Someone's going to play inside despite the fact they shouldn't and ruin all the furniture.
"What a thrill ride."
Absolutely no exclamation point notated on purpose.
Remote control was super fun. I loved that
Yeah me too
That's a fantastic shirt. Also first time i noticed the chess clock!
Great video man
That is my elementary school chess clock. I don’t think I’ve used it since then!
Great video! Loving the Fiorentina football shirt.
Cool World is a strange adaptation I came across somehow. Not a movie for kids!
Yeah that was a weird choice for a film to adapt
Duuuuude wicked drawing thank you!!! Great video as always, retro gaming is atill my favorite. Nes/snes/64
Awesome man, glad you like it!
Great vid! 6:20 a rumour said that some Fox exec LOVED Zen but could not get the license and instead tried to make Deadpool into Zen.
The game Muscle is pretty obscure. It’s based on a toyline which itself was based on a cartoon that only aired in Japan yet they still released the toys and game here.
Very interesting, some games I never knew were licenses, and others I never even knew about!
I loved the first Golgo 13 NES game, but had no idea until I moved to japan that it was based on a manga that began publication in 1968 and is still going!
Right?! I had no idea!
Every morning when I get up,
I yell at the top of my voice at 6am “Check This Shit Owwwwweeeeeetttaa!”
Payback for the horrible neighbors in my building that keeps me up at night….
Get em!
Monstwrs in my pocket was iny top 10. I remember getting it for Christmas and it came with a little orange Frankenstein action figure made out of rubber
So jealous
Tune sample you used for Thunderbirds sounded like that main Tyson Punch-out! crescendo kinda
I can hear it!
Mad props to that fire KIT! Wow!
Right? I could resist!
Love learning more about incredibly obscure games I’m sure I played but not sure actually existed. I played Phantom Fighter back in the day, had no idea it was based on an even more obscure movie. Now that I know it was based on a comedy it makes a lot more sense now. Well, as much sense as any other licensed game back then.
Yeah there is some comedy aspects to Phantom Fighter for sure
Thunderbirds was pretty popular here in Europe.
My cousin used to watch the show and had lots of toys and this was all in the early to mid 90s.
However the game was never released over here.
Weird that y’all didn’t get it but we did
Dusty Diamond’s All-Star Softball was based on Screech.
Heyo!
I just subsribed and am currently blasting throuigh all your videos, they're great! Also, best theme song. perfect. no notes.
Hey awesome, glad you’re digging em!
My pick for best NES adaptation has to be Willow. A really well put together action/adventure with RPG elements. And though it adds quite a lot of stuff that isn't in the movie, the overall story is pretty faithful, and they even used the actors' likenesses for the character portraits, unlike Prince of Thieves.
No lie. I thought the guy on the jungle cover was AVGN. Anyway cool video. Looking forward to more.
Oddly enough that comes up whenever I mention Stanley. I can see it!
9:52 In French, when you've got an apostrophe that makes a compound word, you don't need to pronounce it with a glottal stop. "Le empereur", because of its back-to-back vowels, becomes "l'empereur" and is pronounced like "lempereur".
Nice selection! I hope you get around to that Stanley review someday.
hey found ur channel yesterday really liking it
Hey thanks, glad you dig it!
Always love seeing "Tina Yothers" Ghost Lion art.
Also, The Gilligan's Island game is the biggest "Why?" license I can think of. An outdated sitcom with no real action premise.
As far as ibscure, I'd say the Puss in Boots game based on the Toei film that gave them their mascot. It was probably huge in Japan, but pretty unknown here. I'm glad they ported it, though. Always had a bit of a soft spot for that one.
Puss N Boots is definitely a contender I thought about for this one. Gilligan I think will make the part two
Unlike the 2010 and 2020s, people didn't expect pop culture things to vanish after only a couple years off the air. Giligan's Island, I Love Lucy, Leave It to Beaver, The Honeymooners, and many other "outdated" or long since defunct properties were still considered ubiquitous household names up through the 80s and 90s, even with limited reruns or home video releases.
Consider how The Flintstones also had game adaptations. It was also a sitcom from a bygone decade, its only then-concurrent pop culture presence was being the mascots of a sugary cereal and vitamin tablet, with the game still being based on the original TV cartoon and not its prequel babies variant (because of course there was a "Fred, Barney, Betty, and Wilma as preteens in 80s Bedrock instead of adults in 60s Bedrock" show). The Addams Family also had multiple game adaptations a long while after the show ended, and before its reinvigoration as a brand thanks to the live action movies.
Gilligan's Island was only weird to base a game off of due to the lack of action in the premise; its brand recognition was plenty strong at the time to justify the license. The huge glut in the raw _amount of_ pop culture that gets made at all is part of why so much more, proportionally, gets forgotten nowadays (and even in the best of times, you'll only remember maybe the 10% best and 10% worst down the line, standing the test of time in one way or another).
I don't know your recording setup, but I use a powered composite splitter to send one signal to my TV and another to my capture card. No lag introduced so light gun games work perfectly.
It’s the CRT or lack thereof that’s causing the issue. I just don’t have one working right now
Just found your channel. You’ve got a very comfy vibe. Dig it.
Comfy, I like it!
@@BigOleWords have a great day dude
Stanley and the Search for Dr. Livingstone was a very odd and rough-looking game but it also did have a strange draw to it. I first saw it played here on RUclips by DeceasedCrab. Definitely one of the more interesting and unique NES entries, it felt like it had potential as a serious adventure.
Another interesting title - don’t know if it was licensed from something or not - was Clash at Demon Head. Similar adventure exploration vibe.
That’s definitely how it seems to me. I need to buckle down and really play it
I wish they made Mork (from Ork)
Not too late!
Thunderbirds was one of those shows that got repeated a LOT in the 80's (along with Stingray and Captain Scarlett)in the UK and most likely other places too so it's really not that big a surprise they made a game of it for the NES (Hell there was even a top 10 single using samples from the show in the UK)
But still odd that it wasn't released in any PAL countries, only in North America where it wasn't a big deal in the 80s.
I played Stanley a bunch as a kid for some reason. I dont know why i obsessed over it. It was fun but i remember beating it and going 'Cool' and then promptly forgot about it for 15 years. Discovered it in a defunct rom site and started playing again. Its a Bad story in a quirky but fun game
Monsters in my pocket was huge when I was a kid in 1992. But it vanished as quickly as it appeared and nobody remembers it. But there was a Konami game.
1992/1993 was a horrific time for many media properties: Power Rangers and X-Men and Batman killed viewership causing drops in quality and quantity of shows like that
I memba.
Huh, I remembered them instantly and thought of them as fairly popular. But maybe I just saw ads for them a lot.
Definetely popular in Eastern Europe and former USSR countries. There were not so many good games for 2 players to forget Konami's best creations🎉
I had Defenders of Dynatron City when I was a kid. It was not a game I played very often.
For real? I think if I owned it as a kid I would’ve dug it
@@BigOleWords I liked the idea of it. I did play it but I could never get past the first area because of the time limit and I couldn't really figure out what I was supposed to be doing.
Playing Gotcha! as a kid, I had pretty much no idea it was a game about paintball, let alone an adaptation of a movie. I just assumed it was another Operation Wolf style game.
Does the movie have this paintball fight on the mean streets, shooting generic mohawk thugs?
The video game was based on the Gotcha! The Sport guns advertised by Jim McMahon, not the movie. Big Ole Words got his “facts” way wrong in this one.
ruclips.net/video/EXPB04cCjcM/видео.htmlsi=PqSn6EoNJlHD0Oem
Actually, it kinda does!
Thunderbirds were pretty popular in Brazil in the 80's and 90's. and even tho we didn't have the official NES, we had the Gradiente Phantom System(It was a NES clone), which all these companies officially released games for. And people say it was called "Phantom System" because it came with the Ghostbusters cartridge (these were officially licensed).
Love the sound of that
Good ol' Dr. Chaos is rumored that it was originally supposed to be a game version of House.
No!!!! That can’t be true!!!
Interesting that you brought up Zen the Intergalactic Ninja. I ran into the creator at Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle and brought up the NES game. I think he said that Konami approached Archie Comics about potential properties to make into games - Don't quote me on this as I didn't write anything down.
No way! That’s super cool
I enjoy your positivity and light hearted clever jokes
Hey thanks so much!
Another banger! Thanks James!
You got it!
BigOleWords, could you review the NES game Magician that you briefly mentioned in your James Bond Jr video? I missed on the chance to get it, and it being a side scrolling RPG, *possibly* the first of its kind, it looked interesting. *Hopefully* it either gets a re master for the modern system, or be re-released on NSO.
It’s on my list!
Wow! I learned a lot from this video. Thank you!
You got it!
I learned from James Rolfe the AVGN that Frankenstein is the name of the doctor, not the monster.
That’s a classic “well actually”. Like I remember Alex Trebek correcting someone on Jeopardy in the smuggest way posssible!
The Monster is Frankenstein's son, which makes him a Frankenstein.
@@RockSoup The Monster's name is Adam in the original book
@@Dunsparce206 You know Frankenstein is a surname, right?
You never seen the Monster Squad? I'm pretty sure that's one of the questions they asked somebody who wanted to join their club. Now thinking about it. I wonder why that never got a licensed game. A squad of kids fighting against classic monsters seems like a cool game idea.
Love the classic 90s footy shirt
Serie A particularly had great 90s unis, I have AC and Inter as well
Thank you for adding the clam soup stage of three stooges that still lives rent free in my head from my child hood. When I rented just about everything else at our mom and pop video store to play I picked that up and….it became my dark souls for awhile and I can’t tell you why. Maybe because I was a nes kid and so many games were easy this weird title just confounded me enough I rented a few more times for like 2 bucks each. Aside from final fantasy I think it got the most rentals out of me
If you like that Fiorentina jersey sponsored by Nintendo, you might also go for the Sevilla FC jersey from 1992
Oh damn! I think I have to have that Maradona Jersey!
I used to play that Three Stooges game on my brother's Amiga 500 a lot. Seems like a lot of people have a sour opinion of it these days, even with the NES port, but I've always enjoyed it. It's an acquired taste.
It drives me nuts that’s for sure!
The Japanese version of Tom Sawyer (or maybe it was Huckleberry Finn, can't remember which, it was downloaded to my mini) had the most racist caricature of a black person I've ever seen. It made my coworkers, most of whom are black guys, laugh their asses off.
The one made by Square!
In the early 2000s, I used to hang out in indie game dev forums and there was one black developer who used that sprite as his avatar because _he_ thought it was funny too.
Nowadays he's part of the perpetually offended mob and fun police instead. Same jerk, different internet culture.
Great topic! One weird one that comes to mind is Death Race, although it’s unlicensed. Maybe check it out! Take care dude!
I love that movie, used to watch it all the time in college!
@@BigOleWords It's brutal!
Wow, some really interesting games here.
Akira was a world wide hit movie. It's legendary even outside of Japan
Yeah, 'Akira' was perhaps the first major hit that made anime popular in the US aside from more kiddie fare like 'Speed Racer'
Yeah, first saw Akira in the very early 90s as one of the first VHS releases from Manga Video and it blew me away. And even today it's one of my fave movies. And the animation still looks gorgeous.
@@carn9507 To me personally, Akira is the peak of animated art, and I have alot of trouble imagining something coming along and topping it.
Fist of the North Star on NES always confused me. As you mentioned in this video, many Japanese properties had their license completely removed when being put on the NES. Not only does Fist of the North Star retain its license, it also retains its original art style, something I don't think any other Japanese property had when brought over. It's a very violent series where people's heads explode and that violence is kept in the game.
Yeah that was a strange one.
Unrelated to the content of the video, but I cracked up at your use of the "Jeepers Creepers" Mr. Show audio in your intro. Weird to think of NES games based on very violent/profane movies like Robocop (definitely NOT something kids should be viewing, though obviously many did) being marketed to children. Ditto toys based on said movies.
Yeah I almost included an R rated one I this video but opted not too. There’s almost too many ultra violent ones to choose from
Believe it or not, the world of licensed games gets even weirder once you start delving into the world of the 80s microcomputers that were popular in the UK and Europe, like the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, and the Amiga. Stuff like the Eastenders game, based a long-running British soap opera. Would be kinda similar to the NES having an "All My Children" video game in 1988. 😂
Then again, I do believe the US got an All My Children tabletop RPG by the creators of Dungeons & Dragons in the 80s. That's pretty weird too. 😂
That Three Stooges game...hoo-boy, it really took a long time for games based around mini-games to get good. Mario Party it is not.
I love Zen the Intergalactic Ninja though. Really interesting late-era NES release. And the Game Boy game was pretty good too. And thank you for mentioning Rollergames. Really fun game! The term hidden gem has been beaten to death, but that's definitely an underrated game in my opinion.
Legend of Ghost Lion is a much better game than the property it was based on deserved. That's a refreshing change of pace for a licensed game though, usually it's the other way around. 😆
What?!? No way!
there was a 'Neighbours' game too based on the also long-running soap opera, made in Australia but popular in Britain. :)
come to think of it, it's crazy there were computer games of BBC shows like Eastenders and Grange Hill but NONE for Red Dwarf, the popular sci-fi sitcom, especially given how beloved it was (and still is) by computer nerds. You'd think a game of it would be an absolute certainty (especially when the show itself revamped a bit from series 3 and had action scenes more often, you could imagine a typical platform shooter with Lister armed with a bazookoid having to take out GELFS, perhaps with Kryten hacking computer systems, Cat sniffing out clues and trails and Rimmer able to go through walls and so on) but nope. Missed opportunity.
Cool game coverage !!! 🙂
I actually like Legend of Ghost Lion. It may not be a Top 5 NES RPG but it certainly falls in the Top 10
Agreed!
Back in the day, as long as a movie didn't show nudity, it was fine for kids to watch. I grew up on Rambo, Robocop, etc and it was fine. It's a shame that they can't make any new movies worth a damn any more. Just constant reboots and the degrade each time like a copy of a copy.
Yeah I don’t think an original Robocop style movie would get made these days
The Legend of Prince Valiant based on the cartoon of the same name.
It's definitely up there!
Bruh! I rented Phantom Fighter a bunch of times back in the day and I've been trying to remember the name for months. Thank you!
Happy to be of service!
_Beyond the Pyramids: Legend of the White Lion_ is definitely MST3k/RiffTrax material
Oh for sure, prime material right there
“Zelda Two-ing”. Genius
i need to say 1 thing:
i love how Overt this guy is, i mean why not ? what is so bad about showing up in ur videos ? of course most will indeed know i am talking about a couple of other great nintendo youtubers that for some reason, choose to remain covert, but i think they showed their faces a couple of times, but not enough for me to remember if they did or not.
anw, the dude is pleasing to the eyes, and i like to have a face to go with the voice, he has a very charming voice also.
I say it as a fellow small content creator, i am not much to look at, but when i started showing up in my videos, people started warming up to the channel and i got more subs at the time.
anw, amazing ep as always, really a great treat to see a new video.
If you've got it, flaunt it.
Damn player that is very kind of you to say!
@@BigOleWords we give credit where credit is due, love ur videos.
Wow & I thought I played all the weird NES games but Ghost Lion got me, lol!!!
I had no idea Ghost Lion was based on anything.
It fooled me until now!
Brother, that shirt is a straight fire!!
Oh yeah!
I live for weird tie-ins and licensed games!
I like it!
How about the unlicensed pest control game? that was odd.
Pesterminator? Was that adapted from something?
@@BigOleWords I grew up in OC, Cali. I seem to remember their ads and seeing their vehicles with the dude w/ shades menacing a rodent with a finger and a big ass mallet behind his back. Yeah they are/were a legit pest company that got themselves nessed! i had the game and it was a mess but i kind of liked it.