Conker's Big Reunion was actually released by Microsoft through Project Spark about 6 months before it went offline for good. Its a DLC that continues after Bad Fur Day it last only 30 minutes and was gonna be an episodic game by only one episode released and can no longer be downloaded.
For the #4 segment, I wouldn’t solely blame Nintendo for the fact that the Rebirth games disappeared, but also Konami for failing to preserve them, being that they are technically their games. And with the Wii Shop Channel no longer being a thing, they can pretty much do whatever they want with them. Even though I doubt they will. Also, if you count “traditional” Castlevania games as the 2D search-action ones, then technically Lords of Shadow; Mirror of Fates was the last one. Which was released on 3DS in 2013, and then ported to other consoles and PC not too long afterwards. Also-also, *dang,* I had no clue they took down Minecraft Story Mode ‘till now. My little brother got the physical version that came with Episode 1-5 from GameStop, but couldn’t download the other episodes beyond it for some reason. And now it finally makes sense why.
There might some sort of legalities involved. For instance, some SNES games like Final Fantasy 4 have 2 versions available, a HD pixel version and a 3D version, on most platforms. The original sprite versions are not available on other consoles or PC, which might be legalities to do with the Super Nintendo EXCEPT this also applies to FFIV After Years, where the pixel version was only available on the Wii Ware. Wish they brought back Wii Ware. There were some great stuff there.
This is where piracy comes in, as piracy is what happens when aviabability is not a choice. Also its not morally corrupt to pirate Nintendo, specially Konami.
@@ramenbomberdeluxe4958 she is playable in the re-release though. I main her on the switch version while my friend mains Scott. So she is most definitely playable.
I do miss Mario 35. That adrenaline when you're down to 1 vs 1 wont be forgotten. But although it's gone, i hope it'll return, just not in a 35 form (100 maybe). Maybe as a standalone game, or an extra in a future Mario game.
For the record: Minecraft Story Mode season 1 had 2 different physical editions. One that had the first episode and the ability to download the next four. And the "Complete" edition which had all 8 episodes on disc, no install or season pass required. I bought the complete version on PS3 a couple of months ago and can guarantee that it still works.
Can confirm i bought it months ago and tested it. Only ones actually gone are Tales of Monkey Island, BTTF, and two digital exclusive version on ps4, which have physicals, but different trophy stacks.
Mario 35 honestly depresses me because it just doesn't make sense. I was certain they'd reconsider, or at the very least make it clear that the game would return for future anniversaries. It being gone is just bad business.
I'm surprised you didn't highlight the episodic... thing that the creators of Project Spark included with Conker. It was supposed to include more episodes, and it had the original actor for Conker returning to voice him.
Just want to mention that you CAN still play the first episode of Conker's Big Reunion that came with Project Spark. After installing the game, make sure your console is offline before starting the game up and selecting the Conker episode. If you try to play the game while your console is online, it'll just try to connect to the non-operational servers and won't let you do anything, so remember to go offline first! This in no way makes up for them shutting the servers down so soon, and there's no way to play other people's creations, but at least you can play SOMETHING.
The way some devs seem to go out of their way to limit game longevity really stresses collectors like me. I want my games to be playable for the rest of my life.
Indeed, I really hope things do change, things often get worse before they get better. I'm hoping we don't get that far, but knowing the odds it might happen.
Emulators and fan servers can't do everything, though. Sometimes it seems like they can, and I am super grateful for emulators and filesharing and fan servers when such things exist. But it's not 100% and some things still disappear forever. Sometimes there aren't even videos left to prove the game was real and not vaporware.
If you keep your ear to the ground, you'll find that FusionFall had a revival in the form of FusionFall Universe, and there's now OpenFusion to replace it. Also; City of Heroes/Villains has non-profit fan-operated servers publicly open after knowledge of their existence got leaked a few years ago.
5:12 Why does no one ever awknowlege their were games like Flappy Bird BEFORE Flappy Bird? There was a helicopter one and a worm one. On the topic, I want to mention that games like Angry Birds where you launch something from a catapult were common back on Newgrounds before cell phones became smart phones and the only mobile games you could get were a low quality version of Snake.
It is ashame when you never get the chance to play a game you want to try or are curious about only to not be available anymore. Granted some cases have games that were so bad they don't exist anymore for the better but lately it's the latter.
Oh for the latter there are tons but some highlights would be StarCraft:Ghost,The South Park GTA Clone, Mario 128,JJBA Vento Aureo's English Localisation because of copyright issues with Prince's estate,Sonic Crackers,Sonic Mars and 32x and finally Sonic Extreme.
I’m just glad you don’t go with the herd that craps on MCS because “durr hurrr pandering durrr hurrr Minecraft can’t have a compelling story hurrr”, thank you for that. It’s not a masterpiece, but it’s a fun romp and decent enough.
I don’t think Minecraft Story Mode is terrible, per se, but I just personally believe giving Minecraft a linear, story-oriented games goes against the openness and freedom that the base game is known for. That and the writing is obviously geared more towards kids due to them being Minecraft’s primary audience. But hey, if peeps manage to enjoy it, more power to ‘em.👍🏽
The only thing about rabbidluigi that could be improved upon (compared to the other (great) things about him) is that he should stop sleeping on Pac-Man (seriously, the only time he mentioned it was when he put Pac-Man for the Atari 2600 on his list of top 5 worst video game remakes, and I think the Pac-Man World trilogy for handheld consoles could have also shared the same spot) and mention why Pac-Man Monsters could have been a contender for this list, but we’re already two videos (of video games that we can’t find anymore, so they’re not even 1% rare anymore) in and he still never gave Pac-Man a fair mention yet (like I said, in this case, it’s PMM).
Telltale's Guardians of the Galaxy is one where I said I'll buy it when I have money to spare in a few years as well as the rest of Telltale's library. Little did I know... at least we have Square Enix's take on the.material.
What is crazy about Mario 35, is you had a fan make a Mario Battle Royale for PC that (in my opinion) was even better than Mario 35 which Nintendo shut down after it's popularity for 2 weeks. They then released 35 roughly 2 years later only to kill that game too.
You can add the original HD ports of the PS2 GTA Trilogy now, since Rockstar decided it was a good idea to delist the originals in place of the lackluster Definitive Trilogy. Those ports are basically unplayable now.
I'm a little surprised Driver San Francisco didn't appear in either video on the topic with how mysterious I've found it to be, I've even noticed that some major RUclipsrs have taken down their entire playthroughs of it that I very distinctly remember watching
I'm happy you showed Marble Blast Ultra! I first played it on an Xbox 360 demo disk (the one that came bundled with Sonic tennis), but I was sad to find out it was removed off of XBLA. Thankfully, at some point the entire game was released on Gamejolt at one point, and while I think that's been removed too, you can always find a zip file of MBU if you look long enough. (Or just ask me and I'll try to give you my copy!)
What this video makes me realize is simply how much harder it is to preserve games. Unlike with a film, show or book that can be preserved as a simple video or text file, a game is a whole different story. You need the console and some work in recoding to preserve. Especially true with numerous iPhone games I loved as a kid.
If you haven’t already, you should do one about games you couldn’t play anymore for awhile that were finally brought back or rereleased, like Mission in Snowdriftland or maybe Scott Pilgrim
There actually are a few unplayable Katamari games now. I have one still downloaded on my phone called I ❤️ Katamari that I can't play because they haven't updated it in decades. There's also Amazing Katamari, but as far as I can remember, it was an endless runner thing
The other day I discovered that Bob's Game (the meta-puzzle version, not the demo of the RPG) had been taken down off of every known platform and the even github was deleted. So unless someone has a backup of the source, it's gone for good. Even the RUclips channel has been reduced to one video (I hesitate to point this out in case he meant to remove it and just overlooked it). This sucks because even though it wasn't the crazy revolutionary RPG he originally wanted to make, it was still a pretty good single and multiplayer falling blocks game with a ridiculously good editor. Better than Tetris 99, even. If you have a game in your Steam library that's called "ok", that's where Bob's Game was before he deleted it.
I think what hurts even more of No. 1 is that it’s basically the last time we’ll even play as Conker ever again. Chris Seavor did mention that a sequel to Conker’s Bad Fur Day will never happen again due to that times have changed and if a sequel is made at this time, it wouldn’t fly at all and people would be butthurt or offended to play it. And it hurts even more with that atrocity that is Young Conker…
Literally yesterday I was in a GAME store and they were selling copies of Battleborn for 50p, despite them literally doing nothing at this point. Novelty drinks coaster, perhaps?
Oh, you mean like how they shut down the labor of love that was AM2R? That was the remake Metroid II: Return of Samus deserved. Granted, Nintendo made Samus Returns, but it's like half-assed attempt at remaking Metroid II. AM2R was the remake everyone wanted.
I wish to add a game to the list, Darkspore. The game was from the age of Absurd EA DRM and you could only install it once per disk, however that isn't the reason I am putting this game forward. It was also an online only game with no capability to RUN without linking to the servers. Even if you have a valid install it won't work since they took the servers down. Thankfully there are people working to make the game playable again, but Darkspore remains a game I am pissed about for how much I enjoyed it only for it to become unplayable for me in two different ways. First I had to go through EA customer support when my install broke to fix it since you couldn't just reinstall it, and man wasn't that a fucking laugh, they were condescending and blamed me for the game's failure, and it took me giving them the code for the disk, the place I purchased the disk and providing proof of purchase before they would give me a new one time use code to fix my install, only for the servers to be taken down not two months later. As bad as some of the games here are in terms of being unplayable, at least they were given a dignified demise, not just having the rug pulled out from under them. To explain the game has all the data needed to run solo without the servers except for specific packages created by the server to tell the game how to take its data and construct the levels. In other words with a simple patch the game could have been made playable beyond the end of the servers and instead they killed it outright. Those people trying to make the game playable have had to figure out how to spoof the server call and try to figure out how to construct the packages it needs. The fact they even got an empty map parcel to load is a miracle, and if they succeed in making the game playable again I would willingly pay the amount I payed for the game again to them in thanks if I could. TLDR: FUCK EA! Darkspore was awesome.
Nintendo: Every console after the Wii will be able to use its controller, and even the Gamecube controller. Developers: Cool, so the consoles will carry over our digital games without us needing to develop them again and again? Nintendo: lol no
BLUR was a game I truly loved and enjoyed sadly it was in an odd year for playstation and can only be played through mods and old game copys its extremely rare and each day that passes makes the game harder and harder to play.
Me: "Yeah, I remember it wasn't long ago since he made the previous video. Must have happened a lot to make a sequel already" Rabbidluigi: "It's been 3 years ago since my last video on this subject matter" Me...."Come again?" Why does time fly so fast O.O
So another entire franchise I'd like to throw up here is: The Transformers games published by activision, specifically Transformers: Devastation. Activision lost the license to the transformers games, and because of that their popular War for Cybertron, Fall of Cybertron, and Rise of the Dark Spark games got pulled from digital stores for a few years. When Transformers: Devastation was released, they renewed the license and all of those games, including devastation, went back up for sale on digital platforms...For about a year, when they all got pulled from digital storefronts AGAIN, INCLUDING THEIR BRAND NEW DEVASTATION GAME. As of today, you still can't buy the games digitally unless you get a key from a reseller or something.
Reminder that Super Mario 35 itself got a fan browser game of simular concept from infernoplus cease and desisted just to be time limited itself. Thanks Nintendo.
Please mention The Orignal Sims and The Sims 2 EA ran a thing a few years ago where you could get all The Sims games but since then you can not buy The OG Sims or The Sims 2 anywhere legally outside of some shady Ebay listings
To be fair, Konami have effectively tied a noose around their own neck at this point. There's only so much blame we can pile onto them before it gets boring.
@@FatherTime89 Why wouldn't they shut down a server of a 10 year old console? Keeping the servers running would be costlier than it is worth it. And no, simply because they have the money isn't a good reason, because they would constantly lose money by keeping the servers up so they would have to make the money for this servers in some way, shape or form, ergo, making all their other services costlier than it already are.
There are still physical copies of Project Spark though, and the game will still update with all the content and Conker's Big Reunion. So for as long as disc versions exist, you can still play the game, and as long as the Xbox One servers are up, you can still play Conker's Big Reunion.
I have to correct you slightly on Minecraft: Story Mode. While the normal physical edition of the game only contains episode one, this only applies to the console versions of the game. You can still play the game on PC and can still download all the episodes since the episodes are stored on Steam's servers, and not Telltale's servers. (At least for the Steam version of the game. Unsure how it is with GOG. Speaking from experience since I did get the game on PC even after its delisting.) The only way to get the game digitally on PC now is by buying a redeemable code. As for how to play all the episodes on consoles, the "The Complete Adventure"-Edition of the game (season one specifically) has all episodes pre-loaded on the disc itself. As for season 2, you can still play all the episodes of that game if you specifically buy the Nintendo Switch version of the game, since that version came out after the season was complete. Hence, all the episodes are pre-loaded on the cartridge, like the "The Complete Adventure"-Edition of season one.
I HONESTLY DIDN'T KNOW THAT MARIO 35 WAS DEAD. Good thing I still downloaded it when I had the chance and redownloaded now, BUT DAMN. I didn't think that this would hit harder THAN A SOLID TITANIUM SEMI TRAILER TRUCK WITH AN ANTIMATTER-POWERED ENGINE CARRYING 100 TONS OF LEAD. Man, do I feel bad for anyone who didn't get this game. I really do.
Doug Bowser: "We wanted to celebrate Mario's 35th Anniversary in NEW & EXCITING ways, and keeping Super Mario Bros. 35 online forever would devalue that." Me: DEEEEEFINITELY former EA: the man speaks their samey bullshit corporate lingo. That is LITERALLY the excuse an EA rep WOULD give! >.>
13:09 I’ll tell you what they’d do, because they’ve done it before. They get them removed. There have a lot of Pokemon fan games that have been removed by Nintendo.
I’ve vaguely remember there was some weird deal where they were planning to release an “official” Conker game through the Spark game and they put out some teaser but it was super short and limited by what the Spark game could do
I wouldn't blame digital bits all that much; there's a huge list of lost movies, in several cases where people just didn't worry until they opened the only known copy to the smell of vinegar. A decent chunk of early TV was never recorded or the tapes abandoned or destroyed. I'd worry about games on physical media as well; old disks are often unreadable, and even cartridges are often dying.
Another mention for me is Evolve. It's not a great game, as it is held back by some of the design choices and how some of its best features are locked behind a paywall, but it is a solid multiplayer shooter where you have to try to solve problems and fight monsters. It's a lot like Left 4 Dead, which makes sense with both games made by the same developer. What's unique from Left 4 Dead is the fact that one of the players take the role of the boss monster who needs to level up while dealing bits of damage to the hunting team. It's actually heartbreaking to see it fall with such promise. What the hell 2K? Why did you have to overmonetize it and cause a lot of its playerbase to stop playing it? Not to say Turtle Rock isn't partially to blame for it. After all, another reason for its failure was the fact that one of the monsters could become ten times as fast and clone itself. Regardless, so much of its playerbase left, it became free to play before eventually shutting down its servers. At least we can still play as a monster in Dead by Daylight. Sure, some of its own best content was also monetized, but it was loads more replayable and is ironically still evolving itself. Maybe Evolve could have remained popular if it let you play as a xenomorph...
Project Spark's Delisting was a huge spirit crusher for me. Sure, I can still make projects and practice coding and the like, but I can't share anything with anyone anymore...
Contra ReBirth was the best Contra game I ever played, honestly. I thought it was amazing fun with two players. I still have it kicking around on an old Wii somewhere.
The worst thing to me about those Konomi games on Wiiware is that they had a good opportunity when they put out those colections a few years ago to get these games back out there as a final add on. I just hope that since they seem to like these collections that maybe a Rebirth collection might be in the cards.
I guess Microsoft doing something right in the video game market is rather... Rare! Also, why would Nintendo make Mario's 35 anniversary title a temporary one? Even Sonic Team got that one right! You can still play 06!
Can we get an F in chat for Transformers WFC and FOC? Neither were made backwards compatible on Xbox/PS and when High Moon shut down the servers, so too were they removed from any digital stores.
6:00 that's the reason why I don't buy games digitally on consoles. At least I know that Steam won't decide to remove my bought games and say "Fuck you"
Mario 35 was such a fun concept, and an interesting take on the "battle royale". That they decided to remove it so soon afterward is such a shame. Yeah, they wanted to create their own little Unus Annus moment, where "you had to be there, man" and all that, but if it is a good concept, and people loved it, and people miss it now that it is gone...... why get rid of it? Make it a permanent feature, and just increase the player pool by +1 every anniversary. I'd still play it if it was called "Mario 37" or whatever.
My favourite Project Spark level was a remake of P.T. (a delisted game!) which actually teased a Conker game instead of Silent Hill (yay, cancelled!). This was some kind of a delist-ception, delists within delists. (Hey, isn't the bit at 14:06 from the P.T. remake?)
So here is a very obscure game that I miss. It is called Great Whale Road. It is... The best way to explain it is that it is a Viking themed city manager with some combat and hand drawn art. It was discontinued as the developers kicked the bucket. Why I remember it is because I almost got a job at that studio. Or rather I reached out to them, had a phone interview, and then I heard they were closing down.
I remember playing My life as a king and My life as a Demonlord many years ago and having had a fun time with them, makes me sad that I might not be able to play them anymore :(
Earlier this year Bangai 0: Missile Fury got pulled from XBLA with absolutely no warning and even Delisted Games didn't seem to notice and as far as I'm aware still hasn't, this was a massive kick in the crotch to me because I had just set aside some money to finally get it myself and complete my Xbox 360 Shmup collection, only to find out the hard way that the game was delisted almost exactly a month earlier with zero fanfare or advanced warning of any kind!
And over here in the other corner is Dungeons and Dragons online, still getting updates and still getting expansions. Honestly play it over the latest games that are out... you won't be disappointed by the Dungeons having actual puzzles! I still play Tell Tales monkey Island game....they can't take that off me!
I'm worried for stuff like iRacing or LoL, games that have been super important to the rise of Esports in their genre but are almost entirely an online service.
Sure, let's make a *temporary* digital video game to celebrate our IP's anniversary for *45 dollars.* _Who in the fuck does that??_ It's such a literal waste.
I'm expecting to see Evolve, since you can only get it on disc now. Just missed the premiere :0 Also, that WiiWare water game was so good and I'm sad I can't finish it 😭
Both Minecraft Stories have hard copies that have all the eps for S1 think was PS4/XBoxOne and for S2 only the switch one if I recall? All other ones were EP1 discs so this untrue unless don't have system for the completed copies
The Tokimeki Memorial series was not only never released outside Japan, but the first four games are all out of print. Since Konami has changed their business focus, they never even made a fifth game; the last one was in 2009. This was the series that codified non-hentai dating sims which the Western world never had the chance to experience without emulation. Konami did try an Americanized version called Brooktown High, which bombed horribly; if only Konami tried again by actually releasing Tokimeki Memorial fully translated for Western players.
Conker's Big Reunion was actually released by Microsoft through Project Spark about 6 months before it went offline for good. Its a DLC that continues after Bad Fur Day it last only 30 minutes and was gonna be an episodic game by only one episode released and can no longer be downloaded.
this. this is laser guided depression.
You actually can still download Conker's Big Reunion if you find a physical copy of Project Spark and update it.
@@jolumaya4557 yeah I got a physical copy way down the road. I can still play the one conker episode
I really just want to play conker multi-player again. That game was wildly fun
@@FlashxSwazy YES
For the #4 segment, I wouldn’t solely blame Nintendo for the fact that the Rebirth games disappeared, but also Konami for failing to preserve them, being that they are technically their games. And with the Wii Shop Channel no longer being a thing, they can pretty much do whatever they want with them. Even though I doubt they will.
Also, if you count “traditional” Castlevania games as the 2D search-action ones, then technically Lords of Shadow; Mirror of Fates was the last one. Which was released on 3DS in 2013, and then ported to other consoles and PC not too long afterwards.
Also-also, *dang,* I had no clue they took down Minecraft Story Mode ‘till now. My little brother got the physical version that came with Episode 1-5 from GameStop, but couldn’t download the other episodes beyond it for some reason. And now it finally makes sense why.
There might some sort of legalities involved. For instance, some SNES games like Final Fantasy 4 have 2 versions available, a HD pixel version and a 3D version, on most platforms. The original sprite versions are not available on other consoles or PC, which might be legalities to do with the Super Nintendo EXCEPT this also applies to FFIV After Years, where the pixel version was only available on the Wii Ware.
Wish they brought back Wii Ware. There were some great stuff there.
This is where piracy comes in, as piracy is what happens when aviabability is not a choice. Also its not morally corrupt to pirate Nintendo, specially Konami.
Let’s all be thankful for Scott Pilgrim vs The World: The Game proving that being unplayable doesn’t mean you’re gone forever.
HA HA HEY GUYS I FOUND THE PANCAKE GUY HAHA GET IT PANCAKES WOW IM SO FUNNY AND ORIGINAL RIGHT GUYS
I'm happy that it is playable again. Its so much fun
I’m still trying to figure out why playable Knives Chau isn’t even a thing when they let you still play as Wallace.
Also thank pirates, who ensure that a lot of games aren't unplayable.
@@ramenbomberdeluxe4958 she is playable in the re-release though. I main her on the switch version while my friend mains Scott. So she is most definitely playable.
I do miss Mario 35. That adrenaline when you're down to 1 vs 1 wont be forgotten. But although it's gone, i hope it'll return, just not in a 35 form (100 maybe). Maybe as a standalone game, or an extra in a future Mario game.
I loved Mario 35, and I’ll be happy if they bring it back in any capacity.
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Seems like it'd be an obvious feature to put in the next Mario Maker installment. So obvious that Nintendo probably won't do it.
OG's remember Super DMCA Battle Royale.
I still don’t get why Nintendo did that. Like it wasn’t even available for six months
For the record: Minecraft Story Mode season 1 had 2 different physical editions. One that had the first episode and the ability to download the next four. And the "Complete" edition which had all 8 episodes on disc, no install or season pass required. I bought the complete version on PS3 a couple of months ago and can guarantee that it still works.
Yeah, that part confused me since you can still download the other episodes from season 1 if you get the physical version.
I have the whole series digitally on Xbox One and was just able to download it all and play on my Series X.
Can confirm i bought it months ago and tested it. Only ones actually gone are Tales of Monkey Island, BTTF, and two digital exclusive version on ps4, which have physicals, but different trophy stacks.
And I'm just staring at my physical Switch copy confused as this part of the video plays
Intro says "games we can't play unless we own them"
Mario 35 honestly depresses me because it just doesn't make sense. I was certain they'd reconsider, or at the very least make it clear that the game would return for future anniversaries. It being gone is just bad business.
This whole thing of limited time releases is like drugs. You forgo a more profitable, long term release for a quick high in cash.
@@goroakechi6126 I don't really get it tbh, wouldn't the hype of it cause them to gain more money over time?
@@goroakechi6126 but this game was free
there's no cash gained here
I'm surprised you didn't highlight the episodic... thing that the creators of Project Spark included with Conker. It was supposed to include more episodes, and it had the original actor for Conker returning to voice him.
Chris Seavor
Just want to mention that you CAN still play the first episode of Conker's Big Reunion that came with Project Spark. After installing the game, make sure your console is offline before starting the game up and selecting the Conker episode. If you try to play the game while your console is online, it'll just try to connect to the non-operational servers and won't let you do anything, so remember to go offline first!
This in no way makes up for them shutting the servers down so soon, and there's no way to play other people's creations, but at least you can play SOMETHING.
The way some devs seem to go out of their way to limit game longevity really stresses collectors like me.
I want my games to be playable for the rest of my life.
Absolutely!
Indeed, I really hope things do change, things often get worse before they get better. I'm hoping we don't get that far, but knowing the odds it might happen.
Emulators: now this looks like a job for me
Piracy: hold my beer
NOW THIS IS A NINTENDO COPYRIGHT LEVEL THREAT
Emulators and fan servers can't do everything, though. Sometimes it seems like they can, and I am super grateful for emulators and filesharing and fan servers when such things exist. But it's not 100% and some things still disappear forever. Sometimes there aren't even videos left to prove the game was real and not vaporware.
Server based games can’t be saved by emulators
@@sunlitsonata6853 no, but reverse engineering can save those.
Top five games that were pulled from stores.
Also, FusionFall is a game that should be on a list like this.
I feel a list of "online only games you can no longer play" would be better suited for it's own list. Just imo. But I do agree.
By the same token, City of Heroes should also be included.
Great idea! I'd love to see that list and the potential controversy that went down.
If you keep your ear to the ground, you'll find that FusionFall had a revival in the form of FusionFall Universe, and there's now OpenFusion to replace it. Also; City of Heroes/Villains has non-profit fan-operated servers publicly open after knowledge of their existence got leaked a few years ago.
@@ElNeroDiablo Well yes, but _officially_ they are dead. Unofficially, fans keep the toch lit.
5:12 Why does no one ever awknowlege their were games like Flappy Bird BEFORE Flappy Bird? There was a helicopter one and a worm one. On the topic, I want to mention that games like Angry Birds where you launch something from a catapult were common back on Newgrounds before cell phones became smart phones and the only mobile games you could get were a low quality version of Snake.
I am so glad Scott pilgrim isn’t one of those games anymore.
It is ashame when you never get the chance to play a game you want to try or are curious about only to not be available anymore. Granted some cases have games that were so bad they don't exist anymore for the better but lately it's the latter.
Poker Night at the Inventory 1 and 2 were chill, casual, and charming card playing games and it's another sad loss.
Can we get a "25 MMORPGs You Can't Play Anymore?"
How about "Completed games that never got released?"
Oh for the latter there are tons but some highlights would be StarCraft:Ghost,The South Park GTA Clone, Mario 128,JJBA Vento Aureo's English Localisation because of copyright issues with Prince's estate,Sonic Crackers,Sonic Mars and 32x and finally Sonic Extreme.
I’m just glad you don’t go with the herd that craps on MCS because “durr hurrr pandering durrr hurrr Minecraft can’t have a compelling story hurrr”, thank you for that. It’s not a masterpiece, but it’s a fun romp and decent enough.
I don’t think Minecraft Story Mode is terrible, per se, but I just personally believe giving Minecraft a linear, story-oriented games goes against the openness and freedom that the base game is known for. That and the writing is obviously geared more towards kids due to them being Minecraft’s primary audience.
But hey, if peeps manage to enjoy it, more power to ‘em.👍🏽
The only thing about rabbidluigi that could be improved upon (compared to the other (great) things about him) is that he should stop sleeping on Pac-Man (seriously, the only time he mentioned it was when he put Pac-Man for the Atari 2600 on his list of top 5 worst video game remakes, and I think the Pac-Man World trilogy for handheld consoles could have also shared the same spot) and mention why Pac-Man Monsters could have been a contender for this list, but we’re already two videos (of video games that we can’t find anymore, so they’re not even 1% rare anymore) in and he still never gave Pac-Man a fair mention yet (like I said, in this case, it’s PMM).
Telltale's Guardians of the Galaxy is one where I said I'll buy it when I have money to spare in a few years as well as the rest of Telltale's library. Little did I know... at least we have Square Enix's take on the.material.
What is crazy about Mario 35, is you had a fan make a Mario Battle Royale for PC that (in my opinion) was even better than Mario 35 which Nintendo shut down after it's popularity for 2 weeks. They then released 35 roughly 2 years later only to kill that game too.
You can add the original HD ports of the PS2 GTA Trilogy now, since Rockstar decided it was a good idea to delist the originals in place of the lackluster Definitive Trilogy. Those ports are basically unplayable now.
Can't play anymore
Emulation users: hold my beer
I'm a little surprised Driver San Francisco didn't appear in either video on the topic with how mysterious I've found it to be, I've even noticed that some major RUclipsrs have taken down their entire playthroughs of it that I very distinctly remember watching
I was actually just thinking about Conker and project spark the other day that's one heck of a coincidence.
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I'm happy you showed Marble Blast Ultra! I first played it on an Xbox 360 demo disk (the one that came bundled with Sonic tennis), but I was sad to find out it was removed off of XBLA. Thankfully, at some point the entire game was released on Gamejolt at one point, and while I think that's been removed too, you can always find a zip file of MBU if you look long enough.
(Or just ask me and I'll try to give you my copy!)
Straight up, I didn’t even know that Project Spark ever released
What this video makes me realize is simply how much harder it is to preserve games. Unlike with a film, show or book that can be preserved as a simple video or text file, a game is a whole different story. You need the console and some work in recoding to preserve. Especially true with numerous iPhone games I loved as a kid.
If you haven’t already, you should do one about games you couldn’t play anymore for awhile that were finally brought back or rereleased, like Mission in Snowdriftland or maybe Scott Pilgrim
There actually are a few unplayable Katamari games now. I have one still downloaded on my phone called I ❤️ Katamari that I can't play because they haven't updated it in decades. There's also Amazing Katamari, but as far as I can remember, it was an endless runner thing
Get ready for the original PC versions of GTA 3, Vice City and San Andreas to be added to this.
It's confirmed that they'll be delisted.
Ever heard of our lord's and saviours the pirates, much love for game conservation
The other day I discovered that Bob's Game (the meta-puzzle version, not the demo of the RPG) had been taken down off of every known platform and the even github was deleted. So unless someone has a backup of the source, it's gone for good. Even the RUclips channel has been reduced to one video (I hesitate to point this out in case he meant to remove it and just overlooked it). This sucks because even though it wasn't the crazy revolutionary RPG he originally wanted to make, it was still a pretty good single and multiplayer falling blocks game with a ridiculously good editor. Better than Tetris 99, even.
If you have a game in your Steam library that's called "ok", that's where Bob's Game was before he deleted it.
I think what hurts even more of No. 1 is that it’s basically the last time we’ll even play as Conker ever again. Chris Seavor did mention that a sequel to Conker’s Bad Fur Day will never happen again due to that times have changed and if a sequel is made at this time, it wouldn’t fly at all and people would be butthurt or offended to play it. And it hurts even more with that atrocity that is Young Conker…
Literally yesterday I was in a GAME store and they were selling copies of Battleborn for 50p, despite them literally doing nothing at this point. Novelty drinks coaster, perhaps?
It's a game for collectors to put on the shelf, I guess.
Good thing that we have ways to play some of those with Dolphin for #4 :)
man, the monsters under rabbid's bed must be having a grand time
Oh, you mean like how they shut down the labor of love that was AM2R? That was the remake Metroid II: Return of Samus deserved. Granted, Nintendo made Samus Returns, but it's like half-assed attempt at remaking Metroid II. AM2R was the remake everyone wanted.
I wish to add a game to the list, Darkspore. The game was from the age of Absurd EA DRM and you could only install it once per disk, however that isn't the reason I am putting this game forward. It was also an online only game with no capability to RUN without linking to the servers. Even if you have a valid install it won't work since they took the servers down.
Thankfully there are people working to make the game playable again, but Darkspore remains a game I am pissed about for how much I enjoyed it only for it to become unplayable for me in two different ways. First I had to go through EA customer support when my install broke to fix it since you couldn't just reinstall it, and man wasn't that a fucking laugh, they were condescending and blamed me for the game's failure, and it took me giving them the code for the disk, the place I purchased the disk and providing proof of purchase before they would give me a new one time use code to fix my install, only for the servers to be taken down not two months later. As bad as some of the games here are in terms of being unplayable, at least they were given a dignified demise, not just having the rug pulled out from under them.
To explain the game has all the data needed to run solo without the servers except for specific packages created by the server to tell the game how to take its data and construct the levels. In other words with a simple patch the game could have been made playable beyond the end of the servers and instead they killed it outright. Those people trying to make the game playable have had to figure out how to spoof the server call and try to figure out how to construct the packages it needs. The fact they even got an empty map parcel to load is a miracle, and if they succeed in making the game playable again I would willingly pay the amount I payed for the game again to them in thanks if I could.
TLDR: FUCK EA! Darkspore was awesome.
Nintendo: Every console after the Wii will be able to use its controller, and even the Gamecube controller.
Developers: Cool, so the consoles will carry over our digital games without us needing to develop them again and again?
Nintendo: lol no
Making space for physical games? In 2021? What a legend
BLUR was a game I truly loved and enjoyed sadly it was in an odd year for playstation and can only be played through mods and old game copys its extremely rare and each day that passes makes the game harder and harder to play.
Me: "Yeah, I remember it wasn't long ago since he made the previous video. Must have happened a lot to make a sequel already"
Rabbidluigi: "It's been 3 years ago since my last video on this subject matter"
Me...."Come again?"
Why does time fly so fast O.O
So another entire franchise I'd like to throw up here is: The Transformers games published by activision, specifically Transformers: Devastation. Activision lost the license to the transformers games, and because of that their popular War for Cybertron, Fall of Cybertron, and Rise of the Dark Spark games got pulled from digital stores for a few years. When Transformers: Devastation was released, they renewed the license and all of those games, including devastation, went back up for sale on digital platforms...For about a year, when they all got pulled from digital storefronts AGAIN, INCLUDING THEIR BRAND NEW DEVASTATION GAME. As of today, you still can't buy the games digitally unless you get a key from a reseller or something.
Reminder that Super Mario 35 itself got a fan browser game of simular concept from infernoplus cease and desisted just to be time limited itself.
Thanks Nintendo.
Walking Dead The Videogame Season 1 was awesome! Last episode made me cry though. Right in the feels
Unavailable games are bad and all, but unavailable anime is true suffering… I miss you Shiki…
I remember Tap my Katamari being a thing and I made a lot of progress and poof the game disappeared.
Should've expected that of a mobile game.
Please mention The Orignal Sims and The Sims 2 EA ran a thing a few years ago where you could get all The Sims games but since then you can not buy The OG Sims or The Sims 2 anywhere legally outside of some shady Ebay listings
I miss one particular WiiWare game, Art Style Light Trax. The highway theme "Mikado" was absolutely excellent but the game itself was neat as hell
I still remember when Jontron used to be a gaming RUclipsr and did that iconic reaction video to the Conker reveal for Project Spark.
*Keeps sponsorship starts*
Shido: You have my attention.
Blaming Nintendo for other publishers/developers not migrating games off the wiiware store doesn’t really seem fair. That’s up to Konami.
To be fair, Konami have effectively tied a noose around their own neck at this point. There's only so much blame we can pile onto them before it gets boring.
We can blame Nintendo for shutting down the server. That was their decision.
@@FatherTime89 Why wouldn't they shut down a server of a 10 year old console? Keeping the servers running would be costlier than it is worth it. And no, simply because they have the money isn't a good reason, because they would constantly lose money by keeping the servers up so they would have to make the money for this servers in some way, shape or form, ergo, making all their other services costlier than it already are.
Yeah, that was a weird justification. It's totally konami's fault.
As usual.
@@toumabyakuya and don’t forget they gave people like a 6 month warning before they did it.
There are still physical copies of Project Spark though, and the game will still update with all the content and Conker's Big Reunion. So for as long as disc versions exist, you can still play the game, and as long as the Xbox One servers are up, you can still play Conker's Big Reunion.
I have to correct you slightly on Minecraft: Story Mode. While the normal physical edition of the game only contains episode one, this only applies to the console versions of the game. You can still play the game on PC and can still download all the episodes since the episodes are stored on Steam's servers, and not Telltale's servers. (At least for the Steam version of the game. Unsure how it is with GOG. Speaking from experience since I did get the game on PC even after its delisting.) The only way to get the game digitally on PC now is by buying a redeemable code.
As for how to play all the episodes on consoles, the "The Complete Adventure"-Edition of the game (season one specifically) has all episodes pre-loaded on the disc itself.
As for season 2, you can still play all the episodes of that game if you specifically buy the Nintendo Switch version of the game, since that version came out after the season was complete. Hence, all the episodes are pre-loaded on the cartridge, like the "The Complete Adventure"-Edition of season one.
I wonder if he's going to mention the original Angry Birds.
I HONESTLY DIDN'T KNOW THAT MARIO 35 WAS DEAD. Good thing I still downloaded it when I had the chance and redownloaded now, BUT DAMN. I didn't think that this would hit harder THAN A SOLID TITANIUM SEMI TRAILER TRUCK WITH AN ANTIMATTER-POWERED ENGINE CARRYING 100 TONS OF LEAD. Man, do I feel bad for anyone who didn't get this game. I really do.
*sees Conker in the thumbnail*
Look how they massacred my boy.
How about top 5 dead games that ended on a cliffhanger that deserves a proper ending
Doug Bowser: "We wanted to celebrate Mario's 35th Anniversary in NEW & EXCITING ways, and keeping Super Mario Bros. 35 online forever would devalue that."
Me: DEEEEEFINITELY former EA: the man speaks their samey bullshit corporate lingo. That is LITERALLY the excuse an EA rep WOULD give! >.>
That Persona 5 song during the commercial
Emulators are the heroes we need in this world.
13:09 I’ll tell you what they’d do, because they’ve done it before. They get them removed. There have a lot of Pokemon fan games that have been removed by Nintendo.
That Mario game was simlar to a online fan game too that vanished before mario 35 showed up.
I play Conker's bad fur day :live and reloaded at least once a year for great multiplier
Multiplayer.*
I’ve vaguely remember there was some weird deal where they were planning to release an “official” Conker game through the Spark game and they put out some teaser but it was super short and limited by what the Spark game could do
Super Mario Bros. 35 was so much fun. It getting delisted is a tragedy
I wouldn't blame digital bits all that much; there's a huge list of lost movies, in several cases where people just didn't worry until they opened the only known copy to the smell of vinegar. A decent chunk of early TV was never recorded or the tapes abandoned or destroyed. I'd worry about games on physical media as well; old disks are often unreadable, and even cartridges are often dying.
Another mention for me is Evolve. It's not a great game, as it is held back by some of the design choices and how some of its best features are locked behind a paywall, but it is a solid multiplayer shooter where you have to try to solve problems and fight monsters. It's a lot like Left 4 Dead, which makes sense with both games made by the same developer. What's unique from Left 4 Dead is the fact that one of the players take the role of the boss monster who needs to level up while dealing bits of damage to the hunting team. It's actually heartbreaking to see it fall with such promise. What the hell 2K? Why did you have to overmonetize it and cause a lot of its playerbase to stop playing it? Not to say Turtle Rock isn't partially to blame for it. After all, another reason for its failure was the fact that one of the monsters could become ten times as fast and clone itself. Regardless, so much of its playerbase left, it became free to play before eventually shutting down its servers. At least we can still play as a monster in Dead by Daylight. Sure, some of its own best content was also monetized, but it was loads more replayable and is ironically still evolving itself. Maybe Evolve could have remained popular if it let you play as a xenomorph...
Gran Turismo 6 ought to be in a later list; Online services closed, and updates cannot install correctly due to some inexplicable problem.
Project Spark's Delisting was a huge spirit crusher for me. Sure, I can still make projects and practice coding and the like, but I can't share anything with anyone anymore...
Contra ReBirth was the best Contra game I ever played, honestly. I thought it was amazing fun with two players. I still have it kicking around on an old Wii somewhere.
Man, seeing City of Heores again is a mix of good memories and sadness.
City of Heroes Homecoming. Look into it. :)
The worst thing to me about those Konomi games on Wiiware is that they had a good opportunity when they put out those colections a few years ago to get these games back out there as a final add on. I just hope that since they seem to like these collections that maybe a Rebirth collection might be in the cards.
I guess Microsoft doing something right in the video game market is rather... Rare!
Also, why would Nintendo make Mario's 35 anniversary title a temporary one? Even Sonic Team got that one right! You can still play 06!
you can not download it though
i know that opening was just an act but watching you put animal crossing in the trash physically pained me
0:59 was that a mightycarmods reference? It is in my headcannon.
Great video! Really love your content always but this one was fresh as heck!
Can we get an F in chat for Transformers WFC and FOC? Neither were made backwards compatible on Xbox/PS and when High Moon shut down the servers, so too were they removed from any digital stores.
12:20 the one Mario game where Bowser truly won and killed Mario
6:00 that's the reason why I don't buy games digitally on consoles.
At least I know that Steam won't decide to remove my bought games and say "Fuck you"
That intro bit was fucking glorious.
Mario 35 was such a fun concept, and an interesting take on the "battle royale". That they decided to remove it so soon afterward is such a shame. Yeah, they wanted to create their own little Unus Annus moment, where "you had to be there, man" and all that, but if it is a good concept, and people loved it, and people miss it now that it is gone...... why get rid of it? Make it a permanent feature, and just increase the player pool by +1 every anniversary. I'd still play it if it was called "Mario 37" or whatever.
My favourite Project Spark level was a remake of P.T. (a delisted game!) which actually teased a Conker game instead of Silent Hill (yay, cancelled!). This was some kind of a delist-ception, delists within delists. (Hey, isn't the bit at 14:06 from the P.T. remake?)
So here is a very obscure game that I miss.
It is called Great Whale Road.
It is... The best way to explain it is that it is a Viking themed city manager with some combat and hand drawn art.
It was discontinued as the developers kicked the bucket.
Why I remember it is because I almost got a job at that studio. Or rather I reached out to them, had a phone interview, and then I heard they were closing down.
I remember playing My life as a king and My life as a Demonlord many years ago and having had a fun time with them, makes me sad that I might not be able to play them anymore :(
Earlier this year Bangai 0: Missile Fury got pulled from XBLA with absolutely no warning and even Delisted Games didn't seem to notice and as far as I'm aware still hasn't, this was a massive kick in the crotch to me because I had just set aside some money to finally get it myself and complete my Xbox 360 Shmup collection, only to find out the hard way that the game was delisted almost exactly a month earlier with zero fanfare or advanced warning of any kind!
And over here in the other corner is Dungeons and Dragons online, still getting updates and still getting expansions. Honestly play it over the latest games that are out... you won't be disappointed by the Dungeons having actual puzzles!
I still play Tell Tales monkey Island game....they can't take that off me!
I was just wondering what had happened to that Project Spark. For some reason.
That City of Heroes/Villians scene in the intro. I miss those games
I'm worried for stuff like iRacing or LoL, games that have been super important to the rise of Esports in their genre but are almost entirely an online service.
I love the mvc2 track playing in the background
You're channel has been takin a dive man in views. Hell, I haven't seen your vids pop up in my feed for a long time too
0:56 if only that was a copy of Sonic Colors Ultimate
Does it suck?
@@christopherhammond5142 It’s not awful but it’s a pretty shoddy remaster that’s a downgrade over the original, especially on Switch.
The katamari damacy that used to be on iOS is unplayable now
Sure, let's make a *temporary* digital video game to celebrate our IP's anniversary for *45 dollars.*
_Who in the fuck does that??_
It's such a literal waste.
I'm expecting to see Evolve, since you can only get it on disc now. Just missed the premiere :0
Also, that WiiWare water game was so good and I'm sad I can't finish it 😭
Get yourself the dolphin emulator and a wad of the water game.
Boom, go finish it now.
Both Minecraft Stories have hard copies that have all the eps for S1 think was PS4/XBoxOne and for S2 only the switch one if I recall? All other ones were EP1 discs so this untrue unless don't have system for the completed copies
Bet E.T is gonna be here. Conker guess it's the demo
Bruh you still can play E.T
Top 10 bosses you fight multiple times in a single game
6:25 looks like he needs a Wii loaded with WiiWare games
The Tokimeki Memorial series was not only never released outside Japan, but the first four games are all out of print. Since Konami has changed their business focus, they never even made a fifth game; the last one was in 2009. This was the series that codified non-hentai dating sims which the Western world never had the chance to experience without emulation. Konami did try an Americanized version called Brooktown High, which bombed horribly; if only Konami tried again by actually releasing Tokimeki Memorial fully translated for Western players.