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00:00 - Intro (70s and First Advergames)
03:14 - Games Based on Stuff You Can Eat
08:14 - Getting Destroyed by McDonalds
12:20 - More Fast Food
15:19 - EXTREME SPORTS (For Kids)
19:15 - AdverCars
22:42 - Nerf Video Games
26:11 - Why Is This a Video Game?
33:51 - Chex Quest
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I am more than likely gonna make a follow up to this way sooner than later, so PLEASE let me know some AdverGames I might have missed! I know there's a whole M&Ms thing but I was surprised to find like, you know, 4 ADDITIONAL Taco Bell games. I need the weird stuff and and I need it STAT.
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Cool Spot - 7up game. I kind of liked it, although it would probably frustrate the s*** out of me now.
I remember playing Cap'n Crunch Crunchling Adventure during childhood. It's not great in hindsight, but it has a good soundtrack, though.
not an advergame since it wasn't official. There is a game on the dos/spectrum called Vette!. It came out in 1989 and what is interesting about it is it's one of the first open-world games in a sense with a 3D world. It being a reproduction of san francisco you drive.
There's also ford driving simulator series which was dos games you got from the dealership or ordered to test drive various cars from the ford dealership at the time. as well as look at buyers information.
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Huge shout-out to Tommy Tallarico for composing all these games' soundtracks! His mother is very proud!
Crazy he did it ALL by himself. Completely. With no help. All him. Definitely no one else.
Why do you like Tommy Tallarico so much? Didn't Hbombergy expose him as an hackfraud?
I believe that's the joke@@Cartograph176
@@blackmagestaff So that's mine. 😄
Oof.
Chex Quest inevitably introducing kids to Doom is so funny to think about.
Even funnier that a bunch probably played doom and thought “whoa… a Chex Quest clone!”
Chex quest was my first ever PC game and I would run down the road to my aunt's house every day after school to play it cause she was the only person I knew who owned a computer. Those were some good times.
School introducing people to doom is sorta ironic too if you think about it
The game that springs to my mind is Captain Crunch's Crunchling Adventure. You got it for free inside the cereal box and it was kinda like those pet raising games. You had a Crunchling and you trained it up with various minigames until you got strong enough to take on the final boss.
I played the shit out of that game when i was little lol
I came here for this comment! Crazy memories there
I’m almost 30 and to this day the soundtrack occasionally gets stuck in my head lol
I came here just for this…that game fucking slapped as a kid
This game, and the Operation Kids Next Door game on cartoon network's website, Jumpstart Second Grade, a couple reader rabbit games(I think I played the kindergarten and 1st grade one's, by third grade I turned my back on anything "educational" in gaming) and "Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?" All stand out to me as my first games I played to full completion, and then played endlessly afterwards over and over again.
The kid's next door game had a password system where each character gave you a few letters to a phrase to unlock a final episode. I recall one level feeling near impossible, (I wanna say there was bad controls, or maybe a mechanic within the game was just abnormally hard) but I managed to guess the secret code for the final level and skipped that one level.
Remember that time FF15 advertised for cup noodle and one of your bros were describing the taste like it was the best sex ever and you even had a quest dedicated to cup noodle.
Yeah, except it wasn't done in an even remotely clever/organic/tongue-in-cheek way, like a character saying "We gotta fuel up before we head into battle, guys - let's try that Cup Noodle joint that just opened up."
Instead we got epic Final Fantasy style characters saying ridiculous stuff like, "Y'know, my grandfather used to always tell me that you need food to fight, but doesn't it make sense that the better the food, the better the buff? We can't settle for average noodle cups - they're bland and make our taste cry for the flavors of their ancestors. We're gonna need the heavenly herbs and spices that can only come from the best noodle cups, and that's gotta be Cup Noodles!"
I still think the craziest thing about the BK games is that the discs contain both a original Xbox and 360 game on one disc, which would load each version based on the console. Tekken 6 wasn't an advergame but it did have product placement from Church's chicken, and either ufc/tapout from what I recall
I guess that's one reason it's not on Xbox one back compat lol.
Programming the disc drive to recognise 2 separate iso ROMs would've been tricky.
Shame you kinda just glanced over Tapper as it's development history is wild. Essentially it's 1st Arcade Game made specifically with bars in mind; The 1st Barcade Game if you will. As such the original cabinets were designed with slots to fit your beers into and brass railings to rest your feet on "Bar Owners were meant to mount a barstool in front of it like it were well a bar". The Joysticks were even actual Budweiser Tap Handles. The reason Root Beer Tapper would later made was to get a version they could put into normal arcades. Also most home computer and early console ports had MTN Dew branding.
My favorite part of Tapper is winning the bonus game rewards you with a "This Bud's for you" jingle. I think that was still present in Root Beer Tapper.
It's also hilarous how copies of home ports of Tapper on eBay often wind up being listed as "Fapper" from people misreading the label.
@@FunnyStarRunner That's why you gotta be careful with cursive.
Hearing the words "Tech Deck" together just awakened some lost memories holy hell.
Fr tho
A product you buy that makes you want buy another product is definitely a funny thing to witness.
It's what we like to call a "Win-win."
Product inception.
Cool Spot was the first advergame I remember. I have no idea how it holds up, but as a kid I was amazed by the animation
I always liked Cool Spot. The sequel that had the bad 3d was annoying because you had to jump in a weird way and it would take a lot of tries to jump successfully.
Cool Spot was fun from what I can remember, not great, but still fun Avoid The Noid was similar
i remember vaguely loving that game. Pretty sure it was a clone of another preexisting platformer. But I remember having fun with it.
Bruh, combining Tito Ortiz with SpongeBob was genius. Also gotta mention Darkened Skye for being an actual video game that tries something unique.
Yeah, I'm quite surprised Darkened Skye didn't make it- it might be the one of the few advergames that was actually good (at least by my tastes).
Bafflingly, Darkened Skye isn't an advergame. It's a licensed game. They paid for the Skittles licence, not the other way around.
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That's wild
Tito Ortiz being here after watching 10+ hours of mma content involving him, Dana and Chuck Lidell, my mind is so like confused
I'm guessing Darkened Skye wasn't included because Austin already covered it in an old video. I think it was "10 Obscure Licensed Games" or something like that.
Doritos crash course was the only ad game I ever played growing up on XBLA, but it was actually a solid multiplayer game. A bit short but replayable with a few mates. I actually reinstalled it on my Xbox X a year ago to play with my brother.
This is exactly what I needed. I'm sick, curled up on the couch ready for a new episode.
I hops this helps! Been sick a bunch this year, it sucks.
@austineruption I thought I was the only one! 😂 Of course I've got a one-year-old niece who's in daycare, so every time I babysit her, I get sick!
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Sick people club! Hope you all feel better soon ❤
The flu is spreading here aswell, best of luck recovering. Good yt vids always help ^^.
Dorito's Crash Course was probably one of my favourites haha. Ridiculously fun for what it was. I also remember an untitled XBLA game that was like an endless runner where you play as your avatar, jump over obstacles and hit footballs with your head, all while Let's Go by Calvin Harris played endlessly in the background. Turned out it was a tie-in for a Pepsi Max advert.
8:25 So glad Tommy Tallarico finally getting the recognition he deserves, I hear is mother is very proud
Your mention of ChexQuest HD reminds me that a video about licensed game remakes might be interesting; since licensed games are usually seen by both rightsholders and consumers more as merchandise than legitimate pieces of media, a company going back to remake them really shows that the original must've been something special.
Games in this category that come to mind would be DuckTales Remastered, Battle for Bikini Bottom Rehydrated, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time Re-Shelled, Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse (2013) or Asterix & Obelix XXL Romastered.
Pepsi-Man was huge in my country! So much so that it's one of my generation's most remembered PS1 games.
Dude.....Arenablast was my JAM as a kid. It had multiple arenas, themed around the teams, and the coolest was one where you had to jump between meteors in space. There were multiple game modes in each arena, the best one being a points/collection based mode. There were multiple colored balls you'd collect and have to shoot into a goal to get points. You needed to be the first to have scored all 7 or 8, but you got bonus points for shooting multiple colors into a goal at once. I think you still had to get the highest point score? But it was so much fun to be jumping around like quake, firing the cool nerf guns (which your parents only got you one of....) and trying to keep as many colored balls as you could before firing them all in for one big streak. Really, a highly underrated game.
I loved Moorhuhn as a child SO Much. It's a german advertisement game from the shoot em up genre. It's for Johnny Walker Whiskey (yes u read that right) xDDDD which i never knew as a child. But it has several sequels and god, my whole family actually played it and competed with one another. It's called Chicken Crazy in english..
Fuck, I've played to so much. Never knew they were advertisement games 😳
Everyone seems to forget that quavers, a crisp from the uk had a videogames on the Amiga, Called pushover starring their obscure mascot Colin curly. I think it may have even gotten a sequel.
My mom was an assistant manager at Burger King when those games came out so I got all of em most of them has some kinda co-op so me and my friends loved em
Surprised by no mention of Darkened Skye, which is among my favorite advert games.
Big Bumpin' was a huge personal fav of mine out of these Advergames back then.
Sneak King is kind of a guilty pleasure, also. Mainly the novelty from the advertisement and the intro treating it like its a horror movie haha.
Darkened Skye was a third-person shooter/ActionRPG ish thing for the PC in 200..2? Really, I thought it newer than that. Anyway, pretty solid game honestly. Story wasn't bad, likeable main character and her sidekick, occasionally actually funny. Fun to beat stuff up with your staff when you weren't blasting spells. Surprisingly difficult at times too, not just in the combat, but also in some seriously twisty puzzles, and unforgiving platforming. Magic system was pretty unique too, in that you had to create your own spells...with Skittles.
They downplayed it as hard as they could, but yeah, totally an ad game. It was mentioned in tiny print on the box, and the manual talks about them, but in the game there's no denying you're looking for Skittles to make your spells and recharge your mana. Big Ss on them and all.
Though I remember it fondly for having probably my favorite "puzzle" of all time. There's a large canyon you have to cross over somehow. Eventually you find clues that you have to have faith and go towards the light, or something like that...which means look at the sun in the sky, and walk across the freakin' invisible bridge. Very Indiana Jones 3.
Bro those burger king games were lowkey gems 😂
I played SOoOoOo much Big Bumpin’ growing up
When getting to the Online Advergames my mind instantly went to Candystand and their multiple mini-golf games with everything from Lifesavers to Wonka candies as obstacles and course themeing. Middle/HS Memories.
Dropping a like and comment in honor of your 5 years without smoking. That's a mega accomplishment. Great job, and I wish you all the best in your continued journey.
Where were you when book publisher Simon and Schuster released a Skittles adventure game for the Gamecube and PC called Darkened Skye?
The game was not easy because there were many puzzles that made almost no sense, and the combat was wonky, but it was self-aware and humorous. It also technically wasn't an advert game as they only juat paid to use the Skittles license.
I don't watch as much RUclips as I used to, but I always get excited you have a new video. Thanks for the content sir
Idk if anyone remembers but back in the 90s/early 2000s Captain Crunch ceral had these weird little furball mascots called crunchlings. I don't remember what the game was called, but around the same time they had an advergame as a cereal prize where you raised up a crunchling. It was basically a really bare bones pet simulator, or maybe a better comparison would be the chao garden in sonic games, because I think there were competition minigames to win too. It was pretty simple, but I remember playing it soooooo much as a kid.
Its called Captain Crunch's Crunchling Adventure, I still have the disc for it and played it several years back in college when laptops still had internal disk drives.
First one I remember is Kool-Aid Man on the Atari 2600. If I recall correctly, you had to save up and send in a certain number of UPC symbols to get a copy of the game. I never got it or played it, but I certainly remember it.
Chester Cheetah: Too Cool To Fool was a game I legitimately loved as a kid.
I seem to remember getting that at a video store rental.
I've always been a McDonald's kid, but for the longest time I wasn't even aware of Ronald's existence as the mascot. It wasn't until one day in I think 4th grade when we played the game in class where x-amount of students place their backs against the blackboard, names of celebrities are then written over your head, and each participant then takes turns guessing who they are, that I was made aware when I kept guessing and guessing and guessing, and even the hint "a clown from a fast food chain" didn't tip me off. It was only when my teacher sarcastically said "You've never been to a McDonald's?" that it dawned on me. Meaning I was aware of the clown, but he was never the first thing I thought of when I ate there, I just liked the food and the atmosphere.
great video, all that research into barely remembered games couldn't have been easy! but you missed a prime chance to mention "Pepsiman" and show footage of the jiggly "Living Liquid" lad from FFXIV's Alexander raid series
Cool spot on the Megadrive came to mind immediately. Decent game tbf
Chex Quest was actually the first FPS I ever played. The next year when my friend brought over his copy of Goldeneye, my first reaction was "Oh, it's just like Chex Quest."
De schippers van de Kameleon.
Which was the tie in game add for Calve Peanutbutter, Vodaphone, TMobile and Idols. Which released a boat racer based on the movie the game was titled over.
Even though its an advertisement for multiple companies. Its actually a pretty fun Mario Kart clone.
We also had Redcat, a 2d sidescroller about a cat wielding a machine gun that has to save some princess. Which was sponsored by a bank. It was a cool game but I am curious about who the target audience was? Violent children with a passion for fincances?
5 years smoke free? Keep kicking ass Austin, it’s so difficult at first.
Post topia was a website that had an entire “world” with a bunch of flash games based around cereal. There was octopus air hockey, flinstones board games with hot air balloons, and even more
Chester Cheetah 🐆 😻 I had fun with those Genesis games!
Kudos for producing a script and video making up 40mins give or take,given the subject matter you really have outdone yourself sir,talk about pulling a rabbit out of a hat..great content,killer channel 🙌👊
P.S. anything that mentions or involves the awesomely awesome Paperboy is a winner in my book 😎
Cap'n Crunch: Crunchland Adventure lives rent free in my brain. played a lot of that with a friend, raising a little goober as they got swole on an all-cereal diet
Ahhh I was hoping to see Cap'n Crunch's Crunchling Adventure. I loved that game.
Same, I don't think there was a single kid in my school that wasn't playing it, or coming over to play it.
GR Yaris (only available in EU/JP, has the GR Carolla 3cyl Turbo engine) is awesome. So Yaris's or even the Mazda2 versions are all pretty sweet little nuggets. Mazda and Toyota are probably my favorite companies, Nissan being a close third and Honda also being awesome but only making FWD cars anymore.... But yeah, now I wanna find the Yaris game lol looks insane.
Oh cool, you used my Donald Land strategy guide scan. Nice!
I play tested the McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure game for the Genesis back when I was a kid. It was surprisingly good.
The Mr. Wimpy design is based on the guards of the Tower of London, who are also known as "beefeaters". He's a literal beefeater who's a beef eater. Took me a bit to put two and two together there.
I remember a Cap'n Crunch CD Rom game pack-in that was a collection of three mini games -- one for each variety of Cap'n Crunch at the time. I vaguely remember throwing Crunch berries around and I think the Peanut Butter Crunch game was a Doom clone? It was no Chex Quest, but it was enough incentive that my parents (or maybe grandma?) bought us name brand cereal, a rarity for my family in those days
16:19 great, now I have Scoot the Burbs stuck in my head again
Talking about Nerf N-Strike reminded me that for the longest time, my family used a Nerf laser sight as a laser pointer for our cats, and it looked just like one of them in-game.
I think the best advercars game of all time has to be Need For Speed : Porsche Unleashed. It was everything about Porsche from the early days until the modern time, fun missions and championship. I had fun progressing through every single stage , ever single era of Porsche masterpieces in amazing , challenging and tricky European locations. The car physics and damage was quite realistic for that time.
Cannot remember how I found your channel, always happy when there's an upload! Another absolutely choice upload, my guy.
Holy shit. That Global Gladiators title screen music unlocked lost memories.
Mr. Wimpy is a Beefeater! A special type of royal guard in the British military who guard the Tower of London. They dress in these red uniforms similar to how Mr. Wimpy is dressed and wear those medals. Also, a burger mascot who's a beefeater is just a clever play on words
I know there were advergames before it, but the first instance I can specifically remember was Yo Noid on the NES from Capcom.
It’s funny that the video about game’s that advertise things, has a game being advertised as it’s sponsor
The GBC Razor game is famous for SCOOT THE BURBS!
Return to Dark Tower is the pinnacle board game championing a skull based economy
While we’re at it, let’s advertise to He-Man that he is a frantic FOOL!
"Can't see anything McDonald's on the cover." Immediately visible M logo on the character's T-shirt arm. 🤣
I do love how chaotic Donaldland is! Learned about it when I joined a ROMhack project of it.
Ahhh, memories of a CD Rom falling out of my cereal box and being so excited to play my cereal box game! 😂 I don’t know that the game actually sold the cereal to me as it was already on our regular weekly grocery list but I am pretty sure a cereal box game (A captain Crunch one) was my first ‘computer game’ besides solitaire and the calculator, which came with the family computer. 😂😂😂
30:16 congrats! You say NBD, but my dad started smoking again after a few years of non-smoking. So keep it up, my dude!
Heh, Love the U.N. Squadron background music you slipped in there in the Beetle Adventure Racing segment ;)
19:54 Just like to point out that Famitsu actually did give the game a good score: 28/40. Which would make it about an 8/10
The Razor Freestyle Scooter soundtrack SLAPS
as a kid I had a Captain Crunch game for PC where you raised little fuzzy guys and played a skateboarding mini game
"BiFi Roll - Action in Hollywood" was a pretty good advertisement game. It's a point and click adventure in the style of old Lucas Arts games
I FORGOT ABOUT NERF BLAST TILL I WATCHED THIS - "OHHHH THE NOSTALGIA"
Great video. I only 2 games for my NES, one of them was Mac Kids.. Also ‘run of the General Mills Shooter’ cracked me up lol
This music goes so hard
*a series of bit crushed beeps
The captain crunch game where you raised a little monster and taught him to skateboard and stuff! lol
Low key my favorite youtube channel
The soundtrack in Beetle Adventure Racing is such a bop! Love that game
The Global Gladiators intro is too hilarious to exist. Also, popped for Knight reference. RIP push.
The reason that Ronald McDonald doesn't exist as much at the restaurant any more because they had to separate the character for the charity "Ronald McDonald Houses" for sick children from the restaurant. It was chosen to represent the charity rather than the restaurant sometime in the 2010s.
I could be wrong about this, but I seem to remember sometime around 2001 there was a free game that you got from boxes of Quaker Oatmeal. The variety that was targeted at kids with the dinosaur eggs that turn blue. My memory tells me it was some kind of Indiana Jones themed puzzle adventure?
Nerf Arena Blast was a riot, it even had a few classic UT maps in it remade in the game's style.
Sneak king holds a strange grasp of my most my childhood
No one is driving those Jeeps, but one has an elbow sticking out of it's passenger window
In The Netherlands we had "Het Yogho! Yogho! Spel" which was actually a pretty fun platformer for MS DOS based on the bizarre 90's commercials of the yoghurt drink Yogho! Yogho!
Nowadays the original game is a collector's item.
Might have played that… i might need to see screenshots or dig deep xD. I did play a lot of zool (the chupa chup lolly game)!
About the "Why is this a video game?" part: I just played a advertisement game for a bank made in the late 90s.
Global Gladiators for the Mega Drive was my first memory of such a game. I remember it being good too! Though Lord knows how it holds up now.
I think you might missing the "you finished first, yay!" joke in Hooters... 😂
6:08 stick drift? Man, I once saw an N64 in McD's where both controllers had the central handle broken off, it looked like an SNES controller with handles.
I was surprised Bass Pro Shop was mentioned but no mention of Cabela's hunting games!
Cool of Razer Racing to have Jade(Jackie Chan Adventures) as a guest character.
My sister got me Global Gladiators for Christmas that year. I slept on it for a couple days because I didn't know what to expect, but then I played it and I had fun. Yes, the environmental message was obvious, and even my 8-YO self found it suspicious that it was sponsored by McDonalds... but it's a genuinely fun game.
I still feel nostalgia for 7Up's Cool Spot on Sega Genesis.
Dang...I had this video idea like a year ago and never made it. Now you beat me to it! Well done.
Nerf Arena Blast was on my elementary school PC and getting to play that when I finished tests early was a highlight for me
You've gotta touch on Cool Spot and Spot Goes to Hollywood in the followup! I loved SGtH on the PS1 as a kid!
Thanks for dredging up memories of me playing the crap out of Viper Racing back when I was a kid. The best part was destroying all the other racers with the Horn Ball cheat
Global Gladiators looks like its just a palate swap of Bubsy. The whole movement thing looks identical.
20:18 That is because it's basically a Need for Speed spin-off made by the guys who made NFS at the time.
The weirdest thing about the Taco Bell game is that it is DOS only and released in get this, 2000. It uses the 3D GameStudio engine which at that time advertised that it could do full 3D like Quake. I get that people probably had older computers and this guaranteed that anyone could run it but man does this simply stink of Taco Bell trying to emulate the success of Chex Quest, although too late.
This raises a few questions like why use 3D Gamestudio when you could just use the Doom engine ? There's reasons why there hasn't been a single good release using 3D Gamestudio. It stopped being used in the US by the year 2000 (The Taco Bell game being the last).
NGL, I played the HELL out of N-Strike Elite on the Wii, I was into rail shooters and nerf so it hit me perfect. The upgrades and blaster selection...still wish some of those blasters got made in the real market
The Chex game was the first game I played regularly. Life changer.
Mr. Wimpy is a Yeoman Warder, AKA a Beefeater, one of the guards of the Tower of London. All of the Yeoman Warders must be former members of the British armed forces and at least warrant officers with 22+ years of service and the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal.
My favorite advertisement games were Cool Spot, McKids and I think it was called Candy World which was an online game where you went to this website and played games like mini golf which was based on candy like lifesavers