To this Day I wonder: Whose idea was making a Vanilla Ice Electronic Rap Game? Who Greenlit the idea? Who thought: "Yeah, that'll be the next Settlers of Catan"
What's the answer to your son thinking you are interfering with the things he enjoys and trusting his friends more than you? Easy, just forcibly separate him from all of them and never let him have any freedom again. If he ends up going no-contact after finally moving out then that just means the demons were too strong and you need to tell other parents to abuse their children even harder.
Why hasn't anyone thought of making a conspiracy theory game where you are a crackpot posting your stuff online and trying to get as many people as you can to see it.
quote from the cracked article: "And she kept saying it! n-word, n-word, with the hard R! It was so ignorant that I swear she almost flew the caller out so she could touch her hair." that is literal murder i love it
The extra Rule in Lost:The Game is actually really good, because it allows you the following play Pattern 1. Setup 2. Agree to stop playing and have everyone win immediately 3. Set up a different, actually good game, like Coup or something
The Dr. Laura n word thing is really funny in context, a black viewer asked about how her husbands white friends are being kinda racist to her, and her response is to go on a rant about how white people should be allowed to say the n word
And worth noting, she was neither fired nor suspended for this. She was just back on the air the very next day like nothing happened, a Thom Brennaman-style "apology" notwithstanding. She said she would retire at year's end, but what she really did was just move her show to Sirius XM. She never actually stopped, and to this day she still hasn't. Turns out for some folks, consequences just don't exist.
It's even worse when put into context! This is basically how the interaction went: "Hey, I'm black, and my white friends are being racist to me. What should I do?" "Nothing! White people should say the n word, you stupid [hard r 11 times]!"
I forgot that my mom called Dr Laura for advice at one point before we realized I had ADHD, Dr Laura recommended sending me to military school... because I was having trouble remembering things...
Okay, I think the Dr Laura game could actually be quite fun, with just one change: Instead of it being closest to what she said wins, it's funniest answer wins
i feel the same could be applied to the worst-case scenario game - instead of picking a multiple-choice answer, you just make up a way to survive that's funny. each round, there's also a judge who decides if you "live" or "die". if you "die", you're sent backwards a dice roll.
I forgot all about Dr. Laura until now. My mom was always listening to her radio show and all I could think is, "Wow, this is a god awful woman." Feels like a repressed memory because I'm realizing that my mom took more of her advice than none, which more than likely fueled my childhood trauma, creating those repressed memories. What I'm trying to say is, thank you for giving me a Christmas gift idea.
We read a webcomic where a Dr. Laura parody was a fairly significant supporting cast member. After her getting canceled, she almost immediately disappeared from the comic, with little more than a parody of that moment as a send-off. … She was literally the mother of one of the main characters, to give some idea of how suddenly Laura fell off the face of the collective awareness.
@@jokerofspades-xt3bs Yeah, in 2007 there was a CSI Fingerprint Examination Kit for kids. The dusting powder was found to be full of tremolite - a form of asbestos that's dangerous even by asbestos standards - with concentrations in some samples reaching 7%. It probably ended up in there because it naturally forms in a lot of the same places as talc.
Big LOST fan here, so maybe I can shed some light on the Option 3 victory thing: LOST’s big tagline was “Live Together, Die Alone”, so I think that’s what they were going with. Agree to end the game together, everyone lives. Play the game until only one person is left standing, die alone. Yes, it’s pointless. Yes, it’s kinda stupid, but I think it’s what they were going with.
My favorite off the wall board game tie in is Clue Bridgerton Edition. It’s such a funny concept to me because 1. The show is not a murder mystery at all, in all three seasons there has only been one plot line that involved murder and no one questions the circumstances of the character’s death; and 2. The show is focused on eight siblings so the likely hood that this game involves the murderer killing their relative is nonzero
I kinda wanna suggest something: Talking about board games tied to what is now lost media. I ask because I have managed to find both a reskin of Hungry Hungry Hippos using the original Farmville, and an original game themed around now defunct virtual horse game Bella Sara(unfortunately I don't have half the pieces and am missing the rule book for that one), in thrift stores recently.
@@juliamavroidi8601 yep! A children's virtual pet game tied to a trading card collection. The cards have beautiful artwork of horses, an inspirational message, and a code to get the horse on the website as your own. The books, board games, DS/PC tie ins, lore guides, dolls, figures, movies, puzzles, and squishies came afterwards.
@@juliamavroidi8601 weird. It didn't post my reply but I essentially said "Yeah. It started as a virtual pet site where you registered trading cards to get horses in game. It branched into a ton of different things during the height of its popularity though."
I never knew the worst case scenario game was based on a book series! My family played it on long car trips when I was a kid. We would just ignore the whole board and dice rolling part, and instead we would just go through the multiple choice questions.
I had to look up this Cracked article and it did not disappoint. The absolute best line: Dr. Laura said "dissing" in the same way someone might fuck a jar of pickles in an unlocked room--very nervously, with a pained look on her face and certain what she was doing was wrong.
This makes me think about a game I once played about the First Hary Potter film/book. Because it was a trivial persuit style game it had some very general questions but since it was about only one (fairly thin children's) book it had some very detailed questions. Like at what position Vernon Dursley sat in regards to the window at his job or at what specific time he drove to work. The game had multiple choice options but it was better if you knew the answer before they told you the multiple choice options since you would get double the rewards.
There’s actually another worst-case scenario card game, and it’s much better Basically, the gameplay loop is this: Draw 5 scenario cards Person who’s turn it is rates them from worst to best to be in Everyone else does the same, and whoever’s closest to the player who’s turn it is wins the round Simplified, but the actual game is pretty fun when you’re arguing if getting eaten by an alligator or being stuck in an underground cave suffocating is worse to be in
I HATED _Lost._ A couple I mnew were obssesed and had to watch every week, so sometimes I got stuck watching it when I visited, which was often. The "compelling" nature of the show bored me to tears and then they'd try to explain the twisted plot to me ... I just ... didn't ... care. The fact that it got a board game is disappointing, but not surprising. Sounds terrible.
@@daffers2345oh yeah lost is pretty stupid There was a scene where some trees were shaking and a theory came out saying the trees were having seizures There's good theory shows and bad ones
That the worst board game ever thing is written by Seanbaby. He was super active in the early 2000's to mid 2010's doing stuff just like the worst board game ever review thing he did, but to rather obscure video games, and other topics.
Dude's still around, he's just put his stuff behind a paywall because he's got a kid and bills to pay. I still reread his Cracked articles every so often, because he's pretty much the only Web 1.0 comedian whose work still stands up... for the most part.
9:14 I actually own a board game based explicitly on the Harry Potter Books! It's a trivia board game based on the first book and it's actually really fun. Each player starts by pulling colored beads out of a sorting hat which determines their House and therefore their game peice, and the you go around the board collecting charm, spell, and curse cards while answering trivia questions about the book. The amount if detail put into that thing is genuinely impressive.
13:24 Ah yes, the true enemy of Christianity: long hair! Jesus was well known for his crew cut and clean shaven appearance! All I'm saying is the moral of Samson is that haircuts are you rejecting God's gift! Also does this woman know how much private Christian schools cost?
8:15 also diplomacy have states that make it physically impossible for anyone to win. This normally happens when someone get close to the win condition and a large block of players try to stop them. Of course, since it A) require all remaining players to agree that it a draw, which requires B) cooperation between mulpiple people often to stop one strong player, which can lead to c) someone stabing the non strong player, you can end up with the over 100 year (so over 200 phases, 300 if you count builds, and probaby over 400 with retreats) game that happen( it was online and each phase was at least a day long, lasting multipe years irl.)
3:16 Isn't Paw Patrol also a disaster-of-the-week show (something like 9-1-1) depending on the episode? I know this has no bearing on the actual topic of the video but now I'm suddenly thinking about "what children's cartoons are secretly G-rated versions of evening TV dramas"...
You should review ICP's boardgames. Yes, I said gameS, plural. They have several. There's a tabletop RPG, Two Dice rolling games, a deck building game (with an expansion) and a cards against humanity rip off (with an expansion). ICP held their own gaming convention. Twice! I went in 2018 and it was fun until it was shut down because people were fighting.
IIRC there was a post where one of the lead singers called out a guy for making his daughter a fursuit. Not because he didnt like furries, but because the suit was low quality, and he thinks his daughter deserves better. I feel like ICP is one of those things thats weird on the surface, but when you look into it there's a lot of genuine love put into it
thinking about clue: scott the woz edition, a clue reskin about a youtuber's murder mystery halloween special, is a better board-game tie-in than the ones here, made for actual major TV series
9:41 I actually had ‘The Worst Case Scenario Survival Game Junior Edition’ as a kid… and while not worse than TWCSSG, it certainly was…different. See instead of have multiple choice cards, the junior version gave you a brief scenario (you fell down a steep hill) and you had to use a *specific* tool card to ‘solve’ that situation (you use a rope to pull yourself back up). If you got it right, you roll the die and move that many spaces. If you got it wrong, then nothing happens. Problem was, the player is never guaranteed to have the correct tool cards in their hand. In the above situation, if you don’t have a rope card, you are forced to play the ‘wrong’ tool card and lose your turn (no matter how creatively you use that wrong tool). For example, you are locked in a walk-in fridge and need to survive? Sure you could play the ‘Clothes’ tool card to stay warm, but you’ll be wrong! Instead you needed to play the ‘Water Bottle’ tool card because of dehydration… Too bad you didn’t even have a ‘Water Bottle’ card to begin with, so your entire turn was a waste! The only solace was that there was another type of card, the ‘which is worse’, which was the precursor to the most recent ‘Worst Case Survival Game’, but it was certainly less frustrating…
i don't wanna sound like that guy... but wouldn't a water bottle freeze inside of a walk in fridge? unless you drink the whole bottle's worth of water ASAP, it's going to turn into undrinkable ice stuck inside the bottle fairly quick. clothes would be the correct answer cause with that, you wouldn't have to worry about hypothermia which would probably be one of the more apparent and bigger threats. actually, the water bottle would be even less then pointless. even if you DID drink it before the water inside froze into ice, you would still have to deal with hypothermia killing you and the cold bottle of water that just entered your body just made the hypothermia more likely to kill you!
@ So I’m at my parent’s house and it turns out they still have the game! I searched the deck for the specific card and here’s what it says: “What to Use to Survive If You’re Trapped in a Walk-In Freezer Tool Card Answer: Water Bottle Dehydration happens much faster than starvation, so drink that water, and drink it slowly to make it last. In this situation, the ice cream sandwich is good, the blanket is better, but the water bottle is best.” shrug* I don’t disagree with you but the game says you’re wrong so you waisted your turn spaces while I roll a die to move. /jk Another fun card I found: “What to Use to Eat Animals without Getting Poisoned After a Nuclear Explosion Tool Card Answer: Knife You’ll need a knife to skin these animals, to cut away the meat around the bone. You don’t want to eat the bones or the meat near the bones, because that’s where the radiation is the highest.” Like wtf is that situation? lol
@@ThomasSimkins ...what was that answer to the freezer thing? how does that make any sense? by the time you get to half way with the bottle, the rest of the water in it might've already turned into ice and at worse frozen over your tongue to stick the whole thing to it. water can probably be grabbed from eating the ice that would be inside the freezer with you. also, an ice cream sandwich would probably have enough water in it to let you last till some one finds you in there. that's another thing i wanna make note of, if you're in there long enough to where dehydration actually becomes a real threat to your survival, then someone wanted your death to look like a accident, or actual gross incompetence, surely they would have someone check on the freezer before the end of the day, or at least on a consistent basis. if someone actually gets locked in one long enough to at least risk death, then the owner of that walk-in freezer would be in some serious trouble. also the nuclear explosion one is just kind of weird IMO. yeah, it would make sense since a lot of radiation would stay on the bones of the animal, but that doesn't mean it would be safe to eat just because it isn't attached to the bones anymore. everything relating to the animal would be irradiated, so unless it expects you to eat the animal raw, you should at the very least cook the meat with a fire. the reasoning for some of these is really dumb sounding IMO. sorry for being way to nitpicky over a game that i only know exists because of you. but i feel like to some extent this is trying to teach kids how to survive these sort of situations (the main book series was about this) and this sort of information should really be correct incase the reader is actually in that scenario. the actual gameplay isn't much better due to how random it is. i bet you a single round can go by with most, if not every player, not having the correct card and as such nobody would be able to move (maybe even multiple times in a row but the chances of that lower the more players you have) and the turn was practically wasted and pointless. the which is worse sounds similar to just basic "would you rather" shenanigans but being force to pick between terrible situations (I.E. be in the path of a F-5 tornado that's REALLY close to you or sliding off the cliff of a giant mountain) does sound kinda fun IMO
the worst case scenario game is super nostalgic for me though i cant even remember if we even played it but i have so many fond memories of just reading the cards as a kid
Honestly, there needs to be another tournament but it's all board games you've talked about since the previous tourney. I'd like to see if the newcomers can beat out the old vets. Also, the next video is gonna be legendary. I can feel it.
My wife and I came across The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Game in a vacation house and we found the best use for it was to just read off the trivia cards at random times of day and have people guess the answers, because it always felt really absurd
I think the worst kind of tie-in board game would be one that's extremely distasteful on top of being awful to play. Kurt Cobain's Shotgun Roulette Kevin Spacey's Kiddie Diddler Wife Beater, featuring Chris Brown
Celebrity board games are funny to me because there when people in a meeting that went “should we do a new theming for this brand new board game that allows creativity? Nahhhhh put Jared Leto in it”
my grandparents had The Worst Case Survival Game at their house and i am perhaps one of the only souls on this earth who actually enjoyed the game. obviously nobody else wanted to play the game, so i would just open up the box and read and memorize all the cards. forgot them now but they were taking up far too much brainspace anyways.
9:56 i played the Worst Case Scenario survival game at a restaurant that had free to play games, and not gonna lie, it was fun but only because they didn’t have most of the pieces for the board game part. they had all the cards though and we just made it into a trivia game. :)
I was in the London Maritime Museum a few years ago and they had a stack of Worst Case Scenario books in the gift shop. I thought: "Oh cool, a survival book to match the theme of the museum!" I picked it up, opened a random page and it was about identifying and escaping a murderous clown. "If the clown has murderous eyes, sharp teeth or a weapon on him, he might be murderous." Yeah no shit.
what is he sitting on? millenial here, i will take this one. back in the 90s, it was seen as the height of all coolness to take a chair, turn it backwards and then sit on it so that you are like straddling the backside of it. references: See AC Slater via Saved By The Bell
So I enjoy listening to old radio clips and remembered my mom listening to Dr. Laura while driving in the car. I wanted to find airchecks of her show but for some reason there weren't very many around. I guess I understand why now.
A GOOD tie in game is the Home Improvement game, based on the 90's sitcom. Specifically because they rethemed an existing game, Handyman, instead of making their own product! It involves buying construction supplies & making money doing renovation jobs, which fits in with the show's theme really well! Then there's Home Alone 2, the THQ version! All U do is match sets of cards with the movie's characters! They could make the same game with ANY movie! It's just musical chairs, with a HA2 theme!
whenever i played WCS, we would just discard the board entirely and play it like a trivia game. ask the question, write the answer down and get points. bonus points if you could explain why you were correct way, way more fun
Mhmm, the Lost game sounds like it tried to have a combination of cooperation and backstabbing into one, and failed. Feels like to could learn a lot from Nemesis, which uses those two ideas aswell but does it fantasically.
My family had that Worst-Case Scenario game. As kids, my siblings and I actually got to the point that we'd memorized the cards and couldn't play anymore since we'd all get the questions right from rote memory.
I've played the Worst Case Scenario game and there was a card about sprinkling flour around your car so you can see footprints if you think people are going to secretly tamper with it, like cutting your brake cables. I read one of the books and they're a degree of magnitude less weird than this, it's more about surviving a bear attack or having to kick open the door to a burning building
The Rodney Dangerfield board game "No Respect" is just stacking numbers, that's it... It's like Backgammon. Has nothing to do with Rodney Dangerfield, it just has his fucking face on the box and board. Actually surprised you didn't dig that one up because it's just at that line of "WHO?" and "HUH?"
I feel like one problematic tie-in is xcom: the board game. I'm sure it's fun, people say it is, however, it has two main problems. The first is that theres an app that handles some stuff needed for gameplay. So if your phone is dead or you forgot/cant download it, you can't play the game. The other is how incredibly complex it is. There is an entire tutorial mode on the app, and each player has paragraphs upon paragraphs of how their role works. It's ridiculously in-depth.
So now then, when are we getting the KamSandwich tie-in bord game ? I imagine a big bord game with a bunch of smaller mini game bord games to do as you move around.
When you mentioned book tie-in games, I hoped you'd bring up "Darkover: The Ages of Chaos." It's based on a deeply weird series of novels (whose author eventually turned out to have been a child predator). The game is basically Risk, but with bizarre changing resolution mechanics which include starting contests, dares, and trying to convince other players that they don't exist.
Wait until someone tells Kam about the Chicken Soup for the Soul board game. Also I’m morally obligated to inform people that Vanilla Ice’s shoot birth name is Robert Van Winkle
14:10 I do not miss this kind of review. They've fallen out of favor nowadays, but they were everywhere at the time. Everyone thought they were the new Nostalgia Critic or AVGN without understanding why those succeeded. And Cracked reviews in particular *loved* to be as openly hostile as possible. I don't mean to give any respect to Dr. Laura, but reviews like that makes you feel like _you're_ the one being lambasted instead of the product.
I got the Jumanji board game as a birthday present a few years ago, and I can confidently say I that i can count omall of the times ive played it on one hand because it's is boring as hell and way too complicated and doesn't feel like anything in the movies at all.
Yeah you Lost: The Game alright
Which trash Tie-in caught you the most off guard? Which tie in do you know of that I missed? Let me know!
To this Day I wonder: Whose idea was making a Vanilla Ice Electronic Rap Game? Who Greenlit the idea? Who thought: "Yeah, that'll be the next Settlers of Catan"
you forgot to mention that CSI is the sole reason why a community is still hated
I really feel like with better development, the Lost game could have been amazing.
@@Ensign_games speaking from that community: it's not ONLY csi. 100 Ways to Die helped. But yeah, fuck CSI.
@@sunbirth4795 yeah, I keep forgetting about them
"Your son is weak. Your reproduction privileged is revoked."
*lasers the caller through the phone.*
What's the answer to your son thinking you are interfering with the things he enjoys and trusting his friends more than you? Easy, just forcibly separate him from all of them and never let him have any freedom again. If he ends up going no-contact after finally moving out then that just means the demons were too strong and you need to tell other parents to abuse their children even harder.
@@sealeo5772
As a queer person, this hits a little close to home lol. (Not for me tho, my parents accept me n stuff)
Why hasn't anyone thought of making a conspiracy theory game where you are a crackpot posting your stuff online and trying to get as many people as you can to see it.
@@ob2kenobi388> as a fake woman, I sure do agree.
The reason you like women is because you’re a man. ACKK.
@@GrantGraffwouldn’t that just be the doctor Laura game again?
quote from the cracked article:
"And she kept saying it! n-word, n-word, with the hard R! It was so ignorant that I swear she almost flew the caller out so she could touch her hair."
that is literal murder i love it
geez that's messed up
The extra Rule in Lost:The Game is actually really good, because it allows you the following play Pattern
1. Setup
2. Agree to stop playing and have everyone win immediately
3. Set up a different, actually good game, like Coup or something
it would make sense if stoping playing was the bad ending:everyone dies. but everyone knew that playing this game was the bad ending
Im the Duke
No way, me too
No way, I am too!!
I call this the Monopoly Rule!
The Dr. Laura n word thing is really funny in context, a black viewer asked about how her husbands white friends are being kinda racist to her, and her response is to go on a rant about how white people should be allowed to say the n word
And worth noting, she was neither fired nor suspended for this. She was just back on the air the very next day like nothing happened, a Thom Brennaman-style "apology" notwithstanding. She said she would retire at year's end, but what she really did was just move her show to Sirius XM. She never actually stopped, and to this day she still hasn't. Turns out for some folks, consequences just don't exist.
I think the TCR crowd would of loved her
@@hiimemily holy shit you're right, she's still on the air. People have gotten fully harassed off the entire internet itself for less holy shit lol.
Fun fact: Campaign For North Africa: The Desert War 1940-43 is actually a brand tie in game for Olive Garden to sell more pasta
Confound it I should've known
"And if you mimic her answers a little too well, you could get in serious trouble." then you just show the fucking "11 times"
LMFAO HOLY SHIT MAN
It's even worse when put into context! This is basically how the interaction went:
"Hey, I'm black, and my white friends are being racist to me. What should I do?"
"Nothing! White people should say the n word, you stupid [hard r 11 times]!"
I forgot that my mom called Dr Laura for advice at one point before we realized I had ADHD, Dr Laura recommended sending me to military school... because I was having trouble remembering things...
Okay, I think the Dr Laura game could actually be quite fun, with just one change: Instead of it being closest to what she said wins, it's funniest answer wins
the mbmbam board game
So just cards against humanity?
"quiplash but all the prompts are questions from a radio advice show" sounds absolutely delightful sign me up
@@thegingerchannel5879yeah this could totally be a tie in with mbmbam
i feel the same could be applied to the worst-case scenario game - instead of picking a multiple-choice answer, you just make up a way to survive that's funny. each round, there's also a judge who decides if you "live" or "die". if you "die", you're sent backwards a dice roll.
Anything’s better than Rap Rat
"Video board game host" and "Satan" is a pretty impressive profile. Would never hire.
Agreed.
What do you expect from a vessel for the Demon of Fear?
Rap rat's the name, the video boa boudive
Even F.A.T.A.L.?
I forgot all about Dr. Laura until now.
My mom was always listening to her radio show and all I could think is, "Wow, this is a god awful woman." Feels like a repressed memory because I'm realizing that my mom took more of her advice than none, which more than likely fueled my childhood trauma, creating those repressed memories.
What I'm trying to say is, thank you for giving me a Christmas gift idea.
You should add a "special" prompt that includes the racist rant she did
We read a webcomic where a Dr. Laura parody was a fairly significant supporting cast member. After her getting canceled, she almost immediately disappeared from the comic, with little more than a parody of that moment as a send-off.
… She was literally the mother of one of the main characters, to give some idea of how suddenly Laura fell off the face of the collective awareness.
By chance, do you remember the name of the webcomic?
also waiting for a response
Vanilla Ice on the box of his game looks like he's going "Wait, why am I getting a board game?"
"Why am I famous? Why am I in a movie? Why am I having sex with Madonna?"
At least it isn't jjba's vanilla ice.
Otherwise he would've destroyed the game before it was even produced.
13:27 "Your son is weak, he would not survive the rapture"
i always knew that csi ripped of paw patrol
@proton6475 Got to let the sheeple know the truth
just google the term "THAT EPISODE"
believe me its really funny
After that episode where Chase had to explain to the mayor all the different ways you can find DNA at a crime scene, I stopped letting my kid watch
*off
What's with CSI tie-in merch sucking? First asbestos fingerprint kits and now this?
@@Plantrum No matter how many failures it takes, they will make ONE good product
AN ASBESTOS FINGERPRINT KIT??????
@@jokerofspades-xt3bs Yeah, in 2007 there was a CSI Fingerprint Examination Kit for kids. The dusting powder was found to be full of tremolite - a form of asbestos that's dangerous even by asbestos standards - with concentrations in some samples reaching 7%.
It probably ended up in there because it naturally forms in a lot of the same places as talc.
@@jokerofspades-xt3bs Yep. It made the fingerprints visible real good, at the cost of your health...
CSI in any shape or form sucks
Big LOST fan here, so maybe I can shed some light on the Option 3 victory thing:
LOST’s big tagline was “Live Together, Die Alone”, so I think that’s what they were going with. Agree to end the game together, everyone lives. Play the game until only one person is left standing, die alone.
Yes, it’s pointless. Yes, it’s kinda stupid, but I think it’s what they were going with.
dude i loved That One Guy/Thing, good to see it's still being talked about in 2024
It was one of the classics for sure
Hey, I remember that CSI board game!
Namely, I remember it being scattered on the road while I did my job as a garbageman having to pick it all up.
Garbage, just like the show. how poetic
I remember it collecting dust in my grandma's house
Caller: We are worried about our son
Laura: Send him to private school. Next caller
My favorite off the wall board game tie in is Clue Bridgerton Edition. It’s such a funny concept to me because 1. The show is not a murder mystery at all, in all three seasons there has only been one plot line that involved murder and no one questions the circumstances of the character’s death; and 2. The show is focused on eight siblings so the likely hood that this game involves the murderer killing their relative is nonzero
It's right up there with Monopoly: Dragon Ball Z edition in terms of 'wha-huh?' board game tie ins.
I bought a copy of The Golden Girls Clue as a gift once. They replaced the murder plot with "who ate the last slice of cheesecake?", iirc
@@distorteddivine3638it's worse because Monopoly is like Fortnite in the sense that they will collab with ANYONE
@@RosesSpindle an equal crime, to be sure.
I kinda wanna suggest something: Talking about board games tied to what is now lost media.
I ask because I have managed to find both a reskin of Hungry Hungry Hippos using the original Farmville, and an original game themed around now defunct virtual horse game Bella Sara(unfortunately I don't have half the pieces and am missing the rule book for that one), in thrift stores recently.
Wait Bella Sara was a video game? I remember seeing the horse toys in stores
@@juliamavroidi8601 yep! A children's virtual pet game tied to a trading card collection. The cards have beautiful artwork of horses, an inspirational message, and a code to get the horse on the website as your own.
The books, board games, DS/PC tie ins, lore guides, dolls, figures, movies, puzzles, and squishies came afterwards.
@@juliamavroidi8601 weird. It didn't post my reply but I essentially said "Yeah. It started as a virtual pet site where you registered trading cards to get horses in game. It branched into a ton of different things during the height of its popularity though."
@@juliamavroidi8601it’s both ala Webkinz
I feel like that fall under the celebrity area of huh, or it sibling called "what?"
Yo, Stump!
She found her rump.
He lost his lump.
The DJ was grump.
King of the blame
His rap was lame
Like a lyrical poet shame
Yo Mama said candle flame.
The Vanilla Ice Electronic Rap Game is the Shark Tale of Board Games
I never knew the worst case scenario game was based on a book series! My family played it on long car trips when I was a kid. We would just ignore the whole board and dice rolling part, and instead we would just go through the multiple choice questions.
The worst tie-in games are the ones that just aren't fun to play. I can stomach an incomprehensible tie-in if the game is fun to play.
The antiques roadshow board game game me a hit of nostalgia of me and my dad watching it (we had nothing else to watch)
CSI tie ins can't seem to get a break: there was a forensics kit made for kids with the CSI brand, it was recalled for absestos.
I had to look up this Cracked article and it did not disappoint. The absolute best line:
Dr. Laura said "dissing" in the same way someone might fuck a jar of pickles in an unlocked room--very nervously, with a pained look on her face and certain what she was doing was wrong.
This makes me think about a game I once played about the First Hary Potter film/book. Because it was a trivial persuit style game it had some very general questions but since it was about only one (fairly thin children's) book it had some very detailed questions. Like at what position Vernon Dursley sat in regards to the window at his job or at what specific time he drove to work. The game had multiple choice options but it was better if you knew the answer before they told you the multiple choice options since you would get double the rewards.
I remember a game similar to that. Might not of been Harry potter, but boy where some of those questions insanely specific.
There’s actually another worst-case scenario card game, and it’s much better
Basically, the gameplay loop is this:
Draw 5 scenario cards
Person who’s turn it is rates them from worst to best to be in
Everyone else does the same, and whoever’s closest to the player who’s turn it is wins the round
Simplified, but the actual game is pretty fun when you’re arguing if getting eaten by an alligator or being stuck in an underground cave suffocating is worse to be in
biggest problem with most "tie-in" products as that they're usually just "lazy cash grabs"
Lost: The Game is as disappointing as the finale, and I haven't even watched a single episode.
I HATED _Lost._ A couple I mnew were obssesed and had to watch every week, so sometimes I got stuck watching it when I visited, which was often. The "compelling" nature of the show bored me to tears and then they'd try to explain the twisted plot to me ... I just ... didn't ... care.
The fact that it got a board game is disappointing, but not surprising. Sounds terrible.
@@daffers2345oh yeah lost is pretty stupid
There was a scene where some trees were shaking and a theory came out saying the trees were having seizures
There's good theory shows and bad ones
That the worst board game ever thing is written by Seanbaby. He was super active in the early 2000's to mid 2010's doing stuff just like the worst board game ever review thing he did, but to rather obscure video games, and other topics.
he's still active to this day! him and robert brockway run 1-900 HOTDOG ("the last comedy website") and it's like he never left
Dude's still around, he's just put his stuff behind a paywall because he's got a kid and bills to pay. I still reread his Cracked articles every so often, because he's pretty much the only Web 1.0 comedian whose work still stands up... for the most part.
We get it grampa, you're old as absolute fuck.
And I got it because I knew that as well :_;
@@christian_sidehugoh, I've read an article from them on the topic I actually know a lot about and yeah it's shit
@@richardpreston7333Evans has a decent podcast (behind the bastards). Cody runs a news show but it's an acquired taste
13:24 yeah, that sounds like the average Dr. Laura experience from someone who's had the misfortune of having listened to it before
Vanilla Ice looks like he has a bold spot at 16:02 i find that somewhat funny
@@CathyDotUK The Ice Man has come onto some hard times
9:14 I actually own a board game based explicitly on the Harry Potter Books! It's a trivia board game based on the first book and it's actually really fun. Each player starts by pulling colored beads out of a sorting hat which determines their House and therefore their game peice, and the you go around the board collecting charm, spell, and curse cards while answering trivia questions about the book. The amount if detail put into that thing is genuinely impressive.
13:24 Ah yes, the true enemy of Christianity: long hair! Jesus was well known for his crew cut and clean shaven appearance!
All I'm saying is the moral of Samson is that haircuts are you rejecting God's gift! Also does this woman know how much private Christian schools cost?
8:15 also diplomacy have states that make it physically impossible for anyone to win. This normally happens when someone get close to the win condition and a large block of players try to stop them. Of course, since it A) require all remaining players to agree that it a draw, which requires B) cooperation between mulpiple people often to stop one strong player, which can lead to c) someone stabing the non strong player, you can end up with the over 100 year (so over 200 phases, 300 if you count builds, and probaby over 400 with retreats) game that happen( it was online and each phase was at least a day long, lasting multipe years irl.)
3:16 Isn't Paw Patrol also a disaster-of-the-week show (something like 9-1-1) depending on the episode? I know this has no bearing on the actual topic of the video but now I'm suddenly thinking about "what children's cartoons are secretly G-rated versions of evening TV dramas"...
You should review ICP's boardgames. Yes, I said gameS, plural. They have several.
There's a tabletop RPG, Two Dice rolling games, a deck building game (with an expansion) and a cards against humanity rip off (with an expansion).
ICP held their own gaming convention. Twice!
I went in 2018 and it was fun until it was shut down because people were fighting.
ICP? As in Insane Clown Posse? They have a TTRPG?
@@xenon8927 yep, it's called pendulum's promise. I believe it's based on DnD 3e. The full rulebook is available online if you Google it
IIRC there was a post where one of the lead singers called out a guy for making his daughter a fursuit. Not because he didnt like furries, but because the suit was low quality, and he thinks his daughter deserves better. I feel like ICP is one of those things thats weird on the surface, but when you look into it there's a lot of genuine love put into it
thinking about clue: scott the woz edition, a clue reskin about a youtuber's murder mystery halloween special, is a better board-game tie-in than the ones here, made for actual major TV series
I didn't even know the rules of the Vanilla ice game, and I think I voted that thing to make semis.
9:41
I actually had ‘The Worst Case Scenario Survival Game Junior Edition’ as a kid… and while not worse than TWCSSG, it certainly was…different.
See instead of have multiple choice cards, the junior version gave you a brief scenario (you fell down a steep hill) and you had to use a *specific* tool card to ‘solve’ that situation (you use a rope to pull yourself back up). If you got it right, you roll the die and move that many spaces. If you got it wrong, then nothing happens.
Problem was, the player is never guaranteed to have the correct tool cards in their hand. In the above situation, if you don’t have a rope card, you are forced to play the ‘wrong’ tool card and lose your turn (no matter how creatively you use that wrong tool). For example, you are locked in a walk-in fridge and need to survive? Sure you could play the ‘Clothes’ tool card to stay warm, but you’ll be wrong! Instead you needed to play the ‘Water Bottle’ tool card because of dehydration… Too bad you didn’t even have a ‘Water Bottle’ card to begin with, so your entire turn was a waste!
The only solace was that there was another type of card, the ‘which is worse’, which was the precursor to the most recent ‘Worst Case Survival Game’, but it was certainly less frustrating…
i don't wanna sound like that guy... but wouldn't a water bottle freeze inside of a walk in fridge? unless you drink the whole bottle's worth of water ASAP, it's going to turn into undrinkable ice stuck inside the bottle fairly quick. clothes would be the correct answer cause with that, you wouldn't have to worry about hypothermia which would probably be one of the more apparent and bigger threats. actually, the water bottle would be even less then pointless. even if you DID drink it before the water inside froze into ice, you would still have to deal with hypothermia killing you and the cold bottle of water that just entered your body just made the hypothermia more likely to kill you!
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So I’m at my parent’s house and it turns out they still have the game! I searched the deck for the specific card and here’s what it says:
“What to Use to Survive If You’re Trapped in a Walk-In Freezer
Tool Card Answer: Water Bottle
Dehydration happens much faster than starvation, so drink that water, and drink it slowly to make it last. In this situation, the ice cream sandwich is good, the blanket is better, but the water bottle is best.”
shrug* I don’t disagree with you but the game says you’re wrong so you waisted your turn spaces while I roll a die to move. /jk
Another fun card I found:
“What to Use to Eat Animals without Getting Poisoned After a Nuclear Explosion
Tool Card Answer: Knife
You’ll need a knife to skin these animals, to cut away the meat around the bone. You don’t want to eat the bones or the meat near the bones, because that’s where the radiation is the highest.”
Like wtf is that situation? lol
@@ThomasSimkins ...what was that answer to the freezer thing? how does that make any sense? by the time you get to half way with the bottle, the rest of the water in it might've already turned into ice and at worse frozen over your tongue to stick the whole thing to it. water can probably be grabbed from eating the ice that would be inside the freezer with you. also, an ice cream sandwich would probably have enough water in it to let you last till some one finds you in there.
that's another thing i wanna make note of, if you're in there long enough to where dehydration actually becomes a real threat to your survival, then someone wanted your death to look like a accident, or actual gross incompetence, surely they would have someone check on the freezer before the end of the day, or at least on a consistent basis. if someone actually gets locked in one long enough to at least risk death, then the owner of that walk-in freezer would be in some serious trouble.
also the nuclear explosion one is just kind of weird IMO. yeah, it would make sense since a lot of radiation would stay on the bones of the animal, but that doesn't mean it would be safe to eat just because it isn't attached to the bones anymore. everything relating to the animal would be irradiated, so unless it expects you to eat the animal raw, you should at the very least cook the meat with a fire. the reasoning for some of these is really dumb sounding IMO.
sorry for being way to nitpicky over a game that i only know exists because of you. but i feel like to some extent this is trying to teach kids how to survive these sort of situations (the main book series was about this) and this sort of information should really be correct incase the reader is actually in that scenario. the actual gameplay isn't much better due to how random it is. i bet you a single round can go by with most, if not every player, not having the correct card and as such nobody would be able to move (maybe even multiple times in a row but the chances of that lower the more players you have) and the turn was practically wasted and pointless.
the which is worse sounds similar to just basic "would you rather" shenanigans but being force to pick between terrible situations (I.E. be in the path of a F-5 tornado that's REALLY close to you or sliding off the cliff of a giant mountain) does sound kinda fun IMO
12:32 *Fun Fact:* That rant is available in its entirely on RUclips to listen to.
To be fair "over the top unmitigated disaster" was/is Seanbaby's writing style lol
the worst case scenario game is super nostalgic for me though i cant even remember if we even played it but i have so many fond memories of just reading the cards as a kid
actually, doing a diss track of your friends when you win a game is sick
Honestly, there needs to be another tournament but it's all board games you've talked about since the previous tourney. I'd like to see if the newcomers can beat out the old vets.
Also, the next video is gonna be legendary. I can feel it.
Released just in time for the Dr. Laura Behind the Bastards episodes.
Sweet, tabletop Scott The Woz uploaded again.
My wife and I came across The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Game in a vacation house and we found the best use for it was to just read off the trivia cards at random times of day and have people guess the answers, because it always felt really absurd
Antiques Roadshow was the OG Pawn Stars.
After watching this for the fourth time, I realized that "the best worst thing" is perfectly on brand for Vanilla Ice
As that one guy/thing, I can confirm that everyone loves me so much they would purchase everything that has me on the branding of it.
Babe wake up, my new favorite male uploaded again.
i love this guy, i wish he sold licensed bedsheets.
that article was perhaps the greatest piece of journalism i have read in years, bless you for improving my quality of life through sharing it
I have the Worst Case Scenario survival game. The issue is you’ve either read the book and know all the answers or you don’t and you lose.
I think the worst kind of tie-in board game would be one that's extremely distasteful on top of being awful to play.
Kurt Cobain's Shotgun Roulette
Kevin Spacey's Kiddie Diddler
Wife Beater, featuring Chris Brown
Buckshot Roulette is a good game though
The way this video coincides with the Behind The Bastards podcast fills me with delight.
Celebrity board games are funny to me because there when people in a meeting that went “should we do a new theming for this brand new board game that allows creativity? Nahhhhh put Jared Leto in it”
When he dropped paw patrol I laughed
5:35 IT'S BEEN YEARS SINCE I LOST THE GAME FUUUU----
my grandparents had The Worst Case Survival Game at their house and i am perhaps one of the only souls on this earth who actually enjoyed the game. obviously nobody else wanted to play the game, so i would just open up the box and read and memorize all the cards. forgot them now but they were taking up far too much brainspace anyways.
9:56 i played the Worst Case Scenario survival game at a restaurant that had free to play games, and not gonna lie, it was fun but only because they didn’t have most of the pieces for the board game part. they had all the cards though and we just made it into a trivia game. :)
The best celebrity game is easily the Kenny G one. Solely because it has amazing cards such as "bop" and "scoodily".
I can’t stop watching these so this came at a perfect time
8:10 OHIO DETECTED
he really is board gaming's very own Scott the Woz
I was in the London Maritime Museum a few years ago and they had a stack of Worst Case Scenario books in the gift shop. I thought: "Oh cool, a survival book to match the theme of the museum!" I picked it up, opened a random page and it was about identifying and escaping a murderous clown. "If the clown has murderous eyes, sharp teeth or a weapon on him, he might be murderous." Yeah no shit.
what is he sitting on?
millenial here, i will take this one. back in the 90s, it was seen as the height of all coolness to take a chair, turn it backwards and then sit on it so that you are like straddling the backside of it.
references: See AC Slater via Saved By The Bell
I remember playing the Worst Case Scenario game years ago. I actually enjoyed it, probably because I found the trivia to be fascinating on its own.
The Hobo Johnson game not being real actually broke my heart 💔
So I enjoy listening to old radio clips and remembered my mom listening to Dr. Laura while driving in the car. I wanted to find airchecks of her show but for some reason there weren't very many around.
I guess I understand why now.
12:32 "Oops" indeed
Kam truly never fails with the comedic timing
A GOOD tie in game is the Home Improvement game, based on the 90's sitcom. Specifically because they rethemed an existing game, Handyman, instead of making their own product! It involves buying construction supplies & making money doing renovation jobs, which fits in with the show's theme really well!
Then there's Home Alone 2, the THQ version! All U do is match sets of cards with the movie's characters! They could make the same game with ANY movie! It's just musical chairs, with a HA2 theme!
I work in a thrift shop and saw five identical copies of some backstreet boys board game
god that cracked article is so good and i would probably feel the same way if my favorite game to riff off of was tainted like that lol
whenever i played WCS, we would just discard the board entirely and play it like a trivia game. ask the question, write the answer down and get points. bonus points if you could explain why you were correct
way, way more fun
Another day of missing old school Cracked… glad for the laughs, though !
that paw patrol part at csi killed me
Mhmm, the Lost game sounds like it tried to have a combination of cooperation and backstabbing into one, and failed. Feels like to could learn a lot from Nemesis, which uses those two ideas aswell but does it fantasically.
My family had that Worst-Case Scenario game. As kids, my siblings and I actually got to the point that we'd memorized the cards and couldn't play anymore since we'd all get the questions right from rote memory.
The Lost board game is basically Nemesis but without everything that makes Nemesis good.
Just came out of a big bafta showcase. This is so damn refreshing after enduring inel tomlinson for an hour and a half combined
I've played the Worst Case Scenario game and there was a card about sprinkling flour around your car so you can see footprints if you think people are going to secretly tamper with it, like cutting your brake cables. I read one of the books and they're a degree of magnitude less weird than this, it's more about surviving a bear attack or having to kick open the door to a burning building
Now i really want "That one Guy/Thing" merch
the lost game seems to me as something that'd be better IF it was instead branderd as hunger games the board game
3:15 Paw Patrol here is wild 😭
The Rodney Dangerfield board game "No Respect" is just stacking numbers, that's it... It's like Backgammon. Has nothing to do with Rodney Dangerfield, it just has his fucking face on the box and board. Actually surprised you didn't dig that one up because it's just at that line of "WHO?" and "HUH?"
Give Vanilla Ice credit, at least he's not a rapping demon rat from a creepypasta that could consume your soul
If you make a BEST board game tie-in, I nominate Loopin’ Chewie.
I feel like one problematic tie-in is xcom: the board game. I'm sure it's fun, people say it is, however, it has two main problems. The first is that theres an app that handles some stuff needed for gameplay. So if your phone is dead or you forgot/cant download it, you can't play the game. The other is how incredibly complex it is. There is an entire tutorial mode on the app, and each player has paragraphs upon paragraphs of how their role works. It's ridiculously in-depth.
So now then, when are we getting the KamSandwich tie-in bord game ? I imagine a big bord game with a bunch of smaller mini game bord games to do as you move around.
When you mentioned book tie-in games, I hoped you'd bring up "Darkover: The Ages of Chaos."
It's based on a deeply weird series of novels (whose author eventually turned out to have been a child predator).
The game is basically Risk, but with bizarre changing resolution mechanics which include starting contests, dares, and trying to convince other players that they don't exist.
Wait until someone tells Kam about the Chicken Soup for the Soul board game.
Also I’m morally obligated to inform people that Vanilla Ice’s shoot birth name is Robert Van Winkle
It's so sad that you forgot the Wendy's Kirby anime play mat board game released in 2003
@@wyatt3340 Oh man I did didn't I. Had it on my list and everything too, shoot
14:10 I do not miss this kind of review. They've fallen out of favor nowadays, but they were everywhere at the time. Everyone thought they were the new Nostalgia Critic or AVGN without understanding why those succeeded. And Cracked reviews in particular *loved* to be as openly hostile as possible.
I don't mean to give any respect to Dr. Laura, but reviews like that makes you feel like _you're_ the one being lambasted instead of the product.
I got the Jumanji board game as a birthday present a few years ago, and I can confidently say I that i can count omall of the times ive played it on one hand because it's is boring as hell and way too complicated and doesn't feel like anything in the movies at all.
Vanilla Ice is the gift that keeps on giving when it comes to amazingly corny and cheesy media.