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It's so weird to find out that apparently Asterix & (to a lesser extent) Tintin are unknown in north america. Those comics were a large part of my childhood. What do you mean this is something you have to explain to people?
This is more or less the result of Japanese anime & manga being distributed more frequently than European comics by a *landslide.* It especially kinda helped as anime & manga had a fair bit of influence from American comics & cartoons still clearly visible while comics across European countries would start removing such American influence(heck, France kinda had an enforcing of such removals for a while, which is what led to Belgium having a big comic book scene) & thus would actually be much harder to market over here compared to anime & manga.
Also the Asterix Comics are still going strong. When a new one was released last year I went to the bookstore to get it in my lunch break and they were nearly sold out.
Maybe it's just me but as a Brit I never heard of Tintin or Asterix as a kid, which is weird since I saw so many European and Australian cartoons as a kid that are virtually unheard of in North America. Maybe because when it comes to comics or animation, our markets have always been dominated by our own and American, plus anime/manga was taking up the third slot while I was growing up.
"Is Asterix even worth watching?" Short answer: Yes Long answer: Heck yea!!!!! I recommend Asterix and Obelix in Brittain, that is a classic 90's animated movie with a lot of charm and humor and a pretty good english dub. Honestly most are worth watching but that one particular is an all time classic.
25:50 Funfact about Asterix - it's second best selling comic books series globally (first one is One Piece) and I'm kinda surprised that it's not popular in USA, I would say in Europe it's almost as popular as Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck, it's one of those characters that everyone knows. It's great, it got a lot of live action and cartoon movies. Most of them are really good.
As an American, I can tell you everything about Tintin makes me uncomfortable. No offense meant, but hearing the name and looking at the goober, let's just say I wouldn't open my door if he was on my porch in a rainstorm. I wouldn't kick him off the porch, he can shelter there until the rain stops. But I'm not going to make him a cup of cocoa or anything.
@@Pehmokettu Tintin honestly reminds me of Uncharted but for kids/teens, the cartoon version is pretty dope and pretty violent for the time it came out in the 90's (which the SNES version is kinda loosely based on)
The plot of Asterix and Obelix is that they are the last village in France not to fall to the Roman empire, a lot of plots see Julius Caesar or his advisors trying new schemes to disrupt them. The reason for this is that they have a druid who can make them potions that give them super strength. Obelix fell into the cauldron as a child and always has super strength as a side effect. So Asterix is supposed to be the smart one and Obelix the strong always hungry dim witted one --Random lore note, Obelix always wants to still drink the potion because of the taste but is never allowed to. In the comic where he managed to do so anyway, he reverted back into a child. So I guess side effects like that is why they aren't just dropping all children in cauldrons.
Yet the comic also confirmed that the taste ain't that good of the potion, at least used to be when Obelix fell into the cauldron, since the main source of taste was literally crude oil as it was one of the important ingredients. Later replaced with... carrot juice if I remember correctly after the pair had to go get the oil from far away.
Correction overusing the potion turns You into granite Panoramix managed to save Obelix but he turned into a child At the end of the comic he reages back and regains his Powers when seeing Astérix in danger from rage
Crazy how so many highly influential and important European comics are just so unknown in the the States, thus making their games rare and expensive here. Like how many people know who Nemesis the Warlock is here?
@@austineruption it was one of the many serialized stories from 2000ad (the people who publish Judge Dredd.) about the titular character running an alien guerilla warfare freedom fighting faction know as Credo against the tyrannical ruler & grand master of Termight, Torquemada and his terminators. It heavily influenced the more popular Warhammer 40k series.
It does, tho. I remember watching some of the old Asterix animated movies on Nickelodeon WAY back in the day, and a handful of the games have made it over here via publisher Microids. Also, all the comics (including the newly published ones) have been translated and released here as well.
I think it does (I recall watching some American-dubbed Asterix cartoons as a child), but to an extremely limited extent. if anything, I'm as surprised as you are, though it's at how little Asterix seems to be known in the States, or at least where Austin is based.
I remember a Simpsons Episode where the Simpsons get a "weird hippie" neighbour who, among other things, has Asterix comics. Asterix being apparently being seen as "weird hippie stuff" in the US got me a good laugh.
It was a surprise to me, when learning that Asterix was pretty much unknown in the United Kingdom. Had a friend visit from England. Put one of the movies on, DVD with english dub... Within 10 minutes we had a rather good idea why it might not have caught on....dang that was a bad dub.
There's a whole treasure trove of content for you if you like "european anime": Asterix, Smurfs, Spirou, Lucky Luke, Tintin, North vs South, Kid Paddle,... Most of these comics have cartoons and all of them have games :)
@elpizo1789 as far as I'm aware: north vs south is the American translation of the comic. In Dutch it's called "blauwbloezen" which means "blue shirts".
I'm from Quebec, and grew up on Asterix and Obelix, I never thought about how the US doesn't really know them, I mean they know who Tintin is so I figured they'd know about Asterix.
Maybe it's just me but as a Brit I never heard of Tintin or Asterix as a kid, which is weird since I saw so many European and Australian cartoons as a kid that are virtually unheard of in North America. Maybe because when it comes to comics or animation, our markets have always been dominated by our own and American, and anime/manga was taking up the third slot while I was growing up.
It’s weird to think that Piglets big game just might be put in the rare and expensive category after a recent tweet revealed it’s actually a silent hill title
I got curious and looked it up, and it looks like some asshats are buying out all they can find to artificially inflate the price. It's around 150€ complete and around a 1000€ sealed being marketed as "rare" or "Baby's first Silent Hill" and such. I absolutely hate what happened to gaming and these people even more, trying to run a profit on a meme. If anyone ever wants to play this, please just download a rom and don't pay these scumbags, the retro gaming bubble will burst eventually.
@@savage751 I am not mad for my sake because I want to collect an obscure game or something no, it's just agravating to see people jump every opportunity to make a profit, like everyone has become a genius salesman, while completely ruining the fun of retro gaming. I just hate people, is what I want to say.
Asterix, is actually one of the best series to survive its own creators! It's still thriving and it's actually better now than the last few books Uderzo wrote, the last of which featured an "American comics VS Manga" allegory with an alien invasion backdrop... in 50 B.C.
@@austineruptionthere's a ton of US/North American released Asterix games, including a whopping SEVEN out for PS4/5 and Xbox (some of which are remakes of games that came out for PS2 in Europe). Also there's a Canadian Xbox 360 game based on the live action Asterix at the Olympic Games movie. (Also, the same publisher for the recent games, Microids, released a new Tintin game here last year on PS5 and Xbox that last month got an update when the Switch version dropped.)
Honestly that's like owning a rare VHS of some weird, cheaply made cartoon. It can just make someone wonder what the heck is going on & whose idea was it.
Holy hell, imma be honest, i was not expecting to see anybody talk about Evil Twin. I actually own the game on PC, comes in like 2 discs (One Normal Cover and One tinted blue), had it since i was a kid but never got around to playing it, mostly because when i got it i barely understood a lick of english, so whenever i played videogames i couldn't progress farther than maybe the first level so i never got to experience it's dialogue. This unlocked like a core memory.
it's an acquired taste, i thought it was kinda neat honestly and the controls takes time to master or funny enough can sorta skip certain sections easily by glitching in certain walls or objects while using in ur super alter ego mode to do so. The atmosphere reminds me a little bit of Rayman 2's darker parts.
I was here for Tintin and Astérix, but my feeble French millennial mind was not ready to handle "Taxi 2" being uttered in 2024. I aged three decades at once.
At least Taxi 2 as a videogame seemed to have enough effort put into it that it would look nice on a CRT. Unfortunately I suffered from the "We have Taxi 2 at home" syndrome with this one as a kid, owning instead a PS2 copy of the almighty pile of dung that is Paris-Marseille Racing 2, by Davilex. Somehow fooled 4 year old me into thinking i was in beautiful photo-realistic Paris, but if you clear the fog off your glasses, you now glance at near shovelware, a game lazily ported from the PS1, with a terrible FOV, no sense of speed, soap-box controls, and somehow less content than a modest arcade cabinet.
French Canadian here Asterix et Obelix is a nice kid franchise. Basicaly, their village druid can make invicibility potion so they stand defiant in the face of the whole roman empire and every now and than Asterix and Obelix go on wild aventure to help people as their kinda legendary warrior across the world.
1:07 Funfact about Asterix and *Ruffy* : I own their Adventures (so far) in full. And Asterix has fully been transitioned to a new team of Writer/Drawer and as they are way younger they make internet jokes via letter doves. 19:33 Fighting a Mini Boss in a The Wizard od Oz-inspired Action Game and said Boss is called "Servus". This is untintentionally hilarious. 28:25 There is a simple way to find out whether you like Asterix' brand of humor: Watch The Twelve Tasks of Asterix If you like it, you will like the series as a whole. Also Passierschein A38
@louiechudley5616 Because "laff" is a adjective that means as much as "tastes like nothing". Great name for the main character. Look up the popularity of One Piece in Germany. These localization changes were a good idea. The numbers prove it. And I honestly prefer "Lysop" to "Ussop". In both cases I know what they mean but I "feel" the former.
@PhoebeTheFairy56 I know. That's why it's called a localisation and not just a translation. I'm from the UK though, and One Piece is simply Translated here. No messing around with the original vision. Also, when it comes to the Anime, the English Dub is widely hated. Japanese voices, English subtitles. Thank you very much. Keeping it as close to the original work as possible.
AsteriX (not asterisk) has magical potion made by the druid PanoramiX, that he takes to get hyper strong for a while and punch heaps of romans to the sky. But Obelix felt into the magical potion cauldron when he was little and so he doesn't need to drink it anymore, he's strong all the time - and thus fetches all the menhirs, mystery solved. Great video !
Asterix is dope man! Theres a whole bunch of classic animated movies. And they're all worth watching. The Twelve Tasks of Asterix is probably my favourite. Absolute gem!
He is not talking about Asterix though. He is talking about its little known bootleg version Asterisk. On a serious note though, I agree. I'm a Dane who grew up on Asterix and Tintin.
Evil Twin is solid. EB Games carried Evil Twin, Shenmue 2, and Headhunter for Dreamcast (UK version) in US stores (was like $9.99 for a boxed boot disk). They were probably the last 3 "new release" Dreamcast games that I (and many others) purchased. Shenmue 2 is excellent on Dreamcast. Headhunter and Evil Twin are both solid (Headhunter probably edges it out in quality).
As a Greek, Asterix and Obelix was a huge part of my childhood, one that I still occasionally revisit as an adult and have just as much fun with, even appreciating certain aspects of it even more now than I did back then. Always crazy to realize how something so well known and recognizable in your country can be so niche in others. 😅. I would personally also recommend checking it out if you are interested, particularly some of the animated films like "Asterix and Cleopatra" or, if you prefer a more modern one, "Asterix and the Mansions of the Gods".
As someone who lives in Michigan: The Michigan Report From Hell game is 1000% accurate. All of that stuff actually happens here all the time and also we all talk just like that.
Canada got a lot of French and Belgian cartoons translated. I grew up watching Tin Tin (with that intro music that goes SO HARD FOR NO REASON) as well as others like Nighthood, Blake and Mortimer, Ivanhoe and Red Beard (also with an intro that goes too hard) just to name a few. But we never got Asterix and Obelix for some reason.
Fun Fact: The guy who was playing the boom operator in Michigan: Report from Hell was actually experiencing frequent bouts of diarrhea at the time, leading to less than stellar performance on his part due to constant discomfort.
So if I'm not mistaken, Cindy's fashion world is so expensive it was recalled after it was found it wouldn't play in a PS1. It would however, play in a PS2. Might just be an Internet rumour though.
Hey Austin, great vid as usual, just wanted to let you know that Eurpoean publisher Microids (who most know for the unfortunate XIII "remake") release a TON of games here in the states based on European comic properties, including Smurfs, Marsupalami (a spinoff of the Belgian comic Spiro y Fantasio), Blacksad, and of course Asterix and Tintin, the former of which they've released at least *SEVEN* games for PS4/5 and Xbox, and the latter of which got a new game released last year, that just got an update when the Switch version dropped last month (named and based on the Tintin book "Cigars of the Pharaoh").
I would like to say be careful with the games published by Microids. By trying to be Infogrames 2.0, they do the exact opposite, by releasing games with okay difficulty, but buggy and often graphically broken worse than the originals. XIII was not the exception but just the worst of all the mediocre takes on remastering done. The result of pushing small development teams to release full games within a year, and barely giving any leeway for Quality Assurance and Testing. Sure, this made games more accessible to the USA, notably XXL2 that originally was a PAL exclusive ( but does it really count when it has a PC version that can work anywhere? ), but you'll still be missing out on the real "XXL3", being Asterix at the Olympic Games, who unlike the one called XXL3 doesn't betray you into being a completely different gameplay with topdown view rather than free 3D camera exploration. Same as XXL2, a PC version is out there for the grabs. I'd say out of all the Microids slop, the least irritating games are probably the Smurf ones, as the devs managed to keep the scope narrow enough for a 1-year cycle for each game, and as a result the games don't look as broken as the XXLs or XIII, or even Tintin, as I heard this new release was also suffering from bugs... shame after the 23 year long wait for a new original Tintin game. Most of the old versions of these games are still very cheap to find, because not really sought after, if you're passionate enough grab those over the newer ones.
The fact that us Pal enjoyers (Australian here) had to wait longer for most releases back in the day, it was kind of cool to have some exclusives just for us =) Having said that, you didn't miss much by not playing that Santa game lol
Love Asterix and Obelix, sad to hear the movies bombed because the first one was great, managing to combine several comic plots into a single narrative. I also loved the old animated movie Les Douze Travaux d'Astérix (though it might not have aged well), where Asterix and Obelix have to complete 12 Herculean challenges and by the end Asterix becomes the next Caesar --A great end to the series if you see it as canon. There's also an Asterix and Obelix theme park in France
I mean, it depends on which one Austin was talking about. They had to make some money, otherwise why keep making them? I think he was reffering to the last one taking place in China, but I could be wrong.
26:10 I remember my family going to the cinema in another city when I was a small child to watch one of them. I was so scared of the loud noises and to me at the realistic effects that I started crying and mom brought me out.
I went to the Asterix theme park a few years ago. Went to a restaurant LITERALLY shaped like a bowl of fruit that didn't have any veggie options. The irony.
Asterix and Obelix is actually amazing. I read all the comics as a child, the animated movies are great and some of the live action movies are alright too. I can only recommend it to people who don't know them
I will never tire of hearing about Asterix after having dived completely into the franchise last year. Just funny cause I never heard of it before then as an American and now I hear about it everywhere.
Evil tsin looks interesting. Not gonna lie. Like some childs drawings come to life....but they watched chuckey and the matrix WWWAAAAYYY to early now everything is "E D G E". Lol it is something to look into though. So thanks. c:
Wait, americans don't know Asterix & Obelix? No wonder your country is the way it is, lmao. Seriously though, read the comics, they're great fun! Edit: You also didn't know about Tintin? WHAT?!
American here: The 90s Tintin cartoon(which was made in Canada LMAO) aired on Nickelodeon, but it seems that not many ever saw it airing on that network back in the day.
@@alexandrebelair4360 But the doodle show that dares call itself "animation" aka Ren & Stimpy is fun? European comics/cartoons are simply more laid back. Muricans need constant action and shooty shooty bang bang to keep their feeble short-lived goldfish attention.
I have a physical copy of the last game, on PS2. Then again, I am in the PAL region. And I don't know where the concept of the game comes from either...
Fortunately, Alien Soldier was included on the Genesis Mini 2, as well as Daze Before Christmas (the SNES version at least), is on the second Evercade Sunsoft collection and Uforia on NES and Gimmick are on the first Evercade Sunsoft collection. Zero Wing DID get a rerelease through RetroBit that works on American systems but it can be a bit expensive (like ~$90-ish I think?) now.
I was introduced to Asterix back in Reesor Park public school, via the second book... and I fell in love with it. I would then find other Asterix books and read them to my heart's content! It's stuck with me ever since.
Great video! Here’s a few suggestions for a part two; - “Revenge of The Smurfs” for GBA with an English language box (was only released in Scandinavia I believe, the English version that is) - Pixeline for GBA. Super common in Denmark, had sold for thousands of dollars on eBay. - Bamse for Gameboy - Boxed copies of Super Mario/Tetris/World Cup. Loose cartridge is cheap, but the box… - Beauty And The Beast for both NES and SNES is becoming expensive - There’s a bunch of Finnish Singstar games, that usually sells for quite a lot. - The Morning Adventure for GBA
The coolest thing about Astérix and Obélix is the integration of real historical figures like Cesar, who's basically always fed up about everything. Also, and unfortunately, half the character names are puns which translate poorly
Fun fact: in the French dub of Sailor Moon, Usagi is called "Bunny Rivière", Chibi-Usa is called Camille, Mamoru is called Bourdu, and Minako is called Mathilda.
Asterix (you keep saying it wrong) is fun. It is humorous. I Think if you should start somewhere it should be Asterix in Britan. It is basiclly the french making fun of the brits
Me checking to see if any of the games in my collection going back to 98 are rarities after this video drops. I have a lot of Asterix games for some reason, despite it not being a big hit in the UK 😅.
Asterix is one of the best, most well written comics to come out of Europe. I'd recommend anyone to check out the original comics and while most of the animated movies are based on the original comics they can be a mixed bag. It's about this tiny village of Gauls being the only place Julius Caesar can't conquer since they have a druid that makes a strength potion. Obelix (the fat one) fell down into the cauldron of magic potion as a child and so he is blessed with super strength all the time while others, such as Asterix, need to drink the potion to gain super strength for a limited amount of time. Their adventures often revolve around how the Romans try to get their little village to surrender but it most often takes them on long adventures based on historical events. Asterix and Tin Tin is probably my favorite European comics and there's really nothing else that comes close to how well drawn and written they are.
I bought tintin destination adventure as a kid in norway for about 100 kroner (10 dollars), this was around 2005 when the ps2 was big and ps1 games were not worth anything, and later found out if was super rare since it has an english cover instead of french like the one you saw on ebay
Yeah, I'll be honest, aside from hearing the name Asterix and Obelix and TinTin before here in Canada, I have never actually seen anything regarding them. Weird how that is, considering North America usually runs with whatever Europe gives us, but no, not with these two *apparently* monumental brands over there.
Dynasty Warriors Gundam Reborn is digital exclusive for the US but it definitely came to Western consoles. I have my PS3 hooked up to a TV JUST to play that game
Nearly 40 minutes of PAL exclusive weirdness & this isn't even touching the seemingly endless rabbit hole of PAL exclusive home computer games from the Amiga, C64, ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro, Amstrad CPC to more unknown fare the Acorn Archimedes, Camputers Lynx, Jupiter ACE, Dragon 32/64, some Soviet bloc computers, SAM Coupe, etc.
@@austineruption I mean, yeah, but even I wouldn't be able to tell ya' where to start because it's like one GIANT rabbit hole that takes YEARS to go through at least HALF of it. One could make a whole entire iceberg on European home computer madness because of the sheer insanity of it all & it could be like, 7-9 tiers.
Fun fact the character on screen at 11:12 has a Yu-Gi-Oh card made about him. Koitsu is his name. I'm not sure if Parodius has other colors of airplane men, but Yu-Gi-Oh has the red, blue, yellow and green. The Yu-Gi-Oh card game actually has a lot of Konami characters referenced in the cards.
As a player born in france at the end of the 90s and fed PAL releases for the next decade and a half, Asterix, Tintin and The Smurfs were all I knew about in videogames for the beginning. That's the side effect of having a computer illiterate family that could only trust games based on if they could recognize the comicbook character on the cover, so there would be no Zelda or Sonic at home for quite a while. ( "Zelda Ocarina of Time? We got it at home." *Points to Harry Potter 2 on the PS2* ) I began my journey in 2002 on the Playstation with: - 3, 2,1, Smurf! My First Racing Game ( NTSC: Smurf Racer! ) - Tintin Destination Adventure - Asterix Mega Madness ( you briefly showed it ). And, I still have these games, in pristine quality! It's quite a shock to me to learn my complete box of Tintin is worth that much! Before I was allowed to use the PS1, it was bought for my older sister as the family's first 3D video game, that blew them away. Heck, I even have on VHS tape a commercial of the game, aired a month after release ( and mere weeks before buying it! ), during the ad break of a movie who's exact date of airing could be traced. This game need not be so hard, you can turn on Easy difficulty to let your character/vehicle constantly regenerate HP, leaving you with only the bottomless pits to worry about. Driving vehicles with no shortage of fuel is actually fun! Also fun fact, like the other mentionned games above, it had a PC version, but unlike them who's ports definately give trade you better PC graphics for worse compatibility/UI, Tintin on PC is basically emulated, and due to that, works pretty well out of the box on a modern PC. I figured it out when i noticed I could make the saving menu load ripped PS1 memory card data, as if it was a PS1, displaying icons of all the games I had and not just Tintin. Which means you have cross-compatible saves if you know what you're doing. As for Asterix in general, there's a LOT of content for you to start picking up and enjoy. The original XXL series is worth checking out ( not the remasters tho, while they make these old games very accessible especially for the USA, they're not much more polished than the GTA remasters... ), preferably on PS2 or PC with community patches, Mega Madness is short but full of fun ( also, this game has dynamic framerate so overclocking the PS1 results in a jump from ~20 to locked 50fps, works on most minigames but will break enemy AI in top-downs ). As a global view of Asterix/Tintin/Smurf games published by Infogrames, expect amazing 16/32bit graphics with fairly wacky difficulty. On the other hand, you can't go wrong with the games on the Game Boy, they were given a lot of attention, especially their music by the criminally underrated Alberto José Gonzalez. While us europeans had to wait until 1997 to see the floodgates of JRPGs truly open ( with FF Adventure/Secret of Mana starting the breach ), i guess we can be proud of our little gems, games who sometimes were designed with PAL in mind and therefore no 20% slowdown like many forgeign games suffered from. And, we usually made sure that if a game we made was going overseas, it wouldn't speedup on NTSC!
I remember a Larry Bundy jr video about Keio flying squad that the devs by mistake put the whole game on a demo disk so if you had the demo disk you could play the entire game for free.
My uncle gifted me a collection of Gameboy games he had in storage, and after watching one of those "top 10 rarest Gameboy games" videos, I found out that one of them was worth $200 (now $300 with the boom in rare game collecting), and I never told him 🤫. Truly the best way to find a rare game.
Yes, Asterix is very much worth watching nowadays, the classic animated movies are very accurate to the comic and genuinely funny. The live action movies are great if you can stand them being almost as, if not even more cartoonish than the animated films. Also, the PS2 games that got remastered and ported to PS4 are great fun for an afternoon. Comics are still coming out and still very high quality, so those are also worth a read. On a semi-related note, also give Tintin and Largo Winch some love.
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Hello PAL! I'm wasn't too familiar with your game but NOW I understand. But with that Christmas game costing so much, please stop yelling at me about PS2 Futurama. ITS HARD TO FIND OVER HERE OK?
What are some other european rarities I missed? Lemme know down below, I'll try to include them in the next one.
Zelda's Adventure isn't a PAL exclusive, it DID in fact come to the states.
Got to say i'm not really crazy about you saying that some of these games are "only for kids" that feels needlessly judgmental.
just curious. wha happun to factor sponsorship?
Tintin
Looks like Mega Man when jumping
It's so weird to find out that apparently Asterix & (to a lesser extent) Tintin are unknown in north america. Those comics were a large part of my childhood. What do you mean this is something you have to explain to people?
This is more or less the result of Japanese anime & manga being distributed more frequently than European comics by a *landslide.* It especially kinda helped as anime & manga had a fair bit of influence from American comics & cartoons still clearly visible while comics across European countries would start removing such American influence(heck, France kinda had an enforcing of such removals for a while, which is what led to Belgium having a big comic book scene) & thus would actually be much harder to market over here compared to anime & manga.
Not just Europe, I'm from Brazil and I grew up watching Asterix and Tintin cartoons, and my brother recently even bought some old Asterix comics too
Same both for tintin and Asterix. But especially Asterix I remember reading many about them ❤
Also the Asterix Comics are still going strong. When a new one was released last year I went to the bookstore to get it in my lunch break and they were nearly sold out.
Maybe it's just me but as a Brit I never heard of Tintin or Asterix as a kid, which is weird since I saw so many European and Australian cartoons as a kid that are virtually unheard of in North America. Maybe because when it comes to comics or animation, our markets have always been dominated by our own and American, plus anime/manga was taking up the third slot while I was growing up.
How to see if any Europeans are in a chat who read Asterix: You need PERMIT A38 to continue
It's a classic and a pretty accurate depiction of European bureaucracy.
Also it's hilariously funny as it gets.
You want to rent a boat? It's not here, you have to go to the port, which is by the sea
Actually, I want PERMIT A39 thank you very much!
Window I? No, this is window 1!
He's also huge with us millenials from Québec
"Is Asterix even worth watching?" Short answer: Yes
Long answer: Heck yea!!!!! I recommend Asterix and Obelix in Brittain, that is a classic 90's animated movie with a lot of charm and humor and a pretty good english dub. Honestly most are worth watching but that one particular is an all time classic.
If I’m not wrong there was a line of asterix movies in the 90s, one taking place in America where they met native Americans?
@@geeguy7429 yup, iitc literally called Asterix in America.
25:50 Funfact about Asterix - it's second best selling comic books series globally (first one is One Piece) and I'm kinda surprised that it's not popular in USA, I would say in Europe it's almost as popular as Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck, it's one of those characters that everyone knows. It's great, it got a lot of live action and cartoon movies. Most of them are really good.
Yes!. In germany it even become a Part of your languge (Die Spinnen Die Römer, Passagierschein A38)
As an American, I can tell you everything about Tintin makes me uncomfortable.
No offense meant, but hearing the name and looking at the goober, let's just say I wouldn't open my door if he was on my porch in a rainstorm. I wouldn't kick him off the porch, he can shelter there until the rain stops. But I'm not going to make him a cup of cocoa or anything.
@@Boogie_the_cat Tbh I never watched or read Tintin so I don't care.
@@Boogie_the_cat Tintin is boring. Asterix is great.
@@Pehmokettu Tintin honestly reminds me of Uncharted but for kids/teens, the cartoon version is pretty dope and pretty violent for the time it came out in the 90's (which the SNES version is kinda loosely based on)
The plot of Asterix and Obelix is that they are the last village in France not to fall to the Roman empire, a lot of plots see Julius Caesar or his advisors trying new schemes to disrupt them. The reason for this is that they have a druid who can make them potions that give them super strength. Obelix fell into the cauldron as a child and always has super strength as a side effect. So Asterix is supposed to be the smart one and Obelix the strong always hungry dim witted one --Random lore note, Obelix always wants to still drink the potion because of the taste but is never allowed to. In the comic where he managed to do so anyway, he reverted back into a child. So I guess side effects like that is why they aren't just dropping all children in cauldrons.
Yet the comic also confirmed that the taste ain't that good of the potion, at least used to be when Obelix fell into the cauldron, since the main source of taste was literally crude oil as it was one of the important ingredients. Later replaced with... carrot juice if I remember correctly after the pair had to go get the oil from far away.
Correction overusing the potion turns You into granite
Panoramix managed to save Obelix but he turned into a child
At the end of the comic he reages back and regains his Powers when seeing Astérix in danger from rage
European here!
You should really watch "The Twelve Tasks of Asterix". It still holds up to this day.(A38)
Don't you know? We're here to get a copy of Permit No. A39
what manners! Where do you think you are, by Jupiter. The plat window number one, left hand corridor, last door on the right. Got it?
Also has a comical easter egg quest in Witcher 3.
Absolute banger of a movie
Phenomenal
26:05 "Different creative teams" the american mind cannot comprehend René Goscinny
Crazy how so many highly influential and important European comics are just so unknown in the the States, thus making their games rare and expensive here. Like how many people know who Nemesis the Warlock is here?
NOT I WHAT IS THAT
@@austineruption it was one of the many serialized stories from 2000ad (the people who publish Judge Dredd.) about the titular character running an alien guerilla warfare freedom fighting faction know as Credo against the tyrannical ruler & grand master of Termight, Torquemada and his terminators. It heavily influenced the more popular Warhammer 40k series.
I'm not surprised. Manga got to us first before European comics had a chance.
Yeah. There are many reasons I am grateful for NOT being born aMURIcan, but growing up Tintin, Lucky Luke, and Asterix is one of them.
I mean considering just how little knowledge most Americans have about anything that happens outside of their country is that really such a surprise?
Thanks Austin, was afraid I’d have to be alone with my own thoughts for a sec.
It’s funny cuz this video popped up right as the existential dread was kicking in
You too huh...😥
TIL Asterix doesn't exist in the US, that's....kinda wild to me
It does, tho. I remember watching some of the old Asterix animated movies on Nickelodeon WAY back in the day, and a handful of the games have made it over here via publisher Microids. Also, all the comics (including the newly published ones) have been translated and released here as well.
I think it does (I recall watching some American-dubbed Asterix cartoons as a child), but to an extremely limited extent. if anything, I'm as surprised as you are, though it's at how little Asterix seems to be known in the States, or at least where Austin is based.
I remember a Simpsons Episode where the Simpsons get a "weird hippie" neighbour who, among other things, has Asterix comics. Asterix being apparently being seen as "weird hippie stuff" in the US got me a good laugh.
It was a surprise to me, when learning that Asterix was pretty much unknown in the United Kingdom.
Had a friend visit from England. Put one of the movies on, DVD with english dub... Within 10 minutes we had a rather good idea why it might not have caught on....dang that was a bad dub.
American comic readers don't care much about comedy, especially comedy that's based on historical in-jokes.
There's a whole treasure trove of content for you if you like "european anime": Asterix, Smurfs, Spirou, Lucky Luke, Tintin, North vs South, Kid Paddle,...
Most of these comics have cartoons and all of them have games :)
Lucky Luke is so good
North vs South was released in the US as Bluecoats IIRC
Just don't call it "anime"
@@The_Sage_of_Rage he said it, not me, that's why I put it in quotes 😂
@elpizo1789 as far as I'm aware: north vs south is the American translation of the comic. In Dutch it's called "blauwbloezen" which means "blue shirts".
Dude Asterix fucking slaps, never thought about it but it's baffling that you guys dont have it over there
As an American who took French classes in high school and college, the teachers of which LOVED Asterix, I can confirm. Asterix is RAD
Yeah but Asterisk?
I'm from Quebec, and grew up on Asterix and Obelix, I never thought about how the US doesn't really know them, I mean they know who Tintin is so I figured they'd know about Asterix.
Maybe it's just me but as a Brit I never heard of Tintin or Asterix as a kid, which is weird since I saw so many European and Australian cartoons as a kid that are virtually unheard of in North America. Maybe because when it comes to comics or animation, our markets have always been dominated by our own and American, and anime/manga was taking up the third slot while I was growing up.
It’s weird to think that Piglets big game just might be put in the rare and expensive category after a recent tweet revealed it’s actually a silent hill title
I knew somehow this was gonna be brought up. What a bizarre game.
Oh yeah a winnie the pooh game that was so unknown that makes it way in our modern world that is basically the silent hill for Children
I got curious and looked it up, and it looks like some asshats are buying out all they can find to artificially inflate the price. It's around 150€ complete and around a 1000€ sealed being marketed as "rare" or "Baby's first Silent Hill" and such. I absolutely hate what happened to gaming and these people even more, trying to run a profit on a meme.
If anyone ever wants to play this, please just download a rom and don't pay these scumbags, the retro gaming bubble will burst eventually.
@@BladeEXE67what an odd place to rant lol
@@savage751 I am not mad for my sake because I want to collect an obscure game or something no, it's just agravating to see people jump every opportunity to make a profit, like everyone has become a genius salesman, while completely ruining the fun of retro gaming.
I just hate people, is what I want to say.
Asterix is goated. There are NTSC DVDs floating around because we in Quebec love it!
Asterix, is actually one of the best series to survive its own creators! It's still thriving and it's actually better now than the last few books Uderzo wrote, the last of which featured an "American comics VS Manga" allegory with an alien invasion backdrop... in 50 B.C.
Gotta love the Evil Twin mention. Any obscure/strange Dreamcast game is always interesting to see being discussed
And just like that you've made my week infinitely better. Thanks Papa Eruption.
Hang in there!
Asterix, not Asterisk. 😂
Looking forward to this, we're a PAL area so might be find some floating around on the cheap.
My southern drawl really showing on this one
@@austineruption for your question: check it out, especially the non live-action movies are timeless classics.
@@austineruptionthere's a ton of US/North American released Asterix games, including a whopping SEVEN out for PS4/5 and Xbox (some of which are remakes of games that came out for PS2 in Europe). Also there's a Canadian Xbox 360 game based on the live action Asterix at the Olympic Games movie. (Also, the same publisher for the recent games, Microids, released a new Tintin game here last year on PS5 and Xbox that last month got an update when the Switch version dropped.)
@RealDafuh was a big fan of Mission Cleopatre also, not sure if it would be as good in English, but Monica Bellucci? 🤌
@@boihstk I always wanted to check out the English dub for that movie and compare it to THE LEGENDARY Polish dub.
9:16 Correction: A new sequel over 30 years after the original! And it's on Steam right now!
I have a complete copy of Zelda's Adventure. I don't know how to feel about that.
Honestly that's like owning a rare VHS of some weird, cheaply made cartoon. It can just make someone wonder what the heck is going on & whose idea was it.
Holy hell, imma be honest, i was not expecting to see anybody talk about Evil Twin. I actually own the game on PC, comes in like 2 discs (One Normal Cover and One tinted blue), had it since i was a kid but never got around to playing it, mostly because when i got it i barely understood a lick of english, so whenever i played videogames i couldn't progress farther than maybe the first level so i never got to experience it's dialogue. This unlocked like a core memory.
it's an acquired taste, i thought it was kinda neat honestly and the controls takes time to master or funny enough can sorta skip certain sections easily by glitching in certain walls or objects while using in ur super alter ego mode to do so.
The atmosphere reminds me a little bit of Rayman 2's darker parts.
- Gives us sass about the Thames;
- Says Asterix wrong almost every time, but says Obelix correctly XD
1:01 asterix is a comic book!!
And they don't fight Roman republic, but Roman Empire.
Funny how much he got wrong about Astérix.
@@atomickid Maybe he was confused by the presence of Julius Caesar in the strip.
Now he NEEDS to read it to fully understand it
I was here for Tintin and Astérix, but my feeble French millennial mind was not ready to handle "Taxi 2" being uttered in 2024. I aged three decades at once.
At least Taxi 2 as a videogame seemed to have enough effort put into it that it would look nice on a CRT. Unfortunately I suffered from the "We have Taxi 2 at home" syndrome with this one as a kid, owning instead a PS2 copy of the almighty pile of dung that is Paris-Marseille Racing 2, by Davilex. Somehow fooled 4 year old me into thinking i was in beautiful photo-realistic Paris, but if you clear the fog off your glasses, you now glance at near shovelware, a game lazily ported from the PS1, with a terrible FOV, no sense of speed, soap-box controls, and somehow less content than a modest arcade cabinet.
French Canadian here
Asterix et Obelix is a nice kid franchise. Basicaly, their village druid can make invicibility potion so they stand defiant in the face of the whole roman empire and every now and than Asterix and Obelix go on wild aventure to help people as their kinda legendary warrior across the world.
I find it fascinating how you didn't like Evil Twin, but Ghostcharm liked it a lot, the "Two Kinds of People" energy is intense here.
i like it
1:07 Funfact about Asterix and *Ruffy* : I own their Adventures (so far) in full.
And Asterix has fully been transitioned to a new team of Writer/Drawer and as they are way younger they make internet jokes via letter doves.
19:33 Fighting a Mini Boss in a The Wizard od Oz-inspired Action Game and said Boss is called "Servus". This is untintentionally hilarious.
28:25 There is a simple way to find out whether you like Asterix' brand of humor: Watch The Twelve Tasks of Asterix
If you like it, you will like the series as a whole.
Also Passierschein A38
Why you Germans gotta do our boy Luffy dirty like that? Not even Japan calls him Ruffy. It's Luffy bro, get it right.
@louiechudley5616
Because "laff" is a adjective that means as much as "tastes like nothing". Great name for the main character.
Look up the popularity of One Piece in Germany. These localization changes were a good idea. The numbers prove it.
And I honestly prefer "Lysop" to "Ussop". In both cases I know what they mean but I "feel" the former.
@@catriamflockentanz still not the correct name though. Oda named him Luffy. So that's his name.
@@louiechudley5616 character name changes in localizations happen all the time
@PhoebeTheFairy56 I know. That's why it's called a localisation and not just a translation. I'm from the UK though, and One Piece is simply Translated here. No messing around with the original vision. Also, when it comes to the Anime, the English Dub is widely hated. Japanese voices, English subtitles. Thank you very much. Keeping it as close to the original work as possible.
AsteriX (not asterisk) has magical potion made by the druid PanoramiX, that he takes to get hyper strong for a while and punch heaps of romans to the sky. But Obelix felt into the magical potion cauldron when he was little and so he doesn't need to drink it anymore, he's strong all the time - and thus fetches all the menhirs, mystery solved.
Great video !
Asterix is dope man! Theres a whole bunch of classic animated movies. And they're all worth watching. The Twelve Tasks of Asterix is probably my favourite. Absolute gem!
He is not talking about Asterix though. He is talking about its little known bootleg version Asterisk.
On a serious note though, I agree. I'm a Dane who grew up on Asterix and Tintin.
14:28 You know you're too far gone when Panzer Dragoon looks affordable
I can always appreciate a good MGS reference.
Evil Twin is solid. EB Games carried Evil Twin, Shenmue 2, and Headhunter for Dreamcast (UK version) in US stores (was like $9.99 for a boxed boot disk). They were probably the last 3 "new release" Dreamcast games that I (and many others) purchased. Shenmue 2 is excellent on Dreamcast. Headhunter and Evil Twin are both solid (Headhunter probably edges it out in quality).
As a Greek, Asterix and Obelix was a huge part of my childhood, one that I still occasionally revisit as an adult and have just as much fun with, even appreciating certain aspects of it even more now than I did back then. Always crazy to realize how something so well known and recognizable in your country can be so niche in others. 😅. I would personally also recommend checking it out if you are interested, particularly some of the animated films like "Asterix and Cleopatra" or, if you prefer a more modern one, "Asterix and the Mansions of the Gods".
Asterix is truly legendary! Insane that one franchise can span multiple generations
ok, austin talking about asterix and tintin is a thing i wouldn't have expected
but it is highly appreciated
As someone who lives in Michigan: The Michigan Report From Hell game is 1000% accurate. All of that stuff actually happens here all the time and also we all talk just like that.
Canada got a lot of French and Belgian cartoons translated. I grew up watching Tin Tin (with that intro music that goes SO HARD FOR NO REASON) as well as others like Nighthood, Blake and Mortimer, Ivanhoe and Red Beard (also with an intro that goes too hard) just to name a few. But we never got Asterix and Obelix for some reason.
4:35 ME!!!
every game should have santa claus as a playable character!
MR Gimmick mentioned!!! Someone call Pat the NES Punk !
25:26 thank you for mentioning Gundam Witch from Mercury! My favourite gundam series and i would love to have more content of them in newer games
Fun Fact: The guy who was playing the boom operator in Michigan: Report from Hell was actually experiencing frequent bouts of diarrhea at the time, leading to less than stellar performance on his part due to constant discomfort.
Joke's on you I'm watching this from Europe ^^
go bed
Anti-Clause? that's the Krampus ma dood!
he's the one punishing the naughty kids 😅
So if I'm not mistaken, Cindy's fashion world is so expensive it was recalled after it was found it wouldn't play in a PS1. It would however, play in a PS2. Might just be an Internet rumour though.
Asterix & Obelix is SUCH A GEM. You should watch the animated show and read some of the comics. You're gonna have a great time while doing it ^^
Hey Austin, great vid as usual, just wanted to let you know that Eurpoean publisher Microids (who most know for the unfortunate XIII "remake") release a TON of games here in the states based on European comic properties, including Smurfs, Marsupalami (a spinoff of the Belgian comic Spiro y Fantasio), Blacksad, and of course Asterix and Tintin, the former of which they've released at least *SEVEN* games for PS4/5 and Xbox, and the latter of which got a new game released last year, that just got an update when the Switch version dropped last month (named and based on the Tintin book "Cigars of the Pharaoh").
I would like to say be careful with the games published by Microids. By trying to be Infogrames 2.0, they do the exact opposite, by releasing games with okay difficulty, but buggy and often graphically broken worse than the originals. XIII was not the exception but just the worst of all the mediocre takes on remastering done. The result of pushing small development teams to release full games within a year, and barely giving any leeway for Quality Assurance and Testing.
Sure, this made games more accessible to the USA, notably XXL2 that originally was a PAL exclusive ( but does it really count when it has a PC version that can work anywhere? ), but you'll still be missing out on the real "XXL3", being Asterix at the Olympic Games, who unlike the one called XXL3 doesn't betray you into being a completely different gameplay with topdown view rather than free 3D camera exploration. Same as XXL2, a PC version is out there for the grabs.
I'd say out of all the Microids slop, the least irritating games are probably the Smurf ones, as the devs managed to keep the scope narrow enough for a 1-year cycle for each game, and as a result the games don't look as broken as the XXLs or XIII, or even Tintin, as I heard this new release was also suffering from bugs... shame after the 23 year long wait for a new original Tintin game.
Most of the old versions of these games are still very cheap to find, because not really sought after, if you're passionate enough grab those over the newer ones.
The fact that us Pal enjoyers (Australian here) had to wait longer for most releases back in the day, it was kind of cool to have some exclusives just for us =)
Having said that, you didn't miss much by not playing that Santa game lol
Love Asterix and Obelix, sad to hear the movies bombed because the first one was great, managing to combine several comic plots into a single narrative. I also loved the old animated movie Les Douze Travaux d'Astérix (though it might not have aged well), where Asterix and Obelix have to complete 12 Herculean challenges and by the end Asterix becomes the next Caesar --A great end to the series if you see it as canon. There's also an Asterix and Obelix theme park in France
I mean, it depends on which one Austin was talking about. They had to make some money, otherwise why keep making them?
I think he was reffering to the last one taking place in China, but I could be wrong.
Never expected to see an Austin Eruption X Asterix videogames video but boy was I glad to see it
Oh man Evil Twin straight up reeks of early 2000s.
26:10 I remember my family going to the cinema in another city when I was a small child to watch one of them. I was so scared of the loud noises and to me at the realistic effects that I started crying and mom brought me out.
I went to the Asterix theme park a few years ago. Went to a restaurant LITERALLY shaped like a bowl of fruit that didn't have any veggie options. The irony.
Asterix and Obelix is actually amazing. I read all the comics as a child, the animated movies are great and some of the live action movies are alright too. I can only recommend it to people who don't know them
I will never tire of hearing about Asterix after having dived completely into the franchise last year. Just funny cause I never heard of it before then as an American and now I hear about it everywhere.
Evil tsin looks interesting. Not gonna lie. Like some childs drawings come to life....but they watched chuckey and the matrix WWWAAAAYYY to early now everything is "E D G E". Lol it is something to look into though. So thanks. c:
It’s based on childhood fears
There’s some cool development info out there
Recommend looking on google
Very interesting
That last game was really a trip.
Wait, americans don't know Asterix & Obelix? No wonder your country is the way it is, lmao.
Seriously though, read the comics, they're great fun!
Edit: You also didn't know about Tintin? WHAT?!
American here: The 90s Tintin cartoon(which was made in Canada LMAO) aired on Nickelodeon, but it seems that not many ever saw it airing on that network back in the day.
Australian here and idk about asterix either
@@ExtremeWreck it was likely VERY short lived if no one from the 90's that grew up watching Nick don't remember it airing
They are boring tho.
@@alexandrebelair4360 But the doodle show that dares call itself "animation" aka Ren & Stimpy is fun? European comics/cartoons are simply more laid back. Muricans need constant action and shooty shooty bang bang to keep their feeble short-lived goldfish attention.
*Woo! Last video before I go to sleep! Good night from Japan!* 🇯🇵
Zero Wing mentioned
I have a physical copy of the last game, on PS2. Then again, I am in the PAL region.
And I don't know where the concept of the game comes from either...
Based on childhood fears
Was originally planned to be a cartoon
Fortunately, Alien Soldier was included on the Genesis Mini 2, as well as Daze Before Christmas (the SNES version at least), is on the second Evercade Sunsoft collection and Uforia on NES and Gimmick are on the first Evercade Sunsoft collection.
Zero Wing DID get a rerelease through RetroBit that works on American systems but it can be a bit expensive (like ~$90-ish I think?) now.
I was introduced to Asterix back in Reesor Park public school, via the second book... and I fell in love with it.
I would then find other Asterix books and read them to my heart's content! It's stuck with me ever since.
Great video!
Here’s a few suggestions for a part two;
- “Revenge of The Smurfs” for GBA with an English language box (was only released in Scandinavia I believe, the English version that is)
- Pixeline for GBA. Super common in Denmark, had sold for thousands of dollars on eBay.
- Bamse for Gameboy
- Boxed copies of Super Mario/Tetris/World Cup. Loose cartridge is cheap, but the box…
- Beauty And The Beast for both NES and SNES is becoming expensive
- There’s a bunch of Finnish Singstar games, that usually sells for quite a lot.
- The Morning Adventure for GBA
While Finland is not part of Scandinavia, Mr. Gimmick was also released here like other NES SCN titles.
The coolest thing about Astérix and Obélix is the integration of real historical figures like Cesar, who's basically always fed up about everything. Also, and unfortunately, half the character names are puns which translate poorly
12:32 Only published by the Japan Victor Company, it was actually developed by Sculptured Software, who also made the SNES Bart titles.
Isn't Parodius the source of the anime girl saying "WOOOOOW!" sound effect? I heard a freakin' oldies radio station play that sound!
Yes
yeah, surprised he didn't mention it.
Where would you rather be less: Creed Album Art or Michigan?
I cannot BELIEVE Cindy's Fashion World is so rare! I had a copy when I was a kid!
I had completely forgotten about Prince Valiant. Though I don't remember more than that it was on TV and I at least watched occasionally
NEW AUSTIN! hell yeah!!!
Highly recommend the Taxi films. Just avoid the US remake and get ready to read subtitles like the rest of us! Lol
This dude has peddled so many different food companies, he hasn’t had to pay for a meal in a long time haha nicely done
Fun fact: in the French dub of Sailor Moon, Usagi is called "Bunny Rivière", Chibi-Usa is called Camille, Mamoru is called Bourdu, and Minako is called Mathilda.
Thanks for highlighting the Ra-one game, it was a lot of fun when I was 9 lol
Asterix (you keep saying it wrong) is fun. It is humorous. I Think if you should start somewhere it should be Asterix in Britan. It is basiclly the french making fun of the brits
Me checking to see if any of the games in my collection going back to 98 are rarities after this video drops.
I have a lot of Asterix games for some reason, despite it not being a big hit in the UK 😅.
Its weird that I experienced two of them in the states. Idk if that makes me a hipster or if that's all they had at the rental store.
I winced in pain every time you pronounced Asterix as Asterisk. 😂💀
Where my boy Terranigma at?! An insanely awesome SNES game only released in Europe and Japan.. Check it out, its fantastic..
3:20 is it just me, or does it look like Santa is enjoying that sleigh ride... a bit too much? O.o
Asterix is one of the best, most well written comics to come out of Europe. I'd recommend anyone to check out the original comics and while most of the animated movies are based on the original comics they can be a mixed bag. It's about this tiny village of Gauls being the only place Julius Caesar can't conquer since they have a druid that makes a strength potion. Obelix (the fat one) fell down into the cauldron of magic potion as a child and so he is blessed with super strength all the time while others, such as Asterix, need to drink the potion to gain super strength for a limited amount of time. Their adventures often revolve around how the Romans try to get their little village to surrender but it most often takes them on long adventures based on historical events. Asterix and Tin Tin is probably my favorite European comics and there's really nothing else that comes close to how well drawn and written they are.
15:22 R.I.P. Mirco Nontschew. He was a beloved german comedian and actor who all of a sudden died at 52yrs in 2021
That floor drop out at 27:38 is just classic old school licensed game bullshit. *Chefs kiss*
I bought tintin destination adventure as a kid in norway for about 100 kroner (10 dollars), this was around 2005 when the ps2 was big and ps1 games were not worth anything, and later found out if was super rare since it has an english cover instead of french like the one you saw on ebay
@15:20
German here. Did not expect to see Mirco Nontschew in my Austin Eruption video today.
20:58 The premise of that movie sounds pretty cool to me😂
0:17 excuse me what!!!
Yeah, I'll be honest, aside from hearing the name Asterix and Obelix and TinTin before here in Canada, I have never actually seen anything regarding them. Weird how that is, considering North America usually runs with whatever Europe gives us, but no, not with these two *apparently* monumental brands over there.
9:56 Second Samurai is still one of the better beat em ups on the Megadrive
Dynasty Warriors Gundam Reborn is digital exclusive for the US but it definitely came to Western consoles. I have my PS3 hooked up to a TV JUST to play that game
Nearly 40 minutes of PAL exclusive weirdness & this isn't even touching the seemingly endless rabbit hole of PAL exclusive home computer games from the Amiga, C64, ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro, Amstrad CPC to more unknown fare the Acorn Archimedes, Camputers Lynx, Jupiter ACE, Dragon 32/64, some Soviet bloc computers, SAM Coupe, etc.
I will need someone to help me navigate the PC stuff because that's mostly a little before my time. Started with Windows 95!
@@austineruption I mean, yeah, but even I wouldn't be able to tell ya' where to start because it's like one GIANT rabbit hole that takes YEARS to go through at least HALF of it. One could make a whole entire iceberg on European home computer madness because of the sheer insanity of it all & it could be like, 7-9 tiers.
Asterix and Tintin are really cult classics in the Quebec province as well, especially the movies they show on TV every Christmas vacation
Fun fact the character on screen at 11:12 has a Yu-Gi-Oh card made about him. Koitsu is his name. I'm not sure if Parodius has other colors of airplane men, but Yu-Gi-Oh has the red, blue, yellow and green.
The Yu-Gi-Oh card game actually has a lot of Konami characters referenced in the cards.
Can confirm Asterix is pretty fun to watch 12 task of Asterix a pretty funny movie
Perfect Dark is my favorite Rare game.
As a player born in france at the end of the 90s and fed PAL releases for the next decade and a half, Asterix, Tintin and The Smurfs were all I knew about in videogames for the beginning. That's the side effect of having a computer illiterate family that could only trust games based on if they could recognize the comicbook character on the cover, so there would be no Zelda or Sonic at home for quite a while. ( "Zelda Ocarina of Time? We got it at home." *Points to Harry Potter 2 on the PS2* )
I began my journey in 2002 on the Playstation with:
- 3, 2,1, Smurf! My First Racing Game ( NTSC: Smurf Racer! )
- Tintin Destination Adventure
- Asterix Mega Madness ( you briefly showed it ).
And, I still have these games, in pristine quality! It's quite a shock to me to learn my complete box of Tintin is worth that much! Before I was allowed to use the PS1, it was bought for my older sister as the family's first 3D video game, that blew them away. Heck, I even have on VHS tape a commercial of the game, aired a month after release ( and mere weeks before buying it! ), during the ad break of a movie who's exact date of airing could be traced.
This game need not be so hard, you can turn on Easy difficulty to let your character/vehicle constantly regenerate HP, leaving you with only the bottomless pits to worry about. Driving vehicles with no shortage of fuel is actually fun! Also fun fact, like the other mentionned games above, it had a PC version, but unlike them who's ports definately give trade you better PC graphics for worse compatibility/UI, Tintin on PC is basically emulated, and due to that, works pretty well out of the box on a modern PC. I figured it out when i noticed I could make the saving menu load ripped PS1 memory card data, as if it was a PS1, displaying icons of all the games I had and not just Tintin. Which means you have cross-compatible saves if you know what you're doing.
As for Asterix in general, there's a LOT of content for you to start picking up and enjoy. The original XXL series is worth checking out ( not the remasters tho, while they make these old games very accessible especially for the USA, they're not much more polished than the GTA remasters... ), preferably on PS2 or PC with community patches, Mega Madness is short but full of fun ( also, this game has dynamic framerate so overclocking the PS1 results in a jump from ~20 to locked 50fps, works on most minigames but will break enemy AI in top-downs ).
As a global view of Asterix/Tintin/Smurf games published by Infogrames, expect amazing 16/32bit graphics with fairly wacky difficulty. On the other hand, you can't go wrong with the games on the Game Boy, they were given a lot of attention, especially their music by the criminally underrated Alberto José Gonzalez.
While us europeans had to wait until 1997 to see the floodgates of JRPGs truly open ( with FF Adventure/Secret of Mana starting the breach ), i guess we can be proud of our little gems, games who sometimes were designed with PAL in mind and therefore no 20% slowdown like many forgeign games suffered from. And, we usually made sure that if a game we made was going overseas, it wouldn't speedup on NTSC!
I remember a Larry Bundy jr video about Keio flying squad that the devs by mistake put the whole game on a demo disk so if you had the demo disk you could play the entire game for free.
My uncle gifted me a collection of Gameboy games he had in storage, and after watching one of those "top 10 rarest Gameboy games" videos, I found out that one of them was worth $200 (now $300 with the boom in rare game collecting), and I never told him 🤫. Truly the best way to find a rare game.
Yes, Asterix is very much worth watching nowadays, the classic animated movies are very accurate to the comic and genuinely funny. The live action movies are great if you can stand them being almost as, if not even more cartoonish than the animated films. Also, the PS2 games that got remastered and ported to PS4 are great fun for an afternoon. Comics are still coming out and still very high quality, so those are also worth a read. On a semi-related note, also give Tintin and Largo Winch some love.