I mentioned that EB Games is the Canadian equivalent of GameStop in the video. What I mean by that is to this day in Canada they still have EB Games and virtually no GameStop stores. They are the exact same company originating from a single retail store called Babbage's that eventually became Electronic's Boutique (EB). The company itself is from the United States and is not to be confused as a Canadian owned company.
+Rerez I always assumed EB Games became Game Stop, with the red and white logos being the same, and just how EB disappeared and Game Stop showed up. I used to love Babbage’s, & I also had no idea they became EB. I guess I never cared enough since I could buy games anywhere.
As others have noted, this was fantastically interesting, but it seemed to lean a bit heavy on the rare side. I'm sure a hundred page binder from EB games must be packed with other similar oddities that you might've missed. It would be a *rare* treasure if maybe you could upload some scans of the binder, if only for the sake of preserving history.
Mr. Pants was actually a pre-existing Rare mascot. You can see him on a TV in Banjo-Tooie and he also makes an appearance in Jet Force Gemini. I still really wish we got Donkey Kong Racing...
EB games existed throughout the US before Game Stop purchased them. They were founded as a partnership between the company that purchased Babbage's IP, and Barnes and Noble booksellers.
Kevin Lippes I was going to mention this as well. I live in the metro-Detroit MI area and rememeber Twelve Oaks mall a few miles from my house having both an EB Games and a Gamestop. I bought a PS2 from EB Games in the JC Penny wing because they had better trade in value toward new consoles, but bought most of the games from the Gamestop that was in the central atrium of the mall because at the time, they had better used games pricing. Both existed even for a couple years after the buyout occurred, then EB Games turned into an Auntie Anne's I think.
Indeed, this resulted in some rather humourous situations. As an example, when they rebranded all EB Games stores in the US as GameStops, this resulted in Lloyd Center Mall in Portland, Oregon having *two* GameStops, one on the first floor and one on the second, less than 20 metres away. This was all a result of GameStop having set the one on the first floor up in direct competition to the older EB Games on the second floor. When they bought EB Games, part of the purchase agreement was that they couldn't close any EB stores for five years, nor rebrand them for three. Exactly at the three year mark, they rebranded all of them, resulting in the oddity in Portland. The moment the fifth year exhausted, they stopped paying rent on two storefronts in the same mall.
Seeing as you passed it but never actively commented on it; The picture of Meowth with the guitar was another planned game for the Gamecube. However due to development issues, it's assets would be re-purposed for Pokemon Channel.
I honestly find it hard to believe that tech demo was ever planned to be a full game. Every model except Meowths is ripped straight from Pokemon Stadium.
I was a manager at a local Babbages around 1998-2001 or so. We had so many of these binders and had an internal email system that would email us news blasts that printed out on upcoming games, reservations and promotions. Saw so many cool games come out around that time :)
+Quube Are you talking about Banjo - Cars of Dissapointment? TBH I have to agree woth Cool Spot here, the quality of games from rare has dropped immensely after the Microsoft aquisition. With two exceptions on different sides of the spectrum: Star Fox - Dinosaur Planet was a pretty boring and directionless Zelda clone and happened (obviously) before the aquisition and Viva Pinata was pretty good and happened after the aquisition. But on average rare lost a lot of thunder.
+Quube I have to conceit that I have not played Grabbed by the Ghoulies and actually forgot it even existed. But I did make a point about going into Nuts and Bolts with an open mind and giving it every chance I could, but I just couldn't enjoy it. Sea of Thieves is another game I haven't played myself, but literally everyone I know and every video game outlet I follow (which is, like 5 podcasts) were disappointed by it. But, for fairness sake I won't argue against it as I haven't played it. I wasn't a fan of Perfect Dark for N64 or X360, so that's a tie in my eyes. It seems like a cheap shot even mentioning that, but rare were kinda forced into developing for Kinect, which I felt hindered them from developing something worthwhile. Yet again, that is subjective, I know... But in the end all I can give is my opinion, so I think that is a fair point.
ReplayStation your user name sounds nice for a Game Store and you don't have to limited yourself with just PS games since I've seen some game stores in my life with Nintendo related names and they handled most about anything you can think of.
Eb used to be more about computer games, but then when they merged with Gamestop they became Gamestops in all but name, until eventually they even changed the name.
Can also confirm. My mall had an electronics boutique next to the arcade so i always went in there. Than they moved down the street to become ebgames and they are now gamestop. Insert evil empire music here. Now all game stores are gamestop muahhahahahha sigh i need to proof read more. Stupid spelling errors.
Same here. One mall in my town had a Babbages, the other an Electronics Boutique, which changed to EB Games, and a FuncoLand. The Babbages disappeared, the FuncoLand disappeared, the EB changed to a GameStop, and then like 10 other GameStop locations popped up.
Same, our mall had an Electronics Boutique (which eventually changed their name to EB Games) and a GameStop. Then the merger happened and we we had two Gamestops for a while before they closed one of them. I'll never forget being a kid in a different mall and making the connection that Electronics Boutique and EB Games were the same store lmao
I worked at a couple different game stores back in the early 2000s... so these binders had info placed in them by company representatives. Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft all had their own reps. The reps would set up demos, displays, educate employees, and often had lots of goodies to give employees like lanyards, mugs, and shirts that you couldn't get anywhere else. They came in about once a month... they usually put the new info in the binder and took out old inaccurate info.
Imagine how different Nintendo would be now if they were smart enough to buy Rare when they had a chance. Due to the MS buyout, Nintendo lost out on potentially a bunch of good games and Rare slowly morphed into the Rare of today (a pathetic perversion of its former self)
With Xbox live being somehow on the Switch with Minecraft and Microsoft being on record allowing their IPs (esp. Banjo) to appear in Smash Brothers if Nintendo wants them to I actually see a chance. Also Microsoft already releases all their stuff for Windows anyway so pure Xbox exclusives are a thing of the past it seems.
I mean, Nintendo did fine post-Rare. Sure, DKC was dormant for a while, but that's really the most they suffered. Judging by Rare's later projects at the time like Star Fox Adventures and Grabbed by the Ghoulies, it's clear they were kind of going down hill even before the buyout. A lot of old staff had already left by that point.
u should have just called this "Rare's unreleased Nintendo games" tbh. Just adding one non Rare game is kinda sad; there isn't more "lost" games> Perhaps you could have saved Raven Blade for a future video? but on the other hand this was about that book, so
I ♥️ this channel! So informative and entertaining! Your coverage of obscure facts / history is unlike any other. ALSO LOVED that BanjoKazooie chat bubble skit you did 😉
My boy! This video is amazing! Special thanks to You and Unseen64 for this! I love everything retro game related! Seriously this is your best video ever made imo! Because this video brought tears to my eyes! Tears of happiness! Thanks!
the best part about this is that Nintendo and Microsoft are really good buddies now and we could see another Rare title or character on a Nintendo platform(Phil Spencer has stated that he wouldn't mind Banjo-Kazooie in Smash, plus we already seen a Microsoft owned game come to Nintendo Switch with Crossplay aka Minecraft). hopefully Rare gets another chance to release another game on an Nintendo platform!!
Raven Blade getting cancelled is kinda hilarious in hindsight since the PS2 got Devil May Cry that August and gave us the Spectacle Fighter genre. Retro's lack of confidence in their combat system must've had them and Nintendo kicking themselves for missing such a lucrative opportunity. Wind Waker's combat can't really compare to DMC's.
Ok let me stop you right there EB games was a competition to GameStop before they went Bankrupt and GameStop bought them out. They decided to leave all EB locations in Canada and Australia and New Zealand alone and not pay to re-brand them as GameStop also EB Games when it was independent company was created and had is headquarters in the USA.
Funnily enough, the same thing happened in the UK; we had EB games/electronics boutique but then GAME bought them out in the UK, with GAME being our version of GameStop but it's not actually owned by them, they're their own company.
@@OnlyEpicEmber that doesnt necessarily mean that eb games originally created in Canada eb games was a direct competitor to game to stop in the 90s and early 2000s. Eventually yes they were bought out and merged with gamestop but to say ebgames originated from Canada without and physical proof is just non sense
Did they say they were founded in Canada? I don't think he did. I'm pretty sure he called them canadian which isn't really false as the only place I know of where they still have the name EB games in Canada
The binder says 2004, however some of the games like the RARE games would have been mentioned back in 2002 and 2001 before RARE was brought by Microsoft. Would have felt sorry for those EB Games employees who never knew that these games were never going to come out. Kameo: Elements of Power is listed below another infamous cancelled game, Raven Blade.
Yeah, I can remember when they announced that Retro was making Metroid Prime and how everyone was saying that the game was going to tank and it was a stupid decision by Nintendo. Then it came out that it was going to be a FPS and people were so disappointed. Well, we all know how that turned out heh.
13:02 Shane is that voice form cooking 4 gamers and to most people who don’t know what that series is it’s rerez making Shane making video game food with his friend who eats hedgehog meat with his green Hill calzone lol I hope at least 1 person got that reference
Love your shirt, brings back memories of sleepless nights downloading megabytes after megabytes, so that you can be the mp3 King at the next LAN party!
They still are common. I have seen them binders in every game store that I go to. They always refer to these binders when someone wants to sell a game or console or when some customers are looking for some info on a game or new console.
Rare killed themselves. Most of the original staff from the golden era left after Perfect Dark. There was nothing stopping them from making good games on the Xbox platform, an essentially more open platform than Nintendos but they didn't. Nintendo wouldn't sign Rare because they were annoying to work with and often times went overbudget.
Great video. About Retro Studio’s, they didn’t give Metroid (Prime) the attention it needed considering Miyamoto. Shigeru Miyamoto was very upset and told them to cancel every project and only work on Metroid for GameCube. He also fired 20 people who worked at Retro Studios. I’m happy that Shigsy did this because look at Metroid Prime!! It’s probably the best game on Nintendo GameCube.
I worked at Software Etc in 92. Cool store that had games, consoles, PC games, productivity software and books. It was a thinking mans entertainment and computing store.
I remember the hype for Donkey Kong Racing lol. If I remember correctly, one of the early GameCube retail console boxes had a screenshot of the game on the back of the box. Oh what couldve been.
There are also for the Famicom. The names are Donkey Kong's Fun with Music, Bowling, Space War (maybe Radar Scope or Space Fever) and Adventure Game (Which later become Super Mario Bros).
"A game lasting that long(4 generations) in development is pretty unheard of in the videogame history". Too Human(Xbox 360, but originally PS1) and Sturmwind(originally Atari Jaguar circa mid 90s, but now Xbox One and PS4, with a release on Dreamcast in 2013) anyone?
Canadian equivalent of Game Stop? Dude we had EB in America for decades. Electronics Boutique. I bought most of my N64 collection from them back in the 90s.
I would of loved to play raven blade, what i notice though is that some of the character's combat style seems to be a bit of a more fluent witcher 3 (surprisingly enough) so hopefully one day they see the record of raven blade and they would be like "hmmm, this would of been an amazing game, let's try to revive it for the modern day systems and give it the life it deserves"
EB Games is not the Canadian equivelant to Gamestop We had them in America too. In fact they were originally here as Electronics Boutique before the name changed. The original store was just a few miles from me in King of Prussia, PA.
whoa....what if the mystery project from Retro Studios is actually Raven Blade? o_O I mean it's been heavily rumored for a while now that they've been working on an original IP, and they'd already have access to whatever assets they had from the initial development....it's overall unlikely, but still an interesting possibility to think about. also, the 2 games I most wish Nintendo had finished & released that I remember getting announced and seeing footage &/or screenshots from are Riqa for N64 and Project H.A.M.M.E.R. for Wii
Electronic Boutique was in America. I called about games all the time like kids asking are we there yet. 'Is Street fighter 2 out yet? Can you get it early? Can I buy it as soon as the truck comes? What time does the truck come' I loved EB
Its a real shame Donkey Kong Racing never became a thing, it looked extremely awesome, the idea of a racing game Mario Kart style but instead riding on all kinds of jungle animals sounds amazing, imagine what the weapons would have been like! damn shame..
12:50 LOL Considering how secretive RARE was during their time both at Nintendo and then at Microsoft, they may as well have said that about many of their cancelled games.
That binder is an incredibly fascinating piece of video game marketing history! Nintendo and the word _exclusive_ sure were used a lot in the same sentence in every generation, but none more than the GameCube era imo (I'm looking at you _RE4_ !) I'm sure many of these lost games exist in some capacity. Just getting dusty in some private collectors den of greed, un-dumped, waiting to be auctioned off at their estate sales.
If I remember right when I was kid and wanted to pre order a game. The guy at Babbages would look through the binder to see if the game was available for pre order. I remember pre ordering the GameCube when it was still codename dolphin before the days of having to freaking wait and have to compete to pre order a Nintendo console at a set date.
“And when I say customers, it’s not folks like you an I who buy and play video games, no. The customers, the ones selling the games.” Really shows how much Nintendo cares about its player base.
EB Games was in the US. Just about everyone had a computer with an internet connection in 2004. Just about everyone had dialup by year 2000 and by 2004 most people had broadband.
Even though it was released as "Star Fox Adventures", the original "Dinosaur Planet" is pretty much a lost game title that featured original characters that were not meant to be part of the Star Fox series.
Awww, that's too bad about that Kameo game... I would have liked it, and been interested in playing it, if they would have stuck with their so called, "cutesy aesthetic" under Nintendo. I like the concept of pretty fairy lady, flying around catching and raising cute fantasy creatures in order to help further her goals and journey in the game.
I remember EB games before Gamestop replaced them. EB definitely had better deals on their games despite virtually being the same company after the buyout.
There's pictures online of pre-order receipts from Earthbound 64. :'( Sad to look at. That's a game that also spanned 4 consoles (SNES > 64 DD > N64 cart > GBA) and nearly a decade in development.
I mentioned that EB Games is the Canadian equivalent of GameStop in the video. What I mean by that is to this day in Canada they still have EB Games and virtually no GameStop stores. They are the exact same company originating from a single retail store called Babbage's that eventually became Electronic's Boutique (EB). The company itself is from the United States and is not to be confused as a Canadian owned company.
New Zealand has EB games
+Rerez I always assumed EB Games became Game Stop, with the red and white logos being the same, and just how EB disappeared and Game Stop showed up. I used to love Babbage’s, & I also had no idea they became EB. I guess I never cared enough since I could buy games anywhere.
Von Solo the Oldest Millennial maybe just a New Zealand thing, back in the day we used to have gamesman
Yeah I remember growing up with EB games in both New York and Cali
We could've kept Kiddy and younger Tiny!
As others have noted, this was fantastically interesting, but it seemed to lean a bit heavy on the rare side. I'm sure a hundred page binder from EB games must be packed with other similar oddities that you might've missed.
It would be a *rare* treasure if maybe you could upload some scans of the binder, if only for the sake of preserving history.
Mr. Pants was actually a pre-existing Rare mascot. You can see him on a TV in Banjo-Tooie and he also makes an appearance in Jet Force Gemini.
I still really wish we got Donkey Kong Racing...
TheCartoonGamer8000 We kind of did with barrel blast on the Wii.
But that isn't the same.
Thinking of mr.pants’ name reminded me of EAT PANT
Remember when that was a meme ?
@@malikrulez15 and diddy kong racing
I signed the binder for 64DD to be reserved still waiting for my call...
Have you been waiting for 20 years?
@@OnlyEpicEmber yes
ninjasec did you get a refund?
@@matthewferraro8020 of course not. Hes still waiting to get it.
EB games existed throughout the US before Game Stop purchased them. They were founded as a partnership between the company that purchased Babbage's IP, and Barnes and Noble booksellers.
Kevin Lippes I was going to mention this as well. I live in the metro-Detroit MI area and rememeber Twelve Oaks mall a few miles from my house having both an EB Games and a Gamestop. I bought a PS2 from EB Games in the JC Penny wing because they had better trade in value toward new consoles, but bought most of the games from the Gamestop that was in the central atrium of the mall because at the time, they had better used games pricing. Both existed even for a couple years after the buyout occurred, then EB Games turned into an Auntie Anne's I think.
I remember Electronics Boutique fondly in the glory days of malls.
@@LikaLaruku I had an Electronics Boutique in a mall in Pennsylvania in the late 90's early 00's. It switched to a Game Stop later on.
I remember EB Games. But do you remember Funcoland?
Indeed, this resulted in some rather humourous situations. As an example, when they rebranded all EB Games stores in the US as GameStops, this resulted in Lloyd Center Mall in Portland, Oregon having *two* GameStops, one on the first floor and one on the second, less than 20 metres away. This was all a result of GameStop having set the one on the first floor up in direct competition to the older EB Games on the second floor. When they bought EB Games, part of the purchase agreement was that they couldn't close any EB stores for five years, nor rebrand them for three. Exactly at the three year mark, they rebranded all of them, resulting in the oddity in Portland. The moment the fifth year exhausted, they stopped paying rent on two storefronts in the same mall.
Seeing as you passed it but never actively commented on it; The picture of Meowth with the guitar was another planned game for the Gamecube. However due to development issues, it's assets would be re-purposed for Pokemon Channel.
Still think it should have been the Meowth version of Gitaroo Man.
actually it appears in pokemon channel
It's not really a game. It was a Gamecube demo. Then those demo assets were repurposed for Pokemon Channel.
I honestly find it hard to believe that tech demo was ever planned to be a full game. Every model except Meowths is ripped straight from Pokemon Stadium.
I was a manager at a local Babbages around 1998-2001 or so. We had so many of these binders and had an internal email system that would email us news blasts that printed out on upcoming games, reservations and promotions. Saw so many cool games come out around that time :)
Microsoft buying Rare was bad for everyone
Yup...and they still are feeling the effects of that buyout. They are now pretty much a non-existing company.
No it wasn’t.
Microsoft is bad for everyone XD
+Quube Are you talking about Banjo - Cars of Dissapointment? TBH I have to agree woth Cool Spot here, the quality of games from rare has dropped immensely after the Microsoft aquisition. With two exceptions on different sides of the spectrum: Star Fox - Dinosaur Planet was a pretty boring and directionless Zelda clone and happened (obviously) before the aquisition and Viva Pinata was pretty good and happened after the aquisition. But on average rare lost a lot of thunder.
+Quube I have to conceit that I have not played Grabbed by the Ghoulies and actually forgot it even existed. But I did make a point about going into Nuts and Bolts with an open mind and giving it every chance I could, but I just couldn't enjoy it. Sea of Thieves is another game I haven't played myself, but literally everyone I know and every video game outlet I follow (which is, like 5 podcasts) were disappointed by it. But, for fairness sake I won't argue against it as I haven't played it. I wasn't a fan of Perfect Dark for N64 or X360, so that's a tie in my eyes. It seems like a cheap shot even mentioning that, but rare were kinda forced into developing for Kinect, which I felt hindered them from developing something worthwhile. Yet again, that is subjective, I know... But in the end all I can give is my opinion, so I think that is a fair point.
The tilt sensor was also used in Yoshi's Universal Gravitation (Yoshi Topsy-Turvy, in the US). A Yoshi game everybody forgot...
I've got a copy!
I only remember that game because I saw an ad for it in Nick magazine (RIP)
Dang it! I was going to open a game store called Games Blop, but now the name's taken...
If He didnt copyright it you still could
Why not Games Flop?
Why Games Shop?
ReplayStation your user name sounds nice for a Game Store and you don't have to limited yourself with just PS games since I've seen some game stores in my life with Nintendo related names and they handled most about anything you can think of.
Electronics Boutique was plentiful in the US until game stop bought them out. And I believe previously EB had bought out Babbage's .
Can confirm. My local mall use to have both a Game Stop and EB.
Eb used to be more about computer games, but then when they merged with Gamestop they became Gamestops in all but name, until eventually they even changed the name.
Can also confirm. My mall had an electronics boutique next to the arcade so i always went in there. Than they moved down the street to become ebgames and they are now gamestop. Insert evil empire music here. Now all game stores are gamestop muahhahahahha sigh i need to proof read more. Stupid spelling errors.
Same here. One mall in my town had a Babbages, the other an Electronics Boutique, which changed to EB Games, and a FuncoLand. The Babbages disappeared, the FuncoLand disappeared, the EB changed to a GameStop, and then like 10 other GameStop locations popped up.
Same, our mall had an Electronics Boutique (which eventually changed their name to EB Games) and a GameStop. Then the merger happened and we we had two Gamestops for a while before they closed one of them.
I'll never forget being a kid in a different mall and making the connection that Electronics Boutique and EB Games were the same store lmao
I worked at a couple different game stores back in the early 2000s... so these binders had info placed in them by company representatives. Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft all had their own reps. The reps would set up demos, displays, educate employees, and often had lots of goodies to give employees like lanyards, mugs, and shirts that you couldn't get anywhere else.
They came in about once a month... they usually put the new info in the binder and took out old inaccurate info.
The artwork and animation in this video is beautiful. Amazing production values all round, loved it. Cheers.
Woah, hey guys welcome to EB games
Imagine how different Nintendo would be now if they were smart enough to buy Rare when they had a chance. Due to the MS buyout, Nintendo lost out on potentially a bunch of good games and Rare slowly morphed into the Rare of today (a pathetic perversion of its former self)
Let's hope that Nintendo and Microsoft/rare work together
Since Microsoft and Nintendo have been all friendly lately it would be interesting if they worked on a project together
With Xbox live being somehow on the Switch with Minecraft and Microsoft being on record allowing their IPs (esp. Banjo) to appear in Smash Brothers if Nintendo wants them to I actually see a chance. Also Microsoft already releases all their stuff for Windows anyway so pure Xbox exclusives are a thing of the past it seems.
Martell Tha Cool hell no
I mean, Nintendo did fine post-Rare. Sure, DKC was dormant for a while, but that's really the most they suffered. Judging by Rare's later projects at the time like Star Fox Adventures and Grabbed by the Ghoulies, it's clear they were kind of going down hill even before the buyout. A lot of old staff had already left by that point.
u should have just called this "Rare's unreleased Nintendo games" tbh. Just adding one non Rare game is kinda sad; there isn't more "lost" games> Perhaps you could have saved Raven Blade for a future video? but on the other hand this was about that book, so
Plus unreleased Zelda games could have been it's own episode.
Electronics Boutique.... lets call it what it was !!! THE LAST STANDING FULL BOX PC GAME STORE !!!!
I ♥️ this channel! So informative and entertaining! Your coverage of obscure facts / history is unlike any other. ALSO LOVED that BanjoKazooie chat bubble skit you did 😉
EB GAMES ALSO EXISTED IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST.
Mr. Pants sounds like something that would make me laugh hysterically at like 3 am.
My boy! This video is amazing! Special thanks to You and Unseen64 for this! I love everything retro game related! Seriously this is your best video ever made imo! Because this video brought tears to my eyes! Tears of happiness! Thanks!
I love seeing physical proof of "lost media". If you ever get a chance to check out anything else like this, I'll watch it every time.
Ah. A Napster shirt. Lars Ulrich would no be proud
the best part about this is that Nintendo and Microsoft are really good buddies now and we could see another Rare title or character on a Nintendo platform(Phil Spencer has stated that he wouldn't mind Banjo-Kazooie in Smash, plus we already seen a Microsoft owned game come to Nintendo Switch with Crossplay aka Minecraft). hopefully Rare gets another chance to release another game on an Nintendo platform!!
Raven Blade getting cancelled is kinda hilarious in hindsight since the PS2 got Devil May Cry that August and gave us the Spectacle Fighter genre. Retro's lack of confidence in their combat system must've had them and Nintendo kicking themselves for missing such a lucrative opportunity. Wind Waker's combat can't really compare to DMC's.
Ok let me stop you right there EB games was a competition to GameStop before they went Bankrupt and GameStop bought them out. They decided to leave all EB locations in Canada and Australia and New Zealand alone and not pay to re-brand them as GameStop also EB Games when it was independent company was created and had is headquarters in the USA.
Remember X-Play with Adam Sessler and Morgan Webb? I used to watch thst to learn about new games. And i had Playstation Monthly (PSM) Magazine.
EB games existed in the US until the company was bought by GameStop. They just never changed the name of the stores in Canada for some reason.
They're still called EB games here in Australia too
2:18 GameCube was supposed to have a little window underneath the logo to see the game spinning why did they removed that ?
Yeah that would have looked great. I believe they even showed off some demo consoles with the window still on the lid back in the day.
I'm new to this channel . Loving the back catalog!
Electronics Boutique. It was a thing down here in Miami. In fact I'm fairly certain my local mall has an EBX which is an offshoot.
I like your retro gaming videos dude! Very informative and brings back a LOT of memories lol.
How is eb games Canadian when they used to be all over jersey?
GameStop bought them out and changed the name eventually in the US, but kept the name in Canada
Funnily enough, the same thing happened in the UK; we had EB games/electronics boutique but then GAME bought them out in the UK, with GAME being our version of GameStop but it's not actually owned by them, they're their own company.
@@OnlyEpicEmber that doesnt necessarily mean that eb games originally created in Canada eb games was a direct competitor to game to stop in the 90s and early 2000s. Eventually yes they were bought out and merged with gamestop but to say ebgames originated from Canada without and physical proof is just non sense
EB Games was founded in Pennsylvania. He's an idiot.
Did they say they were founded in Canada? I don't think he did. I'm pretty sure he called them canadian which isn't really false as the only place I know of where they still have the name EB games in Canada
The binder says 2004, however some of the games like the RARE games would have been mentioned back in 2002 and 2001 before RARE was brought by Microsoft.
Would have felt sorry for those EB Games employees who never knew that these games were never going to come out.
Kameo: Elements of Power is listed below another infamous cancelled game, Raven Blade.
Miyomota really saved Retro Studios by seeing the engine of a unique game and that incident caused Metroid Prime to happen. Excellent video
Yeah, I can remember when they announced that Retro was making Metroid Prime and how everyone was saying that the game was going to tank and it was a stupid decision by Nintendo. Then it came out that it was going to be a FPS and people were so disappointed. Well, we all know how that turned out heh.
Was awesome meeting you at the Barrie Game Exchange. Awesome video like usual Shane.
13:02 Shane is that voice form cooking 4 gamers and to most people who don’t know what that series is it’s rerez making Shane making video game food with his friend who eats hedgehog meat with his green Hill calzone lol I hope at least 1 person got that reference
Love your shirt, brings back memories of sleepless nights downloading megabytes after megabytes, so that you can be the mp3 King at the next LAN party!
We had eb games in vegas and game crazy back in the day never used game srltop they were always a week be hind when it came to new titles
Dude you put a lot of time in all ur videos an it shows. Great work bro! Making us Canadians proud
They still are common. I have seen them binders in every game store that I go to. They always refer to these binders when someone wants to sell a game or console or when some customers are looking for some info on a game or new console.
Microsoft, I hope you're happy. You killed Rare!
Rare killed themselves. Most of the original staff from the golden era left after Perfect Dark. There was nothing stopping them from making good games on the Xbox platform, an essentially more open platform than Nintendos but they didn't. Nintendo wouldn't sign Rare because they were annoying to work with and often times went overbudget.
Thanks Shane! Best video in a long time! (Not bashing other vids, this one just stands out as one of your best!)
Think I would've enjoyed Kameo on the GameCube. "Donkey Kong Racing" also looks pretty interesting at its last stage before whatever happened to it.
Great video. About Retro Studio’s, they didn’t give Metroid (Prime) the attention it needed considering Miyamoto. Shigeru Miyamoto was very upset and told them to cancel every project and only work on Metroid for GameCube. He also fired 20 people who worked at Retro Studios. I’m happy that Shigsy did this because look at Metroid Prime!! It’s probably the best game on Nintendo GameCube.
Kirby Tilt N' Tumble came out on the Game Boy Color, so Nintendo had motion sensing games way before WarioWare.
Kameo was the first game I bought for 360, it really was a lot of fun and the textures at the time blew my mind.
I worked at Software Etc in 92. Cool store that had games, consoles, PC games, productivity software and books. It was a thinking mans entertainment and computing store.
I have quite a few of these from gamestop from the ds, dsi, wii and wii u era. Really cool stuff.
EB actually means Electronics Boutique. Back when I was a kid in the 90s it was marqued as Eb world. But yeah, classic stuff! Good video!
I remember the hype for Donkey Kong Racing lol. If I remember correctly, one of the early GameCube retail console boxes had a screenshot of the game on the back of the box. Oh what couldve been.
Wow awesome I'm from waterloo/kitchener area haha, unusual to hear a local shutout on the RUclips lol
I miss this era of gaming, It was such a great time :/
There are also for the Famicom. The names are Donkey Kong's Fun with Music, Bowling, Space War (maybe Radar Scope or Space Fever) and Adventure Game (Which later become Super Mario Bros).
"A game lasting that long(4 generations) in development is pretty unheard of in the videogame history". Too Human(Xbox 360, but originally PS1) and Sturmwind(originally Atari Jaguar circa mid 90s, but now Xbox One and PS4, with a release on Dreamcast in 2013) anyone?
we had eb world in the US. I miss them. They were what gamestop should have been
My store that had this Funcoland. They even printed an entire list of what the game cost new, used, AND trade in.
Canadian equivalent of Game Stop? Dude we had EB in America for decades. Electronics Boutique. I bought most of my N64 collection from them back in the 90s.
We still had a binder like that at Walmart up through the Wii U era. Nintendo's was by far the best and most up to date.
I would of loved to play raven blade, what i notice though is that some of the character's combat style seems to be a bit of a more fluent witcher 3 (surprisingly enough) so hopefully one day they see the record of raven blade and they would be like "hmmm, this would of been an amazing game, let's try to revive it for the modern day systems and give it the life it deserves"
EB Games is not the Canadian equivelant to Gamestop We had them in America too. In fact they were originally here as Electronics Boutique before the name changed. The original store was just a few miles from me in King of Prussia, PA.
whoa....what if the mystery project from Retro Studios is actually Raven Blade? o_O I mean it's been heavily rumored for a while now that they've been working on an original IP, and they'd already have access to whatever assets they had from the initial development....it's overall unlikely, but still an interesting possibility to think about.
also, the 2 games I most wish Nintendo had finished & released that I remember getting announced and seeing footage &/or screenshots from are Riqa for N64 and Project H.A.M.M.E.R. for Wii
Electronic Boutique was in America. I called about games all the time like kids asking are we there yet. 'Is Street fighter 2 out yet? Can you get it early? Can I buy it as soon as the truck comes? What time does the truck come' I loved EB
Its a real shame Donkey Kong Racing never became a thing, it looked extremely awesome, the idea of a racing game Mario Kart style but instead riding on all kinds of jungle animals sounds amazing, imagine what the weapons would have been like! damn shame..
Eb games opened in New Zealand in 2012
Great Video, never heard of Binder.
Really interesting
Nintendo really should have bought Rare, DK Racing and the original concept for Kameo sounded great. Glad I never heard about them back in the day.
Kremlins in a tetris rip-off... Ooookay tell me nobody saw that when they thought it up
12:50 LOL
Considering how secretive RARE was during their time both at Nintendo and then at Microsoft, they may as well have said that about many of their cancelled games.
That's pretty cool to check out unreleased games
That binder is an incredibly fascinating piece of video game marketing history! Nintendo and the word _exclusive_ sure were used a lot in the same sentence in every generation, but none more than the GameCube era imo (I'm looking at you _RE4_ !) I'm sure many of these lost games exist in some capacity. Just getting dusty in some private collectors den of greed, un-dumped, waiting to be auctioned off at their estate sales.
Great video Shane!!
We had EB games and Funcoland in the US, at least up north until the early oughts.
We had EB games in West Michigan before they were all changed to GameStop. I never knew it was GameStop from Canada though.
If I remember right when I was kid and wanted to pre order a game. The guy at Babbages would look through the binder to see if the game was available for pre order. I remember pre ordering the GameCube when it was still codename dolphin before the days of having to freaking wait and have to compete to pre order a Nintendo console at a set date.
Is this Napster shirt from the times there it was filesharing or the time now, there napster is a legal streaming service?
I live in Michigan, and there used to be an EB Games near Grand Rapids
Their EB Games stores in Texas back in the 2000s I should know I used to shop there when I was a teenager
The weird thing is that here (in Missouri anyways) the was an EB Games and a Gamestop right across from each other in the mall.
All Americans know what EB Games is dude, we had it before GameStop came to town.
Saberman stampede looks so fun I need agame like that
This was a super interesting video, thanks!
“And when I say customers, it’s not folks like you an I who buy and play video games, no. The customers, the ones selling the games.” Really shows how much Nintendo cares about its player base.
A man of taste, I see? Don't think I didn't see that Legendary Starfy copy!
EB Games was in the US. Just about everyone had a computer with an internet connection in 2004. Just about everyone had dialup by year 2000 and by 2004 most people had broadband.
Kameo is available on a multi game pack from rareware called rare replay for the Xbox one. I played a little of it and it was actually pretty great
I remember when EB games was in the US I used to go there often as a kid.
Even though it was released as "Star Fox Adventures", the original "Dinosaur Planet" is pretty much a lost game title that featured original characters that were not meant to be part of the Star Fox series.
Nice Sim City 3000 cover on that binder.
Awww, that's too bad about that Kameo game... I would have liked it, and been interested in playing it, if they would have stuck with their so called, "cutesy aesthetic" under Nintendo. I like the concept of pretty fairy lady, flying around catching and raising cute fantasy creatures in order to help further her goals and journey in the game.
I remember EB games before Gamestop replaced them. EB definitely had better deals on their games despite virtually being the same company after the buyout.
That feel where Kameo development spanned 4 console generations and took 5+ years to develop...
*But it came out 13 years ago* .
Fuck man, we're old.
I remember seeing weird titles in Blockbuster's system like a Vanilla Ice Game listed for SNES
Again. 10/10 for Gabby. We need more.
There's pictures online of pre-order receipts from Earthbound 64. :'( Sad to look at. That's a game that also spanned 4 consoles (SNES > 64 DD > N64 cart > GBA) and nearly a decade in development.
I think i remember seeing that binder on the front desk at the stores when i was six
EB was a thing in the US too. We use to have one where I live.
I'm still excited for factor 5's museum thief game for GameCube
Banjo pilot had a very impressive beta with true 3d environments, I think the rom is available somewhere
Had no idea Kameo had changed that much. The version that did come out on the 360 was pretty decent at least.