Celebrities in Video Games - The Lost Era
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Celebrity Tie In Video Games are kind of a lost art. We used to see famous people getting their own video games ALL THE TIME, but now not so much. Be it Britney Spears, 50 Cent, Dwayne the Rock Johnson or even more obscure ones, there's been licensed celebrity games rolling around since the 80s.
So uh. I kinda decided to go through as many as I could???
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YO! 3 videos in a single month, I'm feeling CRAZY. I wanted to try something a little different this time around, and thought that famous celebrities with video games were a funny target. Let me know if I missed anything spicy!
Hope everyone's having a good day!
Austin
bruh what about quantum break with liam neeson?
I really like this topic. Good video
The only man going against hellofresh....
God help .....well them
Lol yall still got the bag hahahah
Yeah and thanks for the extra 4oz of some Austin ĝoodness right on budster👍😭
You missed the opportunity to title this video "Celebrity Video Games", a much more accurate (and clickable) title than "Celebrities in Video Games".
One of my favourite things about Blood On The Sand is that, apparently, a lot of the elements were added because 50 Cent asked his son what he’d want in a game and then they just added them.
I thought that was pretty funny but I actually do think it made the game more fun.
That the same son he was beefing with? Lol
Is 50 Cent's son named 25 Cent or Quarter...
Based
Matt McMuscles did an excellent What Happened video explaining all that!
Man, how do you go through this entire video without even mentioning Def Jam, fight for NY? A fighting games consisting of almost entirely R&B and rap artists, and the main villain was Snoop Dogg! Legitimately one of the best fighting games of all time.
I'm still surprised we never got a fighting game with the same engine. Like obviously we'll never get a remaster due to the insane licensing costs it would require (if you still have a copy treasure it as they're fucking expensive to buy nowadays) but the engine was so god damn fun i thought for sure another game would come along with a similar feel and it just never did.
Those games were using the same engine as the WWE Smackdown games like here comes the pain shut your mouth and Smackdown Vs raw. So technically we did get a fighting game like that, just with a ring too
hell yeah!!! came to say this too lol, ffny was so underratedly good
My fav fighting game hell yeah
@@AlphaGamingClubOfficial they actually used the engine of the AKI WCW & WWF N64 wrestling games, not the Yukes Smackdown games. 🙂
Outside of the Def Jam and 50 Cent games, my favourite celebrity cameo was in True Crime Streets of LA. If you collected all 30 bones that were scattered throughout the map you unlocked Snoop Dog as a playable character, and the best part was he was fully voiced by Snoop Dog as well.
Wasnt Snoop dog a voice you could use in call of duty infinite warfare as a anoncer to ?
Snoop dog was also the protagonist of the 2nd game lol.
I'm kind of surprised he didn't talk about the Def Jam games.
@@TheCommanderTaco No the hell he wasn't lmao. Marcus was voiced by Avery Wadell. Redman was unlockable in the sequel though, he had his own game mode where he had to escape NYC while everyone tried to kill him.
Streets of LA? you sure it wasn't New York AKA the sequel?
KISS being more "mature and edgy" is hilarious given that they had a crossover movie with Scooby-Doo a few years ago. And it was a genuinely awesome movie too.
Well, Kiss is famously the most sellout band out there. They partnered with a group of idols in Japan to make some music. The music is fun tho.
Awesome until they chickened out on all the insanity. They should have kept going.
Also, the KISS game is 3d Gauntlet meets Quake with a taste of Metroid. You can run into a ton of enemies at once. And it has KISS music. Austin must have been speedrunning the first few levels, since it first appears early on, in a jukebox. (You know, that early 2000s thing that early 2000s gamers were gathering around when Limewire gave them a virus.)
They also did multiple Marvel comics and apparently mixed their own blood into the ink for the first comic
My 4 year old daughter loves the KISS Scooby-Doo movie 😂
@@theLikou1partnering with idols doesn’t make you a sellout lol what an odd example to include, and I don’t even disagree with them being sellouts
Back in the day it felt like Fred Durst was in every wrestling game
Look up Fred Durst's appearance in videogames, by Matt McMuscles. You will be nostalgically pleased
It was part of the deal he made to license his music.
It is odd that he was able to get into a WWE/WWF game yet ICP a few years prior had their music in the game and actually had matches in the WWF tag division were cut from WWF Attitude music still in the game but you have to create them I figured you should be able to unlock them
Yeah. I think he's also in that Fight Club game.
Didn't he get his own signature edition of the Dreamcast?
Def Jam Fight For NY. A game that has a lot of rappers and some actors as well, and as of 2019, the community established their own competitive scene with Fight For NY showing up at CEO
I do love that SpyHunter: Nowhere to Run was actually supposed to be a tie-in game for a movie that was announced in the manual for SpyHunter 2.
That's actually the most interesting part of that entire game. It's a tie-in to a movie that never existed. Which honestly is how the wheelman game feels as well.
Love seems to be too strong a word for that game.
Celebrity video games will forever an insanely bizarre yet fascinating part of gaming history.
ikr.
They ain't going nowhere anytime soon
Which is sad.
Get ready for crimeboss rockay city next month.
@@nehemiahpouncey3607they did go away and we need them to come back
I was super lucky and found 50 Cent: Blood on the sand for 360 in a thrift store (avoiding the crazy ebay prices), and then a couple months later - the ps3 version at a record store (that also sold a small selection of games, and they didn't price games according to rarity online). So glad I found the copies ,as the game's great!
I own the PS3 version, are they actually valuable?
@@KaitouKaiju Well, it's not extremely valuable, but definitely more than what most PS3 games go for (outside of JRPGs and horror games) - it's around $30-40 for a very good condition copy. The 360 version is a little pricier, as it's rarer to find.
@@Glenni91N
That's the exact story I had just recently. I stumbled across a loose copy inside a different game case and got the game something like $5.
The more significant thing with the 360 version is it got backwards compatibility the very last batch of games they put out for it.
The only catch is it has to be a physical copy. Which when I went looking for and saw the prices I was bummed and was overjoyed when I found a copy for practically nothing.
Literally same wtf
One of the many benefits of working in a thrift store.
Didn’t even know it was sought after, I just saw 50 and knew I had to have it
You're really putting out the content recently Austin.
Gotta do the work!
@@austineruption - you’ve truly been putting out some quality work my friend.
This is the content of all time.
@@razielmxzmy favourite gender
@@austineruptiondoing the lord's work I see
Jet Li’s Rise to Honor deserves a mention. What a phenomenal gem on the PS2, slapping his name on there whilst making it a revolutionary take on the beat ‘em up genre. I personally think we wouldn’t have have the Arkham Game fighting system & new indie games like SIFU without this Rise to Honor. I could gush on it for hours.
I just want to say before I watch. Def Jam Fight for New York is bar none the best celebrity video game.
Facts i have had to mamy memeories
That's a weird way of saying 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand
Ghost Face Killah was my go-to on that game.
Easily.
Big facts
I'm surprised he never mentioned "Def Jam Vendetta" or "Def Jam fight for NY"
We need a whole video on the Def Jam games. Every couple of months the Twitter account tries to bait followers by promising a remaster but Id rather have an Austin Eruption vid
I imagine licensing all that music is the biggest reason we don't see a rerelease.
Brutal Legend genuinely had a shit ton of love put into it
The biggest problem is that it was an RTS game marketed as (and with a tutorial/story mode that mostly played as) a sort of _Zelda_ clone.
@@boobah5643 That demo made more harm than good. A lot of people got hyped because of that just to find out that the final game, exactly after that point, was nothing like it.
Yep Brutal Legend is awesome would love it if Double Fine returned to the land of heavy metal with Jack Black and company in tow, had a lot of fun playing the game on my PS3 back when I actually played the darn thing.
@@boobah5643 I was expecting a God of War clone. Huge dissapointment
yeah it was great.
Every time I see a video titled like this I think of the Snoop Dogg game that we didn't get I believe do to the script director passing away who was a director of classic gangster movies
Dance Dance Revolution actually did have two versions that were tied to specific celebrity variations: "Dancing Stage feat. Dreams Come True" and "Dancing Stage feat. True Kiss Destination". Though they're called Dancing Stage, they are DDR games.
This era was my idealized version of coolness.
I still consider the video game period between the early 90s to the mid-2000s to be the best.
Between the first two PlayStations, everything by Nintendo, Sega and the original Xbox it was just one of the greatest times to be alive ever.
*AHEM* WHERE IS SPICE WORLD?
You missed a classic PS1 game here... and.. Yes... I actually had it growing up. I can't even blame it on Sisters as an only child...
Can't believe David Cage didn't get a nod in the one, come to think of it. He's been trying to get celebrity video games made ever since Omikron: The Nomad Soul with David Bowie playing himself but a digital god, and including most of the Hours and Heathen albums. You could even become Iman.
The arcade version of Moonwalker was a damned nice looking game, and sounded awesome. Smooth Criminal had some nice bass to it. Yeah, I'm old enough to have put some money into one. The Genesis quite obviously couldn't come close to handling the graphics or sound so I have no idea why they even tried.
Would've been a killer app for the SEGA CD.
They really didn't. Genesis version is basically a different game, fun on its own merits.
We need a remaster of Moonwalker.
I think we need a new Britney game, especially now that she's free from that conservatorship. Toxic and that time Justice did a remix of one of her tracks will make it a worthwhile sequel.
As long as we get prime Britney in that sparkling dress
@jay bee No. You get Modern Britney, with the Manson Lamps and Mental instability.
The game is just choosing which parital nude to post on Instagram, and something like Clue.. but it's "can you figure out your new husband is using you?"
She’s over the hill now, though.
Instead of a music game, how about Britney: Escape from Dad?
Aerosmith's Revolution X deserves an entire video dedicated to it. Its so weird with such obscure progression that to this day I'm still unsure if I've seen all of the easter eggs/content it had to offer.
As a side note entry, Kiss has an entire level in Tony Hawk's Underground, called Hotter Than Hell; you can also skate as Gene Simmon
I dunno if it counts and it's probably been commented into the ground, but Def Jam Fight for NY is such a banger. After watching the Best Friends play it I dropped like 80 bucks on a physical copy that I later learned was NTSC, so I couldn't even run it. This was before I had any income, and I had no idea about emulation back then, so it was a huge bummer. But I kept the copy in the hopes that one day I'd get the chance to play it - even now I have it on my shelf, having now beaten the game like 3 times on emulator.
Also, I still vividly remember playing 50 Cent Bulletproof with my cousins. I think that was the first shooter I ever played, and I didn't know what a 50 cent was, but it was still a blast. Good times.
I remember a friend of my brother lent it to him and I beat it without knowing who any of the rappers were. I tried to get it for myself after my brother returned it but no one knew wtf I was talking about. It was like the game never existed.
I thought nobody else noticed he missed one of the biggest series that I know a bunch of people played in the early 2000's. In the Army multiple guys had copies of Vendetta and fight for NY. They would have it thumping too because the soundtrack still bangs. It's a good list but without Def Jam it isn't really complete.
Jet Li's Rise To Honour is still super dope
Honestly, my measure of "making it" as a celebrity is to have a GOOD game about you
I played 50 cent bulletproof all the time as a kid in the PS2 and it's mostly the reason I consider 50 to be my favorite rapper even now. I even had a friend who had blood on sand.
I was the other way round, I bought two bulletproof discs for the ps2 and both of them didn’t work 🤣 I was obsessed with blood on the sand though, Think it was just because I liked gears of war and rap and it was the perfect mix
RLY GREAT GAME & Curtis is
Actually A NiceGuy... It's Sad
That He HAD TO Grow-Up in
THAT Kind Of Environment Tho!
I remember playing bulletproof on the ps2 back in the day, gaming was amazing back then now it's all messed up
A Bruce Lee game now would be incredible. A blend of Sifu and Sleeping dogs would be my preferred style.
one day one day...
Celebrities in video games is now became a weird trend nowadays when it comes to licensed games and original I.P. It’s been going for 40yrs and still going on today.
20:23 I hate that I actually recognize those games you just show for throwaway just because of that green button
The Chronicles of Riddick games were just. Amazing.
I'm not surprised the devs would go on to do Wolfenstein: the New Order.
I love John Woo's Stranglehold, just as a great slo mo action shooter. So many fun dives and slides across tables, it captured the feeling of movie gunfights very well. I wasn't into the story so I'd just pretend I was the punisher, and it's got a fair level of challenge and never got old.
5:45. Holy mother of uncle, this game still holds up artistically!
Maybe its because it looks like the characters are toys akin to stretch armstrong or the vinyl figures from modnation racers, while the animations are as smooth as any Lego game in existence
I enjoyed Michael Jordan: Chaos in the Windy City quite a bit, actually, the levels featured a lot of exploration and you had to be on the lookout for health upgrades, since those were not only permanent, but would also come really in handy in later levels, which featured trickier platforming and a lot of enemies.
Outside of the goofy-looking enemy sprites, I liked the background art a lot, there were some really cool atmospheric touches like fog and heat ripple effects and last but not least, the various B-Ball types were fun to play around with.
Is Chaos in the Windy City canon to Shut Up and Jam Gaiden
I loved that game as a kid even though I sucked at it. I figured out a cheat all on my own for it, I think it was like 246813579MJ or something and you'd get all the different balls.
Anybody remember rapjam vol 1?
It had queen latifa,onyx etc.
Speaking of Bruce lee, would Hong Kong 97 count as a celebrity game?
That’s his half brother Chin bro
Don't fuck with the Chin
@@kokotheclown2588 well if that’s chin, then does ex Chinese president Tong Shau Ping count?
@@adamntcaponewholikesbigcoo1749 huh now that u think about maybe
@@kokotheclown2588 yay?
Tons of people have talked about it over the years and like Goldeneye it's a character rather than the actual literal person, but regarding Vin Diesel in video games, the Riddick game+expansion is pretty rough around the edges and has a few difficulty spikes that are way meaner than they need to be, but otherwise it's a really solid and fairly unique stealth-shooter. Still well worth checking out as long as you're someone who has patience for dying a lot
Just played the first one (Butcher Bay) recently, it was decent if unpolished. Good luck finding them anywhere. :(
I don’t know if this is an unpopular opinion or not but I think vin diesel would’ve made a much better video game voice actor than a real one 🤣 he could’ve been the Nolan north of gta knock offs
The Chronicles of Riddick games are masterpieces and I will die on that hill
I LOVED stuntmaster, hard af but satisfying. Amazing video as always Austin
Forgetting Kung Fu for NES for Jackie Chan.
Britney dance beat is hilarious now. K fed was a backup dancer. That's all I'm going to say.
I remember there was this arcade game I was playing with Aerosmith?
The game was kind of fun but a weird concept!
The only Guitar Hero game I ever owned was the Aerosmith Guitar Hero on PS2, and Steven Tyler's character model still haunts my nightmares
It's called Revolution x.
@@SpeedsterBlur
That’s the game!
Yeah it was very fun!
I also know that dead or alive 2 ultimate 3 and 4 had Aerosmith music!
They had two games.
The Beatles had one and Metallica.
One celebrity tie in that just lives rent free in my head is the katy perry sims 3 crossover. That shit was wild and honestly pretty cool. Really made you realize how big sims had gotten
Appreciate this video, the 50 cent game being cool is awesome
"Yo Fifty, jump over that big-ass ramp!" and "That bitch took my skull" are two lines from Blood on the Sand that instantly put me in a good mood.
I really enjoyed the Wu Tang game back in the day, giving the opponent a fatality while saying some one liner was badass
What
celebrity deathmatch is the single best fighting video game in existence.
Surprised you didn't cover the Def Jam fighting games, those were pretty fun from my memory
I actually owned one of the Journey Atari games. It didnt come with a instruction booklet so young me didnt know what to do but still managed to figure it out.
That Steven Spieldberg clip was gold
Jackie Chan Stuntmaster is honestly amazing. One of the best beat'em ups I've ever played
Brutal Legend is amazing and desperately needs a sequel.
Blood on the Sand is art and I love it.
I had Apocalypse with Bruce Willis on ps1 as a kid and from what I can remember I enjoyed it heh. I know it had an unusual shooting system where each of the face buttons fired in a different direction so it almost felt like an early twin stick shooter.
A lot of weapons👌
I played the crap out of that game don't even remember where I got it from but the but scenes blew me away at the time I looked for years for the film it was based off lol
Happy to see this mentioned! It was really good.
Surprised you didn't bring up Keith David playing himself as a major character in Saints Row IV
That's not a celebrity game that's a celebrity IN A game. Everyone in the comments seems to have missed that even though he explains it in the video. You could literally talk about GTA VICE CITY if you want to talk about celebrities IN A game but the game itself is not BASED on those celebrities.
Celebrity Sports Showdown?! I'm adding this to my Homebrewed Wii ASAP!
The same day that Matt McMuscles does a What Happened video on Simpsons Wrestling, made by the same developer as Celebrity Death Match.
Coincidence?
Yeah, probably.
Yoo what Austin know bout MNF 🤣😭
I hope there's The Nomad Souls from David bowie, because somehow that game looks cool llmfao
Don’t tell me you forgot about Fred Durst in Fight Club (I think). ?
Austin dropping that 90s web ring deep cut. Respect.
Rise to honor ate up so much of my childhood gaming hours. Beat it so many times and actually loved the characters towards the end and was genuinely upset when his chubby funny friend died
The online multi-player in the 50cent game was peak entertainment back then
Just a quick FYI ...
The Xbox 360 version of '50 Cent Blood on the Sand' is backwards-compatible on modern Xbox consoles, including Xbox One, Xbox One X & Xbox Series X. It's disc-only, unless you happen to own the game digitally from back when it was on Xbox Live. Otherwise, just insert the disc & the game will download to your newest Xbox console. And yes! It's as ridiculously glorious as it looks.
I remember watching my brother play Jackie Chan Stunt Master and thinking it was the best looking video game I’d ever seen 😂
Never played Blood on the Sand but 50 Cent Bulletproof was a pretty solid shooter imo when I was a kid. Kinda bummed I didn’t play the 2nd when it was new
That Hudson Mohawke Cbat reference. 😂 Beautiful.
50 Cent: Blood in the Sand getting low sales when it was clearly the better game is a crime in itself. -Jon.
Radiohead made a free to play game recently.
Kinda shocked you didn't play and talk about Def Jam Vendetta and FFNY in the video! Great video as always Austin, now good luck fighting DMX and Snoop.
Also ffny and icon.
Not to mention rapstar.
Just occurred to me earlier today when thinking about your obscure to us comment about foreign celebrities. If no one has mentioned in a comment yet I think one recent game that deserves an honorable mention would be the " Judgment" ( off spring of the Yakuza games) series. It was because of the celebrity and his weird agency that there was such drama about the Judgment game getting ported over to PC.
Bruce Lee by Datasoft was QUITE well received back in the 80s. In fact, there are two fan-made sequels to it, both playable on the Commodore 64, just like the original game. It's also one of the earliest examples of a co-op game as a second player could take control of the green character. Sure, they could also attack the player, but many used it to help the player, both going through the various screens of the game.
seagal's first 5 flicks are pretty dope though lol
Out for Justice is a masterpiece of comedy and I won't hear otherwise.
20:26 nearly made me spit out my drink, holy crap
That is a deep cut to old Newgrounds I was not ready for
I can hear the music in my head 😂
20:26 Only legends know where this is from
I was waiting for someone else to notice 😂😂
Bruh! Celebrity Deathmatch is one of the best things MTV ever put out. The show, not the game obviously
Pis-Co-Po... interesting! Cute!
That guy's son is an annoying RUclipsr
listen
I got nothing
The fmv part reminded me of the spoony one. Miss that guy 😔
I visit Chicago occasionally to see family, and can confirm that Michael Jordan's Chaos in the Windy City is an accurate depiction of what it's like there
I actually,amazingly stumbled across a loose copy of blood in the sand recently at a thrift shop. It of course was in some completely random like flying game's box but when I saw that game inside I was so excited.
Yeah the prices are insane for that game and it sucks cuz it's actually pretty good but not for $50 for a loose copy good.
"The Ancient Chinese Method
Of Gun🔫?" 😂 Goes To Show
Just How Tough Segal RLY IS!!
I was hoping you'd cover Bujingai in here, a PS2 action game starring Gackt, a famous Japanese musician. Gackt also was in Crisis Core FF7, as Genesis.
“We paid for Dwayne; you’re getting the Johnson, baby”
This had me giggling and kicking my legs in the air
Didn't expect to hear about KISS Psycho Cirrus Nightmare Child (what a mouthful title)
Best Vin Diesel game is still Chronicles of Riddick Butcher bay (Assault on Dark Athena was meh, and changes to BB too)
I know it was just a Typo of you but "Psycho Cirrus" genuinely seems like a name for a cloud-themed Yu-Gi-Oh Monster.
When I saw the objective "Get out of Romania" in the Vin Diesel section, I thought "Oh, look, an Andrew Tate Simulator" and then I apologized to Vin Diesel for the comparison
Got one more for ya, Minnesota Fats: Pool Legends for the Sega Saturn. Great gameplay, hilarious cutscenes. It's not a big game, but it is supposed to be a sequel to Side Pocket, which was quite popular.
Tap tap revenge was the complete and only reason I purchased the first iPhone.
I think I was like 14, playing tap tap revenge while waiting for loading screens to play bioshock 2 multiplayer, while also messaging some cute scene/emo girl and eating “smoothie skittles” was legit peak existence for me.
God I remember that night so well
I didn’t know psycho circus was a dream cast exclusive. I own it, I’ve beaten it on a dreamcast when I was in high school.
Note, Sabrina Salerno is an Italian singer that became famous in the 80s with Italo-disco and electro-pop hits, as well as her curvaceous figure.
Yep. She was a hottie.
Comment for the algorithm, a great vid, and the Acclaimed reference ✂️✂️✂️✂️
I hate the Shaq fu hate, he legit went for a popular game type not saying it’s a Mona Lisa but it has heart and charm
Celebrity Deathmatch was awesome, never did play the game though.
"Stuntmaster Remaster" is a golden marketing opportunity tho tbh
Would you count Def Jam Vendetta as a celebrity game?
He definitely should. I can’t think of any other game featuring so many celebrities and it has great music and all the games in the series are awesome except icon
I mean Def Jam is (or was?) a record label, so yeah it definitely counts.
Blood on The Sand is one of my most treasured 360 games. I managed to get it at a really nice price, too.
How much does it go for now? Has the price gone way up?
Jackie Chan is one of my favorite actors because no matter what role he takes he seems so passionate about them and eager to play those roles and he seems like an all around authentic guy
Apocalypse with Bruce Willis is the "celebrity is in this video game" example I always remember strongest.
I'm loving the Phantasy Star sounds you're using in transitions lol
I feel like you could just do a video on Jack Black only games, Brutal Legend, Jumanji the Game, Tony Hawk 1&2 where he's Officer Dick, and there are probably others out there.
I remember seeing a video on Matt McMuscles channel where 50Cent Blood was originally an ordinary MW knockoff that somehow got recycled into Blood on the sand because, 50 said he would become an intergral part of the game. So they said "Great 50Cent is on board, Let's finish this."