AVGN: Bad Game Cover Art #6 - Phalanx (SNES)

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  • Опубликовано: 11 дек 2024

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  • @JamesNintendoNerd
    @JamesNintendoNerd  9 лет назад +661

    Is it just me or does the ship at 0:22 look exactly like an X-Wing from Star Wars? I think you can even see R2-D2 inside! - Mike

    • @MustangAce36Kills
      @MustangAce36Kills 9 лет назад +22

      +Cinemassacre Wow, it is! It just has the cannon barrels removed.

    • @ToprakSezginFromTurkey
      @ToprakSezginFromTurkey 9 лет назад +11

      It looks like it. Mike you have some eyes man.

    • @RogueNation.
      @RogueNation. 9 лет назад +6

      +Cinemassacre Z-95 Headhunter. Close enough. It's not like the designers gave a rat shit about sketching their own starfighter. Easier to steal and claim it wasn't.

    • @Pahricida
      @Pahricida 9 лет назад +1

      +Cinemassacre First thing I thought of aswell :)

    • @AlejandroSilva-mr7yy
      @AlejandroSilva-mr7yy 9 лет назад +2

      and what about the game? was it any good?

  • @SweetTaLe
    @SweetTaLe 9 лет назад +588

    "Super Nintendo.. The fuck is that?" Holy shit I'm in tears, I don't know why.

    • @UltimateGamerCC
      @UltimateGamerCC 9 лет назад +13

      +SweetTaLe cause that sounds like something a banjo playing hillbilly might say if you talked to him about SNES.

    • @LochHaruzara
      @LochHaruzara 9 лет назад

      +SweeTaLe I saw you on Juutas' Bloodborne DLC playthrough! Hi!

    • @SweetTaLe
      @SweetTaLe 9 лет назад +1

      Loch Taylor Yep, I'm subscribed to him. Good stuff.

    • @Userius1
      @Userius1 9 лет назад

      +SweetTaLe nah wait youre that finnish guy that used to do things

    • @SweetTaLe
      @SweetTaLe 9 лет назад +2

      ***** I stopped functioning as a human being long ago

  • @Chud_Bud_Supreme
    @Chud_Bud_Supreme 9 лет назад +580

    I think maybe the guy playing the banjo is the one piloting the ship. He got sick of all the alien invaders abducting his kin to probe them, so he's taken to space to wipe them all out so he can finally get back to playing his banjo in peace.

    • @selfsurprise
      @selfsurprise 9 лет назад +29

      +SDRockman Did you really need to shoehorn in your secret closet Nazi comments into a video about a computer game cover?

    • @ccricers
      @ccricers 9 лет назад +22

      +Son of Tiamat (formerly known as tiakpark) I could really see that in a 90's commercial. The banjo guy sitting in front of the camera, complaining about how aliens have abducted his farm buddies, cut with gameplay video, then saying it's time to get up there and kick their butts.

    • @CommandantLennon
      @CommandantLennon 9 лет назад +7

      Dayum son, where'd you find this?

    • @fanofgodjimindiva2497
      @fanofgodjimindiva2497 9 лет назад

      +Son of Tiamat (formerly known as tiakpark) I doubt it. Where did he learn to pilot and figh in a space ship? hillbilly school?. also, for a 80 something guy his reflexes are way too sharp. people at that age can barely drive a car

    • @DanielRenardAnimation
      @DanielRenardAnimation 9 лет назад

      vance astrovik
      Maybe the ship is designed by the people, who make console video games today; so it basically just flies itself.

  • @pepijn23
    @pepijn23 4 года назад +104

    The Guy on the cover was a man named Bertil Valley who was indeed a Mall Santa Clause. He also appeared on magazine covers. I read somewhere that he also played the banjo.
    He passed away in 2004, sadly.
    James description off the idea off the cover was indeed true. The company in charge off making the cover thought the game was an average generic game and then somebody came up with the idea off an old guy with a banjo.

    • @worsethanhitlerpt.2539
      @worsethanhitlerpt.2539 2 года назад +3

      He featured heavily in the gameplay. kidding.

    • @rhone733
      @rhone733 Год назад +4

      I distinctly remember standing in the video rental store looking at this banjo man. I decided not to risk my weekend to such box art.

    • @firestriker3580
      @firestriker3580 Год назад

      It wasn’t true dude

  • @zukodude487987
    @zukodude487987 9 лет назад +504

    He is driver of Big Rigs.

  • @AlluMan96
    @AlluMan96 9 лет назад +49

    It just makes me wonder how much more awsome this game would have been if the old man was actually the player-character. Sitting on his rocket-powered rocking chair, shooting his laser banjo while providing the soundtrack for the game simultaneously.

    • @lyokianhitchhiker
      @lyokianhitchhiker 2 года назад +10

      I like to imagine that the old man was actually the player character's future self.

  • @Vincent_Van_Vega
    @Vincent_Van_Vega 9 лет назад +57

    THE PHALANX FACTOR
    Q: What was the deal with that old dude on the cover of the SNES shooter Phalanx?
    A:Phalanx was just another Super NES sidescrolling shooter that we all probably would have forgotten by now - if not for the inexplicable shot of the bearded geezer strummin' a banjo on the game's box cover. Why the old guy? The problem is that all the game art looked alike at the time - monsters or spaceships or something," explains Matt Guss, head of the advertising company behind the Phalanx campaign. "We wanted to create shock value so somone would have to pick the game up. We called it the 'Heavy Huh?!' factor." Art director Keith Campbell says they did the photo shoot themselves, hiring a model for the role of the 80-something hayseed. "I'd used him before as Santa Claus on an album-cover shoot," Guss adds. "I remember him coming into the studio, and I though the poor guy was gonna die right there on the stage. I think he'd had a stroke earlier - not earlier that day, but in the past . . . We stuck a banjo in his hands, and I think we stuck a spaceship behind his head that he was supposed to be staring at in wonder, sort of a Star Wars-come-to-the-Ozarks kind of thing." You gotta admit Guss' cover concept was mighty effective. After all, we're still talking about the game 10 years after its release. Heavy, huh? If you're too young to remember this game, don't worry Kemco's rereleasing it for the Game Boy Advance.

    • @saddamhussein3849
      @saddamhussein3849 6 лет назад +6

      Amazing that at 0:52 James correctly guess that this guy was a Santa...

  • @GoldGloves210
    @GoldGloves210 9 лет назад +153

    1:19 Best video game art song ever

    • @oneoddbat2162
      @oneoddbat2162 5 лет назад +12

      We need the full song. It will be a hit

    • @jaggs9000
      @jaggs9000 5 лет назад +5

      Please

    • @AriochStarr
      @AriochStarr 5 лет назад +3

      Scrolled down to find this specifically.

    • @ikonni1415
      @ikonni1415 4 года назад +3

      I need 10 hours of this

    • @GoldGloves210
      @GoldGloves210 4 года назад +4

      4 years later and still a hit

  • @dukespubber741
    @dukespubber741 9 лет назад +37

    The guy actually was a rental Santa. XD Apparently the company in charge of making the cover also did some Christmas stuff for another client and the banjo guy was dressed as Santa. Somebody got the bright idea to hire him and put him in the hillbilly outift. Apparently he had recently suffered a stroke or something because he couldn't move much.

  • @CoreyMcGee
    @CoreyMcGee 9 лет назад +59

    Phalanx is a military formation, but is also a singular term for the phalanges bones in the hands. To play banjo you would use your phalanges so...makes sense?

  • @pidrosoft
    @pidrosoft 9 лет назад +88

    This is actually a good cover. A memorable one.
    It's the dream of this old man, playing the banjo at night, looking at the stars and imaging himself in his spaceship crossing the galaxies.

    • @neomcdoom
      @neomcdoom 9 лет назад +6

      +pidrosoft Actually a better cover would have been an old man playing the banjo looking up at the sky.

    • @NeoSaturos123
      @NeoSaturos123 9 лет назад +4

      +Neo McDoom Yeah...Have this guy be on the left, look up and to the right. In the starry sky, the main ship can be seen flying and chasing some alien robots.

    • @southwestnsproductions7413
      @southwestnsproductions7413 6 лет назад +1

      That would actually make a lot of sense.. Whole situation kinda reminds me of the Ozark Mountain Daredevils song "Spaceship Orion" from their 1973 debut album.

    • @ssdivizion
      @ssdivizion 5 лет назад +1

      This is actually bullshit cover in memorable way!

    • @totallynoteverything1.
      @totallynoteverything1. 2 года назад

      Or, he is the pilot, and he and his fellow pilots are off duty. And just singing about their adventures together

  • @Cerou94
    @Cerou94 9 лет назад +190

    Phalanx guy for smash bros!

  • @wouldyoukindly2667
    @wouldyoukindly2667 8 лет назад +3

    Kemco actually responded to fans about the cover. Here's what they said:
    "Phalanx was just another Super NES sidescrolling shooter that we all probably would have forgotten by now - if not for the inexplicable shot of the bearded geezer strummin' a banjo on the game's box cover. Why the old guy? The problem is that all the game art looked alike at the time - monsters or spaceships or something," explains Matt Guss, head of the advertising company behind the Phalanx campaign. "We wanted to create shock value so somone would have to pick the game up. We called it the 'Heavy Huh?!' factor." Art director Keith Campbell says they did the photo shoot themselves, hiring a model for the role of the 80-something hayseed. "I'd used him before as Santa Claus on an album-cover shoot," Guss adds. "I remember him coming into the studio, and I though the poor guy was gonna die right there on the stage. I think he'd had a stroke earlier - not earlier that day, but in the past . . . We stuck a banjo in his hands, and I think we stuck a spaceship behind his head that he was supposed to be staring at in wonder, sort of a Star Wars-come-to-the-Ozarks kind of thing." You gotta admit Guss' cover concept was mighty effective. After all, we're still talking about the game 10 years after its release. Heavy, huh? If you're too young to remember this game, don't worry Kemco's rereleasing it for the Game Boy Advance."

  • @huff99
    @huff99 9 лет назад +55

    What am I doing here? Motherfuckers...Super Nintendo....what the fuck is that...
    Need this on mp3

  • @FyberOptic
    @FyberOptic 9 лет назад +62

    This was during a time period in the 90s where everything was advertised rather stupidly, with lots of weird, random, and hyperactive things, and maybe three actual seconds of gameplay footage in the commercial (if that). I'm not surprised it made its way onto box covers as well.

    • @LackaJudgment
      @LackaJudgment 9 лет назад +3

      Lol srsly what the fuck was up with 90s ads? Flip through a comic book from that decade sometime, all the ads are just surreal and/or disgusting

    • @101Volts
      @101Volts 8 лет назад +3

      +FyberOptic look at record covers from the 1950s-1980s, you'll find some odd ones there too like the one of a guy wearing glasses laying on a subway sandwich bun. (I don't recall the record name, sorry.)

  • @tarnishedchosenundead
    @tarnishedchosenundead 6 лет назад +39

    0:48
    Funny thing is, that guy was really working as a part time Santa Claus. His name was Bertil Valley, he died in 2004.

    • @thema1998
      @thema1998 4 месяца назад

      How did he die? ☹️

  •  9 лет назад +20

    1:18 killed me instantly.

  • @geardog24
    @geardog24 9 лет назад +87

    "Gather 'round, youngsters. Let ol' pop pop tell you how he traveled the cosmos, and beat back them alien immigrants for they could take our jobs."
    "Mom! Grandpa skipped his medication again!"

  • @NoEntertainment
    @NoEntertainment 8 лет назад +52

    1:18-1:23
    This ditty got stuck in my head today.

    • @MerkhVision
      @MerkhVision 5 лет назад +2

      yo same haha its so good

    • @enakuen1
      @enakuen1 3 года назад +2

      Happened to me just now at complete random. Had to explain why I just started laughing.

  • @MutilatedMetalhead
    @MutilatedMetalhead 9 лет назад +38

    I'd like to imagine that man is playing a banjo version of Space Truckin by Deep Purple.

  • @Untouchaable
    @Untouchaable 9 лет назад +95

    This is what the banjo playing kid from the movie "Deliverance" end up doing.

    • @martinwhite8974
      @martinwhite8974 9 лет назад +9

      +Intimidation That movie is a classic but creepy as F.

    • @Yourwaifuisntreal
      @Yourwaifuisntreal 9 лет назад +3

      +Intimidation That "squeal like a piggy" scene was pretty disturbing.

    • @jamesbashaw5831
      @jamesbashaw5831 9 лет назад +5

      +Intimidation Maybe in an alternate timeline. The kid from the movie actually didn't play banjo. They picked him for the part based on the way he looked. Apparently an actual banjo picker sat behind him for that scene and pulled the ol' "someone else's arms" move.

  • @gggg-dt4hj
    @gggg-dt4hj 9 лет назад +32

    It's a space shooter on the Super Nintendo. The old man represents how archaic space shooters were at that time, how they represent simple, old time gaming of the days of atari. It's laughing at itself by pointing out "hey, we made an old style game on a brand new platform". Making a space shooter in the 90's was like saying "we got a game your grandpa might like"

    • @BilalMurtaza10
      @BilalMurtaza10 4 года назад

      boy that art's a strange way of saying that

    • @ROrneli
      @ROrneli 3 года назад +1

      you stretched that quite a bit

  • @KaoruMzk
    @KaoruMzk 9 лет назад +33

    I knew this was going to show up sooner or later

    • @blairsy77
      @blairsy77 9 лет назад +6

      +Karl Schweinfurth You know nothing Jon Snow!

  • @omegahaxors9-11
    @omegahaxors9-11 3 года назад +6

    🎵What am I doing here (mudderfukker)🎵
    🎵Super Nintendo (thefuckisthat)🎵

  • @mjc0961
    @mjc0961 9 лет назад +71

    lol @ RUclips serving an ad 2:18 long for a video that's only 1:56 long. Of course I'm skipping that shit.

    • @PortaTerzo
      @PortaTerzo 9 лет назад +21

      +mjc0961 You should watch the add and skip the video.

    • @qwesx
      @qwesx 9 лет назад +10

      +mjc0961 There are ads on RUclips? Kappa

    • @ardaduck735
      @ardaduck735 9 лет назад

      +HandjesBreda *phone users

    • @Suiton1
      @Suiton1 9 лет назад +7

      +mjc0961
      Ad Blocker Plus

    • @tehkill3r
      @tehkill3r 9 лет назад +7

      +mjc0961 adblockplus , just get it and start wondering why you havent gotten it earlier.

  • @MagicPumpkin
    @MagicPumpkin 9 лет назад +72

    Maybe it's trying to say the music is better than the actual game

    • @drewsebastino2889
      @drewsebastino2889 9 лет назад

      +Crafty Seagull Debatable.

    • @Laekith
      @Laekith 9 лет назад +4

      The game itself is actually good

    • @drewsebastino2889
      @drewsebastino2889 9 лет назад +3

      Emanuele Sand I've played it, and while I don't think it's necessarily bad, I don't really think it's good either. It's just mediocre, which is what I can say about nearly every game by Kemco I've played. The level design is uninspired, the music is very forgettable, and the artwork is nothing to write to write home about (It's a bit silly that the enemy bullets were made dark red 4x4 pixel spheres, as they're kind of hard to see). I wonder if some of the game's praise comes from the fact that there really aren't many good shooters for the SNES, but if I were to recommend good shooters for the system, I'd say pick R-Type III and Space Megaforce.

  • @mustangmike8515
    @mustangmike8515 Год назад +2

    Actually I always thought like this guy with the Banjo was the pilot of the Phalax ship, but now he is a intergalactic war veteran who has fond memories about the war and now he remembers all events playing his banjo and the game is a tribute of his war efford.

  • @UberNeuman
    @UberNeuman 9 лет назад +1

    The old dude with the banjo was remembering all times when the aliens came to his farm and anally probed him.

  • @SpaceRaptor510
    @SpaceRaptor510 6 лет назад +5

    This does relate at the same time the old man is playing banjo on earth, 35 light years away there is a space shootout with aliens.

  • @bigmetroidfan1263
    @bigmetroidfan1263 8 лет назад +10

    1:19 I always laugh at this part

  • @oliverpony
    @oliverpony 3 года назад +7

    Honestly if I had that game as a kid I would have thought that he was the Character who was flying the spaceship you play as 🚀

    • @worsethanhitlerpt.2539
      @worsethanhitlerpt.2539 2 года назад

      Theres a level in Phalanx called "Advertise Area" that has lots of neon signs. I am not kidding.

  • @alexandercolefield9523
    @alexandercolefield9523 6 лет назад +3

    I like to believe that this cover was the inspiration for Firefly.

  • @Tanzim-Kazi
    @Tanzim-Kazi 9 лет назад +5

    According to Wikipedia, the box art designers later admitted that they had deliberately chosen this theme in order to attract the customer with something original, considering there were many space shooters in the market that looked alike.

  • @jajison
    @jajison 9 лет назад +14

    I remember actively avoiding this game because of the cover. It was back when there wasn't quick access to videos or pictures of the game so I had no idea what it was about. I just knew that the guy on the front box art made me not want to play it. Am I the only one that happened to?

    • @scrambler350
      @scrambler350 9 лет назад +2

      +Jason McGraw Same...pre-internet 90's
      You had to go based on word-of-mouth, playing it at a friend's house, or Nintendo Power if you were lucky.
      If you picked a bad game you were stuck with it all weekend.

  • @LTG22
    @LTG22 9 лет назад +4

    James...these were funny, I needed this. I laughed quite loud. Love this idea. Cannot wait to see them all and the X-mas episode!. Enjoy all your creations. Thank you.

  • @thumb6170
    @thumb6170 5 лет назад +2

    Bertil Valley was the guy on the cover and he was volunteer santa, he died in 2004 though

  • @ilcool90
    @ilcool90 9 лет назад +8

    A hillbilly with a banjo as cover of a space shooter, what were they thinking

  • @assadi89
    @assadi89 9 лет назад +41

    We had the same cover in Germany

    • @HardDiskDog
      @HardDiskDog 9 лет назад +4

      Weird.

    • @MusouTensei82
      @MusouTensei82 9 лет назад

      +Marcel El Assadi
      No we had same as all of europe.

    • @User93130
      @User93130 9 лет назад

      There could be old german farmer

  • @slyguy4411
    @slyguy4411 9 лет назад +3

    1:19 best part.

  • @Jotinko
    @Jotinko 9 лет назад +12

    Back in my day, we played with our own Turds & we were happy to do it. "Silent Rob",

    • @cokefacegrind
      @cokefacegrind 9 лет назад

      +HBKanedge818 mmmm... Some things never get old = )

    • @Jotinko
      @Jotinko 9 лет назад

      SchlargNoise Hahhhhahahahahaha. I miss Rob. He hasn't made a video in more than a year.

    • @Suiton1
      @Suiton1 9 лет назад

      Hey guys, different shirt guy here, just enjoying some brony tears.

    • @Jotinko
      @Jotinko 9 лет назад

      Jim DarkMagic What are your thoughts Guy with Pork Rinds in his Left Hand?

  • @Aenygma_
    @Aenygma_ 6 лет назад +3

    I remember seeing the box in a video store when I was a child, thinking "What the fuck is that shit supposed to be" and never renting it.

  • @Aquarius199
    @Aquarius199 9 лет назад +4

    I'm glad you addressed this box art, James. And you did so on my 23rd birthday!

  • @GDWUBZ
    @GDWUBZ 9 лет назад +1

    "What am i doing here, mother fuckers"
    "Super nintendo, da fuck is that"
    IM IN FUKING TEARS RIGHT NOW XD

  • @MiddleAgedNerd
    @MiddleAgedNerd 9 лет назад +7

    Goddamit, now I want to hear more of that song. Was that Kyle?

  • @LeopoldLitchenstein
    @LeopoldLitchenstein 9 лет назад +2

    I love these. They really help make the month go by faster.

  • @wisco_simple
    @wisco_simple 4 года назад +5

    This was actually my favorite 2d space shooter on the SNES. I always thought it was a weird cover but at least we didn't get the dickship

  • @TrekDelta
    @TrekDelta 2 года назад +3

    How I interpret this cover. An old man tells a story to children about some spaceship, and he was the pilot himself.

  • @simonhansen5038
    @simonhansen5038 5 лет назад +2

    This pays homage to the song "Journey of the Sorcerer" by the Eagles. It is perhaps one of the most important songs for post modern sci-fi. Douglas Adams wanted the song to sound gritty as a person who lived in a sci-fi world take most things for granted rather than be impressed by it. From what I've sen from Phalanx the game does however not translate this grittiness at all and it goes straight for your typical flashy sci-fi. So it's still strange that the cover art is what it is. No matter how much the Millennium Falcon looked like a piece of junk to Luke Skywalker, a gritty sci-fi seems to go over many fans heads and it seems to feel a little too out there. For gritty sci-fi games you have the classic Rock n' Roll Racing, more obscure ones like Jets'n'Guns and newer ones like Sunless Skies.

  • @BinaryBunyip
    @BinaryBunyip 9 лет назад

    These episodes must be soooo much easier to make then a normal AVGN episode. Not complaining, lovin these. Well done!

  • @AuspexAO
    @AuspexAO 9 лет назад +3

    I kind of dig this cover. Here you are seeing this old man plinking away on his banjo about god knows what when millions of miles above an intergalactic war rages to protect his unknowing planet from alien devastation. If this were a modern indie game I could totally see that old man singing about angels and devils warring above, not knowing how right he was.

  • @NukeOTron
    @NukeOTron 9 лет назад +1

    Funny thought to bring up... Back in 2013, I made a video game based on that boxart. It's called The Other Phalanx. It's an action-adventure all about the old man with the banjo.
    (Available on GameJolt in the NukeOTron Sucks Collection. Shameless plug.)

  • @kylopat1652
    @kylopat1652 Год назад +2

    I'd like to see this series done again.

  • @Playan.
    @Playan. 7 лет назад +4

    His name is Bertil Valley and he passed away in 2004

    • @stereo8980
      @stereo8980 7 лет назад +1

      Fun fact: The guy responsible for Phalanx' Cover picked him for the photo because they had made some Santa-Claus-themed commercials together.
      So James' comment about him being a mall-santa isn't all that far off ^^.
      Wonder if he ever had the chance to hear about all the hype surrounding the cover...

  • @tubebrocoli
    @tubebrocoli 9 лет назад +4

    OMFG I love the Phalanx cover art! It's amazing!

  • @SKyrim190
    @SKyrim190 4 года назад +1

    Phalanx is actually a prequel for Outer Wilds and they couldn't do the six-eyed aliens at the time, but that is the old astronaut at the moon

  • @DIZ4SHIZNITS
    @DIZ4SHIZNITS 4 года назад +2

    And hand slapping spoons🤣😂 what am I doing here 🎶

  • @dmonkeyluffy62
    @dmonkeyluffy62 9 лет назад +2

    I died of laughter at the song at 1:19 XD

  • @Pirateyware
    @Pirateyware 9 лет назад +17

    The real crime here is that there isn't even any actual banjo music in this game. Or in this video, for that matter.

    • @juant8631
      @juant8631 9 лет назад +4

      1:19

    • @Warrax22
      @Warrax22 9 лет назад +3

      +Plastiware Always watch the video before commenting.

    • @duranfe
      @duranfe 9 лет назад +2

      +Warrax i doubt it is a banjo playing at 1:19. it sounds more like a guitar

    • @AutobotOrionPax
      @AutobotOrionPax 9 лет назад +3

      theres a banjo playing in the background the whole time!!

    • @PlayStationPaul
      @PlayStationPaul 9 лет назад +3

      +duranfe Yup, banjos are more twangy.

  • @blacksunshine7485
    @blacksunshine7485 4 года назад +1

    Its like a joke I would suggest but no one would ever allow me to do. Yet, here we are. And here it is. I now play this game as a tribute to the old timer on front. His final voyage

  • @86400x86450
    @86400x86450 9 лет назад

    those seconds of song are probably the most hilarious thing I've heard singing in avgn in a long time hahahaha

  • @malmstring
    @malmstring 9 лет назад +2

    HAHAHA. I had never seen the US version of this game's cover! Absolutely hilarious. That's great humor that wouldn't fly with a marketing department these days. Great fun.

  • @moycorbin4750
    @moycorbin4750 2 года назад +1

    It would be funny playing a game about an old man and his banjo fighting space invaders

  • @krustykraken9331
    @krustykraken9331 7 лет назад +3

    Actually, I like the Phalanx cover.
    The color palette's really nice, and it sets a nice atmosphere.

  • @SnesRulez
    @SnesRulez 9 лет назад +14

    I love this cover! XD

  • @KlingonCaptain
    @KlingonCaptain 4 года назад +2

    I bought the game on SNES, having no idea what it was, just because I liked the box. They must have done something right.

  • @NymphetamineGirl
    @NymphetamineGirl 9 лет назад

    Brah... these daily videos are making Christmas quite comedic.

  • @sfighter0085
    @sfighter0085 9 лет назад

    I think that dude on the cover was the pilot of the Spaceship. He was powering the thing with his Banjo and firing lasers with his whisky infused breath. Truly, that banjo playing Hillbilly was an intergalactic hero.

  • @dynamicsketch
    @dynamicsketch 2 года назад +1

    Gather 'round and listen to a folk song about a hyper-speed shoot-out in space.

  • @douglas4934
    @douglas4934 Год назад +1

    Please Nerd, give us more of these videos.

  • @arski15
    @arski15 9 лет назад +25

    Finland's Independence day! Torille!

  • @nathanaponte2986
    @nathanaponte2986 4 года назад +1

    Love this part at 1:19

  • @andrewpayne6849
    @andrewpayne6849 5 лет назад +1

    I think the banjo player implies that you'll need the speed and dexterity of a banjo player with your hands to handle the "hyper speed" challenge.

  • @buttsbutts7858
    @buttsbutts7858 9 лет назад +2

    0:35
    Cowboy Bebop did it (bluesy twang + IN SPACE!!)

  • @soapysoap2632
    @soapysoap2632 9 лет назад +3

    I knew this one would make the list

  • @Tricob1974
    @Tricob1974 9 лет назад +1

    The greatest entry so far in this series. Of course, I've been wanting to see him comment on any part of this game for a long time. B-)

  • @UchihaMadara-e6u
    @UchihaMadara-e6u 11 месяцев назад

    1:19 always puts a smile on my face

  • @Mr333halfevil1
    @Mr333halfevil1 9 лет назад

    Dude looks like someone snuck up on him. " What, where did you come from? Get off my land!" Omg can't breathe, too funny.

  • @Hoffy1138
    @Hoffy1138 5 лет назад +1

    0:22 Yep! That's an X-Wing.

  • @bigjake360t
    @bigjake360t 9 лет назад +4

    It kind of reminds me of that FOX show Firefly.

  • @squiddywiddy8891
    @squiddywiddy8891 9 лет назад +1

    I remember this one being covered in Nintendo Power a couple years back. Man, it still looks bad to this day.

  • @LimeGreenTeknii
    @LimeGreenTeknii 9 лет назад

    Well, I think western/country music and space oddly go together, like ice cream and french fries. They're both about discovering new territory while you're a loner cowboy/spaceman.
    The cover also points to the fact that you can see space from Earth, and that something cool that happens in space close enough to Earth could've been seen by any random person sitting on their front porch. Just imagine how epic it would be if your grandpa was sitting outside playing his banjo when suddenly he spots a spaceship in battle in the sky?!

  • @cardioandfriends
    @cardioandfriends 7 лет назад +1

    1:18
    My sides have reached orbit

  • @Starman_Dx
    @Starman_Dx 9 лет назад

    Dot Gobbler is a work of art that all should see.

  • @MegaBondagemon
    @MegaBondagemon 9 лет назад

    "This version wasn't Phalanx, it was Phallus".
    That caught me by surprise and made me laugh more than the American cover.

  • @toonbat
    @toonbat 9 лет назад

    The dog in the picture with its head down, looking like just this weird hairy lump, is the strangest thing in the cover.

  • @trukobye
    @trukobye 9 лет назад

    i've been expecting for this cover art since the episode 91

  • @FCV0511
    @FCV0511 9 лет назад

    That banjo song cracked me up.

  • @craiggilchrist4223
    @craiggilchrist4223 9 лет назад

    The old dude looks like the old dude in Close Encounters who is sat on the side of the road waiting for the ships to pass.

  • @GameLibrarianWithABear
    @GameLibrarianWithABear 9 лет назад

    The comedy from this comes from how he manages to find a sarcastic way to make these covers seem logical.

  • @Linkophere
    @Linkophere 9 лет назад

    My take o this cover is that the old man is staring at the hyper-speed space shootout from his porch and is in complete awe. They just put the spaceship in the corner just to show you what he was staring at

  • @victoriaasenjo524
    @victoriaasenjo524 2 года назад +2

    Bro, that's Papa G from Kid Cosmic

    • @gamefan6219
      @gamefan6219 Год назад

      Or Wander from Wander Over Yonder.

  • @liwowoli
    @liwowoli 9 лет назад

    Another classic song from Cinemassacre.

  • @ryanphoenix3205
    @ryanphoenix3205 9 лет назад

    And I'm still a proud owner of this cartridge regardless what anyone has to say about the game....and actually it descends from space to the planet's core.
    -Ryan Phoenix

  • @MrMartDK
    @MrMartDK 9 лет назад

    I believe the old dude saw the spaceship and combat and all of that while playing his banjo on the porch, hence the funny face.

  • @ManuelMerzinger
    @ManuelMerzinger 9 лет назад

    The plane in the top right: It's an X-Wing o.O

  • @jebuscrust7372
    @jebuscrust7372 7 лет назад

    That old man has one super long thumb peeking from behind the neck of that banjo.

  • @LunaPrincessNinjato
    @LunaPrincessNinjato 9 лет назад

    FINALLY! I wanted to see more on this picture

  • @shaneg9081
    @shaneg9081 9 лет назад

    These are so good. Hope this December isn't the last we see of them.

  • @simontheewok
    @simontheewok 9 лет назад

    The space ship in front of all of that fairy dust is an x-wing too! Look at it! That's totally an x-wing!

  • @AquaTwist_
    @AquaTwist_ 9 лет назад

    I'm having a feeling that James records multiple of these at once, and then releases them every day.