WAIT... Remember Spectrobes?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ย. 2024
- Spectrobes was set to be the game series from Disney that would rival, and in their eyes, hopefully overthrow the Pokemon franchise. But for Disney with this being their first original IP, Spectrobes had a rocky start to it development and beyond that a franchise that wouldn't last as long as they had hoped for, never finding enough of an fanbase to help the series reach greater heights. Today, I want to take a look at the Spectrobes franchise, dig into what happened to the series in general and find out if I enjoy the series as much as I did originally growing up.
Written By: Jordan Fringe
Edited By: Jordan Fringe & David Strickland
Gameplay Captured by: David Strickland
Channel Art By: Jerry Meehan
Thanks so much for watching! Were you a fan of the Spectrobes games? If so, which entry in the series was your favorite? Let me know!
Broo you opened a treasure stash with this one the ds titles were fun and engaging but the wii game was so damn fun and mechanically interesting
Spectrobes on the Wii was great
I saw the commercials for these. It was on my whish list but I never got it, so Spectrobes will always be another thing I never got to experience as a kid
This was my childhood and a great hidden gem wish it could've elasted more then the 2 ds games and the Wii game
The first one!!!
anyone who really played it during their youths can not forget about this gem.
I played it a lot and totally forgot about it until this video
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My brother played the first 2 games, then ive played afte him.
Trust this game was sick
This is a certified hood classic level of game.
I'm not ashamed to admit that I was more invested in Spectrobes as a kid than I've ever been in Pokemon.
Don't be, I always preferred Pokemon alternatives. Pokemon gets repetitive and I feel other games give you more freedom in gameplay
Spectrobes was one of the first and I would spend hours on getting them completed
Same… For me also Dinosaur King
@@nicolasd.3775 i loved the arcade machine dinosaur king
I only ever played spectrobe Origins but I've enjoyed that more than any pokemon game other than maybe Gale of Darkness DX for the Gamecube
I don't blame you, the final evolutions were my jam XD
Honestly, Disney SHOULD try to give Spectrobes a reboot. He'll make it legend Arceus styled and it would be really cool
Like they could've even had a show, or a movie that would be cool as shit
i loved spectrobes. ESPECIALLY Origins. I don't know why they let it die.
@@TheShiningEnergy probably cause it dint make the amount of money they wanted
@@starjkurage they did have a show in the works but they axed it as the last game didn't do as well as they wanted
@@Ryanrulesok really? I thought it was just webisodes?
Spectrobes as a franchise is so unique. It’s art style for the monsters were a really good blend of classic Asian mythological creatures and lots of other inspirations.
The evolutions just got better with each one too, going from this cute little chibi creature to a giant blue tiger with claw like wings was fantastic to my 12 year old mind.
I also always felt the story got better and more mature in a sense as the series progressed.
I do wish there had been a way to tame Krawl as some of the designs I actually thought were cool and I’d have loved to add them to my team back in the day.
I’d love to see an fan MMO/single player game based further forward/further back allowing you to create your own spectrobe master/Krawl master.
one of the spectrobes is a litteral pair of shoes and it had my dying of laugh when i was a kid
oh heck yeah that would be really cool. if someone makes this a legit fangame MMO. i can finally make myself as a Spectrobe Master who's a new recruit to the Nanashiro Planetary Patrol working alongside Rallen and Jeena
Something I learned early on by accident was when I sighed I found blowing air into the ds mic let you awaken spectrobes without yelling. Neat trick to learn.
Same!!
Essential trick to learn when sneaking ds into bed without parents knowing
Just smacked me back to my childhood with that comment lol
one of the very first things I did with this game as a kid was try experimenting with if what you said would affect waking them up, and when it didn't I just started blowing into the mic. It was a lot easier to control the volume the game heard than trying to hold a continuous noise.
i-it tells you to blow the dust off the spectrobes to wake them not yell?
The mining part was actually really fun. Scratching with the stylus or blowing the dirt off with the microphone was kinda immersive
That’s exactly how it felt for me too along with Dinosaur king and Fossil Fighters as well.
Spectrobes definitely stood out a lot to me as a kid. Compared to Pokémon, Spectrobe's action combat system and somewhat more complex and serious sci-fi setting were pretty engaging and exciting. Plus all of the little mechanics such as excavating the Spectrobe fossils were really fun and unique as well.
I forgot about Spectrobes but oh man did I absolutely love the entire series as a kid. I wish it could’ve continued because I would easily be playing that today.
I absolutely loved the Spectrobes game. I wished they continued with the series.
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Spectrobes is actually where my user name comes from, and honestly I thought I was the only person to ever play it, and it was just a fever dream from my childhood. It's awesome to see how many other people remember it!
This man is doing the greatest throw back reviews of all time. Instantly got slapped in the face with nostalgia.
Thanks so much for the support!
ay foreal how this man slap me with nostalgia that even I forgot
The thing I loved about Spectrobes as a kid was the outlandish, scary yet child friendly enough design of the Krawl. I loved visiting the Spore planet at the very end of the game, it was so unbelievably awesome :D
I really enjoyed the Spectrobes games, and I kinda wished Disney kept the series afloat as their own take on the monster catching/taming genre.
If Spectrobes was revitalized today I think it could find marginally better success, as nowadays there's a growing subgroup of gamers who want more of the monster catching and taming genre outside of Pokemon.
As much as I would hope for a revival of this series, I know for a fact that the Disney of today would never be able to make something of this level without ruining it with worthless identity politics. I wish someone would buy the IP from Disney and rerelease the 3 games and build from there. Current Disney can't be trusted.
Personally I’d rather disney just sell or release the rights to the public
Look at nexomon, the games done brilliant for a pokemon-like
@@OMAGAICE122Sad but true
@@U1TR4F0RCESame
god i wish this would come back, loved this series and the monster designs a ton as a kid
Not posible
"Pokemon killer"
We should line up all the graves with that epitaph and see how far they stretch.
The only people that call them Pokemon killers are y’all people lmfao.
I could totally see Spectrobes make a comeback as a Disney plus show. Maybe one day gaining traction to get a new game! That would be fun
Spectrobes was such a huge part of my childhood and I locked it away in my memories for some reason, so thanks for this video
I played so much spectrobes but remember practically nothing about it so seeing everything again is the weirdest nostalgic de ja vu
Dude a spectrobes video is all I could ever ask for
Spectrobes is one of my favourite franchises to the point I even had a Gejio plush commissioned! I think Spectrobes was ahead of Pokémon in some ways (real time battling, being able to feed and pet your Spectrobes, Custom Parts/Colours) for the time it released in, but it just didn't have much of Pokémon's marketability. I only found out about the first game through Official Nintendo Magazine, and had no idea there were sequels until a chance find at my local GAME store in 2009!
I would love to see Spectrobes make a return one day. The gorgeously intricate, wacky and plain weird designs drew me in alongside the wonderful music!
I still love Spectrobes. The monster designs were pretty cool. I wish Disney tried to bring it back. I feel like the only thing it didn't really get down was the combat mechanics, they were too loosely designed. I'd also like to see a lot more spectrobes added, and maybe something like fusions or cross evolutions. I think the best game was the one on the Wii.
I'm quite fond of the fact that your intro is customized for your gaming channel with a controller instead of a remote. Neat little addition to make this channel unique to your movies and shows channel! I love his smooth the animation in your openings are- kudos to the animator. :3
Dude this is an absolute masterpiece... cant wait for this channel to blow up with more videos like this one. Great Job!
Thanks so much for watching!
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I remember evolving my first Ultimate Spectrobe and being so excited.
The Spectrobes series was truly a masterpiece in my eye's growing up everything from awakening the spectrobes from their fossilised form to taking them into epic battles across the solar system everything about this franchise was amazing and unique to me as a kid grownig up i actually still have my copie of spectrobes beyond the portals for the Ds and play it occasionally i just hope Disney looks back at the potential this Franchise had and release a 4th series.
Spectrobes Origins was the game that I played the most due to one simple fact that it can be played by two players. Which made the game much more fun to play with cause I played it with my brother. Sure we were fighting the camera half the time but we were able to overlook that cause of how much fun we were having. Also the Spectrobes roll call song has been stuck in my head for over 10 years.
I spent an entire afternoon or two a few months back getting all the card exclusive spectrobes in 2 in all their color without the cards. I got pretty freaking good at freehanding these!
Getting the VA of Ash Ketchum for your Pokemon "killer" game video is a CHAD move, well done
Lol she’s a good friend and I thought it would be funny
I absolutely love Sarah and respect her but my heart still belongs to Veronica Taylor the OG voice of Ash.
It never works, legend of dragoon is the only other example I can think of and it didn't kill final fantasy but I love both lol
I remember playing so much of the first Spectrobes game, there was a way to get around the cards thing too so you could get whatever monster you wanted
It was from Disney?!?!?! I didn't know that..... I played this as a kid and remember liking okay, but I didn't get very far, and I never ever met anyone else who played it...... seeing this suddenly recommended all these years later after I played it...... damn. What a nostalgia blast ;;
The nostalgia is hitting me rn! I grew up with the very first Spectrobes game and still own a copy of it to this day. It's really disappointing that they didn't continue the series longer, there is still so much potential!
I still have all 3 games too, even though I don't really use them anymore :)
You're right though, there is absolutely potential for them if they were remastered for the newer consoles.
Man I want to become massively rich JUST so I can buy the Spectrobes IP and give it to a studio to revive it. This IP has such huge potential to be something amazing
You know i kinda always want to see spectrobes appear in the next kingdom hearts game
That's a neat idea. I can see sora with spectrobes beside him like the dream eaters in dream drop distance
I played the games for about 10 years. Since I started in 2011, they were already classed "dead" - so the thousands of hours I spent on the games, I did alone knowing that more or less no-one in the world would be doing the same.
I retired from them a couple of years ago after discovering a glitch in BTP that forced me to reset my game, but now I've decided to dedicate a TH-cam channel to my career as a Spectrobe master.
Hey Jordan, I think you'd get a kick out of Fossil Fighters! It has a Saturday morning cartoon feel to it, and it's still one of my favorites from the DS library!
Agreed. Though the less we say about the third one on the 3DS. The better.
Oh God I remember the ads for this
Man I loved I spectrobes, honestly one of my top 3 games as a kid when they came out
oh man, this brought back so many memories; it also made me remember another game i hadn't thought of in forever: Fossil Fighters
Thank you *SO MUCH* for doing a video on Spectrobes! It has so much potential to just die off how it did. Hopefully more people will discover it & help push for it to come back.
I mean it sucks for Phil and Helen that got it started but then got the boot but I have to say I much prefer what we ended up getting, at least judging from the concept art. I've never heard of this series before but it does look pretty good. Similar to Fossil Fighter, and that one is also really underrated.
This video made me dig out my DS and start playing the games again. I used to LOVE Spectrobes as a kid, probably played more hours on it than I did Pokémon.
There were a lot of designs I really didn't like (I don't like anthropomorphic stuff much) but so many were great and just super cool, and being able to have the baby ones follow you in the overworld and help you out? Amazing.
The fossil aspect and the process of excavation and waking them up made me feel more invested in them as well as just giving some variety to the game big time - the combat is tedious and monotonous, so being able to dig up a variety of things to find items, Spectrobes and data cubes to find out hints and lore was something to give a refreshing break.
I sadly don't have my Wii anymore, but I'm honestly tempted to pick up a copy of Origins for my Wii U and try that out, it looks so polished compared to the DS games and id love to be able to see my favourite 'Trobes in better definition.
I'd love to see a modern day revitalising of the games, but maybe with a more teen-adult themed design and story? Pokémon has kids thoroughly grasped by the eyeballs with S+V it seems, but I'd love a more mature, gritty monster tamer.
I don't think they made Origins for the Wii U, it was just the original Wii. It's lovely to see that I'm not the only person who loves this almost hidden game series though!
@@old.delta.spectrobes The Wii U is backwards compatible!
My first Spectrobes game was Beyond the Portals. I had a blast playing it since I'm a sucker for creature collecting games. I would love to see Spectrobes make a return one day.
We get to know Jordan knows Ash's VA, and he can do 8 Crazy Nights in a minute. This channel is gonna be a wild ride.
just a week before you made this i went on a scavenger hunt for this game by pulling memories from my subconscious and trying to google parts of it to find out what this weird little mining pokemon clone game from my childhood was lol
from what i've played of them as a kid, i liked them a lot. it felt very different to the types of games i've played, but i've never beaten the first or 3rd ones only beyond the portal. I feel like this series had a lot of promise if it was better maintained oof
I miss this series so much. I had a blast talking about these games with my friends and cousins, sharing tips on how to do certain things and where to find certain fossils. It’s such a shame that this series ended the way it did and that we’ll probably never get another one. I would love to see more of it on the switch and maybe even just have the original games themselves on the switch. I never got a chance to play origins so my only way to play it now would be to track down a wii/wii U and a copy of the game which probably won’t be easy.
Spectrobes Legacy Collection when?
They're doing one for MMBN, presumably to gauge interest in another sequel, so here's hoping.
Same, I have some really fond memories of playing Sprectrobes 2 over a weekend at my cousin's place, where we hardly got any sleep cause we stayed up until daybreak playing it.
At least you had people to talk to about it - I played for 10 years from 2011-2021 and during that time I had no-one; I was the only person I knew who had even heard of the games, and it wasn't until more recently (after I've retired) that I've discovered there are more of you out there.
Spectrobes is one of those things as a kid I thought was much bigger because of my friend group, but growing up to find out most people didnt like them and or they sold poorly makes me genuinely sad.
I have had the worst time trying to find the cult following of this game. It seems to be an enigma online, but I loved these games so much growing up. The hit me just when I needed a little more action than Pokemon had to offer, not to mention the actually decent story that was going on with them as well.
I would love to see the games get a reboot and the attention they deserve, but sadly I don't think that will happen. Another thought I had was having a Gacha game made from them. The only problem there is that Gacha games have so much negativity surrounding them that I don't think that would be the best way to revitalize the series.
goodddd I loved spectrobes. "Pokemon but you fight alongside them" was enough to reel me in.
And chilling in the incubators, and hoarding enough minerals to start a parade? Miss doing that.
Love the Sarah Natochenny cameo 😂 Great first video on the channel! Can't wait to see more!
She’s awesome for lending me some time for that gag lol
I used to get these Disney magazines as a kid. Had all kinds of comics and different advertisements in them. I vaguely remember reading about this game in two of the Disney magazines I had.
Seeing this in detail reminds me of another Pokémon-adjacent DS series called Fossil Fighters. Would you be interested in covering them in the future?
I was looking for this comment. Ditto.
I'm pretty sure this was made by the same devs. The font, the ui design, running animation all look nearly identical.
Had All 3 growing up! I really wish they did continue. I never thought it was a Pokémon killer, but I did like it enough because it was so different!
I'm so glad someone remembered spectrobes! It was one of my favorite games growing up and I still reply the second game at least every few months. thanks you for respecting this franchise. Also fun fact I heard this but the original article I read is long gone by now, still I remember it said that thair was going to be a fourth game which would be the final game in the franchise but do to rights issues or the game company Jupiter going bankrupt it never got past the planning stage and no art for the game or a title was made. I still hope one day all 3 games get a remaster or at least the fourth and final game get made. Still thank you and keep up the amazing work
I was always interested in Spectrobes, as a huge Pokemon fan the design they had and concept was super cool to me. I remember my favorite commercial was the Beyond the Portals ones and thought they were cooler than Pokemon's ads. Sadly, I never got the chance to play them. I liked their designs the most!
Man, this has me feeling nostalgic, cant wait to see what other mid 2000's games you'll dredge out of my memories.
i want to see Ty. Tak, White Knight Chronicles and Lunar being talked about on the channel next
Thank you for bringing this back up & bringing attention to it 👀
Those games were amazing, we need more of them.
Back when I was playing Spectrobes Origins, I struggled a lot on the second half of the game. When I finally made it to the final battle with Krux, I was severely unprepared. So much so that my spectrobes died and was left with Rallen vs. Krux. I was down to a sliver of health and Krux had half.
In the end, I was able to beat him by dodging his attacks. It was intense. And I was only going to test the waters to see how much training I would've needed to beat him. That last area was crazy!
I really loved those games, I actually got my first Pokemon game after Spectrobes and Fossil Fighters, so I still remember them very well
Fossil fighters… a wave of nostalgia just hit me XD
@@unboundferocity117 there was a kid I went to elementary school with me who took like three weeks to figure out that you need to talk to Holt in the little practice digging area.
@@joshuaarnett762 I won’t lie I was having a hard time with fossil fighters. Especially that area in the digadiga ruins took me a month or so just to figure it out with no internet
@@unboundferocity117 the one where you have to dig in-between those two rocks but it tells you in vertical writing?
@@joshuaarnett762 yeah that one. Man that was agonizing XD
@Jordan Fringe Could you please cover "Fossil Fighters" for the Nintendo DS? It was one of my favorite games on the DS as a kid aside from Pokémon. "Spectrobes" reminds me so much of "Fossil Fighters", from digging up rare items with various tools, to using your monsters in battle, to even finding rare monsters to add to your team. I recommend it for those aspects. The story isn't the best, but it's passable for the time it was released in.
I didn’t even realize this was another channel and was confused why Jordan was talking about vidya games. Subscribed immediately can’t wait for more
I'm so glad you did a video on this it took me years to remember the name to this
Awesome, great first gaming vid man, I didn't even know this was a series. Here's hoping for Ratchet & Clank video in the future
Thank you so much for unlocking this lost memory. I LOVED this game so much. One of my most treasures memories playing this game CONSTANTLY
already excited to see where you take this channel man, looking forward to it too!
Worst thing to do is wake up spectrobes while you're in the car on a road trip
Was that the mic. mini game ? If I remember correctly you could just blow into it.
The microphone sees red
OH MY GOD. I subbed to this channel on a whim because i already like your main channel but for your first game video i never expected it to be this marvel of a gem that i hold so close to my heart. (Btw i like never comment on videos so this really is a big deal to me) I'm hoping for more great things for this channel in the future
I agree. I loved the spectrobes series when I was younger and I still occasionally play them when I feel like it. But I have to agree that the series held back a lot in it's design and they could have made it stand out if they wanted. If Disney were to hire an experienced game design team they could probably revive the series in a great way. But unfortunately I doubt they will bother.
I still reference the 1st commercial all the time, i never really stopped. The "SPECTROBES, WAKE UUUUUUP" bit is just so funny to me
Love the video. I was OBSESSED with spectrobes as a kid. Though I’m disappointed you didn’t mention the biggest, most important way they tried being better than Pokémon, having their own poke rap called the spectrobes roll call, released with the third game
You never miss with these videos! Great start to your new channel ^ ^
Thanks so much!!!!
Have you done a retrospective on the trading card game, Chaotic?
The Fossil Fighters games would be a good candidate for a video!
I couldn’t remember the name of this game to save my life. You’re the fucking GOAT for this, put way too many hours into this
Here's to the success of your new channel! 🍸
I didn't get into gaming until my early teens. I hope one day I'll remember one of the games you make a video about in the future.
Thanks for being one of the few clean reviewers who does not swear or use dirty images to get views and subs.
God bless you Jordan 🙏
Holy hell I’ve been looking for this game EVERWHERE!!! Thank you so much!!
This is such a nostalgia bomb for me holy cow!!
The mere fact that Spectrobes tried the Action-Combat approach over RNG Turn-Based was enough to win me over Pokémon.
And yea, the Ben 10 ~ Spectrobes connection was pretty cool haha. I've always thought the Spectrobes would make cool Omnitrix transformations.
Love how you tell stories and the commercial-like transitions. Great job on the first video. Keep it up!
Thank you so much! Truly appreciate it!
I’m looking for my old DS strictly to play my old Spectrobes game. Haven’t had any luck, but this video is a sign that I should keep looking. Great video man
Seeing how you felt about this game series, I’d love to see you talk about Fossil Fighters as it has a similar concept and a similar rise and fall irl
this game is probably responsible for my RPG-Hoarding-Disorder. It was soooo fun excavating EVERYTHING. Thanks for the video. Nice memories.
I played spectrobes on the DS! I remember you had to like dig up fossils in a very pokemon Gen 4 sense & revive them but not much else so so glad to see this video
Oh, I definitely remember Spectrobes and I also still have my copy of it! Great video
Please keep making nostalgic content my friend you've helped me relive a lot of things i couldnt remember
I still say that excavating the fossils out of the dirt block was the best experience I’ve ever had with the Wii’s motion control as a kid
either this or a fossil fighters revival would be nice. I enjoyed careful fossil excavation the most as a kid whether it be spectrobes, fossil fighters or the mines in pokemon
You nailed that impression. I had the whole movie come rushing back. Massive nostalga
I loved all three games and still have them, played through them multiple times, every time with a diff. set of Spectrobes. Such a shame that no one seemed to like them back in the days.. I feel like if the games had released in a more recent timeframe they would've had a better chance.. and maybe keep Disney away from something that has potential and might be risky to do.
I fondly remember Spectrobes Origins on my Wii as a child, and seeing this video hit me with so much nostalgia for it. My favorite part was always mining out the little fossils to see what they would become, and then evolving them into their frankly stunning 'older' designs.
I thought I was the only one who played Spectrobes, and I still play this on my old DS occasionally, I'm so glad to see I wasn't the only one who loved this classic!
If you loved the digging part so much, try Fossil Fighters. It was a DS Creature Collector where you mined and cleaned fossils to revive dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals to battle. The first two are honestly on par with the best of DS Pokemon and the less said about Frontier, the better
I miss this franchise it was some of the best fun I had as a kid
This was my favorite game growing up and i miss playing so much! Thank you for the trip down memory lane!
OMG I had forgotten all about this but I now remember playing it as a child. I enjoyed this
As a 9-10 year old in 2007 and huge Pokémon fan.. me and my friends never even knew this game was a Pokémon like genre with monstors tbh I just saw the game often in stores but the galactic and space looking outfit and art made us never even look at the game but seeing this vid really makes me appreciate the series more
I feel like I practically played all of the pokemon games on autopilot through my childhood. But games like digimon, spectrobes, and fossil fighters... those left a deep-seated memory.
Spectrobes on the wii was one of my favorite games honestly
Spectrobes: Origins was my first and only intro to this series and I constantly find myself looking back on it fondly just wanting MORE.